History Comicbook / EnemyAce

* YouBastard: An ad about him provides the trope picture, considering as mentioned above, he's a([[AntiVillain n Anti]]) VillainProtagonist

Von Hammer's legacy was featured in the Franchise/{{Batman}} story, "Ghost of the Killer Skies"[[note]]''Detective Comics'' #404 (October, 1970)[[/note]]. When sabotage and murder occur on the set of a movie (produced by Bruce Wayne) about Von Hammer's career, Batman investigates. Von Hammer himself does not appear[[spoiler:... or does he?]].

In later years, Von Hammer would occasionally turn up here and there, including at least one TimeTravel adventure in which he met the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica. Other stories showed that Von Hammer survived the war. In the pulp-flavored 1920s-set ''Guns of the Dragon'' miniseries, von Hammer teamed up with an odd assortment of DC characters to fight the immortal ComicBook/VandalSavage. In Creator/GarthEnnis' 2001 ''Enemy Ace: War In Heaven'', we see von Hammer in an even more morally conflicted state, as he serves in the Luftwaffe during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. And the 1989 graphic novel ''Enemy Ace: War Idyll'' shows von Hammer dying in 1969, after a final interview with an American [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam veteran]].

* DefectorFromDecadence: Von Hammer becomes this at the end of ''War in Heaven''. When he discovers the truth about the death camps, he immediately leads his men in surrendering to the Allies, although he does destroy the prototype jets first. (And of course, who else would von Hammer surrender to? None other than Comicbook/SgtRock).

'''Comicbook/SgtRock''': ''Rock. Easy Co. You boys ready to come on in?''\\

** The series title is also quite cleverly echoed in the last line of the book, when Hans von Hammer surrenders to Comicbook/SgtRock and the "enemy ace" finally leaves his war behind forever.

Created by Creator/RobertKanigher and Joe Kubert in 1965, it was inspired by tales of Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron. The character first appeared in ''Our Army at War'' #151 (February, 1965). The feature was groundbreaking in its portrayal of an "enemy" soldier as the sympathetic protagonist of a war comic. The stories typically drew a contrast between Von Hammer, a gentleman and "knight of the sky", and the horrors of a war that increasingly had no place for such chivalry.

Later stories sometimes broke with formula by introducing colorful "costumed" Allied aces as adversaries, including The One-Eyed Cat, The Hangman (his only recurring opponent), The Harpy, The Skull Men and St. George, a British ace who actually wore a suit of armor in flight.

* IAmNotShazam: He is often erroneously called "Enemy Ace" by other characters during time-travelling guest appearances or in other media. His actual InUniverse moniker is "the Hammer of Hell". He is, of course, an "enemy ace" to the Entente, but as a nickname it wouldn't make any sense.

* NiceHat: Von Hammer wears distinctive headgear in flight, particularly his "horned" goggles. (In early appearances, they're normal goggles, but this changed quickly.)

'''''Enemy Ace''''' is a Creator/DCComics UsefulNotes/WorldWarI feature about the fictional German [[AcePilot ace]] Hans Von Hammer, the "Hammer of Hell".

* CollateralDamage: In ''War In Heaven'', Von Hammer's friend Peter is accidentally taken out by a German anti-aircraft battery that was aiming for a British fighter.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: In "Enemy Ace: War in Heaven- Book 2," shortly ejecting from his crippled Me-262, and parachuting into [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust the Dachau concentration camp,]] Von Hammer gives a speech to the men in the airfield telling them to stop fighting and to stop supporting the Nazi regime. When Engels, an ardent Nazi, points a gun at him and is about to shoot after Von Hammer calls Hitler a "piece of excrement," Von Hammer's wingman [[LudicrousGibs kills Engels]] with [[MoreDakka a burst of the quadruple 30mm cannons ]] of an Me-262 fighter jet, while "testing" the firing mechanism that "he thought wasn't loaded".

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: In "Enemy Ace: War in Heaven- Book 2," shortly after being shot down, and parachuting into [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust the Dachau concentration camp,]] Von Hammer gives a speech to the men in the airfield telling them to stop fighting and to stop supporting the Nazi regime. When Engels, an ardent Nazi, points a gun at him and is about to shoot after Von Hammer calls Hitler a "piece of excrement," Von Hammer's wingman [[LudicrousGibs kills Engels]] with [[MoreDakka a burst of the quadruple 30mm cannons ]] of an Me-262 fighter jet, while "testing" the firing mechanism that "he thought wasn't loaded".