History Main / HammeredIntoTheGround

-->''Kakashi''': They say the nail that sticks up is the one that gets hammered down.

* In a ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'' annual, ComicBook/{{Nova}} had a day dream in which he kicked the crap out of SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}}, SelfDemonstrating/DrDoom, and {{Galactus}} at the same time. At one point, he hammers Magneto into the ground in this manner.

* In ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'', SelfDemonstrating/{{Sinestro}} makes a giant mace with his ring and does it to Superman. As soon as he stops to gloat, Superman takes him down.

* In a ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'' annual, ComicBook/{{Nova}} had a day dream in which he kicked the crap out of {{Magneto}}, DrDoom, and {{Galactus}} at the same time. At one point, he hammers Magneto into the ground in this manner.

* At one point in ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'', Nuclear Man pounded Superman into the moon during the fight scene.
** Complete with clinking sound as if Superman and Nuclear Man's fist were made of metal. Then again, Supes is "The Man of Steel" and Nuclear Man is a clone of sorts.

* In the StargateSG1 episode ''Seth'', Carter strikes down the eponymous Goa'uld using a Hand Device. When this doesn't quite render Seth harmless, she hits him with it again. This time it [[http://www.gateworld.net/gallery/albums/sg1_season3/302-Seth/screencaps/normal_sg1_302_699.jpg drives him into the ground]].

* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' during the episode "Both of You, Dance Like You Want to Win!", Shinji and Asuka are defeated when they first face the angel. Asuka's HumongousMecha ends up buried head-downwards with its legs sticking up in the air.

* This happens to Edd on ''WesternAnimation/EdEddnEddy'' when Rolf uses his "Hat of Discipline:" a giant hammer-hat.

** In "RabbitFire", an elephant piledrives Elmer into the ground with one punch.

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* Basically, everyone at the wrong end of Luffy's Gum-Gum Gavel attack in ''Manga/OnePiece''.

* In ''[[{{Literature/Xanth}} Ogre Ogre]]'', the ogres have a fighting technique called "the nail", which consists of repeatedly pounding your opponent on the head until he is driven into the ground.

* In the Commodore 64 video game ''Cliff Hanger'', used as one non-fatal failure animation.

* In ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack'', some of the forest levels have an enemy that keeps swinging a mallet. Upon being hit by it, Crash will be pounded deep into the ground, and a gravestone grows out from where he was hit.
** If the triceratops from ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'' runs over Crash, he will be [[SquashedFlat flattened]], and the triceratops will repeatedly stomp on him over and over so he can't get back up.

* This happens to Edd on ''WesternAmination/EdEddnEddy'' when Rolf uses his "Hat of Discipline:" a giant hammer-hat.
--> Edd: ...What is that, Rolf?
--> Rolf: The Hat of Discipline. DO YOU LIVE IN A CAVE?!

* In a ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'' annual, {{Nova}} had a day dream in which he kicked the crap out of {{Magneto}}, DrDoom, and {{Galactus}} at the same time. At one point, he hammers Magneto into the ground in this manner.

* The ending of ''VideoGame/AbobosBigAdventure'' shows the titular protagonist stomping [[VideoGame/{{Metroid}} Samus Aran]]'s head into the ground. [[BloodyHilarious Bloodily.]]
* ''Kid Kool'' does this to the enemies he jumps on. It takes several bounces to bury them entirely.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "The Smurfette", a Smurf with a hammer pays more attention to Smurfette than he does to the post that his partner is holding up and ends up hammering the other Smurf into the ground.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Futurama'', Bender boasts of having once pounding a guy into the ground like a stake with a shovel.

See also SquashedFlat. Compare WipeTheFloorWithYou and WhatADrag

* Basically, everyone at the wrong end of [[Manga/OnePiece Luffy's]] Gom Gom Gavel attack.

* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' during the episode "Both of You, Dance Like You Want To Win!", Shinji and Asuka are defeated when they first face the angel. Asuka's HumongousMecha ends up buried head-downwards with its legs sticking up in the air.

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* In Film/TheSandlot, Scottie Smalls, the main character and {{Narrator}} of the film, mentions about having a dream about a giant baseball signed by Babe Ruth that "fell out of the sky and hammered him into the ground like a railroad spike".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHerculoids'' episode "The Crystalloids". Igoo the rock ape pounds a Crystalloid into the ground with a club.

* Chanticleer gets nailed to the ground by the Grand Duke's magic in the climax of WesternAnimation/RockADoodle.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In an homage to the Road Runner cartoons, when Homer tries to get rid of a trampoline by throwing it off a cliff outcropping it bounces back up, then falls on him pounding him into the rock. Then he falls out the bottom of the outcropping to the bottom of a ravine.