History Main / HammeredIntoTheGround

* 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 ''Battle Monsters'', Deathmask is the resident FrankensteinMonster / {{Golem}} and he's got the standard super-strength. One of his special moves is that he can do an overhand chop that'll nail the enemy into the ground and up to their neck. Deathmask will then grab the stuck opponent and throw them far away.
* The VideoGame/{{Battletoads}} can pound their enemies in this fashion, most notably in the Turbo Tunnel level before the bike race section.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', this is one of the standard positions you'll find Hildibrand Manderville

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat''

* This is a side effect of several attacks in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', such as the [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Pitfall]] and Franchise/DonkeyKong's [[UseYourHead headbutt]]. Getting stuck in the ground prevents characters from moving or attacking until they get un-stuck.
* In ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'', Sinestro makes a giant mace with his ring and smashes Superman into the ground. As soon as he stops to gloat, Superman takes him down.
* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'':
** This happens to Big Massif in the Dream World, when his apprentices boast how he could smash even the largest possible rock. Cue him trying to smash the rock with his first as it comes down, then being smashed on the head by it with a loud metal-like sound before getting driven into the ground. Of course, this being a major NPC and upcoming boss he manages to dig out of the situation and come up out the ground behind the heroes, but still.
** This is a recurring ability in the ''Mario and Luigi'' subseries, with one of the brothers pounding the other one into the ground so he can reach new areas and uncover buried items.

* Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog has suffered this three times: [[FrictionlessReentry Falling from space]] as a Werehog and diving his head into the ground of Windmill Isle in ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', doing so again [[BookEnds at the ending]] except as a normal hedgehog in the same game, and being summoned by Merlina into and falling into the ground of Camelot in ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight''.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', both [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry King K. Rool]] and [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo & Kazooie]] have down throw moves where they piledrive and bury their opponents in the ground.

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* There was a ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon where Tom had a nightmare about a giant bulldog pounding him into the ground like a nail.
** And frankly, the times this has happened to him via a falling tree or telephone pole are too numerous to count.

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* 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. Each of their {{Humongous Mecha}}s ends up buried head-downwards with its legs sticking up in the air.

* The ending of ''VideoGame/AbobosBigAdventure'' shows Abobo stomping [[VideoGame/{{Metroid}} Samus Aran]]'s head into the ground. [[BloodyHilarious Bloodily.]]

* Medieval Uzbek tales about epic heroes -- batyrs -- had this rather formalized. Batyr's first strike rammed his adversary knee-deep, second -- waist-deep, third -- chest-deep. Though the most epic ones [[UpToEleven could do even better]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/ScrewballSquirrel'', Screwy Squirrel does this to Meathead, after Meathead [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished had just saved Screwy's life]].

* 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.

** The [[https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Action_Comics_Vol_1_238 cover of ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #238 showed "King Krypton, the Super-Gorilla" pounding Superman into the ground by hitting him over the head with a log.

* [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/monkeys/97_4_0000238.jpg The cover of Action Comics #308]] showed "King Krypton, the Super-Gorilla" pounding Franchise/{{Superman}} into the ground by hitting him over the head with a log.
* In a fight with Skaar and a depowered Bruce Banner, this comically happens to Wolverine. Skaar wonders aloud how that is possible before Bruce explains his indestructible skeleton.

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* One Domino's advertisement has Advertising/TheNoid annoyed by the giant tablet with the restaurant's guarantee, that he attempted to kick it, only for it to collapse on him. Seconds later he digs himself out of the ground and mopes while waist-deep.

* 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/ScrewballSquirrel'', Screwy Squirrel does this to Meathead, after Meathead [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished had just saved Screwy's life]]

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''

* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]: In the second episode of ''Manga/OnePunchMan'', Saitama gets dragged into the ground by a mole monster as he is talking to the Beast King, the leader of the group of monsters that smashed he apartment.
* In ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'', as Masako Natsume [[spoiler: eats a poisoned ''fugu'' dish and a non-poisoned one]] to escape a SadisticChoice, the audience sees [[spoiler: her brother Mario]]'s legs comically sticking up out of a nearby pond.

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* A semi-serious example happens early in ''FanFic/{{Luminosity}}'', when the Cullen siblings are showing off their vampiric abilities to Bella. [[NighInvulnerability The "victim" is more annoyed than hurt.]]

* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam''

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

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9739274/1/At-Odds At Odds,]]'' [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Beast Boy]] gets a few more shapes, including a giant, solid as steel tree (not quite a plant, due to it being alien). During a mission with Raven, he goes to take on [[MadeOfIron Cinderblock]] while she handles some thugs. She hears a thunderlike sound and hurries to check - only to find the villain hammered into the asphalt up to his neck. GravityIsAHarshMistress.

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** This happens to Big Massif in the Dream World, when his apprentices boast how he could smash even the largest possible rock. Cue him trying to smash the rock with his first as it comes down, then being smashed on the head by it with a loud metal like sound before getting driven into the ground. Of course, this being a major NPC and upcoming boss he manages to dig out of the situation and come up out the ground behind the heroes, but still.

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* A semi-serious example happens early in ''FanFic/{{Luminosity}}'', when the Cullen siblings are showing off their vampiric abilities to Bella. [[NighIndestructible The "victim" is more annoyed than hurt.]]

* In ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle2'', Lyle's evil henchwomen Sally and Kowalski are trying to destroy the jungle with a bulldozer. Rocky the Kangaroo saves the day by kicking them across the jungle, into a clearing. As they struggle to get up, Rocky has an idea and jumps on their shoulders five times each, each jump making the women grunt and squeal in pain seeing their bodies disappear. Rocky leaves them knocked out and trapped with a pile of mud around them. It’s unknown what becomes of them.

A situation where a victim would literally be at least partially driven into the ground, whether through an attack, heavy fall, or by any other forceful means. Especially seen in cartoons and in video games, where being driven into the ground can be PlayedForLaughs. In situations like this, the victim would [[MadeOfIron remain mostly intact]], aside from the fact that he is at least partway into the earth.

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[[caption-width-right:285:Good thing it's not [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny that rabbit]], or he'd ask [[CatchPhrase what's up]].]]

** This is a recurring ability in the ''Mario and Luigi'' subseries, with Luigi pounding Mario into the ground so the crimson-clad plumber can reach new areas and uncover buried items.