History WesternAnimation / Hammerman

* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: MC Hammer introduced every episode and called special attention to its [[AnAesop lesson]] (don't make fun of short people; don't paint all over the wall unless an adult says it's okay; and so on). Seems the show was directed at ''very'' young children.

* TransformationTrinket: Stanley's talking shoes, that turn their wearer into a superhero with music-based powers.

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* ClarkKenting: Somehow, Jody doesn't realize Stanley is Hammerman despite not only knowing him in both identities, him wearing glasses in '''both''' identities, '''and''' her knowing all about the magic shoes and how her grandfather was the previous hero who used them.

* HumanoidAbomination: The supervillain Defacely Marmeister looks like a walking, talking Picasso painting. And the spastic animation doesn't help making him less freaky.

* ParentalAbandonment: In "Defeated Graffiti", Gramps states that Jody has no parents.

%%* ThePowerOfRock: The Power of Hammertime!
%%** In one episode, Gramps dons the shoes again, and it becomes "The Power of Soul".

* VillainousUnderdog: Pretty much all the villains who appeared, since Hammerman was effectively all-powerful.
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Not to be confused with the animesque Korean animated film ''Animation/{{Hammerboy}}''.

%%* ExpositoryThemeTune

%%* {{Expy}}: The graffiti fire elemental from "Defeated Graffiti", as seen in the page image, is nearly identical to Kremzeek from ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Kremzeek''.

* HumanoidAbomination: The ssupervillain Defacely Marmeister looks like a walking, talking Picasso painting. And the spastic animation doesn't help making him less freaky.

* TransformationTrinket / LiveItem: Stanley's talking shoes, that turn their wearer into a superhero with music-based powers.

%%* NotQuiteStarring: Especially odd, given how few episodes were made.

%%* PassingTheTorch: How Stanley becomes Hammerman in the first place.

%%* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Specifically, talking shoes.

%%* CoolOldGuy: Gramps, also an {{Expy}} of Music/JamesBrown.

* VillainousUnderdog: Pretty much all the villains who appeared, since Hammerman was basically all-powerful.

%%* TransformationTrinket / LiveItem: The talking shoes that give Hammerman his powers.

%%* CardCarryingVillain: Defacely Marmeister loves being a bad guy.
%%* CityInABottle: Rapoleon does this to Oaktown after he shrinks it.

** SpaceWhaleAesop: Did we mention that it would be more accurate to say, "Don't make fun of short people because they may shrink everyone so now ''they'' will be tallest" and "Don't paint all over the wall because someone might make a spray that makes graffiti come to life and KillAllHumans"?
** For all that, ''Hammerman'''s one of the rare instances of children's entertainment that also includes the moral that ''too much'' work and studying isn't good either, and it's important to also make time for play and doing creative things.

%% Below example is out-of-universe and may or may count.

* ThirteenIsUnlucky: The show lasted for thirteen episodes before being canceled.

* AIIsACrapshoot: The MonsterOfTheWeek for one show was a robot programmed to be ThePerfectionist .

* BandToon: Real Musical Person Toon, in any case.
* CardCarryingVillain: Defacely Marmeister loves being a bad guy.
* CityInABottle: Rapoleon does this to Oaktown after he shrinks it.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Specifically, talking shoes.

* CoolOldGuy: Gramps, also an {{Expy}} of Music/JamesBrown.
* ExpositoryThemeTune: Filled with PainfulRhyme after painful, painful rhyme.
* {{Expy}}: The graffiti fire elemental from "Defeated Graffiti", as seen in the page image, is nearly identical to [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Kremzeek]].

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: More accurately, the show didn't really bother to clarify what Hammerman's powers actually were. In general if he needed to do something and the writers could think of some way to work in music, dancing,, or musical imagery, he could do it. In at least one episode his pants act like a parachute.
* NotQuiteStarring: Especially odd, given how few episodes were made.
* OffModel: Painfully so; even [=DiC=]'s ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioBros'' cartoons were better-animated in comparison, and those were animated by the same company who worked on this![[note]]Sans the intro[[/note]]

* PassingTheTorch: How Stanley becomes Hammerman in the first place.
* [[ThePowerOfRock The Power of Hammertime!]]
** In one episode, Gramps dons the shoes again, and it becomes "The Power of Soul".
* RhymesOnADime: Stanley speaks like this when he's Hammerman.

* TransformationTrinket / LiveItem: The talking shoes that give Hammerman his powers.

* InvincibleHero: As noted below, Hammerman could do basically anything. Accordingly, a lot of episodes weren't actually about Hammerman trying to defeat a villain so much as they were about Stanley trying to overcome the problem of being unable to transform into Hammerman. Once he did, [[CurbStompBattle all opposition folded up like a cheap card table]].

** For all that ''Hammerman'''s one of the rare instances of children's entertainment that also includes the moral that ''too much'' work and studying isn't good either, and it's important to also make time for play and doing creative things.

* ClarkKenting: Somehow Jodie doesn't realize Stanley is Hammerman despite not only knowing him in both identities, him wearing glasses in '''both''' identities, '''and''' her knowing all about the magic shoes and how her grandfather was the previous hero who used them.

* CluelessAesop: As WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter notes in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5tV3PyC-Bk his review]] of "Defeated Graffiti", the intended moral (don't deface other people's property with your art) was pointless because people in the show's target audience are generally too young to be graffiti artists. And the ones above that age range weren't going to be swayed by the fact that Cartoon M.C. Hammer told them not to.

* InvincibleHero: As noted below, Hammerman could do basically anything. Accordingly a lot of episodes weren't actually about Hammerman trying to defeat a villain so much as they were about Stanley trying to overcome the problem of being unable to transform into Hammerman. Once he did, [[CurbStompBattle all opposition folded up like a cheap card table]].

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Or more like the show didn't really bother to clarify what Hammerman's powers actually were. In general if he needed to do something and the writers could think of some way to work in music, dancing or musical imagery, he could do it. In at least one episode his pants act like a parachute.

* OffModel: Painfully so; even [=DiC=]'s ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioBros'' cartoons were better-animated in comparison, and those where animated by the same company who worked on this![[note]]sans the intro[[/note]]

** In one episode, the [[CoolOldGuy old man]] dons the shoes again, and it becomes "The Power of Soul".

* OffModel: Painfully so; even [=DiC=]'s ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioBros'' cartoons were better-animated in comparison!

** For all that ''Hammerman'''s one of the only forms of children's entertainment with the moral that too much work and studying is bad too, and it's also important to make time for play and doing creative things.

* AnimationBump: The animated sequences in the theme song are ''much'' more fluidly animated than the rest of the show.

* OffModel: Painfully so.

* LimitedAnimation: It goes past looking downright cheap to just looking spastic. Strangely enough, the animation in the intro is very fluid.

* InvincibleHero: As noted below, Hammerman could do basically anything. Accordingly a lot of episodes weren't actually about Hammerman trying to defeat a villain so much as they were about Stanley trying to overcome the problem of being unable to transform into Hammerman. Once he did, all opposition folded up like a cheap card table.
* LimitedAnimation: It goes past looking downright cheap to just looking spastic.

* CluelessAesop: As [[WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter]] notes in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5tV3PyC-Bk his review]] of "Defeated Graffiti" that the intended moral (don't deface other people's property with your art) was pointless because people in the show's target audience are generally too young to be graffiti artists. And the ones that aren't in that age range weren't going to be swayed by the fact that Cartoon M.C. Hammer told them not to.