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[[quoteright:350:[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hammer_sickle_batman.png]]]]

->''"The stars and stripes meets the hammer and sickle"''
-->-- '''Music/{{ABC}}''', "Between You and Me"

A HyperspaceMallet for smashing. A SinisterScythe for slashing. [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} Put 'em together and what do you got?]]

Inspired by work from German philosopher Creator/KarlMarx, Communism evolved and became a very popular social, economic and political movement in the East, most famously UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}.[[note]]Some other variations existed, though Marxism (both what Marx personally envisioned, and how later followers took it) won out as the most popular form.[[/note]] After the Revolution, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union raised their movement's flag across the country: a red flag with a gold hammer and sickle beneath a gold-bordered red star. The hammer and sickle were meant to represent the working class: the hammer representing the industrial worker, while the sickle represented the farmer, toiling in the fields, while the star represented the leading role of the Party.

In fiction, the hammer and sickle are a popular, DualWielding weapons-of-choice for your TokenMinority Russian characters, be they DirtyCommunists, ChummyCommies, CaptainPatriotic or some other characters with PatrioticFervor towards GloriousMotherRussia or the Communist philosophy. The hammer and sickle could be normal steel and wood, swung around with [[ImprobableWeaponUser efficient weapon skillz]], or it could be supercharged on SovietSuperscience.

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[[folder:Art]]
* ''Art/WorkerAndKolkhozWoman'': On this Soviet sculpture, the worker holds a hammer and the kolkhoz woman holds a sickle.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Parodied in ''ComicBook/AlanFord'' in volume 10 ''Formule'': the [[DirtyCommunist Brusky]] agent sent from homeland carries a hammer and sickle in his hands and actually uses them to threaten Alan (by pulling the sickle around his neck and waving the hammer at him).
* ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' features one of the U.S.S.R.'s official supers, a half-naked man code named Purge, wielding nothing but a hammer, a sickle, and a worrying grin.
* In ''Franchise/TheDCU, two of the members of Russian hero [[spoiler:(to Russia, anyway)]] group the People's Heroes go by the names of Hammer and Sickle, wielding said weapons in combat. Following the fall of the Socvier Union, they become FormerRegimePersonnel, selling their services to the highest bidders.
* In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, Vanguard (one of the Soviet Super Soldiers) carries a hammer and sickle as his weapons. As well as their conventional use as a bludgeoning and cutting weapons, he can also them as a focus to intensify his mutant powers.
* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Those are Perun's weapons. As you could have guessed, he's from GloriousMotherRussia. He had to drop the Sickle for the Ultimate Avengers, who were not interested in the Soviet imagery.
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[[folder:Film — Live Action]]
* In ''Film/LaCiteDeLaPeur'', the slasher Boris from the StylisticSuck ShowWithinAShow "Red is Dead" (and his copycat outside of it) wield a hammer and sickle.
* In ''Film/DeadSnow'', Roy crosses a hammer and a sickle before proceeding to deliver a CurbStompBattle to a Nazi Zombie. The zombie in question doesn't look happy about the turnabout.
* In ''Film/TheGamers'', one of the bandits is armed with these. She holds them like the old Soviet symbol, too, as a sight gag.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In the episode "Anne", Buffy ends up wielding a hammer and a bladed weapon called a hunga-munga--which looks enough like a sickle to complete the RuleOfSymbolism--while leading a revolt of human slave workers abducted to a cruel extra-dimensional demon factory.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''Golden Age TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' includes a trio of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII era Soviet superheroes called the Bolshevik Boys: Red Hammer, Red Ice-Sickle and Red Streak. Red Hammer is a brick who wields a two-handed sledge hammer. Red Ice-Sickle has [[AnIcePerson ice powers]], but has a sickle on his costume to keep the 'hammer and sickle' theme.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has both sickles and hammers statted out for weaponized use, and since sickles are considered "light" weapons, it is possible to [[DualWielding wield them in the off hand, with a (war)hammer in the primary hand]]. Unfortunately, beyond making you look like a {{Chummy Commie|s}}, the hammer-and-sickle build is hardly of any practical combat use.[[labelnote: Why?]]The large number of abilities like Weapon Focus that give bonuses to a single type of weapon mean the most efficient dual-wielding builds use a pair of identical weapons-- a hammer-sickle wielder will need to take Weapon Focus: Hammer ''and'' Weapon Focus: Sickle to get benefits on every attack, while a character with dual sickles only needs the latter.[[/labelnote]]
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Working for the Joker and the Penguin respectively in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', Mr. "Hammer" Abramovici, along with his formerly-conjoined twin Mr. "Sickle" Abramovici, each wield their respective namesake. An Arkham File reveals that they were once part of a Russian traveling circus until they killed the ringmaster and fled to join the Joker. However, an argument between the two caused them to literally split via surgery, and Hammer stayed with the Joker while Sickle joined the Penguin. At the end of the game, the two of them reconcile.
* In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'', the Soviets can field a Hammer tank (anti-armor tank that can steal weapons from other tanks) and a Sickle (anti-infantry SpiderTank). The expansion adds the Reaper (anti-armor and -air) SpiderTank.
* In ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'', you can invoke this trope by dual wielding any of the three Blacksmith Hammers with a Shotel. The Shotel itself can also be used for parrying when equipped on your left hand.
* In ''VideoGame/DungeonsOfDredmor'', the Communist skill tree has a hammer and a sickle as its starting equipment, for obvious reasons.
* In the text adventure ''VideoGame/{{Shadows of Mordor}}'', one pair of orcs are armed with a hammer and a sickle, respectively.
* The boss of the Russian-themed stage in ''VideoGame/AlienHominid'' is a giant blimp-like machine that tries to kill you with a giant hammer and sickle.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', John, the primary human character, wields a hammer, while Karkat, the primary [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]] character, wields a sickle. Their friend Dave [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/6019 eventually]] points out the implications.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' short segment Justice Friends, Comrade Red is the archnemesis of Major Glory and wields the hammer and sickle as his weapons.
* Ivan Steranko (who later go on to become [[spoiler:Rocksteady]]) from ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' is a Russian arms-dealer that wields a hammer and sickle, both made of solid gold.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ElTigreTheAdventuresOfMannyRivera'', there is a Russian-born supervillain named Comrade Chaos that dual wields a hammer and sickle.
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