Hammerspace / Video Games

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• Many third person games do this — Grand Theft Auto, Zelda, etc. Any game in which the character has an extensive inventory.
• Most games where you can put away your weapon have this. Also, sometimes the weapon is longer than the character.
• Ace Attorney:
  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney — Justice for All:
    • In a truly fantastic scene, Matt Engarde manages to pull a glass of cognac from Hammerspace while in prison just for the purposes of swirling it evilly.
    • Less awesome but still notable is Maxamillion Galactica's ability to throw a bunch of cards from his apparently bare hand. While this is reasonable given that he's a magician, after the sixth or seventh time you wonder exactly how he got all of them up his sleeve.
  • Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney:
    • Trucy is also a magician, and we are told in the second case that she has been known to pull a tyre out of her underwear.
    • When he's prosecuting, coffee slides into Godot's hands from out of nowhere.
• In Amazon: Guardians of Eden, when picking up a pole, the narrator tells you, "You pick up the pole." And when picking up a ladder, the narrator tells you, "You put the ladder in your back pocket."
• In the Animal Crossing series, your character can store up to 16 items in their inventory (and much more than that in the later games). This can include tools like shovels and axes, clothes, fruit, stacks of resources, insects, and fish. It's especially ridiculous in the last case, as you can casually stuff something as big as a whale shark into your pocket. The furniture is handwaved as somehow being able to transform into a small leaf, but nothing else gets any mention. In the Super Smash Bros. series, the Animal Crossing villager can use this as a special attack, allowing him to stow away even immaterial objects like Mario's fireballs or Samus's charge shot to pull a delayed Catch and Return. What's even more odd is how the animal villagers do this. Notably, they don't wear pants, so seeing one stuff a whale shark or a grey wrasse into their "pockets" is odd. This also hasn't been explained.
• Ashley of the Another Code games is fond of this, holding a considerable amount on her for a teenage girl with nothing but pant pockets. This is actually lampshaded in the second game, Another Code: R. While Ashley is noticeably pulling items from a fanny pack on the back of her jeans (which in itself doesn't make sense, since it's far too small), whenever she does this during the standard conversation set up (in which you only see Ashley, close up, from the front), the animation makes it like she is literally pulling items outta her ass. Considering how it's set up, as well as other instances throughout the game where they take light-hearted jabs at "silly" aspects from point-and-click adventure games, this was very likely done on purpose as a bit of Self-Deprecation, and to poke fun of this trope in general.
• APB Reloaded, especially the Criminals; each one carries a primary weapon, a secondary weapon, two grenades, a handcuff key, brass knuckles, a slim jim, a crowbar, a spraycan, bombs, a camera, a netbook, a supply crate, a gas can, a battering ram... Plus, the ability to carry 50 small objects (packages, harddrives, cellphones, etc). Enforcers have similar equipment, minus the gas can, bombs, and crowbars, but include a snub nose and handcuffs (for arresting), and a paint sprayer.
• In Bayonetta, the main character pulls a massive chainsaw from the hammer space behind her to do a punishing move on the flying stingray-like enemies.
• BlazBlue:
  • Taokaka can store multiple items within the sleeves of her coat, including (but not limited to) her trademark metal blades, a bowling ball, fish bones, a different set of serrated blades, apple cores, baseballs, books, a Kaka clan child (the throwing of which earns you a Trophy/Achievement), and a dinner set, among other things.
  • Noel Vermillion is no exception to this rule, given the way she summons Arcus Diabolus: Bolverk, as well as her Zero-Guns, Fenrir and Thor, which both disappear after use.
  • The DLC character Platinum the Trinity is a shining example of this. Her Drive attack allows her to summon a variety of items, such as a frying pan, a paper fan, a 16-ton hammer, a giant kitty, bombs, missiles, and a bat.
• BloodRayne, in the first game, has fairly standard hammer space, though her active weapon does actually appear on her person. However, there's a cheat code that makes all currently-owned weapons appear on her character model, and it's a good reminder of why Hammerspace is such a common trope, since she looks absolutely ridiculous with all of those weapons hanging off of her.
• Bomb Chicken: The bombs that Bomb Chicken lays are just as big as she is, and she can lay as many as she needs without any delay. It's quite surreal to watch.
• Justified in Borderlands — the player is pulling things out of a subspace compartment. The tech involved also explains why you're limited to a specific number of items (which varies, depending on how many Backpack SDUs you've acquired) rather than weight.
• Characters' weapons in Brawlhalla are stored in magic glowing swords that occasionally spawn onto the stage, which then transform into anything from knives to hammers to rocket lances. In addition, some characters have signatures that knock terrain up from the floor, such as Koji kicking up a floorboard or Kor punching rocks out of the ground, but these abilities can also be used in midair. There's also the question of where Caspian keeps his extra knives and bombs, where Xull keeps his beartrap, where Isaiah stores his drone and rifle, etc.
• Chibi-Robo! pokes a little fun with this, actually having characters occasionally comment on Chibi-Robo's ability to store objects larger than himself (he's only a few inches tall and about the shape of a bolt) in his body and then retrieve them later as needed. Somewhat ironic, though, is that although he's not limited in the number of different items he can carry, there is a limit to the quantity of each item. Also, items don't just appear in his hand when he needs them, he has to literally pull them out of his head, which can take some time if it's a large item. One sidequest has Chibi-Robo stuff an entire three-masted pirate ship into his head. It takes a few seconds to pull it out again.
• In City of Heroes, every weapon, whether on a hero or villain, is stored in hammerspace. The animation of pulling it out involves the character reaching behind his back and the weapon materializing out of thin air. This can range from a pair of knives (reasonable) to a war mace almost as tall as (or taller than) the player. And those few characters who do have a weapon visible will inexplicably draw a second, identical weapon from Hammerspace.
• Some of the customers' objects in Cold and Flu Invasion, such as the scooter and the balloon, seem to appear out of nowhere when they get healed.
• In all of the Crash Bandicoot games that have the Bazooka. This cannon, which is larger than Crash himself, is kept in his back pocket.
• The Dark Forces Saga makes plenty of use of hammerspace, but it's particularly blatant in Jedi Academy when the player character has to place demo charges — three large barrels of explosives appear out of nowhere. And there are always multiple charges to set...
• Dark Souls has an unlimited inventory even without the Bottomless Box. Also, the only weapons that can be seen are the ones you currently have equipped, with the changes in equipment occurring out of thin air. The most blatant example, however, is the Lordvessel from the first game, a MacGuffin you retrieve midway through the game. When your character places it on an altar in a cutscene, we see that it's a metal bowl larger than the character is. Many players' reaction is "Where the hell have I been carrying that!?"
• Day of the Tentacle:
  • At one point, Doctor Fred walks out of one door, then minutes later, after Bernard solves a puzzle, he appears out of a different door when the only way to get from one door to the other is to pass through the room Bernard has been in the whole time. Bernard asks "How did you get over there?" without receiving a response. This was a sort of Lampshade Hanging on how older adventure games often wouldn't keep track of where NPCs were continuously, but would instead have them just appear in response to events and not be able to be found otherwise.
  • Similarly, the player characters in Day of the Tentacle show off their dimensional pockets on numerous occasions. Particularly Bernard, who pulls a crowbar out of his pants pocket a few times, and stores away a considerable length of hanging rope by giving it a yank and holding his pocket open while the entire thing just falls in.
• The dwarves of Deep Rock Galactic each carry a number of substantially-sized weapons and tools, of which only the currently-equipped one appears. Each dwarf can also carry up to 60 units of each resource found during a mission.
• Deus Ex is a first person game, but it has mirrors, so you can watch yourself pulling knives, rifles, or even rocket launchers out of your sleeve. Also, the rocket launcher is so big that you can barely move when wielding it (without training). Good thing you keep it in hammerspace.
• In the Discworld games, Rincewind can only carry two items whereas the Luggage (being a Bag of Holding) can carry an unlimited amount.
• In the Disgaea series, one of Rozalin's signature moves involves reaching into her rather large gown and whipping out a minigun to shoot down enemies.
• In Dragon Age: Origins, "Hurl" causes a character to pull a chunk of rock out of the ground to throw, no matter what terrain they're actually standing on.
• The Dragon Quest series mostly avoids this. Most games' battle systems are first person view and each character can only carry twelve items, including your equipment. Starting with VI and the remakes, you have a bag that stores limitless items and equipment outside of battle. Your wagon and ship probably helps when traveling across continents with your inventory.
• The Elder Scrolls:
  • Throughout the series, the Bound Weapon spells essentially allow the caster to pull a powerful weapon from hammerspace and use it for a fixed duration. This has been variously explained as either you're creating the weapon out of pure magicka, or you're temporarily summoning the weapon from Oblivion (similar to standard "summon" spells). In several games, there is also a "Bound Armor" spell which has the same effect, but summons and equips temporary armor.
  • The only real limit on what you can carry is your "Encumbrance" limit. You can have an infinite number of items on your person (including numerous large weapons, sets of armor, thousands of arrows, enough food to feed an army, enough books to fill a library, gallons of potions, literally millions of gold coins, etc.) and none of it will show unless you specifically equip them. (Essentially, your inventory is a Bag of Holding minus the "Bag" itself.) As long as the combined weight of the items is below your Encumbrance limit, you can move around without issue. (And Skyrim changes the system so that you can't run while over-encumbered, but you can still walk. You can carry literally billions of tons of items and move, albeit at a snail's pace.)
• Eternal Sonata has the typical Hammerspace for weapons, but no one knows where Beat's camera comes from. He just turns around, rummages through the air, and... poof! There it is!
• Most of the hunters in Evolve seem to have access to this. While a few of them have a reasonable amount of equipment, the rest have no excuse for lugging around several full-sized guns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, hours' worth of jetpack fuel, and other bulky equipment. Bucket has a justified version with how he manages to pull a nearly unlimited number of turrets out of his chest cavity, since his torso contains a material assembler.
• In Fallout 3, the Pip-Boy must come with some sort of pre-war super-storage compartment, because the thousands of bullets, half a dozen outfits, sack of drugs, The Terrible Shotgun, and all those holotapes must be on the Lone Wanderer's person somewhere. It's particularly bad with the bullets, since ammo has no weight. However, that one is averted in Fallout: New Vegas, where (in Hardcore Mode) ammo does have weight.
• Fear Effect allows you to carry assorted equipment and plenty of ammunition without any limited capacity, despite your character wearing only a belt with a few pouches. Levels involving Hana takes it to the extreme, though — one stage has her infiltrating a brothel while disguised as a prostitute, strutting around in a skimpy tank top and underwear, and somehow she can hide her machine gun on her.
• Final Fantasy:
  • In every Final Fantasy title before Final Fantasy VII, playable characters are never shown wielding their weapons, and they only appear when using the "Attack" command. This might be fine for daggers or even swords if you pretend that the sprite has a sheath too small or blurry for human eyes to see, but where exactly do they hide a five-foot staff?
  • Any Final Fantasy title with the "Throw" command.
  • Any Final Fantasy title that has no limits on how many items you can hold. Even if each character is holding 33 of everything, that's still a whole lot of everything.
  • Edgar's "Tools" in Final Fantasy VI.
  • Final Fantasy VII: Especially curious is Cloud's buster sword, which sometimes appears on his back, even on the field. A vast majority of the time, it's just pulled out of Hammerspace though.
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake: Zigzagged. Cloud, Barret, and Tifa all have their currently equipped weapons clearly visible on their bodies, and Cloud even has occasional trouble maneuvering with his giant greatswords. However, Aerith pulls her staves out of thin air, and there's no justification for how the heroes are able to carry a gazillion items around.
  • In some cutscenes of Final Fantasy VIII, Squall reaches behind his hip and takes out his sword from out of nowhere. It is implied from the animation that he's drawing the weapon from a sheath, but there's no sheath on either the character model in-game or in the actual CGI cutscenes. Squall also has a Gunblade Trumpet Case that he is never seen using.
  • Final Fantasy X:
    • This game brought back visible shields in the form of bracers and guards. These are presumably snugly tucked away in Hammerspace once the battle ends.
    • If the characters swap weapons during battle, they seem to literally do this — they just reach off to one side a little, the old weapon disappears, and the new one appears. Makes as much sense as anything given the number of weapons you can end up carrying by the end of the game.
  • Final Fantasy XI:
    • The game does this with all ranged weapons. Players reach behind their backs and a gun, crossbow, or boomerang materializes. Even longbows, which can be half the size of the player avatar, are not visible unless they are currently in use. Humorously, while the ranged weapon is in use, melee weapons disappear.
    • There's also no explanation as to how players can carry something as large as a bookcase in their immediate inventory other than "Moogle Magic".
  • Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII is the first aversion in the series, restricting Lightning to six slots for restoration items, though that number does increase with progression through quests.
  • Sidequest NPC Nashu Mhakaracca from Final Fantasy XIV can prodcue giant sphere-with-fuse cartoon bombs as needed. Because Nashu is something of a Cloudcuckoolander, by the way, her definition of "as needed" may not jibe with others'...
  • Noctis of Final Fantasy XV is sustained by this trope. His primary power is the ability to summon items from seemingly nowhere, which he uses to store not just weapons, but mundane items like fishing poles and whistles. He can even manipulate this ability to teleport himself by throwing his weapons, making him the series' first Hammerspacemancer. It's also the first time in the Final Fantasy series that this trope has been Justified.
  • Everyone in Dissidia Final Fantasy can produce their weapon of choice from thin air at any time, complete with a flash of light when it appears. This gets a little ridiculous when you play as Bartz, who constantly summons and dismisses the other characters' weapons as he fights. The sole exception seems to be Firion, who is explicitly shown to be carrying his sword, axe, bow, daggers, etc. on his person at all times.
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: When CJ and Ryder go out to steal ammunition from various sources, CJ notes that the truck they're driving appeared from nowhere and the fact that it wasn't on Ryder's 'curb when it showed up. Ryder tells him to chill. He says that his homies brought it over during the previous scene and that CJ didn't notice because Ryder's homies are like ninjas.
• Commonly happens in the Grow game series due to the cartoonish nature of the game. One notable example is in Grow Cannon, where a sleeping man pulls out a hammer twice his size out of nowhere to crush an alarm clock.
• Halo: In Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2, whenever the player has two weapons, only one weapon will appear on the character (in this case in his hands) while the other weapon does not seem to be anywhere on the player, as the player's armor does not seem to have any visible pockets or straps for weapons. From Halo 3 onward, both weapons appear on the player, one in the player's hands and the other either on his back or on his thigh. This can be used to the enemy's advantage, as it makes you easily identifiable as a bigger threat if you carry a big weapon (for example, fittingly, the Gravity Hammer). That said, we still have no idea where the player keeps all their grenades and ammo.
• Ice Age 2: The Meltdown: Scrat is somehow capable of carrying 30 or so chunks of rock with no visible implements.
• Justified and used as a plot point in Indivisible. Ajna can keep her allies and inventory in her inner realm. Which means that when she's imprisoned, she still has her axe, which she promptly uses to break out.
• Karnov gives no indication of where Karnov keeps the various items he can carry around. One of these items is a ladder several times Karnov's height.
• In Kindergarten, Nugget drops chicken nuggets into his Nugget Cave so that he and the protagonist can have a soft, safe landing when they jump into it. More chicken nuggets than one kindergartener could possibly keep on his person, to the point where they're practically raining down. And since they fall straight from his sprite without any accompanying animation, we don't even get a clue as to where he keeps them all.
• Kingdom Hearts:
  • The Keyblade, as one of its inherent abilities, can truly be summoned out of thin air (or out of someone else's hands) whenever its wielder needs it. According to Word of God, later installments even added an effect for each time Sora drew his keyblade from Hammerspace. Other weapons in the series, like Riku's Soul Eater, which technically is a Keyblade, and the Organization's weapons, can be summoned like this too.
  • In Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, the three protagonists have entire suits of armor in hammerspace. These are summoned by a sharp rap on their shoulder guards, and apparently replace the characters' normal clothing. Terra's armor in particular shows a very nice view from behind, especially compared with his usual hakama (massive pleated Japanese pants).
• Kingdom of Loathing:
  • Certain adventures involve the character "using an item he didn't know he had; and no longer has after" to either solve a problem or ward off an attack.
  • The message you get when you summon a Boba Fettucini in combat:
    "Pew pew pew!" <name> shouts excitedly, drawing a laser pistol from some spiritual dimension of necessity. "Kill kill kill! Pew pew pew!"
• The King of Fighters:
  • The character Malin takes out a hammer larger than herself out of nowhere for her leader desperation move. God knows how she is able to pull that off.
  • Same goes for Oswald and his seemingly infinite deck of cards.
• The King's Quest series lampshades the character's unlimited inventory in the official hint books by including the question "Where does my character keep all that stuff?" The answer: "The same place Superman keeps his street clothes when he flies." The 2015 game actually runs with this, having Graham explain that his cloak was hand-made by his mother with tons of pockets; any time he adds an item to his inventory, he does it with a Cape Swish (this trope is still in effect, as Graham can store objects like full-size mirrors in there). This was also true of Superman during The Silver Age of Comic Books. Episode 2 takes this to its logical conclusion, with Graham storing another human being inside his cape.
• Kyle Hyde is prone to carrying loads of items, especially towards the end of his games. The most noticeable moment is in Last Window, when he stuffs the entire contents of a cardboard box into his jacket pockets and carries it around to try and sell to people.
• Left 4 Dead:
  • The Tank is capable of pulling a sizable chunk of concrete out of the ground, regardless of where he is, such as a metal walkway.
  • In Left 4 Dead 2, players can replace pistols with melee weapons such as bats, swords, or chainsaws. The downside is you lose your pistol sidearms. Yet if you get incapacitated, you somehow manage to whip out a pistol to blast the infected with whilst on the floor.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • Link has gotten quite a lot of debate going about just where he puts all those swords, bigger swords, bows and arrows, slingshots, pointy sticks, nuts, boomerangs, bombs, chickens, extra clothes, fairies, instruments, fishing poles, masks, metal boots, and most importantly to this topic, hammers. In his hat maybe? Twilight Princess has some particularly strange examples: Link's heavy weapon is a ridiculously enormous ball and chain which slows him down considerably while he's carrying it in his arms, but somehow has no effect once he's put it back into hammerspace. He also gets a pair of heavy Iron Boots, which allow him to walk on the bottom of the water.
    
    From The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time onward, his typical animation for pulling something from the inventory is reaching behind him. If he's wearing a shield, it looks like he's reaching underneath it, but once his shield is gone, he simply reaches behind him and the object appears in his hand. In Twilight Princess, there is a tiny pouch specifically modeled on Link's belt, behind his hip, which he reaches into to retrieve and stow items, including the aforementioned massive ball and chain item.
    
    He can also produce bombs bigger than his head by simply raising his hands in the air. Apparently he keeps them in very limited extra-dimensional "bomb bags", which only bombs can fit into and which activate and teleport their contents into his hands whenever he raises them above his head. He can hold, unencumbered, up to fifty of those things in the bags.
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, the Mask Salesman pulls a pipe organ out of thin air to teach you the Song of Healing.
• In Leisure Suit Larry 2: Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places), Larry wonders how he's going to pick up a glass which stands half his height, and is full of liquid besides. The game then says, "Ah, shucks! This isn't real life... just an incredible simulation!" and lets him stuff it into his pocket "along with everything else." The scene in which he shoves the vessel into his leisure suit jacket is even animated.
• Frustratingly done in Limbo of the Lost, where Captain Briggs can store stuff like coffin lids and bear traps in his pants but won't pick up things like boots or a coat unless he has a bag.
• Love of Magic: Evokers store their focus items in an extradimensional space. Katie keeps her locket there, and Owyn stores his staff there...and, later, Excalibur.
• MadWorld's central character Jack has what appears to be a telescopic chainsaw attached to his bionic right forearm. Where the blade (and more importantly, the chain) of said saw goes to whenever it retracts is unclear. Rule of Cool clearly applies.
• Jess from Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis has a handbag, frequently Lampshaded, from which she can pull anything, of any size, of any dimensions, at any given time. Including other characters.
• MapleStory uses this heavily, as any given character can store numerous items away. Inventory space is limited to a number of given slots, broken down by category: equips, use items, etc. items, "setup" (often limited to chairs and holiday decorations), and Cash Shop items. However, multiple copies of the same item can stack into one slot (with the exception of the equips — even identical copies of the same gear count as separate items) meaning that it's possible to have 100 potions or 1000 arrows in one slot. Extra slots are often added during job advances, and additional slots can be purchased in the Cash Shop. Provided a player is willing to spend the money, they can expand storage so much that it may be impossible to reasonably fill it.
• Marvel: Contest of Champions has this used by champions who have weapons as part of special attacks but not normally visible on their model. Winter Soldier and Punisher top the rest by pulling out two handguns and a bazooka for their third special. Originally played straight by Drax, who would pull his knives out for his third special attack, until an update made him hold them all the time.
• Mass Effect:
  • Mass Effect:
    • A somewhat justified example. Thanks to omni-gel and omni-tools, mods for weapons can be constructed on the battlefield and installed with minimal difficulty. This doesn't account for larger items like weapons and armour. The second game dealt with the problem by removing the inventory altogether.
    • The game also has a mostly-aversion by showing every character with their four guns (sniper rifle, shotgun, assault rifle, and pistol) carried in various places, despite the fact that nobody except Ashley (and sometimes Shepard) can use more than two of them effectively. Not completely, though. When you change your inventory, the new guns/armor appear out of Hammerspace to replace the old.
  • A very minor, almost unnoticeable example in Mass Effect 2: No class other than the Soldier actually carries their pistol visibly on their person. It is drawn from the same place as the SMG (the left hip), but the weapon there is always the SMG, and if you are wielding the SMG, the pistol is not seen.
• The Matrix: Path of Neo has this justified in some levels, like the govt. lobby, where you know they have harnesses on. Later levels aren't so justified, as Neo's wearing a tight cassock with no room for a weapons harness underneath, but weapons just appear and disappear from his hands. It is The Matrix, so maybe it's "magic".
• Mega Man:
  • Protagonists can hold and pull out a suspicious number of tanks and other miscellaneous items considering they're all in spandex, with no pockets to speak of.
  • The protagonists also regularly shoot objects from their Mega Busters that are larger than could possibly fit through the aperture, including sawblades, bombs, and a boxing glove (?). Justified in that proper scale would be too hard to see.
  • Rush and Eddie could be considered mobile Hammerspace, in that they can fit objects that shouldn't, by rights, fit inside their bodies.
• Metal Gear Solid and its sequels tend to do this:
  • Weapons and items just appear from midair when equipped, including assault rifles and missile launchers. In terms of gameplay, the series gradually got slightly less ridiculous about this; in the early games, weapons and equipment not actually equipped were treated as entirely nonexistent (particularly in MGS1, as its key cards are mentioned to be "Personal Area Network" cards that simply need to be on someone's person to open doors, but which Snake can't get to work unless he actually equips the card). MGS2 still doesn't have any sort of weight issues, but at the very least has the keycards actually work the way the game says they do. Starting from Snake Eater, the player still has a "backpack" that holds all the items they've picked up, but to actually use any of them they have to be moved into the active inventory, which is limited to eight (five in later games) guns and eight other items, where they will weigh Snake down and affect his rate of stamina usage.
  • In Metal Gear Solid 4, this trope started to bleed into the cutscenes; Snake only ever has his stun knife and his Operator pistol on his person, and while he does pull them out for the vast majority of cutscenes where he uses a weapon, for ones where he pulls out a bigger gun like his M4 Custom, he simply reaches just offscreen and then pulls back with the gun in his hands.
• Minecraft's grid inventory allows the player to carry (and swim with!) up to 2304 cubic meters of stone. Even more if you consider the fact that chests can store just as much as the inventory. You can tear down a mountain and carry half of it with you, then stash the other half in a chest that takes up less than a cubic meter of space. Exaggerated with the Ender Chest. Any item that is placed in one of these chests can appear in another Ender Chest, no matter how far away the chests are or if they're in completely different dimensions! On top of this, even if every Ender Chest placed in the world is destroyed, the items will still be in the hammerspace of the chest once you make a new Ender Chest. And if you carry an Ender Chest in your inventory... Even more ridiculous is the Shulker Box, which is like a regular chest, but if you break it, it will hold all of its contents inside, meaning you can carry entire chest's worth of items within a single item slot. Meaning that you can carry an absurd amount of stuff if you fill your inventory with Shulker Boxes, each filled full of items.
• Monkey Island:
  • The series protagonist, Guybrush Threepwood carries all of his inventory in his pants, with no visual indication of it taking up any space or hindering movement. This is often done deliberately for comic effect (multiple times he is shown stuffing or dropping an object equaling his height in length with relative ease)! It's even the solution to a puzzle in The Secret of Monkey Island. At one point, Guybrush is thrown into the sea with his feet tied to a heavy object. How can he survive? By picking up said heavy object and stuffing it into his pants. Since the object is now in his inventory, it no longer weighs him down, and he can swim up to the surface.
  • Used in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, when talking to a fisherman whose pipe is constantly being shifted from his mouth to his hand while he gestures. At one point of the conversation, he ends up with a pipe in both mouth and hand, and one of the possible lines at this point is "Hey, where did that second pipe come from?" If chosen, the fisherman quickly reverts to his default sprite, looks around shiftily, and replies "What pipe?"
• Some of the Mortal Kombat characters have weapons that they don't always carry, including Shao Kahn's hammer and Kitana's fans, as well as every fighter in most of the 3D games. However, the later games go out of their way to either have the weapon be on the character's person, or use effects to imply that the weapon is some form of concentrated energy.
• The Mother series almost averts this. It is used, but each character has a limited inventory space of 16 items, regardless of the item's size (an ATM card takes up as much room as a baseball bat). This limit includes items that each character has equipped. After accounting for a weapon, two pieces of armor and one protective item, your inventory per character is reduced to only 12 free spaces, and certain items have to be carried throughout the game by at least one character. Using healing magic over potions is common in this game.
• My Time at Portia allows you to carry anything in your pocket — weapons, food, live cows, hundreds of tons of rock, structures like water wheels that are several times taller than you are...
• In Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm, Ino Yamanaka's ultimate attack includes her taking out poisoned bouquets from behind her. Where she gets them is questionable, as she doesn't have back pockets.
• NetHack has the plain old Bag of Holding for hoicking stuff around, but large boxes and chests are this trope; they can hold infinite amounts of anything (troll corpses fit in quite nicely, one of the best ways to get rid of the damn things; they'll even fit dragon and giant corpses). About the only things you can't put in a chest are yourself, pets (although Schroedinger's Cat can start off in one), and the genuine Amulet of Yendor.
• The titular character from Pajama Sam saves all the items he picks up somewhere either inside his cape or his dropseat. Often he can walk around with things like a whole lunchbox, a crowbar, a hard hat, a pair of oars, a bag of potting soil or the many inanimate object characters that you need to take somewhere.
• The Pandora Directive, like most adventure games, ignores this most of the time, with items you click on going into your inventory magically. At one point you do this with a 15-foot bamboo pole and are carrying it around in some unknown manner. However, parts of the game are full motion video, and the designers decided to have a little bit of fun, so when you need to use the pole, you are treated to a video of Tex Murphy absurdly pulling a 15-foot pole out from under his trenchcoat and then using it.
• The Pink Panther:
  • In Pink Panther's Passport to Peril, a number of things can be carried by the Panther in pockets that he just opens in his skin/suit, and that can hold everything from a bag of chips to a fishing rod, a katana, a cup of coffee (still hot), and a live, termite-stuffed anteater.
  • It gets even more extreme in the sequel, Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink, in which he is able to put a complete mammoth in his pocket (although he does require the help of a clown to do so).
• Planescape: Torment:
  • The Nameless One is a hulking brute of a man; he has twenty inventory slots that can fit sledgehammers, human skulls, books, and other sundry items. He manages to lug around his massive arsenal of knives, Eldritch Tomes, spare arms and so on despite wearing nothing more than a loincloth and animal-bone belt.
  • Morte, a supporting character, has the same twenty slots as the Nameless One has. He's a floating human skull. Hammerspace is the only reasonable excuse. (The question of where his inventory was kept was actually a frequent joke among players.)
  • The scantily clad Annah, not-quite-so-scantily clad Fall-From-Grace, the Modron Nordom (living cube on stilts for the heathen masses), and Ignus, who is on fire, yet still manages to store scrolls.
• In Planet Explorers, a player's inventory has room for hundreds of items, and could conceivably hold an entire fleet of flat-packed airships, ready to be deployed at a moment's notice.
• The first three generations of Pokémon games give the main characters backpacks that hold a finite amount of items, with excess items having to be deposited in the main character's PC storage box (which itself may qualify). Pokémon Diamond and Pearl abandoned this by giving the heroes backpacks with infinite storage space, even though their backpacks don't look any bigger than the ones previous characters had. Though all of them can somehow hold things as large as bicycles. The bicycle thing is handwaved in later games by describing the bikes in question as being collapsible. (Even if this were the case, one would be hard-pressed to fit anything else into a pack of that size once the bike was in there.) In the games, items are found in Poké Balls. Some people take this as an explanation for the Bag's large storage space and how item storage works.
• [PROTOTYPE] is sort of this in almost every way about Alex. Groundspikes and its devastator version that would require several Mercers worth of biomass. Possibly averted in that Alex appears to have an exceedingly high density (as evidenced by such things as his ability to bring cars to a complete stop by jumping on them or the fact that the pavement cracks whenever he lands after jumping off a roof).
• In Psychonauts, you can fit a stop sign, a dowsing rod, a gun, a plunger, a radio helmet, and several jarred brains inside a backpack roughly the size of your own torso.
• In Punch-Out!!, how exactly can Soda Popinski's soda bottles fit into his very small speedos?
• Discussed in Rabi-Ribi, which has an achievement that comments on how much your inventory would weigh with 100% item completion. (About eight kilograms.) Not to mention the main character's weapon of choice is literally a hammer, pulled out of Hammerspace upon attacking.
• Lampshaded in Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando: The commentator for arena battles occasionally questions where Ratchet is carrying his weapons. Ratchet typically carries 15 of them and at least five different Gadgets with no explanation for where they come from; they seem to just magically unfold into his hands. The movie and its video game explain this with Telequipping, where Galactic Rangers can mentally summon whatever weapon or gadget they need from the arsenal in their headquarters. Outside of the fact that this doesn't explain how it's possible in all the other games, in the game Ratchet is also able to do this before he joins the Rangers!
• Resident Evil:
  • Resident Evil 2. Mobile hammerspace. Excess inventory is stored in various identical crates around the game world. No attempt is made to explain how putting an item in a box in a cop office allows it to show up in the sewage substation office. In the case of multiplayer mode, this results in two or more characters accessing different inventories from the same box.
  • Resident Evil 4:
    • If you shoot the weapon out of the hands of a weapon-wielding zombie, they will pull out another one, no matter how many times you do it.
    • Interesting case with Leon's attaché case. The case actually has limited space and has to be upgraded to carry more stuff. However, the case is never visible during gameplay (and you still run into a rocket launcher along the way).
• Parodied in the bow stringing animation in Runescape, where you are seen pulling a bow out of your pants, stringing it, then putting it back.
• In Ryzom, players can carry up to ten eight-foot-long automatic grenade launchers (called "Autolaunchers") in their inventory, alongside whatever armor, other weapons, and raw materials they may have acquired in their journeys, without any sort of noticeable difference, even if you're a Tryker, which is half as tall as everyone else.
• In Scribblenauts Unlimited, this is a game element. If you want to keep an object you summoned, use the Magic Backpack to store it.
• In Silent Hill 2, James can at one point pick up a massive "Great Knife" which is about as large as he is tall. He can only barely move while dragging the giant thing behind him, and actually swinging it is a painfully long process — put it away in your inventory, though, and he can run around happily as normal.
• In Simon the Sorcerer, Simon puts everything he picks up in his pointy hat, including a ladder.
• The Sims:
  • Sims store various devices in Hammerspace, among them mops, screwdrivers, money and hand puppets. These things come from the Sim's back pocket (or their ass, depending on how you look at it).
  • The Sims 3 takes this above and beyond with the inventory system carrying everything from seeds to guitars to whole cars.
• Peacock from Skullgirls, a Reality Warper who follows Toon Physics, uses this, though in a particularly demented variation, the portal to hammerspace is her empty eye sockets.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Amy often pulls her trademark hammer out of the void.
  • In Sonic Unleashed, Exposition Fairy Chip is able to produce endless amounts of chocolate, each bar bigger than he is, out of thin air. Furthermore, he offers one to everyone he meets.
  • Lampshaded in Sonic Generations when Classic Tails asks where Classic Sonic puts all the rings, to which Modern Tails cannot answer, having not asked himself.
  • Which is odd, since Tails is a huge user of this trope himself, even more than Sonic. At times, he'll pull a toolbox from nowhere (large enough for him to use as a chair), a remote-controlled robot the size of his head, and, most frequently, a never-ending supply of bombs (whether cartoony or shaped like rings).
• The Space Quest series of adventure games has various jokes about all the inventory being carried around:
  • In Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge: "You take the plunger with you, boy these adventure game hero's know how to pack"
  • Lampshaded in Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon: "You take the ladder and jam it in your pocket. Ouch!"
  • Space Quest V: The Next Mutation makes mention about how all the items you carry do nothing to aid the unimpressive bulge in your pants.
  • A particularly humorous lampshade is hung in Space Quest VI: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier, when Roger attempts to pick up an optional (and useless) 2x4 piece of wood. The Lemony Narrator bets that you can't fit it in your pants, then goes on to theorize that they are truly bottomless after you prove him wrong.
• Splatoon: When switching into their swim forms, Inklings and Octolings have the ability to instantly store whatever weapon they were using. Which gets slightly ridiculous when said weapon is an enormous roller that's wider than the Inkling is tall. All of their special attacks are also pulled out of Hammerspace.
• Handwaved in Star Trek: Elite Force with miniaturized Transporters.
• Super Mario Bros.:
  • The Hammer Brothers seemingly pull the hammers they throw at you from nowhere.
  • In Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, we have no idea where Bowser's Goomba, Shy Guy, Koopa, Bob-omb, or Magikoopa minions hang out. He just hoists a huge ball of them right before he uses special attacks in battle. A huge ball of minions, bigger than he is. Presumably they always travel with him in the same way that a large party of characters in an RPG only shows up as one character on the world map.
  • Mario Kart:
    • All of the characters have this trope when they obtain an Item.
    • When Link, added as part of the first Mario Kart 8 DLC pack, does a boost jump or trick, he somehow produces his sword and raises it. He can also produce the Triforce when performing a trick off of an anti-gravity ramp.
  • In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, this, and the use of hammerspace in general, is lampshaded when Goombella wonders where enemies like Hammer Bros and Lakitus keep their endless supply of projectiles.
• Several fighters in the Super Smash Bros. series use this. For example, there's Mario's cape; DK's bongos; Kirby's sword, hammer, and any weapon-based powers he picks up; Olimar's Pikmins; and King Dedede's army of Waddle Dees, Doos, and Gordos. Some examples are even more ridiculous though:
  • Peach has a parasol, a tennis racket, a frying pan, a golf club, teacups, and Toad that all come out of nowhere. On top of that, she somehow manages to turn the entire stage into her own personal hammerspace, as she pulls humongous radishes out of anything she can stand on, including ice and ultra-thin floating platforms.
  • Snake manages to produce a range of rocket launchers, grenades, trip mines, and a surveillance CYPHER from absolutely nowhere. Otacon points this out in an Easter Egg Codec conversation. When Snake mentions Link's ability to carry a ton of inventory (and how he thinks it would weigh him down), the conversation ends on something to the effect of:
    Snake: Gear is only useful when it's used at the right time and place. Just lugging a ton of it around doesn't do you any good.
    Otacon: I, uh... I wouldn't be talking if I were you, Snake.
    Snake: What's that supposed to mean?
    Otacon: You tell me, Mr. Utility Belt.
  • Wario, who can pull out a motorcycle. And then eat it. And then pull out another. Rinse and repeat.
  • Mr. Game & Watch. Every single one of his attacks has him pulling out something, except for his Final Smash and one of his taunts.
  • One of Link's custom attacks lampshades this:
    Giant Bomb: Pulls out a huge bomb that causes a huge blast. (Where on earth is Link keeping it?!)
• The Tales Series:
  • The recurring Arte Pow Hammer appears this way if used as a physical attack.
  • Justified or hand-waved in a scene in Tales of the Abyss wherein Jade pulls his spear out of nowhere to ward off a surprise attack. Luke asks him where the spear came from, and he replies that he uses magic to keep it in his arm.
  • Chat, Seles, and Karol have bags of hammerspace.
• Team Fortress 2:
  • Lampshaded by Valve on one of their fake websites for the game, which offers, among other ridiculous services: "Lower total loadout weight by providing your staff with Hammerspace™ Technology (patent pending) to keep supplies and tactical items out of the way, yet still within reach."
  • The Engineer's Sentry Gun proves a most curious example. It starts off the size of a toolbox, expands and builds itself, can be upgraded two more levels beyond its first form (with two of any other weapon, be it massive minigun or puny pistol), and holds more than its visible share of ammo. On command, the sentry gun can reduce itself to the size of same toolbox. The toolbox itself comes from Hammerspace, while the subsequent levels of compaction are probably best explained as "Wrenchspace".
• Tomb Raider certainly falls under this. Okay, so Lara can hold her signature pistols in her hip holsters and she carries her two-handed weapon by attaching it to her backpack, but whenever you switch out weapons, like the Uzis or the Shotgun, the weapons occupying the space before it just magically vanish to make room for the new weapons drawn. One could argue that her backpack carries everything, but it seems silly how Lara can stuff 6+ guns with extra bullets, medi-packs, and flares in that tiny backpack. Furthermore, Lara's hammerspace is such that any items collected in the games merely have to be placed in the general proximity of her backpack to be stored — not once do we see her actually place something inside her bag. This is referenced in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, where keen-eyed viewers will see Angelina Jolie do the same thing with a piece of the Triangle of Light.
• Toontown Online has the "Gag Pouch", which soon becomes the "Gag Backpack". The Gag Pouch holds 20 gags, and upgrades to 50 gags once you get the Gag Backpack. What's funny is that you never actually see it. You're just told how much stuff is inside of it, and it gets even funnier when you store life-sized trains and opera singers inside of it.
• When you confront a mobster in a jacuzzi with two bikini-molls in Total Overdose, they all draw assault rifles from somewhere.
• Touhou Project:
  • Yukari Yakumo from possesses/has access to a literal Hammerspace in the form of the her "gaps", tears in reality which she uses to travel and store/transport any item she desires, most notably several grave stones, enemy projectiles, traffic signs, and a train.
  • While Sakuya Izayoi is far less proficient, she uses her ability to mess with space-time to manifest her own Hammerspace pocket in which to store her ludicrous amount of knives, also using her power to stop time to retrieve them. (Some fans have stated that it's the same knife, being in multiple places at the same time.)
  • Suika Ibuki's treasured magical gourd, which never gets empty of sake. It's sometimes speculated what would happen if someone ever managed to set fire to its inside. This is explained in one of the official manga about the Three Fairies: Her gourd is soaked in the extract of a newt-like creature that produces an incredible amount of sake from a little bit of water.
• In True Crime: Streets of LA, when threatened the pimps (dressed like pimps) take out a small gun, and the hookers (dressed like hookers) take out large rifles...
• The janitors in Two Point Hospital stash all of their supplies inside their coats: brooms, vending machine supplies, garbage bags, and comically-oversized ghost-sucking Dustbusters.
• Lampshaded in Versus Umbra, when Adrian thinks that Michael will put a parachute in his infinitely deep pockets, together with weapons, gadgets, and lunch.
• Sarah from the white chamber is able to fit a barrel of explosives, a whole human corpse, and many other odds and ends into her tiny jacket pockets as she moves around on the wreckage of the ship.
• The referee during the speed slice event in Wii Sports Resort. He pulls a bunch of random items out of nowhere (and all of them are huge) for you to slice, such as bread, sushi, candles, screens, bamboo, watermelons, oranges, diamonds, cakes, eggs, and the electronic timers used for power cruise event.
• Joshua of The World Ends with You can drop an ice cream truck on you, seemingly from out of nowhere, by dialing a number on his cellphone.
• World of Warcraft:
  • The game gives characters lots of bags to store stuff in, but the question of how, physically, a person would lug around entire sets of armor, dozens of weapons, hundreds of potions, etc., remains unanswered. An attempt at justifying this was actually made for pets and mounts, whose inventory items are supposedly devices used to summon them rather than the creatures themselves; otherwise you'd be carrying around a half dozen horses (or kodos!) in your pack in addition to all those weapons. Also interesting is the graphical display of weapons, which do actually appear on the character's back or belt, but when swapped (say, for a wand or ranged weapon) vanish back into hammerspace. Occasionally the flavor text for particularly incongruous items will refer to this, including some large boulders which the player has to collect an entire set of, which say, "Probably best not to think about how you're carrying several of these."
  • Mists of Pandaria averts this in a couple of quests by giving you an NPC ally to carry heavier items like barrels of beer, and visibly so. Sometimes the items you collect normally will show on your character model (usually on your back) as well, and in a few instances, such as a scenario where you collect stolen brew, you can even become encumbered by carrying too much at once.
• Averted in X-COM and its immediate sequel: you have a jigsaw puzzle of fitting items of different sizes in very restricted spaces.
• Downplayed in Torna ~ The Golden Country, since while the playable Blades can seemingly pull their weapons out of thin air, their Drivers can't.
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 features Blades, weapons that the soldiers in Aionios can summon into their hands and dematerialize at will. The game begins with a first-person POV shot of Noah's Iris showing his Blade projected before him. The characters summon their Blades by holding their hands in the way they would their Blade, which would look like grabbing the Iris projection from their perspective. Ouroboros can take advantage of this system by sharing their Classes amongst themselves, letting them use copies of each others' Blades, which comes with the muscle memory needed to use them. Applying multiple Blades' properties to one could be how Fusion Arts are possible. Notably, Nopon don't have Irises and have to rely on handheld terminals for the Iris' other features, despite Nopon being able to pass their Classes and Blades to Ouroboros, and are shown carrying weapons on their back like in prior Xenoblade entries. The Queens, however, are able to summon Blades and pass their Classes to the party despite never being shown to have Irises. Certain Blades play this trope more straight, with Lucky Seven being stored inside the Veiled Sword despite being shown existing in physical space prior, and Shulk posessing a Blade copy of his Monado REX+ in Future Redeemed. Curiously, a person's Blade can be locked away from their use by Z's power being channeled through X's staff, as shown at the end of Chapter 5. Oddly, Z doesn't do this at the start of his boss fight, despite sealing away the party's ability to Interlink, which was another power of said staff.
• Xenosaga characters have access to armored fighting suits (which double as small spaceships) called AGWS which they can summon at any point during a battle, completely out of nowhere. Two of the main female characters, Shion and KOS-MOS, use weapons in battle which are larger than they are and which they summon through some sort of dimensional folding process. (KOS-MOS is a battle android who looks like a teenaged girl: her weapons are inside her and fold out for use.)
• Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana is especially egregious about this, as three of the playable characters have weapons at least half their size that vanish completely upon being sheathed.
• Zone of the Enders handwaves this trope by means of suggesting that "metatron", a principle material in the series, can expand, contract, and generate pockets of spacetime called Vector Traps more or less at the user's will. This makes it a convenient place to store a vast array of weaponry, which you accumulate throughout both games.
• Used in Zork: Grand Inquisitor when, in the middle of the eventure, AFGNCAAP pulls out a huge vacuum cleaner. Dungeon Master Dalboz remarks, "Just where were you keeping that?"

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