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Giving thanks to Yindee and other tropers for helping me finish the wick check.

Well, you know what time it is. Another x as weapon being taken to the TRS for re-evaluation. Between Weapon Specialization, Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon, and Weapon-Based Characterization, most hammer usages with meaning have been covered. The description mentions the trend of small girls using big hammers and maybe there's general trope for small girls (or people if it's more of a gender neutral thing) using big weapons as evidenced by Small Girl, Big Gun. Ultimately, not something that has strong support in wick check but sounds like something yardable to me

Conclusion

Disambig between Weapon Specialization, Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon, and Weapon-Based Characterization and other weapon tropes.


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    Character uses a hammer (often as a weapon) (36/68) 
  1. Attack! Attack! Attack!: Lyrical Nanoha: The Iron Hammer Knight, Vita. There's nothing she can't destroy. Hammer as weapon.
  2. Dual Wielding: In his self-titled video game, Deadpool dual-wields katanas, sai, and even ''sledgehammers''.
  3. Fire and Brimstone Hell: Sonic Adventure: Red Mountain is like this, complete with ghostly prisoners and giant stone skulls that shoot fire, with some very large metal hammers and random religious symbols thrown in for good measure. Although it seems to represent the Lava Reef Zone volcano from Sonic And Knuckles, it doesn't look much like it. Large hammers exist.
  4. Ninja Maid: Hazuki Sakurazaka of Haruka Nogizaka's Secret, who is capable of roofhopping and knocking men out, and if that's not enough, she still has her chainsaw on her repertoire. Her fellow maid Nanami Nanashiro seems to be this way as well, as she is also pretty handy with her hammer.
  5. Tremor Trampoline: Painkiller has the Guardian. If the player fails to jump when the boss slams the ground, he will take damage and be catapulted into the air, and then take more damage from the resulting fall damage.
  6. Anime.Kyousogiga: Koto's weapon. Commented out, but counts.
  7. BadassPreacher.Real Life: The Archbishop of York, William de la Zouche, raised a company of archers against the Scots at the Curb-Stomp Battle of Neville's Cross, and his quick levying on his own initiative is credited with preventing a Scottish invasion of England and capturing the Scottish King David II Bruce. Another historical tradition says that he was present at the Battle of Crecy the previous year, and led some of the King's foot. On both occasions he took to the field wearing black plate armour and carrying an enormous mace, because he couldn't carry a sword as he was forbidden "edged weapons." A mace, but same usage.
  8. Characters.Bloodborne Enemies And Bosses: The Ihyll prospector wields a Kirkhammer.
  9. Characters.Code Prime Cybertron: Used a forge when she was alive that could create powerful weapons and artifacts, the Star Saber being one of said weapons. Hammer is used to forge weapons.
  10. Characters.Digimon Ghost Game Supporting Cast: Carries one with him at all times, using it to steal his target's time with his "Chrono Breaker" attack. Character carries and uses hammer.
  11. Characters.Hotline Miami:
    • In the tutorial, his first weapon is a hammer that he uses against the two remaining thugs before going upstairs. It's also his main weapon in the digital comic and he uses it to bludgeon the Casey family to death. As weapon
    • Averted. Despite his name and his trailer showing him holding a hammer as a weapon, he can't do that in-game. Doesn't use hammer as weapon. Aversions not allowed.
  12. Characters.Kingdom Hearts Sora: Morph Weapon: Favorite Deputy transforms first into Hyper Hammer, a weapon focused on wide sweeping attacks, then again into Drill Punch, a single target-oriented Power Fist. Classic Tone transforms into an identical set of weapons called Boom Hammer and Clock Drill.
  13. Characters.Terraria: Which they throw at you to attack. They will sometimes drop from dead Paladins, and allow you to do the same thing. Hammer as thrown weapon.
  14. Characters.The Rising Of The Shield Hero Main Characters: (Raphtalia) In the Web Novel, she becomes the [[spoiler:Seven Star Hero of the Hammer]] after Naofumi removes Tact's grip on [[spoiler:his stolen Weapons]]. Hammer as weapon.
  15. Fanfic.Burning Bridges Building Confidence: Revengance swings a giant hammer around.
  16. Film.Bad Black: Swaaz brings out a hammer to break the bank teller's window and steal the money.
    VJ Emmie: "I have a key! Ugandan key!"
  17. Film.Intruder: When Bill finds Craig spying on Jennifer outside, he attacks him with a hammer.
  18. Film.Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: A giant hammer is one of the weapons provided in Thunderdome. Max uses it to knock Blaster's helmet off.
  19. Film.Unhinged 2020: The film starts with the Man brutally dispatching his ex-wife and her new husband with one, right before he lights the house on fire. Hammer as weapon.
  20. Film.Violent Night: Character uses hammer.
    • Dirty Coward: The reindeer get spooked and fly off after one of the mercs shoots the roof, abandoning Santa in the process. [[spoiler:This ends up getting Subverted at the end of the film, where they return after the battle with not only Santa's spare sack but Skullcrusher as well, indicating that they didn't leave him for dead as he thought, they just arrived too late for their Big Damn Heroes moment.]]
    • Drop The Hammer: Before Santa became his current form, he was [[spoiler:a Viking warrior who used a large war-hammer known as Skullcrusher. At one point, he claims a workman's hammer from a barn to use as a weapon.]]
  21. Film.Wendigo: Otis murders The Sheriff by smashing his head in with a claw hammer.
  22. Hitman.Tropes D To L: An ordinary household hammer is one of the many weapons that 47 can use to execute his targets (or anyone else for that matter). Made all the more gruesome by a special head-crunching animation when 47 successfully pulls off a sneak attack on his victim.
  23. ImprobableWeaponUser.Video Games: Character uses hammer.
    • City of Heroes: Since they introduced alternate weapon skins, there's been a few of these available, mainly for the War Mace and Battle Axe powersets. War Mace gets a baseball bat, a shovel and a wrench, while Battle Axe gets the same shovel turned on its side. Your enemies aren't strangers to this either- see the Scrapyarders, why will sometimes use jackhammers against you.
    • Hammerin' Harry: Or Daiku no Gensan in Japan; either way, the titular character normally falls under Drop The Hammer... but in Hammerin' Hero, he gets alternate jobs which give him access to some improbable weapons. At the normal end is a baseball bat. Others include things like records, boomboxes, sushi, whole raw fish, anchors...
  24. Literature.Will Of Heaven: Zhang Liang supposedly tried to assassinate the First Emperor with a 120-catty hammer.
  25. Pantheon.Mammals: Portfolio: Wielding a hammer
  26. PlayingWith.Power Up Letdown: Exaggerated: After beating That One Boss, Alicia receives a spike-covered hammer. It breaks after only five uses, and doesn't dish out much damage either. Hammer as weapon.
  27. Podcast.Fallout Is Dragons: The chosen weapon of one Tempered Steel.
  28. Recap.Arrow S 4 E 14 Code Of Silence: Spartan finds himself fighting a Giant Mook from the Demolition Team armed with a sledgehammer. The second time his helmet emits a magnetic field that stops him being hit in the head. Uses sledgehammer.
  29. Recap.Total Drama The Obsta Kill Course: Mike uses a wooden mallet inside of his brain to free Svetlana, which gives the added bonus of sabotaging Mal. Mallet as a weapon.
  30. Series.Dark Hole: A zombie attacks Tae-han's car with a hammer.
  31. TabletopGame.Templars Of Kayne: Token Nonhuman: Drop The Hammer: Sedna and Arthur Commented out. Bizarrely, chars' fighting specializations are listed under TNH
  32. VideoGame.Dragon Quest Builders: In addition to breaking through earth and mining resources, your mallet can be used to give monsters a good whack on the head. Hammer used as mining tool and weapon.
  33. VideoGame.Medi Evil: Hammers exist.
  34. VideoGame.Mini Giantsio: The weapon of the Tank class. Commented out, but fits "hammer as weapon".
  35. VideoGame.Robot Alchemic Drive: Hidden Weapons: Gllang has a spread bomb launcher in his left hand and a hammer in his right. The spread bomb launcher does go out of control sometimes, but the hammer reliably buffs up Gllang's already ludicrous damage. Character uses hammer.
  36. WesternAnimation.Batman The Brave And The Bold: Death Montage: Poor Batman suffers through this in "Emperor Joker!". Throughout this montage he gets crushed by a giant hammer, dropped into the Acid Pool, incinerated to ashes by a flamethrower, Chained to a Railway and run over by a train, guillotined, Eaten Alive by a Threatening Shark, etc. And at each painful, comedic death he goes through, the Joker brings him back to life only to kill him again. It is not until the Dark Knight gets worn out from all the deaths he endured that the new Clown Emperor decides not to kill him again, as his repeated killings start getting rather boring.

    Covered by other tropes (20/68) 
  1. Armed Females, Unarmed Males: Weapon Specialization.
    • Sonic the Hedgehog: Amy Rose is the only female hedgehog in the games and the only one who regularly uses a weapon, namely her Piko Piko hammer. The male hedgehogs Sonic, Shadow and Silver don't use weapons, save for a few games.
    • Sonic Boom: Team Sonic consists of three guys (Sonic, Tails and Knuckles) and two girls (Amy and Sticks). Amy uses her signature hammer, while Sticks uses a variety of weapons including a staff, a club and a boomerang. Among the boys, only Tails uses weapons.
  2. Awesome.Warhammer 40000: The crowning moment of awesome for Vulkan after being captured by Conrad Kurze, A.K.A psycho Batman, following the Drop Site Massacre. After being tortured both mentally and physically, killed numerous times and subjected to numerous taunts from his fallen brother, the Onyx Primarch uses Conrad as a bludgeon to beat the shit out of a force field guarding his personal hammer Dawnbringer. Weapon Specialization as the hammer is a character's personal weapon. It's also named to make it stand out.
  3. Characters.Aura Of The Azure: Her weapon is a grenade launcher that turns into a hammer. Mix-and-Match Weapon.
  4. Characters.Dan And Mabs Furry Adventures: Her primary weapon is a large mallet. Weapon Specialization
  5. Characters.Heavy Rain Player Characters: Grabs a forging hammer during her fight with Dr. Baker. Sounds like Improvised Weapon
  6. Characters.Kirby Recurring Bosses: His signature weapon is a huge hammer, which Kirby can get by inhaling him. Weapon Specialization perhaps
  7. Characters.Legend Of The Five Rings: Carry a Big Stick / Drop The Hammer: The signature weapon of the Crab Clan, primarily by way of Hida family bushi, is the testubo, a heavy two-handed iron club with either studs or spikes. This is because most smaller or less damaging weapons are practically useless against anything from the Shadowlands. Actual hammers aren't mentioned much in the lore, but are seen occasionally in official art of Crab warriors. Weapon Specialization
  8. Characters.Level Up Hero: Sam loves to use a hammer as an offensive weapon. Likely Weapon Specialization since he is seen holding a hammer in the book cover.
  9. Characters.Tactics Ogre Classes: Weapon Specialization: Drop The Hammer: Hammers provide them access to strong ice, fire, or lightning elemental finishers. Fire, Ice, Lightning.
  10. Characters.Trails Series Erebonia Thors Class VII Original: Her S-Craft Gigant Break transforms Airgetlam into an enormous hammer capable of shattering the ground with a blow. She later gets Sledge Impact which does the same thing in a lesser form. Morph Weapon.
  11. DarthWiki.Attack On Lololo 4: His weapon of choice. Weapon Specialization.
  12. GameOfThrones.Tropes P To S: Spiteful Spit: Karl Tanner spits in Jon Snow's face to throw him off during their duel. Learning from this, Jon spits blood in the face of Styr of the Thenns to gain enough time to grab an improvised weapon. Character uses hammer as Improvised Weapon. Placed here b.c. the Drop The Hammer pothole can be safely replaced.
  13. Manga.Ran And The Gray World: Zen's go-to attack is a hammer that increases at will and at larger sizes creates a shockwave when swung. Morph Weapon.
  14. NightmareFuel.Rune: The introduction of the Sarks in the entrance of Loki's Castle. Early into the level after fighting off some dwarves and zombies, players encounter a zombie immediately that dives into a pool of Loki's blood, only for it to jump back out as a towering pissed off monster that is out for Ragnar's blood. Unlike regular zombies, these monsters are also capable of jumping incredibly high, can wear heavy armor, and wield deadly gigantic dwarven weapons that are bigger than you. Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon.
  15. ElementalPowers.Video Games: In the Onimusha series, there are several weapons related to elements and magics. In total we had: Earth/Magma: Orange, used with Dokotsui and Chigo. The entry should be moved to Elemental Weapon.
  16. VideoGame.Endless Legend: The favored weapons of the Delvers are massive warhammers, which they can swing in a Spin Attack, damaging everything around them and possibly stunning their target to boot. Various other factions' units, like the Urces or Silics, can also make use of them. Weapon Specialization.
  17. VideoGame.Fallout 3: Quite a lot can be found, also one of the favorite melee weapons for super mutants. They go from hand-hammers that are classed as Shop Fodder, to wieldable sledgehammers, up to the high-tech Super-Sledge. Weapon Specialization
  18. TabletopGame.Rocket Age: Martian War Priests use Hamaxes, hybrid axe hammers, which can do tremendous damage to people wearing armour when the hammer side is used. Mix-and-Match Weapon
  19. VideoGame.Rise And Fall Civilizations At War: Germanicus's weapon of choice. Weapon Specialization. Needs more context.
  20. VideoGame.War Of The Roses: Warhammers are available as both primary weapons and sidearms. They're the realistic variety, having a small head that can easily pierce through armor. 1st sentence is "hammer as weapon". 2nd sentence fits Armor-Piercing Attack, so the wick is placed here.

    Thor's hammer, Mjolnir (4/68) 
  1. Villain: Exit, Stage Left: In the Prose Edda, after Utgard-Loki explains to Thor how he and his companions were bested by forces far more powerful than they appeared, he uses his magical powers once more to make himself and the halls of Utgard to disappear before Thor can Drop The Hammer to smash them.
  2. Characters.Akatsuki Blitzkampf: Summon Magic: She can even summon Fenrir, Mjolnir, Gungnir and A MASSIVE DRAGON to attack her opponents. And a Valkyrie as her Reflector
  3. Characters.Record Of Ragnarok The Heavens: Well, duh. Mjölnir is easily twice its wielder's size but still retains a normal hammer's proportions. There's a handle built into the handle just so Thor's hands can have a firm grasp on it.
  4. WMG.Fate Grand Order: Don't forget Thor from Prisma Illya, with Mjollnir as his NP and Megingjord as one of his skills (maybe). If a Divine Spirit like Artemis can be summoned, why not?

    ZCE / contextless potholes (7/68) 
  1. Single-Minded Twins: Tokyo Ghoul: While never explicitly stated to be twins, the Bin Brothers function as a single character and never show their faces. After their death, their kagune are combined together to repair Dojima. What is Dojima?
  2. Characters.Lethal League:
    • Sonata as part of group image caption
    • A boombox/mike hammer, to be specific.
  3. Characters.Villain To Kill: Does this frequently.
  4. ComicBook.Strontium Dog: "Der Happy Stick." ZCE.
  5. Fanfic.Snuggles The Symbiote: Enlarged, rocklike PowerFists that prompt Ashley to quote the Thing's catchphrase the first time she uses them from Benjamin "The Thing" Grimm of the Fantastic Four. Later on, they take on more of the Thing's unique properties, and a little later Ashley is able to use it on other parts of her body and enhace it with Deadpool's Riot codex. What is Riot codex?
  6. MeaningfulEcho.Anime And Manga: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS: Shortly before splitting up to sabotage the Saint Cradle's engine, Vita tells Nanoha not to worry about her since she and Graf Eisen specializes in smashing stuff and "There's nothing in this world we can't destroy". During the penultimate episode of the season, while Hayate cradles a heavily wounded Vita who thought she failed to break the engine, Hayate tells her that against such valiance that she and Graf Eisen had shown, "There is nothing in the world that they can't destroy", just as a portion of Graf Eisen that had lodged itself into the engine causes an explosive chain reaction. What is Graf Eisen?
  7. Pantheon.Abilities: Portfolio: Drop The Hammer Contextless pothole.

    Covers more than one usage of the above (1/68) 
  1. Literature.Proven Guilty:
    • The monster Hammerhands. ZCE
    • [[spoiler:Charity wields a steel one as part of her arsenal in charging Arctis Tor.]] as weapon?

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 15th 2024 at 12:50:46 PM

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#26: Dec 26th 2023 at 3:33:58 AM

Fine with disambig then

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#27: Dec 26th 2023 at 5:21:28 PM

[up][up][up]Blacksmiths also fight with hammers.

Kirby is awesome.
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#28: Dec 27th 2023 at 5:04:52 PM

I hooked a crowner to settle whether to disambiguate. Any concepts not already covered elsewhere can be sent to TLP or Yarded.

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#29: Dec 30th 2023 at 4:48:46 AM

Calling in favor of disambiguating Drop The Hammer between Weapon Specialization, Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon, Weapon-Based Characterization, and possibly other tropes.

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#30: Dec 30th 2023 at 5:05:09 AM

OK, the page has been disambiguated, and I put up a dewicking bulletin to ask for extra help with the dewicking project, since most wicks will probably need to be removed.

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#31: Dec 30th 2023 at 7:59:45 AM

This might take a while to dewick all of the pages, but I'll certainly do my best.

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#32: Dec 30th 2023 at 8:23:04 AM

[up]The bulletin should help, since they've made a difference in the past, especially since we reserve them for People Sit on Chairs-based projects that involve removing most of the wicks.

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#33: Dec 30th 2023 at 10:19:33 AM

Problem is that by making a trope disambuigated, it removed the fictional weapon hammer vs real-life warhammer differences. Of which there are a lot. See its former page. I think there should be a trope that describes the difference between real-life warhammers and fictional warhammers.

And these differences are not in People Sit On Chairs territory.

Particularly the following passage:

"You will often see hammers used in fictional combat that have very large steel heads like sledgehammers, and which would be impractically cumbersome and stamina-wasting in real combat where the enemy isn’t just going to hold still and let you whack them with all your might. English archers did use large mauls (which they used for driving stakes) as Improvised Weapons if their position was overrun, but these maul heads were so large because they were made of wood (which isn’t as dense as steel), so they were not ideal weapons.

There's no denying that big freaking hammers have visual impact, and imply Super-Strength or Charles Atlas Superpower when used. What’s funny is how they’ve become so popular that The Coconut Effect has set in, to the point where if you showed a fantasy character with a realistically-sized warhammer the audience would think it looked too small. It is fairly common for characters who use sledgehammer-types as their weapon of choice to be Black, probably due to the influence of American folk hero John Henry and the African demigod Makoma. Another cliche is to show Viking and Barbarian characters as preferring big hammers. "

could be in its own trope.

Edited by artman40 on Dec 30th 2023 at 10:22:33 AM

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#34: Dec 30th 2023 at 10:22:10 AM

That's not really a trope so much as a Useful Notes page, or maybe something like Artistic License Weaponry. Describing the differences between real life and fiction is fine, but being so specific about the difference as it pertains to a specific object is just kinda... not all that helpful? But really, the page was never about that in the first place, and the examples could always just go somewhere else if we consider them useful.

Edited by WarJay77 on Dec 30th 2023 at 1:23:10 PM

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#35: Dec 30th 2023 at 10:36:53 AM

At this point, Artistic License Weaponry would indeed be a good idea. Not just hammers, but also whips are depicted quite differently in fiction.

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#36: Dec 30th 2023 at 11:52:16 AM

Right now I have a couple D&D-related examples of misconceptions of how historical weapons and armor worked on Artistic License – History. We also have Guns Do Not Work That Way for firearms.

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#37: Dec 30th 2023 at 3:15:02 PM

Wick check again: How many of those examples featured a character who used type of a warhammer used in real life?

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#38: Dec 30th 2023 at 6:48:19 PM

I see we offer Drop The Hammer for sale at TropeCo. Do we want to continue to do so?

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#39: Dec 30th 2023 at 8:40:42 PM

At best maybe we keep and rewrite it for the Hilariously Hefty Hammer draft I'm planning to start whenever I sober up.

Edited by StarSword on Dec 30th 2023 at 11:40:51 AM

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#40: Dec 31st 2023 at 3:21:36 AM

I'll take care of the Complete Monster stuff.

Do we wanna add Your Head Asplode and Bludgeoned to Death to the list of possible tropes?

[down]Good to know. I just didn't wanna overstep.

Edited by ACW on Dec 31st 2023 at 5:22:42 AM

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#41: Dec 31st 2023 at 10:35:41 AM

[up]Adding to the disambiguation page is a free action. The "and possibly other tropes" part at the end of the crowner option is there because the list of tropes given might not necessarily be complete.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Dec 31st 2023 at 12:36:20 PM

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#42: Dec 31st 2023 at 2:38:57 PM

[up][up][up][up] Maybe it's better if we stopped selling Drop the Hammer altogether now that it's a disambiguation page.

Edited by HarmonyBunny2000 on Dec 31st 2023 at 12:39:42 PM

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#43: Dec 31st 2023 at 6:29:06 PM

I pulled TropeCo.Drop The Hammer off the shelves.

Edit: Copied a modified version to Sandbox.Trope Co Hilariously Hefty Hammer per StarSword's post (though the only modifications were swapping Drop The Hammer's name out with Hilariously Hefty Hammer).

Edit: Mentioned it in the to-do list.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Dec 31st 2023 at 8:33:30 AM

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#44: Jan 1st 2024 at 5:00:01 AM

Would Unreasonably Hefty Hammer (As Hilariously Hefty Hammer sounds like large size of hammer is Played for Laughs) be a better name for this trope or that would be its own category?

Or would this be covered by BFS?

Edited by artman40 on Jan 1st 2024 at 5:05:10 AM

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#45: Jan 1st 2024 at 5:05:09 AM

[up]I'm not sure if a draft for Hilariously Hefty Hammer has been written yet since I don't follow TLP, but the TLP draft would be the place to hash out names. The name of the sandbox doesn't need to be the final name if a Trope Co. subpage is made for the trope StarSword mentioned a draft being made for.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 1st 2024 at 7:05:28 AM

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#46: Jan 1st 2024 at 12:14:37 PM

Yeah, I hadn't gotten around to making it yet. I'll go start on that.

EDIT: Now live.

Edited by StarSword on Jan 1st 2024 at 4:26:35 AM

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#47: Jan 1st 2024 at 6:51:34 PM

[up]Linked to the sandbox for the Trope Co. subpage since I'd imagine there are people there who aren't reading this thread.

Edit: Linked to the draft in the OP.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 1st 2024 at 8:52:49 AM

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#48: Jan 15th 2024 at 8:44:24 AM

Humongous-Headed Hammer has launched. I'm replacing some Drop The Hammer wicks with it where appropriate.

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#49: Jan 15th 2024 at 10:51:54 AM

[up]Updated the OP of this thread to account for the fact that it launched. Feel free to transplant the contents of Sandbox.Trope Co Hilariously Hefty Hammer (which were originally located at TropeCo.Drop The Hammer) to TropeCo.Humongous Headed Hammer.

Edit: I'll just go ahead with it.

Update: The page is up.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Jan 15th 2024 at 12:56:59 PM

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Trope Repair Shop: Drop the Hammer
27th Dec '23 5:03:38 PM

Crown Description:

There are concerns that Drop The Hammer is People Sit On Chairs due to the use of a weapon (hammers, in this case), not being a trope on its own, with most hammer usages with meaning are already being covered by other tropes, including, but not limited to, Weapon Specialization, Brutish Character Brutish Weapon, and Weapon Based Characterization. Should Drop The Hammer be disambiguated?

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