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* EvilIsSexy:
** [[spoiler: Charlotte Bennett]] in ''I, The Jury'' is so beautiful she puts Velda to shame [[spoiler: but also killed about nine people.]]
** [[spoiler: Juno in ''Vengeance is Mine'' with her UnsettlingGenderReveal only happening in literally the last line.]]
** [[spoiler: Charlotte Bennett]] in ''I, The Jury'' is so beautiful she puts Velda to shame [[spoiler: but also killed about nine people.]]
** [[spoiler: Juno in ''Vengeance is Mine'' with her UnsettlingGenderReveal only happening in literally the last line.]]
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** Mike gets into a serious relationship with Velda in ''One Lonely Night'' and habitually cheats on her every book with multiple women. This is considered to be a sign of his manliness rather than a major character flaw and something Velda is just meant to ignore.
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** Mike gets into a serious relationship with Velda in ''One Lonely Night'' and habitually cheats on her every book thereafter with multiple women. This is considered to be a sign of his manliness rather than a major character flaw and something Velda is just meant to ignore.
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* ValuesDissonance: Hammer hates [[DirtyCommunists commies]], [[DepravedHomosexual queers]] and [[Film/ReeferMadness marijuana dealers]] with equal passion. When the character was watered down for the Creator/StacyKeach series, his old fashioned values were often played for laughs; e.g. Hammer's love for cigarettes at odds with the growing social disdain for smoking.
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* ValuesDissonance: ValuesDissonance:
** Hammer hates [[DirtyCommunists commies]], [[DepravedHomosexual queers]] and [[Film/ReeferMadness marijuana dealers]] with equal passion. When the character was watered down for the Creator/StacyKeach series, his old fashioned values were often played for laughs; e.g. Hammer's love for cigarettes at odds with the growing social disdain forsmoking.smoking.
** Mike gets into a serious relationship with Velda in ''One Lonely Night'' and habitually cheats on her every book with multiple women. This is considered to be a sign of his manliness rather than a major character flaw and something Velda is just meant to ignore.
** Hammer hates [[DirtyCommunists commies]], [[DepravedHomosexual queers]] and [[Film/ReeferMadness marijuana dealers]] with equal passion. When the character was watered down for the Creator/StacyKeach series, his old fashioned values were often played for laughs; e.g. Hammer's love for cigarettes at odds with the growing social disdain for
** Mike gets into a serious relationship with Velda in ''One Lonely Night'' and habitually cheats on her every book with multiple women. This is considered to be a sign of his manliness rather than a major character flaw and something Velda is just meant to ignore.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: ''One Lonely Night'' is one long screed against communism and how its an existential threat to America. Also, stupid and dirty.
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* MisaimedHatedom: One of the interesting things about the critical backlash for Mike Hammer's adventures is the disdain for Mike being a brutal killer who disdains the law, engages in ColdBloodedTorture, and is a VigilanteMan. The thing is that even in the first book and made as a plot poiny by ''One Lonely Night'', the books make it clear that Mike Hammer is ''meant'' to be a {{Antihero}} and SociopathicHero that suffers severely from a dark side he can't control.
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* EvilIsSexy: [[spoiler: Charlotte Bennett]] in ''I, The Jury'' is so beautiful she puts Velda to shame [[spoiler: but also killed about nine people.]]
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* EvilIsSexy: EvilIsSexy:
** [[spoiler: Charlotte Bennett]] in ''I, The Jury'' is so beautiful she puts Velda to shame [[spoiler: but also killed about nine people.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Juno in ''Vengeance is Mine'' with her UnsettlingGenderReveal only happening in literally the last line.]]
* HarsherInHindsight: Mike Hammer's disgusted reaction to [[spoiler: Juno's gender]] in ''Vengeance is Mine'' reminds many readers of gay panic or justification for hate crimes against trans people. It's also completely irrelevant to the plot.
** [[spoiler: Charlotte Bennett]] in ''I, The Jury'' is so beautiful she puts Velda to shame [[spoiler: but also killed about nine people.
** [[spoiler: Juno in ''Vengeance is Mine'' with her UnsettlingGenderReveal only happening in literally the last line.]]
* HarsherInHindsight: Mike Hammer's disgusted reaction to [[spoiler: Juno's gender]] in ''Vengeance is Mine'' reminds many readers of gay panic or justification for hate crimes against trans people. It's also completely irrelevant to the plot.
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* {{Narm}}: The ending of ''Vengeance is Mine'' changes absolutely nothing and has no effect on the plot that [[spoiler: Juno was actually a man.]]
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** ''I, The Jury'' [[spoiler: Charlotte Bennett loses the audience's sympathy when it's revealed not only did she kill Mike's friend in a painful, humiliating fashion, to cover up her heroin ring but that she also murdered Mike's mentally disabled friend among almost a dozen other victims in CrimeAfterCrime. Mike, who was ready to marry her, kills her before saying it was easy.]]
** ''My Gun is Quick'' [[spoiler: Arthur Berin-Grotin when it's discovered that he kicked out his granddaughter for getting pregnant and forcing her into a life of prostitution to survive, which turns out to be the business he runs in the city. He then had her killed, hiring Mike Hammer just to throw off suspicion. Combined with murdering Mike's girlfriend, Lola, Mike utterly loses his shit and decides dying to TakingYouWithMe is worth it before changing his mind only at the last second.]]
** ''My Gun is Quick'' [[spoiler: Arthur Berin-Grotin when it's discovered that he kicked out his granddaughter for getting pregnant and forcing her into a life of prostitution to survive, which turns out to be the business he runs in the city. He then had her killed, hiring Mike Hammer just to throw off suspicion. Combined with murdering Mike's girlfriend, Lola, Mike utterly loses his shit and decides dying to TakingYouWithMe is worth it before changing his mind only at the last second.]]
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** ''I, The Jury'' Jury'''s [[spoiler: Charlotte Bennett loses the audience's sympathy when it's revealed not only did she kill Mike's friend in a painful, humiliating fashion, to cover up her heroin ring but that she also murdered Mike's mentally disabled friend among almost a dozen other victims in CrimeAfterCrime. Mike, who was ready to marry her, kills her before saying it was easy.]]
** ''My Gun isQuick'' Quick'''s [[spoiler: Arthur Berin-Grotin when it's discovered that he kicked out his granddaughter for getting pregnant and forcing her into a life of prostitution to survive, which turns out to be the business he runs in the city. He then had her killed, hiring Mike Hammer just to throw off suspicion. Combined with murdering Mike's girlfriend, Lola, Mike utterly loses his shit and decides dying to TakingYouWithMe is worth it before changing his mind only at the last second.]]
** ''My Gun is
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* RetroactiveRecognition: For anyone who watched the short-lived FOX sitcom ''Titus'', the guy who played Mike Hammer is the same one who plays Titus' hard-drinking, chain-smoking, wussy-hating, five-times-divorced dad, Ken.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: For anyone MoralEventHorizon: Common as often villains are only revealed in the final chapter and FalseFriend types.
** ''I, The Jury'' [[spoiler: Charlotte Bennett loses the audience's sympathy when it's revealed not only did she kill Mike's friend in a painful, humiliating fashion, to cover up her heroin ring but that she also murdered Mike's mentally disabled friend among almost a dozen other victims in CrimeAfterCrime. Mike, whowatched was ready to marry her, kills her before saying it was easy.]]
** ''My Gun is Quick'' [[spoiler: Arthur Berin-Grotin when it's discovered that he kicked out his granddaughter for getting pregnant and forcing her into a life of prostitution to survive, which turns out to be theshort-lived FOX sitcom ''Titus'', business he runs in the guy who played city. He then had her killed, hiring Mike Hammer just to throw off suspicion. Combined with murdering Mike's girlfriend, Lola, Mike utterly loses his shit and decides dying to TakingYouWithMe is worth it before changing his mind only at the same one who plays Titus' hard-drinking, chain-smoking, wussy-hating, five-times-divorced dad, Ken.last second.]]
* ValuesDissonance: Hammer hates [[DirtyCommunists commies]], [[DepravedHomosexual queers]] and [[Film/ReeferMadness marijuana dealers]] with equal passion. When the character was watered down for the Creator/StacyKeach series, his old fashioned values were often played for laughs; e.g. Hammer's love for cigarettes at odds with the growing social disdain for smoking.
* TheWoobie: Red in ''My Gun is Quick'' turns out to have been kicked out of her family, a bunch of millionaires, for getting pregnant out of wedlock and is forced into prostitution. She then found out that [[spoiler: her grandfather was behind the prostitution ring and attempted to expose him, only to be murdered.]]
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** ''I, The Jury'' [[spoiler: Charlotte Bennett loses the audience's sympathy when it's revealed not only did she kill Mike's friend in a painful, humiliating fashion, to cover up her heroin ring but that she also murdered Mike's mentally disabled friend among almost a dozen other victims in CrimeAfterCrime. Mike, who
** ''My Gun is Quick'' [[spoiler: Arthur Berin-Grotin when it's discovered that he kicked out his granddaughter for getting pregnant and forcing her into a life of prostitution to survive, which turns out to be the
* ValuesDissonance: Hammer hates [[DirtyCommunists commies]], [[DepravedHomosexual queers]] and [[Film/ReeferMadness marijuana dealers]] with equal passion. When the character was watered down for the Creator/StacyKeach series, his old fashioned values were often played for laughs; e.g. Hammer's love for cigarettes at odds with the growing social disdain for smoking.
* TheWoobie: Red in ''My Gun is Quick'' turns out to have been kicked out of her family, a bunch of millionaires, for getting pregnant out of wedlock and is forced into prostitution. She then found out that [[spoiler: her grandfather was behind the prostitution ring and attempted to expose him, only to be murdered.]]
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* EvilIsSexy: [[spoiler: Charlotte Bennett]] in ''I, The Jury'' is so beautiful she puts Velda to shame [[spoiler: but also killed about nine people.]]
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* AngstWhatAngst: In one novel Velda shoots a thug InTheBack to stop him from killing Hammer. Afterwards instead of crying she starts laughing, and Hammer tells her she's right to do so, as there's "no shame to killing an evil thing."
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* CriticalDissonance: Critics hated the books back in the day, and to a large extent they still do, but there's no denying their popularity.
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* CriticalDissonance: Critics hated the books back in the day, and to a large extent they still do, but there's no denying their popularity. Spillane himself joked about this.
-->"Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar … If the public likes you, you’re good."
-->"Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar … If the public likes you, you’re good."
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* RetroactiveRecognition: For anyone who watched the short-lived FOX sitcom ''Titus'', the guy who played Mike Hammer is the same one who plays Titus' hard-drinking, chain-smoking, wussy-hating, five-times-divorced dad, Ken.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "Harlem Nocturne" by Earle Hagen, the theme song of the 1980's TV series.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "Harlem Nocturne" by Earle Hagen, the theme song of the 1980's TV series.series, which Hagen wrote.
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* HellIsThatNoise: The hideous sounds in ''Kiss Me Deadly'' when [[spoiler: the suitcase is opened]].
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* CanonSue: So much so that Spillane actually played Hammer in a 1963 film adaptation of ''The Girl Hunters''.
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* CanonSue: So much so that Spillane actually played Hammer in a 1963 film adaptation SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "Harlem Nocturne" by Earle Hagen, the theme song of ''The Girl Hunters''.the 1980's TV series.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Harlem Nocturne" by Earle Hagen, the theme song of the 1980's TV series.
* HellIsThatNoise: The hideous sounds in ''Kiss Me Deadly'' when [[spoiler: the suitcase is opened.]]
* HellIsThatNoise: The hideous sounds in ''Kiss Me Deadly'' when [[spoiler: the suitcase is opened.]]
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* ValuesDissonance: Hammer hates [[DirtyCommunists commies]], [[DepravedHomosexual queers]] and [[Film/ReeferMadness marijuana dealers]] with equal passion. When the character was watered down for the Stacy Keach series, his old fashioned values were often played for laughs; e.g. Hammer's love for cigarettes at odds with the growing social disdain for smoking.
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* ValuesDissonance: Hammer hates [[DirtyCommunists commies]], [[DepravedHomosexual queers]] and [[Film/ReeferMadness marijuana dealers]] with equal passion. When the character was watered down for the Stacy Keach Creator/StacyKeach series, his old fashioned values were often played for laughs; e.g. Hammer's love for cigarettes at odds with the growing social disdain for smoking.
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* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Spillane was bitterly amused--at best--about the movie version of ''Kiss Me Deadly'', for the changes it made both to the story (changing it from a Mafia-oriented yarn to one about a nuclear powder keg) and to Hammer himself (making him into a "divorce dick" who routinely pulls scams on both sides of the case).
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* ValuesDissonance: Hammer hates [[DirtyCommunists commies]], [[DepravedHomosexual queers]] and [[ReeferMadness [[Film/ReeferMadness marijuana dealers]] with equal passion. When the character was watered down for the Stacy Keach series, his old fashioned values were often played for laughs; e.g. Hammer's love for cigarettes at odds with the growing social disdain for smoking.
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* CriticalDissonance: Critics hated the books back in the day, and to a large extent they still do, but there's no denying their popularity.
