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| 15 | [[caption-width-right:350:You drop ''that'' hammer on your foot, you lose the foot!]] |
| 16 | ->''"Six and a half feet tall, [Robert Baratheon] towered over lesser men, and when he donned his armor and the great antlered helmet of his House, he became a veritable giant. He'd had a giant's strength too, his weapon of choice a spiked iron warhammer that Ned could scarcely lift."'' |
| 17 | -->-- '''Lord Eddard "Ned" Stark''', ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'' Chapter 5: "Eddard" |
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| 19 | In medieval warfare, [[AntiArmor the increasing effectiveness of armor naturally prompted countermeasures]], among them the war hammer, which could either crush armor with blunt force or punch through it with a hard spike on the reverse side. In fictional depictions of medieval warfare, though, the heads on war hammers have grown to incredibly large sizes: they're often larger than the wielder's own head or more, sometimes even larger than their entire body. This trope can also apply to maces with gigantic heads, but maces are somewhat less common as a fictional character's preferred weapons than war hammers. |
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| 21 | This is very much a case of ArtisticLicenseHistory. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_hammer War hammers are a very real weapon]], but the heads on real ones were usually much more comparable in size to that of a modern carpenter's hammer. The main distinction was that the ''haft'' of a war hammer was usually significantly longer, increasing the striking force by increasing the head's angular momentum, as with KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter.[[labelnote:The physics:]]A larger radius of swing means the head moves faster, and kinetic energy is proportional to the ''square'' of the velocity. In contrast, inertia, which resists changes in velocity, is only directly proportional to the unity of mass and velocity, and is ''inversely'' proportional to angular velocity (rate of change in angle of travel), so a lighter hammer with a longer haft is easier to swing than a heavy hammer, while being just as damaging.[[/labelnote]] |
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| 23 | The use of this trope might simply be RuleOfCool, or the author could be actively trying to show off that the character is [[SuperStrength incredibly strong]]. In visual media it might also be an attempt to make the head of the hammer easier to see (a particular concern for video games with sprite or raster animation). Alternatively, huge hammers might be argued to be WeaponsOfTheirTrade: an actual civilian sledgehammer repurposed as a weapon. This last one in fact has some historical basis: while medieval armies were usually ''not'' made up of peasant levies who supplied their own equipment, English longbowmen often carried large mauls or sledgehammers as tools for constructing field fortifications, which could be put to use as [[ImprovisedWeapon a weapon of last resort]] (war bows required ''a lot'' of upper-body strength). |
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| 25 | This trope sometimes overlaps with BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon, where a big, strong brute carries a big, strong weapon. However, huge warhammers are also associated with ThePaladin, which, as noted on HammerOfTheHoly, is probably an extension of the ([[ArtisticLicenseHistory apocryphal]]) prohibition on Catholic priests carrying edged weapons. |
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| 27 | SisterTrope to {{BFS}}, for gigantic swords, {{BFG}}, for gigantic guns, and EpicFlail, for gigantic flails. {{Thunder Hammer}}s are usually examples of this trope due to historical depictions of [[Myth/NorseMythology Thor's hammer, Mjolnir]]. This trope also lends its name to the trope {{Hammerspace}}, which is where such weapons are often apparently stored when not in use; similarly the HyperspaceMallet is where somebody pulls a weapon--usually a hammer--out of nowhere for a {{slapstick}} joke. Contrast HammerHilt, which is about using the handle, haft, or hilt of a weapon as a bludgeon instead of the business end. |
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| 29 | !! Examples: |
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| 31 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 33 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 34 | * ''Anime/CityHunter'': Kaori, the petite and annoyed deuteragonist, wields a hammer that's as big as her and with a head that dwarfs her torso to punish our LoveableSexManiac hero. |
| 35 | * ''Manga/DGrayMan'': Lavi's hammer can extend and expand enough that he can travel by being carried on the hammer head. |
| 36 | * ''The Daichis - Earth Defense Family'': Introduced in the second episode of the anime, Daichi Dai's Card Item is literally named ''Hammer Head'', a very large item (significantly larger than the user's whole body) that is wielded on their head. He used this item by building up a large amount of speed from his sister's ''Parasol Hurricane'' and coordinating directions from his mom's ''Guide Beam'' all while he is riding on his flying board, by the time he reaches the trail he smashes the bottom part of the large flying saucer that was above Japan. Afterwards, he pushes the flying saucer up into space. |
| 37 | * ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya'': Beatrice Flowerchild wields a Berserker card giving her access to the powers of Thor's son Magni, and with them Mjolnir. Here it's portrayed as looking like a giant version of a traditional Mjolnir pendant, with a head several times the size of [[PintSizedPowerhouse her entire person]]. |
| 38 | * ''Anime/FinalFantasyUnlimited'': Cid has two mechanized hammers that hit his enemies on command, with each hammer head being as big as himself. Somehow, both hammers can fit inside his backpack. |
| 39 | * ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'': |
| 40 | ** The eponymous mecha possesses the Goldion Hammer, a hammer with a head as large as the titular HumongousMecha. In addition to the force created by its sheer mass, the hammer creates an artificial gravity well at the point of impact that reduces all matter it strikes into photons. But this power also meant that [=GaoGaiGar=] couldn't wield the hammer without damaging itself, so they built [=GoldyMarg=]: a tough robot that is himself built around the Goldion Hammer, and can transform into a massive hand that allows [=GaoGaiGar=] to safely wield it. |
| 41 | ** ''Final'' introduces a both Downplayed and Exaggerated example in the Goldion Crusher. Downplayed in that the head isn't ''quite'' as oversized in comparison normally. Exaggerated in that A: The entire weapon is made from the [[CombiningMecha combination]] of three battleships, and B: When deployed, the "head" splits apart to form the frame of an energy hammer the size of a small moon. |
| 42 | * ''Manga/ImmoralGuild'': Hanabata Nohkins wields a huge battle hammer whose head even has a flower design. She unsurprisingly is strong enough to effortlessly wield it. |
| 43 | * ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'': Vita's magical hammer, Graf Eisen, has a "Gigantform" that causes Graf Eisen to become several times larger than its GlacierWaif wielder. Combined with her incredible strength, Vita boasts that there's nothing she and Graf Eisen can't destroy. |
| 44 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': Usopp has occasionally made use of gigantic hammers in his attacks, breaking out a five-ton hammer against Mr. 4, and a ten-ton hammer against Perona. However, Usopp is a physically weak ConsummateLiar, so his hammers are fakes. The five-ton one was a pair of frying pans and paper mache on a stick, while the ten-ton one was a ''balloon''. But they still work by frightening his opponents into submission, given that they don't know that the hammers are fakes. |
| 45 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'': [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Early on in the anime]], FieryRedhead Misty would pull out a HyperspaceMallet with an extremely large head to whack Ash or Brock for their stupidity. |
| 46 | * ''Manga/RecordOfRagnarok'': Thor's [[ThunderHammer Mjölnir]] is easily twice its wielder's size but still retains a normal hammer's proportions. Its handle is so huge that there's a smaller handle built ''into'' the handle just so Thor's hands can have a firm grasp on it. |
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| 49 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 50 | * ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'': One of Harley's signature weapons is a large mallet, like one would commonly see at a "test your strength" game in a carnival. The size is justified because most of the time it ''is'' a repurposed carnival mallet and consequently is not made of metal, so it is lighter than its size suggests. |
| 51 | * ''Franchise/TheMightyThor'': Thor's hammer Mjolnir is usually depicted as a metal brick that's at least a foot long and half a foot wide with a short handle. |
| 52 | * ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'': Ramona Flowers's primary weapon is a hammer with a head that's at least two feet long and a foot wide. She's only able to carry it around because her bag acts as {{Hammerspace}} (no pun intended). |
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| 55 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 56 | * ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsFriendshipSouls'': The next evolution in Pinkie Pie's Fullbring involves this, [[spoiler:except [[EquippableAlly she's the hammer]] being used by Pinkamena]]. Because her powers operate on RuleOfFunny and RuleOfScary, she can change the size of it on a whim. |
| 57 | * ''Fanfic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': Played for laughs in chapter 35. Night Blade and Wind Breaker have been studying weapons in a vault, with each of them in turn grabbing progressively bigger swords and bows (to the point where they were holding ones that were so large they couldn't realistically ''use'' them in battle) in a game of one-upmanship... when Vix-Lei the minotaur unwittingly outdoes ''both'' of them by walking by while carrying and talking to a hammer with a head as big as her whole body. Both males end up realizing their foolishness and laughing themselves sick as a result. |
| 58 | * Deliberately defied with Sabrina, protagonist of ''Roleplay/PuellaMagiAdfligoSystema''. Her magical girl weapon is explicitly a medieval warhammer with a blunt and spiked end, and not a "ludicrous brick on a stick". |
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| 61 | [[folder:Film -- Animated]] |
| 62 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'': Harley Quinn's favourite weapon is a giant mallet whose head is large enough to cover her own head and chest. This trait is shared with most of the character's other depictions at the time, but this time it's actually an important plot point: [[spoiler:The hammer's size makes it the perfect hiding place for the Joker's dirty bomb, which Batman spends most of the film trying to locate]]. |
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| 65 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 66 | * ''Film/AlmightyThor'', being TheMockbuster to ''Film/{{Thor}}'', naturally has the title character swinging a warhammer with a disproportionately massive head as a weapon. After losing his hammer to his evil brother Loki, Thor managed to forge a battleax-warhammer combo whose head is even bigger (and depicted on the poster art). |
| 67 | * ''Film/{{Thor}}'': In keeping with its comic book portrayal, Mjolnir's head is a solid brick of uru metal about 10 inches wide and 5 inches thick, on a haft not much longer than Thor's forearm. It is, of course, an explicitly magical weapon wielded by a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien, so it's easy to wield... unless Odin's spell causes it to deem one unworthy, in which case it immediately becomes even heavier than it ought to be. |
| 68 | * ''Film/TransformersRiseOfTheBeasts'': For the final battle Rhinox wields a war hammer that's big enough to send enemies flying or crush them like bugs. |
| 69 | * ''Film/Warcraft2016'': True to the original videogame, [[BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon Orgrim Doomhammer wields a huge warhammer that he can effortlessly use to kill other orcs in a single blow]]. |
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| 72 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 73 | * ''Literature/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'': Celestia's primary weapon is an oversized mallet that she carries around concealed as a hair broch. Although [[LethalJokeWeapon comical looking, she's capable of breaking bones and crushing skulls]] when she swings it at her target. |
| 74 | * ''Literature/{{Norse Mythology|2017}}'' by Creator/NeilGaiman is a retelling of classic Norse myth in contemporary language. Thor's hammer, depicted on the cover, is an iron brick with intricate gold inlay, and Thor uses it to do many a OneHitKill, particularly on Frost Giants, aka Jotun, and on one occasion an entire wedding party of ogres. |
| 75 | * ''Literature/SamuraiGirls'': Kanatsugu Naoe, a normal-sized teenage girl, uses as her weapon of choice a hammer with a barrel-shaped head bigger than her entire torso. |
| 76 | * ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': As a young man, Robert Baratheon was known for favoring a gigantic war hammer as his personal weapon, forged by Donal Noye at the Baratheon castle Storm's End. The hammer is described as having been so heavy that his friend Ned Stark could barely lift it; the younger Robert was [[BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon simply freakishly strong]]. He became known as [[RedBaron "the Demon of the Trident"]] after using the hammer to kill Crown Prince Rhaegar in a battlefield duel by crushing his chest right through his breastplate. |
| 77 | * ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': {{Justified|Trope}} with Shardhammers, which are made specifically to be used by (and [[AntiArmor against]]) noblemen in PoweredArmor. It takes two servants to carry one around. |
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| 80 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 81 | * ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'': When Riki turns into his Dogga Hammer form to be wielded by Kiva, he turns into a hammer whose head is comprised of his entire body, only slightly shrunken down. |
| 82 | [[/folder]] |
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| 84 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 85 | * Music/AngusMcSix: The band's debut song "Master of The Universe", features one as TakeThat to Music/{{Gloryhammer}}, the lead singer's former band. Angus casts aside his big hammer in favour of a sword. It still creates a massive explosion when it hits a hillside in the background though, showing its massive nature. |
| 86 | * Music/{{Gloryhammer}}: The Titular Gloryhammer is a mighty weapon given many epithets in song. It is both a "laser power goblin crusher" and powered up by the nuclear fusion of a star and in music videos is shown a very long hafted weapon with massive cubic head on the end. |
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| 90 | [[folder:Mythology & Religion]] |
| 91 | * Myth/NorseMythology: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mj%C3%B6lnir Thor's hammer Mjolnir]], usually depicted in the form of a pendant worn by devotees, tends to have a handle only slightly longer than the head and about as wide. {{Justified|Trope}} in some versions of the legend of its forging, wherein Loki messed with the dwarf that made it so he couldn't finish the handle in time. |
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| 94 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 95 | * The art in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' tends to depict war hammers with giant heads and comparatively short handles. Especially when [[https://www.dndbeyond.com/races/13-dwarf dwarves]] are involved. |
| 96 | * ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': [[https://scryfall.com/card/m20/223/colossus-hammer Colossus Hammer]] is an equipment that gives a creature a massive +10/+10 buff, but is so heavy that it prevents the creature from flying. The artwork depicts a dwarf carrying a warhammer with a head alone that's bigger than his entire body. |
| 97 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': The art in the Core Rulebook for First Edition depicts the warhammer as a big, blocky thing with a head almost as wide as its haft is long, that is nevertheless supposed to be a one-handed weapon. ''Ultimate Equipment'' adds the "earth breaker", a two-handed hammer with an even bigger head. |
| 98 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': The game itself is named after the weapon. Specifically, [[https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Ghal_Maraz?so=search&file=Warhammer_Ghal_Maraz.jpg the warhammer Ghal Maraz]], the setting's primary LegendaryWeapon: A symbol of the human god Sigmar, and wielded by the emperors of the empire he left behind. Ghal Maraz is a classic example of the trope, having an impractically large head and a relatively short haft that would make it impossible to use for purpose in real life. This is slightly justified by Ghal Maraz being of dwarf make ([[WeaponsOfTheirTrade dwarfs do not make weapons that cannot also double as a tool]]) and also a magical weapon whose mere touch is damaging (in-game, Ghal Maraz will automatically wound any target it hits, and it ignores armour). |
| 99 | ** Empire priests of Sigmar wield replicas of Ghal Maraz into battle. Unlike the original, they are not magical weapons, but as they're built to resemble it they're no less impractical in appearance. By contrast, Knights of the White Wolf wield much more realistic-looking warhammers from horseback (warhammers were traditionally used as horseback weapons, as the extra reach from a long haft was doubly advantageous to reach targets from atop a horse). |
| 100 | ** Speaking of dwarfs, dwarf hammerers go into battle wielding [[WeaponsOfTheirTrade large, two-handed mauls intended for rock breaking]] as their primary weapon. Again, being mauls their heads are impractically large for combat, and the hammerers tend to grip their mauls directly underneath the head and thus reducing the size of the swing arc. |
| 101 | ** In early editions of the game, the titular warhammer was an unnamed hammer wielded by early SeriesMascot "[[https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Harald_Hammerstorm?file=Harry_the_Hammer_John_Blanche_1983_1st_Edition_Rulebook_illustration.png Harry the Hammer]]", which downplays the trope. It initially resembled a sledgehammer more than an actual warhammer and had a very modest head size, but in later editions evolved into looking like an EvilCounterpart to Ghal Maraz, complete with impractically sized head. |
| 102 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': |
| 103 | ** Thunder hammers are a type of power weapon used by some Imperial combatants: in addition to their enormous size, they will generate energy fields which [[ShockwaveStomp create a concussive shockwave when they make contact with a target]]. |
| 104 | *** For the Astartes, Thunder hammers are usually wielded by Space Marines wearing [[PoweredArmor Terminator armor]] and usually one-handed due to the size and strength of the suit (also used in conjunction with a Storm shield if they are an Assault Terminator). But after ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' showed how awesome a heavy two-handed warhammers were in the hands of a regular-armored Space Marine, Captains were allowed to use them in the tabletop. More often than not the head of a Space Marine's thunder hammer is larger than their own helmet, but a Space Marine's ''head'' is a lot smaller relative to their body than that of a baseline human. Although lighter versions such as the Lathe Pattern are also popular with Adeptus Ministorum priests, [[VideoGame/Warhammer40000Darktide Zealots]], and Inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus. |
| 105 | *** Speaking of Ordo Malleus, they also have the Nemesis Daemon Hammer, which is [[https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Force_Weapon a force weapon]] that is built to practically smite and smash powerful daemons with the weapon's humungous hammerhead that's enhanced by the wielder's psychic might. The Nemesis Daemon Greathammer meanwhile is what happens if you scale a Daemon hammer to the size of a MiniMecha. |
| 106 | *** For the members of Deathwatch, they have access to the "Heavy Thunder Hammer" a massive'' two-handed and double-headed'' hammer that has each head wreath in a disrupter field that smash the midsection of a Carnifex in twain and turn tanks into crumpled wrecks. |
| 107 | ** [[OurOrksAreDifferent The Orks]] take this trope and nail a ton of [[MoreDakka dakka]] to it. Their Tankbustas include "specialists" whose weapon of choice is a hammer with the head replaced by a ''live anti-tank warhead''. |
| 108 | *** To continue the Ork's love for over-the-top and downright bizarre weaponry, there's also "the Snazzhammer". A one-of-a-kind weapon that is essentially a [[https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Shokk_Attack_Gun Shokk Attack Gun]]/[[https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Tellyport_Blasta Tellyport Blasta]] mounted on the head of an enormous power hammer[[note]]The Shokk Attack Gun and Tellyport Blasta use ''Warp travel to send their ammunition to the enemy''[[/note]], basically anything that happens to be struck by this hammer [[LudicrousGibs will end up being teleported to many places at once]]. |
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| 111 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 112 | * ''VideoGame/ThirtyXX'': One of Ace's primary weapons is Lara, an energy-based 2-sided giant hammer with a head bigger than Ace is. |
| 113 | * ''Videogame/{{Bloodborne}}'': The Kirkhammer is a trick weapon consisting in a silver longsword that can be inserted into a massive stone slab to form a gigantic hammer. |
| 114 | * ''VideoGame/CloneDroneInTheDangerZone'': The human can gain a hammer as an alternate weapon, and upgrade the size of the hammer to ludicrous amounts. The final upgrade of the hammer makes the hammer's head bigger than their own body and reduce enemies into scrap metal while sending armored and shielded opponents flying, and also cannot be blocked by swords. |
| 115 | * ''VideoGame/ConquerorsBlade'': The game's most popular hero weapon is the Maul, a ridiculously large war hammer which is great at knocking down shields. And the people behind them. |
| 116 | * ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'': One of the bosses in the game, Executioner Smough, wields a massive hammer as his weapon of choice. The player can use Smough's hammer as well by forging a plus ten hammer or great hammer and then ascending it with Smough's soul. Smough's hammer reappears in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'', found in Irithyll of the Boreal Valley inside a chest on the second floor of a room with two Silver Knights in it. |
| 117 | * ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': The warhammer [[https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Volendrung Volendrung]], present throughout the series, is an artifact originally made by the Dwemer Rourken clan, though it later became associated with the Daedric Prince Malacath. When it was thrown across Tamriel, it landed in a place that became known as Volenfell, and later Hammerfell. As a weapon, it is often portrayed as a hammer whose blows strike so hard they either weaken or paralyze the target (though it lacks any enchantment in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]''). Its exact look varies between games, but it has always had a long, two-handed haft, connected to a gigantic brick of a head that acquired a spike on either striking face in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]''. |
| 118 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 119 | ** Downplayed in most games. While the warhammers aren't ridiculously large, they are still far larger and bulkier than real life warhammers. That said, white mages are capable of wielding hammers in the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI''. The sprite art makes the hammers appear to have heads as large as their wielders. |
| 120 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': |
| 121 | *** [[TheBerserker Warriors]] have access to a handful of war hammers in place of their usual axes. These hammers have heads the size of their wielders' torsos to go hand-in-hand with the superhuman strength granted by mastering one's Inner Beast. |
| 122 | *** The Magic Hammer spell used by blue mages drops an enormous mallet larger than any player character onto the target area, damaging any enemy struck, reducing the enemy's Mind and Intelligence stats, and restoring MP to the caster. |
| 123 | *** Godbert Manderville has the inexplicable ability to make his ordinary goldsmith's hammer grow to enormous proportions, making the haft and the head longer than he is tall. He uses this reach to batter his foes in mid-air before sending them careening down to earth. |
| 124 | *** Byregot the Builder, the patron god of craftsmen, wields a golden hammer whose head is as large as his own massive torso when fought as a boss in the Aglaia Alliance Raid. |
| 125 | * ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': |
| 126 | ** Hammers are a recurring weapon in the series (classified as axes in the games' TacticalRockPaperScissors). They have a large head strong enough to [[AntiArmor break armored units]], but its high weight makes it cumbersome against anything else. |
| 127 | ** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'': The Hero's Relic Crusher is a warhammer that like the Hammer is considered an axe for game mechanics purposes. Its gigantic head is implied to be made [[spoiler:out of Nabatean body parts]]. |
| 128 | * ''VideoGame/ForTheKing'': PlayedForLaughs with The Walloper, a torso-sized two-handed hammer that does massive damage but has [[AwesomeButImpractical terrible speed and accuracy]]. Judging by the previous owner's remains, they overbalanced and squashed their own head with it. |
| 129 | * ''VideoGame/GodEater'': Alongside the {{BFG}}s they wield, God Eaters have a variety of options for oversized melee weapons, including very, very big hammers. In ''VideoGame/GodEater1'', they were classified as [[{{BFS}} Buster Blades]] due to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, but ''VideoGame/GodEater2'' introduces a new melee type called the Boost Hammer, which combines the hammer with a jet engine to increase its power when swung. Boost Hammers tend to have a head about half as tall as your character and just as wide. |
| 130 | * ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'': Each character's sprite has a different model for the same given weapon type, so a mace equipped by Isaac or Mia looks approximately realistic for the first two (a fist-sized head with dimples for Mia, a flanged mace for Isaac), and then there's Garet's "spiked iron ball the size of his head" model. |
| 131 | * ''Videogame/HarvestMoon1'': The default hammer that the player starts with is reasonable enough, but upon being upgraded to the Golden Hammer, the head becomes larger than the player. It's AwesomeButImpractical, too, because although it can break large rocks in a single blow, there probably won't be any of those left by the time the player gets the upgrade -- and it costs more stamina to use than the regular hammer. The only thing left to hammer in the long run is fence pieces broken by rain, and those only require one hit from the regular hammer, so the extra stamina cost is wasted. You need to get the upgrade for HundredPercentCompletion, though. |
| 132 | * ''VideoGame/HonkaiStarRail'': Qlipoth the aeon of preservation wields a hammer of galactic proportions, with each swing carrying the power of an entire planet slamming down. Each swing is so powerful that the sound echos across the universe, and has even become a standard unit of time to measure eras. |
| 133 | * ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'': |
| 134 | ** Hammer is a recurring Copy Ability that lets Kirby attack with a wooden hammer whose head is roughly the same size as the protagonist's body. In ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'', it gets a Super variant called Grand Hammer, which can grow ridiculously large and send massive shockwaves across the screen. |
| 135 | ** King Dedede's signature weapon is a wooden hammer. Though its size varies in each game, it's nearly the size of the king's own head in most depictions. In ''[[VideoGame/KirbySuperStar Revenge of the King]]'', he replaces it with an [[https://kirby.fandom.com/wiki/King_Dedede?file=KSSU_Masked_Dedede_artwork.png#Masked_Dedede even larger mechanized hammer]]. |
| 136 | * ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Poppy, Keeper of the Hammer, is [[PintSizedPowerhouse a yordle who fights using the enormous "Hammer of Orlon"]], which is about three times her size (the head alone almost as big as her whole body) and would probably dwarf an average-sized human. Poppy believes herself to be a herald meant to deliver the hammer to [[TheChosenOne a legendary Demacian hero]] and has [[IgnorantOfTheCall a comically glaring blind spot to how improbably good she is with using it herself]], presumably because she's expecting its "intended" user [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller to be much bigger]]. |
| 137 | * ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'' features Meru, [[PintSizedPowerhouse a very small young woman]] who [[WaifFu twirls her massive two-handed hammer like a baton]]. The hammer gets even bigger in her Dragoon form. |
| 138 | * ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'': After defeating Phantom Ganon, Link gets the Skull Hammer, a two-handed mallet with a head bigger than his own. It's the first weapon capable of dealing any serious damage to the Helmaroc King, who shrugged off a cannonball from a catapult early in the game. |
| 139 | * ''VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory'' has Felicia Mitsuki, whose sledgehammer’s head is about the size of her own. |
| 140 | * ''VideoGame/MinecraftDungeons'': The Great Hammer's head is roughly the size of the player's torso. |
| 141 | * ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': The hammer has been a core weapon type since the original game; the shafts of these weapons alone are often as tall as the hunters carrying them, and considering they're used to bash in the skulls of hundreds of varieties of wyverns, fanged beasts, and god-like Elder Dragons, they ''need'' to be that big. |
| 142 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': Shao Kahn wields the Wrath Hammer, which is fittingly large and heavy for someone his size, and the head is large enough to either cave in someone's skull or send it off flying like a baseball. One of Shao's intro animations in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' emphasizes this as a bunch of {{mook}}s struggle to bring it to the battlefield, only for Shao to yoink the Wrath Hammer with one arm and [[BadBoss blasting away said mooks with the force applied in said pull]]. |
| 143 | * ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' has Reinhardt, a modern-day crusader in power armor, wield a jet-powered hammer that's larger than most of the main cast. |
| 144 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'': Tinkatink is a Fairy/Steel-type Pokémon that starts out with a small metal club that gets bigger as they evolve, until their final stage, Tinkaton, has a huge sledgehammer whose head is twice the size of their body. [[AnOddPlaceToSleep Tinkaton even sleeps on it!]] |
| 145 | * ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'' has an enemy called the Judge (representing judgement in the human mind) who wields a gavel taller than themselves, with a head large enough to potentially crush player character Raz beneath its head. |
| 146 | * ''VideoGame/RainbowSixSiege'' features the operator Sledge, who as his codename suggests, carries a sledgehammer that can break through walls and destroy certain gadgets that can't be affected by gunfire, such as barbed wire or bulletproof cameras. It can also be used to kill enemies. |
| 147 | * ''VideoGame/SaltAndSanctuary'': |
| 148 | ** Armor Guardians are armed with an absolutely huge bec-de-corbyn called the Obsidian Pillar that hits with an earthquake-like effect that sends your character flying. When you get one, thanks to Conservation of Mass (they're craftable but not dropped), they have a more manageable (but still monstrously heavy) size. It's mentioned in the FlavourText for the corresponding Iron Rampart shield that Armor Titans have "near-limitless strength." |
| 149 | ** Crypt Guardians are armed with human-sized (as in "as big as a person") versions of the Mountainbreaker warhammer. |
| 150 | ** The Mountainbreaker itself is fully twenty pounds, and is said to have been "carved from a single block of granite." It's the Level VII devotion weapon for the Mountainsmith creed. |
| 151 | * ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'': |
| 152 | ** Crusher, the Earth Giant, uses a giant sledgehammer whose head is the size of his own, which he also named Crusher. Crusher (the hammer) is also heavy enough that slamming it on the ground causes fissures to form, and further upgrades make it even bigger, with the second upgrade on the "Rock Grinder" path making it twice as big as his own head. |
| 153 | ** [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosBowser Bowser]], in his guest appearance as Hammer Slam Bowser, uses a fire-infused spiked hammer as his primary weapon, and said hammer's head is about the size of his own head. While smashing this down, he's able to create shockwaves, and one upgrade path lets him slam it down hard to create fields of lava that burn enemies. |
| 154 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Amy Rose's Piko-Piko Hammer. Practically every incarnation of Amy has one hammer which is bigger than her entire body and whose head at least twice as big as her head. |
| 155 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Throughout the franchise, Mario frequently uses a large wooden mallet that is almost as big as he is. |
| 156 | * ''{{VideoGame/Valheim}}'': While mundane maces and hammers stay realistically small, the magical ones have heads bigger than a human's. Especially noticeable with the two-handed clubs: the Stagbreaker looks like a maul surrounded by a cage of deer antlers, while the Iron Sledge and Demolisher have heads the size of an anvil. |
| 157 | * ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesShreddersRevenge'': The ''Dimension Shellshock'' DLC adds Red Foot Soldiers who wield hammers larger than they are. Being hit with one will temporarily squash you flat, but the hammers are so heavy that the Foot Soldiers are thrown off balance for a short time after attacking as they struggle to lift their weapon up. |
| 158 | * ''Franchise/{{Warcraft}}'': Huge warhammers are a franchise tradition. |
| 159 | ** ''VideoGame/WarcraftII'': {{Downplayed}} with Knights and Paladins, whose warhammers are large enough to be visible on the sprite and still quite a bit larger than historical ones, [[https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/File:PaladinW2.jpg but not disproportionately so.]] |
| 160 | ** ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'': The Paladin human hero (represented by Arthas Menethil and Uther the Lightbringer in the campaign) carries a two-handed sledgehammer the size of their own torso. |
| 161 | ** ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Warhammers are implemented as a cosmetic variation on maces, may be either one- or two-handed depending on the item, and are uniformly gigantic. |
| 162 | * ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': Hammers are a class of melee weapons whose one consistent feature is a head that is larger than an adult person's head. Examples include the Tenno-produced Fragor, the Grineer-produced [[RocketPoweredWeapon Jat Kittag]] and the Corpus-produced Arca Titron. |
| 163 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': |
| 164 | ** In the original ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'', Inquisitor Mordecai Toth gives Brother-Captain Gabriel Angelos a Daemonhammer called God-Splitter, whose head is almost as big across as Gabriel's shoulders in his PoweredArmor. It becomes his signature weapon throughout the rest of the series. |
| 165 | ** ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine'': Thunder hammers are available for use. The weapon, whose head is almost as big as Brother-Captain Titus's torso in his PoweredArmor, is slow to swing but will stagger opponents on a normal hit, and a couple of direct hits will usually kill just about anything. It's generally considered one of the best melee weapons to use with a [[{{Jetpack}} jump-pack]] in multiplayer. |
| 166 | * ''VideoGame/{{Wynncraft}}'': Earth-based spears appear as hammers with heads that are the same size as the player's. The third tier appearance for those weapons makes the hammer head even larger to the point where it's barely the same size as the player's body. |
| 167 | * ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': [[PintSizedPowerhouse Sena's]] normal weapon of choice is a gigantic hammer with strong but bouncy ends, as well as a round shape. The hammer can even retract its handle and the ends can merge, [[MixAndMatchWeapon creating a large, metallic ball]] that Sena can throw at the opponent. While Sena is best for wielding the hammer, due to the JobSystem, any of the main characters can wield the hammer as well. |
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| 170 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 171 | * ''WebAnimation/BigtopBurger'': Cesare's skull hammer, emerging from a telescoping pole, has a head twice as large as his entire body, and a haft three times as tall. It's heavy enough to [[spoiler:send Steve through the ground and into the underworld]], its impact causing lightning and a shockwave that blows the surrounding trucks onto their sides. |
| 172 | * ''WebVideo/CriticalRoleCampaignThree'': The barbarian Ashton Greymoore wields a two-handed hammer with a {{glass|Weapon}} head that's not much smaller than their torso, custom-made for them by a magical artificer. |
| 173 | * ''WebVideo/MultiverseTales'': |
| 174 | ** Vasilia Kuznet is a [[UltimateBlacksmith highly-skilled blacksmith]], willing to forge suits of armour and weapons for anybody who asks it of her. She is depicted with a hammer with a long handle and a head comparable to a solid stone block, though, in contrast to most characters, she's depicted resting the hammer's head against the ground so she can lean on the handle and put one foot on the head. Vasilia is presumably strong enough to wield the hammer seeing as she's both a blacksmith ''and'' a HuskyRusskie. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgCzYZpgygM&list=PLItBjti8LwWHnZXTdD9Wb_P3K8uIKaZ4y&index=1 this video]], she recalls having been contracted by [[ElementalEmbodiment the very personifications of the four elements]], and when she forged armour for the embodiment of the earth... we'll let Vasilia explain in her own words. |
| 175 | --->'''Vasilia:''' For a weapon, he wanted something ''big'', and when I asked him, "How big?" he said, again, "'''[[BiggerIsBetter Big]]!'''" So I designed him hammer with the same elements for his armour. And the mallet was nearly as large as his body! [[HuskyRusskie I]] could not even come close to lifting thing myself, but ''he'' swung it with one hand like it was child's plaything! |
| 176 | ** Voslo, Vasilia's older brother, is even burlier than his sister, and he has a hammer head built by her to replace his [[HandicappedBadass missing right hand]]. The hammer's size is not that outlandish compared to his sister's, but in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJn8O4mf-Wk one episode]], Vasilia mentions that when she gave her brother pieces of a magical armour equivalent to [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros the Smash Ball]], the hammer magically grew bigger, along with the arm and armour around it, and Voslo could even turn it into a ShapeshifterWeapon with enough willpower! |
| 177 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkCxvqaXwLQ "Astra and the Secret Knights"]]: Unghu, TheBigGuy of the titular Knights, is a BoisterousBruiser who carries a hammer over his shoulders with a head that easily dwarfs his own head. Unghu can carry the hammer due to the fact that he's a [[DraconicHumanoid Dragonborn]], and therefore is strong enough to carry the hammer when normal humanoids can't. |
| 178 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sg8AiiZuSM "Kate Kills Claus"]]: The Hammer Twins are [[BanteringBaddieBuddies two supervillains]] who work for [[BadSanta an evil version of Santa Claus]]. Frost (based on Music/FrostyTheSnowman) uses a hammer with a head that looks like two top hats put together, which enables him to [[AnIcePerson create icicles and pillars of ice]] to fight with. Cindy Lou (based on [[Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas Cindy Lou Who]]) uses a hammer [[NamedWeapons called Nutcracker]], which looks for the most part like a cartoonish wooden mallet with an even bigger head than Frost's. Cindy Lou can carry it effortlessly, partially due to the fact that [[{{Sizeshifter}} the hammer shrinks to toy size]] when it leaves her hand, and only grows back to normal size when touched with a bare hand (hers or otherwise) -- and Kate is pragmatic enough to use this to [[TitleDrop kill Claus]] by getting close enough to stuff the shrunken hammer inside his mouth with her gloved hand, then touching it with her bare hand to make it regrow with... [[YourHeadAsplode explosive results]]. |
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| 181 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 182 | * ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': On one episode Rolf uses one of these combined with WeaponizedHeadgear called the Hat of Discipline, and thanks to the ToonPhysics of the show he leaves Double D flat as a pancake. |
| 183 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Being a fusion of Pearl and Garnet, Sardonyx's weapon is a war hammer, utilizing [[NaginatasAreFeminine Pearl's spear]] as the handle and [[PowerFist Garnet's gauntlets]] as the head, which is more than thrice the size of Sardonyx's own head. |
| 184 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': |
| 185 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': Ultra Magnus wields a huge hammer that also serves as a StaffOfAuthority named the Magnus Hammer. |
| 186 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': Ultra Magnus once more wields an Energon hammer as his primary weapon. He later starts using the now de-powered Forge of Solus Prime as his weapon. |
| 187 | [[/folder]] |
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