Hammerspace is the notional place where things come from when they are needed, and where they go back to when not. The term was fan coined as the place cartoon characters and anime/manga characters would store the overly-large hammers and assorted weaponry they had a propensity for hitting each other with, especially for comedic effect.
The actual location of hammerspace is very hard to determine. There seems to be a great deal of it behind people's backs and on the opposite side (from the camera, that is) of thin things like lampposts and slender trees. It also hides in people's own body, coats, closets, clown cars, large sacks, and occasionally down their bras and pants.
Further research into the exact location of Hammerspace awaits solution of a few more basic questions. Such as: "What happens when you turn a Bag of Holding inside out?" and "Why is the inside of the TARDIS only that much larger than its exterior?"
It's also referred to as "hyperspace", but that term gets a little confused with the SF term related to Faster-Than-Light Travel (see Subspace or Hyperspace). Just to confuse things further, "subspace" is a word used in Transformers fandom for Hammerspace. It is called "katanaspace" in Highlander fandom, "back pockets" in the cartoon roleplaying game Toon, and referred to simply as "Elsewhere" in the Fantasy Kitchen Sink roleplaying game Exalted.
There are multiple versions, in order of size:
- Basic Hammerspace: This version contains only a few things, not because it is limited in capacity, but because that is all it is ever used for—for example a large weapon, or Optimus Prime's trailer. It is usually played for convenience, and most viewers give it a Hand Wave, although there is occasional Lampshading.
- Game Hammerspace: Used frequently in games—many of your inventory items are much too large or too heavy to be carried normally, and this is where they are stored until they are used. Game Hammerspace may or may not be infinite, depending on whether your inventory has a limited number of items or weight, but it still holds many things without spoiling the lining of your coat.
- Infinite Hammerspace: This version is played with a bent towards comedy. It can traditionally hold as much as the joke requires it to hold, may have multiple dimensions to its capacity (eg somebody looking in and finding one thing, closing the 'door' and looking in again to find something else), and often gets larger as the show goes on. If it reaches a limit, it is as a joke.
To take even more comedy out of what is already impossible, a character with established access to Infinite Hammerspace may, after packing it full of things, finally fill it up. With Basic Hammerspace, they are more likely to lose access to it for some reason and be unable to retrieve an item.
All Point-and-Click adventure games had this to an extent or another, because of the technical limitations of the medium preventing these games from having the hundreds of thousands of sprites necessary to represent your character holding any combination of inventory items you can have. So it's usually treated humorously instead.
The term "Hammerspace" originated in the Ranma ½ fanfiction community, ironically largely as a result of Fanon, as neither the titular Ranma nor the character most often associated with it (Akane Tendo) exhibited this trope to an excessive degree, though it was present in the source material.
Sub Tropes include:
- Ass Shove
- Bag of Holding
- Bottomless Magazines
- Collapsible Helmet
- Compressed Hair
- Hammerspace Hair
- Hammerspace Hideaway
- Hammerspace Parachute
- Hyperspace Arsenal
- Hyperspace Holmes Hat
- Hyperspace Mallet
- Hyperspace Wardrobe
- Impossibly Compact Folding
- Misleading Package Size
- Person of Holding
- Shake Someone, Objects Fall
- Stomach of Holding
- Talking with Signs
- Treasure Chest Cavity
- Trouser Space
- Victoria's Secret Compartment
- Wallet of Holding
Physicists are still split over whether or not there is a Hammerspace-Hammertime continuum.
May involve Rummage Fail. For more tropes on the spontaneous generation of matter, see Shapeshifter Baggage, Elemental Baggage, Variable-Length Chain, and Telescoping Robot.
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Other Examples:
- The GEICO gecko is apparently an expert at using hammerspace; he is shown to be able to hide a cell phone and wallet larger than his entire body on his person, confusing his boss.
Further confusing the boss is that neither he nor the viewer sees the gecko produce the items. The cell phone was already on the table and the wallet is seen only after he turns back around after he talks to a waiter.
- Cara Confused from the UK's Confused.com ads has been shown to pull various objects from her pocket, including a house! Many people have "confused" this for something dirtier, as the way every instance is animated seems very out of context.
- Guardian Fairy Michel: Salome makes sure the Black Hammer Gang lives up to their name by pulling hammers from nowhere.
- Happy Friends: In one episode of Season 7, Little M. praises Big M. for pulling out a weapon from thin air, adding that it's just like something you'd see in a cartoon. Except that weapon was actually one of several that was stuck on Big M.'s back from an incident that had happened just before he pulled one out.
- Lamput:
- In "Hair Bun", Skinny Doc pulls scissors from behind his back to cut the woman's hair, believing Lamput is hiding in it.
- In "Bus Stop", Specs Doc takes a magnifying glass out of nowhere and uses it to inspect Ms. Lipstick for evidence of Lamput being there.
- How to Hero references this phenomenon in their guide to Pocket Dimensions. Even singling out hammers as something than can be pulled out of thin air by heroes operating under cartoon physics.
- Archie Comics: Particularly in older comics, when a character has just overcome something stressful or difficult, they will produce a handkerchief from nowhere and dab sweat from their forehead.
- The Awesome Slapstick: Slapstick has this as an actual power.
- Combat Colin, star of his own backup strip in the UK Action Force and Transformers comics, was known for his Combat Trousers (apparently presented to him by an alien), the pockets of which enabled him to produce any number of cumbersome weapons, up to and including a nuclear warhead.
- Cubitus: At least one other comic series re-used the trick., star of his own Franco-Belgian comics by Dupa, also has a lavish palace inside his doghouse. In another story, he decides to move in his master's canopy bed. Friction ensues.
- Darkwing: In an issue of the comic, the Big Bad provided the Villain of the Issue with a Hammerspace trenchcoat. The thing produced and removed a functioning nuclear bomb.
- The DCU:
- Batman: Try Batman, that guy's got everything in his utility belt! Not so much "everything", as it is "exactly what is required for the situation at hand".
- The Flash: The Flash's costume is hidden in his ring. They try to explain it away as some sort of advanced science, but it's all flash and no substance.
- Green Lantern: The members of the Green Lantern Corps store their personal power batteries (the "lanterns" they charge their power rings on) in a dimensional pocket created by their bosses, the Guardians of the Universe.
- Superman:
- Legion of Super-Heroes/Bugs Bunny Special: Lampshaded. When Bugs Bunny pulls a giant bone (it's larger than Bugs himself!) out of nowhere (needless to say, Bugs does not even wear any clothes) to distract Timber Wolf with, Lightning Lass wonders where he even got it from and starts thinking Bugs must have teleportation powers.
- Every incarnation of villain Bloodsport has had access to a teleporter that can teleport any of a wide variety of high powered firearms to his hand.
- Marvel Universe:
- Devil-Slayer has a magic "Shadow Cloak" that allows him to pull weapons of virtually any sort (mostly swords, axes and the like, but has included modern firearms and high-tech ray-guns). In the same universe, Corsair (of The Starjammers) uses "phasing discs" built into his gloves to pull blasters from a dimensional pocket and Rom, Greatest of the Spaceknights, summons his Translator, Energy Analyser, and Disruptor from "subspace"and sends them back again in the blink of an eye, when he needs them.
- Loki (2019): Loki summons his possessions out of thin air calling forth his "Bottomless Magic Bag of Safekeeping," which he acknowledges is simply a pocket dimension.
- Ultimate Marvel: Played for laughs when a completely naked Hulk walks into a diner and asks for pancakes, then somehow produces a large handful of bills to prove that he can pay.
- Wolverine: Wolverine's claws are many times longer than the backs of his hands from which they emerge. It's occasionally suggested that they're stored in his forearms, but since they come out with his wrists bent at any angle, it's much better sense that they're kept in hammerspace.
- The Mask: Unlike the movie, while the wearer of the Mask can, if he/she/it decided to, pull an object from a pocket or inside their coat. Sometimes weapons can appear in the wearer's hand without them even realizing it. Sometimes they will actually kill people with a machine gun and then start wondering where it came from. Other times, it's explicitly shown that objects (weapons, usually) can in fact appear out of thin air in front of the person wearing the Mask. Even when objects are pulled out of pockets, most likely the object was not there before the wearer put their hands in there. It's suggested the Mask uses the space between panels as hammerspace, which since the wearer is clearly unaware of being a comic book character is bound to be confusing.
- Mickey Mouse Comic Universe: Eega Beeva, introduced by Floyd Gottfredson and Bill Walsh in 1947, wears black trousers with infinite-size pockets capable of containing any object.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW): Rainbow Dash is incredulous of where Pinkie stowed the giant costumes for the two of them (and a Changeling costume). Later, Pinkie pulls out her costume and a perfectly fine (and fresh) cake out from nowhere. This time, Rainbow Dash begs her friends to ask no questions..
- Planetary: Elijah Snow discovers that the Four invaded an alternate universe, slaughtered everyone living there, and turned it into an armory. A cruel way to invent Hammerspace.
- Sam & Max: A Running Gag where the completely butt naked Max is constantly asked where he keeps his belongings, considering he does things like pull guns from nowhere at a moment's notice. His response is always "None of your damn business." At least once it's implied that his favorite Luger is physically on him somewhere (and somehow), but the rest is left to the reader's imagination.
- Scott Pilgrim: Ramona whips a huge hammer out of a relatively tiny purse. She explains this by saying it's a trans-dimensional purse. It can hold lots of other things too, even Scott himself, and when the bag gets ruptured during a fight its (quite considerable) contents are violently expelled back at her attacker.
- Scud the Disposable Assassin has an entire species of being whose purpose is to serve as the Devil’s potential storage space for every material good on Earth. We meet three of these "stuff collectors", who essentially serve as living bags of holding: the well-meaning but seemingly useless Mess, the megalomaniacal System (whose first act as a sentient being is to lock Satan inside himself and become Hell’s new overlord), and Drywall, the scatterbrained but lovable middle child on a mission to save Mess (and their mother) from being imprisoned inside System.
- Peanuts: A running gag is the incredible amount of space inside Snoopy's doghouse (although the reader only ever sees it from the outside). Reportedly, he can have huge parties in there. And he proudly displays his Van Gogh on one of the walls. There are at least two floors inside, as well — one strip depicts Snoopy listening to Linus and Charlie Brown negotiating a turn in a staircase while moving furniture.
- General: The term "Hammerspace" originated in Fanfic, most likely for Ranma ½, though the effect itself stems back to the earliest days of animation and graphic fiction.
- All Mixed Up! brings a variation on this trope usually being present in the spines of agents, in both other fanfics and in canon media. Instead, pockets have infinite storage capacities, and agents can pull gadgets and other things they need out of them at a moment's notice.
- Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: Calvin grabs a bicycle out of nowhere. "Hey! Where'd you get that bicycle?"
- "Courage to Change the Things You Can
": Nanaki (Red XIII) seems to have this. It's used as the story's 'real world' explanation for the massive amounts of storage space the game gives you, but no one else understands how he's doing it and when the fic's O.C. main character finally gets mad enough about it to demand an explanation Red replies "I understand your confusion. But I like all of you too much to risk making your primitive hominid brains explode from the revelation."
- Child of the Storm: Humorously mentioned, as all mothers and grandmothers (specifically Alison Carter) seem to be able to pull an inexhaustible number of tissues out from some hidden place on their person when comforting a crying (grand)child.
- Diamond's Cut (James Bond): terrorist sniper at the beginning of London scene uses a laser sight. Try as hard as you might, there is no way you’re going to find it on his rifle, probably because the actual effect was obtained through the use of laser pointer.
- Displaced (TheMountainJew): In the first chapter, the Joker pulls out a Tommy gun "from absolutely nowhere".
- Doctor Whooves and Assistant: Ditzy insists that ponies have "pockets" to store things, even when they're not wearing anything. The Doctor finds the idea absurd, until he accidentally pulls out his sonic screwdriver from one.
- Dreaming of Sunshine: This comes into play as one of the first applications for seals that Shikako makes use of. Interestingly, in Shikako's case, she uses them on her own body frequently, sealing important, useful, or valuable items directly to her person.
- Dungeon Keeper Ami: Mercury uses and abuses the Keeper's storage ability to great effect. It can be used to construct complicated machinery and architecture, store spells for later deployment, catch falling minions and deposit them safely, and teleport.
- Duke Libasheshtan sees Ami holding a sample of what appears to be holy power, and in his confusion he assumes she must have been carrying a container of it, but can't work out where she would have been carrying it, since her outfit is rather minimal (a side effect of her Dungeon Heart's corruption).
- As a fanfic of the above, the Keepers of Dungeon Keeper of Love and Justice have the same abilities.
- The Emerald Phoenix
: Izuku somehow whips out a large notebook despite wearing his skintight hero costume, which doesn't even have pockets. Even more ridiculously, Toru pulls out a glass cutter during the heroes vs villains exercise even though she's nude.
- Everybody's Gotta Leave Sometime (Peanuts): Lucy Van Pelt suddenly pulls a football out of nowhere, prompting Charlie Charlie Brown to bluntly ask where she got it from.
"Charlie Brownnnn," called Lucy, ominously.
He looked in her direction.
She was holding a football.
"Where'd you get that?" he asked, wonderingly.
"That isn't important." - Friendship is Dragons: A story in the comments takes this into full Heart Is an Awesome Power territory. The narrator was once in a toon-esque game where one of the things you could put points in was "Hammerspace Capacity". The narrator put all her points into that, and by a few sessions in had a Hammerspace capacity in the neighborhood of half a cubic light-year. Then she revealed why she'd done this. The party was sent to retrieve a mysterious artifact from a heavily guarded dungeon. The narrator simply stuffed the entire dungeon into her hammerspace, then pulled the artifact back out. Moreover, the rules also specified that anything you pulled out of your Hammerspace was yours to wield as you saw fit. Including the Big Bad's dragon minions. Needless to say, the Hammerspace rules were majorly tweaked after that campaign.
- Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità
(Hetalia: Axis Powers): Parodied several times. From clothes to books to Death Notes to flowers, the characters' backs can store them all.
"It's alright Italia-kun. I always bring spare cosplays with me." He reached into some sort of secret compartment behind his back, pulling out an identical outfit to the one the brunet was currently wearing. Seriously, how do anime characters have such an ability?
Japan disappeared into a bathroom for a short amount of time before reappearing, now clad in a sharp black suit and tie with a white dress shirt and black pants, taking hexagonal glasses from his pocket—or wherever anime characters store all their stuff—before putting them on.
"Humph." The larger scoffed back. He then reached into the magical space all anime characters have, whipping out a book conveniently titled 'How to Catch a Runaway Italian'.
Both reached into the magical space all anime characters have, extracting black notebooks—Japan's having unidentifiable symbols on its cover as Italy's had 'Death Note' clearly printed on it in gothic letters—before taking out pens and colored pencils as well, opening the pages before scrawling in them.
Giggling, the auburn reached into the magical space all anime characters have, an exquisite bouquet of utmost grandeur popping out from behind his back. "Tada!" - Hammerverse: Izuku has one as part of their Gender Bender quirk (just called ‘storage’ within the story), evolved from their ability to change clothes when they switch between male and female forms. Anything light enough to carry can be stored, but the actual ‘size’ of storage depends on complexity rather than physical size. It turns out that the form Izuku isn’t currently taking is also stored this way, and Izuku can pull both forms into storage, leaving themself disembodied for a moment when they do.
- Homestuck high: Eridan carries a guitar in his pocket. Particularly bizarre in that the canon actually has sylladexes, a form of technology which would actually permit this, but they seem to be absent from the rest of the fic.
- The Infinite Loops: Loopers have what they call a subspace pocket. Not only can these hold quite a bit, they also carry between loops. The oldest loopers are said to be able to carry entire solar systems in theirs. Most loopers have it where a regular pocket would be (a known exception being Rico, whose subspace pocket is located in his mouth). Another type appears in Ruby Rose's "Pocket Lemons", which give a non-Looper an approximation of a Pocket when consumed.
- Khaos Omega makes frequent use of an XQ-designed device that invokes this. Proper XQ agents have one of the device on each arm, with the one on their throwing hand modded specifically for use in the Pokémon dimension. They also have a technique that serves as their version of Hyperspace Arsenal, with the weapons being personal modded ones unique to the summoner and with special infinite-ammo magazines.
- KibblesTasty: Void Domain Clerics can store objects within the Void, effectively acting as this trope as they can spontaneously vanish and reappear objects up to Large size.
- The Gunslinger Hero: Flintlock: Played with. Izumi’s electronic eye gives her access to her armory, allowing her to summon weapons out of seemingly thin-air as long as they are in the arsenal space. To someone who doesn’t know she has this capability, it comes off as her having a Hyperspace Arsenal instead.
- The Last Seidr: The Sorting Hat is revealed to be one of these, as Godric Gryffindor used the Hat as, among other things, a personal storage unit. Tony gets frustrated every time he sees Harry take something out of the Hat, grumbling about how it shouldn't be possible.
- A Long Journey Home: Jasmine and Myrddin both have one for their Focii. It apparently works but storing them in their soul.
- Memoirs: Lampshaded in the memoirs of Inuyasha's father. The narrator several times wonders where his clothing and equipment go when he transforms into a dog. Later exploited when the characters need to carry a large amount of luggage, so just give it all to the narrator and have him turn into a dog to whisk it all away to Hammerspace.
- Negaverse Chronicles: Quackerjack tends to pull random toys/weapons, cups of coffee, and other assorted object out of... somewhere.
- No Chance for Fate (Sailor Moon/Ranma ½): The Sailor Senshi have this as part of their base powers which they can also access out of transformation. There was no other way to explain where they did get their items in canon in many situations.
- Paragons of Virtue and Glory: Momo Yaoyorozu becomes a Person of Holding when she discovers her Semblance. The discovery prompts this reaction;
- Riding a Sunset has all of the Transformers use this trope, but in this fic it's actually explained. All Transformers have a tool called a Subspace, which turns the matter in an object into energy and stores it until it's needed, and then converts it back into matter. This is used as an explanation for how Transformers (especially in the G1 series) are able to pull tools, weapons, and Prime's trailer seemingly out of thin air.
- Romance and the Fate of Equestria: Anti-Hero Venni wears leather garments covered in pockets, from which she produces a variety of weapons and other useful supplies. Falls into this trope when she produces a wrecking ball and a hang glider, which are apparently collapsible.
- Snips and Scars
: Fred and George have enchanted inside pockets which they based on the concept of hammerspace. And yes, one of the things they contain is an actual hammer.
- Sugar Plums, as a Recursive Fanfiction of Dreaming of Sunshine, uses much the same concept with storage seals, though to a greater extreme in this case the character Ume is bundled in wraps that are covered in storage seals. She can control the wraps at will and also tell which one has the right item she's looking for when she needs it. It's unknown how much stuff she stores on her person at any time, but in another crossover fiction someone mistakenly takes the wraps and puts it in an industrial washing machine, which results with the wraps releasing the contents and completely destroying the laundry room (partially because Ume had a TRUCK stored on her person).
- Sunset's Isekai: The infinitly large refrigerator behind the bar arguably counts as a type three example of this trope.
- Tails of the Old Republic (Sonic the Hedgehog/Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic): Used and discussed. Tails basically carries a portable pocket dimension in his tails, and he even calls it Hyperspace Inventory. It's not perfect, however, and Tails feels the weight of everything he's carrying, and his hammerspace can implode if he loses all his Chaos power. Carth Onasi eventually dubs it "tailspace".
- This Bites!: This is an explicit power of one of the characters. After eating the Human Human Fruit: Model Child, Going Merry becomes a human girl. She still has aspects of her true caravel form while a human, which includes storage space. She can keep just as much inside her coat pockets as she could carry as a full ship, the item easily slipping in and out of her pocket with no issue. It's simply chocked up to the usual case of "Devil Fruit Bullshit".
- Thousand Shinji: Asuka instinctively summoned axes and other bladed weapons out of thin air. She did not knew where she pulled them from or where they went go to. She only knew she was brandishing a weapon whenever she need one and it disappeared after fulfilling its purpose.
- Three Sheets to the Wind: Jaune pulls out cans, bottles, and whole kegs from his back pocket as part of his Semblance.
- Twinkling in the Dark: Lampshaded. The Lemony Narrator acknowledges her own repetitive word choice when Asuka pulls a hammer out of hammerspace.
- With This Ring: The ability for power rings to store items in a subspace pocket is canon, but since his ring is based on avarice, Paul uses and abuses it much more extensively to accumulate all manner of material goods. He stores food, clothing, appliances, construction materials, weapons, armour, and at one point, the complete records of play-testing a custom set of Warhammer rules, which he kept on a stack of paper large enough to completely fill a hallway, for reasons he can no longer remember.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Parodied in one episode Melvin draws the previously invisible Millennium Rod from behind his back, saying:
"I will now use the Millennium Rod, which I keep clenched between my buttocks, to send this duel to the shadow realm!"
- Boys Night Out: Limberg's stepfather orders two alcoholic beverages to a woman server at a strip club. She then turns around and suddenly has two drinks sitting on her butt cheeks.
- BIONICLE movies: The Toa keep all their supplies, tools, etc. in hammerspace, but it's never made clear where they put them (the animation just shows the objects retracting "into" their solid backside). The novels at least give them the benefit of carrying satchels.
- It's also implied in other media that this is where the Makuta kept their excess parts when shapeshifting into smaller forms.
- In the wider lore, Toa store tools and equipment (like their spare masks) in shrines called "Suva" which they can summon at a whim.
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Brent pulls a pair of giant ceremonial scissors from seemingly nowhere, but then stores them down the back of his pants after showing them off.
- Disney Animated Canon examples:
- Pinocchio (1940): Jiminy Cricket pulls out a pair of glasses that, while proportionate to his large head, are far too big for his back pocket.
- The Three Caballeros: Both Jose Carioca and Panchito are prone to pulling items out of thin air, including telescopes, musical instruments, and capes. True to this trope's name, during the "Baia" segment Jose actually pulls out a mallet from behind his back.
- Cinderella (1950): After Cinderella's fairy godmother offers to help her get ready for the ball, she searches around for her magic wand, before remembering that she "put it away." She then uses a special hand motion to make the wand appear out of thin air.
- Alice in Wonderland (1951): The items Alice needs to "access" Wonderland appear out of nowhere.
- Aladdin (1992, Disney): In the Cave of Wonders, both Aladdin and Abu don't have anywhere to put the lamp, since Aladdin's pants don't have pockets, and Abu doesn't have anything big enough to hold it, so when both are preoccupied, the lamp disappears, and reappears when needed.
- Tangled: Rapunzel carries Flynn's satchel around for nearly a day in spite of the fact that she had nothing to carry it in, and she was with Flynn the entire time.
- Frozen (2013): Hans suddenly has his sword when he tries to kill Elsa when all previous shots showed he was unarmed with no way to conceal it. In contrast, when Hans previously used his sword he was shown carrying it in a scabbard that’s missing here.
- How to Train Your Dragon (2010): Hiccup has a modest Hammerspace where he keeps a notebook that's too big for a pocket. Moreover, when he puts it away, he just shoves it under his vest in the general direction of his back and lets go.
- The Nightmare Before Christmas: Sally pulls a slotted spoon out of her sock that is easily double the length of it.
- The Road to El Dorado: Miguel manages to keep the map in his shirt easily, which could be explained by the fact that his shirt is tucked into his trousers, but the map appears to disappear whenever he puts it in his shirt, as it doesn't affect how his shirt lies in any way. Chel and Tzekel-Kan are more direct examples: Chel manages to hide a pair of dice on her despite her outfit having no visible pockets
, though at least dice are small, and Tzekel-Kan keeps an entire book under his shirt
, if you could even call it a shirt.
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas: All the crew members of Sinbad's ship have to empty their pockets of weapons onto a table before going into the royal palace. Cue Jed spending about twenty minutes depositing a huge pile of swords, pistols, knives, etc., on top of a table.
Kale: Time to go, Jed pack it up.
Jed: [still pulling out swords, then stuttering from all the stuff he pulled out] Aw, man... - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: During his tearful goodbye, Spider-Ham gifts Miles a cartoon hammer that will fit in his pocket.
- In the sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Miguel O'Hara mentions Hammerspace by name when the Vulture from a Renaissance-era dimension pulls out another giant wing from his backpack after his first is pulled off. The term is even defined with a Clue from Ed. (as seen as the page quote above).
- In a milder example, Hobie's awesomely enormous dreadlocks appear to fit neatly under a skin-tight cowl.
- Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse: When Spike tries giving his son Tyke a knife to defend himself with before they assault the castle to try and rescue Robin and his men, the pup pulls a sword bigger than himself from thin air, causing Spike to have a Jaw Drop.
- Toy Story 2: From the Hilarious Outtakes: "And a rubber ducky, and a PLASTIC STEAK, and a yo-yo!"
- Turning Red: When Priya is giving Mei deodorant after Abby comments that she smells, if you look closely you can see that the deodorant appeared out of thin air.
- Wreck-It Ralph: Everyone from Hero's Duty literally pull their weapons out of empty air. The weapons seem to be part of their code — Calhoun produces her rifle from nowhere during the climax in Sugar Rush. Although if you look closely, it's more like an invisible Sticks to the Back.
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy: The four lead anchormen are walking through San Diego trying to find a suit store. However, that doesn't stop them from pulling iron knuckles, a club, and a hand grenade amongst other things when they encounter a rival news team.
Ron: Brick, where'd you get a hand grenade?
Brick: I don't know. - Batman (1989): In the final battle The Joker pulls out a revolver with a barrel that is almost three feet long from his pants.
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: Buster Scruggs produces a silver hand mirror out of nowhere twice. It disappears when he's not using it.
- Deadpool (2016):
- Much like his comic-book and video-game counterparts, Wade is able to do the same thing. During the Christmas scene when Wade proposes to Vanessa with a Pop Ring, she is confused and asks where he pulled it from when he literally is only wearing a holiday sweater.
- Deadpool & Wolverine: There is no trace of Wolverine's mask in the back of his suit for the whole movie until the very moment he puts it on, shortly before the climax.
- D.E.B.S.: Presumably where Lucy Diamond carries bulky items (her gun, extra ammo clips, a grenade and the suction cups she used to climb up the wall of the D.E.B.S. house) when she's wearing skin-tight clothing
- Desperado (the Robert Rodriguez movie): The bar scene being told by Steve Buschemi has El Mariachi pulling guns out of nowhere, at one point actually brushing his hair back, and producing a shotgun from behind his head.
- The Goonies: Data looks pretty normal-sized through most of the movie, until a bad guy gets close and suddenly his jacket puffs out as he punches the guy in the face with a spring-loaded boxing glove on a mechanical arm. In the scenes where it is actually used you can tell that it would've been very noticeable had he been walking around the entire movie with that contraption under his jacket.
- Head: Near the climax the band is confronted by a posse led by Lord High 'N Low, who's been after them for various reasons throughout the movie. In the half-second cutaway between Davy's shots, while the Monkees' would-be executioners are cocking their rifles, Davy produces a loaded, packed, & primed cannon and wipes out the whole posse. Peter lampshades it less than 5 seconds later.
- Highlander: Several immortals throughout the films somehow manage to store their swords in their coats, with Conor typically wearing a long trenchcoat that supposedly conceals his katana.
- Hudson Hawk: One of the villains cuts open the cover of Da Vinci's codex to reveal that the book cover, which was approximately a quarter inch thick, contains a piece of the gold machine reflector which is about the size of a billiard ball.
- Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter: In one scene a jeep pulls up by Jesus and a few atheists come out to beat up Jesus. As the scene goes on (and Jesus takes care of each successive wave of nonbelievers), more than thirty atheists end up coming out of that little jeep. Lampshaded when Jesus, on defeating the first wave, throws his hands in the air in an unmistakable "Are you joking?" gesture when the second comes into play.
- The Kunoichi: Ninja Girl: During their final battle both Shimotsuki and Kirasagi draw swords from places where they could not possibly be concealed. This is explicitly stated to be a Ninja trick both of them know, and each is surprised to discover the other knows it. Kirasagi plays this to her advantage by drawing one of Shimotsuki's swords while she is grappling him.
- Mallrats: Silent Bob produces several objects from inside his coat, up to and including a fully-inflated blow-up doll.
- Marvel Cinematic Universe:
- Iron Man 2: We all love the Mark V suitcase suit, but let's face it, this is where it really comes from. There's no way that suit could fold down into a suitcase-sized package that's light enough to carry in one hand.
- Thor and later entries: Loki possesses this ability in-universe thanks to his power to create and cast illusions. He often summons his battle outfit (horned helmet and all) out of nowhere, as well as knives. He's also seen retrieving the Casket of Ancient Winters from who-knows-where and later stowing it with a single hand movement after attacking Heimdall with it.
- Thor: Ragnarok: Thor's sister Hela can produce seemingly limitless swords, pikes and knives and blades of whatever type and size she requires, though this might be a magical manifestation that creates swords and as such she may not be capable of returning them to anywhere.
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Avengers: Infinity War: Rocket's giant space rifle tends to conveniently disappear until the moment he needs it.
- Marx Brothers movies: Harpo Marx can and does keep anything and everything in his (admittedly large) clothes, including a complete silver tea set, fully fueled welding equipment, live animals, a steaming hot cup of coffee, and once a lighted candle — lit at both ends. This only counts as Hammerspace from a viewer standpoint, however, because Harpo Marx actually did produce these items from his custom-made coat. It was a gag he developed for use live on stage. What makes it moreso this is the planning that goes into it, which is not visible to the viewer. When shooting the movies or even performing a live show, Harpo knew in advance which items he needed to have in his coat for each scene, and could prepare accordingly. In-universe, he's able to produce whatever item is called for on the spot with no apparent planning, creating the illusion that he's been carrying around all these items (and probably more) just on the off chance he needs them. Interestingly, the Looney Tunes (who often employ Hammerspace) were inspired by Harpo's gags, in the same way that Bugs Bunny is modeled on Groucho Marx (and just a dash of Clark Gable)
- Mary Poppins: Mary's bag is shown to store potted plants and lamps, making it a Bag of Holding. One might say the same about Harpo Marx's coat, but that was played more for laughs: you wonder what kind of clown carries a tea set around, less about how he does it. The way that Mary Poppins pulled tall items out of her bag, it's clear that the bag is larger inside than outside. When the children look in the bag, they see it as empty.
- The Mask (1994): The Mask has an infinite amount of space inside his pockets and an unknown, probably infinite number of things in them. Bonus points for the Mask's first scene, where he pulls an actual mallet out of his pants pocket.
- The Matrix movies:
- While in the Matrix, Trinity is always dressed in skintight clothing with nowhere to hide a gun, but she can always pull out firearms (and her cell phone) whenever needed. E.g. at the beginning of the first movie, while escaping from the Agents, after falling down some stairs, she pulls two pistols out of nowhere; and in The Matrix Reloaded she pulls a pistol out of nothingness twice (to menace Persephone and while fighting the albino Rastafarian ghost identical twins), and draws two machine pistols out of hyperspace while fighting the Agent in the power control building. But then again, they're inside the Matrix and as such have access to "magic."
- In The Matrix Reloaded she pulls out her cell phone from nowhere three times: while she's on the motorcycle transport vehicle with the Keymaker, while she's outside the building that controls the backup power supply, and after reaching the 65th floor of that building.
- Averted in the first film. Although she pulls out her cell phone several times, she always does it either from a legitimate source (a pocket or a carrying case on her belt) or while she's offscreen.
- Mystery Team: Jason's backpack. Somehow he can put together: A hobo outfit, a reporter outfit, three gentlemen disguises, three Letterman's jackets and A Mexican plumber costume. Duncan has this, to a lesser extent, fitting a slingshot, a "spy camera" and a book of Wacky Facts in his pockets.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: Elizabeth Swann was forced to remove numerous weapons, a majority of which she easily pulls out from her trousers, including a sawed-off rifle.
- Raising Arizona: A subtle but cool version. As the Biker walks through Unpainted Arizona, a cigar appears in one hand, out of nowhere, and a match in his other, which he strikes on a wall to light the cigar.
- Resident Evil: Extinction: How many zombie prisoners can you fit into a small shipping crate? Possibly justified/subverted/played with. Since the zombies feel virtually nothing at all, one can conceivably cram as many as the volume of the crate would allow. The real question that remains is how they got that many in there safely.
- The Room (2003): Continuity problems often cause characters to suddenly gain and lose objects between cuts.
- Denny loses his apple after walking up the stairs to jump on Johnny's and Lisa's bed.
Bill Corbett: Hey I just ate an entire apple, even the core!
- Lisa suddenly produces a vase for Johnny's flowers.
- After overhearing Lisa tell her mother about her affair, Johnny walks immediately over to his phone and sets down a tape recorder he wasn't carrying so he can hook it up to the phone.
- After cajoling Johnny into drinking with her, Lisa reenters the room from the entrance, carrying two glasses and a bottle of vodka.
- In the original script, a scene opens with Lisa talking to Claudette on the phone and ends with her walking Claudette to the door, meaning Lisa pulled her mother out of Hammerspace.
- Denny loses his apple after walking up the stairs to jump on Johnny's and Lisa's bed.
- The Running Man (1987): Lampshaded, when Arnold Schwarzenegger's character asks where his love interest was hiding a large gun that she suddenly has. She smirks at him and replies "It's none of your business".* The Santa Clause: Santa's sack has a dimension warp that allows it and the bearer to go down chimneys or even stovepipes, and a Smart Hammerspace that produces whatever gift the house's children are due, up to and including a full size kayak.
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: Scott frequently makes a hat materialize on his head when a girl comments that his hair is getting shaggy. Ramona also pulls a gigantic hammer out of her purse.
- Spider-Man 3: New Goblin's pumpkin bombs are stored in his sky stick. Some shots through the film indicate that this board, being mostly slim, has no room for anything. This principle also applies to his mask, which disappears when retracted.
- Tommy Boy: Presumably where Richard finds the board to hit Tommy in the face with.
- Top Secret!: Chocolate Mousse pulls a sledgehammer out of nowhere to pulverize a cricket.
- Tropic Thunder: Hammerspace is the least disturbing explanation for how Portnoy was able to pull a pistol out of his skimpy undies.
- Ultraviolet (2006): The main character has these funny little bracelet things that store her weapons. There's a great scene where, after Violet loads these things with enough weaponry to supply the entire US military, she is scanned by a weapons-check program and it gives up counting the weapons she's carrying.
Computer voice: Number of weapons found...many.
- Undead Spoofs this when a completely naked man pulls a couple of guns from nowhere.
- The Unnameable: Any doubt that the H. P. Lovecraft adaptation is really more of an understated horror comedy is finally dispelled after the film's climax, when the smart guy reaches beneath his thin jacket with one hand and pulls out an oversized book of spells nearly as large as his torso.
- Versus (2000): A Running Gag is that the weaselly yakuza seems to have an inexhaustible supply of pistols stuck into the back of his waistband. Whenever he loses a gun, he immediately pulls out another, larger one from the exact same spot.
- You Only Live Twice: Bond and Kissy climb the volcano and find Blofeld's lair — though Bond is wearing a simple Japanese fisherman's outfit, he suddenly has a second set of clothing underneath, along with wall-climbing suction cups, a gun, and cigarette case.
- All The Skills - A Deckbuilding LitRPG: When Arthur assembles a Rare card from collected shards, what he gets is a "Personal Space" power that gives him access to an extradimensional storage room. Not only does it let him carry everything he owns, securely and all the time, it also time-locks whatever is placed inside, so no time passes for that object. It even works on people, although he needs their permission first.
- Animorphs: This is known as Z-Space and is used to enable both morphing and interstellar travel. Notably, because of this there's an astronomical chance that the latter can crash into the shunted mass of the former, killing a morpher like a bug on a windshield.
- Black Jewels by Anne Bishop: Mages can "vanish" objects, presumably into their own personal Hammerspace, and call them back in when needed. The amount of Hammerspace you have directly correlates with how powerful you are.
- Bunny Girl Evolution: Astrid’s Star is an unassuming chain necklace but it can hold three dwarves or the equivalent mass. Everything inside is kept in stasis and separate until removed but you need consent to put someone alive in there unless they are knocked out.
- Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill: The RPG Mechanics 'Verse gives otherworldly heroes (e.g., the everyman protagonist Mukohda) the unique power "Item Box": an infinite, timeless, extradimensional storage space that's far superior to ordinary Bags of Holding. As a traveling adventurer with multiple large Bond Creatures, Mukohda uses his for heaps of loot, animal carcasses for food, creature comforts like a magical jumbo bathtub, and much more.
- Ciaphas Cain: Jurgen's webbing and greatcoat seem to contain an infinite amount of ration bars, tanna, and various helpful objects like goggles.
- Deathstalker (Simon R. Green): When Owen travels back to the mythical First Empire, he discovers that wealthy people of the time can buy bodies just like clothes. These bodies are stored away in subspace and be donned in a split second. You can have bodies for riot control, combat, courtly occasions, sex, etc.
- Discworld:
- Dwarves have access to Hammerspace: in The Truth Gunilla Goodmountain's troop of dwarves are able to produce large weapons seemingly from nowhere.
- In Sourcery, Conina is able to produce a seemingly endless arsenal of weapons — especially throwing knives — that she has secreted about her person, despite wearing just a simple white dress that wouldn't seem to have many hiding places. Since the retrieval of these items sometimes requires her to ask her male companions to turn away and is accompanied by a waft of perfume, we can assume that some of Conina's Hammerspace is in the form of a Victoria's Secret Compartment or its equivalent.
- Rincewind's magical Luggage, in addition to being a sapient travel accessory with a hundred legs and a mean temper, also appears to have limitless interior. It has "eaten" more than a few enemies and has served as a hiding place for Rincewind and others when bad guys are around. It also carries clothes, especially Rincewind's underpants, which are always freshly laundered and neatly folded when he asks the Luggage for them. Definitely qualifies as a Bag of Holding, too.
- Victor from Moving Pictures uses this trope to justify this trope, when he summons a horse and sword from nowhere by tapping into the ambient effects of Holy Wood magic. Film characters are always pulling weapons and equipment out of nowhere when needed, and film audiences accept it, hence it's fully within his power as the Discworld's top film star, provided he plays out such deeds in character.
- The wizards of Discworld have a lot of artifacts that can access Hammerspace, including a cabinet which, if you can find the proper drawer, contains anything you can think of and quite a few things you probably couldn't. This includes their own clothes, as is said in Lords and Ladies:
You could find anything in a wizard's pocket — peas, unreasonable things with legs, small experimental universes, anything...
- Doctor Who Expanded Universe: In one novel, the Doctor lands on a planet which follows cartoon rules and is inhabited Expys of many well-know cartoon characters. Towards the end the Doctor uses the rules of the world to produce a custard pie gun (an appropriate weapon for the Doctor) from Hammerspace to disable the bad guy.
- Emily the Strange: The Lost Days: Emily/Earwig's dress has pockets that can hold an inordinate amount of items, cats included. However, it was never properly used and only mentioned as a curiosity.
- Girls Kingdom: Haruka always has a paper fan somewhere on her person that she can quickly pull out and whack Inaho with as part of their constant Boke and Tsukkomi Routine. Whereabouts she keeps it, Misaki, the protagonist, can't seem to figure out.
- Grailblazers, by Tom Holt: A character has the hereditary ability to reach vaguely behind him and retrieve something weapon-like.
- The Guardians (Meljean Brook): Guardians and demons have "caches" to which they can vanish and retrieve items. Younger Guardians that grew up playing videogames actually call it a hammerspace.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Hermione uses the magic Hammerspace spell (an 'Undetectable Extension Charm') to put a ton of books and other stuff into her beaded purse. Including a large picture frame, which is larger than the purse itself. Amazingly enough, it isn't heavy to her at all (though the things inside aren't immune to breakage due to shaking the purse around too much. It "rumbles like a cargo hold" every time it's shaken.)
- Journey to Chaos: Mia's has an explict ability to store things in a pocket dimension that she can access from thin air. One of her hobbies is finding inventive ways to play around with it such as new ways to deliver a mission bill to the mercenaries.
- Leven Thumps: Sycophants have an unlimited "void" where they stow useful stuff. Pretty annoying, it's very hard to visualize what's going on when you read "Clover fished around in his void."
- Lizard Music: One of the lizards named Reynold takes a sheet of paper out of his pocket, despite not wearing any clothes. Another Reynold buys refreshments for himself and Victor later on, but Victor is unable to catch the lizard putting his hand into his pocket or taking the money out.
- Man Of Gold by M.A.R. Barker, set in the world of Tékumel, the hero, Harsan, learns to put things into another dimension, someplace he calls "around the corner", for safekeeping. There's one catch — if you leave something there very long, when you bring it back, it is cold enough to destroy flesh. If you put an item around the corner yourself, you can get it back by concentrating on it; or you can simply grope around and bring something back that someone else put there. But you won't know what it is until it materializes...
- Mary Poppins: Mary Poppins' iconic carpet bag, which apparently can hold multiple items, each of varying size. The 1983 Russian miniseries takes this to its logical extreme, revealing that she is able to withdraw an entire grand piano from it. However, in contrast to the film adaptation, in her Establishing Character Moment, Mary withdraws far more mundane items from the bag such as medicines, items of clothing, lozenges and an entire postcard album.
- Metafictionized Phlebotinum Poisoning: Arthur explains that the angels get 'P.L.O.T. hole' lockers, which are just regular storage units, but with mini-portals attached. Also explains how he drew his sword out of nowhere. Tagino gets one in chapter seven, too.
- New York Magician: Michel can pull a magical flintlock pistol out of the air by raising his arm like he's hailing a cab.
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Hunters of Artemis seem to have endless Hammerspace. Despite not being seen with any camping gear, they manage to set up an entire campsite complete with a luxury tent for Artemis herself. In addition, they always seem to have their bows across their shoulders when the need arises. So much so, that Percy notices and comments that they must be magical.
- Pinkie Pie and the Rockin' Ponypalooza Party: Pinkie pulled three sets of mini spring-loaded shoes just like hers seemingly out of nowhere. It was almost like magic, but it wasn’t—it was just Pinkie.
- Princess Holy Aura: Silvertail the rat uses Lemurian magic to have ready access to the Apocalypse Brooches, ID documents, and disposable phones.
- Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon: As long as he is paid, Boxxo can give an infinite amount of food and can change his selection.
- Skyway Mechanix: Violet Capagio, a super hero, has pulling weapons from hammerspace as her main power.
- Spellsinger by Alan Dean Foster: An anthro turtle wizard named Clothahump has drawers that pull out of his chest that he uses to store various spell components. His house, which is built inside a tree, has a similar effect on it, though he warns that excessive use of the spell can become very expensive because it causes inflation.
- The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson:
- Shardblades automatically go into Hammerspace when dismissed, dropped or otherwise separated from their owner, unless he or she wills otherwise when releasing them. The owner can re-summon the Blade at will (although it takes 10 heartbeats for it to appear). Blades are really huge (although remarkably light), so carrying them around is pretty inconvenient whenever someone has to do it, such as when they are bonding to a newly acquired blade which takes a few weeks.
- Interestingly Shardplate does not have this property. It's huge and bulky at all times, making transporting it around an important logistical consideration. However if it is damaged or broken it can be regrown by providing it with Stormlight, even just from a single small piece.
- As the series goes on, some explanation of both of these properties (although more the Bldaes than Plate) are given. Shardblades are actually Spren that Knight's Radiant have bonded with. When they aren't being used as swords, the blades exist in the Cognitive Realm, appearing in the Physical realm when summoned, using the person they are bonded to in order to manifest physically. It's still unknown where Shardplate comes from, although Dalinar's Visions seem to imply that there is or was some method by which it used to be stored in Hammerspace and summoned.
- Supervillainous!, by Mike Leon: The main character, Baron Hammerspace, has this as a super power. He can store and retrieve anything he wants in his jacket, provided it is not too big to wrap the jacket around. He seems to have an infinite supply of guns, bombs, and bizarre science fiction weapons in there.
- The Sword of Truth: Zed has a wizard's closet, though it is only mentioned once, early in the first book.
- Taking Flight: Irith conjures and vanishes massive wings from seemingly nowhere. When she turns into a horse, it also makes part of her garments disappear then reappear when she transforms back to a human.
- Tunnel in the Sky: Caroline leaves for her off-world survival test unarmed, barefoot, and with an overnight bag. About fifteen minutes later, Rod arrives in the relay room and sees that she ditched the bag before leaving. A month later, Caroline arrives at the fledgling colony with all of her odd items, including her diary and a saucepan. Nobody is sure how she kept and carried it all without a bag.
- Young Wizards:
- "Temporospatial claudications" leading to small pockets of "otherspace" are frequently used for storage by the wizard characters. In execution, it works exactly like hammerspace, except with more Techno Babble. Or possibly Magi Babble; it's often hard to tell the difference with that series...
- The "pup tents" used by the wizards in books seven and eight operate similarly, except these places can be used as bedrooms.
- Not quite Hammerspace but very related, in one book there's the sentient white hole that burps up random highly-ordered objects. At one point, it manages a fully assembled jumbo jet — harking to a traditional creationist argument about a windstorm in a junkyard.
- Whateley Universe: There's a character codenamed Mobius who makes utility belts with pouches that are about ten times bigger in each direction than they are on the outside. Phase has one that looks like it couldn't hold a postage stamp. He carries everything up to a touch Taser and throwing knives in it.
- Worm: The villain Circus has a grabbag of minor powers including her own hammerspace, which she uses to store an actual sledgehammer that she uses in combat.
- All That: Baggin' Saggin' Barry has whatever you need at any given time in his oversized pants, up to and including Abraham Lincoln.
- Blake's 7: Constantly happening due to the tight leather outfits of the heroes. In one episode Dayna uses a small robot bomb on wheels, despite not teleporting down with any form of bag or container to hold it.
- Bones: In one episode, Brennan — dressed up as Wonder Woman for a mandatory costume party — suddenly has her (big) gun drawn while she and Booth enter a building where a hostage is being tortured. Booth's response is "Where'd you even find a place to hide that?" to her apparent use of Hammerspace.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
- The Scooby Gang spent six years without any of them owning a cell phone, a piece of technology that would have made their lives both easier and considerably safer. They finally got cell phones in Season 7, but many of Buffy's outfits involved pants and skirts without pockets. As a result, there's at least one occasion when Buffy reaches out of frame and her hand reappears with her phone in it, but the wider shot shows that there's really no logical place for it to have come from.
- The demon Sweet in "Once More With Feeling" seems to be able to bring scrolls and doors from nowhere; justified as he's using magic.
- Chuck: Lampshaded in a NBC promo
where Sarah pulls out hidden weapons.
- Stephen Colbert's C-shaped desk is only ever shown from the front, which allows a ridiculous amount of junk to be pulled out of hidden cupboards as the plot calls for it. Notable items include a phone, a fax machine, his gun Sweetness, the Big Red Button, a pitchfork, a suitcase, John Oliver, at least two skulls, a variety of Prescott Pharmaceuticals products, Rahm Emanuel's severed finger, a secret prison (now closed), a pyramid (incomplete), a green room housing Michel J. Fox, a giant washing machine, a Foot Locker, a Starbucks, and another Starbucks.
- Lampshaded when Jon Stewart dropped by with an edifying videotape. "Let me just pop this into the part of my desk that plays VHS tapes..."
- In the 2008 presidential primaries season, Mr Colbert interviewed the candidate Dennis Kucinich, who pulled an amazing amount of stuff out of his suit, including a full teacup.
- Doctor Who: The Hammerspace nature of the Doctor's pockets is well-established.
- "The Ambassadors of Death": The Third Doctor temporarily hides a reel of tape by sending it back in time, via unclear mechanisms. It reappears back in his hand when he needs it later.
- The Fourth Doctor's pockets are one of his gimmicks, stemming from his Harpo Marx inspirational pedigree. A regular gag would be Doctor being captured and hauled before some malevolent middle-management Mook, who would inevitably order him to "Turn out your pockets", allowing the Doctor to fill the table with an endless collection of ludicrous items until his interrogator got bored. (See "Robot" for the first use of this gag and "Genesis of the Daleks" for him doing this to annoy space-Nazis). As his tenure wore on the items stowed away in his pockets got increasingly ridiculous, culminating in a Season 17 scene where he apparently stashes a half-full cup of tea into his pocket with no apparent ill effects. One of the novels even refers to them being a "pocket dimension".
- In the spin-off novel The Dying Days, after being pushed out of a plane in flight, the Doctor survives by using the contents of his pockets to improvise a parachute.
- "Bad Wolf": Captain Jack is able to pull a concealed gun despite having his clothes disintegrated off his body just a moment before. He does imply that it's best not to ask exactly where he pulled it from.
- At a crucial moment in "The Runaway Bride", the Doctor produces a remote control to stop the robots that are attacking them. "Guess what I've got, Donna? Pockets!"note he says, and when Donna says that the remote control wouldn't fit, he adds, "They're bigger on the inside." So is the TARDIS, of course.
- In "The Vampires of Venice", Rory takes a flashlight out of his pocket. The Doctor pulls out a fluorescent light that's almost as long as one of his legs. Rory is a bit put out that "[the Doctor's] is bigger".
- "Flatline" has a variant: Due to the Monster of the Week's powers, the TARDIS has shrunken with the Doctor inside, so much so that Clara can carry it around in her handbag, leading to the Doctor helping her through the episode by handing her various tools through the TARDIS's door, making it look like she pulls them out of her bag. At one point the Doctor even gives her a large sledgehammer.
- In "The Witch's Familiar", the Doctor steals Davros' (yes, that one's) chair, fixes himself some tea, and wheels out into the room full of Daleks.
"Of course, the real question is: where did I get the cup of tea? Answer: I'm the Doctor. Just accept it."- "The Return of Doctor Mysterio" continues the gag, with the Doctor producing a glass of water from inside his jacket.
- Often invoked to explain where Immortals produce their swords from in Highlander: The Series. There's a running fanwank about 'swordspace' in their longcoats or other clothing. Amanda doesn't even bother to be that subtle about it, seeming at times to pull her sword out of her hair...and she's got very short hair.
- Home Improvement: The Tool Time set often has oversize objects and tools stored in places that should be too small. Once, Al shows the tool box he keeps handy for working with Tim, which includes bandages, a tourniquet, full-size crutches, and an IV stand with saline drip.
- Kamen Rider does it, most prominently in the seasons where the Riders' powers are tech-based. Two stand-out examples:
- Kamen Rider IXA's Transformation Trinket is a knuckle device that docks into the belt, but for all intents and purposes the knuckle is the only part that matters. On several occasions, the knuckle is stolen, which allows whoever stole it to become IXA, with the belt just being on their waist with no explanation (as opposed to Kiva's, which does have a special effect for appearing around his waist).
- Kamen Rider Double's trinket is similarly two-part, consisting of a belt and memory sticks-like devices that allow form changes. The two individuals who become Double each hold onto three of the six Memories, but when they transform, all six end up with Double who pulls them out of thin air to change forms. Kamen Rider OOO, which has even more transformation trinkets (coin-like objects) than Double, subverts this by the main characters needing to have the many Medals carried around in large containers or by a second party to switch them in and out (for Core Medals) or to resupply (for Cell Medals).
- Kamen Rider Fourze is a very straight example, as the main character will have a total of 40 switches by series end to allow for different weapons and forms, and already pulls them completely out of thin air when in a fight. Mission Control actually carries a briefcase which can hold up to 10 Switches at a time. However, when he first transformed into his Super Mode, the same case managed to release ALL the Switches, so it's still played straight. As for the Modules that are produced by the Switches themselves, it was mentioned that they are actually a manifestation of Cosmic Energy.
- In multiple series (including Double and Kamen Rider Den-O), the Riders de-transform simply by unbuckling their belts...which subsequently disappear along with the rest of the costume. And yet the belts and all associated items reappear in the heroes' hands whenever they need to change.
- The Middleman's title character seems to have pockets that lead to Hammerspace. He spends several moments removing increasingly improbable weapons from his pockets in the first episode.
- Odd Squad: Everyone who works at the eponymous organization, as well as some of the town's citizens, have the ability to conjure up whatever they want simply by reaching behind their backs. However, it's not a skill that can be instantly learned, and agents in particular must be taught how to use it properly and to their advantage.
- Parker Lewis Can't Lose: Freshman sidekick Jerry Steiner has a trench coat with this property. Also, everything stored within was held in place by Velcro.
- Power Rangers does this sometimes.
- Rangers are eternally calling the name of a weapon, and then the scene will them change to them raising it as if they had it all along. Explicit teleportation of weapons happens just often enough to make it the logical explanation. And then there are the occasional cases where a character goes gets an item, is then not seen with the item, but does the "jump-cut to them raising it to use" trick. Apparently, you have to procure an item in real space to be able to retrieve it from your personal hammerspace.
- In the original incarnation, in the episode "A Bad Reflection on You", Rita decides to use the Psycho Ranger trick to frame the Power Rangers. She does it first in their human forms, landing them in detention. Bulk, who is apparently used to detention, first demonstrates this trope with his lunchbox, about the size of an average one. It starts getting impossible when he pulls out a submarine sandwich. Then, a bit later, he pulls out a "Detention Survival Kit" that has a TV in it.
- In the first episode of Power Rangers Dino Charge, while Tyler and Shelby are facing a monster, Tyler reaches into his backpack and pulls out a banana, a pair of underpants, and finally, a shovel. The banana and underpants could easily have been in the backpack — given that Tyler is a wanderer, he would keep many of his belongings on him at all times — but the shovel? The morphers for this particular season are also kinda bulky blasters and exist in hammerspace pretty much by necessity.
- In Power Rangers Samurai and Power Rangers Megaforce, the basic weapons the rangers would summon while morphed kind of just show up on a whim when they're unmorphed fighting Mooks.
- The Red Green Show uses Hammerspace in the Adventures with Bill sequences where Bill often pulls impossibly large items out of his overalls. Some examples include oars and a ten-foot ladder.
- Skins: This is the only place Emily can possibly be hiding the Distraction Cake. In order to defuse an awkward situation at a party, she says "Hey, look what I made!" — and produces, from seemingly nowhere, a two-foot wide chocolate gateau.
- The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: In "A Nugget of History", Mr. Moseby's grandma, Rose Moseby, keeps an absurd amount of ridiculously random things in her large tote bag purse, including a large ship anchor key chain, a window wiper, a baseball bat, and a mini vacuum cleaner.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Riker and Worf have produced phasers from seemingly nowhere. Not a tiny type-I "cricket" phaser that's designed to be easily concealed, but a full-sized type-II phaser. Notably, Starfleet uniforms don't actually have any pockets, so where they're being kept is anyone's guess.
- Top Gear (UK): On a 12th season episode, presenter Jeremy Clarkson seems to pull a hammer out of nowhere in order to demonstrate how sturdy the body of a Soviet-built Lada is.
- In The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny and its video, Abraham Lincoln "took an AK-47 out from under his hat / And blew Batman away with a rat-tat-tat-tat".
- Used as a literal Ass Pull in Sherry Vine's and Peppermint's Telephone Parody
, where various utensils are pulled out off Sherry's tush... including a ladder!
- Thor of Norse Mythology could make his hammer Mjölnir shrink to an incredibly tiny size, and be pulled out of seemingly nowhere, and is perhaps the first user of this trope. Frey owns the ship Skíðblaðnir that he can fold up and stick in his pocket.
- In traditional Chinese folklore, many powerful people essentially had sleeves that could store everything. Being trapped in one was generally a sign that you were screwed.
- In the Cool Kids Table game The Wreck, this is how Lazy Boy is able to carry around a rolling dolly, stepping stool, and five-foot long rod without encumbering himself.
- An episode of Monday Night RAW saw Triple H, known for carrying around a sledgehammer, facing off with Randy Orton holding a sledgehammer. Orton suggested they both drop their weapons and just go at it like men. Triple H agreed, both men ditched the hammers they were carrying, and then, after stepping into the ring and removing his jacket, HHH pulled another full-sized sledgehammer out from behind his back and proceeded to chase Orton away. Now, yes, the second hammer was concealed behind his back the entire time, held by a special rig, but the fact that someone managed to pull off the illusion of Hammerspace on a live television program was impressive.
- Beneath the ring could count, as everything including a kitchen sink has been pulled out from under the ring. Hornswoggle even lives under the ring and apparently, so do a bunch of similarly sized people. At first, it was just a joke by JBL, but then after being sued by Hornswoggle, DX has to go under the ring and not only find a full sized courtroom, but a building! So yes, on WWE shows, under the ring is officially Hammerspace. It's also been known to contain a portal to Hell.
- Destroy the Godmodder: Frequently used by both the players and the Godmodder, often as a result of Minecraft/Sburb/Terraria logic kicking in.
- Ruby Quest: Both Ruby and Tom have Inventories in which they can store up to 8 items.
- TV Tropes Roll To Dodge: Where Xiphoniii keeps all his stuff, specifically his Sitar, and more recently, an Atlantean spear.
- We Are All Pokémon Trainers: Misango the Furret has pulled a several hats and a megaphone from out of nowhere.
- Generally, this trope applies to varying extents to most tabletop RPG groups, unless the players want some extra realism. The most striking example are probably the thousands of gold pieces which the characters acquire during numerous adventures. There is no possible way a human could carry them all at once due to the sheer weight, but they seem to be always at hand for any possible transaction. Actually, rulebooks usually provide information on the weight of a gold piece and suggest that characters would store their fortune in even more valuable assets like magical items, gems or pieces of art, but this is usually ignored since most players feel it would needlessly slow down the pace of the game.
- In fantasy settings, the player's horses often seem to pop up ready to take them to the next location, quest, etc. no matter how improbably they would have been there or how even the players got them there. Some GM's are more sticklers about it, but many handwave/ignore it simply for convenience sake to move the plot along.
- Players almost always seem to have their weapons, armor, etc. at the ready, no matter what they were doing before they needed them. As above, many games have spells and special items to explain this, but often it's just accepted they sleep, bathe, attend royal banquets, etc in full armor with their sword, dagger, bow and quiver, and handy bag of magical items.
- BattleTech: Some mechs have missile pods or autocannons attached to the mech with such a thin connection point that there's no way for an ammo feed mechanism to actually pass through it. The missile pods on the wings of the Flamberge
◊ being a prime offender.
- Dungeons & Dragons:
- The Portable Hole, the Bag of Holding, and Heward's Handy Haversack are extradimensional pocket spaces that can be used to stash large quantities of items weightlessly. In 4th edition the Portable Hole wasn't any form of Hammerspace, it was simply a portable hole. You applied it to a surface, and it made a hole in it. You took it off, the hole went away. You couldn't store anything in there any more. 5th edition restored the original properties and explicitly stated that it couldn't be used as in 4e. Heward's Handy Haversack is an especially iconic variant; in addition to being a Bag of Holding, it's also enchanted so that whatever item you reach for is always on top, so rather than rummage you can literally just reach behind your back and produce whatever you need, cartoon-style.
- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition: The deeppockets spell allows this trick for a day or so, using one's garb. All these things were safe only until someone tried to stuff them into each other, though.
- Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 Edition: The WotC Website had several articles for expanded classes. Among them is the "Personal Space" alternate class features for Nomad Psions, which grants them access to an extradimensional storage within their body. The size grows as they gain in power, being just equivalent to a belt pouch or sack at low levels, to a backpack at mid-levels, to a chest or bigger at high levels.
- Exalted has an extradimensional un-space known as "Elsewhere." There are several Charms that allow the Exalted to store their armor or weapons Elsewhere and recall them at a moment's notice. A comic in one sourcebook has a mad inventor create a device that will take him Elsewhere, so that he can steal everyone's unguarded valuables... only to find out when he gets there that he can't move. note
- In Nomine: Superiors I: War & Honor: The Archangel Laurence's Servitors have an Attunement called "Scabbard" that can hold an unlimited number of personal weapons in a hidden pocket of space.
- Maid RPG: One of the Maid Powers is Weapon From Nowhere, which lets your maid PC make surprise attacks by pulling her weapon out of nowhere.
- Mekton: Dimensional Storage ("How is it that so many mecha can draw their incredible swords from thin air? Where does the trailer go when a semi-truck transforms?")
- Orpheus has the Beckon Relic ability for Wisps. It allows them to reach through a dimensional tear and pull out an item that they must concentrate on; the catch is they don't get to chose exactly what comes out. For example, if they think "gun," they may get anything from an AK-47 to a 16th century musket.
- Tales from the Floating Vagabond: The Trench Coat Effect Schtick operates in the same way for small and medium items, but only if someone says something along the lines of "Oh, if only we had [insert name of small- or medium-sized item here]!"
- Teenagers from Outer Space. being an Animesque comedy game, has Hypedimensonal Hammers, Hyperspace Handbags, interdimensional car trunks, Popcorn Grenades (a softball sized device that creates a mountain of popcorn a mile high), and other bigger inside-than-out storage ideas.
- Toon: Toons can store up to eight items in their 'Back Pocket', whether that item is a box of paper clips or an anvil.
- Warhammer 40,000:
- The Obliterators are Chaos Marines (most likely former Techmarines) infected with a virus from the Warp, which already has Really Bad Idea written all over it. As a result they are not only permanently fused to their armour and weapons, but can spontaneously spawn any weapon they desire and an infinite ammunition supply for the weapon, including-but-not-limited-to the ammunition-devouring Assault Cannon and the massive Lascannon. The entire experience is noted as being exceptionally painful.
- When Lucius the Eternal is killed, his killer is transformed into Lucius, and somehow also obtains his armour and weaponry in the process.
- In William Shakespeare's Othello, during the eponymous character's final scene, he pulls out weapon after weapon, as if from hammerspace.
- The Amazing Digital Circus: Used frequently, as part of the Circus' exaggerated comedy cartoon theme:
- "Pilot": Jax somehow stores the key to Kaufmo's room behind his back. He also ends up shoving a bowling ball in the same place and magically pulls it out to push Kinger and Gangle into the Gloink pit.
- "They All Get Guns": The cast is meant to locate a variety of weapons scattered across the map, and they keep whatever drops they find while looking for more weapons. Characters usually show up in a new scene with a different weapon in their hands.
- After Ragatha causes Jax's first revolver to literally backfire on him, he immediately reaches for another revolver that his other hand grabs from behind his back.
- Zooble sorts through all the pistols they've managed to find with Gangle by pulling them from behind their back, which is also where they keep Gangle's Comedy Mask to save it for later.
- Pomni shows that she was saving one rifle round on her in the hopes that she'd find a compatible gun to fire it later, suddenly taking it out from the bottom of the screen after two-handing her revolver. Both she and Jax also pop up shortly after Zooble gets disarmed with new loaded pistols ready.
- Dead Fantasy Part II. Yuna reaches into her clothing and pulls out two ether bottles to revive an exhausted Tifa. They're so large that there's no way they could have fit in her clothing normally.
- Characters in Lego Pirate Misadventures routinely pull guns, and in one case, a spear, out of nowhere.
- Ongezellig After Vera uses a bottle to smack Mymy off, and Coco having to present, she "pulls" one from her scarf.
- RWBY:
- There is no way Ren's gun-blades should be able to fit into his sleeves, let alone leave no sign that they're there. Nevertheless, that's exactly what happens.
- Professor Ozpin is always seen with either a cane or a coffee mug, never both. The most blatant occurrence is during the show's very first trial which happens on a cliff edge and in the forest below. Ozpin sends the students off while nursing coffee, no cane in sight. Then he's seen monitoring the lesson while leaning on his cane, no coffee mug in sight. Before this event, the fandom already had a Running Gag that the cane and the coffee mug are the same item, morphing between the two states whenever Ozpin Must Have Caffeine. This event gave that gag wings.
- An observation among the fandom is that some of the mechshift weapons would be hard to make in real life. Most appear to just telescope, but Coco Adel is able to carry around a retractable minigun in a handpurse. It's implied that the purse is just as heavy as the gun, since Coco uses it to bludgeon a few Grimm to death.
- Cinder Fall can apparently use her fire powers to summon a pair of blades, which can also double as a bow. There's no indication yet as to exactly what is going on (Cinder has always been something of an anomaly), but her clothes do glow when she summons them.
- It's eventually revealed that she's using a combination of her Semblance and Maiden Powers to forge glass weapons instantaneously out of the dust in the air, making this a subversion.
- In Volume 2, Ruby and Yang get a 1-foot mail tube from their father Taiyang, which turns out to contain Zwei (the family's pet Corgi) and a letter asking the girls to watch him while Taiyang is away on business. After Yang gives the tube a couple of shakes, a gigantic pile of canned dog food and a can opener also drop out of it.
- While most of the above examples are the result of Volumes 1-3 having limited animation, volume 7 introduces Fiona Thyme who has this as an in-universe Semblance. Her first onscreen use is to literally pull a whole truck with supplies into the palm of her hand.
- In X-Ray & Vav, Hilda reveals that X-Ray and Vav's "overundies" are essentially utility belts connected to another dimension, giving them access to all sorts of gadgets. X-Ray, then, decides to masturbate.
- Conroy Cat
: Conroy pulls out several items throughout the cartoon that will help him from stop falling.
- Four Swords Misadventures: Lampshaded in Episode 7 when Green reacts with confusion when a drunken Red manages to use a hookshot on Dark Link after being inadvertently woken up by him (he earlier passed out), with Blue asking Green "how should [Blue] know [where Red got the Hookshot]?" after Green asked him.
- Adventurers! lampshaded this (along with a similar trope) once or twice. The below quote was given after one of Eternion's lackeys pulled a sword from behind his back that is taller then him.
Eternion: This planet makes storage a snap.
- The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: Doctor McNinja makes frequent use of a large grappling hook, but it is never seen on his person except when he throws it. The same applies for Sean when a grappling hook pops out of his hand (in the crapsack future, where he's become a "technomage" with a power glove).
- Awful Hospital: Fern's HAMMERSPACE-brand Disappearing/Reappearing Compartmentalized Collector's Tote.
When you look inside, you perceive ten compartments of infinite size occupying the same space simultaneously ... it sort of tickles a little.
- Brat-Halla: Sif produces a war god's giant club from her purse
when she thinks another woman is flirting with her unrequited crush.
- Collar 6: Since the comic is intentionally and explicitly kinky, what the girls produce from Hammerspace is paddles
to punish annoying men.
- DM of the Rings: Lampshaded in this
. "You don't have a backpack. What you have there is an invisible leather TARDIS."
- Everyday Heroes:
- Used by Carrie
in, where she apparently hides her hammer in her ginormous head of Prehensile Hair.
- And subverted here
, where young superhero Summer explains that girls with super-strength aren't allowed to use hammers, since they might cause actual damage instead of comic damage. Instead, she has an alternate weapon: a flyswatter, which she uses to swat the offending young man on his fly.
- Used by Carrie
- Flying Man and Friends
: Mr. Stinky is able to produce (among other things) a gun
out of nowhere, despite not wearing clothes or having a place to store anything.
- Girl Genius: Bangladesh Dupree always seems to pull dozens of knives out of nowhere when she feels a little stabby (which is most of the time).
Boris: I don't know where she keeps all those weapons.
- Girls in Space: A "strippotamus" produces a gun from nowhere in this
strip.
- Girly: Often used when Winter pulls out giant dildos and bazookas out of nothing, while Otra pulls out spaceships and her own armor with accommodating sword just like that. And one of their adversaries use the Hammerspace against them while referencing to this very trope. While using a hammer.
- El Goonish Shive: Although this example might be better described as Hyperspace Mallet, it deserves a spot here, if for no other reason than it formerly provided the trope image. The comic has this comic
where the Hyperspace Mallet is pulled out of Hammerspace, and this one
where a scientist explains where the mallet came from. Susan can turn realspace into her own personal Hammerspace thanks to magic powers and, later on when she finds she can't summon the hammer, they find that the immortal who created the relic that allows girls to summon the hammer is about to reincarnate himself, undoing the magic.
- Grim Tales from Down Below: Hammerspace plays a major role in the appearance of objects such as: An iron engraved with "STFU" on the side, a kettle with the word "FAG" on it in a similar vein, a ball gag, a cherry, a knife, a spontaneously changing outfit, and a paintball gun. It's not as kinky as it sounds.
- Grrl Power: One of Dabbler's many abilities. Sydney really wants this power too
. It's actually her lab (at an undisclosed location). She has a teleport in her artificial arm, which warps in what she needs.
- The Hare's Bride (2010): When the hare changes out of his anthropomorphic form at the end, his clothes vanish into thin air.
- Homestuck: Characters store items in a "Sylladex". These are basically video game inventories where stored items essentially cease existing as physical objects until called upon, but they usually have limits on what order and under what circumstances items can be retrieved in.
- The Intrepid Girlbot
: There's a "typical showdown" between hammerspace-capable robotic pets. No hammers shown, but they're armored too much for a hammer to do anything, anyway.
- Keychain of Creation: In the RPG Mechanics 'Verse of Exalted, it's quite simple to learn how to stash a few objects Outside and retrieve them at a moment's notice. Lampshaded when Marena forgets
precisely how much her hammerspace can hold.
- The Mansion of E features the Hammerspace Company who deals in extra-dimensional storage.
- Narbonic:
- A hammer suddenly appears, and is met with the stock question and answer
.
- Dave's cigarettes come from hammerspace. At one point before Dave didn't start smoking, Helen realized she was turning into Dave when a cigarette popped.
- A hammer suddenly appears, and is met with the stock question and answer
- The Order of the Stick: Half the equipment owned by the group (especially V's familiar) just appears out of nowhere when needed and pop back out when not, sometimes literally. In the case of the familiar, this was to represent the way actual DnD players tend to forget that their familiars even exist — and, once V has their Jerkass Realization and starts paying more respect to other characters, Blackbeak becomes a full cast member and sticks around in permanence. On the other hand, Elan producing the Girdle of Femininity/Masculinity leaves far more questions.
- Lampshaded when Haley and Roy switch weapons, and he fires a single arrow (which was already nocked when he got it) from her bow — then realizes that he has no idea where she keeps the rest of her ammunition (she is never seen wearing a quiver).
- Similarly to familiars, the paladins of Azure City keep their mounts in pokeballs, a joke on the fact that the city is modeled after Japanese culture.
- Ozy and Millie: Ozy goes out in a cold snap before his winter coat comes in—the result is that it comes in all at once, leaving him extremely fluffy. Millie takes advantage of this to hide things in him, up to and including a piano.
- A Pinkish Blue: In this Comic
you expected the boy to draw out a proposal ring, which would at least kinda make sense, but then he draws out a present bigger then his head...
- Power of Ether: Justified as the main characters all have portable pouches that can, quote, hold about 1 cubic meter's worth of stuff inside. However, they apparently damage organic material severely. (Note, this quote is from the semi-retconned first chapter, but it still applies)
Dax:
Your hands will be okay for a few minutes, but put your head in and you'll quickly go blind.
- Realm of Owls: Aviatar's bags hold all the weapons and items he needs
.
- Roses and Thorns: The scientist Joseph Umbra renamed hammerspace as "Umbral Science"
, after gaining a monopoly on the technology used to access it.
- Sluggy Freelance: Despite wearing no clothes whatsoever, Bun-bun is always able to produce his switchblade at a moment's notice.
- Gwynn likes to keep a baseball bat in impossibly small places like a cookie jar or her purse in case she needs to beat up Torg or Riff for being stupid.
- Also Bun-bun's gun. Lampshaded when he was talking to Oasis (the gymnastic assassin).
Bun-bun: You know what, toots? You keep throwing your knives and stars at me, and I just gotta ask. (Pulls a gun out of nowhere.) Where do you keep all your weapons hidden?
- Strange Candy: Used frequently and by name by the weapon-happy Petra of Okashina Okashi. She allows the other characters to store things there, mostly clothes, but she seems to be the only one of them who can access it.
- Yokoka's Quest: Misha has access to a "storage dimension", and is shown keeping a bag and a small parcel there (the bag itself is presumably a normal bag and not a Bag of Holding. Suggested to be a common ability, by Misha stating that familiars are expected to do use this to carry their master's belongings, and her presumption that Yfa can also do this (he can't). Clothing seems to also go into hammerspace during most shapeshifting.
- Zack Jack: Cute Witch Alex's Flying Broomstick disappears whenever she isn't using it.
- The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids: The Cupids' bows aren't ever visible until they pull out them from behind their back.
- SCP Foundation:
- SCP items labeled "ectoentropic
" will likely implement this trope in some fashion since it means the object generates matter and/or energy in an anomalous manner.
- SCP-049 ("Plague Doctor")
. SCP-049 can produce a bag containing scalpels, needle, and thread from its body and return it to its body when it's finished with it. The bag cannot be detected in any way while inside SCP-049's body.
- SCP items labeled "ectoentropic
- American High Digital: Implied in "Girl Who Always Does Her Makeup In Class", where a student somehow manages to bring in an entire salon setup without any evidence of it existing prior.
- The Cartoon Man: When transformed, the characters are able to produce cartoon objects from thin air. Simon pulls out an actual hammer on multiple occasions.
- Critical Role: Lampshaded. After the Mighty Nein had their items stolen and needed to grab them back in a hurry, Veth ended up with Yasha's sword, Skingorger. When Yasha asks for it back, Veth claims to have stashed it in her pocket, and highlights the absurdity of a three foot tall halfling carrying a five foot greatsword with zero difficulty.
- Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: After the eponymous character spends time walking around monologuing, he suddenly spins around and dramatically pulls out from under his lab coat a giant Death Ray that was quite clearly not actually under there before that point due to the way the coat hangs. note The hammer space is his penis.
- 80's Dan: Dan pulls random stuff out of his jacket.
- The Legend of Neil (a Legend of Zelda parody) inverts this then lampshades it. For the first few episodes Neil awkwardly carries everything (including bomb, bow, sword, shield, and the raft) until a secret Moblin teaches him how to use hammerspace.
- "On the Couch": Invoked by Daniel, who hides large weapons in convenient places in Curly's house.
- SMPLive:
- Svyoshi has access to creative mode due to his role as a server operator, allowing him to infinitely pull blocks and items out of nowhere.
- Anything picked up by Butcher Pete will vanish into his seemingly endless inventory, which Schlatt and Connor have the idea of using to hide illegal contraband.
- Tales of MU: The nymph Amarath has a habit of putting unneeded items Away.
- Clothing made by the Scottevest company
invoke this trope. What appears to be an ordinary vest or shirt can contain a dozen or more zippered pockets capable of carrying everything from a wallet to a medium sized tablet computer or actual hammer, with little to indicate that the garment is almost a real life example of this trope.

