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* DropDeadGorgeous: ''I, the Jury'' features Mike shooting the naked [[spoiler:Charlotte]] after she turns out to be the killer he's been investigating, both in revenge for a friend and in retaliation for her attempting to shoot him in the back, before proclaiming "it was easy". As the cover above shows, this was the signature scene of the book and the [[TropeCodifier quintessential example]] of a ruthless DetectiveLiterature or SpyFiction protagonist [[WouldHitAGirl killing evil women]] in cold blood. It was more faithfully adapted by the 1982 film of the book than the 1953 one.
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Music/JohnZorn devoted a ConceptAlbum to Spillane's "Mike Hammer" novels, simply called ''Music/{{Spillane}} (1987)''.
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After Spillane's death, his friend and literary executor, Max Allan Collins, began editing and completing Spillane's unpublished typescripts.
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After Spillane's death, death in 2006, his friend and literary executor, Max Allan Collins, began editing and completing Spillane's unpublished typescripts.
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''There are 10,000 mugs that hate me and you know it. They hate me because if they mess with me I shoot their damn heads off. I’ve done it and I’ll do it again.''
-->Mike Hammer, ''I, the Jury''
-->Mike Hammer, ''I, the Jury''
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-->-- '''Mike Hammer''', ''I, the Jury''
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* {{Anvilicious}}: ''One Lonely Night'' is one long screed against communism and how its an existential threat to America. Also, stupid and dirty.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: ''One Lonely Night'' is one long screed against communism and how its an existential threat to America. Also, stupid and dirty.
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* DirtyCommunists: ''One Lonely Night'' lays this on good and thick.
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* DirtyCommunists: ''One Lonely Night'' lays this on good and thick. In addition to being controlled by the violent evil Kremlin, American communists are dupes and either stupid or actually insane.
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* {{Macguffin}}: The papers that Mike is looking for in ''One Lonely Night.''
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* SettingUpdate: Happens with every screen adaptation. ''Film/KissMeDeadly'' (1955) was set in Los Angeles and had stolen nuclear AppliedPhlebotinum as a McGuffin. The 1982 remake of ''I, the Jury'' (starring Creator/ArmandAssante) had Hammer as a Vietnam veteran instead of a Pacific Theater World War II veteran, with a plot involving CIA mind control experiments. Stacy Keach's Hammer lived in 1980's New York, though he continued to dress [[OutdatedOutfit anachronistically in a fedora and trench coat]].
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* RelationshipUpgrade: ''One Lonely Night'' [[spoiler: has Mike and Velda finally hook up.]]
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* HeelRealization: ''One Lonely Night'' has Mike Hammer possess one of these after a judge points out all of his righteous avenger pretensions are just excuses for murder. Hammer surprisingly agrees and struggles with what to do about it [[spoiler: before deciding that he can be a killer of killers.]]
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* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Hammer is feeling depressed bordering suicidal in ''One Lonely Night'' due to a judge giving an off-camera speech where he tore into the private eye's moral justifications, called him just a legally recognized murderer, and that he was no better than the people he fought. Worse, that the world would be better off when he died. Only Velda really disagreed with the judge even among his friends.
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** In ''Vengeance is Mine'', [[spoiler: Charlotte is the third of Mike Hammer's girlfriends to meet an unfortunate end and does so at the hands of Juno, who was also his love interest--and a UnsettlingGenderReveal.]]
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* LoopholeAbuse: In ''Vengeance is Mine'', after Mike Hammer loses his PI license and gun, he simply reopens his detective agency under Velda's name since she is a licensed private investigator and for ownership of a gun in her own right.
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** In ''I, The Jury'', [[spoiler: Charlotte Bennett is revealed to be the BigBad and Mike disposes of her himself.]]
** In ''My Gun is Quick'', [[spoiler: BigBad Arthur Grotin-Benit kills his LoveInterest, Lola, right before Mike goes on an RoaringRampageOfRevenge.]]
** In ''My Gun is Quick'', [[spoiler: BigBad Arthur Grotin-Benit kills his LoveInterest, Lola, right before Mike goes on an RoaringRampageOfRevenge.]]
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* TakingYouWithMe: ''My Gun is Quick'' ends with [[spoiler: Mike fully prepared to die in order to make sure that Arthur Berin-Grotin dies with him with him. Mike has taken two bullets and is on top of the eighty year old man. In the end, only the fact it would hurt Arthur ''worse'' to have Mike dismantle his legacy leads him to be given a comparatively simple shot to the face.]]
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* CartwrightCurse: Mike Hammer is doomed to meet many women who fall in love with him only to die horribly, turn out to be evil, or be otherwise unobtainable by the end of the story.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: The majority of prostitutes that Mike Hammer deals with are exhausted and TroubledButCute, taken advantage of by evil systems. Quite a few become DisposableSexWorker types like Red in ''My Gun is Quicker'', only to have Mike become their avenger.
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** The majority of prostitutes that Mike Hammer deals with are exhausted and TroubledButCute, taken advantage of by evilsystems. systems.
** Quite a few become DisposableSexWorker types like Red in ''My Gun isQuicker'', Quick'', only to have Mike become their avenger.avenger. [[spoiler: This also includes LoveInterest Lola who dies in the last few chapters.]]
** The majority of prostitutes that Mike Hammer deals with are exhausted and TroubledButCute, taken advantage of by evil
** Quite a few become DisposableSexWorker types like Red in ''My Gun is
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* UnstoppableRage: Mike gains a dose of this in ''My Gun is Quick'' [[spoiler: after Lola is murdered and he discovers Berin-Grotin killed his own granddaughter after she threatened to expose his vice ring. Mike literally forces the eighty year old man down despite two bullet wounds and plans to have them both burn to death while he watches him die. In the end, he opts to shoot him only because surviving to ruin his name is better.]]
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: The majority of prostitutes that Mike Hammer deals with are exhausted and TroubledButCute, taken advantage of by evil systems. Quite a few become DisposableSexWorkers like Red in ''My Gun is Quicker'', only to have Mike become their avenger.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: The majority of prostitutes that Mike Hammer deals with are exhausted and TroubledButCute, taken advantage of by evil systems. Quite a few become DisposableSexWorkers DisposableSexWorker types like Red in ''My Gun is Quicker'', only to have Mike become their avenger.
