History Main / HyperspaceMallet

* In the alternate timeline of ''Manga/AngelHeart'', Shanin picks up this ability from Kaori's heart inside her. We later find that Kaori's sister can also do it.

* In the alternate timeline of ''Manga/AngelHeart'', Shanin picks up this ability from Kaori's heart inside her. We later find that Kaori's sister can also do it.

When a cartoon character needs to inflict some AmusingInjuries on their foes, they can somehow pull a weapon of their choice from nowhere. Comically oversized, [[AnvilOnHead anvils]], and [[NonFatalExplosions dynamite]] are common choices. The weapons (and the injuries they cause) then disappear as easily as they appeared, often as soon as they leave the screen.

* In one strip of the Italian Comic ''Lupo Alberto'', one of the two characters starts talking about old comics and their "special effects", until the other one, annoyed, reminds him the last one, A.K.A. said "Mallet that popped out of nowhere used to punish the bad guys".

This is a subtrope of {{Hammerspace}} where the retrieved object is used for {{Slapstick}}. HarshWordImpact is for when the injuries are just a metaphor for emotional impact.

When a cartoon character needs to inflict some AmusingInjuries on their foes, they can somehow pull a weapon of their choice from nowhere. [[DropTheHammer Comically oversized hammers]], [[AnvilOnHead anvils]], and [[NonFatalExplosions dynamite]] are common choices. The weapons (and the injuries they cause) then disappear as easily as they appeared, often as soon as they leave the screen.

This is a subtrope of {{Hammerspace}} where the retrieved object is used for {{Slapstick}}. Hammers which don't disappear when not in use, or which inflict non-{{Amusing Injuries}}, are at DropTheHammer. HarshWordImpact is for when the injuries are just a metaphor for emotional impact.

* ''ComicStrip/BabyBlues'': To make fun of the mallet that's in the WB cartoons, they use baseball bats, teddy bears or newspapers instead. The mallet DID appear in one comic, but one of the kids (Hammie) is taliking about ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''.

* ''Anime/SonicX'': Thanking to the CharacterExaggeration, Amy Rose uses (or at least tries to use) this on everyone who is pissing her off ([[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale the most frequent target is Sonic]], her SelfProclaimedloveInterest). And, thanking again to the CharacterExaggeration, she has a HairTriggerTemper in this continuty and uses her hammer practically her every screen moment.

** Misty used such a mallet in a few occasions in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', especially on [[ChivalrousPervert Brock]]. She seems to be particularly talented, as she once even produced a gong to wake Ash and Pikachu up.

* In Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog, [[ActionGirl Amy Rose]]’s Signature Weapon, the Piko Piko hammer, can be summoned from nowhere when she obviously can’t be carrying it given its large size, both in gameplay and outside of it, be it cutscenes or not.

* In Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Franchise, [[ActionGirl Amy Rose]]’s Signature Weapon, the Piko Piko hammer, can be summoned from nowhere when she obviously can’t be carrying it given its large size, both in gameplay and outside of it, be it cutscenes or not.

* In the VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Franchise, [[ActionGirl Amy Rose]]’s Signature Weapon, the Piko Piko hammer, can be summoned from nowhere when she obviously can’t be carrying it given its large size, both in gameplay and outside of it, be it cutscenes or not.

* In the VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Franchise, [[ActionGirl Amy Rose]]’s SignatureWeapon, the Piko Piko hammer, can be summoned from nowhere, both in gameplay and outside of it, be it cutscenes or not.

When a cartoon character needs to inflict some AmusingInjuries on their foes, they can somehow pull a weapon of their choice from nowhere. [[DropTheHammer Comically oversized hammers]], [[AnvilOnHead anvils]], and [[NonFatalExplosion dynamite]] are common choices. The weapons (and the injuries they cause) then disappear as easily as they appeared, often as soon as they leave the screen.

* ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'' uses this as one of its central gags; the whole focal point of the anime is the title character producing a giant spiky club from nowhere and brutally killing the protagonist, only to revive him seconds later. She also appears to take a hologram-phone device from her panties at some points.

* Kaname from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' often uses a hyperspace PaperFanOfDoom to punish Sousuke. (Actually, she can be seen sometimes in ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'' actually carrying said PaperFanOfDoom in her school portfolio.)

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'''Rolf:''' Rolf respects your vow to uphold the [[ItMakesSenseInContext Sticky Notes of Elders]], yet (''grunts as he hefts his Hat into the frame'') … you must be punished.\\