Using a hammer as a weapon is not a trope on its own. One of the following tropes may apply instead:
- Bludgeoned to Death: Using weapons, including hammers, to fatally beat someone.
- Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: Brutal and physically powerful characters are associated with crude and direct weaponry, such as hammers.
- Carry a Big Stick: Using blunt objects, including hammers, as a weapon.
- Hammered into the Ground: Beating something into the earth as if they were a nail being hammered into wood, such as with an actual hammer.
- Hammer of the Holy: Hammers and maces are particularly associated with religious fighters like priests, clerics, and paladins.
- Humongous-Headed Hammer: A hammer with a gigantic head relative to the haft and likely the wielder, used as a weapon.
- Hyperspace Mallet: Characters in cartoony comedies are prone to pulling hammers out of nowhere to smash people for a laugh. Cartoony characters showing up in more serious mediums also pull hammers out of nowhere to smash people, only there the hammers can genuinely hurt their targets.
- Improvised Weapon: Using hammers as an emergency weapon when there is nothing else available.
- Thunder Hammer: A hammer with Shock and Awe abilities, usually derived from Thor's hammer, Mjölnir.
- Vibroweapon: A hammer or similar weapon that vibrates at high speeds in order to maximize its smashing power.
- Weapon-Based Characterization: Characters' weapons reflect their personality and/or traits.
- Weapons of Their Trade: A specific style of Improvised Weapon when a tradesperson uses the tools of their trade as combat weaponry, such as a blacksmith wielding a hammer.
- Weapon Specialization: Characters or classes of characters have signature weapons to help them stand out from the rest of the cast.
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