- "You want me to put the hammer down!?!"
- ―Thor Odinson[src]
A Hammer is a tool used for pounding nails. Different types of hammers include claw hammers (standard) and balpeen hammers. They are very effective when you need to pound two pieces of wood together, but let's face it... they also make excellent murder weapons! This also holds true for some mythological races like giants and trolls. In Teutonic lore, the God of Thunder, Thor was known to wield a mystical hammer call Mjolnir, which carried with it an enchantment decreeing that only one who was worthy could wield the power of Thor. Thor's hammer had a thong on the end of the handle, which Thor would grip to swing the hammer around and then launch it into the sky, enabling him to fly. His hammer could also be use to call down lightning, which makes it just a little bit more awesome than the sort of hammer you might find in the tools section at your average Home Depot.
Hammer is also the surname of Justin Hammer. Justin Hammer is a billionaire industrialist and rival to Tony Stark. In the late 1970s, Justin Hammer was the mastermind in a plot to drive Tony over the edge, turning him into a raging alcoholic. A more aloof version of this otherwise austere character appeared in the 2010 film Iron Man 2, where he was played actor Sam Rockwell.
In film[]
- Friday the 13th Part 2: After discovering Deputy Winslow poking around inside of his private sanctuary, Jason Voorhees dispatched the nosy police officer by whacking him in the back of the skull with the claw end of a hammer.
- Hellraiser: Julia Cotton used a hammer to kill her first victim in the third floor bedroom at 55 Hillcrest. She whacked him once to the back of the noggin, then twice in the face. She used the hammer again to murder a second victim in the same room. Her third victim proved to be a bit more troublesome. Though she managed to bloody him up quite a bit, her lover Frank Cotton had to finish him off.
Notes & Trivia[]
- Hammer may also refer to Hammer Film Productions, which is a British film and television company that released a boat load of monster movies in the 1960s and 1970s like Curse of Frankenstein, Scars of Dracula, The Mummy, Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires and many more.