Editing Super Hammer

{{about|the item serving as an upgrade of a normal [[Hammer]]|the spinning hammer attack granted by the Super Hammer item in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''|[[Super Hammer (move)]]|the power-up item from [[Super Mario Maker 2]]|[[Super Hammer (Super Mario Maker 2)]]}}

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|image=[[File:Super Hammer PMTTYDNS icon.png|100px]]<br>Super Hammer icon in the Switch remake of ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''

|first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong (Game Boy)|Donkey Kong]]'' ([[Game Boy]]) ([[List of games by date#1994|1994]])

|latest_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]]) ([[List of games by date#2024|2024]])

The '''Super Hammer''' is a powerful upgrade to the regular [[hammer]] appearing mostly in some of the [[Genre#Role-playing|role-playing games]].

Super Hammers are items introduced in the [[Game Boy]] version of ''[[Donkey Kong (Game Boy)|Donkey Kong]]''. Super Hammers can defeat enemies as well as break through brick walls and some floors. Super Hammers are first encountered in [[Stage 5-1]]. Mario cannot jump while holding a Super Hammer, but he can still throw one upward, allowing him to take the Super Hammer to a higher platform.

In ''[[Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars]]'' and [[Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch)|its Nintendo Switch remake]], the Super Hammer appears as a weapon that can be bought from the shop in [[Marrymore]]'s hotel or the [[Shaman]] merchant at the [[sea]] or [[Sunken Ship]] for 72 [[coin]]s. In the game itself, it looks exactly the same as the normal Hammer, but in the official artwork for, the words "SUPER" can be seen on the hammerhead's side.

[[File:SuperHammer.png|thumb|Mario finding the Super Hammer in ''Paper Mario'']]

In ''[[Paper Mario]]'', it can smash [[Stone Block]]s and deals more damage to enemies. In battle, a [[Action Command|timed]] Super Hammer attack deals four points of damage to a defenseless enemy without attack-raising [[Badge]]s (while Mario's normal [[Hammer]] only delivers two). It is found in [[Dry Dry Ruins (Paper Mario)|Dry Dry Ruins]] inside a small room with a stone block blocking the way out. When Mario finds the [[Ultra Hammer]] in [[Mt. Lavalava]], it replaces the Super Hammer.

====''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''====

In ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', it can be used to break large [[Yellow Block]]s in addition to ordinary ones (it cannot break Stone Blocks unlike in the first game, however). In this game, it is alternatively referred to as the '''HAMMAWHACK 2005''', and is given to Mario in [[Glitzville]] by [[Podler]], who in turn received it from [[Jolene|X]], so that he could use it to smash the huge Yellow Block in the minor league locker room. Podler says that the commercials for it claim that the hammer "chooses its user", and that "they aren't cheap". In this game, the Super Hammer's hammerhead has a darker shade of grey. The Super Hammer in this game grants Mario a new move, also known as the [[Super Hammer (move)|Super Hammer]], that can be used both on the field and in battle. Holding {{Button|gcn|B}} while the player does not have the Super Hammer prevents Mario from moving, though this was rectified for international releases.

In ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'' and its [[Nintendo 3DS|3DS]] remake, ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions]]'', the Super Hammer is an upgrade to the regular hammer, which can be acquired from the [[Hammerhead Bros.]] inside the caverns of eastern [[Beanbean Fields]] after mastering the [[Firebrand|Hand]] [[Thunderhand|Powers]] from [[Firebrand and Thunderhand]] in [[Oho Oasis]]'s [[Fire Palace|Fire]] and [[Thunder Palace]], though in the remake, they can only acquire them after defeating [[Mom Piranha]] in [[Beanbean International Airport]] and when [[Princess Peach]] arrives at the [[Beanbean Kingdom]] on her plane, where the Hammerhead Bros. will inform Mario and Luigi about them moving in the caverns of eastern Beanbean Fields after leaving Beanbean Castle.

Super Hammers allow the brothers to smash [[Gray Rock|gray-colored rock]]s (chinked gray-colored rocks in the remake) in the overworld, one of which happens to be blocking the entrance to [[Teehee Valley]], and another blocks the entrance to the first room of eastern Beanbean Fields' caverns, which allows the brothers to acquire the [[Secret Scroll 1]] and learn the [[Swing Bros.]] [[Bros. Attack]] by playing a [[minigame]] hosted by a [[Thwomp]] for 300 [[Beanbean coin|coins]]. Similarly to the Super Hammers in the ''Paper Mario'' series, they are also stronger in battle, though the damage increase is not as significant.<ref>Hugonche29 (December 16, 2024). [https://youtu.be/_5SScKs7u2Q M&L Superstar Saga DX - Damage increase from hammer upgrade]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved January 28, 2025.</ref> In the original version, they increase the hammer attack's damage variance slightly.<ref>jdaster64 (May 10, 2017). [https://supermariofiles.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/superstar-saga-us-jp-stats/ Superstar Saga’s Stateside and Overseas Stats – A Side-by-Side Size-up]. ''The Super Mario Files''. Retrieved January 28, 2025.</ref> The same goes for its succeeding upgrade, the [[Ultra Hammer]].

|Jpn=スーパーハンマー<ref>{{cite|title=ゲームボーイ　ドンキーコング (''Gēmu Bōi Donkī Kongu'') instruction booklet|page=13|date=1994|publisher=Nintendo|language=ja}}</ref>

|JpnR=Sūpā Hanmā

|ChiSR=Chāojí Chuízi

|ChiSM=Super Hammer

|ChiT=超級鎚子

|ChiTM=Super Hammer

|Fre=Super Marto

|FreM=Super Hammer

|Fre2=Super marteau

|Ita=Super martello

|Ita=Martelez 2004

|ItaM=Hammerez 2004

|FreM=Hammer-pro 2005

==Notes==

*The Super Hammer [[Action Command]] in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' battles will always deal one damage to enemies attacked behind the front enemy, regardless of attack-enhancing effects and enemy [[defense]].

*According to [[Podler]], the commercial for the Super Hammer says that the hammer "chooses its user", which appears to reference {{wp|Thor}}'s hammer, the {{wp|Mjolnir}}, which also chooses its wielder and is gray in color.

 

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