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

|latest_appearance=''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions]]'' ([[List of games#2017|2017]])

The [[Super Hammer]] is a powerful upgrade to the regular [[hammer]] that appears in various [[Mario (franchise)|''Mario'']] games, mainly [[Genre#Role-playing|role-playing games]].

 

In ''[[Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars]]'', the Super Hammer appears as an [[List of weapons in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars|weapon]] that can be bought from the [[Item Shop|item shop]] in [[Marrymore]]'s hotel, and can be equipped through the pause menu as a weapon for Mario to use. In the official artwork for the Super Hammer, the words "SUPER" can be seen on the hammerhead's side.

[[File:SuperHammer.png|thumb|right|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]] inside a small room with a Stone Block blocking the way out.

====''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 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.

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|Beanbean Outskirts]] 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 the [[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 Outskirts's 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]]. Unlike the Super Hammers in the ''Paper Mario'' series, they are not any stronger in battle in the original game, similar to its succeeding upgrade, the [[Ultra Hammer]].

|JapR=Sūpāhanmā

|Fra=Super Marto<br>Martopro 2005

|Chi=超级锤子

|ChiR=chāojí chuízi

|ChiM=Super Hammer

|Ita=Super Martello<br>Martelez 2004

|ItaM=Super Hammer

*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 say 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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