Hammer Brothers
Hammer Brothers as seen in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show.
Game series	Super Mario Bros.
First game	Super Mario Bros.
Creator(s)	Shigeru Miyamoto

Hammer Bros. (ハンマーブロス, Hanmā Burosu^?, Hammer Bros.) are enemy characters present in many of Nintendo's Mario series of video games. Their trademark distinction is that they appear in pairs, though there are instances where only one appears. Their trademark move is that they attack by throwing large hammers in an arcing path. Their appearance shows them having distinct beaks, classifying them as "Beaked Koopas." However, there are some games where they do not have the distinct beaks and look like normal Koopas. Image File history File links Hammer_Bros_SMBSS.jpg Hammer Bros. ... Various television shows based on Super Mario Bros. ... Super Mario Bros. ... Super Mario Bros. ... Shigeru Miyamoto , born November 16, 1952) is a Japanese electronic game designer. ... Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂 or ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 usually referred to as simply Nintendo, or Big N ) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. ... Mario ), originally called Jumpman, is a popular video game character created by the company Nintendo, and is also the titular hero of numerous successful video games, many of the platforming genre. ...

Appearances in the Mario series

Super Mario Bros.

One of the numerous Hammer Brothers from Super Mario Bros.

The Hammer Brothers are one of the few Mario characters (its first appearance taking place in Super Mario Bros.) that still enjoys usage today. They often appear in pairs (hence the name "brothers"), but they sometimes appear separately. Image File history File links SMB1HammerBros. ... Image File history File links SMB1HammerBros. ... Super Mario Bros. ... Super Mario Bros. ...

They are usually found on platforms and jump up and down and move back and forth. They are notorious for being one of the hardest enemies to defeat, making avoiding them the easier choice, because they move around so quickly and constantly throw a continuous torrent of hammers all over the place. Bowser moves much slower and the later Bowsers only send one to two barrages of hammers. King Bowser Koopa, as seen in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door King Bowser Koopa, known in Japan as Koopa (Japanese: クッパ), a fictional turtle-like character from Nintendo video games, is Mario and Luigis arch-nemesis (although he has joined forces with them in a few games). ...

An interesting note is that while normally immobile, if the player waited long enough, the Hammer Brothers would charge towards them.

Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels

Hammer Brothers behave the same in this game, but certain ones slowly charge the player instead of staying in one spot.

Super Mario Bros. 3

In Super Mario Bros. 3, several variants of the Hammer Bros. were introduced: Super Mario Bros. ...

• Boomerang Bros. looks similar, but only appears on the ground and throws boomerangs one at a time instead of hammers. They also appeared in New Super Mario Bros., The Thousand Year Door, and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, although their appereance is drastically changed in the latter.

• Sledge Bros. are a large version of the Hammer Brothers, with giant hammers which they throw just like regular Hammer Bros. They are hammer brothers whose weight create earthquakes that immobilize Mario. They appeared in New Super Mario Bros..
• Fire Bros. (extremely rare) spit fireballs instead of hammers, much like those from Fire Mario. They also appeared in The Thousand Year Door and New Super Mario Bros.. Fire bros. were first seen in Super Mario Bros. 3, and only found in world 2 and world 8. In world 2 if the player defeats the fire bro, they get a special item called a warp whistle.

A Hammer Brother from Super Mario Bros. 3, leaping up on to a ledge.

Hammer Brothers also appeared on the world map as patrolling police-like figures. When Mario ran into one of them, a battle would begin. After defeating the Hammer Brother, Mario would get a treasure chest that gave him an item. These map Hammer Brothers could be avoided by putting them to sleep with a Music Box item. New Super Mario Bros. ... Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is the sequel to the Nintendo 64 video game Paper Mario, and is the fourth in the series of Mario role-playing game titles that includes Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario, and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. ... Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga is a video game made for Game Boy Advance. ... New Super Mario Bros. ... Like the Starman, Fire Flowers flashing colors were achieved by quickly rotating through several palettes. ... Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is the sequel to the Nintendo 64 video game Paper Mario, and is the fourth in the series of Mario role-playing game titles that includes Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario, and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. ... New Super Mario Bros. ... Super Mario Bros. ... Image File history File links Screenshot of Super Mario Bros. ... Image File history File links Screenshot of Super Mario Bros. ...

This game also had a Hammer Bro Outfit for Mario, which allows him to throw Hammers just like a Hammer Bro as well as use the armored back to protect himself from objects like piranha plant's fireballs when crouching.

A pair of Sledge Bros. were frequently featured in episodes of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon series, usually to serve as guards for King Koopa's (as Bowser is known in the cartoons) prisoners. One episode, "Tag Team Trouble", also had Koopa entering them in a tag team wrestling contest. A number of television shows based on the Super Mario Bros. ... Tag Team Trouble is an episode of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. ...

Super Mario World

In Super Mario World, there was no mention of the Hammer Bros. or their variants from Super Mario Bros. 3. However, the game did feature two new variants: Super Mario World , commonly abbreviated SMW) is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo Co. ...

Sledge Bros. as seen in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3.

• Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother (Appare in Japan) flew on a platform and rapidly threw hammers down on Mario, but could be easily knocked off. The platform would still fly and Mario could jump on it afterwards to reach high areas unreachable by jumping. This particular variant also appeared in Super Princess Peach. In that game, Peach can knock them off by using the "rage" vibe.

• Sumo Brothers (K. K. in Japan) mostly resided on the top of blocks. When Mario was close to them, one would stomp up and down, using his colossal bulk to send flaming shockwaves 4-5 spaces below. Their protective girth prevents them from being squashed, so they could only be taken out by jumping underneath them, using a star, or throwing a Koopa shell.

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Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix

In Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix, the Hammer Bros. appear in level 3-1. They guard the entrance to Wario's Carnival, until the Mario Bros. subdued them into submission in order to give the trio enough time to enter the carnival without fear.

Super Princess Peach

The Army Hammer Bro. from Super Princess Peach. Note the protrusion of small horns and the color choice of Black instead of Green to indicate seniority.

In Super Princess Peach, both Hammer Bros. and Amazing Flyin' Hammer Bros. appear, in addition to the Calm Hammer Bro. and Calm Amazing Flying Hammer Bro., both sleeping variants of their main species. An individual Hammer Bro. named Army Hammer Bro. also appears. According to the Glossary, Army Hammer Bro. is the leader of the others, but the Glossary remains unsure if he is actually any stronger. He obviously is the most trusted by Bowser, though, who grants him Rage with the Vibe Scepter before he battles Peach. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Super Princess Peach ) is a platforming video game developed by TOSE and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. ...

New Super Mario Bros.

In the New Super Mario Bros., the Hammer Bros. return, along with a few Boomerang Bros., and, in World 8-7 only, Fire Bros. and a much fatter version of the Sledge Bros. (referred to as Sumo Bros. in the Player's Guide). A lone Hammer Brother will also patrol the map screen (a'la Super Mario Bros. 3) in Worlds 5 through 8. The Hammer Brother will give up a random item when defeated. New Super Mario Bros. ...

Mario RPG series

Super Mario RPG

The Hammer Brothers were the first bosses in the game. Their special attacks included Hammer Time (an offensive attack) and Valor up (which increases its attack power). Mario received the hammer after he defeated the Hammer Bros. At Bowser's Castle, the player meets a quiz-loving Hammer Bro. named Dr. Topper, who is basically a palette swap of the normal Hammer Bro. A red Koopa Troopa from Super Mario Bros. ...

Quote: "My hammer and I don't like you!"

Paper Mario

In this game, the Hammer Brothers can be flipped on their backs.

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

• Border Bros. Seemingly individual, green Hammer Bros. who run the border between the Mushroom and Beanbean Kingdoms. They made Mario and Luigi participate in a Border Jump minigame at the beginning of the game. They may be Hammer Bros. from Super Mario Bros., as they seem to personally know Mario and Luigi and their game features a Super Mario Bros. theme.
• Yo Bros. Used Yo-Yos as its weapon. It used the green one against Luigi and the red one against Mario.
• Limbo Bros. Found in Guffawha Ruins and on the west side of Teehee Valley. It attacks by walking towards Luigi doing the limbo and striking him with its torch.
• Boomerang Bros. Found in Gwarhar Lagoon. The boomerang it threw can attack one brother twice, or both brothers once. Looked almost nothing like their SMB3 counterparts. This variety has what appears to be a sprout on top of its head, going along with the other plant-based enemies, and is probably the species of Bommerang Bro. native to the BeanBean Kingdom. Bears a slight resemblence to Waluigi.
• Hammer Bros. Found in Bowser's Castle. Like past games, it would throw hammers at Mario and Luigi.
• Chomp Bros. Also found in Bowser's Castle. As the name suggest, its main weapon was a Chain Chomp. If players jumped on the chomp, Either a new chomp would come up to him as a replacement, or else he would just leave.

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Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time

Two Hammer Bros, appear in the Vim Factory, being controlled by the Shroobs and calling themselves "The L33T Hamm3r Broz." After being defeated by Baby Mario and Baby Luigi, the antenna helmets are broken and they give the babies two spare hammers as thanks for freeing them. An example of a Leet web browser (Text instead of GUI) in Leet language on a Leet language version of Google Leet (often also leetspeak, leetspeek, or l33t) from the phonetic form of the word elite, is a cipher, or novel form of English spelling. ...

Hammer Bros. as a playable character

In Mario Superstar Baseball, the Hammer Brothers are unlockable playable characters. The Fire Bros. and Boomerang Bros. are also playable as well. The Hammer Brothers are fearsome hitters with unbelievable power, making them threats to hit home runs every time. All other states for them (defence, pitching, speed) are only average or slightly above average. It is also revealed in the same game that the Hammer Bros can breakdance (if one should strike a player out with one of the Bros, the Bro will breakdance). This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A boy hitting (holding) a pike Breakdance (media coined phrase), also known as breaking, b-girling or b-boying, is a street dance style that evolved as part of the hip hop movement that originated among African American youths in the South Bronx of New York City during the early...

In Super Mario Strikers the Hammer Brothers are playable as sidekicks along with Koopas, Toads, and Birdos. Super Mario Strikers (known as Mario Smash Football in Europe and Australia) is a soccer video game that was released exclusively for the Nintendo GameCube. ... KOOPA is a pop-punk band from Essex in England. ... Toad ) is a humanoid mushroom in games of Nintendos Mario series. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

A single Hammer Brother will be an unlockable character in Mario Party 8. It's still unknown if the Hammer Brothers will be playable in the upcoming sequel to Super Mario Strikers (Mario Smash Football), Mario Strikers Charged. Mario Party 8 ) is an upcoming video game for the Wii. ... Super Mario Strikers (known as Mario Smash Football in Europe and Australia) is a soccer video game that was released exclusively for the Nintendo GameCube. ... Mario Strikers Charged , known as Mario Strikers Charged Football in Australia [5] and Europe [6]) is a soccer video game in development for the Wii. ...