Hammer bro

**Hammer Bros** (or **Hammer Brothers)**, often spelled "**Hammer Bros.**") are Koopas that stand upright and throw hammers at the player. They first appeared in the game *Super Mario Bros.* They have bigger shells than normal Koopa Troopas and wear helmets. Hammer Bros have several times been described as elite members of Bowser's Koopa Troop. These enemies were originally designed by Kazuaki Morita.

### Physical description and traits

Hammer Bros. have yellow skin, slightly protruded noses with snake-shaped nostrils, cream-colored belly plates, and white eyes with blue irises, while wearing green shells and green shoes, as well as green-and-white helmets (though the colors change depending on the variant); Hammer Bros. are also armed with black (sometimes gray) hammers. In *Super Mario Bros. 3*, Hammer Bros. wear black shoes, shells, and helmets, while their hammers are slightly less detailed. In *Super Smash Bros. Brawl*, Hammer Bros. are given a more realistic appearance than their *Mario* depiction, having a monotone appearance, as well as highly detailed hammers and helmets. In *Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS* / *Wii U* and *Super Smash Bros. Ultimate*, however, Hammer Bros. have a vibrant, cartoonish appearance with less detailed hammers and helmets; in the latter, their helmets and shoes have a lighter green color. In the DIC Entertainment *Mario* cartoons, Hammer Bros. have drastically altered appearances, due to appearing with much darker skin tones, smaller body proportions, gray goggles, and shinier hammers.

In the first three *Paper Mario* games, Hammer Bros. are given an altered design, which has them wear blue helmets instead of their standard green ones, and have more rotund body proportions. In *Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door*, Hammer Bros. are given red shoes and spiked armbands, which reappear in *Super Paper Mario*. In *Paper Mario: Sticker Star* and *Paper Mario: Color Splash*, however, Hammer Bros. use their current-era design instead, while appearing with a paper outline

### Powers and abilities

Hammer Bros. possess superior agility, due to jumping as high as Mario (if not as high as Luigi) and quickly traversing small areas from hopping. In fact, Hammer Bros. hop very frequently, to the point where they hop while idling. In the way of weaponry, Hammer Bros. use black or gray construction hammers, though *Super Mario RPG: Legend Of The Seven Stars* and the *Paper Mario* games depict them with wooden mallets instead. In most games, Hammer Bros. throw their hammers at lower angles and farther distances, or higher angles at closer distances. The former games have Hammer Bros. smack their adversaries with their mallets as a melee attack; exclusively to the *Paper Mario* series, Hammer Bros. throw a barrage of smaller, weaker hammers, or a hammer with magical abilities like shrinking. Hammer Bros' Skill Shot in *Mario Strikers Charged* has them attack the opposing team with a giant hammer, in order to daze them.

### Speech

In most older *Mario* games, Hammer Bros. are completely silent most likely due to technical limitations. Most of the *Mario* RPGs and spin-offs give Hammer Bros. in-game text so others can understand what they are saying; in *Super Mario RPG*, Hammer Bros. appear to speak with Brooklyn accents, often saying "ya" instead of "you." In the DIC *Mario* cartoons, Hammer Bros. were given intelligible voice acting with Brooklyn accents. Hammer Bros. also speak intelligibly in various *Mario* comics, as well as *Super Mario-Kun*. In contemporary *Mario* games, Hammer Bros. (and their variants), are portrayed by Motoki Takagi, who provided them with grunts, yells and even a few lines such as "Let's go."