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Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse: What Is Hammer Space And How Does It Work?
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SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE: WHAT IS HAMMER SPACE AND HOW DOES IT WORK?
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By Russell Murray/June 2, 2023 9:00 am EST
"Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" is one of those rare sequels that exceeds
expectations, due in part to how it embraces the dazzling combination of
animation styles pioneered by its predecessor. While the film is certainly a
visual feast for Marvel fans and webheads alike, it's yet another unabashedly
passionate love letter to the animated medium, including references to such
beloved concepts as "Hammer Space."
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For "Spider-Verse" fans, Hammer Space is mostly associated with John Mulaney's
cartoonish, porkish web-slinger, Spider-Ham. Hailing from an Earth inhabited by
"Looney Tunes"-esque quasi-anthropomorphic animals, Spider-Ham is shown
throughout the entirety of the first film to be able to produce impossible
objects from baffling places no matter what universe he's in. For example, while
fighting the Scorpion of Earth-1610, Spider-Ham makes an anvil fall from the sky
in true Road Runner fashion; before he returns to his home world, he gifts Miles
Morales (Shameik Moore) a hammer that he claims "can fit in your pocket."
His last line in "Into The Spider-Verse" was already a reference to a power that
is named by Miguel O'Hara (Oscar Isaac) during his fight with the Da Vinci
Vulture at the top of "Across the Spider-Verse." Though it may seem like a
clever tongue-in-cheek invention for Spider-Ham or even the Marvel universe at
large, it's actually a decades-old term coined for a longstanding animation
trope.
WHERE DID HAMMER SPACE COME FROM?
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The exact origins of Hammer Space (or hammerspace as it is commonly written) are
not precisely known, though some well-founded theories have been offered over
the years. The concept itself is widely attributed to the Golden Age of
Animation, which began at the end of the 1920s with companies like Warner Bros.
Animation, Hanna-Barbera, and Walt Disney Studios rising to prominence.
Hammer Space wasn't written as a distinct power until later on. Some fans
attribute the first instances of characters actually pointing out their ability
to produce objects from nowhere to Japanese animation and comics — it is also
believed by some that this is where the term Hammer Space came from in the first
place (likely from the community of fans). However, others believe that the
role-playing game "Dungeons and Dragons" was the first to establish the
convenient mechanic as an outright magical ability through the Bag of Holding —
though, by that standard, it would arguably be more rightly attributed to the
1934 literature character Mary Poppins, who carries a carpetbag with seemingly
infinite contents.
Regardless of where Hammer Space came from, it has long been a part of the
Marvel Universe as an established superpower. Though its use is often in homage
to animation, the narrative explanation for its existence is unique to the
comics.
HOW DOES HAMMER SPACE WORK IN THE MARVEL UNIVERSE?
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In the Marvel Universe, Spider-Ham is just one of a few characters capable of
accessing Hammer Space, another prominent one being the clownish anti-hero and
sometimes "Deadpool" supporting character Slapstick. Whatever hero or villain is
using Hammer Space, its existence is usually explained as being some sort of
pocket dimension.
A pocket dimension — at least in Marvel Comics — is a space outside the normal
universe that is drastically smaller than larger counterparts such as the Dark
Dimension. A popular example of a pocket dimension can be seen at the end of the
Disney+ series "What If...?," in which variants of Arnim Zola (Toby Jones) and
Erik "Killmonger" Stevens (Michael B. Jordan) are trapped in a small dimension
where they will wrestle over the Infinity Stones seemingly for eternity. The
dimension is made small enough to fit in the hands of Doctor Strange Supreme
(Benedict Cumberbatch).
For Spider-Ham specifically, it's likely that he has access to a small pocket
dimension through a portal in, well, his pocket, where he has stored various
weapons and objects that he feels would be useful in future battles. We'll
likely get to see more of Hammer Space when Spider-Ham makes his return in
2024's "Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse."
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