A Deeper Look at Hammer Mode

Hammer Mode
Stats (rough estimate)
Attack Potency: 4, 6+ (via Hammer)
Speed: 2
Strength: 6
Durability: 4
Energy Level: 1, 6 (via Hammer)
Range of Attack: 4, 8+ (via Hammer Extension, bombs & missiles)
Intelligence: 5
Fighting Skills: 5
Hax: Island-Level Attacks (via Hammer Enlargement)

Appearance: Merge Mode is based on the odd reoccurring archetype in anime and video games involving cute girls with massive hammers that they couldn’t possibly be able wield and yet do. Hammer Mode is a female Merge Mode resembling a little girl in a dress with huge pigtails, a large bow and Fusion-X’s eye which takes a pink coloration. Hammer Mode has a pink and white color scheme. Fusion-X adopts a bratty and childish personality as Hammer Mode.

Powers & Abilities
- Giant Hammer Proficiency - Hammer Mode gets her namesake from her weapon of choice, a massive technologically advanced hammer that she wields with great skill and dexterity despite dwarfing her in size and weighing in at 500 tons (1 million lbs). This hammer can be used to deliver devastating strikes capable of smashing practically anything to bits with a strong enough swing, break through any and all defenses, smash entire fleets of enemies in one swing, send out massive shockwaves of energy, cause immense earthquakes etc. and it comes with an arsenal of tricks and functions built in to it as well to give Hammer Mode a wide variety of different attacks and techniques to play with. For a full list of these functions see List of Hammer Abilities.

- Hammer Engineering Mastery - Hammer Mode has complete knowledge and understanding in everything having to do with her hammer and thus knows how to repair her hammer when it’s damaged, customize her hammer’s appearance, understand the complex inner workings of her hammer, knows how to utilize all of it’s functions and can even upgrade her hammer if given enough time.

- Hammer Creation - Hammer Mode is capable of creating new hammers for her or others to use when given access to the proper materials to make them. This ability has lead to the creation of Onawa’s second signature weapon, the Heart Breaker, a powerful yet lightweight hammer with a heart theme. This ability is also useful in the event of her hammer being out of commission such as if it’s damaged beyond repair.

- Enhanced Strength - Hammer Mode possesses a great deal of physical strength in order to wield her hammer with the skill and grace that she does, let alone being able to pick it up at all. Due to this, Hammer Mode can hold her own in a fight against most foes even when not equipped with her hammer.

- Small Size - Hammer Mode is barely four feet tall, her diminutive size can come in handy in some situations such as avoiding attacks easier and hiding very well when the situation calls for it.

- Heavy Weight - Hammer Mode is deceptively heavy for her size due to being composed of an ultra-dense variation of Fusion-X’s metal, weighing in at over 600 lbs. This makes it difficult for most enemies who lack considerably enhanced strength to lift/throw Hammer Mode and Hammer Mode can use her weight to her advantage such as pinning enemies down just by sitting on top of them.

- Enhanced Cuteness - Hammer Mode can use her cute appearance to lower an enemy’s guard and make them open for attacks or manipulate them in some way, similar to how Puss in Boots uses his adorable appearance.

List of Hammer Abilities
- Jet-Powered Strikes - Hammer Mode’s hammer is outfitted with a powerful jet engine in it’s head and six turbines on the back of it’s head, this allows Hammer Mode to charge up power before releasing to deliver faster, jet-powered swings in short bursts.

- Energy Attacks - The face of the hammer can open to reveal a generator that generates immense levels of energy to deliver cataclysmic, energy-powered swings and generate the aforementioned shockwaves of energy or even fire an x-tremely powerful Laser Beam from her hammer.

— Elemental Attacks - At Hammer Mode’s command, her hammer can convert the energy it’s generator creates into powerful elemental energy to envelop the hammer and deliver devastating elemental strikes, this includes generating electrical energy to deliver a “Thunder Cracker” attack, encasing the hammer in solid ice for an “Ice Breaker” attack or enveloping the hammer in blazing fire for a “Hell Hammer” attack.

- Bomb Generation - The face of the hammer can open up to deploy powerful bombs that Hammer Mode can then lob at enemies by swinging her hammer at them, like hitting a baseball with a baseball bat.

- Missile Generation - The face of the hammer can open up to fire up to six powerful, explosive missiles at multiple enemies at once.

- Hammer Extension - Hammer Mode can extend the length of her hammer’s handle for increased attack range.

- Hammer Expansion - Hammer Mode can increase the overall size of her already massive hammer to double it’s original size in order to deliver a single, ultra devastating Island-Level attack where it will then retract to it’s original size and enter cool down.

Weaknesses
- Limited Stamina - Despite her great strength to use her immense weapon, Hammer Mode can still run out of stamina and become too winded to wield her hammer anymore if a fight is taking too long and she’s still a bit slow when swinging her hammer so enemies with enhanced speed can make it difficult to land a hit. Due to this, Hammer Mode excels best as a Merge Mode that can end a fight quickly.

- Low Speed - Hammer Mode is slower than her small size may suggest, further putting her at a disadvantage against faster enemies.

- Hammer Cool Down - Many of her hammer’s functions will cause Hammer Mode’s hammer to enter a “cool down” mode where it will need to recharge enemy and literally cool down. If Hammer Mode tries to use her energy, elemental or jet-powered strikes consecutively without giving it time to cool down, it could overheat and malfunction.

- Sweet Tooth - Interestingly, Fusion-X adopts a taste for sweets to a gluttonous degree as Hammer Mode and this sweet tooth can become a major distraction that enemies can use to their advantage, such as when Hammer Mode stopped giving chase to a member of the Wolf Gang to go after an ice cream truck instead.

Notes
- Aside from the odd “cute girl with giant hammer” trope, Hammer Mode is also inspired by Tinkaton from Pokémon who also seems to use said trope as inspiration.
- The many functions of Hammer Mode’s hammer are inspired by the hammer King Dedede uses while as Masked Dedede and the jet functionality of her hammer is inspired by Dedede’s Down Special in Super Smash Bros.
- Hammer Mode’s appearance and color scheme is inspired by Blossom from The Powerpuff Girls.