HS - Power Explanation

“Well, it’s like this: I can keep anything in my jacket. Whatever it is, I can toss it in there and pull it back out later. It doesn’t necessarily have to fit underneath the coat, as long as I can fit it in there initially.” What he means is that he has a magic satchel, as it is called in the literary world. In the early nineteen hundreds, with the advent of animation, cartoon characters, who weren’t limited by the laws of physics like live actors were, began to pull all kinds of objects seemingly from the nowhere around them; baseball bats, guns, musical instruments, anvils and, last but most certainly not least, giant mallets. This led to the coinage of the term hammerspace – a word for the extra dimension from which all of these objects were drawn. When Bugs Bunny pulls out a huge mallet and uses it to smash Elmer Fudd, he is pulling that mallet out of his hammerspace.

“Yeah. It comes from old cartoons. It’s sort of an obscure word so I figured you would have to be kind of smart to get it and those are the best kind. It’s the clever little names you have to think about for a second that you remember. Some guys just don’t get these things at all.

- Chapter 1