The Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother, alternatively spelled Amazing Flying Hammer Brother, is an enemy which first appears in Super Mario World.
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Physical description[]
Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brothers are a variety of Hammer Bros. that wear a blue suit and white gloves, red shoes, and a black helmet. They have a white belly.
Amazing Flying Hammer Brothers wear a brighter blue suit in Super Princess Peach, and their helmet was changed to match the color.
Behavior[]
Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brothers hover around on two-block versions of Flying Platforms that continuously swing back and forth. Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brothers repeatedly attack by throwing hammers left and right from their swooping platforms.
In Super Mario series[]
Super Mario World[]
Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brothers are first encountered in Donut Plains 4. Mario or Luigi can defeat an Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother through various means, most commonly by hitting its Flying Platform from below. Alternatively, an Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother can be defeated with a stomp or fireball. Even when an Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother is defeated, the platform remains onscreen and continues on its original flight path, often allowing Mario or Luigi to travel across wide pits, but if the Flying Platform's Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother is somehow defeated before the platform itself starts to move, the Flying Platform instead stays in place. Defeating an Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother rewards the player 200 points.
In the ending credits, during the enemy cast roll, the Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother's platform resembles gray Empty Blocks instead of gray Rotating Blocks.
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3[]
The only Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother of Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3
Only one Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother appears, near the start of the World-e level Slip Slidin' Away. It behaves identically as in Super Mario World.
In Super Princess Peach[]
Amazing Flyin' Hammer Bros., spelled A.F.H. Bro in the Glossary, appear in a few levels. They first appear in Giddy Sky 7-1. Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brothers were also given a variant, Calm Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother, which are usually found sleeping.
In other media[]
Dinosaur Dilemma[]
One Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother makes an appearance. It captures the remaining dinosaurs in Dinosaur Island while they, Mario, and Yoshi are searching for food near Lake Trilobite. The Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother threatens to capture Yoshi as well but is scared off by Mario.
Super Mario-kun[]
An Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother in the first volume of Super Mario-kun
A single Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother appears in Super Mario-kun, in the first volume. He is a hammersmith who is paid by Bowser to stop Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi. He lives with his Flying Platform, which is given a personality, in a workshop where he creates the big hammer and the small hammers that he plans on stopping Mario with during chapter 10.
Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother catches up with the characters and throws his big hammer at them, missing. With a whistle, the small hammers come out of the big hammer's mace and pounce on Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi, trapping them inside. With the weapon, the Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother starts to head for Bowser's Castle, but the moving platform, unable to handle the weight of the four plus the hammers, drops the Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother and the big hammer. As Mario, Luigi and Yoshi exit, Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother beats up his Flying Platform, until Mario, in an attempt to reconcile them, points out that they escaped from the mace.
Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother throws a homing hammer that chases Mario before crushing him into a block. As Block Mario, he tries to stop Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother by using the blocks as an armor against the hammers thrown at him while and trying to reach the platform with a Springboard, but fails. In the destroyed block, Mario finds a Dragon Coin that Yoshi eats, turning him into Shield Yoshi. Becoming his Cape form while Yoshi protects him from the hammers, Mario reaches the Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother, who tries to stop Mario with the big hammer, but it gets stuck in Yoshi's mouth. Mario manages to defeat the Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother with a punch.
In chapter 11, the Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother returns to Bowser's Castle, where he is punished by Bowser who orders some Galoombas to torture him. The Galoombas misinterpret the command as having to harass the Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother and ask him a thousand questions, until Bowser shows how to torture him using a Ball 'n' Chain first and then moving walls that crush him. When Kamek turns Bowser into a block to show Peach that Bowser can endure hits from other characters, the Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother part in the pounding, but as revenge over being tortured.
Nintendo Monopoly[]
In the 2006 version of the game, an Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother is depicted in a Super Mario World screenshot.
Nomenclature[]
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Name | Translation | Notes |
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| Chinese (Simplified) | 拉拉小子 Lālā Xiǎozi |
Hooray Guy | |
| French | Frère Marto fou ailé Frère Marto volant |
Crazy Winged Hammer Brother Flying Hammer Brother |
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| German | Para-Bruder | Para Brother | |
| Italian | Supermartelkoopa Volante | Super Flying Hammer Brother | |
| Japanese | アッパレ Appare |
"Bravo!" | |
| Spanish | Hermano Martillo Volador | Flying Hammer Brother |
Trivia[]
- Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brothers were scrapped as enemies in Paper Mario: The Origami King.
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