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Mike Hammer

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Mike Hammer	comment	In 1947 comic book writer Mickey Spillane and his wife needed money to buy a new house. Hoping to add to his funds, Spillane wrote a novel in just nineteen days called I, the Jury. It introduced the world to Hardboiled Detective Mike Hammer, and sold six and a half million copies in the United States alone.Hardboiled private detectives are expected to be world-weary and cynical; Mike Hammer however is patriotic and fueled by rage at the evils of society. Hammer doesn't just bend the law; he holds it in complete contempt, often dishing out brutal beatings or appointing himself Judge, Jury, and Executioner.Spillane would go on to create other characters, like James Bond expy Tiger Mann, but Mike Hammer is his most well known creation. The novels revel in brutal violence and (though tame by today's standards) contained more sex than the competition. Critics (both then and now) have savaged them unrelentingly, yet they continue to be popular.In 1980, Spillane was responsible for seven of the top 15 all-time bestselling fiction titles in America, and his books have been adapted into film, TV and radio productions. Four films were made featuring the Mike Hammer character between 1953 and 1963. The 1955 film Kiss Me Deadly is regarded as a classic of Film Noir, while Spillane himself played his own creation in 1963's The Girl Hunters. Mike Hammer was revived in the 1980s for a series of television films and series that lasted to 1998, most of which featured Stacy Keach in the starring role.After Spillane's death in 2006, his friend and literary executor, Max Allan Collins, began editing and completing Spillane's unpublished typescripts.
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Mike Hammer / int_108c268e	type	Hotter and Sexier
Mike Hammer / int_108c268e	comment	Hotter and Sexier: Another way that Mike Hammer differentiated from other detective fiction of the time. Mike would frequently fall in bed with women after long and luscious descriptions of their appearance. The books would often contain a wide variety of women throwing themselves at Mike as well, good and bad.
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Mike Hammer / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Mike Hammer / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: What separated the Mike Hammer novels from Raymond Chandler and even Dashiell Hammett at the time. Mike Hammer was a Sociopathic Hero who was willing to kill, maim, or torture anyone to get what was done. He also had no hesitation gunning down (evil) women either.
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Mike Hammer / int_161f1ebf	type	Relationship Upgrade
Mike Hammer / int_161f1ebf	comment	Relationship Upgrade: One Lonely Night has Mike and Velda finally hook up.
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Mike Hammer / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
Mike Hammer / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: In One Lonely Night Mike Hammer finally accepts that this is his role in life, just before he blows away a bunch of Dirty Communists who are torturing Velda.
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Mike Hammer / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Mike Hammer / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: In Kiss Me, Deadly Hammer kills two Mafia hoods who try taking him for a ride, leaving them under a sign saying DEAD END.
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Mike Hammer / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Mike Hammer / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Mike Hammer's general MO when dealing with murderers.
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Mike Hammer / int_1d91d828	type	Deadly Game
Mike Hammer / int_1d91d828	comment	Deadly Game: "The Body Lovers"
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Mike Hammer / int_266b283	type	Crime After Crime
Mike Hammer / int_266b283	comment	Crime After Crime: The plot of I, the Jury basically. Charlotte Bennett murders Jack Williams to cover up her heroin distribution to her psychology clients. She then ends up killing a half-dozen other people covering up for the previous murders. Mike basically says that it's the only reason she was caught.
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Mike Hammer / int_2799a25f	type	DulcineaEffect
Mike Hammer / int_2799a25f	comment	Dulcinea Effect: Mike Hammer is often inspired on his cases by a beautiful woman he must avenge despite knowing her only a short while.
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Mike Hammer / int_2d1d46bb	type	Lotsa People Try to Dun It
Mike Hammer / int_2d1d46bb	comment	Lotsa People Try to Dun It: An Invoked Trope in The Twisted Thing. The initial plan was to kill the victim (a wealthy scientist) via a heart attack caused by the stress of his son being kidnapped. When Hammer successfully recovers the boy, the killer simply murders the scientist with a cleaver, knowing his death will lead to other murders and countless possible motives being revealed, as his Big, Screwed-Up Family scramble for his fortune.
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Mike Hammer / int_2d409194	type	Unsettling Gender-Reveal
Mike Hammer / int_2d409194	comment	Unsettling Gender-Reveal: The killer's true gender is revealed in the very last word of Vengeance Is Mine!
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Mike Hammer / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Mike Hammer / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: Once, unbeknownst to Velda, Mike compares her to Circe in his internal monologue. Less than a minute later, Velda compares him to Ulysses.
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Mike Hammer / int_34960f22	type	Vapor Wear
Mike Hammer / int_34960f22	comment	Vapor Wear: Kiss Me, Deadly opens with Hammer picking up a female hitchhiker in a belted trenchcoat. He doesn't realise she's got nothing else on until she slips his hand underneath it to encourage him to get her past a police roadblock.
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Mike Hammer / int_35e077	type	Fourth-Date Marriage
Mike Hammer / int_35e077	comment	Fourth-Date Marriage: I, The Jury has him falling in love and engaged with Doctor Bennett after only a few dates and makeout sessions.
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Mike Hammer / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
Mike Hammer / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: New York is depicted as a den of hookers, junkies, murderers, and thieves with only Mike Hammer to sort them out.
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Mike Hammer / int_41077d9d	type	MacGuffin
Mike Hammer / int_41077d9d	comment	Macguffin: The papers that Mike is looking for in One Lonely Night.
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Mike Hammer / int_416a2a0d	type	Torture Always Works
Mike Hammer / int_416a2a0d	comment	Torture Always Works: Mike's method of strong-arming information out of bad guys never fails to get him the information he desires.
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Mike Hammer / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Mike Hammer / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Mike is perfectly willing to engage in this in order to get information. In I, The Jury he even brags it will be why he will get to his friend's killer before the police.
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Mike Hammer / int_437e70f5	type	What a Piece of Junk
Mike Hammer / int_437e70f5	comment	What a Piece of Junk: Hammer refers to his car as his "heap", but in one book it's mentioned there's a Cadillac engine hidden under the hood.
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Mike Hammer / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Mike Hammer / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line / Wham Shot: As a rule, a Mike Hammer novel will tend to have at least one of these as it reaches its end. Most famously in Vengeance Is Mine!, in which a certain fact is revealed in the very last word:
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Mike Hammer / int_51dc66f6	type	Hardboiled Detective
Mike Hammer / int_51dc66f6	comment	Hardboiled Detective: Helped turn the character type into a parody of itself.
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Mike Hammer / int_535865be	type	I Resemble That Remark!
Mike Hammer / int_535865be	comment	I Resemble That Remark!: Hammer spends an entire paragraph describing how no one, from the biggest politician to the hardest con, would dare backchat corrupt cop Dilwick because he's a crude, murderous thug who enjoys dishing out violence and bloodshed. No one except Mike Hammer, that is; "Because I'm that way myself".
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Mike Hammer / int_586db75d	type	My Girl Is Not a Slut
Mike Hammer / int_586db75d	comment	My Girl Is Not a Slut: Mike Hammer can screw around as much as he likes; Velda will still be there for him. Played with in the fact that Velda frequently is referred to as sexually active with other men and her opening scene in I, the Jury, mentions she didn't have to sleep with a man for information (implying it was a frequent occurrence).
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Mike Hammer / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Mike Hammer / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Averted. Mike Hammer is generally supportive of the police, regarding them as simply hamstrung by the law. Dilwick in The Twisted Thing is a notable exception, though he's no Inspector Lestrade, merely a Dirty Cop.
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Mike Hammer / int_5d6f4033	type	Agonizing Stomach Wound
Mike Hammer / int_5d6f4033	comment	Agonizing Stomach Wound: In the first novel I, the Jury, Mike deliberately shoots the murderer of a friend of his in the stomach to ensure she dies as painfully as possible.
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Mike Hammer / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Mike Hammer / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: All women find Hammer irresistible. Unless they're gay.
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Mike Hammer / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Mike Hammer / int_6201e8b0	comment	We Have Your Sassy Secretary: Happens to Velda on a couple of occasions.
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Mike Hammer / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Mike Hammer / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Mike gains a dose of this in My Gun is Quick after Lola is murdered and he discovers Berin-Grotin killed his own granddaughter after she threatened to expose his vice ring. Mike literally forces the eighty year old man down despite two bullet wounds and plans to have them both burn to death while he watches him die. In the end, he opts to shoot him only because surviving to ruin his name is better.
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Mike Hammer / int_6f0fd7b8	type	Everyone Loves Blondes
Mike Hammer / int_6f0fd7b8	comment	Everyone Loves Blondes: Hammer's Girl of the Week is inevitably blonde; interestingly however his UST Love Interest Velda has dark hair.
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Mike Hammer / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Mike Hammer / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: The majority of prostitutes that Mike Hammer deals with are exhausted and Troubled, but Cute, taken advantage of by evil systems. Quite a few become Disposable Sex Worker types like Red in My Gun is Quick, only to have Mike become their avenger. This also includes Love Interest Lola who dies in the last few chapters.
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Mike Hammer / int_7923b4e7	type	The Oldest Profession
Mike Hammer / int_7923b4e7	comment	The Oldest Profession: As befitting a Noir series, Mike Hammer often deals with prostitutes either as witnesses, victims, or potential love interests.
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Mike Hammer / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Mike Hammer / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Many times, the filmmakers of the movie adaptations will basically brag about doing this to the Hammer character—and if not, the critics will do it for them. Ironically, One Lonely Night, Dirty Communists aside, is essentially Spillane having Hammer deconstruct himself, constantly mulling over whether he goes too far—and whether or not he's just as bad as the villains he fights. This eventually leads to his conclusion of "Evil Versus Evil" (see below).
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Mike Hammer / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Mike Hammer / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Plenty of these in the books, starting with Charlotte Bennett, who is the murderer of his friend Jack as well as several others.
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Mike Hammer / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Mike Hammer / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: In all but a few novels, Hammer's victims are often left vomiting after a blow to the stomach or groin.
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Mike Hammer / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Mike Hammer / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: One Lonely Night has Mike Hammer possess one of these after a judge points out all of his righteous avenger pretensions are just excuses for murder. Hammer surprisingly agrees and struggles with what to do about it before deciding that he can be a killer of killers.
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Mike Hammer / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Mike Hammer / int_970c790a	comment	In My Gun is Quick, Big Bad Arthur Grotin-Benit kills his Love Interest, Lola, right before Mike goes on an Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
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Mike Hammer / int_977a6ec0	type	Girl Friday
Mike Hammer / int_977a6ec0	comment	Girl Friday: Velda is Hammer's Sexy Secretary, but she has her own investigator's license and uses a gun on a couple of occasions too.
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Mike Hammer / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Mike Hammer / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: More or less Mike Hammer's entire MO. A typical plot of the series is one of his friends is mudered and Mike proceeds to hunt their killer down no matter the danger or legalities involved. I, the Jury is even a reference to the fact that Mike is going to kill his friend's murderer without a trial.
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Mike Hammer / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
Mike Hammer / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero: Surprisingly brought up in I, the Jury where a psychologist, Doctor Bennett, determines that Hammer is one of these and he doesn't disagree. She wonders if it's because he's a Shell-Shocked Veteran but he comments that he was like this before the war and it may have helped him survive it.
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Mike Hammer / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
Mike Hammer / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: One Lonely Night lays this on good and thick. In addition to being controlled by the violent evil Kremlin, American communists are dupes and either stupid or actually insane.
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Mike Hammer / int_9cde2df1	type	Hand Cannon
Mike Hammer / int_9cde2df1	comment	Hand Cannon: Hammer carries a Colt .45 (called 'Betsy' in the Stacy Keach series) though he sometimes uses a small calibre hideaway or backup gun.
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Mike Hammer / int_9d70c212	type	Sassy Secretary
Mike Hammer / int_9d70c212	comment	Sassy Secretary: Velda is always up for teasing Mike Hammer about his love life, habits, and profession.
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Mike Hammer / int_a603eaec	type	Criminally Attractive
Mike Hammer / int_a603eaec	comment	Criminally Attractive: In I, the Jury Charlotte Bennett, the woman Hammer had fallen in love with and planned to marry, turned out to be the killer. This is probably the case that turned him from an ordinary Private Detective into the dispenser of brutal justice we all know and love.
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Mike Hammer / int_ac0827be	type	Private Eye Monologue
Mike Hammer / int_ac0827be	comment	Private Eye Monologue: Naturally, as the novels are written in the first person.
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Mike Hammer / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Mike Hammer / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Both Hammer and Velda. But then, in their business, it's farely inevitable.
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Mike Hammer / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
Mike Hammer / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: Happens with every screen adaptation. Kiss Me Deadly (1955) was set in Los Angeles and had stolen nuclear Applied Phlebotinum as a McGuffin. The 1982 remake of I, the Jury (starring Armand Assante) had Hammer as a Vietnam veteran instead of a Pacific Theater World War II veteran, with a plot involving CIA mind control experiments. Stacy Keach's Hammer lived in 1980's New York, though he continued to dress anachronistically in a fedora and trench coat.
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Mike Hammer / int_afcafc5d	type	Drop Dead Gorgeous
Mike Hammer / int_afcafc5d	comment	Drop Dead Gorgeous: I, the Jury features Mike shooting the naked Charlotte after she turns out to be the killer he's been investigating, both in revenge for a friend and in retaliation for her attempting to shoot him in the back, before proclaiming "it was easy". As the cover above shows, this was the signature scene of the book and the quintessential example of a ruthless Detective Literature or Spy Fiction protagonist killing evil women in cold blood. It was more faithfully adapted by the 1982 film of the book than the 1953 one.
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Mike Hammer / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Mike Hammer / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: In Vengeance is Mine, after Mike Hammer loses his PI license and gun, he simply reopens his detective agency under Velda's name since she is a licensed private investigator and for ownership of a gun in her own right.
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Mike Hammer / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Mike Hammer / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Mike is pretty strong and tough, and quite intelligent. He's reasonably literate, too — enough to quote Hamlet, at least.
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Mike Hammer / int_bcb8e1cb	type	I, Noun
Mike Hammer / int_bcb8e1cb	comment	I, Noun: I, the Jury is an early example.
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Mike Hammer / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
Mike Hammer / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: The stories are usually set in crime infested New York City.
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Mike Hammer / int_bec82f41	type	Anti-Hero
Mike Hammer / int_bec82f41	comment	Antihero: Even by 1940s standards, Mike Hammer is a cold blooded ruthless man that is driven by his own sense of justice over anything approaching the law.
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Mike Hammer / int_c0d32460	type	Sexy Secretary
Mike Hammer / int_c0d32460	comment	Sexy Secretary: Velda is a gorgeous blonde with a curvaceous figure and nice legs who is smarter than Mike by several degrees, which he also finds attractive.
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Mike Hammer / int_c71607f4	type	Final Exchange
Mike Hammer / int_c71607f4	comment	Final Exchange: In the end of the novel I the Jury, Hammer shoots the killer, Charlotte Bennett, in cold blood.
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Mike Hammer / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Mike Hammer / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: My Gun is Quick ends with Mike fully prepared to die in order to make sure that Arthur Berin-Grotin dies with him with him. Mike has taken two bullets and is on top of the eighty year old man. In the end, only the fact it would hurt Arthur worse to have Mike dismantle his legacy leads him to be given a comparatively simple shot to the face.
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Mike Hammer / int_cb9aeb6a	type	Vigilante Man
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Mike Hammer / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: One very effective and harsh one right before the beginning of One Lonely Night, courtesy of a judge. Mike is deeply shaken by that, and by the end of the novel starts viewing his struggle against the villains of the piece as Evil Versus Evil.
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Mike Hammer / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: Much attention is made on how drugs, particularly heroin, destroy the lives of individuals and leaves them a shadow of their former selves. Drug dealers, in particular, are shown to be the scum of the Earth.
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Mike Hammer / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Mike Hammer's descriptions of women in the book are extremely lengthy with much attention made to their breasts and figure. Indeed, it was this element of Hotter and Sexier that combined with its greater violence attracted a larger audience than his contemporaries.
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Mike Hammer / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Mike Hammer / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Surprisingly downplayed, as Mike usually just has to threaten to do this, and the villain cracks. Still, that tends to be because said villain "knows", from looking Hammer in the eye, that he's serious.
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Mike Hammer / int_ecbf37ff	type	Disposable Sex Worker
Mike Hammer / int_ecbf37ff	comment	Quite a few become Disposable Sex Worker types like Red in My Gun is Quick, only to have Mike become their avenger. This also includes Love Interest Lola who dies in the last few chapters.
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Mike Hammer / int_edc22fe8	comment	Cartwright Curse: Mike Hammer is doomed to meet many women who fall in love with him only to die horribly, turn out to be evil, or be otherwise unobtainable by the end of the story. In I, The Jury, Charlotte Bennett is revealed to be the Big Bad and Mike disposes of her himself. In My Gun is Quick, Big Bad Arthur Grotin-Benit kills his Love Interest, Lola, right before Mike goes on an Roaring Rampage of Revenge. In Vengeance is Mine, Charlotte is the third of Mike Hammer's girlfriends to meet an unfortunate end and does so at the hands of Juno, who was also his love interest—and a Unsettling Gender-Reveal.
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Mike Hammer / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Mike Hammer / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Mike, very frequently, can't keep his mind on a case if there's a beautiful woman in his presence.
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Mike Hammer / int_f60e525e	comment	Smiting Evil Feels Good: Velda shoots a thug In the Back to stop him from killing Hammer. Afterwards instead of crying she starts laughing, and Hammer tells her she's right to do so, as there's "no shame to killing an evil thing."
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