Tropescilloscope: Red Right Hand

A physical flaw signifying that a character is evil. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Vacation Films Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Good Is Not Nice Berserk Button Cat Scare Grey and Gray Morality Psychopathic Manchild I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Narrator For the Evulz Spiteful Spit Ms. Fanservice '80s Hair Car Fu Death by Adaptation Sequel Escalation Race Against the Clock Red Right Hand Villain Ball The '50s Horror Comedy In Name Only A.I. Is a Crapshoot Homage Even Evil Has Loved Ones Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Trailers Always Spoil Bound and Gagged Broken Bird I Did What I Had to Do And I Must Scream True Companions Gone Horribly Right Amusing Injuries Blood from the Mouth Fantasy Films Bloody Hilarious Manipulative Bastard Hollywood Law Bloodier and Gorier Pretty in Mink Dressing as the Enemy Badass Longcoat Imagine Spot Lock and Load Montage All Girls Want Bad Boys Brother–Sister Incest Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Our Vampires Are Different Black and Gray Morality Butt-Monkey BFG Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Amoral Attorney Deconstruction Vomit Discretion Shot Product Placement Rousing Speech Yandere Fourth Date Marriage The Chessmaster Nice Hat Friend to All Children Redemption Equals Death Stock Footage Cool Car The Musical British Films Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Have a Gay Old Time Unspoken Plan Guarantee Deliberately Monochrome Deus ex Machina Married to the Job Bottomless Magazines Central Theme Novelization Advertised Extra Cool Old Lady Daddy's Girl Retired Badass Suspiciously Similar Substitute Unusual Euphemism Crapsack World Shirtless Scene Children Are Innocent What Happened to the Mouse? Artistic License – Geography No Celebrities Were Harmed Dies Wide Open Film Series Victoria's Secret Compartment Anachronism Stew Age Lift Babies Ever After Action Survivor He Knows Too Much Everyone Has Standards Cain and Abel Kill It with Fire MacGuffin Villain Song Canadian Movies Deal with the Devil Kick the Dog Animal Title Index Mr. Exposition Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Tagline What You Are in the Dark Dull Surprise Beware the Nice Ones Moment Killer Irony Non-Indicative Name Only a Flesh Wound Plot Hole The Dragon Blatant Lies Black Comedy Retcon Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Chekhov's Gun Famous Last Words Stuff Blowing Up Establishing Character Moment Redshirt Army Expository Hairstyle Change Captain Obvious Soft Glass Blood Knight Sinister Minister Determinator Stealth Hi/Bye Serial Killer Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Curse Cut Short Dropped a Bridge on Him Police are Useless Fish out of Water Ominous Latin Chanting Artistic License – Law Crazy Jealous Guy Mooks Freudian Excuse Instant Death Bullet Obstructive Bureaucrat Madness Mantra Slasher Smile Mama Bear Revenge Artistic License – Physics Depraved Bisexual Mood Whiplash Kubrick Stare Groin Attack Expy Never Trust a Trailer Heroic BSoD The Un-Reveal Line-of-Sight Name Foil The Mafia Scare Chord Soundtrack Dissonance Vomit Indiscretion Shot Jump Scare 20 Minutes into the Future You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Auto Erotica Sir Swears-a-Lot Black Comedy Rape "Well Done, Son!" Guy Bolivian Army Ending Cool Old Guy Noodle Incident Oh, Crap! Honor Before Reason Took a Level in Badass Visual Pun Accidental Murder Gainax Ending Mad Scientist The Chick Shipper on Deck Canon Foreigner Almost Kiss Faux Affably Evil The Stinger Cruel and Unusual Death Heroic Sacrifice No OSHA Compliance Dissonant Serenity One Steve Limit Affably Evil Bloodless Carnage Alliterative Name The Alleged Car Psychological Thriller Cold-Blooded Torture Title Drop Coming-of-Age Story Award-Bait Song Ambiguous Ending Bond Villain Stupidity Author Avatar Fingore Air-Vent Passageway Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Gory Discretion Shot Chekhov's Gunman Taking You with Me Would Hit a Girl Peek-a-Boo Corpse Sealed Evil in a Can Not Using the "Z" Word Not What It Looks Like Not So Above It All Break the Haughty Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Attempted Rape Bar Brawl Unwitting Instigator of Doom A God Am I Missing Mom Eye Scream Card-Carrying Villain Slashed Throat Does This Remind You of Anything? Destination Defenestration Skewed Priorities The Big Guy Not So Different Fat Bastard Index of Film Westerns Pimped-Out Dress She's Got Legs Diabolus ex Machina The '80s Bring My Brown Pants Bi the Way Your Head A-Splode Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Eldritch Abomination Dark Is Not Evil Heel–Face Turn Hero Antagonist Insult Backfire Big-Bad Ensemble Idiot Ball Animal Motifs O.O.C. Is Serious Business All There in the Script Protagonist Title Better to Die than Be Killed Papa Wolf Cool Shades Malevolent Masked Men Too Dumb to Live Stealth Pun Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor After the End Alpha Bitch Character Development Dark Reprise Big Eater Christmas Movies Index Sacrificial Lion For Want of a Nail Adaptational Badass Rule of Symbolism Every Car Is a Pinto Very Loosely Based on a True Story Major Injury Underreaction Extremely Short Timespan Obviously Evil Undying Loyalty Deliberate Values Dissonance Comically Missing the Point Red Shirt Femme Fatale Heroes Want Redheads Bare Your Midriff An Arm and a Leg And Starring Historical Hero Upgrade The X of Y Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Big Applesauce Toplessness from the Back Department of Redundancy Department Evil vs. Evil There Is No Kill Like Overkill Works Set in World War II Neck Lift Eiffel Tower Effect Suspiciously Specific Denial Knight Templar Artistic License – History Gilligan Cut Villain Protagonist Pay Evil unto Evil Fantastic Racism In the Back Cassandra Truth Sci-Fi Horror Outrun the Fireball You Have Failed Me Black Best Friend Naïve Newcomer Off with His Head! Punch-Clock Villain Older Than They Look Parental Incest NO INDOOR VOICE Foreshadowing Downer Ending Defiant to the End Armor-Piercing Question Anti-Hero Bad Boss And the Adventure Continues Rasputinian Death Not So Stoic It Can Think Half the Man He Used to Be Romantic False Lead Mugging the Monster Fun with Acronyms Never Found the Body Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Ax-Crazy Storming the Castle Sadistic Choice I'm a Humanitarian Meet Cute My God, What Have I Done? Drill Sergeant Nasty Fate Worse than Death The Load Big Damn Heroes Jerkass Casting Gag Rewatch Bonus Disguised in Drag Silent Movie World of Ham From Nobody to Nightmare Flipping the Bird Recycled IN SPACE! The Lancer Improbable Aiming Skills Black Dude Dies First Police Brutality Corpsing Mexican Standoff Gratuitous English Manic Pixie Dream Girl Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Adaptation Distillation Tap on the Head Say My Name Vampire Fiction Parental Abandonment The Casanova Karma Houdini Television Movie Index Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Mercy Kill Informed Ability Chewing the Scenery Author Appeal Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Bunny-Ears Lawyer Vitriolic Best Buds Faking the Dead Kill 'em All What the Hell, Hero? Word of God As the Good Book Says... Bavarian Fire Drill Hollywood Darkness I Have Your Wife Mistaken for Gay I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Worthy Opponent Self-Deprecation Rule of Three Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Loophole Abuse Overprotective Dad This Is Gonna Suck No-Sell Breaking the Fourth Wall The '90s Decoy Protagonist Getting Crap Past the Radar Real Life Writes the Plot Naked People Are Funny The Faceless Final Girl Straight Gay Precision F-Strike Room Full of Crazy Meaningful Name The Alcoholic Big Fancy House Villain Opening Scene Fan Disservice Bittersweet Ending Villainous Breakdown Japanese Films Paper-Thin Disguise Morality Pet Fire-Forged Friends Badass Boast Only in It for the Money Easily Forgiven The Starscream Corrupt Corporate Executive Dumb Blonde Nice Guy Those Two Bad Guys Anguished Declaration of Love Evil-Detecting Dog Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Left the Background Music On Shout-Out Tempting Fate Genre Savvy Animated Credits Opening Martial Arts Movie Anyone Can Die Due to the Dead Hell Is That Noise Action Girl Double-Meaning Title Humiliation Conga Ambiguously Gay One-Word Title Evil Brit Wrong Genre Savvy How We Got Here Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Match Cut Funny Foreigner Interrupted Suicide Woman in White Cat Fight Star-Crossed Lovers The Cavalry Greater-Scope Villain Rated M for Manly Fainting The Power of Love Be Careful What You Wish For Up to Eleven Scary Black Man Didn't Think This Through Intergenerational Friendship Curb-Stomp Battle Death by Irony The Vamp Wounded Gazelle Gambit Politically Incorrect Villain Mundane Made Awesome Darkest Hour Fatal Flaw Sexy Discretion Shot Fake Shemp Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Apocalypse How Biopic Extreme Doormat Male Gaze Intrepid Reporter Riddle for the Ages Knife Nut Running Gag Determinator aka: The Determinator Frame-Up Facial Horror Dirty Old Man Drives Like Crazy Parental Neglect Catapult Nightmare Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Maybe Ever After Belligerent Sexual Tension Beta Couple No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Insistent Terminology Demonic Possession Manly Tears The Sociopath timeperiod Put on a Bus Make It Look Like an Accident German Films Guns Akimbo Historical Villain Upgrade Nothing Is Scarier A Date with Rosie Palms Loads and Loads of Characters Men Are the Expendable Gender She Cleans Up Nicely Pyrrhic Victory Credits Gag Captain Ersatz Last-Name Basis Real Life Sequel Hook It Will Never Catch On Wham Shot Badass Normal The Remake Leaning on the Fourth Wall Four-Temperament Ensemble Adaptational Heroism It's Personal Adaptational Attractiveness The Smart Guy The Place Call-Forward Grievous Bottley Harm Evil Is Hammy Evil Sounds Deep "Shaggy Dog" Story Documentary Brutal Honesty Refuge in Audacity Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Call-Back Conspicuous CG Obfuscating Stupidity Light Is Not Good Gorn Adaptation Expansion Important Haircut Empathic Environment Reality Ensues All for Nothing Big "NO!" Agony of the Feet The Bully "The Reason You Suck" Speech Dramatic Gun Cock Stepford Smiler Eureka Moment Race Lift Our Zombies Are Different Meaningful Background Event Affectionate Parody Arch-Enemy Alas, Poor Villain Thriller Action Prologue Ambiguous Disorder Book-Ends Ungrateful Bastard Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Adaptation Name Change Rule of Funny Disproportionate Retribution Laser-Guided Karma Brainless Beauty Mind Screw Sassy Black Woman Love Triangle Evil Counterpart Creator Cameo Dwindling Party Hidden Depths Earn Your Happy Ending Chase Scene Dogged Nice Guy The '60s Spanner in the Works Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Cluster F-Bomb Badass in a Nice Suit Names to Run Away from Really Fast Jerk Jock Heterosexual Life-Partners Betty and Veronica Death by Sex Based on a True Story Authority Equals Asskicking Shoot the Shaggy Dog Camp Gay Australian Movies Adult Fear N-Word Privileges Shown Their Work Face Death with Dignity Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Music Stories Guile Hero The Reveal Implacable Man Taking the Bullet Rich Bitch Leitmotif The Lost Lenore "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue My Greatest Failure Chiaroscuro Double Entendre Manchild Annoying Younger Sibling Unusually Uninteresting Sight Badass Grandpa Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Ghost Fiction Mystery and Detective Films Action Genre Aluminum Christmas Trees Ass Shove Bald of Evil Italian Films Early Installment Weirdness Wretched Hive Psycho for Hire Handicapped Badass Rape as Drama Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Rule of Cool Happily Married Ironic Echo Those Wacky Nazis Small Name, Big Ego Evil Laugh Lampshade Hanging Reckless Gun Usage Red Oni, Blue Oni Take a Third Option Hoist by His Own Petard Here We Go Again! Awesome, but Impractical Fatal Family Photo Shut Up, Hannibal! Science Fiction Films Insane Troll Logic Sanity Slippage Abusive Parents Dark Action Girl Horror Films Broken Aesop Death Seeker Daylight Horror Evil Plan "Awesome McCool" Name Damsel in Distress As Long as It Sounds Foreign Truth in Television Covers Always Lie Bilingual Bonus Male Frontal Nudity No Antagonist Fanservice Extra Woman Scorned Bond One-Liner Pragmatic Adaptation Even Evil Has Standards Dutch Angle Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Would Hurt a Child You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Adaptational Villainy Combat Pragmatist La Résistance The Great Depression Mythology Gag Romantic Comedy Together in Death Bait-and-Switch Hypocrite Dying Moment of Awesome The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Chekhov's Skill Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Historical-Domain Character Freeze-Frame Bonus Those Two Guys Arc Words Eagleland Disappeared Dad Never My Fault Translation Convention The Film of the Book The Mole Made of Explodium I Need a Freaking Drink Epic Movie Off-into-the-Distance Ending Framing Device Drugs Are Bad May–December Romance Love at First Sight Silence Is Golden Spell My Name with an "S" Actually Pretty Funny Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Badass Bookworm Dual Wielding Becoming the Mask Aside Glance Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Closed Circle Body Horror Red Herring Cloudcuckoolander Film Noir Index Overly Long Gag The Quiet One Creative Closing Credits Face–Heel Turn Accidental Misnaming One-Man Army B-Movie Large Ham Exact Words Humans Are Bastards Karmic Death Big Brother Instinct Not Quite Dead Camera Abuse Bad "Bad Acting" A Father to His Men Smug Snake Catch-Phrase Dark and Troubled Past The Stoner Killed Mid-Sentence The Ghost Took a Level in Jerkass Kick the Son of a Bitch Improbable Weapon User Shell-Shocked Veteran As Himself Whole Plot Reference Big Bad Eyepatch of Power Bullying a Dragon Hooker with a Heart of Gold Motor Mouth The Dog Bites Back Immune to Bullets Drowning My Sorrows Back from the Dead Beard of Evil Demoted to Extra Bury Your Gays Asshole Victim The Smurfette Principle Lighter and Softer Unresolved Sexual Tension War Is Hell Laughing Mad The Dreaded Offscreen Teleportation Token Minority Meaningful Echo The Ace Five-Man Band Country Matters Only One Name Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Market-Based Title No Ending Death of a Child Abhorrent Admirer My Beloved Smother Foregone Conclusion Disney Villain Death Brick Joke Actor Allusion Serious Business Despair Event Horizon Stylistic Suck Fiery Redhead Needs Wiki Magic Love As You Know Super Strength Epic Fail Dramedy Reasonable Authority Figure Big Bad Duumvirate Neck Snap Boom, Headshot! Only Sane Man Get Out! Hate Sink Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Driven to Suicide The Stoic Improvised Weapon Jerk with a Heart of Gold Pragmatic Villainy Developing Doomed Characters Re-Cut Bowdlerise Dirty Cop Cowboy Cop Disney Death Anti-Villain Hong Kong Films Pre-Mortem One-Liner Twist Ending Plucky Comic Relief Continuity Nod Exactly What It Says on the Tin Hope Spot Gold Digger Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality An Axe to Grind Reality Is Unrealistic Roaring Rampage of Revenge Sports Stories Costume Porn Celebrity Paradox Video Credits Hair-Trigger Temper In Medias Res Deadpan Snarker Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Slasher Movie Bland-Name Product Posthumous Character Well-Intentioned Extremist Historical In-Joke Funny Background Event Unreliable Narrator Leave the Camera Running Monumental Damage Properly Paranoid Take That! Superhero French Films Public Domain Feature Films Your Cheating Heart From Bad to Worse Adaptation Dye-Job Zombie Stories Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Broken Pedestal Failed a Spot Check No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Darker and Edgier The Atoner Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Brute Genre Throwback Dirty Coward Ripped from the Headlines The Bad Guy Wins Early-Bird Cameo Enemy Mine Jitter Cam Russian Films Random Events Plot The End... Or Is It? Defrosting Ice Queen Sole Survivor Fanservice Poor Communication Kills Spared by the Adaptation Tranquil Fury Retirony Scenery Gorn Calling the Old Man Out Beauty Is Never Tarnished Shower Scene Cool Guns Playing Gertrude Anachronic Order Crazy-Prepared Scenery Porn All Men Are Perverts Break the Cutie Kids Are Cruel Show Within a Show Artistic License – Military Genre Shift Crucified Hero Shot Military and Warfare Films An Aesop Creepy Child Setting Update It's All About Me The '70s Totally Radical Man on Fire The Hero Dies Evil Is Petty Suddenly SHOUTING! Death Glare Henpecked Husband Hero of Another Story folderlabel No Name Given Artistic License – Gun Safety Logo Joke Once More, with Clarity! Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Antagonist Title Composite Character Heel Realization The Voiceless Wham Line Mighty Whitey Stalker with a Crush Film Noir The Oner A Minor Kidroduction Distracted by the Sexy Danny Peary Cult Movies List Arranged Marriage Flashback Punny Name You Killed My Father Domestic Abuse The Ditz Adorkable Parental Substitute Villain with Good Publicity All Just a Dream More Dakka Really Gets Around Adapted Out The Cameo Green-Eyed Monster Wicked Cultured Training Montage Artistic License – Biology The Hero Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Gender Flip Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Hypocritical Humor Reality Has No Subtitles He Who Fights Monsters Not Even Bothering with the Accent Let's Get Dangerous! Batman Gambit All There in the Manual Jerkass Has a Point Does Not Like Shoes Spiritual Successor Pet the Dog Contrived Coincidence Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Ascended Extra Time Skip Pretty Little Headshots Made of Iron Did Not Get the Girl Ship Tease Same Language Dub Smoking Is Cool Red Eyes, Take Warning Slap-Slap-Kiss Only Known by Their Nickname Offscreen Moment of Awesome Dramatic Irony Mr. Fanservice Adults Are Useless Blackmail