Tropescilloscope: Red Right Hand

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

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