Tropescilloscope: Red Right Hand

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

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