Tropescilloscope: Red Right Hand

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

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