Tropescilloscope: Red Right Hand

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

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