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''[[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] lost his little mustache''
''If you find it, let him know''
''And he'll give you lots of dough"'' }}
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In Japan, the "V" sign can also signify that the person making it is being photographed. This pops up in anime quite a bit, sometimes accompanied by the character saying "V". May have been popularized as a result of the occupation after WWII.
In the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries, when done with the palm facing inward, it is an offensive
During [[World War II]], [[Winston Churchill]] popularised its use as a "Victory" sign (for V as in victory) initially with palm inwards and later (once informed that inward was offensive) in the war palm outwards. (This would later lead to a frequently used joke about the result of [[World War II]] being due to Hitler [[Rock-Paper-Scissors|always choosing paper]])
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Trigun|Vash the Stampede]] is the poster guy of this trope in anime. He gives out the V-sign in addition to his [[Large Ham|hammy]] line: '''[[Catch Phrase|THIS WORLD IS MADE OF, LOVE AND PEACE]]!!'''
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* Japan offers to do this instead of smiling in ''Axis Powers Hetalia''.
* Yurika Misumaru from ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' practically debuts her day as a captain with this.
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* Nena Trinity from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' is prone of doing this almost all the time when she's in a good mood. She stops doing it for awhile after [[Hoist by His Own Petard|Ali killed her brothers]], but in the second season, she did it again after {{spoiler|screwing Wang's plan in a form of [[Take That]]}}.
* Taken not as a hand gesture, but as a symbolic phrase in ''[[Combattler V]]''. Usually used to get the spirit up.
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* Ash of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' sometimes does this when he catches a Pokémon. Pikachu uses it too, though he has short little toes instead of fingers.
* In ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure]]'' Hareta gave a
* In ''[[Ranma ½]]'', Gosunkugi (in the manga) or [[Canon Foreigner|Sasuke]] (in the anime) followed Ranma taking pictures in an attempt to find a weakness; once developed, Ranma is shown with the V sign at the camera, implying that Ranma knew he was being stalked.
* ''[[Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan|Bludgeoning Angel Dokurochan]]'' does this. Also, she seems to pronounce "V" as "vi" (rhymes with "eye") instead of "vee".
* Ringo Seto in ''[[
* Played with in ''[[Kinnikuman]]'', where Kinnikuman utterly fails at making the V-sign after an important victory. How do you screw something like that up? Well, you see, Kinnikuman's such a loser he's never had a reason to do it before.
* Misuzu from ''[[AIR]]'' uses it
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* In ''[[Hell Girl]]'' episode "Tragedy of V" {{spoiler|when drunks make the V sign in the background of a news report about the deaths of a mother and son, the father hunts them down, kills them and leaves their hands in the V sign.}}
* In the anime version of ''[[Prince of Tennis]]'', Kikumaru Eiji shows of his Keet-ness by doing about thirty of these in a row while jumping hyperactively around the room and posing for a camera.
* Hilariously, the agents of AEGIS in ''[[Gate Keepers]]'' do the
* V-mon from ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' is named for and vaguely themed around the V-sign, although he doesn't often make it. Shoutmon of ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'' also seems to be themed around it, especially in his later Xrossed forms.
* ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam]]''.
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* In [[Warren Ellis]]' ''[[Crecy]]'' the main character is an archer who does this at the end of the book. This refers to the urban legend that the offensive V-sign came from the French cutting off the fingers of captured English longbowmen.
* In [[Mark Millar]]'s first arc on ''[[The Authority]]'', the Engineer flashes the palm-inward version as an [[Expy]] of [[The Incredible Hulk]] [[Explosive Decompression|exploded in space]].
* In ''"[[Astèrix]] in Britain"'' Notax makes the V-sign after the Britons defeat the Romans alongside Asterix and Obelix.
== [[Fan
* Haruhi and Sakanaka to each other in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'' as a symbol of victory, after Kyon and Haruhi return from a Student Council session discussing the fight between Kyon and Ryuugu Ryo earlier that day (Kyon acted in defense of a schoolmate). They decided not punishing nor rewarding Kyon for that.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* The character Didactylos in ''[[
== [[Live
* The miniseries ''[[V (TV series)|V]]'' was pretty much named after this trope.
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Spike does the palm-inward version and the WB censors [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|not only let it through]], they let it on the opening credits after that.
* ''[[Rescue Sentai Go Go Five]]'' had a V logo in a lot of places. Of course, it's hard to know if V means victory or roman numeral 5 (possibly both... in which case the name means [[One, Two, Three, Four, Go|Five Five Five]]. Which is Japan's 911, befitting the [[Rescue]] theme and making it possibly the most multi-layered sentai name pun ever.)
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== [[Music]] ==
* Used ironically on the cover of [[Accept]]'s ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150415074028/http://en.metalship.org/archives/albums/album10309.jpg Blood of the Nations]'' album.
* ''Razorblade Sigh'' by [[Gamma Ray]] has the narrator doing it:
{{quote|''Wheels are turning, take me far beyond''
== Politics ==▼
''Holding out my hands in victory''}}
* Apparently, Sir Winston Churchill did do it the wrong way around initially, until someone told him what it meant to the working classes. In fact he did it both ways round, arbitrarily at different times.▼
** It's been suggested that he knew what it meant, and had Hitler in mind when he made the gesture...▼
* [[Richard Nixon]], as seen in the picture above. Oddly used in that he did so after resigning from the Presidency rather than face impeachment due to Watergate.▼
* [[George HW Bush]] faced his hand the wrong way doing this while on a state visit to Australia during his presidency.▼
* The overuse of the victory gesture (and, somehow, Vangelis' ''Conquest of Paradise'') by the guys who took power in Madagascar in 2009 has led to massive contentions - do it in front of the right people and you'll be smiled at. Do it in front of the wrong people and you'll eat knuckle sandwich (if lucky).▼
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* [[TNA|Jeff Jarrett]] throws up the
* This was pretty much the justification behind Nelson Frazier, Jr.'s gimmick when he became Big Daddy V (the "V" stood for "Victory," although it had originally stood for "Viscera").
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* This pose is so popular in Japan it's been suggested (in jest) that Japanese women have a genetic predisposition to striking this pose if a camera is pointed at them.▼
** In what's probably a [[Hype Backlash]], a [[Memetic Mutation]] combines this with Ahegao <ref>(said to be the facial expression of someone who is being fucked silly.)</ref>, thus associating the pose itself with sluttiness. A certain character from ''[[Smile Pretty Cure]]'' seems to be the victim of this meme.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Wild
* Every time [[Super Mario (franchise)|Mario]] gets a star in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'', or completes a level in ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]].''
** It was also added into the ''[[Compilation Movie|Super Mario All-Stars]]'' version of ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' whenever Mario completes a level. Heck, the
*** ...but for the most part, it hasn't appeared in any of the games since.
* ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'': Mario, Mallow, and Toadstool get one of these as their victory pose after a battle (Bowser either clenches his fists or does a [[Bicep-Polishing Gesture]] <ref>In the Japanese version, Bowser was actually flipping the bird</ref> while Geno just nods).
** And Mario does it when he goes down pipes.
* Wario typically has his own versions of this: he holds up ''two'' Vs (overlapping them to make "W") or (as in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'') he holds up ''three'' fingers (again, to represent "W").
* [[
* This is Chun-Li's [[Victory Pose]] in the ''[[Street Fighter]]'' series. "YATTA!"
** Cammy is also making this gesture in the iconic poster of her.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Commonly used at the end of [[Wartime Cartoon
* Starfire of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' does this once.
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[Total Drama Action]]'', where Izzy does the V sign... {{spoiler|before she gets eliminated the second time.}}
* [[The Venture Brothers]] tend to do this at inappropriate moments whilst shouting, "Go team Venture!"
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* This pose is so popular in Japan it's been suggested (in jest) that Japanese women have a genetic predisposition to striking this pose if a camera is pointed at them.
▲** In what's probably a [[Hype Backlash]], a [[Memetic Mutation]] combines this with Ahegao
▲=== Politics ===
▲* Apparently, Sir Winston Churchill did do it the wrong way around initially, until someone told him what it meant to the working classes. In fact he did it both ways round, arbitrarily at different times.
▲** It's been suggested that he knew what it meant, and had Hitler in mind when he made the gesture
▲* [[Richard Nixon]], as seen in the picture above. Oddly used in that he did so after resigning from the Presidency rather than face impeachment due to Watergate.
▲* [[George
▲* The overuse of the victory gesture (and, somehow, Vangelis' ''Conquest of Paradise'') by the guys who took power in Madagascar in 2009 has led to massive contentions - do it in front of the right people and you'll be smiled at. Do it in front of the wrong people and you'll eat knuckle sandwich (if lucky).
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