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* 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''
''Holding out my hands in victory''}}
== 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 H. W. 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 "V" Sign with both hands at the end of his version of the Fargo Strut.
* 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]] ==
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* 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,<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.
▲=== 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 H. W. 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).
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