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{{trope}}
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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
* 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 (
* In ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure]]'' Hareta gave a
* In ''[[Ranma
* ''[[Bludgeoning Angel
* 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 ''[[
* ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]'': When Miu sees it on TV, she wonders why kids always "do that finger thing every time they're in front of a camera". Nobue replies that they're "probably trying to get some attention". When she shows Miu a picture she took on her camera in which ''Miu herself'' is doing "that finger thing", Miu doesn't understand what Nobue is pointing out.
* Minako uses it a lot as Sailor V and quite a bit as Sailor Venus in ''[[Codename: Sailor V]]'' and ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', Usagi uses it a fair bit as Sailor Moon too often holding her hand horizontally across her face and looking through the V with her eye.
* Chris in the [[Manhwa]] ''Demon Diary'' strikes this pose several times... after being pummeled into the dirt, causing Erutis to question, "Victory? On whose planet!?"
* Asuna of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', such as after she does a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment for Negi in the climax of the Mahora Festival arc. Even back when she was an {{spoiler|[[Emotionless Girl]]}}, she was shown doing this after {{spoiler|demonstrating the [[Yin-Yang Bomb|Kanka technique]] to Takamichi}}.
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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.
* ''[[
* Caro strikes this pose in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* [[Transformers Victory]].
* The end credits of the first three parts of the ''[[Birdy the Mighty]]'' OVA series ended with the title character flashing this.
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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:
== [[Film]] ==
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* In ''[[Forrest Gump]]'', Jenny gives it to Forrest before he leaves for Vietnam.
* The logo used by the back-in-business [[Ghostbusters]] in ''Ghostbusters II'' has the ghost making a "V" sign, which serves the dual purpose of being a [[Take That]] to the authorities that shut them down and [[Painting the Fourth Wall|denoting that it is the second movie in the franchise]].
* In the second [[Hellboy (
== [[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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* In ''[[The Thick of It]]'' Malcolm flicks [[Captain Obvious|the offensive version]] to the journalists who gather outside his house after his sacking. He flicks another naughty V at Olly for not answering his phone.
* ''[[The X Factor|X Factor]]'' judge Louis Walsh got into trouble for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3AXZZyXEjU flicking a V at the audience] during one of the live finals.
* [[
* Early in its run, ''[[Eastenders]]'' managed to achieve notoriety after ending an episode on the palm-back variety.
* [http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t158/KurtSteiner/churchadder.jpg A Blackadder] met Winston Churchill whilst he was doing this. He took it wrong.
== [[Music]] ==
* Used ironically on the cover of [[
* ''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 ''[[
* Every time [[Super Mario (franchise)|Mario]] gets a star in ''[[
** It was also added into the ''[[Compilation Movie|Super Mario All-Stars]]'' version of ''[[Super Mario Bros. (
*** ...but for the most part, it hasn't appeared in any of the games since.
* ''[[
** 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.
* The box art of ''[[Left 4 Dead]] 2'' has the palm-inward version; predictably, the UK version has a outward hand instead.
* Kid Ryu does this when catching a fish in ''[[Breath of Fire]] III''.
* ''[[
* "V for peace" - the irony of the 'V for Victory' also representing 'peace' - is a recurring [[Motif]] in ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker]].'' So is the palm-inward version, which is used symbolically by the villains {{spoiler|and by Snake when he decides to abandon his old ideals}}. The characters do just about everything the gesture can mean - holding it up to represent the ''two'' things required for nuclear deterrence, transforming the singular pointing finger (pressing the nuclear button) into the peace sign, even 'walking' two fingers along a surface to represent legs...
* The boss Kunino-sagiri in ''[[Persona 4]]'' ''weaponizes'' the peace sign. His physical attack involves thrusting out his hand in this pose, and he flashes twin peace signs when he uses his "Unerring Justice" attack. He also has a halo that consists of several Y-shaped peace signs. {{spoiler|Kunino-sagiri is the Shadow of Taro Namatame, who has developed a messiah complex after spending the game abducting people and hurling them into the TV world under the mistaken belief that he's ''rescuing'' them from a serial killer.}}
* In ''[[
* Cream does this in ''[[Sonic Advance]] 3''.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Commonly used at the end of [[Wartime Cartoon
* Starfire of ''[[Teen Titans (
* 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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