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== Anime and Manga ==
* Ayu from ''[[Kanon]]'' is left-handed, which is used for a joke where she's about to run into Yuuichi and he tells her to "move on the direction of the hand you grab chopsticks with!", thinking she'd go right, so he could dodge to the opposite direction. [[Hilarity Ensues|Didn't work well]].
* While this has no plot bearing, Nanoha from ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' is left-handed.
* This is inverted in those translated manga that are also mirrored to fit with the western reading way (example: ''[[Akira]]''). Then it becomes Everyone Is Left -Handed. Can be jarring once you start paying attention to it.
* Inverted in ''[[Lucky Star]]''. Almost everyone in that series is left-handed, except for Konata (ambidextrous) and Patty (the one right-handed character).
* Zoro, Vivi, Shanks (until he lost his left arm), Tom (who can be seen using his left hand to hold chopsticks), Raleigh, and many other characters (especially swordsmen) from ''[[One Piece]]'' are left-handed.
* Averted in ''Gundam00''. Graham Aker and Hallelujah Haptism are both left-handed (despite Allelujah being right-handed) and Setsuna F. Seiei, Soma Peries and Andrei Smirnov are all ambidextrous.
* In ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'', almost everyone is ambidextrous, because the animators didn't want to bother with keeping track of who wields weapons in which hands.
* In ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', everyone is right-handed whenever it comes to using a Giga Drill Breaker. Any other time, they're ambidextrous.
* The author of ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' has [[Word of God|stated]] that Prussia is left-handed.
* Bassist Mio Akiyama from ''[[K-On!]]'' is left-handed. (Which caused problems when her right-handed seiyuu had to learn to play bass for a live concert performed in-character).
 
 
== Comic Books ==
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* In ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', it's directly specified that Violet is right-handed, in line with the narrator's odd sense of humor. It's still a plot point.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]''{{'}}s Liz Lemon is left-handed. You'll see this if you pay close attention whenever she writes anything and in one episode Jack referred to her "left-handedness". Of course, [[Tina Fey]] is left-handed in real life, so this applies to any character played by her. For example, when her character in ''[[Date Night]]'' writes down a phone number, you can see she uses her left hand.
** Of course, [[Tina Fey]] is left-handed in real life, so this applies to any character played by her. For example, when her character in ''[[Date Night]]'' writes down a phone number, you can see she uses her left hand.
* Inverted with ''[[The Muppets]]''. Most of the puppeteers use their right hands to work the head, leaving their left hands to work the arms, so almost all Muppets are left-handed.
* ''[[Heroes]]'' works this in a few episodes.
** Nathan Petrelli is right-handed. Sylar is left-handed. {{spoiler|When Nathan's mind is placed into Sylar's shapeshifting body}}, Claire points out that Nathan is writing with his left hand.
** Doubled up in a later episode when Sylar, {{spoiler|now rid of Nathan's mind}}, writes on a chalkboard with his ''right'' hand.
* Although his right-handedness a point of notice in the original books, John Watson in ''[[Sherlock]]'' is left -handed, like his actor, [[Martin Freeman]]. He holds his gun in his non-dominant hand, though, because empty casings expel to the right side, away from the face of (majority) right-handed shooters.
 
 
== Music ==
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* In a Korean online game called "Thang" the animations for the Kanhoa class's sword and boomerang skills are left hand dominant; however, the animations for the bow are right hand dominant.
* In Counter-Strike: Source, the player can change between left-handed and right-handed when he feels like it. The only difference is what side you see your weapon from. Other people still see you as right-handed.
* Most of the [[Super Mario Bros.(franchise)|Super Mario]] cast are right-handed. However, Luigi appears to be ambidextrous, as he constantly switches what hand he uses. In addition, Bowser Jr. is left-handed.
* Samurai are always right-handed, as left-handedness is considered inappropriate for a slew of reasons. Used as somewhat of a plot point in the ''[[Hakuouki]]'' games, especially Reimeiroku. Saitou Hajime's unusual left-handedness has caused him to suffer a lot of discrimination from other samurai, but he refuses to change. Kondou Isami's and Hijikata Toshizou's quick and rather nonchalant acceptance of Saitou's southpaw is pretty much the reason why he later joined the Shinsengumi.
 
== Western Animation ==
* An interesting example comes in the form of Captain Hook from ''[[Peter Pan]]''. In the novel and play the hook is on his right hand, making him left-handed by default. When Disney came to do their adaptation, however, they changed this because it was easier for the animators to draw a right-handed character. They even drew attention to it with Wendy's line, "Oh no, John; it [the hook] was the left hand."
* Ned Flanders on the ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' is left-handed and opens a "Leftorium", a shop with items designed for left-handed people. In the [[DVD Commentary]] for that episode, it was revealed that about 1 in 3 of Springfieldans are left-handed, as compared to 1 in 9 in [[Real Life]].
* In ''[[American Dad]]'', it is revealed that Francine Smith hates left handed people. We discover the reason why is that she was originally left handed but a nun who taught her to write demonized (literally, the nun claimed left handedness was the devil's work) left handedness and forced her to change to be right handed.
* Averted in ''[[Rugrats]]'', where an entire episode is dedicated to the discovery that Chuckie is left-handed.
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** Actually, Mulan could just be left-handed, but taught swordsmanship the right-handed way. She uses her left hand to do pretty much everything else in the movie.
* In [[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|How to Train Your Dragon]], Hiccup is left-handed, but because it is frowned upon by Viking society we only see him use his left hand only when he is alone, such as when he is designing the new tail fin for Toothless or drawing a picture in the sand, because of the stigma of the left hand (see the Real Life examples below) that sets him apart from the others in his tribe. During the dragon fighting scenes, he is shown fighting with his right hand, however he clearly works best when he is using his left hand.
* One episode of [[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]] showcased the difficulties of being left-handed when Homer injured his right hand and had to depend on his left one for a while.
* On ''[[Phineas and Ferb]],'' [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|Vanessa]] is seen writing with her left hand.
** Everyone is ambidextrous, more like. Phineas, Ferb, Perry, Doofenshmirtz... no one is consistent, if you observe.
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== Real Life ==
* Even as late as the twentieth century, it was common in some countries to retrain left-handed children to use the right hand. It only dwindled when detrimental side effects of such practices were discovered.
* Because the majority of the world is right-handed, the default of most things requiring fine motor skills are designed for right-handed comfort and convenience. Examples include cameras, can openers, rulers, computer mousesmice{{verify}} and leopards, spiral notebooks, fishing reels, handguns, bolt action rifles, school desks, pencil sharpeners, toilet paper dispensers, measuring cups, ice cream scoops, vegetable peelers, watches, scissors, circular saws, manual vehicle gear shifters, bowling balls,{{verify}} video game controllers, sports equipment, and guitars. Locating left-handed items is often troublesome: selections are limited or must be custom-ordered, and they typically cost a good deal extra. Many left-handed people simply learn to do something right-handed to avoid the hassle, or learn how to use something "backwards," such as in the case of a playing a right-handed guitar upside down. Indeed, some left-handed people have improper writing form as a result of trying to mirror a right-handed person when first learning how to hold a pencil instead of adjusting for their natural hand. Other regular difficulties are sitting at a dinner table next to a right-handed person and constantly bumping elbows, and smearing your hand through pencil or ink trying to write in traditional left-to-right printing. These are things right-handed people don't even think about, because handedness is not challenging or annoying to them in common, everyday tasks.
** Thinking about it, maybe reteaching to right hand had its advantages. Or would have if it worked as intended.
* This shows even in the origin, definition, or connotation of the words. The word "left" in many languages also commonly translates to such things as: weak, clumsy, evil, awkward, strange, wrong, liar, back-stabbing, bad, improper, unlucky, and illegal. Such phrases used as insults include having "two left feet" or receiving a "left-handed compliment," or telling someone they are ''not'' in their "''right'' mind." Thus, the word "right" commonly translates to the exact opposite: proper, correct, justice, nice, skillful, legitimate, and better. It is common in many cultures for the left to represent something negative while the right portrays the positive, and in certain places, using your left hand for specific things is considered very rude or unsanitary.
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