Everyone Is Right-Handed: Difference between revisions

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As always with [[Omnipresent Tropes]], only special cases, such as subversions, aversions and [[Lampshade Hanging]], are worth mentioning.

See also [[The Killer Was Left Handed]] and [[A Sinister Clue]] (and its counterpoint, [[The Southpaw]]).

See also [[The Killer Was Left-Handed]] and [[A Sinister Clue]] (and its counterpoint, [[The Southpaw]]).

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** Unfortunately for him, neither was The Dread Pirate Roberts.

* In ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'', John McClane is left-handed, but this is never important.

* In [[~~Oceans~~ Eleven (Film)|Ocean's Twelve]], a security guard exposes a Julia Roberts lookalike (play by Julia Roberts) by asking for her autograph and noticing that she uses her right hand to write when Julia Roberts is left-handed.

* In [[Ocean's Eleven (Film)|Ocean's Twelve]], a security guard exposes a Julia Roberts lookalike (play by Julia Roberts) by asking for her autograph and noticing that she uses her right hand to write when Julia Roberts is left-handed.

* The first ''[[High School Musical]]'' film shows Sharpay writing with her left hand.

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== Video Games ==

* Link in is traditionally left-handed. However, Nintendo had to mirror the entire game to change his handedness in the Wii version of ''[[The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]''. The controller that is used to swing Link's sword is typically held with the right hand, and the game developers felt that the handedness of the player and the avatar needed to match. In addition to that, they couldn't have just reversed Link's model because many of the game's bosses, areas and puzzles were already designed for a left-handed link.

* Link in is traditionally left-handed. However, Nintendo had to mirror the entire game to change his handedness in the Wii version of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]''. The controller that is used to swing Link's sword is typically held with the right hand, and the game developers felt that the handedness of the player and the avatar needed to match. In addition to that, they couldn't have just reversed Link's model because many of the game's bosses, areas and puzzles were already designed for a left-handed link.

** Note that the mirroring cannot be disabled, so if the player happens to be left-handed, the joke is on them.

** [[Word of God]] is Link's ambidextrous, but prefers to use his left hand.

** The Master Quest in ''[[The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]] 3D'' also mirrors the game, making Link a righty again.

** The Master Quest in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]] 3D'' also mirrors the game, making Link a righty again.

* ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' listed each character's dominant hand on their status screen, to the only gameplay effect of equipment screen looking slighty different. There's only two left-handed characters: Palom, to contrast with his nicer twin sister Porom, and Kain, to further foreshadow {{spoiler|he [[Heel Face Turn|betrays you]]. [[Heel Face Revolving Door|Twice.]]}} The [[Final Fantasy IV the After Years|sequel]] has a lot of characters, but only one new southpaw: {{spoiler|Golbez}}.

** The DS remake of ''Final Fantasy IV'' plays the trope nearly straight; there, even Palom and Kain are right-handed (while, oddly, anyone equipped with a bow suddenly becomes ''left''-handed; the animators apparently forgot that archers hold the bow in their off hand.)

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