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[[Dark Action Girl|Evil girls]] (generally [[Catgirl|cat girls]] or [[Dark Magical Girl|dark magical girls]]) are frequently armed with [[Femme Fatalons|razor-sharp fingernails]] or claws as their primary melee weapon. If such is the case, her trademark gesture is to lick her claws in a cat-like fashion with a sinister grin on her face, sometimes while blood drips from them.
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See Also: [[Licking the Blade]], [[You Taste Delicious]], [[Evil Is Cool]], [[Femme Fatalons]] and [[Creepy Long Fingers]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Arachne from ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]''
* Nao from ''[[
* Nariya and Eriya from ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]''
* Delphine from ''[[Last Exile]]''
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* Variation: Ren licks his chops in ''[[Shaman King]]'' while his face has blood on it.
* Another Variation: Road Kamelot from ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' licks the blood off of the sharpened candle she pierced Allen with.
* [[Numerical Theme Naming|Due]] in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS''. [[Squick|Pretty nasty, too]]
* Masane from the anime version of ''[[Witchblade (anime)|Witchblade]]'' is an example of a protagonist who licks her claws.
* Another male example would be the title character of Inuyasha, who uses his claws as his main form of attack until acquiring his ''[[BFS]]''.
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* In the OVA of ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]'', Dio rips through a group of civilians with a single slash of his hand, then laughs to Jotaro as he licks the blood from it.
** Licking his fingers is also one of the multiple unpleasant habits of the villain Magenta Magenta from the seventh series of the manga.
* Vega from ''[[Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie]]'' [
* [[Psycho for Hire]] Wei in ''[[Darker
* In a battle between Ranma and Ryoga from ''[[Ranma ½]]'' manga, Ryoga manages to cause a small cut on Ranma's face. Ranma proceeds to wipe the blood off with his hand and lick it while saying something to the effect of looks like I'm going to have to get serious.
* Dead master from [[
* Siam from [[Free Collars Kingdom]] often does this, to her own dismay.
* The [[Trinity Blood]] manga has a relatively rare heroic male example: [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/trinity_blood/v04/c016/8.html Here], we have Abel Nightroad [[Super-Powered Evil Side|helpfully reminding us]] just how scary the world would be given the existence of [[Food Chain of Evil|vampires that feed on vampires]].
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* Lady Deathstrike has extendible adamantium fingernails (originally she was just an insane swordswoman from ''[[Daredevil]]'', now better known as a foe of the [[X-Men]], and Wolverine in particular) and occasionally licks them.
== Fan
* In the ''[[
== Film ==
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] wrestler Mickie James lacks the razor-sharp claws, but still managed to pull off this trope off by busting Trish Stratus' forehead open, then wiping her hand against it and licking the blood off her fingers.
** Not to mention her... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYmXeUhmB2E slightly more risque use of this trope] that actually got edited off of the DVD this match was released on.
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