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Not to be confused with [[The Decemberists|a Red Right Ankle]], nor with [[A Date With Rosie Palms]]. For the more blatant examples, see [[Obviously Evil]]. See also [[Came Back Wrong]]. Does not count if said hand is red because it's [[G Gundam|burning and telling you to defeat your enemies.]]
Related to [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]], [[Scary Shiny Glasses]] and [[Hypnotic Eyes]]. If this appearance also comes with labored breathing or a cough, it's [[Vader Breath]]. If this appearance carries discolored veins, it's [[Tainted Veins]]. Of course, you should be more scared if you [[Ultimate Evil|don't see the villain at all]]. A [[White
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Most if not all villains in ''[[Ginga Nagareboshi Gin]]'' and its [[Ginga Densetsu Weed|sequel]] have at least [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|scars]] of some kind, but [[Mutants|Kaibutsu]] from ''[[Ginga Densetsu Weed|Weed]]'' takes the cake on this one. He's a former dog [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke|who has been turned into a monster by genetic engineering]] and as a result is a [[Hell Hound|giant semi-dog like creature]] who has near-impervious skin. On the other hand, he has ''no skin at all on the left part of his upper body''.
** A close second would have to be [[Spell My Name With an "S"|Alam/Aramu]] who is an ordinary German Shepherd by breed but is missing both his ears as well as ''the skin on his muzzle'', resulting in a rather terrifying look. {{spoiler|The trope gets subverted when he has a [[Heel Face Turn]], though.}}
* Ralph Werec in ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' is a creepy albino with [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|a scar across his eye]], which turns pink when he's angry. However, when he was ''sane'', his skin was less pale, his hair was blond and more meticulously hair-gelled, and he didn't have the scar.
* The Noah from ''[[D Gray Man|D.Gray-Man]]'' look normal in human form. In Noah form, they have a line of [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|cross-shaped marks]] across their foreheads.
** Oh ho, let's not talk about Noah ''awakened'' form.
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** Played with with Allen, whose ''left'' arm is twisted and red, with a big cross on the back of his hand and occasionally a will of its own. His parents abandoned him because it was so freaky. Not only is he [[The Messiah|a wonderful person]], the scary arm is actually a holy weapon for destroying Akuma.
*** His other 'mark' is his funny-looking cursed right eye, which is a mark of sin but also one of his [[The Messiah|messianic]] attributes, since it causes him suffering and keeps him from ever forgetting there are innocent souls within the Akuma who he wants to save.
*** His [[Super
*** His skin gets darker as a noah. [[Unfortunate Implications|The artist may not have thought that part through all that well...]]
*** It becomes less unfortunate an implication when one reads that the darker skin is considered superior by design. Or it simply swings the other way. Technically this is correct however, darker skin providing more resistance to the sun. It's minute, but the fact is there.
* Scar of [[Fullmetal Alchemist]] has a ''Tattooed'' Right Hand, which was a sign of his [[Anti
** The Homunculi all have their Ouroboros tattoos, as well.
* When not wearing his gloves, Gendo Ikari from [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]] has what looks like a fetus fused unto his hand. He has his reasons...
* Haji of ''[[Blood Plus|Blood+]]'' is a subversion. Although he is the only [[Our Vampires Are Different|chiropteran]] to have a permanent, visible indication of his inhuman nature - a literal red right hand with monstrous claws - he is unequivocally a good guy, and the only chevalier in the series who never fully transforms into a monstrous chiropteran combat form, instead [[Willfully Weak|limiting himself]] to transforming his other hand and {{spoiler|growing batlike wings}}.
* In ''[[Hellsing]]'' the [[Morally
** Played with when {{spoiler|Seras gains her shadow-arm.}}
** [[Psycho Lesbian|Zorin Blitz]]'s right eye is almost completely black and in a permanent squint, while the other is bright green and is able to move around normally.
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* Most of the villains in ''[[Berserk]]'' have something of the sort, even if they don't start as demons. Father Mozgus, for example, has an unnaturally flat face (revealed to be the result of him slamming his face into the ground two hundred times every day during his daily prayers). Guts, having a touch of [[Genre Savvy]], sometimes marks his enemies by looking for this sort of trait.
** The Godhand, the [[Big Bad Duumvirate]] of ''Berserk'', is a very literal case. The podium that they present themselves to would-be sacrifices from is a ''red right hand''. [[Fridge Brilliance|Genius, you say?]]
* Towa Kannagi from ''[[Mermaid Saga]]'' is a [[White
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'' has Naraku, whose incarnations are marked by a spider-shaped scar on the back.
* Red Left Hand in the case of Yubel from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]''.
* Ryo Takatsuki of ''[[Project ARMS]]'' has a literal [[Red Right Hand]], which is a nanite-based AI prosthetic known as the Jabberwock. Like that's gonna work out well. When the hand starts spreading over the rest of the body, [[Super
* In ''[[Darker Than Black]]'', it's fairly obvious that we shouldn't trust [[Pointy Ears|Wei]] or [[Mismatched Eyes|Maki]], even though a big deal isn't made about it. More explicitly, the [[Red Eyes Take Warning]] effect that accompanies a contractor using their powers is definitely a bad sign. More literally, the leader of [[The Syndicate]] turns out to have two prosthetic hands.
** In case the red glowing eyes of a contractor weren't enough of a hint that it's about to hit the fan, they also ''emit synchrotron radiation'' when activating their powers. This is ''not'' something that normal humans are supposed to do.
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* You Higuri's manga ''Cantarella'' features a possessed Cesare Borgia with a color-vague demonic arm, {{spoiler|which eventually had to be lopped off to stop him from becoming an avatar of Satan.}} Mind you, while the explanation is textbook Red Right Hand, the arm subplot seems to have been included entirely so that Cesare's faithful servant had an excuse to [[Fetish Fuel|tie him to the bed]].
* Some of the less thinky ''[[Detective Conan]]'' episodes use this trope to show who amongst them is the killer, like the sinister looking head librarian who exudes 'evil boss' vibes from the moment he appears on-screen in the book drug trafficking episode.
* In part Three of ''[[Jo
* Sora, in an arc of ''[[Naruto]] Shippuden'', has a demonic-looking right hand. He wasn't necessarily evil, just a [[Jerkass]] {{spoiler|who also happens to be a vessel for some of the Nine-Tailed Fox's chakra that has been cultivated and injected into Sora by the real villain}}.
** When Naruto tries to [[Battle in The Center of The Mind|defeat the Kyuubi on his own]], he has his former inner hatred shoved into his face, and then Naruto's left eye transforms into that of his inner evil counterpart. On the outside, he develops a 2-tailed fox cloak on the right side and a 2-tailed V2 cloak on his left. <ref>It would have gone further if his mother didn't intervene.</ref>
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* One ''[[The Legend of Zelda (Comic Book)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' comic book has Link's hand turn red when he takes the Triforce of Power. Sure enough, he soon discovers that [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]].
* In the ''[[Dick Tracy]]'' strips, the most famous enemies are the grotesque ones and their hideousness reflects the fact that almost all of them are unrepentant murderous scum.
* Herr Starr, the [[Big Bad]] of Garth Ennis' ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'', starts with a nonfunctional right eye and five scar lines around it. As the series goes on, the "redness" only increases: He gets his left ear shot off, a nasty (and phallic) line is cut into his scalp, he loses his right lower leg to cannibals and {{spoiler|his penis gets bitten off by a dog. [[Crosses the Line Twice]] when he says "My cock is in the bitch's mouth. And not in a good way."}}
* ''[[Batman]]'''s rogue's gallery has three big examples of this. [[The Joker]] is often depicted with a permanent freaky grin on his chalk white face, The Penguin has a distinctly birdlike appearance (sometimes including flippers for hands), and Two-Face has half of his face horribly scarred by acid.
** Another example is Killer Croc, and he becomes more and more of an example as time goes on. When he first appeared, he looked like a normal person, save for green scales covering his body. The official story is that he has a bizarre version of atavism, which gets worse as time goes on, making him look more and more reptilian.
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* ''[[Watchmen]]'': Former stage magician turned criminal mastermind Moloch has pointed, satanic ears. He resembles [[Nosferatu (Film)|Orlok]].
* Hideaki's [[The Dragon|right hand man]] from ''Silent Dragon'' has a pair of cybernetic arms that are designed to look reptilian and dragonlike.
* The pirate-turned-Imperial officer who [[You Killed My Father|caused the deaths]] of [[X Wing Series|Wedge Antilles']] parents, Loka Hask, had a [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:LokaHask_swenc.jpg Corellian limpet], basically a sort of eyeless [[
** [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Krennel Delak Krennel], who later featured in the novels, had a literal prosthetic right hand that glowed red. [[Card
** Captain Semtin has obvious, creepy prosthetic eyeballs and mechanical thingies in his ears. He abandons some of his soldiers on Ryloth, which has local rules that offworlders with no influence or transportation get sold into slavery. The soldiers promptly [[Mistreatment Induced Betrayal|switch sides]].
* A prominent character in the [[Hellblazer]] series (particularly in the trade paperback, "The Red Right Hand") develops a literal red right hand (occasionally drawn as his '''left''' hand) after {{spoiler|murdering his girlfriend and recklessly causing the terrible demise of several innocent people, including [[Kick the Dog|children, infants, and young parents]].}} The hand becomes redder and darker in accordance with changes to his character as the story progresses.
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** And then there's the Skinless Boy, which isn't an entirely accurate name, but is close enough. It has a red (okay then, ochre), skeletal half.
** Lord Sunday's eyes are entirely dark.
* Cinder of the Chandrian in [[The Name of the Wind]] is a [[White
* ''[[Redwall|Outcast of Redwall]]'' features Swartt Sixclaw and his son Veil, who each have an extra digit on their left paw. Veil also ends up with a literal Red Right Hand, and red left hand too. {{spoiler|He's tricked into staining them with beetroot juice in a trap set to find a poisoner which plays on his temporary [[Out, Damned Spot!]] mentality.}}
** Quite a few [[Redwall]] villains have this.
** Cluny the Scourge has an [[Meaningful Name|abnormally long tail which he uses as a weapon]]
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== Live Action TV ==
* On ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'', [[Serial Killer]] [[Brother
* On ''[[Supernatural]]'', both demonic possessions and shapeshifters are indistinguishable from the real person except for occasionally discolored eyes.
* In ''[[Dollhouse]]'' Topher's [[Evil Counterpart|slightly less moral counterpart]] Bennett Halverson has a red left hand, her dead arm kept in a sling.
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** In the [[New World of Darkness (Tabletop Game)|New World of Darkness]], Freaks and Mutants are types of [[Serial Killer|slashers]], though some may lean towards [[The Grotesque]].
** The version of [[Dhampyr|dhampyrs]] presented in the NWOD book ''Mirrors'' are all marked by a minor supernatural deformity.
* Marks of Chaos in ''[[Warhammer]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' start as this, and may become full-on [[One
** Although the Soul Drinkers are good guys, many of them still have mutations from a close call with Chaos, providing a constant reminder of how close they came to damnation. Luckily, they have uses for them - Sarpedon stabs people with his eight spider-like legs, for example.
** In both ''[[Warhammer (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer 40000]]'' there is a deity called Kaela Mensha Khaine, the Bloody-Handed God. In 40K, the Avatar model is usually shown with a blood-dripping left hand.
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* {{spoiler|Sho Minamimoto}} has a black left hand {{spoiler|and in his second incarnation, two black arms due to his being half Taboo Noise}} in ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]''.
* ''[[King of Fighters]]'' features Rugal Bernstein, who gets a cybernetic hand and eye.
* Wolfgang Krauser also bore an X-shaped scar on the top of his head. Geese Howard has a sizable scar on his back that he shows off by removing his shirt before battle, gained when he was punted out a window at the end of ''[[Fatal Fury]]''. K' has a literal red right hand, as his real one was "incinerated" during the first "live firing" after Kyo's blood was infused into him. He's more of the ''[[
* Hitting the obscure, Doll Master from ''[[Threads of Fate]]'' had a massive, evil right hand of death.
* In one of the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' games, the [[Big Bad]] is {{spoiler|your defendant, Matt Engarde}}. He looks innocuous enough, until he pulls [[The Reveal]], which consists of {{spoiler|giving ''himself'' a phone call, pulling back his hair to reveal scars on his eye, and pulling [[A Glass of Chianti|a glass of brandy]] out of nowhere just to swirl it around while grinning evilly.}}
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* The Slayer class of [[Dungeon Fighter Online]] sports a red demonic left ([[Ambidextrous Sprite|or right]]) arm, making this another literal case of Red Right Hand
* [[The Dragon]] from ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]'', Walton Simons, has unpleasant-looking blue veins covering his skin as a result of his nanoaugmentation upgrades. (It's implied that JC and Paul would, too, if they shaved the sides of their head like Simons does--they certainly have similar markings elsewhere.)
* Averted by Sephiroth of ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''. He has striking green eyes with catlike pupils but he had them even before his [[Face Heel Turn]]. Played straight with his [[One
* [[Blaz Blue|Ragna the Bloodedge's]] right arm {{spoiler|is the corpse of an [[Eldritch Abomination]]}}.
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== Western Animation ==
* [[Obviously Evil|Dr. Claw]] from ''[[Inspector Gadget]]''. He uses it to pet his [[Right
** Parodied by the Onion with Dr. Lester Mordock and his army of [[Giant Enemy Crab|super-crabs]].
{{quote| '''Commentator:''' You know, it's so inspiring the way he found success after that tragic military accident that left him using a robotic claw for a hand.}}
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* Most of the villains and villainesses in ''[[Jacob Two Two]]'' have poor dental hygiene and off-white eyes. Those that don't are unbearably clean [[Smug Snake|smug snakes]].
* A one-shot ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Animation)|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' villain, Queen Syrith, in the episode "Child of the Stargazer", had a literal red hand (it eventually turned out that an entire half of her body was like that, but her hand was her only visible deformity for most of the episode).
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Zuko's [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|scar]] and [[Expository Hairstyle Change|hair]] are used to mark him as a bad guy. {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn|After turning good]], he changes his hair to make his scar look less ugly.}}
*** Really, once we learn how Zuko ''got'' the scar ( {{spoiler|[[Abusive Parents|Fire Lord Ozai burned his face as punishment for speaking out of turn during a war meeting (against using new recruits as cannon fodder) before banishing him]]}}), it came to be a mark of Zuko as a ''victim'' {{spoiler|and his [[Complete Monster|father]] true villain}}.
** Azula, on the other hand, is obsessive about her personal appearance, and has [[Femme Fatalons|perfectly manicured fingernails she sharpens into claws]] in the second season, before her arrival at Ba Sing Se.
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* ''[[He Man and The Masters of The Universe (Animation)|He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe]]'': Skeletor: He has a skull for a head, people.
* Doctor Blight, one of the major ''[[Captain Planet and The Planeteers (Animation)|Captian Planet]]'' villains was perfectly normal, even icily attractive...until she moved her fringe, and we saw that all the face around her left eye was hideously burned. All the other villains took this so far as to become ''grotesques'' (Verminous Skumm was literally a rat-man) except for Zarm, who was a standard [[Evil Overlord]], and Looten Plunder, who was a [[Smug Snake]] crossed with a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]], though the fact that his suit was trimmed with what appeared to be zebra skin might count as an eco-sensitive version of this trope.
* Phantom Limb from ''[[The Venture Brothers (Animation)|The Venture Brothers]]'' has '''both''' arms turned into invisible glowy dispensers of death. His legs, too. And "something else" that The Alchemist decided to keep at the end of season 2. In fact, a lot of minor villains from ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' fall into this trope. Baron Ãœnderbheit has a prosthetic iron jaw and hideous grey skin. Scaramantula has a [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|scar]] or birthmark shaped like a spider on his face and eight fingers on one hand. Brainulo (a hyper-intelligent time traveller from the future) has a grotesquely swollen, bald head covered in little blinking lights. Even the Monarch, while otherwise normal-looking and even handsome, has long antenna-like eyebrows.
** While not visual, [[Dark Mistress]] Doctor Girlfriend has a man's voice.
** Spoofed in the episode "Now Museum, Now You Don't", where, in a flashback, Scaramantula assembles a Fraternity of Torment of villains who were spurned by society due to their deformity. Dr. Venture Sr. infiltrates them disguised as a stereotypical Chinese/Japanese villain with a supernumerary nipple (on his chin).
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