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A comedy version of this trope has Mike refusing the handshake for a humorous reason, such as Bill having just sneezed into his hand.
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Note that this trope only covers one-off interactions between characters, not a character who outright refuses to shake hands at all.
== [[Anime]] ==▼
Contrast [[Handshake Substitute]], in which someone won't shake hands but offers a different action as an equivalent social gesture.
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▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Inverted in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing]]'': when future rivals Heero and Zechs meet face-to-face for the first time, Zechs offers his hand. After a pause, Heero accepts the gesture while remarking that he's never shaken hands with anybody before. This could be because Zechs has shown himself to be very honest and honorable, especially for a member of OZ.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Batman]] likes doing this. A lot. Even as Bruce Wayne.{{verify}}
== [[Film]] ==
* In
** And it happens again in the first episode of ''[[Godzilla: The
* Jim Hawkins does this to Long John Silver in ''[[Treasure Planet]]''. At first, it's because he's a cyborg and happens to be offering a collection of knives instead of his hand in hand mode. Then it's just a sign of distrust.
* In the film ''[[Mr. Brooks]]'', Kevin Costner's character does this to Dane Cook's character.
* In ''[[Blue Streak]]'', Martin Lawrence's character, while posing as a cop, is introduced to a high ranking police officer who extends his hand to shake. He had previously spied the man applying lotion to his private parts, so instead hugs him.
<!-- * Seem to recall this happening to Daniel Jackson in ''[[
* In ''[[Tombstone]]'', Doc Holliday refuses to shake the hand of the corrupt fop of a sheriff who is in league with the cowboy gangs.
** Though this is because he's a Lawman, and has nothing to do with his corrupt foppery.
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* In Robert Asprin's ''[[Myth Adventures|Another Fine Myth]]'', Aahz offers to take protagonist Skeeve on as his apprentice, since Skeeve's teacher has just been murdered. Pleased, Skeeve offers his hand to seal the deal...and Aahz refuses, because he doesn't shake hands with apprentices. Skeeve wonders if he should have thought this arrangement through a little more.
** Much later, while searching for a missing Aahz in his home dimension, Skeeve flinches at shaking hands with an apprentice. When he explains where he picked up the habit, Aahz's old magic teacher remembers him ("It was one of his less objectionable traits") and is able to help Skeeve look for him.
* In ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone|Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone]]'', Harry refuses Malfoy's handshake when they first meet on the Hogwarts Express, rejecting him in favor of his future best friend Ron.
* ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'': [[The Professor]] Aronnax gets this treatment with Captain Nemo. Nemo doesn't distrust [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]] Aronnax, is just one of the first of many signs to show how far Nemo has been [[Madden Into Misanthropy]]:
{{quote|''I thought the commander would offer me his hand, to seal our agreement. He did nothing of the sort. I regretted that''.}}
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In season five of ''[[24]]'', Jack Bauer reacts this way to his ex-wife's new boyfriend.
* ''[[Monk]]'': Title character Adrian Monk is a germophobe and refuses to shake hands with just about anyone. If he's forced to, he will immediately turn to his assistant for a wipe.
** In one episode he voluntarily shook hands as a sign of friendship with an ex-colleague of his, who was accused (even by Monk) of being in the drug-business (which he wasn't, which was proven of course.)
** In another episode he shook hands with a succession of people, after the last one he immediately turned to his assistant for a wipe. The problem being, the last handshakee was black, leading to much accusations of racism.
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* Don does this to [[Jerkass|Pete Campbell]] in the pilot of ''[[Mad Men]]''; it's fairly awesome.
* [[House (TV series)|House]] is not fond of physical contact and often will refuse handshakes, regardless of who they're from.
* There was an episode of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' whose B-plot involved Winchester's dental woes coupled with his fear of dentists. In the end of the episode, Winchester is about to shake the hand of the man who Hawkeye and BJ brought on to handle the episode's A-plot only for them to reveal he's a dentist; Winchester immediately retracts his hand. To be fair, this was more due to his fear of dentists than any attempt at being insulting.
* In the original [[Ellen
* In a very very old episode of ''[[Baywatch]]'' a returning lifeguard refuses Mitch (David Hasselhoff's) handshake. However rather than being rude it's the first clue that an eye-disease is destroying his
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Dilbert]]'': ''|Dogbert's Rules of Etiquette
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* In ''[[Mega Man Zero]] 2'', Elpizo introduces himself to Zero as the new commander of the resistance and offers his hand after announcing his plans to destroy Neo Arcadia. Zero refuses both the plans and the handshake.
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* ''[[Questionable Content]]'': On being introduced to Dave, Steve refuses to shake his hand because immediately preceding the introduction, he heard Dave watching porn. Yeaaah.
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