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For example, left-handed sword fighters able to take advantage of right-handed fighters--a lefty's attacks come from an unusual angle compared to what those used to fighting righties are used to, making them more difficult to parry. Truth In Television for baseball, of course (and most baseball movies have references to southpaws, as do baseball episodes of TV series), hence the name of the trope: The Southpaw.
See also: [[I Am Not Left
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* ''[[Rocky (Film)|Rocky]]'' was a left-handed boxer, which led (in his backstory) to opponents refusing to face him out of fear that it would mess with their mechanics. He defeats the world champion by learning to fight righty for most of the fight, and then switch to his natural stance and go for the KO... which of course occured in maximum [[Narm]] mode.
* Ofelia in ''[[Pans Labyrinth]]'' is left-handed. It doesn't give her any specific talents, but it is a clue to her otherworldly origins, as left-handedness was once attributed to changelings.
* In ''[[The Princess Bride (Film)|The Princess Bride]]'', both the Man in Black and Inigo Montoya fight left-handed in their duel as a way of handicapping themselves to give their opponent more of a fight. Eventually they both [[I Am Not Left
* [[Die Hard|John McClane]] is a left hander. As is [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]], who portrays him. Video game adaptations tend to forget this for some reason.
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* ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'' - Greg's father trained his naturally right-handed son to switch so he'd have an advantage in baseball. When Greg points this can actually be psychologically unhealthy to do to a child, his father seems a little sheepish: "Sorry, son... Won't do it again."
* Mcgee in ''NCIS'' always uses his sidearm with his left hand.
* If you ever closely watch any [[Jim Henson]] productions, like ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' or ''[[Fraggle Rock]]'', you'll notice a lot of the characters are left-handed. This is due to most of their puppeteers being ''right-handed'', which they use to control the head of the puppet. Their left hand is used to control the hands, hence why so many Muppets are left-handed. It also doubles as a [[Shout
* Astute viewers noticed that on [[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]], Sheridan and Garibaldi had their communicators on their right wrists, while everyone else had them on their left wrists. When asked why this was, [[Word of God|series creator]] [[J Michael Straczynski]] explained that this is because both actors are left-handed.
* On [[Home Improvement]], both Tim and Al are left-handed. They dedicated one episode to showcasing tools designed for use by lefties.
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* Aika from ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]'' wields her boomerang with her left hand.
* ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'': Crono is left-handed.
* ''[[Punch Out]]'': Soda Popinski is a lefty. It's not purely cosmetic, however; [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!|dodging his attacks becomes that much trickier]].
* Amongst the four protagonists in [[Wild Arms 3]], Jet is the only one that uses his ARM in his left hand. He does however, cast spells from his right hand and since he's essentially a {{spoiler|living reincarnation of a past Filgaia}} and hence are able to do...stuff with his right hand, he might just have been conditioned.
* Guybrush Threepwood, [[The Hero]] of the [[Monkey Island]] series, is a weird example. He appears right handed on [http://miwiki.net/File:BoxartMI1front.jpg the cover of the first game], yet the same game provides us [http://miwiki.net/Insult_swordfighting this picture]. (Guybrush always fights in the same direction, so he does not have an [[Ambidextrous Sprite]].) Guybrush is [http://blog.icepick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/insult.gif right handed in the Curse of Monkey Island] and the left handed again in the [[Tales of Monkey Island]]. (But not in the cover.) Could he be ambidextrous?
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* Doug, in Nickelodeon's ''[[Doug]]'', was left-handed. It was occasionally a plot point, such as when his friends couldn't figure out why he was such a poor beet-ball player until they realized they had been trying to make him bat right-handed.
** It's shows up again in another episode where his much-beloved journal goes missing. No one can read it partly because of his poor handwriting and also because being a lefty he drags his hand through everything he writes leaving it a smudged mess.
* Tiana, from ''[[The Princess and The Frog]]'', is meant to be left-handed, as a [[Shout
* [[Mulan]] is left-handed (but she uses her right hand to hold a sword).
* William Murderface in ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' is possibly this, he signed his contract with his left hand, as did [[The Pete Best]] that had been there. Also: both Ofdensen and Melmord fenced with their left hands.
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** Most goalies catch with their left hand and hold their stick in their right but some do the opposite and the opposing team generally has to use a different scoring strategy against them because the types of shot a left-winger might normally take on the blocker side won't be as effective if the goalie has his glove on that side (and vice-versa).
You seem a helpful trope page. I hate to leave you. But there's something you don't know... [[I Am Not Left
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