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Arguably a deliberate trip to the [[Uncanny Valley]], using the minor defect to provoke a negative audience response. Bonus points if the villain also turns out to be a demon/alien/shapeshifter etc. masquerading as mentioned above.
In heraldry, a red right hand denotes either [
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.]]
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* 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-Powered Evil Side|run...now]].
* 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.
* A villain with a literal [[Red Right Hand]] is Devimon, the first [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Digimon Adventure]]''. It's far from the only characteristic that identifies him as evil.
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* 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 [[Everything's Squishier With Cephalopods|octopus]], [http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/1551/blz19ao3.jpg latch on to his face] when Wedge blew up his ship. He never has it removed, and it just sits there [http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/937/blz07ov7.jpg covering one eye and ear], appendages going into [http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/9779/blz20dy0.jpg his nose and mouth]. Even if it had devoured a good amount of his face, you'd think he'd just have it [[We Can Rebuild Him|cybernetically rebuilt]], but no. No one ever mentions it. It's just there as a visual aid to his [[Complete Monster]] status.
** [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Krennel Delak Krennel], who later featured in the novels, had a literal prosthetic right hand that glowed red. [[Card-Carrying Villain]] to the core.
** 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
* 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.
* ''[[New Mutants]]'' member Josh Foley aka Elixir was a golden skinned mutant whose Omega-level power over biology granted him incredible healing abilities. When he used those powers to ''kill'' a villain who orchestrated his girlfriend's assassination his skin turned black and he entered a catatonic state. He got better eventually, but ever since his golden skin is marred by a splotch of darkness that keeps moving around his body -- a permanent reminder that he killed someone and that he can kill again.
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** In [[Transformers (Film)|Dark of the Moon]] he's missing about half of his face.
* In ''[[Coraline (Film)|Coraline]]'', everyone in the Other World appears to be more attractive than their real-world counterparts with the exception of those [[Body Horror|goddamn button eyes]].
* The elite Nazi mooks in ''Order of the Black Eagle'' have decidedly non-Nazi traits, such as flaming red hair worthy of a Celtic warrior of legend, or being as bloated as a sack of potatoes. The only elite mook who actually looks like a bonafide [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazi Aryan superman]] is, of course, [[The Starscream|the traitor]]. The amazing thing about this movie is that its made in the late 70's prior to any FPS game being released, otherwise the elites being markedly different would definitely have counted as a [[Shout
* ''[[Enter the Dragon]]'' has two examples: [[Big Bad|Mr. Han]] is missing one hand and likes to replace it with various killer prosthetics (such as a literal iron hand or the claws that inflicted the iconic scratch mark injuries on [[Bruce Lee]]'s character). His [[The Dragon|Dragon]], O'Hara, also has a jagged scar on his face that we soon discover {{spoiler|was inflicted by Lee's father in an attempt to stop O'Hara from raping Lee's sister}}.
* ''[[Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan (Film)|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]'' features Khan, the genetically augmented superman makes a spectacle of removing a glove from his left hand, but never removes the right glove throughout the rest of the movie.
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* In ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'', the Joker has [[Glasgow Grin|mouth-scars in the shape of a smile.]]
* Frank D'Amico in ''[[Kick-Ass (Film)|Kick-Ass]]'' has an unusual scar on his forehead that looks like a cross between a spiral and parentheses. This is never explained.
* In ''[[Flash Gordon (Film)|Flash Gordon]]'', Ming's [[The Dragon|Dragon]] Klytus wears a golden gauntlet on his right arm, making it all the more noticeable that it seems to be paralysed, possibly in a [[Shout
* In ''[[Mad Max]]'', each member of the biker gang, including the Nightrider at the beginning, has a prominent facial mole.
* In ''[[Dune]]'', Baron Harkonnen has diseases injected into his face for some reason, which gives him giant facial pustules. This was invented for the film, though both book and film versions are also morbidly obese.
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* In ''[[Dollhouse]]'' Topher's [[Evil Counterpart|slightly less moral counterpart]] Bennett Halverson has a red left hand, her dead arm kept in a sling.
* Rankel, Ming's vizier in the 2007 remake of ''[[Flash Gordon (TV)|Flash Gordon]]'', wears a long robe that obscures his legs, and does not walk, but rather ''glides'' along the floor. Additionally, and less subtly, he has a glass plate on his head which exposes his brain. In a twist from the usual, though, {{spoiler|it seems he's going for a [[Heel Face Turn]], or has been plotting like [[The Starscream]]}}
* ''[[
** Lucius Petrus Dextrus from the same series has a, er, ''[[Meaningful Name|petrus dextrus]]''<ref>Latin for "stone right hand"</ref> of his own, but he's [[Genre Savvy|genre savvy]] enough to keep it hidden under a cloak. The Sybilline sisters are well on their way, too, but their symptoms are less extreme, more easily concealed - appropriate, as they're equally a little more neutral than Lucius.
* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'', where Locke gets a [[Dr. No (Film)|Dr. No]]-like scar across his eye from the plane crash and ''was'' a paraplegic. He's the good guy {{spoiler|until the last season}}.
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== Mythology ==
* In old English myth, the barghest -- a monstrous, ghostly black dog -- could look like anything, but it would always have [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|glowing red eyes]].
* In many old English folktales, the devil could take any form, but couldn't disguise his clubfoot/cloven hoof. Perhaps some sort of high heeled shoes?
* The original ghouls of Arabic lore had a similar deal, only they couldn't hide their cloven hooves.
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** Don't forget Zasalamel's gold left eye...although [[Wild Card|no one's sure he's one of the villains or not.]]
* In the ''[[Geneforge]]'' series, canister addicts have faintly glowing skin and cold, glowing eyes. Those that have been using canisters for a long time have translucent skin, with their glowing muscles visibly reshaping themselves at all times.
* In ''[[In Famous (Video Game)|In Famous]]'', Kessler has a mechanical gauntlet covering his entire right arm, presumably to enable the long-range energy blast he uses in his boss fight. His [[Psycho Ex
* I don't know if this was the same in the old version, but in [[Tomb Raider]] Anniversary, the first time you see Natla, you know she'll be the villain. The really really long nails are a dead giveaway. Did I mention they were bright red, too?
** Not to mention that rather long (yet surprisingly sexy) face with the sharply slanting eyebrows.
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