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Symmetry has often been considered a crucial element of beauty and form. So when a character designer wants to go for something bizarre, distorted, gritty or badass, they will mess with the symmetry and one of the most common forms of [[Fashionable Asymmetry]] is to make one arm much bigger than the other.
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Contrast with [[Red Right Hand]], which, funnily enough, doesn't have to be a hand and is any mutation or defect used to denote an evil side.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* There's Chad from ''[[Bleach]]'', whose spirit powers manifest as a huge armoured right arm. This gets evened out with his left arm after some training with [[Trickster Mentor|Kisuke]] shortly before the Hueco Mundo arc, though his second arm looks completely different, and both of them are much larger than the rest of his limbs, so it's still an example of this trope, [[Bonus Points|just doublely so.]]
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** In this case, it's a Right Hand of Doom because the pilot is [[The Southpaw]]: the design of the radiation arm renders it unsuitable for any task ''except'' grabbing opponents and frying them, so it was installed on the pilot's non-dominant side.
* The titular weapon of [[Busou Renkin]]'s Homunculus Kinjou is a gauntlet on the right arm. One of its abilities is to absorb particles from the air to grow to enormous sizes.
* ''[[Hell Teacher Nube]]''{{'}}s left hand is actually a prosthetic made from a sealed demon. When he unseals it to fight off the [[Monster of the Week]], it turns into a monstrous claw.
* The ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn]]'' OAV has a possible inverted example in the Banshee, which has a massive 4-digit claw dominating its left arm.
* In ''[[
* Koil Krasnov from the ''[[Ghost in
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The [[Trope Namer]]
* [[She
== [[Film]] ==
* Near the end of ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' an enemy soldier drinks an overdose of Dr. Jekyll's potion and turns into a giant monster: one of his oddities is having one arm much larger than the other.
* John Silver in Disney's ''[[Treasure Planet]]''
* The [http://www.thinklynsen.com/imagesgijoe/Picture64.png "Delta-6 Accelerator suit"]{{Dead link}} [[Powered Armor|powered armour]] in ''[[G.I. Joe:
* The titular character of ''[[Finding Nemo]]'' has one of his fins being much smaller than the other. The reason why he recieved this deformity is because at the very beginning of the film, his eggshell was cracked during the battle between his father Marlin and a barracuda.
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The Mote in
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* [[wikipedia:Fiddler crab|Fiddler crabs.]]▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Space Marines, the well uh.. [[Space Marine
** Also, Graevus of the Soul Drinkers. His right hand isn't clad in a power fist...because it's grown to about the same size as one. He has been known to use it to snap spines.
* ''[[Eberron]]'' has the Battlefist, a magic item attached to Warforged and Renegade Mastermakers/Self-Forged.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''Bomberman: Act Zero'', the [[Darker and Edgier]] reimaging of [[
* The ''[[
* The [[Pokémon]] Kingler, being based on the fiddler crab, has one gigantic left claw.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Left 4 Dead|Left 4 Dead 2]]'' the Charger special infected has a ludicrously large right arm; but a stump for its left arm.
* Similar to Kingler, the crab from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]] 2'' (Metropolis zone) definitely qualifies.
* Badass Psychos in ''[[
* Krauser's [[One-Winged Angel]] form in ''[[Resident Evil]]'' 4 has a huge arm that can be used as a weapon or shield.
* Barret in
* Jecht in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' has a massive deformed claw as the {{spoiler|Final Aeon}}. Then in ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'', he uses it to throw exploding punches.
* Colonel Bahamut in [[Contra]]: Hard Corps uses a mechanical variant of these to fight you.
* Capcom adores this trope. ''[[God Hand]], [[Devil May Cry]] 4, [[
* The ''[[League of Legends]]'' champion Riven has a relativley large right glove so she can use her [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Verses the Persian (a javelin thrower) in ''The Twelve Tasks Of [[Asterix]]''.
* [[
* [[Exactly What It Says
* ''[[Transformers]]'' designs sometimes fall into this. For instance, in ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]'', Leobreaker is capable of combining with Optimus Prime in the form of an oversized right arm. In the [[Transformers Film Series|second live-action movie]], Megatron gets an upgraded form that includes a massive cannon on his right arm (and a slightly undersized left arm for emphasis).
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* [[wikipedia:Fiddler crab|Fiddler crabs.]]
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[[Category:Personal Appearance Tropes]]
[[Category:The Right Hand of Doom]]
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