The Southpaw: Difference between revisions

* The ability to box left-handed is a rare and (sometimes) major advantage in ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]''. The ability to switch between southpaw and a conventional stance at will is even better.

* ''[[Fooly Cooly]]'': Haruko and, supposedly, Naota's brother are southpaws, as pointed out in the DVD commentary. Apparently it has something to do with their coolness, according to the director's opinion.

* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', main character Nanoha Takamachi noticeably wields [[Empathic Weapon|Raising Heart]] in her left hand. In addition, whenever she's shown using a writing utensil, she's holding it in her left hand.

** According to the movie, the late Alicia Testarossa was also left-handed. The fact that her clone/sister Fate was ''right''-handed was a key indication that she was her own person rather than just a copy, which lead to her mother rejecting her.

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''Little Big League'', the kid manager shows his expert knowledge by correctly identifying a subversion of this effect. (A case when instead of pinch hitting for the left handed batter against the left-handed pitcher, he keeps the left-handed batter in the game). This situation comes up again in the climactic scene when the southpaw heroic batter is matched up against the southpaw Randy Johnson, [[Big Guy|The Big Unit]], for the final out, {{spoiler|and flies out to lose the game, as he statistically should when southpaw batter goes up against southpaw pitcher. Additionally, the catch that ends the game is made by ''another'' southpaw, Ken Griffey Jr.}}

* [[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.

 

* 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-Out]], since Henson himself was left-handed.

* On [[Home Improvement]], both Tim and Al are left-handed. They dedicated one episode to showcasing tools designed for use by lefties.

 

* [[Tales of Vesperia]] has a few, with a total of three people who swordfight using their left. Yuri being one, though he is just ambidextrous with a preference for his left. Schwann does, {{spoiler|and by extension, probably Raven is left-handed}} as does Gauche.

* Aika from ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]'' wields her boomerang with her left hand.

* ''[[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.

* 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.

* [[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.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==