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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.

 

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.

 

== [[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.]]

** 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.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

 

== [[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 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.

 

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* Space Marines, the well uh.. [[Space Marine]]s of ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' can be armed with power gloves and power claws. These [[Power Fist]]s are basically lightsabres in finger form when it comes to enemy armour.

** 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.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* The ''[[Bionic Commando]]'' moved into 3D with his arm chain shot going from medium sized to overwhelming tractor piece on his left side that really shouldn't allow him to stand.

* The [[Pokémon]] Kingler, being based on the fiddler crab, has one gigantic left claw.

* Badass Psychos in ''[[Borderlands]]'' have one huge arm and one atrophied, useless arm.

* 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.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Verses the Persian (a javelin thrower) in ''The Twelve Tasks Of [[Asterix]]''.

* [[Thundercats]] villain Hammerhand.

* ''[[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).

 

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