Trope Workshop:Dusting Off Your Hands
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When a character gets in a scuffle with another character and after doing something like winning a fight or kicking them out of the premises of a club or something they slap their hands past one another up and down.
This is their way of saying "That takes care of that!", bonus points if there's visible dust from their hands.
Examples of Dusting Off Your Hands include:
Advertising
Anime and Manga
- In Pokémon, in the episode "Ditto's Mysterious Mansion," Team Rocket kidnaps Duplica's Ditto and Jesse orders it to transform into a boy in a picture. The first 2 times Ditto fails, James and Meowth laugh at the whole ordeal causing Jesse to beat them up and she dusts her hands off afterwards.
Film
- In Ruthless People Barbara affectionately dusts her hands after knocking her Jerkass treacherous husband off a pier for trying to have her murdered to receive her inheritance.
Art
Ballads
Comic Books
Fan Works
Film
Literature
Live-Action TV
Music
New Media
Newspaper Comics
Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends
Pinball
Podcasts
Professional Wrestling
Puppet Shows
Radio
Recorded and Stand Up Comedy
Tabletop Games
Theatre
Theme Parks
Video Games
- In Fallout 3, Moira Brown is shown to dust her hands off a lot when the player enters her shop in Megaton.
Visual Novels
Web Animation
- In Helluva Boss, Blitzo dusts his hands off after his team manages to murder a bunch of humans to try and outdo the number of humans Verosika's team manages to seduce. Turns out the competition was just beginning when Verosika runs a pop concert!
- In Hazbin Hotel, in the pilot Charlie picks up various lewd magazines some demon sinners are holding and throws them into a fiery pit dusting her hands off afterwards in her song "Inside of Every Demon is a Rainbow".
Web Comics
Web Original
Western Animation
- In Word Girl, Dr. Two Brains zaps Miss Power with a blaster and, thinking he took care of her, walks off dusting his hands. Turns out he didn't!