History Main / DustingOffYourHands

When a character does a task such as throwing someone rowdy out of a club or defeating someone in battle, they tend to dust their hands - as in slap them past one another in an up and down manner.

[[caption-width-right:350:He took care of business or so he thought!]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'' (the source of the page image), 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!

* ''VideoGame/{{Have A Nice Death|Video Game}}'': At the end of every boss fight in the game, Death (as in, ''[[TheGrimReaper that]]'' Death) will play an animation where he victoriously dusts off his hands in satisfaction, after giving his unruly (and much stronger) employees a well-deserved ass-beating for the trouble they cause his company.

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* ''VideoGame/HaveANiceDeath'': At the end of every boss fight in the game, Death (as in, ''[[TheGrimReaper that]]'' Death) will play an animation where he victoriously dusts off his hands in satisfaction, after giving his unruly (and much stronger) employees a well-deserved ass-beating for the trouble they cause his company.

When a character does a task such as throwing someone rowdy out of a club or defeating someone in battle they tend to dust their hands as in slap them past one another in an up and down manner.

This is the character's way of saying "That takes care of that!" showing that the task was done thoroughly and easily.

Compare HandRubbing, in which the person rubbing their hands together is doing so in a sinister way, indicating that the person himself is sinister. Also compare FingerTenting, where the person cover their mouth with their hands or finger when they are lying

* In ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' in the episode Ditto's Mysterious Mansion Team Rocket kidnapps 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 dusting her hands off afterwards.

* In ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightPart2'' A soon to be unfortunately murdered man dusts his hands after taking out the trash before Richard armed with a stolen police revolver shouts "Garbage day!" before shooting him dead.
* In ''Film/YouOughtToBeInPictures'', WesternAnimation/PorkyPig returns home to the Looney Tunes studios just in time to find WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck trying to convince Leon Schlesinger to hire him to replace Porky. Angered by the realization that his friend tricked him into quitting and trying- unsuccessfully- to find work in a live-action film [[ItsAllAboutMe purely to bolster his own career]], Porky lures Daffy out of the room and subjects him to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, then walks back in to chat with Leon, dusting his hands confidently.

* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': In "The Bad Beginning", Count Olaf dusts off his hands soon after lifting Sunny in the air and setting her back down again. The text specifically describes that he dusts off his hands as if he was holding something disgusting.

* ''VideoGame/HaveANiceDeath'': At the end of every boss fight in the game, Death (as in, ''[[TheGrimReaper that]]'' Death) will play an animation where he victoriously dusts off his hands in satisfaction, after giving his unruly (and much stronger) employees a well-deserved ass beating for the trouble they cause his company.
* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPaperJam'': If you can get Wendy to get mad at Roy in-battle and beat him up, she comes out of the BigBallOfViolence doing this.

* In ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'', Blitzo dusts his hands off after his team managed 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!

** Chief Wiggums does this in "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" upon believing that he's successfully rid the mall of its rat problem [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill by letting a mountain lion loose in the building.]] Upon being asked if he's going to recapture the mountain lion, he merely repeats the gesture and leaves.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals'': In "Cap'n Spanky's Showboat", Spanky does this after pulling Alfalfa through the opening in the wooden fence.

This is the characters way of saying "That takes care of that!" showing that the task was done thoroughly and easily.
Compare HandRubbing, in which the person rubbing their hands together is doing so in a sinister way, indicating that the person themselves is sinister. Also compare FingerTenting, where the person cover their mouth with their hands or finger when they are lying

* In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' Moira Brown is shown to dust her hands off a lot when the player enters her shop in Megaton.

* In ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' Blitzo dusts his hands off after his team managed 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 ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'' 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!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the Treehouse of Horror episode, Scary Tales Come True, Homer drops off Bart and Lisa into the forest. He goes home and started dusting his hands after.