Line #20 Main/FingerLickinEvil


1	[[quoteright:225:[[Anime/MyHime https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nao.jpg]]]]
2	[[caption-width-right:225:Tastes like death.]]
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4	->''"I had to fight the urge to extend my blades and lick them. That's supervillian behavior and it gets your ass kicked."''
5	-->-- '''[[Anime/MyHime Nao Yuuki]]''' (pictured at right), ''[[http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/Stories/MaiHime/SwordofTheLord.txt The Sword of the Lord]]''.
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7	[[DarkActionGirl Evil girls]] (generally {{cat girl}}s or {{dark magical girl}}s) are frequently armed with [[WolverineClaws razor-sharp fingernails]] or claws as their primary melee weapon. If such is the case, her trademark gesture is to lick her claws in a cat-like fashion with a sinister grin on her face, sometimes after drawing blood with them.
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9	They generally stop doing this after a HeelFaceTurn. Well, unless they're an AntiHero.
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11	The trope's name is a play on the iconic catchphrase from UsefulNotes/KentuckyFriedChicken: ''"It's finger-lickin' good!"''
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13	See Also: LickingTheBlade, YouTasteDelicious, EvilIsCool, FemmeFatalons and CreepyLongFingers.
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15	!!Examples:
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20	%%* Arachne from ''Manga/AngelSanctuary''
21	* Nao from ''Anime/MyHime''. Whether she's evil is up for debate, but at minimum, she's an AntiHero and she certainly plays the part.
22	%%* Nariya and Eriya from ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne''
23	%%* Delphine from ''Anime/LastExile''
24	%%* Ophelia from ''Manga/{{Claymore}}''
25	* Masato of ''Manga/MermaidSaga'' is one of the few male examples of this trope. While he doesn't have sharp finger-based implements of doom, he does make a point of licking the blood off his fingers after gouging Yuta's eye out to show how damn evil he is.
26	* Variation: Ren licks his chops in ''Manga/ShamanKing'' while his face has blood on it.
27	* Another Variation: Road Kamelot from ''Manga/DGrayMan'' licks the blood off of the sharpened candle she pierced Allen with.
28	* [[NumericalThemeNaming Due]] in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers''. [[{{Squick}} Pretty nasty, too]]--you really should clean those claws, first... [[spoiler:Especially when you consider [[BrainInAJar where they've been]]...]]
29	* Masane from the anime version of ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' is an example of a protagonist who licks her claws.
30	* Another male example would be the title character of ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', who uses his claws as his main form of attack until acquiring his ''{{BFS}}''.
31	** His [[AloofOlderBrother elder half brother]] Sesshomaru has been known to do this from time to time, although this lessens as he shifts to AntiVillain to an AntiHero.
32	* Rob Lucci, another male example, licks the blood off his thumb once during his fight with Luffy in ''Franchise/OnePiece''. It's unclear whether the blood is his or Luffy's. (He does ''have'' cat claws, but they weren't at the time.)
33	* In the OVA of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Dio rips through a group of civilians with a single slash of his hand, then laughs to Jotaro as he licks the blood from it.
34	** Licking his fingers is also one of the multiple unpleasant habits of the villain Magenta Magenta from the seventh series of the manga.
35	** Yoshikage Kira, the BigBad of part 4, licks not his fingers, but the fingers on a dead hand he cut off. He's comfortable with this, probably because he has a hand fetish.
36	* Vega from ''Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie'' [[http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1614215465 licked]] the blood off his claws after successfully attacking Chun-Li.
37	* PsychoForHire Wei in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' is seen licking ([[BloodyMurder his own]]) blood off his hand after killing a room full of people.
38	* In a battle between Ranma and Ryoga from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' manga, Ryoga manages to cause a small cut on Ranma's face. Ranma proceeds to wipe the blood off with his hand and lick it while saying something to the effect of looks like I'm going to have to get serious.
39	* Dead Master from ''Anime/BlackRockShooter''
40	* Siam from ''Manga/FreeCollarsKingdom'' often does this, to her own dismay.
41	* The ''Literature/TrinityBlood'' manga has a relatively rare heroic male example: We have Abel Nightroad [[SuperpoweredEvilSide helpfully reminding us just how scary the world would be given the existence of [[FoodChainOfEvil vampires that feed on vampires]].
42	* Elder Toguro from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' enjoys licking the blood off of his fingers from people he's pierced with his extendable hands.
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45	[[folder:Comic Books]]
46	* Sarah from the ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'' comics sometimes does this.
47	* ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'', one of Franchise/{{Batman}}'s RoguesGallery.
48	* Lady Deathstrike has extendable adamantium fingernails (originally she was just an insane swordswoman from ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'', now better known as a foe of the ComicBook/XMen, and Wolverine in particular) and occasionally licks them.
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52	* In the ''Anime/MyHime'' fan fic ''The Sword of the Lord'', Nao, who has since become a TheAtoner AntiHero, resists the temptation to lick her Element, because "[[LampshadeHanging That's supervillian behavior and it gets your ass kicked]]".
53	* In ''Ghosts of the Past'', sequel of ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', one of Dracula's chief female minions is seen licking the blood from her taloned finger-tips.
54	* "What Chapter 372 Of Fairy Tail Should Have Been" features Erza licking the blood from her fingers as she tortured Kyouka, and gloating about enjoying the taste.
55	* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': Secondary antagonist Norlock does this twice in his introduction in the first chapter, in order to taste test samples Dib and Zim's blood.
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59	* RareMaleExample: Geoffrey Rush's character in ''Film/MysteryMen'' uses his over-long pinky fingernail as a knife, cutting up Ben Stiller with it.
60	* Another male example: Kevin, from ''Film/SinCity''.
61	* Ginger from ''Film/GingerSnaps'' licks the blood from her hand more than once in an increasingly gratuitous fashion as her bloodlust increases after being turned into a werewolf. To make it even more disturbing, she seems to do it because she ''likes the taste'', not to be intimidating or sexy.
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65	* In ''Literature/SwordOfTruth: Wizard's First Rule'', [[BigBad Darken Rahl]] has a few tics, among them licking his fingertips and running them over his lips and eyebrows, stemming from his being burned by Wizard's Fire when he was a boy and wanting to do that to the burns. He does that to the scars from these burns as well, when they are not covered by clothing.
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68	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
69	* On a Wrestling/{{WWE}} show, razor sharp claw lacking Wrestling/MickieJames still managed to pull off this trope off by busting Wrestling/TrishStratus' forehead open, then wiping her hand against it and licking the blood off her fingers.
70	** Not to mention her... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYmXeUhmB2E slightly more risque use of this trope]] that actually got edited off of the DVD this match was released on.
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74	* In both the ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' game and comic, Sniper Wolf gashes Snake's face with her nails to symbolise that he's her "special prey". In the comic, she licks her fingers. It looks cool as hell until the plot explains to you that the reason the QuirkyMinibossSquad is so worried about Snake is that he's carrying ''a deadly virus in his bloodstream''. Though [[spoiler:considering she's a DeathSeeker]] it makes sense.
75	* Male example: Kartikeya from ''VideoGame/WildArms5''.
76	* Like the Western Animation example suggests, Vega does this in one of his poses of ''Street Fighter: Alpha''. Though it's more LickingTheBlade.
77	* Freddy Krueger licks one of his finger-blades while delivering a mocking on-liner in the GameOver screens of ''VideoGame/ANightmareOnElmStreetPC''.
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81	* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': The traitorous and murderous General Bell licks the blood off his fingers after smothering a badly wounded soldier to death.
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85	* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Vaetris]] and her succubi minions from the [[SuccubiAndIncubi Eastern Horde]] tend to lick their fingers clean of the blood of their enemies after battle.
86	* From ''Roleplay/{{AJCO}}'': Frances licks her robo-claws clean of [[spoiler:Cain's]] blood after she nearly rips him apart. It's as disgusting as it sounds.
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90	* Yet another male example: Vega from ''WesternAnimation/StreetFighter'' occasionally does this in the animated series.
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