1 | '''Basic Trope''': A physical defect that marks a character as evil. |
2 | * '''Straight''': [[TheDragon Drake]]'s right hand is dark-red, covered in scales and SpikesOfVillainy. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** Entire right half of Drake's body is red, spiky, [[IncendiaryExponent and constantly on fire]]. |
5 | ** Every villain in the story has a red right hand. Even the HarmlessVillain. |
6 | ** ObviouslyEvil |
7 | * '''Downplayed''' Drake's right hand is slightly tinted red. |
8 | * '''Justified''': |
9 | ** Drake [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope has embraced]] TheCorruption, and his hand turning red is an outward result of it. |
10 | ** Drake has a [[BodyHorror grotesque skin condition]] on his right hand, and it's completely unrelated to his evil. |
11 | ** Drake was shunned by society for his deformity and he decides to take revenge on the society that shunned him. |
12 | * '''Inverted''': |
13 | ** [[MessianicArchetype Saint Charles]] has a HolyHalo over his head. |
14 | ** Bob, a FriendToAllLivingThings, possesses a misleading evil-looking defect. |
15 | ** Drake is utterly monstrous in appearance except for one healthy-looking part that signifies he's a NobleDemon. |
16 | ** Drake has [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy absolutely no noteworthy physical features]]. |
17 | * '''Subverted''': |
18 | ** The heroes are surrounded by enemy {{Mooks}}. Drake jumps in... [[TheCavalry and promptly beats the crap out of Mooks]]. |
19 | ** Drake looks evil, but he's actually really kind unambiguously good. |
20 | * '''Double Subverted''': But he is actually TheManBehindTheMan or TheMole trying to convince heroes he's friendly. |
21 | * '''Parodied''': Right hands are ColourCodedForYourConvenience. Red? TheDragon. Green? EvilGenius. Black? EvilOverlord. |
22 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Drake has a red right hand, but he's not evil. Oh wait, [[TheMole yes he is]]! [[AntiVillain Or is he]]? [[HeelFaceTurn Yes, it seems he isn't]]. But he's still [[AntiHero not too heroic]]. And now he's lost his arm- hey, is that an ArmCannon?! |
23 | * '''Averted''': |
24 | ** Drake does not have any physical defects that mark him as evil. |
25 | ** Physical defects, good or evil-looking, are completely unrelated to one's alignment. |
26 | * '''Enforced''': "Oh, dammit, our characters are [[RummageSaleReject so overdressed]] you can't even tell a hero from villain!" "Then just make a villain's hand all red and spiky, or whatever." |
27 | * '''Lampshaded''': "You see that onimously-colored hand? That's how you tell who is behind everything." |
28 | * '''Invoked''': Drake's hand is, in fact, a glove made by him to look scary. |
29 | * '''Exploited''': Drake is fairly minor to the villain's plan, but he uses his deformed hand to sell himself as a major evil overlord so that the heroes will waste time targeting him. |
30 | * '''Defied''': |
31 | ** Drake camouflages his hand for disguise purposes. |
32 | ** Or, in a far more extreme variation of the above, Drake decides to cut off the hand entirely, maybe because [[EvilHand it's messing with his brain]] and/or [[LifeOrLimbDecision it's slowing killing him]]. |
33 | ** Drake decides that [[AntiAntiChrist he won't become a villain just because he has an "evil" hand]]. |
34 | * '''Discussed''': ??? |
35 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
36 | * '''Deconstructed''': Drake's red right hand was present since birth. [[FreudianExcuse Being constantly mocked by everyone and their dog]] is what [[DrivenToVillainy drove him to villainy]] in the first place. |
37 | * '''Reconstructed''': ...However, they were right about the hand being a sign that he had great evil in him |
38 | * '''Plotted A Good Waste''': Drake's red right hand has nothing to do with being evil... but it ''does'' have to do with being [[AlienInvasion extraterrestrial]]. Which is, of course, a pretty big [[TheReveal Reveal]]. |
39 | * '''Implied''': Drake has a red hand, suggesting he may be evil, but this is never confirmed. |
40 | * '''Played For Laughs''': Drake has a red hand, leading people to joke about him being "caught red-handed". |
41 | * '''Played For Drama''': Drake goes to desperate and horrible measures to find a cure for his red hand. |
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