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* BreakingTheFourthWall: This used to be a part of his gimmick... well, [[ShapedLikeItself gimmicks]] used to be his gimmick, but every Black Hand story used to have at least one lengthy segment in which Hand would directly address the readers and minuciously explain every aspect of his plan (sometimes with visual aids he'd draw himself). Perhaps he takes after [[Creator/BillFinger his namesake]] in more than one sense. His first appearance is also notable for being credited as [[EarlyBirdCameo the first appearance]] of Earth-Prime, as he pops up there without explanation to exposit his backstory to the readers.
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* TheOldestProfession: The times Guy Gardner ran afoul of him, he was running a brothel. There was actually no indication that he was treating the hookers in his employ badly or anything, but Guy still had a problem with the fact that it was him running it.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: He briefly menaced ComicBook/TheFlash in an attempt to steal his friction-proof aura. Hal Jordan himself only had a brief cameo in that story (though Black Hand's ultimate motivation was still to empower himself to be able to beat GL later).
* StarterVillain: He was Guy's first obstacle to overcome in his solo book, as he beat him and escaped when Guy was without his ring, giving him a reason to find a new power source and come back for a rematch.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: He briefly menaced ComicBook/TheFlash in an attempt to steal his friction-proof aura. Hal Jordan himself only had a brief cameo in that story (though Black Hand's ultimate motivation was still to empower himself to be able to beat GL later).
* StarterVillain: He was Guy's first obstacle to overcome in his solo book, as he beat him and escaped when Guy was without his ring, giving him a reason to find a new power source and come back for a rematch.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Undeniably, Black Hand is more powerful as a Black Lantern than he ever was back in the day. He was always crafty, and that was enough to allow him to go toe to toe with Green Lantern and even The Flash, but that was all he had. By the nineties, he'd turned into a joke villain.
* {{Tuckerization}}: His first name and partially his last name are both from Bill Finger. Finger had a "gimmick book" that he was famous for, where he'd write down plot hooks and story ideas for later. In Black Hand's first appearance, Creator/GardnerFox presents him to the audience so he can give us his backstory and we see that Hand [[RefugeeFromTVLand is in the DC offices somehow]], almost implying that he IS Finger, or an AffectionateParody thereof.
* {{Tuckerization}}: His first name and partially his last name are both from Bill Finger. Finger had a "gimmick book" that he was famous for, where he'd write down plot hooks and story ideas for later. In Black Hand's first appearance, Creator/GardnerFox presents him to the audience so he can give us his backstory and we see that Hand [[RefugeeFromTVLand is in the DC offices somehow]], almost implying that he IS Finger, or an AffectionateParody thereof.
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* CreepyChild: "The Book of the Black Hand", featured at the end of the main issues of ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', portray William Hand, during his childhood and teenage years, as one ''very'' disturbed person.
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* AllYourColorsCombined: An interesting variation, since it follows subtractive color theory for a nihilistic perspective. The blackness of unlife is said to have splintered the white light of life like a prism into the seven visible colors, but in death all colors are equally meaningless. A strange interaction with Superboy Prime has the ring attempting to assimilate him cycle through all the other colors of emotion he feels, before self-destructing when it settles on the color of Hope, taking out other Black Lanterns around him.
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* EldritchAbomination: What he really is. He can't even exist in our universe physically without a tether. In fact, it's his only weakness.
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* HumanoidAbomination: He can't even exist in our universe physically without a tether. In fact, it's his only weakness.
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* BigBad: He is the central villain of ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', given that he is responsible for the existence of the Black Lantern Corps and is using them in a plan to exterminate all life in the universe.
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* BigBad: He is the central villain of ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', given that he is responsible for the existence of the Black Lantern Corps and is using them in a plan to exterminate all life in the universe. He was also this in the Krona War arc.
