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⌈ Secret Post #2296 ⌋

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The Zodiac secret the other day made me wonder who else uses obsessive detective skills to find out pretty useless things about their favorite characters in fandom. :) Like Zodiac signs, or favorite foods, or favorite colors.

In case you still don't know what I'm talking about, for example: Hawkeye in The Avengers movie is almost definitely left-handed. He uses a bow for someone with a left dominant eye, and the eye almost always matches the hand. In contrast? Comics!Hawkeye is almost definitely right-handed by the same reasoning. :)

I do the handedness thing too! My main fictional crush is almost definitely a lefty.

Oh, as a left handed person, I do the left hand search and then happy dance when I discover a character I like is left handed as well.

Like Kermit the Frog? A leftie. Awesome.

Oh, and Renner is indeed left handed in real life. So is Scarlet "Black Widow" Johansson. I like to think that in order to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. covert agent, being left handed is a requirement.

Martin Freeman (The Office, the Hitchiker's movie, Sherlock BBC) is a left-handed. So is Ron Perlman. In fact, his left-handedness came in handy (ha!) for Hellboy; he was able to wear the Right Hand of Doom but still have his dominant hand free.

Another example: Hiccup from How to Train Your Dragon is a leftie. And he's animated, which means that was a choice the animators made, instead of just happenstance.

Edited 2013-04-16 23:50 (UTC)

So was Haruko Haruhara from the anime, FLCL. The creators thought left handed people were eccentric and therefore it would be best if Haruhara was left handed as well.

House had a bunch with left handed people as well. The actors who played Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), Forman (Omar Epps) were all lefties. And when Cuddy left in the last season, the new actress who came in to play Dr. Adams, (Odette Annable) was almost left handed.

What I thought was interesting for Fringe was the father and son characters of Walter (John Noble) and Peter (Joshua Jackson) were both left handed.

RE: FLCL Why am I not surprised...? (-:

I never noticed that about Fringe! Neat.

A bunch of the Links in the Zelda series are left-handed, with only Skyward Sword Link canonically using his sword in his right hand. (He and OoT Link are probably mixed-handed, though, just with different dominant hands.)

Data from Star Trek is, and so are Arik Soong and his great-grandson Noonien (his creator), in which case it's probably deliberate since Noonien was basing Data on himself.

Raphael from the Soul series is. Also animated, and thus deliberate and not due to the actor (Data and both Soongs are played by left-handed Brent Spiner).

Most Muppets end up as lefties just because of how they're operated - the muppeteer's right hand handles the mouth, the left runs their hands.

Ironically, when the muppeteer's left handed, the Muppet ends up right handed for the same reason.

This holds a little less strongly for live-hand Muppets (especially those where the 'right-handing' muppeteer handles both hands), but even there it's common. (If you chance on Sesame Street some time, watch Big Bird closely - usually his right hand is pinned to his belly and he does everything with the left, since as a costume Muppet, nobody can right-hand for him under normal circumstances.)

Heh, I have handedness stuff too. There was a lot of flack when Skyward Sword came out because it had an unambiguously right-handed Link for the first time in the series (due to the sword controls - it uses Wii Motion Plus, so they made Link right-handed so his movements would match with the majority population). But I'm not totally sure he - or many of the other Links - ARE just right-handed or left-handed, I think a few are mixed-handed.

For instance: both Ocarina!Link and Skyward!Link use the bow in the same way, holding the bow in their right hand and pulling the string back with their left, so that's left-eye dominant. Same with the slingshot - holding it in their right hand, pulling back with the left. However, Skyward!Link holds his sword in his right hand, Ocarina!Link in his left. That's possible evidence for Skyward!Link being mixed-handed.

Also, Ocarina!Link holds the hookshot/longshot in his right hand, indicating that it's possibly stronger than his left, so HE'S possibly mixed-handed too - a lot of people with mixed-handedness have one hand that's good at precision, one hand that's good at strength. (Same case with me - right hand is precise, left hand is strong. I'm also left-eyed, so most similar, so far, to Skyward!Link.)

Wind Waker!Link, Twilight Princess!Link (canon GC version), and Spirit Tracks!Link are probably just pure left-handed, since they hold the hookshot/clawshot in their left hands as well as their swords (ST!Link doesn't use a hookshot, but he does use a whip, and that's in his left hand), and use a left-eyed archery stance.

Useless information, whoo!

Interestingly, I seem to recall in Thor that Hawkeye was shooting right-handed, but he was shooting lefty in The Avengers. Continuity error, or ambidextrous?

No, Hawkeye was shooting left handed in Thor too.

He's drawing the arrow with his right hand, which is right-handed shooting. He definitely switched hands there.

*checks*

Hmm. Possibly ambidextrous, but it's also a different bow. And that makes me wonder if it's even his bow, and if not, who the heck else in SHIELD has a bow? I'll call him ambidextrous with a preference for left, considering The Avengers had him carrying equipment that he specifically chose to fight an invasion with. :)

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Eric Finch from V for Vendetta (the cop who's played by Stephen Rea, not the one played by Rupert Graves), is a bit of a gardener. You can see that he's got little potted plants both in his office and in his living room. I am generally kind of obsessed about the set design of that movie, actually: Finch and Dominic's office is a treasure trove of random stuff, like Finch's little blue model car and the awesome Murderboard they set up that someone actually took time to draw out and organize.

I like to do things like the zodiac, what pokemon they'd be, hogwarts house, etc. Usually when I'm drifting off and can't do anything productive.

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