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Memetic Hand Gesture
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This trope is under discussion in the Trope Repair Shop. Any hand gesture that's become emblematic of the character, series, or situation in which it appears. Cousin of Strange Salute. See also Character Tics. |
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Happy Days: Fonzie's "aaay!" thumbs up. | |
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Terminator: Both from Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the T-1000's silent finger waggle and the T-800's final thumbs up. | |
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Finn and Jake do a fist pound over the Adventure Time logo at the start of each show...and at random times during most episodes. | |
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Spike of Buffy fame once pulled a V-Sign with the palm facing away from the intended target, which made it into the opening credits. It's infamous, because the American censors didn't realize the gesture is not a variation on the victory sign, but is actually an obscene gesture in certain countries, including Spike's native Britain. While not unique, it's rare on American TV. | |
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Fire Emblem has Anna resting her index finger on her chin. Devious grin optional. Owain's hand-over-face gesture is so Memetic it's part of his character portrait, and if he's a Myrmidon, his idle map sprite has him making the very stance. |
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Sonic The Hedgehog's Finger Wag. | |
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Mr. Burns' "tapping fingertips together while exclaiming 'Excellent!'" gesture on The Simpsons. | |
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The Nintendo Direct gesture◊, putting both your hands at the sides of your face and pointing outward with them, whenever saying the word "Direct" (or in the Japanese versions, "chokusetsu", Japanese for "direct") | |
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Pointing one's arm straight up with the index finger extended is synonymous with Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and specifically piercing the heavens. | |
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Hinatazaka46 has the katakana hi (ヒ) sign (thumb and index fingers forming a C-shape and the rest put close together and pointed upwards). | |
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Amon Amarth's song "Raise Your Horns" is partly a Heavy Meta reference to the "horns" gesture in Heavy Metal fandom (hand upraised, palm facing the band, pinkie and index finger straight, thumb and other fingers curled). | |
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In Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!, Yuuta covers most of his face with his hand in his Dark Flame Master persona. Nibutani mockingly mimics it when imitating him from time to time. | |
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Adam Richman from the Travel Channel show Man v. Food is trying to establish one of these for when he starts one of the food challenges; it's not immediately obvious what it is. It appears to be three signs. First, an "M," which he's done in two ways, either three or four fingers pointing down. If he uses four, the middle two stay together. Then, a "V". Last, an "F," formed by taking his right hand and extending the index and middle fingers horzontally, then using one finger on his left hand raised vertically to make the back of the F. | |
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The Dark Knight Rises: The CIA Agent hooking his thumbs behind his belt while waiting for Dr. Pavel. Bane's habit of holding onto the lapels of his coat. |
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The military in Attack on Titan have a very distinctive salute.◊ They place their right fist over their heart, and their left at the base of their spine. | |
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Austin Powers: Just try to imitate Doctor Evil saying "One million dollars!" and your hand (with little finger extended) will move up to your mouth almost by itself. Evil Laugh is optional. The little finger is not. | |
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Matt Hardy's "Version 1" hand sign◊, shown by holding his right hand's ring finger with his thumb to make a V and a 1, which lasted long after he dropped the "Version 1" gimmick. And, much more recently, the DELETE! arm-swipe◊ birthed along with his "Broken" (or "Woken" in WWE until they get the legal issues ironed out) gimmick. Somewhat less memetic, but still strongly associated with Broken Matt would be his (WONDERFUL, yee-e-ee-e-s..!) arms-outstretched pose◊ |
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Several poses the Kamen Riders pull as they shout "HENSHIN!" become this. The poses used to be more elaborate and dancelike, the sort that these days are associated solely with Power Rangers/Super Sentai. Takeshi Hongo's is legend, and imitated everywhere. Now the poses are more subtle, but when done right, less is more. | |
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Carol Burnett pulling her ear at the end of her self-titled show. | |
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Siskel & Ebert famously awarded each movie they reviewed a Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down. Their thumbs were in fact trademarked to prevent other shows from copying them! | |
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Homestuck has Jake's "Double pistols and a wink" pose, as well as Bro's/Dirk's thumbs down pose.◊ | |
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Kamen Rider Kuuga's title character has the thumbs up, to the point where his alternate universe counterpart pulls it off as a Mythology Gag. | |
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Revolver Ocelot of Metal Gear, honorary Trope Namer. His famous two hand gun salute was originally improvised by his motion capture actor; the directors decided to Throw It In, because they couldn't get enough of it. It's so memetic he uses his last breath to repeat the gesture in Metal Gear Solid 4. Possibly memetic within the gameworld, too; in Metal Gear Solid 3, it's possible to see both The Boss and EVA doing the hand gesture. At one interview, Hideo Kojima didn't even say Ocelot's name when revealing who the Boss's son is in 3; he just did the gesture. |
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Red Dwarf's Arnold Rimmer and his Overly-Long Gag Strange Salute procedures. | |
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The Apprentice: "You're fired!" Nicknamed "The Cobra" | |
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The Legend Of Zelda C Di Games: The King's 'mah boi' pose, where he points his finger upwards and has his eyes and mouth very wide open. Though the line "Mah boi" is from moments earlier, and the line he's actually saying when making the pose is "This peace is what all true warriors strive for." | |
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The nerdfighter salute. It is accomplished by making a Vulcan salute (1st two fingers together and last two fingers together, forming a V, with the thumb extended to the side) with each hand and crossing the arms over the chest. Can also be a plain old Vulcan salute like in the page image. | |
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Elsewhere in the Marvel Universe, among the X-Men, there's the (generally not used so much anymore) Pstandard Psychic Pstance used by Professor X and occasionally Jean Grey. Not among the X-Men, Scarlet Witch often does a Spidey-like gesture in the air when using her hex power. Her earliest appearances have it so that if her hand accidentally falls into a close enough position a hex effect will happen, its target (and severity) completely random. By now, she's much better at directing it. Doctor Strange also has gestures he uses when working magic, which also look Spider-Man-esque. (It's like they were created by the same guy or something). | |
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Macross Frontier: Ranka Lee's *sparkle* hand gesture. | |
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Macross: Macross Frontier: Ranka Lee's *sparkle* hand gesture. Macross Delta gives us two versions of Walkure's "W" hand gestture - one for two hands, and one for one hand. The latter becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when you realize that it looks exactly like the LA West Side Crips gang sign. |
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The Venture Bros. has the Team Venture sign, which is when two or more people each do a V-sign high above their heads and press their fingertips together while exclaiming "Go Team Venture!" Though it started as the annoying habit of young Hank and Dean, the gesture was eventually used by so many characters that Hank declined to participate because it was "too watered down". | |
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One episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya has a "trial" scene that replicates many of these perfectly. | |
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The Bros Pose from The Frollo Show, which consists of one character performing a thumbs-up, and the other character having his/her arms stretched outward. | |
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Mass Effect 2 has made the air quotes gesture memetic with its infamous line "Ah yes, 'Reapers'". It is often rendered with single quotes (and single fingers for air quotes), because the turian councilor who delivers the line only has three fingers per hand. If you are familiar with this meme, it is pretty much guaranteed that you will chuckle every time you see that gesture (and in Mass Effect 3 there are actually several characters who make it). | |
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Twin Peaks has the Bookhouse Boys' Salute, in which one rubs one's index finger along one's eyebrow, outward. | |
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Matt Cardona's hand gestures in the shape of "L" and "I", for Long Island, both as his WWE persona of Zack Ryder and under his real name. | |
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AJ Styles' "P1" hand sign◊, involves him holding the back of his left hand against the right palm, forming the "P1" logo on his gloves. | |
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Joakim Brodén of Sabaton has a habit of gesticulating wildly between song lines, particularly doing a lunge and then beating on his right leg. It became a Fountain of Memes shortly after the video for "Bismarck" came out. | |
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Star Trek's Vulcan salute. See the Real Life section for more details. | |
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Super Mario Bros.: Mario and the V-Sign. | |
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BABYMETAL raises the traditional Japanese fox sign (little and index fingers raised and the other three fingers pointing to the front with their tips touching), in line with their lore as the messengers of the Fox God. | |
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In Mixels, the Nixels have a thumbs-down Nixel hand as their logo. It's used on various things such as flags, belt symbols, and staffs. | |
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Tendou Souji of Kamen Rider Kabuto always points to the sun when reciting his Catchphrase. Attempts at memetic hand gestures would become more frequent in later seasons. Kamen Rider Den-O is best known for spamming this half to death, with the four Imagin characters each displaying their own. Kamen Rider Fourze does this with both the title character and some supporting ones, to the extent that a scene with all the characters tied up has one guy with his hands somehow bound into his memetic hand gesture. There's also a different sound effect for every gesture. Fourze also had a secret handshake that Gentaro gives to pretty much anyone he befriends. Kamen Rider Kuuga's title character has the thumbs up, to the point where his alternate universe counterpart pulls it off as a Mythology Gag. Several poses the Kamen Riders pull as they shout "HENSHIN!" become this. The poses used to be more elaborate and dancelike, the sort that these days are associated solely with Power Rangers/Super Sentai. Takeshi Hongo's is legend, and imitated everywhere. Now the poses are more subtle, but when done right, less is more. The most well known example from recent series is Takumi's epic wrist flick, which does double duty as a suave taunt and a way to identify if it's really Takumi in the suit. An earlier example was Shinji Kido's fist pump, but the wrist flick returned with Shotaro and Shinnosuke. |
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The most well known example from recent series is Takumi's epic wrist flick, which does double duty as a suave taunt and a way to identify if it's really Takumi in the suit. An earlier example was Shinji Kido's fist pump, but the wrist flick returned with Shotaro and Shinnosuke. | |
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Wonder Woman: The pose with her wrists crossed and hands in fists which is generally associated with her deflecting an attack with her bracelets and which was modified a bit to become the Amazon salute in the Post-Crisis continuity, which can be seen on the cover of Volume 2. | |
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Jaden Yuki from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX has a salute that he tosses to his opponents after winning a duel, usually accompanied with "That's game!" | |
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Macross Delta gives us two versions of Walkure's "W" hand gestture - one for two hands, and one for one hand. The latter becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when you realize that it looks exactly like the LA West Side Crips gang sign. | |
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The Acclaimed and their "scissoring", where the two of them make V signs with their fingers and jam them together. It started with Anthony Bowens just holding his fingers downward to make an "A" for Acclaimed, but then Caster responded by jamming his own fingers into it, and it caught on. It really took off when Billy Gunn joined them, leading to the startlingly-over "SCISSOR ME, DADDY ASS!" | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is well-known for its love of Asskicking Poses, but among the most famous are Jonathan Joestar's palm-in-front-of-the-face, Jotaro Kujo's finger-pointing, and Josuke Higashikata's face-framing. | |
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Spider-Man's web-shooting gesture. It's because the trigger for the webshooters is on his palm, and designed so that only just the right pressure and a double-tap could activate it. This prevents the normal motions of his hands (for instance, forming a fist) from slinging web everywhere. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 has the sign of the aquila (crossing both hands across the chest and hooking thumbs), meant to represent the Imperium's two-headed eagle insignia. The Adeptus Mechanicus has a variant where the fingertips are folded up, representing their cogwheel insignia. | |
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Pokémon: Ash Ketchum's capture pose, complete with Pikachu popping up in a different pose and going "Pi pi ka chu!" He also does it when he gets a gym badge, with all the Pokémon that fought in that battle posing with him. It's even parodied in the episode where Tracey catches his Scyther: the episode ends with Ash lecturing him on how to properly pose in triumph after a capture. Ash turning his cap when he throws a Pokéball to catch a Pokémon. It went missing for several years but Best Wishes brought it back. |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Brohoof! (Basically a personalized Fan Nickname of the Bro Fist, see below. Does, in fact, appear on the show.) The show's variant is known as a hoof-bump and the equivalent of a high-five. |
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Mr. Saxon of Doctor Who gives this trope two thumbs up. So famous, the page image has served on at least four different pages. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, it is lampshaded by an NPC who tells Link to hold the item (an empty bottle) above his head for the world to see because it is "good for business". | |
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Ultraman's Specium Ray gesture, which is done by crossing one arm over the other like this. His many successors have had their own variants on it, and it is widely parodied across Japan (and the most common way to reference to Ultraman in the west). | |
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Diamond Dallas Page's "Diamond Cutter" hand sign.◊ | |
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Son Wukong, in addition to a ton of monkey-like mannerisms (he'll scratch himself and pick imaginary ticks off his body, then "eat" them), is most often seen peering into the distance with his hand in an almost backwards military salute pose, to signify that he's using his telescopic vision. | |
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The Hunger Games: The District Twelve salute (touching your lip with your three middle fingers and then holding that hand out) becomes a symbol of the rebellion in-universe, as well as going memetic in real life. | |
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Power Rangers S.P.D.: Bridge likes his toast buttery, and can't help but wiggle his fingers whenever he says "buttery". When called on this, he denies it - only to realize it's still happening, even as he tries to stop himself. | |
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Mork & Mindy: the Orkan greeting, coupled with "Nanu nanu," is a Vulcan salute turned sideways. | |
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The "Be Seeing You" gesture from The Prisoner (1967). A variation (with the looped thumb and forefinger over the forehead instead of the eye) is used by Psi Cop Bester in Babylon 5. |
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The vast majority of the poses and gestures made during court cases in Ace Attorney series. One episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya has a "trial" scene that replicates many of these perfectly. |
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The eponymous Viewtiful Joe has the "pinky, middle finger and thumb extended" hand gesture that he likes to use. He'll even punch people with it. There's also the Henshin pose◊ used by both Joe and Captain Blue (which is also a Shout-Out to Kamen Rider.) | |
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John Cena's weird-assed pinkies-extended fist-bump◊. And of course his "You Can't See Me" hand wave and OK signs. | |
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Transmetropolitan: Spider Jerusalem lighting a cigarette, head slightly cocked, hand cupped in front of it. Hard to describe, but if you've seen a picture of him, you've seen him do this. Gets lampshaded in-series; at one point, Channon comments that Yelena is turning into Spider, and while Yelena's denying it, she makes this exact pose. | |
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The Matrix: Bring It. | |
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A variation (with the looped thumb and forefinger over the forehead instead of the eye) is used by Psi Cop Bester in Babylon 5. | |
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Sailor Moon's sideways V-for-victory sign (while winking), as well as her thumb-index finger-pinky raised with both hands, her "In the name of the moon, I'll punish you" pose. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation has the hand gesture that Captain Picard makes whenever he says "Engage" to get the Enterprise moving. | |
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