...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Southpaw Advantage
- 209 statements
- 38 feature instances
- 14 referencing feature instances
| Southpaw Advantage | type |
FeatureClass | |
| Southpaw Advantage | label |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage | page |
SouthpawAdvantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage | comment |
Since the vast majority of the human population is right hand dominant, meeting someone who is the opposite isn't something most people would expect. Some would think that it would be a handicap because left-handed people live in a world that is geared toward those who are right-handed; however, it has quite a few perks. Left-handed characters often have to adapt to the world by forcing themselves to use their right hand, which can, over time, cause them to be adept at using both of their hands/feet (as well as both sides of their body). Being left-handed can give a character an edge in various areas of expertise such as sports and combat because most of their opponents aren't used to competing against lefties since they are the minority of the population. Traditionally, baseball fields were oriented so that the batter, catcher, and umpire faced east to ensure that the setting sun wasn't in their eyes. As a result, when a pitcher is on the mound facing home plate, his left hand pointed south, so lefty pitchers came to be known as southpaws. The term has since entered general usage to indicate left-handed people which is how the trope got its name. Could be the result of a Situational Hand Switch. Contrast I Am Not Left-Handed. |
|
| Southpaw Advantage | fetched |
2024-04-10T22:02:21Z | |
| Southpaw Advantage | parsed |
2024-04-10T22:02:21Z | |
| Southpaw Advantage | processingComment |
Dropped link to ASinisterClue: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Southpaw Advantage | processingComment |
Dropped link to AdiposeRex: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Southpaw Advantage | processingComment |
Dropped link to BaseballEpisode: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Southpaw Advantage | processingComment |
Dropped link to Cyborg: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Southpaw Advantage | processingComment |
Dropped link to DamnYouMuscleMemory: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Southpaw Advantage | processingComment |
Dropped link to DireStraits: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
| Southpaw Advantage | processingComment |
Dropped link to DrivingStick: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Southpaw Advantage | processingComment |
Dropped link to Implied: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Southpaw Advantage | processingComment |
Dropped link to MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Southpaw Advantage | processingComment |
Dropped link to RingoStarr: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
| Southpaw Advantage | processingComment |
Dropped link to SignatureMove: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Southpaw Advantage | processingComment |
Dropped link to WorldsStrongestMan: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Southpaw Advantage | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_17bf000c | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_17bf000c | comment |
The Saga of the Sworn Brothers: Thormod, a lefthander and "not a strong man", is able to kill the great warrior Thorgrim Troll with an axe borne in his left hand, and afterwards makes a poem about the deed which specifically mentions it was done left-handed. This suggests Thormod credits success to his left-handedness, because Thorgrim did not expect an attack from a man carrying a weapon in his left hand. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_17bf000c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_17bf000c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Saga of the Sworn Brothers | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_17bf000c | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_1c1ceec7 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_1c1ceec7 | comment |
All hunters in the Monster Hunter games who use the Sword & Shield, the Lance and the Gunlance hold the weapon in their left hand and the shield in the right. This is explained by the game developers as a conscious choice the hunters, as they train to use their stronger arm for blocking attacks from the massive creatures they fight. They also always use the carving knife with their left hand. Every other weapon however is wielded ambidextrously or in the right hand. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_1c1ceec7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_1c1ceec7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Monster Hunter (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_1c1ceec7 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_261c8d3f | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_261c8d3f | comment |
Inverted in The Simpsons episode "Homer at the Bat"; Mr. Burns benches Darryl Strawberry and replaces him with Homer because both Strawberry and the pitcher are left-handed, and Homer bats right-handed. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_261c8d3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_261c8d3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Simpsons | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_261c8d3f | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_2e2efbf9 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_2e2efbf9 | comment |
In Back to the Future, there is George McFly's famous badassery level up scene where he decks his lifelong Barbaric Bully tormentor Biff Tannen with a big, left-handed haymaker to protect the girl he loves. In an early draft of the script, there was a scene where George discovers that his left arm is for some reason much stronger than his right (which would have been Foreshadowing). | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_2e2efbf9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_2e2efbf9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Back to the Future | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_2e2efbf9 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_2ef7cb74 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_2ef7cb74 | comment |
Lyrical Nanoha has a few left-handed characters, including the titular character. There are three examples that fit this trope. Alicia being left-handed is the first evidence for Presea to see Alicia's right-handed clone Fate as a failure. Ginga is not only left-handed, her left hand can even turn into a drill, something that her right-handed younger sister Subaru lacks, giving Ginga an advantage in armory and close-range combat. In ViVid Strike!, Vivio, who is right-handed, switches to southpaw style during her match with Rinne. * Rinne is unable to adapt to Vivio's new style and ends up losing the match. |
|
| Southpaw Advantage / int_2ef7cb74 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_2ef7cb74 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lyrical Nanoha (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_2ef7cb74 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_32a5e4c8 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_32a5e4c8 | comment |
Shirobako: This seems to be invoked by Ogasawara when it comes to playing softball, as she pitches and bats with left, but is using her right hand in everything else. Yet for some reason, she's incredible good in softball. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_32a5e4c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_32a5e4c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shirobako | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_32a5e4c8 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_33acebd8 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_33acebd8 | comment |
Sol Badguy in Guilty Gear wields his sword left-handed, in Reverse Grip no less. Naturally, he regularly defeats his right-handed rival Ky Kiske whenever they go at it. The same applies to Ragna the Bloodedge, the protagonist of Guilty Gear's Spiritual Successor BlazBlue, right down to the reverse grip, though Ragna notes in Chronophantasma that outside of that, he's right handed. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_33acebd8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_33acebd8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Guilty Gear (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_33acebd8 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_369e7a11 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_369e7a11 | comment |
Comes up a couple times in the Rocky films: In Rocky, Apollo's trainer cites the left-handed fighter's advantage as a reason why Apollo should either not fight Rocky, or should at least take the fight more seriously. Then in Rocky II, Rocky learns how to box right-handed to prevent Apollo from damaging his injured eye. But because it's not natural for him, Rocky gets pummeled. It isn't until Rocky goes back to his natural southpaw stance in the last round that he comes back and wins the fight. |
|
| Southpaw Advantage / int_369e7a11 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_369e7a11 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Rocky (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_369e7a11 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_39c20861 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_39c20861 | comment |
Subverted in an episode of the Highlander TV series. Duncan's immortal friend Carl Robinson is challenged by Myron Corman, a fellow Immortal. Corman mentions this trope and notes that Robinson, who is a baseball pitcher, has a lot of difficulty facing left-handed batters, and wonders if that is true in sword fighting as well. Corman then goes into a left-handed sword stance, brimming with confidence — and is soon beheaded by Carl. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_39c20861 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_39c20861 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Highlander | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_39c20861 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_4bf9cc7b | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_4bf9cc7b | comment |
In the Emberverse novels, Rudi Mackenzie's right arm is wounded and he has to learn to use his left arm as his sword arm. When practicing with youths in the Free Republic of Richland, they complain that he has an unfair advantage as a southpaw. His mentor chews them out for it. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_4bf9cc7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_4bf9cc7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Emberverse | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_4bf9cc7b | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_4c5cee3e | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_4c5cee3e | comment |
Like Ringo, Dennis Wilson played a right-handed drum set despite being left-handed. Unlike Ringo, Dennis also used his left hand to lead his grooves, and invented open-handed playing as a result. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_4c5cee3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_4c5cee3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dennis Wilson (Music) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_4c5cee3e | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_55d81244 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_55d81244 | comment |
In ViVid Strike!, Vivio, who is right-handed, switches to southpaw style during her match with Rinne. * Rinne is unable to adapt to Vivio's new style and ends up losing the match. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_55d81244 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_55d81244 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| ViVid Strike! | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_55d81244 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_5ce0011a | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_5ce0011a | comment |
Then in Rocky II, Rocky learns how to box right-handed to prevent Apollo from damaging his injured eye. But because it's not natural for him, Rocky gets pummeled. It isn't until Rocky goes back to his natural southpaw stance in the last round that he comes back and wins the fight. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_5ce0011a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_5ce0011a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Rocky II | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_5ce0011a | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_5d951ad3 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_5d951ad3 | comment |
In Mario Golf, any character can be lefty by pressing the L button on the character select screen. This is useful if a character has a fade or draw and you want their shots to curve the other way. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_5d951ad3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_5d951ad3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mario Golf (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_5d951ad3 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_6744d821 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_6744d821 | comment |
The Owl House: Amity Blight is one of the most gifted Witches of her generation, and only gets stronger as the series progresses. While it isn't obvious at first she is in fact left handed, a trait that is most apparent in her duel with Hunter in "Eclipse Lake", as Amity almost exclusively uses her left hand to command the Abomination Goo that she uses to fight. Additionally, her favored technique of forming an Abomination Gauntlet to punch someone is only ever seen used over her left hand as seen in "Eclipse Lake", "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", and "Clouds on the Horizon". | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_6744d821 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_6744d821 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Owl House | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_6744d821 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_6f2d1072 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_6f2d1072 | comment |
In MechWarrior, the non-symmetrical Humongous Mecha are typically 'right handed', wielding most of their firepower in their right arm and right torso; this effects everything from seeking cover to convergence when attacking enemies. A small handful of mechs are left-biased, like the Thanatos which carries a BFG in the left hand and a smaller missile rack on the right. Great for sneaking up on enemies from unexpected angles, but terrible when corner-humping with right-handed allies who only need to expose their right side to attack. The handedness of mechs even affects how they are rated on various Character Tiers-ranking websites like MetaMechs. One particularly notable example is the Thor, whose combination of odd hitboxes, small frontal profile for the left arm, and attendant left-shoulder missile drum meant that players could peek with the large ballistic weapon slot in that arm and often blast several kinds of terrific hell out of the enemy from an unusual angle of fire. Thor-A and Thor-C pilots became infamous for 'boom peeking' with their enormous Gauss rifles and Ultra autocannons. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_6f2d1072 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_6f2d1072 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| MechWarrior (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_6f2d1072 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_7041cf12 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_7041cf12 | comment |
While Kaguya from Kaguya-sama: Love Is War has trained herself to use her right hand for everyday tasks, she is naturally left-handed. Her left arm is also far stronger than her right due to it being the one she uses to pull the bowstring when she practices archery. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_7041cf12 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_7041cf12 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Manga) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_7041cf12 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_79ab0b3c | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_79ab0b3c | comment |
Alanna from the Tortall Universe deliberately practices at using her sword left-handed after her right arm is injured during training to become a knight. She keeps up the ambidextrous sword usage even after she's healed, which becomes a Chekhov's Skill in a duel against the Big Bad. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_79ab0b3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_79ab0b3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tortall Universe | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_79ab0b3c | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_83bf844d | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_83bf844d | comment |
In Song in the Silence, Lanen takes advantage of this when an enemy grabs her right arm to throw her off-balance. Being left-handed, she's completely unhindered. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_83bf844d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_83bf844d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tales of Kolmar | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_83bf844d | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_85555ea3 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_85555ea3 | comment |
Day of the Tentacle: Ned and Jed, identical twins whose only differ lies in their handedness preference. In order to bypass Nurse Edna, who is guarding the video feed in the present, Hoagie (stuck 200 years in the past) has to switch the two twins while they are making a statue so that said statue flips in the present day, allowing Bernard to push Edna down the stairs without her being able to rely on the statue to right herself. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_85555ea3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_85555ea3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Day of the Tentacle (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_85555ea3 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_8b2d4580 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_8b2d4580 | comment |
In The Prince of Tennis, Fuji's brother, Yuuta, is known as "The Lefty Killer," because he knows most lefties aren't used to playing against a left-handed opponent and he's learned to capitalize on it. Coach Ryuzaki is initially dismayed to hear this, as both Ryoma and Tezuka (considered one of the best players in the middle school circuit) are left-handed, and she initially wishes she'd had Ryoma practice against Tezuka more. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_8b2d4580 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_8b2d4580 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Prince of Tennis (Manga) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_8b2d4580 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_983a5eb1 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_983a5eb1 | comment |
Ace of the Diamond, as a baseball manga, has many lefties among its ranks. Protagonist Sawamura Eijun and major rival Narumiya Mei are the two most important examples. However, oddly, there's no real advantage to being a Southpaw in-series aside from the standard "slight advantage against left-handed batters"; of the strongest pitchers, fully half are right-handed, including the Ace of the back-to-back National Champion Komadai Fujimaki High, Hongou Masamune. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_983a5eb1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_983a5eb1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ace of the Diamond (Manga) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_983a5eb1 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_9d47a2a2 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_9d47a2a2 | comment |
A Song of Ice and Fire: Arya Stark. When her dominant hand is revealed to her fencing master, he reacts favorably because fighting left-handed will reverse her stance and movements, which will help confuse her opponents. Of course, her left-handedness might also be A Sinister Clue about her future. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_9d47a2a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_9d47a2a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Song of Ice and Fire | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_9d47a2a2 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_a5549ed0 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_a5549ed0 | comment |
The Bible: The tribe of Benjamin, who were overwhelmingly left-handed;note One wonders if the prevalence of left-handedness had anything to do with Hebrew being written from right-to-left? in a civil war between the tribes of Israel, the sons of Benjamin fielded three hundred left-handed slingers. Ehud (another Benjaminite who's left-handed) hides a sword by strapping it to his right thigh (where he can easily draw it) before paying a visit to King Eglon. Although the passage doesn't explicitly say so, the fact that it emphasises Ehud's left-handedness and which side he strapped the weapon to suggests that the guards missed the weapon because it was not on the side they were expecting. |
|
| Southpaw Advantage / int_a5549ed0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_a5549ed0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Bible | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_a5549ed0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_a62ee4d2 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_a62ee4d2 | comment |
In Haikyuu!!, Shiratorizawa High's team ace Ushijima Wakatoshi is left-handed, which is noted to give a particular advantage to spikes because most blockers orient themselves to a spiker's right. Flashbacks show how when he was young, his school attempted to "correct" his handedness, which his father (another avid volleyball player) insisted on them not doing. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_a62ee4d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_a62ee4d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Haikyuu!! (Manga) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_a62ee4d2 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_b7b5e290 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_b7b5e290 | comment |
Dhugal in the Deryni novels is noted as left-handed, including fighting left-handed. The narration in the archery yard scene in The King's Justice recounts the late King Brion's preference for his pages and squires to train right-handed (which Dhugal missed by spending much of his training years at home in Transha). Brion was grudgingly persuaded by Alaric Morgan that fighters should know how to switch off in case of injury (so as not to be left defenseless), but even a couple of years after Brion's death, Dhugal stands out as the only left-handed fighter. Dhugal will have reason to appreciate Morgan's logic in The Quest for Saint Camber when he breaks his left arm when he's swept away in a rainy landslide. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_b7b5e290 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_b7b5e290 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Deryni | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_b7b5e290 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_ba91ae7a | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_ba91ae7a | comment |
In Rocky, Apollo's trainer cites the left-handed fighter's advantage as a reason why Apollo should either not fight Rocky, or should at least take the fight more seriously. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_ba91ae7a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_ba91ae7a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Rocky | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_ba91ae7a | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_bb3b5431 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_bb3b5431 | comment |
Kane Series: Kane is left-handed, although in the course of his extremely long life he has trained himself to be ambidextrous. Which has two benefits: his opponents are usually not accustomed to fighting a left-handed warrior; and when his dominant hand is wounded, he can use his right hand almost equally proficiently. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_bb3b5431 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_bb3b5431 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kane Series | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_bb3b5431 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_ca5d97f1 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_ca5d97f1 | comment |
Subverted in Monty Python's Flying Circus, where dimwitted boxer Ken Clean-Air Systems is due to fight shorthand typist Petula Wilcox. In an interview before the fight Petula predicts that Ken will be confused because she's a southpaw. Come the match she still gets curbstomped. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_ca5d97f1 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_ca5d97f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Monty Python's Flying Circus | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_ca5d97f1 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_ce50887e | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_ce50887e | comment |
Dragon Ball: Movie villain Broly is very different from regular Super Saiyans, as his Legendary Super Saiyan Form is a huge bulk of muscle with no lack of speed. He tends to use most of his attacks with his left hand. Due to him being left handed, his intended final blow on Son Goku was performed with his left fist and Goku nonchalantly catches it with his right hand. During Gohan's first day at Orange High School, he takes the southpaw stance during the baseball game, which the P.E. teacher points out. However, Gohan doesn't have much experience with baseball and he was trying to hold back (unsuccessfully), so it is possible that he was either clueless or intentionally tries not to use his dominant hand in this game. The southpaw stance does him very little in the end, since he doesn't even hit the ball and gets hit in the face instead, shrugging it off like nothing and advances to the first base because it's a dead ball. During the super-powered Baseball Episode of Dragon Ball Super, Goku is the only one who takes the southpaw stance despite not being left-handed. However, since Goku doesn't know much about baseball (even less than Gohan back then), he's clueless in what he's actually doing. Despite this, he still manages to win the power struggle against (the distracted) Vegeta in the end, but Botamo manages to catch the ball regardless. |
|
| Southpaw Advantage / int_ce50887e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_ce50887e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dragon Ball (Manga) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_ce50887e | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_d67b8fb8 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_d67b8fb8 | comment |
Haruka of Little Busters! is left-handed. It comes up while they're setting her up for the baseball team and they briefly discuss the way she has a small advantage because of it. It wasn't so advantageous when her Big, Screwed-Up Family assumed left-handedness was a sign of weakness and beat her for it, though. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_d67b8fb8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_d67b8fb8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Little Busters! (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_d67b8fb8 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_e05a2543 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_e05a2543 | comment |
The ability to box left-handed is a rare and (sometimes) major advantage in Hajime no Ippo. The ability to switch between southpaw and a conventional stance at will is even better. Akira Shigeta, the first southpaw opponent that Ippo faces (although it's only in a sparring match) is actually an intentional example. From this training he succeeded in arming himself with a strategical advantage over most boxers and a strong right jab. Also, being a southpaw, his right arm's positioning allowed him to throw powerful counters, even without the rapid reaction speed of other counter-punchers. Antonio Guevara, the Filipino featherweight champion, is the first actual, natural born southpaw Ippo faces in his career, and Guevara beats him into retirement. Keith Dragon, the world super middleweight champion, is naturally left handed, but uses the orthodox right handed stance in the ring. This gives his jabs both better strength and control than most, and as the trope description mentions, he's skilled at using both hands simultaneously. Like the other world champion level boxers, he's one of the only people in the world able to meaningfully threaten Takamura. |
|
| Southpaw Advantage / int_e05a2543 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_e05a2543 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hajime no Ippo (Manga) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_e05a2543 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_e82c9823 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_e82c9823 | comment |
Black Cat 's Train Heartnet was born left-handed and became ambidextrous through training, though his left hand is still slightly faster and more accurate when he uses his gun. Notably, he spends the entire Battle on Clarken Island using his left hand alone, partly to show how seriously he is taking the job and his opponents. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_e82c9823 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_e82c9823 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Black Cat (Manga) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_e82c9823 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_eb3ca096 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_eb3ca096 | comment |
Implied in Good Luck Girl!. Momiji wears a large gauze wrap on her right hand, which is covered in runes which unleash a dark spell when revealed. Since she can't use her right hand normally, it can be assumed that she's left-handed. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_eb3ca096 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_eb3ca096 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Good Luck Girl! (Manga) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_eb3ca096 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_eef5470a | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_eef5470a | comment |
In Rurouni Kenshin, Saito's Signature Move is the gatotsu, a ridiculously powerful left-handed thrusting technique. This was apparently Truth in Television, though the real gatotsu likely didn't look anything like how it appears in the manga and anime, as the mangaka was basically making up something cool looking that met the basic definition of an undetailed description of how the historical Shinsengumi fought. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_eef5470a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_eef5470a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Rurouni Kenshin (Manga) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_eef5470a | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_fccc35cc | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_fccc35cc | comment |
Crusader Kings II reflects this in the Left-Handed trait, which provides a decent bonus to personal combat skill (used to determine the victor in duels). However, the historical stigma against left-handedness is also represented in the trait by an opinion penalty. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_fccc35cc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_fccc35cc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Crusader Kings II (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_fccc35cc | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_fdd11c1b | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_fdd11c1b | comment |
In Eternal Fighter Zero, Mai Kawasumi, another Iaijutsu Practitioner, is a lefty: she holds the sheath of her sword with her right hand, so she can use her left hand to draw. note Drawing with the left hand and holding the sheath in the right is rather common among fighting game practitioners of iaijutus, though in many cases, it seems to be for visual purposes (Player 1 initially faces to the right, meaning the right arm is the arm closer to the screen, meaning drawing with the right hand and holding the sheath in the left would cause the character's back to be facing the screen). Mai being canonically left-handed is the reason she is noted on this trope. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_fdd11c1b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_fdd11c1b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Eternal Fighter Zero (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_fdd11c1b | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_fee8b370 | type |
Southpaw Advantage | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_fee8b370 | comment |
In the second How to Train Your Dragon book How to Be a Pirate, Hiccup initially sucks at swordfighting, just like he does with everything that's traditionally Viking-like, although unlike every other Viking discipline he at least tries to be better at it because he thinks some day he could be really good at it for some reason. At the climax, he has to fight Alvin the treacherous with his right arm dislocated, and discovers that he's not only left-handed, but he's actually really good at sword fighting. | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_fee8b370 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Southpaw Advantage / int_fee8b370 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| How to Train Your Dragon | hasFeature |
Southpaw Advantage / int_fee8b370 |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.