History Main / EvilHand

* ''HellTeacherNube'''s titular character lost his left hand fighting a [[PersonOfMassDestruction massively destructive]] [[{{Obake}} Oni]], but was able to seal this foe as [[RedRightHand a replacement hand]]. Although he can usually keep the Oni under control, it will sometimes try to take over his whole body. [[spoiler:When it and Nube finally come to terms, the Oni willingly resumes its duty as Nube's hand, but is completely self-aware and becomes prone to playing with its host (slapping women's butts, drawing on the blackboard, pulling on [[EyeScream Nube's eye]]...]]

* In RayBradbury's short story "Fever Dream", a sick boy [[spoiler:is being taken over by rogue cells, and partway through the process his hands attack the uninfected part of him.]]

* The HauntedHouse level in ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'' has dangerous hands that pop out of holes in the walls to swipe at the players when they try to pass on through.

* MichaelMoorcock's character {{Corum}} had the "Hand of Kwll," which originally belonged to an ancient god. It acted as a PoisonousFriend, killing several people who posed a threat to Corum, but who Corum himself had no intention of killing.

* In the ''Literature/BillTheGalacticHero'' series by HarryHarrison, Bill has his left arm blown off in battle and replaced with the right arm of his bunkmate Tembo. Yes, his left arm was replaced by someone's right arm, you read it right. Besides giving him the ability to do a unique two-handed salute, it sometimes acts of its own volition when its previous owner's pride or religious convictions are on the line. Of course, then there's Bill's foot which has been replaced too often to count, including with a "mood foot" which, because of his burning sexual desires, has transformed itself into a satyr's hoof.

* Subverted in ''Series/{{Angel}}'': Lindsey, having (awesomely) had his hand cut off by Angel in Season 1, gained a mystical replacement with the unfortunate tendency to write [[Main/RoomFullOfCrazy "Kill kill kill"]] on its own due to a psychic connections to the previous owner. Other than that, though, it was pretty harmless. It turns out, that it's original owner is still alive and conscious while being slowly taken apart by demonic surgeons for organ replacements, and is begging to be be killed. Once they did [[MercyKill what it wanted]] it stopped acting on its own, though that didn't stop him using it as an excuse to cause havoc in a board meeting.

* Revolver Ocelot from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' lost an arm to an unfortunate ninja attack. His replacement--the arm of Liquid Snake--served him well... until he encountered [[RantInducingSlight Solid Snake]], at which point Liquid's enraged spirit completely took over Ocelot's mind and caused him to run off with a Main/HumongousMecha. It seems in the sequel, the two have finally learned to coexist by merging into a single personality. Ocelot also gives a [[Main/HistoricalInJoke shout-out]] to Lyon, the site of the first ''traditional'' hand transplant, where he gained his transplant: "I never trust a Frenchman," he comments, as he uses his willpower to prevent Liquid taking over. [[spoiler:The truth about what really happened is, of course, [[UpToEleven far more complicated]] ]]

** Or maybe it's Fry's hands that are the evil ones..

* In ''Videogame/Psychonauts'', whenever Razputin Aquato gets close enough to deep water, a supernatural hand called the Hand of Galochio will emerge and try to submerge him.
* The HauntedHouse level in ''Videogame/CarnEvil'' has dangerous hands that pop out of holes in the walls to swipe at the players when they try to pass on through.

* The [[HauntedHouse]] level in ''Videogame/CarnEvil'' has dangerous hands that pop out of holes in the walls to swipe at the players when they try to pass on through.

* Owain from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' pretends to have this, with such voice clips as "My sword hand twtiches!", "Can't... control!" and "Down, sword hand!". All of [[spoiler:the [[KidFromTheFuture Kids From the Future]]]] are a little ''bent'' in this game, and this plus Owain's stated preference for DarkerAndEdgier heroes is his method of coping with the ZombieApocalypse he came from.

* In the original ''Film/TheFly'', the ProfessorGuineaPig winds up with one arm replaced by a fly's appendage, and finds himself having to fight his own limb to stop it from [[spoiler: preventing his assisted suicide]].

* Parodied in the {{BBC}} series ''[[Series/DeadRingers Dead Ringers]]'', in which Michael Howard - who was leader of the Conservative Party at the time - channeled all of his evil into his left hand, which later defected to the UKIP. This forced him to cut it off, resulting in his right hand becoming evil, and subsequently defecting to the British National Party.

* The 1935 Creator/PeterLorre film ''Mad Love''in which the famous pianist Orlock suffers an accident and needs to have his hands amputated. The doctor gives him the hands of a recently executed KnifeNut, the hands remember their old skills after the operation. This was actually the second of three versions of the same film, the first being ''The Hands of Orlac'' in 1924 starring Conrad Veidt and again in 1960 as ''The Hands of Orlac'' with Creator/ChristopherLee.

A transplanted limb that often grants the bearer additional powers/abilities but has a mind of its own (usually, the original owner's). Almost inevitably, it will try to completely take over its new owner. ArtificialLimbs (like {{Arm Cannon}}s)--despite not even ''having'' an original owner--may demonstrate this property, as well, by driving the owner into an UnstoppableRage.

* A weaker condition is somatoparaphrenia, or the delusion that someone's limb is not his own. It results from damage to the homunculus, the part of the brain that tracks where each body part is, as discussed in ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19369_the-6-most-mind-blowing-ways-your-brain-can-malfunction.html The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Ways Your Brain Can Malfunction]].

* ''{{Naruto}}'''s Kabuto tried to gain Orochimaru's power by transplanting parts from one of his bodies into himself. He notes that at the start of the process the power nearly consumed him.

* Played straight in the ''DoctorWho'' story "The Ark in Space", in which the Ark's commander "Noah" is taken over by and transformed into an insectoid Wirrn, beginning with his left hand. (In one of the behind-the-scenes interviews the actor recalls how excited he was by this concept, until he saw that the Wirrn hand was simply [[SpecialEffectFailure a piece of bubble wrap that was to be taped over his real hand and dyed green with washing-up liquid]].)

** Parodied by ''Main/RobotChicken'' as "Idle Nuts", but the less said about that the better. Both the film and the TV show have Seth Green in them, by the way.
* Jim Carrey is good with this trope in ''Film/MeMyselfAndIrene'' and ''Film/LiarLiar''.
* The 1935 PeterLorre film ''Mad Love''in which the famous pianist Orlock suffers an accident and needs to have his hands amputated. The doctor gives him the hands of a recently executed KnifeNut, the hands remember their old skills after the operation. This was actually the second of three versions of the same film, the first being ''The Hands of Orlac'' in 1924 starring Conrad Veidt and again in 1960 as ''The Hands of Orlac'' with Creator/ChristopherLee.

* Parodied in the {{BBC}} series ''[[Series.DeadRingers Dead Ringers]]'', in which Michael Howard - who was leader of the Conservative Party at the time - channelled all of his evil into his left hand, which later defected to the UKIP. This forced him to cut it off, resulting in his right hand becoming evil, and subsequently defecting to the British National Party.

* On ''{{SCTV}}'', Dave Thomas portrayed MichaelCaine in a spoof promo for ''My Bloody Hand'', parodying the 1981 movie ''The Hand''.

* Ash in ''Franchise/EvilDead 2'' was forced to chainsaw his own hand off when it took on a life of its own. Unfortunately, [[HelpingHands it kept trying to kill him]]. But he found a [[ChainsawGood really cool]] use for the stump.

* Comedy ''IdleHands'' is about a slacker whose possessed arm goes on a killing spree around a suburban neighborhood.

* Jim Carrey is good with this trope in MeMyselfAndIrene and LiarLiar.

* In ''PrincessMononoke'', Ashitaka's demon-touched arm keeps trying to kill people.

* Creator/StephenKing's short story "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_the_Doorway I Am The Doorway]]" (published in the collection ''NightShift'') was based around this trope. Although, technically, they weren't so much evil as the protagonist in a CosmicHorrorStory. We're much less likely to look upon killing mind-numbing alien terrors sympathetically when those terrors are ''[[HumansThroughAlienEyes humans]]'', [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman not tentacled, chitinous monstrosities.]]

* Roger's hand in ''CollegeRoomiesFromHell''. It starts out as the usual gag where someone paints a face on their hand and starts consulting it as a person. It goes on with the hand gaining a personality of its own. Then, Mr. Hand learns that he can make Roger sleepwalk... did I mention that this is one of the homicidal Evil Hands?

* In ''The Body Politic'' by CliveBarker, pretty close to all of the hands of humanity decide to cast off the chains of bodily attachment. Bloodily, of course, given this is Clive Barker.

* Odd non-evil example in {{Goblins}}. [[StarfishAlien Klik]] gives Dies Horribly a replacement arm made of living metal. When he gets scared, the arm [[ShapeshifterWeapon grows blades and spikes]] to defend him. Unfortunately, the (many) situations in which he gets scared tend to go downhill fast if you start brandishing spiky things (and when it goes south he gets even more scared, and the arm gets spikier, and...).

* Owain from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' pretends to have this, with such voice clips as "My sword hand twtiches!", "Can't... control!" and "Down, sword hand!". All of [[spoiler: the [[KidFromTheFuture Kids From the Future]] ]] are a little ''bent'' in this game, and this plus Owain's stated preference for DarkerAndEdgier heroes is his method of coping with the ZombieApocalypse he came from.

* Owain from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' pretends to have this, with such voice clips as "My sword hand twtiches!", "Can't...control!" and "Down, sword hand!". All of [[spoiler: the [[KidFromTheFuture Kids From the Future]] ]] are a little ''bent'' in this game, and this plus Owain's stated preference for DarkerAndEdgier heroes is his method of coping with the ZombieApocalypse he came from.

* Revolver Ocelot from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' lost an arm to an unfortunate ninja attack. His replacement--the arm of Liquid Snake--served him well... until he encountered [[RantInducingSlight Solid Snake]], at which point Liquid's enraged spirit completely took over Ocelot's mind and caused him to run off with a Main/HumongousMecha. It seems in the sequel, the two have finally learned to coexist by merging into a single personality. Ocelot also gives a [[Main/HistoricalInJoke shout-out]] to Lyon, the site of the first ''traditional'' hand transplant, where he gained his transplant: "I never trust a Frenchman," he comments, as he uses his willpower to prevent Liquid taking over. [[spoiler: the truth about what really happened is, of course, [[UpToEleven far more complicated]] ]]

* [[TheDragon Saren]] from ''Videogame/MassEffect'' after [[BigBad Sovereign]] gives him 'implants'.

* Kaoru Kino of ''KamenRiderAgito'' had his arm replaced with that of his brother after they were both caught in a snowstorm during a mountain climbing expedition. His brother died and Kino's arm was lost to frostbite. However, it seems like the arm has a mind of its own at times... though in an inversion of the usual trope, since Kino is the one that's pretty crazy, the arm often tries to ''stop'' him doing evil things.
** Then there's Ankh from ''KamenRiderOOO'' who is nothing but an evil hand. He completely takes over his host due to the fact that he's dying and unconscious.

* In the original ''The Fly'', the ProfessorGuineaPig winds up with one arm replaced by a fly's appendage, and finds himself having to fight his own limb to stop it from [[spoiler: preventing his assisted suicide]].

* Shinichi from the manga ''{{Parasyte}}'' wound up with a talking, shapeshifting alien symbiote hand after managing to prevent it from spreading to and consuming his brain. In a bit of a subversion, since its fate is tied to its host's survival, Migi is actually pretty cooperative and tries to look out for Shinichi's best interests, but has no concept of human empathy or standards of behavior--in response to his host's attraction to a girl in his class, it turns into a ''giant penis'' in the middle of a restaurant, and that's just not right!