History Main / IAmNotLeftHanded

* Played with in SuperRobotWars. Sanger Zonvolt is best known for piloting a mech whose only weapon is [[{{BFS}} the Type-3 Zankantou]] and which uses a custom operating system that turns it into a MotionCaptureMecha. In OG Gaiden, a villain tries to take advantage of this by disabling the Zankantou, only for Sanger to switch back to the default OS and kick his ass with the onboard weapon systems. The catch is that these weapons had never made any kind of in-game appearance before and had only been referred to via concept art in the artbooks for SRW Alpha 2 (where Daizengar made its first appearance). So it's less "I Am Not Left Handed" and more "I ''AM'' Left Handed, [[{{Badass}} But I Can Kick Your Ass With My Right Hand Too]]".

* yaoi/baseball manga ''Perfect XXX''. After pitching a few perfect games with his left hand, an opposing hitter actually hits a home run off of one of Kenshiro's pitches in the first inning, so the the next inning Kenshiro surprises everyone (well everyone on the other team and Ayato) by pitching with his right hand. [[spoiler: Apparently the whole reason Kenshiro even used his left hand for everything (eating, writing, etc.) was to try to score points with Ayato, because Ayato said "Lefties are cool".]]

* Brian Daley's[[hottip:*: the same writer who gave us ''Han Solo's Revenge'', above]] ''The Starfollowers of Coramonde'' has a character named Brodur who uses his right hand in fencing while setting up a hustle bet, and insults his opponent by saying, more or less, "I could beat you, even left-handed." Brodur '''is''' left-handed, and once the bet is for '''big''' money, he shows it.

* In an episode of the MadTV recurring skit "Average Asian", a man challenges said Asian to a game of ping pong. After losing, the Asian says "Let me put the paddle in my OTHER hand" needless to say, "He's an expert Asian! When it comes to ping pong!"

* ''StargateSG1'': [[OldMaster Master]] [[BadassGrandpa Bra'tac]]: "You are mistaken... I no longer carry a symbiote." It helps that he has a vague resemblance to Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya).

* Jack Deveraux does this while fencing Lawrence Alamain in DaysofourLives. Rather than reveal he's not right-handed during the fight, he waits until he's already defeated Alamain, to twist the knife in even more.

* {{Series/Zorro}}: Don Diego de la Vega is a master swordsman, with many awards for his swordplay in Spain. When he decides to become a sword-fighting vigilante, one of the first things he does is to dispose of his awards so as to better pass himself off as a clumsy IdleRich to his new neighbors in California. One episode's plot naturally revolves around Don Diego being challenged to a duel, and having to somehow win while ''still'' fighting left-handed (figuratively speaking) so as to avoid blowing his cover.

* In the recent ''Flash: Rebirth'' series, Superman is chasing after Barry Allen, when Superman begins talking about the races they've done in the past. Barry responds with "Those were for charity, Clark," and immediately speeds off, leaving Superman dumbfounded and far, far behind.

* [[OldMaster Oro]] from the ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' series keeps his arm binded in his gi sleeve so he doesn't accidentally kill his opponents. He gets to use both his arms in powered-up versions of his supers in ''Third Strike''.

-->'''BUFFY:''' When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was [[BerserkButton touching my stuff]].\\
'''SUNDAY:''' What about breaking your arm? How'd that feel?\\
'''BUFFY:''' [[UseYourHead Let me answer that with a head butt.]] And for the record... The arm is hurt, not broken. *Punches Sunday halfway across the room with her left hand*

* [[OldMaster Oro]] from the ''StreetFighterIII'' series keeps his arm binded in his gi sleeve so he doesn't accidentally kill his opponents. He gets to use both his arms in powered-up versions of his supers in ''Third Strike''.

*** He greatest secret is that he also possesses bankai. He keeps this secret out of fear that he'd be forced to leave the 11th division and become a captain of another squad. He'll even throw a fight if he can't get away with using it in secret. Iba has revealed it's actually TheNotSecret and even hinted that perhaps it's an OpenSecret.

** It might be worth noting that the salesman seems to deliberately thrust the gun into Marty's left hand. Marty does try to switch hands, but the salesman stops him.

'''Man in Black:''' I'm not left-handed either. ''[Switches the sword to his right hand]''

*** [[FridgeLogic Fridge Logic]]? [[FridgeBrilliance Brilliance]]? [[FridgeHorror Horror]]? Take your pick: TetsuyaNomura has explicitly stated that [[UpToEleven Sephiroth has never been seen at full power.]] [[spoiler: ''[[NightmareFuel What if that's because he's NOT left handed?]]'']]

* The Evangelions of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' have armor which doesn't protect them as much as it restrains them, even being referred to as "binders" when [[spoiler:EVA-01 awakens after eating Zeruel]]. After defeating a particularly tough Angel, Unit-01 tears off its armor and scares NERV enough to put it under quarantine.

* Justified in the case of Károly Takács, an Olympic pistol shooter. He was already a world-class marksman when his suffered injuries to his right hand whilst handling a faulty grenade, whilst serving in the Hungarian Army. Determined to continue his shooting career however, he trained using his left hand and eventually went on to win two Gold Medals in the 1948 and 1952 Olympic Games.

* Károly Takács, an Olympic pistol shooter. He was already a world-class marksman when his suffered injuries to his right hand whilst handling a faulty grenade, whilst serving in the Hungarian Army. Determined to continue his shooting career however, he trained using his left hand and eventually went on to win two Gold Medals in the 1948 and 1952 Olympic Games.

* Károly_Takács, an Olympic pistol shooter. He was already a world-class marksman when his suffered injuries to his right hand whilst handling a faulty grenade, whilst serving in the Hungarian Army. Determined to continue his shooting career however, he trained using his left hand and eventually went on to win two Gold Medals in the 1948 and 1952 Olympic Games.