Left Handedness
From Homestar Runner Wiki
Although only approximately 10% of the US population are left-handed, a large portion of the characters in the Homestar Runner universe appear to be either left-handed or ambidextrous (even though some characters do not have visible arms). Since all 3 of The Brothers Strong are ambidextrous, it may be a trait that runs in the family. In fact, given how different they really are from each other, it may be the only trait they have in common.
Left-handed Characters
- Pan Pan
- Rather Dashing
- So-and-So (possibly -- see below)
- The Blacksmith
- The Homestar Runner
- The Ugly One
- What's Her Face
Ambidextrous Characters
- Homestar Runner
- Senor Cardgage
- Strong Bad
- Strong Mad
- Strong Sad
- Fightgar (possibly--see below)
- The Cheat
Appearances
- Egg Throwing Game — Strong Bad throws left-handed.
- Tis True, Pom Pom, Tis True — Homestar Runner plays the lute left-handed.
- However, in the email mini-golf, he putts right handed.
- Arcade Game — The Cheat plays TROGDOR! left handed.
- 20X6 vs. 1936 — The Homestar Runner plays the washboard left-handed.
- Email funny — Bubs is eating french fries with computer ketchup left handed.
- Email suntan — Strong Bad is seen using a left-handed marker.
- He also does this in emails couch patch, car, haircut, and long pants, and in the holiday toon Senorial Day.
- Email kids' book — One of the original characters, Gregor, is listed to be left handed.
- Under Construction — Pan Pan is shown "eating pudding with a spoon" left handed.
- Although he uses chopsticks with his right hand on Main Page 17, chopsticks are traditionally held in the right hand only, even by the left-handed.
- Peasant's Quest Preview — Rather Dashing holds the Trog-Sword left-handed.
- Email old comics — In an Easter egg, Strong Mad holds the orange spoon with his left hand.
- Teen Girl Squad Issue 8 — What's Her Face plays the bass left-handed.
- Senorial Day — Senor Cardgage signs the football with his right hand, but winds up to throw it with his left.
- Teen Girl Squad Issue 9 — What's Her Face holds the spoon left-handed when she is eating staple sauce.
- In this same issue, The Ugly One holds a Big Knife with her left hand when she carves "BFF" into the tree.
- Email space program — The Cheat throws the CD case at Homestar using his left arm.
- Email portrait — While stuck in the frame, Strong Bad is painting left handed.
- Email highschool — Homestar plays the bass left-handed.
- Email narrator — Strong Sad is seen eating his Rogan Josh pot pie with his spoon in his left hand.
- Email alternate universe — Strong Sad plays a classical guitar left-handed.
- Email senior prom — The Blacksmith appears to be left handed, since the snare drum is on the right hand side of the drum set.
- Email redesign — Strong Bad holds his spear in his left hand and his shield in his right.
- Email keep cool — Strong Bad raises his left hand, inviting the viewer to "give [him] five". Strong Sad later uses his left hand to grab a spoonful of hoisin sauce off his head and eat it.
- Email trading cards — Strong Bad uses his left hand to draw himself bench-pressing dinosaurs on a sticky note.
- Email coloring — When The Cheat is manufacturing a "laser lemon", he is holding the soldering iron in his left hand.
- Email rough copy — The Cheat is throwing water balloons at Homestar left handed.
- Strong Bad throws the water balloons at Homestar right handed.
- DNA Evidence — Strong Sad writes left handed with a fountain pen, but switches to his right hand halfway through, and then back to his left hand.
- Email mini-golf — Coach Z is playing "cack-handed": he has a right-handed stance, but his left hand is on the bottom.
- Also, The Cheat putts right-handed.
- Teen Girl Squad Issue 14 — So-and-So's "armor" includes a number 2 pencil in her left hand. However, she is later shown using a pencil with her right hand (albeit as a spear).
- Cheat Commandos (toon) - Fightgar fires a laser gun at offscreen enemies in both directions, appearing to change hands from right to left back to right as he does so.
- Email email thunder The Cheat plays a left handed flute.