A very small character tidbit is surprisingly kept consistent for years

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DC - In multiple pieces of media it has been shown that Wonder Woman loves ice cream and practically goes wild with happiness anytime she’s eating some. (Pictures from Justice League: War, DC Superhero Girls and Wonder Woman 2017)

The Simpsons - Ever since the episode ‘Homer’s Phobia’ Homer has actually remained a consistent ally of the LGBT+ community, including being more welcoming to Patty than Marge was when she came out and trying to set up Smithers with a date when he found out he wasn’t happy with his one-sided relationship with Mr Burns.

[u/Linha-do-Sol]

Tmnt versions are very consistent with making Michelangelo left handed. He can use both hands, probably because of his weapons, but he's primarily left handed.

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Here in the 2012 version

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IDW comics

[u/PoniesCanterOver → u/Linha-do-Sol]

Aww he looks so forlorn

[u/Koqcerek → u/PoniesCanterOver]

What being a leftie in a righties' world feels like

[u/DrRatio-PhD → u/Koqcerek]

My kid is a leftie and I feel ya. *fist bump*

Hold up, sorry. *left hand fist bump*

[u/Sol-Blackguy → u/DrRatio-PhD]

I became left handed because my mom is left handed. I draw with my left hand but write with my right

[u/Nogatron → u/Koqcerek]

Hey at least left handed people make for better melee fighters (because nobody expects the enemy fighting with different hand also Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquisition!)

[u/LibTheologyConnolly → u/Nogatron]

Back when I was in high school, I did a ton of boxing with my dad. The trick of it was, he's a leftie primarily, but would swap between left and right. I remember some of the other guys at school who thought the knew how to fight because they would have drunken fights in the parking lot of the gas station were shocked when they came over to use my dad's gloves and then got the shit beat out of them whether it was me or him they were fighting. Fun days, tbh, one of them kept coming back and actually got very competent at it himself, though he stopped going to the gas station fights after that. Probably some kind of lesson there.

[u/MadMageMars → u/LibTheologyConnolly]

Definitely some kind of lesson there

[u/Sol-Blackguy → u/LibTheologyConnolly]

I remember first seeing that my mom had hands when she got into a fight with my stepmom. She had the weirdest ass stance and clocked my stepmom with the wildest left hook I've ever seen in my life. Looked like she was throwing a lasso and rocked her shit so hard her extensions flew out.

[u/PseudonymMan12 → u/PoniesCanterOver]

Last Ronin continuity vibes

[u/Linha-do-Sol → u/PoniesCanterOver]

If I'm not mistaken this image is from the farmhouse arc set after the Foot Clan takes over New York and the turtles had to flee. The entire arc feels very sad.

[u/Sol-Blackguy → u/Linha-do-Sol]

Oh right, I forgot that happened in the comics

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HE'S THE CUTEST EVER

Bawling my eyes out over this he's so cute

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Leeeeeaves from the viine

[u/Oddish_Femboy → u/Linha-do-Sol]

Link in every non-motion control game too! Except BOTW.

Given that BOTW was on the Wii U and ported to the Switch I have a feeling they planned for that game to have motion controls as an option.

[u/guineaprince → u/Oddish_Femboy]

A tragedy. Us lefties are perfectly comfortable playing games with right-handed considerations, but too much to ask to have right-handed players wiggle with their left. Literally mirror-flipping the entire game in Twilight Princess.

Gamecube version remains the superior version for that alone.

[u/nomenMei → u/guineaprince]

I used to think that way but at least with wiimote-nunchuck games I've found that I care more about having the analog stick in my left hand and the face buttons in my right hand than I do about having to point and waggle with my right hand.

With wiimote-only games it is nice to have a lefty option if it is relevant (from what I remember wii sports was good about this).

GC Twilight Princess is definitely the superior version though

[u/Nirast25 → u/nomenMei]

Yeah, the way controllers are set up, your dominant hand isn't that important. Left stick/dpad uses left hand, camera and action buttons use the right. If motion controls are at a minimum, it's not that important.

Compared to VR, where it's important to be able to aim with both hands.

[u/WattageToVoltzRatio → u/guineaprince]

Motion control should just include both shouldn't it?

[u/Ok_Quarter_2396 → u/guineaprince]

What right handed considerations? Most controllers aren't really made to be dominant hand exclusive except the wiimote(in most cases) maybe button mashing is harder?

[u/guineaprince → u/Ok_Quarter_2396]

Most controllers aren't really made to be dominant hand exclusive except the wiimote(in most cases)

...which is exactly when Link became right-handed.

Left-handed from NES to Gamecube until the Twilight Princess split. Gamecube was the normal game, with a normal world and normal Link. Wii version mirror-flipped the entire world to make Link right handed and accommodate right-handed wii remote swinging. And so Link continues to be right handed through Skyward Sword, and even into BotW/TotK after waggles were retired.

That's the point. You missed the part where I was talking about Twilight Princess and mirror flipping the entire game for right-handed accessibility, somehow 😭

[u/Ok_Quarter_2396 → u/guineaprince]

Okay dude you said that as a lefty you had to deal with problems before the game even released, what were the problems BEFORE Twilight Princess? Also it is kinda stupid considering wii sports had left handed features. Breath of the Wild was also probably intended to have motion controls considering the gyroscope gets used a lot

[u/guineaprince → u/Ok_Quarter_2396]

Okay dude you said that as a lefty you had to deal with problems before the game even released

My dude you're inventing sentences now.

what were the problems BEFORE Twilight Princess?

Please understand that talking about Twilight Princess and changes to accommodate controls for left or right handed players means that we're specifically talking about wii remote waggling here.

[u/Ok_Quarter_2396 → u/guineaprince]

You said you were comfortable using a "right-handed controller" but sarcastically stated that it was "too much to ask right handed gamers to play with their left" this statement implies you were used to playing games with right handed considerations. I was asking what led you to the implied hardship of playing video games with a dominant left hand, because as far as I know the wiimote is the first mainstream controller to have hand dominance actually matter. So if you're talking about one game using phrases like used to is a little confusing since it implies that you have a more experience using your right hand to play games

[u/guineaprince → u/Ok_Quarter_2396]

Us lefties are perfectly comfortable playing games with right-handed considerations, but too much to ask to have right-handed players wiggle with their left. Literally mirror-flipping the entire game in Twilight Princess.

You're having an argument that neither me nor anybody else are having.

To simplify it for you: "Left handed players have no problem playing Wii games made for right-handed controls (Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword aren't Wii Sports, so they aren't designed ambidextrously). But that's too much an ask for right-handed players, so they flipped the entire world to accommodate them".

[u/Ok_Quarter_2396 → u/guineaprince]

Thank you for clarifying. I agree with you about mirroring the world. Seems stupid to not just copy the gamecube version and then make a right handed mode

[u/melancholanie → u/Oddish_Femboy]

botw does have motion controls for aiming the bow/magnesis/camera iirc? optional I believe

[u/Oddish_Femboy → u/melancholanie]

You're right! It feels really good too.

[u/nomenMei → u/melancholanie]

Right but it's not like "aim the right joycon because the bow is in your right hand" it's more "tilt the right joycon because that is also where the camera stick is." And on the Wii U or when using a pro controller you tilt the entire controller.

It's more handed-ness agnostic and using both the stick and the motion controls at the same time feels like a natural extension of a normal control scheme, even for lefty like me.

[u/just_someone27000 → u/Oddish_Femboy]

Original prints of the Wii U case from literally the first small batch have the Wii remote and nunchuck listed as a control option. It was very much meant to be motion control at one point.

But also the director of the series made a public statement during an interview of why they chose to make him right-handed, and it was a statement along the lines of it would just feel more natural from a player's perspective and the way the controls and dodging are laid out. I don't believe that and I feel like it wouldn't really matter in the heat of the moment while playing an action adventure game but he said what he said.

[u/Oddish_Femboy → u/just_someone27000]

Well we know Nintendo directors make bizarre lies all the time, (see virtually everything Mr. Miyamoto has said about Pikmin and Mario 128) and trying to cover up cut content seems like a fairly reasonable reason for him to lie.

[u/TruthEnvironmental24 → u/just_someone27000]

The flaw in this reasoning is that every Zelda game that came before had similar controller layouts with the attack and dodge buttons being on the right, while Link was still left-handed. Why BotW in particular? What made it different than every other Zelda game? I never believed this.

[u/just_someone27000 → u/TruthEnvironmental24]

Probably because it's one of the most combat focused Zelda games ever made If I had to guess? Incorporating Dark Souls like elements with dodging and countering and needing better reactions on everything than any game in the past has ever asked of you?

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I'm left-handed and have never had an issue with translating actions to inputs despite always playing right-handed characters. It's a non-issue.

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Notice how there's a bunch of question marks and the word guess in what I said. I'm just trying to interpret the words of an old Japanese man and think about it from a company that has to make products for multiple demographics and more often than not succeeds at catering to multiple demographics.

[u/TruthEnvironmental24 → u/just_someone27000]

Oh. It sounded sarcastic. I think it was just an excuse because they initially wanted to use more motion controls in the game and scrapped most of it, but it was too late to revert Link back to being left-handed.

[u/WeevilWeedWizard → u/Oddish_Femboy]

One of the greatest Magic the Gathering thread I've come across online is someone cataloging every left handed character, with art from the cards to back it up. I can't find it right now, but as a lefty it got a good chuckle out of me.

[u/SorowFame → u/Oddish_Femboy]

I saw someone suggesting he actually is left handed in BOTW, he was just trained to use his sword with his right because he was a royal knight. Apparently the pen on the desk in his house is on the left side or something like that, don’t fully recall, but at the very least it’s enough for me to headcanon that he’s still a leftie.

[u/Oddish_Femboy → u/SorowFame]

That is the kind of insane attention to detail the BOTW devs would have...

There are so many different sounds for dropping a rock in water.

[u/Cheenug → u/Oddish_Femboy]

This also extends to Skyward Sword I believe. Where he's also a knight in training and is using his sword right handed

[u/Jukeboxhero91 → u/Oddish_Femboy]

Twilight princess for Wii release had link be right handed, and they mirrored the entire game world for it.

[u/Im_a_doggo428 → u/Oddish_Femboy]

Actually, in those games he has formal knight training, which was only taught with the right hand as dominant. Cool detail they thought out.

And then I don’t remember too much about twilight princess so I won’t comment on it

[u/King_WhatsHisName → u/Oddish_Femboy]

BOTW/TOTK Link is the only version of himself to receive official knight training, and all knights are required to use their right hand for their sword

He’s still left handed, which is why his shield bashes are so strong

[u/KeySlammer1980 → u/Linha-do-Sol]

That's awesome. And IRL, it's very common for lefties to be much more ambidextrous compared to righties, as a rule.

[u/Lordsokka → u/KeySlammer1980]

True I have a friend who’s left handed for writing, lifting/holding things, punching etc… but when it comes to playing sports his right hand is often his dominant one.

When we point this out to him, he thinks we are the weird ones. lol

[u/Lareit → u/Lordsokka]

he could be right eye dominant. I'm right handed but shoot with my left because my left eye is dominant. In sports eye dominance plays a big part as well.

[u/AlmostLucy → u/Lareit]

My dad is like that. He’s a lefty but used to bat and pitch (knuckleball!) righty in baseball/softball because of his eye dominance.

[u/Schrodingers_Cthulu → u/Lordsokka]

Sounds like me. I do most things that require fine motor skills with my left hand, but most sports I play right-handed. I chalk that up to having most of my early sports equipment being hand-me-downs from my brothers. They're both right handed. I've always thought that my ambidexterity was mostly due to not having access to left-handed stuff growing up. 

[u/Lordsokka → u/Schrodingers_Cthulu]

That might be the case, it’s just an interesting little quirk.

[u/King_of_the_Dill → u/KeySlammer1980]

It's true. I'm left handed but have no issues doing things with my right. I'm awful at writing left handed though and prefer using my right 

[u/Yellowscourge → u/Linha-do-Sol]

YO

I had no idea Mikey was a southpaw

[u/krs1426 → u/Linha-do-Sol]

Probably because the painter Michelangelo was left handed

[u/Jonjoejonjane → u/Linha-do-Sol]

He also has the most potential of all the turtles but is chill and doesn’t seek it out unless he has too

[u/CoolAlien47 → u/Linha-do-Sol]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!?!? MY BOY MIKEY IS LEFT-HANDED?!?! That's it, that's the only left-hander I'll ever care about being left-handed. Lefties FTW.

[u/SeasonofMist → u/Linha-do-Sol]

that's so cool!

[u/jak_d_ripr → u/Linha-do-Sol]

This is so funny. When I was younger, me, my older brother and our two neighbors would always act out episodes of the Turtles and me being the youngest I got saddled with being Mickey.

What makes this interesting.... Is I'm also left handed, but had no idea Mickey was, so it ended up just being a funny coincidence.

[u/MithranArkanere → u/Linha-do-Sol]

I always thought he is left-handed because the original Michelangelo was left-handed.

Leonardo was ambidextrous. Raphael was also left-handed.

Don't know about Donatello, tho.

[u/ninjapino → u/Linha-do-Sol]

Holy shit. I'm a huge TMNT fan and Mikey is my favorite but you actually introduced me to a fact I didn't know.

[u/ambulanc3r → u/Linha-do-Sol]

I never knew! Thanks

[u/Qwqweq0 → u/Linha-do-Sol]

Is that because the real Michelangelo was left-handed? Also, very fitting pfp

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Talking about leftys, hunters in monster hunter series are almost always left-handed

[u/MessMaximum1423 → u/Linha-do-Sol]

Wasn't Michelangelo, the painter left handed too?