Left Handedness

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Strong Sad is squirrel-handed left-handed

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 Cheat
• 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)

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.
  • Despite this, Strong Bad is seen drawing right-handed in both 3 Wishes and comic.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.