SF&F Avatar Contest: Give Me Your Hand!

Thanks to everyone who took part and voted in the last close contest, everyone.

This week, the theme is a very broad one: avatars where someone's hand or hands are prominent in the avatar.

In sci-fi and fantasy, the hands are all-important dramatic plot devices, whether it's reaching out for that elusive treasure, or grabbing hold of your nearest and dearest atop a cliff's edge, from a firm handshake with your staunchest ally, to caressing the computer console delicately and carefully, to punching out your arch enemy with your almighty fist - or maybe even severing his own hand and arm away from his body. The image of the hand itself may hold a special symbolic value in some stories.

I'll allow entries up until Saturday evening. Let's see those hands!

 

I realise this would probably be better animated with the tweaking fingers, but I don't do animated avs. Hence...

 

Till I come up with something else:

 

I was inspired by this scene from a non-sci-fi or fantasy film...

 

Oops, deleted my post while I went to find another idea.

And yeah, I've seen that clip before.

EDIT:

 

I'll go with THING from The Addams Family.

Which do you like better--the original TV version or the one from the films?

or

 

My entry:

 

^Nice!

 

Should I go with Spock from Star Trek (2009) -



- or Odo & the Female Founder from DS9 -



- or Hoshi from ENT?

 

Definitely Spock.

 

Winner!

 

...some seriously heavyweight competition up already!

...auntie, I'd go w/the original Thing.

Here's mine, a smeagol-ly snatch:

 

OK, original it is.


PS...yours is pretty cool, Klaus.

 

Hmmmm, shall I enter the Sheppard Stump from "Remnants" ?

 

Gorgeous, but the file size exceeds the board limit.

 

Couldn't find a good enough pic of the Doctor's hand in the jar, so, here's another doctor with dodgy (well, metal) hands...