| abstract | - Exactly What It Says on the Tin, a Strange Salute is simply an idiosyncratic greeting gesture featured in a piece of fiction. While understandably most common in Mildly Military series, a Strange Salute can pop up anywhere, at any time, provided that it is both common and codified enough to go beyond a mere single oddity. Note that this Trope covers only strictly fictional salutes, saluters and/or salutees. If Those Wacky Nazis set their right arms straight at a 45-degree-angle above the horizontal (and slightly to the right) to greet Adolf Hitler in a Wartime Cartoon, it's certainly a salute - one some might even find strange - but not a Strange Salute. Now, on the other hand, if it were Scary Dogmatic Aliens doing the same thing to the Big Bad in a Space Opera, well, well... For the more general version, see Memetic Hand Gesture. Examples of Strange Salute include:
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