Ask the Webternets: female mustache-twirling

[tigerfort]

A couple of days ago, I was talking to minion_of_tevildo about a book I was reading, and observed that one of the female characters was a classic mustache-twirling vaudeville villain. "Or whatever the female equivalent of mustache twirling is", I added. Despite some further discussion, and even a visit to TV Tropes[1], we were unable to discover (or decide) what the female equivalent of mustache-twirling actually is, and are now turning to all the tiny people who live in my computerthe internet in hopes of an answer. Please, dear friends, what is the female equivalent of villainous mustache-twirling?


[1] which only mentions mustache-twirling in passing on the Dastardly Whiplash page, and shockingly fails to even consider the possibility of a female equivalent.

Comments

[ceb]

Possibly filing of nails with something especially lethal-looking.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Obviously there isn't a direct physical comparison (unless we have a mustachio'd lady), so we need something that has the same effect. Which I think is: something potentially flirtatious re-directed to be menacing. I'm going to nominate lots of strokey hand-gestures, touching your victims arm or face (or even your own self). I think it might miss the malevolent glee of mustache-twirling, but it's a start.

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

Cigarette-holder brandishing?

Dalmatian-skinning?