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. For the more general version, see Memetic Hand Gesture. Examples of Strange Salute include: