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** Then again, this is in line with some of the films, in which Ghidora's heads are essentially hand puppets.

* The [[Everything Is Better With Penguins|penguins]] in ''[[Runescape]]'' have no fingers. So in the quest where you have to teach them to make music (for the National Anthem, no less), you have to make instruments that does not require fingers. You end up with a cowbell and a bongo.

** And then on the subject of the actual movie, the trope is played around with. Rafiki being a monkey, he does have real hands. Zazu sometimes gestures with his wings, which sometimes become hand-like, but at least he doesn't pick anything up with them. The lions use their dewclaws as thumbs, sometimes using them as hands. This is most obvious with Scar, as seen when he's tormenting a mouse (he even raises his pinky!) and in his [[Villain Song]]. Timon the meerkat is a bit odd. Meerkats in real life have very long, black claws at the ends of their stubby beige paws, so the animators gave Timon perfectly humanoid hands with black fingers to represent these. He pretty much always walks upright; from the waist up he uses his hands like a human would, both grasping and gesturing often.

* Averted with [[Owl Be Damned|Lechuku and Nechkuku]] in ''[[Okami]]''. While their outfits do have kimono-style sleeves for the wings, they also have a set of more humanoid arms for holding their weapons, and one of their attacks involves them grabbing Amaterasu with their hindclaws like a normal owl.

* In ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', the fish characters avoid the [[Tailfin Walking]] subtrope for almost the entire movie. Then they start dancing on their tails during "Under the Sea" and it just looks odd. (And, of course, Scuttle is one of the [[Trope Namers]].)

* Dr. Zoidberg on ''[[Futurama]]'' is an lobster-like alien with claws for "hands". Generally he's about as clumsy as you'd expect, occasionally even snapping things he's trying to hold in two. He does manage to write without too much trouble, and in a couple instances actually ''holds a needle and sutures a wound''. That's probably just [[Rule of Funny]], or simply years of practice. (If you had pincers all your life, you'd pick up a few tricks over time.)

* Averted in ''[[Arthur (Animation)|Arthur]]'' where the character George (a moose) was actually drawn with human hands instead of hooves.

* On ''[[Fish Hooks]]'', the characters' fins actually change shape between semi-normal fins and hands.

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