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{{quote|''"Everyone was wearing fingerless gloves..."''|'''[[The Lonely Island]]''', "Boombox"}}
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'''A character wearing such pair usually indicates: '''
* [[Badass
* Snobbery, if they're tan leather, black leather ''without'' studs or metalwork of any kind, or tan knit backs with leather palms (fingerless driving gloves);
* Poverty, if they are entirely knit with no leather, especially if
* "Rough-and-ready"ness -- the character is willing to jump straight into the action;
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|That they just]] [[Rule of Cool|look cool]].
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These gloves are recommended, but not necessary, for firing rifles. They are not, however, recommended for using pistols, although wearing them while using pistols is probably not a problem. Note that the glove is worn on the hand used for steadying the rifle, not the hand used for the trigger.
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== Anime
* ''[[Bleach]]''
** Rukia can knock the "spirit" out of people with a [http://planetrenders.net/renders/albums/userpics/44345/RukiaGlove.png magical fingerless glove]. She later gets the same type that Byakuya wears (see below).
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* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]''
** The duel gloves from Duelist Kingdom don't have fingers.
** [[Ms. Fanservice|Mai Valentine]] wears a pair of these with every outfit. In Duelist Kingdom, she wore a dueling glove. In Battle City, she wore a white [[Opera Gloves|opera-length]] pair with a more elegant look. In Waking the Dragons, she wore the short, black leather kind as pair of her [[Evil Costume Switch]].
** In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'', Kaiser Ryo wears a studded pair when he reaches the Pro League.
* ''[[Saint Seiya]]''
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** Caro uses a Device that takes the form of a pair of fingerless gloves, with large, crystalline half-orbs on the back of the hand.
* Domon Kasshu of ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam]]''.
* Hikari from ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]''. Pure [[Rule of Cool]], because there's no other possible explanation; she's a sweet girl-next-door type.
* ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'': Bean Bandit uses a pair of bulletproof gloves like these as his riding gear.
* Ginji and Juubei from ''[[GetBackers]]''.
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** Kakashi has a pair of the black leather variety, with metal plates on the backs.
** Zabuza also has a pair but his are elbow-length and knitted. They don't detract from his badassitude, though; if anything they actually enhances it.
** Other wearers of fingerless gloves include Kankuro, Temari, and Sai. The things Killer Bee wears on his upper arm and wrist straddle the line between
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has [[Robot Girl|Chachamaru]] occasionally wearing them after her [[Mid-Season Upgrade]].
* Belldandy and Peorth's signature goddess outfit/uniform from the ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' [[Anime]] have these. Urd, Belldandy's [[Cool Big Sis]], sometimes wears them as well.
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* Musubi from ''[[Sekirei]]'' uses them. She fights hand-to-hand.
* Lavi from ''[[D.Gray-man|D Gray Man]]'' wears a pair to wield his [[Drop the Hammer|hammer]].
== Comic Books ==
* [[
* [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'s Gambit wears gloves that are missing fingers, perhaps as a nod to his past as a thief. Also, his mutant ability to kinetically charge (i.e. blow up) objects depended on him touching the object. If he wore full gloves, he would only be able to blow up his gloves.
* Most archer superheroes, when they ''should'' be using [https://web.archive.org/web/20190918181725/http://
** DC's [[Green Arrow]].
** Marvel's [[Hawkeye]]. They were handwaved by the fact that for a time, he labeled and selected his [[Trick Arrow|trick arrows]] by touch.
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* [[Lady Death]] usually wears black opera-length fingerless gloves, sometimes with the middle finger intact.
* [[Flare]] wears fingerless gloves with her white cape.
* During his stint as [[The Spymaster|Commander of S.H.I.E.L.D.]], [[Captain America (comics)|Steve Rogers]] wore fingerless gloves, and kicked ass with 'em, of course.
== Fan Works ==
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* Try to find a ''[[Wicked Lovely]]'' fan image that doesn't make either Seth wear them (as part of his punk/alternative/goth/rebel/something-ness) or Irial (as part of his badass [[Dark Is Edgy]]-ness.) Go on, try.
* The fingerless gloves in ''[[Decks Fall, Everyone Dies|Decks Fall Everyone Dies]]'' emit holograms.
* Talies in ''[[The Motley Two]]'' wears a pair of these, with these characteristic holes in the back. There's actually a point to them: as a [[Geometric Magic|Writer-Mage]], he's got a special rune etched into his hand which makes him sensitive to the flow of magic, but is also painful to touch.
== Film ==
* Jiminy Cricket wears bum gloves at the beginning of ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]''. Honest John and Gideon also wear them.
* [[Anastasia]]'s purple gloves in snowy Russia.
* Costumed vigilante Casey Jones wears fingerless gloves as part of his souped-up vigilante outfit in ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|TMNT]]'' (2007).
* The title character wears these in ''[[Sintel]]''.
* Movie version of ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (film)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]''. Everyone wears them except Johanna.
* John Bender of ''[[The Breakfast Club]]'' wears them, cause he's just badass like that.
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* ''[[Serenity]]'' features this as well.
* Crispin Glover wears these throughout ''Drop Dead Sexy''. When Glover is invited by a coroner to poke at a corpse, Jason Lee says he ought to be wearing gloves. Glover responds that he ''is'' wearing gloves.
* Tonks sports a pair in ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]''. Likely worn for [[Rule of Cool]] and/or [[Action Girl
* Tuco, the "Ugly" from ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly|The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]'', wears the hobo-style gloves.
* [[Viktor Tsoi]] wears black fingerless gloves in ''[[The Needle]]''.
* Several characters in ''[[Land of the Dead]]'' wear fingerless gloves.
* Charles Xavier sports a pair while in Russia during ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men: First Class]]''. They're probably not helping him keep warm, but they look pretty damn cool.
== Literature ==
* Pratchett's ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Lieutenant Blouse from ''[[
** Albert is described in ''[[
** Also, it is mentioned in ''[[
* Bob Crachit wears these in some adaptations of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' as he's working in a cold office, but still needs his fingers free.
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090605112651/http://thelonelywinds.com/library.php The Lonely Winds]'' books, Nails wears fingerless gloves with big silver spikes mounted on them.
* Fagin from ''[[Oliver Twist]]''.
* It's mentioned in ''[[X-wing
* In ''[[The Strain]]'', [[Badass Grandpa|Abraham Setrakian]] uses them since he escaped a Nazi death camp, where he developed arthritis after [[Big Bad|The Master]] breaks his hands, and Setrakian didn't have time to set them because he was busy [[Badass|killing Nazis, vampires, zombies, and Nazi-Vampire-Zombies]].
* In one of her ''BSC'' books, Stacey McGill tells the reader that once in NY she got away with wearing fingertip-less red lace gloves for two weeks.
* In ''[[The Hunger Games (novel)|The Hunger Games]]'', Katniss cuts holes in Rue's spare socks to keep her hands warm on her way to the feast.
== Live-Action TV ==
* Liza in ''[[Beakman's World|Beakmans World]]'' always wore cut-offs. (That would be the assistant they decided not to show in the recent syndicated cycle...)
* Frohike of ''[[The Lone Gunmen]]''.
* Lister from ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' wears the black leather variety in Series V, VI and VII.
* ''[[Life on Mars|Life On Mars 2006]]''/''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'': Gene Hunt and his fingerless leather driving gloves. He's just that badass.
* Max from ''[[Dark Angel]]''
* Mitchell from ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'': wooly ones. In real life, it's because the set of their flat was apparently freezing and [[Aidan Turner]] wanted to pile on as many layers as possible. In-universe? While Mitchell's the kind of vampire who can go out in the sunlight he's still sensitive to it, so he covers up as much as he can. Obviously it just became his signature style after a
* Ryu on ''[[Choujin Sentai Jetman]]'' wheres these often.
* The First Doctor (as played by Richard Hurndall) wore them throughout the twentieth anniversary ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story "The Five Doctors"
* Mason from ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' owns a variety of knit fingerless gloves. The point is apparently to make him [[Rummage Sale Reject|look scruffy]].
* In ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', Cameron finds a way to include these in just about every outfit. This is a nod to the pair worn by the T-800 in the original movie, as noted above.
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* Connor from ''[[Primeval]]''.
* Colonel Jack O'Neill frequently wears them as part of his uniform in the early seasons of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''.
== Music ==
* Parodied in [[The Lonely Island]]'s Boombox. "Wooooow, everyone was wearing fingerless gloves/I saw a Spanish guy doing the Bartman."
* [[Michael Jackson]] circa 1987.
* ''Inverted'' in [[Lady Gaga]]'s video for "Telephone"
* Inverted even earlier in Rachel Stevens's video for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z46DmaGCpW0 "So Good"]. They covered her fingers and part of her palm, but didn't reach the wrist. They apparently became a minor meme in the UK.
* Chrissie Hynde wears them on the cover of the [[Pretenders]]' [[Self-Titled Album|self-titled]] debut album.
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* Ivana Spagna had a pair of these in her "I Wanna Be Your Wife" video.
* [[The Undertaker]] wears gloves like these in [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]. The word "primetime" can be seen on each of them (a brand of MMA gloves).▼
▲== Pro Wrestling ==
▲* [[The Undertaker]] wears gloves like these in [[WWE]]. The word "primetime" can be seen on each of them (a brand of MMA gloves).
== Puppet Shows ==
* In the ''[[Fraggle Rock]]'' [[Christmas Episode]] "The Bells of Fraggle Rock", [[Trickster Mentor|Cantus the Minstrel]] wears a pair of fingerless gloves (which, for some reason, are called mittens).
== Tabletop Games ==
* The ''Draconomicon'' supplement to the 3rd edition of ''[[Dungeons
* A lot of Ork models from ''[[Warhammer
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'':
** Both Mag and Chain in ''[[Evolution Worlds]]''.
** Geo Stelar and Sonia Strumm from ''[[Mega Man Star Force]]''.
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** Not to mention Dante's brother Vergil.
* The assassins in ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' wear fingerless gloves over slightly fingerless hands.
* In ''[[Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny]]'', Fee wears fingerless gloves.
* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', one sidequest is to obtain some fingerless gloves.
* They appear a lot in ''[[S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (series)|S.T.A.L.K.E.R.]]''.
* Faith from ''[[Mirror's Edge|Mirrors Edge]]'' wears a glove like that [[Fashionable Asymmetry|on her right hand]]. Justified, since she needs all the agility she can muster (yes, that includes fingers) but also needs a way to protect her palms e.g. during long rope slides (do ''not'' try that trick at home without gloves).
* Wario in ''[[Wario Ware]]''.
* Orphen from ''[[Sorcerous Stabber Orphen|Orphen]] Scion of Sorcery'' wears them. ([http://slackers.com/pics/games/covers/06/601006.jpg Zap.]{{Dead link}})
* ''[[Tomb Raider]]'': Lara Croft frequently wears these.
* Snake in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' wears a pair when he is pretending to be a Seal Team 10 member.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts (video game)|Kingdom Hearts]]''
** Sora wears these. Given Nomura's typical character designs, this is probably due to the [[Rule of Cool]] more than anything (especially since none of the above equal [[Adorkable|puppyishness]]). Sora's gloves are also a cooler alternative to Mickey's [[White Gloves]], as his original outfit was a [[Shout-Out]] to Mickey's iconic outfit.
** Given the kind of work Sora does and the extreme dexterity he uses in fights, wearing nothing or anything else on his hands would be downright illogical.
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* The disk-shooter glove used by Jade in ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'' is designed like this.
* A few characters from ''[[Variable Geo]]'', not only do they wear fingerless gloves, but also toeless/heeless boots as well.
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'': Niko wears them in screenshots and on the CD itself, but you cannot find them anywhere in the game. Hilariously, this was one of the most common fan complaints about the game, and they've since become a [[Running Gag]] on sites like [http://www.gtaforums.com/ GTA Forums]. The fingerless gloves ARE in the games'
* Fingerless gloves are one of many costume options in ''[[City of Heroes]]''. Just about every NPC who doesn't have full gloves or gauntlets has fingerless gloves. Street punks, mutants, hardened mercenaries, evil magic
* They're also an option in ''[[Rock Band]]''. This makes some sense, as playing a guitar while wearing gloves over the fingers somewhat kills the sound quality.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]''
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** The Sniper as well, but only on his left hand. Curiously, his viewmodels show them on both hands.
* Practically every other character in the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' series.
** ''[[Resident Evil
** ''[[Resident Evil (video game)|Resident Evil]] 1''
** ''[[
** ''[[Resident Evil 3: Nemesis]]''
** ''[[Resident Evil 4]]''
** ''[[Resident Evil 5]]''
* ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half-Life]]''
** Adrian Shepard of ''Half-Life: Opposing Force'' wears as such. With a gasmask. Of course, we're not going into the hows and whys.
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** Cloud's gloves were drawn as fingerless in ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]''.
** Zell, Irvine and Laguna from ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]''
** Rikku from ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' and ''[[Final Fantasy X
** Basch in ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]''.
** Lightning and Sazh from ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]''
** Marche from ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'' and Montblanc in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics
** Kefka Palazzo's character artwork as well as his appearance in ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'' sports these, most likely to complement the unusual and almost chaotic outfit to exemplify his insane nature.
* Ike and Zihark from ''[[Fire Emblem]]''.
* Many characters in [[Fighting Game
* Artyom, the player character of ''[[Metro 2033 (video game)|Metro 2033]]'', starts off wearing a pair of fingerless knit gloves. The stealth suit upgrade gives you a set of (full-finger) black leather gloves, while the heavy armor suit upgrade gives you a pair of fingerless, olive green combat gloves.
* Nowe from ''[[Drakengard]] 2'' wears them.
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* Blackwatch soldiers in ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]'' wear them... [[Fridge Logic|oddly enough, considering that they're a biohazard unit]].
* [[Scary Black Man]] James Heller wears these in ''[[Prototype 2]]''.
* [[Star Fox (series)|Wolf O'Donnell]] for his outfit in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Brawl''.
* Fingerless baseball gloves are an option at the clothing shop you visit as part of the prologue of ''[[Saints Row]] 2''. You can also choose to wear them on just one hand.
* ''[[Brink]]'' has a huge number of possible outfits you can give your character, but you can't not wear fingerless gloves.
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* Kate in ''[[Syberia]]'' 2 gets one with her warm outfit before setting off to her journey.
=== Visual Novel ===▼
▲== Visual Novel ==
* Kishima Kouma in ''[[Tsukihime|Kagetsu Tohya]]''. He's the guy who killed Shiki's father when the Tohno family attacked. He's described as the perfect blend of demon and human blood. Since he's so badass, despite having [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|inverted]] he remains rather rational.
== Web Animation ==
* Hank from ''[[Madness Combat]]'' ends up wearing a pair.
== Web Comics ==
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* Richard the Warlock from ''[[Looking for Group]]''. It sure is a part of his overall "evil" allure, especially since his fingers look like claws.
* From ''[http://www.interrobangstudios.com/di/index.php The Dark Intruder]'', Smart Girl wears the badass kind.
* Monica of ''[[Webcomic/Looking For Group Wapsi Square|Looking For Group Wapsi Square]]'' wore these as part of a roller derby costume for a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130921025745/http://wapsisquare.com/comic/happy-halloween-2/ Halloween filler strip.]
▲* George and Trixabelle wear some in [[Mokepon]].
== Web Original ==
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* Lancer of the ''[[Whateley Universe]]'' tried a superhero costume with fingerless gloves, camo pants, and other "urban badass" motifs. Since he can hit with five tons of force, the gloves are not exactly needed.
* The few descriptions of Eric in ''[[Mall Fight]]'' (''Mall Fight'' not being a visual medium) have him wearing these.
== Western Animation ==
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* Speedy gets to wear these in ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''. Partially to serve as an arm protector (he is an archer after all) and partially because they look cool.
* [[Cybersix]] wears these.
* Several characters in the second ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' series wear these, most notably Casey Jones in his movie-inspired ''Back to the Sewer'' look.
* ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]'': Long fingerless black gloves lend [[Goth]] gal Lydia Deetz a touch of class.
* Evangelyne from ''[[Wakfu]]'', another archer, also wears long fingerless black gloves as part of her season 2 outfit.
* Peep on ''[[Jimmy Two-
* The [[Swat Kats]] wear them.
* ''[[Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?]]''
== Real Life ==
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** Particularly common for gunners aboard bombers in [[World War II]]. They were fighting at altitudes of 20,000 or 30,000 feet up, so it was punishingly windy and cold, and the machine guns were not designed with the thick gloves in mind, so they'd cut off the index finger so they could work the trigger.
* In marching bands, clarinets will often be played with fingerless gloves, if gloves are worn at all, because of the mechanics of the instrument needing bare fingers, unlike most other woodwinds.
** So do flutes/piccolos. It's easier to play sans gloves. And hey, flutes and clarinets can be pretty badass. Maybe.
** Some brass players cut off the finger tips of gloves on their right hand so they don't slip off the valves while playing.
* While the coolness of fingerless gloves in generally played straight in fiction, Japan also considers them uncool in real life because they are a stereotypical mainstay of [[Otaku]] fashion...and said otaku probably wear them because of said fiction.
* Studded leather fingerless gloves are also very popular with the metalhead community; often worn with studded wristbands and other spiky clothing.
* In medicine, latex or nitrile gloves are worn as protection from bodily fluids, but some doctors, nurses, and other personnel engaged in phlebotomy will rip off the index finger of the gloves in order to palpate suitable veins to start IVs.
* Open-fingered gloves are standard in [[
* Rifle and sabre spinners in color/winterguard often wear these on one (usually the right) or both hands to reduce the pain of catching their weapons.
* Savvier roller coaster operators are occasionally seen with biking gloves, as they reduce the chances of injuring one's hands while checking restraints.
* Fingerless gloves with padded palms are popular with bodybuilders, because heavy weights can press uncomfortably against the bones in your hands.
* Professional pencil artists often usually modified archivist's gloves - thin cotton gloves with the tips of the thumb, fore and middle finger cut off, the rest intact. This allows tactile sensitivity for holding a pencil or pen while preventing skin oil from getting into the paper and making the smudges impossible to erase.
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