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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Four fingers! I've got '''four''' fingers! '''Cartoon characters''' have four fingers!"''
|'''Inspector Gill''', ''[[Fish Police (comics)|Fish Police]]''}}
Why do most cartoon characters only have four fingers? Simple, a four-fingered hand is SO much easier to draw than a five-fingered hand. Plus, it simplifies the design of the hand in the same way the rest of the body is simplified.
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Quite often, Western four-fingered characters have to be edited to have a fifth finger -- ''[[Bob the Builder]]'' is one of many. Strangely enough, this does ''not'' include Disney characters such as [[Mickey Mouse]], [[Kingdom Hearts|despite Disney's popularity in Japan.]] (Possibly because he actually is an animal, unlike Bob, or it could just be the [[Grandfather Clause]] at work.)
This trope is not limited to depiction of humanlike characters: Animal characters (from ''any'' point along the [[Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism]]) can also be depicted with a reduced number of digits on each paw when compared to its real-life
[[Funny Animal
Those with four-fingered hands are often seen wearing [[White Gloves]].
Why these people use base 10 rather than [[Alternative Number System|the logical (for them) base 8]] may be a [[Translation Convention]]. Also note that number of fingers doesn't necessarily imply a corresponding number system; numerous real life cultures have used counting systems based on numbers other than 10.
{{examples}}
== Reduced Number of Fingers ==
=== Advertising ===
* Spoofed in an Oreo commercial which shows the mascot (a giant Oreo cookie) struggling to get through a security system. At one point he comes upon a hand scanner and presses his left hand to it; when nothing happens, he adds one finger from his right hand, which is good enough to open the door.
* Lampshaded in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skgpQcotCuQ this commercial] for Hamburger Helper Cheeseburger Macaroni; a greaser tells the talking-glove mascot to "Gimme five!" and he replies, "Would you settle for four?"
=== Anime and Manga ===
* The introduction to one ''[[Astro Boy (manga)|Astro Boy]]'' manga chapter has Tezuka discussing how he's drawn Astro with four or five fingers at different times.
* ''[[Dragon Ball]]''
** Piccolo has four fingers in the manga but for some reason the producers decided to paint in an extra finger in the anime, making his hands look sorta odd. Conveniently, doing that makes it less jarring when Piccolo declares that he'll finish Goku off in 5 seconds, and [[Sudden Anatomy|holds up a five-fingered hand that he only has for that one panel]]. That's so infamous the author apologized for it on a note next to that panel.
** Other characters such as the humanoid animals or aliens also have different numbers of fingers. The author constantly mistakes the numbers of fingers on these characters. A good example is Kyui, whom half of the panels has five fingers, and the other half only four.
* The final ''J9 Trilogy'' [[Super Robot
=== Comic Books ===
* On the other (ahem) hand, the elves and trolls of ''[[Elf Quest]]'' are not four-fingered representations of five-fingered characters. They really ''do'' have only four fingers on each hand. After a few issues, the authors realized that they should logically count in base-eight, and the elves are [[Ret Connned]] to do exactly that; Cutter gets the slightly less catchy title of "Blood-Of-Eight-And-Two-Chiefs".
** Lampshaded at least once: Cutter, attacked by a human, proposes to rectify the man's problem of an overpopulated hand as he cuts off one of his fingers.
** Much later in the series, a culture of elf-worshipping humans amputated the little fingers and surgically altered the ears of their ruling elite, believing this could make them immortal.
* Marvel Comics
** One of the effects of [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Ben Grimm's]] transformation into the Thing is that he now has four fingers and toes. In one [[What If]] comic where he continues to mutate, he actually develops (devolves?) down to three-fingered hands.
** Another Marvel character, [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'s Nightcrawler, has three-fingered hands and feet. The ''[[X
** So does his [[Alternate Universe]] daughter, Nocturne.
** And the X-Man Longshot, though it's due to his alien/technomagical origins.
* Every character in ''normalman''. Well, sort of. When norm found himself in the American frontier in the 1800s, the frontiersman he befriended figured he was an inbred simpleton because he only had four fingers on each hand.
* ''Three Fingers'' explores this; it is a pastiche of the [[Animated Actors]] idea, specifically the ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' conceit that toons and humans coexist in the real world. Toons are born with a full set of five fingers, but the first toon actor to achieve real fame was Rickey Rat, a mutated toon born with only four. Toons were described as superstitious, and so many other toons began to mutilate themselves, having a finger removed in order to become successful in Hollywood; the book explores this shadowy ritual in-depth. The book is drawn in the narrative style of a TV [[Mockumentary|documentary]], like the [[True Hollywood Story]] or a Ken Burns film, mostly interviewees talking to the camera, with photographs intercut.
* One episode of the ''[[
* Ivy the Terrible in ''[[The Beano]]'' has four fingers, but oddly enough, other characters in her comic have five.
* [[Archie Comics]]' ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (
* This happens to Steve Harmon when he's in his [[The Awesome Slapstick|Slapstick]] form, since he was wearing his oversized four-fingered toon gloves when he got his powers.
* ''[[The Smurfs]]'' have four-fingered hands and four-toed feet, while the humans they encounter have five-fingered hands. In their first comic book appearance in ''[[Johan and Peewit|The Smurfs and the Magic Flute]]'', they were originally drawn with five fingers.
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** After being called to the principals office, a teacher stops him for a hall pass. He promptly tries various pockets, leaving one out to show the teacher. Once in the principal's office, he shows his his four figered hand and asks "Help me out, which one is "the bird"?"
** Oddly, the animated film gives him five fingers.
* Lampshaded in a [[Long Runner|long-running]] Polish series of comic books about a talking chimpanzee, when the said chimpanzee complains about [[Big Damn Movie|2002 movie]] because [[Take That|they "chopped off two of his fingers"]], while in the comic books he was always drawn with five fingers on each hand.
* This was averted in ''[[Little Lulu]]'', where the characters are drawn with five fingers.
=== Fan Works ===
* Azalynn d'Vir Natashkan from ''[[Undocumented Features]]'' is a non-human whose people are descended from an arboreal species, and who have four fingers and a [[Prehensile Tail]].
===
* Most of the cast of ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' have four fingers. However, the monster who counts down to the beginning of scare floor activities starts with "we are on in seven..." and holds out his ''seven''-fingered hand.
* Abu and the Genie have four-fingered hands while the rest of the human cast of ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' has five... except for the merchant who narrates the opening. Originally, he was supposed to be revealed as Genie at the end of the film, and while that was left off the final cut, the design remained.
* The Blue Meanies in ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'' have ''six'' fingers. At least, their leader does.
* In 1937's ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'', Snow White and the Prince have five fingers on each hand, but the more cartoony Dwarfs only have four.
* [[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]] has four fingers as a puppet {{spoiler|, but has five fingers after he's been turned into a human at the end of the film}}. Geppetto, Stromboli, Lampwick, and all the other humans have five fingers each, but for some reason, [[Complete Monster|the Coachman]] only has four.
** Justified for the Coachman: he's not really a "human..."
** Jiminy Cricket usually has four fingers. Though in the educational short "You And Your Food", he
* Madame Souza of ''[[The Triplets of Belleville]]'' has only four fingers, although given how realistic her hands were designed, [[Uncanny Valley|it can be downright creepy looking]].
* Played with in the fourth ''[[
* In ''[[
* Subversion: in ''[[The Thief and
* Justified in ''[[Splice]]''. Dren has three fingers and a thumb on each hand, which is due to the fact that she a hybrid creature spliced from a unholy mixtures of animals' DNA that widely varies in the amount of fingers each species has.
* Lampshaded in the live-action ''[[Casper (
* The Na'vi in ''[[Avatar (
* Bumblebee in the 2007 ''[[Transformers (
* Inverted in ''[[Gattaca]]'': the pianist has six fingered hands (which exists in real life, but often removed), and he plays music you couldn't play with five-fingered hands. Well, he doesn't, but [[
* Zig-zaged by Grevious in ''[[Star Wars]]''. At first he has two six-fingered hands, including two thumbs. But he can divide his arms, then he has four three-fingered hands.
** Since they have only eight fingers, Hutts use a base-8 counting system. Zero through seven mean the same thing in both Huttese and Basic, but anything after that is just plain confusing, which many other races have been swindled by. To avoid this problem, Hutts use base-10.
* [[Hellboy (
* Lampshaded in the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' movie, where Michelangelo shouts, "Gimme three!" to Leonardo.
* A similar joke occurs in ''[[Short Circuit| Short Cicuit 2]]
{{quote|'''Johnny-5:''' Alright! Gimme five!
'''Ben:''' And you give me... three.}}
=== Literature ===
* The Kzinti from the ''[[Known Space]]'' universe have four fingers on each hand. Bonus points are awarded for having a base-eight mathematical system, which plays havoc with the humans they meet.
* Most faerie species in ''The Spiderwick Chronicles'' (except ogres and giants which have 6 fingers).
* In ''[[The Island of Doctor Moreau]]'', the ape-man cites his own aversion of this trope as a sign that he's a better "man" than the other beastfolk, most of whom have four or fewer digits on each hand.
* In ''[[Who Censored Roger Rabbit?|Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?]]'', it's mentioned that Toon cigars resemble dynamite, and sometimes there's real dynamite mixed
=== Live-Action TV ===
* Discussed on ''[[
** She was wrong. Careful examination of [https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1375&bih=727&q=buffy+the+animated+series&oq=buffy+the+animated+series&gs_l=img.3..0j0i24l2.2790.9439.0.9789.26.10.0.16.16.0.117.883.9j1.10.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.61.img..1.25.994._PC3ja3-k78 artwork] from the never-released ''[[wikipedia:Buffy the Animated Series|Buffy the Animated Series]]'' shows that a realistic five fingers was the rule.
* Walter Jones, the [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|first-ever Black Ranger]], was born with only three fingers and a thumb on one hand. He would often wear a prosthetic finger on set.
* The Silence in ''[[
* While the title character on ''[[
{{quote|
'''Alf:''' How about a high-four-- 'cause I ain't got any more! }}
=== Newspaper Comics ===
* The majority of comic strips such as ''[[FoxTrot]]'' follow this rule.
* Averted in ''[[Peanuts]]'', where all of the characters have five fingers on each hand.
* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', most of the characters have four fingers but in one panel Calvin is drawn with five fingers on one hand and four fingers on the other by mistake.
* ''[[The Optimist]]'' occasionally loses a finger, seen [http://the-opt.com/?p=128 here], [http://the-opt.com/?p=805 here], and [http://the-opt.com/?p=14 here].
=== Puppet Shows ===
* Most characters in ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' have four fingers, even when the puppeteer wears the hand as a glove. Exceptions include Kermit and Dr. Teeth. The Swedish Chef, being a character who has to manipulate things, just has [[Frank Oz]]'s hands.
* The characters in ''[[Dinosaurs]]'' have four-fingered hands. This is [[Lampshaded]] when Earl is on drugs and [[Contemplating Your Hands|he wonders why they have 8 fingers but use a counting system based on 10.]]
=== Tabletop Games ===
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''
** The Tau only have four digits a hand. The fluff has them logically using a base 8 system.
** The Orks, on the other hand (or possibly paw), have five fingers but use base six numbering. Which actually makes a certain amount of sense if you use the other hand for the second digit. Of course, this being ''Warhammer 40000'' it all started as a joke on the theme of Orks being too stupid to count higher, to the point where they had specialist mutations (like Mekboyz and Doks) called "sumboyz" who were effectively Orky accountants because they knew the numbers that came after "lotz".
* In the 4th edition of ''[[Dungeons
* The Aslan in ''[[
* The magi in the ''[[Magi Nation]]'' card game have four digits on each hand, though this stems from the original art style. They are also not human, but from a fantastic world. Of course, the animated series uses five-fingered hands.
=== Toys ===
* ''[[Bionicle]]'' could never make up its mind:
** The original figures had either [[Powerpuff Girl Hands|no real hands]], or only two fingers or three claws. Only much later figures received articulate, fingered hands, usually the larger ones, and these had four. In '09, this phenomenon reached the smaller and medium-sized toys, as they got four-fingered graspers.
** All of the prominent characters from the first two [[Direct to Video]] movies had five fingers, save for those that had claws (Nidhiki, Pewku), no hands at all (Vahki robots), or had just plain weird-looking hands (Krekka). Then, by the third movie, all of the new or newly transformed characters were outfitted with only four. In the fourth movie, which wasn't part of the original trilogy, they also had four, but this time it was because the toys also had that many.
** The video game ''Bionicle: Heroes'' also decided to give the Piraka and Toa Inika four fingers, which is an understandable example of [[Artistic License]], since their figures had no fingers at all, save for Toa Nuparu's huge claws.
=== Video Games ===
* The ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' games have an interesting subversion. Ratchet and any [[Girl of the Week]] characters will have five fingers. Everyone else, no matter the species, has only ''three''. [http://rcforum.us.playstation.com/t5/Ratchet-Clank-Going-Commando/Your-Theories-on-Angela-spoilers/m-p/25357/highlight/true The official reason for this]{{Dead link}} is because Insomniac wanted to avoid any [[Four Is Death]] connotations when they shipped the game to Japan, thus everyone who was originally intended to have four-fingered hands instead has three. This includes Captain Qwark, who otherwise looks human.
* The characters in the classic arcade game ''[[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWF]] Wrestlefest'' are fairly accurate representations of real WWF wrestlers of the time—except for their Four-Fingered Hands.
* While ''most'' characters in the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' franchise have four fingers and one thumb per hand, the character <s>[[Bowdlerise|Nack the Weasel]]</s> Fang the Sniper has only three fingers and one thumb per hand. This is generally attributed to the Yakuza idea, since he is the ONLY Sonic character always drawn with three fingers. This was lampshaded in the original miniseries where a fish robot attacks a drawing of sonic on a rock, then mumbles about how he should have realized it was fake because it had four fingers. There is also the whole ''no sort of toes'' thing, which applies to ''all'' animal characters other than those in ''[[Sonics Schoolhouse]]''. [http://sonicresearch.org/art/albums/Tails/Sonic_Adventure/t_d5.png Just] [http://sonicresearch.org/art/albums/Amy/A_d5.png look].
* Abe from the video game series ''[[Oddworld]]'' had four fingers in the original game. It was changed to three due to [https://web.archive.org/web/20101006133508/http://www.oddworld.com/alf/ow_ask.shtml controversy] from Japan.
* The Tauren and Trolls in the ''[[Warcraft]]'' universe only have three fingers on each hand. The Tauren's hands are evolved hooves most likely. [[All Trolls Are Different|The trolls are just trolls.]] Gnomes, goblins, and [[Wolf Man|worgen]] in beast-form have four fingers per hand, as will the upcoming pandaren.
* It would normally be acceptable as he's a [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|monkey]], but [[Donkey Kong|Diddy Kong]] gets a special mention: he had four fingers when he was still owned by Rare (which is British), but (probably because of the Yakuza concern mentioned in the intro) he switched over to five fingers when Nintendo (which is Japanese) took over.
* Amazingly, both [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser]] and [[Yoshi's Island|Yoshi]] have four fingers. While the former is supposed to be a villain, one would wonder why a cute little dinosaur like Yoshi have four fingers instead of five like other fictional Japanese heroes.
* Many of the Non-Human characters in the ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' universe only have four-fingered hands. Garr and Jean are the most noticeable ones, though.
* Oddly enough, in ''[[
* All characters in ''[[
* All player characters in ''[[Fat Princess]]'' have four-fingered hands. Edited to be five fingers in the Japanese release. (See Above)
* In ''[[Glover]]'', you play as a four-fingered glove. Justified as the thumb and ring fingers are his arms, and the index and middle fingers are his legs. Having a fifth finger would be... [[Freud Was Right|yeah...]]
* ''[[Half-Life]]'': Vortigaunts have three arms, with the third one growing straight out of the chest, with two fingers on each, and their feet don't seem to have toes, instead ending in a pyramidal... claw, let's call it.
* Character art from ''[[
* The Kilrathi in the ''[[Wing Commander (
* In ''[[X-COM]]'', most if not all Aliens only have four fingers.
* The Mario Bros. and Peach in ''[[
* Most [[Pokémon]] that have hands and feet usually have three fingers/toes, unless they have human-shaped hands, in that case they usually have five. However, some might have four in earlier game sprites. Many usually have two toes on each foot. Which can lead to unintentionally funny moments: see, with three fingers, the index finger is in the middle, so when certain Pokémon point in the anime, they're constantly flipping each other off.
* The amateur-produced [[Interactive Fiction]] game ''The Mulldoon Legacy'' has a puzzle involving aliens whose solution involves realizing {{spoiler|you're dealing with base-6 mathematical system, because that's the number of fingers the aliens have.}} The game includes an alien skeleton, with the appropriate detail mentioned, as a very subtle hint.
=== Visual Novels ===
* The rather simplistic sprites used in the original ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' novels all have very large, four-fingered hands. The anime changes to the more typical five.
===
* All characters of ''[[Cat Legend]]'' have always been drawn this way.
* In ''[[Dan and
* Mostly averted in ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'', where all the human characters have five fingers ... although Uma and her father, being [[Petting Zoo People|aliens]], have only four.
* All the characters of ''[[
* Averted in ''[[Fuzzy Things]]'', though the "tradition" is discussed in [http://www.furry.org.au/fz/story27/fz687.html this comic]
* ''[[
* Most of the characters in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' have four
* ''[[My Middle
* ''[[
* All of the characters in ''[[The Order of the Stick
* ''[[Terinu]]'' being a gene-gineered alien, has four fingers and three toes (three and a dewclaw) like his animal predecessors. Strangely, every ''other'' alien in the series has five fingers.
* ''[[Zebra Girl]]'' averts this. [[Our Demons Are Different|Demons]] and [[Funny Animal
* [[Squick|It turns out]] there's a ''[http://darklegacycomics.com/258.html reason]'' for this in ''Dark Legacy Comics.''
* The characters in ''[[Our Little Adventure]]'' are drawn like this.
* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' as by Krahulik nearly always draws only three fingers and a thumb, even in relatively "realistic" stories like the recent "Sand". There are exceptions to this, such as the female assassin with the umbrella fighting the Cardboard Tube Samurai, but those are highly unusual. Compare [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/9/27/ this] comic with [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/12/3/ this] comic.
* Lampshaded in ''[[User Friendly]]'', while breaking the fourth wall.
* The furries from [[
* [http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/images/commanderbadass.jpg This concept art] of Commander Badass (which predates the comic ''[[Manly Guys Doing Manly Things]]'') shows him with four fingers, but in the comic itself, the Commander (and everyone else) has five.
* Parodied in [http://geektionnerd.net/main/ this French webcomic], ''Le Geektionnerd''. The characters read a human hand has five fingers, writes over it, and complains about the blog being crap.
* ''[[The Noob]]'' has four fingers on each hand, and is thus [[Fridge Brilliance|actually showing six fingers]] [http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=374 in this comic].
* In the first few strips of ''[[
* In ''[[Goblins]]'', humans and demons have five fingers per hands. The goblins and about every non-human races (including elves and dwarves) have four-fingered hands. Reptiles (like kobolds, yuan-ti or lizardfolks) tends to have three-fingered hands. All non-humans (well, those with legs anyway) also have three-toed feet.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles]]'' averts this with most immigrant Cyantians, with the exception of foxes. Leading some fans to comment "that fox has too many fingers" when the artist slips up and accidentally draws one with five.
* ''[[
* Zack of ''[[Urban Jungle]]'' is only drawn with three fingers and a thumb on each hand. It isn't until [https://web.archive.org/web/20120311051722/http://www.urbanjunglecomic.com/?p=1126 this strip] we learn why.
* ''[[
* ''[[Hijinks Ensue]]''. Which [http://hijinksensue.com/comic/slightly-not-canceled/ eventually] was lampshaded:
{{quote|- Either of you seen a dude with 5 fingers on his right hand?
- Inconceivable.}}
* Most characters in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' have ''three'' fingers. Lampshaded in the last three panels of [https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1281.html "But It Gets Better Every Generation"].
=== Western Animation ===
* Most of the [[Funny Animal|anthropomorphic animal]] Disney characters. And also many of the humans. But it's not always done consistently.
** In ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
** It gets lampshaded in one episode of ''[[
{{quote|
* Likewise, most characters in Warner Brothers productions, such as ''[[Looney Tunes]]'', ''[[
** Inverted in the [[
** The more (otherwise) realistic a four-fingered hand is, the creepier - note the hands of the (human) mailman at the beginning of [[Daffy Duck]]'s ''The Great Piggy Bank Robbery''.
* Lampshaded in one episode of ''[[
{{quote|
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] ''ad nauseam'' on ''[[The Simpsons (
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* ''[[
* All the characters in ''[[The Fairly
** It was lampshaded by Wandissimo once, where he (working as a masseuse) declared "My Eight Little friends and I have work to do".
** Very mildly [[Averted]] in the [[No Dialogue Episode]] "Pipe Down" when Timmy is trying to "charade" his wish. To show he means "for", he holds up his left hand and he does indeed have FIVE fingers; he folded his thumb so he could show four fingers for "for".
** Lampshaded again where the fairy personification of April Fools raises his hand during a stand up comedy, suddenly realizes he only has four fingers, and so uses magic to conjure up a fifth one.
** Again [[Lampshade
* The characters in ''[[
* ''[[
** They Lampshaded this at least twice. Sometimes when SpongeBob counts on his fingers, he will ''magically grow each finger past four as he gets to it''.
** Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, though explicitly human, have four-fingered
* Lampshaded in ''[[
* Almost all of the animated characters in the ''[[
** Noah and his son in "Elementary My Dear" (x2) have five fingers when demonstrating "Two times 10 is 20," but otherwise have four fingers.
** Everyone in "Ready Or Not, Here I Come" (x5) has five fingers, and they count off for hide and seek one finger at a time.
** "That prince over there" in "I Got Six" (x6) has five fingers, to show off that he has "six rings on every finger" (6x10=60).
** Of course the eponymous "Little Twelvetoes" has ''six'' fingers (and six toes) as the song is about multiplication by 12.
* All human characters on the ''[[
* Also true of ''[[
* The characters in ''[[Fillmore
* ''[[
* Neosapiens in ''[[
* Spock has six fingers in a well-known artistic blooper from the "Yesteryear" episode of ''[[Star Trek:
* Actual exchange from ''[[
* A particularly baffling example from ''[[
* Lloyd Nebulon (the ''[[
* Lampshaded in "[[
* In ''[[
* Everybody in ''[[
** Though they do have five fingers in the Disneyverse.
* Lampshaded in ''[[Teen Titans (
* ''[[Stunt Dawgs]]'' lampshaded this in one episode, where Splat [[Breaking the Fourth Wall| turns to the viewer and says]] "[[Don't Try This At Home| Don't try this at home.]] I am a trained professional [[Medium Awareness| and incidentally, a cartoon character]]." ''(Extends hand.)'' "See? Three fingers and a thumb."
* Helga Pataki of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' names her fists "Old Betsy" and "The Five Avengers" despite only having four fingers on each hand.
* Also lampshaded in the Finnish political satire-cum-GCI-animated comedy series ''The Autocrats'', where one character calls another out on using the term "wrapped around my little finger" because they only have four. Later, two characters are seen bowling, and one advises the other to use their little finger for support... which he doesn't have, of course.
* ''[[Codename
* Used in ''[[Yin Yang Yo
* Stone Cold Steve Austin once mentioned in an interview that it saddened him somewhat that the
* ''[[
* In ''[[
** Numerous aliens such as Aron and Slizzardo had these in [[Transformers Generation 1]].
** Grimlock, Scrapper, Waspinator, Warpath and Strika in [[Transformers Animated]]
** Bumblebee, Bulkhead, Breakdown, Soundwave, [[Faceless Mooks|The Vehicons]] and Skyquake in [[Transformers Prime]]
** In addition to Rhinox and Depth Charge, Cheetor also got four fingered hands in season three, this was kept in ''[[
* In the ''[[Ben 10
* In the ''[[The Beatles (
* Characters in ''[[
{{quote|
* Used in ''[[
* Everyone from ''[[Total Drama Island
* Can be justified in ''[[Space Goofs]]'' for the characters being aliens, and lampshaded in the school episode.
{{quote|
''(Candy is nervous)''
'''Random Girl:''' Use your fingers.
'''Candy:''' Hmmmm. EIGHT! }}
* In ''[[
* The cast of ''[[Around the World
* The humans in ''[[
* Everyone from ''[[
* The Disney animated show ''[[The Replacements (
* Henry and June from ''[[
* Averted in both ''[[
* All of the animal characters in ''[[Bucky O
* [[Frosty the Snowman]] normally has four fingers, but mysteriously gains a fifth so that he can count to five.
* Certain animated segments on ''[[
* ''[[
* How is the cast of ''[[The Mr. Men Show]]'' not mentioned here? All the shape humans within that show have only four fingers there.
* Characters in the ''[[Popeye (
* In ''[[Project
* ''[[
* Ironically in ''[[
** {{spoiler|Door Mouse}} has the proper 5 fingers.
* All the human characters on ''[[Todd World]]'' (a show that aired on Discovery Kids before it became [[The Hub]]) have these.
* Ranger Gord had these in the animated ''Ranger Gord's Educational Films'' on ''[[The Red Green Show]]''.
=== Real Life ===
* Hippopotamuses have four toes on each foot.
* Amphibians have four clawless digits on each hand, but have five digits on their back feet.
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** Pterosaurs had four digits on their forelimbs, one of which was modified to support their wings.
== Reduced Number of Toes Variant ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* Many [[Pokémon]] with feet will usually have less digits than their upper limbs (barring wings, fins, claws, scythes and tentacles). The best example is Pikachu, who has five tiny digits on each "hand" and three digits on each foot. Other examples include Clefairy, Cubone and Marowak, Rhyperior and Hitmonlee and Conkeldurr. Although, the reverse is also true, especially for Kyurem (in normal form), Bagon, Raichu, Anpharos, Growlithe and Chansey.
* Ditto with [[Digimon]]. Some digimon, including more animalistic types, have three-toed feet with four or five fingered hands such as Veemon. However, others may have the same exact number of toes and fingers such as Agumon (who has three digits) and Leomon (who has five digits). And then there are the digimon who have their feet covered, such as Beelzemon or Knightmon....
=== Comic Books ===
* [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Ben Grimm]] has three toes per foot. [[The Hulk]] did too in some very early apparances.
* In ''[[Cerebus the Aardvark]]'', Cerebus' otherwise human son had three toes per foot, just like his father.
* The ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' take this a step
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=== Film ===
* Mittens from ''[[Bolt]]'' plays this trope straight by having three-toed paws, but Bolt adverts this trope by having the proper four-toed paws.
* The lions in ''[[The Lion King]]'' advert this trope by having the proper four-toed paws, but the hyenas and meerkats play this trope straight by having three-toed paws. The lions also show dew-claw-lumps (thumbs) on their front paws.
* Scratette from ''[[Ice Age]]: Dawn of The Dinosaurs'' has three-fingered hands and two-toed feet, while Scrat from all three ''[[Ice Age]]'' movies has the standard four-fingered hands and three-toed feet.
* The humans in ''[[Ratatouille]]'' were animated without toes according to [[Word of God]].
* Ducky, the animated hadrosaur from ''[[The Land Before Time]]'', has the correct number of digits on all four limbs (four-toed front feet and three-toed hind feet), although her opposable thumbs are out of place.
=== Literature ===
* Happens even in literature! In ''[[Animorphs]]'', when Rachel morphed into a cat and scratches someone, she notes that it left "three red lines" on the back of his hand. Also, ankles "reversed" when morphing anything four-footed. Applegate, a grown sci-fi author, apparently don't know about [[wikipedia:Digitigrade|digitigrade]] and [[wikipedia:Plantigrade|plantigrade]] feet.
* An [[Inverted Trope|inversion]] in ''[[Inheritance Cycle|Eragon]]''. Dwarves and Urgals have seven toes on each foot.
* Tolkien did that inversion first, with the seven-toed [[Wise Tree|Treebeard]].
=== Live-Action TV ===
* The Diffys on ''[[Phil of the Future]]'' have five-fingered hands... but they have four-toed feet, which is a plot point when Phil has to go barefoot on a field trip.
=== Newspaper Comics ===
* Odie from ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]'' has two-toed feet.
=== Western Animation ===
* On ''[[Ed, Edd 'n
** In the same vein, ''[[Mike, Lu
** However, in Ed's story in "Once Upon An Ed", a close-up of the giant Kankers' feet shows four toes.
* ''[[
** Though in "Dripper" a close-up of Fred's new "brake pads" show four toes.
* Jerry from ''[[
* Speedy Gonzales from ''[[
* Most Disney animal characters have three-toed feet.
* Nearly all [[Warner Bros]] ''[[
** And [[Bugs Bunny]]'s feet have three dots on the bottom, two small and one large, suggesting pads like on a dog's paw. This doesn't match the number of pads a three-toed mammal ought to have: one per toe, plus a bigger pad for the sole. To make matters worse, real rabbits' paws don't have pads at all.
* [[
** Woodpeckers in real life have feet with their toes in a kind of X
* Both protagonists in ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police (
** Lampshaded in "Moai Better Blues", when a tribe of foot-
* The cast of ''[[
* The cast of ''[[Around the World
* Averted in the ''[[Popeye (
* Used on ''[[Little People (TV series)|Little People]]'', a series of claymation shorts based on toys by Fisher-Price.
* In ''[[
=== Real Life ===
* Guinea pigs and capybaras have four-toed front feet and three-toed hind feet.
* Parrots and owls have two toes that point forward and two that point back.
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* The blind, snake-like amphibious underground Olm is notable for having only three tiny "fingers" on their front limbs and two stumpy digits in the rear http://natural-wild-life.blogspot.com/2011/08/olm.html.
* The all-famous [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] has only two functioning fingers (with a residual nonfunctional third finger) on their forelimbs and three clawed toes on their hind feet.
* Horses have only one toe on each foot—and their hooves are their "toenails".
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