Four-Fingered Hands: Difference between revisions

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* 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 [[Bellisario's Maxim|just roll with it]].

* 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 (film)|Hellboy]]'s stone hand has only four fingers.

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== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''

** 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".

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== 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.

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** 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|Lampshadeed]] when Timmy and his Fairy Godparents crossed over into [[Danny Phantom]]'s universe, where the characters have the proper 5 fingers than the 4 fingers of Timmy's universe.

* The characters in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' have five fingers too, though that may be due to the series having a more "realistic" element as opposed to ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]''.

* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', though most Bikini Bottomites don't have fingers to start with. It can be [[Justified Trope|justified]], though, in that he's not human.

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** "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 ''[[Clifford the Big Red Dog]]'' and ''Clifford's Puppy Days'' series.

* Also true of ''[[Word Girl]]'', another production of Scholastic. The WordGirl character wears gloves, though only when shown as WordGirl and not her secret identity, Becky Botsford.

* The characters in ''[[Fillmore]]'' have four fingers on each hand. Considering this is at least a semi-action show, and the rest of the bodies are drawn reasonably realistically, this is unusual.

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** 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 ''[[Beast Machines]]''. Also in that series, Rattrap and Noble had them.

* In the ''[[Ben 10|Ben]][[Ben 10: Alien Force|10]]'' [[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien|franchise]], all human characters do in fact have 5 digits on each hand. However, the majority of aliens in the shows, including Ben's transformations, only have the four digits on each hand (one exception is the [[Energy Being|Anodyte aliens]], which also have five digits per hand).

* In the ''[[The Beatles (animation)|The Beatles]]'', the characters have four-fingered hands most of the time, but occasionally have five- and even six-fingered hands.

* Characters in ''[[Tuff Puppy]]'' have four-fingered hands.

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* [[Frosty the Snowman]] normally has four fingers, but mysteriously gains a fifth so that he can count to five.

* Certain animated segments on ''[[Sesame Street]]'' feature human characters with four-fingered hands.

* ''[[Adventure Time]]'' is an interesting case, seeing as most (humanoid) characters, including Finn, often have [[Rubber Hose Limbs]] that appear as three barely discernible fingers that quickly change into four-fingered hands when close-ups are required. The only instance a character was drawn with 5 proper finger was with Marceline, whose right hand momentarily had an extra finger in "Evicted!" when she shows Finn and Jake the Nut Creatures, and in Heat Signature while putting ketchup on her first two fingers. Billy the hero is an interesting case as he's drawn with 6 fingers.

* 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 (comic strip)|Popeye]]'' cartoons avert this trope, as they have five fingers. Played straight in cartoons from [[Famous Studios]] the 1950s, where the characters were streamlined and have four.

* In ''[[Project G.e.e.K.e.R.|Project Gee Ke R]]'' this is averted with most of the characters, who are drawn in a fairly realistic style. Geeker himself being an artificial human, combines this with [[Non Standard Character Design]]. Lampshaded when the [[Big Bad]] uses this trait to allow people to identify him. It's also a sore spot for Geeker, which he refers to as a "tragic deformity."

* In ''[[Project G.e.e.K.e.R.|Project Gee Ke R]]'' this is averted with most of the characters, who are drawn in a fairly realistic style. Geeker himself being an artificial human, combines this with [[Non-Standard Character Design]]. Lampshaded when the [[Big Bad]] uses this trait to allow people to identify him. It's also a sore spot for Geeker, which he refers to as a "tragic deformity."

* ''[[Special Agent Oso]]'' had an unusual case when it did a [[Crossover]] with ''[[Handy Manny]]''. The human characters on ''Oso'' normally have the correct number of fingers, but in the crossover episode, they had four-fingered hands. This was probably because the characters on ''Handy Manny'', including Manny, have four-fingered hands and it would have been weird to draw depict Manny with five.

* Ironically in ''[[Team Umizoomi]]'' , a show about math, 2 of the main characters, {{spoiler|Milli and Geo}}, have 4 fingers. Yes, they can magically grow a 5th finger, But {{spoiler|Bot}} has none!

** {{spoiler|Door Mouse}} has the proper 5 fingers.

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== 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....

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== Films -- Animation ==

* 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.

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* Jerry from ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' has two-toed feet.

* Speedy Gonzales from ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' also has two-toed feet.

* Most Disney animal characters have three-toed feet.

* Nearly all [[Warner Bros]] ''[[Looney Tunes]]'', ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', and ''[[Animaniacs]]'' animal characters have three-toed feet too.

** 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.

* [[Woody Woodpecker]] has two-toed feet.