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One convention animators made with insect characters was to draw them with only four legs, not the six legs they characteristically have. Four legs are easier to animate than six legs. For example, the insect's front legs are hands and its hind legs are feet.
One variant of this trope is to give decapods (10-legged crustaceans) six or eight legs instead of the 10 legs they are supposed to have. Six or eight legs are easier to animate than 10 legs. Another, less common variant that was more common in cartoons of the 1930s and 1940s is to draw spiders with six legs instead of the correct eight. These days however, they are more likely to be drawn with the correct number of legs. Strangely, octopuses are rarely drawn with less than their usual eight arms
One common cheat is to draw the "spare" legs, but simply have them do exactly the same thing as one of the other pairs.
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Compare [[Four-Fingered Hands]], which is based on the same principle. See also [[Vertebrate with Extra Limbs]].
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* The bee on the Bumblebee tuna cans.▼
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▲== [[Anime]] ==
* ''[[Maya the Bee]]''.
=== [[
* Bucky Bug from ''[[Bugs in Love]]'' and ten gazillion Disney comics.▼
▲* Buzz the bee from the Honey Nut Cheerios commericals.
▲* The bee on the Bumblebee tuna cans.
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲* Bucky Bug from ''Bugs in Love'' and ten gazillion Disney comics.
* Jiminy Cricket from ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]''.
** Notable in that he ''started out'' as an anatomically correct cricket (complete with "toothed legs and waving antennae"), but Walt wanted something more likable, so Ward Kimball conjured up "a little man with no ears. That was the only thing about him that was like an insect."
* Crikee the cricket from ''[[Mulan]]''.
* The ant characters in ''[[A Bug's
** Averted with the grasshoppers, however.
* Ray the firefly and other insects from ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]''.
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* The insects in ''[[James and the Giant Peach]]''.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* ''Ferda Mravenec'' (''Freddie the Ant'') and other insect characters in the books by [https://web.archive.org/web/20140620173550/http://www.citarny.cz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=794&Itemid=3763 Ondrej Sekora].
* The Bible, "But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you."(lev 11:23). Sadly, none of the nomads who wrote the Leviticus had checked the actual number of legs in any flying insect before, even with big insects like locust available. Evidently because they were too afraid to even touch them (lev 11:31). This makes this [[Older Than Feudalism]]
** Frankly, I don't blame them for not wanting to touch them- bugs are icky.
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* Shield bugs from ''[[Septimus Heap]]''.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* The bees from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''.
** Averted with the Mandibugs, however.
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* Charmy Bee from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' has only two arms and two legs.
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* The characters in ''Gulyk'' look like ants with four limbs until you notice the tiny, tiny arms drawn on their hips.
* ''[[Dreamwalk Journal]]'' and its sequels feature human-insect/spider hybrids. Most of the insect hybrids have two human arms and two insectile legs, although earwigs have four of each. Spiders have two arms and four legs. Flying insects appear to have only one pair of wings rather than two.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* Bounce the bedbug from ''[[Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends]]'' has only two legs. (All the other insects an arachnids in the series, however, have the proper number of limbs, making Bounce a very peculiar exception.)
* Atom Ant from [[Hanna-Barbera]] cartoons.
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* ''[[Mr. Bug Goes to Town]]''
=== Other Media ===
* Victorian tobacco pipes have been found, as seen in ''[[Time Team]]'', with clay tobacco beetles imprinted for decoration but alas, only four limbs.
* The mascot of the ''Fresno Bee'' newspaper is a four-legged bee.
* The mascot of the New Orleans (formerly Charlotte) Hornets is a four-legged wasp.
=== [[Real Life]] ===
* Members of the family Nymphalidae of butterflies, while having six legs, only use four of their legs.
* Praying mantids, while they have six legs, stand on only four of them.
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=== [[Film]] - Animated ===
* The shrimp in ''[[Shark Tale]]'' have six legs.
* Sebastian from [[The Little Mermaid]] has six legs and two claws.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* The crab enemies from ''[[Bug!]]!'' have six legs and two claws. Just two legs shy of a proper crab.
* The Krabby, Corphish, and Dwebble lines from ''[[Pokémon]]''.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* Mr. Krabs from ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', an example of a four-legged crab.
** ... and Larry from the same show is an example of a four-legged lobster.
* A crab from the [[Classic Disney Short]] "Hawaiian Holiday" has six legs like an insect.
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=== [[Toys]] ===
* ''[[Bionicle]]'': the Visorak swarm (barring a few types of [[Elite Mooks|Kahgaraks]]) and Fenrakk have 4 legs. Some of the before-mentioned Kahgaraks have 6 legs, as well as Fenrakk Spawn Spiders.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* The [[Pokémon]] Ariados and Galvantula are [[Giant Spider
** Spinarak is slightly better, it's just shy 2 legs of being a real(-ish) spider...
* ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' also featured spider enemies with four legs. Interestingly enough, one boss from the first game, [[Giant Spider|Tarantox,]] has six legs.
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** ''Doom 64'' plays it straighter, giving them six mechanical legs but removing their vestigial arms.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* The six-legged spider from the [[Mickey Mouse]] cartoon, ''The Worm Turns'', who gets attacked by the test subject four-legged fly.
* Most cartoon scorpions will often be drawn in a way that their pincers (actually modified pedipalps, or mouthparts) are actually now their front legs, with two of their ''actual'' legs being completely absent.
* Spider from ''[[Word World]]'' has six legs and two antennae.
▲=== Other Examples ===
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▲=== [[Film]] ===
* Tuck and Roll, the isopods [pillbugs] from ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]'', have eight legs.
** Isopods are supposed to have 14 legs.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* ''[[Pokémon]]'''s Scolipede is simplified from the centipede's myriad of legs to just four.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* Although by no means an insect, or even an arthropod, Squidward of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' has six limbs when he should have eight or ten (if he's an octopus or a squid, respectively). Furthermore, his four legs work in pairs, so he walks as if on two legs.
** [[Word of God]] says he's an octopus.
* An arguable cephalopod aversion would be [[Big Bad|Ursula]] from ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', who despite being half-octopus has ''six'' tentacles. She looks like an example [[Fridge Brilliance|until one realizes]] that six tentacles plus two arms equals eight limbs.
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=== [[Video Games]] ===
* Silithids (Huge hive-living bugs) in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' all have four legs, or four legs and wings. Crabs also only have four legs. Oddly, many lizard type critters have ''six'', moving in triangular two on one side, one on the other.
* All the arthropods from the ''[[Pikmin]]'' series have four or fewer legs.
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Funny Animal Anatomy]]
[[Category:Graphical Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Artistic License]]
[[Category:Invertebrate Index]]
▲[[Category:Four-Legged Insect]]
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