Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: Difference between revisions

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* Meowth from the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime learned to walk on two legs so that he could be respected by humans. In an ironic twist, this made him a freak amongst other Meowth.

** Oddly though, Meowth's have always been shown to be on two legs in their game sprites (albeit in stances like an actual cat or dog trying to walk or sit on their hind feet) and Meowth's in future episodes are shown to walk on two feet. In the ''Gold and Silver'' remakes, Meowth's sprites depict them walking on four legs suggesting they aren't the best at two feet walking.

 

 

* Very visible in the ''[[Garfield]]'' comics: the protagonist originally was drawn walking on all four, then switched to walking like a human as he came to be depicted increasingly [[Audience Surrogate|human-like]] (to the point where he is hardly ever seen not walking upright these days). By comparison his pal [[Dogs Are Dumb|Odie the dog]] still rarely ever assumes a two-legged stance.

* Snoopy from the ''[[Peanuts]]'' comics, movies, and TV specials usually stands on two legs, except for the earliest comics.

 

 

* Alex the lion, Gloria the hippo, and Maurice, King Julien, and Mort the lemurs from ''[[Madagascar]]'' usually stand on two legs, but Marty the zebra and Melman the giraffe would sometimes stand that way too.

* Boog the Bear from ''[[Open Season]]'' usually stands on two legs. Elliot the mule deer also stands occasionally, which causes the hunter Shaw (who's already not all there to begin with) to utter the page quote in horror.

 

 

* ''[[Animal Farm]]'': The [[Trope Namer]]. It's the central concept of the story: as Napoleon (a pig) became more tyrannical and corrupt, he ultimately abandons one of the most important characteristics that the animals took pride in because of how it made them different from the humans - the notion that four legs are good and two legs are bad - and decides to walk on two legs, like a human.

 

 

* Most of the time, [[Donkey Kong]] walks on all fours except when he carries something like a barrel. In ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'', however, he always walks on two legs, yet still has the typical posture of a gorilla when he's just standing.

* In both ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', all of the Koopas in the game (which are now normally supposed to be bipeds) are actually reverted back into quadrupeds, while both [[Big Bad|Bowser]] and [[Overlord, Jr.|Bowser Jr.]] are still bipeds.

 

 

* In the Disney adaptation of ''[[The Wind in the Willows]]'', Cyril Proudbottom the horse sometimes stood on two legs, but Mr. Toad, Ratty, Mole, Badger, and the weasels always stood on two legs.

* Chip and Dale and Humphrey the bear from the [[Classic Disney Shorts]] stand on two legs.