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{{quote|'''Edgar:''' Ah, you see, the poor dumb beasts have no thumbs, so I ask you... how are they holding their cards?
'''Edgar:''' It should be impossible, and yet somehow they go on... playing the game.
|''[[Psychonauts]]''}}
Many animated characters, especially [[Funny Animal
▲{{quote|'''Edgar:''' Ah, you see, the poor dumb beasts have no thumbs, so I ask you... how are they holding their cards?<br />
▲'''Raz:''' St--St--Sticky paws?<br />
▲'''Edgar:''' It should be impossible, and yet somehow they go on... playing the game.|''[[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Psychonauts]]''}}
▲Many animated characters, especially [[Funny Animal|Funny Animals]], are missing certain anthropomorphic features- perhaps the art style is stylized to the point where [[Powerpuff Girl Hands|hands lack fingers]], some characters simply [[Homestar Runner (Web Animation)|don't have arms]], or [[Veggie Tales (Animation)|nobody is of a species that has appendages]].
This will not impact their functioning in any meaningful way- they interact with the world as anybody else would, as though the missing elements were simply invisible. Salt shakers and boxing gloves will simply float in midair by their torso, dumpster lids will spring open in their presence, and they'll hover next to the pull-up bar.
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Compare [[Armless Biped]], [[Anatomy Anomaly]], [[Feather Fingers]], [[Fourth Wall Portrait]], [[Raymanian Limbs]], [[Powerpuff Girl Hands]]
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* Krillin of ''[[
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* Krillin of ''[[Dragonball]]'' fame was drawn without a nose, which was a plot point when he was in a fight with a large, hairy man who deliberately didn't bathe so no one would be able to stand being around him long enough to actually fight him. He suffered horribly from the odor during the fight, until Goku reminded Krillin that he didn't have a nose...
** Of course, next arc had him sniffing a jewel Bulma hid in [[Trouser Space|her bikini bottom front]] because "it might smell bad". This was more [[Rule of Funny]] than lack of consistency.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Brook is a [[Applied Phlebotinum|Devil-Fruit]] [[Back
* In ''[[Pani Poni Dash!]]'', anthropomorphic rabbit Mesousa isn't drawn with hands, and is frequently depressed when reminded that he can't hold anything.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Minor superhero Atmos of Xanthu frrom ''[[The Legion of Super Heroes
== Comics ==▼
* There's a ''[[The Far Side|Far Side]]'' cartoon somewhere with a bunch of snakes in a bar, all holding and reading newspapers despite their lack of arms. Larson himself pointed out the problem in one of the book collections.▼
** It's also subverted in another strip, with a cowboy snake saying to another that they shouldn't duel, since it will just be another standoff.▼
** And one where a bunch of snakes are having a party inside a house while another snake is outside looking in through the window. One of the snakes inside is standing at the door and saying "Hey, Bob wants in. Anyone know how to work this thing?"▼
* [[Cathy]] has no nose, and yet she frequently talks about how good something smells.▼
** This is pointed out in both [[Pearls Before Swine]] and [[FoxTrot]].▼
▲* Minor superhero [[The Legion of Super Heroes|Atmos of Xanthu]] is often drawn as having an invisible ''torso'', with his costume outlining his shoulders and abdomen but everything in between missing.
* In the children's magazine ''Cricket'', Sluggo the snail is often seen carrying around a baseball bat, despite his lack of appendages to hold it with. George the earthworm isn't usually seen carrying items with him, but he often leaves things propped up outside his hole with no explanation for how (or if) he managed to move them there.
* ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' villain Love Glove lost his arms after having a strange dream about a glove-laden tree, and has a single disembodied floating glove to manipulate his surroundings with. He can also retrieve gloves with special powers from the glove tree, such as the Shove Glove.
* ''[[Rex
* All the characters in ''[[
▲* All the characters in ''[[Cars (Animation)|Cars]]'' are... well, cars. With no hands. So how do they grip things like power tools or flags? There are foot (wheel?) pedals that they use to activate some things, and some of the cars have special attachments for holding things, but the question remains: ''how was all this stuff built?''
* Many Monsters in Monsters Inc. A lot of the stock monsters are shown without hands, feet, or are just toothy heads walking around on little nub limbs. So how do these monsters operate the machinery, let alone drive cars? In fact, how can Wazowski drive a car himself so effectively when he doesn't have binocular vision?
** Possibly [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-04-29 this] could provide an answer of sorts.
* ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* The shapes in ''[[Flatland]]''.
* The oysters in "The Walrus and the Carpenter" from ''[[Alice in Wonderland
{{quote|
''And this was odd, because, you know,
''They hadn't any feet.'' }}
* [[Justified Trope|Justified]], [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]], and [[Exaggerated Trope|exaggerated]] heavily in ''[[Stationery Voyagers]]'', with "[[Hand Wave|phantomitics]]."
** When their caps are on, [[The Blank|they aren't even drawn with faces]]!
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Mystery Science
==
▲* There's a ''[[The Far Side|Far Side]]'' cartoon somewhere with a bunch of snakes in a bar, all holding and reading newspapers despite their lack of arms. Larson himself pointed out the problem in one of the book collections.
▲* [[Mystery Science Theatre 3000]] parodies this; Tom Servo's lack of arms doesn't prevent him from playing a bass for [[Notable Original Music|"Hike Up Your Pants"]]... nor does it stop him from actually ''twirling it around''.
▲** It's also subverted in another strip, with a cowboy snake saying to another that they shouldn't duel, since it will just be another standoff.
▲** And one where a bunch of snakes are having a party inside a house while another snake is outside looking in through the window. One of the snakes inside is standing at the door and saying "Hey, Bob wants in. Anyone know how to work this thing?"
▲* [[Cathy]] has no nose, and yet she frequently talks about how good something smells.
▲** This is pointed out in both ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'' and ''[[FoxTrot]]''.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Rayman]], being the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Raymanian Limbs]], has visible hands and feet, but no arms, legs, or neck. And given his use of [[White Gloves]], we can't even be sure he actually has ''anything'' besides his head. In moments of boredom, Rayman has a tendency to remove his torso and bounce it like a basketball.
* In ''[[Spore]]'', creatures without arms handle tools just fine, though the game suggests you get arms anyway (and, indeed, the Creature phase actually gets kind of hard without em).
** Creature without arms in Spore wield tools with their mouths.
** You actually get an achievement for finishing the creature stage without ever having given your creature legs. There's no similar achievement for arms, and you can add legs in the post-creature stage/pre-tribal stage final creature editor, because you get the achievement before that editor.
* Many species in the ''[[Paper Mario (
** And in ''Mario Baseball'', the same species can swing a baseball bat with no hands.
** Goombella, introduced in ''[[Paper Mario:
* The Mii characters built on Nintendo's Wii console have arms when created, but in ''[[Wii Sports]]'', they don't have them. They just have floating sphere hands or boxing gloves. Any non-player Miis in the background will also lack ''legs''. Most games that use them in gameplay just reproduce the head on a single style of body anyway, and ignore the user-defined height and weight sliders.
** Referred to in [https://web.archive.org/web/20101229151625/http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=702 this] ''[[Brawl in
* In ''[[
*** That has more to do with the fact that if they'll always have their shoes ''on'', [[Hands in Pockets|why waste the time modeling or animating what's inside them?]]
** Though in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006
** It seems that Eggman's always had ears, but it's rare that one can see them past his moustache.
* Even weirder in games like ''[[
** This is only for the ''player'' character; everyone else uses their hands normally. The Half-Life series does allow you to see your hands (usually while holding a weapon), but not how they connect to your body.
** Averted in ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' , where your arms and legs are visible. Played straight in Left 4 Dead 2 with your legs.
* ''[[
* The characters of ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'' do not have noses on their faces. (Though sometimes in the PSP [[
* Yeta from ''[[Twilight Princess]]'' doesn't have arms. Or maybe they're just hidden under her snow coat. Luckily she has Yeto to do the cooking for her.
** It's a blanket. She is wrapping it around herself for warmth, because she is sick. At least she was when we first saw her. This troper often wondered why she still kept it wrapped around herself even when she was feeling better. Maybe her sickness caused the fur in that area to fall off.
* [[Dizzy (
* ''[[
* Dragon Overlord Babylon in ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'' has no arms. He can still hold a pencil and write, and states that it's "none of your damn business" how he can do it.
* ''[[
* The birds in ''[[Angry Birds]]'' have no visible wings or legs. Their anatomical lack became particularly noticeable when developers of the game were ask to design a mascot for the 2012 Ice Hockey World Championships, resulting in [[media:
* In a ''[[Super Mario World (
* In ''[[
* As proven in [[YouTube]] videos (cheats were involved), the lower half of Headmaster Gaepora from ''[[Skyward Sword]]'' apparently disappears when he bathes at night.
== Web Animation ==
* [[
** One humorous example is when Strong Bad and Pom Pom demonstrate their favourite ways of flipping the bird. When Homestar walks by, Strong Bad lifts up his hand (which lacks fingers, because his hands are boxing gloves). Homestar just smiles and says "Wight back atcha, Stwong Bad!" Strong Bad is taken aback, and exclaims, "He just gave me the bird!"
** Most likely invisible arms. At the end of "8-Bit is Enough", {{spoiler|you see him chained up as if he had arms.}}
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[A Moment of Peace]]'', only gods have visible fingers.
* ''[[Rice Boy]]'', despite being the only character in his [[Verse]] with no obvious limbs, has comparatively little trouble picking up and carrying small objects.
* The Monster in the Darkness of ''[[
* In ''[[
* Bob and other beholders from ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'' sometimes give off this effect, carrying or manipulating things despite a lack of prehensile appendage. [[Justified Trope|Justified]], though, since [[Dungeons
* The Beta Shlumpys from ''[[Vexxarr]]''. [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=011306 This] comic shows as much of their anatomy as apparently exists; a blob and three eyes on stalks, as Vexxarr explains that they can't take him away, because they have no hands. They are apparently surprised by this, but in the [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=011606 next comic] they have rioted and destroyed their city.
{{quote|
'''Minionbot 107''': Such as...?
'''Vexxarr''': Hands! They don't have any hands! How can they riot and burn their cities if they don't have any hands!?
'''Minionbot 107''': True... even the Buddha has the one. }}
** "[http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=012306 Now tell me, in explicit detail...]"
* Does anyone in ''[[A Magical Roommate]]'' have fingers? Most of the time no one seems to have elbows!
* ''[[Ghastly's Ghastly Comic]]'':
** One character
** Deconstructed with Chibi Sue, who is a
* This is one of the many, ''many'' running gags in the various ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' comics. Characters are often drawn armless unless they're actually using them, and almost always when they're first introduced. Their first instruction is with a few exceptions always "Retrieve arms from <x>".
* This is how the two tooth characters, Lardee and ickle, from ''[[My Milk Tooth]]'' are able to do anything like when they go fishing.
* Wally the Whale and his fishy friends of ''[[Fruit Incest]]'' tend to just float and move objects without any limbs or even flippers. [http://fruitincest.com/archives/win/ Lampshaded] a couple of times, as even they don't seem to know how they do it.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Devil Bear]]'' has a [http://www.thedevilbear.com/comics.php?p=65 literal version] with wings of the daivas.
* ''Sanity Circus'' has Bee, who early in her circus career was doing "[[Saw a Woman In Half|the ol' Sawed-in-Half trick]], with real magic to make it more interesting". But [[Inept Mage|screwed up the magic]]. And stuck [https://www.sanitycircus.com/sanity-circus/chapter-4-page-16 looking] [https://www.sanitycircus.com/sanity-circus/chapter-7-page-16 like] she misses some of her torso and most of the arms, with visible parts ending in flat planes of darkness.
* The characters in ''[[Scandinavia and the World]]'' are not drawn with arms, unless they need to be seen to be holding something.
== Web Original ==
* Fuzzy of ''[[Fuzzy+]]'', so much so that the creators made [https://web.archive.org/web/20110515055826/http://www.centralcitytower.com/2010/09/fuzzy-fuzman-and-acman-pictogramcomic.html humanoid version of him to play sports.] But then [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] it by letting him play [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pX9wHNu5OUc/TJGsm5daF0I/AAAAAAAAARU/bgIcmYTq81A/s1600/fuzzyhoops.jpg basketball.]
* How the hell is Handy the Beaver in ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' able to build so many things with handheld tools when he only has amputated stumps for hands? Granted this is only seen off-screen, but when he [[Centipede's Dilemma|realizes his obvious predicament]] all his building expertise goes out the window. Ditto for Cro-Marmot whose entire body is encased in ice yet is still capable of performing various tasks.
* ''[[The Trapezoid Kids]]'' are a subversion - the tops of their heads double as arms for them. Their shorter-end corners serve as feet. But they [[The Blank|DON'T HAVE FACES!]]
** And it has yet to be explained how Cornert's bowtie stays on, or Polly's bow for that matter.
* The ''[[Floating Hands]]'' series of web cartoons. Matt Gardner animates in Flash, you see, and it's just easier to have heads and hands as completely disembodied body parts that he can move around independently.
== Western Animation ==
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** The titular girls also lack noses for some reason, and yet are still able to smell things. As with their hands, every other character in the show has a nose. They also don't have feet in the same sense that other characters do- instead they have vaguely defined areas on the rounded ends of their legs that serve as feet and they somehow wear shoes on. They look rather bizarre [[Fridge Logic|when you think about it,]] which raises the question of why anyone in the PPG universe finds them cute.
*** The movie actually has a character point out how freakish the girls looked while the entire town tells them what an awful jobs they're doing.
* The characters from ''[[
** On another occasion, Buzz-saw Louie, a living action figure character uttered the classic lines: "Alright! Everybody who's got hands, start tying!" And, after a pause, "That would be me."
** In ''Josh And The Big Wall'', there is thunderous applause for Jerry's [[
** Also note that they can never actually manipulate objects when it matters most.
** They started out avoiding any manipulation, then slowly warmed up to it. Early instances of the trope conveniently hide the fact that they are levitating the object.
*** Interesting fact: According to the DVD commentary for ''The Star of Christmas'', they still have a strict rule that objects "held" by the characters should always be partly in front of or behind the character, and never "break the silhouette."
** An ad for the series [[
*** Another episode has the Scottish Carrot character knocking on a
*** The [[Spin-Off]] series ''The Animated Adventures of Larry-Boy'' seemed to be deathly afraid of this trope. The title character had a [[Utility Belt]] that had hammerspace claws and other manipulating devices, and characters had levitating gloves, gauntlets, and sleeves at every opportunity.
* Phantom Limb on ''[[The Venture Brothers]]''. Technically, his limbs were just rendered invisible (and dangerous to the touch), but he still looked like nothing more than a floating torso.
* ''[[
** There's also an episode where Patrick
* ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'': Kawolski, the smart man of the group, is capable of building eye-popping inventions and machinery despite the fact he only has finglerless flippers for hands.
* ''[[My Little Pony]]'' does this all the time. They are ''ponies''
** A large part of the art direction in ''[[My Little Pony:
*** Basically, hooves do pretty much what real hooves do, unless [[Rule of Funny|Pinkie Pie happens]].
*** But that raises the issue of the tails - while horse tails do have a base called the dock which can be moved, it's very short and the rest of the tail is just pure hair. Said dock doesn't even appear in the show's character designs... and yet Applejack can [[Prehensile Hair|grip and use a lasso with the end of her tail]]?
** G1 was similar too. They made a point to have ponies use their mouths for everything, even the first two specials having them as being completely non-anthro, but on rare occasions they'll use their hands.
* Most of the kids on ''[[South Park]]'' have no visible noses or ears. Sometimes played with, as when an apparently-noseless Kyle freaks out when [[Informed Attribute|his dad says he has]] the same (rather large) nose as his mother.
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'': Heloise lacks wrists, but only when she's wearing her robe.
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