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[[File:Professor_Homestar.png|link=Homestar Runner
{{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.|''[[
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
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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== Anime & Manga ==
* Krillin of ''[[
** 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 From the Dead|reincarnated]] [[Dem Bones|skeleton]], who nonetheless can see, hear, talk, move around, digest food, urinate and [[Nobody Poops|poop.]] (Luffy made sure to ask) Not only that, but his anatomy is also [[Intangible Man|intangible]], as he weighs so little that he can run on water. Also a case of [[Required Secondary Powers]].
* In ''[[Pani Poni Dash!]]'', anthropomorphic rabbit Mesousa isn't drawn with hands, and is frequently depressed when reminded that he can't hold anything.
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== Films -- Animation ==
* All the characters in ''[[
* 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 ==
* The shapes in ''[[Flatland]]''.
* The oysters in "The Walrus and the Carpenter" from ''[[Alice in Wonderland
{{quote| ''Their shoes were clean and neat--<br />
And this was odd, because, you know,<br />
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== Live Action TV ==
* [[Mystery Science
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** 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 ''[[
* 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 [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 [[FM Vs]] if you're shown a profile you'll see a small bump between their mouth and eyes.) In fact, no noses is something of a recurring style in a lot of Akihiko Yoshida's work like the artwork for ''[[
* 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:hockeybird_4515.jpg|Hockeybird]], a creature that can play ice hockey with no limbs at all.
* 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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* 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 ''[[The Order of the Stick
* 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 and Dragons|beholders]] are gifted with telekinesis.
* 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.
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* 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 ''[[
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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 [[BFG]], which leads to Tom Grape looking around and then asking Pa Grape "How are we clapping?"
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** 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 door -- and showing a human hand in the close-up. The carrot reacts with understandable shock. The same thing later happens with his feet while walking...
*** 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 get's a nose surgically grafted to his face and he begins to enjoy all the wonderful smells of the world (before the conflict rears it's ugly head). He later gets ears at the end of the episode (we never learn how that turns out).
* ''[[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''--they are unquestionably quadrupedal and have no fingers to boot. Yet they cook, dress up, decorate, etc. Now, the [[Real Life|actual toys]] have magnets in their hooves to help them manipulate stuff, [[Epileptic Trees|so.....]]
** A large part of the art direction in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
*** 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]]?
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