Multi-Armed Multitasking: Difference between revisions

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In ''[[Squid Girl]]'', Ika has this with her tentacle hair.

* ''[[Spirited Away]]'' - Kamaji operates the bathhouse boiler room. He has six spidery arms, which he uses to multitask: reaching into the hundreds of herb cabinets, pouring boiling water, grinding potions with his yagen (related to a mortar a pestle, but using a wheel in a narrow trough) and responding to wooden tags on ropes signalling requests from the bathhouse above.

** Subverted with Zaphod Beeblebrox, who gave himself a third arm and then does nothing at all with it.

 

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Pilot]] from ''[[Farscape]]''. One episode notes that having the ''mental capacity'' for multitasking is very uncommon, and more important than the multiple arms themselves.

* The short-lived 1970s sci-fi sitcom ''[[Quark]]'' featured Interface, a four-armed alien woman who worked as an intergalactic switchboard operator connecting calls between ships.

* Spydra in ''[[Gadget Boy and Heather]]'' does this at times in a few episodes, making full use of her six arms simultaneously.

* In the cancelled series ''[[Stripperella]]'', a supervillainess with six arms pilots a blimp all on her own, with two hands on the wheel and the remaining four on switches and buttons. She also utilised six pistols at one go in the earlier portion of the episode, allowing her to use them as a makeshift machine gun.

 

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