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{{trope}}
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'''Raymanian Limbs''' describes a somewhat rare [[Lazy Artist]] trick for arms and legs (or lack thereof). Mainly, a character lacks anything visibly connecting their hands or their feet to the rest of their body. Named after [[Rayman]], who was an early case due to his ability being too difficult to animate with arms and legs. Only rarely is this not lampshaded in the actual works, however.
A subtrope of [[Invisible Anatomy]], although the former can be excused due to conservation of detail, while in this trope the seemingly missing pieces are ''clearly'' missing.
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* The characters of ''[[Vectorman]]''.
* The titular character of ''[[Plok]]''.
* Yoshi in ''[[Super Mario World]] 2: [[
** Also, [[Big Bad|Bowser]] in the original ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros]]'' game for some reason had invisible wrists. They're supposed to be wristbands, but since his sprite, like all other 8-bit era game sprites, can only have up to three colors, what appeared to be Bowser's wristbands is actually empty space.
* There a quite a few examples in the game ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', many npcs lack legs and arms. Two notable ones are [[The Dragon|Dimentio]] and [[Big Bad|Count Bleck]].
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* ''[[Psychonauts]]''' [[Straw Critic]], Jasper, seems to have no neck, and his head actually appears to be detached from his body. It's a bit hard to tell, though, considering how his body is so fat and he's usually seen from the front, leaning down.
** Right when you first meet him, you see him from below and he does indeed lack a neck. In a far more complimentary fashion than real people who lack necks.
*** In Jasper's case it seems to be a utility thing, like Rayman's limbs; since he never actually leaves his seat, (and may indeed be too fat to
** The dancer's in Milla's mindscape have limbs and necks that taper off to a point just short of actually connecting.
* The titular worms in the ''[[Worms]]'' series have Raymanian Arms since Worms 2, except in the intros of Worms 2 and World Party.
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== Web Animation ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h91f9_5I9BE&feature=player_embedded Acroboxle's] hands don't have any distinguishing features, fingers thumbs, so they switch places constantly. The creators are [https://web.archive.org/web/20160102214347/http://www.centralcitytower.com/2010/08/history-acroboxle.html fully aware.]
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Floating Hand Studios]] uses this for all of their ''X-Men'' flash cartoons.
* The characters of ''[[Madness Combat]]''.
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== Webcomics / [[Web Originals]] ==
* The webcomic [
* Ito of [[A Moment of Peace]] is clearly the lovechild of the [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0718.html lizgreaper] and Rayman.
* Male Kayoss in ''[[L's Empire|Ls Empire]]''.
* ''[[Brawl in the Family]]'' has a strip involving [[Wii|Miis]] playing Ping Pong, and they don't have arms in this case. Lampshaded when one Mii dismembers his arm with the ping pong ball.
* ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' characters have spherical floating hands, which has caused problems with body language, and disconnected feet. Except for the imps, who have triangular pointy limbs, which don't seem to be very solidly connected themselves. [[Hypocritical Humor|This trope is "harshly" criticized]] in ZP's ''[[Rayman Origins]]'' review.
* The characters in ''[[Extra Credits]]'' have
* The characters in FTL have no visible limbs, but their hand-nubs never leave their bodies.
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== Other ==
* Street signs indicating crosswalks and similar traffic features often show stick figures with no necks, just disembodied heads floating above their shoulders. This is particularly funny when the stick figure is riding a horse with a meticulously rendered mane.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110515055826/http://www.centralcitytower.com/2010/09/fuzzy-fuzman-and-acman-pictogramcomic.html Fuzman and Acman Pictograms] also have no necks, likely reminiscent of street signs and Olympic pictogram
* [http://welcome.deviantart.com/ Fella], the mascot of [[Deviant ART|deviantART]].
* The Hungarian Folktales animated series (at least the earlier episodes), had this as a running gag in the depiction of elderly kings as a bell shaped body and two floating hands. The only exception to this was [[Historical Domain Character|King Mathias]], who would make occasional appearances in a few episodes.
* [[LEGO]]
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