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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.
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== Video Games ==
* [[
** Finally given an in-universe explanation in ''[[
* [[Dynamite Headdy]] has a detatched head. His [[Distaff Counterpart]], Heather, ([[Meaningful Name|Fingy]] in the Japanese version) has detached fingers/hands/whatever.
* The ''[[Thing Thing]]'' series follows this, but it's never pointed out within the story.
* Norstein Bekkler, the host of the Millennial Fair fun house in ''[[
* All the robots in ''[[Joy Mech Fight]]''.
* 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. (
* 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]].
* ''[[Pokémon]]'': Haunter. [[Justified Trope|It is a ghost.]] Also Porygon-Z, [[Justified Trope|who's apparently glitched.]]
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* The "Miis" on the Nintendo [[Wii]] menu have no limbs in Wii Sports, but, oddly, clearly do have arms in other games.
* The character designer of [[Um Jammer Lammy]] gave [[Punny Name|Cathy Pillar]], an anthropomorphic [[Species Surname|caterpillar]], raymanian ''segments''.
* ''[[
** 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 move -- should we mention that his surname is [[Meaningful Name|Rolls]]?) his hands and head are responsible for all his body language, so for a guy as fat as he is, not having a neck allowed the animators to make him much more expressive.
** 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 ''[[
* ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]'': The Kid's feet lack legs or ankles.
* Bongo Bongo, the boss of the Shadow Temple in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
* [[Dizzy (
* Joka (renamed Joker in the Wii remake) in ''[[
* Certain ''[[
* In ''[[Wario Land]] 3'', [[Monster Clown|Rudy the Clown]] also has Raymanian Giant Hands of Doom, and you hurt him by stunning them and throwing them at his nose.
* ''[[Tonic Trouble]]'', based on the same game engine as ''Rayman 2'', had this.
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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 [http://www.centralcitytower.com/2010/08/history-acroboxle.html fully aware.]
* [[Exactly What It Says
* The characters of ''[[
* This is true for many [[Homestar Runner]] characters. See [[Invisible Anatomy]].
** Specifically, [[Homestar Runner]]'s [http://hrwiki.org/wiki/Homestar_Runner titular character] and the slightly more bizarre character, [http://hrwiki.org/wiki/Homsar Homsar], for starters.
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* The webcomic [http://www.twfccomic.com/ Tee Dubbleyu Eff See.]
* 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 ''[[
* ''[[Brawl in
* ''[[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 ''[[
* The characters in FTL have no visible limbs, but their hand-nubs never leave their bodies.
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* The characters in the animated version of ''[[Mr. Bean]]'' do not have ankles, their legs and feet being totally separated from each other.
* [[Invader Zim|GIR]]'s legs are like this.
* [[
* The Russian cartoon character [[Vinni Pukh]] has feet but no legs.
* ''[[
* Mala Mala Jong from ''[[
* EVE from ''[[
* The baby oysters from ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Alice in Wonderland]]''.
* Every character in ''[[The Hive]]''.
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