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One convention animators made with insect characters was to draw them with only four legs, not the six legs they characteristically have. Four legs are easier to animate than six legs. For example, the insect's front legs are hands and its hind legs are feet.
One variant of this trope is to give decapods (10-legged crustaceans) six or eight legs instead of the 10 legs they are supposed to have. Six or eight legs are easier to animate than 10 legs. Another, less common variant that was more common in cartoons of the 1930s and 1940s is to draw spiders with six legs instead of the correct eight. These days however, they are more likely to be drawn with the correct number of legs. Strangely, octopuses are rarely drawn with less than their usual eight arms
One common cheat is to draw the "spare" legs, but simply have them do exactly the same thing as one of the other pairs.
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Compare [[Four-Fingered Hands]], which is based on the same principle. See also [[Vertebrate with Extra Limbs]].
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== Insect Examples ==
* The bee on the Bumblebee tuna cans.▼
=== [[Anime]] ===
* ''[[Maya the Bee]]''.
▲=== [[Commercials]] ===
▲* Buzz the bee from the Honey Nut Cheerios commericals.
▲* The bee on the Bumblebee tuna cans.
=== [[Film]] ===
* Bucky Bug from ''[[Bugs in Love]]'' and ten gazillion Disney comics.
* Jiminy Cricket from ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]''.
** Notable in that he ''started out'' as an anatomically correct cricket (complete with "toothed legs and waving antennae"), but Walt wanted something more likable, so Ward Kimball conjured up "a little man with no ears. That was the only thing about him that was like an insect."
* Crikee the cricket from ''[[Mulan]]''.
* The ant characters in ''[[A Bug's
** Averted with the grasshoppers, however.
* Ray the firefly and other insects from ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]''.
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* ''[[Mr. Bug Goes to Town]]''
=== Other Media ===
* Victorian tobacco pipes have been found, as seen in ''[[Time Team]]'', with clay tobacco beetles imprinted for decoration but alas, only four limbs.
* The mascot of the ''Fresno Bee'' newspaper is a four-legged bee.
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== Decapod Examples ==
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* The shrimp in ''[[Shark Tale]]'' have six legs.
* Sebastian from [[The Little Mermaid]] has six legs and two claws.
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== Extreme Cases ==
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* Silithids (Huge hive-living bugs) in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' all have four legs, or four legs and wings. Crabs also only have four legs. Oddly, many lizard type critters have ''six'', moving in triangular two on one side, one on the other.
* All the arthropods from the ''[[Pikmin]]'' series have four or fewer legs.
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Funny Animal Anatomy]]
[[Category:Graphical Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Artistic License]]
[[Category:Invertebrate Index]]
▲[[Category:Four-Legged Insect]]
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