Interestingly, Jafar still has five fingers in genie form, and Eden, a female genie in the series, has five. In most of the Dot and the Kangaroo sequels, Dot has four fingers on each hand and four toes on each foot as do other human characters, in contrast to the original film where everyone has the right number of digits. American men in Goofy shorts seem to be more cartoony and animal-like than women, so it's notable that men tend to have four-fingered hands while women tend have five.
Goofy, even as his most human-like form, Mr. George Geef, still only has four; his wife, whenever her hands are seen, has five. This contrast is perhaps most obvious in Cold War : when Geef's wife takes his pulses, both her five-fingered hand and his four-fingered one are in the same shot. Mexicans in For Whom the Bull Toil look human, but still have four-fingered hands. How to Be a Detective features four characters, three of whom are men of different species: Goofy as Johnny Eyeball, Pete as Al Muldoon, and a weasel guy.
All three men have four-fingered hands. The Dame, who turns out to be Al's bride, is a veiled human-looking woman with five-fingered hands. In Father's Day Off , a female phone operator is shown to be fully human with five-fingered hands, even though a different woman who shoves a milk bottle into Geef's mouth and asks him to babysit, her fully human baby, and every man in the same short most men look like Geef, although the police chief looks like Pete , only have four.
Geef's son, George Jr. Blackfoot from Californy er Bust has five-toed feet, yet four-fingered hands like all "dem pesky Redskins". This is perhaps one of the few cases, if not the only case, where the numbers of fingers and toes don't match for a single character. His feet, btw, are literally black, even though his skin elsewhere is very much red. Princess Esmeralda in Knight for a Day , an earlier short, has a muzzle and four-fingered hands.
George's mother in Teachers Are People in which George isn't Goofy's son, but his most mischievous student , has four-fingered hands. Fully human men in How to Sleep and How to Dance have five-fingered hands. Everyone in A Goofy Movie has four-fingered hands, except Lisa, who is clearly seen with five fingers in each hand. The Blue Meanies in Yellow Submarine have six fingers. At least, their leader does. Strangely on the reissue poster, Sleepy is seen with four on one hand and five on the other.
Like his cartoon counterpart, Mr. Peabody in Mr. In Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer everyone has four fingers, despite the characters being drawn semi-realistically. Pinocchio has four fingers as a puppet, but has five fingers after he's been turned into a human at the end of the film. Geppetto, Stromboli, Lampwick, and all the other humans have five fingers each, but for some reason, the Coachman only has four.
Honest John the fox and Gideon the cat have four-fingered hands. Interestingly, both played straight and averted in Wreck-It Ralph. Of the three games original to the film, only the characters from cutesy racer Sugar Rush have four-fingered hands. Characters from Hero's Duty have five fingers befitting its realistic looking design and characters from Fix-It Felix Jr. Oddly, the character Turbo, who otherwise has rather cartoony features like Felix and Ralph rather than the Animesque look of the Sugar Rush characters , only has four fingers, even when out of disguise.
It should also be noted that Sugar Rush is supposed to be a Japanese-developed game, and Japanese-made characters usually don't have four fingers for reasons listed above. Madame Souza of The Triplets of Belleville has only four fingers, although given how realistic her hands were designed, it can be downright creepy looking. Played with in the fourth Futurama movie, where Leo Wong is dealing poker to Bender who ends up with five kings the regular four plus a coaster that has the "King of Beers" on it.
To illustrate Leo holds up a single five-fingered hand long enough for the audience to go "what the hell, he has five fingers. While most of the cast of Frozen have five fingers, the trolls have four. All of the human characters in Big Hero 6 have five fingers, but the robot Baymax only has four.
Every character in Hoodwinked! In the sequel, only the non-human characters; an Animation Bump resulted in all the humans gaining a fifth finger. All the The Boxtrolls have them, while the other characters have five-fingered hands. It's Winnie pointing out the difference that convinces Eggs that he's a human. While Professor Ratigan, the main villain of The Great Mouse Detective , has five fingers, everyone else is drawn with four fingers. The only character to avert this rule is Louie the hot dog vendor, who for some reason only has four fingers on each hand.
In Mary and Max , every character has four fingers. In The Emoji Movie , Flamenca, Akiko Glitter, the internet trolls and all the human characters have five fingers on each hand, but the emojis have only four. And all the hand emojis have five fingers, but they only have legs. In Sausage Party , likely as a nod to classic cartoons, all the non human characters wear White Gloves and have four fingers per hand.
Cats Don't Dance : All the humans have these. Trolls : All the characters have these, but that doesn't stop one character from asking for a high five at one point.
In Dumbo , the only characters to have four fingers are Timothy Q. Mouse and the clowns. Films — Live-Action. Justified in Splice. Dren has three fingers and a thumb on each hand, due to the fact that she a hybrid creature spliced from a unholy mixture of animals' DNA that widely varies in the amount of fingers each species has.
Lampshaded in Casper from Though why a ghost loses a finger when they die is never explained. Casper: practicing ways to introduce himself 'Sup, I'm Casper. Give me four! The Kzinti from the Known Space universe have four fingers on each hand. Bonus points are awarded for having a base-eight mathematical system, which plays havoc with the humans they meet. Most faerie species in The Spiderwick Chronicles except ogres and giants which have 6 fingers. In The Island of Doctor Moreau , the ape-man cites his own aversion of this trope as a sign that he's a better "man" than the other beastfolk, most of whom have four or fewer digits on each hand.
Oddly enough, when Roger temporarily becomes human , he suddenly has five fingers, much to his confusion. The Centaurians in The Pentagon War have 4 tentacle-fingers on each hand. And they have four hands. In the Mr. Men series, all the Mr. Men and Little Misses have four-fingered hands. In the furry novel The Fangs of K'aath the characters have three fingers and a thumb.
And are mentioned once to count in base eight. Older Than Print : The Grolier Codex, a year old Mayan astronomy guide, contains depictions of humans with four-fingered hands.
Characters having four-fingered hands is the standard in many children's books, such as Captain Underpants and Franny K. Live-Action TV. Discussed on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Tara comments that if they were animated, they'd have to have four fingers, and wear White Gloves to compensate. Walter Emanuel Jones , the first-ever Black Ranger , was born with only three fingers and a thumb on one hand. He would often wear a prosthetic finger on set. The Silence in Doctor Who. Emperor Banba of Inazuman only has two large fingers and thumb on his right-hand. While the title character on ALF has four-fingered hands, the humans and certain Melmacians — maybe it's a genetic trait?
When Brian is recovered from a crooked used car salesman as in, selling stolen cars , this exchange happens over a high-four-and-a-half, to take the average: Brian: Give me a high-five, so I know you're alive! Alf: How about a high-four— 'cause I ain't got any more! The members of the animated band Savlonic have four-fingered hands, which is especially noticeable in shots of the keyboardist playing music she couldn't actually do without another finger.
Puppet Shows. The characters in Dinosaurs have four-fingered hands. This is lampshaded when Earl is on drugs and he wonders why they have 8 fingers but use a counting system based on Most characters in The Muppet Show have four fingers, even when the puppeteer wears the hand as a glove. Exceptions include Kermit and Dr. The Swedish Chef, being a character who has to manipulate things, just has Frank Oz 's hands.
Gonzo only has three fingers on each hand! Tabletop Games. They're the only non-human races with this array of digits. Minotaurs also have cloven hooves for feet, while Dragonborn have four-toed paws. The Aslan in Traveller have four digits per hand, and count in base 8. Their leadership is called the "Tlaukhu", translated as "Twenty-Nine"; it's more literally 3 eights and five.
Warhammer 40, The Tau and Kroot only have four digits a hand. The fluff has the Tau logically using a base 8 system. The Orks, on the other hand or possibly paw , have five fingers but use base six numbering. Which actually makes a certain amount of sense if you use the other hand for the second digit.
Of course, this being Warhammer it all started as a joke on the theme of Orks being too stupid to count higher, to the point where they had specialist mutations like Mekboyz and Doks called "sumboyz" who were effectively Orky accountants because they knew the numbers that came after "lotz". The magi in Magi-Nation have four fingers, but they're not strictly human. However, one artist goofed up in the first edition of the game and drew a magi Grega with five fingers.
When the error was noticed, the game company decided to roll with it and say she descended from a five-fingered magi. Theme Parks. At the Disney Theme Parks , Meet and Greet versions of any characters with four fingers will have the proper amount of digits by way of four fingered gloves. Only much later figures received articulate, fingered hands, usually the larger ones, and these had four.
In '09, this phenomenon reached the smaller and medium-sized toys, as they got four-fingered graspers. All of the prominent characters from the first two Direct to Video movies had five fingers, save for those that had claws Nidhiki, Pewku , no hands at all Vahki robots , or had just plain weird-looking hands Krekka.
Then, by the third movie, all of the new or newly transformed characters were outfitted with only four. In the fourth movie, which wasn't part of the original trilogy, they also had four, but this time it was because the toys also had that many.
The video game Bionicle: Heroes also decided to give the Piraka and Toa Inika four fingers, which is an understandable example of Artistic License , since their figures had no fingers at all, save for Toa Nuparu's huge claws. What about my old fave Thundercats? One of the reasons is to move some characters further away from human design. Think of Disney films…Aladin and Jasmine have five fingers, but the Genie has four.
In Cinderella, all characters are blessed with five fingers, except the poor mice, who only have four. However, in the case of Pinocchio — he starts with four fingers and then later on he gets promoted to five! If you watch the scene where Pinocchio transforms from puppet to boy, his four fingered, white gloved hands slowly morph into five fingered human hands.
This was intended to show his transition to being a human. The characters on the Simpsons are known for being self aware of their four fingeredness. But the one character famous for having all five fingers is God. He makes several appearances in the show — the one that sticks out in my head is when he visits Homer in a dream to discuss why Homer has stopped going to church. He then excuses himself as he has to go and appear in a tortilla in Mexico.
God then floats up into the air where we can see his five toed feet for a split second and flies away. The animation-centric YouTube channel ChannelFrederator digs into this animation mystery in a fascinating new minute video.
For one thing, it simply makes hands easier to draw. In the era of hand-drawn animation, having one less digit on every character in every cel could potentially save animators a ton of time, which, in turn, saved companies a ton of money. Making animals and supernatural beings too realistic takes viewers out of fantasyland, even if those animals are wearing pants.
It's not just Disney that does it, either. And now that you know, you'll notice nothing but four-fingered pals every time you flip to a cartoon.
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