History Main / BonesDoNotBelongThere

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Bill Cipher has a top hat that he can take off like an actual hat, [[spoiler:but when Ford shoots him through the hat, we see that it's organic and has bone in there.]]

** There are Halloween decorations for sale that depict "spider skeletons" when they logically don't have bones. As if either of those things alone weren't scary enough.

** There are Halloween decorations for sale that depict "spider skeletons" when they logically don't. As if either of those things alone weren't scary enough.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Several instances of XRaySparks shows Wanda having a bone in her hair swirl.

* ''Webcomic/{{Scurry}}'' has a mouse skull as its logo. It includes ear bones, which mice don't have. Its right ear (viewer's left) has two notches in it, very similar to the two {{EarNotch}}es that main character Wix has.

If you've ever looked at a human or animal skeleton, you've probably noticed they don't have much in the way of ears or noses. Likewise, you may see skeletal or undead invertebrates with "bones", despite the only structures that come close being the exoskeletons in arthropods. Cartilaginous fish like sharks and rays do have skeletons, but they're made of cartilage rather than bone (they still look pretty much the same under an x-ray though, so only examples in which it's clearly bone and not cartilage should be included).

Some artists don't let that stop them, and add "ear bones"[[note]]While there are actual [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossicles ear bones]], they are behind the eardrum and have nothing to do with the cartilaginous outer ear.[[/note]] or "nose bones" (or "penis bones"[[note]]Despite common slang for a RagingStiffie being a "boner", the (human) penis does not have a bone in it (many mammals, including some other primates, have a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baculum baculum]]).[[/note]]).

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--> '''JD''': I see what the problem is. ''(shows the x-ray)'' You have a hand inside of you.
--> '''Muppet''': [[ThisExplainsSoMuch This explains so many things]].

-->'''[[BadLiar SpongeBob]]:''' [telling a [[BlatantLies story]]] I emerged from my fruit-shaped bungalow fresh as a bee when a wanted cry of distress pounded against my eardrum!\\

Some artists don't let that stop them, and add "ear bones"[[note]]While there are actual [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossicles ear bones]], they are behind the eardrum and have nothing to do with the cartilaginous outer ear.[[/note]] or "nose bones" (or "penis bone(r)s"[[note]]Despite common slang for a RagingStiffie being a "boner", the (human) penis does not have a bone in it (many mammals, including some other primates, have a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baculum baculum]]).[[/note]]).

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Despite being a sponge, [=SpongeBob=] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_splinter_056.png has a full internal structure]], [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nickmaghalloween2008jacobchabot.jpg including a spine, skeleton, and organs]], all of which a real sea sponge doesn't have. Mostly it's DependingOnTheWriter as [=SpongeBob=] outright says and shows that he doesn't have any bones or organs but will be shown with some for the sake of a gag. Other invertebrate characters like Plankton and Squidward are also shown with bones, which their species don't have. This is {{Lampshaded}} by a fish in one episode.

* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'': One level features an x-ray image of the HumanAlien protagonist, showing that her ponytail has a bone in it.

* GameMod ''VideoGame/SmashRemix'' includes [[VideoGame/StarFox64 Wolf]] (who still has his cheek fur), [[VideoGame/Mother3 Lucas]], [[VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay Conker]] (who still has his poofy tail), [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Mewtwo]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Young Link]], VideoGame/DrMario (who still has his nose, like his non-doctor counterpart), and [[VideoGame/WarioLand Wario]] (who still has not only his nose, but his moustache as well) in its list of ear-skulled characters.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros64'', when [[XRaySparks hit by electrical attacks]], [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario and Luigi's]] prominently bulbous noses show as part of their skulls, and numerous characters: Mario and Luigi again, [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]], [[VideoGame/StarFox Fox]], [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]], and [[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 Ness]], still have their ears.

* ''Film/{{Werewolf}}'': The werewolf skeleton has bone ears that curve downward to look like floppy dog's ears.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros64'', when [[XRaySparks hit by electrical attacks]], [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario and Luigi's]] prominently bulbous noses show as part of their skulls, and numerous characters: Mario and Luigi again, [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]], [[VideoGame/StarFox Fox]], [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]], and [[VideoGame/EarthBound Ness]], still have their ears.

-->-- '''Creator/BrianDavidGilbert''' about ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''

-->-- '''Creator/BrianDavidGilbert'''

* One [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bone-tiddies particularly infamous image]] features two skeletons, one with bone breasts, presumably to make it clear that that skeleton is female.

->''"Why do piranha plant have bone in it?"''