History Main / FingerlessHands

[[folder:Films -- Animated]]

* [[UsefulNotes/NintendoWii The Miis]] all lack fingers, but can handle objects like [[VideoGame/WiiSports tennis rackets, baseball bats, bowling balls, and golf clubs]] [[VideoGame/WiiSportsResort very well]]. They can even ''[[VideoGame/MarioKart drive]]''. Their hands are different from game to game, ranging from [[FloatingLimbs floating balls]] to Mitten Hands. Even some, such as ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'' and later ''Smash'' games (''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'' and ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Ultimate]]'', namely) give them fully-fingered hands[[note]]Although they are not the centerpieces of these games, instead being part of the playable cast[[/note]].

** In the email "fingers", Strong Bad stuck various objects onto his gloves as "fingers" in order to get people to stop asking how he types "with boxing gloves on", only to find that he was suddenly having much more difficulty typing than normal. In "Doomy Tales of the Macabre", his boxing gloves were replaced with human hands, and the experience left him bewildered and deeply disturbed -- he had no idea how to type with them.

* In ''Animation/FlowerFairy'', the four fairy companions Kukuru, Luna, Lushu, and Lulu, in their chibi-like forms, all have little fingerless stubs where their hands would be... usually. There is at least one occasion where Kukuru [[SuddenAnatomy spontaneously gains a proper hand with fingers]] for a few seconds.

** Yet again when the Girls are forced to travel by foot and Buttercup complains that their feet clearly aren't meant for walking.
--->''"I'm using muscles I didn't even know I had!"''

[[caption-width-right:330:[[FridgeLogic How can Blossom play the guitar when all she has are hot dog shaped limbs? Or thumbs, for that matter?]]]]

[[caption-width-right:330:[FridgeLogic How can Blossom play the guitar when all she has are hot dog shaped limbs? Or thumbs, for that matter?]]]]

[[caption-width-right:330:How can Blossom play the guitar when all she has are hot dog shaped limbs? Or thumbs, for that matter?]]

* Everyone in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' has fingerless hands due to the lack of detail in the 3D models. The fingers are only textured on the hands and never actually move separately despite their ability to use guns, drive, and operate vehicles.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', the player's hands are solid cubes, yet are able to hold and use items. Parodied in this [[https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/3205365/ animation]] by Creator/{{scratchU8}}, which uses audio from the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E3JellyfishingPlankton "Jellyfishing"]]. [[spoiler:[=scratchU8=]'s ''Minecraft'' avatar gets impaled by the diamond pickaxe.]]

* All Chao in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'', excluding the mutant Chaos. The non-human cast also lack toes[[note]]This is most likely because since most of them wear shoes full-time, their feet design doesn't matter much.[[/note]], but this is more obviously seen with Big the Cat, Tikal the Echidna, [[VideoGame/SonicAndTheSecretRings Darkspine Sonic]], and Chip. Averted in the Archie Sonic the Hedgehog comic books, where the Sonic characters are depicted with toes when seen without their shoes.

* A Versaball jamming manipulator is a robotic appendage filled with a sand-like substance that grabs something by wrapping around it and sucking the air out of the sand. [[http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/zero-moment/throw-your-jams-air-morphing-robotic-hands-have-arrived?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=1&con=IMG Applications to prosthetic hands are being considered]].

* In Episode 3 of the ''WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn'' spin-off ''charlie teh unicron,'' Charlie defends himself when accused of murdering Starfish by saying he was playing a Super Mario game at the time.

->''"So the dog brings out the trash? How can it even hold things with those nubby arms?"''