History Main / FloatingLimbs

* In WesternAnimation/StanleyAndStellaInBreakingTheIce, both birds and fish have these. The closer you inspect, the more you find.

* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Floating Hand Studios]] uses this for all of their ''X-Men'' flash cartoons.

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* ''WebAnimation/BentoBanana'': Plumpy has floating hands separate from his eggplant body.
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* ''VideoGame/WonderBoyIIIMonsterLair'''s sixth boss, [[DancingPants Sunglar]], has two pairs of floating hands, one of which remain stationary, the other of which periodically swat at the player as well as blocking their shots.

* Certain ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}'' bosses, such as the Shrine boss, Dorman, and Jabir's final form in ''VideoGame/YsVLostKefinKingdomOfSand'', and Galbalan in ''[[VideoGame/YsTheOathInFelghana The Oath in Felghana]]'', have Floating GiantHandsOfDoom.

** The mini-boss Jukid and the Plasma Wisp enemy in ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' has these.

** Yoshi in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'' has floating legs. Though it's only shown whenever he's running, subverting this.
** [[BigBad Bowser]] in the original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' game had invisible wrists due to NES limitations. They're supposed to be wristbands, but since his sprite, like all other 8-bit era game sprites, can only have up to three colors, what appears to be Bowser's wristbands are actually empty space.
* There are quite a few examples in the game ''Videogame/SuperPaperMario'', many [=NPCs=] lack legs and arms. Two notable ones are [[TheDragon Dimentio]] and [[BigBad Count Bleck]].

** This is actually PlayedForHorror in one of the animations, ''An Experiment''. You could put those floating hands inside a box and put them far away from the person's body, but the subject would be driven insane in an attempt to get them back, scraping their face across the walls to the point that [[FacialHorror the flesh from their face is removed, instead showing their skull]]. And when they get their hands back, the world starts to distort and glitch out, culminating in the lab exploding once the subject dies.

** As does Daroach in ''VideoGame/KirbySqueakSquad''. Although the rest of his members do have limbs, oddly enough.

** Then there's Susie and [[spoiler:President Haltmann]] from ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot''. They also lack arms.

** ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheAmazingMirror'' has Mega Titan (and Titan Head), Wiz and [[spoiler:Dark Mind's inital form.]]
** As does Daroach in ''[[VideoGame/KirbySqueakSquad Squeak Squad]]'', Magolor ([[spoiler:in all of his forms]]) and Mr. Dooter in ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand''.

* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'':

** The three Mage Generals from ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'' are the latest in the line-up of armless characters.

* The characters of ''WebAnimation/MadnessCombat'' don't have arms or legs, merely a barely modeled head (with a cross to represent where their face would be drawn on), a simple body and floating hands with their feet directly attached to their body. Later semi-averted for Hank who get a single arm after a tranformation with the other hand still being a floating one.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', the demon lord Sifkesh has her arms and legs severed from her torso, but still moving (mostly) in sync with it.

* ''Webcomic/{{Outsider}}'': Exaggerated with the Emissary, an artificial intelligence who manifests a holographic body to interact with corporeal beings. Each piece of its projected body is separated from the others, even its head.

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\* ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'': The Kid's feet lack legs or ankles.

* The shadowlings in the ''VideoGame/TelepathRPG serie'' are creatures composed of a smoking flying black orb for a head with two floating hands.

* The characters in ''WebAnimation/ExtraCredits'' have Raymanian Limbs with developed hands. When the main character talks from his podium though, he has full limbs.

** Rayman is the TropeCodifier and (Administrivia/{{former|TropeNamer}}) TropeNamer for this. WordOfGod is that this was actually a space-saving shortcut; eliminating Rayman's arms freed up precious kilobytes that could be used elsewhere, making this a latter-day throwback to Mario's character design, which was also influenced by the hardware's capabilities. Also, it would be hard to throw his fists around like that if they were attached to his body.... Finally given an InUniverse explanation in ''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins'': When he was created by a bunch of fairies, they happened to lose a few parts in making him. Namely, his limbs.

** [[BigBad Bowser]] in the original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' game had invisible wrists due to NES limitations. They're supposed to be wristbands, but since his sprite, like all other 8-bit era game sprites, can only have up to three colors, what appears to be Bowser's wristbands are actually empty space.

%%* The characters of ''WebAnimation/MadnessCombat''.