History Main / FourFingeredHands

* Most ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' characters have four fingers and four toes, but a few particular species have three toes instead.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Balatro}'', The Four Fingers Joker, which reduces the number of cards needed to form a Straight or Flush to four, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin is a four-fingered hand]], unlike the Grabber Voucher, which has five.

* Averted with [[TokenHuman Boo]], who has five fingers, but played straight with the monsters in ''Franchise/MonstersInc'', who all have four fingers. However, the monster who counts down to the beginning of scare floor activities starts with "we are on in seven..." and holds out his ''seven''-fingered hand.

* Averted with [[TokenHuman Boo]], who has five fingers, but played straight with the monsters in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', who all have four fingers. However, the monster who counts down to the beginning of scare floor activities starts with "we are on in seven..." and holds out his ''seven''-fingered hand.

* ''VideoGame/Shipwrecked64'': Played straight, and later, PlayedForHorror. [[ShowWithinAShow Bucky Beaver and his cast]] all have traditional four-fingered cartoon hands. But... so do the {{Creepy Mascot Suit}}s in their likeness... Later in the game, you see one of them with the right hand of the suit removed. [[spoiler: Two of the person's fingers have been [[{{Fingore}} fused together to match the character]].]]

* The human cast of ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'' have only got four fingers on each hand. It's not limited to just humans as the fiery skeleton ghost Lewis and the blue plant person Shiromori also have a total of eight fingers each.

Why do so many cartoon characters only have four fingers? Simple: a four-fingered hand is SO much easier to draw than a five-fingered hand. Plus, it simplifies the design of the hand in the same way the rest of the body is simplified.

** The earliest ''Sonic'' cartoons (''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Sonic The Hedgehog|SatAM}}'') gave Sonic four fingers but ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'' changed that to five (see the Western Animation subsection for more information). The subsequent animated series have all kept the five-finger design as they draw directly from the video games.

* Most Disney animal characters have three-toed feet. Though characters such as Mickey, Minnie, and Goofy have four toes.

* All characters, human or otherwise, in ''Webcomic/TheMansionOfE'' have four fingers (if they have hands). This is not just an artistic convenience; when a human character visits from [[{{Crossover}} another webcomic]], he has five fingers.

* Used on ''Series/LittlePeople'', a series of claymation shorts based on toys by Fisher-Price.

* ''ARG/TheNoedolekcinArchives'': Upon closer inspection of Kirk Odd's Scratch model, he has only three fingers on his hands.

* Out of the five Advertising/MonsterCereals characters, four of them (Frankenberry, Boo Berry, Fruit Brute, and Fruity Yummy Mummy) have four-fingered hands. In contrast, Count Chocula has five-fingered hands, keeping him more detailed, though his fingers are much slimmer than the others in comparison as well. Frankenberry originally had five-fingered hands, primarily thanks to being {{rotoscop|ing}}ed over for a scene in early commercials to lift up a piece of live action cereal, but swapped to four fingers later.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MaryAndMax'', every character has four fingers.