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* One of the drow characters from the ''[[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms War of the Spider Queen]]'' novels has such dexterous toes that he's able, when BoundAndGagged, to perform the necessary gestures to cast a spell with his feet.

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* One of the drow characters from the ''[[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms War of the Spider Queen]]'' ''WarOfTheSpiderQueen'' novels has such dexterous toes that he's able, when BoundAndGagged, to perform the necessary gestures to cast a spell with his feet.



* In ''The Bas-Lag Cycle'' novels, wyrmen are bat-like urban scroungers and errand-runners, whose feet serve as hands.

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* In ''The ''[[Literature/{{Bas-Lag Cycle}} The Bas-Lag Cycle'' Cycle]]'' novels, wyrmen are bat-like urban scroungers and errand-runners, whose feet serve as hands.
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* As does his teammate, Nightcrawler, although his feet are shaped differently.
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1) Character that have human-like feet, but they have developed enough skill and precision to use them as a pair of extra hands. The reason behind it varies from case to case; maybe their hands have been unmobilized or can't be used in a particular situation, possibly they are trying to multi-task, or perhaps they're just trying to be outlandish and[=/=]or goofy. In the most extreme case, when the character doesn't have hands at all, a nimble pair of feet is the second best thing one can rely on to replace their function.\\

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1) Character that have human-like feet, but they have developed enough skill and precision to use them as a pair of extra hands. The reason behind it varies from case to case; maybe their hands have been unmobilized immobilized or can't be used in a particular situation, possibly they are trying to multi-task, or perhaps they're just trying to be outlandish and[=/=]or goofy. In the most extreme case, when the character doesn't have hands at all, a nimble pair of feet is the second best thing one can rely on to replace their function.\\
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* Some ''{{Popeye}}'' cartoons have Olive Oyl grab things with her feet, such as "Hold the Wire", "Olive's Sweepstake Ticket" and "The Marry-Go-Round".

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* Some ''{{Popeye}}'' ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoons have Olive Oyl grab things with her feet, such as "Hold the Wire", "Olive's Sweepstake Ticket" and "The Marry-Go-Round".
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* Some ''{{Popeye}}'' cartoons have Olive Oyl grab things with her feet, such as "Hold the Wire", "Olive's Sweepstake Ticket" and "The Marry-Go-Round".
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* Coco from ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''.

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* Coco Rita [=LaFleur=] from ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''.
''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Gone Abie Gone" can play piano with her toes.



* Rita [=LaFleur=] from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Gone Abie Gone" can play piano with her toes.

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* Rita [=LaFleur=] Coco from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Gone Abie Gone" can play piano with her toes.
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* {{Ponyo}}'s feet act like hands. One scene has her toes wiggle very much like fingers, while Sosuke attempts to do the same to no avail.

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* {{Ponyo}}'s Anime/{{Ponyo|OnTheCliffByTheSea}}'s feet act like hands. One scene has her toes wiggle very much like fingers, while Sosuke attempts to do the same to no avail.
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* Disney's version of {{Tarzan}}, taking the idea of being [[RaisedByWolves raised by apes]] to its logical conclusion by having him grasp things with his feet.

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* Disney's version of {{Tarzan}}, Disney/{{Tarzan}}, taking the idea of being [[RaisedByWolves raised by apes]] to its logical conclusion by having him grasp things with his feet.
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* {{Ponyo}}'s feet act like hands. One scene has her toes wiggle very much like fingers, while Sosuke attempts to do the same to no avail.
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* Yet another toe-typer: Coorie from ''LightNovel/BodaciousSpacePirates''.

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* Yet another toe-typer: toe-typist: Coorie from ''LightNovel/BodaciousSpacePirates''.
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* Flower from ''WithoutAPaddle'' uses her "monkey feet" to answer the radio with the guys. She teaches Dan to do so as well by the end of the film.

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* Flower from ''WithoutAPaddle'' ''Film/WithoutAPaddle'' uses her "monkey feet" to answer the radio with the guys. She teaches Dan to do so as well by the end of the film.
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* ''Up The Creek Without A Paddle'' featured a girl with "monkey feet" who answered the phone with them. The boy who suits her learns to do so as well by the end of the film.

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* ''Up The Creek Without A Paddle'' featured a girl with Flower from ''WithoutAPaddle'' uses her "monkey feet" who answered to answer the phone radio with them. The boy who suits her learns the guys. She teaches Dan to do so as well by the end of the film.

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* Rita [=LaFleur=] from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Gone Abie Gone" can play piano with her toes.



* Many arboreal animals, especially Primates and birds.

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* Many arboreal animals, especially Primates and birds.birds.
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* Yet another toe-typer: Coorie from ''LightNovel/BodaciousSpacePirates''.

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* Mom and Dad from ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken''. Due to being an exaggerated case of HeWhoMustNotBeSeen. [[spoiler: Apparently, they're both only a pair of legs each.]]
* Coco from ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''.
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* Hiro Tsukiyama from ''BloodCTheLastDark'' can also type with her toes.
* Son Goku of ''Manga/{{Dragonball}}'', being an expy of the Monkey King from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', has uncommonly prehensile feet, frequently using them to grip things and, on one notable occasion, to fire a [[KiAttacks Kamehameha]] out of.

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* Hiro Tsukiyama from ''BloodCTheLastDark'' ''Anime/BloodCTheLastDark'' can also type with her toes.
* Son Goku of ''Manga/{{Dragonball}}'', ''Manga/DragonBall'', being an expy of the Monkey King from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', has uncommonly prehensile feet, frequently using them to grip things and, on one notable occasion, to fire a [[KiAttacks Kamehameha]] out of.
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* Hiro Tsukiyama from ''BloodCTheLastDark'' can type with her toes.

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* Hiro Tsukiyama from ''BloodCTheLastDark'' can also type with her toes.
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* Hiro Tsukiyama ''BloodCTheLastDark'' can type with his toes.

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* Hiro Tsukiyama Tsukiyama from ''BloodCTheLastDark'' can type with his her toes.
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** So can Hiro Tsukiyama from ''BloodCTheLastDark''.

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** So can * Hiro Tsukiyama from ''BloodCTheLastDark''.''BloodCTheLastDark'' can type with his toes.
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* Son Goku of ''Manga/{{Dragonball}}'', being an expy of the Monkey King from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', has uncommonly prehensile feet, frequently using them to grip things and, on one notable occasion, to fire a [[KiAttacks Kamehameha]] out of.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' villain Monkey Fist had his hands and feet surgically replaced with monkey-like appendages.
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* People with no arms, such as Thalidomide babies, learn to use their feet as hands. ''60 Minutes'' once covered such a person, who used her feet to pick up items at the grocery store and drive a car.

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* People with no arms, such as Thalidomide babies, learn to use their feet as hands. ''60 Minutes'' ''Series/SixtyMinutes'' once covered such a person, who used her feet to pick up items at the grocery store and drive a car.
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* ''CowboyBebop'': Ed can type with her toes.

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* ''CowboyBebop'': ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': Ed can type with her toes.
** So can Hiro Tsukiyama from ''BloodCTheLastDark''.

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** The ability returns in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengence'', where Raiden has several combos which involve holding his sword in his feet.

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** The ability returns in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengence'', ''VideoGame/MetalGearRising'', where Raiden has several combos which involve holding his sword in his feet.

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** The ability returns in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengence'', where Raiden has several combos which involve holding his sword in his feet.

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One of the hallmarks of being primates is that our limbs were adapted for life in the treetops. Our front and hind limbs were modified to grasp branches, but when the ancestors of human beings descended to the ground and started to walk upright, our front limbs remained as mobile as ever, but the back limbs were adapted for stability and aren't normally used for manipulation.

However, this character is capable of using his or her feet with the dexterity of a human hand. There are two flavors to it:

1) Character that have human-like feet, but they have developed enough skill and precision to use them as a pair of extra hands. The reason behind it varies from case to case; maybe their hands have been unmobilized or can't be used in a particular situation, possibly they are trying to multi-task, or perhaps they're just trying to be outlandish and[=/=]or goofy. In the most extreme case, when the character doesn't have hands at all, a nimble pair of feet is the second best thing one can rely on to replace their function.\\
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2) Characters which have special lower appendages adapted to be used as hands. Characters based on a non-human primates tend to display this trait, (as their feet are, effectively, an extra pair of hands) but there are many variations it, including creatures with BizarreAlienBiology, robots[=/=]cyborgs of various kinds, and humans with BioAugmentation. It's also not uncommon for them to exclusively use their "feet" to manipulate their environment because their upper limbs are not appropriate for the task, such in the case of winged characters that lack FeatherFingers.
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* ''CowboyBebop'': Ed can type with her toes.

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* ''Up The Creek Without A Paddle'' featured a girl with "monkey feet" who answered the phone with them. The boy who suits her learns to do so as well by the end of the film.
* Navi from ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', at least those who are not serving as avatars to humans anyway.
* Disney's version of {{Tarzan}}, taking the idea of being [[RaisedByWolves raised by apes]] to its logical conclusion by having him grasp things with his feet.
* Allison from ''TheBreakfastClub'' claims she can write, eat, and play the piano with her toes.
* In the Creator/LonChaney film ''Film/TheUnknown'' Chaney plays a circus performer "Alonzo the Armless" who uses his feet to light cigarettes, throw knives, etc. But he really ''does'' have arms, he's just hiding them because he's hiding out in the circus. He falls in love with a woman who doesn't know about his arms (or about his love) so he gets a doctor to cut off his arms, but - in a typical Chaney film twist - when he goes to his love to propose she's thrilled because she has just accepted a proposal from another man.

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* One of the drow characters from the ''[[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms War of the Spider Queen]]'' novels has such dexterous toes that he's able, when BoundAndGagged, to perform the necessary gestures to cast a spell with his feet.
* In LarryNiven's KnownSpace novels, people who grew up in space tend to be extremely slim and limber. One such protagonist has a habit of holding his cigarettes with his toes, leaving both hands free to work as he smokes.

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* Rin from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' has no arms, so she's learned to do most things with her feet.

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* Gabe of ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' is pointed out to have monkey-like feet in one strip.

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* The Joker in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' for some reason.

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* People with no arms, such as Thalidomide babies, learn to use their feet as hands. ''60 Minutes'' once covered such a person, who used her feet to pick up items at the grocery store and drive a car.

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* Ivan's armor suit in the second ''Film/IronMan'' movie could grab things with its feet.
* Disney's ''Disney/TheJungleBook''. King Louie can use his feet like hands, which makes sense since he's an orangutan.
* From ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' we have champion podracer Sebulba, the Dug, who is an alien whose legs extend from his shoulders, and his arms extend from the bottom of his trunk.
* The ''Film/AeonFlux'' live-action film included Sithandra from the original animated series. See below for details.

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* Franchise/{{Superman}}'s first super powered enemy, the Ultra Humanite, could grab things with his feet.
* Beast, from ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'', has this as a part of his mutation.

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* Allen Steele's books include genetically modified trans-humans, engineered for life in outer space, which includes arm-like legs with hand-like feet for life in microgravity. Also, they're intelligent.
* The Librarian of Unseen University in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' was transformed by a magical accident into an orangutan, and has since refused any offers to turn him back into a human. Being able to hang from the ceiling from one limb and shelve three books at once with the others is one of the many advantages.
* Unsurprisingly, used in the original ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' novel. Ulysse (the protagonist, roughly equivalent to Taylor in the film) is still slightly astonished to see it. Not used in the aforesaid film though, due to the apes being [[PeopleInRubberSuits people in ape suits]] - their feet were just regular human feet in vaguely hand-shaped shoes.
* In the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'', the Quaddies are a genetically modified race designed to live in free-fall. They have arms (and hands) instead of legs, but are otherwise basically human. They have a very hard time getting around in gravity, and use floater chairs when they can't avoid it.
* In ''The Bas-Lag Cycle'' novels, wyrmen are bat-like urban scroungers and errand-runners, whose feet serve as hands.

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* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' has the "prehensile feet" augmentation, [[SpacePeople bouncer]] morphs, [[UpliftedAnimal neo-hominids, and neo-avians]] come standard with them.
* Wakyambi from the Nyambi sourcebook from D&D are a species of elves from the setting equivalent of Darkest Africa who have these.

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* Lanky from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' is an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion! He can use his hands to to walk up (and even run up) steep slopes.
* While [[DownplayedTrope they may not be fully prehensile]], Raiden from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid 4'' has no problems wielding a sword with his feet [[spoiler:after he breaks one of his cybernetic arms to free himself from some rubble and loses the other while trying to hold back Outer Haven]]. It helps that his legs are no longer human, and it is unclear whether he can pull of similar maneuvers in mundane tasks, but it is still pretty impressive.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AeonFlux'' has Sithandra, who had a second set of hands grafted onto her ankles--a procedure which she highly recommends to Aeon.
* General Grievous from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' has this as a feature of his cyborg body. He can put all six of his limbs to good use as hands, though normally he sticks to being a humanoid, folding his extra arms and walking on his legs.
* Louie the orangutan appears again in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Talespin}}'' series, and he didn't lose this skill. During "A Touch Of Glass," Louie uses his feet to remove a swindler from the pilot's seat of the Sea Duck.

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* Many arboreal animals, especially Primates and birds.

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