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* Coach Z's have maybe a thumb, but everything else is fused together. In addition, he talks without a mouth.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[ElmuhFuddSyndwome Don't ask how I'm holding the pointaw. Just admiaw my mowtowboawd.]]]]

** Female characters (including [[OneGenderRace gems]]) and a few male ones don't have their ears drawn if they'd be even slightly obscured by hair or headgear. In a bizarre extreme, Mr. Fryman's earliest appearances had his ears missing whenever he was wearing his visor, even though the visor hangs ''far'' above his ears.

* ''Rex the Wonder Dog'' -- it makes sense for him to not have hands, since he's, you know, a ''dog''... but [[http://www.superdickery.com/rex-the-wonder-dog-more-of-a-man-than-you/ they gave him a carbine]].

** Onion lacks visible ears. It's one of the several reasons Steven has [[AmbiguouslyHuman questioned if he's human]].
** Characters don't have a visible ear canals even in close ups. In "Catch and Release" Steven is shown cleaning his ears however he just seems to pass it over skin.

->'''Edgar:''' Ah, you see, the poor dumb beasts have no thumbs, so I ask you... how are they holding their cards?\\
'''Raz:''' St--St--Sticky paws?\\
'''Edgar:''' It should be impossible, and yet somehow they go on... playing the game.
-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''

* The birds in ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' have no visible wings or legs. Their anatomical lack became particularly noticeable when developers of the game were ask to design a mascot for the 2012 Ice Hockey World Championships, resulting in [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hockeybird_4515.jpg Hockeybird]], a creature that can play ice hockey with no limbs at all. The pigs are also prone to this trope, and later games show that both birds and pigs can [[VideoGame/AngryBirdsGo drive go-karts]] and [[VideoGame/AngryBirdsEpic hold weapons]] (and other stuff) without the necessity of hands. Completely averted in media associated with the [[WesternAnimation/AngryBirds movies]], where all characters have full bodies.

* ''WesternAnimation/SurfsUp'': Justified with Chicken Joe because he can at least use his feather fingers to manipulate objects, but it becomes stranger when it shows the main character, Cody, somehow using a Shaka sign (which consists of extending the thumb and smallest finger while keeping the three middle fingers curled, and raising the hand as in salutation with the back of the hand facing the person that is being greeted) despite having flippers.

* Minor superhero [[ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} Atmos of Xanthu]] is often drawn as having an invisible ''torso'', with his costume outlining his shoulders and abdomen but everything in between missing.

* The ''FloatingHands'' series of web cartoons. Matt Gardner animates in Flash, you see, and it's just easier to have heads and hands as completely disembodied body parts that he can move around independently.

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** The Mii characters built on Nintendo's Wii console have arms when created, but in ''VideoGame/WiiSports'', they don't have them. They just have floating sphere hands or boxing gloves. Any non-player Miis in the background will also lack ''legs''. Most games that use them in gameplay just reproduce the head on a single style of body anyway, and ignore the user-defined height and weight sliders. Referred to in [[http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=702 this]] ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' strip.

* In ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'', characters have been shown that, without shoes on (Or in Big and Tikal's case, with sandals on), they don't have toes. Oddly enough, they do have five fingers. Also note that this only applies to the anthropomorphic animal characters, as humans do have toes. In ''VideoGame/SonicForces'', the avatar character can be seen with only one toe on each foot if he/she is wearing sandals.

** Creatures without arms handle tools just fine, though the game suggests you get arms anyway (and, indeed, the Creature phase actually gets kind of hard without em). Creature without arms in Spore wield tools with their mouths.

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* The birds in ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' have no visible wings or legs. Their anatomical lack became particularly noticeable when developers of the game were ask to design a mascot for the 2012 Ice Hockey World Championships, resulting in [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hockeybird_4515.jpg Hockeybird]], a creature that can play ice hockey with no limbs at all. The pigs are also prone to this trope, and this is taken UpToEleven in later games, where is shown that both birds and pigs can [[VideoGame/AngryBirdsGo drive go-karts]] and [[VideoGame/AngryBirdsEpic hold weapons]] (and other stuff) without the necessity of hands. Completely averted in media associated with the [[WesternAnimation/AngryBirds movies]], where all characters have full bodies.

* WebAnimation/HomestarRunner lacks visible arms, as do Marzipan, the King of Town, and Homsar. Depictions of this vary between seeming like the characters have invisible arms (one time Homestar, wearing a long-sleeved coat, picked something up and the coat's arm moved as if there were something in it) or just having some sort of telekinetic power (another time, Homestar held four objects at once).

** Most likely invisible arms. At the end of "8-Bit is Enough", [[spoiler:you see him chained up as if he had arms]]. And yet afterwards, [[spoiler:Homestar walks away from the shackles without them having been unlocked...]]

* The birds in ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' have no visible wings or legs. Their anatomical lack became particularly noticeable when developers of the game were ask to design a mascot for the 2012 Ice Hockey World Championships, resulting in [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hockeybird_4515.jpg Hockeybird]], a creature that can play ice hockey with no limbs at all. The pigs are also prone to this trope, and this is taken UpToEleven in later games, where is shown that both birds and pigs can [[AngryBirdsGo drive go-karts]] and [[AngryBirdsEpic hold weapons]] (and other stuff) without the necessity of hands.

* The birds in ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' have no visible wings or legs. Their anatomical lack became particularly noticeable when developers of the game were ask to design a mascot for the 2012 Ice Hockey World Championships, resulting in [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hockeybird_4515.jpg Hockeybird]], a creature that can play ice hockey with no limbs at all.

* ''Franchise/DungeonsAndDragons'' featured the Lumi a race of outsiders immune to most forms of decapitation sinse they lack necks.

* Happened with Mint once in ''WebAnimation/ObjectTerror'' episode "A Perplexing Massacre," where [[spoiler:he was holding a gun ''not with his foot'', but like he has telekinesis]].

* In ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', Tom Servo's arms are springs and his hands are unarticulated plastic; normally, all they can do is dangle uselessly at his side. Somehow, this doesn't stop Servo from building things while he's off-screen, or playing a bass for [[NotableOriginalMusic "Hike Up Your Pants"]], or even ''twirling the bass around''.

Compare ArmlessBiped, AnatomyAnomaly, FeatherFingers, FourthWallPortrait, FloatingLimbs, FingerlessHands, NoMouth. Contrast SuddenAnatomy, where body parts become visible only when used.

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}, Pernida can talk and hear despite having no mouth or ears, being [[spoiler: a giant disembodied left arm]]. It's lampshaded by [[MadScientist Mayuri]] during their fight, as he comments that he'd love to dissect Pernida to figure out how they can talk.

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