History Main / HandyMouth

* [[https://youtu.be/gplA6pq9cOs?t=350 Paul Alexander,]] one of the last survivors of polio, lives in an iron lung. That means he cannot use his hands and has greatly restricted mobility. He typed a memoir using his mouth, a hammer-shaped plastic piece, and a keyboard.

* Advertising/DairyQueenLips: The lips use their mouth to pull a veil off a DQ value menu and write with chalk.

* Jonathan Joestar's [[LosingYourHead living disembodied head]] in the ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' AlternateUniverse fic ''FanWorks/SapphireHeartverse'' plays this trope for laughs, as, like in canon, Dio steals Jonathan's body as his own but Jonathan's head survives and lives a mostly normal existence in Dio's mansion interacting with the other characters. As he has no hands, he compensates by using his mouth, be it to write, draw, open doors, carry objects or ''even help in cooking breakfast''.

A FunnyAnimal or CivilizedAnimal without the benefit of FeatherFingers or HumanlikeHandAnatomy can usually substitute their mouth. Including for tasks that require opposable thumbs, because screw you, UsefulNotes/{{evolution}}.

* The northhounds and southhounds of ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'' are wolf-like hamster descendants with no opposable digits, and thus use their mouth to hold and grasp objects. This has been a major hindrance to the advancement of their society, [[spoiler: though based on an earlier script, they domesticate ape-like hamsters to circumvent this.]]

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Sometimes Handy has to do this due to his lack of hands. A notable instance is in the episode ''Shard At Work'' where Handy causes himself a very long and painful death due to attempting to screw in a lightbulb using his mouth.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', ponies that aren't using their magic or hooves to carry or manipulate things sometimes utilize their jaws -- the series is inconsistent with this.

%%* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' movies, Donkey's mouth is a very effective substitute for hands. - '''Administrivia/ZeroContextExample - How does he do so?'''

* Jonathan Joestar's [[LosingYourHead living disembodied head]] in the''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' AlternateUniverse fic ''FanWorks/SapphireHeartverse'' plays this trope for laughs, as, like in canon, Dio steals Jonathan's body as his own but Jonathan's head survives and lives a mostly normal existence in Dio's mansion interacting with the other characters. As he has no hands, he compensates by using his mouth, be it to write, draw, open doors, carry objects or ''even help in cooking breakfast''.

* ''Webcomic/SailorRanko'': In a scene when [[Manga/Ranma12 Ranko]] thinks she's a cat, she carries [[Anime/SailorMoon Ami]] to safety [[http://sailorranko.com/comic/chapter-9-page-38 by her collar]], like a cat would carry a kitten.

* In the ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' series, the Puppeteers use their two mouths as hands. The mouths are perfectly suited for this, even possessing little fingerlike projections.

* Jonathan Joestar's [[LosingYourHead living disembodied head]] in ''[[https://sapphire-heart-tippy.tumblr.com/tagged/jonathan%27s%20head Sapphire Heart Tippy's]]'' ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' AlternateUniverse fic plays this trope for laughs, as, like in canon, Dio steals Jonathan's body as his own but Jonathan's head survives and lives a mostly normal existence in Dio's mansion interacting with the other characters. As he has no hands, he compensates by using his mouth, be it to write, draw, open doors, carry objects or ''even help in cooking breakfast''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', ponies that aren't using their magic or hooves to carry or manipulate things sometimes utilize their jaws -- the series gets somewhat schizophrenic about this issue.

* Jonathan Joestar's [[LosingYourHead living disembodied head]] in ''[[https://sapphire-heart-tippy.tumblr.com/tagged/jonathan%27s%20head Sapphire Heart Tippy's]]'' ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' AlternateUniverse fic plays this trope for laughs, as, like in canon, Dio steals Jonathan's body as his own but Jonathan's head survives and lives a mostly normal existence in Dio's mansion interacting with the other characters. As he has no hands, he compensates by using his mouth, be it to write, draw, open doors, carry objects or ''even help in cooking breakfast''.

* Jonathan Joestar's [[LosingYourHead living disembodied head]] in ''[[https://sapphire-heart-tippy.tumblr.com/tagged/jonathan%27s%20head Sapphire Heart Tippy's]] ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' AlternateUniverse fic plays this trope for laughs, as, like in canon, Dio steals Jonathan's body as his own but Jonathan's head survives and lives a mostly normal existence in Dio's mansion interacting with the other characters. As he has no hands, he compensates by using his mouth, be it to write, draw, open doors, carry objects or ''even help in cooking breakfast''.