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Anatomy Anomaly

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In animation, it's fairly common for characters to be depicted differently from what you'd expect from real life (usually missing the little finger), especially from the anatomical point, mostly due to simplification of the human/animal figure represented. Sometimes though, one or more characters in particular on a show will be depicted in a way distinctive from the rest of the cast. Normally, they either:
lack one prominent anatomical feature, especially the nose;
or are depicted with more detail, having features that other members of the cast don't;
Of course, this trope applies only when one or a few characters among the whole cast of the show are depicted with less or more detail than the greatest part of the cast. After all, it's almost impossible to determine a norm if there is none to start with.
Related to Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: in many cartoons, only females have visible lips and eyelashes.
Super trope to the first type of The Noseless, sub-trope of Non-Standard Character Design and Animals Lack Attributes. Related to Invisible Anatomy.
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In The Simpsons, the only character with five fingers is God.
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The eponymous Blaze of Blaze and the Monster Machines is the only non-human character with visible irises; all the others have the standard Black Dot Pupils.
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RWBY: Prior to Volume 7, the show didn't have the ability to give characters fingernails. As a result, only characters with painted nails had any fingernail definition. These characters were limited to Cinder (red nails), Emerald (pink nails), and Salem (black nails).
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Krillin, of the Dragon Ball series, who doesn't feature a nose. (Lampshaded during the first Tournament Arc, when Krillin is losing a fight to a barbarian who uses his stench as a weapon - until Goku points out Krillin's lack of a nose)
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Omi of Xiaolin Showdown. No nose. (Also no hair, but then again, he is a monk.)
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Dilbert and Dogbert have no mouths (but the rest of the cast does). There were rare cases in the comics in which a mouth appears when Dilbert was shouting. In the cartoon series, it would only appear when they were speaking.
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The Order of the Stick: Only the elves and certain other creatures have ears; all humans lack them. One half-elf reveals his hybrid status by showing he has a single (pointed) ear.
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Steven Universe: The Movie: Spinel is a unique mix of both of the above: she originally had eyelashes and no irises, but when she changed form the eyelashes disappeared and her eyes gained red irises. Her original form gains the latter's eyes briefly when she's angered.
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In Turning Red this is downplayed. Auntie Chen's giant red panda form has no visible whiskers while almost everyone else's does.note Ming's and Sun Yee's also lack them but theirs are also Kaiju-sized and ghostly respectively.
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Cathy has no nose, but no one else in the comic shares this trait.
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In Doraemon, Nobita's mom is usually drawn with no toes. Averted on a few occasions, like in most of the 1979 anime, a few movies (like the 2006 remake of Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur or Stand by Me Doraemon) and a single episode of the 2005 anime.
In fact, many mother/housewife characters in Fujiko Fujio works are usually drawn without toes.
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Hata of Seitokai Yakuindomo normally has no nose. On rare occasions, she'll have one when viewed from the side.
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Steven Universe:
The only characters with normally-visible eyelashes are Jasper, the four members of the Diamond Authority, and the Mystery Girl from "Last One Out of Beach City" (who is wearing dark eyeshadow).
White Diamond is the only character with visible fingernails or toenails (which stick out especially because they're stark black against the rest of her glowing white body).
A few characters have visible iris: The Diamonds, Jasper (as well as the "Skinny" Jasper in the Zoo), Sapphire, Holly Blue Agate, Nephrite, and a fair number of gem fusions. Bizarrely, Sugilite has five eyes, and the three from Garnet have irises, but the two from Amethyst don't.
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut: The Mole is the only kid to have ears.
Steven Universe: The Movie: Spinel is a unique mix of both of the above: she originally had eyelashes and no irises, but when she changed form the eyelashes disappeared and her eyes gained red irises. Her original form gains the latter's eyes briefly when she's angered.
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Peanuts: Charlie Brown. Word of God says he has a full head of hair, if very fine short and blond. You'd never know it, would you?
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SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob and Sandy are two of the very few characters who have fingers instead of Fingerless Hands, though in Sandy's case that's simply because she's the only animal that does have fingers. Lampshaded on a few occasions.
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The Powerpuff Girls, who have no fingers (nor noses), even lampshaded once.
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In the short film Badly Drawn Roy, Roy has no nose, four fingers, lacks detail and one hand is smaller than the other. At least some of this is due to intentional Stylistic Suck.
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The eponymous Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil is the only character who lacks a nose. He is also more Animesque than the rest of the cast.
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South Park: At first, little Ike Broflovski is the only one drawn having small beady eyes and a Pac-Man-like head which flaps up and down whenever he speaks. We later find out that rather than Ike being drawn special because he is much younger than anyone else, that Canadians (he is adopted) all look like that. It's unknown if this was planned from the start or something the creators added later, but it's likely the former, since Terrence and Philip had the same element from the start, and their accents marked them (poorly) as Canadian.
Likewise, many of the children lack noses, whereas adults and, to some extent, older children have them.
Characters introduced in later episodes tend to be more detailed due to the advancements in animation, while the older characters keep their simpler designs.
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Homestar Runner: Several characters don't have arms.
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A gag in Family Guy showed that the earrings on Lois' head are directly attached to the sides of them, as when her hair is brushed back there's nothing there.
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Lampshaded in an early episode of Pokémon: The Original Series. Team Rocket suffers under the stench that Erika's Gloom emanates, and Meowth panics, thinking that his nose has melted away, before he realizes, "Oh yeah, I forgot! The cartoonists never gave me a nose."
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In Gravity Falls, Sev'ral Timez are the only characters with visible irises.
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