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Feather Fingers

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Feather Fingers	comment	You may have noticed that many non-primate animals have extremely un-humanlike limbs. They may have wings, they may have fins, they may have claws like a lobster or long grappling hooks like a sloth or hooves like a cow. But because Most Animators Are Human, they have a tendency to fall back on making the very different anatomy of animal characters — even those who aren't, strictly speaking, anthropomorphic — do things they'd be physically incapable of in order to closely mimic human actions. Therefore, every animal forelimb, no matter how little it resembles a human hand, is prehensile. The Trope Namers are all the otherwise non-anthro cartoon birds who can hold things in their primary wing feathers, such as Woodstock. The primary wing feathers sort of look like fingers, so naturally in cartoons they act like fingers. Not a heavily modified and specialized extension of their body covering (meaning that this makes as much sense as Prehensile Hair). This is less jarring when done with hawks and eagles as their wings are wider and their wing feather tips stick out. This version tends to go hand-in-hand (sorry) with Acrophobic Bird. One variant of Feather Fingers has the wings be basically arms when not in flight, but be true classic Feather Fingers wings in flight. There is a variant of this trope in which thumbs appear on the front paws of many cats and dogs (and sometimes other animals) when grasping something or gesturing, but disappear when the front paws are just used for four-legged walking or otherwise in a default pose. This variant is sometimes applied to characters with Fingerless Hands, characters who don't have (apparent) fingers. Another variant is when bird characters can bend their wings forward like arms, something that is physically impossible in real life. This is usually the very first step in a character/series' Anthropomorphic Shift. It's just easier for animators to draw a character playing the drums or baking cookies using the body motions based off human references. It takes a hell of a lot of dedication to avert this trope, as it involves having to stop and really think about how the heck a penguin could possibly manipulate a tuba. Related to Tailfin Walking, where the fins of a sea animal which are clearly not designed for standing are used like legs. See also Cartoony Eyes, Toothy Bird, Mouthy Bird, Anatomy Anomaly, and Invisible Anatomy. Compare the far more common Humanlike Hand Anatomy, which is when the artist just draws the animal with hands instead of paws/hooves/wings to begin with. For, shall we say, a less family friendly human-like anatomical modification of non-humanlike animals, see Non-Mammal Mammaries...
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Feather Fingers / int_100d4e39	comment	Aladdin: The Series: Iago the parrot holds things in his beak and claws while flying, but uses his wings as hands when on the ground. In at least one episode he loses all his feathers and we can see his wings look like mittens, with opposable thumbs. Granted, if you pay attention to the anatomy of the "hand" next time you eat chicken wings, it does look like a mitten... sort of◊. But play with the Alula ("thumb") a bit and you'll note the range of motion is very restricted. Other winged characters, like Thundra the Rainbird and Fatima the thief-turned-harpy, also use their wings as hands whenever they're not flying (despite still looking like wings).
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Feather Fingers / int_141a7410	comment	Downplayed in Over the Garden Wall, where Beatrice (a talking bluebird) frequently gestures with her wings as if they were arms (probably out of habit, since she used to be human), but never tries to use them as hands. When she picks things up and moves them around she uses her beak.
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Feather Fingers / int_14f9297e	comment	Gary Larson liked to subvert this in The Far Side, even though he was just as likely to play it straight based upon the Rule of Funny. In one comic, two cows were staring at a ringing phone, unable to answer it due to lacking opposable thumbs. Another had several snakes wanting to let another snake in, but being not quite sure how to work the doorknob. (Don't ask how the other snakes got inside in the first place...) In yet another comic, a T. rex bemoans its inability to pass the potatoes due to its tiny arms, providing the page quote.
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Feather Fingers / int_1b49ce18	comment	Cats in The Aristocats have normal cat paws without thumbs when when walking on all fours or otherwise not using them as hands, but gain thumbs when they are using their paws like hands. For example.
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Feather Fingers / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: The Rito are depicted with primary feathers that flex and grasp like humanoid fingers. Kass in particular clearly plays an accordion with his feathered fingers, while Revali and Teba are shown to be proficient archers — the latter even gives a feathery thumbs-up in the middle of flight no less. Notably, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom retcons this element, and instead depicts Rito archers grasping their bows with their talons and nocking and drawing arrows using their beaks.
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Feather Fingers / int_26ef42e7	comment	Played straight with the birds in Kevin & Kell, however Catherine Aura's Character Blog states that this isn't "really" the case, and is just an artistic decision by Holbrook.
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Feather Fingers / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: Mostly averted with the Road Runner: he carries things with his feet instead of his wings, but he holds signs in his wing as if it was a hand. A variant with Daffy Duck and fellow Looney Tunes characters Foghorn Leghorn (a rooster) and Tweety (a male canary) — all three have wings that are basically just arms and hands when not flying. The former two are also sometimes capable of flying with them, something both of them have demonstrated on occasions. Daffy even migrated a couple times. Their ability to fly is very much dependent on the story demands of whatever they're doing at the time. In the more recent Looney Tunes Show, for example, Daffy is unable to swim or fly, making Porky question whether he's really a duck at all. Tweety, on the other hand, is always shown to be capable of flying. Tweety's wings are shown as regular wings when he flies and Daffy's wings are shown as wings with the classic feather fingers when he flies.
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Feather Fingers / int_2ce70ac5	comment	Kung Fu Panda has mixed uses of this trope. Ducks and geese are able to use their feathers like fingers, but Crane (the crane) has realistic wings and uses his feet and beak to move objects. Lord Shen (a peacock) is a combination of the two, using both his wings and his feet at times.
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Feather Fingers / int_2d2dc041	comment	Serina: The farmerjay evolves a crude grasping mechanism from the alula and a fleshy pad on the wrist of its wing, allowing it to handle its offspring and the snails it instinctively farms for food, a trait shared by nearly all sparrowgulls.
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Feather Fingers / int_2db3d13e	comment	Standard for birds in Alfred J. Kwak, unless they're holding something or wearing shirts. The titular alfred's wings shift between clear hands and stump wings whenever the situation calls for it (the default being stump wing until he needs to grab something), and the same happens to other waterfowls, Ollie the stork, and Dolf in his teen design where he had clear wings instead of clear hands.
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Feather Fingers / int_2f3aa7ef	comment	My Little Pony: My Little Pony 'n Friends: Pluma and Ruff, a pair of lightly anthropomorphic birds, use the ends of their wings as humanlike hands, although their ability to shapeshift makes it unclear if it's just a cartoon shortcut or if they're actually turning their wings into hands. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: A pegasus's wings, when not used for flying, function similarly to a thumbless hand, in that they can manipulate objects (like opening a saddlebag) or support body weight (the rather odd "wing push-ups" some pegasi were seen doing in "Hurricane Fluttershy"), but can't seem to actually grasp things, unless they wrap nearly an entire wing around it. Later seasons do this more extensively, so much as to include actions similar to hand gestures. "Newbie Dash" (where pegasi manipulate things with their wings even more often than usual) actually contains a justification (also seen before in "Read It and Weep"): at one point, Rainbow Dash is zapped by a thundercloud with X-Ray Sparks in effect, showing a good view of her (presumably pegasus-normal) skeleton — which clearly shows her wings' skeleton not as a birdlike modified arm, but as four separate, jointed finger-like structures stretching from her spine to her wingtips, which is as good an explanation as any for why this trope is in effect. "Parental Glidance" has some particularly extreme examples of this, even by the show's normal use of this trope, with pegasi using their feathers for everything from plugging their ears to counting out points, as well as "shaking wings" or doing a "face-wing".
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Feather Fingers / int_316ce2ea	comment	Big Eggo, an ostrich, the original cover star from The Beano used this trope to try and appear more human. It didn't work, and the character was later replaced by a more human bear.
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Feather Fingers / int_32940d8	comment	A odd case in Melonpool: Sam T. Dogg is a telegraphic dog with no thumbs for most of webcomic with funny jokes, but suddenly had thumbs at one point with lampshading about lack of such in past.
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Feather Fingers / int_36a99a80	comment	Puss in Boots (and the other cats) in the Shrek series has normal cat paws, but with manual dexterity equal to that of a human.
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Feather Fingers / int_39c30cc	comment	Franklin and his friend's teacher Mr. Owl has these on Franklin, which makes sense, as it would be difficult to write on a chalkboard with chalk, etc., without these.
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Feather Fingers / int_400469e	comment	In a Calvin and Hobbes strip Calvin and Hobbes start repeatedly zapping each other with a transmogrifier pistol for revenge. No matter what form each is in, he's still able to work the trigger — the most extreme case being when Calvin is a flower, apparently having prehensile leaves.
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Feather Fingers / int_40394e51	comment	In Lands of Fire, bird characters tend to have feathered hands, albeit distinct from the wings (note they are the same limbs).
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Feather Fingers / int_426a7572	comment	Animaniacs: Rita has hands with thumbs when she's on two legs or using them like human hands (i.e., to gesture, grab, or grasp something), but these turn to normal front paws without thumbs when she's on four legs. Same thing occurs with the other cats from Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain, but this is averted with the Warner Sibs in the few instances that they're standing on four legs. They not only retain their thumbs when they're on four legs, their hands still look like hands. That said, since we don't actually know what sort of creatures the Warner siblings are, this could be perfectly natural for them.
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Feather Fingers / int_463cfe3a	comment	Star Fox: While Falco Lombardi plays this trope straight as can be, it's especially noticeable since he appears to be the only avian character in the World of Funny Animals setting, with everyone else being mammals or reptiles with human-like arms and legs (even Pigma Dengar, who should have hooves). Conversely, this is largely averted with the pterosaur-like CloudRunners from Star Fox Adventures, whose wings lack grasping fingers entirely and are used solely for flying.
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Feather Fingers / int_474397c1	comment	In Mickey Mouse, Donald, Daisy, and the other ducks have have armlike wings with pointed feather tips for fingers.
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Feather Fingers / int_495f277f	comment	Subverted with Tama the tiger in Hayate the Combat Butler. Despite apparently being a certified boiler engineer, Tama clearly has extreme difficulty in manipulating controls of any kind, or holding things without shredding them. Which is kinda funny since even big cats can sheath their claws. Usually only doing big stretches do claws automatically pop out.
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Feather Fingers / int_4afc2089	comment	A variant with Daffy Duck and fellow Looney Tunes characters Foghorn Leghorn (a rooster) and Tweety (a male canary) — all three have wings that are basically just arms and hands when not flying. The former two are also sometimes capable of flying with them, something both of them have demonstrated on occasions. Daffy even migrated a couple times. Their ability to fly is very much dependent on the story demands of whatever they're doing at the time. In the more recent Looney Tunes Show, for example, Daffy is unable to swim or fly, making Porky question whether he's really a duck at all. Tweety, on the other hand, is always shown to be capable of flying. Tweety's wings are shown as regular wings when he flies and Daffy's wings are shown as wings with the classic feather fingers when he flies.
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Feather Fingers / int_4b86495c	comment	In Glory Hounds, some bird characters have feathers as fingers while others have taloned hands.
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Feather Fingers / int_4be3aedd	comment	The Tenga Warriors in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers actually have clawed hands at the ends of their wings.
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Feather Fingers / int_4d1ba412	comment	In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: "Spooky Stuff", the headless horseman's horse that keeps stalking Benjamin Franklin serves him a pretzel using tongs, somehow. The Alt Text complains that horses can't use tongs.
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Feather Fingers / int_4da4f10d	comment	Work It Out Wombats!: JunJun and his family are eagles who use their feathers/wings as hands. They're also not really shown flying.
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Feather Fingers / int_4e549f11	comment	Dreamscape: Will can't move them flexibly, but he can make gestures with his little wings.
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Feather Fingers / int_4f1bdd8c	comment	Sacred Odyssey: Rise of Ayden has Mycek and his fellow hawk-men, whose hands are wings and with their feathers in place of fingers.
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Feather Fingers / int_524e2e3b	comment	Donald Duck used to have feather fingers with pointed feather tips for fingers, but as his design evolved, he ended up with what were simply feather covered, human-like hands and arms. Of course, this doesn't preclude him from developing Tail Feather Fingers from time to time. In Mickey Mouse, Donald, Daisy, and the other ducks have have armlike wings with pointed feather tips for fingers.
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Feather Fingers / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Blackwing the raven Familiar rarely manipulates things with his wings (although it can happen, notably with scrolls), but he often gestures with them (even while flying), most commonly to "raise a finger" or point at someone.
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Feather Fingers / int_58637d87	comment	Babar the Elephant, of Jean de Brunhoff's stories, normally uses his trunk to manipulate things, much like an actual elephant would. However, Babar (and all the other elephants of Celesteville, for that matter) walk upright on two legs. This means that there are instances of them using their forelimbs like hands — even though their "hands" look identical to those of quadrupedal elephants, completely lacking in fingers. How this is done is a mystery. Additionally, because they seem capable of using both their forelimbs and trunks to manipulate things, elephants in Babar's world effectively have three limbs that can be used to hold and handle things.
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Feather Fingers / int_5b72f209	comment	Bird characters are by design rare in the Echo Project, and when they do appear they tend to play with this: In The Smoke Room, Caldwell the heron is depicted with taloned hands, but still feathered and coloured like an heron's wings. In Glory Hounds, some bird characters have feathers as fingers while others have taloned hands.
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Feather Fingers / int_5e41eec2	comment	Thumbs sometimes appear on the paws of Pluto the Pup, Figaro, and other "non-anthro" Classic Disney Shorts dogs and cats when they grasp something or gesture, but sometimes they don't.
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Feather Fingers / int_627507ac	comment	Played with in Rio where the birds are realistically shown grasping and manipulating objects with their feet, but their wings sometimes make gestures that are a little...anatomically questionable, such as crumpling up their primaries to make a fist, or gesturing with their wings while in flight (with them staying airborne even when they stop flapping)!
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Feather Fingers / int_630a0fcc	comment	On Fish Hooks, the characters' fins actually change shape between semi-normal fins and hands.
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Feather Fingers / int_63f08c20	comment	Performing tasks with two thumbless forepaws and a mouth is a common challenge in Bunnies & Burrows. The GURPS book even suggests a puppet to demonstrate more complicated actions.
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Feather Fingers / int_6449f850	comment	Played with in Monster Musume. Papi the harpy can grab and hold things with her wings — which have small thumbs on the second joint — but it's stated a couple of times that they're still much less dexterous than actual hands (for example, she can't use chopsticks). This almost ends up getting played for tragedy when she can't hold onto Suu as she falls off a bridge, though thankfully Kimihito catches her instead.
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Feather Fingers / int_6fe3e8a7	comment	Neopets: There are multiple avian neopets that appear to use their wings as hands, namely the Lenny and Pteri. Painting them Transparent, which gives them a plastic-looking outer body that reveals their skeleton and internal organs, reveals that Pteris◊ play it straight, having more realistic wings while still being able to hold objects, but Lennies◊ subvert it by having actual hands that just strongly resemble big feathers.
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Feather Fingers / int_701f0ece	comment	Berserk: Bishop Mozgus' stone angel form has an Exaggerated version: not only can his wingtips clench their feathers into fists as if they were fingers, but each of his wings' individual feathers can do this, which basically gives him dozens of fists with which to pummel Guts all at once. He doesn't practicularly need them for grabbing things since he still has his human arms too; the wing fists are just for Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs.
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Feather Fingers / int_73136e9	comment	In Minotaur Hotel, Pedro the peacock has feathered hands. Its not clear if they are feathers or normal digits covered in feathers, with some sprites implying either.
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Feather Fingers / int_7558ef22	comment	Done with a variation in the Cars movies. The characters don't have any appendages at all, yet they manage to write, paint, operate machinery, and hold things. This is usually done with a combination of prehensile antennae, prehensile windshield wipers, or clamps.
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Feather Fingers / int_7579423f	comment	Banjo-Kazooie: Zig-zagged with Kazooie. In the first game's epilogue, she has no trouble holding a mug. In Banjo-Tooie, however, the lack of proper hands is a gameplay element, as she cannot hang from ledges or climb ropes (then again, she can fly, so...) In Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts, this goes back to being played straight, as Kazooie holds a wrench for most of the game.
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Feather Fingers / int_76e1ae72	comment	In CatDog, the titular duo's hands looks like paws when walking on all-fours.
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Feather Fingers / int_77e22425	comment	Same thing occurs with the other cats from Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain, but this is averted with the Warner Sibs in the few instances that they're standing on four legs. They not only retain their thumbs when they're on four legs, their hands still look like hands. That said, since we don't actually know what sort of creatures the Warner siblings are, this could be perfectly natural for them.
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Feather Fingers / int_77ff1111	comment	Lucifer the cat from Cinderella normally has paws without thumbs, but when he is trying to grasp something or catch mice, he gains thumbs.
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Feather Fingers / int_78db2b3b	comment	In Gulliver's Travels the Houyhnhnms, basically sentient horses, are mentioned to have some kind of nearly invisible dewclaw near the hoof. Gulliver once gives one a needle and she threads it effortlessly. The fact that a horse would have a lot of trouble getting and keeping even one hoof up even standing still, and they aren't really equipped to see their own hooves very well, doesn't come up.
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Feather Fingers / int_7aaaa211	comment	The owls in Legend Of The Guardians The Owls Of Ga Hoole use their feet rather than their wings to manipulate objects.
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Feather Fingers / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: Perry the Platypus has stylized paws with no visible fingers while in his mindless pet guise, but human-like hands while on secret agent duty.
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Feather Fingers / int_7de63da7	comment	The Golden Pheasant in Dream Come True can move his wings like arms and articulate them like hands.
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Feather Fingers / int_80db7c52	comment	Washimi from Aggretsuko has these.
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Feather Fingers / int_84986bf9	comment	RuneScape: The penguins have no fingers. So in the quest where you have to teach them to make music (for the National Anthem, no less), you have to make instruments that do not require fingers. You end up with a cowbell and a bongo.
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Feather Fingers / int_8645d677	comment	Played with in the Spellsinger novels. While the series' intelligent birds have an unlikely degree of manual dexterity with their "prehensile wingtips" (as the books repeatedly say), weapons and tools with special handles — hollow cones they can tuck their feathers' tips inside — are designed for their use. Averted for equines and other quadrupeds, who can't use their forelimbs as hands at all.
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Feather Fingers / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: Krosp, The King of Cats, has normal cat-like paws with short dewclaws, meaning he can't manipulate that many things that need opposable thumbs or hold that many things without using both paws well, like a normal cat.
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Feather Fingers / int_878454c5	comment	Puppy in My Pocket: Adventures in Pocketville is also known for this, with several of the animal characters usually having normal paws but gain thumbs and more dexterity in their paws when lifting their paws up, gesturing, or grasping things.
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Feather Fingers / int_8f8df73b	comment	The Lion King (1994). Zazu sometimes gestures with his wings, which sometimes become hand-like, but at least he doesn't pick anything up with them. The lions use their dewclaws as thumbs, sometimes using them as hands. This is most obvious with Scar, as seen when he's tormenting a mouse (he even raises his pinky!) and in his Villain Song. The animators said that they tried to avoid having the lions make hand-like gestures with their paws, aside from Scar (because he's more of a ham). Timon just flat-out uses Humanlike Hand Anatomy instead. Meerkats in real life have very long, black claws at the ends of their stubby beige paws, so the animators gave Timon perfectly humanoid hands with black fingers to represent these. He pretty much always walks upright; from the waist up he uses his hands like a human would, both grasping and gesturing often.
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Feather Fingers / int_93489ff	comment	Dungeon Crawler Carl: Mordecai's native form is a Skyfowl, and on the fifth floor, he's transformed back into something similar (although a different subspecies). Since Skyfowl don't have hands, just wings, Carl isn't sure how he can keep making potions, but Mordecai assures him that he can brew "better than ever". How he does it is never explained.
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Feather Fingers / int_981dff43	comment	Downplayed in Splash and Bubbles. The characters do sometimes use their fins as humans would use their hands, such as gesturing, waving, and picking up objects, but more often they just use their mouths to pick up objects and always use their faces to point, not their fins. Bubbles uses this trope the most, probably because of the size and placement of her fins compared to the others.
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Feather Fingers / int_98706c75	comment	Most of the cast of Birdz has mostly arm-like wings which they use just like normal arms despite also being capable of flight. Strangely, one episode has them bowling with their feet.
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Feather Fingers / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Perhaps justified with Tony Tony Chopper, the Devil Fruit-enabled human-reindeer, who has obvious hooves, but never seems to have any trouble doing human tasks that would seem to require hands, even play Rock Paper Scissors. Post time-skip Franky averts this by having small hands extend from the palms of his much larger hands, which would be too bulky to do any delicate shipwrighting. The Harpy Monet is seen reading a newspaper by holding it between her primary feathers. However, this can be justified because she's an artificial harpy made by Law (he swapped her limbs for wings and talons), whose powers follow logical sense very loosely.
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Feather Fingers / int_9efd1f14	comment	Played with in Chi's Sweet Home and Chi's New Address with the cats. Normal shots of their paws don't show any thumbs, but thumbs show up in close up shots and when they're trying to catch or grasp something. The cats in this anime and manga use their paws like cats normally use their paws rather than like human hands.
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Feather Fingers / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Pokémon has a few cases of feathers as fingers and vice versa: Farfetch'd plays this trope straight, wielding a leek as a weapon by holding it in one wing. Decidueye takes it a step further, since it's not only drawing an arrow using its wingtip as a hand, the bow itself is the other wing, the bowstring is a vine-like leaf hanging from its shoulders, and the arrow is one of its own quills. Inverted with Lugia; instead of having feather fingers, it has finger feathers! This also seems to be the case with Yvetal, though they are more claw-like in comparison.
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Feather Fingers / int_a183d57f	comment	Dr. Zoidberg on Futurama is an lobster-like alien with claws for "hands". Generally he's about as clumsy as you'd expect, occasionally even snapping things he's trying to hold in two. He does manage to write without too much trouble, and in a couple instances actually holds a needle and sutures a wound. That's probably just Rule of Funny, or simply years of practice. (If you had pincers all your life, you'd pick up a few tricks over time.)
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Feather Fingers / int_a609791a	comment	Scooby-Doo sometimes did this, especially in the earliest cartoons. He normally walks around on all fours, with very dog-like paws, but when a zany scheme is involved, he stands up on his hind legs with no difficulty, and thumbs mysteriously appears on his front paws.
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Feather Fingers / int_a825da3e	comment	With thousands of cards representing the creatures of Magic: The Gathering, and hundreds representing equipment of some kind, the questions of how a Graceful Antelope wields the Sword of Kaldra, or how a Wall of Fire wears a Coral Helm, were asked long ago, and mostly explained away with, well...
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Feather Fingers / int_a9c54c8d	comment	The Motu Patlu episode "Super Murgiyan" is about Motu starting a business off of selling chicken eggs and overfeeding his chickens Dr. Jhatka's special powder, causing the chickens to become super-powered. The super-powered chickens use their wings like hands to attack Motu and Patlu's gang, drive around in Boxer's car, and throw eggs at Inspector Chingum.
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Feather Fingers / int_ac7fd385	comment	This is apparently the case for the birds in Hatoful Boyfriend, as in one route it's a plot point that Dr. Shuu has an injury preventing him from using his right wing this way. However, an early translation of the free version had an error which said Shuu was using his left hand to cut off the heroine's head with a cleaver at the end of his route, leading to a minor meme of drawing or photoshopping him with unexplained human arms. That particular instance was changed to "wing" but at various points in the full game, and the sequel, "hand" is used again. In the manga everybirdie has feather fingers, so maybe "hand" just means the end of the wing to them.
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Feather Fingers / int_af872a82	comment	In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the creations of Dr. Moreau — who are twisted parodies of existing Funny Animal characters — are very anthropomorphic, but the plotline dwells heavily on how unnatural and physically painful it is for them to walk on their hind legs and imitate other human behaviors. Furthermore, the comic book was being faithful to the source, as this is a major point of contention in the original novel as well.
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Feather Fingers / int_b54df0a6	comment	Unlike the above example, Sally the fish on Scaredy Squirrel uses her fins straight, without them changing shape or being hand-like in nature.
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Feather Fingers / int_b56da2f8	comment	Pooh and Tigger from Winnie the Pooh have Fingerless Hands with thumbs that appear when they grasp something or gesture.
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Feather Fingers / int_b5a087d7	comment	Used in one of Robot Chicken's shorts parodying the Muppet Show and the Muppet Babies. When the murderer (who happens to be Skooter dressed up as his homicidal sister, Skeeter, to seek bloody vengeance on the other muppets after they drowned her when they were baby muppets and kept it a secret throughout their lives) corners and is ready to kill the remaining muppets Kermit and Miss Piggy, Carmilla the chicken (Gonzo's love interest before he was killed off first) threatens him with a drawn bow and arrow, prompting the incredulous Skooter to call out on this trope: "You can't shoot me! Chickens don't even have fingers!" (is shot dead).
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Feather Fingers / int_b7e0a235	comment	In The Gate to The Mind's Eye segment "Nuvogue" submission "Laser Broadway", there are dancing birds. Their wings appear to be as versatile as human hands. They can be seen holding LaserDiscsnote "Laser Broadway" was originally a LaserDisc commercial, that's why, microphones, playing guitars, even throwing hats. Justified as the birds are Mechanical Lifeforms. And they don't even attempt to fly.
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Feather Fingers / int_b7e8e4b6	comment	My Little Pony 'n Friends: Pluma and Ruff, a pair of lightly anthropomorphic birds, use the ends of their wings as humanlike hands, although their ability to shapeshift makes it unclear if it's just a cartoon shortcut or if they're actually turning their wings into hands.
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Feather Fingers / int_ba3d43bd	comment	Summer in Orcus: Defied. The narration makes a point of mentioning that Reginald Hoopoe's wings aren't manipulatory appendages; his feet double as hands instead.
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Feather Fingers / int_bca72091	comment	You might think that, since the animal villagers can send you handwritten letters, this trope would be in full force in Animal Crossing, but not quite. In New Leaf, Pete the postman... uh, postpelican mentions how sloppy the animals' handwriting is, and notes that most of them don't have opposable thumbs. When avian characters hand you things most of them make do with their wings (or flippers in penguins' case) just like horses and ungulates work with hooves.
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Feather Fingers / int_c399cd39	comment	Eclipse Phase: The Neo-Avian morph (an umbrella term for both uplifted ravens and African Grey Parrots) explicitly have their wings redesigned through genetic engineering, giving them sudo-hands around the "elbow" section of the wing.
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Feather Fingers / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: A pegasus's wings, when not used for flying, function similarly to a thumbless hand, in that they can manipulate objects (like opening a saddlebag) or support body weight (the rather odd "wing push-ups" some pegasi were seen doing in "Hurricane Fluttershy"), but can't seem to actually grasp things, unless they wrap nearly an entire wing around it. Later seasons do this more extensively, so much as to include actions similar to hand gestures. "Newbie Dash" (where pegasi manipulate things with their wings even more often than usual) actually contains a justification (also seen before in "Read It and Weep"): at one point, Rainbow Dash is zapped by a thundercloud with X-Ray Sparks in effect, showing a good view of her (presumably pegasus-normal) skeleton — which clearly shows her wings' skeleton not as a birdlike modified arm, but as four separate, jointed finger-like structures stretching from her spine to her wingtips, which is as good an explanation as any for why this trope is in effect. "Parental Glidance" has some particularly extreme examples of this, even by the show's normal use of this trope, with pegasi using their feathers for everything from plugging their ears to counting out points, as well as "shaking wings" or doing a "face-wing".
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Feather Fingers / int_d22a9a66	comment	Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: In Pleasant Goat Fun Class: Travel Around the World episode 24, the goats travel to Argentina and meet some anthropomorphic birds who dance the Tango with them. The birds use their wings like hands to hold on to them.
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Feather Fingers / int_d37139b8	comment	Kung Fu Wa: After Manipulens posseses a seagull he briefly wonders if he still has fingers when he sees the finger-like tips of his wings.
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Feather Fingers / int_d4f9ccf	comment	In Aladdin, Iago has these, using them both to gesture while talking and to hold objects. He also at one point forms the Feather Fingers into a fist and hits Jafar in the head with them.
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Feather Fingers / int_dc395a61	comment	Otis and the other cows from Barnyard and Back at the Barnyard have real-looking front hooves when masquerading as ordinary cows in front of the farmer, but change into prehensile black mitts with thumbs when bipedal.
Feather Fingers / int_dc395a61	featureApplicability	1.0
Feather Fingers / int_dc395a61	featureConfidence	1.0
Barnyard	hasFeature	Feather Fingers / int_dc395a61
Feather Fingers / int_e0730aee	type	Feather Fingers
Feather Fingers / int_e0730aee	comment	Dr. Franklin's Island: Subverted. Miranda Fallow, turned into a bird, has wings with a look of hands to their tips, but those are just feathers. She has to manipulate things with her feet and beak.
Feather Fingers / int_e0730aee	featureApplicability	-0.3
Feather Fingers / int_e0730aee	featureConfidence	1.0
Dr. Franklin's Island	hasFeature	Feather Fingers / int_e0730aee
Feather Fingers / int_e388fcf7	type	Feather Fingers
Feather Fingers / int_e388fcf7	comment	DSBT InsaniT: Perry can't move the individual feathers, but he can move and flex his wings around like arms.
Feather Fingers / int_e388fcf7	featureApplicability	1.0
Feather Fingers / int_e388fcf7	featureConfidence	1.0
DSBT InsaniT (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Feather Fingers / int_e388fcf7
Feather Fingers / int_ea4f62db	type	Feather Fingers
Feather Fingers / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: Brian the Dog is perfectly canine in every respect (other than speech and bipedal movement), but he still has hands with thumbs — but these turn to normal front paws without thumbs when sitting on the floor on all fours like a dog.
Feather Fingers / int_ea4f62db	featureApplicability	1.0
Feather Fingers / int_ea4f62db	featureConfidence	1.0
Family Guy	hasFeature	Feather Fingers / int_ea4f62db
Feather Fingers / int_f367511c	type	Feather Fingers
Feather Fingers / int_f367511c	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!: Neo-Spacian Air Hummingbird avoids feather fingers by having his wings come out of his back. He has talon hands instead.
Feather Fingers / int_f367511c	featureApplicability	1.0
Feather Fingers / int_f367511c	featureConfidence	1.0
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Feather Fingers / int_f367511c
Feather Fingers / int_f7ed2fd7	type	Feather Fingers
Feather Fingers / int_f7ed2fd7	comment	In The Little Mermaid (1989): Scuttle is one of the Trope Namers, having Feather Fingers that look like hawk's wingtips (even though he is a gull), which he gestures and carries a "dinglehopper" and other human items with.
Feather Fingers / int_f7ed2fd7	featureApplicability	1.0
Feather Fingers / int_f7ed2fd7	featureConfidence	1.0
The Little Mermaid (1989)	hasFeature	Feather Fingers / int_f7ed2fd7
Feather Fingers / int_fa85cc4f	type	Feather Fingers
Feather Fingers / int_fa85cc4f	comment	OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: In the episode "We've Got Fleas", the title character and his friends become were-animals. In close-ups of their hands, they're still hands (albeit covered in fur), while in long shots, they're thumbless paws.
Feather Fingers / int_fa85cc4f	featureApplicability	1.0
Feather Fingers / int_fa85cc4f	featureConfidence	1.0
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes	hasFeature	Feather Fingers / int_fa85cc4f
Feather Fingers / int_fb9fefa6	type	Feather Fingers
Feather Fingers / int_fb9fefa6	comment	Hc Svnt Dracones: Most Avian Vectors can form their leading feathers into hand shapes, but they're only good for body language. They do, however have actual hands on the inside of their wings.
Feather Fingers / int_fb9fefa6	featureApplicability	1.0
Feather Fingers / int_fb9fefa6	featureConfidence	1.0
Hc Svnt Dracones (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Feather Fingers / int_fb9fefa6

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Feather Fingers	processingCategory2	Animal Anthropomorphism Tropes
Feather Fingers	processingCategory2	Avian Tropes
Feather Fingers	processingCategory2	Fine Feathered Tropes
Feather Fingers	processingCategory2	Hand Tropes
„Kérem a következőt!” (Animation) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Motu Patlu (Animation) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf (Animation) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Pomysłowy Dobromir (Animation) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Reef (Animation) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Condorito (Comic Book) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Sonic the Comic (Comic Book) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Tom Poes (Comic Book) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Sherman's Lagoon (Comic Strip) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Escargoancitizen And Friends / Fan Fic / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK (Fanfic) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Harry Is A Dragon, And That's Okay (Fanfic) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Pony Space (Fanfic)	seeAlso	Feather Fingers
Sucked Into the Smash Universe (Fanfic) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Ruffling Of Fur And Feathers (Fanfic) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Animal Crossing (Franchise) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Cars (Franchise) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Dr. Franklin's Island / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Dungeon Crawler Carl / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Franklin / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Llama Llama / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
LÃºdas Matyi / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Spellsinger / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Summer in Orcus / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Magic School Bus / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Ruffling Of Fur And Feathers / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Trumpet of the Swan / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Happy Happy Clover (Manga) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms (Manga) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Chronicles Of Oz (Podcast) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Darwin's Soldiers (Roleplay) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Ironclaw (Tabletop Game) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore (Video Game) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Banjo-Kazooie (Video Game) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (Video Game) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Bookworm Adventures (Video Game) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Bugsnax (Video Game) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Duolingo (Video Game) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath (Video Game) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Only the Brave Can Rescue the Kidnapped Princess (Video Game) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
PaRappa the Rapper (Video Game) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
SongBird Symphony (Video Game) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Spyro Reignited Trilogy (Video Game) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Glory Hounds (Visual Novel) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Hatoful Boyfriend (Visual Novel) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Lands of Fire (Visual Novel) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Smoke Room (Visual Novel) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
PONY.MOV (Web Animation) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
True Tail (Web Animation) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Retsupurae (Web Video) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Faux Pas (Webcomic) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Poppy O'Possum (Webcomic) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Skin Deep (Webcomic) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Transmission (Webcomic) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Wurr (Webcomic) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Zoophobia (Webcomic) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Serina (Website) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Alfred J. Kwak / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Alpha and Omega / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Animals United / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Animalympics / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Annabelle's Wish / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Balto / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Chicken Run / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Daffy Duck / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Dinosaur Train / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Donald Duck / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
DuckTales (1987) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Finding Nemo / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Fish Hooks / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Gallavants / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Home on the Range / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Hoodwinked! / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Maya & Miguel / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Mickey Mouse (2013) / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Migration / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Millionaire Dogs / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
My Goldfish is Evil / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
My Little Pony: Best Gift Ever / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
My Little Pony Tales / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Pinchcliffe Grand Prix / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Puppy in My Pocket: Adventures in Pocketville / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Quick Draw McGraw / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Rango / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Rio / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Sarah & Duck / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Scaredy Squirrel / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Splash and Bubbles / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Storks / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Surf's Up / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Angry Birds Movie / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Fearless Four / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The First Snow of Winter / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Foxbusters / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Little Mermaid / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Mind's Eye / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Pebble and the Penguin / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Princess and the Pea / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Swan Princess / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
The Wrong Trousers / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers
Woody Woodpecker / int_5707e92c	type	Feather Fingers

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