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Four-Legged Insect
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One convention animators made with insect characters was to draw them with only four legs, not the six legs they characteristically have. For example, the insect's front legs are hands and its hind legs are feet. One of the main reasons is that four legs are easier to animate than six legs and Law of Conservation of Detail comes into play. Another reason is that in a world of four-limbed mammals including humans, you'll want something for the audience to relate to in your characters and insects with their several limbs have a tendency to squick people out so you'll give them four limbs or instead double up some limbs so at least they function as quadripeds or bipeds. One variant of this trope is to give decapods (ten-legged crustaceans) six or eight legs instead of the ten legs (including claws) that real world decapods have. Again, fewer legs mean less animation time. Another, less common variant that was more common in cartoons of the 1930s and 1940s was to draw spiders with six legs instead of eight. Scorpions, however, are still often drawn with six legs, perhaps because their pincers are easily mistaken for the fourth pair. In reality scorpions' pincers are not legs at all, but modified mouthparts called pedipalps. Strangely, octopuses are rarely drawn with less than their usual eight arms. Sometimes this trope is inverted in which insects are depicted with eight legs and arachnids with ten legs. Compare Four-Fingered Hands, which is based on the same principle. Contrast Vertebrate with Extra Limbs. |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_14cb9f30 | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_14cb9f30 | comment |
Tuck and Roll, the isopods [pillbugs] from A Bug's Life, have eight legs. Isopods are supposed to have 14. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_15870207 | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_15870207 | comment |
Though the exact nature of El ChapulÃn Colorado (The Red Grasshopper) is never explained, his antennae are shown to be part of his body and he feels pain when they are damage, so is not clear if he is using a uniform or he is a mix between human and grasshopper. In one episode he talks about his family mentioning several insect names, so if he is a humanoid insect, then he has four limps. | |
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| El ChapulÃn Colorado | hasFeature |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_24853ff3 | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_24853ff3 | comment |
Lamput: The spider in "Lamput & The Spider" has six legs instead of the eight that real-life arachnids have. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_261c8d3f | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_261c8d3f | comment |
The Uncle Ant plush in The Simpsons episode "Itchy and Scratchy Land" has four legs. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_28c6afce | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_28c6afce | comment |
The bee that stings James in the Thomas & Friends episode "Buzz Buzz". Curiously enough, the exact same bee was drawn with six legs in a storybook based on this episode (blame ease of animation), and that the bees in the later episodes were drawn with six legs. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_2bbcacd9 | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_2bbcacd9 | comment |
The Looney Tunes short "To Itch His Own" features a blue, four-legged flea. Just about every Warners cartoon with insects and bugs as the star gives them four legs. Examples include "The Fighting 69-1/2th," "Of Thee I Sting," "A Hop, Skip and a Chump" (with Hopalong Casserole the grasshopper) and "Joe Glow, The Firefly." Notable exceptions include the spider in "Meatless Flyday" who is given six legs instead of eight. |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_2f643de9 | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_2f643de9 | comment |
The viceroy and monarch butterflies in Drunk on Nectar exhibit this in reference to their real life counterparts. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_310ea255 | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_310ea255 | comment |
Cake Wrecks occasionally gets cake creations supposed to resemble spiders, usually around Halloween. One of the worst examples they received were cookies, supposed to be iced to look like spiders on webs, but each had only four legs and the overall result was deemed to look more like "squashed ants on target boards". | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_32a01588 | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_32a01588 | comment |
Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio. He actually started out as an anatomically correct cricket (complete with "toothed legs and waving antennae"), but Walt wanted something more likable, so Ward Kimball conjured up "a little man with no ears. That was the only thing about him that was like an insect." | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_353c4e21 | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_353c4e21 | comment |
Same goes for El Nudelo Spider from Object Terror. | |
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| Object Terror (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_3651bc0c | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_3651bc0c | comment |
Ray the firefly and other insects from The Princess and the Frog. | |
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| The Princess and the Frog | hasFeature |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_396e0331 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_396e0331 | comment |
The circus octopuses from the Classic Disney Short "Merbabies" have six tentacles instead of eight. (They move like elephants in a parade, using one tentacle as a trunk, one as a tail, and the other four as legs.) | |
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| Classic Disney Shorts | hasFeature |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_399e635e | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_399e635e | comment |
Bounce the bedbug from Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends has only two legs. (All the other insects and arachnids in the series, however, have the proper number of limbs, making Bounce a very peculiar exception.) | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_3dc33b66 | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_3dc33b66 | comment |
The cast of Mr. Bug Goes to Town | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_3e5c6c5a | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_3e5c6c5a | comment |
Scuttlebugs from Super Mario 64. | |
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| Super Mario 64 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_42c05590 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_42c05590 | comment |
Flecko the fly, a reoccurring character in Rocko's Modern Life. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_44e0b783 | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_44e0b783 | comment |
Spiders in Garfield frequently have only six legs, although they have appeared with eight in older strips. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_48badada | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_48badada | comment |
Maya the Bee. Bees have two hands and two legs. But Flip has four hands and it's even lampshaded in one episode of the new 3D cartoon. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_48d51945 | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_48d51945 | comment |
Sebastian from The Little Mermaid has six legs and two claws. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_49ad83ee | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_49ad83ee | comment |
World of Warcraft: Silithids — an insectoid sapient species — all have four legs, or four legs and wings. Crabs also only have four legs. Oddly, many lizard type critters have six, moving in triangular two on one side, one on the other. The Nerubians are all over the place: they're supposed to be spider-men, but have six limbs arranged in centaur fashion (four legs supporting the abdomen, two arms from the torso◊). The Crypt Lord is supposed to be a mummified Nerubian, but looks like a massive armored beetle◊ with the same limb distribution. It can summon smaller bugs called carrion beetles, which only have four legs and two massive mandibles. Then you have the Makrura, giant six-limbed lobsters. And to top it all off, the game contains normal crabs and spiders (well, "normal"... the smallest is the size of a dog, and the biggest the size of a building) which have... eight limbs. |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_50bcf7a6 | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_50bcf7a6 | comment |
The Trolls in Homestuck are born looking like insect larvae, with 6 limbs, but grow up to be Human Aliens. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_52e8fba | comment |
In the Land of Oz books; the character of the Woggle Bug, first appearing in The Marvelous Land of Oz, has four limbs despite being a magnified insect. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_68f177d8 | comment |
The flies in Fly Me to the Moon. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_6a77752c | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_6a77752c | comment |
Basically every spider character, including Yellow Spider, in Challenge to Win has four legs, whereas spiders in real life only have eight. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_6af78ff5 | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_6af78ff5 | comment |
Metroid II: Return of Samus: Most arthropod looking creatures have one less set of legs than the Earth variety. Justified because SR388 is not Earth. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_6ff64a3c | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_6ff64a3c | comment |
Spider from WordWorld has six legs and two antennae. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_7045c9b3 | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_7045c9b3 | comment |
The cockroaches from Oggy and the Cockroaches. They gain the extra pair when they become realistic roaches in the episode "For Real". | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_74f7210c | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_74f7210c | comment |
The Legend of Zelda: Tektites don't seem to fit any one particular type of arthropod, having the legs connected to a single body structure, but otherwise, they always have four legs — two less than insects, four less than arachnids. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_76855784 | comment |
When he upgrades to eight mechanical tentacles (before the Ends of the Earth storyline, as his body is degenerating), Spider-Man asks whether he should call Ock "Dr. Squid", among other less-flattering names. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_7cabe488 | comment |
Bendy and the Ink Machine has Edgar, who seems to have 4 legs on the "The Butcher Gang" poster (though a third pair of his legs might of been obscured by Charly and poster damage), and had six legs in the actual cartoons, if the character doodles made by Time-the-Hobo (who is the official 2D animator/Cartoonist for the game) are to be believed. Striker, the Mook based on an anthropomorphic version of Edgar, has two legs and four arms, though his left arms have been mangled and mechanically fused into one, allowing for him to attack Henry with a Megaton Punch. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_83d41855 | comment |
Gargoyles has example applied to a mythological creature rather than a real one: Sleipnir's most distinguished trait is being a horse with eight legs, but the show depicts it as simply having four like a regular horse, because it was decided an eight-legged horse would be too difficult to animate. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_8a5be6c | comment |
Pistachón Zigzag in Odisea Burbujas is a giant Bumblebee with two arms and two legs. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_8f1c381e | comment |
Inverted with the snails in VÃzipók-Csodapók, who are portrayed with two arms. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_9266d91 | comment |
Princess Apoidea from Nefarious. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_97ce01ba | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_97ce01ba | comment |
All the bees and Mooseblood in Bee Movie. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_990dea86 | comment |
Coconut crabs (on which Tamatoa from Moana is based) have five pairs of legs like any decapod, but their hindmost pair of limbs are vestigial and usually hidden under their carapace. | |
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Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_9910cc85 | comment |
Crikee the cricket from Mulan. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_99e49e94 | comment |
Bug Fables simultaneously plays this trope straight and averts it. Almost every single major character or NPC stands on two legs while the enemies have the proper number of appendages. Justified in-game with the "Day of Awakening" that caused many insects to gain human sapience and gain human-like features such as the aforementioned bipedality. | |
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Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_9d963831 | comment |
Shield bugs from Septimus Heap. | |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_9f88aa97 | type |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_9f88aa97 | comment |
In Scooby-Doo! First Frights and its sequel Scooby-Doo! and the Spooky Swamp, spiders only have six legs. | |
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Four-Legged Insect / int_9f88aa97 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_9f89a5f0 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_9f89a5f0 | comment |
Pokémon's Scolipede is simplified from the centipede's myriad of legs to just four that it stands on and a dozen shorter ones that it doesn't. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_9f89a5f0 | featureApplicability |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_9f89a5f0 | featureConfidence |
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| Pokémon (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_9f89a5f0 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_a11886b2 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_a11886b2 | comment |
Bucky Bug from the Silly Symphony Bugs in Love and ten gazillion Disney comics. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_a11886b2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_a11886b2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Silly Symphony | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_a11886b2 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_a5549ed0 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_a5549ed0 | comment |
The Bible: "But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you" (Lev 11:23). This seems to be a semantic issue: the Bible mentions creeping things with four feet...and then describes how locusts have four feet, plus those two extra ones, which is partly how you tell they're kosher. There are a fair number of bugs with two legs different than the others, which the ancient Hebrews apparently counted as "leg-like appendages which are not technically legs." For extra confusion, that word for "creeping thing/insect" can also just be translated "winged creature," meaning it's sometimes badly translated as "bird." |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_a5549ed0 | featureApplicability |
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| The Bible | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_a5549ed0 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_a6f1b17e | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_a6f1b17e | comment |
Justified in Tiny Sapient Ungulates, in that the changelings evolved to mimic ponies. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_a6f1b17e | featureApplicability |
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Four-Legged Insect / int_a6f1b17e | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_abbbb26e | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_abbbb26e | comment |
All of the insects from Thumbelina except for the Fairy Prince's pet bumblebee. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_abbbb26e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_abbbb26e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Thumbelina (1994) | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_abbbb26e | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_aca7b22d | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_aca7b22d | comment |
Ocho from The Amazing World of Gumball has only six legs, though it is justified because he is 8-bit, so it is easier to animate him with less legs. Ironically his name is Spanish for "eight". | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_aca7b22d | featureApplicability |
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| The Amazing World of Gumball | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_aca7b22d | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_b4967d43 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_b4967d43 | comment |
Charmy Bee from Sonic the Hedgehog has only two arms and two legs. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_b4967d43 | featureApplicability |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_b4967d43 | featureConfidence |
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Four-Legged Insect / int_b4967d43 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_b4996199 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_b4996199 | comment |
Spider-Man: One comic had a kid point out that Doctor Octopus's name is inaccurate because he only has six arms (four of which are mechanical tentacles). Ock points out that he's counting his legs too. When he upgrades to eight mechanical tentacles (before the Ends of the Earth storyline, as his body is degenerating), Spider-Man asks whether he should call Ock "Dr. Squid", among other less-flattering names. |
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Four-Legged Insect / int_b4996199 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_ba4b64f1 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_ba4b64f1 | comment |
Victorian tobacco pipes have been found, as seen in Time Team, with clay tobacco beetles imprinted for decoration but alas, only four limbs. | |
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| Time Team | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_ba4b64f1 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_bc758ea9 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_bc758ea9 | comment |
The Flea family from Tiny Toon Adventures. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_bc758ea9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_bc758ea9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tiny Toon Adventures | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_bc758ea9 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_bc848d30 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_bc848d30 | comment |
Squidward of SpongeBob SquarePants has six limbs when he, as an octopus, should have eight. Furthermore, his four legs work in pairs, so he walks as if on two legs. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_bc848d30 | featureApplicability |
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| SpongeBob SquarePants | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_bc848d30 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_c380b436 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_c380b436 | comment |
Dave the Octopus and his hench-octopi from Penguins of Madagascar are most of the time animated with six tentacles instead of eight. Interestingly, in one brief gag where Classified counts Dave's tentacles, he is animated with eight of them. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_c380b436 | featureApplicability |
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| Penguins of Madagascar | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_c380b436 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_c6e9c6cc | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_c6e9c6cc | comment |
Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 also featured spider enemies with four legs. Interestingly enough, one boss from the first game, Tarantox, has six legs. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_c6e9c6cc | featureApplicability |
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| Super Mario Galaxy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_c6e9c6cc | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_c911df7d | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_c911df7d | comment |
Strange Magic shows a praying mantis and a beetle with four-limbed bodies. They may have been insect-like goblins. Most bugs in the movie are showed with their true number of limbs. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_c911df7d | featureApplicability |
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| Strange Magic | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_c911df7d | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_c9280e49 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_c9280e49 | comment |
Digit the cockroach in An American Tail. Which is funny because elsewhere in the film photo-realistic cockroaches are seen. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_c9280e49 | featureApplicability |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_c9280e49 | featureConfidence |
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| An American Tail | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_c9280e49 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_cc1865ec | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_cc1865ec | comment |
Frankie the flea from Tom and Jerry: The Movie. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_cc1865ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_cc1865ec | featureConfidence |
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| Tom and Jerry: The Movie | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_cc1865ec | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_cd81ac45 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_cd81ac45 | comment |
The crab enemies from Bug! have six legs and two claws. Just two legs shy of a proper crab. | |
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| Bug! (1995) (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_cd81ac45 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_d7ac3977 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_d7ac3977 | comment |
Dr. Crawdaddy in Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham only has claws for arms and four legs, save for in the Medium-Shift Gag where he's shown as an actual crawdad with the proper amount of limbs. | |
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| Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_d7ac3977 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_db26eb87 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_db26eb87 | comment |
Chief Herbert Dumbrowski (a flea) from T.U.F.F. Puppy | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_db26eb87 | featureApplicability |
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Four-Legged Insect / int_db26eb87 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_dbaabb61 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_dbaabb61 | comment |
The six-legged spider from the Mickey Mouse cartoon, The Worm Turns, who gets attacked by the test subject four-legged fly. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_dbaabb61 | featureApplicability |
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| Mickey Mouse | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_dbaabb61 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_dbce0953 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_dbce0953 | comment |
Pikmin: Most arthropods have four or fewer legs. Arachnodes, spider-like enemies with a full eight legs, are explicitly noted in-universe as unusual, and this and its hermaphroditism have led to in-universe speculation that it's actually two four-legged arthropods, one male and one female, joined together. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_dbce0953 | featureApplicability |
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| Pikmin (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_dbce0953 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_dd638dbf | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_dd638dbf | comment |
The shrimp in Shark Tale have six legs. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_dd638dbf | featureApplicability |
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| Shark Tale | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_dd638dbf | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_e26a1053 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_e26a1053 | comment |
Most arthropods in Temtem have the same number of limbs as their inspirations, but Akranox (a scorpion) has four legs and two pincers. | |
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| Temtem (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_e26a1053 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_e5d5d23c | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_e5d5d23c | comment |
Doom: the Spider Mastermind and her Arachnotrons all have two vestigial arms and four mechanical legs. (Granted, they're just demons with "spider" in their name.) Doom 64 plays it straighter, giving them another pair of mechanical legs while removing their vestigial arms. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_e5d5d23c | featureApplicability |
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| Doom (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_e5d5d23c | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_ebecf8c4 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_ebecf8c4 | comment |
All of the bugs in Erky Perky are depicted with four limbs—two arms, two legs—although a few also have a set of wings. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_ebecf8c4 | featureApplicability |
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| Erky Perky | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_ebecf8c4 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_ec24475f | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_ec24475f | comment |
All the ants in Antz have six limbs, but they use the "legs move exactly together" variant. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_ec24475f | featureApplicability |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_ec24475f | featureConfidence |
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| Antz | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_ec24475f | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_ef1979e7 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_ef1979e7 | comment |
One Minute Fly: Every fly seen in the series has just two arms and two legs; the first installment implies that this is because they're part of a prehistoric species that predates the formation of modern six-legged insects. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_ef1979e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_ef1979e7 | featureConfidence |
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| One Minute Fly (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_ef1979e7 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f05282b3 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f05282b3 | comment |
Spider-Ham: Ant-Ant, the Bee-Yonder, and the X-Bugs. Averted for Ant-Ant in the Aporkalypse Now miniseries, in which he has two sets of arms (although the Bee-Yonder doesn't). | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f05282b3 | featureApplicability |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_f05282b3 | featureConfidence |
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Four-Legged Insect / int_f05282b3 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f38f5664 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f38f5664 | comment |
Sumu the scorpion in The Lion Guard has six legs plus two pincers. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f38f5664 | featureApplicability |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_f38f5664 | featureConfidence |
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| The Lion Guard | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_f38f5664 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f4291939 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f4291939 | comment |
Evinrude the dragonfly from The Rescuers. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f4291939 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f4291939 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Rescuers | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_f4291939 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f7ed2fd7 | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f7ed2fd7 | comment |
Ursula, from The Little Mermaid (1989), has only six tentacles. However, if one counts her two humanoid arms, then she does have eight limbs. Her sister Morgana, who appears in The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea is animated with eight tentacles plus two arms for a total of ten, which, along with her skinnier physique, makes her look more like a squid than an octopus. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f7ed2fd7 | featureApplicability |
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| Four-Legged Insect / int_f7ed2fd7 | featureConfidence |
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| The Little Mermaid (1989) | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_f7ed2fd7 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f90f1b9f | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f90f1b9f | comment |
Zipper the fly from Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers. | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f90f1b9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f90f1b9f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers | hasFeature |
Four-Legged Insect / int_f90f1b9f | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f97683ef | type |
Four-Legged Insect | |
| Four-Legged Insect / int_f97683ef | comment |
Most of the anthropomorphic bugs from Hollow Knight have fewer body members than in real life due to the game's aesthetic and art style, with the insects having four legs while the arachnids have six. There are some exceptions, however, such as the Last Stag and Willoh, a rhinoceros beetle and a giraffe weevil with somewhat more realistic designs, accurately having six legs. | |
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| Hollow Knight (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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