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Multi-Armed Multitasking
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You look in the mirror and see three heads looking back at yourselves with five eyes and seven arms and think to yourselves, how do we septo-wield? Or better yet, how can we write our book, cradle our baby, and make paper airplanes at the same time? Practice, that's how. It is rarely explained how users of this trope have the coordination to pull all this off in the first place, since normal humans typically lack the skill to perform two different tasks with their hands. Justified in the case of extremely non-human entities which may have evolved to use their excess limbs in many different tasks at once with ease. Please note this has surprisingly little to do with Excuse Me While I Multitask, if you're thinking about wielding weapons with many arms you still need some form of Multiarmed Multitasking; it just belongs in Multi-Armed and Dangerous. If your extra limbs are for walking, they belong in Spider Limbs or possibly Handy Feet. And then there's if it's just a Vertebrate with Extra Limbs. |
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Kamen Rider Fourze has the Hand Switch, which equips Fourze with an extra arm (attached to his leg) that's outright stated to be for this. While he works on solving a math problem, it disassembles a bicycle. Thus far its not been shown to have any type of combat potential. | |
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At one point in Terminator 2: Judgment Day the Voluntary Shapeshifter T-1000 grows a third arm to pilot a helicopter and load a machine gun at the same time. | |
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In the cancelled series Stripperella, a supervillainess with six arms pilots a blimp all on her own, with two hands on the wheel and the remaining four on switches and buttons. She also utilised six pistols at one go in the earlier portion of the episode, allowing her to use them as a makeshift machine gun. | |
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The Mermaids (2001) trilogy has Octavius the octopus. He's first introduced using two arms to push aside the curtain of his cave, two to wash his cooking pot, one to hold a plate of food, and three to eat. In Rani's Sea Spell, Rani and Kai meet Octavius's sister Flora, who styles the sisters' hair, using some of her arms as curlers. | |
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Franken Fran oftentimes attaches her head to a special multi-armed body in order to perform particularly complex surgery. | |
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Monsters University: A multi-armed monster is seen cramming for his final exams by holding up several textbooks and reading from them, and another is seen drinking several cups of coffee to stay alert. | |
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Doctor Octopus is very good at using his tentacles to do this. According to the most reliable source, he could use his tentacles in combination with his regular hands to do one complex task and two simple ones at the same time. And there were also several stories where the "complex task" was a heated battle. | |
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The short-lived 1970s sci-fi sitcom Quark featured Interface, a four-armed alien woman who worked as an intergalactic switchboard operator connecting calls between ships. | |
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Vyr Cossont in The Hydrogen Sonata had an extra pair of arms added so she could play the fiendishly complicated instrument required for T. C. Vilabier's 26th String-Specific Sonata For An Instrument Yet To Be Invented, catalogue number MW 1211 (aka, the Hydrogen Sonata). | |
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In The Simpsons, a cutaway shot of the Earth shows a vaguely Hindu-esque being frantically pressing buttons in the core, apparently to keep the world working. He pauses briefly to wipe his forehead with one of his hands and sigh with exhaustion. | |
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In Squid Girl, Ika appears to specialize in this with her tentacle hair. | |
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Squiddly Diddly did this sometimes. (In fact one promo shows him playing several musical instruments) | |
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Gravedale High features Miss Webster, a six-armed teacher who frequently made use of all of her arms during class. | |
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The Princess and the Frog: During the la Boeufs' masquerade party, a guy in an octopus costume uses the tentacles to hold glasses of wine. When he sees a dog in a mermaid costume chasing two frogs wearing a disembodied giraffe's head, he looks baffled and pours out all his drinks at once. | |
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The Rick and Morty episode "Raising Gazorpazorp" features the Gazorpazorpians, with brutish males and human-like females with six arms, four growing from the torso and two on the side of the head. | |
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Ayakashi Triangle: The Gogyosen fight with a remote avatar that all five members control together. It can grow four extra skeletal pairs of arms to perform the hand signs for five times at once, either separately or together for more power. | |
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Briareos Hecatonchires of Appleseed fame possesses a cyborg body that includes the ability to control more limbs then he actually has, to the point of apparently running a aircraft carrier by himself, but is mostly shown using multiple guns in his Landmate. | |
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One of the Shticks in Toon is the Coat of Arms, a device that produces a practically unlimited number of mechanical arms with gadgets on them that let you do multiple things at once. | |
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The bar-tending octopus cartoon from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. | |
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One of the later books in the Land of Oz series, Handy Mandy in Oz, features the adventures of a seven-armed goat herder named Mandy who comes from Mt. Mern, where everyone had seven arms. Early on she explains how she uses her arms for different tasks. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: Played with and subverted — and then played straight for good measure. One of the mercs, a guy named Andy, belongs to a race of four-armed aliens. During his initial interview, he bragged about quad-wielding handguns, but Thurl just pointed out that he still only had two eyes, so no matter how many weapons he's got, he'll only hit one target. There has been incidents where he HAS used it, though — including wielding a two-handed assault-rifle and two handguns at the same time — but it's been purely for intimidation-value. Or sometimes just for fun. Schlock himself has demonstrated on multiple occasions that he can not only form extra hands when needed, but also use them quite effectively. The fact that he can have multiple eyes (if he can get hold of them) means he can aim at multiple targets. |
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From Spider-Man 2, Dr. Octopus does this when he rebuilds the new sun-generator machine, with his long metallic tentacles. Justified by the tentacles being intelligent in their own right and each one having its own camera. | |
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One early Dragon article about how many actions a Dungeons & Dragons PC can reasonably perform per round cited a player suggesting that their PC would draw a weapon, hold up a shield, drink a potion, and with their free hand do something else. The article quips that unless the PC in question happens to be a six-armed Type V (a.k.a. marilith) demon, this isn't reasonable. | |
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The Dungeons & Dragons monster called "Spellweavers" have six arms, which are explicitly able to perform multiple functions simultaneously. In particularly, they can cast multiple spells simultaneously per round, something few if any other creatures in the game can do. The six-armed half-woman half-snake demons called Mariliths is also normally depicted wielding six weapons simultaneously. They have their own Demon Princess named Shaktari, who has eight arms and is correspondingly more dangerous in combat. |
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In the Mortal Kombat franchise, with its four-armed Shokan race, there are two examples of this: Sheeva, the Action Girl Shokan, can pose with her upper arms in Mortal Kombat 9, while her lower arms clap(by using her opponent's severed arms and hands, instead of her own): and in Mortal Kombat 11, Sheeva uses her four arms to play musical glasses as her Friendship. Another, non-Shokan character, the Kollector( who, as a Naknadan, has six arms), can use two of his arms to examine the pieces he rips off his opponent's bodies and stuffs into his bag, while at the same time shredding his opponent with his other arms, and for his Friendship, he becomes a One-Man Band. | |
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Monsters, Inc.: Mike and Celia book a reservation at a Japanese food restaurant to have a romantic dinner. The chef is a multi-armed monster who uses the extra limbs to prepare sushi at record speed. | |
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One episode of Dragon Tales featured a dragon with six limbs running a concession stand. | |
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Treasure Planet: Long John Silver isn't multiarmed but still manages to pull off this trope in the kitchen, thanks to his multi-purpose cybernetic arm with little armlets. | |
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Xandri Corelel: The Ongkoarrat, who resemble six-legged sloth bears, can program a computer and knit a sweater at the same time. | |
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The pipa ghost from The Rewinder has three arms, and uses all three when playing his pipa (a Chinese instrument similar to the lute. His third arm turns out to be detachable though, in a cutscene where he stops playing and pulls one of his two left arms to be put aside. | |
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In an episode of Arthur, the titular character has to clean a room, and his dad tells him "Many hands make light work." He imagines it literally. Buster does the same later in the episode. | |
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Snap Fahrenheit, the titular main character of How to Raise Your Teenage Dragon, is a four-armed dragon. | |
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Invoked in an episode of Kaeloo, where Mr. Cat experiments on Quack Quack in a laboratory so that he can do this. | |
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In Werewolf: The Apocalypse, the Ananasi werespiders can take this ability, though it's a fairly high-level spell, since it requires a fair deal of mental skill. | |
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In Life, the Universe and Everything, Arthur's extreme Unknown Rival Agrajag has built a Temple of Hate devoted to him, the centrepiece of which is a giant statue of Arthur with multiple arms. He discovers that each one of them depicts one of the many, many times he has (unwittingly) caused the death of one of Agrajag's former incarnations. | |
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Kill Six Billion Demons: Cio's Coat of Arms gives her two extra sets of limbs, which, in her first appearance, she's using to maintain the accounts for the Den of Iniquity where she works. They also give a huge edge to her Paper Master magic. | |
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Subverted in the Pokémon franchise with the four armed pokemon Machamp. Its pokedex entry specifically states that "Any delicate or complicated work causes its arms to get tangled up". | |
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Celebrity chef Elzar in Futurama. His species was given multiple arms specifically as a Season 1 joke for how cooking shows go too fast for viewers to cook along. The DVD commentary mentions that the animators went out of their way to have each arm work independently rather than have each arm on either side move in the same way. | |
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Spinnerette: Spinnerette uses her six arms to knit — all at once and while using silk she produces herself. Later on, Sahira copies Spinnerette's arms in order to clean her apartment faster. She's then seen to clean 6 different surfaces at once. |
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Briefly shown in an Oversaturated World sidestory. Ditzy is outside her universe and sees Sunset Shimmer holding the thing together with twelve arms, while using an additional four to heal the cracks in reality. Sunset also grows an additional head just to talk to her without getting distracted. | |
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Lakshmi in Brat-Halla is based on the Hindu goddess of the same name which gives her the requisite four arms. Puts them to good use on a date with Loki. | |
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Science teacher Ken Tatara in Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary has four arms, which he puts to good use (often gesturing with one or two arms while lighting a cigarette with the others). | |
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The 2019 Spider-Ham mini has Ham meet Parker Peterman, an alternate universe Spider-Man who grew six arms and developed a hobby for each set that he does all at once. Even when he's rescuing Spider-Ham he's using a spare set to carve a wooden duck. | |
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Spider-Man: Doctor Octopus is very good at using his tentacles to do this. According to the most reliable source, he could use his tentacles in combination with his regular hands to do one complex task and two simple ones at the same time. And there were also several stories where the "complex task" was a heated battle. The 2019 Spider-Ham mini has Ham meet Parker Peterman, an alternate universe Spider-Man who grew six arms and developed a hobby for each set that he does all at once. Even when he's rescuing Spider-Ham he's using a spare set to carve a wooden duck. |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: In Life, the Universe and Everything, Arthur's extreme Unknown Rival Agrajag has built a Temple of Hate devoted to him, the centrepiece of which is a giant statue of Arthur with multiple arms. He discovers that each one of them depicts one of the many, many times he has (unwittingly) caused the death of one of Agrajag's former incarnations. Subverted with Zaphod Beeblebrox, who gave himself a third arm and then does nothing at all with it. (Except, supposedly, ski-box.) |
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Warhammer 40,000 Techpriests often add an extra limb that's practically an industrial tool on a robotic arm. They often add on tentacle-like mechandendrites which can serve many roles, including manipulation. And then with their practically unlimited options for body modification, they can take on more traditional takes of this trope. When it comes to Chaos and natural mutations, extra limbs isn't common, but it's far from unheard of. |
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SpongeBob does this taking care of the baby scallop, probably other times as well. | |
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The mail-sorting alien in Men in Black II. | |
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Men in Black: The twin Mission Controls. The mail-sorting alien in Men in Black II. |
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An episode of Rooster Teeth Shorts involves Geoff having additional arms surgically added so he can communicate over more social networks at once. | |
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Umba, Alita’s engineer in the Motorball arc of Battle Angel Alita, has a specialised robotic harness that features 20 arms, all of which he can control independently and perform the work of 10 engineers simultaneously. He uses them to replace all four of Alita’s limbs, damaged in a crash, in under six minutes. | |
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In Ironwood, first mate Tif makes full use of all four of her hands while having a threesome with a djinn and a crewmate. | |
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Spydra in Gadget Boy & Heather does this at times in a few episodes, making full use of her six arms simultaneously. | |
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GURPS has the Multiple Arms advantage available for player characters, but you also need to buy special coordination to use them fully- otherwise they are only good for holding things, not performing more than one task at a time. In Werewolf: The Apocalypse, the Ananasi werespiders can take this ability, though it's a fairly high-level spell, since it requires a fair deal of mental skill. |
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At Arm's Length: When not fighting evil, Ally, Reece and Sheila are not above using all four arms to cut corners in mundane activities. The entire Enchanter race, which is naturally four-armed, is built around this trope. |
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Kamaji in Spirited Away operates the bathhouse boiler room. He has six spidery arms, which he uses to multitask: reaching into the hundreds of herb cabinets, pouring boiling water, grinding potions with his yagen (related to a mortar a pestle, but using a wheel in a narrow trough) and responding to wooden tags on ropes signalling requests from the bathhouse above. | |
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Earthsearch. When Android Surgeon-General Kraken goes mad and decides to overload the fusion engines, Darv informs him there's a thousand safety interlock codes he'd have to remove first. Kraken proceeds to demonstrate just how quickly an android with six manipulator arms can enter a thousand codes. | |
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