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Tailfin Walking
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The trope where a whale, dolphin, porpoise, manatee, walrus, seal, fish, or shark walks on its tail-fin (justified for the seal and walrus as those are actually its feet). This trope is especially common in cartoons, since filming this is difficult with a real fish. In reality, tail-fins are rather floppy, and won't support the animal's weight, however, it looks more natural than walking on the pectoral fins (which would essentially be 'crawling'), or on the pelvic fins (which anatomically correspond to a human's legs). If the character is a Funny Animal, some writers will just outright turn their tail-fins into straight-up legs. This is most commonly seen in pinnipeds, as unlike most other animals of this example, the rear flippers seen in their skeletons actually resemble that of legs not unlike most other tetrapods (they are indeed legs, not a tail like with other marine mammals as with manatees and cetaceans). In some settings where they exist, mermaids can also be seen moving about like this, though another common variant would be to have them 'standing' with their tails in a "U-shape", with the fins held off the ground. A Sub-Trope of Artistic License – Marine Biology. This is a sister trope to Feather Fingers. May also apply to Fish People, Land Sharks, and Terrestrial Sea Life in animation. |
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Dr. Blowhole from The Penguins of Madagascar stands on his tail flukes and moves around on a scooter but he cannot walk. | |
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Narwhal on Almost Naked Animals. | |
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Averted with Wakasa the merman in Merman In My Tub, who is mostly confined to a bathtub in the series, though there is one episode where he leaves the tub to look for his human friend Tatsumi, and he doesn't walk but just drags himself along the floor in a sitting position. Played straight with Takasu the octopus-man, who walks on his tentacles, and Mikuni the jellyfish-man who somehow can stand up despite his lower half being a shapeless column of clear liquid. As for Maki the snail-man, it isn't clear how he moves, as he has a human's upper half emerging from a snail shell but no 'foot', and being palm-sized, is often carried by the other characters. |
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Wonder Woman (1942): One of Wonder Woman's suitors in the Silver Age comics was Manno the Merman, who is commonly depicted standing up on his fins when on land. However, he doesn't walk, he hops.◊ | |
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Subverted, played with and outright trashed by Viz with the Pathetic Sharks, who mostly do the "standing on their tail fins" bit, and Billy The Fish, who hovers with his tail curved beneath him | |
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Mermaids in A Centaur's Life are shown to do this in shallow water, sort of, with several feet of tail extending behind them and their bodies projecting upright out of the water like they're standing on two legs, in total defiance of gravity. | |
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In one of The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror episodes, the dolphins who took over the earth walked on their tail flukes when on land. | |
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Subverted with Fish Police. While the characters are in the upright, fins-at-bottom position of most humanoid fish characters, they seem to float more than walk. | |
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The Looney Tunes "Sport Chumpions" had a female competitive swimmer win the trophy, we pull back, revealing her to be a mermaid, and she walks away by tip-toeing on her tail fin. | |
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The tribbets from Serina are a variant, being mudskipper-like fish that use their pectoral fins and tail as three walking limbs. Their descendants, the hoppers, turn their tail into a true jointed leg with the foot derived from their tail fin, eventually the hoppers give rise to the tribbetheres, the Fantastic Fauna Counterpart to mammals that have three legs, with the single hind leg looking nearly indistinguishable from a mammal's leg. | |
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Most fish characters from Sharky And George either walk on their tailfins, or swim just above the sea bottom. | |
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In a couple of times in Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero, Penn and his friends turn themselves into mer-people. They usually avert this trope when on land, instead hopping around, or slithering snake-like in Penn's case as his mer-form has an eel-like tail. | |
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House of Mouse normally averts this with Ariel, who either shows up as a human or a mermaid, but plays it straight with her father King Triton. | |
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Animalympics has the dolphin Mark Spritz and the orca Ono Nono stand and walk on their flukes. | |
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This is an explicit rule of mermaids in One Piece. Around age thirty their tail fin splits in two enabling walking on land (among other things). They're also capable of moving around on their tailfins, however. | |
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The Mermaid have its titular character, Shan-shan and other members of her kind, who blends themselves in human society and can walk on their tails while hiding their legs with long clothing. Shan is notably introduced as a young girl walking in a skirt that covers up to her heels before revealing herself as a merfolk; there's also a mer-octopus character in the same film who uses his tentacles as legs. | |
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The fish in Fish Hooks all stand and walk this way. And yes, their tails look absolutely nothing like actual fish tails at all! | |
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Admiral Bubbles from My Goldfish is Evil. | |
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Downplayed in Monster Musume: Meroune can stand upright on her tail while on land, but she can't really walk on it, instead using a wheelchair to get around when out of the water. | |
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The undines of Yggdra Union are shown in the "U-pose" when standing, and to move just lurch forward on their 'knees'. | |
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In the Magi-Nation episode "The Depths of Courage", the mermaid-tailed Orotheans are shown standing on their tails on land and slithering to move. This is especially noteworthy as in the next two episodes they appear they're shown perfectly able to change their tails into legs and walk normally on land. | |
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Shark from WordWorld. | |
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Averted with Shantae's Mermaid form in Shantae: Half-Genie Hero. On land, her Mermaid form can only flop along on her hands and belly (there is even an achievement for flopping across an entire level in mermaid form!) | |
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One episode of Arthur featured an Imagine Spot where Buster Baxter envisions himself as a fish-based supervillain who lives inside a space station shaped like a giant crab, and plans to take over the world by hypnotizing fish so that they do this to "eat land people." | |
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Misterjaw and Catfish often did this whenever they were on land. | |
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The water-fearing mermaid in American Dragon: Jake Long was guilty of this on occasion, though most of the time she slithered like a snake instead when on land. Averted with the older mermaid who was Jake's principal, who hid her tail by using a wheelchair. | |
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Mr. Shark in The Bad Guys is seen walking this way in illustrations when not in the water. Mr. Piranha, on the other hand, simply drags himself around. | |
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Some Disney Princess artwork showing the princesses in a group will (for some reason) show Ariel as a mermaid, and standing on her tail! | |
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The Pokémon Popplio, Brionne and Primarina don't walk on their tail fins, but they can stand up for a few seconds; this is mostly seen when Primarina uses its signature move. Later, Palafin's Hero form does stand like this on land, to affect the V-shaped body of a traditional comicbook superhero. | |
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Also averted in Kingdom Rush: Frontiers. The Greenfins, Deviltides, and Redspines don't have tails, and Bluegales inch forward caterpillar-style. | |
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Splatoon 3: Downplayed with Big Man; while he does walk with his fins, he uses his pectoral fins rather than his tailfin to do so. Played straight with an unnamed member of the band "Damp Socks feat. Off the Hook", who is a fish seen standing on their tailfin in a promotional image for the band, and not seeming to have any legs. |
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Willie the Operatic Whale in Make Mine Music, although it was only during his daydreams. | |
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Mentioned in The Lorax when the Humming-Fish are sent away: | |
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Averted in Chrono Cross — mermaids don't walk while on land, they hover. (You can see some "magic sparkles" around Irenes's tail when she's moving.) | |
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Averted in Ice Age: Continental Drift. Flynn, the seal, doesn't walk, he moves by slithering and flopping along much like real seals do on land (though he does so upright). | |
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Averted in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: The shark that follows Morty onto the beach, through the jungle and into a volcano doesn't walk, it just lunges forward repeatedly. | |
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Played with with Darwin the goldfish from The Amazing World of Gumball; Darwin's grew actual legs and feet right about where pelvic fins would be on a real fish. | |
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Implied to be done by the "land shark" that showed up in early seasons of Saturday Night Live. | |
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Sally the fish on Scaredy Squirrel plays this straight, although she also averts Fin Fingers. | |
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The Pun-fisher, the version of The Punisher in the Spider-Ham universe, walks around on his tailfins. | |
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The fish character in the Disney live action Alice in Wonderland (2010) by Tim Burton. | |
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Tailfin Walking | |
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Also averted with Nami from League of Legends, with her "kneeling" and floating on her tail whenever she's on land. | |
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Tailfin Walking | |
| Tailfin Walking / int_dd638dbf | comment |
The fish in Shark Tale sometimes walk on their tailfins, but they stay underwater the whole time. This is averted with the shark characters, however, who sometimes sit or float upright, but always swim in a horizontal posture when moving around. |
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Moosel from The Wuzzles. | |
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| The Wuzzles | hasFeature |
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Tailfin Walking | |
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Jabberjaw, as seen in the page pic, is a shark that walks upright on his tail fin. One-shot character Francine Lafinn can walk on her tailfin, too. Commander Shark's army of shark-human hybrids are apparently supposed to be able to do this by design, but only Shelly and Clamhead (transformed into sharks themselves) are actually shown walking on land. | |
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Tailfin Walking | |
| Tailfin Walking / int_eac546f | comment |
Zigra from Gamera vs. Zigra is an alien Kaiju resembling a goblin shark that seems to be this trope after Gamera battles him on land. However, given the sudden cuts between the puppet Zigra with a tail and the suitmation Zigra with legs it's unclear whether this is a canon ability or just a limitation of the filmmaking. | |
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Tailfin Walking | |
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The Humming-Fish from the animated film adaptation of The Lorax, just as with their book counterparts. | |
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Tailfin Walking | |
| Tailfin Walking / int_f5ed9fc7 | comment |
Kenny and the other fish characters in Kenny the Shark walk on their tailfins on land. | |
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Tailfin Walking | |
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Fish from Chicken Little, being a literal Fish out of Water, walks around on land on his tail fin. | |
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Tailfin Walking | |
| Tailfin Walking / int_f7ed2fd7 | comment |
Averted with the fish and mermaids in The Little Mermaid, except during the "Under the Sea" song, where several fish walk (or more specifically, dance) on their tail fins underwater. House of Mouse normally averts this with Ariel, who either shows up as a human or a mermaid, but plays it straight with her father King Triton. Some Disney Princess artwork showing the princesses in a group will (for some reason) show Ariel as a mermaid, and standing on her tail! Melody briefly does this in the sequel as well, more specifically during "For a Moment". Averted in the Capcom NES game based on the first movie, where Ariel flops on her hands and tail when on land. |
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Tailfin Walking | |
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In Terraria, during the rain, goldfishes start walking around on their tailfins. But only during the rain; when there's no rain, they just flop on the ground. | |
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Tailfin Walking | |
| Tailfin Walking / int_fa00b130 | comment |
Pearl, the whale character from Spongebob Squarepants. Rare pelvic fin variant: The fish characters in the same show. |
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