History Main / ExtraDigits

* Patrick Pines, the main protagonist of the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' fanfic ''Fanfic/WeirderThings'', was born with six toes on both feet. He was mocked about it by the other kids, which caused him to have anger issues.

* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': The Hell Devil has six fingers on its hand, the only part of it ever shown.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'':
** From ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', [[YourSoulIsMine Osiris]], the [[FightingSpirit Stand]] of [[TheGambler Daniel J. D'Arby]], has six fingers on each hand.
** In ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'', when Hermès Costello [[HowDoIShotWeb is first discovering her duplication powers]], she accidentally uses it on one of her fingers, briefly giving her a sixth, to her horror.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': Though he made his big screen debut in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', General Grievous was already shown beforehand to have hands that had two thumbs on either side of the palm, and his cybernetics famously allowed him to split his arms into four arms in all (each with two fingers and a thumb). This was something of a weird subversion, since his species has hands with two thumbs and ''two fingers'', his cyborg body gave him an extra set of fingers to work with when he was using the two-arm configuration.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', the author of the journals, [[spoiler:Stanford Pines]], has six fingers on each hand. WordOfGod jokingly confirmed in a reddit [=AMA=] that he also has six toes on each foot. This is notable further because he has an identical twin who ''doesn't'' have these features, which is highly improbable if not impossible.

* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': On Barrayar, accusing someone of having extra digits is regarded as a major insult, due to their cultural horror of mutations and deformities.

-->'''Susan''': Can you count, Banjo?\\
'''Banjo''': Yes, miss. On m'fingers, miss.\\
'''Susan''': So you can count up to... ?\\
'''Banjo''': Thirteen, miss.
* Brazilian novel ''Twelve Fingers: Biography of an Anarchist'', as made clear by the English title, is about an assassin with extra index fingers. Which are part of his clumsiness - for instance, in one of [[BeenThereShapedHistory many historical events he stumbles by]], when face to face with Franz Ferdinand, he shoves both fingers into the trigger guard and thus fails to shoot, so by the time he looks again, Gavrilo Princip has done the deed and started Usefulnotes/WorldWarI.

Interestingly, extra digits are actually a ''dominant'' trait over the recessive five digits. This is likely due to the fact that the earliest tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) actually had as many as ''eight digits per limb'', though later tetrapods reduced it to a maximum of five, though the genes to create extra digits remain but are inactive.

* In ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'', the protagonist and his girlfriend at one point see a concert by a pianist who was genetically engineered to have twelve fingers. There are apparently enough people like this around that some pieces of piano music ''require'' extra fingers to play.

* In ''Literature/DannyTheChampionOfTheWorld'', Danny's father mentions that Mrs Snoddy is a sort of witch; and to prove it, she has seven toes on each foot.

* On {{Literature/Barrayar}}, accusing someone of having extra digits is regarded as a major insult, due to their cultural horror of mutations and deformities.

** In ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'', when Hermès Costello is first discovering her duplication powers, she accidentally uses it on one of her fingers, briefly giving her a sixth.

* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'', when Hermès Costello is first discovering her duplication powers, she accidentally uses it on one of her fingers, briefly giving her a sixth.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'': When Hermès Costello is first discovering her duplication powers, she accidentally uses it on one of her fingers, briefly giving her a sixth.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'': When Hermès Costello is first discovering her duplication powers, she accidentally uses it on one of her fingers, giving her a sixth.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'': Hermes Costello accidentally uses her duplication ability on her fingers, giving her a sixth.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'', [[PlayerCharacter the Chosen One]] can mutate a sixth toe from spending long enough in toxic waste unprotected. Having one will result in failing the physical of the Vault City citizenship test, unless it is amputated by an AutoDoc and acquired as an item.

* In ''Literature/{{Hannibal}}'', the eponymous villain has six fingers on his left hand, as a metaphor for "being a monster". He uses this to his advantage when hiding an improvised handcuff key in his right hand, knowing the officer's attention will be on his unusual left hand.

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* In ''TabletopGames/DungeonsAndDragons'', the demon prince Graz'zt has six fingers on each hand, regardless of what form he takes. A hand with six fingers is his symbol, and his cults include the League of Six Rings in the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''.
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