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12	->''"Do bones really look like that?!?!?! Perhaps in cartoons, but not around these parts, pal. This, my friend, is the fossilized remains of one of the treats that were used centuries ago in order to domesticate the local wild animals."''
13	-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'', the description of a Fossilized Domesticated Animal Treat.
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15	In media, whenever a bone that isn't a skull or hip shows up, it's a very good bet it will be the classic femur bone, a straight rod with two evenly-sized bulbs at either end, ignoring the RealLife diversity of ribs, scapulas, clavicles, vertebrae, and all the other diverse bones that hold the body in shape. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the femur being the largest, strongest, straightest bone in the body, so it's instantly recognizable, often well preserved, and useful for everything from [[BadWithTheBone improvised clubs]] to [[StockAnimalDiet dog chew toys]] to macabre furniture supports.
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17	In media, those femur bones are often symmetrical from both sides, [[TheCoconutEffect although they aren't like that in]] RealLife - the top of the femur has one side - the side which connects to the hip, called the femoral head - much more pronounced than the other, essentially being one very noticeable knob connected to a neck which hooks up to the rest of the bone. This is also known as "Cartoon Bone".
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19	In lighthearted works, these are often visible when using XRaySparks. See also NothingButSkulls and CartoonMeat.
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21	Not to be confused with an actual animal femur bone used to cook stock.
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23	!!Examples:
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27	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
28	%%* ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime'': Ogremon and Fugamon's weapons of choice.
29	* ''Anime/MidnightHorrorSchool'': The whole school is decorated with bones.
30	* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': Nobita uses this kind of bone in "The Human Piggy Bank" in an attempt to get the Guard Dog Bank to give him his money. It doesn't work.
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33	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
34	* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 7 episode 1, the bone the ambassador of Planet Miao offers to the president of Planet Xing Xing is a typical cartoon depiction of a bone.
35	* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': Lamput morphs into the shape of a stock femur bone in one episode while he is being held by Fat Doc right next to a dog. Predictably, the dog starts to chase after Fat Doc thinking Lamput is a real bone.
36	* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Mighty Little Defenders'': In episode 6, the house of the dog tribe's leader has a big wooden bone of this kind on top of it.
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39	[[folder:Comic Books]]
40	* ''ComicBook/PocketGod'': Ooga, Klik, Sun, and Kinsee wear this type of bone in their hair. The other pygmies wear more distinct bones.
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43	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
44	* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': Each film in the franchise has a variation on the [[JollyRoger skull and crossbones]] as its logo: a skull in front of two [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl crossed swords]], [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest torches]], etc. The [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third film's]] logo uses the traditional femur bones, photorealistic but still more symmetric than typical in nature. The [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales fifth film]] also uses bones, but more natural looking.
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47	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
48	* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' uses this as a recurring symbol. The Satellite of Love is shaped like a cylinder with two geodesic domes on each end. After Mike takes over as the new host, a bone symbol takes the place of the Gizmonic Institute's "G" logo on the door to the theater. In the Netflix revival, Kinga Forrester's logo is a skull with two femur bones sticking out of the cranium.
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51	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
52	* Mainly seen in Dantés Lucha Factory and Wrestling/{{CMLL}}, El Barbaro Cavernario is prone to wearing a giant femur bone in his hair.
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55	%%[[folder:Theater]]
56	%%* ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'': One gets thrown into a cauldron.
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59	[[folder:Theme Parks]]
60	* The ''Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' rides at Ride/DisneyThemeParks are filled with skeletons that [[AvertedTrope avert]] this for the most part, including the talking "[[JollyRoger skull and crossbones]]" mascot - the bones are replaced by cutlasses. However, the skull is wearing a black pirate hat with a classic JollyRoger emblem on the front. Later in the ride there is another skull and crossbones over the bed of the skeleton pirate captain; its crossbones are fairly realistic, but tend towards this trope.
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63	%%[[folder:Toys]]
64	%%* ''TabletopGame/{{Operation}}'': The "funny bone" is one of these.
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67	[[folder:Video Games]]
68	%%* ''VideoGame/AdventureIslandIV'': Master Higgins throws stock femur bones.
69	* ''VideoGame/AmongUs'': Whenever a crewmate gets killed by the impostor, their body (or at least the remaining lower half) will have a single, [[ArtisticLicenseBiology large femur bone sticking out where the spine should be]].
70	* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'': The skully enemies throw this as their attack. If you aquire the Compound Fracture item, your character's tears will be replaced by stock femurs that break when they hit an enemy. Also, [[spoiler:the Forgotten]] uses one as a melee weapon [[spoiler:when he's in skeleton form, as the ghost form uses normal tears]].
71	* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'': Bone-throwing skeletons throw classic cartoon bones.
72	* ''VideoGame/CrashTwinsanity'': In the cut content, Dr. Neo Cortex was going to go inside Coco's brain for the level "Gone a Bit Coco". The x-ray of her skull shows that her ponytail has a femur-like bone as support.
73	* ''VideoGame/DeathRoadToCanada'' has femur bones as [[BadWithTheBone a melee weapon]], found either lying around or randomly from destroying skeletons. It's not exactly high-damage and has a high chance to {{break\|ableWeapons}}, so it's more of an EmergencyWeapon for when your main melee weapon breaks, or saved as a bribe to get dogs to join you on the road. Contrary to the usual trope, the Femur is anatomically accurate, with a prominent femoral head.
74	* ''VideoGame/DeCapAttack'': The enemies have femur bones flying out of them when they die.
75	* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' has skulls, femurs, and no other bones scattered in the Paris catacombs.
76	* ''VideoGame/EscapeTheMuseum'': One of the first hidden-object pages is a search for ten femur bones. Ironically, they are anatomically accurate human femurs, but are scattered around an exhibit of ''dinosaur'' skeletons.
77	%%* ''VideoGame/EyeOfTheBeholder2'': Most of the bones found. They can be used as clubs.
78	* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': The Evil Bone ascension material is a red femur bone.
79	%%* ''VideoGame/FreddiFish'': Found in the first game, and used to placate the Junkyard Dogfish.
80	%%* ''VideoGame/{{Gex}}'': Gex has one attached to [[SavagePiercings his nose]] in the prehistoric dinosaur-themed levels.
81	%%* ''VideoGame/GrowCube'': One of the various items.
82	* ''VideoGame/JoeAndMac'' throw femurs as one of their weapon types. Notable in that they're not symmetric, resembling real femurs more than the classic cartoon femur. The icon for the weapon is stock, however.
83	%%* ''VideoGame/KnightmareIITheMazeOfGalious'': The first boss throws these.
84	* ''VideoGame/LimboOfTheLost'': You have to feed some monster dogs using bones of a skeleton. All fine, until you find that this specific skeleton has three femurs.
85	* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'': Skeletons drop simple, stylized femur bones when killed.
86	* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': In some of the games, certain fatalities cause the victim to explode in a shower of femurs and rib cages.
87	%%* ''VideoGame/MySimsKingdom'': The Bone Essence is one of these.
88	* ''VideoGame/ANightmareOnElmStreetNES'' has the player collecting bones of Freddy Krueger to bury them. However, every single bone is the classic femur bone and Freddy has a lot of them (something Creator/JamesRolfe mentions during his review of the game).
89	%%* ''VideoGame/{{Nightshade}}'': An actual human femur. A DinosaurDoggieBone can be taken from the mounted dinosaur at the museum.
90	%%* ''VideoGame/OneHundredAndTwoDalmatiansPuppiesToTheRescue'': You can collect them.
91	%%* ''VideoGame/{{Patapon}}'': Most collectible bones are these.
92	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
93	** Marowak and Cubone wield large femurs as clubs, and the Thick Club item is in turn shaped to resemble them.
94	** The Rare Bone item from the Sinnoh Underground is a simplified femur with symmetrical, rounded heads.
95	%%* ''VideoGame/PuttPutt'': In ''Joins the Parade'', Putt-Putt finds one and uses it to befriend Pep. Later, in ''Dog on a Stick'', Pep finds them all over the place.%%What do they find?
96	* ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'': Most of the enemies that drop bones seem to drop femur bones exclusively. Even snakes! Only a few of the enemies drop different bones.
97	* ''VideoGame/SecretOfEvermore'': This becomes your first weapon after arriving in {{Prehistoria}}.
98	%%* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'': Some of the enemies in ''VideoGame/Shantae2002'' and ''VideoGame/ShantaeRiskysRevenge'' disintegrate into these when killed.%%Into what?
99	%%* ''VideoGame/SidAndAlsIncredibleToons'' has "Dog Bone" as one of the standard wall/platform types, distinguished by high slipperiness.%%How are these stock bones?
100	* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'': If Valentine loses by time out, she explodes into a pile of femurs and ribcages as a reference to ''Mortal Kombat''.
101	* ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'': These are used like cigars among [[BeastMan Caninu]]. There are even different styles of holding them in your mouth, such as "Wild" and "Sexy".
102	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Dry Bones -- a type of common skeletal enemies -- throw cartoony femurs at you as a ranged attack starting with their appearance in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', as do their palette swaps in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' games.
103	* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': In the "Meet the Soldier" trailer, the Medic's severed head has a femur where the spine should be.
104	* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': The various bone attacks from skeleton brothers Sans and Papyrus look like femur bones. Papyrus even enjoys giving them as gifts.
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107	[[folder:Web Animation]]
108	%%* ''WebAnimation/AnimatedInanimateBattle'' has a femur bone character, Bone.
109	* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Whenever a character has a bone sticking out, it's usually a femur.
110	* ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'': In "disconnected", Strong Bad imagines what he would do if his head were ever disconnected from his body (and both somehow managed to continue living). His body is shown as having a femur bone sticking out of its neck instead of a spinal column.
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113	[[folder:Web Original]]
114	* ''Roleplay/FightingSimulator3'': Bones dropped from Skeletons look like this, which gets {{lampshade}}d in the description.
115	--> '''Bone description:''' A single bone. Why ''do'' bones always look like that, anyway?
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118	[[folder:Webcomics]]
119	* ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'' does a ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' comic wherein a rogue jumps off a cliff, counting on their mad rogue skillz to cushion their fall, but realizes mid-fall that this won't help the skeletal horse he's mounted on. On landing, the horse collapses into a pile consisting mainly of stylized femurs. As TheRant [[LampshadeHanging points out]], [[https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/horse-remorse Look at all those femurs that horse has!]]
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122	[[folder:Western Animation]]
123	* ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'': Snoopy has a big pile of these in his bowl; he eats them as he reads the newspaper. He doesn't chew on them, or gnaw the meat off of them -- he eats the bones.
124	* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'': These are often gnawed on and buried by Pluto. One cartoon, however, subverts it by having him unearth an accurately drawn femur.
125	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': Dino has giant, dinosaur-sized femur bones to chew on.
126	* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicKey'': In “Code Calling”, the mystic Morbid throws a bunch of small femur-shaped bones to determine the future. Floppy the dog can’t resist stealing them.
127	* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'': One episode has Mickey, Donald and Goofy get their skin blown off by a plane propeller, revealing skeletons that are mostly made up of cartoon femurs.
128	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
129	** Pegasus wings are often depicted as being supported by bones, which usually take the form of cartoonish femurs. In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E16ReadItAndWeep Read It and Weep]]", an x-ray of Rainbow Dash's wing shows it being made up mostly of Stock Femur Bones. In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E7NewbieDash Newbie Dash]]", when Rainbow is hit by a lightning bolt, the XRaySparks likewise show her feathers as each being supported by three thin cartoon femurs.
130	** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E5GriffonTheBrushOff Gryphon the Brush-Off]]": Pausing or going frame-by-frame during the part where Gilda falls for Pinkie's hand buzzer prank reveals that [[http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130106050703/mlp/images/1/10/Gilda_Anatomy_S1E5.png her entire skeletal structure, save for her skull, ribcage, spine, and (possibly) pelvis, is made up of these]], resulting in a very funny-looking skeleton whose finger, claw and ''feather'' bones are all cartoon femurs of various sizes.
131	** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E26SchoolRazePart2 School Raze, Part 2]]": Rarity uses a gigantic cartoon femur to distract Cerberus.
132	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'': "Extinct Pink" has Pink happen upon such a double-ended bone, which he intends to eat. However, the big-nose man, a theropod and a carnosaur also desire this bone, which becomes the prize in a free-for-all game of Keep Away.
133	* {{Lampshaded}} in the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' Vat of Acid episode: Rick and Morty have jumped into a vat of acid to fake their deaths from alien mobsters, when one throws an alien rat in (to make sure it's ''really'' a vat of acid, and not, say, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial a vat of jacuzzi-heated Mountain Dew with a secret compartment full of fake bones that float to the top]]). Rick grabs the rat, opens the "SPARE BONES" compartment, pulls one out, and begins dutifully carving little rat bones. Unfortunately, the mobsters criticize them, saying the bones look "cartoony, like a bone you'd see in an art class".
134	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Sideshow Mel has a simple, symmetrical and stylized femur stuck in his hair.
135	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In one episode, Patrick eats some explosive chewing gum. [[YourHeadASplode Results are predictable]], right down to having a femur where his spine should be ([[RuleOfFunny if starfish had spines, that is]]).
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138	[[folder:Real Life]]
139	* Dog biscuits are shaped this way to show that they're for dogs, and [[StockAnimalDiet dogs eat bones, dontcha know]].
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