Basic Trope: Animals portrayed with fewer legs than they have in real life.
- Straight: Bob is a bee with four legs rather than six.
- Exaggerated: All of the insects, arachnids, cephalopods, etc have fewer legs than they do in real life.
- Downplayed: Bob does have six legs, but two of his legs are smaller and more vestigal.
- Justified:
- Bob is a humanoid-bodied bee, and due to evolution he had no need for his extra limbs.
- Bob lost his other limbs somehow, or was born without them.
- Inverted: Bob is drawn with eight legs rather than six.
- Subverted: Bob reveals that he managed to keep his extra legs hidden.
- Double Subverted: However, his extra legs are prosthetics.
- Parodied: A centipede or millipede is drawn with four legs.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob is a bipedal Bee, but he is able to use his arms as legs ala crawling.
- Averted: Animals are given the amount of legs they'd have in real life.
- Enforced:
- Giving Bob that many legs would be too difficult to draw/animate.
- What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Bob is given four legs to make him look more sympathetic, especially if the villainous insects are drawn with the proper amount of legs.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why do they never give the insects the right number of legs?"
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