History FourFingeredHands / WesternAnimation

** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E23BartsFriendFallsInLove "Bart's Friend Falls in Love"]], Lisa tells Bart that ''Eternity'' magazine has predicted that people will eventually have 5 fingers.

** In one episode, Lisa tells Bart that in some magazine about the future they predicted that people would eventually have 5 fingers.

* On ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndValentino'', characters have five fingers instead of four. This is lampshaded in the {{crossover}} with ''WesternAnimation/{{Villainous}}'', where Valentino quickly identifies the ''Villainous'' characters as not from their world due to having the traditional four-fingered hands instead of five.

** [[ALoadOfBull Iron Will]], [[OurCentaursAreDifferent Lord Tirek]] and [[ADogNamedDog Ahuizotl]] have four fingers on each hand, despite [[AmbiguouslyHuman having many human features]].

* Everyone from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' has four fingers, but the Powerpuff Girls themselves have [[FingerlessHands none]]!

** In ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'', Robin has four fingers, like most characters, but Prince John has five.

** However, ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'', which are also all made by Creator/FreshTV, avert this by using five fingered hands.

** However, ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'', which are also made by Creator/FreshTV, avert this by using five fingered hands.

* Varied in original ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' shorts where Felix would be depicted with four or five fingers while humans had five fingers. The later incarnations of Felix would have almost all characters (including humans) with four fingers.

** However, ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}} 6teen]]'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'', which are also made by Creator/FreshTV, avert this by using five fingered hands.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'', all the human characters in the real world have four fingers. In [=ChalkZone]=, it varies. Some characters have four fingers, others three, and then some (including Snap) don't have any fingers at all. Justified, as they're all drawings.

** In WesternAnimation/RobinHood, Robin has four fingers, like most characters, but Prince John has five.

* On ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'', all the human characters in the real world have four fingers. In [=ChalkZone]=], it varies- some characters have four fingers, others three, and then some (including Snap) don't have any fingers at all- justified as they're all drawings.
* Averted on ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}''. Although the character designs are very cartoony, everyone's drawn with five fingers.

* Most of the [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic animal]] Disney characters. And also many of the humans. But it's not always done consistently.

* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': Everyone has four fingers.
* WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman normally has four fingers, but mysteriously gains a fifth so that he can count to five.

* Awful B Bad of ''The Little Clowns of Happytown'' has four fingers per hand, even though every other character on the show has five.

* Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''. Beast Boy is making a verbal list, punctuated by the number of fingers he holds up. He reaches his [[RuleOfThree third reason]], and realizes he now only has four digits. Shaking his hand brings back his missing finger.

* The titular protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/KappaMikey'' is drawn following American Cartoon standards in his design, including having four fingers. His Japanese friends, who follow anime conventions, have five fingers.

* In ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', everyone has four fingers.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'', Sonic and his siblings are drawn with five fingers, but Robotnik has only four. This is a result of the show using the game design for Sonic (unlike previous cartoons, which used more simplified designs), and basing Manic and Sonia on it. Robotnik, instead, uses his [[WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM SatAM]] design, which had four fingers like all characters in that show.

** In Disney/RobinHood, Robin has four fingers, like most characters, but Prince John has five.

* Everyone from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' has four fingers, but for some reason, one of the characters, Trent, wears a T-shirt with a five-fingered handprint on it.

* Lloyd Nebulon (the ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace'' title character) also has just three fingers. {{Justified|Trope}}, seeing Lloyd is an alien.
** Meanwhile, Eddie, the TokenHuman of the show, has five-fingered hands.