History Main / VertebrateWithExtraLimbs

* [[UnscaledMerfolk Ursula,]] the main villainess of ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', is half-octopus. This is most noticeable when she is electrocuted at the end of the film.

* Demon King Samrick of ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' has four arms, two legs and a pair of wings.

* TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons has dragons, winged serpents (which aren't this trope because that's two limbs total), and many others.

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** GreenMartians: 4 Arms and 2 legs

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* Treecats in ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' have six legs, as do most other native land vertebrates from Sphinx, their homeworld, including the Hexapuma and Sphinx Chipmunk.

** Though, again, sometimes they only have two legs. And in some older myths, the [[BizarreSexualDimorphism female has wings, and the male has enormous spikes protruding from its shoulders]].

* Kinshaya in the Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse. They have four legs and wings on their back. In an ancestral species, these were used for flying, but modern Kinshaya are too heavy and retain them for display purposes.

* Snakes with arms: similar to Centaurs, but with the back end of a snake rather than a horse or other quadruped.
** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' gives us Yuan-Ti Abominations, and Mariliths (who overlap with MultiArmedAndDangerous).
** ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' often has snake-people featured as snakes with arms, but one block (Kamigawa) contained snake-people with four arms, two legs, and ''no tail''.
** ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' has a "snakes with arms" villain group called "The Snakes", as well as allowing the creation of player characters with wings, both organic and artificial.
** The Naga -- super-sized snakes with human bodies from the waist up where the snakes' heads would be. They're originally from Myth/HinduMythology and are now found in quite a few different fantasy series. The aforementioned [=DnD=] creatures may be Naga, but from the description above, probably not.
** Some depictions of Naga feature two or three pairs of arms, and no legs; usually, the most divine members of the species. Others have another snake head at the tip of the tail.
** ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'''s depiction of the Naga has [[BizarreSexualDimorphism two-armed males and four-armed females]].
** ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' has different breeds of Naga, some looking like straight up giant snakes with arms, others with cobra hoods.
** In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', Nagah are wereserpents who can shapeshift into five forms: a human, a scaly hairless humanoid, a giant cobra with arms and long claws, a giant snake with gills that can sprout arms when necessary, and a normal snake. Some depictions make their arms as bendy as a snake's spine, just to really weird it up.
** [[http://galileogames.com/bulldogs-fate/ Bulldogs!]], a sci-fi RPG, includes a naga-like species called Saldrallans among its core player races.

* The villain, Randall, from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''. He was clearly reptilian in design, but had four arms and four legs.

* Presumably the [[Series/BetterOffTed Octo-Chicken]].

* There have been instances of frogs being born with more or less legs than usual due to mutations; sometimes many, ''many'' more. They can't actually do anything with them, and it only really decreases their chances of survival.

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* The Cray from the PerdidoStreetStation sequel ''Literature/TheScar'' have a humanoid upper body and crayfishlike lower body.

* There have been instances of frogs being born with more or less legs than usual due to mutations; sometimes many, ''many'' more. They can't actually do anything with them, and it only really deceases their chances of survival.

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* {{Justified|Trope}} with Stitch from ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'': he is not only an alien, he's a genetic experiment as well. Also, most of the time he keeps his extra arms hidden so {{muggles}} mistake him for a dog.
* The villain, Randall, from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''. He was clearly reptillian in design, but had four arms and four legs.

In RealLife, vertibrates have at most four functional limbs - legs, arms (which anatomically are really modified forelegs), or wings (which are modified arms) - and one tail. If it has more than that, like arthropods (insects, spiders, centipedes, etc), it's not a vertebrate. Some individuals have abnormal numbers due to injury or glitches during development, but additional limbs rarely function properly. Those with less, like snakes and whales, still evolved from four-limbed animals.