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* In the children's magazine ''Cricket'', Sluggo the snail is often seen carrying around a baseball bat, despite his lack of appendages to hold it with. George the earthworm isn't usually seen carrying items with him, but he often leaves things propped up outside his hole with no explanation for how (or if) he managed to move them there.

* ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' villain Love Glove lost his arms after having a strange dream about a glove-laden tree, and has a single disembodied floating glove to manipulate his surroundings with. He can also retrieve gloves with special powers from the glove tree, such as the Shove Glove.

 

* All the characters in ''[[Cars]]'' are... well, cars. With no hands. So how do they grip things like power tools or flags? There are foot (wheel?) pedals that they use to activate some things, and some of the cars have special attachments for holding things, but the question remains: ''how was all this stuff built?''

* Many Monsters in Monsters Inc. A lot of the stock monsters are shown without hands, feet, or are just toothy heads walking around on little nub limbs. So how do these monsters operate the machinery, let alone drive cars? In fact, how can Wazowski drive a car himself so effectively when he doesn't have binocular vision?

* Wally the Whale and his fishy friends of ''[[Fruit Incest]]'' tend to just float and move objects without any limbs or even flippers. [http://fruitincest.com/archives/win/ Lampshaded] a couple of times, as even they don't seem to know how they do it.

* In ''[[The Adventures of Joe the Circle]]'' the three main characters are respectively a circle, triangle and pair of ovals, with no other features except faces. [[Word of God]] establishes that they're all telekinetic.

* ''Sanity Circus'' has Bee, who early in her circus career was doing "[[Saw a Woman In Half|the ol' Sawed-in-Half trick]], with real magic to make it more interesting". But [[Inept Mage|screwed up the magic]]. And stuck [https://www.sanitycircus.com/sanity-circus/chapter-4-page-16 looking] [https://www.sanitycircus.com/sanity-circus/chapter-7-page-16 like] she misses some of her torso and most of the arms, with visible parts ending in flat planes of darkness.

 

== Web Original ==

* The characters from ''[[Veggie Tales]]'' are all sentient vegetables with no limbs, yet they frequently brandish devices or perform tasks that would require some form of manual dexterity to operate—some examples are driving, wearing, eating, and wear boxing gloves. [[Lampshaded]] for further comedic effect where Larry the cucumber says he can't play a guitar because he has no hands. He ends up playing the theme with a sousaphone.

** On another occasion, Buzz-saw Louie, a living action figure character uttered the classic lines: "Alright! Everybody who's got hands, start tying!" And, after a pause, "That would be me."

** Also note that they can never actually manipulate objects when it matters most.

** They started out avoiding any manipulation, then slowly warmed up to it. Early instances of the trope conveniently hide the fact that they are levitating the object.

 

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