Why do many cartoon characters Disney only 4 fingers on hands

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The most attentive audience of the cartoons, particularly Disney, have noticed that most of the characters in them are endowed with only four fingers. In the animation, nothing happens by accident — dozens of animators don't just accidentally forgot to draw the missing finger. Actually it is quite a conscious decision with his explanation.

AdMe.EN decided to understand the reasons for this animation principle.

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This hypothesis States that someone who looks and acts like a person (e.g., a robot), but is not an exact copy, cause hostility. The robot seems to us to be frightening and repulsive, most likely due to small discrepancies of reality in the image.

Thus, cartoon characters become more attractive when they look less realistic.

Of course, this is not about princesses and princes, because they are not just humanoid, but very real people.



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It can be assumed that the tradition to paint 4 of your cartoon characters instead of 5 was led over several centuries to create animated images from the puppet theatre. The master then noticed a large hand with five fingers looked unnatural and ugly — like a rake or tree branch. So they began to equip your characters with only four fingers.

In the words of Disney, 5 fingers on the hand of Mickey mouse resembled a bunch of bananas and would look awkward.

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Most of the Disney cartoon characters — anthropomorphic animals. Therefore their "hands" is meant to resemble the paws of animals. Take, for example, the paw of a cat: we see it only 4 fingers, while the 5th is hidden from our eyes.

Then why do Japanese anime characters traditionally endowed with all five fingers?

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In Asian culture, people pay great attention to numbers. The number 4 is considered bad because its sounding like the sound of the word "death." That's why in everyday life people in East Asia this number is almost nonexistent.

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According to one version, this tradition goes back to the criminal organization in Japan under the name "Yakuza." One of the terrible rituals of its members were cutting off his little finger for a misdemeanor or a betrayal of "colleagues", violating the oath.

And in Japan there is a children's pinky swear. During the ceremony friends sing a song in which the violator of the oath promises to cut off his finger.

Thus, 4 fingers on the hands of anime characters would be a shocking and frightening solution and their owners might be associated with criminals or violators of the oath.

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