Character: mr. kat

A character from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_vs._Kat, who appears to be a normal cat but is in fact a malevolent alien.

Most relevant to the site: This show is animated quite inconsistently, and the character frequently changes the number of fingers he has and the presence or absence of thumbs on both hands. This is partly because he shapeshifts between feral and anthro/gremlin forms, but even in the same scene he will sometimes lose and regain fingers - see for example the scene at around 11:40 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bcv3Kp4Lp0, where he goes from 4 fingers + 3 fingers to 4 + 4 to 3 + 4 (on the opposite hands!) to 4 + 4 again in about 20 seconds of animation.

Apparently, the show has even lampshaded this (on a human character who usually has 4 fingers, but related):

Official art widely varies in how it handles this. In some pieces it is very difficult to see how a thumb can be present on one hand, while the other hand has 3 fingers and a thumb:


There is even the occasional example of 3 fingers on both hands:

As such, art featuring this character may be approved with mismatched fingers (3+4, either side). Site staff would prefer this was not done frequently - artists are advised, if possible, to depict this character with 3+3 or 4+4 fingers, to avoid the confusion that results from what would on any other character be an obvious AI anatomical defect.

In the case where he is depicted with 3+4, please ensure mismatched_fingers is tagged.

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