Why cartoon characters wear gloves

Animators had a few tricks up their slee...err gloves.

[jaredcox]

Well i mean they can't leave fingerprints at the murders they comit

[NoobletWasTaken]

I went to Disney and asked Mickey that question. He says it makes him look stylish.

[hughjazz]

Vox is the kind of channel that gives u questions that u never think abt and answers them for u but it never gets boring

[miguelcampos]

So they won't get infected by the coronavirus

[JaggerIsBurritos]

My original thought after reading the title was, "Because drawing hands is seriously difficult."

[johnk]

“Five fingers looked like too much on such a little figure, so we took one away. That was just one less finger to animate”
That book just answered my 2nd burning question

[gixG]

I always thought that the cartoon birds didn't wear gloves because the fingers are technically their feathers taking shape of hands and fingers... as opposed to having paws.

[Nafinafnaf]

“Why do you wear that thing around your neck?”
ROASTED

[prodbp]

Okay, but what we really needa be asking is does Mike Wazowski blink or wink?

[twam]

0:37 I swear the sound comes from the top half, not the bottom.

[TheCanadiangirl]

Wow, I wasn't prepared to see Bugs without his gloves on.

[RyukenAtrineas]

I always thought "that thing" on Daffy's neck was just his coloring, as ducks can have some rather interesting color markings and I have never seen an all-black duck anyway. Also, I had assumed birds didn't wear gloves because they were technically "wings", not "arms", their feathers being their "fingers" kind of a visual representation. I know they're shaped and structured his actual hands, I just thought that might be the concept behind it, the difference being they were wings, while those with more actual "arms" or "front legs made into arms" would warrant gloves while wings might not.

Just a theory, though.

[eden]

*Mickey Mouse is a non-human, doing very human things* 2:26 *He looks at the camera* Why am I suddenly afraid and sense danger??? 🤔

[stevo]

I think the main reason for using gloves, in cartoons and in vaudeville, was because it made it easier for the audience to see where their hands were and what their hands were doing.

[thathalflatino]

Daffy Duck been wearing chokers before chokers were even a thing

[bigbuff]

Disney: We gave them gloves to make animating their hands easier
VeggieTales: What if they just didn't have hands

[CurlsOfDbrave]

"why dont the birds wear any gloves"
*Looks at wings*

[SnoopyDoofie]

Daffy Duck "wears that thing around his neck" because he's really a Catholic priest.

[t_c]

birds didn't have gloves because they have wings. imagine daffy flying and 2 weird glove hands were on the end of his wings

[shockware]

Vox: *Shows nearly every iconic character with gloves*

Sonic The Hedgehog: *am I nothing to you?*