Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25301131-20150310010922/@comment-8161155-20150815223259

OnlyOnTuesdays88 wrote: Mr B Natural wrote:

LilMarcy5678 wrote: Thank you! Different fingerprints are a bit of a stretch to be compared with a different number of fingers. Though they look pretty similar, extra fingers are kind of absurd.

Additionally, though the number of fingers (I guess) are a phenotype, they are expressed from a genotype, which Lee would have to have as well. Although there are environmental influences on the phenotype, I am unsure what could have possibly happened in the womb for him to have an extra finger, seeing as how unlikely it is for him to have been injected with like, toxic waste or something.

Admittedly, this may be the point — Ford knows it's weird and that's why he's drawn to GF. Maybe all will be revealed later. I don't know, he might be an alien or whatever.

Frankly, that's the best explanation.

Also, there is no way Mabel and Dipper are identical (duh) The best explanation is that they are just fraternal. People are looking too much into this. What suggests that they are identical? That they basically look exactly alike? No, they don't. Dipper and Mabel look more alike than them. If they look more alike than most siblings do (which they don't, if you ask me), that's because it's a cartoon, and in a cartoon if you want to draw relatives you just take the same character template and redraw the hair and clothes (see Soos and Reggie (Heck, THEY look more alike than the the Stans do)). Plus, they look nothing alike as children, and identical twins almost always look veeeeerrrrryyyy similar at least as children.

And even if you look past all that, how do you explain the finger thing? That's a gene. It doesn't spontaneously develop in the womb.