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“Ugh. I don't even want to touch that!”
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| “ | "I like it when the red water comes out." | ” |
— Salad Fingers, Salad Fingers Episode 2, Friends
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Salad Fingers is a character from the Salad Fingers series. He is a deformed man who lives in a post-apocalyptic world. He frequently tries to communicate with inanimate objects and has an affinity for rust.
Background[]
In a post-apocalyptic dystopia, Salad Fingers leads a deranged existence. Salad Fingers communicates with inanimate objects, including three finger puppets, the most reoccurring called Hubert Cumberdale. He wanders around the wasteland, acting out his daily routine with other deformed creatures and inanimate objects. He enjoys the feeling of rust on his fingers, calling it "almost orgasmic", and will not stop rubbing even if the rust causes him to bleed.
In his secluded life, Salad Fingers has few interactions with other individuals. The majority of them are unable to communicate or speak incomprehensibly, prompting Salad Fingers to give them names and characteristics. He lacks the mental capacity for interacting with others and panics when interacting with sentient creatures. In the episode "Picnic", when a girl he referred to as Mable began to speak with him, he saw her standing in front of a vortex with missing eyes. In the episode "Cupboard", he cries when Roger, his radio, begins yelling at him. He is unable to tell when another person is in pain, as he accidentally left a child to die in his oven while it was on in the episode "Friends". When a mutant dies banging his head against the wall in the episode "Nettles", he calls the corpse "Milford Cubicle" and talks to him as if he's still alive. He digs up a corpse in his back yard in the episode "Shore Leave" that he believes is his younger brother Kenneth, who has returned from the "Great War". He talks to the corpse as if it is alive, and acts like he is returning to war when he kicks it back into the hole. He falls in love with a dog corpse in the episode "Post Man", mistaking it for an attractive woman. He takes the corpse on a date, but upon waking up in bed with it, he realizes they cannot see each other because he believes the corpse is half his age. He delivers the corpse to a hollowed out tree covered in black goo. A dog with a baby's head, referred to by Salad Fingers as the cadaver's mother, drags the corpse back into the tree.
He has various unusual interactions with other characters, in "Present", Salad Fingers sees Hubert Cumberdale on top of a cupboard. When he tells him to come down, Hubert Cumberdale melts into a hot black liquid. Jeremy Fisher, another finger puppet, appears out of the shadows, and Salad Fingers imagines that Jeremy gives him a horse toy. He later comes across a toilet outside, and thinks he hears something. He acts confused, defending himself, saying "You've got the wrong bloke, squire." He then flushes the toilet to "wash those bad thoughts away." On his way home, he sees a second Salad Fingers. The other Salad Fingers calls him Jeremy Fisher and talks to him. He says that "Jeremy" wants to take his daughter's virginity, which seems to be a continuation of what they were talking about in the bathroom. The other Salad Fingers says he's never tasted Jeremy before, and then the scene cuts to him eating the brain of the first Salad Fingers.
In "Birthday", he is throwing a birthday party for Hubert Cumberdale when the doorbell rings. As he investigates, he finds a large object protruding from the ground in front of his house. Bothered by its smooth consistency, he turns his attention his "guest", Milford Cubicle. Salad Fingers believes that Milford is sleeping and unable to wake up, so he leaves to find the doctor, telling his horse toy Horace to watch his house while he's gone. He discovers a bladed finger puppet, Dr. Papanak, and sits down for a check-up. When Dr. Papanak bites him unexpectedly, Salad Fingers tosses it in response to the pain, and it hits a horse. Salad Fingers consoles the animal by saying to relax "while the Doctor eats your blood". Then, Salad Fingers awakens, assuming he slept for weeks. Upon his return, he discovers additional horses in his home, including a few packed into his cabinets. He is shocked to discover that the horses devoured Milford Cubicle's body, leaving only the skeleton. He drives the horses away and rediscovers the pole in front of his residence. He accuses it of inviting the horses, but when he sees the guests, other Salad Fingers, seated at a table, he forgets the incident. The clones consume organs with ferocity. As he takes a seat, the pole with the birthday present on top retracts into the earth. He eagerly opens it and discovers a hat made of human flesh.
In the episode "Glass Brother", he sews human flesh together on Hubert Cumberdale. Later, Hubert Cumberdale comes to life. Salad Fingers communicates with his abusive relatives, the Glass Mother and Glass Brother, who reside in the mirror world, via a mirror. They verbally abuse him, force Salad Fingers to consume a dish that induces vomiting, and abduct Hubert Cumberdale. By sliding through a puddle, Salad Fingers enters the Mirror World. He rescues Hubert Cumberdale while Glass Brother and Glass Mother sleep. While the two were sleeping, Salad Fingers escaped. They attempt to access the world of Salad Fingers, but Salad Fingers pushes them away. Salad Fingers destroys the mirror in response to Glass Mother's threat. As she shouts at him through the final fragment of glass, Salad Fingers cuts himself with the shard, scatters his blood on it, and seals her in a small box.
Character Profiles[]
Newgrounds Rumble-Salad Fingers isn't particularly aware that he'll soon have a lot of people trying to kill him. But due to some severe chemical imbalances, he'll become just as sturdy a competitor once people step inside his comfort bubble.
The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls Requiem- "I like rusty spoons. I like to touch them."
Character Interactions[]
Salad Fingers/Character Interactions
SALAND FINDLES[]
Salad Fingers is prominently featured in SALAND FINDLES, an episode of the Jerry Jackson series. The episode is a nonsensical retelling of the Salad Fingers series by Jerry Jackson, the protagonist of the "Jerry Jackson" series. The cartoon begins with Salad Fingers announcing a description of the Salad Fingers setting and the unsettling events happen in the Salad Fingers cartoon. Salad Fingers is approached by a dog, whom he fondles, describing the sensation on his fingers as similar to "paper cuts". Afterwards, he plays chess with the dog until a creature appears and consumes the chessboard. Then, Salad Fingers checks his washing machine, discovers he is out of detergent, and goes to the store. He wncounters Hubert Cumberdale, with whom he discusses his preferred shampoo. He is then apprehended by the police for his unsettling personality, for which Salad Fingers apologizes for.
Newgrounds Rumble[]
Salad Fingers makes a playable appearance in Newgrounds Rumble. He has the best reach in the game and deals good damage, however, he has very slow speed and low health. While many of his attacks utilize his long arms, he can also attack with his finger puppet, Hubert Cumberdale and rusty metal objects he fawned over in different Salad Fingers episodes. In his story, he actually isn't aware that the other characters are trying to kill him. In his first part of his story mode, he is attracted to the robot suit that Alloy is wearing. Alloy refuses to give it to him, starting a fight. In the second fight, Salad Fingers is looking for the stinging nettle plant to enjoy the feeling when the caretaker of the garden, Samurai Asshole, attacks him. In the third fight, Alien Hominid crashes his ship in a nearby town. Salad Fingers tries to make friends with him, but Alien Hominid feels threatened by him and attacks. In the final part of his story, Salad Fingers discovers P-Bot, a being made entirely of metal. Salad Fingers wants to take him home, but P-Bot fights back. In his ending, Salad Fingers is overjoyed at having a large mass of metal. He knows it will rust, allowing him to feel the prickling touch he craves. He does not care about being the ruler of the portal and leaves with P-Bot's dead body.
| Action/Event | Description | Reference | Origin |
| Salad Fingers' Story part 2: "Hostile Reception" | The description for the second part of Salad Finger's story reads: "Salad Fingers was only looking for some nettles to please his fingers when he stumbled upon the nasty curator of a Japanese garden." | Salad Fingers Episode 3, Nettles (2004) | The description for the fight is a reference to the episode Nettles. Salad Fingers finds a stinging nettle plant and rubs it on his fingers and body because he enjoys the sensation. |
| Third fierce attack | Salad Fingers bashes foes with Hubert Cumberdale | Salad Fingers Episode 2, Friends (2004) | While Salad Fingers never used Hubert Cumberdale as a weapon before Newgrounds Rumble, Hubert made his first appearance in the second episode. |
| First aerial fierce attack | Salad Fingers brings out a rusty spoon to attack. | Salad Fingers Episode 1, Spoons (2004) | Salad Fingers' first episode has him introducing himself, and well as his love of rust. He rubs a finger on a rusty spoon in the first episode. |
| Second aerial fierce attack | Salad Fingers attacks with a rusty kettle | Salad Fingers Episode 1, Spoons (2004) | In the same episode, Salad Fingers enters a child's home to look for spoons. When he cannot find any he leaves, but not before he caresses a rusty kettle. |
| Third aerial fierce attack | Salad Fingers whips out a tap to harm foes. | Salad Fingers Episode 4, Cage (2004) | In this episode, Salad Fingers is captured after following a tap on a string, an item while he has never touched before. He imagines flying with taps and hanging on a bar in a room full of taps. In the end of the episode, he is shown riding on a tap in the sky. |
| Gun powerup | Salad Fingers summons his finger puppet friend, Hubert Cumberdale. Hubert screams, making scratchy red lines surround him. Any foe within his reach will be damaged | Salad Fingers Episode 2, Friends (2004) | This episode introduces Salad Fingers' finger puppets. In the same episode, Salad Fingers dreams about meeting Hubert Cumberdale after impaling his finger on a rusty nail. In his dream, Hubert screams, causing red lines to appear around him. |
Indie Game Battle[]
Salad Fingers appears as a playable character in Indie Game Battle. He mainly stretches his fingers in his attacks. The majority of his attacks and sounds come from Newgrounds Rumble. Salad Fingers was in a "WIP" state before the game's cancellation, having all of neutral attacks completed and two Special Attacks.
| Action/Event | Description | Reference | Origin |
| Salad Fingers's standing neutral attack | Salad Fingers swings his hand in front of himself | Newgrounds Rumble (2007) | Based on Salad Fingers's first Quick Attack. |
| Salad Fingers's running neutral attack | Salad Fingers covers his head with his hands as he kicks in front of himself. | Newgrounds Rumble (2007) | Based on Salad Fingers's second Quick Attack. |
| Salad Fingers's forward aerial attack | Salad Fingers kicks in the air, spinning horizontally. | Newgrounds Rumble (2007) | Based on Salad Fingers's third aerial Quick Attack. In Newgrounds Rumble, however, his leg coiled in front of himself while spinning. |
| Default costume | Salad Fingers has green skin, a green shirt, black pants, and brown shoes. | Present (2005) | Salad Fingers's default appearance is based on his appearance from the sixth episode onward, in which he wore black pants. |
| Second alternate costume | Salad Fingers has lighter skin and blue pants. | Spoons (2004) | Salad Fingers's second alternate costume is based on his original appearance in Spoons, where he wore blue pants. |
| Third alternate costume | Salad Fingers has yellow skin. | Spoons (2004) | Salad Fingers's third costume is based on the Yellow Child from the Salad Fingers series. |
| Fifth alternate costume | Salad Fingers has white skin and black stain on his shirt. | Letter (2011) | In Letter, Salad Fingers awakens feeling sick, with a black mass bursting from his body. While in his ill state, his skin was lighter, and the mass left his clothing stained with black goo. |
The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls Requiem[]
Salad Fingers appears as a playable character in The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls Requiem. He has 2 health points and 1 damage point. He has the ability to play an additional Loot card and his Starting Items are the Rusty Spoons.
Guppy's Quest[]
Salad Fingers appears as a playable character in Guppy's Quest. His main attack is shooting bullets from a rusty spoon. In his charge attack, he rides midair on a rusty spoon while it shoots bullets.
| Salad Fingers | |
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| Characters | Salad Fingers • Hubert Cumberdale |
| Locations | The Meat Locker |
| Items | Rusty Spoons |
| Crossovers | saland figers omg (2005) • Newgrounds Rumble (2007) • Indie Game Battle (2015, Canceled) • The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls Requiem (2023) • Guppy's Quest (TBA) |
| Character Interactions | Salad Fingers/Character Interactions |