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"Earth, Water, Body of water, Air! I declare a pinky-swear!"

Pinky swears are used every bit a way to form a pact or every bit a declaration of friendship betwixt children. While the exercise is considered cutesy and juvenile to older persons, children oft take this kind of gesture seriously, equally if their very lives, or worse, friendships, hang in the balance of words spoken over interlocked fingers.

Normally this gesture is accompanied by a rhyme or "oath" spoken in unison by the pinky swearers. This can vary by region.

While North American children tend to use the chant "Cross my heart and promise to dice, stick a needle in my middle," Japanese schoolchildren use the following "oath":

Yubikiri genman, uso tsuitara hari senbon nomasu, yubi kitta which colloquially means: "Pinky hope pledge: If you're lying, I'll make y'all drink a thousand needles. Pinky promised!"

"Yubikiri" means literally "finger cut", likely because of the timeless punishment of cutting off a finger if you neglect or break a promise or contract (still proficient today amongst some yakuza and other gangsters), then the last scrap of the promise is literally "our fingers accept been cut!" to seal the deal. Also, the term hari senbon, while meaning literally "1,000 needles", is too a regional slang term for a pufferfish, which is covered with 'needles' when inflated. So, they could as well be promising to make you drinkable a puffer fish, which patently would be painful, followed by a rather nasty death past neurotoxin.

Russian children, too, use a similar pinky finger gesture when promising to be friends and no longer fight. The dirge for this occasion can be roughly translated to English as the following: "Make peace, brand peace, make peace, and don't fight anymore, and if y'all fight, I'll seize with teeth, and biting is not enough, I'll trounce you lot with a brick... we cannot beat with a brick, nosotros are friends now!"

In Commonwealth of australia (and perhaps elsewhere) at that place is an understanding that if the pinky swear is broken, the one who broke it has their pinky finger broken in turn.

A common variation is for an adult to make a "pinky hope" to a child every bit reassurance. Either at the child's asking or to evidence that the developed understands how children feel. May end up as a Heroic Vow. Usually subverted into a Kick the Dog moment by having the villain use a child's trust in the pinky promise to fob them. Especially roughshod villains may fifty-fifty mock the child for their gullibility afterward revealing their true motives. Unless the power of the pinky hope makes him do a Heel–Face up Plough.

A cousin to this trope is the Red String of Fate; which is continued by pinky fingers.

Run across Yubitsume for when a character goes through with information technology and cuts off their finger.

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    Anime & Manga

• Hatoko and Misaki in Angelic Layer make such a promise, cementing each other every bit The Only 1 Allowed to Defeat Yous. When Sai defeats Hatoko later on, they make another hope, that Misaki will beat out Sai.
• In Bakuman。, Kazuya Hiramaru makes 1 with Yuriko "Ko Aoki" Aoki that he will get serialized at the next meeting. Takuro Nakai sees this and is quite horrified.
• Expose Knows My Proper name: Tsukumo and Toko do this in episode x.
• Bleach anime episode 247. While Helm Ukitake is trying to recapture his zanpakuto's spirit Sogyo no Kotowari, he promises them that if they give him their weapons he'll play with them as long every bit they like. They ask him to pinky swear on his promise and he agrees.

• Cardcaptor Sakura:
  • Likewise used in the terminal episode of Cardcaptor Sakura, when Sakura and Shaoran vow to keep in touch.
  • That's non the but fourth dimension... Information technology'southward used in both the anime and the manga multiple times.
• The trailer for the 21th Case Closed movie has a flashback where a young Heiji makes one with a simply equally young Momiji.
• Lelouch makes a hope to Nunnally in Lawmaking Geass that he volition make a improve world for her and never lie to her. Tian Zi and Li Xing-ke may have the most epic pinky swear in all of anime, in which Xing-ke promises to use his life, which she saved, for the good of her land that results in Wedding Smashers, a coup d'etat and some Gambit Pile Upwards.
• Danganronpa: The Animation: Makoto and Kyoko link pinkies before she heads off into danger. He'southward making her promise to come up dorsum safely.
• Hijiri and Kazusa do this in Descendants of Darkness.
• Dragon Brawl:

  Master Roshi: Earth, Water, Sea, Air; I declare a pinky swear!

• Haruhi Suzumiya:
  • Kyon did this with the adult Mikuru in Haruhi Suzumiya, when Kyon and the young Mikuru traveled iii years dorsum in fourth dimension.
  • One of Ryoko Asakura'south paradigm songs is about pinkie promises.
• In Hetalia: Axis Powers, Germany and Italy's Pact of Steel is forged with a pinky swear. Slightly subverted by the fact that both of them are grown men... Although Italy is a bit young. It was Frg'due south idea, though; it'south stated that he got the thought from Japan.
• His and Her Circumstances, including in the opening song
  • Not only that, the opening song is called "Tenshi no Yubikiri", significant, "An Angel's Pinky-Promise".

• Hunter × Hunter: Gon makes a pinky swear to his mother figure Mito to come back to her safely after he becomes a hunter. He likewise makes a pinky swear to Palm that he will take her to NGL afterward defeating Knuckle and Shoot, though Palm takes this as something else.
• THE iDOLM@STER - The Producer to Yukiho (ep 3) and Miki (ep 12).
• Kanon; Yuuichi and Ayu's relationship is marked by several of these.
• In K-On! a flashback told past Ritsu shows her and Mio doing this when they decided that they would ane solar day form a ring. Followed by Mio pointing out that it didn't happen quite like that.
• Dearest Hina, Mutsumi and Naru pinky swear in volume vii.
• Lyrical Nanoha:
  • In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, earlier she leaves for a ane-day conference, Nanoha performs one of these with her adopted daughter, Vivio, saying that she volition requite her some caramel milk if she promises to wait for her render like a practiced girl. Unfortunately, Jail attacks their base of operations on that night and takes away Vivio.
  • The two of them makes another pinky swear in Bright, where Nanoha makes Vivio promise non to utilise her Adult Manner for mischief.
  • At the end of A's, when Hayate goes out for a Christmas party, her doctor makes her hope to come back that day later on having spent Christmas Eve out of the hospital for the concluding battle of the flavor (although her being teleported out wasn't her error), and they seal it with a pinky swear.
• Happened in Monster Rancher.
• This is done twice between San and Saturn in My Bride is a Mermaid (once as kids and in one case in the present).
• Takaaki and Miyako from Powerpuff Girls Z did a pinky swear when they're piddling so that they will encounter over again some other time.
• Shows up well-nigh the end of Magical Projection S.
• In There, Beyond the Across, Futaba attempts this, just Deject Cuckoolander Kiara sucks on his pinky, instead.
• In Saki this is done between Nodoka and Saki to underline Saki'southward hope that she won't concord back at playing mahjong anymore.
• Used straight several times, and afterward somewhat subverted in School Days; particularly when the promise is really virtually something very important. Of course, office Makoto existence Makoto and part everyone beingness idiots, he concluded up breaking every single one of them.
• The teenage girls on the crew in Super Dimension Century Orguss, who are from a parallel universe race with two tentacles in their pilus, do this with the tentacles in the first episode, weirding out Kei.
• Manatsu practically forces Ichika into i of these near the end of the kickoff episode of Uta∽Kata. It also features prominently in the Catastrophe Theme.
• ×××HOLiC:
  • Anime only: one of Yuuko's customers lands herself into hot water by making promises she tin't keep.
  • At that place's also the Pinky Swear between Watanuki and Himawari.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! (young Jonouchi and Shizuka).

    Comic Books

• Deadpool curt story "The Pinky Swear". Being Deadpool, he takes it very seriously.
• The playground vow in My Footling Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) is a specially silly adjuration:

  Sunshine, sunshine, ladybugs awake
  Clap your hooves and broil a cake
  If I practise prevarication and spill the beans
  You can make me consume sardines.

    Fan Works

• Beyond Tomorrow: Kikyo does one with Hanyuu to reassure her that she is not prejudiced against one-half-demons and won't hurt her, even chanting the Japanese pinky rhyme for adept measure out.
• In a The Big Bang Theory brusk by A.A. Pessimal, Amy and Bernadette realise they've made a bad situation a lot worse. ^note information technology involves lab monkeys provided by Amy which accept been infected with something nasty in Bernadette's lab - then re-exported to Africa. A pinky-swear sorts out this little concern.
• In Fairy Dance Of Death, Asuna uses this to bond with a traumatized pre-teen girl.

  She leaned a little closer, and stage-whispered unnecessarily. "Can you proceed a hugger-mugger? A actually big clandestine?"
  "Sure."
  "Yubikiri?" Asuna smiled as she held up her pinky finger. Yuuki smiled too—the offset time she'd done so—and pinky-swore.

• At i point in the infamous Harry Potter fanfic Becoming Female person, Dolores Umbridge takes over Hogwarts again and hires a couple Death Eaters as teachers. She assures the student body that Lucius Malfoy did a pinky swear with her to not bring in any more than Death Eaters. When he inevitably breaks his hope:

  "How COULD you!" Umbridge shrieked. "I thought we had a deal! Nosotros did a pinky swear, call back?"
  "I had my fingers crossed behind my dorsum," said Lucius smugly.
  "Damn the loopholes!" yelled Umbridge.

• In Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail, Parker did 1 with his sis Chloe to promise her that he wouldn't reveal to their parents about her entering a horror writing competition. Unfortunately, he had already done so at the time nether the belief this would aid find a inkling to her whereabouts.
• In Kyon: Big Damn Hero, Kyon's sis promises her brother not to tell Haruhi Tsuruya kissed Kyon. While Kyon's sister didn't tell Haruhi, she acknowledged it'south her fault Haruhi learned that because she slipped when talking with a cousin.
• In Mortal Man, Patrick tries to make one with Spongebob. He changes information technology to a "stumpy promise" when Spongebob reminds him that he doesn't accept pinkies.
• The pro wrestling story, One More Time has Molly Holly instigating i with Eddie Guerrero, that he will let the WWE doctors look him over, and she volition have some other match anytime. As the story is a Foregone Conclusion it takes place the nighttime before Eddie's death, it makes for a Downer Catastrophe.
• The Rainbow Connection: Information technology's shown in a flashback that Rainbow Brite and Stormy pinky swore to exist friends forever. It was made even more than serious by the fact they used their birth names (particularly since Stormy hates her original name).
• Back up starts with the newly graduated Raven and Chelsea pinky promising to support 1 another even into machismo. Eight years later, a homeless Chelsea arrives at Raven'southward task wondering if her friend remembered the promise, which she did.

    Films — Animation

• Koda from Blood brother Behave insists that Kenai do this so he could take him to the Salmon Run. In the sequel, this became a regular for them whenever they make a promise.
• Despicable Me: Gru makes 1 of these to Agnes, promising to come to the girls' ballet recital.
• Trolls: World Bout: A pinky-hope between Trolls has such ability that information technology generates a Planar Shockwave when the pinkies connect.

    Films — Live-Action

• Used in the live-action Casper movie between a father and girl (it even becomes a Chekhov'southward Gun: when the one-time dies, his ghost only remembers the daughter subsequently she hooks her pinky with his).
• As with the comic book entry above, used in the Deadpool movie between him and Vanessa. Not explicitly called out, simply they are seen linking pinkies.
• Plain defied in Looney Tunes: Back in Action; when Mother hears DJ knows about the Blue Monkey from his father, she grouses, "What is the point of making them pinky swear?"
• In Radio Flyer, the seriousness of promises in a babyhood view is underlined with the terminal pinky promise between adult Mike and his son.
• A pinky-swear was the only matter that could testify the strength of Chris' vow that he didn't know that a gun he gave Gordy to play with in Stand by Me was loaded in the first place.
• In a deleted flashback scene from What's Your Number? one was made between a teenage Ally and Jake promising that they'll lose their virginities to ane another when they are older.

    Alive-Action TV

• Arrowverse
  • Arrow
    • In "The Candidate", Anarky taunts a Damsel in Distress by making her pinky swear that she won't reveal who kidnapped her if he lets her go. Then he breaks her finger and declares he will torture her instead.
    • Although Thea is estranged from Malcolm Merlyn, they practise this trope in "Dark Waters" when Thea promises her supervillain father that she will be conscientious.
  • Legends of Tomorrow. In "Moisture Hot American Bummer", Sara Lance coaxes Ava Sharpe into doing this before they get to a summertime military camp to grab the Monster of the Week. They do it again when they have to take a potion to turn themselves into children for plot-related reasons. And in later episodes as a sign of mutual affection.
• Community: When Star-Burns is to testify in a case of a mishap in the biological science lab that he was witness to, he makes Troy and Abed pinky-swear non to reveal what he was doing there.
• On an episode of Full House, a pinky swear was made between D.J. and Stephanie as a mode of making D.J. promise to eat when it was revealed that D.J. has spent three days crash-dieting.
• In the showtime episode of The Handmaid'due south Tale, Moira and June pinky-swear that they'll escape and save June'southward daughter. June throws it in Moira's face when she encounters a defeated Moira at Jezebel's.
• In the Korean drama Mawang, a particular pinky-swear becomes a rather sinister plot twist.
• Immature Antonio'southward hope to young Jayden in Power Rangers Samurai to railroad train and fight at his side when the Nighloks returned was sealed with one.

    Music

• MARETU'southward Vocaloid original "Mind Brand" has "yubikiri genman" in the lyrics. The context suggests the pinky promise is fabricated by a guy to a young girl, whom he has sex with and leaves when she'southward of no utilize to him anymore.

    Theater

• In Ang Huling El Bimbo, Emman makes a pinky promise with Joy, promising to never abandon her, no matter what. He breaks this promise. This causes him to breakdown when she dies and her daughter Ligaya offers one to him.

    Video Games

• A major motif between Jin and Tsubaki from BlazBlue, to the indicate that their "dearest theme", and so to say, is chosen "pinky promise".
• One piece of promotional art in Ever17 depicts 2 of the characters, Coco and Sara, floating in the sea with pinkies clasped. Interesting in that the two of them apparently never collaborate or fifty-fifty run across in-story until the very end, simply have a mysterious connection nonetheless.
• Fallout 2 has a variation on the whole pinky-swearing idea. Afterwards being asked for help, the PC can ask a minor NPC to cut off his right pinky in order to "seal the bargain," presumably to test if he is serious about his hope or not. The NPC may or may not concord to practice information technology. If he does, a practiced player can stop him before he actually does and so, only an evil PC... can then tell him to fry it upwardly and eat it. At that point, the NPC will endeavor to kill yous.
• Granblue Fantasy: In her SR version's Fate Episodes, Andira initiates this with the protagonist later on taking a bath at a hot springs resort. Such a promise merely has her requesting that they should not forget this at-home and memorable moment.
• A song featured in the Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA series is chosen Pinky Swear (Yubikiri), about a girl who cuts her pinky off equally a promise that her love is real and won't change.
• Crops upwards in Tales of the Abyss with Luke a few times. Demonstrates his child-similar understanding of the world, even when he is insisting that he hates them. Though some of the pinky swears from the past were between Asch and Natalia.
• In The Walkingdead Sara asks Clementine to make a i when they starting time encounter which y'all can decline or accept.

    Spider web Comics

• In Li'fifty Mell, Mell makes the time-traveling older Sergio pinky swear that they'll be all-time friends forever, and she seems to expect the younger version to abide by information technology.
• Mew and Donut exercise a pinky swear in Lily Love when Donut helps Mew sneak a hamster into their dorm.

    Web Original

• Overheard in New York: "She pinky swore she was eighteen!"

    Western Animation

• In the American Dad! episode "Tearjerker", Stan makes a pinky promise with Johnny Depp that the latter would tell the erstwhile if he became a robot.
• Archer: When Malory can't notice her babe grandaughter her offset thought is that Cheryl took her. Pam gets Cheryl to confirm she didn't accept baby A.J. by holding up her pinky and asking "swearsy realsies?" with Cheryl repeating the gesture and phrase. Pam insists that this ways she really didn't take the baby every bit swearsy-realsies is "pretty sacred to the states".
• Ane episode of Arthur had a bunch of the main characters doing this.
• In Drawn Together, Princess Clara swears two other characters to secrecy with a pinky swear. However, one of them breaks her silence almost instantly (as in, without even leaving the room).
• In Fish Hooks, in the Halloween special, Oscar would merely salve Jocktopuss' life if he promises to never steal candy again... merely a normal promise wasn't enough.

  Jocktopuss: Ugh, Jocktopuss hates you.

• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Pinkie Pie will swear her friends to a "Little finger Promise", complete with an odd ritual: "Cross my heart and hope to wing, stick a cupcake in my middle."
  • After lampshaded by Twilight as a pretty odd mode of swearing:

    Fluttershy: You must swear that y'all don't tell Rarity!
    Twilight Sparkle: I promise.
    Fluttershy: Pinkie Pie Swear!
    Twilight Sparkle: Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my AAAAAH!

  • And you do not desire to suspension a Pinkie Promise. 'Cause if you lot practise, Pinkie Pie will HIJACK you for sure. This was lampshaded in the episode "The Last Roundup".
• The Collector from The Owl House makes these rather often, overlapping with Bargain with the Devil, although it primarily highlights their Psychopathic Manchild behavior, and they very deeply believe that pinky swears are the about definite of promises. They throw an angry tantrum when Belos intentionally fails to meet his terminate of their bargain, angrily calling him a "Liar, liar, pants on burn down" equally he severs communication with them.
• In The Venture Bros., when Dr. Girlfriend demands that the Monarch stop being Rusty'south nemesis if he wants to marry her, the Monarch pinky-swears on information technology. When that promise is violated past his henchmen he yells "I fabricated a pinky swear! A SACRED pinky swear!!"
• In West.I.T.C.H., nearly the stop of the season 1 episode "The Mudslugs", Cornelia and Will reconsile their friendship with a pinky swear.

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