Salad Fingers

Salad Fingers is the titular main protagonist of the Salad Fingers series. He is a mentally disturbed individual who often hallucinates and indulges in self-harm. Despite this, he means well and is friendly to everyone he encounters, though at times he absent-mindedly causes unintentional harm to them. It is shown that he enjoys the sensation of rubbing his fingers on rusty objects, such as spoons and taps.

Appearance
Salad Fingers is a bald, hunchbacked, green-skinned humanoid with red eyes and three, prong-like fingers on each hand. His teeth are yellow and rotted. He usually wears a teal, long-sleeved shirt, blue pants, and brown shoes.

In Nettles, he appears shirtless for most of the episode. In Cage, Salad Fingers wears a beret in the beginning and at the end. In Picnic, he wears a makeshift dress and veil for a scene as he pretends to be getting married. In a dream in Shore Leave, he is seen wearing a long white dress. In Birthday, towards the end of the episode, Salad Fingers is gifted a top hat made of flesh, which he puts on. As of Present, he is seen wearing black pants.

It is theorized that he might be beyond the height of 6' (roughly 183 cm).

Background
Salad Fingers lives in a desolate, unnamed land in the UK which is inhabited by mutant creatures. His home is a small shack located in the middle of nowhere. He frequently references the "Great War", which has presumably ended by the time the series takes place. Apart from that, all that is known about his past can be interpreted from things he has said while hallucinating.

It is heavily implied that Salad Fingers suffers from a variety of mental disorders, including schizophrenia, depression, and dissociative identity disorder, frequently acting out different personalities, some of which may have been that of people he once knew. Specifically, he may have had a troubled relationship with members of his family, as evidenced by the authoritative, abusive personalities he takes on in episodes such as Present and Cupboard. In Glass Brother, we see relatives of Salad Fingers, though it is unknown if his glass family are real entities or rather hallucinations.

Personality
Salad Fingers’ personality is shown as rather polite and, at times, immature. He doesn't mean any harm to anyone and seems a lot friendlier than most of the peculiar creatures shown in the series. He has very little comprehension of reality to the point where he regularly converses with inanimate objects. In Glass Brother, it's shown that Salad Fingers may have suffered abuse from his relatives (whether his glass family is fragments of his memories or simply hallucinations). He speaks with a very gentle voice and almost never raises it.

All together, Salad Fingers is a kind but lost being and, to his audience, is seen as creepy to some while interesting to others.

Trivia

 * Salad Fingers is voiced by David Firth, the creator of the series. He has a queer manner of speaking and frequently uses old-fashioned phrases. Despite his unruly appearance, he speaks in a highly intelligent manner.
 * He can speak French and communicate in morse code.
 * He was theorized to be a zombie, but this was debunked by Firth. Salad Fingers’ true identity, age, and species are unknown. His gender is also debated by fans, though it could be explained as him being a male who acts out female personalities.
 * Salad Fingers appears to be talented at sewing, as evidenced by the fact that his shoes are stitched together, the finger puppets he owns are high quality, and he was able to create a suit out of flesh for Hubert Cumberdale.
 * Salad Fingers can also play the flute, as seen in the episode Nettles.
 * When ill, Salad's eyes shift from a deep red into a bright yellow color. His skin also lightens immensely.
 * It is hard to determine whether the reality Salad Fingers lives in is real or in fact a product of madness. He may have retreated into his mind to cope with hardships.
 * Starting in episode 6, Mr. Fingers' pants switch from a pale blue to an ivory black. His shoes also receive quite an upgrade.
 * He seems to be rather fond of children. This is evident when he offers to feed little Mable and how he cares deeply for Yvonne.
 * However, he also inadvertently cooks a child alive in Friends, when he asks a little boy to walk into the oven to get a fish out, before mindlessly letting go of the door to touch a hook, before passing out, waking up sometime later to a burning smell.


 * Salad Fingers may have some sort of masochism, or pleasure derived from being in pain.

Theories

 * A very popular theory among fans is that his finger puppets were once people from his past, though their roles are debated.
 * One theory is that Hubert is Salad Fingers himself, with Marjorie as his mother, and Jeremy his father-his abuse towards Hubert could be him parroting the abuse he heard growing up (most likely his grandfather), being referred to as a 'dirty immigrant' at one point (as Marjorie is presumed white, and Jeremy presumed black) and with Salad Fingers seeming to prefer him over the others.
 * One theory is his interactions with the puppets reflect how his grandfather treated them respectively. However, some of the situations (such as him confronting Jeremy Fisher about sleeping with his daughter (presume Marjorie) followed by his murder) Salad would not have been present for.
 * Another theory is Marjorie was his wife prior to the supposed apocalypse, as he is very fond of her and a relationship is implied, such as telling her they were given a 'duff one' in reference to their 'child', and how Marjorie pops up, almost in jealousy, when Fingers refers to Mabel as his 'new playmate'.
 * Jeremy's role is not often discussed, as he is not seen often. One could imply they were pals, until Jeremy slept with Salad Fingers' 'daughter', to which is implied Jeremy is killed after the confrontation.
 * David Firth has mixed reactions to the more popular theory videos; mainly The Film Theorists interpretations of the work, saying he was not aiming for the theories made in the three-part analysis, but overall did enjoy the analyzing of his work, regardless of conclusion.