Bones are stretching my character

[funksmaname]

check you dont have a smart bone action on the arms rotation that stretches the forearm...

[Víctor Paredes]

check you dont have a smart bone action on the arms rotation that stretches the forearm...

My vote goes there too.
If inside a smart bone action you rotate, translate or scale any bone of the rig (even the smart bone itself), it will move/rotate/scale any time you manipulate the smart bone.

[LoganB]

I am using debut version, which I am pretty sure does not use smart bones. How would I be able to check?

[LoganB]

I have checked the bones and the debut version I have does not contain either actions or smartbones. Thanks for the suggestions though, I'm sure this is a unique problem since I can't find anything on it anywhere.

[funksmaname]

can you share your file? it will help us tell you what's wrong...

[slowtiger]

Are you sure you haven't rotated any layers around X or Y? You get weird effects when you accidentially did that and then rotate the layer or some element which gets distorted in perspective. Check with rotate tool (3) selected, just select one layer after another and see if there are other values than 0 in the X and Y boxes.

[LoganB]

Thanks you guys soo much! Slowtiger I checked the individual layers and then found that the layer I put everything inside was scaled. Now the bones are acting normally!

[funksmaname]

good thinking ST.

[sbtamu]

That's the 1st thing I usually check when something is acting "funny;" layer scaling. I make it a point to NEVER use any scaling until everything is finished. Then I use layers scaling for animating ONLY. It causes too many problems if you start moving layers in/out of groups/bones or switch layers.