History AnArmAndALeg / Film

** Anakin cuts off Mace Windu's hand to prevent him from killing Palpatine, also in 'Revenge of the Sith''.

* The 1977 [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherwoods Sandalwood]] movie ''Film/BayaluDaari'' is about a fighter pilot who loses his legs during [[UsefulNotes/TheIndoPakistanConflict the 1971 Indo-Pak War]], and goes into a deep depression over it. This "amputation angst" causes him to abandon his girlfriend who has borne his child, letting her believe he is dead.

* In ''Film/UpPompeii'', Gorgo threatens to rip off Lurcio's arms during their wrestling match.

* In ''Film/{{Tusk}}'', Wallace has both of his legs amputated as part of the process to transform him into a walrus. ItMakesSenseInContext.

** At the end of ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'', [[spoiler:Rocket receives Bucky's cybernetic arm as a Christmas gift from Nebula, to his confusion]].
** In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', [[spoiler: Sif]] loses an arm during battle against [[BigBad Gorr the Godbutcher]].

** ** Bucky's robot arm gets wrecked in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' has no blood, but Gobber has a pegleg and missing arm that he can change for different things like a hammer, a tankard, a fork, etc. Toothless the dragon counts after losing a tail rudder fin, and [[spoiler:Hiccup loses a foot in the final battle.]]

* All of the films released during "Phase 2" (2013-15) of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse feature at least one character losing an arm or a hand at a pivotal moment, reportedly as an homage to Luke losing his hand in the second ''Star Wars'' film.

* Following on the above, some of the Phase 3 movies briefly touch on this:
** Bucky's robot arm gets wrecked in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.

** TheBrute working for Thanos loses an arm to a PortalCut in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. Groot does this voluntarily when he cuts off his left arm to form the handle of Stormbreaker, Thor's new weapon.

* In ''Film/TheMummy1999'' Rick slices off Imhotep's arm during the climactic fight. After tossing Rick away, Imhotep is able to reattach it.

* In ''Film/RoboCop1987'', Clarence Boddicker first shoots off Alex Murphy's hand with a shotgun("Well give the man a hand!") and then Boddicker's gang shoot off the entire arm in the ensueing execution by gunfire scene.

* In ''Film/SilentNight2012'', Mrs. Roach's dismembered remains are found in the Watson house, and Maria has a leg chopped off with an ax.
* In ''Film/Siren2010'', Ken twists his ankle chasing after the phantasmal Silka and wakes up the boat with the dead sailor about to amputate his leg. He screams as this happens, but wakes up on the island with his leg intact, making this another of the island's {{Mind Screw}}s.

* The famous defibrillator scene in John Carpenter's ''Film/TheThing1982'', in which a character has his arms bitten off by the titular Thing. Suffers from a bit of SpecialEffectsFailure in that the arms separate well above the bite, but it's so startling and horrifying that it's easy to overlook.

* ''Film/Thirst2015'': The alien gets its arm blown off by some makeshift gasoline cannons in the climax of the movie.
* [[spoiler:Optimus Prime]] gets his right arm sliced off by Sentinel Prime in ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''.

* In ''{{Film/Tusk}}'', Wallace has both of his legs amputated as part of the process to transform him into a walrus. ItMakesSenseInContext.

* ''{{Film/Virtuosity}}'': Parker lost an arm to the bomb which killed his family, but it's replaced with a cybernetic one.

* ''Film/Youth2017'': [[spoiler:Liu Feng loses his right arm during the war, after it's injured and he refuses to leave the field.]]

** The first arm to come off in the series was Ponda Baba's in the Mos Eisley Cantina in ''Film/ANewHope'', complete with [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness bloody stump]].

* In ''Film/FearInc'', Joe is forced to cut off Ben's hand in a recreation of a scene from ''Film/{{Saw}}''.

* ''Film/BoxingHelena'': Mad Doctor cuts off a woman's legs so she can't run away, then cuts off her arms so she can't fight back. [[StockholmSyndrome It's a love story.]]

** During the final battle of the movie, [[spoiler:Scorpion does this to Quan Chi, ripping out both of his arms with his spears and chains in the process of giving him the ultimate what for.]]

** In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', Woody's right arm gets ripped off.

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* According to the film adaptation of ''Film/InspectorGadget'', [[BigBad Doctor Claw]] actually got both his name and trademark claw after one of his hands was crushed by [[TheProtagonist Officer Brown]]'s bowling ball.