History Main / AnArmAndAleg

* In ''{{Toaru Majutsu no Index}}'', Touma has his Imagine Breaker arm sliced off by Aureolus. After the battle, his arm was reattached. In his battle against [[spoiler:Fiamma of the right]], it got cut off again, [[spoiler:but it grew back]].

* In ''{{Toaru Majutsu no Index}}'', Touma has his Imagine Breaker arm sliced off by Aureolus. After the battle, his arm was reattached.

* ''{{Naruto}}'' has a few examples: besides numerous [[LifeOrLimbDecision self-inflicted ones]] the manga had Zaku getting his right hand blown off (and both arms severely damaged) by using the air cannon in his arm while it was jammed with bugs and Jiraiya getting his arm ''punched off'' by [[spoiler:Asura Pain.]]

* ''{{Naruto}}'' has a few examples: besides [[LifeOrLimbDecision self-inflicted ones]] the manga had Zaku getting his right hand blown off (and both arms severely damaged) by using the air cannon in his arm while it was jammed with bugs and Jiraiya getting his arm ''punched off'' by [[spoiler:Asura Pain.]]

# The character [[LifeOrLimbDecision deliberately removes the limb themselves]], occasionally under duress, occasionally for perceived gain.
# The loss is accidental, or occurs during battle.
# Another person/entity deliberately rips, cuts or otherwise separates the limb from the owner. It may happen in battle, but it's not a type 3 unless the amputation was deliberate.

* This one is common. There's a similar story in Holland (or perhaps it was not yet a unified Holland at the time, but w/e) - two men, in boats, racing to the shore. First one to touch ground wins... [[{{DistractedByTheShiny}} something.]] Probably a girl's hand in marriage or something (irony). Anyway, one of the men realizes he's going to lose, and, you guessed it...chop! The kicker? This supposedly took place near the city of Antwerpen (with a soft a). The "ant" rhymes with the Dutch pronunciation of "hand", and "werpen" is throwing. I think you see where the city supposedly got its name from. Whether or not the man who threw his hand actually won whatever the race was about is not noted in the story as this Troper has heard it.

# Another person/entity deliberately rips, cuts or otherwise separates the limb from the owner. It may happen in battle, but it's not a type 3 unless the limb/s were specifically targeted, not, say, an arm caught by a horizontal slash.

* The work of Shirow Masamune has several examples, usually to show just how badass his cyborg heroines are:
** Type 2: Major Matoko Kusanagi loses an arm during a kidnapping attempt in the GhostInTheShell manga. Being a full body replacement cyborg it doesn't slow her down much, nor is it permanent. She gets half of her head blown off in Ghost in the Shell 1.5 to much the same effect. In Man Machine Complex she ''ejects'' an arm after it becomes infected by a computer virus.
** In the first movie she does a type one ''rips her own arms off'' trying to pry open a tank.
** In the first tv season she gets a type 2 when an armed suit shoots her, destroying her left side. After allies knock it down, she proceeds to cock and fire an antitank rifle into it over and over until the operator is begging for mercy. After all the times she's lost a limb, she gets to rage a bit.

* Does it surprise anybody that even this trope has its [[{{Rule34}} own genre of internet pornography?]] I didn't think so.

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

* There's a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integrity_identity_disorder psychological condition]] (oddly found nearly entirely in men) where the sufferer feels that the only way for them to be physically attractive is to have a limb removed. Standard hospital practice is to transfer anyone who requests a healthy limb be removed into psychotherapy. Unfortunately, more than a few such people have died of complications after having a BackAlleyDoctor take their limbs off...

** Grimmjaw got his arm sliced off as punishment for being too reckless (Orihime fixed it).

* Played for laughs with the [[EnsembleDarkhorse Black Knight]] from ''MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', who eventually loses ''all'' his limbs.

* Four Type 3 amputations in quick succession for the Black Knight in MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail, the TropeNamer for OnlyAFleshWound.

* ''[[{{Homestuck}} Midnight Crew]]'': [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003246 this page]].

->--'''[[RonaldReagan Drake [=McHugh=]]]''', ''Kings Row''

May be the predecessor to an [[ArtificialLimbs Artificial Limb]], ArmCannon, HookHand or SwissArmyAppendage. Frequently appears in the backstory of a HandicappedBadass. If played for laughs it'll be OnlyAFleshwound.

* When {{Inuyasha}}'' fought his AloofBigBrother brother for possession of their father's most powerful sword he proved he had the better claim by cutting Sesshoumaru's arm off with it. Seehoumaru's arm then becomes the ChekovsGun for some CharacterDevelopment that doesn't come to fruition until 50+ volumes later.