History Main / AnArmAndAleg

* Often done voluntarily in ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} 2013/2020'' in order to [[{{Cyborg}} replace them with metal]].

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', followers of the God of Torture Zon-Kuthon consider this an honor.
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' novel ''2XS'', protagonist Dirk Montgomery loses his arm when it gets burned by the magic spell of the wasp spirit queen. Luckily for him, he gets a cyber arm installed for free as a reward for taking out the insect spirit hive.
* ''TabletopGame/TheWitcherRolePlayingGame'': Deadly Critical Injuries (achieved by beating a target's Defense by 15) have a chance to outright dismember a person, or just [[OffWithHisHead kill them outright.]]
* Fairly standard practice in the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' universe; many characters will have their limbs removed and replaced with mechanical devices:

* Wiki/{{Killerbunnies}}:

-->'''Raditz''': Did you really think [[spoiler:they were going to give us shears if that was going to work]]?

Essentially, limb loss as dramatic device. Can come about in a variety of ways:

* In 1194, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_V,_Duke_of_Austria Duke Leopold V of Austria]] had [[AgonyOfTheFeet his foot crushed]] when his horse fell on him at a tournament in Graz. While advised by his surgeons to have the foot amputated, none declared competence to do so; he ordered his servants to chop it off [[AnAxeToGrind with an ax]], after three swings succeeding. [[DownerEnding Nonetheless, he succumbed to gangrene and died.]]

* In the Project Freelancer flashback sequences of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', there's an Insurrectionist soldier who (somehow) survives a MAC strike with nothing worse than his left arm being blown off, which is later replaced by a cybernetic one. In Season 10, he loses said arm to a knife-throw from Carolina shortly before being blown away by Maine's [[GrenadeLauncher Brute Shot]]. [[spoiler:A deleted scene reveals that he survived that too, having lost his ''other'' arm.]]

* ''Machinima/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware:'' [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman gets a part of his right arm cut off in Act 3.]]

* Spanish navy officer Blas de Lezo, one of the most famous and successful in their history, lost a leg in the Battle of Málaga in 1704, where it had to be amputated in real time without anesthesia. He then went to lose an arm during the Siege of Barcelona, although contrary to popular belief, he only lost usage of the limb this time, not the entire body part.

[[folder:Comic Books]]
* The backstory for ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' sees ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s counterpart Weapon X lose his left hand in battle against that reality's ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}.
* The actual superpower of ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes gag character [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Arm-Fall-Off Boy]] is to remove his arm from his body. [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway Needless to say, his Legion application was not accepted.]]
* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', [[spoiler:the speedster, Pronto,]] loses both legs in the first chapter.
* ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'s hand was eaten off by piranhas in the 1990's.
* In ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'', Nico Minoru loses an arm. The subsequent blood loss ends up giving her a power boost, though.
* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': During the final battle with Haazheel Thorn, he rips off Hellaynnea's arms when she tries to stop him from killing Wismerhill.
* ''ComicBook/Calico2020'': During his ColdBloodedTorture of a family who hunted and killed a lioness, [[TheProtagonist Calico]] chops the father's arms off.
* In ''ComicBook/TheCrow'', Eric slices off ''both'' of a mobster's legs, leaving him to die from blood loss.
* In ''ComicBook/DeepGravity'', Warner, a shuttle pilot, is attacked by a venomous native lifeform on Poseidon's surface, and the doctors have to amputate his legs. (It's not a case of AmputationStopsSpread, though — they stop the spread by other means, the toxin having already done its damage.) However, Warner points out that he doesn't need legs to fly his shuttle, and ends up [[spoiler:rescuing the rest of the surviving cast that way]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Dolltopia}}'': Soccer Scotty loses an arm [[spoiler:and gets half his face damaged in an attack]] soon after leaving his life like Kitty did. When he gets to Dolltopia, the doctor is quick to fix him.
* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'''s warrior troll king Guttlekraw likes to punish disobedient elf slaves "one finger, then one limb at a time". Case in point: Ekuar, who lost half a leg, one arm, and one finger of the remaining hand that way. He was the luckiest.
* ''ComicBook/GIZombie'': In his debut issue alone, [[TheProtagonist Jared Kabe]] gets his hand cut off by his partner to convince the [[WesternTerrorists Western Terrorist]] group they're investigating to let he in. Thanks to his HealingFactor, he's able to reattach it later on.
** Jared later rips the arm off a guy who was getting ready to beat his wife.
* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'':
** During the ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'', Risk attempts to take revenge against (then-renamed) Superman-Prime for having done this to him earlier (see below), only to have his left arm ripped off as well.
** Green Lantern Sath Varn loses both of his legs during the ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', but his sector partner Isamot Kol has his own legs amputated to donate them to Varn, as Kol's own physiology lets him regrow the limbs in question.
* ''ComicBook/{{Hitman}}'' has Hacken, who has his compatriots cut off his hand after he's bitten by a zombie penguin. They later revealed that he was never in danger.
* In ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Risk of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' has his right arm ripped off by Superboy-Prime.
* ''ComicBook/JSAClassified'': Delores Winter's meta-human organ theft group cut off Grogamesh's arms. Later, Delores loses one of her own arms when she tries to use the power she's stolen from Icemaiden to attack Mid-Nite and freezes her own limb off.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Judge Logan has the misfortune of repeatedly losing limbs. After being wounded during the Fargo rescue, he gets an {{Artificial Limb|s}} in place of his left arm before switching it for a specially regrown one. Then he loses ''that'' one to Mortis's rotting touch.
* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague'':
** In the "Age of Obsidian" arc, Franchise/TheFlash has both his legs torn off by Tezumak. His legs are later restored by magic.
** ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice'': Roy Harper gets his arm chopped off by Prometheus. This, combined with his daughter's death, drives him over the DespairEventHorizon and he becomes a more brutal AntiHero.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Legends|DCComics}}'', the villain Sunspot uses his power blast to get out of the ankle cuff that Guy Gardner holds him upside-down by, but in the process, he accidentally blasts off his right foot. Guy tends to Sunspot's injury, but threatens to cut off the villain's left hand if he uses his power blast again.
* One of ComicBook/{{Madman}}'s earlier adventures involves him rescuing an alien who landed among a Lamanite tribe two thousand years earlier. The Lamanites thought he communicated with the gods, and thus cut off his legs and one of his arms to prevent him from leaving.
* ''ComicBook/MagicTrixie'': In the first book, [[FrankensteinsMonster Stitch]]'s hand falls off his arm while he's waving to Trixie.
* In the ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'', John Walker, a former US Agent, loses an arm and a leg to Nuke and his energy axe. Although he knows Tony Stark and could easily get a replacement, he refuses on the grounds that he doesn't want to become like the cyborg who did this to him. Mind you, it's shown that [[HandicappedBadass he can kick more than enough ass on his own]]. He later gets new biologically-created limbs to replace the ones he lost.
** This is integral to the backstory of Marvel villain Master Pandemonium. Originally a spoiled, rich actor named Martin Preston, a car crash one night after drinking heavily severed one of his arms. Dying and yelling for help, the demon Mephisto appeared and [[DealWithTheDevil offered him a deal, which he accepted]]. Mephisto summoned four demons; one of them wrenched its own arm off and used it to [[AppendageAssimilation replace the lost limb]], whereas the other three repeated the trick with Preston's good limbs. Since then, as Master Pandemonium, the four demons are his servants while in Mephisto's employ, and he can detach any (or all) of his limbs, which causes them to turn into the demons who donated them. He is most often a foe of ComicBook/GhostRider.
* ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'':
** When Shadow Man goes on the attack to prove his loyalty to Ra Moon, Crash Man loses his Crash Bomber cannons and [[OhCrap pisses himself]], in addition to screaming in pain. This could be Type II or Type III.
---> '''Crash Man:''' (screams in pain) My non-hands!
** Type II example: Magnet Man is defeated this way due to his powers disorienting his sense of direction during his fight with the Blue Bomber, who severs his right arm with a Shadow Blade.
** Spark Man, just like Crash Man, loses his arms, which leads to his defeat. Unlike the prior two, this is definitely Type III.
---> '''Spark Man:''' No! My arms!
* In ''ComicBook/TheMiceTemplar'', Leito has his arm chopped off by Captain Tosk. Later, [[spoiler:Leito gets his revenge on Tosk by slicing off ''both'' of his arms]].
* James Wa of ''ComicBook/TheOrder2007'' lost both of his legs to a drunk driver, ending his baseball career. However, he went on to create a brand of high-tech prosthetic legs and made a fortune.
* ''ComicBook/ThePitifulHumanLizard'': The titular Human-Lizard loses an arm in a fight against a huge monster. However, by then he's already gained his HealingFactor, so all he has to do is put the arm back where it was on his body, and let his power do the rest.
* A late arc in Creator/GailSimone's run of ''ComicBook/RedSonja'' has Type 1: Sonja destroys both her hands by charring them in a fire to prevent herself from wielding a weapon.
* The penultimate issue of ''ComicBook/{{Reyn}}'' has [[spoiler:Reyn himself]] losing an arm while fighting Brother M'Thall. It isn't until after he loses his arm that it's revealed that [[spoiler:Reyn is not human, since he doesn't bleed the way a normal human would]].
* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Johnny Warlock lost his hand when Robin tossed a sealing quick-hardening gel on his gun and Johnny fired it even as he was being warned that doing so would have disastrous results for him. He later replaced it with a hook.
* ''ComicBook/SimonDark'':
** Simon and Tom each rip an arm and hand off of Vincent, respectively. While Vincent runs off screaming, he regrows them by the next time he appears a day later.
** When Tom was murdered his hand was cut off, and the stitching from reattaching it is the most noticeable scar left over from his revivification.
* ''ComicBook/{{Snowman}}'': In the {{Flashback}} to The Snowman's backstory, we find out that in life, he got attacked by a bear. His left leg was gouged so deeply it had to be cut off at the knee. It ruined his chances at becoming a warrior for his tribe, and made hunting a lot harder. Despite that, however, he still managed to become one of his tribe's main providers.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
** Peter's old high school rival-turned-buddy Flash Thompson lose both his legs in Iraq.
** Peter losing a leg is the reason he retires as a superhero in the original ''ComicBook/SpiderGirl'' comics.
** In the ''ComicBook/SpiderManBeyond'' storyline, ComicBook/{{Morbius}}' entire left arm is amputated by a blast from the Beyond building's security system.
* ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries Spotlight: Wheelie]]'': The title character loses his arm to a Chaosterous for a time before retrieving it. Reattaching it without proper medical help proves difficult, and the arm remains functionally dead and makes transforming incredibly difficult, not least because whenever Wheelie transforms, said arm just dangles from his undercarriage.
* ''ComicBook/StarWarsKanan'': When Grievous ambushes Depa Billaba and her padawan Caleb with a troop of droids, Depa cuts off two of his (already mechanical) arms in their duel.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** Supporting character Professor Hamilton loses his arm during ''ComicBook/TheFallOfMetropolis'' when he's shot by a hallucinating prostitute and his arm is too badly damaged to be saved by the time he's rescued.
** In ''ComicBook/TheKillersOfKrypton'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} grabs Harry Hokum's left arm when he attempts to stab her with a knife. Right then Hokum is teleported away, but his left hand is sliced up and left behind by the teleporting portal.
* ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': Dismemberment happens all the time, though the limbs themselves can usually be replaced. The situations all have some significance: Cyclonus severing Rung's arm is PlayedForLaughs; Drift cutting off [[spoiler:Pharma's]] hands leads to the latter's DisneyVillainDeath, with Ratchet later taking them up; Black Shadow rips off Hyperion's arm while simultaneously blasting away another Wrecker to show how powerful he is; and [[MarkOfShame Empurata]] cuts of the victim's hands and head and replaces them with claws and a CyberCyclops head.
* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates3'' sees Valkyrie lob off Pyro's hands in retaliation for his role in his and Mastermind's AttemptedRape of her.
* Happens a lot in ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'', in addition to all the other {{Gorn}}:
** [[spoiler:Colossus]] gets both of his arms torn off by Sieglinde prior to his CruelAndUnusualDeath.
** [[spoiler:Siegmund]] loses an arm after being briefly overwhelmed by [[ZergRush 90 Soviet tankmen]].
** A particularly awful version happens to [[spoiler:Leah]] during the battle of Calais. Her leg is left dangling from a few strands of tendon, and can't be properly amputated due to her SuperToughness.
** [[spoiler:Razor/Colossus II]] loses an arm saving a defecting [[spoiler:Siegmund]] from a nuclear bomb.
* In ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2011'', ComicBook/EmmaFrost loses an arm against Mr. Sinister. Being in diamond form, she doesn't die from blood loss or anything, and she gets better.
* In ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'', an early villain, Muller, falls to his apparent death in a crocodile-infested moat. After losing both arms in fighting them off, he [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]], obtains clawed arms, and becomes the series' bigger bad.
* ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'' has Type 3. The Governor takes Rick's arm as punishment for refusing to fight in his gladiatorial arena.
* ''ComicBook/WeaponHex'': The first time Laura fights Hellhound outside of training, it ends with Hellhound cutting off Laura's left arm, right hand, and both legs. [[spoiler: Laura gets better.]]
* In issue #1 of ''ComicBook/{{Wolverines}}'', [[spoiler:Daken]] has one of his arms ripped off by Sinister, who takes it along with Wolverine's corpse for research purposes. [[spoiler:Ordinarily this wouldn't be an issue for him, but in the last issue of ''[[ComicBook/DeathOfWolverine The Logan Legacy]]'', his HealingFactor was stripped from him by Siphon, leaving him in danger of bleeding out.]]
* Franchise/WonderWoman:
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': During "ComicBook/TheContest" Diana meets one of the Bana, who is struggling with a rudimentary crutch and lost a leg helping defend the island while Circe had it trapped in a hellish dimension. It is used to help highlight the disparity in equality between the two tribes of Amazons even though the Bana sacrificed more in the defenses during their fight to survive.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanBlackAndGold'': In "I'm Ageless", an American G.I. that Diana was conversing with ends up losing his arm in a surprise attack from a German Panzer. She ends up keeping in contact with him for the rest of his life and visiting his grave for decades long after his death.
* Hellion of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' loses both his hands to the Purifiers, and Karma loses one of her legs. They're later fitted with prosthetics.
* Being a particularly violent series, ''ComicBook/XStatix'' (and its predecessor ''ComicBook/XForce'') has featured this trope a few times:
** The Coach of the original team had a large left arm as part of his mutant powers. He lost it sometime after Edie Sawyer joined the team.
** Ocean of O-Force loses both her legs to the zombies summoned by Arnie Lundbeg. After he realizes what a little shit he's been, he uses his powers to restore her legs.
** El Guapo loses both of his legs on a mission.
* ''ComicBook/Youngblood2017'' sees [[spoiler:Shaft lose an arm]].
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In “[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/26203810/ 14,000,606]]”, Peter Parker performs the final Snap to destroy Thanos’s army (''Film/AvengersEndgame''), but the subsequent damage results in his left arm being amputated and his left eye being blinded; Shuri notes that he would have been worse off without his powers giving him enhanced healing.
* In ''Fanfic/AndEverythingsGonnaChangeNow'', it's mentioned that Raven's dad Victor lost a hand a while back. He's stopped cooking since then.
* ''Fanfic/AnArmAndALeg'' is a ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' fanfic where Anna is hit by Hans's sword a few seconds before freezing. She loses her right arm.
* ''Fanfic/BecomingATrueInvader'':
** [[spoiler:Dib]] loses a hand on Oberox thanks to a LifeOrLimbDecision.
** [[spoiler:Zim cuts the Tallests' legs off [[TheDogBitesBack to make them shorter than him]].]]
** [[spoiler:During their last fight, Gaz cuts off both of [[TheDragon Tak's]] arms.]]
* In Chapter 69 of ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant'', Adam Taurus hacks off his own left arm to escape the rubble it was trapped in so he could chase after Blake when she was escaping him.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic ''Blood Is Thicker than Friendship'', [[spoiler:Applejack gets one of her hind legs torn off defending Ponyville from a hydra]].
* ''Fanfic/ABrighterDark'': The author has a certain style. Whenever someone gets directly hit, it will usually either be KilledOffForReal or this.
** Kaze [[spoiler:loses an arm in an attempt to assassinate Garon during his own execution]].
** Selena lops off the arm of a Hoshidan soldier [[spoiler:during Corrin's escape from Hoshido]].
** [[spoiler:Hans has his arm nearly severed in a fight with some Nohrian soldiers, and has to have it amputated]].
** [[spoiler:Hinoka]] loses An Arm and a Leg in a major battle.
* The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10255230/11/Canid Canid]]'' has Fenrir, Loki's cursed wolf son, biting off the hand of his guard Tyr as a major turning point for the story.
* In ''Fanfic/TheChaoticThree'', Rey loses a hand in a fight with Darth Maul, and Mace Windu's arms are both severed from the elbow in his duel with Palpatine.
* ''Fanfic/CheatCodeSupportStrategist'': [[ForWantOfANAil Without Izuku there to save him]], [[spoiler:Tenya's attempt to get revenge on Stain leads to one of his arms being rendered unusable, requiring amputation]].
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Harry default to this in the sequel when fighting non-human opponents, usually via his telekinesis or a very sharp sword. [[spoiler:He suffers it himself when, as [[ReforgedIntoAMinion the Red Son]], Magneto is forced to blast his arm off. He gets a techno-organic replacement immediately, and then regenerates it as the Dark Phoenix.]]
* ''[[Fanfic/TheUrthbloodSaga The Crimson Badger]]'': [[spoiler:Captain Perrett]] has his leg cut off in the final battle, but still manages to [[DyingMomentOfAwesome kill two Long Patrol hares]] before he dies. [[spoiler:Captain Bandon]] also loses his left leg but survives. [[spoiler:Urthblood]] loses his swordpaw in the duel with [[spoiler:his brother]].
* ''Fanfic/CyclesUponCycles'': [[Franchise/MassEffect Saren]] gets his arm bitten off by a Zergling while invading a [[VideoGame/StarCraft Zerg]] colony.
* The interlude of ''Fanfic/TheDarkLordsOfNerima'' has Prince Herb and one of the Joketsuzoku elders launching a successful CombinationAttack against Queen Beryl that shreds one of his arms. This does nothing to slow him down; he removes what's left with an energy blade, uses its heat to cauterize the wound, and gets right back to leading his forces.
* In chapter 11 of ''[[Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit Diplomacy Through Schooling]]'', [[spoiler:Tirek's arm gets essentially burned away when Twilight unleashes pure solar magic on it. Which has the side effect of giving him cancer throughout his body]].
* In the Gelel arc of ''Fanfic/DreamingOfSunshine'', [[spoiler:Shikamaru gets his arm turned to stone and crushed by Ishidate]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic ''Fanfic/EquestriaTotalWar'', Pinkie has a hind leg torn off by a manticore. Being driven temporarily insane by the [[WarIsHell horrors of war]], she then stabs the manticore [[EyeScream in the eye]] with the shattered remains of her leg.
* In ''Fanfic/ErosTurannos'', Padme only learns that Vader already has an artificial arm when he cuts it off to get out of a crashed ship.
* ''Fanfic/FateOfTheClans'':
** [[spoiler:Okada]] cuts off [[spoiler:Reisi's]] legs and leaves him to bleed out.
** Gouki Zenjou lost his left arm in the Kagutsu Incident.
** [[spoiler: Kuroh]] gets his right forearm servered.
** [[spoiler: Kiyohime]] gets her left arm and both legs cut off.
** [[spoiler:Mordred]] cuts [[spoiler:Okada's]] right hand off.
** [[spoiler:Cú Chulainn Alter slices Mikoto's right arm off.]]
** A way for a Master to steal someone's Command Seal is to cut the arm possessing it off the other person.
** Fujino's mystic eyes twisted Shiki's left arm, rendering it unusable and it had to be replaced with one of Touko's prosthetics.
* ''Fanfic/ForumOfThrones'':
** One of the most prominent mutilations in the entire story takes place in Chapter 4, when Argilac Durrandon, the Storm King, mutilates Corilyan Celtigar, ambassador of Dragonstone, over something he perceived as a slight against his beloved daughter.
** Before he is killed, [[spoiler:the Solver posing as Butterfly]] loses his sword hand in his fight against Samantha.
** Holt Torv, the head torturer of Harrenhal, lost his foot on the battlefield years before the story starts.
** [[spoiler:At the end of the Raid on Maybros, [[ActionGirl Sadie]] gets into a duel with [[TheJuggernaut Durren Stallhart]]. It ends as well as you might expect, with Durren slicing off Sadie's sword hand and nearly killing her.]]
* In ''[[Fanfic/ThundercrackersGlory Glory and Honor]]'', Shockwave loses both an arm and a leg in Unicron's attack on Cybertron. He takes advantage of this by leaving both limbs behind in the ruins to [[FakingTheDead fake his death]] and begin plotting a revolt against Galvatron.
* ''Fanfic/GuardiansWizardsAndKungFuFighters'':
** During the Sack of Torus Finley, [[spoiler:Aldarn shoots off one of Servantis's hands, with the rest of that arm needing to be removed after it becomes gangrenous.]]
** [[spoiler:Elyon blasts off one of Ludmoore's hands as he's in the middle of teleporting to flee his attacked manor.]]
** [[spoiler:Uncle's arm is vaporized by his final attack on Phobos.]]
** Lothar loses the lower half of his left leg during the FinalBattle between the Rebellion and Phobos' forces.
* ''Fanfic/HisLieInApril'': Kousei's [[spoiler:first accident that leads to his eventual demise is his left foot getting crushed by the weight of an oncoming car when he slips and falls on the pavement of the crosswalk in a rainstorm; he also hits his head on a metal lamp post as he falls down.]]
* ''Fanfic/{{Hivefled}}'' has several ghosts who bear the wounds of their deaths; Keskay Sigsia's arm is missing as it was eaten before she died, while Ukuthe Lorain died of blood loss when her arm was torn off and now has it floating beside her shoulder stump.
* [[spoiler:Tommy's]] legs get amputated near the end of ''Fanfic/HumanAfterAll''.
* ''Fanfic/InterNos'', a ''Anime/MyHime'' fanfic that puts the characters in a Roman setting, Natsuki takes an arrow to the left calf, and is unable to get medical attention before the wound becomes badly infected and goes septic. When Shizuru shows up to save the day, she finds Natsuki, badly injured, and the medics tell her the only way to save her life is to amputate the leg. Though it's initially a shock to her, she eventually adapts and becomes a HandicappedBadass.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/JerichoMLP'': [[FirstPersonSmartass Jericho]] suffers both type type 2 and 3. A half-crab, half-octopus creature in a swamp hacks off a hoof (most of it, at least) and destroys another; this ends up giving Jericho's right foreleg/arm blood poisoning. Then, within days, his right foreleg dies of said blood poisoning, so he has to cut it off. Using only his mouth, a sword, and a bonfire. This prompts C, the [[spoiler:[[BodyHorror Skinwalker]], to [[AppendageAssimilation cut off his own regenerating arm and give it to Jericho]]]]. Jericho's hunt for magic capable of restoring his foreleg/arm, along with his missing eye and horn, drive the plot of Act 2. A few chapters later, to prevent Cherry Berry from [[spoiler:raping him]], Jericho chews off his chained right forehoof. Twice. Because the skinwalker's limb regenerates and is semi-sentient, and actually took mild offense to Jericho's first attempt at chewing part of it off. WordOfGod says that the writing and editing team are very fond of this trope when concerning Jericho himself. Their team motto is even [[spoiler:"Fuck Jericho"]]. WordOfGod also states that the author is a sociopath who simply enjoys making beloved characters suffer.
* ''Fanfic/JewelOfDarkness'': During the fight in Midnight's lair at the end of the Jump City arc, she rips off one of Cyborg's arms and smashes it. Of course, since it's a robotic limb, he just rebuilds it in the arc epilogue.
* In The Geeky Zoologist's [[Fanfic/JurassicWorld2020 reimagining of]] ''Film/JurassicWorld'', Roberta the tyrannosaur bites off the Indominus's right forearm, and later, [[spoiler:Claire Dearing also loses her right forearm]] when the Indominus closes her jaws on it just after the mosasaur grabs her.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Juxtapose}}'', [[spoiler:Shigaraki]] has Izuku at his mercy and threatens to kill him for being All Might's successor, but he makes the mistake of waking Izuku up after knocking him unconscious previously. [[spoiler:Cue Shigaraki's hands getting sliced off by Scalpel.]]
* In ''Fanfic/{{Marionettes}}'', [[spoiler:Trixie gets her right front leg sliced off by [[BigBad Masquerade's]] {{BFS}} during the final battle. Due to being an [[RoboticReveal android]], Trixie isn't as badly affected as a normal pony (in part because she doesn't have blood to bleed out), but she still has to force herself to remember that fact, and that her creator Dr. Bright Future can just make her a replacement later, to avoid completely freaking out.]]
* In ''[[Fanfic/AMidsummerNightsDreamKillbles A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' chapter 8, we learn that [[spoiler:Spitfire]] lost a leg and wing [[spoiler:crashing her zeppelin into Rasputin]].
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7575286/1/Missing-Pieces Missing Pieces]]'', Sam Winchester loses his left leg in a car accident while he's still at Stanford, the rest of the story looking at Sam, Dean, and John's contrasting efforts to adjust to such a brutal injury.
* ''Fanfic/MonsterChronicles'': [[spoiler:Cody ends up losing his right hand to Cedric during the events of the final chapter, and replaces it with the talisman]].
* ''Fanfic/PhantomSkinFeelingTheColdAir'': [[spoiler:Ikki loses her right arm as a result of injuries sustained after saving her sister, Jinora, during Kuvira's attack on Republic City. It is revealed in a later chapter the full extent of why Ikki lost her arm in the first place -- she was defending an unconscious Jinora from Earth Empire soldiers, and the unstable rubble surrounding them collapsed. Ikki ran to push Jinora out of the way, resulting in her right arm getting crushed beyond repair.]]
* ''Fanfic/PokemonMysteryDungeonSilverResistance'': The main character, Char, loses an arm in the Temporal Tower arc.
* ''Fanfic/InfinityCrisis'': The follow-up ''Powers and Marvels'' sees [[spoiler:the Mandarin blow up both of his hands when Iron Man seals them in a coolant he uses to contain lab fires just as the Mandarin tries to use his rings; the Mandarin subsequently receives new reptilian hands from the High Evolutionary]].
* ''Fanfic/QueenOfShadows'':
** [[HighPriest Sanshobo]] chops off the arms of kitsune leader Deshi when ambushing his tribe.
** [[spoiler:[[EvilSorcerer Himitsu]] gets his arm below the elbow shot off by one of Rosuto's arrows. He regrows it thanks to a potion, only for Gurando to rip it off again. Then he reattaches it upon entering his short-lived SuperMode.]]
** Kuro takes one of Kyouaku's hands during their duel at the Second Battle of Awaji.
** During the Battle of Tobe, [[spoiler:Ikazuki takes off Yasashi's fighting arm during their duel]]. A little later on, [[spoiler:the [[AnimalisticAbomination Weaver]] stabs Jade through the knee to try and stop her escaping]].
%%* ''Fanfic/RubyAndNora'': [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Yang]] is spared this, [[spoiler:but the Aswang isn't]]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
* ''Fanfic/RubyPair'': In "Beefus Megabombus", Gaz fights Ned, first mate of the [[ItMakesSenseInContext pirate space bees]], and ends up cutting off his wings, his stinger, and all six of his limbs. Somehow, he quickly gets the upper four limbs replaced with hooks and the lower two with peg legs.
* ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'': [[spoiler:[[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Yang]]]] has one of her arms torn off by an Ursa at the end of Volume 3.
* ''Fanfic/TheSagesDisciple'':
** [[spoiler:Kiritsugu]] loses an arm to Lancer during his attack on the Hyatt Hotel due to Crow warning Kayneth that he was coming. [[spoiler:Irisviel replaces it with an {{Artificial Limb|s}} made of Alchemy-enhanced iron.]]
** [[spoiler:When Kirei tried to remove the Crow Mask during the Banquet of Kings]], it burned his hand to charcoal and cursed it with the inability to heal.
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7274734/1/Saying-No Saying No]]'' plays this for rather BlackComedy as [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry and Ron]] experiment with summoning charms to disarm Voldemort. [[ButtMonkey It doesn't get any better for this particular Dark Lord.]]
* ''Fanfic/ShatteredSkiesTheMorningLights'': Complications from a shattered kneecap result in [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Marine's]] left leg being amputated above the knee by the heroes' makeshift medical staff.
* ''Fanfic/TalesOfSonicTheHedgehog'': During the climax of the [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 South Island arc]], Robotnik's left hand is crushed underfoot by Sonic, who's [[spoiler:hopped up on negative chaos energy and has become [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Dark Sonic]]]]. At the beginning of the [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Westside Island arc]], [[spoiler:Robotnik is forced to amputate his left arm to prevent the corruption of Dark Sonic's energy from spreading through his body]].
* ''Fanfic/TatteredCapesUnderAShatteredMoon'' covers the accident when Ironwood lost his right limbs to an out-of-control Paladin. Dragon considers giving him Tinkertech prosthetics but decides not to since Atlas' are good enough.
* ''Fanfic/TavisBloodAndFire'': Nihlus survives his encounter with Saren, but loses a hand to an attack on the Spectre compound.
* ''Fanfic/BloomingMoonChronicles'': ''Thorn of the Rose'', Thorn Blackfeather gets one of his forelegs caught in a massive gear, requiring it to be amputated.
* ''Fanfic/TwistedPrincess'': Ariel is missing an arm for unspecified reasons. She has [[HookHand a fork]] in its place.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13117218/1/Twisted-Steel Twisted Steel]]'', a ''Series/The100'' fic, has Clarke Griffin lose both her arms in a traumatic accident up on the Ark -- her left arm completely lost and the right severed up to the elbow -- requiring her father and Raven to develop a pair of artificial arms for Clarke's use.
* ''Fanfic/VowOfTheKing'': Tosen's hands are maimed, potentially beyond recovery, by Bambietta when she turns his zanpakuto into a bomb while he's holding it.
* ''Webcomic/WhatIfIKnowTooManyReasonsICanBeStrong'': Tanjiro loses his left forearm in Chapter 1.
* ''Fanfic/WinterWar'': Isane manages to wound the Barragan Fragment... but it turns out that [[BloodyMurder its blood]] has the same "age things to death" power as the whole thing, and some of that blood splatters on her hand and lower arm, necessitating an amputation to save her life. In the {{Backstory}} of the same fic, Kensei lost most of his leg under similar circumstances -- he was hit by one of Barragan's attacks, and Rose saved his life with an emergency amputation.
* ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': The Justice League's rules of engagement, which also apply to the team, require that ThouShaltNotKill, and after US law is updated to recognise all sapient creatures, that even includes undead -- "but you're perfectly free to rip off his arms and legs, since they're weapons and his body isn't functioning biologically." Cue [[spoiler:Deacon Blackfire]]'s right arm flying past.
* ''Fanfic/BoundDestiniesTrilogy'': In ''Wisdom and Courage'', [[spoiler:Veran launches a major attack on Termina, setting fire to Romani Ranch in the process. According to Romani, Cremia's arm was so badly burnt in the fire that it has to be cut off, therefore making her unable to work on the ranch anymore.]]
* ''Podcast/SporadicPhantoms'': Stevie gets a call at the end of episode 4 that her sister Nicole has been taken to the hospital after a car accident caused her hand to be amputated. However, considering that the show is within the world of ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' and Nicole is a full member of the Sharing, it's more likely that it was severed by Ax in a fight.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/TwoDark'': "Delicatessen" has the left arm missing, and [[spoiler:Dr. Krach is missing both legs]].
* ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'': During the Etherstorm saga , Galanoth, Dragonslayer extraordinaire, goes up against Desoloth, quite possibly the most powerful dragon in existence, and tries to take him down. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Desoloth bites off Galanoth's arm, and he's only saved from death by his friend Warlic summoning up all his magical power to restore him. Unfortunately, he cannot bring back Galanoth's arm, so he has to get a new one. He obtains it from X'Dir, who had sought to use it as a bargaining chip to try to get Galanoth to join Desoloth during the Etherstorm War, only to meet with the Dragonslayer's full-on wrath.]]
* The second boss of ''VideoGame/ArabianMagic'', Asura, is a [[MultiArmedAndDangerous six-armed giant wielding six scimitars]]. But as you fougth her, she ShowsDamage by losing arms, and by the end of the battle she now have six stumps. After she [[DefeatMeansFriendship formed an alliance with you in the aftermath of her defeat]], she will return to assist you in the FinalBoss battle, and her arms are back at that point.
* ''Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries'': Aaron Cash, after a nasty run-in with [[ImAHumanitarian Killer]] [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile Croc]], is left with a missing left hand, and a deep burning hatred for the supervillain.
* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'':
** Hope that Ragna doesn't lose a limb in every installment of the main series; he's currently lost one arm to Type 3 and [[spoiler:his other to Type 2 to save Noel]].
** One of the gag reels in ''[[VideoGame/BlazBlueChronoPhantasma Chronophantasma]]'' subjects Makoto to Type 2 for BlackComedy. The limb in question is her tail. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Which somehow comes to life on its own.]]
* ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm''': In one of the bad endings, Catie wakes up after a battle to find that her left arm is gone, among other body parts.
* ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'': Lance can end up dead like this in a "manicure" if you don't help him escape Vivi's attempts to cut off his hand.
* ''VideoGame/BuriedAnInteractiveStory'' uses the Deliberate version. Roger has the chance to use his gun and [[spoiler:save Dennis from the entities]], but knows that shooting would blast off [[spoiler:Dennis]]'s hand. It's [[DialogueTree up to the player]] whether he goes through with it.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'':
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare'': Then-Lieutenant Price and Captain [=MacMillan=] attempt to assassinate RenegadeRussian Imran Zakhaev, whose arm gets blown off in the process. [=MacMillan=] assumes that shock and blood loss will finish him off. [[spoiler:They don't.]]
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare'': In the first gameplay segment, Mitchell gets his left arm sliced off by a stray piece of shrapnel after blowing up an enemy gunship. For an extra kicker, his best friend was the one who blew up that gunship in a HeroicSacrifice, as his arm got stuck inside the gunship while he was planting explosives on it and Mitchell was unable to get him loose, even with his exosuit's SuperStrength. He gets a perfectly functional cybernetic replacement later on, from said best friend's father... [[spoiler:who becomes the BigBad and [[KickTheDog wrecks the prosthetic with a socket wrench]] when Mitchell turns on him. In the finale, the BigBad ends up dangling from Mitchell's prosthetic and Mitchell, unable to let go of him due to the arm's servos not functioning anymore, pulls out his knife with his other arm and cuts the prosthetic off to send the one who gave it to him in the first place plummeting to his death -- "[[HoistByHisOwnPetard giving back the second chance]]", as Mitchell puts it in the game's closing monologue.]]
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII'': The first level has the [[PlayerCharacter main character]] get [[CharacterCustomization his/her]] arms and right leg, courtesy of a [[KillerRobot robot grunt]]. It's violent. [[NightmareFuel Very violent.]][[labelnote:*]]So much so [[http://kotaku.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-iiis-most-brutal-scene-haunts-m-1741248996 that many people got nightmares from it]].[[/labelnote]]
* ''VideoGame/TheCatLady'': This is the first Sacrifice of Blood necessary to leave the Queen of Maggots' realm and return to the world of the living. Fortunately, it's [[AllJustADream only temporary]].
* ''Franchise/DeadSpace'':
** ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'':
*** The game is literally begging you to cut off the necromorphs' limbs to effectively deal with them.
*** An audio log found in the second half of the game documents a (former) survivor's efforts to remove his own limbs before committing suicide so his remains can't be turned into a necromorph. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
** ''VideoGame/DeadSpaceExtraction'': [[spoiler:The main character Nathan [=McNeill=]]] has to amputate his own arm after a huge Necromorph impales it and he needs to get out of there fast.
* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'': Nero gets his [[RedRightHand Devil Bringer]] torn off by an unknown assailant[[note]]later revealed to be [[spoiler:a dying Vergil]][[/note]] wanting to get at Yamato (the demon sword that Vergil used to use). To compensate, [[WrenchWench Nico]] replaces it with a series of [[ArtificialLimbs Devil Breaker]] arms that Nero can use as a [[DiscardAndDraw replacement]] against the demonic hordes. [[spoiler:He eventually regrows his arm after gaining his [[EleventhHourSuperpower Devil Trigger]] ability.]]
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': In the final DLC, [[spoiler:Solas removes most of the Inquisitor's left arm in order to prevent the mark from consuming them completely. However, certain epilogues show that they get a crossbow ArmCannon to replace it.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Everhood}}'': Red starts the game with one of the arms stolen. Later another character, Blue Thief, loses both their legs.
* ''VideoGame/FearAndHunger'': Throughout the game, the player character and their party are susceptible to losing their limbs from enemy attacks. Losing an arm means that you can't wield two-handed weapons or a shield, while losing both legs reduces your speed to a crawl.
* ''VideoGame/FearEffect'': Partway through, Glas gets his arm cut off. [[spoiler:He gets it back in the true ending.]] Notably, this is one of the few cases in video games where the trope affects not only the plot but the gameplay; Glas is, naturally, unable to dual-wield his weapons after that point.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': The climax of the "A Realm Reborn" arc ends with the Sultana's bodyguard and general, Raubahn, losing his arm when trying to avenge the [[spoiler:faked]] death of his charge.
* ''VideoGame/FleshBirds'': In one of the cabins, you find a man holding the bloody stump where his arm should be. After you talk to him, a bird breaks in through the window behind him and carries him off.
* ''VideoGame/GodHand'': Gene had his right arm cut off by Felix when he tried to save Olivia. Olivia repaid him by putting the titular limb on the stump. Later, [[spoiler:Azel tears the left God Hand off of himself in a panic as he is being consumed by Angra]].
* ''VideoGame/Kindergarten2'' has a type 1 example played for laughs. Nugget gets trapped behind a sewer grate, and if the player doesn't help get him out, he chews his own arm off, leaving behind only a heavily bleeding stump. Not because the arm was stuck or anything, mind you. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} He just figured that was necessary in that kind of situation.]] Despite trailing blood everywhere he goes, he still survives the day with little ill effect. After all, "[[MadeOfIron Nugget is quite durable.]]"
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroDawnOfTheDragon'': The golem loses its left arm at the elbow early in the game after it becomes stuck in a cavern wall after a failed attempt at crushing the dragons and, in its struggles to free itself, accidentally tears it off.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'' sees [[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Colossus}} missing his right hand and part of his right leg below the knee after the fight with an Odinforce-empowered ComicBook/DoctorDoom. This is reversed with all the rest of the horrible things Doom did when Odin gets his powers back.]]
* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne3'': [[spoiler:Becker]]'s left arm gets ripped off when one of his own grenades explode in close proximity.
* ''VideoGame/MegamiTenseiII'': At one point, you are required to put your right arm into a demon statue's mouth to retrieve an item. The statue then bites your arm off, which prevents you from attacking or using the COMP and makes you lose HitPoints every time you walk. You must get a new arm from Cyber Labs that is hard enough to grab the item without getting bitten off.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'':
*** Revolver Ocelot loses an arm thanks to Gray Fox, [[spoiler:and then proceeds to replace it with the deceased Liquid Snake's arm before the events of ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Metal Gear Solid 2]]'' as part of a convoluted plot to fool the Patriots]].
*** Gray Fox himself loses his left arm [[spoiler:while sacrificing himself to help Solid Snake defeat Liquid]].
** After becoming a cyborg, Raiden loses both of his arms in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', cutting off his right arm to free himself from being pinned by debris and losing the other while [[spoiler:saving Solid Snake from being crushed by Outer Haven]]. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', he loses an arm in his first battle against Jetstream Sam, which not only results in Raiden getting a new and improved cyborg body, but basically sets off the main plot.
** Big Boss and Miller lose an arm and a literal arm and leg, respectively, in the aftermath of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes''. Hence the name of the following game, ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''.
* Shinobu in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' has her hand sliced off by Travis after their fight (Type 3). This [[{{Bowdlerization}} doesn't happen in the Japanese version]], leaving fans to wonder if it was canon, but ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'' has her show up with a cybernetic replacement hand, confirming its canonicity.
* In ''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked'', Al is hit by a blaster shot and has several parts replaced by cybernetics. The blaster only hit Al in the butt, yet he winds up with cybernetics in many random and seemingly unrelated places, leading some fans to suspect Al is just [[{{Robosexual}} a little too into robots]]. Perhaps he had an "interface port" installed for [[RoboShip Helga]]...
* ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankRiftApart'': During Rivet's backstory, she was [[StealthyColossus ambushed by a warbot]], which severely burned her arm to the point of uselessness with its EyeBeams, but didn't completely blast it off, requiring manual amputation. This would imply an attempted Type 3, though when that very same warbot mentions their side of the story to Ratchet, it's revealed that they never intended to cause damage at all, but their [[KillerRobot programming]] accidentally turned a warning shot into an attack, which makes the event a Type 2.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'':
*** It's possible, but rare, for a non-lethal shot to a zombie from the side -- or even successfully pushing one back after it grabs you -- to cause one of the zombie's arms to fall off. With the Custom Shotgun, an upwards-aimed shot tends to blow off off one arm by vaporizing the shoulder along with the head.
*** This is the best way to deal with zombies in [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake the remake]]. Headshots no longer do any more damage than a body shot, barring a lucky [[YourHeadAsplode critical hit]]. However, it only takes a couple of bullets to blow a leg off, rendering them unable to walk. At that point, they can only crawl slowly on the ground, and due to the way the AI works, they are completely unable to attack you if you are behind them. This makes them very easy to finish off with a knife.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'''s Ethan Winters has his left arm chopped off in the game's prologue, and the same can happen to one of his legs if Jack catches up to him. They both get reattached almost immediately [[spoiler:thanks to Ethan's infection]].
* ''VideoGame/ReturnOfTheObraDinn'': [[spoiler:Happens to both Seaman John Naples (who got his leg cut off by the Captain's Steward Fillip Dahl, possibly in an effort to free the mermaids from the lazarette) and Bosun Alfred Klestil (who got his arm ripped off by a kraken at the end of Chapter VII, though he only makes it through to the beginning of Chapter IX).]]
* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': A recurring antagonist in the cave goblin quests has a Ring Of Life, ensuring that whenever you have him on the ropes he can teleport to safety. In the quest "The Chosen Commander", to show how much more dangerous the warrior god possessing your friend is, s/he cuts Sigmund's hand off before the Ring Of Life can activate, and ''then'' kills him. If you return to Lumbridge Castle after this quest and talk to Duke Horacio, he says with appropriate horror that ''Sigmund's severed hand'' teleported into the castle courtyard at some point.
* The prologue of ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice'' ends with the protagonist getting his left arm chopped off by a high-ranking samurai who proceeds to abduct his lord. Our hero promptly receives a fancy prosthetic limb and sets out on a RoaringRampageOfRescue.
* ''VideoGame/SeveredSteel'' is a FirstPersonShooter starring the titular agent who begins the game waking up with her lower left arm missing. Early in the game she promptly gets ahold a prototype ArmCannon, cappable of [[EverythingBreaks vaporizing walls]].
* ''VideoGame/StarWarsChess'': Many animations involving C-3PO have him losing limbs. This can happen regardless of whether or not he's on the winning side.
** When he captures a Stormtrooper, his hand gets shot off before he wins.
** When he captures Darth Vader, His whole arm gets cut off by Vader's lightsaber. He then proceeds to pick up his arm, clash it with the lightsaber, and somehow deactivates it, allowing him to club Vader with his arm.
* In the second chapter of ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'', [[spoiler:Guybrush]] loses his left hand in a swordfight.
* ''VideoGame/TamingDreams'' has Berdanre, who lost his arm, leg, and spouse in a tragic accident.
* Axel of ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal2'' was stuck inside a vehicle created by [[AbusiveParents his father]] for 20 years; his arms and legs held captive by the two-wheeled monstrosity. In his ending, he wishes for the courage to stand up to his father, which [[JackassGenie Calypso]] surprisingly grants. Finally standing up to his father, Axel frees himself from the machine by ripping his limbs off, much to his father's horror. Quite rare for this trope, this is actually seen as a moment of triumph here.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', during the final fight with [[spoiler:Mettaton EX, you can blow his arms and legs off if you shoot his heart enough. This lowers the required Ratings level needed to Spare him.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonOne'':
** The player can choose to initiate a Type 3 when a man's leg gets trapped. Especially notable because not only are you the one to do it, it's rather realistic, being incredibly gory, and even with you brandishing a fire ax, it takes four swings to make it all the way through, the receiver passing out from shock [[spoiler:and soon after dying due to blood loss]].
** In Episode 5, [[spoiler:after he's bitten, Lee can cut his arm off (or have someone else do it) in an attempt to save himself from the zombie infection. It doesn't work; he'll die at the end of the episode no matter what.]]
* ''[[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonFour The Walking Dead: The Final Season]]'': In episode 4, Clem's leg is lacerated to the bone by Minerva and then chomped on by a walker. As she succumbs to the infection, she tries to force AJ to make the same choice she had to with Lee — let her turn, or put her out of her misery. AJ instead lops off the infected limb, which proves enough to save her.
* ''VideoGame/Wasteland2'':
** [[spoiler:Casey James]] performs a Type 1 in order to ensure peace between two feuding tribes.
** The [[spoiler:Choppers]] are elite guards who [[SymbolicMutilation chop off one of their arms]] to prove their loyalty.
* ''VideoGame/WildArms1'': [[spoiler:Rudy cuts/shoots his arm off to escape from Zeikfried in the Gate Generator.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheWitchsHouse'', the invisible chef asks you for a hand. If you agree, [[ExactWords he cuts your hands off]]. [[spoiler:Any "hand" will do, so you can just give him the severed arm of a teddy bear.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Wildermyth}}'', a hero who is defeated in battle but not killed will be left short a limb. Maimed heroes rejoin the adventure after a period of recuperation, replacing the lost limb with a makeshift prosthesis such as a peg leg. At least one story event can also result in a hero sacrificing a limb to escape a grim situation.
* This trope is used in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'' [[spoiler:as the cornerstone of its RoboticReveal]].
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* Type 3 happens in ''VisualNovel/ChaosHead'' when [[spoiler:Nanami's]] right hand gets cut off and then sent to the main character, as a way to intimidate him.
* In ''VisualNovel/TheCrownAndTheFlame'', this is part of Whitlock's [[DarkAndTroubledPast backstory]]. He rescued some villagers from being massacred by the Nevrakis army, and as punishment, they cut off his arms and left him to die, but the grateful villagers came back and prevented him from bleeding to death. In the present, Whitlock has mechanized hands and arms in place of the ones he lost.
* During the climactic battle scene of ''VisualNovel/TheEdenOfGrisaia'', Travis walks calmly [[spoiler:to the battlefield to face Yuuji]]. When he arrives, he's horrified to realize that [[spoiler:everyone is already dead and he has no idea where Yuuji is]]. Before he realizes that anything is wrong, [[spoiler:Yuuji takes his left hand with a combat knife, causing him to fire wildly with the gun in his right hand before he loses that too]].
* Shirou of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' loses his left arm in the ''Heaven's Feel'' route. This also counts as MajorInjuryUnderreaction. ("Man, I panicked too much. All I lost was my left arm!") Shirou's arm is later replaced by [[spoiler:Archer]]'s.
* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', both Emi Ibarazaki and Miki Miura went through Type 2 in their backstories. Emi was [[spoiler:involved in a car accident that cost her both her legs and her father]]. Miki lost her left hand in an undisclosed workshop incident.
* In ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'', Gargouille slices off Dosgoro's left arm to show him that she means business. He's sporting a cybernetic replacement by his next appearance. Much later on, [[spoiler:Astaroth rips off Marco's right arm. She nearly dies, though Pandagraph manages to save her life and reattach the arm with a risky surgical procedure.]]
* In the ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' UpdatedReRelease, there's a [[MultipleEndings bad end]] where [[spoiler:Kotonoha]] is on the receiving end of a Type 3. [[spoiler:After Makoto chooses her over Sekai, the mentally broken Sekai goes MurderTheHypotenuse and pushes Kotonoha on the train line they're standing next to. Makoto tries to catch Kotonoha but fails to save her from being hit by the train... '''and finds himself holding the dead Kotonoha's torn-off hand'''.]]
* ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'':
** Throughout the Screaming Author case, Akira and his companions find cassette tapes that record a MadDoctor amputating the arms and legs of young girls. What makes it particularly horrifying is that they're awake for it, and beg for their limbs back. The reason for doing so is elaborated on later; [[spoiler:he was converting them into dolls in order to pacify a spirit and keep her sealed away]].
** In one of the Screaming Author Bad Ends, [[spoiler:Ban's]] arm is severed off when the Screaming Author drags them away with razor wire, reflecting how the Author itself had its limbs removed when it was alive.
* Depending on the player's choices in ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}}: Mask of Arcadius'', [[spoiler:Ava Crescentia]] can lose her right arm (along with her [[EyeScream right eye]]) when [[ExplosiveInstrumentation a console explodes in her face]]. [[spoiler:The sequel shows that she survived and that the Sunrider's medics were able to regenerate her arm, though she'll wear a glove throughout the game as its skin tone doesn't match the rest of her body yet.]]
* [[spoiler:Sigma]] from ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' discovers that [[spoiler:he lost his left eye and both arms during an incident 45 years prior, with both arms later being replaced by cybernetics]]. The {{Interquel}}, ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'', reveals that [[spoiler:Sigma lost said body parts attempting to disarm a bomb set by D-Team that accidentally kills Q-Team]].
* In ''VisualNovel/WinterShard'', Frederick gets his right arm torn off by Temonz. He gets [[RedRightHand a replacement right arm that can tear through flesh and drain the warmth from any living or undead being]] after [[DealWithTheDevil making a deal with Krotus]].
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/Angels2200'': On her very first day in captivity, one of Hammer's captors cuts off her hand in revenge for the death of her son.
* ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'' actually manages to invert this seemingly un-invertible trope: Raven starts as a disembodied spirit, and his body gradually becomes more complete as he becomes more and more human. He's completely corporeal except for his right arm and wing by chapter nine. He looks like an amputee, but he's actually the reverse.
* In ''Webcomic/{{BACK}}'', this is how Abigail finally manages to defeat [[spoiler:the Dead Man (a.k.a. "Damned" Heat): by flinging a guillotine blade at his legs whilst he's making a whirlwind, slicing his feet clean off]].
* ''Webcomic/TheBikiniBottomHorror'': Two deliberate examples.
** Happens to [[spoiler:Mr. Krabs]] at the hand of [[spoiler:a group of Patrick Clones]].
** The entire story occurs as a result of this happening to [[spoiler:Patrick at the hand of Mr Krabs. And while Patrick would regenerate the limb, the limb he lost would also regenerate into a new Patrick.]]
* ''Webcomic/BlasterNation'' has been building up since the beginning to the story of how Logan lost his arm and became unable to work as a butcher (and amazingly resentful of his son). [[spoiler:Lacking the support of his wife and son on an overloaded workday, he got tired and careless while trying to unjam the meat grinder.]]
* In a ''Webcomic/BoyAndDog'' strip, one of Rowan's parents reads him a story in which the protagonist cuts an arm off of what he [[MistakenForUndead mistakenly]] thinks is a [[DemBones walking skeleton]].
* In ''Webcomic/CreativeRelease'', a webcomic with a fruits theme going on, two apple-themed characters are missing their right arm.
* The [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] setting of ''Webcomic/TheDemonArchives'' makes this inevitable, but more surprising is [[spoiler:when it happens to protagonist Tenzin fairly early in the story, as he literally loses one arm and one leg in battle]].
* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' had one of his legs blown off when Raf Malish's soul exploded and he was caught in the blast radius.
* ''Webcomic/{{Dregs}}'': Bandy lost her right arm some time ago.
* ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'': After the battle at the end of The Hob, Kimiko [[spoiler:is in the hospital, badly injured and minus her left arm, her left eye, both legs, three ribs, and half her spine]]. She makes herself better, although is in [[http://dresdencodak.com/2012/03/09/dark-science-17/ extreme pain while she builds and connects her artificial limbs]].
* Happens several times in ''{{Webcomic/Drowtales}}'', with golem limbs being common replacements:
** [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=4903 Nihi'liir]] lost her arm due to a psychic attack and got a [[ArtificialLimbs golem replacement]].
** Much later, [[spoiler:Ariel]] gets her arm [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=10143 chopped off]] by her AxCrazy half-sister Kalki, and [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=10315 winds up stealing]] [[AppendageAssimilation Kalki's arm]] as a replacement/payback.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Grace has a nightmare in which Sensei Greg [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2016-07-22 gets one of his arms eaten]].
* A particular squicky example of Type 3 appears in ''Webcomic/{{Flipside}}'': When Bloody Mary chews Maytag's hand off, Maytag's primary complaint is that she wasn't awake to experience it. Maytag then kindly allows Mary to eat the rest of her arm as well because Mary needs the food and that's just the sort of girl Maytag is. Anything for a new thrill!
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
** Oggie summarily amputates Dimo's left arm to save him from a bioweapon infection. Unlike most examples of version one, Dimo is actually grateful for the intervention.
** Captain Vole casually tears the arm off an assassin to counter his DeadMansSwitch.
** In a side-story, Agatha is happy to get a chance to test her Pocket De-Arming Device, which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin chops off its target's arms]].
* The monster Mr. Fingers in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' can disintegrate the bodies of creatures that touch it.
-->"Your kind grows its limbs back, right?"\\
"Nope."
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' starts to get dramatic when we see in a flashback how Antimony's father Anthony lost his forearm. [[spoiler:He cut it off himself, on advice from the psychopomps, as a "flesh antenna" to allow him to speak to his dead wife.]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Harbourmaster}}'', [[spoiler:Tal loses his left arm to Mormo's attack at the beginning of ''One Deal is What We Made'']].
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
** Missing arms are a recurring [[BodyMotifs motif]] in ''Homestuck'', along with [[EyeScream wounds to the eye]].
** [[spoiler:Caliborn]] bites off his own leg [[spoiler:to escape the shackle placed on it by his sister after assuming full control of their shared body]].
* ''Webcomic/ImpjakAdventure'': Impjak decides to cut his leg off with a saw, making the stump bleed. He puts it on his head.
* ''Webcomic/KarateBears'' [[http://www.karatebears.com/2010/11/goldilocks.html rewrite]] ''Literature/{{Goldilocks}}'' to their advantage by having Papa Bear rip off Goldilocks' arm.
* In ''Webcomic/ModestMedusa'', Jake's housemate Charles gets his arm chopped off by the chainsaw unicorn in the first season.
* ''Webcomic/MSFHigh'': Fable lost her left arm while summoning a large creature of the void to save her coven.
* In ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked'', [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/03-17.html Claire's father cut her hands off at the Devil's orders]].
* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** Durkon's mother is missing one arm. She lost it [[spoiler:the day her husband died]], and because of that, she refuses to let Durkon cast a regeneration spell on her.
** Tarquin repeatedly threatens to cut off Elan's arm once the latter starts denying his ideas of how their narrative conflict of "evil father vs. good son" is supposed to work.
* ''Webcomic/ParadigmShift'': A werewolf attacking in a frenzy is shown ripping the arm from a terrified vagrant -- one of several attacks mostly shown by their human-jigsaw aftermath. The author has studied anatomy with care, and it shows.
* In ''Webcomic/ProphecyOfTheCircle'', [[spoiler:Annen Duskeir]] loses an arm after having been [[spoiler:bitten by a tekk during a battle and expelled from Oros with no choice but to return to Tieke City without medical care during his trip in the desert]]. This handicap makes him more likely to lose his balance.
* ''{{Webcomic/Sarilho}}'': [[spoiler:Mikhail gets hit with a Microwave Gun from afar, and part of his arm immediately explodes.]]
%%** Also presumably happens to [[spoiler:Victoria's leg]] during the bridge explosion. ("Presumably"? Please elaborate.)
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'':
** A lieutenant lost his arm in mercenary outfit's first job.
** Elf has her legs blown off at the knees and replaced with mech legs. She's actually fairly happy with the replacements, as they add significantly to her previously short stature. Said legs are even used at one point as a blast barrier by Capt. Taggon.
* ''Webcomic/ScoobAndShag'':
** Shag loses his left hand to an airlock door after [[spoiler:a mutated Goof grabs hold of it]].
** Much later, Dex [[spoiler:destroys Foghorn Leghorn's left arm from shoulder to wrist]].
* ''Webcomic/UnknownLands'': Inara uses her magic strings to remove the limbs and heads of some men hunting her.
* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'':
** Duane cut off Petr's arm using the sharpness of [[https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch02/ch02_64.html Petr's own blade to cast.]]
** Will's arm was bitten off by Lowing Shaensigin when Damphir tossed him into her mouth.
* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': In the present day, Mingxing Guan is missing her right arm, and uses a [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetic]]. A flashback reveals that, as the {{magical girl}} Starlight Spear, she had her right arm [[KillItWithIce frozen]] and broken clean off by the monster that [[spoiler:killed her friend Mitsuki]]. [[{{Determinator}} Even after losing an arm]], Mingxing still managed to kill the monster ''and'' deliver an injured Kokoro to safety [[spoiler:before [[DePower burning herself out completely]]]].
* Basi of ''Webcomic/WithoutMoonlight'' received serious injuries during a mission before the story started, resulting in an amputated arm.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': [[spoiler:Grime]] loses his left arm [[spoiler:protecting Sasha from Darcy]] in "All In".
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'': It's implied that Zachary Foxx's bionics had to be installed due to injuries he received in the pilot episode. He takes a couple of direct blaster hits to his left side.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears''; in one episode, Gruffi uses [[ClockworkCreature a mechanical suit of armor]] to infiltrate Igthorn's castle and rescue King Gregor. When its arm is clubbed off while fighting Igthorn's ogre, the bad guys are surprised when it casually picks it up and reattaches it. Well, it ''looks'' like it's doing so casually. As a shot of Gruffi fixing it inside the suit reveals, sweating and worried as he does so, it's ''not'' as easy as it looks.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** Shoko's parents sold her right arm for a computer.
** It's heavily implied through the show that [[KidHero Finn]], [[spoiler:Shoko's {{reincarnation}}]], is also going to lose his right arm at some point. [[ImagineSpot Three different]] [[OrWasItADream possible visions]] [[BadFuture of the future]] and a view into an AlternateUniverse show him with a [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetic arm]], and [[spoiler:[[CursedWithAwesome a cursed sword]] is now attached to the same arm]]. [[spoiler:It does indeed happen at the beginning of the sixth season, as a result of him and said cursed sword trying to pull back a chunk of dead guardian that his biological father was riding away on. He eventually gets a robotic arm, only to lose it in the GrandFinale "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS9E13ComeAlongWithMeTheUltimateAdventure Come Along With Me]]". The sequel ministries ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeDistantLands'' show that he still doesn't have an arm as an adult, but he eventually got another mechanical arm some time before his death.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot'': In the episode "The Champ", Big Guy fights with an alien invader, Po, who threatens to blow up the Earth if his challenge is refused. As a gesture of good faith, Big Guy offers a handshake at the start of the fight. Po uses this as an opportunity to yank Big Guy off of his feet. During their rematch later that episode, Big Guy offers a handshake again, and Po once again takes advantage... except this time the arm was meant to come off and explodes hilariously in Po's face.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': Because she failed, and later [[HeelFaceTurn refused]], to assassinate Prince Ezran, Rayla begins slowly losing function and feeling in her left hand via an enchanted wristband, which she says will continue until she completely loses it. However, she's willing to pay that price to keep Ezran alive. [[spoiler:However, when Azymandias (the actual Dragon Prince) hatches, he easily rips off the bracelet, [[SubvertedTrope sparing her hand]].]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': A TimeTravel episode involves a knight who [[CrackOwMyBack hurt his arm]] attempting to [[ExcaliburInTheStone pull out Excalibur]]. Throughout the episode, he ends up hurting his arm every time he moves it, until it pops right off. It's immediately eaten by hungry peasants.
* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': In [[Recap/FinalSpaceS1E2Chapter2 Episode 2]], the Lord Commander uses his telepathic powers to tear off Gary's left arm. He gets a robot arm as a replacement for the rest of the series.
* Wilt on ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' notably has had one of his arms amputated, the reason for which is explained in the special ''[[WesternAnimation/GoodWiltHunting Good Wilt Hunting]]'': His last basketball match before he retired out of shame ended with his opponent falling on that arm, leaving it inoperable.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E5WhyMustIBeACrustaceanInLove Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love]]", Fry gets his arm cut off by Zoidberg during their duel. He [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction picks it up]], [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge hulks out, and smacks Zoidberg down]] [[GrievousHarmWithABody with said arm]]. It gets reattached later... on the wrong side.
** Fry has also had his hands bitten off and devoured by ''T. rex''.
** Bender's arms are prone to falling off. He [[PullingThemselvesTogether somehow reinstalls them every time]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheHollow'': The Last Ironwood Tree's missing left branch is the MacGuffin that Adam, Mira, and Kai have to find in order to get back home.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In the episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E6And7TheEnemyBelow The Enemy Below]]", Aquaman cuts off his hand to save his son.
* In the second season of ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', Lightning Lad's arm is blasted off by one Imperiex's cannon blasts. He later has a mechanical replacement fitted.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Homer Simpson does this to most of his limbs in one HalloweenEpisode.
** Herman the weapons store owner, who apparently lost one of his arms after "his teacher told him not to stick his arm out the school bus window." [[{{Retcon}} Though]] [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS24E8ToCurWithLove "To Cur with Love"]] [[{{Retcon}} shows that he lost it while he was hitchhiking and Grampa's car sped past and knocked it off.]]
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E2122ShortFilmsAboutSpringfield 22 Short Films About Springfield]]", Dr. Nick [[BodyHorror replaces one of his patients' legs with an arm and one of his arms with a leg]].
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E11FaithOff Faith Off]]", Springfield University's star football player Anton Lubchenko returns to the field after Bart tries to heal his broken leg, and attempts to win the game with a field goal. He succeeds... because he inadvertently flings his own leg off, which goes on to kick the ball a second time in mid-air, propelling it just far enough to make the goal.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', Mr. Krabs's attempt to retrieve a stray dime in "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E1YourShoesUntiedSquidsDayOff Squid's Day Off]]" lands him in the hospital due to this trope.
-->'''Mr. Krabs:''' ME ARMS!\\
'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' OhNoNotAgain
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
** "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E7DuelOfTheDroids Duel of the Droids]]": Ahsoka uses the shock from the station's reactor exploding to push Grievous's hand so that the lightsaber he's holding slices off the hand he's using to hold her in a NeckLift.
** "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E10LairOfGrievous Lair of Grievous]]": Kit Fisto chops off Grievous's legs when they ambush him coming into his lair. His many arms and waiting replacement parts means that he crawls away using the ceiling and walls anyway. (Grievous loses limbs rather frequently, given how many times he appears on this page.)
** "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E1Revival Revival]]": Savage Opress gets his right arm cut off by Obi-Wan Kenobi, and then [[spoiler:Darth Maul]] gets one of his prosthetic legs shot off by Hondo Ohnaka's pirates. Both of them get replacements in the [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E14Eminence next episode]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': [[spoiler:In the episode "[[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012S4E24TheTaleOfTigerClaw The Tale of Tiger Claw]]", Tiger Claw's mutant sister Alopex decides to spare her brother's life. But when he tries to shoot her in the back, she proceeds to cut off his right arm, warning him that she could've easily taken his life instead.]]
* In the original ''WesternAnimation/{{ThunderCats|1985}}'', a villain ''threatens'' to do this to a hostage during a PrisonRiot unless Mandora surrenders. (The [[WhatMeasureIsANonhuman hostage is an android]], possibly why the writers figured it wouldn't matter, but that doesn't make the poor guy's pleas for mercy sound any less discomforting. Fortunately, Mandora agrees and they let him go.)
* ''WesternAnimation/Thundercats2011'' manages to pull this off despite an affinity for BloodlessCarnage.
** "Ramlak Rising" gives us a Type 3 in the peg-legged {{Fishm|en}}an Captain Koinelius Tunar, who lost his leg (and an eye) to the titular Ramlak, a [[SandIsWater Sand Sea]] monster who destroyed his people's homeland.
** "Between Brothers" has a Type 2 when Panthro, in an effort to defeat his ArchEnemy Grune, restrains him on the threshold of a collapsing magical portal, fully expecting to die with him when it closes. Instead, Panthro suffers an instantly-cauterizing PortalCut, [[spoiler:losing both arms mid-bicep]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersCyberverse'': The post-series movie ''The Immobilizers'' ends with [[spoiler:Soundblaster]] losing both of his legs.
* ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'' has Dr. Curt Connors, whose arm gets crushed at the end of the first season when [[spoiler:the Green Goblin]] attacks the Helicarrier. His arm is amputated between seasons, and the direct consequences of this lead to [[spoiler:him becoming the Lizard in Season 2]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'':
** Qilby lost his left arm [[spoiler:when Phaeris the dragon ''bit it off'' when he helped end Qilby's world-wrecking rampage in the past]].
** In the [=OVAs=], [[spoiler:Sadlygrove loses his right arm to a dragon in the battle against Ogrest]]. In Season 3, [[spoiler:Rubilax agrees to perform a FusionDance to replace the arm]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', [[spoiler:the original Roy Harper[=/=]"Speedy"]] has part of his right arm amputated [[spoiler:by Cadmus scientists, from which they draw DNA to perfect their cloning technology for the creation of the second Roy Harper[=/=]"Red Arrow"]]. He's later able to replace it with [[spoiler:a high-tech weapon developed by [=LexCorp=], whereupon he takes on the name "Arsenal"]].
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* ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankRiftApart'': During Rivet's backstory, she was [[StealthyColossus ambushed by a warbot]], which severely burned her arm to the point of uselessness with its EyeBeams, but didn't completely blast it off, requiring manual amputation. This would imply an attempted Type 3, though when that very same warbot mentions their side of the story to Ratchet, it's revealed that they never intended to cause damage at all. Whether it remains a Type 3, or becomes a Type 1, is up for debate due to Rivet never mentioning the events that occurred after the incident.

** It would later happen to two different people during a boss fight in Session 12: A massive Warforge got its arm ripped off by [[AssholeVictim Alter]] and Alter himself gets both of his wings and [[LaserGuidedKarma one of his arms chopped]] off by Luna.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Johnny Warlock lost his hand when Robin tossed a sealing quick-hardening gel on his gun and Johnny fired it even as he was being warned that doing so would have disastrous results for him. He later replaced it with a hook.

* ''ComicBook/Youngblood2017'' sees [[spoiler:Shaft, an {{expy}} of the aforementioned Roy Harper, likewise lose an arm]].

* ''Fanfic/FateOfTheClans'': ** [[spoiler:Okada]] cuts off [[spoiler:Reisi's]] legs and leaves him to bleed out.
** Gouki Zenjou lost his left arm in the Kagutsu Incident.
** [[spoiler: Kuroh]] gets his right forearm servered.
** [[spoiler: Kiyohime]] gets her left arm and both legs cut off.
** [[spoiler:Mordred]] cuts [[spoiler:Okada's]] right hand off.
** [[spoiler:Cú Chulainn Alter slices Mikoto's right arm off.]]
** A way for a Master to steal someone's Command Seal is to cut the arm possessing it off the other person.
** Fujino's mystic eyes twisted Shiki's left arm, rendering it unusable and it had to be replaced with one of Touko's prosthetics.

* ''FanFic/ABrighterDark'': The author has a certain style. Whenever someone gets directly hit, it will usually either be KilledOffForReal or this.

* The interlude of ''FanFic/TheDarkLordsOfNerima'' has Prince Herb and one of the Joketsuzoku elders launching a successful CombinationAttack against Queen Beryl that shreds one of his arms. This does nothing to slow him down; he removes what's left with an energy blade, uses its heat to cauterize the wound, and gets right back to leading his forces.

* In ''[[FanFic/ThundercrackersGlory Glory and Honor]]'', Shockwave loses both an arm and a leg in Unicron's attack on Cybertron. He takes advantage of this by leaving both limbs behind in the ruins to [[FakingTheDead fake his death]] and begin plotting a revolt against Galvatron.

* ''FanFic/HisLieInApril'': Kousei's [[spoiler:first accident that leads to his eventual demise is his left foot getting crushed by the weight of an oncoming car when he slips and falls on the pavement of the crosswalk in a rainstorm; he also hits his head on a metal lamp post as he falls down.]]
* ''FanFic/{{Hivefled}}'' has several ghosts who bear the wounds of their deaths; Keskay Sigsia's arm is missing as it was eaten before she died, while Ukuthe Lorain died of blood loss when her arm was torn off and now has it floating beside her shoulder stump.

* ''FanFic/JewelOfDarkness'': During the fight in Midnight's lair at the end of the Jump City arc, she rips off one of Cyborg's arms and smashes it. Of course, since it's a robotic limb, he just rebuilds it in the arc epilogue.

* VideoGame/RatchetAndClankRiftApart: During Rivet's backstory, she was [[StealthyColossus ambushed by a warbot]], which severely burned her arm to the point of uselessness with its EyeBeams, but didn't completely blast it off, requiring manual amputation. This would imply an attempted Type 3, though when that very same warbot mentions their side of the story to Ratchet, it's revealed that they never intended to cause damage at all. Whether it remains a Type 3, or becomes a Type 1, is up for debate due to Rivet never mentioning the events that occurred after the incident.

* ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'' has Dr. Curt Connors, whose arm gets crushed at the end of the first season when [[spoiler:the Green Goblin]] attacks the Helicarrier. His arm is amputated between seasons, and the direct consequences of this lead to [[spoiler:him becoming the Lizard in Season 2]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', [[spoiler:the original Roy Harper[=/=]"Speedy"]] has part of his right arm amputated [[spoiler:by Cadmus scientists, from which they draw DNA to perfect their cloning technology for the creation of the second Roy Harper[=/=]"Red Arrow"]]. He's later able to replace it with [[spoiler:a high-tech weapon developed by [=LexCorp=], whereupon he takes on the name "Arsenal"]].

** It's heavily implied through the show that [[KidHero Finn]], [[spoiler:Shoko's {{reincarnation}}]], is also going to lose his right arm at some point. [[ImagineSpot Three different]] [[OrWasItADream possible visions]] [[BadFuture of the future]] and a view into an AlternateUniverse show him with a [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetic arm]], and [[spoiler:[[CursedWithAwesome a cursed sword]] is now attached to the same arm]]. [[spoiler:It does indeed happen at the beginning of the sixth season, as a result of him and said cursed sword trying to pull back a chunk of dead guardian that his father was riding away on. He eventually gets a robotic arm, only to lose it in the GrandFinale "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS9E13ComeAlongWithMeTheUltimateAdventure Come Along With Me]]". In Finn's last scene, he still has not replaced it, and it is unclear if he ever does.]]

* In ''ComicBook/LegendsDC'', the villain Sunspot uses his power blast to get out of the ankle cuff that Guy Gardner holds him upside-down by, but in the process, he accidentally blasts off his right foot. Guy tends to Sunspot's injury, but threatens to cut off the villain's left hand if he uses his power blast again.

* In ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen [[ComicBook/AdjectivelessXMen Vol. 2]]'', ComicBook/EmmaFrost loses an arm against Mr. Sinister. Being in diamond form, she doesn't die from blood loss or anything, and she gets better.