History Main / AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage

* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' has a a huge tentacle that pops out at least three times on the Ishimura and tries to drag Isaac towards a gruesome doom.

* In the movie's SignatureScene, the BlobMonster from, well, ''Film/TheBlob1988'' reaches a pseudopod up through a kitchen sink to grab a man by the head. We see the monster's entire body throughout the film, but it looks like nothing so much as it does a gigantic mass of strawberry jelly.

** The boss Balor in [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow both Sorrow games]] is never seen in full; all we are ever shown is his face (because his trademark attack in myth is EyeBeams) and one giant hand.

%%* The [[LargeHam Great Mighty Poo]] from ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay''. %% So one poopy tentacle at a time?

* Before you fight the Medusa-Kraken-hybrid-like Tentalus in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', its tentacles attack the ship you're on, bursting through walls and such. [[{{Narm}} Then you see Tentalus itself.]]

* "The thing with no name" that resides in a lake inside a cave where the Truffle Trolls live in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "A Mere Truffle".

* The TurtleIsland monster Islanda from ''Anime/TheUltraman'' initially appears as a series of serpentine tentacles, resulting in passing ships mistaking the seas to be infested by {{Sea Serpent}}s. At the end of the episode, the rest of the monster finally reveals themselves, where the serpents turns out to be Islanda's limbs.

* ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore'': at first wen only get to see the chitin-covered feelers and the scorpion tail of the Manticore Queen hiding in the deep pit of Erkstag. Eventually, the entire monster emerges from the lair when angry enough, revealing more tentacles, a scorpion-like body and massive maws.

* The Kraken from ''Franchise/ShiningSeries'' as it appears in ''VideoGame/ShiningForceII''.

* The 2007 film of ''Film/TheMist'' contains a scene in which a single large tentacle attacks several people in the loading dock of a grocery store. [[spoiler:In the end they see a huge four-legged monster sporting a bunch of these tentacles all over his belly/downside area. Note that these two weren't linked in the book, which had the tentacles but in the end only a monster so large, the mist prevented them from seeing the legs end]].
* In the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' series, eventually we see the whole Kraken, but most of the time it's just tentacles rising from the water.

* The Kraken from ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''. However in both cases after seeing his body he doesn't get much more action.

* ''VideoGame/X2'' contains giant limbs in two areas, notably the Sarlacc-like tentacles that ambushes you while you're flying over some sand dunes, and the beetle-like pincers of some giant insects in the last stage. These limbs can be destroyed, but you never see what subterranean horrors they belonged to.

* The [[LargeHam Great Mighty Poo]] from ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay''.

* ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'': An episode involves Jiro being trapped in an abandoned space station, and constantly being threatened by the snapping pincers of some unseen kaiju. It turns out those are the pincers of the crab-like monster Yadokarin, who finally reveals itself in the final battle.