History Main / DeadHandShot

** In a flashback, the TitleCharacter's older sister was also killed and eaten by goblins. Her fallen arm was visible, then dragged as easily as if it were dismembered. [[spoiler: It actually was]].

* ''Series/{{Rome}}''. After Caesar is murdered, his loyal slave Posca is shown hauling a cart through the streets, and Caesar's bloody hand drops from it.

** When the Doctor [[DeaderThanDead dies permanently]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft "Turn Left"]], his body is covered with a sheet, but his limp hand falls into view and drops the sonic screwdriver.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', after Moses accidentally causes an Egyptian slave-driver to fall to his death, there's a brief glimpse of the dead man's arm amid the wreckage of the structure he landed on.
** There's also the scene where an Egyptian boy dies as a result of the final plague (the Angel of Death claiming Egypt's firstborn). He is seen carrying a large jug into a building and off screen with the picture focusing on the entrance of the building. The Angel, as a swirling light, enters and exits quickly. The sound of breaking earthenware is heard and his arm falls through the doorway indicating his sudden death.

* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' provides pretty bloody examples:

* In ''Anime/{{Another}}'', the last we see of the nurse Mizuno Sanae after she's been [[ElevatorFailure crushed inside a malfunctioning elevator]] is her limp, bloody hand poking out of the wreckage.

* In the 1943 version of ''Film/{{Jane Eyre|1943}}'', at the moment when Helen Burns's death is revealed, we only see her lifeless hand clasped in young Jane's as we hear Jane [[PleaseWakeUp trying to wake her]], then [[DeathWail screaming.]]
* ''Film/JurassicPark''

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMlDPsRwZE4 The ending]] of the 1930 film version of ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront''.

* ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'': As [=McCoy=] tries to save Klingon Chancellor Gorkon after an assassination, Gorkon gestures to Kirk, resting his hand upon his head and weakly says "Don't let it end [[ThisMeanWar this way]], Captain...", when his hand slowly slides down and he dies.

* The final shot from ''Film/TheGreatZiegfeld'' as Ziegfeld's hand falls limp after his final flashback.

* In the 1943 version of ''Film/JaneEyre'', at the moment when Helen Burns's death is revealed, we only see her lifeless hand clasped in young Jane's as we hear Jane [[PleaseWakeUp trying to wake her]], then [[DeathWail screaming.]]

* In thhe work safety PSA "[[https://youtu.be/0GXcbReCYwM Think About This]]", after a hapless worker is [[FoldSpindleMutilation fold-spindle-mutilated]] by a cotton baler, there is a shot of his mangled arm protruding from the resulting plastic-wrapped bale.

SisterTrope to LastGraspAtLife, where the focus on the hand is because it's the last part of a falling/drowning person to disappear. Contrast RaisedHandOfSurvival, where a hand is moving and indicates the character is alive.

* One version of the logo for ''Theatre/HeathersTheMusical'' has Heather Chandler's hand in this position.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': As soon as Atropos cuts Meg's Thread of Life, we see a close-up of her hand going limp.

* The first ''Film/SawI'' film has promotional posters featuring both a severed hand and a severed foot. Later films have posters with similar depictions focused on other body parts, such as two severed fingers for ''Film/SawII'', three teeth for ''Film/SawIII'', and John's severed head on a pound for ''Film/SawIV''. ''Film/SawVI'' brings back the severed hands with a leather glove-like stitching.

* The first ''Film/SawI'' film has promotional posters featuring both a severed hand and a [[{{Foreshadowing}} severed foot]]. Later films have posters with similar depictions focused on other body parts, such as two severed fingers for ''Film/SawII'', three teeth for ''Film/SawIII'', and John's severed head on a pound for ''Film/SawIV''. ''Film/SawVI'' brings back the severed hands with a leather glove-like stitching.

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* [[http://beauchampcollegemedia2011.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/249/ The poster]] for the first ''Film/SawI'' movie had this.

* In thhe work safety PSA "[[https://youtu.be/0GXcbReCYwM Think About This]]", after a hapless worker is [[FoldSpindleMutilation fold-spindle-mutilated]] by a cotton gin press, there is a shot of his mangled arm protruding from the resulting plastic-wrapped bale.

* In thhe work safety PSA "[[https://youtu.be/0GXcbReCYwM Think About This]]", after a hapless worker is [[FoldSpindleMutilation fold-spindle-mutilated]] by a fiberglass insulation packing machine, there is a shot of his mangled arm protruding from a bale of plastic wrap.

* In ''Manhua/RavagesOfTime'', this is how Xiao Meng meets his unhappy end, across several pages [[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v32/c257/25.html several pages]] that culminate [[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v32/c257/30.html thus]].

* In the climax of ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze'' the turtles are in a fight with Shredder, who had been mutated into a Super Shredder, knocking over everything in his path on a rampage, including the foundation of the dock that they are under. Leonardo even tried to warn him that he would kill them all including himself if he kept it up, [[RevengeBeforeReason but he kept going.]] Eventually, the dock collapses and the turtles barely escape with their lives. [[RaisedHandOfSurvival They then see the Shredder's hand emerge from the rubble,]] as they all groan and prepare for the worst, only for it to then fall limp.