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* ''Film/InspectorGadget2'': One of G2's own gadgets it's splitting herself in a half, so her legs can work as separate combatants.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Bem". The titular alien (Ari bn Bem) can detach parts of his body, including [[LosingYourHead his head]] and lower torso.
** Justified. Bem is a colony creature, meaning that he is made up of several separate organisms that share a single collective sentience.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Phantom 2040}}'' Hubert Graft detaches his lower half from his everyday legs to an attack droid. It is quite clear from his reaction that doing this is quite painful for him.

* ''Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk'': Wolverine's upper and lower halves become separated when he fights the green giant.

* In ''{{Dayo: Sa Mundo ng Elementalia}}'' (known in the English Dub as "Niko: Journey to Magika"), Anna and the Manananggals - like their mythological equivalents - can split their bodies in half at the waist, which allows them to reveal their wings to fly, although they must rejoin their body halves together again before sunrise or it will kill them. Oddly enough, this only applies when they're in the human realm - in their home realm of Elementalia/Magika, they can survive in sunlight and can use their wings without splitting in half.

* ''/VideoGame/NinjaShadowOfDarkness'' has [[DemBones skeleton mooks]] who breaks into half from the waist after receiving enough hits, but surprise surprise, both halves can continue attacking your hero independently. The lower half being a flailing pair of skeletal legs is as hilarious as it sounds.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1319 SCP-1319]] who is a research assistant of the foundation that got separated into 2 separate individuals consisting of his upper and lower body due to both halves getting sick of eachother. [[AnimateBodyParts Unlike any other example of this trope both the upper and lower half have individual personalities that are nothing like the original researcher's]].

* Happen in the NotSafeForWork C-Budgeted movie ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Erotic Ghost Story 2]]''. [[spoiler:In the climax of the movie, where [[HornyDevils two Demons]] are having a threesome with a woman, which is at first a {{Foreshadowing}} of what happens a few minutes after where she '''REALLY''' gets split in half by the BigBad male demon called Wu Tung. And like the foreshadowing, both halves are still alive. She pleads for her lower half back, because of her no longer feeling arousal, due to both halves being no longer attached. Once Wu Tung notices another girl who was watching and is out to stop him, he stops and tells the girl in half to put herself back together.]]

* PhilippineMythology: Manananggals are vampires with this ability. The upper half detaches at night and flies away to feed (a favorite treat is using its long tongue to feast on fetuses); if it does not rejoin the lower half by daybreak, the manananggal dies. The best way to prevent the manananggal from becoming whole is to sprinkle either salt or garlic on the lower half which remains stationary during its nightly sortie.

* Majin Buu in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' gets bisected by Goku. He's not slowed down by it at all since he's made of what is basically bubblegum and can regenerate, so Buu pulls himself together quickly. And uses his separated legs to knock out Tien.

* Wolverine's upper and lower halves become separated in ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wolverine_vs._Hulk Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk.]]''
* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Tapeworm can leave behind part or all of the flat segmented tail he has in place of legs and just regrow it.

* Manananggals of Filipino Mythology are vampires with this ability. The upper half detaches at night and flies away to feed (a favorite treat is using its long tongue to feast on fetuses); if it does not rejoin the lower half by daybreak, the manananggal dies. The best way to prevent the manananggal from becoming whole is to sprinkle either salt or garlic on the lower half which remains stationary during its nightly sortie.

Related: SawAWomanInHalf, HalfTheManHeUsedToBe, PullingThemselvesTogether, AppendageAssimilation and HavingAHeart.