History Main / DetachableLowerHalf

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1UDVhj0tNo&list=FLrdFV5z8dY0Rk9vdTVYBhsA This commercial for Cherry Coca-Cola]] has it happen to a ballet dancer [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext after a guy takes a glass of the advertised beverage that was standing on her butt like as if it was a table]].

* Tends to happen in Creator/TexAvery cartoons.

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

* The French scifi comedy ''{{ComicBook/Womoks}}'' had one strip where a guy gets his lower half blown off and asks to try out different prosthetic legs instead of his old ones (technology has advanced to the point where he can just grow the legs back in a few hours). He goes through a montage of differeint ones (including spider legs and tentacles) before settling for robotic treads with built-in miniguns... which he then abandons when it's pointed out that if he meets a girl he likes, he can shoot her at will.

* Den, the leader of Barjack from ''[[Manga/{{Gunnm}} Battle Angel Alita]]'', is... well, not a cyborg, but a separate personality of another character who operates a drone body via radio waves; he maintains two different lower bodies, a humanoid one and a horse-like one, which makes him resemble a centaur when he uses it. It's a bit of a mystery why, since he's about twelve stories tall and attaching the two halves of his body is a big operation.

* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Queeg", Rimmer starts suffering glitches after a meteor collision damages the hologram projection suite. The first symptom is when the top half of his body finds itself hovering in mid-air, while his legs have walked off on their own.

In Real life, people can survive bifurcation, but the lower body can't survive because the nerves are no longer being connected to the brain and it lacks a source of oxygenated blood, therefore victims need either [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetics on the lower body area]] or [[DisabilityTropes have to use a wheelchair]] for mobility. In Fiction, on the other hand, people can survive without a lower body and the lower body survives without being attached to the back nerves and blood vessels: not only that, but they can also reunite both halves and become whole again. Unlike LosingYourHead regrowing it never happens. Sometimes used as a superpower, and rarely uses psychic powers to control it. Usually used as an ability.

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* Happens to Amanda in episode 39 of ''Series/TheAmandaShow'', where her lower half runs away from her offscreen because "It doesn't like the pants". Her upper half says floating and completely oblivious of what happened, until one of the audience members points it out to her. She then asks for someone to find her lower half. One of the employees walks over to her with her lower half, as she explains to why it left and has [[PullingThemselvesTogether both halves taped back together]].

* Commander Hoek and Leutenant Stimpy have this happen in the episode "Black Hole" of ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy''.

In Real life, people can survive bifurcation, but the lower body can't survive because the nerves are no longer being connected to the brain and it lacks a source of oxygenated blood, therefore victims need either [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetics on the lower body area]] or [[DisabilityTropes have to use a wheelchair]] for mobility. In Fiction, on the other hand, people can survive without a lower body and the lower body survives without being attached to the back nerves and blood vessels: not only that, but they can also reunite both halves and become whole again. Unlike LosingYourHead regrowing it never happens. Sometimes used as a superpower, and rarely uses psychic powers to control it. Usually used as an ability.

It is usually justified for robots, because they either have a power source that keeps the lower body and upper body to keep going even when separated from the hip, or might have a normal core processor (which is the most common case). TheUndead may also exhibit this ability to have the upper body and lower body apart.

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

* Subverted in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' with Suigetsu in the anime-only expansion of Chapter 347 called "Zebuza's Blade".

* Played with in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' with the running theme of the detachable head.[[/folder]]

* Gimghamphatts from ''[[VideoGame/{{Onimusha}} Onimusha 2]]'' does this during the last boss fight.

* There are two commercials that play this trope the most bizzare way possible one happens to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIRzsrTKz3A Males]] another to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkFK_PhdeJw Females]].
* A [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain commercial of unknown reason]] on [=PubliTv=].com titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XhlkuCQLDg Goody's Por Partes]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UfAmTvHtkuw This Pepsi ad]].

* Wolverine's upper and lower halves become separated in ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wolverine_vs._Hulk Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk]]''.

* ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeHunters'': Weavel can do this, with his lower body functioning as a turret.

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* Played with in ''Scrubs'' with the running theme of the detachable head.[[/folder]]

* ''[[VideoGame/MetroidPrime Metroid Prime Hunters]]'': Weavel can do this, with his lower body functioning as a turret.

* Happens to Amanda in episode 39 of ''TheAmandaShow'', where her lower half runs away from her offscreen because "It doesn't like the pants". Her upper half says floating and completely oblivious of what happened, until one of the audience members points it out to her. She then asks for someone to find her lower half. One of the employees walks over to her with her lower half, as she explains to why it left and has [[PullingThemselvesTogether both halves taped back together]].