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** In Part 5, Ciocolatta can do this with some improvisation from his stand Green Day. This leads to one of the [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel nastiest, most gruesome useages]] of this trope.

* ''{{Dead Space}}'' had this twisted example of a type of necromorph ([[{{Our Zombies Are Different}} Undead-like monster]] enemies that attack you throughout the game). This type of necromorph attacks similarly to most other necromorphs (get close enough and slash), but distinguishes itself by being tall and spindly in build. Once you 'kill' one of these by doing enough damage to it, however, it splits up into its head and four separate limbs and continues crawling, slithering (yes, the head slithers) and attacking the player via these appendages.

* ''OnePiece''

* A specific challenge in ''MortalKombat9'''s Challenge Tower requires the battle to be conducted by throwing your arms, legs, and head at your opponent. After you do, your flung limb will regrow after a certain period of time.

* Cluster bots in RobotWars, going into the arena as one unit, splitting up when the battle starts. The first and most notable was Gemini, and in the middleweight division, there was Typhoon Twins - which consisted of the lightweight bots Typhoon Lightning and Typhoon Thunder connected with essentially a piece of string and a sheet of paper at the start of the match. Originally a cluster bot was judged to have lost if one of the units was rendered immobile, but this was later changed...and then changed back.

* ''RockManMinusInfinity'' has the Square Machine. Mega Man has to dodge the sections as they move from one half to the other.

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* The villain in the ''{{Angel}}'' episode "I Fall to Pieces" could do this.

* ''{{VideoGame/Skullgirls}}'': Any place where Miss Fortune has a scar on her body is where she can detach her parts. She utilizes this extensively in battle, especially with [[LosingYourHead her head]].

* KingdomHearts'' series

* One of the early giant robots fought by ''MazingerZ'' had this ability (its parts had individual rocket propulsion).

* Afro Droid in ''AfroSamurai''.

* ''CodeLyoko'' had the Skidblamdir, carrying four ''Navskids''. HilariousInHindsight when ''Moonscoop'' produced ''FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes''.
* This was the main gimmick of Fallapart Rabbit in {{Bonkers}}, though he always did it by accident and [[RuleOfFunny it was played for laughs.]]

* ''{{Skullgirls}}'': Any place where Miss Fortune has a scar on her body is where she can detach her parts and she utilizes this in battle, especially with [[LosingYourHead her head]].

** The Turn-X {{Gundam}} from ''TurnAGundam'' has this as its most notable ability - its limbs can break off, and divide into smaller pieces, to fly around and attack the opponent from many directions at once with beam attacks and a strange power that dries-out the energy of opponent mechas. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a__a0BkR0fg Recreated on great detail]] in ''SuperRobotWarsZ''
** The Great Zeong from the ''G Generation'' video games, apparently the original plan for the Zeong from ''MobileSuitGundam'' but nowhere near feasible for its time, does the same (and in fact, its various "segments" are based on Zeon mobile armors: the legs on the [[MobileSuitGundam Bigro]], the waist on [[MobileSuitGundam the Big Zam]], and the chest on [[{{ptitled636c0z1}} the Apsaras]]). The regular Zeong can send its arms out on cables, and its head is an escape craft, but it's not quite the same.

* Sockarang from ''{{Axe Cop}}'', with the added twist that his arms are ''socks''.

* There's an alien from MenInBlack II who starts out looking like a single tall humanoid. But when it begins to fight Agent Jay, it [[TotemPoleTrench turns into five or six smaller aliens]] that fly around and attack Agent Jay by dive-bombing him.

** The Turn-X {{Gundam}} from ''TurnAGundam'' has this as its most notable ability - its limbs can break off, and divide into smaller pieces, to fly around and attack the opponent from many directions at once with beam attacks and a strange power that dries-out the energy out of opponent mechas.

** The Turn-X {{Gundam}} from ''Turn A Gundam'' has this as its most notable ability - its limbs can break off, and divide into smaller pieces, to fly around and attack the opponent from many directions at once with beam attacks and a strange power that dries-out the energy out of opponent mechas.