History Main / MultiArmedAndDangerous

** The X-Men 2099 once fought a twisted version of the original five X-Men. The Beast parallel had ''three'' arms, two on the right side and one on the left.

* Almost all Hindu deities, making this one OlderThanDirt. Giving a large number of arms to a supernatural being just seems to be a popular way of indicating it's menacing and powerful (take a gander at the hundred-armed giant Hecatoncheires of Greek mythology).

** And let's not forget the venerable Dr. Octopus. And derivatives from his mold like Lady Octopus and the Squid.

** Furthermore there's henchman types Barbarous and [[IncrediblyLamePun Forearm]], who are practically indistinguishable from one another. Marvel likes this trope.

** And let's not forget the venerable Dr. Octopus.

* Rip Roar, a bad guy from ''YoungJustice''.

* The titular character of Mikhail Akhmanov's ''Dick Simon'' novels was born in a human town on planet Tayahat whose gravity is 1.5 Earth norm. The planet is populated by a tribal race of four-armed humanoids. Their males live for combat, and boys are trained from young age to kill (as well as honor). Dick is brough to them as a boy by his father and is raised as one of them, before leaving to join the Academy, where he receives more modern training as an operative by a red-headed [[EverythingIsBiggerInTexas Texan]].

* When Piper and Leo got posessed by a couple of Hindu gods in one episode of ''{{Charmed}}'', Piper grew four more arms.

* In the fourth season episode "The Way" of ''{{XenaWarriorPrincess}}'', Xena and Gabrielle are confronted by a demonic sorcerer named Indrajit while in India. After Xena slices off one of Indrajit's arms, it grows back and is soon joined by four more. Now a six-armed warrior, Indrajit proceeds to prove his badassery by slicing both of Xena's arms off.

* Six-Gun in the ''[[ThePuppetmaster Puppetmaster]]'' movies is a cowboy puppet with six arms and as many little revolvers.

** Savage Land Mutant Barbarus and [[RobLiefeld]] creation Forearm, or is that Fourarm?

* Averted in ''{{Unreal}}'': the locals of Na Pali (the Nali) have four arms and two legs, but are hardly dangerous.
** Odd considering various critters (cow and rabbit equivalents)have only two limbs total, both legs. They also have floating 'gasbags' which consist of a wide head and two arms.

** Seravee Gundam from ''{{Gundam 00}}'' has four {{BFG}}s, two on its shoulders and two in its knees. These all are capable of sprouting hands equipped with beam sabers in addition to the Seravee's normal pair, allowing Seravee to simultaneously fight with ''six beam sabers at one time''.

* General Grievous from ''StarWars'' has arms that can both split in two. He's a cyborg, so it kind of makes sense. In StarWarsCloneWars he could hold lightsabers with his feet, too.

*** Technically speaking, both species have two arms, two legs, and two "intermdeiate limbs" that can be used as both.

*** Marilith (named Kary in her first appearance [[LawyerFriendlyCameo to prevent lawsuits]] is taken from ''DungeonsAndDragons'', mentioned below.
* Some ''[=~Pok?n~=]'' gain extra arms in their most powerful forms -- namely Machamp.

** When Ledyba evolves, it is more noticeable that the first 4 limbs are infact arms. Ledian is very weak, however :(

** From ''[[BenTen Ben 10 Alien Force]]'', Spidermonkey.

** In the EarthX trilogy, Hawkeye's mutation from when everyone on Earth gained superpowers was four arms. We only see them in flashback, but he probably gained some ability to DuelWield bows.

* SpiderMan once attempted to get rid of his superpowers... but the attempt failed rather spectacularly, giving him ''six'' arms. [[SarcasmMode Not conspicuous at ''all'']].
** And let's not forget the venerable Dr. Octopus.

* SpiderMan once attempted to get rid of his superpowers... but the attempt failed rather spectacularly, giving him ''six'' arms. Not conspicuous at ''all''.

* SpiderMan once attempted to get shot of his superpowers...but the attempt failed rather spectacularly, giving him ''six'' arms. Not conspicuous at ''all''.

* Tien of ''Dragonball'' had the ability to grow two extra arms. He only used this once while fighting Goku, and it was never seen again, unfortunately.
** Goku copied and improved on the technique to sprout six arms.

** Roronoa Zoro has also developed a technique that, via unknown means, grants him three heads and six arms, for a total of nine swords (one in each hand, and one in each mouth)
*** Not a true example. His Asura technique is really SuperSpeed that allows him to use each sword as if there were three of them. It follows his religious ThemeNaming.
**** It's a [[KiAttacks Haki powered]] technique of some sort.

* In ''OrderOfTheStick'', this is one of Durkon's fears concerning trees: they have so many "arms" that they'd be able to attack you dozens of times per [[RPGMechanicsVerse turn]]. That trees don't actually move doesn't dissuade his fears.

So, you've got a character that you want to show is really [[{{Badass}} dangerous]]. You could give him/her the normal two arms or legs, but that's just not enough. Maybe you could replace one of those arms with a [[ArmCannon really big gun]], or a [[{{BFS}} sword]], or have it [[MorphWeapon transform into something else]].