History Main / MultiArmedAndDangerous

* ''ComicBook/{{Ronin}}'' features a humanoid four-armed rat ninja that threatens the title character at one point. He loses one arm to the samurai almost instantly, but still puts up a good fight with the remaining three.

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* Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'':

* In the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'', the Quaddies are so named because they have four arms and no legs (they are genetically designed freefall dwellers.) In ''Literature/DiplomaticImmunity'' Miles notes how unfair it is that their troops can literally shoot and reload at the same time.

** Asuramon is a humanoid with three heads and four arms that acts as a VillainOfTheWeek in ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' and an {{Elite Mook|s}} in ''Anime/DigimonFusion''. He can shoot fire out of each of his four hands for some mean fireball and ElementalPunch attacks.

** Hosts of a tailed beast are capable of making limbs out of chakra sprout from their body. Killer Bee makes CombatTentacles while [[spoiler:Naruto eventually learns to make them into many extra limbs that can each make their own Rasengan. This even includes making a pair of tiny hands coming from his finger that form their own tiny Rasenshuriken.]]
** By far and away the most dangerous example of this trope is [[spoiler:Madara Uchiha's Susanoo, especially its perfect form. Four arms, two strange blades, and capable of contributing to his techniques through also using hand signs. He cuts a mountain in half with it just to show off!]]
** The above example is topped by, fittingly enough, [[spoiler:his archenemy Hashirama Senju. To fight a Nine-Tails sheathed in the above-mentioned Perfect Susanoo, he creates a giant moving [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannon Kannon]] statue, complete with ''one thousand arms''.]]

* Dolor, the Giant Clan founder in ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'', has four arms. The other giants have only two, though.

** ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Memeber of the League of Assassins, and one-time LoveInterest of Bruce Wayne, Penumbra is trained in a mystic discipline from India that allows her to [[CastingAShadow manipulate the shadows around her into constructs]]. These constructs can include clothes, such as her suit, weapons, such as knives, swords and even crossbows and multiple arms, which she uses to fight her opponents.

** ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': In ''Red Robin'', Goliath of [[MurderInc the Council of Spiders]] has six arms and super strength, and another member of the team has a set of four removable mechanical arms and usually wields a gun in each hand, including his two naturally occurring ones.

** ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
*** In ''ComicBook/KryptonNoMore'', Superman and Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} fight the J'ai, a warrior race of aliens with four arms.

*** 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 DualWield bows.

*** Spider-man once attempted to get rid of his superpowers... but the attempt failed rather spectacularly, giving him ''six'' arms.

*** ComicBook/DoctorOctopus famously sports four additional mechanical limbs, as derivatives from Doc Ock's mold like Lady Octopus and the Squid.

*** ComicBook/{{Mystique}}, in one of the issues of her solo series, uses her shapeshifting abilities to grow a pair of extra arms to use in combat. It's noted that she could not maintain this state for long, as the transformation apparently put her under heavy strain.

*** The [[ComicBook/Marvel2099 X-Men 2099]] once fought [[PsychoRangers 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.

* Maybe not as dangerous, but used as a surprise: Zaphod tags Arthur with a surprise lower left (or is it centre?) in the movie version of ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. According to the novel, Zaphod had the extra arm fitted to improve his ski-boxing.

* Tang San's Eight Spider Lances from the Light Novel and animated Donghua adaption ''Literature/{{Douluo Dalu}}'' are an external Spirit Bone, and the [[spoiler:first Spirit Bone Tang San received after the absorption of the Spirit Ring of the Man Faced Demon Spider.]] There are 8 spider-like legs that are fused with the vertebra of Tang San's body. Tang San can manipulate them at will and recall them into the body, storing them as energy near some of his ribs. The Eight Spider Lances contains the extremely potent poison of the [[spoiler:Man Faced Demon Spider]] within the vertebra where the bone attaches to Tang San's spine, and these lances can be used to inject poison into another. Anyone who is even so much as scratched by or comes into contact with a lance without spirit power defense will immediately be poisoned and will shortly die unless Tang San removes the poison. The lances can also drain the life energy out of any living being and temporarily use it as its own.

* In ''Literature/FengshenYanyi'', some taoist immortals have mastered the power to obtain a monstrous battle form with three faces and six arms, which they often use to wield multiple Fabao/Paopei (the magic taoist instruments) at once, such as [[SyntheticPlague Lu Yue]], [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething Yin Jiao]] and [[PlayingWithFire Luo Shuan]]. The iconic Prince Nezha goes one step further and can sprout eight arms (two for his lance, two for the Yin-Yang Swords and one each for the bracelet, damask, fire trap and golden tile), though since his swords aren't well known he's usually depicted with six arms. Minor antagonist [[IAmAHumanitarian Ma Yuan]] has a magic ability which allows him to sprout a third, extensible arm from his back, which he uses to manhandle his opponents and [[AndShowsItToYou rip their hearts out of their chests]].

* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'': Zaphod Beeblebrox has three arms. He wasn't born that way; he got the third one added on to help with his "ski-boxing". And according to ''Literature/AndAnotherThing'', this may actually be so he has one hand for each of Eccentrica Gallumbits' breasts. Though it's not clear entirely.

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* ''Literature/SpaceAssassin'' has the deity, a six-armed Frankensteinian monster wielding six weapons simultaneously, serving as a boss battle.
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** ''Adventurers' Club'' magazine #2, adventure "What Rough Beast''. The {{PC}} heroes must defeat a gigantic mutated bear with four arms and lethal claw attacks.

* ''TabletopGame/FengShui''

*** In the 1st and 2nd Edition of the game, {{Mutant}}s in a Scavvy gangs could purchase extra arms that allowed them to wield more weapons during combat.

** ''The Treasure Vaults of Lindoran''. In one room the {{PC}}s can fight a four-armed bear that's as strong as a giant.
** ''Dark Tower''. The Lesser Sons of Set and Chosen Sons of Set can have multiple arms. Manahath the Chosen, a Chosen Son of Set the {{PC}}s will encounter at the end of the module, has two pairs of arms.

* Old-school ''TabletopGame/{{Talislanta}}'' has the Ahazu, a four-armed jungle-dwelling {{Berserker}} ProudWarriorRace.

* In ''VisualNovel/WeKnowTheDevil'', Jupiter gains these when [[spoiler:possessed by the devil, and in the True Ending.]]

* In ''Webcomic/CogaNito'', [[spoiler:Niko gains an additional pair of arms as Smooth Criminal when combining with two robots at once.]]

* ''Webcomic/LeavingTheCradle'' has a whole species of multi-armed aliens. Of whom, [[spoiler:Nea Khtara certainly qualifies as a badass, being able to swing humans around like ragdolls and bending a steel pipe with one hand.]]

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''

* In the superhero-themed Buttons and Mindy episode "Super Buttons" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', Buttons battles a carnivorous spider person (the mayor's own words) atop City Hall, an anthro spider supervillainess with four arms. She puts all four hands to use operating a giant fly swatter to put Buttons out of commission.

* Another show by the same creative team of ''Ben 10 ''that features a multi-armed character is ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'', where the character Breach, a [[PsychopathicManchild psychotic-emo girl]] dressed in a [[SailorFuku sailor suit]] uniform with her hair draping over her face who [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity underwent mutation with the activation of nanites that resided within her body]], has a another set of arms protruding below her original set of arms (while the forearms of her original set has grown monstrously huge!). Strangely, she doesn't really seem to use her additional limbs all that much even while in combat. They usually just like to [[IncrediblyLamePun hang around]] while her upper limbs get the job done. Occasionally, she has been seen using those extra arms of hers... to only mimic and move in concert with the gestures her upper arms perform. To be fair, her overly humongous upper arms kinda blocks the use of her lower pair of arms for anything ''but'' making gestures. And besides, she also has the ability to generate and create numerous [[CoolGate portals]] on a whim.

** It became so much of a recurring element that [[LampshadeHanging Jay lampshades]] it when [[spoiler:Mr. E uses the stolen Oni Mask of Vengeance to gain four arms.]]
-->'''Jay''': '''Four Arms? [[SeenItAll Like that's new]]'''

** "Game of Flags" reveals [[spoiler:Star's mother, Queen Moon, undergoes a similar transformation into a multi-armed humanoid butterfly when she "dips down" and taps into her full magical potential.]]

* ''Machinima/GamingAllStars'': [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1 Goro]] and [[VideoGame/MortalKombatII Kintaro]] in ''The Ultimate Crossover'' and ''Remastered'', along with [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/CrashTwinsanity Tikimon]]]] in ''2'', all of them having four arms and being rather menacing threats to match.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBotsMaster'': [[CyberNinja The robot Ninjzz]] has an odd asymmetrical version of this. He only has one right arm, which is a crossbow ArmCannon, while he has two left arms designated for wielding his various ninja weapons.

* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}''
** Nocturn and Gorast.

* Another show by the same creative team of ''Ben 10 ''that features a multi-armed character is ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'', where the character Breach, a [[PsychopathicManchild psychotic-emo girl]] dressed in a [[SailorFuku sailor suit]] uniform with [[BlindingBangs her hair draping over her face]] who [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity underwent mutation with the activation of nanites that resided within her body]], has a another set of arms protruding below her original set of arms (while the forearms of her original set has grown monstrously huge!). Strangely, she doesn't really seem to use her additional limbs all that much even while in combat. They usually just like to [[IncrediblyLamePun hang around]] while her upper limbs get the job done. Occasionally, she has been seen using those extra arms of hers... to only mimic and move in concert with the gestures her upper arms perform. To be fair, her overly humongous upper arms kinda blocks the use of her lower pair of arms for anything ''but'' making gestures. And besides, she also has the ability to generate and create numerous [[CoolGate portals]] on a whim.

* ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsFriendshipSouls'':Fluttershy's Evolved Fullbring gives her not only six arms, but the ability to make [[UpToEleven even more.]]

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* The crown of thorns starfish has 23 limbs (the most of any starfish), all of which are covered in [[SpikesOfVillainy poisonous spines]]. It has the dubious honor of being the most destructive animal in the world, as it's spikes cause a lot of damage to the coral reefs in which it lives as it crawls around.

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** The Earth Demon has four long arms that each do 11-30 HitPoints of damage per hit.
** The Storm Demon has four arms, each of which inflicts 9-16 HitPoints of physical damage per hit. Once per 2 melee turns each of its attacks can do an additional 13-24 HitPoints of electrical damage.
** The Greater Demon Tankras, Hell's Own General, has 4 arms that each wield a weapon. The four weapons are: (a) a 7 foot long golden sword that does 21-40 HitPoints of damage and a +20 critical hit; (b) a 7 foot long silver battle axe that does 31-50 HitPoints of damage and a +20 critical hit; (c) a spiked maul that does 15-24 HitPoints of damage and paralyzes the part of the body it hits; (d) flaming darts that can be thrown up to 900 yards and do 21-40 HitPoints of physical damage, a +80 critical hit and 7-12 HitPoints of fire damage per melee round (up to 13) that it sticks in its target.

** Glabrezu demons. They have 4 arms, two of which had pincers that do 2-12 HitPoints each. And [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction consequently]] [[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Draegloth Draegloth]].

** 2nd Edition ''The Nightmare Lands'' supplement. The greater dream-spawn called Ennui have four arms that each do 1-6 HitPoints of damage.

** Gorbles and Goroulyas are four-armed monsters that do 4-24 and 2-16 HitPoints of damage (respectively) with their claws.
** Purples are large four armed creatures that do 4-40 HitPoints damage with their claw attacks. If their opponents are at a distance they can throw boulders that do 3-18 HitPoints of damage.

** ''The Thieves of Fortress Badabaskor''. The would-be deity Angall of the Perpetual Void had four arms. He normally fought with two +1 swords in his right hands and two +1 maces in his left hands, doing up to 72 HitPoints of damage per round with all four weapons combined.

** ''The Dungeoneer'' magazine #10, article "Monster Matrix". The Reflector Beast has four arms and can attack its enemies with a long, thin dagger in each hand. Each dagger attacks at a +3 chance to hit and +3 HitPoints damage per hit and it can split its attacks among up to four opponents at a time. It can throw up to 8 daggers per combat round at fleeing opponents, each with a +5 chance to hit.

** Green Giants have four arms that each do 3-18 HitPoints of damage per hit.
** Nara-Simha are humanoids with the heads of lions and six long arms that end in powerful claws. Each arm inflicts 2-8 HItPoints of damage.

* Dolor, the Giant Clan founder in ''Manga/NanatsuNoTaizai'', has four arms. The other giants have only two, though.

** Similarly, the four-armed English noblewoman Ariadne Steelgarter is able to wield a combination of bladed weapons and guns; whether there is any connection between her and Boris remains unknown. She is also able to stab two soldiers when she changes her mind about surrendering, because they forgot they had to hold ''all'' her arms.

** Similarly, the four-armed English noblewoman Ariadne Steelgarter is able to wield a combination of bladed weapons and guns; whether there is any connection between her and Boris remains unknown.

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* In ''Animation/SweetSea'', Squidney can turn his tentacles into many different things, including a human hand, cages, and simply elongating them to steal things.

** When Renji learns [[spoiler:the true name of his Bankai]], one of the powers he gains is the ability to summon [[DownplayedTrope a third arm]] that moves along with his left arm and is strong enough to crush giant stone slabs.

* Ran Pao Pao from ''Manga/SazanEyes'', in her monster form.