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[[caption-width-right:350:"Perhaps you missed... my ''[[MultiWielding extra arms]]!''"]]

* ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness''/''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness''

* The heroine of the Krakow Studios comic ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'' cribs [[Franchise/SpiderMan another hero's origin story]] and gets four new arms out of the deal.

-->'''Kaku:''' Why does [[Franchise/SpiderMan Dr. Octopus]] get to have all the fun?

* Toys/HeroFactory: [=XT4=] and Speeda Demon.
* Toys/LEGOSpacePolice: Frenzy (even described in a log video as "multi-armed and dangerous")

** ''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 PCs will encounter at the end of the module, has two pairs of arms.

*** In ''The Six Arms Saga'', Spider-Man attempted to get rid of his superpowers... but the attempt failed rather spectacularly, giving him ''six'' arms.

** Nico Robin, whose [[TouchedByVorlons Devil Fruit]] ability allows her to grow vast numbers of replicas of any of her body parts (she almost always uses it to make more arms). She can grow them from any place. ''Any'''. Place.

** ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': 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.

*** There's a woman with six arms that goes by the name of Black Widow (no relation to Natasha Romanoff). She had sporadic appearances within the comic, appearing either in long shots or as part of the background, as well as having no spoken dialogue. An early concept sketch for Venom also showed her with six arms, generated by the symbiote.

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

** Ai Apaec of the ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'' has about eight limbs, and he could be joined by any other deities from mythology who were examples should Marvel decide to use them.
** Coat of Arms only has two naturally but her coat gives her two more.

** ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

*** ''ComicBook/SpiderManDeadpool'': Itsy Bitsy is a woman received DNA from both Spider-Man and Deadpool, which caused her to turn into a psychotic spider-like creature. She has six arms armed with guns and sharp organic webbing.
** Sugar Man is a {{Cephalothorax}} with four arms.

** Barbarus (a Savage Lands mutate with 4 arms and strong enough to overpower the goddess Sif) and Forearm (a superhumanly strong Mutant Liberation Front terrorist with 4 arms) are practically indistinguishable from one another. The former probably directly inspired the latter, though. Marvel likes this trope.%%ZCE

*** Characters/{{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.

* ''ComicBook/{{Ironwood}}'' features a [[AmazonianBeauty four-armed Amazonian woman]], though she only really becomes armed and dangerous after her skin, flesh and [[BoobsOfSteel fabulous pair of chesty bulbs]] are [[StrippedToTheBone disintegrated]], turning her into a four-armed skeleton wielding a sword and shield with her lower pair of arms, and a huge flail with her upper pair.

* From ''Roleplay/RubyQuest'', [[spoiler:Tom]] has an extra pair of arms. They're much smaller than his main pair and are usually concealed under his shirt, but give at least one opponent a very nasty surprise.

** Sulphus, the Techmarine from the ''Deathwatch'' novel ''Warrior Coven'', has three mechanical arms and one organic one. These arms allow him to fly a speeder and use the turret at the same time as well as firing his bolter, something that would normally require three people. At one point, he uses two of his arms to hold on to a spinning Talos and the other two to rip an armour plate off. He then jumps inside, blows it up and does a walking out through the flames sequence like in the first Terminator

** Plus there's "Three Pistol" Sammy Chung from a Feng Shui fansite, who's a demon with three arms (the third one in the center) that, as his nickname implies, specializes in a rather freaky form of three-gun GunsAkimbo.

* In the canceled series ''WesternAnimation/{{Stripperella}}'', a supervillainess going by the name of Pushy Galore has two (hidden) extra sets of arms due to, in her words, the fringe benefits of being a genetic physicist. After revealing her six-armed frame, she even tells Stripperella to call her [[IncrediblyLamePun Octo-Pushy]]. Sadly, she only gets screen time in one episode, though the slight perk is that she actually uses her six arms to do a [[MultiArmedMultitasking multitude of actions]] that are lacking in many other animations featuring multi-armed characters (such as piloting and controlling a blimp with all six of her arms).

* ''Franchise/TheTransformers'' has had a few figures with extra arms over the years, either deliberately or as a result of fans beingn able to tweak the transformation. For example, the G1 Autobot Repugnus could have his mantis-like monster arms unfolded and deployed when he was in robot mode while Insecticon Kickback had four arms normally. In the "War For Cybertron: Siege" subline, Shockwave came with extra bits that let him add a second pair of arms that each ended with an ArmCannon instead of a hand, while the [[EquippableAlly Brunt]] could form an extra set of arms with large claws that attached to another character.

* ''WebAnimation/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.

*** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The Crimson Centipede, a Silver Age villain, has sixteen arms and Cana reliably wield eight guns simultaneously.

*** [[Characters/MarvelComicsOttoOctavius Doctor Octopus]] famously sports four additional mechanical limbs, as derivatives from Doc Ock's mold like Lady Octopus and the Squid.

* Umidori Kuroyoru from ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has the esper ability "Bomber Lance", which lets her [[BlowYouAway fire lances of compressed nitrogen from the palms of her hands]]. Deciding she wanted the ability to fire more than two at a time, she [[{{Cyborg}} underwent some good old-fashioned augmentations]] so she could attach multiple robot arms to her body to fire multiple lances. Individually those lances are smaller since the cybernetic palms are usually smaller than her own, but by combining them together she can make some ''massive'' lances.

* PlayedWith in ''Anime/RoninWarriors'': one of the Dark Warlord Sekhmet's special attacks involves growing four extra arms, each with its own sword. The first time he does this, his opponent Ryo has ''no'' idea how to counter it. Fortunately, TagalongKid Yuli snaps a picture of Sekhmet with his pocket camera, and it shows that the six arms are a trick: Sekhmet really has only two arms, he just gives the illusion of six by moving his arms at super-speed.

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''

** ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Memeber of the League of Assassins, and one-time {{Love Interest|s}} 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.

* One of the assassins in ''Film/AeonFlux'' (based on the animated show as well) has hands instead of feet.

* ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett''

* Almost all Hindu deities, but probably most notably [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali Kali]]. Hindu deities are only depicted as having multiple limbs as an artistic representation of their [[TheOmnipotent divine omnipotence]], making this more a variant on MultiArmedMultitasking. Depending on the intent of the depiction, you can find representations of the Hindu gods with the standard 2 arms and 2 legs, rather than the typically thought of 6 arms, 2 legs, though sometimes eight or more arms are depicted, and occasionally even the legs get multiplied.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''

** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''

* ''TabletopGame/JudgesGuild''

* [[http://zapinspace.com/d/20060420.html Grontar]] in the webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Zap}}!'': a huge four-armed mechanic.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', ArrogantKungFuGuy Hak Foo obtained the Bands of Shiva, a pair of bracelets that when worn made him grow extra arms.

* The evil Dr. Killemoff from ''WesternAnimation/ToxicCrusaders'' was a four-armed pollution-breathing alien from the planet Smogula.

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** The "Type V" or "Marilith" demon, which was likely inspired by the above deities (and the demons they frequently battled in myth).

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'':

** The BackFromTheDead villain [[spoiler:named Tiol]] grows arms out of his body thanks to the LostTechnology based SuperSerum he’s enhanced with, gaining the materials via HorrorHunger.
** When Akira is [[DismembermentIsCheap getting one of his arms replaced]] in the hospital, during their tests of the culture-grown arm that’s meant to be grafted onto him, while it’s supposed to be synched to his remaining arm, he moves it and his own arm differently. This impresses the doctor and prompts a discussion with his VirtualSidekick about getting cyborg arms, and the doctor pesters Akira to buy PoweredArmor with extra arms they’re selling. Akira's ease in handling such is tied to him being [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual an old world connector]], but he thinks it’d be too weird .

* ''ComicBook/TheF1rstHero'': In the "Fight For Your Life" storyline, we're introduced to Odinson, an extrahuman fighter who has a third arm.