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11	[[caption-width-right:340:The ocean... as deep as [[DeathSeeker his]] sorrows.]]
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13	->''"Where's the rest of me?"''
14	-->-- '''[[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Drake McHugh]]''', ''Film/KingsRow''
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16	Limb loss as dramatic device. Can come about in a variety of ways:
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18	* '''Self-amputation:''' The character deliberately removes the limb themselves, [[LifeOrLimbDecision under duress]] or otherwise.
19	* '''Accident:''' The loss is accidental, or occurs during battle.
20	* '''Deliberate:''' Another person/entity deliberately rips, cuts or otherwise separates the limb from the owner. It may happen in battle, but it only counts as deliberate if it's... well, deliberate -- the combatant wanted to sever a limb, not just win the battle.
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22	May be the predecessor to ArtificialLimbs, ArmCannon, HookHand, or SwissArmyAppendage. Frequently appears in the backstory of a HandicappedBadass. If played for laughs, it's AmusingInjuries; if there's no lasting damage it's OnlyAFleshWound. If done as a criminal punishment, it's AmputativeSentencing. If it's a severed hand, expect it to be used in a DeadHandShot. A character with AppendageAssimilation will simply stitch a new appendage on the gaping hole, and a character with a sufficiently powerful HealingFactor will grow the appendage back before long. Expect these characters to be extra-likely to lose their limbs in the first place so their abilities can be shown off.
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24	Interestingly enough, you almost never see a limb actually sewn ''back'' to the body of the victim, which is probably the most sensible thing you can do once deprived of it (provided that you're able to retrieve the lost limb in a reasonable amount of time and keep it in sanitary conditions). Although this is actually a well-known, albeit rare, occurrence in surgery with a decent ratio of success in terms of restoring partial or even full limb mobility (at least considering the complexity of the procedure; there is a ''lot'' of stuff that needs to be joined back together in your hand, mind you, not to mention the constant [[RaceAgainstTheClock time pressure]]), [[RealityIsUnrealistic most people are unaware of it]] and would probably ridicule the very idea.
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26	'''Note that this trope only applies when limb loss is deliberately used to advance the plot.''' It does not apply to pre-existing conditions or incidental carnage amongst background characters. If the incident leading to the loss is featured in a flashback, by all means, include it, but if we only see the character after it happens it doesn't count.
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28	Compare {{Kneecapping}}, and AgonyOfTheFeet. FakeArmDisarm is a bloodless version of this trope, whereas a LiteralDisarming is this trope done for the explicit purpose of removing someone's ability to fight or wield weapons. If the injury specifically represents or comments upon some aspect of the character it counts as SymbolicMutilation.
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30	Arranged by medium as usual, but please note what type it is at the beginning of the entry.
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32	!!Examples subpages:
33	[[index]]
34	* AnArmAndALeg/AnimeAndManga
35	* AnArmAndALeg/ComicBooks
36	* AnArmAndALeg/FanWorks
37	* AnArmAndALeg/{{Film}}
38	* AnArmAndALeg/{{Literature}}
39	* AnArmAndALeg/LiveActionTV
40	* AnArmAndALeg/VideoGames
41	* AnArmAndALeg/VisualNovels
42	* AnArmAndALeg/{{Webcomics}}
43	* AnArmAndALeg/WesternAnimation
44	[[/index]]
45
46	!!Other examples:
47	[[foldercontrol]]
48
49	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
50	* ''Animation/TobotGalaxyDetectives'': In "My Friend [=RO=]-B!", at the climax of the episode, Rocket and [=RO=]-B are [[spoiler:in danger of being sucked into a black hole. Since Rocket is hanging on to [=RO=]-B, the latter severs his arm, [[HeroicSacrifice allowing himself to be sucked into the black hole so Rocket can escape]]]].
51	[[/folder]]
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53	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
54	* In ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'', B.D. lost his leg in Iraq.
55	* Becky from ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'' lost her left arm in a drunk driving accident, caused by Wally Winkerbean... her future husband.
56	[[/folder]]
57
58	[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
59	* In ''Biancabella and the Snake'', her hands are cut off and her eyes put out so they can be taken back as evidence that she was in fact murdered.
60	* In ''The Girl Without Hands'', the father cuts off her hands at the Devil's instigation.
61	* In ''Literature/TheOneHandedGirl'', the girl's brother cuts her hand off in the process of cutting down her pumpkin vine.
62	* In ''Literature/TsarevichPetrAndTheWizard'', one ferryman demands that you let him cut off your right hand; the next, your left foot.
63	[[/folder]]
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65	[[folder:Music]]
66	* In "Barrett's Privateers", a Canadian crew of inept privateers tries to hunt American merchant ships during the American Revolutionary War, and their sole survivor ends up arriving legless at Halifax, damning everyone in the world.
67	* In the traditional Irish song "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye", which shares a tune with "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" and "The Ants Go Marching", the returning soldier the song is about is missing at least one arm and one leg, in addition to having been blinded.
68	* In Music/EricBogle's song "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda", a young Australian soldier loses his legs in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI:
69	-->''And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay\
70	I looked at the place where my legs used to be\
71	And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for me\
72	To grieve and to mourn and to pity''
73	* In the music video for Music/FallOutBoy's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hDZbroaQDc The Phoenix]]", Patrick's left hand is chopped off to separate him from a MacGuffin. The injury remains for the rest of ''The Youngblood Chronicles'', and he wears a HookHand for most of the series.
74	* In Music/IronMaiden's concert video, ''Raising Hell'', one of the illusions that magician Simon Drake did involved cutting off guitarist Dave Murray's hands.
75	* Music/{{Metallica}}'s "One" is about a soldier who was [[FateWorseThanDeath wounded by a land mine]] but, [[AndIMustScream unfortunately, survived]].
76	-->''Landmine has taken my sight\
77	Taken my speech\
78	Taken my hearing\
79	Taken my arms\
80	Taken my legs\
81	Taken my soul\
82	Left me with life in hell''
83	* "The Face of Victory" by Music/DavidRovics is sung form the perspective of returned veteran who lost both legs to an IED in Iraq.
84	* In "[[Music/ShiaLaBeoufLive Shia LaBeouf]]", you lose your lower leg when it's caught in a bear trap and you have to gnaw it off to escape. You limp everywhere afterward, and the blood loss is a liability when you encounter and end up fighting Shia [=LaBeouf=].
85	* Music/{{Vocaloid}}:
86	** In the song "Fear Garden", Rin cuts off people's arms to use as flowers in her garden.
87	** In one of the [=PVs=][[note]]there are two different [=PVs=] for the song, the one mentioned here being the 3D one[[/note]] for the song "Hello, Planet", Miku's arm falls off due to damage from a rain of debris. However, it is restored when her tear makes a plant grow and it carries her all the way to heaven.
88	[[/folder]]
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90	[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
91	* At the bend of the river Scheldt, legend tells of a giant who demanded toll from everyone who wanted to sail past his fortress. If they couldn't or didn't want to pay the toll, the giant (Sus Antigoon) cut off their hand as punishment. Silvius Brabo, a Roman soldier, sought to bring an end to Antigoon's cruelty and defeated him. After this defeat, Brabo cut off Antigoon's own hand and threw it into the Scheldt. Supposedly, this is where the city of Antwerp, Belgium got its name from. "Hand" and "Werpen" (to throw).
92	* In the ''Literature/BookOfExodus'', a law states that if a woman attempts to rescue her husband from a fight by grabbing his opponent's genitals, her hand is to be chopped off. (That sounds like DisproportionateRetribution to modern readers, but since she'd be jeopardizing that man's estate and his ability to worship in the Temple, the punishment was accordingly harsh.) Presumably, that punishment would have applied to ''anyone'' who did that, but that particular passage is likely in reference to a specific NoodleIncident.
93	* Myth/CelticMythology:
94	** The [=MacAllister=] family crest includes a severed hand holding a dirk. The story behind it is that one of the [=MacAllisters=] was in a boat race out to a sand dune and back, with the first to touch shore winning. Upon realizing that he was not going to beat his opponent, he cut off his hand, put his dirk with the family crest in it for identity, and then threw it onto the beach for the win.
95	** The Irish god Nuada lost his arm with the champion of the Fir Bolg, named Sreng. This cost him his kingship, as a maimed king could not rule, so he was replaced by the god Bres, who quickly proved to be a tyrant. To fix this he was given a new arm crafted by Goibniu, the god of smiths, made out of silver. This made him eligible for kingship again and Nuada led the gods in overthrowing Bres and taking the thrown back.
96	** The warrior king Mesgegra lost a hand in battle. Conall Cernach fights him with one hand tucked into his belt to make it fair. Conall kills him.
97	** When Cu Chulainn [[DiedStandingUp Dies Standing Up]], his enemy Lugaid chops off his head, but the sword in Cu Chulainn's hand falls and chops off Lugaid's hand. Out of spite, Lugaid and his men then chop off Cu Chulainn's hand. Conall Cernach pursues Lugaid to avenge Cu Chulainn, and again fights with one hand tucked into his belt to make it fair. Even then, Conall is only able to win when his horse takes a bite out of Lugaid's side.
98	* In Myth/NorseMythology, the gods want to chain [[SavageWolves Fenrir]] up since they fear how strong he's getting, and since it's prophetised that he'll cause them great trouble. Not trusting them, Fenrir only agrees to be chained up if the god Tyr puts his hand in Fenrir's mouth. When Fenrir then finds that he can't break the chain the gods used and they refuse to let him go, he bites off Tyr's hand in retaliation.
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101	[[folder:Podcasts]]
102	* Merle loses his right arm in ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'' when [[ItMakesSenseInContext a god lies to him]] and his arm starts to crystalize, leading to Magnus chopping it off to save him. He gets a sweet wooden arm as a replacement.
103	* ''Podcast/DiceFunk'': Jayne loves tearing the arms off of her foes and even keeps one in her pack. This is arguably an EstablishingCharacterMoment.
104	* In ''Podcast/{{SAYER}}'', Jack is forced to remove [[ShoutOut a pound of his]] [[Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice flesh]] to conceal a stolen device in his pocket from floor scales -- and allowed to [[SadisticChoice choose]] between flaying a section of his torso or amputating his left hand. He chooses the amputation.
105	* In ''Podcast/TrialsAndTrebuchets'', [[spoiler:when [[TheGreatSerpent Neska]] learns that Mira has had her arm replaced with a magic one as a blessing from Empress Terassis, she quickly bites Mira's arm off and devours it, though, as Mira hadn't specified which arm it was, Neska was unaware that it was actually Mira's ''left'' arm that was magical and instead ate her right arm.]]
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108	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
109	* ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} 2013/2020'': Often done voluntarily in order to [[{{Cyborg}} replace them with metal]].
110	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
111	** In both the 3.5 and 4th editions, artificers that become reforged remove one of their limbs and replace it with an artificial one.
112	** The lich-god Vecna lost an eye and a hand in battle with his traitorous lieutenant Kas. As a god, he's still missing both, and seems completely unable to restore them. The Hand and Eye of Vecna are legendary artifacts that grant incredible power (especially if ''both'' are used by the same person), but they come with some vicious drawbacks (not least of which is that, unless you're already missing an eye or your left hand, well...).
113	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Followers of the god of torture Zon-Kuthon consider this an honor.
114	* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': In the novel ''2XS'', protagonist Dirk Montgomery loses his arm when it gets burned by the magic spell of the wasp spirit queen. Luckily for him, he gets a cyber arm installed for free as a reward for taking out the insect spirit hive.
115	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Fairly standard practice in the setting; many characters will have their limbs removed and replaced with mechanical devices:
116	** Adeptus Mechanicus priests require this of themselves. Young adepts will have some augmentation but are still wholly human. Skitarii and regular Adepts will have a good few limbs replaced and augmented with bionics. Senior Adepts will be more machine than man and often have replaced all of their limbs (and parts of their brain in extreme cases).
117	** The Iron Hands chapter requires the amputation of one of their hands as a rite of initiation, which is replaced with a bionic one. This is to honor their founder, Ferrus Manus, who slew a dragon by drowning it in lava; the lava fused the dragon's metallic skin to Ferrus's hands. And their belief that unaugmented flesh is weak means that it rarely stops there.
118	** The Iron Hands' EvilCounterpart, the Iron Warriors, differ from most other Chaos Legions in that they don't view mutations as a sign of the gods' twisted favour; instead, they view them as annoying inconveniences, and tend to replace them with cybernetics at the first opportunity. It's not to honour their founder or anything of the sort, because the Iron Warriors are brutal pragmatists of the first order; it's just that if an arm can't be used to kill people effectively, the Iron Warriors don't view that arm as useful.
119	** In one version of the fluff, whatever happened to end Rogal Dorn's life apparently left his hands behind, the skeletal remains of which have the names of various Imperial Fist champions etched (in minute detail) into them over the millennia.
120	** Most of the Ork's "medicine" boils down to "find a spare, lob it off, then get sewing". This sometimes extends to ''their heads'' as well. They were intentionally created to allow this sort of patchwork surgery to work and to survive the horrible shock of losing multiple limbs without dying. Most notably, the Power Klaws often look like they're not gloves, but bionic replacements for their hands (not that an ork minds it).
121	* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': Long Drong Slayer's high-risk trade has been taking its toll on him, and he has lost a leg and arm to different sea monsters and eye to a bet. The cost that this is taking on his physical abilities is part of his increasingly morose humor.
122	* ''TabletopGame/TheWitcherRolePlayingGame'': Deadly Critical Injuries (achieved by beating a target's Defense by 15) have a chance to outright dismember a person, or just [[OffWithHisHead kill them outright.]]
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125	[[folder:Theater]]
126	* Parodied in ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'' when Bassanio's new wife demands the wedding ring he has been forced to give away:
127	-->'''Bassanio:''' Why, I were best to cut my left hand off\
128	And swear I lost the ring defending it.
129	* In ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'':
130	** Lavinia has both her hands cut off -- after being brutally raped and having her tongue cut out.
131	** Titus is forced to cut his own hand off and send it as ransom for his kidnapped sons. They're beheaded anyway. It's a cheery play.
132	* Mentioned in ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' as part of the reason Antonio the pirate is wanted in Illyria: he instigated a sea-fight in which the duke's nephew lost a leg.[[note]]A nephew whose name, coincidentally, was Titus.[[/note]]
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135	[[folder:Web Animation]]
136	* In Episode 5 of ''WebAnimation/{{Astartes}}'', Sergeant Kohren loses his right hand when he tries freeing himself from the Orb with a point-blank plasma blast that simply explodes the plasma pistol in his hand.
137	%%* ''WebAnimation/{{Damaged}}'': In episode 6, Emily's arm comes off. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)
138	* In episode 1 ''WebAnimation/{{Fanfictasia}}'', Harley Quinn and Deadpool's son Chimi cut off his own arm to give to a girl he was in love with. Fortunately, it's mentioned that it will grow back, no doubt thanks to inheriting his father's power.
139	* In the first episode of the original run of ''WebAnimation/FistMaster'', [[FunnyAnimal Martial Ape]], an evil {{Jerkass}} sensei in the mold of [[Film/TheKarateKid John Kreese]], tries to challenge Panchi, the teacher of main characters [[IdiotHero Akio]] and [[ActionGirl Red]]. Panchi agrees to accept the challenge if Martial Ape can defeat Red. When the two fight, Red promptly kicks his ass, with [[CurbStompCushion Martial Ape only getting in one or two blows]] while Red leaves him crying for mercy, and [[IAmNotLeftHanded she was still warming up and hadn't gotten serious yet]]. When Red spares him, however, Martial Ape goes to backstab her, only for Panchi to suddenly do a FlashStep, grab ahold of one of his arms, and initiate the following conversation:
140	-->'''Panchi:''' On a scale of one to ten, how attached are you to this arm?\
141	'''Martial Ape:''' [[OhCrap Ten! Ten!!!]]\
142	'''Panchi:''' ''[rips Ape's arm off]'' Not anymore.
143	* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Due to [[BlackComedy the show's nature]], characters lose their limbs left and right. However, "[[Recap/HTFINubYou I Nub You]]" is the only example where losing a limb affects the plot, when Petunia loses her hands to a windowsill and falls in love with Handy due to them both being amputees. They later die horribly, of course.
144	* Cell was known to be able to regenerate lost limbs (and head in one instance) in canon ''Dragon Ball Z'', as well as its abridged series. However, in ''WebAnimation/{{HFIL}}'', he is also saddled with a ki-inhibiting ankle bracelet that keeps him from terrorizing the netherworld, and smashing it with a rock will not dislodge it, let alone break it. At the very start of the second episode, he decides to take a pair of gardening shears to his ankles, and... [[spoiler:...the shears snap off with no damage to Cell.]]
145	-->'''Raditz''': You think [[spoiler:they let us have shears if that was going to work]]?
146	* ''WebAnimation/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged'': Barrett's comment in episode 3 strongly implies that he ripped a passenger's arm off while beating him up for [[PapaWolf questioning his parenting]].
147	-->'''Barrett:''' I would like to take a moment... ''(blood drips off his gun arm)'' and apologize for what happened on the train.\
148	'''Cloud:''' I mean... apologies accepted, but you spent so much time beating that guy up that we missed our stop and had to jump off.\
149	'''Barrett:''' Well, I'm sorry. I just wanted to show that man what it would be like being a parent with one arm.\
150	'''Cloud:''' That's, uh... That's... pleasant.
151	* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
152	** The Blubb-O's Drive-Thru Whale entreats customers to "Sever your leg, please. It's the greatest day!"
153	** In "[[Recap/HomestarRunnerDNAEvidence DNA Evidence]]", Bubs tells Marzipan that analyzing the DNA evidence she found will cost her "an arm and a leg". Marzipan, who [[InvisibleAnatomy has neither arms nor legs]], replies "Not a problem."
154	* Characters in ''WebAnimation/MadnessCombat'' normally have FloatingLimbs, but Hank eventually gains an arm after resurrecting. It gets torn off by Tricky in ''Expurgation'', but he later gets a new one.
155	* In ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'', the cheerleaders and the Van Burens fight for Deandra The New Girl's loyalty, which results in a tug-of-war that rips off both of Deandra's arms (and the viewers can't even pretend it didn't happen, because the characters like bringing it up in later episodes). This causes Trisha to deliver a hilarious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Ashley Katchadourian for failing to watch the bathroom door. Later, Deandra has them replaced with one realistic-looking prosthetic and one cyborg arm -- she couldn't decide on one set.
156	* ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'':
157	** Mystery tears off Arthur's possessed arm, but only after ??? uses it and the other bits of Arthur it has gained control of to murder Lewis.
158	** Lewis burns Shiromori's arm to a crisp, and as it starts crumbling to dust, he rips off the hand that's holding his locket. She regrows it and her head, which Lewis earlier punched off, very quickly, to his surprise.
159	* ''WebAnimation/OnTheEdge'': In the episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgOEmjmJu24 Wanaka is pissed when he finds out that a little girl is smuggling guns...]]'', [[spoiler:a pissed off Wanaka sliced Matsuzaki's right arm for talking back to their boss about being told to quit the Yakuza and live a normal life instead of using his daughter to smuggle illegally-modded airsoft guns behind his back. However, the former spared the latter afterward with a warning]].
160	* ''WebAnimation/PieceOfCake'': When Val gets pushed off the cake by Brad, her arm shatters upon hitting the floor. [[spoiler:In the end credits, two women who look like Val and Mara come in to purchase them, with Val's human lookalike also missing an arm.]]
161	* In ''WebAnimation/PokemonBattleRoyaleUltraBeasts'', Pheromosa gets dismembered by its ally Kartana in its attempts to free her from Naganadel's adhesive shot. Granted, [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer the little paper guy has blades instead of hands; there are only so many ways it could try to help at all]].
162	* In the Project Freelancer flashback sequences of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', there's an Insurrectionist soldier who (somehow) survives a MAC strike with nothing worse than his left arm being blown off, which is later replaced by a cybernetic one. In Season 10, he loses said arm to a knife-throw from Carolina shortly before being blown away by Maine's [[GrenadeLauncher Brute Shot]]. [[spoiler:A deleted scene reveals that he survived that too, having lost his ''other'' arm.]]
163	* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
164	** At the end of Volume 3, Adam vows to Blake that he will destroy everything she cares about. When he sees her horrified reaction upon realising that Yang is trying to find her, Adam decides to start with Yang, cutting off her arm when she rushes in to save Blake. Blake is so guilt-ridden that she goes on the run. [[spoiler:In Volume 4, Yang struggles to come to terms with the loss of her arm and suffers PTSD in the form of nightmares and flashbacks to Adam maiming her. When Ironwood, without prompting, commissions a state-of-the-art cybernetic replacement for Yang, Oobleck tells her that there are a lot of people who want her back to "normal", but does not elaborate on who or why. Yang only reluctantly accepts the arm and begins to wear it when she realises that the reason Taiyang isn't searching for Ruby, who has left to hunt the villains with only Jaune's team for company, is because he cannot look after Yang and search for Ruby at the same time.]]
165	** After Ruby injures Cinder at the end of Volume 3, Cinder spends the whole of Volume 4 recovering with Salem's help while her left arm is entirely covered by a long sleeve. [[spoiler:Salem's "treatments" consists of her teaching Cinder how to control the Grimm limb that has replaced her severed left arm. During the Battle of Haven, Ruby's brief use of her anti-Grimm power causes Cinder to collapse to her knees in pain, clutching her Grimm arm. When she tries to extend the Grimm arm to steal the dying Winter Maiden's power, Winter severs the limb from Cinder's body. Cinder screams in agony from the injury and keeps screaming as the limb painfully regenerates; she then retaliates against Winter so viciously that Winter is almost killed from the onslaught and Cinder loses her opportunity to steal the Winter Maiden's power.]]
166	* Creator/SamAndMickey's "Surgery" has Franchise/{{Barbie}} hospitalized after losing her right arm. [[spoiler:A fight with the nurse over some booze costs Barbie her left arm as well.]]
167	* ''WebAnimation/{{Voodont}}'': At the beginning, Sam gets ready to cut off Ellie's arm using a VoodooDoll that she made. [[spoiler:By the end of the short, the doll rips its own arm off, and Ellie [[GoryDiscretionShot is heard screaming in the background]].]]
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170	[[folder:Web Original]]
171	* In ''Script/C0DA'', Jubal-lun-Sul voluntarily has [[CatFolk Khajiit]] surgeons remove his hands. It is implied to be part of his realizing that [[spoiler:[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall he is in a work of fiction]], and, having [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence achieved CHIM]], he uses "ghost hands" to give himself a StoryBreakerPower]]. [[MindScrew It's just that sort of work.]]
172	* In ''Literature/HelpNotWanted'', Ogrell Syn'Gorrsh gets his arm bitten off by a wyvern in the penultimate chapter.
173	* ''Website/{{Killerbunnies}}'':
174	** Oleander, who technically lost her leg to an accident in that the accident caused her to suffer an injury, warranting an amputation.
175	** Atlasnaya is mentioned to have lost an arm and leg each to an accident after she was sold to the Bratfa.
176	* ''Literature/MadgieWhatDidYouDo'': [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/art/Special-Occasion-425388903 Toki]] lost her right leg in a landmine accident.
177	* In Chapter 5 of ''Literature/{{Reasoning}}'', [[spoiler:Leon Grimewall]] gets one of his arms bitten off by the Venator's BellyMouth.
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179
180	[[folder:Web Videos]]
181	* ''WebVideo/BelkinusNecrohunt'':
182	** One of Enoch's arms has been replaced by a metallic one. When he details his full past to the others, it's revealed to be the result of an overly-harsh punishment for dishonesty as a child, leading to his current hard stance against liars.
183	** It would later happen to two different people during a boss fight in Session 12: [[spoiler: A massive Warforge got its arm ripped off by Alter, and [[AssholeVictim Alter]] himself gets both of his wings and [[LaserGuidedKarma one of his arms chopped]] off by Luna.]]
184	* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': The first sign that something is going horribly wrong when Ashton [[spoiler:absorbs the shard of Rau'shan]] is when parts of his body start to break off. It starts with a chunk of their shoulder, followed by an ear, followed by their entire right arm. [[spoiler:After surviving the shard, he gets a new arm made of volcanic rock.]]
185	* ''WebVideo/DoraTheExplorerAndTheDestinyMedallion'': Benny gets his arm cut off after putting the wrong part into a childishly easy puzzle. While he manages to survive this, later his ''other'' arm is also cut off, then he's left to die as the tomb collapses.
186	* ''WebVideo/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware:'' [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman gets a part of his right arm cut off in Act 3.]]
187	* ''WebVideo/HeroHouse'' has [[spoiler:Vegeta]] blowing off his own hand in Season 2.
188	* ''WebVideo/ToTheDeath'' is a project by ''WebVideo/CorridorDigital'' to present realistic and entertaining [[Franchise/StarWars lightsaber fights]]. Naturally it includes a couple of instances of someone losing a hand.
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190
191	[[folder:Real Life]]
192	* There's a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integrity_identity_disorder psychological condition]] (curiously found nearly entirely in men) where the sufferer feels that the only way for them to be comfortable with their own body is to have a limb removed. Standard hospital practice is to transfer anyone who requests a healthy limb be removed into psychotherapy. Unfortunately, some such people have died of complications after having a BackAlleyDoctor take their limbs off. Research into ways to help people cope with amputation trauma has raised the possibility that some cases of body integrity disorder may be caused by a lack of mirror neurons in the brain. In those cases, psychological assistance won't do any good.
193	* [[MemeticBadass Aron Ralston]] is a well-known real life type 1 example; his arm became trapped under a boulder while hiking, and [[{{Squick}} he wound up cutting it off]] when it became clear that [[LifeOrLimbDecision his choice]] was between self-amputation and death by dehydration. The film ''Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours'' was made about his trial.
194	* Surfer Bethany Hamilton lost one of her arms in a shark attack. She too had a movie made about her life, ''Film/SoulSurfer''.
195	* Ancient Celtiberians and Lusitanians cut off hands of war prisoners as an offer to their various gods of war. Sources are ambiguous on whether the prisoners were expected to live after this, though.
196	* The Islamic [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudud Hudud]] punishment for theft and highway robbery (without homicide) is to amputate the person's hands.
197	* A good percentage of sportsmen and women who partake in the UsefulNotes/ParalympicGames, as it's one of the physical impairments that allow them to partake in the games. Of particular note is Oscar Pistorius, who was also the first double leg amputee to take part in the UsefulNotes/OlympicGames. His amputations later became a key point when he was accused of murder -- it was asked whether he'd been wearing his prosthetic legs or not.
198	* Spanish navy officer Blas de Lezo, one of the most famous and successful in their history (in particular for his participation in the UsefulNotes/WarOfJenkinsEar), lost a leg in the Battle of Málaga in 1704, where it had to be amputated in real time without anesthesia. He then went to lose an arm during the Siege of Barcelona, although contrary to popular belief, he only lost usage of the limb this time, not the entire body part.
199	* In the Battle of Trafalgar, Spanish commander and BadassBookworm Cosme Damian Churruca got ''both of his legs ripped off'' via a very well-placed English cannon shot. [[DyingMomentOfAwesome He still did what he could to give instructions]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath until he bled to death.]]
200	* Speaking of the Battle of Trafalgar, UsefulNotes/HoratioNelson had only one arm, the other having been amputated some years earlier.
201	* During the Battle of Waterloo, Lord Uxbridge lost his leg due to French cannon fire. Being a typical Englishman, he supposedly quipped [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction "Good God sir, I've lost my leg!"]] While the ruined remains of his leg were being amputated in a nearby field hospital, he remained composed enough to smile during the operation and made only one statement: "The knife appears somewhat blunt." Different breed of men back then.
202	* Mapuche chieftain [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvarino Galvarino]] was subjected to this by the Spaniards. [[HandicappedBadass He later had blades attached to his stumps and returned to fight with his people.]]
203	* In 1194, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_V,_Duke_of_Austria Duke Leopold V of Austria]] had [[AgonyOfTheFeet his foot crushed]] when his horse fell on him at a tournament in Graz. While advised by his surgeons to have the foot amputated, none declared competence to do so; he ordered his servants to chop it off with an ax, after three swings succeeding. [[DownerEnding Nonetheless, he succumbed to gangrene and died.]]
204	* [[http://www.travismills.org/about/ Retired Staff Sergeant Travis Mills]], who lost parts of all four limbs in Afghanistan.
205	* The [[UsefulNotes/DemocraticRepublicOfTheCongo Belgian Congo's]] Force Publique were responsible for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State#Mutilation a disturbingly high number of cut hands]], given that mutilation was the punishment for enslaved natives that didn't fit their work quotas, and the soldiers had to bring back the hands of the people they shot as proof that the bullets were not spent hunting. And at times, the troops would exploit a LoopholeAbuse, cutting the limbs off random people. Usually women or the elderly, in a disturbing example of PragmaticVillainy: They wouldn't have been harvesting rubber in the first place, and obviously, a slave without hands can't harvest the rubber. {{Fingore}} was also a "standard" punishment for slaves of ''all'' kinds. Double if they were [[MadeASlave former prisoners of war]].
206	* The combination of powerful bullets and primitive medical technology made the loss of limbs very common as a result of wounds in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. Probably the most notable example was Confederate General John Bell Hood, who lost the use of his left arm at Gettysburg and later lost his right leg at Chickamauga. Amazingly, this did not derail his military career, as he went on to become commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.
207	* Former UsefulNotes/IndyCar and UsefulNotes/FormulaOne driver Alex Zanardi lost both his legs in a crash in the 2001 American Memorial at the Euro-Speedway Lausitz in Klettwitz, Germany (held 4 days after 9/11), when he lost control of his car coming off pit road and was t-boned by Alex Tagliani at over 200 miles per hour. Prompt medical attention and high quality care ensured that, in the long term, that was all he lost. Of course, this did not stop him from competing in motorsports, as he would later join the UsefulNotes/TouringCar scene, winning his home Touring Championship: the Campionato Italiano Superturismo. He would also win 4 gold metals, and 2 silver metals during the 2012 and 2016 UsefulNotes/ParalympicGames.
208	* US soldier and senator UsefulNotes/DanielInouye, who lost his right arm in a grenade explosion during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
209	* Many types of wasp hunt spiders, paralyze them with their sting, then lay an egg where the larva will hatch and devour it. ''Auplopus'' wasps tend to bite off all the spider's limbs after catching them, both to make them easier to carry and to make sure that even if the paralysis wears off, the spider will not be able to escape.
210	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Álvaro_Obregón Álvaro Obregón]], a general of UsefulNotes/TheMexicanRevolution, lost his right arm in a fight with the armies of Pancho Villa in 1915. After that point, he had all of his suits tailored off at his arm-stump, a visible sign of his sacrifice in the Revolution.
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