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Amputations in movies.

Animated

  • In Brave, King Fergus lost his leg battling the demon bear Mor'du. He replaced it with a club-shaped lump of wood.
  • DC Animated Movie Universe:
    • In Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, Superman blasts Aquaman's right arm off with his heat vision to try and save Cyborg, as Aquaman is about to impale Cyborg's exposed heart.
    • The Death of Superman sees Doomsday rip off one of Cyborg's arm when the League is fighting him.
    • Justice League Dark: Apokolips War sees Wonder Woman get an arm ripped off, Shazam get one of his legs, and Cyborg get both arms torn off during the League's failed attack on Apokolips.
  • How to Train Your Dragon
    • How to Train Your Dragon (2010) has no blood, but Gobber has a pegleg and missing arm that he can change for different things like a hammer, a tankard, a fork, etc. Toothless the dragon counts after losing a tail rudder fin, and Hiccup loses a foot in the final battle.
    • The villain of the sequel, Drago, lost one of his arms at some point. He lost it in a dragon attack, but he uses a metal arm as a replacement.
  • Subverted in Luca; Massimo is missing his right arm, and at first he claims that a sea monster ate it (which would set up a plot point, since Luca and Alberto are both sea monsters disguised as humans), but then he reveals he's kidding and that he was actually born without it.
  • In Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge, this version of the MK continuity sees Jax lose his arms to Goro, who rips them out during their big fight. The same fate almost befalls Liu Kang after being defeated, only for Scorpion to put a spear through Goro's head before ripping it right out.
    • During the final battle of the movie, Scorpion does this to Quan Chi, ripping out both of his arms with his spears and chains in the process of giving him the ultimate what for.
  • Night of the Animated Dead: There are some instances where the undead lose their hands, be it to a knife, or a closing car door.
  • In Princess Mononoke the first indication we get of the demonic power of Prince Ashitaka's curse is when one of his arrows rips both arms off of a samurai. Later in the film, Lady Eboshi loses an arm to a rather vicious and symbolic animal bite.
  • In Strange Frame, Grenman is missing both of his legs. Supposedly, they were stolen cut off by a pair of alien foot fetishists.
  • Buzz Lightyear gets his left arm broken off in the first Toy Story film while attempting to jump out of a window leading to outside Sid Phillips' house. The mutant toys eventually put his arm back on, however.
    • In Toy Story 2, Woody's right arm gets ripped off. He gets it sewn back on, though.
  • In The Transformers: The Movie, Kup loses his left arm and right leg when Hot Rod rescues him from the octopus on Quintessa. Fortunately, Hot Rod reattaches them in the aftermath.

Live-Action

Actors

  • Michael Ironside's characters frequently lose (and damage) limbs in the movies he's done, including:
    • In the original Total Recall (1990), getting both his arms ripped off before falling to his death.
    • In Starship Troopers, his character lost much of his left arm, presumably in an earlier war with the Klendathu Arachnids, but he gets an artificial hand fitted on it later in the film. He subsequently loses both his legs in his death scene, after which he pleads Rico to give him a Mercy Kill. Doubly referenced by a Recruiting Sergeant who appears as a triple amputee for shock value to naive recruits, and the schoolmaster who has also lost an arm.
    • In The Machinist, he loses another arm in an industrial machine accident which the main character subconsciously caused.
    • In Highlander II: The Quickening he gets his hand cut off in a sword fight right before MacLeod chops off his head.

Live-Action

  • In 13 Sins, one of Elliot's challenges is to amputate the arm of his Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up. He does.
  • American Scarecrow: The man dressed as a scarecrow slices off a man's hand in a confrontation.
  • In Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, one of Frank Vitchard's arms is chopped off during the 'rumble', and the other is torn away by a bear.
  • Anger of the Dead: While interrogating Ben, Rooker has his number two chop Ben's leg off.
    • Alice cuts Stephen's bitten hand off in hopes of stopping him from zombifying.
  • Mentioned by Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.
    "I remember when I was with Special Forces... seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate some children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms."
  • Attack of the Killer Donuts: When Conrad goes to grab a donut, it bites off his hand.
  • The Banana Splits Movie has the Splits nailing the studio executive, Andy, to the "Wheel of Endings", where he lands on the "Banana Split" — in which he gets his limbs painfully pulled off by the Splits before dying.
  • The 1977 Sandalwood movie Bayalu Daari is about a fighter pilot who loses his legs during the 1971 Indo-Pak War, and goes into a deep depression over it. This "amputation angst" causes him to abandon his girlfriend who has borne his child, letting her believe he is dead.
  • Beware the Woods: The old lady saws off one of Josh's arms before he's able to get in the getaway car.
  • The Blade (1995) has the hero, Ding-On, having his arm caught in a Bear Trap and must either hack it off, or let himself be captured by the villains who intends to kill him. He chose the former.
  • Occurs in Blood Diamond, depicting the Truth in Television actions of the Revolutionary United Front during the civil war in Sierra Leone. The election slogan at the time was "the future is in your hands", so the rebels chopped people's hands off to discourage them from voting in the elections.
    Captain Poison: No more hands, no more voting!
  • Blood Widow: While Mark is lowering Laurie down from a second story window, the killer chops both his hands off, causing Laurie to fall.
  • The Bloody Man: When The Bloody Man chases Michael into his room, Michael tries to shut the door while The Bloody Man is trying to reach through it to grab him. Michael manages to shut the door, severing The Bloody Man's arm.
  • In Botched, Boris loses a hand when Sonya tricks him into getting caught in his own malfunctioning Booby Trap.
  • Boxing Helena: Mad Doctor cuts off a woman's legs so she can't run away, then cuts off her arms so she can't fight back. It's a love story.
  • Braveheart: Hamish's father, Campbell the Elder, loses his left hand at the Battle of Stirling, so he spends the rest of the movie using a flail.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Vampire Amilyn (Paul Reubens) is on top of Pike's speeding van, reaching in through a hole punched in the roof — until a low branch sweeps him off and severs his arm. He is not pleased.
    Amilyn: You ruined my jacket! (to minions) Kill him a lot!
  • The Burning: When Michelle reaches the adrift raft, a severed arm falls off it.
  • Camel Spiders: When the camel spiders manage to corner the group in the facility, they pin one of them down and then rip off his arms.
  • Capps Crossing: Before the main group comes into the picture, a man named Jeremy Johnson is in Capps Crossing geocaching. When he finds his geocache, he discovers a severed hand in it, much to his horror.
  • Clown Motel: The clowns rip Ian's arms off when they catch him while he, Brooke, and Kristen are running for the mine.
  • The Crimson Charm has the heroine, Fang-fang, losing her arm to the villainous Crimson Charm gang when they massacred her family in the past. In the present she's a vengeful one-armed swordswoman.
  • Dagon: When Paul and Barbara are reunited with Viki, they find her in a state of complete shock because the cultists cut off one of her legs.
  • DC Extended Universe: Victor Stone/Cyborg in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Zack Snyder's Justice League, after a car accident killed his mother and left him a multiple amputee between life and death. He lost his left arm, everything below his lungs and his right hand. As a last resort, his father Silas uses alien tech (a Mother Box from Apokolips) to give him a cybernetic body.
  • Deadtime Stories: Volume 2: In "The Gorge", Gary's leg is shattered in the rockfall that traps them in the cave. After it goes gangrenous, Donna and Craig are forced to amputate it.
  • Death Machines: During the attack on the dojo, the eponymous trio of assassins brutally lop off Frank's right hand.
  • In Demon Knight, Irene has her arm ripped off by the possessed Cordelia. The Collector later offers to restore it for her as part of her temptation.
  • In Deranged, it's heavily implied via Ezra's comment about Mary being "all over the place" that he dismembered her corpse in the process of killing and skinning her.
  • Near the end of Dredd, Kay tries to shoot Anderson with her own gun. Apparently nobody told them about how Lawgivers self-destruct if their holder fails the DNA test. The gun promptly explodes, destroying Kay's right arm up to the elbow.
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God: Berek cuts off Damodar's arm to get the orb out of his hand, and he barely reacts. There's not even any blood, so perhaps he doesn't feel pain too. It's restored later with magic. Ormaline also gets her arm torn off when it's caught while teleporting the party to safety, and this is shown more realistically as her bleeding profusely, needing immediate aid from healers.
  • Dust Devil: Most of the bodies left behind by the film's villain are dismembered, and their arms are left hanging by ropes.
  • In Evil Dead 2 film, Ash cuts off his own hand after it is infected with evil.
  • In Fear, Inc., Joe is forced to cut off Ben's hand in a recreation of a scene from Saw.
  • In Fear Street, it's said that Sarah Fier cut off her own hand in order to seal her pact with Satan. In actuality, it was cut off by Solomon Goode when he was trying to stop her from escaping and exposing him as the real Satanist.
  • At one point in The Fly II, the young protagonist goes to one of the few characters from the first film who appears to ask him for help. He gets refused, on the grounds that his compassion for the young man's father in the first film "cost me an arm and a leg!" (They were dissolved by giant fly vomit.)
  • Lieutenant Dan in Forrest Gump, who lost his legs in the Vietnam war, provides the main page picture.
  • Ghosts of War: Butchie lost both of his arms at least when he smothered the explosion from a grenade thrown by a Nazi. Actually, everyone in the platoon lost a limb or two from the suicide bomber in the real world. One of them even lost his whole jaw.
  • Green Room: Pat gets his arm royally messed up by the skinheads. We don't see it happen, but we do see the aftermath and it ain't pretty.
  • Hancock has two examples of this...inflicted on the same guy, no less. When Red Parker tries to get Hancock to safely escort the gold out of the bank, he makes the mistake of constantly pushing Hancock's Berserk Button by calling him an asshole...which results in a very deadly game of frisbee that costs Red his left hand. Later, when Red and his goons go to kill Hancock at the hospital, Ray saves John...by chopping off his other hand, then slamming him in the face with a fire axe.
  • In The Hand, Jon Lansdale loses his hand in a freak accident when it caught between his car and a truck.
  • In The Hands of Orlac, concert pianist Paul Orlac's hand are destroyed in a train wreck. Knowing that her husband values his hands over his life, his wife Yvonne begs their doctor to do whatever he can to save them. The doctor transplant a pair of hands from a recently executed murderer onto Orlac's arms. However, Orlac soon comes to believe that that his new hands are Evil Hands.
  • If you took a shot every time limbs go flying in Hellboy (2019), you'd be hospitalized by the time the credits roll. Nimue losing an arm to Excalibur in the prologue is just the most prominent example.
  • In Hell's Highway, Lucinda cuts off Chris's hand with a chainsaw and he eventually dies from blood loss.
  • Hitchhiker Massacre: The killer chops off Woody's hand the morning after Sally reaches Woody's camp.
  • in The Horse Soldiers, Kendall is forced to amputate Dunker's leg after Dunker ignores his advice and removes the moss Kendall had bandaged to his leg to prevent infection. Despite Major Kendall's best efforts, Dunker does not make it.
  • House Shark: The sharks spits up Darth Squanto's hand while eating him.
  • According to Inspector Gadget (1999), Doctor Claw actually got both his name and trademark claw after one of his hands was crushed by Officer Brown's bowling ball.
  • In Invitation to a Gunfighter, Crane Adams lost an arm during The American Civil War and is very bitter about it.
  • Jurassic Prey: When Sparks brings Jackie and Andy to Beach's corpse, we see their reaction, and the camera then cuts to a shot of Beach's severed hand on the ground.
    • When the dinosaur eats Andy, is shows Trina holding his severed hand, and the bone of his lower arm.
  • Kill Bill Part 1 took this to ridiculous extremes, with many members of the Crazy 88 and Sofie Fatale losing various limbs to the Bride.
    The Bride: (in Japanese) Those of you lucky enough to still have your lives, take them with you! However...leave the limbs you've lost. They belong to me now. (in English) Except you, Sofie! You stay right where you are!
    • It's also how The Bride exacts both revenge on and information from Sofie Fatale. Cutting off Sofie's arm at the start of the Crazy 88 fight shows O-Ren Ishii that The Bride means business, and she takes the other arm away during her interrogation following the big battle.
  • Killer/saurus: When Jed is reaching into the room the dinosaur's being kept in, he pulls out a severed arm.
  • In the 1942 film Kings Row, Drake McHugh (probably Ronald Reagan's most famous role) has both of his legs amputated needlessly by a sadistic doctor after an accident. When he wakes from anesthesia, he says the famous line: "Where's the rest of me?"
  • Kothanodi: In this anthology of folk tales, wicked stepmother Senehi takes this trope to horrific levels as she breaks her stepdaughter's limbs one by one, and then smashes her skull in.
  • Leprechaun kills a cop in Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood by ripping off his leg. He then uses the said leg to reach the pedals of a police car as he gets back to chasing after the protagonists.
  • Lycan: According to the legend Kenny looks up, the Talbot County werewolf lost a paw when a farmer shot it off, which became a human hand. Emily Burt, a young local woman, was later revealed to have lost hers at the same time, pegging her as the werewolf.
  • The Machine Girl: Yakuza cut off schoolgirl's arm; she replaces it with a machine gun. Hilarity Ensues.
  • The Mad Max film series:
    • Mad Max:
      • Cundalini's attempt to stop Jessie's fast moving car with a chain ended badly for him. Toecutter later claims retribution for Cundalini's missing hand as partial justification for attacking her, though they're really just doing it For the Evulz.
      • Implied at the end when Max handcuffs Johnny The Boy's ankle to a death-trapped car and leaves him a hacksaw with the admonition that while it would take at least 15 minutes to cut through the chain, he could probably saw through his ankle in five.
    • Toady's attempt to catch the razor boomerang in The Road Warrior ended badly for him as well.
    • The female protagonist of Mad Max: Fury Road, Furiosa, has a mechanical arm. In the climax of the Final Battle, she sacrifices her mechanical arm to kill Immortan Joe before escaping on his car.
  • In Magic in the Water, two dock workers are both missing an arm - one left, the other right - which they claim is because of an attack by Orky.
  • Main Street Meats: Naturally, when the siblings are cutting up the bodies to make them into meat, they sever the limbs.
    • The mechanic who drives the tow truck to Cherry's car is seen to be missing one of his legs.
    • In the climax, when Sis is trying to kill Cherry for getting too close to Tommy, Cherry shove's sis's hand into the meat grinder.
  • The Majestic: Bob Laffert, a World War II veteran, had lost his hand due to a combat wound.
  • The titular character from The Man with the Iron Fists gets both arms chopped off.
  • All of the films released during "Phase 2" (2013-15) of the Marvel Cinematic Universe feature at least one character losing an arm or a hand at a pivotal moment, reportedly as an homage to Luke losing his hand in the second Star Wars film. Some of the Phase 3 movies briefly touch on this too.
  • Played for laughs with four Type 3 amputations in quick succession on the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Trope Namer for Only a Flesh Wound.
  • In The Mummy Rick slices off Imhotep's arm during the climactic fight. After tossing Rick away, Imhotep is able to reattach it.
  • My Octopus Teacher: Early on in the movie, Craig films the octopus hiding from a pyjama shark. Said pyjama shark finds it and attacks. She manages to get away, but the pyjama shark managed to get one of her tentacles. It grows back in a couple of days.
  • In a deleted scene from Natural Born Killers, Mickey and Mallory cut off the legs of the Hun Brothers with chainsaws. Upon realizing who they were, Mickey and Mallory stopped and apologized. The Hun Brothers actually thanked them for it.
  • Night of the Dribbler: When High Top is practicing in the gym at night, he performs a slam dunk on a hoop that the Dribbler placed a razor sharp rim on. This results in him getting his hands sliced off. He survived and was taken to the hospital. His final scene is him being visited by the coach.
  • Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight II: While Slawek is setting up the second Bear Trap intended to catch Zosia, something slips, and the trap clamps shut on his wrists, severing his hands.
  • In The Odd Angry Shot, Rogers steps on a mine whilst on patrol that blows off both his feet and destroys his jaw. Later his mates visit him in hospital before he is sent home. Rogers asks Harry to check if his testicles are still present (they are).
  • The One-Armed Swordsman series - all of them - have this trope happening to the titular characters, in order to live up to their names.
    • The original film has the hero, Fang Kang (as played by Jimmy Wang Yu) having his limb severed by his former classmate who betrays him, while the reboot (Return of the One-Armed Swordsman) have the new hero, Lei Li (David Chiang), willingly cutting his arm off after losing a duel for his honor. They all return as a skilled One-Armed Warrior later in the film.
    • The spin-off, One-Armed Swordsman vs. the Nine Killers have the hero (Wang Yu again, but not reprising his role) slicing his own arm away as a pact.
    • An offscreen version in One-Armed Swordsmen (men, plural) where the two titular heroes (played by Jimmy Wang Yu and David Chiang, Actor Allusion at it's best) are already one-armed when they first met each other. They're training themselves to take down the villains responsible for the loss of their arms in the past.
    • There's also a Taiwanese Gender Flipped remake, One Armed Swordswoman where the heroine must hack off her arm after getting hit by a poisoned dart or be killed by the poison.
  • Orca: The Killer Whale: Bo Derek's character has her leg bitten off by a killer whale. It proves to be the story's turning point.
  • Ouija Mummy: When Karate Irving tries to use his moves on Ahotep the 1st, she twists his leg off and beats him to death with it.
  • In Pacific Rim, Gipsy Danger loses its left arm in the Action Prologue against Knifehead. After being rebuilt, it loses its right arm in the final battle.
  • Patient Zero (2018): After being bitten by "Pete Townshend", Scooter is taken to the bunker's infirmary to have the bitten arm cut off. Sadly, it didn't stop the infection in time.
  • In Pistolera, Indio cuts of Rodrigo's hand with a machete so they can send it to his father as proof they have him.
  • In Posse (1975), Hellman, the editor (and only reporter) of the Tesoto Despatch, is missing an arm and leg as a result of his army service and the actions of his gloryhound commander.
  • Psychos: Norma, compelled by Sasha and JJ, cuts off her father's hands, and possibly other limbs, and sticks some of them in plant pots.
  • Pumpkins: When one of the Punters is aiming a gun at him (albeit with his arms shaking), Pumpkin Man chops one of his arms off.
  • In The Raid (1954), Capt. Lionel Foster lost his left hand after it was run over by a caisson wheel when he attempted to get himself injured in order to be removed from the front lines.
  • Redwood Massacre Annihilation: In one scene, we see the Redwood killer saw off a man's lower legs. In another, he relieves Jen of an arm.
  • The serial killer in Resurrection (1999) murders people and steals their body parts before then stitching them together to recreate the body of Jesus Christ in time for the resurrection on Easter. Six victims total—one for each limb, one head, and a torso.
  • In RocknRolla, this is implied to have happened to The Russian. The phrase is spoken verbatim. Archy may have said it in a light, even joking tone, but considering what we just watched him do in the previous scene...
  • In RoboCop, Clarence Boddicker first shoots off Alex Murphy's hand with a shotgun("Well give the man a hand!") and then Boddicker's gang shoot off the entire arm in the ensueing execution by gunfire scene.
  • Rust And Bone (De rouille et d'os): Stephanie losing both legs above the knee to a killer whale attack (in a sea park) isn't the only focus of the story, but it is the impetus for her relationship with Ali and their respective growth as characters.
  • Two Type 3s in Santa Sangre. The first occurs before the actual events of the film, concerning a girl whose arms were cut off by her rapists and who is now worshiped as a saint in the titular church; ironically enough, the second happens to Concha, the leader of the Sante Sangre congregation, whose arms are hacked off in a similar fashion.
  • The Saw series was built around this.
    • Lawrence from the first film sawed through his chained leg and plays a large (mostly behind the scenes) part in the events of the sequels as a result.
    • The prologue of Saw VI has two predatory lenders-one obese, the other skinny- in a trap in which the first to carve off a pound of flesh within 5 minutes will get to survive. Realizing that the fat man will likely win, the woman chops off her arm in a last-ditch attempt to make the weight. She wins.
  • At the start of Scream and Scream Again, a jogger collapse from a heart attack. When he wakes at the hospital, he discovers his leg has been amputated. Every time the movie cuts back to him, another limb has been amputated.
  • Screamers. In our introduction to the eponymous Killer Robots, an enemy soldier sent to deliver a peace offering gets his hand severed by a flying screamer, still holding the canister holding the message. The next screamer slices his foot off, leaving him on the ground and vulnerable to the rest. Even the hardened soldiers watching from the bunker are squicked out.
  • Sharkenstein: Sharkenstein attacks a fisherman at the beginning of the movie. All that's left of him is his feet.
  • In Shaun of the Dead, David gets brutally killed by a horde of zombies, who then proceed to tear his corpse limb-from-limb. Dianne is shown with his leg as she proceeds to fight the zombies.
  • In Showdown in Little Tokyo, the Big Bad Yoshida first shows how ruthless he is with a type 3 when he responds to a drug dealer who strongly disagrees with his pricing by drawing his katana and slicing the man's hand off. Needless to say, the dealer is quick to change his mind.
  • In Silent Night, Mrs. Roach's dismembered remains are found in the Watson house, and Maria has a leg chopped off with an ax.
  • In Siren, Ken twists his ankle chasing after the phantasmal Silka and wakes up the boat with the dead sailor about to amputate his leg. He screams as this happens, but wakes up on the island with his leg intact, making this another of the island's Mind Screws.
  • In Slaxx, Lord loses his thumb and then both of his hands before getting killed. Craig and Libby later find his head, hands, and feet stuffed in a box.
  • Sorceress: Multiple characters lose arms or hands. One as punishment for theft, most in sword fights.
  • Special Silencers: Barry Prima gets a scythe in the climax, and uses it to disarm and delimb a few enemies. He does this to the Big Bad as well, but the villain is versed in Black Magic and after hopping on one leg for a few seconds, picks up his severed foot and reattaches it.
  • Spy Hard: General Rancor lost both his arms after his previous run-in with Agent Dick Steele, but has had various prosthetic replacements constructed. After Steele ties Rancor to his own missile in the climax, he loses his legs as well.
  • Daniel Jackson lost his leg to frostbite in Stargate: Continuum.
  • Star Wars has a large number of Type 3 lost limbs, five of them belonging to someone named Anakin. There's a website and a Wookieepedia article listing all of them, plot-important or not.
    • Anakin Skywalker loses the most over the course of the series (right arm below the elbow by Dooku in Attack of the Clones; left arm and both legs above the knee by Obi-Wan in Revenge of the Sith; artificial right hand by Luke in Return of the Jedi).
    • Dooku himself gets both hands seared off by Anakin in Revenge of the Sith, followed by his head.
    • General Grevious has two of his four hands cut off by Obi-Wan in Revenge of the Sith.
    • Anakin cuts off Mace Windu's hand to prevent him from killing Palpatine, also in Revenge of the Sith.
    • A New Hope:
      • The first (biological) arm to come off in the series is Ponda Baba's in the Mos Eisley Cantina, complete with bloody stump.
      • Before that, C-3PO loses an arm during the Tusken raiders' attack. Being a droid, however, it can simply be reattached.
      • Also discussed when Han Solo mentions that Wookiees are known to rip off people's arms out of their sockets when they're upset. Chewbacca doesn't contradict him.
    • Luke is probably the most famous example, even more so than his father, losing his hand in a type 3 to Vader during their duel in The Empire Strikes Back.
    • In The Phantom Menace Darth Maul is cut in half at the waist, so he lost his legs.
  • Strippers Vs. Werewolves: Limbs are lost aplenty in the movie. At the start, some werewolves are showing off a severed foot to their would-be victim.
  • In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the T-800 loses his left arm when combating the T-1000 in the foundry.
  • The famous defibrillator scene in John Carpenter's The Thing, in which a character has his arms bitten off by the titular Thing. Suffers from a bit of Special Effects Failure in that the arms separate well above the bite, but it's so startling and horrifying that it's easy to overlook.
  • The Theatre Bizarre: In "Wet Dreams", Carla and Dr. Maurey amputate Donnie's arms and legs and keep him locked up in the attic.
  • Thirst: The alien gets its arm blown off by some makeshift gasoline cannons in the climax of the movie.
  • Transformers Film Series:
  • In The Tripper, Joey loses his hand to Ronnie's axe very shortly before he loses his life.
  • Quorra loses her left arm in TRON: Legacy. It's grown back later.
  • Averted in Tropic Thunder by the character POSING as a double amputee who actually still has both hands.
  • In the 2010 film version of True Grit, Mattie loses her left arm to a rattlesnake bite.
  • In Tusk, Wallace has both of his legs amputated as part of the process to transform him into a walrus. It Makes Sense in Context.
  • In The Unknown, Alonzo the Armless blackmails a surgeon into amputating his arms because he believes this will enable him to win the heart of the woman he loves.
  • Up Pompeii films:
    • In Up Pompeii, Gorgo threatens to rip off Lurcio's arms during their wrestling match.
    • Up the Front: When thinking his finger has gotten infected, Lurk briefly frets that his arm will have to be chopped off.
  • One of the bumbling cops from Versus loses his hand early in the film. It's a Black Comedy Running Gag that he keeps forgetting it's missing and tries to touch things with his stump.
  • Virtuosity: Parker lost an arm to the bomb which killed his family, but it's replaced with a cybernetic one.
  • Wendy: When James sees his hand is aging, he gets it cut off with a machete, to Wendy's horror. It doesn't help though, and he keeps aging.
  • In When Evil Calls, the girl who wishes to lose a stone in weight gets her right arm ground off in the garbage disposal.
  • In X-Men: Days of Future Past, Sunspot gets his arm chopped off in the final battle. He lost pretty quickly after that.
  • In Yellowbeard, Moon loses his left hand when Yellowbeard slams the chest lid down on it. He later replaces it with a Hook Hand.
  • Youth: Liu Feng loses his right arm during the war, after it's injured and he refuses to leave the field.
  • The Zombie Apocalypse in Apartment 14F: The first shot of the zombies the drone gets is of a zombie ripping a man's arm off and eating it while other zombies dog-pile on the hapless victim.

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