Fingore / Video Games

• Assassin's Creed:
  • Altair (and, presumably, all fledgling assassins in Assassin's Creed) must cut off their own ring finger as part of their initiation rituals. It is nominally replaced by a spring-loaded stiletto that shoots out into roughly the same place. In the sequel however, Ezio requires no such sacrifice, due to the blade's mechanism being modified in the 13th century (likely by Altaïr as outlined in the Codex pages), to keep Assassins from being identified so easily.
  • Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood further expands on the ritual. Instead of losing a finger, new assassins get red hot iron tongs placed on the top and bottom of the base of their ring fingers, likely to symbolize the cutting off of the finger.
  • Girolamo Savonarola was shown to have lost his pinky finger, albeit it wasn't revealed why and served merely as a way for Ezio to track him down after he stole the Apple from Ezio.
  • Early on in Assassin's Creed Origins, Bayek ends up losing his ring finger after a mishap with his Hidden Blade caused it to trigger while in the middle of a struggle, which would eventually begin the above ritual.
• In Asura's Wrath, the planet-sized Wyzen attempts to crush Asura under his finger while outside the stratosphere. Asura repeatedly punches said finger until the destruction spreads to Wyzen's entire body, blowing him to pieces.
• At one point while traversing the museum in Batman: Arkham City, the Penguin freezes a cop's hand with Mr. Freeze's ice gun. He then takes a hammer to it. It happens over the intercom, so we don't see it, but the sound is enough.
• Seen being done to a corpse's hand in a flashback from Beyond the Spirit's Eye. The severed finger is later found frozen in ice, and must be used to bypass a print-keyed electronic lock.
• This is implied to have happened to the character Elizabeth in BioShock Infinite. The ending reveals that it happened when a dimensional portal closed on her pinky when she was an infant.
• In Blitz: The League, the opening cinematic sees New York Nightmare linebacker Quinton Sands (played by Lawrence Taylor) tackle an opposing team's quarterback, whose pinky finger on his presumed throwing hand gets caught in Sands' facemask. Sands, in an utterly psychotic moment, suddenly and deliberately jerks his head sideways, gruesomely snapping the poor guy's finger in half.
• Cold Winter have you being interrogated by a Chinese Torture Technician in the opening scene, as he gleefully inflicts different kinds of torture on you, one which is snapping your fingers one-by-one.
• Near the end of Condemned: Criminal Origins, SKX cuts off Ethan Thomas's finger as he has him chained to a wall. First-Person Fingore.
• In Darkest Dungeon II, a keen-eyed player would notice that the Jester is missing his left pinky finger, especially notable whenever he pulls out his lute. His Hero Shrine reveals that this wound was self-inflicted, after being traumatized by playing a demonic song and massacring the court he was playing to (although they had it coming).
• In The Brigmore Witches DLC of Dishonored, once you help Lizzie Stride take her boat back, she gives a speech to her crew that she's willing to forgive them but certain members of the gang now owe her a finger. When one of them starts cursing under her breath, Lizzie states that person now owes her two fingers.
• In Dragon Age: Inquisition, your potential Qunari companion, the Iron Bull, is missing part of two fingers on his left hand (and has a sizable scar on the next one over, showing that he likely narrowly avoided losing that one as well).
• One of the number cards in Dr. Mal: Practice of Horror depicts a palm-outward hand with all of the flesh missing from the pinky finger.
• Far Cry:
  • Several emergency healing animations in Far Cry 2 involve doing wincingly awful things to your hand to make it work again. You usually get to see a close up of your protagonist's mangled, dislocated (but not severed) hand/fingers and the need for them to grab it and twist the joints sharply back into place. While that is a theoretical fix for dislocated joints, the player character is not trained to do this sort of thing. Then there's the emergency healing animation that involves extracting a large chunk of shrapnel from the web of skin between the fingers, which is implied to have sunk all the way down vertically through the knuckle and into the palm. Yeah, this game is kind of horrific like that.
  • In the finale of Far Cry 3, Hoyt chops off Jason's ring finger to torture him.
• God of War III:
  • You can engage in a little Fingore on Cronos. More specifically, during the battle you slash off the end of one of his gigantic nails using your Blades of Chaos, and then pull the remains of the nail right off.
  • You can also severe one of Gaia's hands.
• In The Hanged Man's Out Of The Window ending, Will gets several of his fingers blasted off when he fires a damaged gun.
• In Heavy Rain, you can choose to cut off Ethan's finger with any of the tools present in one of the Origami Killer's challenges.
• The Jackbox Party Pack:
  • A minigame in Trivia Murder Party forces you to either cut off a finger or die. Each finger represents an answer choice, meaning as long as you're alive you cannot choose that answer. So if the finger you cut off corresponds to a right answer on a later question, well, sucks to be you.
  • Trivia Murder Party 2 brings this back in the form of the Grandma's Knife item from the "Gifts" minigame. It forces you to cut off a finger not only when you receive it, but every time you're the only living player who gets an answer wrong.
• By the end of The Last of Us Part II, Abby Anderson bites off the ring finger and pinkie of Ellie Williams in their final fight.
• Thanks to the Like a Dragon series, there is an extensive focus on the yakuza, with the act of yubitsume tending to crop up from time to time. Many reasons ranging from; as a part of a character's backstory, a threat, a way for a character to atone for their mistakes and amongst other reasons. Usually if this happens on screen it is done away from the camera.
  • In Yakuza, Futoshi Shimano cuts off the pinky and ring finger of one of his henchmen with the straight razor that was being used to shave his own head just a few minutes earlier. In the Yakuza Kiwami remake, Akira Nishikiyama initially promises to cut his own finger to make it up to his superior Kashiwagi, but he denies him before he gets the chance, calling it a useless gesture.
  • Yakuza 0 has Daisaku Kuze, one of the main Tojo lieutenants is forced to commit Yubitsume after losing to Kiryu whom at the time was just a civilian and had both beaten most of the Dojima HQ's thugs but also one of the lieutenants, forcing him to cut off his pinky tip to make up for the dishonor. Despite that however, it doesn't make him any less dangerous as he becomes a Recurring Boss that keeps coming back for more.
  • Subverted in Judgment, a spin-off of the franchise. Former Tojo clan member turned private investigator, Masaharu Kaito, is about to perform an act of this in a flashback as punishment, but the family patriarch kicks him out of the family to protect him before he can go through with it.
  • Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Patriarch Arakawa saved Ichiban from being killed by a Yakuza family, with the non-chalant offering of his own pinky finger. This shocks even said Yakuza family that took Ichiban hostage with how fast he offers it and then cuts said finger. In the present times, he usually wears a glove to cover up his lost pinky.
  • One special HEAT move in the series, involves a pair of pliers being used as a weapon. Where the player character counterattacks a mook's punch by pinning it under their armpit and then using said pliers to yank one of their fingernails out, despite it's simplicity it's one of the more brutal HEAT moves out there (the other HEAT move with the pliers is yanking one of their teeth out instead).
  • Other HEAT actions allow Kiryu to break his opponent's fists by either dodging at the last second and making them punch the wall behind him, or blocking the punch with his elbow.
• In Lollipop Chainsaw, Juliet saws off several of Killabilly's fingers, but he can regrow them.
• One terminal in Marathon Infinity: Blood Tides of Lh'owon contains a Translation Train Wreck that appears to be about a character in extreme pain from having his fingers mutilated during torture.
• The horror game Outlast has the insane "Doctor" Trager cut off two of Miles' fingers: the ring finger of his left hand, and the index finger of his right, prompting Miles to wordlessly scream in agony and the screen to tinge red. When he finally manages to get free, he vomits all over the floor. Plus, since you can see his hands, there's also part of the bone that's still visible. But he'll be goddamned if he'll let that stop him.
• Downplayed in Persona 5. While nobody's digits are chopped off, Yusuke's Persona awakening is accompanied by the sight of him scraping his fingers along the ground, leaving trails of blood behind them.
• Planescape: Torment:
  • You can swipe a decaying finger with an interesting looking ring on it from a mentally deficient cannibal in Ragpicker's Square. You can't get the ring off the finger to examine it. So, what do you do? Bite off your own finger and use your Healing Factor to graft the rotting finger to the blood-spurting stump. All of it in lovingly explicit detail. For the curious, it is sort of worth it; the ring is a "cursed" (meaning you can't take it off without a specific spell) ring that increases your protection, which is quite helpful in a game where you can't get much in the way of armor. At the very least, it can be sold for a good sum, which helps you get other stuff.
  • You can also lose a fingertip (or a whole hand) by touching the Black Birds of Ocanthus (black, superchilled, sharp blades whirling in the air atop a pedestal) at Yvana's Galleria. This one's actually Played for Laughs a bit; your reaction is "Wait for your fingertip to grow back, hope no one saw that."
• Early in Resident Evil Village, a Lycan bites off part of Ethan's left hand, removing his pinky, part of his ring finger, and a chunk of his palm. He spends the entire game afterwards with it bandaged, though it thankfully doesn't affect his combat skills.
• Downplayed examples in Stormland - you're a robot who reboots itself after an alien attack, and upon regaining consciousness, the first thing you see are your hands, your left arm having the forefinger and pinky ripped off. You come across an Auto Doc two minutes into gameplay that rives you a new right arm.
• Tales of Monkey Island: In "The Trial and Excecution of Guybrush Threepwood", Morgan LeFlay tries to shut up the resident Mad Scientist, the Marquis De Singe, by breaking his finger. Thanks to his recently gained Healing Factor, this doesn't do her any good.
• In a cutscene from Le Temple Perdu de l'Oncle Ernest, the narrator says that Uncle Albert once told about the time he had a finger eaten by an animal during his travels in Peru. Given he has no missing finger in any other cutscenes, he was probably pulling a prank on the children.
• Until Dawn: If you investigate the wrong object in the Sanitorium, Mike can get two of the fingers on his left hand caught in a bear trap. Earlier in the area, you can find a machete, and so you have a choice: cut the fingers off, or use the machete to open the bear trap - which breaks the machete, leaving you unarmed in the lair of what for all appearances is a psychotic murderer.
• The Walking Dead: If Clementine went alone with AJ at the end of season 2, a flashback in Season 3 episode 1 reveals that her right ring finger was crushed by a car door while defending AJ from walkers and she had to amputate half of it.

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