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** One of the cops in Ethelmik accidentally chopped off his own ally's arms while trying to kill Elka.


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** Shaensigin lost both of her foremost limbs while fighting the Crescian military alongside the Inak. Given her nature she can eventually regrow them but it will take decades.
** One of Riker's damaged legs tears off entirely as he tries to drag himself away from the survivors of his latest attack.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'': 'Four Finger Discount' Jack's defining physical feature is the scarred stump that was formerly his right arm. The story of how he lost it is never made quite clear, either [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2014/03/14/armless-fun/ lost in a fight or to the garbage disposal]], depending on who you ask.
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* ''Webcomic/NoHeroes'': [[spoiler:One of the two protagonists, Shara, looses the lower half of her right leg as a consequence of the events of chapter two, as it has to be amputated to save the rest of her body from the spider tree poison. She only survives because Katharina managed to carry her to the next city fast enough.]] Afterwards she has to rely first on crutches, then a metal prosthetic.

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** At the same time, [[TheHeavy captain Snow]] keeps losing bits of his body, but they get replaced by a {{magitek}} gauntlet. By book nine, he's pretty much a magical cyborg.

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** At the same time, [[TheHeavy captain Captain Snow]] keeps losing bits of his body, but they get replaced by a {{magitek}} gauntlet. By book nine, he's pretty much a magical cyborg.



* Happens several times in ''{{Webcomic/Drowtales}}'', with golem limbs being common replacements:

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* Happens several times in ''{{Webcomic/Drowtales}}'', ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', with golem limbs being common replacements:



** During [[FinalBattle [S] Collide]], [[spoiler:PM manages to defeats her EvilCounterpart Bec Noir by serving his arm. [[LiteralDisarming Cutting him off]] from the [[RingOfPower Queen's ring's]] power]].



* ''{{Webcomic/Sarilho}}'': [[spoiler:Mikhail gets hit with a Microwave Gun from afar, and part of his arm immediately explodes.]]

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* ''{{Webcomic/Sarilho}}'': ''Webcomic/{{Sarilho}}'': [[spoiler:Mikhail gets hit with a Microwave Gun from afar, and part of his arm immediately explodes.]]
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** Elf has her legs blown off at the knees and replaced with mech legs. She's actually fairly happy with the replacements, as they add significantly to her previously short stature. Said legs are even used at one point as a blast barrier by Capt. Taggon.

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** Elf has her legs blown off at the knees and replaced with mech legs. She's actually fairly happy with the replacements, as they add significantly to her previously short stature. Said legs are even used at one point as a blast barrier by Capt. Taggon.Tagon.
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* ''Webcomic/AliceGrove'': Sedna rips off her own arm to stab [[spoiler:Church]] with the protruding bone.
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* ''Webcomic/CashmereSky'': After stumbling across a machine that sustains a poisonous fog, Enzo shoves Arlo away from a moving part about to crush him. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Enzo’s foot doesn’t clear the landing zone and gets crushed as a result.]]
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* In ''Webcomic/JustAGoblin'', goblin body parts are valuable enough crafting ingredients that there are regular quest postings asking for them. After escaping the adventurers after his life, Nog returns home to Rektoros to see a goblin hobbling home with a cane after losing a leg.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'' actually manages to invert this seemingly un-invertible trope: Raven starts as a disembodied spirit, and his body gradually becomes more complete as he becomes more and more human. He's completely corporeal except for his right arm and wing by chapter nine. He looks like an amputee, but he's actually the reverse.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'' actually manages to invert this seemingly un-invertible trope: Raven starts as a disembodied spirit, and his body gradually becomes more complete as he becomes more and more human. He's completely entirely corporeal except for his right arm and wing by chapter book nine. He looks like an amputee, but he's actually the reverse.reverse.
** At the same time, [[TheHeavy captain Snow]] keeps losing bits of his body, but they get replaced by a {{magitek}} gauntlet. By book nine, he's pretty much a magical cyborg.

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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Grace has a nightmare in which Sensei Greg [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2016-07-22 gets one of his arms eaten]].
* A particular squicky example of Type 3 appears in ''Webcomic/{{Flipside}}'': When Bloody Mary chews Maytag's hand off, Maytag's primary complaint is that she wasn't awake to experience it. Maytag then kindly allows Mary to eat the rest of her arm as well because Mary needs the food and that's just the sort of girl Maytag is. Anything for a new thrill!

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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Grace has a nightmare in which Sensei Greg [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2016-07-22 gets one of his arms eaten]].
* A particular squicky example of Type 3 appears in ''Webcomic/{{Flipside}}'': A particular squicky example of Type 3 appears. When Bloody Mary chews Maytag's hand off, Maytag's primary complaint is that she wasn't awake to experience it. Maytag then kindly allows Mary to eat the rest of her arm as well because Mary needs the food and that's just the sort of girl Maytag is. Anything for a new thrill!



* The monster Mr. Fingers in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' can disintegrate the bodies of creatures that touch it.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'': The monster Mr. Fingers in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' can disintegrate the bodies of creatures that touch it.it. When this happens to one of the main characters, he has to tear off an infected arm before the rot can spread to the rest of his body.



* In ''Webcomic/{{Harbourmaster}}'', [[spoiler:Tal loses his left arm to Mormo's attack at the beginning of ''One Deal is What We Made'']].
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
** Missing arms are a recurring [[BodyMotifs motif]] in ''Homestuck'', along with [[EyeScream wounds to the eye]].
** [[spoiler:Caliborn]] bites off his own leg [[spoiler:to escape the shackle placed on it by his sister after assuming full control of their shared body]].

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Harbourmaster}}'', ''Webcomic/{{Harbourmaster}}'': [[spoiler:Tal loses his left arm to Mormo's attack at the beginning of ''One Deal is What We Made'']].
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
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''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Missing arms limbs are a recurring [[BodyMotifs motif]] in ''Homestuck'', along with [[EyeScream wounds to the eye]].
** During the Intermission, Snowman grabs Spades Slick's arm with her whip and tears it off at the shoulder.
** Before the start of the trolls' session, Vriska gets her arm blown off in an explosion, and has to replace it with a mechanical prosthetic. Later, [[spoiler:after she ascends to the God Tiers, she grows back a new one]].
** After the session, Tavros' paraplegia is addressed by chainsawing off his legs and replacing them with robotic ones.
** [[spoiler:Caliborn]] bites off his own leg [[spoiler:to escape the shackle placed on it by his sister after assuming full control of their shared body]]. Afterwards, his adult self uses a peg leg.



* In ''Webcomic/ModestMedusa'', Jake's housemate Charles gets his arm chopped off by the chainsaw unicorn in the first season.

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* In ''Webcomic/ModestMedusa'', ''Webcomic/ModestMedusa'': Jake's housemate Charles gets his arm chopped off by the chainsaw unicorn in the first season.



* In ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked'', [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/03-17.html Claire's father cut her hands off at the Devil's orders]].
* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':

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* In ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked'', ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked'': [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/03-17.html Claire's father cut her hands off at the Devil's orders]].
* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
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[[AnArmAndALeg Amputations]] in {{Webcomics}}.
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* ''Webcomic/Angels2200'': On her very first day in captivity, one of Hammer's captors cuts off her hand in revenge for the death of her son.
* ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'' actually manages to invert this seemingly un-invertible trope: Raven starts as a disembodied spirit, and his body gradually becomes more complete as he becomes more and more human. He's completely corporeal except for his right arm and wing by chapter nine. He looks like an amputee, but he's actually the reverse.
* In ''Webcomic/{{BACK}}'', this is how Abigail finally manages to defeat [[spoiler:the Dead Man (a.k.a. "Damned" Heat): by flinging a guillotine blade at his legs whilst he's making a whirlwind, slicing his feet clean off]].
* ''Webcomic/TheBikiniBottomHorror'': Two deliberate examples.
** Happens to [[spoiler:Mr. Krabs]] at the hand of [[spoiler:a group of Patrick Clones]].
** The entire story occurs as a result of this happening to [[spoiler:Patrick at the hand of Mr Krabs. And while Patrick would regenerate the limb, the limb he lost would also regenerate into a new Patrick.]]
* ''Webcomic/BlasterNation'' has been building up since the beginning to the story of how Logan lost his arm and became unable to work as a butcher (and amazingly resentful of his son). [[spoiler:Lacking the support of his wife and son on an overloaded workday, he got tired and careless while trying to unjam the meat grinder.]]
* In a ''Webcomic/BoyAndDog'' strip, one of Rowan's parents reads him a story in which the protagonist cuts an arm off of what he [[MistakenForUndead mistakenly]] thinks is a [[DemBones walking skeleton]].
* In ''Webcomic/CreativeRelease'', a webcomic with a fruits theme going on, two apple-themed characters are missing their right arm.
* The [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] setting of ''Webcomic/TheDemonArchives'' makes this inevitable, but more surprising is [[spoiler:when it happens to protagonist Tenzin fairly early in the story, as he literally loses one arm and one leg in battle]].
* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' had one of his legs blown off when Raf Malish's soul exploded and he was caught in the blast radius.
* ''Webcomic/{{Dregs}}'': Bandy lost her right arm some time ago.
* ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'': After the battle at the end of The Hob, Kimiko [[spoiler:is in the hospital, badly injured and minus her left arm, her left eye, both legs, three ribs, and half her spine]]. She makes herself better, although is in [[http://dresdencodak.com/2012/03/09/dark-science-17/ extreme pain while she builds and connects her artificial limbs]].
* Happens several times in ''{{Webcomic/Drowtales}}'', with golem limbs being common replacements:
** [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=4903 Nihi'liir]] lost her arm due to a psychic attack and got a [[ArtificialLimbs golem replacement]].
** Much later, [[spoiler:Ariel]] gets her arm [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=10143 chopped off]] by her AxCrazy half-sister Kalki, and [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=10315 winds up stealing]] [[AppendageAssimilation Kalki's arm]] as a replacement/payback.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Grace has a nightmare in which Sensei Greg [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2016-07-22 gets one of his arms eaten]].
* A particular squicky example of Type 3 appears in ''Webcomic/{{Flipside}}'': When Bloody Mary chews Maytag's hand off, Maytag's primary complaint is that she wasn't awake to experience it. Maytag then kindly allows Mary to eat the rest of her arm as well because Mary needs the food and that's just the sort of girl Maytag is. Anything for a new thrill!
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
** Oggie summarily amputates Dimo's left arm to save him from a bioweapon infection. Unlike most examples of version one, Dimo is actually grateful for the intervention.
** Captain Vole casually tears the arm off an assassin to counter his DeadMansSwitch.
** In a side-story, Agatha is happy to get a chance to test her Pocket De-Arming Device, which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin chops off its target's arms]].
* The monster Mr. Fingers in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' can disintegrate the bodies of creatures that touch it.
-->"Your kind grows its limbs back, right?"\\
"Nope."
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' starts to get dramatic when we see in a flashback how Antimony's father Anthony lost his forearm. [[spoiler:He cut it off himself, on advice from the psychopomps, as a "flesh antenna" to allow him to speak to his dead wife.]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Harbourmaster}}'', [[spoiler:Tal loses his left arm to Mormo's attack at the beginning of ''One Deal is What We Made'']].
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
** Missing arms are a recurring [[BodyMotifs motif]] in ''Homestuck'', along with [[EyeScream wounds to the eye]].
** [[spoiler:Caliborn]] bites off his own leg [[spoiler:to escape the shackle placed on it by his sister after assuming full control of their shared body]].
* ''Webcomic/ImpjakAdventure'': Impjak decides to cut his leg off with a saw, making the stump bleed. He puts it on his head.
* ''Webcomic/KarateBears'' [[http://www.karatebears.com/2010/11/goldilocks.html rewrite]] ''Literature/{{Goldilocks}}'' to their advantage by having Papa Bear rip off Goldilocks' arm.
* In ''Webcomic/ModestMedusa'', Jake's housemate Charles gets his arm chopped off by the chainsaw unicorn in the first season.
* ''Webcomic/MSFHigh'': Fable lost her left arm while summoning a large creature of the void to save her coven.
* In ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked'', [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/03-17.html Claire's father cut her hands off at the Devil's orders]].
* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** Durkon's mother is missing one arm. She lost it [[spoiler:the day her husband died]], and because of that, she refuses to let Durkon cast a regeneration spell on her.
** Tarquin repeatedly threatens to cut off Elan's arm once the latter starts denying his ideas of how their narrative conflict of "evil father vs. good son" is supposed to work.
* ''Webcomic/ParadigmShift'': A werewolf attacking in a frenzy is shown ripping the arm from a terrified vagrant -- one of several attacks mostly shown by their human-jigsaw aftermath. The author has studied anatomy with care, and it shows.
* In ''Webcomic/ProphecyOfTheCircle'', [[spoiler:Annen Duskeir]] loses an arm after having been [[spoiler:bitten by a tekk during a battle and expelled from Oros with no choice but to return to Tieke City without medical care during his trip in the desert]]. This handicap makes him more likely to lose his balance.
* ''{{Webcomic/Sarilho}}'': [[spoiler:Mikhail gets hit with a Microwave Gun from afar, and part of his arm immediately explodes.]]
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* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'':
** A lieutenant lost his arm in mercenary outfit's first job.
** Elf has her legs blown off at the knees and replaced with mech legs. She's actually fairly happy with the replacements, as they add significantly to her previously short stature. Said legs are even used at one point as a blast barrier by Capt. Taggon.
* ''Webcomic/ScoobAndShag'':
** Shag loses his left hand to an airlock door after [[spoiler:a mutated Goof grabs hold of it]].
** Much later, Dex [[spoiler:destroys Foghorn Leghorn's left arm from shoulder to wrist]].
* ''Webcomic/UnknownLands'': Inara uses her magic strings to remove the limbs and heads of some men hunting her.
* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'':
** Duane cut off Petr's arm using the sharpness of [[https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch02/ch02_64.html Petr's own blade to cast.]]
** Will's arm was bitten off by Lowing Shaensigin when Damphir tossed him into her mouth.
* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': In the present day, Mingxing Guan is missing her right arm, and uses a [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetic]]. A flashback reveals that, as the {{magical girl}} Starlight Spear, she had her right arm [[KillItWithIce frozen]] and broken clean off by the monster that [[spoiler:killed her friend Mitsuki]]. [[{{Determinator}} Even after losing an arm]], Mingxing still managed to kill the monster ''and'' deliver an injured Kokoro to safety [[spoiler:before [[DePower burning herself out completely]]]].
* Basi of ''Webcomic/WithoutMoonlight'' received serious injuries during a mission before the story started, resulting in an amputated arm.
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