History Main / SwissArmyAppendage

* Mousse from ''{{Ranma}}'' hasn't lost any limbs, but his puffy sleeves contain a seemingly inexhaustible supply of [[ImprobableWeaponUser more or less improbable weapons]].

* Swiss army limbs containing holdout weapons are common for the robot bodyguards and cyborg assassins in the various incarnations of GhostInTheShell, not so common amongst the heroic characters.

* Swiss army limbs containing holdout weapons are fairly common amongst the many robots and cyborgs in the various incarnations of GhostInTheShell.

* In ''{{Transformers}}'' (the original 1980's toon, which is NOT anime contrary to popular belief), many of the various characters have been seen withdrawing their hands into their forearms and extending new tools. Often used by characters such as Trailbreaker (whose toy could use either a fist or a missile / gun barrel in his forearms) to extend a weapon of some kind, but also used for welding torches and Jazz's semi-famous grappling hook.

* Chaos Obliterators in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' combine this with ShapeshifterWeapon: they can morph their bodies into just about anything that's needed. This being 40k, "anything that's needed" means "whatever weapon is most handy at the time".
** Although the fact that they're living daemonic war machines makes it likely that the only things they ever need to morph are weapons.

* Dendrobium Gundam Stamen from ''Gundam0083'' has arms which open up into long, thin grasper arms. These are not used for hand-to-hand combat, but rather to grab various armaments out of the gigantic Dendrobium Orchis mobile armor that it rides around in.

** Buccaneer at Fort Briggs is short one arm. Being from Fort Briggs, the prime center of [[BadAss badassery]] in Amestris, he naturally has several automail weapon/arms, including one which is more or less a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] attached to his shoulder.
*** Oh it's better than "just" a chainsaw... It's called the Crocodile because it's TWO chainsaws with the teeth facing inwards. So even if you're not dead from the tearing and the grinding, you still get pulled in close for him to beat the snot out of you with his "good" arm.

* Princess Langwidere in ''[[TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Ozma of Oz]]'' by L. Frank Baum has thirty heads that she hot-swaps depending on her desired appearance.

* The mountain goat from the film {{Hoodwinked}} has an incredible number of detatchable antlers that do various things (from holding his car keys to opening bottles to ''allowing him to fly''.

* Guts in ''{{Berserk}}'' loses an arm to a demon during the Eclipse, but it's all good because his replacement includes a gunpowder ArmCannon and a repeating crossbow!
** On the other hand, the thing does ''not'' have moving fingers, but powerful magnets make sure that the artificial fingers are tightly grasping his massive sword, The Dragonslayer.

** On the other hand, the thing does ''not'' have moving fingers (they literally do nothing but look slightly human), so the only good it is for holding things is as a stump with a magnet on it.

* Herzer Herrick, from JohnRingo's ''CouncilWars'' series, uses a nifty prosthetic hand that combines a clamp and a shear with a torque amplification system befitting both the series' AnachromismStew and his own CanonSue status. It even opens beer bottles. He'd much prefer to have a real hand, though. As both a high ranking officer, and the consort of one of the most powerful women on the planet, he could easily get his hand regrown. It's a matter of personal honor that he won't do so until after the war is over.

* In an homage to Enter the Dragon, Jackie Chan in Jackie Chan Adventures once fought a villain with different prosthetic hands. And when going unarmed against the villain's weaponized hand, Jackie grabs other hands, which turn out to have rather mundane uses, like toothbrushes, instead of weapons.

** ''TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' features "A Fistful of Yen," an AffectionateParody of EnterTheDragon, where the villain parody's Mr. Han's hand by feature an even wider array of attachments. Like a flamethrower.

** One of the soldiers at Fort Briggs is short one arm. Being from Fort Briggs, the prime center of [[BadAss badassery]] in Amestris, he naturally has several automail weapon/arms, including one which is more or less a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] attached to his shoulder.

** A better example would be Paninya, who shows up early in the manga. She's got a blade in one leg and a gun in the other. Both of which prove to be fairly useful against the Elric brothers.

* John Silver in Disney's ''TreasurePlane''t is a cyborg, with artificial arm, leg, and eye. The arm transforms into about a million different things, from tools for cooking to a cutlass.

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* Captain Hook in ''Peter Pan No Boken''.

** He also uses several different ones in... the movie ''Hook''.

* Variation: Shinkuro from the anime ''Kure-nai'' didn't lose a limb, but as a child he had a sword-like blade placed ''inside his arm'' while he was training with a family of ex-assassins after the death of his own family. It pops out through his elbow when he gets overly agitated in combat, and [[spoiler:in the final episode he proves to be frighteningly efficient with it.]] He now regrets having it put into him, though, and is trying to be strong enough not to ever need it.

* Justimon, Cyberdramon's Mega form, from Digimon Tamers has the Trinity Arm, which has three different forms.
* Dendrobium Gundam Stamen from Gundam0083 has arms which open up into long, thin grasper arms. These are not used for hand-to-hand combat, but rather to grab various armaments out of the gigantic Dendrobium Orchis mobile armor that it rides around in.

** Kentucky Fried Movie features "A Fistful of Yen," an AffectionateParody of EnterTheDragon, where the villain parody's Mr. Han's hand by feature an even wider array of attachments. Like a flamethrower.

* ''The Machine Girl'' (''Kataude Mashin Garu'') features a Japanese schoolgirl who loses her arm to the mob and replaces it with a machine gun as well as a chainsaw.
* The film [[LifePod Lifepod]] had the 'Toolies' - a sub-species of dwarf-sized human's who underwent surgery to have tool adaptors on one of their arms.
* In Robert Rodriguez' [[PlanetTerror Planet Terror]], Rose [=McGowan's=] character, a go-go dancer named Cherry Darling, loses a leg early in the movie and has it replaced by a peg, and later, a [[SwissArmyWeapon machine gun/grenade launcher]]. That's right, it's a gun leg. RuleOfCool keeps it from exploding from all the dirt that would get packed into the barrel.

* In {{Evil Dead II}}, Ash amputates his own demon-possessed hand and replaces it with a chainsaw to battle the undead. In {{Army of Darkness}}, he replaces ''that'' with a mechanical gauntlet strong enough to crush a metal goblet like it was play-doh. Groovy, indeed!
* The T-X from ''Terminator 3'' has one of these: the liquid metal lets it be a normal hand, else it can fold about into a variety of weapons.

* Princess Langwidere in ''Ozma of Oz'' by L. Frank Baum has thirty heads that she hot-swaps depending on her desired appearance.

* ArtificialHuman Modular Man in the WildCards SharedUniverse, as his name suggests, is this trope taken to its logical end.

* Not an appendage, strictly speaking, but Arno Blunt in [[ArtemisFowl Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code]] acquires a wide variety of bizarre false teeth at some point after having his real teeth knocked out by a sonic grenade.

* Herzer Herrick, from JohnRingo's CouncilWars series, uses a nifty prosthetic hand that combines a clamp and a shear with a torque amplification system befitting both the series' AnachromismStew and his own CanonSue status. It even opens beer bottles. He'd much prefer to have a real hand, though. As both a high ranking officer, and the consort of one of the most powerful women on the planet, he could easily get his hand regrown. It's a matter of personal honor that he won't do so until after the war is over.

* Riderman, from KamenRider V3, has this for a right arm. Called the "Attachment" or "Cassette" Arm, it can switch between Normal, Rope (Hook, Mace, and Scythe options), Net, Power (claw), Drill, Repair (mostly for other cyborgs), and Machine Gun(!) Arms - simply by switching out a cartridge in the elbow. This is his ''only'' cybernetic adjustment in the original series, which makes him something of a BadassNormal.
** The Zect Troopers in KamenRiderKabuto use a variation/homage of this, designed to fit over a normal arm and perfectly capable of taking down weaker foes.

* TokusouRoboJanperson uses this, with the addition that his right arm can be launched off as a wired RocketPunch. The attachments include a [[{{BFS}} sword]], a [[KillItWithFire flamethrower]] and an actual RocketPunch.

* Torque, Robert Conrad's sidekick in the TV spy show ''A Man Called Sloane'', had a selection of attachments, one of which was a mini-flamethrower he used to light his cigars with.

* By making the best of the [[CursedWithAwesome powerful curse]] she's under, Jacqueline Montarri has become one of the most adaptable villains in the {{Ravenloft}} setting. Having lost her own head centuries ago, she decapitates other women and wears theirs, instead. And she gains any class-based abilities which those unfortunate ladies might've possessed in the bargain. If she ever offers to show you her "collection", don't accept, because it's ''not'' stamps or butterflies.
* Naturally, this is an option in several CyberPunk games, such as ''Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0'', ''{{Shadowrun}}'', and GURPS Cyberpunk.

* Fritz from ''Brain Dead 13'' replaces his hook hands with all kinds of melee weapons, guns, and other props (blender, electric razor, etc).

* Baiken of the game series GuiltyGear lost an arm and an eye. Despite it being TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, she didn't opt for a prosthetic. Instead she just filled that shirt sleeve with all kinds of stuff loosely attached to her shoulder, including a raking claw on a chain, and a fireworks launcher.

* John Silver in Disney's TreasurePlanet is a cyborg, with artificial arm, leg, and eye. The arm transforms into about a million different things, from tools for cooking to a cutlass.

* Cyborg from {{Teen Titans}} has a cybernetic arm that transforms from hand to big cannon to whatever else seems particularly plot-relevant at the time. Then again, thanks to his cybernetics, he has more of a Swiss Army Half-Body, as writers tend to use his technological enhancements as a bit of a {{Deus Ex Machina}}.
* Hoss Delgado from TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy has a hand that seems to turn into anything imaginable. Even things that seem useless.
* In Transformers (the original 1980's toon, which is NOT anime contrary to popular belief), many of the various characters have been seen withdrawing their hands into their forearms and extending new tools. Often used by characters such as Trailbreaker (whose toy could use either a fist or a missile / gun barrel in his forearms) to extend a weapon of some kind, but also used for welding torches and Jazz's semi-famous grappling hook.