History Main / SwissArmyAppendage

* ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} once fights a foe called Wooden Nickel whose "power" (using the term incredibly loosely) is that he possesses a wooden arm with multiple functions.
%% * ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} from ''ComicBook/TeenTitans''.

When the replacement limbs are collectively more capable than an ordinary one would be, this becomes a kind of DisabilitySuperpower, although the odds of suffering a FakeArmDisarm increase. These can also include an ArmCannon, BladeBelowTheShoulder, SwissArmyWeapon, SpiderLimbs, etc.

* A number of French amputees of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI returned to work after the war, and got various tools strapped to their stumps, such as scythes for agricultural work or hammers and wrenches for mechanical/industrial work.

* Mr. Han, the BigBad in the Bruce Lee movie ''Film/EnterTheDragon'', had a hand-stump, to which he attached a jade fist, tiger claws and a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagh_nakh''bagh nakh'']].

* Mr. Han, the BigBad in the Bruce Lee movie ''Film/EnterTheDragon'', had a hand-stump, to which he attached a jade fist, tiger claws and a ''bagh nakh''.

* Gobber from ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' replaces his missing hand with whatever the situation calls for. A fork, a stein, a hammer, etc. He is even introduced as something along the lines of 'the loudmouth with the interchangeable limbs'. [[spoiler:Hiccup gets his own prosthesis at the end, which includes suspension and is neatly designed to fit in to Toothless' gear system.]]

* The old Megadrive/Genesis game ''VideoGame/CyborgJustice'' gave you (and level bosses) the ability to rip arms off enemies and swap them with yours. The options included a [[ChainsawGood circular saw]], RocketPunch and [[FrickinLaserBeams Lasers]]. Or you could just throw it back at them.

* In ''VideoGame/EvolutionTheWorldOfSacredDevice'', all but two of the party members use Cyframes, ancient technology that has been repurposed for combat. [[TheHero Mag Launcher's]] Cyframe is Aeracomet, a giant fist. Aside from its most obvious function (punching the crap out of things), it can be equipped with various parts to give it a wider variety of other attacks and abilities, including but not limited to [[ElementalPunch elemental punches]] (of the FireIceLightning variety), crushing enemies with a [[DropTheHammer giant hammer]], and [[StandardStatusEffects spraying noxious fumes]] from a giant aerosol can.

* ''TabletopGame/BattlelordsOfThe23rdCentury'' supplement ''Lock-N-Load: The Battlelord's War Manual''. A Snap-On Interface allows the user to swap his weapon cybernetic limbs with normal-appearing limbs to avoid attention.

* Phantom, the BigBad from ''Manga/{{MAR}}'', has all of his most powerful [[MagiTek ÄRMs]] ''grafted onto his left arm'', which is wrapped up with cloth straps to keep it hidden. It's not exactly surprising when he reveals it, but it is ''awesome''.

* The entire point of Creator/GoNagai's ''Anime/KotetsuJeeg'' and his successor ''Anime/KoutetsushinJeeg''. The title Jeegs are modular HumongousMecha who can replace their limbs with tools and weapons such as the [[ThisIsADrill Mach Drill, Earth Parts]], or [[{{BFG}} Jeeg Bazooka]]. They also store one entire set of Jeeg Parts to rebuilt the robot as long as the head survived.

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

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' Officer Shallowgrave has hook that can turn into tools and weapons.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': Finn's [[ArtificialLimbs robotic arm]] is revealed to be this in the episode "Three Buckets".

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* John Silver in Disney's ''Disney/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. He can even use another part attached to his leg to turn it into something akin to a plasma cannon.

* A brief scene in Creator/WaltDisney's ''Disney/PeterPan'' shows Hook choosing a gold-plated hook from an assortment of hooks.

* Meanwhile, back in [-'''REAL LIFE'''-]: Aron Ralston, the mountain climber who cut his arm off below the elbow to free himself after being trapped by a boulder for five days, has the option of attaching a hook, an enhanced plastic hand, or a [[http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743492811.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg rock-climbing pick]] to his prosthetic forearm.

** Taken [[UpToEleven Up To Forty]] by ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'', where the hero has forty such add-ons, ten for every limb.

%%* Captain Hook in ''Anime/PeterPanNoBouken''.

* Both [[Cyborg Warp Darkmatter]] and [[KillerRobot XL]] in ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' have a mechanical arm that can transform into a variety of tools and weapons, including (in the latter's case) [[MundaneUtility mundane things like eggbeaters]].

* Japeth the mountain goat from the film ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' has an incredible number of detatchable antlers that can be used for every practical purpose: including holding his car keys (which is strange since he doesn't own a car), a set can be used as a bottle opener, a set used like a coat rack, and even a set with helicopter blades that ''allow him to fly''.

* In Literature/WillDestroyTheGalaxyForCash, the GentlemanThief Daversham Derby has one of his forearms removed and replaced with a cylinder shaped device that gives him whatever tool he needs; however, but this is because the device creates a miniature portal [[PortalNetwork (called quantunneling)]] to a room in some other part of the galaxy where his assistant inserts whatever tool he non verbally requests through the mouth of the portal.

* In Literature/WillDestroyTheGalaxyForCash, the GentlemanThief Daversham Derby, has one of his forearms removed and replaced with a cylinder device that gives him whatever tool he needs; howerever, but this is because the device creates a miniature portal [[PortalNetwork (called quantunneling)]] to a room in some other part of the galaxy where his assistant inserts whatever tool he non verbally requests through the mouth of the portal.

* This was the schtick of the ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe Cobra'' B.A.T., B.A.T. MkII, and it's final iteration Overkill produced by Hasbro. The right had could be switched out for a grabber claw, a laser gun, and, the case of the latter two, a spring loaded rocket launcher. Presumably the nub the hands attached too was also how they plugged into normal electrical outlets they used to recharge.

* Chaos Obliterators in ''TabletopGame/{{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" usually equates to "whatever weapon is most handy at the time", though presumably even living daemonic war machines [[MundaneUtility need a screwdriver or a crowbar or something]] occasionally.
** Why would an Obliterator need a crowbar in 40k? The most obvious need would be to open doors or crates, but then we're talking ''ten-foot mountains of flesh, metal and gun''. Chaos isn't famed for common sense either; the whole faction seems to be either TheStarscream or the kind to shoot out a door before asking if someone's on the other side.

* The [[TabletopGame/{{Exalted}} Infernal Exalted]] have access to a number of demonic "enhancements," one of which is called the Fourfold Demon Arm. It can become a normal human hand, a claw, a tentacle, or any non-ranged weapon, though each one only has four possible transformations. Still not as nasty of some of the other BodyHorror in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', especially if you get into Necrotech and Necrosurgery.

* In ''Cybergeneration'', the Tinman character types have all four limbs replaced with these. A skilled Tinman can do truly impressive things with them, even, if the GM permits it, glide by turning their limbs into airfoils.

** Lockdown of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' can change out his arms and weaponry with other parts--from other Transformers. It's implied that the other people aren't always dead when he tears the pieces off.

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* Naturally, this is an option in several CyberPunk games, such as ''Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0'', ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', and ''[[TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} GURPS Cyberpunk]]''.