History PlayingWith / LifeOrLimbDecision

** Bob is a zombie, and so when his neck was stuck, so he cut off his own head and reattached it.

* '''Parodied''': Bob's leg gets trapped under a large boulder. Despite help already being on the way, he cuts if off anyway because he doesn’t want to miss the latest episode of his favourite TV show.

* '''Lampshaded''': "If I manage to get my leg trapped and with nobody to help me, I'd probably have to cut if off."

* '''Discussed''': "And then I was faced with a terrible choice: cut my own leg off or die."

* '''Invoked''': One of Emperor Evulz's booby traps is designed specifically to catch and trap the hand of anyone reaching into the wrong holes of one of his mechanisms. Oh, [[Film/{{Saw}} and the hand is held in by sharp blades]].

** Bob's arm has been bitten by something with [[TheVirus a contagious and deadly disease.]] If he doesn't cut it off in time, Bob could die, [[ViralTransformation or worse]].

* '''Justified''': Bob's limb is stuck under something neither he nor anyone with him can move.

* '''Invoked''': One of Emperor Evulz's booby traps is designed specifically to catch and trap the hand of anyone reaching into the wrong holes of one of his mechanisms. Oh, [[{{Saw}} and the hand is held in by sharp blades]].
* '''Exploited''': [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]], knowing Bob lost a limb, makes his fortress impossible to get into unless you have two arms and two legs.
** Emperor Evulz uses plenty of stairs in his fortress, but no ramps, thus making his fortress wheelchair inaccesible.

* '''Reconstructed''': This is still preferable to slowly dying from hunger, his only other alternative. At least he had a shot at making it out this way.

* '''Invoked''': ???

** After cutting off his limb, Bob takes steps to disinfect and cauterize his open wound.

** Bob cuts off his leg, only to realize that [[TooDumbToLive he amputated the wrong leg]]!

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Justified''': ???

* '''Inverted''': Bob's leg has somehow been cut off, and he has to reattach it to escape.
** Bob's arms and legs are chained to the wall, unable to move them. The key is sitting nearby. He must accept an alien parasite into his body, granting him a third arm, or die of thirst/starvation.
* '''Parodied''': Bob's leg gets trapped under a large boulder. Despite help already being on the way, he cuts if off anyway because he doesn’t want to miss the latest episode of his favourite TV show.

* '''Double Subverted''': The limb has sustained enough trauma that he later needs to have it amputated anyway.
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob cuts off his limb to escape, but he bleeds to death not much later.
* '''Reconstructed''': This is still preferable to slowly dying from hunger, his only other alternative. At least he had a shot at making it out this way.

* '''Lampshaded''': "If I manage to get my leg trapped and with nobody to help me, I'd probably have to cut if off."
* '''Invoked''': See parodied above.

* '''Played for Laughs''': Bob cuts off his leg to escape... too bad he cut off the wrong leg.
* '''Played for Drama''': The work goes into the physical and mental consequences of Bob sacrificing his leg to survive.

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob has to cut off some of his fingers to escape.

** Bob cuts off his trapped arm, regenerates it, is trapped again, has to cut it again, repeat ad nauseum.

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