Amputations in Webcomics.
- Alice Grove: Sedna rips off her own arm to stab Church with the protruding bone.
- Angels 2200: On her very first day in captivity, one of Hammer's captors cuts off her hand in revenge for the death of her son.
- 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 entirely corporeal except for his right arm and wing by book nine. He looks like an amputee, but he's actually the reverse.
- At the same time, 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.
- In BACK, this is how Abigail finally manages to defeat 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.
- The Bikini Bottom Horror: Two deliberate examples.
- Happens to Mr. Krabs at the hand of a group of Patrick Clones.
- The entire story occurs as a result of this happening to 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.
- Blaster Nation 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). 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 Boy and Dog strip, one of Rowan's parents reads him a story in which the protagonist cuts an arm off of what he mistakenly thinks is a walking skeleton.
- Cashmere Sky: After stumbling across a machine that sustains a poisonous fog, Enzo shoves Arlo away from a moving part about to crush him. Unfortunately, Enzo’s foot doesn’t clear the landing zone and gets crushed as a result.
- In Creative Release, a webcomic with a fruits theme going on, two apple-themed characters are missing their right arm.
- The post-apocalyptic setting of The Demon Archives makes this inevitable, but more surprising is when it happens to protagonist Tenzin fairly early in the story, as he literally loses one arm and one leg in battle.
- Dominic Deegan had one of his legs blown off when Raf Malish's soul exploded and he was caught in the blast radius.
- Dregs: Bandy lost her right arm some time ago.
- Dresden Codak: After the battle at the end of The Hob, Kimiko 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 extreme pain while she builds and connects her artificial limbs
. - Happens several times in Drowtales, with golem limbs being common replacements:
- Nihi'liir lost her arm due to a psychic attack and got a golem replacement.
- Much later, Ariel gets her arm chopped off by her Ax-Crazy half-sister Kalki, and winds up stealing Kalki's arm as a replacement/payback.
- Nihi'liir
- El Goonish Shive: Grace has a nightmare in which Sensei Greg gets one of his arms eaten.
- 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!
- Girl Genius:
- 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 Dead Man's Switch.
- In a side-story, Agatha is happy to get a chance to test her Pocket De-Arming Device, which chops off its target's arms.
- Goblins: The monster Mr. Fingers can disintegrate the bodies of creatures that touch 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."Your kind grows its limbs back, right?"
"Nope." - Gunnerkrigg Court starts to get dramatic when we see in a flashback how Antimony's father Anthony lost his forearm. He cut it off himself, on advice from the psychopomps, as a "flesh antenna" to allow him to speak to his dead wife.
- Harbourmaster: Tal loses his left arm to Mormo's attack at the beginning of One Deal is What We Made.
- Homestuck: Missing limbs are a recurring motif in Homestuck, along with 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, 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.
- Caliborn bites off his own leg 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.
- During [S] Collide, PM manages to defeats her Evil Counterpart Bec Noir by serving his arm. Cutting him off from the Queen's ring's power.
- 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 lost in a fight or to the garbage disposal, depending on who you ask.
- Impjak Adventure: Impjak decides to cut his leg off with a saw, making the stump bleed. He puts it on his head.
- In Just a Goblin, 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.
- Karate Bears rewrite Goldilocks to their advantage by having Papa Bear rip off Goldilocks' arm.
- Modest Medusa: Jake's housemate Charles gets his arm chopped off by the chainsaw unicorn in the first season.
- MSF High: Fable lost her left arm while summoning a large creature of the void to save her coven.
- No Rest for the Wicked: Claire's father cut her hands off at the Devil's orders.
- No Heroes: 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.
- The Order of the Stick:
- Durkon's mother is missing one arm. She lost it 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.
- Paradigm Shift: 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 Prophecy of the Circle, Annen Duskeir loses an arm after having been 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.
- Sarilho: Mikhail gets hit with a Microwave Gun from afar, and part of his arm immediately explodes.
- Schlock Mercenary:
- 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. Tagon.
- Scoob and Shag:
- Shag loses his left hand to an airlock door after a mutated Goof grabs hold of it.
- Much later, Dex destroys Foghorn Leghorn's left arm from shoulder to wrist.
- Unknown Lands: Inara uses her magic strings to remove the limbs and heads of some men hunting her.
- Unsounded:
- Duane cut off Petr's arm using the sharpness of Petr's own blade to cast.
- One of the cops in Ethelmik accidentally chopped off his own ally’s arms while trying to kill Elka.
- Will's arm was bitten off by Lowing Shaensigin when Damphir tossed him into her mouth.
- 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.
- Duane cut off Petr's arm using the sharpness of Petr's own blade to cast.
- Sleepless Domain: In the present day, Mingxing Guan is missing her right arm, and uses a prosthetic. A flashback reveals that, as the magical girl Starlight Spear, she had her right arm frozen and broken clean off by the monster that killed her friend Mitsuki. Even after losing an arm, Mingxing still managed to kill the monster and deliver an injured Kokoro to safety before burning herself out completely.
- Basi of Without Moonlight received serious injuries during a mission before the story started, resulting in an amputated arm.
