Multi Armed And Dangerous / Video Games

Two guys challenged him to an arm-wrestling contest. He kept the arms as trophies.

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• The Vecgir from the Real-Time Strategy Achron, in addition to having an extra set of arms, generally stand a meter taller than the average human.
• The second boss of The Astyanax carries a sword in each of four hands.
• Arabian Fight have several animated Hindu statues with four limbs in the temples, each of them armed with multiple scimitars to attack your characters.
• Arabian Magic's second boss, Asura, a six-armed deity armed with six scimitars will use all his weapons to rough you up all at once. As the battle progresses on, Asura will start losing limbs, and at the battle's conclusion where you win Asura's arms are reduced to six stumps.
• Asura's Wrath
  • Asura, who can grow four Extra Arms. His final form plays this straight and averts this: He grows ONE THOUSAND ARMS, which then fuse together into two arms to create Mantra Asura.
  • Apart from Asura, there's also Vlitra's core and Chakravartin. When fighting the latter, he breaks all of Asura's extra arms and the armor over his last two arms, forcing him to fight — literally — barehanded.
• One of the last bosses in Bloodborne, Mergo's Wet Nurse, is a large and menacing winged creature shrouded in a ragged black robe. While some parts of its body, such as its long neck and head, are invisible, it does visibly have six thin, twisted arms, all wielding jagged scimitars and capable of lashing out at you at an extreme distance.
• Bogu from Bladed Fury is a demon with four mechanical Artificial Limbs in place of her arms, and uses all of them simultaneously to beat you down, including a Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs using all four arms. Yes, this game has a demonic cyborg in it.
• The Bullymongs in Borderlands 2 have four very muscular arms, and two relatively puny, almost unused legs.
  • Amara, the Siren of Borderlands 3, can summon six hindu-inspired arms to aid her in combat.
• City of Heroes
  • Lord Recluse, who has four extra giant spider-like claw-arms affixed to his back. According to the book of the game, those are part of his body.
  • The mutated Arachnoids have the same claw-arms. The extra arms of the Crab Spider Soldiers are purely mechanical, though, although they are surgically attached and connected to the soldier's nervous system.
  • And the Meat Doctors of the Freakshow, who have limbs with rotary cutting blades grafted to them.
• Tikimon, the second (or third if you count Cortex and Mecha-Bandicoot as separate fights) boss of Crash Twinsanity, is a four-armed, destructive Tiki deity summoned by the Evil Twins to impede Crash and Cortex after escaping from Papu-Papu's tribe.
• Dahna: Megami Tanjō has a four-armed, two-headed demon knight serving as a boss, and as the battle progresses it lose two limbs and a head before it's knocked off a tower. The same boss returns a few levels later after it's defeat, with only two arms and a head.
• Dark Souls has the boss, Pinwheel◊ and the Pinwheel Servants.
• Destiny has the Fallen, a race of arachnid-like space pirates that are actually born with four arms, but soon get docked to two and become Dregs. If these Dregs prove themselves worthy, they may have a set of robotic limbs installed, bringing them back up to 4.
• The Demon-at-Arms enemies in the Dragon Quest series not only have four arms, but also have the ability to attack twice per turn.
  • Some of the entries also have KingLeo. Four legs. Four arms. All of them have claws.
• The Elder Scrolls
  • Mehrunes Dagon, the Daedric Prince of Destruction, is typically depicted as a massive Big Red Devil humanoid with four arms, each often holding a different weapon. He has attempted the takeover of Nirn/Mundus multiple times throughout history, serving as either the direct Big Bad or the Man Behind the Man in three games in the series.
  • Mephala is a Daedric Prince whose sphere is "obscured to mortals", but who is associated with manipulation, lies, sex, and secrets. Her statue in Oblivion depicts her as having four arms.
  • Morwha, the Yokudan/Redguard aspect of Mara, the Aedric Divine Goddess of Love, is depicted with four arms so that she can "grab more husbands". Otherwise downplayed because she isn't particularly malevolent.
  • Daedric Titans are a type of lesser Daedra created by Molag Bal, the Daedric Prince of Domination and Corruption, by corrupting dragons. Unlike standard dragons, whose wings and forelimbs are combined, Titans have four limbs (two arms and two legs) in addition to their wings.
  • Seekers, a Cthulhumanoid form of lesser Daedra in service to Hermaeus Mora, the Daedric Prince of Knowledge, have, in addition to their many tentacles, four humanoid arms.
  • Morrowind has Bonelords, a favored form of undead in the region. They are a pair of skeletal humanoid torsos glued one on top of the other, with a single skull and four arms. They hover around ominously draped in brown robes and are capable spellcasters.
• Elden Ring: Godrick the Golden, one of the demigods and a boss faced within the game. He puts much darker spin on this trope, however. In the gameplay teaser, it's implied he kills adventurers into Stormveil Castle and grafts their arms onto his body. As he pulls off his cloak, they writhe and move around, and one is even capable of wielding a second axe, that he uses alongside his main one.
• Eldervale: One of the enemy types Ophelia encounters in the game is bipedal humanoid monsters with a smaller set of arms under their larger ones.
• Elona has the "Mutant" starting race, which gains a random extra equipment slot every third level, meaning a high-level mutant (who either got lucky or Save Scummed) could potentially be swinging around dozens of weapons, due to the Absurdly High Level Cap. However, the mechanics of Dual Wielding makes this only practical up to a certain point, as every weapon you equip after your first will have its chance to hit decrease linearly, and each equipment slot you have over the base amount of 13 (a level 1 Mutant only has four equipment slots) decreases the all-important speed stat by 5%, to a minimum of 50%. These weaknesses can be made up for by equipping items in your other extra equipment slots (Seven-League Boots increase your speed, and Peridot necklaces increase your chance to hit).
  • The Elona+ Game Mod adds a Mad Doctor who can add extra limbs to yourself or your pets up to a maximum of 16 at a cost of your max HP, also allowing for this trope.
• Eastern Exorcist has the four-armed demon-ogre, Green Wraith, who repeatedly performs a Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs with all four appendages throughout his boss fight. Said boss returns degraded into a Giant Mook enemy, but it still retains the ability to spam punches with all fists even when no longer a boss.
• Hugo, the last boss of Evil Genome, has four arms, each wielding a BFS to hack you apart with and can launch sword beams from all four. And every now and then, whenever you corner Hugo to a corner of the screen, he will put all four swords together - unleashing a powerful Wave-Motion Gun covering half the screen that you must slide to dodge.
• Final Fantasy
  • Started waaaaaaay back in Final Fantasy with Marilith, who went on for a cameo in Final Fantasy IX. As the Fiend of Fire, she's a six-armed Naga who wields swords and knives in each hand. Marilith (named Kary in her first US appearance to prevent lawsuits) is taken from Dungeons & Dragons, mentioned above.
  • Gilgamesh, the wanderer of the rift, who originated from Final Fantasy V with an eight-armed One-Winged Angel mode for his last battle. He has since has since made recurrent appearances throughout the series; some only show his two-armed form; some bring back the One-Winged Angel mode for rematches, and some have him multi-armed for the entirety of his screentime.
    Gilgamesh: For Gilgamesh, IT'S MORPHING TIME!
  • Asura, an optional boss in Final Fantasy IV, had six arms and three heads. She's queen of the Feymarch / Land of Summons, and if you can defeat her (which is impossible if you don't know the trick) she'll allow Rydia to use her as a summoned monster.
  • In Dissidia Final Fantasy, Chaos wields four swords in his ultimate attack.
  • In Final Fantasy XIII-2, Jet Bahamut and his two fellow Bahamut helpers all have four arms, though they're mostly there so they can fight you while maintaining a Badass Armfold, using only two arms for their attacks the majority of the time.
  • Ravana from Final Fantasy XIV has four arms. He alternates between wielding a glowing tulwar in each hand and wielding a pair of two-handed broadswords.
  • In Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, the Dark King's second form gives him six arms, all wielding a variety of magical weapons.
• Finding Light: The Final Boss, Zamas, has six arms and wields three weapons in his sprite. Fittingly, he also has the TriAttack tech that lets him use a three-hit physical attack.
• In Five Nights at Freddy's 2, the Mangle seems to have at least two animatronic endoskeletons' worth of limbs. She attacks by biting, though.
• Kazdan Paratus of The Force Unleashed built himself four mechanical limbs to crawl around Raxus Prime like a mad bug.
• Frozen State: One of the enemies in the game has four arms. The lower set is for both feet, and claws.
• After the fourth level in God Hand, there's a small but present chance of a defeated enemy spawning a Four-Armed Demon. These serpentine bastards are among the most difficult "regular" enemies in the game. Not coincidentally, the two levels where you have to face a scripted Four-Armed Demon are considered the hardest non-boss levels in an already Nintendo Hard game.
• The Beta of Grey Goo (2015) are a race of imposing alien humanoids with four arms, two large muscular ones growing from their shoulders and two smaller, more human-like arms sprouting from their chests. The ability to perform multiple complex tasks at once involving all four arms varies between each individual - Alin's enormous aptitude for multitasking earned her high praise from her peers and a position as the Mission Control for the Beta armed forces, while Naiko is a habitual single-tasker and earns some mockery from his brothers, who would say that Naiko needs all four arms to kill a fly (and Naiko would fire back with "But I always get the fly.")
• Half-Life: Opposing Force: The insectoid Shock Troopers, Race X's primary foot soldiers and military force. They usually hold weapons or tools in their two lower arms.
• Hollow: The first enemies encountered in the game have four arms.
• Justice from House of the Dead 4 is a gigantic zombie with four muscular arms, and serves as the first boss of the game.
• Many PCs in the roguelike Hydra Slayer will end up becoming this, if only because the dungeon is filled with both potions which can allow the more common playable races to grow extra limbs and because often the only practical way to carry an extra weapon is to have a spare hand for it. The echidna species, however, excels in this trope; despite starting with only two arms like humans, their genetics confer innate multidexterity, trading a slow travel speed and metabolism for the ability to simultaneously strike with any subset of equipped weapons.
• The Optional boss, Kurt Zisa, in Kingdom Hearts has six arms, wielding two swords with the two arms in the middle between the top and bottom arms.
• The Sovani race in The Last Remnant has four arms. When they aren't being used for quadruple-wielding, the lower set of arms are kept crossed.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • Koloktos, a boss in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, has six arms, in probable reference to Vishnu.
  • Calamity Ganon, the Final Boss in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has nearly a dozen appendages, each armed with unique weaponry.
• In Leifeng Pagoda, the recurring Shura King enemies are demons with four arms, wielding huge swords they'll use to hack you apart.
• Mace: The Dark Age: Asmodeus, the Final Boss, is a four-armed dragonlike demon lord that possesses the Mace of Tanis that every one of the fighters is seeking for their own reasons.
• Subversion: Star Overlord Valvoga from Makai Kingdom certainly looks like it could be completely menacing, if not for the fact that multi-armed Micky is a complete pushover and is always bullied around by his other parts, the mad dragon-head Dryzen and the temptress Ophelia.
• MDK: Max the six-limbed robot dog in the game series.
• Metal Gear
  • Solidus Snake does battle in a mechanized suit that gives him two rocket-launching multipurpose tentacles in addition to his normal arms at the end of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
  • In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Laughing Octopus wears powered armour that gives her four extra Combat Tentacles. Her teammate, Screaming Mantis, also has powered armour that gives extra limbs: six, in Mantis's case, four of which are as unused as her actual arms, while the top mechanical ones are used for manipulating her Psycho Mantis and The Sorrow dolls.
  • Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has Mistral, who not only attaches 14 dwarf gekko arms to herself, but even uses a staff consisting of 6 more arms. However, the arms serve no other purpose than for her to quickly rebuild her staff.
• The Asura from Monster Sanctuary has six arms, which according to the Monster Journal represent their ability to master many different skills and desire to grasp things they don't have. It also learns a lot of punching attacks.
• The four-armed Shokan race from Mortal Kombat, which includes Goro, Kintaro, and Sheeva. Interestingly, according to one of Sheeva's intros in 11, Shokan have dominant arms the same way humans have dominant hands (hers is her upper-right).
• Mortal Kombat 11 has Kollector who's actually from the Naknada race. Unlike the Shokan that have four arms, the Kollector has six arms... the normal four that he uses to fight, and two smaller arms on his back to hold onto his bag.
• The Final Boss of Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir is an avatar of a god of poison who has six arms and the lower body of a snake.
• No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: Alice is a female assassin who faces Travis while using Spider Limbs, each ending in a Beam Saber. From the distance, she can throw these sabers at Travis, and during close combat she uses all limbs to perform deadly combos.
• The otherwise adorable Futakuchi-onna in Onmyoji has two monstrous extra arms growing from her head in a way that resembles pigtails. They also have eyes on them for good measure.
• In Ori and the Will of the Wisps, the troll-like Gorleks have four arms as well as three eyes.
• The Stalker in Outlast II, the creature during the school segments, is a Humanoid Abomination whose upper torso is covered in groping hands. Considering that he is Blake's perception of a Pedophile Priest who caused the death of his childhood friend, the connection is certainly there.
• Cortez from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.
• In Phantasy Star Online 2, Dark Falz Elder initially has eight arms and grows two additional ones once he's been damaged sufficiently. He generally uses three of them at a time for direct attacks and launches lasers and meteors with the remaining ones. It's possible to destroy all but two of them, which both severely limits his attacking options and grants you extra rewards once he's defeated.
  • The Bleu Ringahda is another example of this, being a bird/centaur hybrid with an extra pair of arms. It wields a pair of lances with the lower pair, and initially just keeps the top pair crossed in a Badass Armfold, but when it gets serious, it'll start using them wield the pair of katanas sheathed on its sides.
• The Kobold boss in Phoenotopia has four arms, wielding blasters with all of them for one attack.
• Planescape: Torment has Nordom, a Rogue Modron (see the Dungeons & Dragons example above) of the Quadrone caste, who uses his secondary set of arms to allow him to use two crossbows simultaneously. This makes him unique in the game, as all of the other Quadrones seen are "Messenger" variants, who have chosen to replace their second set of arms with wings that let them fly instead.
• Pokémon
  • Some Pokémon gain extra arms in their most powerful forms — namely Machamp.
  • Oddly enough, Geodude gains an extra pair of arms when it evolves into Graveler, but goes back to having one set when it evolves again into Golem. Given that Golem's head resembles that of Machamp, and that both species evolve when traded, this has lead to fan theories that they were originally designed to be traded with each other, swapping traits along the way (a mechanic that would be eventually implemented in Generation V with Escavalier and Accelgor).
  • Golbat gains an extra pair of wings when it evolves into Crobat, if that counts.
  • When Ledyba evolves into Ledian, it is more noticeable that the first 4 limbs are in fact arms.
  • Arceus is described in myth as having shaped the universe with its 1,000 arms (apparently in reference to various Hindu deities). When encountered in-game, however, it has a vaguely horse-shaped body with no arms.
  • Cofagrigus is a Ghost-type animated sarcophagus with four arms.
  • Barbaracle has an odd twist on this while it appears to be a multi-armed humanoid, it's actually a colony of barnacles, with individuals serving as the head and each limb.
  • Hoopa Unbound has six floating arms.
  • Mega Metagross' four legs shift to become massive arms, and it gains four smaller arms on its back as well.
  • Golisopod has two large arms, each with two claws, and four smaller arms that all end in one claw.
• Level 17 of the SNES port of Prince of Persia has a monster of this type as a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere.
• Alduran Reptiloids and Ugh Zan III in Serious Sam both have four arms.
• ShadowCaster: One of the forms available to the player is the Maorin, a tall, four-armed cat-like being. It makes for an effective warrior-form with decent strength and health—but it drowns with remarkable swiftness in water.
• A number of Hindu deities in the Shin Megami Tensei series have multiple arms, and they are all very dangerous enemies... and very powerful allies, in turn. In Shin Megami Tensei V, in particular, two of the highest-ranking and greatest threats are Vasuki and Shiva; the former is the latter's proxy in Bethel and will afflict the shit out of you when you cross him for the Key of Austerity, and the latter is the destroyer deity his source mythology makes him out to be and the boss you must defeat to unlock the hidden ending; the only enemy more powerful than Shiva in the entire game is the Demi-Fiend.
• In Silent Hill: Homecoming, Asphyxia is a boss monster that sports a multitude of arms that flail in every possible direction, she even has hands where her feet are supposed to be.
• Origin from Tales of Phantasia has a total of four arms, of which the lower ones hold a pair of swords and upper ones hold a pair of spears.
• Terra Cresta has Mandler, in all its appearances, who sports two pairs of arms that can launch Rocket Punches and boomerangs as its primary weapons.
• They Always Run: The protagonist Aiden is a mutant Bounty Hunter who uses his third arm for close combat and action-platforming in a Space Western setting.
• Tiny Hands Adventure: One of the enemy types Borti encounters in the game are four-armed snowmen.
• Tomb Raider III: A Mini-Boss encountered multiple times in the second level (a similar enemy appears in The Movie) is a Living Statue with four arms, each one with a BFS.
• Total War: Warhammer:
  • Total War: Warhammer II: The Silence and the Fury introduced the Ghorgon to the Beastmen roster. They use four Wolverine Claws to deliver powerful anti-large and Anti-Armor melee damage.
  • Total War: Warhammer III: N'Kari and other Keepers of Secrets Greater Daemons are four armed ones for the Seducers of Slannesh and other Daemons of Slannesh factions. Each function as Fragile Speedster damage dealer, which can be compensated for by Soul Eating abilities that heal them.
• Tsuchigumo from Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die is a woman gifted with six arms and, adding to the multi-armed theme, even extends to the mecha she pilots, which is also multi-armed! Her name literally means "Earth Spider", and her skill set revolves around hitting multiple targets in eight directions on the battlefield. Strangely, concept art shows her wielding a weapon in each of her six hands, though she's unarmed within the game itself.
• The mutant boss from Unbound Saga has three arms, one growing from his left armpit. And he's a far more dangerous fighter than the lower-level mutant mooks.
• Cerebella of Skullgirls has a Living Weapon hat that acts as an extra pair of really strong arms. Lampshaded by Peacock, who almost quotes the trope word-for-word in her intro.
  Peacock: I've heard of armed and dangerous, but this is ridiculous!
• Most of the final bosses from Sonic The Hedgehog possess these:
  • Perfect Chaos from Sonic Adventure. He gains the use of multiple tentacles composed of Water in order to fight Super Sonic. Reinforced in the tribute battle in Sonic Generations.
  • Iblis from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006). He has 4 arms, but only in his first form.
  • Alf-Layla-wa-Layla from Sonic and the Secret Rings. He possesses 6 arms.
  • The Dark Queen from Sonic and the Black Knight. She possesses 4 arms.
  • Perfect Dark Gaia from Sonic Unleashed. He sprouts multiple eyes and 4 extra pairs of arms, giving him 6 arms in total.
  • The Time Eater from Sonic Generations. He has 4 arms in his true form when he is piloted by both Doctors Eggman and Robotnik.
  • The Death Egg Robot from Sonic Forces. In his 1st form, he sports 6 arms, 2 normal arms, and 4 on its back. In his 2nd form, He sports 8 tentacles that can fire lasers and has built-in flamethrowers.
• Spider: The Video Game have you playing as a spider who gained sentience. And with your intelligence, you can equip all your arms with assorted weapons, from missiles to flamethrowers to boomerangs, and use them cyclically against other enemies.
• Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion: Specimen 4 becomes this in her third form, chasing the player with a total of six arms.
• Terraria: Skeletron Prime, Skeleton's upgraded Hardmode counterpart, has four arms, each of which holds a different weapon.
• Osukai from Temtem has four muscular arms that are useful for heavy-lifting, according to the Tempedia.
• Subverted in Unreal: the locals of Na Pali (the Nali) have four arms and two legs, but are Non Action Guys. It's odd considering various critters (cow and rabbit equivalents)have only two limbs total, both legs. They also have floating 'gasbags' which consist of a wide head and two arms.
• Kali, Ravana, and Asura from Vagrant Story are either humanoid constructs with four arms and three faces, or the actual goddess herself.
• The Übermutant boss in Spear of Destiny has four arms holding enormous meat cleavers and a chest-mounted gatling gun.
• Another Hindu-inspired demon is the Shivarra from World of Warcraft. Despite the name, they appear to be based off of the goddess Kali (or perhaps her much less evil but not much less scary aspect Durga).
  • Warcraft games have the above-mentioned Shivarra demons, as well as female Nagas (male Nagas have only 2 arms). Undead abominations have a small extra arm sticking from their shoulder (they're created by patching together a bunch of corpses).
• Insectohumanoid T'Rang race in Wizardry games. Hsssst!
• Subverted by Monoko in Yume Nikki. She looks like a normal (albeit, monochromatic) young girl, until you use the Stoplight effect to stop her, at which point she grows three extra arms: one from the shoulder, one from the elbow and one on top of her head. But other than having a weird fullscreen event when interacting with her in this form, she's far from dangerous.

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