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"Shouldn't bother trying to saw through hand-cuffs. Never make it in time."
Rorschach, Watchmen

"He doesn't want us to cut through our chains. He wants us to cut through our feet."
Dr. Lawrence Gordon, Saw

Stiles: Look, I don't know if I can do this.
Derek: Why not?
Stiles: Well, because of the cutting through the flesh, the sawing of the bone, and especially the blood.
Derek: You faint at the sight of blood?
Stiles: No, but I might at the sight of a chopped off arm!

Reverend Mother Mohiam: You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.
Paul: Why are you doing this?
Mohiam: To see if you're human.
Dune, following the Gom Jabbar note  test.

Merle: "...for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body should be cast into hell." Matthew 5:30. Woodbury had a good library... the only thing I miss about that place.

"Don't pass out."
— Aron Ralston, to himself (and the audience), 127 Hours

"Ever see 127 Hours? Spoiler alert."
Wade Wilson, Deadpool (2016)

Soldier: How'd you get out of those handcuffs? Wait, I know. The old dislocating thumb trick.
Zhanna: Yes. I try this trick. It did not work. It just hurt my thumb.
Soldier: Then how did you...
Zhanna: Thumb does not hurt anymore.

"Do you remember the flood when we were young? I saw a beaver that had its legs pinned between two rocks. The water was rising so fast, it knew it was going to die. So it chewed off its own leg. It was worth it to the beaver losing its leg to be free."
Naru, Prey (2022) (before not cutting off her hands, because "I’m smarter than a beaver")

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