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[[File:lt-dan-4 6240.jpg|link=Forrest Gump|frame|The ocean...as deep as [[Death Seeker|his]] sorrows.]]
{{quote|''"Where's the rest of me?"''|'''[[Ronald Reagan|Drake McHugh]]''', ''Kings Row''}}
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** [[Nigh Invulnerable|Deneve's]] most impressive limb-loss to date was when she ripped off her own zombie-infected arm and [[Grievous Harm with a Body|chucked it at the enemy.]]
** And most recently, Priscilla cut off her own arm after shoving it through Raki's shoulder, and it has now become a [[MacGuffin]] after falling into the hands of the Organization.
* ''[[
** Touma has his Imagine Breaker arm sliced off by Aureolus. After the battle, his arm is reattached.
** Also in his battle against {{spoiler|Fiamma of the Right}}, it got cut off again, {{spoiler|but it grew back}}.
** It happened again in
* ''[[The Vision of Escaflowne|Vision of Escaflowne]]'': Lord Folken's arm was bitten off by a dragon.
* Since [[Memetic Mutation|no one dies in]] ''[[Bleach]]'', this is a popular method to show that someone is badly damaged:
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** The most prominent example is Shanks losing his arm after saving a drowning Luffy from a sea creature.
** There's also Zeff, although there are two different versions of this. In the anime, he rescues the young Sanji from drowning by cutting off his own foot, which had become entangled in pieces of the wrecked ships. In the manga, with the two now being ship-wrecked on a small island, he supposedly splits their remaining rations in half. However, it is later revealed he gave everything to Sanji, and instead ate his own leg to survive.
** This is Buggy's Devil Fruit power; he can separate his limbs - [[Losing Your Head| and head]] - from his body, and they can act independently of each other.
* ''[[Until Death Do Us Part]]'': Mamoru's preferred method of disabling bad guys. Notable victims include {{spoiler|Edge Turus}}, ''twice'', and a [[Everything's Worse with Bears|bear]].
* ''[[Tenjho Tenge]]'': A type 2 when Makiko sacrifices her right arm to save Souichiro, leaving her armless since her ex-husband had already cut off her left arm (and removed her left eye) in the backstory.
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* ''[[The Walking Dead (comics)|The Walking Dead]]'' has Type 3. [[Complete Monster|The Governor]] takes Rick's arm as punishment for refusing to fight in his gladiatorial arena
* In ''[[All Fall Down]]'', {{spoiler|the speedster, Pronto,}} suffers this when he loses both legs in the first chapter.
* This is integral to the backstory of Marvel villain Master Pandemonium. Originally a spoiled, rich actor named Martin Preston, a car crash one night after drinking heavily severed one of his arms. Dying and yelling for help, the demon Mephisto appeared and offered him a deal, [[Deal with the Devil| which he accepted]]. Mephisto summoned four demons; one of them wrenched its own arm off [[Appendage Assimilation| and used it to replace the lost limb]], whereas the other three repeated the trick with Preston's good limbs. Since then, as the villain Master Pandemonium, the four demons are Preston's servants while in Mephisto's employ, and he can detach any (or all) of his limbs, which causes them to turn into the demons who donated them. He is most often a foe of [[Ghost Rider]].
== Fairy Tales ==
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131020110357/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/armlessmaiden/index.html The Girl Without Hands]'', the father cuts off her hands at the Devil's instigation.
* In ''[
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131129130936/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/armlessmaiden/stories/onehandedgirl.html The One-Handed Girl]'', the girl's brother cuts her hand off in the process of cutting down her pumpkin vine.
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* The main character, Char loses an arm in the Temporal Tower arc of ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Silver Resistance]]''.
* In ''[[Winter War]]'', {{spoiler|Isane}} manages to wound the Barragan Fragment... but it turns out [[Bloody Murder|its blood]] has the same "age things to death" power as the whole thing, and some of that blood splattered on her hand and lower arm, necessitating an amputation to save her life.
* {{spoiler| [[Spice Girls| Melanie]]}} meets this in ''[https://www.deviantart.com/betamat86/art/Case-of-the-Missing-Technology-798979001 Case of the Missing Technology]'', as her parts were being kept frozen as [[Mad Scientist| Monty]] was planning on resemble her as a [[Cyborg]]. The narrator helps to the doctors with the latter.
* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[Alternate Universe Fic]] ''[[The Arithmancer]]'', Cedric Diggory survives the resurrection of Voldemort at the end of fourth year, thanks to a spell Hermione taught him, but he is horribly injured, losing one arm and one leg. Fortunately he gets some very good magical prosthetics, but he can't cast with a prosthetic arm, so he needs to learn offhand casting -- from Hermione, who learned it the year before from Neville.
== Films -- Animation ==
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== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' had one of his legs blown off when Raf Malish's soul exploded and he was caught in the blast radius.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080708165903/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=465 Nihi'liir] in ''[[Drowtales]]'' lost her arm due to a psychic attack and got a [[Artificial Limbs|golem replacement]].
* Missing arms are a recurring [[Body Motifs|motif]] in ''[[Homestuck]]'', along with [[Eye Scream|wounds to the eye]].
* ''[[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.
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** "Between Brothers" has a type 2 when Panthro, in an effort to defeat his [[Arch Enemy]] Grune, restrains him on the threshold of a collapsing magical portal, fully expecting to die with him when it closes. Instead, Panthro suffers an instantly-cauterizing [[Portal Cut]], {{spoiler|losing both arms mid-bicep.}}
* Qilby in ''[[Wakfu]]'' lost his left arm {{spoiler|when Phaeris the dragon ''bit it off'' when he helped end Qilby's world-wrecking rampage in the past.}}
* ''[[Miraculous Ladybug]]'': A non-violent but still scary variation of Type 2 in 'Pixelator'. The titular tries to forcefully put others in photos via a headset. Ladybug is able to dodge him but he does get her arm. It's not bloody but it's rendered non-corporeal. It's gets even worse when Ladybug tries dodging him again but he gets her foot next, she's left trying to save Jagged hopping on one foot. Thankfully, she and Chat Noir stop him and Ladybug's limbs turn back to normal.
== Real Life ==
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