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[[File:Bob__AliceBob Alice-Detachable_Lower_Half_1888Detachable Lower Half 1888.jpg|frame|This person is putting his abilities to good use]]
 
In Real life, people can survive bifurcation, but the lower body can't survive because the nerves are no longer being connected to the brain and it lacks a source of oxygenated blood, therefore victims need either [[Artificial Limbs|Prosthetics on the lower body area]] or [[Disability Tropes|have to use a wheelchair]] for mobility. In Fiction, on the other hand, people can survive without a lower body and the lower body survives without being attached to the back nerves and blood vessels: not only that, but they can also reunite both halves and become whole again. Unlike [[Losing Your Head]] regrowing it never happens. Sometimes used as a superpower, and rarely uses psychic powers to control it. Usually used as an ability.
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Related: [[Saw a Woman In Half]], [[Half the Man He Used To Be]], [[Pulling Themselves Together]], [[Appendage Assimilation]] and [[Having a Heart]].
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== Advertising ==
* There are two commercials that play this trope the most bizzarebizarre way possible; one happens to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIRzsrTKz3A Males], another to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkFK_PhdeJw Females].
* A [[What Were They Selling Again?|commercial of unknown reason]] on PubliTv.com titled [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XhlkuCQLDg Goody's Por Partes].
* A Showershower Gelgel commercial by the name [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WMJ0odAM6Vg Lactacyd] has this happen to two girls.
 
 
== Anime And Manga ==
* Subverted in ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]'' with Suigetsu in the anime-only expansion of Chapter 347 called "Zebuza's Blade".
* Den, the leader of Barjack from ''[[Battle angelAngel Alita]]'', is... well, not a cyborg, but a separate personality of another character who operates a drone body via radio waves; he maintains two different lower bodies, a humanoid one and a horse-like one, which makes him resemble a centaur when he uses it. It's a bit of a mystery why, since he's about twelve stories tall and attaching the two halves of his body is a big operation.
 
 
== Comics -- Books ==
* Wolverine's upper and lower halves become separated in ''[http[wikipedia://enUltimate Wolverine vs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wolverine_vs._Hulk Hulk|Ultimate Wolverine vs Hulk]]''.
 
 
== Films ==
* Happen in the [[Not Safe for Work]] C-Budgeted movie [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Erotic Ghost Story 2]] {{spoiler|In the climax of the movie where [[Horny Devils|2 Demons]] are having a threesome with a woman which is at first a [[Foreshadowing]] of what happens a few minutes after where she '''REALLY''' gets split in half by the [[Big Bad]] male demon called Wu Tung and like the foreshadowing both halves are still alive and she pleads for her lower half back because of her no longer feeling arousal due to both halves being no longer attached, once Wu Tung notices another girl who was watching who is out to stop him he stops and tells the girl in half to put herself back together.}}
 
 
== Live Action TvTV ==
* Happens to Amanda in episode 39 of ''[[The Amanda Show]]'' when her lower half runs away from her offscreen because "It doesn't like the pants" while her upper half says floating and completely oblivious of what happened until one of the audience members points it out to her, She then asks for someone to find her lower half then one of the employees walks over to her with her lower half where she explains to why it left and then [[Pulling Themselves Together|has both halves taped back together]].
 
 
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* Gimghamphatts from ''[[Onimusha|Onimusha 2]]'' does this during the last boss fight.
* ''[[Metroid Prime|Metroid Prime Hunters]]'': Weavel can do this, with his lower body functioning as a turret.
* The Harvester from ''[[Dragon Age|Dragon Age: Origins - Golems of Amgarrak]]'' is a massive boss who detaches the large lower part of its body when it goes [[One -Winged Angel]].
* In at least one of he ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' [[Video Games]], Krang will attack this way. Justified in that it's an android body.
* In the SNES classic ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'', many of the bosses upper and lower halves that act independently of each other, and have different strengths and weaknesses.
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* Commander Hoek and Leutenant Stimpy have this happen in the episode "Black Hole" of ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]''.
* ''[[Star Trek: the Animated Series (Animation)|Star Trek theThe Animated Series]]'' episode "Bem". The titled alien (Ari bn Bem) can detach parts of his body, including [[Losing Your Head|his head]] and lower torso.
* Megabyte from ''[[Re BootReBoot]]'' does this on occasion, usually to sit in his [[Cool Chair]].
* In ''[[Phantom 2040 (Animation)|Phantom 2040]]'' Hubert Graft detaches his lower half from his everyday legs to an attack droid. It is quite clear from his reaction that doing this is quite painful for him.
* Rushu from ''[[Wakfu (Animation)|Wakfu]]'' can do this. And ironically can travel much faster because of it.
* Tends to happen in [[Tex Avery]] cartoons.
 
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