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You're surrounded by bad guys, outnumbered many to one. What do you do? Call for back up? No, it's time to [[Pun|split up!]]
 
Detachment combat happens when a character, robot, monster, or spaceship has the ability to break into sections, with each piece capable of fighting separately.
 
A [[Rocket Punch]] is a form of this. [[Helping Hands]] is also a form of this if it's voluntary.
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** Marine captain Berry Good also has this as his power, but by becoming bouncy balls.
* Gundam series
** The Turn-X [[Gundam]] from ''[[Turn aA Gundam (Anime)|Turn a Gundam]]'' has this as its most notable ability - its limbs can break off, and divide into smaller pieces, to fly around and attack the opponent from many directions at once with beam attacks and a strange power that dries-out the energy of opponent mechas. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a__a0BkR0fg Recreated on great detail] in ''[[Super Robot Wars Z]]''
** The Great Zeong from the ''G Generation'' video games, apparently the original plan for the Zeong from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' but nowhere near feasible for its time, does the same (and in fact, its various "segments" are based on Zeon mobile armors: the legs on the [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Bigro]], the waist on [[Mobile Suit Gundam|the Big Zam]], and the chest on [[Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team|the Apsaras]]). The regular Zeong can send its arms out on cables, and its head is an escape craft, but it's not quite the same.
* Afro Droid in ''[[Afro Samurai]]''.
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== Gamebooks ==
* The [[Fighting Fantasy]] world has the [http://fightingfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Living_Corpse Living Corpse], a shabby zombie-like being that, when hit for the first time, splits into six parts, all floating around and attacking independently.