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** Marine captain Berry Good also has this as his power, but by becoming bouncy balls.

* Gundam series

** 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]]''.

* There's an alien from [[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]] II who starts out looking like a single tall humanoid. But when it begins to fight Agent Jay, it [[Totem Pole Trench|turns into five or six smaller aliens]] that fly around and attack Agent Jay by dive-bombing him.

* Arcee from [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]] does this, but there is a degree of ambiguity. The writers of the film initially conceived her as being one robot made of three bikes which would even combine together into a larger robot mode but the appearance of the combined mode was ultimately dropped and Michael Bay changed her into three separate robots which the toys agree with. HOWEVER, the novelization and comics portray her in the way the authors intended, with the combined mode appearing briefly in each.

 

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

* The villain in the ''[[Angel]]'' episode "I Fall to Pieces" could do this.

* [[Kamen Rider Double]]'s forms that possess the Joker Memory have [[Finishing Move]]s that involve Double splitting in half vertically and striking the opponent with both halves.

* Lebendtod, a variant undead from [[Ravenloft]], have this trope as their signature ability, although it's more useful to compel Horror Checks than to fight.

* The Anatomic Separation power in ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]''.

** Take a few feats and you can do it twice an encounter, throw it, and increase the aura.

*** An epic feat makes it deal damage.

* ''[[Megas XLR]]'': The RECR could separate its limbs and torso and later recombine.

* The ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' could separate their T-Sub, much like the [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantasticar]]. Cyborg occasionally remote-controlled his hands or limbs for various purposes, though it was never his first option.

* ''[[Transformers]]'' (Generation One). One episode saw Optimus Prime forcibly detached, his parts spread across the globe. His right hand (armed with his weapon) was used by the Decepticons as a turret.

* ''[[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit]]'' does this often.

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