Detachment Combat: Difference between revisions

 

== Anime & Manga ==

** Buggy's ability is that all parts of his body can fly around at will, but only if his feet are grounded, and he is also immune to being cut.

** Inverted with Trafalgar Law, who has the ability to detach other people's body parts and combine them with other people/objects.

* Gundam series

** The Turn-X [[Gundam]] from ''[[Turn a 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]]''

** Actually the parts in question (Afro Droid's arms) act more like wire-guided rockets than components that can fight on their own.

* Several of the giant robots fought by ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' had this ability: Deimos F3, Velgas V5 (its parts had individual rocket propulsion and could attack separately), and a third one. Mazinger Z itself and one of its successors, ''[[Mazinkaiser]]'', also did it sometimes (detaching [[Mid-Season Upgrade|the]] [[Razor Wings|Scrander Jet/Scrander Kaiser]] off themselves. Moreover, Mazinkaiser used its wings like a cutting, oversized boomerang).

** ''[[Great Mazinger]]'' and ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer]]'' also did, not only by [[Rocket Punch|shooting their punches]] but also by detaching their [[Mid-Season Upgrade|MidSeason Upgrades]] and attacking with them.

* ''[[Kotetsu Jeeg]]'' -another [[Go Nagai]] robot- is an expert in this. Given that it uses magnetism to combining its body parts, replacing them or shooting them, Jeeg can using any of them to attack (including its head). And it employs of variants or [[Rocket Punch]]!

** In Part 5, Ciocolatta can do this with some improvisation from his stand Green Day. This leads to one of the nastiest, most gruesome useages of this trope.

* [[Getter Robo]] has used "Open Get" (decombining) to escape from enemy attacks as well as to split up and deliver a barrage of guns or wipe out a horde of minor enemies. Also, they have been known to Open Get, then combine into Getter-3 in midair and ''fall'' on the enemy as an attack.

* Gatchaman. Called [[Battle of the Planets]] in the West. The five heroes can either go into battle in their individual craft, or combine into their super vehicle.

* Nana from ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' got her arms and legs torn off by Lucy, but her Papa gave her fake ones she can control with her vectors and she will sometimes shoot them at people for a long range attack.

== Film ==

* ''[[Inspector Gadget]] 2'': G2 can break apart at the waist so that her torso and limbs work as separate combatants. Since she's a robot it's no problem.

* Mr. Potato Head in ''[[Toy Story]]'' can move each of his body parts separately and takes advantage of this when he has to fight. Due to his potential for sight gags though, he always gets creamed in a comical way.

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

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

* In ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'', Tenaya 7 can detach her (robotic) hand and send it out. Early on, she snuck it into the Rangers' HQ and pulled an [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]. With just her ''hand''.

 

 

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* 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]]''.

== Video Games ==

* Undead creatures of Evil biomes in [[Dwarf Fortress]] have the bad habit, when dismembered, to keep fighting as each last individual parts.Cut their hand off, and the hand may come to life and strangle you.Behead them, and the head will chase you and bite at you.Punch their teeth off, and ''each single tooth will raise and attack''.

* One of the bosses of ''[[Darius|G-Darius]]'', Eternal Triangle, could split its body into three segments and trap the player in an electric triangle barrier.

* Unlike ''[[Rayman]]'', whose power is merely a [[Rocket Punch]], ''[[Plok]]'' can throw all four of his limbs at enemies.

* One [[Goddamn Bats|particularly irritating foe]] in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]'' was a mantis-like robot that tossed out its bladed arms when the player got too close. Thankfully, he could only do it once.

* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series

** The Guard Armor boss in ''Kingdom Hearts'' has autonomous limbs, which move and battle on their own when taken enough damage. It is necessary to defeat each of the limbs before finishing off the torso to beat it.

** Finkelstein's Experiment from the second game shares this ability.

* [[Metroid|Weavel]] can do this - his body splits apart at the waist, and the bottom half becomes a turret, while the top half starts bouncing around and slashing at you with a sword. Justified, since he is mostly robot (he just has a brain and spinal cord left).

* ''[[Toribash]]''

** There are several game modes. Most of them are about not touching the ground outside the ring or with body parts which aren't feet/hands. One of them replaces your hands with long, thin sticks that instantly cut off every part they touch - essentially, swords. Due to arms being connected to pectoral muscles that are [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|two orbs making up the whole chest,]] taking a cut or a stab to there causes the whole arm from shoulder down to fall off. But, to the point - that arm is fully capable of twitching around with its elbow and wrist, and its hand-sword is as lethal to the enemy as it was. You also don't get disqualified for it landing on the floor. Sometimes an enemy running into your severed arm is what decides of the ultimate victory of yours.

* ''[[Rock Man 4 Minus Infinity]]'' has the Serges Devil, whose use of this trope forces Mega Man to dodge its parts.

* ''[[Tekken]] 6: Bloodline Rebellion'''s [[Robot Girl|Alisa Bosconovitch]] can remove her arms during a battle. She can also detach her head and use it as an explosive.

 

 

== Webcomics ==

 

 

== Western Animation ==

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

* ''[[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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