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{{trope}}
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So, you've got a character that you want to show is really [[Badass|dangerous]]. You could give
If that doesn't work, you can always give a character extra arms... because [[Animal Farm|four arms good, two arms bad]], right?
For obvious reasons, normal humans don't get this treatment, because it would look pretty awkward having to do bodily cleaning... and having four arms to go around would be a tailor's nightmare. If you're a mutant or an evil genius, you don't have to worry about this, because [[Freaky Is Cool]].
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:1) The extra arms are a regular part of the body.
:2) They're made from prosthetics/synthetic materials that are usually attached to the person.
They're usually associated with [[Super Strength]]
This isn't what they mean, by the way, on the news when they say "The local bank was robbed by four armed men", but "[[Married...
It should be noted that recent{{when}} research shows the (still very expensive) technology that allows a person [[Multi
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
If a character has extra arms and uses them to do two (or more) things at the same time, that's [[Multi-Armed Multitasking]], which is a subtrope to this trope.
== Anime and Manga ==▼
* ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]'' has Machamp whose Body Slam ability allows him (or her) to grab another and slam them to pieces, who has four arms. Giovanni, the boss of Team Rocket, trains a Machamp. But anyone can train Machamp, so it may or may not be a bad thing.▼
▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
▲* ''[[Pokémon (
** Generation V gives us Cofagrigus, a four-armed coffin... thing.
* ''[[
** Roronoa Zoro has also developed a technique that, via [[Word of God|the physical manifestation of his dark feelings]], grants him three heads and six arms, for a total of nine swords (one in each hand, and one in each mouth)
** Vice Admiral Onigumo has a Spider Devil's Fruit, whose mastery of it allows use to manifest the extra arms he'd normally get in his hybrid form via his hair, allowing him to use eight swords at once.
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* Itsuki from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''.
* The battle-suit (mini-mecha) Double Edge from the anime ''[[Blue Gender]]'' has a pair of gigantic blades on its shoulder that not only allow it to [[Slice And Dice]] but also double as grappling claws.
* Enkidudu, the final and most powerful version of Viral's Ganmen from ''[[
** A parody drama CD (100% official, just not canon) also has a six-armed version called Enkidududu and and an eight-armed Enkidudududu.
** Tengen Toppa Enki Dulga has eight arms and two faces, using two clubs and six swords in the second film.
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** Host for a tailed beast are capable of making limbs out of chakra sprout from their body. Killer Bee makes [[Combat Tentacles]] while {{spoiler|Naruto eventually learns to make them into many extra limbs that can each make their own Rasengan. This even includes making a pair of tiny hands coming from his finger that form their own tiny Rasenshuriken.}}
*** Sasori has the Sandaime Kazekage's puppet equipped with this, ironically being one of the examples in the series to be caused by a jutsu.
* One of the [[Monster of the Week|one-off]] characters in ''[[
* Ten Shin Han used a technique that had him grow 2 additional arms to fight Goku in ''[[
* ''[[
** {{spoiler|Wonderweiss}}'s release form also lets him grow a bunch of extra arms coming from his shoulders.
* You can't get much more dangerous than the diclonius in ''[[Elfen Lied]]'', who have multi-arms in the form of telekinetic vectors which they use to slaughter humans in [[Gorn|various horrifically violent ways]].
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** The Gaplant TR-5 from ''Advance of Zeta'' also has skirt-armor subarms, while Gundam Hazel can be equipped with, in addition to the aforementioned skirt-armor subarms, two giant wire-guided rocket arms developed from the Psyco Gundam on its shoulder and wire-guided arm-shield on its forearm.
** The Xeku Zwei from ''Gundam Sentinel'' has two more sub arms for melee and shooting a giant beam bazooka.
** The Neue Ziel from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory]]'' has six arms, each capable of generating gigantic beam sabers.
*** UC, usually considered the most "realistic" of the various ''Gundam'' [[Alternate Continuity|Alternate Continuities]] by its devotees, ironically is even more guilty of overdoing with arms than even ''Gundam 00''.
** Seravee Gundam from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' has four [[BFG
*** The Seravee's [[Gundam 00 Sidestories
* ''[[
** And [[Casting a Shadow|Dynamis']] [[One
* The Orphan in the sixth episode of ''[[
* {{spoiler|Justice}} from ''[[
* Mamoru Nagano is probably the king of this trope, because if he designs mecha the chances are that they ''will'' be multiarmed. In his own series, ''[[The Five Star Stories]]'', the biggest, nastiest and most heavily armed mecha of all times, the ''Jagd Mirage'', had not just two like ''The O'', but four deployable sub-arms, which, together with its two additional sub-legs, drove the limb count to ''ten''. These sub-arms could be used to wield swords of guns, but generally were used to manipulate shields (called ''[[Call a Rabbit
* In ''[[
** The new version of {{spoiler|Zeruel}} also uses this trope: when it {{spoiler|enters the Geofront}}, it unfolds itself and keeps this multi-tentacled appearance.
* The main villain of ''[[Bizenghast]]'', Lady Hetka, has several arms where her ''legs'' should be.
* Ran Pao Pao in ''[[
* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] [[The Movie]] First'', the [[Giant Mook]] from the original series that Nanoha and Fate worked together to take down was replaced with a six-armed [[Humongous Mecha]]. Unsurprisingly, it was a lot harder to take down than the original two-armed [[Giant Mook]].
* One of the teams in ''[[The Law of Ueki]]'', which has a military theme, has a guy whose special ability is growing extra arms. To carry more guns. The upgraded form of this ability is even more arms. To shoot even more guns.
* In ''[[Ultimate Teacher]]'' those with invertebrate genes can grow extra arms, depending what genes they were mixed with.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The ''[[X-Men]]'' villain Spiral has six arms, she's also both a sorceress and can fight with a sword in each hand.▼
▲* The [[X-Men]] villain Spiral has six arms, she's also both a sorceress and can fight with a sword in each hand.
** In ''[[Capcom vs. Whatever|Marvel Vs Capcom 2]]'', the trope title is a nickname for the team of Spiral, Omega Red, and Shuma Gorath.
** Furthermore there's henchman types Barbarus and Forearm, who are practically indistinguishable from one another. The former probably directly inspired the latter, though. Marvel likes this trope.
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** Sugarman, has four arms and is a [[Cephalothorax]].
** In Earth X, there is a woman with six arms that goes by the name of Black Widow (no relation to Natasha Romanoff). She had sporadic appearances within the comic, appearing either in long shots or as part of the background, as well as having no spoken dialogues.
* Deadeye Duck, the irritable four-armed gunner from ''[[Bucky O
* Stryker from Image Comics' ''[[Cyberforce]]'' was a mutant born with four arms... three on one side. After an accident resulted in the loss of all three right arms, he was fixed up with cybernetics, once again, for all three. [[Angst? What Angst?|Not only is he a pretty normal guy]] aside from a slight temper problem, he gleefully uses his three right arms to tripe wield pistols in combat.
* Rip Roar, a bad guy from ''[[Young Justice (
* In the ''Manga [[Shakespeare]]'' version of ''[[Macbeth]]'', Macduff appears to sport two extra cybernetic arms under his normal ones, allowing him to use [[Dual
* Frank Miller's ''[[Ronin (
* A one-shot comic that goes by the name of ''[[Chase Variant]]'' features a female lead that sports four arms.
* The Bride from ''[[Seven Soldiers]]: Frankenstein'' and its follow-up ''Frankenstein: Agen of S.H.A.D.E.'' has four arms.
* Bill Willingham's ''[[Ironwood]]'' features a [[Amazonian Beauty|four-armed Amazonian woman]], though she only really becomes armed and dangerous after her skin, flesh and [[Boobs of Steel|fabulous pair of chesty bulbs]] were [[Stripped to
== Fan Works ==▼
* [[Dungeon Keeper Ami (Fanfic)|Dungeon Keeper Ami]] features Tserk - a multilimbed psudopod monster. He can weild six crossbows simaltaniously, infiltrait even temples of light useing nothing more than a [[Noodle Implements|bag of flour, a magic wand that renders things invisible for a few seconds, and a vial of acid.]] [[Murder Arson and Jaywalking|And he's an accomplished masseur.]]▼
==
▲* ''[[
* General Grievous from ''[[Star Wars]]'' has arms that can both split in two. He's a cyborg, so it kind of makes sense. In [[Star Wars: Clone Wars]] he could hold lightsabers with his feet, too. So theoretically he could use 5 lightsabers at once (one foot would still be needed to stand on).
** Obi-Wan's contact Dex had four arms, but this may just avert this trope as he didn't play any part in the main series other than an information source.
** The [[Expanded Universe]] has more than one multi-armed alien race; the Codru-Ji, for one.
*** Gasgano appeared in Star Wars: Episode 1 as one of the podracer pilots.
* Maybe not as dangerous, but used as a surprise: Zaphod tags Arthur with a surprise lower left (or is it centre?) in the movie version of ''[[The
** According to the novel, Zaphod had the extra arm fitted to improve his ski-boxing. Sounds dangerous to me.
* ''[[The Golden Voyage of Sinbad]]''. A statue of the Hindu goddess Kali is animated, "grows" a sword out of each palm of her six hands and fights Sinbad and his crew.
* Six-Gun in the ''[[Puppet Master (
* During the final chase sequence in [[Terminator]] 2, the T-1000 can briefly be seen operating the helicopter's controls with two arms while reloading and firing his submachinegun with another two.
* One of the assassins in ''[[Aeon Flux]]'' (based on the animated show as well) has hands instead of feet.
* The Kraken from [[Clash of the Titans]].
* From the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]]: The Iron Spider costume/armor, built by Tony Stark for Peter Parker, which gives him four extra robotic limbs.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Quadrus "Quad" Dominus from ''[[Duumvirate]]'' starts carrying a gun for each of his four hands after a brush with death. He's [[Tyke Bomb|six]] at the time.
* The "Moties" from Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's ''[[The Mote in
** Which allows arguing nerds to use the phrase "on the gripping hand" where normal people might say "but on the other hand", realize they want to go on to present a third option, and be at a loss for how to do it. ''Sweet.''
* The Drummer from ''[[Wild Cards]]''. His multiple arms aren't exactly combat-specific, but he can use them that way quite effectively.
* The green Barsoomians of [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[John Carter of Mars]]'' books are four-armed killing machines ''fourteen feet tall''. They love to quadruple-wield [[BFS
** The White Apes of those stories also had four arms.
*** Technically speaking, both species have two arms, two legs, and two "intermediate limbs" that can be used as both.
* Jack from ''[[What Is This Black Magic You Call Science]]'' can have up to eight arms, each one representing one of his eight tails, since his human form is an illusion covering his [[Scaled Up|true form]].
* The Wreed from ''[[Calculating God]]'' have arms in front and back as well as two on either side. They escape the "two eyes" problem by having a single optical strip that runs around their entire "head". They suffer from multiple cognitive deficits as a (dubious) result, though.
* ''[[The
** And according to ''... And Another Thing'', this may actually be so he has one hand for each of Eccentrica Gallumbits' breasts. Though it's not clear entirely.
* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia|The Last Battle]]'' shows that the Calormene god Tash has four arms.
* The Shrike from ''[[Hyperion]]'' is a 3-meter tall, 4-armed, time-manipulating killing machine (literally) covered in spikes. Granted, having 4 arms instead of 2 doesn't make it much more dangerous than it would already be, as it can stop time and wipe out entire armies.
* The Chaos creature Skarhaddoth from the ''[[Warhammer
* The indigenous aliens in [[David Weber]]'s ''[[March Upcountry]]'' series had four arms, which along with being huge, allowed them to carry [[BFG
* The warrior drone cho-ja in Janny Wurt's ''Empire'' trilogy. Their multiple arms also end in blades.
* The titular character of Mikhail Akhmanov's ''[[Dick Simon]]'' novels was born in a human town on planet Tayahat whose gravity is 1.5 Earth norm. The planet is populated by a tribal race of four-armed humanoids. Their males live for combat, and boys are trained from young age to kill (as well as honor). Dick is brought to them as a boy by his father and is raised as one of them, before leaving to join the Academy, where he receives more modern training as an operative by a red-headed [[Everything Is Bigger In Texas|Texan]].
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* This is one of the key plot points in the ''Tipping Point'' Trilogy , by [[Alan Dean Foster]]. Bodily manipulation is as easy as getting new custom-fitted clothing, and is often used to add extra limbs. Note that these are not necessarily weapons, or designed explicitly to carry weapons; for instance, a waiter may get an extra set of arms to improve carrying capacity.
== [[Live
* When Piper and Leo got possessed by a couple of Hindu gods in one episode of ''[[
▲* When Piper and Leo got possessed by a couple of Hindu gods in one episode of ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'', Piper grew four more arms.
* Michio Kaku's design for a [[Clothes Make the Superman|super suit]] in ''[http://science.discovery.com/videos/sci-fi-science-become-a-superhero.html Sci Fi Science]'' included an extra pair of arms that were attached to the back and controlled by the user's brain (technology [[Science Marches On|which is now developing]].
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* In the fourth season episode "The Way" of ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', Xena and Gabrielle are confronted by a demonic sorcerer named Indrajit while in India. After Xena slices off one of Indrajit's arms, it grows back and is soon joined by four more. Now a six-armed warrior, Indrajit proceeds to prove his badassery by slicing both of Xena's arms off.
** But wait, there's more! Xena, literally disarmed at this point, calls upon the Hindu god Krishna to help her. {{spoiler|He transforms her into an avatar of Kali [[Freaky Is Cool]]. Needless to say, if you thought Xena was wicked before, think about how dangerous she is once she becomes a four-armed goddess of death. Indrajit, surprise surprise, is no longer with us.}} When the battle is over, [[Status Quo Is God|she is restored to normal]].
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. One of [[
* Neil of ''[[The Young Ones]]'' was temporarily granted six pairs of hands by an unseen genie, but the genie was killed and the extra arms vanished before he could use his new appendages, or even show them to his housemates.
* Almost all Hindu deities, but probably most notably [https://web.archive.org/web/20130626164413/http://www.indhistory.com/img/hindu-gods-kali.jpg Kali]. Giving a large number of arms to a supernatural being just seems to be a popular way of indicating it's menacing and powerful (take a gander at the hundred-armed giant Hecatoncheires of Greek mythology).▼
▲== Myth And Legend ==
▲* Almost all Hindu deities, but probably most notably [http://www.indhistory.com/img/hindu-gods-kali.jpg Kali]. Giving a large number of arms to a supernatural being just seems to be a popular way of indicating it's menacing and powerful (take a gander at the hundred-armed giant Hecatoncheires of Greek mythology).
** Hindu deities are only depicted as having multiple limbs to show their divinity and ability to do multiple things at the same time. Depending on the intent of the depiction, you can find representations of the Hindu gods with the standard 2 arms and 2 legs, rather than the typically thought of 6 arms, 2 legs.
** There also exists a Buddha with a thousand arms.
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: The three Hekatonkheir brothers in [[Hesiod]]'s ''[[
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons
** The "Type V" or "Marilith" demon, which was likely inspired by the above deities (and the demons they frequently battled in myth).
*** Glabrezu demons. And [[
*** Arrow Demons, who use [[Guns Akimbo|Bows Akimbo]].
** Sahuagin are a race of evil fishmen. The normal ones are dangerous enough, but some of them also sprout an extra set of arms.
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** The [[Greyhawk]] setting deity Hextor had six arms, with two hands holding shields and four holding weapons.
** The [[White Wolf]] supplement ''Creature Collection III: Savage Bestiary'' had the multi-armed template, which could be applied to...well, ''anything'', so long as it has arms. This includes [[An Adventurer Is You|your character]].
** Fantasy Flight's ''Legends & Lairs: Mythic Races'' had the four-armed siarrans. They tended to be [[Chaotic Good]] [[Technical Pacifist
** There were enough of these in 3.5 that they had their own feats: Multiattack (allowing a monster to use all of his arms with less of a penalty) and Multi-Weapon Fighting (like Two-Weapon Fighting, but for more than two weapons).
** 3rd Edition ''Creature Collection'' supplement. The Narleth was a [[Half
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'':
**
*** Techno-magos Darioq was a perfect example. He weighed four tons, had four heavy weapons (two heavy bolters and 2 plasma cannons), multiple heavy melee weapons, and around 10 mechadendrites. In the course of the novel Dark Apostle, he rips off a Chaos Terminator's arms and cuts him in half. after being bathed in flames for several seconds.
** Then there are Techmarines - it's much the same, except the guy augmented with mechadendrites is a [[Super Soldier|Space Marine]] to begin with.
*** And then there's Sulphus, the techmarine from Warrior Coven who has three mechanical arms and one organic one. These arms allow him to fly a speeder and use the turret at the same time as well as firing his bolter, something that would normally require three people. At one point, he uses two of his arms to hold on to a spinning Talos and the other two to rip an armour plate off. He then jumps inside, blows it up and does a walking out through the flames sequence like in the first Temrinator.
** Also, to some extent, Warp Spider Exarchs with their armour-mounted, independently fired weapons.
** Greater Daemons of Slaanesh (Keepers of Secrets, as they're known) have two regular arms (and often carry large swords or whips) and two arms with huge pincers. The Masque of Slaanesh is a Daemonette special character with three arms (one normal, one small pincer arm and one large pincer arm).
*** Some of the parts in the current Chaos Spawn kit have things like arms splitting into several limbs or big spiky tentacles coming off the back. But then, this is Chaos, of course there is.
** Every Tyranid has six limbs. Some have two pairs of legs, some have six limbs that aren't much use for more than moving. The rest have two (or six) pairs of arms. And both pairs are either blades designed to rip you apart or holding guns made to shoot small organisms at you (which proceed to rip you apart).
* Four Burning Fists and the Shiva Squadron from the "Glimpse of the Abyss" supplement of ''[[
** Plus there's "Three Pistol" Sammy Chung from a Feng Shui fansite, who's a demon with three arms (the third one in the center) that, as his nickname implies, specializes in a rather freaky form of three-gun [[Guns Akimbo]].
* The ''[[
** In the ''[[
*** The title of the Prometheans who work to cause decay, the Centimani, means "Hundred-Handed". Most Centimani are usually content with a few extra pairs of limbs, tentacles and maybe some redundant organs, but there isn't much that stops a truly ancient, powerful and horrific Centimanus from adopting a hundred arms and fifty heads like Hecatonchires, their namesake monster.
** Two examples from ''[[
* The [[Proud Warrior Race|Ahazu]], in ''[[Talislanta]]''.
* ''[[
** Further, some Lunars and [[The Fair Folk|Fair Folk]] can obtain a second pair of arms as a mutation. Even some mortals might end up afflicted with it, if they're unlucky enough to stay in the Wyld for prolonged periods (ie, more than 5 seconds).
* In ''[[Warhammer
* In the ''[[
* The orochi-bito from ''[[Magic:
== Toys ==
* ''[[Bionicle]]'': Nocturn and Gorast.
** The Frostelus species in its entirety.
* [[Hero Factory]]: [[XT 4]] and Speeda Demon
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Vecgir from the [[Real Time Strategy]] ''[[Achron]]'' in addition to having an extra set of arms, generally stand a meter taller than the average human.
* The four-armed Shokan race from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', which includes Goro, Kintaro, and Sheeva.
** The comics once showed a ''six-''armed Shokan named Grum. [[Curb Stomp Battle|He got his ass kicked by Sub-Zero]], despite wielding six nunchaku.
* Gilgamesh from ''[[
** Started waaaaaaay back in ''[[
*** Marilith (named Kary in her first US appearance [[Lawyer
** In ''[[
*** And Gilgamesh returns for the prequel, morphing into his eight-armed form for his [[Super Mode]] (each of which wielding a random weapon from his repertoire, making his attacks more reliable [[Confusion Fu|than they were]]).
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* Some ''[[Pokémon]]'' gain extra arms in their most powerful
** Oddly enough, Geodude gains an extra pair of arms (as well as a pair of legs) when it evolves in to Graveler, but goes back to having two arms (but retains legs) when it evolves again into Golem.
** Golbat gains an extra pair of ''wings'' when it evolves into Crobat, if that counts.
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* Another Hindu-inspired demon is the Shivarra from ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. Despite the name, they appear to be based off of the goddess Kali (or perhaps her much less evil but ''not'' much less [[Badass|scary]] aspect Durga).
* Subversion: Star Overlord Valvoga from ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'' certainly ''looks'' like it could be completely menacing, if not for the fact that multi-armed Micky is a complete pushover and is always bullied around by his other parts, the mad dragon-head Dryzen and the temptress Ophelia.
* Solidus Snake does battle in a mechanized suit gives him two rocket-launching multipurpose tentacles in addition to his normal arms at the end of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]''.
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', Laughing Octopus wears powered armor that gives her four extra [[Combat Tentacles]].
* Lord Recluse from ''[[City of Heroes]]'', who has four extra giant spider-like claw-arms affixed to his back.
** According to the book of the game, those are part of his body. The mutated Arachnoids have the same claw-arms.
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* ''[[Tomb Raider]] 3'': A mini-boss encountered multiple times in the second level (a similar enemy appears in [[The Movie]]) is a [[Living Statue]] with four arms, each one with a [[BFS]].
* ''[[MDK]]'': Max the six-limbed robot dog in the game series.
* ''[[Mace:
* The Demon-at-Arms enemies in the ''[[
* ''[[
* The bosses and [[Bonus Boss]] Kali, Ravana, and Asura from ''[[Vagrant Story]]'' are either humanoid constructs with four arms and three faces, or the [[That One Boss|actual goddess herself]].
* [[Mix
* The ?ermutant boss in ''[[Wolfenstein 3D
* Mehrunes Dagon, Daedric Prince (read: god) of destruction of ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'', is always shown with four arms, each holding a different weapon. Judging from his mythologies, he's apparently another Shiva-inspired example.
* Kazdan Paratus of ''[[The Force Unleashed]]'' built himself four mechanical limbs to crawl around Raxus Prime like a mad bug.
* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' has Nordom, a Rogue Modron (see the [[Dungeons
* Subverted in ''[[
* In the trailer for the ''[[No More Heroes]]'' sequel, Desperate Struggle, a female assassin faces [[Byronic Hero|Travis]], whose [[Spider
** Turned out to be true. [[That One Boss|Unfortunately.]]
* Alduran Reptiloids and {{spoiler|Ugh Zan III}} in ''[[Serious Sam]]'' both have four arms.
* Level 17 of the SNES port of ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' has a monster of this type as a [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]].
* [[Ghost Pirate|Cortez]] from ''[[Paper Mario:
* ''[[
* Origin from ''[[
* In ''[[Silent Hill Homecoming]]'', Asphyxia is a boss monster that sports a multitude of arms that frails in every possible direction, she even has hands where her feet are suposed to be.
* Asura from ''[[
** His final form plays this straight and [[Averted Trope|averts this]]): {{spoiler|he grows [[Up to Eleven|ONE THOUSAND ARMS]], which then fuse together into [[Conservation of Ninjutsu|two arms]] to create Mantra Asura.}}
** Apart from Asura, there's also {{spoiler|Vlitra's core}} and {{spoiler|Chakravartin}}.
* ''[[
* The [[Boss Battle]] of ''[[Banana
== [[Web
*
▲* The [[Boss Battle]] of ''[[Banana Nana Ninja (Web Animation)|Banana Nana Ninja]]'': Feast Master involves a four-armed [[Humongous Mecha]] wielding giant kitchen utensils.
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'':
** Boris Dolokhov is Baron Wulfenbach's secretary,
** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180528 Lady Ariadne Steelgarter] in England has similar anatomy plus blue hair (though this may be dye). Later, it turns out she can fight quite well when she needs it, too.
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'':
** Fobott'r are tall humanoids with four hands, mostly known as wandering space mercenaries. Semi-[[subverted]] in that [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-04-12 it's pointed out] they have the same type of eyes as a human, thus even if one can handle four guns at a time, he can still only ''aim'' at a single target, like almost everyone else. Still, it helps to [[More Dakka|point downrange twice as many guns]] or have greater tactical flexibility - e.g., an illustration in ''Planet Mercenary'' preview shows one holding a pistol, grenade and some long arm.
** Played straighter with Sergeant Schlock himself, who can extrude more arms as needed. We never did get to see the [[Guns Akimbo|twin sawn-off multi-cannon and plasma gun combo]] in action, though. Also, [[Multi-Armed Multitasking|amorphs ''can'' use more eyes simultaneously]].<ref>Schlock couldn't try this early because those eyes are symbiotic organs that cannot be simply grown as needed, but must be [[Grows on Trees|gathered from the trees]] and procured by the amorph in question first - but went "eyestalks in all directions" for a while once he obtained his own eye tree (he keeps one in his quarters, so that the spares are readily available)</ref>
** F'Sherl-Ganni have two pairs of upper limbs that bifurcate at the elbows, for 8 hands total. Oh, and their feet are also [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-05-31 agile enough] to manipulate objects in a pinch. Make that 10 hands. Of course, by the time some species genetically engineers itself to remain functional in vacuum and zero-g despite having artificial gravity and [[Power Armour]] (and adapts for immortality by "naturally" growing encrypted long-term data storage systems), this does not make them dangerous, as much as it indicates they are [[Ancient Conspiracy|already quite]] [[Deadly Decadent Court|dangerous]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100217120457/http://zapinspace.com/d/20060420.html Grontar] in the webcomic ''[[Zap
* In ''[[
* The Nemesites in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]
* The heroine of the Krakow Studios comic ''[[Spinnerette]]'' cribs [[Spider
** The older ''Krakow'' comic by the same creator has [[Snake People|the marilith-like Guinness]], who is an Underworld secretary; [[Word of God]] confirms that [https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/440202464/4429150115 she still holds this position] in the current timeline of the Spinnyverse. It pretty clearly seems to be [[Author Appeal]].
* Several cosmic entities in ''[[
* In ''[[Fite!]]'', {{spoiler|Lucco grows ''six'' extra arms when in "God of Boxing" mode}}.▼
* ''[[At Arm's Length (webcomic)|At Arm's Length]]'': When not fighting evil, Ally, Reece and Sheila are not above using all four arms to cut corners in mundane activities. They come from Enchanter race, which is naturally four-armed and built around this trope.
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
* From ''[[
▲* Nikitaks, from the ''[[Inhuman]]'' universe, have 4 arms, all of which can also be used as legs. And razor-sharp claws on every arm.
▲* Baron Wulfenbach's secretary Boris in ''[[Girl Genius (Webcomic)|Girl Genius]]'' wields four swords to great effect against the Hive Engine bugs.
▲* [http://zapinspace.com/d/20060420.html Grontar] in the webcomic ''[[Zap (Webcomic)|Zap!]]'': a huge four-armed mechanic.
▲* In ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'', this is one of Durkon's (as well as all the other dwarves thus far appearing in the strip) fears concerning trees: they have so many "arms" that they'd be able to attack you dozens of times per [[RPG Mechanics Verse|turn]]. That trees don't actually move doesn't dissuade his fears.
▲* The Nemesites in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' being insectoids, naturally have four arms.
▲* The heroine of the Krakow Studios comic ''[[Spinnerette]]'' cribs [[Spider Man|another hero's origin story]] and gets four new arms out of the deal.
▲* Several cosmic entities in ''[[Problem Sleuth (Webcomic)|Problem Sleuth]]'' have multiple arms, most definitely inspired by Hinduism. Most notable are Godhead Pickle Inspector and Black Hole Mobster Kingpin, although GPI [[Actual Pacifist|doesn't exactly fit the "dangerous" part.]]
▲* In ''[[Fite]]'', {{spoiler|Lucco grows ''six'' extra arms when in "God of Boxing" mode}}.
▲== Web Original ==
▲* From ''[[Ruby Quest (Roleplay)|Ruby Quest]]'', {{spoiler|Tom}} has an extra pair of arms. They're much smaller than his main pair and are usually concealed under his shirt, but give at least one opponent a very nasty surprise.
* [[The Slender Man Mythos|Slendy]], [[Humanoid Abomination]] that he is, is often shown with lots of arms/[[Combat Tentacles|tentacles]]/[[When Trees Attack|branches]]/whatever they are.
* [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* One of Ben's most frequently used forms in ''[[
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* One of Ben's most frequently used forms in ''[[Ben 10 (Animation)|Ben 10]]'' is Four-Arms, a hulking red brute with [[Super Strength]] and a really deep voice.
* Another show by the same creative team of Ben 10 that features a multi-armed character is ''[[
▲** From ''[[Ben 10 Alien Force (Animation)|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'', Spidermonkey.
▲* Another show by the same creative team of Ben 10 that features a multi-armed character is ''[[Generator Rex (Animation)|Generator Rex]]'', where the character Breach, a [[Psychopathic Manchild|psychotic-emo girl]] dressed in a [[Sailor Fuku|sailor suit]] uniform with [[Blinding Bangs|her hair draping over her face]] who [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|underwent mutation with the activation of nanites that resided within her body]], has a another set of arms protruding below her original set of arms (while the forearms of her original set has grown monstrously huge!). Strangely, she doesn't really seem to use her additional limbs all that much even while in combat. They usually just like to [[Incredibly Lame Pun|hang around]] while her upper limbs get the job done.
** Occasionally, she has been seen using those extra arms of hers... to only mimic and move in concert with the gestures her upper arms perform.
** To be fair, her overly humongous upper arms kinda blocks the use of her lower pair of arms for anything ''but'' making gestures. And besides, she also has the ability to generate and create numerous [[Cool Gate|portals]] on a whim.
* The Third Arm Sash in ''[[
** However, it is only used for its secondary ability to extend out to an arbitrarily long distance, so the characters can grab things out of reach. The only times it gets used in addition to both other arms is when the Monks use it to [[Mundane Utility|do chores.]]
* Mecha-Shiva from ''[[The Venture Bros]]''.
* ''[[Gadget Boy and Heather]]'' introduces a villainess with six arms and uses a spider theme. Unsurprisingly, she goes by the name of Spydra.
* In the cancelled series ''[[Stripperella]]'', a supervillainess going by the name of Pushy Galore has two (hidden) extra sets of arms due to, in her words, the fringe benefits of being a genetic physicist. After revealing her six-armed frame, she even tells Stripperella to call her [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Octo-Pushy]]. Sadly, she only gets screen time in one episode, though the slight perk is that she actually uses her six arms to do a [[Multi
* ''[[
* An unused (read: toy-only) character from the ''[[
* Several characters on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''. Molotov's unnamed wife has four arms, as do every [[Strong Ants|Gnomans]] and the Racing Bugs.
* In the ''[[Aeon Flux]]'' animated series, there was a very very brief shot of Trevor with a four armed assassin. However, she was beset by bees almost immediately upon her introduction and was killed shortly (due to an allergic reaction to bee stings). Talk about one-shot.
* In an episode of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', we are introduced to Pandora, a ghostly version of her Greek counterpart, but with an additional pair of arms.
* In the episode ''The Crawler'' of the ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'', secretary Janine gets abducted by an insectoid king and was transformed into a moth-like creature with four arms. She later leads the king into [[Fake Defector|thinking that she's truly transformed]], and unleashes a ghost trap right in front of him by [[Superweapon Surprise|hiding it]] with her second pair of arms and wings that she acquired through said transformation. She [[Unexplained Recovery|gets better]].
* In one episode of ''[[
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