History AnArmAndALeg / ComicBooks

* In ''ComicBook/{{Violine}}'', an early villain, Muller, falls to his apparent death in a crocodile-infested moat. After losing both arms in fighting them off, he [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]], obtains clawed arms, and becomes the series' bigger bad.

* ''''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'': In issue #1 of ''ComicBook/{{Wolverines}}'', [[spoiler:Daken]] has one of his arms ripped off by Sinister, who takes it along with Wolverine's corpse for research purposes. [[spoiler:Ordinarily this wouldn't be an issue for him, but in the last issue of ''[[ComicBook/DeathOfWolverine The Logan Legacy]]'', his HealingFactor was stripped from him by Siphon, leaving him in danger of bleeding out.]]

* The backstory for ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' sees ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s counterpart Weapon X lose his left hand in battle against that reality's ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}. However, [[spoiler:he didn't lose the claws in his arm, as Cyclops later discovers to his dismay]].
* The actual superpower of ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes gag character [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Arm-Fall-Off Boy]] is to remove his arm from his body. [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway Needless to say, his Legion application was not accepted.]]
* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', [[spoiler:the speedster, Pronto,]] loses both legs in the first chapter.
* ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'s hand was eaten off by piranhas in the 1990's.

* In ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'', Nico Minoru loses an arm. The subsequent blood loss ends up giving her a power boost, though.

* In ''ComicBook/TheCrow'', Eric slices off ''both'' of a mobster's legs, leaving him to die from blood loss.
* In ''ComicBook/DeepGravity'', Warner, a shuttle pilot, is attacked by a venomous native lifeform on Poseidon's surface, and the doctors have to amputate his legs. (It's not a case of AmputationStopsSpread, though -- they stop the spread by other means, the toxin having already done its damage.) However, Warner points out that he doesn't need legs to fly his shuttle, and ends up [[spoiler:rescuing the rest of the surviving cast that way]].

* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'''s warrior troll king Guttlekraw likes to punish disobedient elf slaves "one finger, then one limb at a time". Case in point: Ekuar, who lost half a leg, one arm, and one finger of the remaining hand that way. He was the luckiest.

* ''ComicBook/Hitman1993'' has Hacken, who has his compatriots cut off his hand after he's bitten by a zombie penguin. They later revealed that he was never in danger.
* In ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Risk of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' has his right arm ripped off by Superboy-Prime.

** In the "Age of Obsidian" arc, ComicBook/TheFlash has both his legs torn off by Tezumak. His legs are later restored by magic.
** ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice'': Roy Harper gets his arm chopped off by Prometheus. This, combined with his daughter's death, drives him over the DespairEventHorizon and he becomes a more brutal AntiHero.
* In ''ComicBook/LegendsDCComics'', the villain Sunspot uses his power blast to get out of the ankle cuff that Guy Gardner holds him upside-down by, but in the process, he accidentally blasts off his right foot. Guy tends to Sunspot's injury, but threatens to cut off the villain's left hand if he uses his power blast again.
* One of ComicBook/{{Madman}}'s earlier adventures involves him rescuing an alien who landed among a Lamanite tribe two thousand years earlier. The Lamanites thought he communicated with the gods, and thus cut off his legs and one of his arms to prevent him from leaving.

* In the ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'', John Walker, a former US Agent, loses an arm and a leg to Nuke and his energy axe. Although he knows Tony Stark and could easily get a replacement, he refuses on the grounds that he doesn't want to become like the cyborg who did this to him. Mind you, it's shown that [[HandicappedBadass he can kick more than enough ass on his own]]. He later gets new biologically-created limbs to replace the ones he lost.
** This is integral to the backstory of Marvel villain Master Pandemonium. Originally a spoiled, rich actor named Martin Preston, a car crash one night after drinking heavily severed one of his arms. Dying and yelling for help, the demon Mephisto appeared and [[DealWithTheDevil offered him a deal, which he accepted]]. Mephisto summoned four demons; one of them wrenched its own arm off and used it to [[AppendageAssimilation replace the lost limb]], whereas the other three repeated the trick with Preston's good limbs. Since then, as Master Pandemonium, the four demons are his servants while in Mephisto's employ, and he can detach any (or all) of his limbs, which causes them to turn into the demons who donated them. He is most often a foe of ComicBook/GhostRider.

* In ''ComicBook/TheMiceTemplar'', Leito has his arm chopped off by Captain Tosk. Later, [[spoiler:Leito gets his revenge on Tosk by slicing off ''both'' of his arms]].
* James Wa of ''ComicBook/TheOrder2007'' lost both of his legs to a drunk driver, ending his baseball career. However, he went on to create a brand of high-tech prosthetic legs and made a fortune.

* A late arc in Creator/GailSimone's run of ''ComicBook/RedSonja'': Sonja destroys both her hands by charring them in a fire to prevent herself from wielding a weapon.
* The penultimate issue of ''ComicBook/{{Reyn}}'' has [[spoiler:Reyn himself]] losing an arm while fighting Brother M'Thall. It isn't until after he loses his arm that it's revealed that [[spoiler:Reyn is not human, since he doesn't bleed the way a normal human would]].

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* Happens a lot in ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'', in addition to all the other {{Gorn}}:

* In ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2011'', ComicBook/EmmaFrost loses an arm against Mr. Sinister. Being in diamond form, she doesn't die from blood loss or anything, and she gets better.
* In ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'', an early villain, Muller, falls to his apparent death in a crocodile-infested moat. After losing both arms in fighting them off, he [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]], obtains clawed arms, and becomes the series' bigger bad.

* In issue #1 of ''ComicBook/{{Wolverines}}'', [[spoiler:Daken]] has one of his arms ripped off by Sinister, who takes it along with Wolverine's corpse for research purposes. [[spoiler:Ordinarily this wouldn't be an issue for him, but in the last issue of ''[[ComicBook/DeathOfWolverine The Logan Legacy]]'', his HealingFactor was stripped from him by Siphon, leaving him in danger of bleeding out.]]
* Franchise/WonderWoman:
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': During "ComicBook/TheContest" Diana meets one of the Bana, who is struggling with a rudimentary crutch and lost a leg helping defend the island while Circe had it trapped in a hellish dimension. It is used to help highlight the disparity in equality between the two tribes of Amazons even though the Bana sacrificed more in the defenses during their fight to survive.

* Hellion of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' loses both his hands to the Purifiers, and Karma loses one of her legs. They're later fitted with prosthetics.
* Being a particularly violent series, ''ComicBook/XStatix'' (and its predecessor ''ComicBook/XForce'') has featured this trope a few times:

* ''ComicBook/Youngblood2017'' sees [[spoiler:Shaft lose an arm]].

* The backstory for ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' sees ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s counterpart Weapon X lose his left hand in battle against that reality's ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}.

** A particularly awful version happens to [[spoiler:Leah]] during the battle of Calais. Her leg is left dangling from a few strands of tendon, and can't be properly amputated due to her SuperToughness.

** When Shadow Man goes on the attack to prove his loyalty to Ra Moon, Crash Man loses his Crash Bomber cannons and [[OhCrap pisses himself]], in addition to screaming in pain. This could be Type II or Type III.

** Type II example: Magnet Man is defeated this way due to his powers disorienting his sense of direction during his fight with the Blue Bomber, who severs his right arm with a Shadow Blade.
** Spark Man, just like Crash Man, loses his arms, which leads to his defeat. Unlike the prior two, this is definitely Type III.

* A late arc in Creator/GailSimone's run of ''ComicBook/RedSonja'' has Type 1: Sonja destroys both her hands by charring them in a fire to prevent herself from wielding a weapon.

* ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'' has Type 3. The Governor takes Rick's arm as punishment for refusing to fight in his gladiatorial arena.

* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'':

* ''ComicBook/{{Hitman}}'' has Hacken, who has his compatriots cut off his hand after he's bitten by a zombie penguin. They later revealed that he was never in danger.

* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague'':
** In the "Age of Obsidian" arc, Franchise/TheFlash has both his legs torn off by Tezumak. His legs are later restored by magic.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Legends|DCComics}}'', the villain Sunspot uses his power blast to get out of the ankle cuff that Guy Gardner holds him upside-down by, but in the process, he accidentally blasts off his right foot. Guy tends to Sunspot's injury, but threatens to cut off the villain's left hand if he uses his power blast again.

* ''ComicBook/SuperAgentJonLeBon'': One of the members of the Agency, Mr. Shorthand, is missing both his hands. This is a DevelopmentGag, since Mr. Shorthand was originally meant to always have his hands behind his back, before Alex A. decided it would work better if he didn't have an y hands.

* ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': Dismemberment happens all the time, though the limbs themselves can usually be replaced. The situations all have some significance: Cyclonus severing Rung's arm is PlayedForLaughs; Drift cutting off [[spoiler:Pharma's]] hands leads to the latter's DisneyVillainDeath, with Ratchet later taking them up; Black Shadow rips off Hyperion's arm while simultaneously blasting away another Wrecker to show how powerful he is; and [[MarkOfShame Empurata]] cuts of the victim's hands and head and replaces them with claws and a CyberCyclops head.