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* The 1977 [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherwoods Sandalwood]] movie ''Film/BayaluDaari'' is about a fighter pilot who loses his legs during [[UsefulNotes/TheIndoPakistanConflict the 1971 Indo-Pak War]], and goes into a deep depression over it. This “amputation angst” causes him to abandon his girlfriend who has borne his child, letting her believe he is dead.
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* At the start of ''Film/ScreamAndScreamAgain'', a jogger collapse from a heart attack. When he wakes at the hospital, he discovers his leg has been amputated. Every time the movie cuts back to him, another limb has been amputated.
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* ''Film/Hancock'' has tre wo examples of this...inflicted on the same guy, no less. When Red Parker tries to get Hancock to safely escort the gold put of the bank, he makes the mistake of constantly pushing Hancock's BerserkButton...which results in a very deadly game of frisbee costing Red his left hand. Later, [[spoiler: when Red and his goons go tokill Hancock at the hospital, Ray saves John...by chopping off his other hand, then slamming him in the face with a fire axe.]]
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* In ''Film/{{Yellowbeard}}'', Moon loses his left hand when Yellowbeard slams the chest lid down on it. He later replaces it with a HookHand.
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* In ''Film/TheHandsOfOrlac'', concert pianist Paul Orlac's hand are destroyed in a train wreck. Knowing that her husband values his hands over his life, his wife Yvonne begs their doctor to do whatever he can to save them. The doctor transplant a pair of hands from a recently executed murderer onto Orlac's arms. However, Orlac soon comes to believe that that his new hands are {{Evil Hand}}s.
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* ''Film/TheBurning'': When Michelle reaches the adrift raft, a severed arm falls off it.
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** Klaue appears with his robot arm, only to have it confiscated in ''Film/BlackPanther.'' [[spoiler:He doesn't live to get it back.]]
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** Stephen was searching for a way to restore full use of his hands after a car accident rather than train in the mystic arts, until he meets an OldMaster who can do all that while missing a whole hand, in ''Film/DoctorStrange''.
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* ''Film/DustDevil'': Most of the bodies left behind by the film's villain are dismembered, and their arms are left hanging by ropes.
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* In ''Film/TheHand'', Jon Lansdale loses his hand in a freak accident when it caught between his car and a truck.
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* If you took a shot every time limbs go flying in ''Film/Hellboy2019'', you'd be hospitalized by the time the credits roll. Nimue losing an arm to [[spoiler:Excalibur]] in the prologue is just the most prominent example.
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* In ''Film/ThirteenSins'', one of Elliot's challenges is to amputate the arm of his SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp. [[spoiler:He does.]]
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* In ''Film/TheMummy1999'' Rick slices off Imhotep's arm during the climatic fight. After tossing Rick away, Imhotep is able to reattach it.
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* ''Franchise/StarWars'' has a [[LudicrousGibs large number]] of Type 2 lost limbs, five of them belonging to [[VillainProtagonist someone named Anakin]]. There's a [[http://www.runleiarun.com/choppedoffhands/ website]] and a [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dismemberment Wookieepedia article]] listing all of them, plot important or not.
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** In ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', his character [[ScarsAreForever lost much of his left arm]], presumably in an earlier war with the Klendathu Arachnids, but he gets an [[ArtificialLimb artificial hand]] fitted on it later in the film. [[spoiler:He subsequently loses both his legs in his death scene, after which he pleads Rico to give him a MercyKill.]] Doubly referenced by a Recruiting Sergeant who appears as a triple amputee for shock value to naive recruits, and the schoolmaster who has also lost an arm.
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* Following on the above, some of the Phase 3 movies briefly touch on this:
** Bucky's robot arm gets wrecked in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.
** Stephen was searching for a way to restore full use of his hands after a car accident rather than train in the mystic arts, until he meets an OldMaster who can do all that while missing a whole hand, in ''Film/DoctorStrange''.
** Creator/StanLee cameos as a HumanAlien barber with a hideous shredding implement replacing his hand in ''Film/ThorRagnarok''.
** Klaue appears with his robot arm, only to have it confiscated in ''Film/BlackPanther.'' [[spoiler:He doesn't live to get it back.]]
** TheBrute working for Thanos loses an arm to a PortalCut in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar.''
** Bucky's robot arm gets wrecked in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.
** Stephen was searching for a way to restore full use of his hands after a car accident rather than train in the mystic arts, until he meets an OldMaster who can do all that while missing a whole hand, in ''Film/DoctorStrange''.
** Creator/StanLee cameos as a HumanAlien barber with a hideous shredding implement replacing his hand in ''Film/ThorRagnarok''.
** Klaue appears with his robot arm, only to have it confiscated in ''Film/BlackPanther.'' [[spoiler:He doesn't live to get it back.]]
** TheBrute working for Thanos loses an arm to a PortalCut in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar.''
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* Happens to Buzz Lightyear in the first ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' film while attempting to jump out of a window leading to outside [[KidsAreCruel Sid Phillips']] house. The [[DarkIsNotEvil mutant toys]] eventually put his arm back on, however.
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** ''Film/IronMan3'': Tony uses a blade built into his Iron Man armor to cutt off [[spoiler:Killian's]] hand during the final battle. It grows back.
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[[AnArmAndALeg Amputations]] in movies.
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!!Animated
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', King Fergus lost his leg battling the demon bear Mor'du. He replaced it with a club-shaped lump of wood.
* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' has no blood, but Gobber has a pegleg and missing arm that he can change for different things like a hammer, a tankard, a fork, etc. Toothless the dragon counts after losing a tail rudder fin, and [[spoiler:Hiccup loses a foot in the final battle.]]
** The villain of [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2 the sequel]], Drago, lost one of his arms at some point. He lost it in a dragon attack, but he uses a metal arm as a replacement.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'', [[spoiler: Superman blasts Aquaman's right arm off with his heat vision to try and save Cyborg, as Aquaman is about to impale Cyborg's exposed heart.]]
* In ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' the first indication we get of the demonic power of Prince Ashitaka's curse is when one of his arrows rips both arms off of a samurai.
** Later in the film, [[spoiler: Lady Eboshi]] loses an arm to a rather vicious and symbolic animal bite.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StrangeFrame'', Grenman is missing both of his legs. Supposedly, they were stolen cut off by a pair of alien foot fetishists.
* Happens to Buzz Lightyear in the first ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' film while attempting to jump out of a window leading to outside [[KidsAreCruel Sid Phillips']] house. The [[DarkIsNotEvil mutant toys]] eventually put his arm back on, however.
** In the second movie, Woody's arm gets ripped off.
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* Creator/MichaelIronside's characters frequently lose (and damage) limbs in the movies he's done, including:
** In the original ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', [[spoiler:getting both his arms ripped off before falling to his death.]]
** In ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', his character [[ScarsAreForever lost much of his left arm]], presumably in an earlier war with the Klendathu Arachnids, but he gets an [[ArtificialLimb artificial hand]] fitted on it later in the film. [[spoiler:He subsequently loses both his legs in his death scene, after which he pleads Rico to give him a MercyKill.]] Doubly referenced by a Recruiting Sergeant who appears as a triple amputee for shock value to naive recruits, and the schoolmaster who has also lost an arm.
** In ''Film/TheMachinist'', he loses another arm in an industrial machine accident [[spoiler:which the main character subconsciously caused]].
** In ''Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening'' he gets his hand cut off in a sword fight [[spoiler:right before [=MacLeod=] chops off his head]].
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* Mentioned by Kurtz in ''Film/ApocalypseNow''.
-->''"I remember when I was with Special Forces... seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate some children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms."''
%%* Comes as a surprise towards the end of classic silent UsefulNotes/WorldWarI drama ''Film/TheBigParade''.
* Occurs in ''Film/BloodDiamond'', depicting the TruthInTelevision actions of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_United_Front Revolutionary United Front]] during the civil war in UsefulNotes/SierraLeone. The election slogan at the time was "the future is in your hands", so the rebels chopped people's hands off to discourage them from voting in the elections.
-->'''Captain Poison:''' No more hands, no more voting!
* ''Film/BoxingHelena'': Mad Doctor cuts off a woman's legs so she can't run away, then cuts off her arms so she can't fight back. [[StockholmSyndrome It's a love story.]]
* ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'': Hamish's father, Campbell the Elder, loses his left hand at the Battle of Stirling, so he spends the rest of the movie [[EpicFlail using a flail]].
* ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': vampire Amilyn (Paul Reubens) is on top of Pike's speeding van, reaching in through a hole punched in the roof -- until a low branch sweeps him off and severs his arm. He is not pleased.
-->'''Amilyn:''' You ruined my ''jacket! (to minions)'' Kill him a ''lot!''
* ''Film/{{Dagon}}'': When Paul and Barbara are reunited with Viki, they find her in a state of complete shock because the cultists cut off one of her legs.
* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsWrathOfTheDragonGod'': Berek cuts off Damodar's arm to get the orb out of his hand, and he barely reacts. There's not even any blood, so perhaps he doesn't feel pain too. It's restored later with magic. Ormaline also gets her arm torn off when it's caught while teleporting the party to safety, and this is shown more realistically as her bleeding profusely, needing immediate aid from healers.
* In ''Film/EvilDead2'' film, Ash cuts off his own hand after it is infected with evil.
* At one point in ''Film/TheFlyII'', the young protagonist goes to one of the few characters from the first film who appears to ask him for help. He gets refused, on the grounds that his compassion for the young man's father in the first film "cost me an arm and a leg!" [[spoiler: (They were dissolved by giant fly vomit.)]]
* Lieutenant Dan in ''Film/ForrestGump'', who lost his legs in [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar the Vietnam war]], provides the main page picture.
* According to the film adaptation of ''Film/InspectorGadget'', [[BigBad Doctor Claw]] actually got both his name and trademark claw after one of his hands was chopped off by a bowling ball.
* ''Film/KillBill Part 1'' took this to ridiculous extremes, with many members of the Crazy 88 and Sophie Fatale losing various limbs to the Bride.
-->'''The Bride''': "Leave your severed limbs. Those belong to me now."
** It's also how The Bride exacts both revenge on and information from Sofie Fatale. Cutting off Sofie's arm at the start of the Crazy 88 fight shows O-Ren Ishii that The Bride means business.
* In the 1942 film ''Film/KingsRow'', Drake [=McHugh=] (probably UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan's most famous role) has both of his legs amputated needlessly by a sadistic doctor after an accident. When he wakes from anesthesia, he says the famous line: "Where's the rest of me?"
* ''Film/{{Kothanodi}}'': In this anthology of folk tales, wicked stepmother Senehi takes this trope to horrific levels as she breaks her stepdaughter's limbs one by one, and then [[spoiler:smashes her skull in]].
* Leprechaun kills a cop in ''Film/LeprechaunBack2ThaHood'' by ripping off his leg. He then uses the said leg to reach the pedals of a police car as he gets back to chasing after the protagonists.
* ''Film/TheMachineGirl'': Yakuza cut off schoolgirl's arm; she replaces it with a machine gun. [[SarcasmMode Hilarity Ensues]].
* The ''Film/MadMax'' film series:
** ''Film/MadMax1'':
*** Cundalini's attempt to stop Jessie's fast moving car with a chain ended badly for him. Toecutter later claims retribution for Cundalini's missing hand as partial justification for attacking her, though they're really just doing it ForTheEvulz.
*** Implied at the end when Max handcuffs Johnny The Boy's ankle to a death-trapped car and leaves him a hacksaw with the admonition that while it would take at least 15 minutes to cut through the chain, he could probably saw through his ankle in five.
** Toady's attempt to catch the razor boomerang in ''Film/TheRoadWarrior'' [[{{Fingore}} ended badly for him as well.]]
** The female protagonist of ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', Furiosa, has a mechanical arm. [[spoiler: In the climax of the FinalBattle, she sacrifices her mechanical arm to kill [[BigBad Immortan Joe]] before escaping on his car.]]
* The titular character from ''Film/TheManWithTheIronFists'' gets both arms chopped off.
* All of the films released during "Phase 2" (2013-15) of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse feature at least one character losing an arm or a hand at a pivotal moment, reportedly as an homage to Luke losing his hand in the second ''Star Wars'' film.
** ''Film/IronMan3'': Tony uses a blade built into his Iron Man armor to cutt off [[spoiler:Killian's]] hand during the final battle. It grows back.
** ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': Loki appears to cut off Thor's hand [[spoiler:in an illusion to fool Malekith]].
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'': Bucky traumatically loses his arm in a flashback and has a mechanical replacement in the present.
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Gamora cuts Groot's arm off during their initial fight. It grows back.
** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': Ultron removes Klaue's hand early on, hinting at the mechanical hand he has in the comics to make an appearance in a later film.
** ''Film/AntMan'': When Darren Cross gets [[spoiler:imploded into the Quantum Realm]] his right arm is the first thing to go.
* Played for laughs with ''four'' Type 3 amputations in quick succession on the [[EnsembleDarkhorse Black Knight]] from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', the TropeNamer for OnlyAFleshWound.
* In ''Film/TheMummy1999'' Rick slices off Imhotep's arm during the climatic fight. After tossing Rick away, Imhotep is able to reattach it.
* In a deleted scene from ''Film/NaturalBornKillers'', Mickey and Mallory cut off the legs of the Hun Brothers with chainsaws. Upon realizing who they were, Mickey and Mallory stopped and apologized. The Hun Brothers actually thanked them for it.
* ''Film/OrcaTheKillerWhale'': Bo Derek's character has her leg bitten off by a killer whale. It proves to be the story's turning point.
* In ''Film/PacificRim'', Gipsy Danger loses its left arm in the ActionPrologue against Knifehead. [[spoiler: After being rebuilt, it loses its right arm in the final battle.]]
* The serial killer in ''Film/Resurrection1999'' murders people and steals their body parts before then stitching them together to recreate the body of Jesus Christ in time for the resurrection on Easter. Six victims total--one for each limb, one head, and a torso.
* In ''Film/RocknRolla'', this is implied to have happened to [[spoiler:The Russian]]. The phrase is spoken verbatim. [[spoiler:Archy]] may have said it in a light, even joking tone, but considering what we just watched him do in the previous scene...
* ''Film/RustAndBone'' ''[[GratuitousFrench (De rouille et d'os)]]'': Stephanie losing both legs above the knee to a killer whale attack (in a sea park) isn't the only focus of the story, but it is the impetus for her relationship with Ali and their respective growth as characters.
* Two Type 3s in ''Film/SantaSangre''. The first occurs before the actual events of the film, concerning a girl whose arms were cut off by her rapists and who is now worshiped as a saint in the titular church; ironically enough, the second happens to Concha, the leader of the Sante Sangre congregation, whose arms are hacked off in a similar fashion.
* The ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' series was built around this.
** Lawrence from the [[Film/SawI first film]] sawed through his chained leg and plays a large (mostly behind the scenes) part in the events of the sequels as a result.
** The prologue of ''Film/SawVI'' has two predatory lenders-one obese, the other skinny- in a trap in which the first to carve off a pound of flesh within 5 minutes will get to survive. Realizing that the fat man will likely win, the woman chops off her arm in a last ditch attempt to make the weight. [[spoiler:She wins.]]
* ''Film/{{Screamers}}''. In our introduction to the eponymous {{Killer Robot}}s, an enemy soldier sent to deliver a peace offering gets his hand severed by a flying screamer, still holding the canister holding the message. The next screamer slices his foot off, leaving him on the ground and vulnerable to the rest. Even the hardened soldiers watching from the bunker are squicked out.
* In ''Film/ShowdownInLittleTokyo'', the BigBad [[{{Yakuza}} Yoshida]] first shows how ruthless he is with a type 3 when he responds to a drug dealer who strongly disagrees with his pricing by drawing his katana and slicing the man's hand off. Needless to say, the dealer is quick to change his mind.
* In ''Film/Siren2010'', Ken twists his ankle chasing after the phantasmal Silka and wakes up the boat with the dead sailor about to amputate his leg. He screams as this happens, but wakes up on the island with his leg intact, making this another of the island's {{Mind Screw}}s.
* ''Film/SpyHard'': General Rancor lost both his arms after his previous run-in with Agent Dick Steele, but has had various prosthetic replacements constructed. After Steele ties Rancor to his own missile in the climax, he loses his legs as well.
* Daniel Jackson lost his leg to frostbite in ''Film/StargateContinuum''.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'' has a [[LudicrousGibs large number]] of Type 2 lost limbs, five of them belonging to [[VillainProtagonist someone named Anakin]]. There's a [[http://www.runleiarun.com/choppedoffhands/ website]] and a [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dismemberment Wookieepedia article]] listing all of them, plot important or not.
** Anakin Skywalker loses the most over the course of the series (right arm below the elbow by Dooku in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''; left arm and both legs above the knee by Obi-Wan in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''; artificial right hand by Luke in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'').
** The first arm to come off in the series was Ponda Baba's in the Mos Eisley Cantina in ''Film/ANewHope'', complete with [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness bloody stump]].
** Luke is probably the most famous example, even more so than his father, losing his hand in a type 2 to the guy in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
* In ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', the T-800 loses his left arm when combating the T-1000 in the foundry.
* The famous defibrillator scene in John Carpenter's ''Film/TheThing1982'', in which a character has his arms bitten off by the titular Thing. Oddly enough, the bitten character is never seen again, so he presumably died of blood loss while the rest of the men were distracted dealing with the monster.
** Suffers from a bit of SpecialEffectsFailure in that the arms separate well above the bite, but it's so startling and horrifying that it's easy to overlook.
* [[spoiler:Optimus Prime]] gets his right arm sliced off by Sentinel Prime in ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''.
** Starscream gets his arm cut off by Optimus in ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', and Optimus then proceeds to [[GrievousHarmWithABody hit him with his own severed arm]]. Since he's robot he manages to reattach it later, but only after Megatron hits him with it as well.
* Quorra loses her left arm in ''Film/TronLegacy''. It's grown back later.
* Averted in ''Film/TropicThunder'' by the character POSING as a double amputee who actually still has both hands.
* In the 2010 film version of ''Film/TrueGrit'', [[spoiler:Mattie loses her left arm]] to a rattlesnake bite.
* In ''{{Film/Tusk}}'', Wallace has both of his legs amputated as part of the process to transform him into a walrus. ItMakesSenseInContext.
* In ''Film/TheUnknown'', Alonzo the Armless blackmails a surgeon into amputating his arms because he believes this will enable him to win the heart of the woman he loves.
* One of the bumbling cops from ''{{Film/Versus}}'' loses his hand early in the film. It's a BlackComedy RunningGag that he keeps forgetting it's missing and tries to touch things with his stump.
* ''{{Film/Virtuosity}}'': Parker lost an arm to the bomb which killed his family, but it's replaced with a cybernetic one.
* In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Sunspot gets his arm chopped off in the final battle. He lost pretty quickly after that.
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[[AnArmAndALeg Amputations]] in movies.
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!!Animated
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', King Fergus lost his leg battling the demon bear Mor'du. He replaced it with a club-shaped lump of wood.
* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' has no blood, but Gobber has a pegleg and missing arm that he can change for different things like a hammer, a tankard, a fork, etc. Toothless the dragon counts after losing a tail rudder fin, and [[spoiler:Hiccup loses a foot in the final battle.]]
** The villain of [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2 the sequel]], Drago, lost one of his arms at some point. He lost it in a dragon attack, but he uses a metal arm as a replacement.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'', [[spoiler: Superman blasts Aquaman's right arm off with his heat vision to try and save Cyborg, as Aquaman is about to impale Cyborg's exposed heart.]]
* In ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' the first indication we get of the demonic power of Prince Ashitaka's curse is when one of his arrows rips both arms off of a samurai.
** Later in the film, [[spoiler: Lady Eboshi]] loses an arm to a rather vicious and symbolic animal bite.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StrangeFrame'', Grenman is missing both of his legs. Supposedly, they were stolen cut off by a pair of alien foot fetishists.
* Happens to Buzz Lightyear in the first ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' film while attempting to jump out of a window leading to outside [[KidsAreCruel Sid Phillips']] house. The [[DarkIsNotEvil mutant toys]] eventually put his arm back on, however.
** In the second movie, Woody's arm gets ripped off.
!!Live-Action
!!!Actors
* Creator/MichaelIronside's characters frequently lose (and damage) limbs in the movies he's done, including:
** In the original ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', [[spoiler:getting both his arms ripped off before falling to his death.]]
** In ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', his character [[ScarsAreForever lost much of his left arm]], presumably in an earlier war with the Klendathu Arachnids, but he gets an [[ArtificialLimb artificial hand]] fitted on it later in the film. [[spoiler:He subsequently loses both his legs in his death scene, after which he pleads Rico to give him a MercyKill.]] Doubly referenced by a Recruiting Sergeant who appears as a triple amputee for shock value to naive recruits, and the schoolmaster who has also lost an arm.
** In ''Film/TheMachinist'', he loses another arm in an industrial machine accident [[spoiler:which the main character subconsciously caused]].
** In ''Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening'' he gets his hand cut off in a sword fight [[spoiler:right before [=MacLeod=] chops off his head]].
!!!Movies
* Mentioned by Kurtz in ''Film/ApocalypseNow''.
-->''"I remember when I was with Special Forces... seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate some children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms."''
%%* Comes as a surprise towards the end of classic silent UsefulNotes/WorldWarI drama ''Film/TheBigParade''.
* Occurs in ''Film/BloodDiamond'', depicting the TruthInTelevision actions of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_United_Front Revolutionary United Front]] during the civil war in UsefulNotes/SierraLeone. The election slogan at the time was "the future is in your hands", so the rebels chopped people's hands off to discourage them from voting in the elections.
-->'''Captain Poison:''' No more hands, no more voting!
* ''Film/BoxingHelena'': Mad Doctor cuts off a woman's legs so she can't run away, then cuts off her arms so she can't fight back. [[StockholmSyndrome It's a love story.]]
* ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'': Hamish's father, Campbell the Elder, loses his left hand at the Battle of Stirling, so he spends the rest of the movie [[EpicFlail using a flail]].
* ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': vampire Amilyn (Paul Reubens) is on top of Pike's speeding van, reaching in through a hole punched in the roof -- until a low branch sweeps him off and severs his arm. He is not pleased.
-->'''Amilyn:''' You ruined my ''jacket! (to minions)'' Kill him a ''lot!''
* ''Film/{{Dagon}}'': When Paul and Barbara are reunited with Viki, they find her in a state of complete shock because the cultists cut off one of her legs.
* ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsWrathOfTheDragonGod'': Berek cuts off Damodar's arm to get the orb out of his hand, and he barely reacts. There's not even any blood, so perhaps he doesn't feel pain too. It's restored later with magic. Ormaline also gets her arm torn off when it's caught while teleporting the party to safety, and this is shown more realistically as her bleeding profusely, needing immediate aid from healers.
* In ''Film/EvilDead2'' film, Ash cuts off his own hand after it is infected with evil.
* At one point in ''Film/TheFlyII'', the young protagonist goes to one of the few characters from the first film who appears to ask him for help. He gets refused, on the grounds that his compassion for the young man's father in the first film "cost me an arm and a leg!" [[spoiler: (They were dissolved by giant fly vomit.)]]
* Lieutenant Dan in ''Film/ForrestGump'', who lost his legs in [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar the Vietnam war]], provides the main page picture.
* According to the film adaptation of ''Film/InspectorGadget'', [[BigBad Doctor Claw]] actually got both his name and trademark claw after one of his hands was chopped off by a bowling ball.
* ''Film/KillBill Part 1'' took this to ridiculous extremes, with many members of the Crazy 88 and Sophie Fatale losing various limbs to the Bride.
-->'''The Bride''': "Leave your severed limbs. Those belong to me now."
** It's also how The Bride exacts both revenge on and information from Sofie Fatale. Cutting off Sofie's arm at the start of the Crazy 88 fight shows O-Ren Ishii that The Bride means business.
* In the 1942 film ''Film/KingsRow'', Drake [=McHugh=] (probably UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan's most famous role) has both of his legs amputated needlessly by a sadistic doctor after an accident. When he wakes from anesthesia, he says the famous line: "Where's the rest of me?"
* ''Film/{{Kothanodi}}'': In this anthology of folk tales, wicked stepmother Senehi takes this trope to horrific levels as she breaks her stepdaughter's limbs one by one, and then [[spoiler:smashes her skull in]].
* Leprechaun kills a cop in ''Film/LeprechaunBack2ThaHood'' by ripping off his leg. He then uses the said leg to reach the pedals of a police car as he gets back to chasing after the protagonists.
* ''Film/TheMachineGirl'': Yakuza cut off schoolgirl's arm; she replaces it with a machine gun. [[SarcasmMode Hilarity Ensues]].
* The ''Film/MadMax'' film series:
** ''Film/MadMax1'':
*** Cundalini's attempt to stop Jessie's fast moving car with a chain ended badly for him. Toecutter later claims retribution for Cundalini's missing hand as partial justification for attacking her, though they're really just doing it ForTheEvulz.
*** Implied at the end when Max handcuffs Johnny The Boy's ankle to a death-trapped car and leaves him a hacksaw with the admonition that while it would take at least 15 minutes to cut through the chain, he could probably saw through his ankle in five.
** Toady's attempt to catch the razor boomerang in ''Film/TheRoadWarrior'' [[{{Fingore}} ended badly for him as well.]]
** The female protagonist of ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', Furiosa, has a mechanical arm. [[spoiler: In the climax of the FinalBattle, she sacrifices her mechanical arm to kill [[BigBad Immortan Joe]] before escaping on his car.]]
* The titular character from ''Film/TheManWithTheIronFists'' gets both arms chopped off.
* All of the films released during "Phase 2" (2013-15) of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse feature at least one character losing an arm or a hand at a pivotal moment, reportedly as an homage to Luke losing his hand in the second ''Star Wars'' film.
** ''Film/IronMan3'': Tony uses a blade built into his Iron Man armor to cutt off [[spoiler:Killian's]] hand during the final battle. It grows back.
** ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': Loki appears to cut off Thor's hand [[spoiler:in an illusion to fool Malekith]].
** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'': Bucky traumatically loses his arm in a flashback and has a mechanical replacement in the present.
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Gamora cuts Groot's arm off during their initial fight. It grows back.
** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': Ultron removes Klaue's hand early on, hinting at the mechanical hand he has in the comics to make an appearance in a later film.
** ''Film/AntMan'': When Darren Cross gets [[spoiler:imploded into the Quantum Realm]] his right arm is the first thing to go.
* Played for laughs with ''four'' Type 3 amputations in quick succession on the [[EnsembleDarkhorse Black Knight]] from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', the TropeNamer for OnlyAFleshWound.
* In ''Film/TheMummy1999'' Rick slices off Imhotep's arm during the climatic fight. After tossing Rick away, Imhotep is able to reattach it.
* In a deleted scene from ''Film/NaturalBornKillers'', Mickey and Mallory cut off the legs of the Hun Brothers with chainsaws. Upon realizing who they were, Mickey and Mallory stopped and apologized. The Hun Brothers actually thanked them for it.
* ''Film/OrcaTheKillerWhale'': Bo Derek's character has her leg bitten off by a killer whale. It proves to be the story's turning point.
* In ''Film/PacificRim'', Gipsy Danger loses its left arm in the ActionPrologue against Knifehead. [[spoiler: After being rebuilt, it loses its right arm in the final battle.]]
* The serial killer in ''Film/Resurrection1999'' murders people and steals their body parts before then stitching them together to recreate the body of Jesus Christ in time for the resurrection on Easter. Six victims total--one for each limb, one head, and a torso.
* In ''Film/RocknRolla'', this is implied to have happened to [[spoiler:The Russian]]. The phrase is spoken verbatim. [[spoiler:Archy]] may have said it in a light, even joking tone, but considering what we just watched him do in the previous scene...
* ''Film/RustAndBone'' ''[[GratuitousFrench (De rouille et d'os)]]'': Stephanie losing both legs above the knee to a killer whale attack (in a sea park) isn't the only focus of the story, but it is the impetus for her relationship with Ali and their respective growth as characters.
* Two Type 3s in ''Film/SantaSangre''. The first occurs before the actual events of the film, concerning a girl whose arms were cut off by her rapists and who is now worshiped as a saint in the titular church; ironically enough, the second happens to Concha, the leader of the Sante Sangre congregation, whose arms are hacked off in a similar fashion.
* The ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' series was built around this.
** Lawrence from the [[Film/SawI first film]] sawed through his chained leg and plays a large (mostly behind the scenes) part in the events of the sequels as a result.
** The prologue of ''Film/SawVI'' has two predatory lenders-one obese, the other skinny- in a trap in which the first to carve off a pound of flesh within 5 minutes will get to survive. Realizing that the fat man will likely win, the woman chops off her arm in a last ditch attempt to make the weight. [[spoiler:She wins.]]
* ''Film/{{Screamers}}''. In our introduction to the eponymous {{Killer Robot}}s, an enemy soldier sent to deliver a peace offering gets his hand severed by a flying screamer, still holding the canister holding the message. The next screamer slices his foot off, leaving him on the ground and vulnerable to the rest. Even the hardened soldiers watching from the bunker are squicked out.
* In ''Film/ShowdownInLittleTokyo'', the BigBad [[{{Yakuza}} Yoshida]] first shows how ruthless he is with a type 3 when he responds to a drug dealer who strongly disagrees with his pricing by drawing his katana and slicing the man's hand off. Needless to say, the dealer is quick to change his mind.
* In ''Film/Siren2010'', Ken twists his ankle chasing after the phantasmal Silka and wakes up the boat with the dead sailor about to amputate his leg. He screams as this happens, but wakes up on the island with his leg intact, making this another of the island's {{Mind Screw}}s.
* ''Film/SpyHard'': General Rancor lost both his arms after his previous run-in with Agent Dick Steele, but has had various prosthetic replacements constructed. After Steele ties Rancor to his own missile in the climax, he loses his legs as well.
* Daniel Jackson lost his leg to frostbite in ''Film/StargateContinuum''.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'' has a [[LudicrousGibs large number]] of Type 2 lost limbs, five of them belonging to [[VillainProtagonist someone named Anakin]]. There's a [[http://www.runleiarun.com/choppedoffhands/ website]] and a [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dismemberment Wookieepedia article]] listing all of them, plot important or not.
** Anakin Skywalker loses the most over the course of the series (right arm below the elbow by Dooku in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''; left arm and both legs above the knee by Obi-Wan in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''; artificial right hand by Luke in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'').
** The first arm to come off in the series was Ponda Baba's in the Mos Eisley Cantina in ''Film/ANewHope'', complete with [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness bloody stump]].
** Luke is probably the most famous example, even more so than his father, losing his hand in a type 2 to the guy in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
* In ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', the T-800 loses his left arm when combating the T-1000 in the foundry.
* The famous defibrillator scene in John Carpenter's ''Film/TheThing1982'', in which a character has his arms bitten off by the titular Thing. Oddly enough, the bitten character is never seen again, so he presumably died of blood loss while the rest of the men were distracted dealing with the monster.
** Suffers from a bit of SpecialEffectsFailure in that the arms separate well above the bite, but it's so startling and horrifying that it's easy to overlook.
* [[spoiler:Optimus Prime]] gets his right arm sliced off by Sentinel Prime in ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''.
** Starscream gets his arm cut off by Optimus in ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', and Optimus then proceeds to [[GrievousHarmWithABody hit him with his own severed arm]]. Since he's robot he manages to reattach it later, but only after Megatron hits him with it as well.
* Quorra loses her left arm in ''Film/TronLegacy''. It's grown back later.
* Averted in ''Film/TropicThunder'' by the character POSING as a double amputee who actually still has both hands.
* In the 2010 film version of ''Film/TrueGrit'', [[spoiler:Mattie loses her left arm]] to a rattlesnake bite.
* In ''{{Film/Tusk}}'', Wallace has both of his legs amputated as part of the process to transform him into a walrus. ItMakesSenseInContext.
* In ''Film/TheUnknown'', Alonzo the Armless blackmails a surgeon into amputating his arms because he believes this will enable him to win the heart of the woman he loves.
* One of the bumbling cops from ''{{Film/Versus}}'' loses his hand early in the film. It's a BlackComedy RunningGag that he keeps forgetting it's missing and tries to touch things with his stump.
* ''{{Film/Virtuosity}}'': Parker lost an arm to the bomb which killed his family, but it's replaced with a cybernetic one.
* In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Sunspot gets his arm chopped off in the final battle. He lost pretty quickly after that.
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