History AnArmAndALeg / Literature

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', :

** Mertil is an Andalite who lost his tail and cannot morph to fix it.

* In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', [[BigBad Visser Three]] likes to use his tail to chop off body parts [[OffWithHisHead or sometimes heads]]. Fittingly, when he is in a morph he [[LaserGuidedKarma gets his own body parts cut off frequently]] although, since morphing heals all injuries, he's fine when he demorphs.

* ''LightNovel/EndoAndKobayashiLiveTheLatestOnTsundereVillainessLieselotte'': A year before present day in the story's timeline, Fiene was attacked by some assassins and had one of her arms cut off... except she immediately reattached it with [[HealingFactor healing magic]] and proceeded to defeat the attackers.

* Alvin the Treacherous from ''Literature/HowToTrainYourDragon'' starts off with a HookHand, explaining that he lost his hand to the booby-trapped coffin of Grimbeard the Ghastly. He then proceeds to lose another body part for each encounter with Hiccup and his friends, until he is a one-eyed, one-handed, one-legged, noseless, hairless shell of a man.

* ''Literature/JamesBond''

* In ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', Maedhros asks his friend Fingon to cut his hand off in a LifeOrLimbDecision while he is captures. Later, Beren gets his hand bitten off by a werewolf, and ends up with the nickname "Beren One-Hand".
* [[spoiler: Jaime Lannister]] in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' has his hand cut off by a rival at one point. It's rather worse than just the loss of a hand though, as he's a knight (and one of the best swordsmen around), and his sword hand was the one chopped off.

** ''[[Literature/StarWarsAhsoka Ahsoka]]'': Selda, the owner of the cantina on Raada, is mentioned to have lost an arm and a leg in the same farming accident that Kaeden and Miara Larte's parents died in. [[spoiler:During the evacuation of Raada at the end of the book, Vartan is shot by an Imperial tank and loses two limbs, with Selda joking that they now match.]]

* Bernard Wolfe's science-fiction novel ''Limbo'' is all about a society where self-amputation is encouraged by the culture, using ArtificialLimbs only during sport. It is seen as a moral equivalent to warfare, a [[LiteralMetaphor case of literal disarmament]].

* ''Literature/{{Devolution}}: After the Sasquatches capture [[spoiler: Vincent]], they slowly dismember him in an effort to draw the rest of the Greenloop inhabitants out. Kate spies one of them waving his severed arm at them from atop a ridge.

* Early in ''Nine Gates'', the second book of the ''Literature/BreakingTheWall'' trilogy, Righteous Drum loses an arm in an enemy attack. While it weakens him while he adjusts, all it really does is make him a HandicappedBadass.
* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Nightmares'': ''The Hand'' revolves around a boy named Jimmy, whose family has moved into a house formerly owned by a man who lost his hand in a farming accident. Then the ghostly hand returns from the grave to get help from Jimmy.

* ''Literature/{{Aztec}}'' : One of the old merchants had to self-amputate when a snake bit him on the foot. And there's Armed Scorpion, cut off at the ankles in a moment of carelessness; had he seen Mixtli, he would have minced the latter and not thought twice about it.

** Berthong hacks off an ogre's leg at knee's height during the battle at Sprian's Ridge.

* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Bazil hacks off Heruta's arm during the final showdown at the top of a volcano. He doesn't suffer pain from the wound too long, though, since he falls to his death soon thereafter.

* ''Literature/APoisonDarkAndDrowning'': After getting sprayed by [[GiantSpider Nemneris]]' acidic foam, Dee gets scarred across his face, and loses half of his left arm.

* ''LightNovel/EndoAndKobayashisLiveCommentaryOnTheVillainess'': A year before present day in the story's timeline, Finne was attacked by some assassins and had one of her arms cut off... except she immediately reattached it with [[HealingFactor healing magic]] and proceeded to defeat the attackers.

* ''LightNovel/EndoAndKobayashisCommentaryOnTheVillainess'': A year before present day in the story's timeline, Finne was attacked by some assassins and had one of her arms cut off... except she immediately reattached it with [[HealingFactor healing magic]] and proceeded to defeat the attackers.

* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{It}}'', Pennywise pulls off Georgie Denbrough's arm, which ends up with him bleeding profusely until death. The same thing happens in the [[Film/It1990 TV miniseries]] and [[Film/It2017 movie]]. [[spoiler:Eddie's cause of death at the end of the book mirrors Georgie's at its opening: Pennywise bites off one of his arms and he eventually bleeds to death. Unlike Georgie, however, his fate is changed in the filmed versions, where he's ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice instead.]]

* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{It}}'', Pennywise pulls off Georgie Denbrough's arm, which ends up with him bleeding profusely until death. The same thing happens in the TV miniseries.