History Main / AnArmAndALeg

* ''StarWars'' loves this trope: off the top of my head I remember 8 lost hands, 3 of them belonging to someone named Anakin. Also Luke and Tenel Ka of the StarWarsExpandedUniverse.

* In the JamesBond series of books Bond's CIA friend Felix Leiter had his arm & leg bitten off by a shark. Twice. (In the book but not the film of ''LiveAndLetDie'', then in ''License to Kill'' for the first time on film and in its novelization for the second time in Literature, since the film novelizations kept the book continuity.)

* Aron Ralston is a well-known recent Real Life example; his arm became trapped under a boulder while hiking, and he wound up cutting it off when it became clear that his choice was between self-amputation and death by dehydration.

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

* Discussed, but not depicted, in Monty Python's lifeboat sketch, in which a group of starving sailors start out discussing cannibalism and end up horse trading about which limbs they're willing to sacrifice in order to feed each other, and culminating an a series of intermittent vignettes about how there is hardly any cannibalism in the Royal Navy, really... well, some, but it's not nearly as bad as it used to be, honest.

* Discussed, but not depicted, in Monty Python's lifeboat sketch, in which a group of starving sailors start out discussing cannibalism and end up horse trading about which limbs they're willing to sacrifice in order to feed each other.

* The title character of ''{{Inuyasha}}'' ripped off the arm of his [[AloofBigBrother brother Sesshoumaru]] in battle.

* Used in the HitchikersGuideToTheGalaxy to underscore the importance of keeping all receipts when traveling.

* Used in the HitchikersGuideToTheGalaxy to underscore the importance of keeping all receipts when travelling.

* At least one amputee appeared after an explosion in ''Film/TheSiege''.

* Daniel Jackson lost his leg to frostbite in ''StargateContinuum''.

* In one episode of ''{{Angel}}'', an AlternateUniverse version of Wesley was missing an arm.

* ''DominicDeegan'' had one of his legs blown off when Raf Malish's soul exploded and he was caught in the blast radius.

Essentially, limb loss as dramatic device. Apparently someone took the cost of that car a little too literally. Can come about in a variety of ways, as in RealLife:

* In ''{{Texhnolyze}}'', Ichise gets [[EyeScream poked in the eye]] in the first episode by a women who hired him for sexual services, causing him to defend himself using his fists. Unfortunately for him, [[spoiler: that woman belongs to a major criminal organisation, which retaliates by cutting off his right arm and his left leg]]. He later gets some ArtificialLimbs.

* {{Aquaman}}'s hand was eaten off by piranahs.

* Four Type 3 amputations in quick sucession for the The Black Knight in MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail, played for laughs.

* Discussed, but not depicted, in Monty Python's lifeboat sketch, in which a group of starving sailors start out discussing canibalism and end up horse trading about which limbs they're willing to sacrifice in order to feed each other.
* Used in the HitchikersGuideToTheGalaxy to underscore the importance of keeping all receipts when traveling.

* In {{Dead Space}}, the game is literally begging you to cut off the necromorphs' limbs to effectatively deal with them.

* Partway through ''FearEffect'', Glas gets his arm [[strike:blown]] cut off.

** Also the gate guard the group encountered when they first went to the Soul Society got his arm lopped off by Ichigo (and healed by Orihime).

* UntilDeathDoUsPart: Mamoru's preferred method of disabling bad guys. Notable victims include [[spoiler:Edge Turus]], ''twice'', and a bear.

**Another well-known example being Zeff, although there are two different versions of this. In the anime, he rescues the young Sanji from drowning by cutting off his own foot, which had become entangled in pieces of the wrecked ships. In the manga, with the two now being ship-wrecked on a small island, he supposedly splits their remaining rations in half. However, it is later revealed he gave everything to Sanji, and instead ate his own leg to survive
**Franky. Good god, just... Franky.

* ''Angels2200'': On her very first day in captivity one of Hammer's captors cuts off her hand in revenge for the death of her son.