History Main / AnArmAndALeg

* Rivet from VideoGame/RatchetAndClankRiftApart is a cross between types 1 and 3. During her backstory, she was [[StealthyColossus ambushed by a warbot]], which severely burned her arm to the point of uselessness with it's EyeBeams (type 3), but didn't completely blast it off, requiring manual amputation (type 1).

* In the ''Literature/BookOfExodus'', a law states that if a woman attempts to rescue her husband from a fight by grabbing his opponent's genitals, her hand is to be chopped off. (That sounds like DisproportionateRetribution to modern readers, but since she'd be jeopardizing that man's estate and his ability to worship in the Temple, the punishment was accordingly harsh.) Presumably, that punishment would have applied to ''anyone'' who did that, but that particular passage is likely in reference to a specific NoodleIncident.

* In both 3.5 and 4th editions of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' artificers that become reforged remove one of their limbs and replaces it with an artificial one.

* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' novel ''2XS'' protagonist Dirk Montgomery loses his arm when it gets burned by the magic spell of the wasp spirit queen. Luckily for him, he gets a cyber arm installed for free as a reward for taking out the insect spirit hive.
* Fairly standard practice in the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' universe, many characters will have their limbs removed and replaced with mechanical devices:

** The Iron Hands chapter requires the amputation of one of their hands as a rite of initiation, which is replaced with a bionic replacement. This is to honor their founder, Ferrus Manus, who slew a dragon by drowning it in lava; the lava fused the dragon's metallic skin to Ferrus's hands...and their belief that unaugmented flesh is weak means that it rarely stops there.
** The Iron Hands' EvilCounterpart, the Iron Warriors, differ from most other Chaos Legions in that they don't view mutations as a sign of the gods' twisted favour; instead, they view them as annoying inconveniences, and tend to replace them with cybernetics at the first opportunity. It's not to honour their founder or anything of the sort, because the Iron Warriors are brutal pragmatists of the first order; it's just that if an arm can't be used to kill people effectively the Iron Warriors don't view that arm as useful.

** Most of the Ork's "medicine" boils down to "find a spare, lob it off, then get sewing". This sometimes extends to ''their heads'' as well. They were intentionally created to allow this sort of patchwork surgery to work and to survive the horrible shock of losing multiple limbs without dying. Most notably the Power Klaws often look like they're not gloves, but bionic replacements for their hands (not that an ork minds it).

* In Creator/WilliamShakespeare's works:
** Parodied in ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'' when Bassanio's new wife demands the wedding ring he has been forced to give away:
--->'''Bassanio:''' Why, I were best to cut my left hand off\\

** In ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'':
*** Lavinia has both her hands cut off--after being brutally raped and having her tongue cut out.
*** Titus is forced to cut his own hand off and send it as ransom for his kidnapped sons. They're beheaded anyway. It's a cheery play.
** Mentioned is ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' as part of the reason Antonio the pirate is wanted in Illyria: he instigated a sea-fight in which the duke's nephew lost a leg.[[note]]A nephew whose name, coincidentally, was Titus.[[/note]]

* In ''VideoGame/TwoDark'', "Delicatessen" has the left arm missing and [[spoiler:Dr. Krach is missing both legs.]]
* During the Etherstorm saga from ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'', Galanoth, Dragonslayer extraordinaire, goes up against Desoloth, quite possibly the most powerful dragon in existence, and tries to take him down. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Desoloth bites off Galanoth's arm, and is only saved from death by his friend Warlic summoning up all his magical power to restore him. Unfortunately, he cannot bring back Galanoth's arm, so he has to get a new one, which he obtains from X'Dir who had sought to use it as a bargaining chip to try to get Galanoth to join Desoloth during the Etherstorm War, only to meet with the Dragonslayer's full-on wrath]].
* Aaron Cash of the ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum Batman:]] [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity Arkham]] [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight Series]]'', after a nasty run-in with [[ImAHumanitarian Killer]] [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile Croc]], is left with a missing left hand, and a deep burning hatred for the supervillain.

** Hope that Ragna doesn't lose a limb in every installment of the main series; he's currently lost one arm to Type 3 and [[spoiler: his other to Type 2 to save Noel]].
** One of the gag reels in ''Chronophantasma'' subjects Makoto to Type 2 for BlackComedy. The limb in question is her tail. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Which somehow comes to life on its own.]]
* In one of ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm''’s bad endings, Catie wakes up after a battle to find that her left arm is gone, among other body parts.

* ''Franchise/DeadSpace''
** The game is literally begging you to cut off the necromorphs' limbs to effectively deal with them.
** An audio log found in the second half of the game documents a (former) survivor's efforts to remove his own limbs before committing suicide so his remains couldn't be turned into a necromorph. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
** Also, in prequel game ''Dead Space Extraction'', [[spoiler:the main character Nathan [=McNeill=] has to amputate his own arm after a huge Necromorph impales it and he needs to get out of there fast.]]
* In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'', Nero gets his [[RedRightHand Devil Bringer]] torn off by an unknown assailant[[note]]later revealed to be [[spoiler:a dying Vergil]][[/note]] wanting to get at Yamato (the demon sword that Vergil used to use). To compensate, [[WrenchWench Nico]] replaces it with a series of [[ArtificialLimbs Devil Breaker]] arms that Nero can use as a [[DiscardAndDraw replacement]] against the demonic hordes. [[spoiler:He eventually regrows his arm back after gaining his [[EleventhHourSuperpower Devil Trigger]] ability.]]

* Throughout ''VideoGame/FearAndHunger'' the player character and their party are susceptible to loosing their limbs from enemy attacks. Losing an arm means you can't wield two-handed weapons or a shield, while losing both legs reduces your speed to a crawl.
* Partway through ''VideoGame/FearEffect'', Glas gets his arm cut off. [[spoiler:He gets it back in the true ending]]. Notably, this is one of the few cases in video games where the trope affects not only the plot but the gameplay; Glas is, naturally, unable to dual-wield his weapons after that point.
* The climax of the A Realm Reborn arc of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' ends up with the Sultana's bodyguard and general, Raubahn, loses his arm when trying to avenge the [[spoiler: faked]] death of his charge.
* ''VideoGame/FleshBirds'': In one of the cabins, you find a man holding the bloody stump where his arm should be. After talking to him, a bird breaks in through the window behind him and carries him off.
* Gene from ''VideoGame/GodHand'' had his right arm cut off by Felix when he tried to save Olivia. Olivia repaid him by putting the titular limb on the stump. Later, [[spoiler:Azel tears the left God Hand off of himself in a panic as he is being consumed by Angra.]]
* ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'' sees [[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Colossus}} missing his right hand and part of his right leg below the knee after the fight with an Odinforce-empowered ComicBook/DoctorDoom. This was reversed with all the rest of the horrible things Doom wreaked when Odin got his powers back.]]

** Revolver Ocelot loses an arm thanks to Gray Fox in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', [[spoiler:and proceeds to replace it with the deceased Liquid Snake's arm before the events of ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Metal Gear Solid 2]]'' as part of a convoluted plot to fool the Patriots]].
** Gray Fox himself loses his left arm [[spoiler:while sacrificing himself to help Solid Snake defeat Liquid]].
** After becoming a cyborg, Raiden loses both his arms in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', cutting off his right arm to free himself from being pinned by debris, and losing his other arm while [[spoiler:saving Solid Snake from being crushed by Outer Haven]]. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', he loses an arm in his first battle against Jetstream Sam, which not only results in Raiden getting a new and improved cyborg body, but basically sets off the main plot.
** Big Boss and Miller lose an arm and a literal arm and leg respectively in the aftermath of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes''. Hence the name of the following game, ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty:''
** ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare''. Then-Lieutenant Price and Captain [=MacMillan=] attempt to assassinate RenegadeRussian Imran Zakhaev, whose arm gets blown off in the process. [=MacMillan=] assumes that shock and blood loss will finish him off. [[spoiler: They don't.]]
** In the first gameplay segment of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare'', Mitchell gets his left arm sliced off by a stray piece of shrapnel after blowing up an enemy gunship. For extra kicker, his best friend was the one who blew up that gunship in a HeroicSacrifice, as his arm got stuck inside the gunship while he was planting explosives on it and Mitchell was unable to get him loose, even with his exosuit's SuperStrength. He gets a perfectly functional cybernetic replacement later on, from said best friend's father... [[spoiler:who becomes the BigBad and [[KickTheDog wrecks the prosthetic with a socket wrench]] when Mitchell turns on him. In the finale, the BigBad ends up dangling from Mitchell's prosthetic and Mitchell, unable to let go of him due to the arm's servos not functioning anymore, pulls out his knife with his other arm and cuts the prosthetic off to send the one who gave it to him in the first place plummeting to his death -- "[[HoistByHisOwnPetard giving back the second chance]]", as Mitchell puts it in the game's closing monologue.]]
** The first level of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII'' has the [[PlayerCharacter main character]] get [[CharacterCustomization his/her]] arms and right leg, courtesy of a [[SecondLawMyAss robot grunt.]] It's violent. [[NightmareFuel Very violent.]][[labelnote:*]]So much so, [[http://kotaku.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-iiis-most-brutal-scene-haunts-m-1741248996 that many people got nightmares from it.]][[/labelnote]]
* Shinobu in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' has her hand sliced off by Travis after the fight (Type 3).
* In ''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked'', Al is hit with a blaster shot and has several parts replaced by cybernetics. The blaster only hit Al in the butt, yet he winds up with cybernetics in many random and seemingly unrelated places, leading some fans to suspect Al is just [[{{Robosexual}} a little too into robots]]. Perhaps he had an "interface port" installed for [[RoboShip Helga]]…
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'''s Ethan Winters has his left arm chopped off in the game's prologue, and the same can happen to one of his legs if Jack catches up to him. They both get reattached almost immediately [[spoiler:thanks to Ethan's infection]].
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'': It's possible, but rare, for a non-lethal shot to a zombie from the side - or even successfully pushing one back after it grabs you - to cause one of the zombie's arms to fall off. With the Custom Shotgun, an upwards-aimed shot tends to blow off off one arm by vaporizing the shoulder along with the head.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'': This is the best way to deal with zombies in the remake. Headshots no longer do any more damage than a body shot, barring a lucky [[YourHeadAsplode critical hit]]. But, it only takes a couple of bullets to blow a leg off, rendering them unable to walk. At that point, they can only crawl slowly on the ground, and due to the way the AI works, they are completely unable to attack you if you are behind them. This makes them very easy to finish off with a knife.

* The prologue of ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice'' ends with the protagonist getting his left arm chopped off by a high-ranking samurai who proceeds to abduct his lord. Our hero promptly recieves a fancy prosthetic limb and sets out on a RoaringRampageOfRescue.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', during the final fight with [[spoiler: Mettaton EX, you can blow his arms and legs off if you shoot his heart enough. This lowers the required Ratings level needed to Spare him.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead''
** The player can choose to initiate a Type 3 when a man's leg gets trapped. Especially notable because not only are you the one to do it, it's rather realistic; being incredibly gory, and even with you brandishing a fire ax, it takes four swings to make it all the way through, the receiver passing out from shock [[spoiler: and soon after dying due to blood loss]].
** And in Episode 5, [[spoiler:after he's bitten, Lee can cut his arm off (or have someone else do it) in an attempt to save himself from the zombie infection. It doesn't work; he'll die at the end of the episode no matter what.]]
** In a much less severe case, in the third season [[spoiler:Clementine is missing half of her left ring finger.]]
* ''VideoGame/Wasteland2''
** [[spoiler: Casey James]] performs a Type 1 in order to ensure peace between two feuding tribes.
** Also, the [[spoiler: Choppers]] are elite guards who [[SymbolicMutilation chop off one of their arms]] to prove their loyalty.

* This trope is used in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'' [[spoiler:as the cornerstone of its Robotic Reveal]].

* Type 3 happens in ''VisualNovel/ChaosHead'' when [[spoiler:Nanami's]] right hand gets cut off and then send to the main character, as a way to intimidate him.

* During the climactic battle scene of ''VisualNovel/TheEdenOfGrisaia'' Travis walks calmly [[spoiler:to the battlefield to face Yuuji.]] When he arrives, he's horrified to realize [[spoiler:everyone is already dead and he has no idea where Yuuji is.]] Before he realizes anything is wrong, [[spoiler:Yuuji takes his left hand with a combat knife, causing him to fire wildly with the gun in his right hand before he loses that too.]]
* Shirou of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' in the Heaven's Feel route loses his left arm. This also counts as MajorInjuryUnderreaction. ("Man, I panicked too much. All I lost was my left arm!") Shirou's arm is later replaced by [[spoiler: Archer]]'s.
* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', both Emi Ibarazaki and Miki Miura went through Type 2 in their backstories. Emi was [[spoiler: involved in a car accident that cost her both her legs and her father]]. Miki lost her left hand in an undisclosed workshop incident.
* In ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'', Gargouille slices off Dosgoro’s left arm to show him that she means business. He’s sporting a cybernetic replacement by his next appearance. Much later on, [[spoiler:Astaroth rips off Marco’s right arm. She nearly dies, though Pandagraph manages to save her life and reattach the arm with a risky surgical procedure.]]
* In the ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' UpdatedReRelease, there's a [[MultipleEndings bad end]] where [[spoiler: Kotonoha]] is on the receiving end of a Type 3. [[spoiler: After Makoto chooses her over Sekai, the mentally broken Sekai goes MurderTheHypotenuse and pushes Kotonoha on the train line they're standing next to. Makoto tries to catch Kotonoha but fails to save her from being hit by the train... '''and finds himself holding the dead Kotonoha's torn-off hand'''.]]

** Throughout the Screaming Author case, Akira and his companions find cassette tapes that record a MadDoctor amputating the arms and legs off of young girls -- what makes it particularly horrifying is that they're awake for it, and beg for their limbs back. The reason for doing so is elaborated on later; [[spoiler:he was converting them into dolls in order to pacify a spirit and keep her sealed away.]]

* Depending on the player’s choices in ''[[VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}} Sunrider Mask of Arcadius]]'', [[spoiler:Ava Crescentia]] can lose her right arm (along with her [[EyeScream right eye]]) when [[ExplosiveInstrumentation a console explodes in her face]]. [[spoiler:The sequel shows that she survived and that the Sunrider’s medics were able to regenerate her arm, though she’ll wear a glove throughout the game as its skin tone doesn’t match the rest of her body yet.]]
* [[spoiler:Sigma]] in ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' discovers [[spoiler:he lost his left eye and both arms during an incident 45 years prior, with both arms later replaced by cybernetics]]. The {{Interquel}}, ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'', reveals that [[spoiler:Sigma lost said body parts attempting to disarm a bomb set by D-Team that accidentally kills Q-Team]].
* In ''VisualNovel/WinterShard'', Frederick gets his right arm torn off by Temonz. He gets [[RedRightHand a replacement right arm that can tear through flesh and drain the warmth from any living and undead being]] after [[DealWithTheDevil making a deal with Krotus]].

* ''WebAnimation/{{Damaged}}'': In episode 6, Emily's arm comes off.
* In the first episode of the original run of ''WebAnimation/FistMaster'', [[FunnyAnimal Martial Ape]], an evil {{Jerkass}} sensei in the mold of [[Film/TheKarateKid John Kreese]], tries to challenge Panchi, the teacher of main characters [[IdiotHero Akio]] and [[ActionGirl Red]]. Panchi agrees to accept the challenge if Martial Ape can defeat Red. When the two fight Red promptly kicks his ass, with [[CurbStompCushion Martial Ape only getting in one or two blows]] while Red leaves him crying for mercy, and [[IAmNotLeftHanded she was still warming up and hadn't gotten serious yet]]. When Red spares him, however, Martial Ape goes to backstab her, only for Panchi to suddenly do a FlashStep, grab ahold of one of his arms, and initiate the following conversation:

'''Panchi:''' ''[Rips Ape's arm off]'' Not anymore.
* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Due to [[BlackComedy the show's nature]], characters lose their limbs left and right. However, "I Nub You" is the only example where losing a limb affects the plot, when Petunia loses her hands to a windowsill and falls in love with Handy due to them both being amputees. They later die horribly, of course.

** In "DNA Evidence", Bubs tells Marzipan that analyzing the DNA evidence she found will cost her "an arm and a leg". Marzipan, who [[InvisibleAnatomy has neither arms nor legs]], replies "Not a problem."
* Characters in ''WebAnimation/MadnessCombat'' normally have FloatingLimbs but Hank eventually gain an arm after resurecting, which gets torn off by Tricky in the 11th episode: ''Expurgation'', he later gets a new one though.
* In ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'', the cheerleaders and the Van Burens fight for Deandra The New Girl's loyalty, which results in a tug-of-war that rips off both of Deandra's arms (And the viewers can't even pretend it didn't happen, because the characters like bringing it up in later episodes). This causes Trisha to deliver a hilarious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Ashley Katchadourian for failing to watch the bathroom door. Later Deandra has them replaced with one realistic-looking prosthetic and one cyborg arm -- she couldn't decide on one set.

** Mystery tore off Arthur's possessed arm, but only after ??? used it and the other bits of Arthur it had gained control of to murder Lewis.
** Lewis burnt Shiromori's arm to a crisp and as it started crumbling to dust he ripped off the hand that was holding his locket. She regrew it and her head, which Lewis had punched off, very quickly to his surprise.
* In the Project Freelancer flashback sequences of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', there's an Insurrectionist soldier who (somehow) survives a MAC strike with nothing worse than his left arm being blown off, and replaced by a cybernetic replacement. In Season 10, he loses said arm to a knife-throw from Carolina, shortly before being blown away by Maine's [[GrenadeLauncher Brute Shot]]. [[spoiler:A deleted scene reveals that he survives that, too, having lost his ''other'' arm.]]

** At the end of Volume 3, Adam vows to Blake that he will destroy everything she cares about. When he sees her horrified reaction upon realising Yang is trying to find her, Adam decides to start with Yang, cutting off her arm when she rushes in to save Blake. Blake is so guilt-ridden that she goes on the run. [[spoiler:In Volume 4, Yang struggles to come to terms with the loss of her arm and suffers PTSD in the form of nightmares and flashbacks to Adam maiming her. When Ironwood, without prompting, commissions a state-of-the-art cybernetic replacement for Yang, Oobleck tells her that there are a lot of people who want her back to "normal", but does not elaborate on who or why. Yang only reluctantly accepts the arm and begins to wear it when she realises that the reason Taiyang isn't searching for Ruby, who has left to hunt the villains with only Jaune's team for company, is because Taiyang cannot look after Yang and search for Ruby at the same time.]]
** After Ruby injures Cinder at the end of Volume 3, Cinder spends the whole of Volume 4 recovering with Salem's help while her left arm is entirely covered by a long sleeve. [[spoiler:Salem's 'treatments' consists of her teaching Cinder how to control the Grimm limb that has replaced her severed left arm. During the Battle of Haven, Ruby's brief use of her anti-Grimm power causes Cinder to collapse to her knees in pain, clutching her Grimm arm. When she tries to extend the Grimm arm to steal the power from the dying Winter Maiden, Winter severs the limb from Cinder's body. Cinder screams in agony from the injury and keeps screaming as the limb painfully regenerates; she then retaliates against Winter so viciously that Winter is almost killed from the onslaught and Cinder loses her opportunity to steal the Winter Maiden's power.]]
** As revealed in Volume 3, at some point in his past James Ironwood [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe lost the entire right side of his body]], including his arm, leg and half his torso, which have all been replaced with cybernetics. In Volume 7, during his fight with Watts, [[spoiler: he gets his left arm trapped in a HardLight shield and drags it out in order to free himself, burning all the skin off his forearm from the elbow down. He then spends the rest of the volume with his arm bandaged and in a sling.]] By the start of Vol 8, it's revealed that [[spoiler: his injuries were severe enough that the arm had to be amputated and replaced with a metal prosthetic, leaving him with only one biological limb (his left leg) remaining.]]

* ''WebAnimation/{{Voodont}}'': At the beginning, Sam gets ready to cut off Ellie's arm using a VoodooDoll that she made. [[spoiler:By the end of the short, the doll rips its own arm off and Ellie [[GoryDiscretionShot is heard screaming in the background]].]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'' actually manages to invert this seemingly un-invertible trope: Raven starts as a disembodied spirit and his body gradually becomes more complete as he becomes more and more human. He's completely corporeal except for his right arm and wing by chapter nine. He looks like an amputee but he's actually the reverse.
* In ''Webcomic/{{BACK}}'' this is how Abigail finally manages to defeat [[spoiler:the Dead Man (a.k.a. "Damned" Heat): by flinging a guillotine blade at his legs whilst he's making a whirlwind, slicing his feet clean off.]]

** Happens to [[spoiler: Mr. Krabs]] at the hand of [[spoiler: a group of Patrick Clones]].
** The entire story occurs as a result of this happening to [[spoiler: Patrick at the hand of Mr Krabs. And while Patrick would regenerate the limb, the limb he lost would also regenerate into a new Patrick.]]
* ''Webcomic/BlasterNation'' has been building up since the beginning to the story of how Logan lost his arm and became unable to work as a butcher (and amazingly resentful of his son). [[spoiler: Lacking the support of his wife and son on an overloaded workday, he got tired and careless while trying to unjam the meat grinder.]]

* The [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] setting of ''Webcomic/TheDemonArchives'' makes this inevitable, but more surprising is [[spoiler: when it happens to protagonist Tenzin fairly early in the story, as he literally loses one arm and one leg in battle.]]

* ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'' -– After the battle at the end of The Hob, Kimiko [[spoiler: is in the hospital, badly injured, and minus her left arm, her left eye, both legs, three ribs, and half her spine]]. She makes herself better, although is in [[http://dresdencodak.com/2012/03/09/dark-science-17/ extreme pain while she builds and connects her artifical limbs]].
* Happens several times in ''{{Webcomic/Drowtales}}'' with golem limbs being common replacements.

* A particular squicky example of Type 3 appears in ''Webcomic/{{Flipside}}'': when Bloody Mary chews Maytag's hand off, Maytag's primary complaint was she wasn't awake to experience it. Maytag then kindly allows Mary to eat the rest of her arm as well because Mary needs the food and that's just the sort of girl Maytag is. Anything for a new thrill!
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''

** Later, Captain Vole casually tears the arm off an assassin to counter his DeadMansSwitch.
** In a side-story, Agatha is happy to get a chance to test her Pocket De-Arming Device, which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin chops off its target's arms.]]
* The monster ''Mr. Fingers'' in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' can disintegrate the bodies of creatures that touch it.

* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' starts to get dramatic when we see in flashback how Antimony's father Anthony lost his forearm. [[spoiler:He cut it off himself, on advice from the psychopomps, as a "flesh antenna" to allow him to speak to his dead wife.]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Harbourmaster}}'', [[spoiler: Tal loses his left arm to Mormo's attack at the beginning of ''One Deal is What We Made''.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''
** Missing arms are a recurring [[BodyMotifs motif]] in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', along with [[EyeScream wounds to the eye]].
** [[spoiler: Caliborn]] bites off his own leg [[spoiler: to escape the shackle placed on it by his sister after assuming full control of their shared body]].
* ''Webcomic/KarateBears'' [[http://www.karatebears.com/2010/11/goldilocks.html rewrite goldilocks to their advantage]].

* In ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked'', [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/03-17.html Claire's father cut her hands off at the Devil's orders.]]

** Durkon's mother is missing one arm. She lost it [[spoiler:the day her husband died]] and because of that, she refuses to let Durkon cast a regeneration spell on her.
** Tarquin repeatedly threatens cut off Elan's arm once the latter starts denying his ideas of how their narrative conflict of "evil father vs good son" is supposed to work. All keeping in line with invoking being a DarthVaderClone at every other opportunity he gets.

* In ''Webcomic/ProphecyOfTheCircle'', [[spoiler:Annen Duskeir]] lose an arm after having been [[spoiler:bitten by a tekk during a battle and expelled from Oros with no choice but to return to Tieke City without medical care during his trip in the desert]]. This handicap makes him more likely to lose his balance.
* ''{{Webcomic/Sarilho}}'': [[spoiler:Mikhail gets hit with a Microwave Gun from afar and part of his arm immediately explodes]]. Also presumably happens to [[spoiler:Victoria's leg]] during the bridge explosion.
* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', a lieutenant lost his arm in the first job.
** Elf Also had her legs blown off at the knees and replaced with mech legs. She was actually fairly happy with the replacements as they added significantly to her then short stature. Said legs were even used at one point as a blast barrier, by Capt. Taggon.

* In ''Script/C0DA'', Jubal-lun-Sul voluntarily has [[CatFolk Khajiit]] surgeons remove his hands. It is implied to be part of his realizing that [[spoiler:[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall he is in a work of fiction]], and, having [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence achieved CHIM]], uses "ghost hands" to give himself a StoryBreakerPower]]. [[MindScrew It's just that sort of work]].

* From Wiki/{{Killerbunnies}}, we have Oleander, who technically lost her leg to an accident in that the accident caused her to suffer an injury, warranting an amputation. Atlasnaya is mentioned to have lost an arm and leg each to an accident after she was sold to the Bratfa.

* ''WebVideo/HeroHouse'' has [[spoiler:Vegeta]] blowing off his own hand in season two.

** [[KidHero Finn]], [[spoiler: Shoko's {{reincarnation}},]] was also heavily implied to lose his right arm at some point. [[ImagineSpot Three different]] [[OrWasItADream possible visions]] [[BadFuture of the future]] and a view into an AlternateUniverse show him with a [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetic arm]], and [[spoiler:[[CursedWithAwesome a cursed sword]] is now attached to the same arm]]. [[spoiler:It does indeed happen at the beginning of the sixth season, as a result of him and said cursed sword trying to pull back a chunk of dead guardian that his father was riding away on. He eventually gets a robotic arm, only to lose it in the GrandFinale. In Finn's last scene, he still has not replaced it and it is unclear if he ever did.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot'': In the episode "The Champ" Big Guy fights with an alien invader, Po, who threatens to blow the Earth up if his challenge is refused. As a gesture of good Faith, Big Guy offers a handshake at the start of the fight. Po uses this as an opportunity to yank Big Guy off of his feet. During their rematch later that episode, Big Guy offers a handshake again, and Po once again takes advantage... except this time the arm was meant to come off and explodes hilariously in Po's face.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': A TimeTravel episode involved a knight who [[CrackOwMyBack hurt his arm]] attempting to [[ExcaliburInTheStone pull out Excalibur]]. Throughout the episode, he ends up hurting his arm every time he moves it, until it pops right off. It's immediately eaten by hungry peasants.
* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': In Episode 2, the Lord Commander uses his telepathic powers to tear off Gary's left arm. He gets a robot arm as a replacement for the rest of the series.
* Wilt on ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' notably has had one of his arms amputated, the reason for which is explained in the special "Good Wilt Hunting": his last basketball match before he retired out of shame ended with his opponent falling on that arm, leaving it inoperable.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
** In "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love", Fry gets his arm cut off by Zoidberg during their duel. He [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction picks it up]], [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge hulks out and smacks Zoidberg down]] [[GrievousHarmWithABody with the said arm]]. It gets reattached later... on the wrong side.
** Fry also had his hands bitten off and devoured by ''T. rex''.
** Bender's arms are prone to falling off. He [[PullingThemselvesTogether somehow reinstalls them back every time]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheHollow'': The Last Ironwood Tree missing left branch is the MacGuffin that Adam, Mira, and Kai has to find in order to get back home.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In the episode "The Enemy Below", Aquaman cuts off his hand to save his son.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

** As with Herman the weapons store owner, who apparently lost one of his arms after "his teacher told him not to stick his arm out the school bus window." [[{{Retcon}} Though "To Cur with Love" shows he lost it while he was hitchhiking and Grampa's car sped past and knocked it off.]]
** In "22 Short Films About Springfield", Dr. Nick [[BodyHorror replaces one of his patient's legs with an arm and one of his arms with a leg]].
** In "Faith Off", Springfield University's star football player Anton Lubchenko returns to the field after Bart tries to heal his broken leg, and attempts to win the game with a field goal. He succeeds... because he inadvertently flings his own leg off, which goes on to kick the ball a second time in mid-air, propelling it just far enough to make the goal.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', Mr. Krabs' attempt to retrieve a stray dime in "Squid's Day Off" lands him in the hospital due to this trope.

** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E7DuelOfTheDroids "Duel of the Droids"]]: Ahsoka uses the shock from the station's reactor exploding to push Grievous' hand so that the lightsaber he's holding slices off the hand he's using to hold her in a NeckLift.
** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E10LairOfGrievous "Lair of Grievous"]]: Kit Fisto chops off Grievous' legs when they ambush him coming into his lair. His many arms and waiting replacement parts means that he crawls away using the ceiling and walls anyway. (Grievous loses limbs rather frequently, given how many times he appears on this page.)
** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E1Revival "Revival"]]: Savage Opress gets his right arm cut off by Obi-Wan Kenobi, and then [[spoiler:Darth Maul]] gets one of his prosthetic legs shot off by Hondo Ohnaka's pirates. Both of them get replacements in the [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E14Eminence next episode]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': [[spoiler:In the episode "Tale of Tiger Claw", Tiger Claw's mutant sister Alopex decides to spare her brother's life. But when he tries to shoot her in the back, Alopex proceeds to cut off his right arm, warning him that she could've easily taken his life instead.]]
* In the original ''WesternAnimation/{{ThunderCats|1985}}'', a villain ''threatens'' to do this to a hostage during a PrisonRiot unless Mandora surrenders. (The [[WhatMeasureIsANonhuman hostage was an android]], possibly why the writers figured it wouldn't matter, but that didn't make the poor guy's pleas for mercy sound any less discomforting. Fortunately, Mandora agrees and they let him go.)

** "Between Brothers" has a Type 2 when Panthro, in an effort to defeat his ArchEnemy Grune, restrains him on the threshold of a collapsing magical portal, fully expecting to die with him when it closes. Instead, Panthro suffers an instantly-cauterizing PortalCut, [[spoiler: losing both arms mid-bicep.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}'' has Dr. Curt Connors, whose arm gets crushed at the end of the first season when [[spoiler: the Green Goblin]] attacks the Helicarrier. His arm is amputated between seasons, and the direct consequences of this lead to [[spoiler: him becoming the Lizard in season 2.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}''
** Qilby lost his left arm [[spoiler:when Phaeris the dragon ''bit it off'' when he helped end Qilby's world-wrecking rampage in the past.]]
** In the [=OVAs=], [[spoiler:Sadlygrove loses his right arm to a dragon in the battle against Ogrest]]. In Season 3, [[spoiler: Rubilax agrees to perform a FusionDance to replace the arm.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', [[spoiler:the original Roy Harper[=/=]'Speedy']] had part of his right arm amputated [[spoiler:by Cadmus scientists, from which they drew DNA to perfect their cloning technology for the creation of the second Roy Harper[=/=]'Red Arrow']]. He was later able to replace it with [[spoiler:a high-tech weapon developed by [=LexCorp=], whereupon he took on the name 'Arsenal']].

* There's a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integrity_identity_disorder psychological condition]] (curiously found nearly entirely in men) where the sufferer feels that the only way for them to be comfortable with their own body is to have a limb removed. Standard hospital practice is to transfer anyone who requests a healthy limb be removed into psychotherapy. Unfortunately, some such people have died of complications after having a BackAlleyDoctor take their limbs off.
** Research into ways to help people cope with amputation trauma has raised the possibility that some cases of Body Integrity disorder may be caused by a lack of mirror neurons in the brain. In those cases, psychological assistance won't do any good.
* [[MemeticBadass Aron Ralston]] is a well-known Real Life Type 1 example; his arm became trapped under a boulder while hiking, and [[{{Squick}} he wound up cutting it off]] when it became clear that [[LifeOrLimbDecision his choice]] was between self-amputation and death by dehydration. The film ''[[Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours 127 Hours]]'' was made about his trial.

* A good percentage of sportsmen and women who partake in the UsefulNotes/ParalympicGames, as it's one of the physical impairments that allows them to partake in the games.
** Oscar Pistorius was the first double leg amputee to take part in the UsefulNotes/OlympicGames (he took part in the UsefulNotes/ParalympicGames as well). His amputations later became a key point when he was accused of murder -- it was asked whether he'd been wearing his prosthetic legs or not.
* In the Battle of Trafalgar, Spanish commander and BadassBookworm Cosme Damian Churruca got ''both of his legs ripped off via a very well-placed English cannon shot''. [[DyingMomentOfAwesome He still did what he could to give instructions]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath until he bled to death.]]
** Speaking of the Battle of Trafalgar, [[WoodenShipsAndIronMen Admiral Nelson]] had only one arm, the other having been amputated some years earlier.
** During the Battle of Waterloo, Lord Uxbridge lost his leg due to French cannon fire. Being a typical Englishman, he supposedly quipped [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction "Good God sir, I've lost my leg!"]] While the ruined remains of his leg where being amputated in a nearby field hospital, he remained composed enough to smile during the operation and made only one statement: "The knife appears somewhat blunt." Different breed of men back then.
* Mapuche chieftain [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvarino Galvarino]] was subjected to this by the Spaniards. [[HandicappedBadass He later had blades attached to his stumps and returned to fight with his people]].
* In 1194, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_V,_Duke_of_Austria Duke Leopold V of Austria]] had [[AgonyOfTheFeet his foot crushed]] when his horse fell on him at a tournament in Graz. While advised by his surgeons to have the foot amputated, none declared competence to do so; he ordered his servants to chop it off [[AnAxeToGrind with an ax]] after three swings succeeding. [[DownerEnding Nonetheless, he succumbed to gangrene and died.]]
* [[http://www.travismills.org/about/ Retired Staff Sergeant Travis Mills]], who lost parts of all four limbs in Afghanistan.
* The [[UsefulNotes/DemocraticRepublicOfTheCongo Belgian Congo's]] Force Publique were responsible for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State#Mutilation a disturbingly high number of cut hands]], given mutilation was the punishment for enslaved natives that didn't fit their work quotas, and the soldiers had to bring the hands of the people they shot as proof the bullets were not spent hunting. And at times the troops would exploit a LoopholeAbuse, cutting the limbs off random people. Usually women or the elderly, in a disturbing example of PragmaticVillainy: they wouldn't have been harvesting rubber in the first place, and obviously, a slave without hands can't harvest the rubber. {{Fingore}} was also a "standard" punishment for slaves of ''all'' kinds. Double if they were [[MadeASlave former prisoners of war.]]

* UsefulNotes/IndyCar driver Alex Zanardi lost both his legs in a crash in 2001, when he lost control of his car coming off pit road and was t-boned by Alex Tagliani at over 200 miles per hour. Prompt medical attention and high quality care ensured that, in the long term, that's all he lost.

May be the predecessor to ArtificialLimbs, ArmCannon, HookHand or SwissArmyAppendage. Frequently appears in the backstory of a HandicappedBadass. If played for laughs, it's AmusingInjuries; if there's no lasting damage it's OnlyAFleshWound. Characters with AppendageAssimilation will simply stitch a new appendage on the gaping hole. If it's a severed hand, expect it to be-be used in a DeadHandShot.

Interestingly enough, you almost never see a limb actually sewn ''back'' to the body of the victim, which is probably the most sensible thing you can do once deprived of it (provided that you're able to retrieve the lost limb in a reasonable amount of time and keep it in sanitary conditions). Although this is actually a well known, albeit rare occurrence in surgery with a decent ratio of success in terms of restoring partial or even full limb mobility (at least considering the complexity of the procedure; there is a ''lot'' of stuff that needs to be joined back together in your hand, mind you, not to mention the constant [[RaceAgainstTheClock time pressure]]), [[RealityIsUnrealistic most people are unaware of it]] and would probably ridicule the very idea.

* In the ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'', John Walker, the 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/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/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 has 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/{{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.
* In ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Risk of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' had his right arm ripped off by Superboy-Prime.

** During the ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'', Risk attempted to take revenge against (then-renamed) Superman-Prime, only to have his left arm ripped off as well.
** Green Lantern Sath Varn lost both of his legs during the ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', but his sector partner Isamot Kol had his own legs amputated to donate them to Varn, as Kol's own physiology would let him regrow the limbs in question.
* ''ComicBook/JSAClassified'': Delores Winter's meta-human organ theft group cut off Grogamesh's arms. Later Delores loses one of her own arms when she tries to use the power she's stolen from Icemaiden to attack Mid-Nite and freezes her own limb off.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Judge Logan has the misfortune of repeatedly losing limbs. After being wounded during the Fargo rescue, he got an {{Artificial Limb|s}} in place of his left arm before switching it for a specially regrown one. Then he lost ''that'' one to Mortis' rotting touch.
* In the ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague'' "Age of Obsidian" arc, Franchise/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/LegendsDC'', 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 involve 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 ''ComicBook/TheMiceTemplar'', Leito has his arm chopped off by Captain Tosk. Later, [[spoiler:Leito gets his revenge on Tosk by slicing off ''both'' his arms]].

* ''ComicBook/ThePitifulHumanLizard'': The titular Human-Lizard loses an arm in a fight against a huge monster. However, by then he'd already gained his HealingFactor, so all he has to do is put the arm back where it was on his body, and let his power do the rest.
* A late arc in Gail Simone'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.
* 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 where it's revealed that [[spoiler:Reyn is not human since he doesn't bleed the way a normal human would]].

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''

** Peter losing a leg is also the reason he retires as a superhero in the original ''ComicBook/SpiderGirl'' comics.
* ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries Spotlight: Wheelie]]'': the title character loses his arm to a Chaosterous, for a time, before retrieving it. Reattaching it without proper medical help proves difficult, and the arm remains functionally dead and makes transforming incredibly difficult, not least because whenever Wheelie transforms said arm just dangles from his undercarriage.

** Supporting character Professor Hamilton lost his arm during ''ComicBook/TheFallOfMetropolis'' when he was shot by a hallucinating prostitute and his arm was too badly damaged to be saved by the time he's rescued.

* ''ComicBook/SimonDark'': Simon and Tom each rip an arm and hand off of Vincent respectively. While Vincent runs off screaming he regrows them by the next time he appears a day later. When Tom was murdered his hand was cut off, and the stitching from reattaching it is the most noticeable scar left over from his revivification.
* ''ComicBook/StarWarsKanan'': When Grievous ambushes Depa Billaba and her padawan Caleb with a troop of droids Depa cuts off two of his (already mechanical) arms in their duel.
* ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': Dismemberment happens all the time, the limbs themselves can usually be replaced. The situations all have some significance: Cyclonus severs Rung's arm is PlayedForLaughs, Drift cutting off [[spoiler:Pharma's]] hands leads to the latter's DisneyVillainDeath, and Ratchet later takes 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.
* Happens a lot in ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'', in addition to all the other {{Gorn}}
** [[spoiler:Colossus]] gets both his arms torn off by Sieglinde prior to his CruelAndUnusualDeath.
** [[spoiler:Siegmund]] loses an arm after being briefly overwhelmed by [[ZergRush 90 Soviet tankmen]]

** [[spoiler: Razor/Colossus II]] loses an arm saving a defecting [[spoiler:Siegmund]] from a nuclear bomb.
* In ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen Vol. 2'', 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.
* ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'' has Type 3. The Governor takes Rick's arm as punishment for refusing to fight in his gladiatorial arena
* 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 ''The Logan Legacy'', his HealingFactor had been 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, the same battle also saw Weapon X [[EyeScream gouge out Cyclops's left eye]].
* ''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 had sacrificed more in the defenses during their fight to survive.
* Hellion of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' lost both his hands and Karma lost one of her legs, to the Purifiers. They were later fitted with prosthetics.

** Ocean of O-Force loses both her legs to the zombies summoned by Arnie Lundbeg. After he realized what a little shit he'd been, he used his powers to restore her legs.

* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/armlessmaiden/stories/biancabella.html Biancabella and the Snake,]]'' her hands are cut off and her eyes put out so they can be taken back as evidence that she was in fact murdered.
* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/armlessmaiden/index.html The Girl Without Hands,]]'' the father cuts off her hands at the Devil's instigation.

** Kaze [[spoiler: loses an arm in an attempt to assassinate Garon during his own execution.]]
** Selena lops off the arm of a Hoshidan soldier [[spoiler: during Corrin's escape from Hoshido.]]
** [[spoiler: Hans has his arm nearly severed in a fight with some Nohrian soldiers, and has to have it amputated.]]
** [[spoiler: Corrin]] gets her ear chopped off during a major battle. [[spoiler: We later learn that she lost an eye in the same battle after Takumi shot it out with an arrow.]]
** [[spoiler: Hinoka]] losses An Arm And A Leg in the same battle as above.
* In ''[[Fanfic/AMidsummerNightsDreamKillbles A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' chapter 8, we learn [[spoiler:Spitfire]] lost a leg and wing [[spoiler:crashing her zeppelin into Rasputin.]]
* In ''Fanfic/AllMyKittens'', Duchess can tell that Bob has had a tough life on the streets by how he's missing half of his tail and how he walks with a limp.
* ''Fanfic/AnArmAndALeg'' is a ''Frozen'' fanfic where Anna is hit by Hans' sword a few seconds before freezing. She loses her right arm.
* In the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fic ''Blood Is Thicker than Friendship'', [[spoiler: Applejack gets one of her hind legs torn off defending Ponyville from a hydra.]]
* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10255230/11/Canid The Marvel Cinematic Universe fic Canid]] has Fenrir, Loki's cursed wolf son, biting off the hand of his guard Tyr as a major turning point for the story.
* In ''Fanfic/TheChaoticThree'', Rey loses a hand in a fight with Darth Maul, and Mace Windu’s arms are both severed from the elbow in his duel with Palpatine.
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Harry default to this in the sequel when fighting non-human opponents, usually via his telekinesis or a very sharp sword. [[spoiler: He suffers it himself when, as [[ReforgedIntoAMinion the Red Son]], Magneto is forced to blast his arm off. He gets a techno-organic replacement immediately, and then regenerates it as the Dark Phoenix]].

* In the Gelel arc of ''Fanfic/DreamingOfSunshine'', [[spoiler:Shikamaru gets his arm turned to stone and crushed by Ishidate.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic ''Equestria: Total War'', Pinkie has a hind leg torn off by a manticore. Being driven temporarily insane by the [[WarIsHell horrors of war]], she then stabs the manticore [[EyeScream in the eye]] with the shattered remains of her leg.
* In ''Fanfic/ErosTurannos'', Padme only learns that Vader already had an artificial arm when he cut it off to get out of a crashed ship.
* ''Fanfic/ForumOfThrones'':

** Before he is killed, [[spoiler: the Solver posing as Butterfly]] loses his sword hand in his fight against Samantha.
** Holt Torv, the head torturer of Harrenhal has lost his foot on the battlefield years before the story starts.
** [[spoiler: At the end of the Raid on Maybros, [[ActionGirl Sadie]] gets into a duel with [[TheJuggernaut Durren Stallhart]]. It ends as well as you might expect, with Durren slicing off Sadie's sword hand and nearly killing her.]]

** During the Sack of Torus Finley, [[spoiler: Aldarn shoots off one of Servantis' hands, with the rest of that arm needing to be removed after it becomes gangrenous.]]
** [[spoiler: Elyon blasts off one of Ludmoore's hands as he's in the middle of teleporting to flee his attacked manor.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/{{Jericho}}'':
** [[FirstPersonSmartass Jericho]] himself suffers all three types of this trope all on the same day, the day wherein he loses his horn and [[EyeScream left eye]], then has to cut out parts of his eye because parts of it didn't fall out with the majority of the eye and so he has to prevent an infection. Then, on the same day, a half-crab, half-octopus creature in a swamp hacks off a hoof (most of it, at least) and destroys another; this ends up giving Jericho's right foreleg/arm blood poisoning. And then, within days, his right foreleg dies of said blood poisoning, and so he has to cut it off. Using only his mouth, a sword, and a bonfire. This prompts C, the [[spoiler:[[BodyHorror Skinwalker]], to [[AppendageAssimilation cut off his own regenerating arm and give it to Jericho]]]]. Jericho's hunt for magic capable of restoring his foreleg/arm, eye, and horn drive the plot of Act 2.
** A few chapters later, to prevent Cherry Berry from [[spoiler:raping him]], he chews off his chained right forehoof. Twice. Because the skinwalker's limb regenerates and is semi-sentient, and actually took mild offense to Jericho's first attempt at chewing part of it off. Soon thereafter, someone takes a knife, pins Jericho down, and cuts a three-inch-in-radius hole cut out from around (and including) Jericho's nipple, forcing him to cauterize the bleeding wound by boiling it closed with scalding-hot steam, before forcing himself to eat the wad of nipple-flesh in order to prevent it being taken and used for dark magic against him. Jericho]] has not been having a very fun time, is what we're trying to say here.
** WordOfGod says that the writing and editing team are very fond of this trope when concerning Jericho himself. Their team motto is even [[spoiler:"Fuck Jericho"]]. WordOfGod also states that the author is a sociopath who simply enjoys making beloved characters suffer.
* ''FanFic/JewelOfDarkness'': During the fight in Midnight's lair at the end of the Jump City arc, she rips off one of Cyborg's arms and smashes it. Of course, since it's a robotic limb, he just rebuilds it by the arc epilogue.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Marionettes}}'', [[spoiler:Trixie gets her right front leg sliced off by [[BigBad Masquerade's]] {{BFS}} during the final battle. Due to being an [[RoboticReveal android]], Trixie isn't as badly affected as a normal pony (in part because she doesn't have blood to bleed out), but still has to force herself to remember that fact and that her creator, Dr. Bright Future, can just make her a replacement later to avoid completely freaking out.]]
* In The Geeky Zoologist's [[Fanfic/JurassicWorld2020 reimagining of Jurassic World]], Roberta the tyrannosaur bite off one the Indominus' right forearm and later,[[spoiler:Claire Dearing also loses her right forearm]], when the Indominus close her jaws on it just after the mosasaur grabbed her.
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' fanfic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7575286/1/Missing-Pieces Missing Pieces]]", Sam Winchester loses his left leg in a car accident while he's still at Stanford, the rest of the story looking at Sam, Dean and John's contrasting efforts to adjust to such a brutal injury.
* The ''Fanfic/InfinityCrisis'' follow-up ''Powers and Marvels'' sees [[spoiler:the Mandarin blow up both his hands when Iron Man seals them in a coolant he uses to contain lab fires just as the Mandarin tries to use his rings; the Mandarin subsequently receives new reptilian hands from the High Evolutionary]].
* In ''Series/The100'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13117218/1/Twisted-Steel Twisted Steel]]", Clarke Griffin loses both her arms in a traumatic accident up on the Ark -- her left arm completely lost and the right severed up to the elbow -- requiring her father and Raven to develop a pair of artificial arms for Clarke's use.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fanfic ''Fanfic/MonsterChronicles'' [[spoiler: Cody ends up losing his right hand to Cedric during the events of the final chapter, and replaces it with the talisman.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/PhantomSkinFeelingTheColdAir'' [[spoiler: Ikki loses her right arm as a result of injuries sustained after saving her sister, Jinora, during Kuvira's attack on Republic City. It is revealed in a later chapter the full extent of why Ikki lost her arm in the first place -- she was defending an unconscious Jinora from Earth Empire soldiers, and the unstable rubble surrounding them collapsed. Ikki ran to push Jinora out of the way, resulting in her right arm getting crushed beyond repair.]]
* The main character, Char loses an arm in the Temporal Tower arc of ''FanFic/PokemonMysteryDungeonSilverResistance''.
* [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Yang]] is thankfully spared this in ''Fanfic/RubyAndNora'', [[spoiler: but the Aswang wasn’t]].
* ''Fanfic/TheSagesDisciple'':
** [[spoiler: Kiritsugu]] loses an arm to Lancer during his attack on the Hyatt Hotel due to Crow warning Kayneth he was coming. [[spoiler:Irisviel replaced it with an {{Artificial Limb|s}} made of Alchemy-enhanced iron.]]
** [[spoiler: When Kirei tried to remove the Crow Mask during the Banquet of Kings,]] it burned his hand to charcoal and cursed it with the inability to heal.]]]]
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7274734/1/Saying-No Saying No]]'' plays this for rather BlackComedy as [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry and Ron]] experiment with summoning charms to disarm Voldemort. [[ButtMonkey It doesn’t get any better for this particular Dark Lord.]]
* In the MagicalGirl CrisisCrossover ''FanFic/ShatteredSkiesTheMorningLights'', complications from a shattered kneecap result in [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Cure Marine's]] left leg being amputated above the knee by the heroes' makeshift medical staff.
* Creator/SamAndMickey's "Surgery" has Franchise/{{Barbie}} hospitalized after losing her right arm. [[spoiler:A fight with the nurse over some booze costs Barbie her left arm as well.]]
* In ''FanFic/TavisBloodAndFire'': Nihlus survives his encounter with Saren but loses a hand to an attack on the Spectre compound.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction ''[[FanFic/BloomingMoonChronicles Thorn of the Rose]]'', Thorn Blackfeather gets one of his forelegs caught in a massive gear, requiring it to be amputated.
* In ''Glory and Honor,'' the second installment of ''FanFic/ThundercrackersGlory,'' Shockwave loses both an arm and a leg in Unicron's attack on Cybertron. He takes advantage of this by leaving both limbs behind in the ruins to [[FakingTheDead fake his death]] and begin plotting a revolt against Galvatron.
* ''The Crimson Badger'' of the ''Fanfic/TheUrthbloodSaga'': [[spoiler: Captain Perrett]] has his leg cut off in the final battle, but still manages to [[DyingMomentOfAwesome kill two Long Patrol hares]] before he dies. [[spoiler: Captain Bandon]] also loses his left leg but survives. [[spoiler: Urthblood himself]] loses his swordpaw in the duel with [[spoiler: his brother.]]
* In ''FanFic/WinterWar'', Isane manages to wound the Barragan Fragment... but it turns out [[BloodyMurder its blood]] has the same "age things to death" power as the whole thing, and some of that blood splattered on her hand and lower arm, necessitating an amputation to save her life. In the {{Backstory}} of the same fic, Kensei lost most of his leg under similar circumstances -- he was hit by one of Barragan's attacks, and Rose saved his life with an emergency amputation.
* In ''[[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda The Legend of Zelda]]'' fanfic ''[[FanFic/BoundDestiniesTrilogy Wisdom and Courage]]'', [[spoiler: Veran launches a major attack on Termina, and in the process, sets fire to Romani Ranch. According to Romani, Cremia's arm was so badly burnt in the fire that it has to be cut off, therefore making her unable to work on the ranch anymore.]]

* In ''Fanfic/AndEverythingsGonnaChangeNow'', it's mentioned that Raven's dad Victor lost a hand a while back. He's stopped cooking since then.
* ''FanFic/HisLieInApril'': Kousei's [[spoiler:first accident that leads to his eventual demise is his left foot getting crushed by the weight of an oncoming car when he slips and falls on the pavement of the crosswalk in a rainstorm; he also hits his head on a metal lamp post as he falls down.]]

* [[spoiler:Tommy's]] legs get amputated near the end of ''Fanfic/HumanAfterAll''.
* ''FanFic/TalesOfSonicTheHedgehog'': During the climax of the [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 South Island arc]], Robotnik's left hand is crushed underfoot by Sonic, who's [[spoiler:hopped up on negative chaos energy and become [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Dark Sonic]]]]. At the beginning of the [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Westside Island arc]], [[spoiler:Robotnik is forced to amputate his left arm to prevent the corruption of Dark Sonic's energy from spreading through his body]].
* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': In chapter 11 of the third story, ''Diplomacy Through Schooling'', [[spoiler: Tirek's arm gets essentially burned away when Twilight unleashes pure solar magic on it. Which has the side effect of giving him cancer throughout his body.]]

* ''FanFic/QueenOfShadows'':
** During the First Battle of Awaji, [[ActionGirl Yasashi]] cuts off one of [[TheDreaded Tsume's]] claws, while [[TheBrute Gurando]] breaks the other off with his mace.
** [[HighPriest Sanshobo]] chops off the arms of kitsune leader Deshi when ambushing his tribe.
** [[spoiler: [[EvilSorcerer Himitsu]] gets his arm below the elbow shot off by one of Rosuto's arrows. He regrows it thanks to a potion, only for Gurando to rip it off again. Then he reattaches it upon entering his short-lived SuperMode.]]
** Kuro takes one of Kyouaku's hands during their duel at the Second Battle of Awaji.
** During the Battle of Tobe, [[spoiler: Ikazuki takes off Yasashi's fighting arm during their duel]]. And a little later on, [[spoiler: the [[AnimalisticAbomination Weaver]] stabs Jade through the knee to try and stop her escaping]].
* ''Fanfic/CheatCodeSupportStrategist'': [[ForWantOfANAil Without Izuku there to save him]], [[spoiler:Tenya's attempt to get revenge on Stain leads to one of his arms being rendered unusable, requiring amputation.]]

* In "Barrett's Privateers", the Canadian crew of inept privateers tries to hunt American merchant ships during the American Revolutionary War, and their sole survivor ends up arriving legless at Halifax, damning everyone in the world.

-->''And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay \\
I looked at the place where my legs used to be \\
And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for me \\
To grieve and to mourn and to pity.''
* In the Music/FallOutBoy music video for “[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hDZbroaQDc The Phoenix]]”, Patrick's left hand is chopped off to separate him from the {{MacGuffin}}. The injury remains for the rest of the Youngblood Chronicles and he wears a HookHand for most of the series.
* In Music/IronMaiden's concert video, ''Raising Hell'', one of the illusions that magician Simon Drake did involve cutting off guitarist Dave Murray's hands.
* In the traditional Irish song "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye", which shares a tune with "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" and "The Ants Go Marching", the returning soldier the song is sung about is missing at least one arm and one leg, in addition to having been blinded.
* Music/{{Metallica}}'s "One" is about a soldier who was [[FateWorseThanDeath wounded by a land mine]] but, [[AndIMustScream unfortunately, survived]].
-->Landmine has taken my sight\\
Taken my speech \\
Taken my hearing \\
Taken my arms \\

Taken my soul \\
Left me with life in hell

* In the Music/{{Vocaloid}} song "Fear Garden", Rin cuts off people's arms to use as flowers in her garden.
** In one of the [=PVs=][[note]]there are two different [=PVs=] for the song, the one mentioned here is the 3D one[[/note]] for the Vocaloid song, "Hello, Planet", Miku's arm falls off due to damage from the debris-rain. However, it is restored when her tear makes the plant grow and it carries her all the way to heaven.

* ''Myth/CelticMythology'':
** The [=MacAllister=] family crest includes a severed hand holding a dirk. The story behind it was that one of the [=MacAllisters=] was in a boat race out to a sand dune and back, with the first to touch shore winning. Upon realizing he was not going to beat his opponent, he cut off his hand, put his dirk with family crest in it for identity, and then threw it onto the beach for the win.
** The Irish god Nuada did something similar to the [=MacAllister=] above -- the first to touch Irish soil would be the one who ruled, so in order to defeat his rival, he cut off his own hand and threw it onto the beach. (Problem was, a maimed man cannot rule, so he had to wait until another god built him a silver hand.)
** The warrior king Mesgegra lost a hand in battle. Conall Cernach fought him with one hand tucked into his belt to make it fair. Conall killed him.
** When Cu Chulainn DiedStandingUp, his enemy Lugaid chopped off his head, but the sword in Cu Chulainn's hand fell and chopped off Lugaid's hand. Out of spite, Lugaid and his men then chopped off Cu Chulainn's hand. Conall Cernach pursued Lugaid to avenge Cu Chulainn, and again fought with one hand tucked into his belt to make it fair. Even then, Conall was only able to win when his horse took a bite out of Lugaid's side.
* At the bend of the river Scheldt, legend tells of a giant who demanded toll from everyone who wanted to sail past his fortress. If they couldn't or didn't want to pay the toll, the giant (Sus Antigoon) cut off their hand as punishment. Silvius Brabo, a Roman soldier, sought to bring an end to Antigoon's cruelty and defeated him. After this defeat, Brabo cut off Antigoon's own hand and threw it into the Scheldt. Supposedly this is where the city of Antwerp, Belgium got its name from. "Hand" & "Werpen" (to throw).
* The [[Myth/NorseMythology Norse god]] Tyr lost his hand to [[SavageWolves Fenrir]].
* Old German hero epos "Walther", set in the same universe as the [[Literature/{{Nibelungenlied}} Nibelungs]]. To [[StealthPun cut it short]], in the final fight King Gunther loses a leg, Walther a hand ([[EyeScream and Hagen an eye]]).

* The backstory for ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' sees Franchise/{{Wolverine}}'s counterpart Weapon X lose his left hand in battle against that reality's ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}. However, the same battle also saw Weapon X [[EyeScream gouge out Cyclops's left eye]].

** [[spoiler: Hinoka]] losses An Arm And ALeg in the same battle as above.

* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Durkon's mother is missing one arm. She lost it [[spoiler:the day her husband died]] and because of that, she refuses to let Durkon cast a regeneration spell on her.

* Does it surprise anybody that even this trope has its [[{{Rule34}} own genre of internet pornography?]] Didn't think so. It's often depicted as an extreme (and permanent) form of bondage.

* In ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Risk of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' had his right arm ripped off by ComicBook/SuperboyPrime.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' has Peter's old high school rival-turned-buddy Flash Thompson lose both his legs in Iraq.

* ''Fanfic/ForumOfThrones'': One of the most prominent mutilations in the entire story takes place in Chapter 4, when Argilac Durrandon, the Storm King, mutilates Corilyan Celtigar, ambassador of Dragonstone, over something he perceived as a slight against his beloved daughter.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/{{Jericho}}'', [[FirstPersonSmartass Jeri]][[SociopathicHero cho]] himself suffers all three types of this trope all on the same day, the day wherein he loses his horn and [[EyeScream left eye]], then has to cut out parts of his eye because parts of it didn't fall out with the majority of the eye and so he has to prevent an infection. Then, on the same day, a half-crab, half-octopus creature in a swamp hacks off a hoof (most of it, at least) and destroys another; this ends up giving Jericho's right foreleg/arm blood poisoning. And then, within days, his right foreleg dies of said blood poisoning, and so he has to cut it off. Using only his mouth, a sword, and a bonfire. This prompts C, the [[spoiler:[[BodyHorror Skinwalker]], to [[AppendageAssimilation cut off his own regenerating arm and give it to Jericho]]]]. Jericho's hunt for magic capable of restoring his foreleg/arm, eye, and horn drive the plot of Act 2.
** A few chapters later, to prevent Cherry Berry from [[spoiler:[[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale raping him]]]], he chews off his chained right forehoof. Twice. Because the skinwalker's limb regenerates and is semi-sentient, and actually took mild offense to Jericho's first attempt at chewing part of it off. Soon thereafter, someone takes a knife, pins Jericho down, and cuts a three-inch-in-radius hole cut out from around (and including) Jericho's nipple, forcing him to cauterize the bleeding wound by boiling it closed with scalding-hot steam, before forcing himself to eat the wad of nipple-flesh in order to prevent it being taken and used for dark magic against him. [[FirstPersonSmartass Jeri]][[SociopathicHero cho]] has not been having a very fun time, is what we're trying to say here.
** WordOfGod says that the writing and editing team are very fond of this trope when concerning the narrator ([[FirstPersonSmartass Jeri]][[SociopathicHero cho]]) himself. Their team motto is even [[spoiler:"Fuck Jericho"]]. WordOfGod also states that the author is a sociopath who simply enjoys making beloved characters suffer.

* In ''Fanfic/TheSagesDisciple'', [[spoiler: Kiritsugu loses an arm to Lancer during his attack on the Hyatt Hotel due to Crow warning Kayneth he was coming. Irisviel replaced it with an {{Artificial Limb|s}} made of Alchemy-enhanced iron.]]
** [[spoiler: When Kirei tried to remove the Crow Mask during the Banquet of Kings, it burned his hand to charcoal and cursed it with the inability to heal.]]

** In one of the [=PVs=][[note]]there are two different [=PVs=] for the song, the one mentioned here is the 3D one[[/note]] for a different Vocaloid song, "Hello, Planet", Miku's arm falls off due to damage from the debris-rain. However, it is restored when her tear makes the plant grow and it carries her all the way to heaven.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', followers of [[GoodIsBadAndBadIsGood Zon-Kuthon]] consider this an honor.

* Hopes to ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' that Ragna doesn't lose a limb in every installment of the main series; he's currently lost one arm to Type 3 and [[spoiler: his other to Type 2 to save Noel]].

* ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare''. Then-Lieutenant Price and Captain [=MacMillan=] attempt to assassinate RenegadeRussian Imran Zakhaev, whose arm gets blown off in the process. [=MacMillan=] assumes that shock and blood loss will finish him off. [[spoiler: They don't.]]

* In ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' the player can choose to initiate a Type 3 when a man's leg gets trapped. Especially notable because not only are you the one to do it, it's rather realistic; being incredibly gory, and even with you brandishing a fire ax, it takes four swings to make it all the way through, the receiver passing out from shock [[spoiler: and soon after dying due to blood loss]].

* In ''VideoGame/Wasteland2'' [[spoiler: Casey James]] performs a Type 1 in order to ensure peace between two feuding tribes.

* Missing arms are a recurring [[BodyMotifs motif]] in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', along with [[EyeScream wounds to the eye]].

* ''Webcomic/ScoobAndShag'': Shag loses his left hand to an airlock door after [[spoiler:a mutated Goof grabs hold of it]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': Shoko's parents sold her right arm for a computer.

** In the [=OVAs=], [[spoiler:Sadlygrove loses his right arm to a dragon in the battle against Ogrest]]. {{Subverted|Trope}} in Season 3, [[spoiler:where Rubilax agrees to perform a FusionDance to replace the arm.]]

* In the Marvel Universe, John Walker, the 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.

* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', [[spoiler:the speedster, Pronto,]] suffers this when he loses both legs in the first chapter.
* ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'s hand is at one point eaten off by piranhas.

* In ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', Risk of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' had his right arm ripped off by Superboy-Prime. Later, during the ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'', Risk attempted to take revenge against (now) Superman-Prime, only to have his left arm ripped off as well.
** Not incidentally, both of these events were written by Creator/GeoffJohns, who has a fondness for this trope.

** Peter losing a leg is also the reason he retires as a superhero in the original ''Characters/SpiderGirl'' comics.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' supporting character Professor Hamilton lost his arm during "ComicBook/TheFallOfMetropolis" when he was shot by a hallucinating prostitute and his arm was too badly damaged to be saved by the time he's rescued.
* [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps]] member Sath Varn lost both of his legs during the ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', but his sector partner Isamot Kol had his own legs amputated to donate them to Varn, as Kol's own physiology would let him regrow the limbs in question.

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Durkon's mother is missing one arm in a flashback scene.

Compare {{Kneecapping}}, and AgonyOfTheFeet. FakeArmDisarm is a bloodless version of this trope, whereas A LiteralDisarming is this trope done for the explicit purpose of removing someone's ability to fight or wield weapons. If the injury specifically represents or comments upon some aspect of the character it counts as SymbolicMutilation.

** In the [=OVAs=], [[spoiler:Sadlygrove loses his right arm to a dragon in the battle against Ogrest]]. {{Subverted}} in Season 3, [[spoiler:where Rubilax agrees to perform a FusionDance to replace the arm.]]