History Main / AnArmAndALeg

#'''Self-amputation:''' The character deliberately removes the limb themselves, [[LifeOrLimbDecision under duress]] or otherwise.
#'''Accident:''' The loss is accidental, or occurs during battle.
#'''Deliberate:''' Another person/entity deliberately rips, cuts or otherwise separates the limb from the owner. It may happen in battle, but it's not a Type 3 unless the amputation was deliberate.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}: [[spoiler:Grime]] loses his left arm [[spoiler:protecting Sasha from Darcy]] in "All In".

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudud Hudud]] punishment for theft and highway robbery (without homicide) is to amputate the person's hands.

* James Wa of ''ComicBook/TheOrder'' lost both of his legs to a drunk driver, ending his baseball career. However, he went on to create a brand of high-tech prosthetic legs and made a fortune.

* 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]].

* ''[[Fanfic/TheUrthbloodSaga The Crimson Badger]]'': [[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]] loses his swordpaw in the duel with [[spoiler: his brother]].

* In chapter 11 of ''[[Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit 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]].

* VideoGame/RatchetAndClankRiftApart: During Rivet's backstory, she was [[StealthyColossus ambushed by a warbot]], which severely burned her arm to the point of uselessness with it's EyeBeams, but didn't completely blast it off, requiring manual amputation. This would imply an attempted Type 3, though when that very same warbot mentions their side of the story to Ratchet, it's revealed that they never intended to cause damage at all. Whether it remains a Type 3, or becomes a Type 1, is up for debate due to Rivet never mentioning the events that occurred after the incident.

* ''VideoGame/WildArms1'': [[spoiler: Rudy cuts/shoots his arm off to escape from Zeikfried in the Gate Generator.]]

* Shirou of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' loses his left arm in the ''Heaven's Feel'' route. 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 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]].

** Tarquin repeatedly threatens to 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.

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Will's arm was bitten off by Lowing Shaensigin when Damphir tossed him into her mouth.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroDawnOfTheDragon'': During the siege of Warfang, the golem replaces the arm it loses earlier in the game by magically grafting rubble from the city in its place, which assembles itself into a new, fully functional limb.

* In the ''Total Drama'' 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''.
* The ''Fanfic/InfinityCrisis'' follow-up ''Powers and Marvels'' sees [[spoiler:the Mandarin blow up both of 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]].
* ''FanFic/QueenOfShadows'':

%%* [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Yang]] is thankfully spared this in ''Fanfic/RubyAndNora'', [[spoiler:but the Aswang isn't]]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)

* In ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'', [[spoiler:[[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Yang]]]] has one of her arms torn off by an Ursa at the end of Volume 3.

* 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.
* ''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 has 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/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 ''Fanfic/TwistedPrincess'', Ariel is missing an arm for unspecified reasons. She has [[HookHand a fork]] in its place.
* 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 ''FanFic/WinterWar'', Isane manages to wound the Barragan Fragment... but it turns out that [[BloodyMurder its blood]] has the same "age things to death" power as the whole thing, and some of that blood splatters 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'' fanfic ''[[FanFic/BoundDestiniesTrilogy Wisdom and Courage]]'', [[spoiler:Veran launches a major attack on Termina, setting fire to Romani Ranch in the process. 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.]]
* Stevie gets a call at the end of episode 4 of ''Podcast/SporadicPhantoms'' that her sister Nicole has been taken to the hospital after a car accident caused her hand to get severed. But considering that the show is within the world of ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' and Nicole is a Full Member of The Sharing, it's more likely that it was severed by Ax in a fight.

* 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 he's 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. He obtains it 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 ''Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries'', 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.

* 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.
* In ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'', Lance can end up dead like this in a "manicure" if you don't help him escape Vivi's attempts to cut off his hand.

** 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 an 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 [[KillerRobot 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]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheCatLady'', this is the first Sacrifice of Blood necessary to leave the Queen of Maggots' realm and return to the world of the living. Fortunately, it's [[AllJustADream only temporary]].
* The ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' franchise:

** In ''VideoGame/DeadSpaceExtraction'', [[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 after gaining his [[EleventhHourSuperpower Devil Trigger]] ability.]]
* In the final DLC of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', [[spoiler:Solas removes most of the Inquisitor's left arm in order to prevent the mark from consuming them completely. However, certain epilogues show that they get a crossbow ArmCannon to replace it.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Everhood}}'', Red starts the game with one of the arms stolen. Later another character, Blue Thief, loses both their legs.
* Throughout ''VideoGame/FearAndHunger'', the player character and their party are susceptible to losing their limbs from enemy attacks. Losing an arm means that 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 with the Sultana's bodyguard and general, Raubahn, losing his arm when trying to avenge the [[spoiler:faked]] death of his charge.

* 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]].

* [[spoiler:Becker]]'s left arm gets ripped off in ''VideoGame/MaxPayne3'' when one of his own grenades explode in close proximity.
* In ''VideoGame/MegamiTenseiII'', at one point, you are required to put your right arm into a demon statue's mouth to retrieve an item. The statue then bites your arm off, which prevents you from attacking or using the COMP and makes you lose HitPoints every time you walk. You must get a new arm from Cyber Labs that is hard enough to grab the item without getting bitten off.

* Former UsefulNotes/IndyCar and UsefulNotes/Formula1 driver Alex Zanardi lost both his legs in a crash in the 2001 American Memorial at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz in Klettwitz, Germany (held 4 days after 9/11), 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 was all he lost. Of course, this did not stop him from competing in motorsports, as he would later join the UsefulNotes/TouringCar scene, winning his home Touring Championship: the Campionato Italiano Superturismo. He would also win 4 gold metals, and 2 silver metals during the 2012 and 2016 UsefulNotes/ParalympicGames.

* 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 was all he lost.

* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': In the present day, Mingxing Guan is missing her right arm, and uses a [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetic]]. A flashback reveals that, as the {{magical girl}} Starlight Spear, she had her right arm [[KillItWithIce frozen]] and broken clean off by the monster that [[spoiler:killed her friend and former teammate Mitsuki]]. [[HeroicResolve Even after losing an arm]], Mingxing still managed to kill the monster and deliver an injured Kokoro to safety [[spoiler:before she [[DePower burned out completely]]]].

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': During "ComicBook/TheContest" Diana meets one of the Bana, who is struggling with a rudimentary crutch and lost a leg helping defend the island while Circe had it trapped in a hellish dimension. It is used to help highlight the disparity in equality between the two tribes of Amazons even though the Bana sacrificed more in the defenses during their fight to survive.

* Hard Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'' can detach his hand, but he doesn't get hurt and [[RocketPunch actually uses it as a projectile]]. Mega Man can do the same thing when he defeats Hard Man.[[note]]The attack is called "Hard Knuckle".[[/note]]