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* Creator/MichaelMoorcock's character Literature/{{Corum}} had the "Hand of Kwll," which originally belonged to an ancient god. It acted as a PoisonousFriend, killing several people who posed a threat to Corum, but whom Corum himself had no intention of killing.

* [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/d/20090629.html Mr. Purvis]] from ''Webcomic/EerieCuties''. [[spoiler:Though all it seems to want to do is give bad haircuts.]]

* ''Manga/ProjectARMs'' has a lot of replacement nanotech body limbs that don't necessarily do what you want, [[spoiler: powered by the various emotions of a little girl who imprinted herself onto space rock]] and the main character Ryo's artificial arm is definitely self aware and not the nicest replacement of the lot [[spoiler: basically being the little girl's hatred.]].

* ''Webcomic/CursedPrincessClub'': Saffron, TheOneGuy of the eponymous club, has a cursed left hand that sporadically does things that inconvenience him. He got it when a goblin sorcerer tried to pull a full-body GrandTheftMe to take over his kingdom, but the spell was designed to latch onto the evil in the victim's heart, something that Saffron lacked.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', [[spoiler: when Wormtail had to cut off his hand to revive Voldemort, his service was rewarded with a replacement hand -- one which unfortunately for him was booby-trapped to kill him if he ever helped Harry, since Voldemort never trusted him. The fact that Wormtail didn't actually help Harry at all, but only ''hesitated to kill him for just an instant'', didn't stop it from killing him]]: [[YouHaveFailedMe Voldemort takes some tropes]] [[UpToEleven to a whole new level.]]

* Revolver Ocelot from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' lost an arm to an unfortunate ninja attack. His replacement--the arm of Liquid Snake--served him well... until he encountered [[RageBreakingPoint Solid Snake]], at which point Liquid's enraged spirit completely took over Ocelot's mind and caused him to run off with a Main/HumongousMecha. It seems in the sequel, the two have finally learned to coexist by merging into a single personality. Ocelot also gives a [[Main/HistoricalInJoke shout-out]] to Lyon, the site of the first ''traditional'' hand transplant, where he gained his transplant: "I never trust a Frenchman," he comments, as he uses his willpower to prevent Liquid taking over. [[spoiler:The truth about what really happened is, of course, [[UpToEleven far more complicated]] ]]
* Okabe pretends to have one of these in ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate''. Of course, in reality [[spoiler: [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex it's all an act part of his mad scientist persona]] he created when he and Mayu were kids to prevent her from leaving after her grandmother dies that has carried on into present day. (He states in the game that it felt as though she would join her grandmother in the afterlife if he didn't hold onto her and find a reason to make her stay.) So he held/hugged her and pretended to be a mad scientist holding her hostage so she couldn't leave,and Mayu agreed to it.]]

* Revolver Ocelot from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' lost an arm to an unfortunate ninja attack. His replacement--the arm of Liquid Snake--served him well... until he encountered [[RantInducingSlight Solid Snake]], at which point Liquid's enraged spirit completely took over Ocelot's mind and caused him to run off with a Main/HumongousMecha. It seems in the sequel, the two have finally learned to coexist by merging into a single personality. Ocelot also gives a [[Main/HistoricalInJoke shout-out]] to Lyon, the site of the first ''traditional'' hand transplant, where he gained his transplant: "I never trust a Frenchman," he comments, as he uses his willpower to prevent Liquid taking over. [[spoiler:The truth about what really happened is, of course, [[UpToEleven far more complicated]] ]]

* A weaker condition is somatoparaphrenia, or the delusion that someone's limb is not his own. It results from damage to the somatosensory homunculus, the part of the brain that tracks where each body part is, as discussed in ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19369_the-6-most-mind-blowing-ways-your-brain-can-malfunction.html The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Ways Your Brain Can Malfunction]].

* The 1935 Creator/PeterLorre film ''Film/MadLove'' in which the famous pianist Orlock suffers an accident and needs to have his hands amputated. The doctor gives him the hands of a recently executed KnifeNut, the hands remember their old skills after the operation. This was actually the second of three versions of the same film, the first being ''Film/TheHandsOfOrlac'' in 1924 starring Creator/ConradVeidt and again in 1960 as ''The Hands of Orlac'' with Creator/ChristopherLee.

* After losing her own left arm, [[TheDragon Cinder Fall]] from ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' bonds an arm from a [[TheSoulless Grimm]]. Salem has to specifically train her to control the arm, telling her to "make it dread you", which takes months. For the most part she seems to have no trouble with it, because she's almost as evil as it is and its desire to devour Maidens is in line with her own, but it is slowly [[TheCorruption transforming her body]] and Salem can seize control of it at any time to hurt her.

* After losing her own left arm, [[TheDragon Cinder Fall]] from ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' bonds an arm from a [[TheSoulless Grimm]]. Salem has to specifically train her to control the arm, telling her to "make it dread you", which takes months. For the most part she seems to have no trouble with it, because she's almost as evil as it is and its desire to devour Maidens is in line with her own, but it is slowly [[TheCorruption transforming her body]] and Salem can seize control of it at any time to hurt her.

* After losing her own left arm, [[TheDragon Cinder Fall]] from ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' bonds an arm from a [[TheSoulless Grimm]]. Salem has to specifically train her to control the arm, telling her to "make it dread you", which takes months. For the most part she seems to have no trouble with it, because she's almost as evil as it is and its desire to devour Maidens is in line with her own, but it is slowly [[TheCorruption devouring her body]] and Salem can seize control of it at any time to hurt her.

* Dr. Strangelove from ''[[Film/DrStrangelove Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb]]'' is a famous example. He was able to help start a nuclear war despite the small setback of having a hand that obeyed his subconscious urges, such as punching himself in the face and giving Nazi salutes. His notoriety is such that the common name for the real-life brain condition "alien hand syndrome" is "Dr. Strangelove Syndrome". Dr. Strangelove's hand is also an example of the WeirdAlEffect, having been lifted from the MadScientist Rotwang in the German Silent film ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''.

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Machi}}'', when Ichikawa sleeps, his left hand comes to life (in the form of five little finger-men) and destroys all his attempts at creating a literary masterpiece, either by burning any physical pages, or by deleting any drafts and backups. And if Ichikawa tries to stay awake, it will give him [[JustForPun a hand]] with a narcolepsy bout. [[MindScrew It's never explained]] if this evil hand is a real paranormal entity, or if it's actually a split personality he created himself as a way to preserve his livelihood (Ichikawa's current job of writing TV dramas, while professionally unfulfilling, made him financially successful).

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* Not entirely 'evil', but when Claire transplants Irene's arm in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' it seems to have a mind of its own until she learns to control it.

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* Dr. Strangelove from ''[[Film/DrStrangelove Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb]]'' is a famous example. He was able to help start a nuclear war despite the small setback of having a hand that obeyed his subconscious urges, such as punching himself in the face and giving Nazi salutes. His notoriety is such that the common name for the real-life brain condition "alien hand syndrome" is "Dr. Strangelove Syndrome".
** Dr. Strangelove's hand is also an example of the WeirdAlEffect, having been lifted from the MadScientist Rotwang in the German Silent film ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''.

* In the original ''Film/TheFly1958'', the ProfessorGuineaPig winds up with one arm replaced by a fly's appendage, and finds himself having to fight his own limb to stop it from [[spoiler: preventing his assisted suicide]].

** Parodied by ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' as "Idle Nuts", but the less said about that the better. Both the film and the TV show have Creator/SethGreen in them, by the way.

* In ''The Body Politic'' by Creator/CliveBarker, pretty close to all of the hands of humanity decide to cast off the chains of bodily attachment. Bloodily, of course, given this is Clive Barker.
** [[spoiler:And then the feet decided they wanted to play, too.]]

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* Odd non-evil example in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}''. [[StarfishAlien Klik]] gives Dies Horribly a replacement arm made of living metal. When he gets scared, the arm [[ShapeshifterWeapon grows blades and spikes]] to defend him. Unfortunately, the (many) situations in which he gets scared tend to go downhill fast if you start brandishing spiky things (and when it goes south he gets even more scared, and the arm gets spikier, and...).
** [[spoiler:Later played straight when it begins to take control in life-or-death situations and tries to kill Saves A Fox out of jealousy]].

* ''Website/GaiaOnline'''s Dr. Singh lost her arm to a semi-homicidal mutant and replaced it with [[spoiler:an arm from said mutant. She wound up BrainwashedAndCrazy]].
** Technically, Dr. Singh never had the arm lost and replaced. After [[spoiler:her young assistant Timmy became mutated, he began eating her arm, getting as far as her shoulder. It was because he was latched on that he could control her mind. She later is saved after getting a Mad Scientist Lab Tech to surgically remove Timmy.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Fry swaps hands with the Robot Devil. The Robot Devil's hands attempt to choke Fry, though, but (as he says) that effect "will wear off in a couple of days".
** Or maybe it's Fry's hands that are the evil ones.
--->'''Robot Devil:''' These things are always touching me in places!
--->'''Fry:''' Yeah, they get around!

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', Marco tries to get Star to fix his broken arm with magic. One botched/misread spell later, and Marco gets a fully-healed arm...that's now a sentient [[CombatTentacles Combat Tentacle]] that wants to eat people's bowels.

* Not quite an "evil" example, but in an episode of ''Series/ElChapulinColorado'', the titular hero loses a hand in an explosion, and gets transplanted a new one that belonged to a ballerina. HilarityEnsues when the hand starts acting on its own making ballet gestures and caressing nearby people while Chapulin tries (futilely) to rein it in.

* Creator/JimCarrey is good with this trope in ''Film/MeMyselfAndIrene'' and ''Film/LiarLiar''.

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* Shinichi from ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'' wound up with a talking, shapeshifting alien symbiote hand after managing to prevent it from spreading to and consuming his brain. In a bit of a subversion, since its fate is tied to its host's survival, Migi is actually pretty cooperative and tries to look out for Shinichi's best interests, but has no concept of human empathy or standards of behavior--in response to his host's attraction to a girl in his class, it turns into a ''giant penis'' in the middle of a restaurant, and that's just not right!

* {{Inver|tedTrope}}sion in [[Manga/YuGiOh the manga]] (and in [[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries "Season 0"]] of the anime) of ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' After Yugi and his friends cut off the hand of Yami Bakura's avatar, Zorc Necrophades, in the dark tabletop game, Ryo Bakura is able to retake control of that hand in his body, resulting in an ''evil'' character with a ''good'' hand doing its own thing. Yami Bakura tries to stop it by impaling the hand on a spire of his ornately constructed game world.

* In ''Manga/TheKurosagiCorpseDeliveryService'', Yata, the least openly talented of the main characters, only has one particular ability: channeling. However, he only seems to be able to channel one particular being-- an extraterrestrial, who speaks via Yata's hand-puppet whether Yata wants him to or not. Something of a subversion in that, while he does seem to have nothing but contempt for "inferior" human life, he seems to like Yata and sometimes tries to boost his self-esteem.

* Not entirely 'evil', but when Claire transplants Irene's arm in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' it seems to have a mind of its own until she learns to control it.
* ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'' villain Ashuraman has the power to steal the arms from dead Choujin for his own use. When he and Sunshine fight the Muscle Brothers in the Dream Tag arc, however, this backfires when one of the arms taken belongs to the late Prince Kamehame, who is firmly on the side of the good guys, even in death. Kamehame's hand chokes Ashuraman at a critical moment in the fight.
* In ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'', Ashitaka's demon-touched arm keeps trying to kill people.

* In ''ComicBook/ScudTheDisposableAssassin'', an entire story arc was based on Scud (a robot) losing an arm and getting a human one as a loaner while he was waiting for the parts to come in. Then he discovered that the arm had belonged to a werewolf, and could take over his mind when the moon was full.

** A different version of Claw appeared in the comic ''ComicBook/PrimalForce''. John Chan became the Claw after buying an ancient suit of armour and sword. The Claw of Pytharia, which had been dormant in one of the gauntlets, cut off his hand with the sword and grafted itself in place. The demonic spirit of the claw increased his fighting skills, but made it difficult for him to control his anger

* GoldenAge ComicBook/CaptainAmerica foe the Black Talon was an artist named Pascal Horta whose right hand was crushed in an automobile accident, leaving him unable to paint. His doctor arranged to have African-American killer "Strangler" Burns donate his hand for a transplant before being executed in the electric chair for his crimes. Desperate to once again be able to paint, Horta agreed to the operation and had the criminal's hand transplanted onto his arm. Soon, Horta began painting images of death and violence. Believing that the hand of "Strangler" Burns was effecting his mind, Horta snapped and began calling himself the Black Talon. He then began targeting local artists. After murdering his victims he left a painting of their moment of death as his calling card to the authorities.
* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': On Death Mountain, Link sees a vision of his dead parents standing with his uncle. Link reaches for his mother's hand when she extends hers out to him, but Link's hand turns into a werewolf claw when it passes the portal's boundary.

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* ''Body Parts'' involves a psychologist who finds himself getting possessed by an arm he received after losing the old one in an accident. A painter who got the other arm and an athlete who got the legs experience this as well. Turns out these once belonged to [[spoiler:a killer, and the surgeon who transplanted the limbs put the guy's head on another body, while holding on to the torso so all the parts could continue to wreak their havoc.]]

** Dr. Strangelove's hand is also an example of the WeirdAlEffect, having been lifted from the MadScientist Rotwang in the German Silent film ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''

* Due to certain circumstances, Martin in ''Film/DeadSnowRedVsDead'' ends up in a hospital, where he gets a zombie-arm grafted on in place of his lost one. This arm is very prone to killing people when he doesn't want to, but it also gives him super strength and [[spoiler:an ability to raise the dead as zombies loyal to him]].
* ''Film/DrTerrorsHouseOfHorrors'': In the "Disembodied Hand" segment, artist Eric Landor has his amputated after he was run over by critic Franklyn Marsh. After Landor commits suicide, his hand returns to exact revenge on Marsh.

* In Creator/RayBradbury's short story "Fever Dream", a sick boy [[spoiler:is being taken over by rogue cells, and partway through the process his hands attack the uninfected part of him.]]
* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', [[spoiler: when Wormtail had to cut off his hand to revive Voldemort, his service was rewarded with a replacement hand -- one which unfortunately for him was booby-trapped to kill him if he ever helped Harry, since Voldemort never trusted him. The fact that Wormtail didn't actually help Harry at all, but only ''hesitated to kill him for just an instant'', didn't stop it from killing him]]: [[YouHaveFailedMe Voldemort takes some tropes]] [[UpToEleven to a whole new level.]]

* Creator/StephenKing's short story "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_the_Doorway I Am The Doorway]]" (published in the collection ''Literature/NightShift'') was based around this trope. Although, technically, they weren't so much evil as the protagonist in a CosmicHorrorStory. We're much less likely to look upon killing mind-numbing alien terrors sympathetically when those terrors are ''[[HumansThroughAlienEyes humans]]'', [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman not tentacled, chitinous monstrosities.]]
* In ''The Body Politic'' by Creator/CliveBarker, pretty close to all of the hands of humanity decide to cast off the chains of bodily attachment. Bloodily, of course, given this is Clive Barker.
** [[spoiler:And then the feet decided they wanted to play, too.]]

* In the ''Literature/BillTheGalacticHero'' series by Creator/HarryHarrison, Bill has his left arm blown off in battle and replaced with the right arm of his bunkmate Tembo. Yes, his left arm was replaced by someone's right arm, you read it right. Besides giving him the ability to do a unique two-handed salute, it sometimes acts of its own volition when its previous owner's pride or religious convictions are on the line. Of course, then there's Bill's foot which has been replaced too often to count, including with a "mood foot" which, because of his burning sexual desires, has transformed itself into a satyr's hoof.
* In the ''Literature/StarlightAndShadows'' novel ''Tangled Webs'', when Rethnor loses his hand in combat, the drow priestess Shakti offers to provide him a replacement. Despite being suspicious of her sudden generosity, Rethnor eventually accepts. He quickly discovers that his new limb obeys her will, not his, and will strangle him if he disobeys her.
* In ''The Shattered World'', Ardatha is a sorceress whose left hand has been replaced by a demonic-looking one with six fingers and scales. It turns out to be [[spoiler: a tool of an actual demon, who's using it to exert an imperceptible influence over her mind. She only realizes this when the demon-hand is amputated in combat.]]

* In Creator/TheodoreSturgeon's "Bianca's Hands" Bianca, who's severely retarded, has hands which are more attractive than the rest of her and move by themselves. Ran (who isn't very bright himself) marries her after falling in love with the hands, only to be strangled by them during the wedding night.

* An episode of ''Series/AmazingStories'' called "Hell Toupee" contained... an evil wig.
** Of course, that title reminds more people of ''Main/TheSimpsons'' Treehouse of Horror spoof in which Homer was possessed by a hair transplant from Snake.
* Kaoru Kino of ''Series/KamenRiderAgito'' had his arm replaced with that of his brother after they were both caught in a snowstorm during a mountain climbing expedition. His brother died and Kino's arm was lost to frostbite. However, it seems like the arm has a mind of its own at times... though in an inversion of the usual trope, since Kino is the one that's pretty crazy, the arm often tries to ''stop'' him doing evil things.
** Then there's Ankh from ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' who is nothing but an evil hand. He completely takes over his host due to the fact that he's dying and unconscious.
* One episode of ''Literature/LessonsForAPerfectDetectiveStory'' involved the murder victim having had brain surgery as a child and having a split personality, which controlled his left hand. Eventually the left-side got angry and tried to kill him/take over. One attempt involved the left hand strangling him.
* In an early episode of ''Series/RedDwarf'' Rimmer the hologram suffered a corruption of his program which resulted in his digital right arm turning into that of catering officer Olaf Peterson, a dead member of the crew who was, in Rimmer's words, 'a Danish moron'. Peterson didn't like Rimmer in life (no one did), and his arm kept this up in death, punching Rimmer, poking him in the eyes and finishing up by hitting him with a very low blow. Rimmer ended up in the foetal position moaning 'I hate everything', just as Holly the ship's computer assured him that he had it sorted out now.

* Played for laughs on an episode of ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'', when the uncouth, one-armed joke shop owner gets an arm transplant. It belonged to a nun, and is much nicer than he is. [[spoiler: It even prompts him into a HeroicSacrifice]].
* On ''Series/{{SCTV}}'', Dave Thomas portrayed Creator/MichaelCaine in a spoof promo for ''My Bloody Hand'', parodying the 1981 movie ''The Hand''.
* On the LiveEpisode of ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Jon Hamm's character Dr. Drew (who has lost both hands) gets a hand transplant. In the East feed version, it's that of a black convict and it tries to strangle him. In the West feed, it's a woman's hand that tries to grope him.
* The patient of the week in an episode of ''Series/{{House}}'' had an arm that had a mind of its own and would often act without his knowledge. It threw things at people, filled his trolley with items he didn't want and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking liked playing air guitar]].

* ''Series/AshVsEvilDead'' sees the return of Ash's possessed severed hand from the second movie (see above). Initially kept as a trophy and means of magically tracking Ash down by Ruby, it eventually regains full mobility and returns to the cabin for the season's climax. [[spoiler: Once there, it grows an entire EvilTwin of Ash, who kills Amanda (though not before she cuts the hand off again and chops it up).]]

* Stubbs the Zombie, titular character from ''VideoGame/StubbsTheZombie in: Rebel Without a Pulse'', can use his zombie hand to crawl in vent and even possess enemies.
* Revolver Ocelot from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' lost an arm to an unfortunate ninja attack. His replacement--the arm of Liquid Snake--served him well... until he encountered [[RantInducingSlight Solid Snake]], at which point Liquid's enraged spirit completely took over Ocelot's mind and caused him to run off with a Main/HumongousMecha. It seems in the sequel, the two have finally learned to coexist by merging into a single personality. Ocelot also gives a [[Main/HistoricalInJoke shout-out]] to Lyon, the site of the first ''traditional'' hand transplant, where he gained his transplant: "I never trust a Frenchman," he comments, as he uses his willpower to prevent Liquid taking over. [[spoiler:The truth about what really happened is, of course, [[UpToEleven far more complicated]] ]]

* Guybrush ends up with one of these in the first episode of ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'', after a botched attempt to destroy [=LeChuck=] once and for all. He eventually [[spoiler: loses it at the start of episode two, and gets it replaced with a HookHand]].
* [[TheDragon Saren]] from ''Videogame/MassEffect1'' after [[BigBad Sovereign]] gives him 'implants'.
* Owain from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' pretends to have this, with such voice clips as "My sword hand twitches!", "Can't... control!" and "Down, sword hand!". All of [[spoiler:the [[KidFromTheFuture Kids From the Future]]]] are a little ''bent'' in this game, and this plus Owain's stated preference for DarkerAndEdgier heroes is his method of coping with the ZombieApocalypse he came from.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', the village hag ''can'' reattach severed limbs, but they run the risk of going crazy and trying to kill their owners.
* In ''Webcomic/PokeyThePenguin'', [[Music/DefLeppard Rick Allen]] gets his remaining hand possessed by a demon that wants to [[DeathRay electrocute]] a nun.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' episode "The Gauntlet" one of the bullies at Ben's school finds a robot hand which lets you shoot lasers. Guess who is the baddie of the episode.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers Galaxy Rangers]]'' episode "Rogue Arm" Pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The Queen comes up with a {{Magitek}} method of tampering with Zach's bionics. Hilarity does not Ensue.

* In the first chapter/movie of ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai'', Shiki's [[spoiler:artificial arm]] is remotely possessed by the ghost she is following and tries to choke and throw her off a balcony.

* ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'': Arthur's left arm is the first bit of him possessed and shoves his friend Lewis to his death, the entity is only prevented from taking over him entirely because his arm was then torn off before it could.

* [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/d/20090629.html Mr Purvis]] from ''Webcomic/EerieCuties''. [[spoiler:Though all it seems to want to do is give bad haircuts.]]