History Main / FakeArmDisarm

* This proves crucial in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5011216/1/Fire-and-Ice Fire and Ice]]''; [[spoiler:during Anakin's duel with Palpatine, he wins by deliberately dropping his guard so that Palpatine will cut off his right hand. Anakin correctly guessed that Palpatine will forget that Anakin already lost that hand to Dooku in the heat of the battle due to his arrogance leading to him assuming that Anakin just made a mistake, leading to Palpatine dropping his guard in the assumption that he's just inflicted a crippling injury when in reality Anakin is now prepared to kill Palpatine by transferring his lightsaber to his other hand]].

* In ''Film/HappyGilmore'', Chubbs has a prosthetic hand. Happy accidentally knocks it off, and Chubbs tells him [[TemptingFate not to worry, as it's real sturdy]] -- only for it to promptly get run over by a semi truck and crushed to bits. He later glues it back together.

** In ''Film/LicenceToKill'', CIA agent Felix Leiter gets tossed into a shark tank, where the sharks rip off his (prosthetic) arm and leg. To reconcile this with the original novel ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie'' where the arm and leg were biological, John Gardner, who wrote the {{Novelization}} of ''Licence to Kill'', wrote that Felix's prosthetic arm and leg get ripped off by sharks without the bad guys (who tossed him into the shark tank) noticing.

** ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''. In the last scene, Tee Hee attacks Bond in his train room and is about to kill him with his hook arm when Bond reaches into his suitcase and pulls out some tweezers, which he uses to snip the wires controlling his arm, leaving his hook stuck on a window handle. Bond shoves him out the window, leaving his artificial limb behind, which Bond then throws out after him.

* In ''Film/LicenceToKill'', Film/JamesBond's CIA friend Felix Leiter gets tossed into a shark tank, where the sharks rip off his (prosthetic) arm and leg. To reconcile this with the original novel ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie'' where the arm and leg were biological, John Gardner, who wrote the {{Novelization}} of ''Licence to Kill'', wrote that Felix's prosthetic arm and leg get ripped off by sharks without the bad guys (who tossed him into the shark tank) noticing.

* In Creator/MichaelMoorcock's ''Eternal Champion'' sagas, the champion Corum is tortured and loses an eye and a hand, which are later replaced with artificial versions formerly belonging to a mysterious God of great power. When the god finally turns up to reclaim his lost arm and eye, Corum endures the pain of their forcible removal, and is left in shocked weakened agony (just in time for his showdown with the human sadist who removed the original items).

* In ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie'', Literature/JamesBond's CIA friend Felix Leiter gets his ([[AvertedTrope biological]]) arm and leg eaten by sharks, but this isn't what happened in the film ''Film/LicenceToKill'' -- the arm and leg were prosthetic in that adaptation. To reconcile the discrepancy, John Gardner, who wrote the {{Novelization}} of ''Licence to Kill'', wrote that Felix's prosthetic arm & leg get ripped off by sharks without the bad guys (who tossed him into the shark tank) noticing.

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** Edward’s automail arm is destroyed or heavily damaged on five separate occasions. It is destroyed by Scar; it malfunctions while Ed fights Lust and Envy due to a missing screw from Winry’s rushed repairs; it is damaged and used as bait during his fight with Lan Fan; it is unable to function in the North due to the cold; and it is destroyed by Father [[spoiler:after which he gets his real arm back.]] It's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to his tendency to parry attacks (and only parry attacks) with that arm, since it's so much more durable than his flesh-and-blood one. To say nothing of it being more replaceable, as Ed well knows. Losing his automail arm is an annoying inconvenience, but losing his flesh-and-blood arm would put him out of action for a year or more (as was the case when he lost his other arm and had to get it replaced with a prosthetic before the start of the story).

** Batou enters hand to hand combat with Kuze later on in the 2nd season. The two are pretty evenly matched against each other, but Kuze gets the upper hand when Batou tries to swing a metal shaft at him, but gets knocked off balance. Kuze shoves the metal shaft into Batou's left shoulder, pinning him to the ground. Batou was ok, but he later remarked that it was annoying trying to get used to his replacement shoulder and arm.
* Happens ''all the time'' in ''Anime/GhostInTheShellArise''. Pretty much every hand-to-hand fight Motoko gets into will involve at least one of these. For example, during the climactic CarChase / battle of "Ghost Whispers", VV loses her right arm, Motoko loses her right arm, and Batou loses an arm and a leg.

* In the ''[[Manga/TouhouSangetsusei Oriental and Sacred Place]]'' manga, Kasen tries to touch one of Reimu's Yin-Yang Orbs with her bandaged arm. Merely touching its surface destroys her fake arm, revealing there's nothing beneath the bandages but black mist.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied:'' Nana's artificial limbs have a bad habit of popping off. Bando also shatters one of his artificial arms when he fires a 50 caliber bullet one-handed.
* Happens to Kasen near the end of ''Manga/OrientalSacredPlace'' where she finds one of Reimu's Yin-Yang orb and ends up touching it with her artificial arm. The orb responds violently and causes her arm to explode into a mess of tatters and black mist.
* In the first ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'' movie, Shiki's left arm gets possessed and she ends up cutting it off, revealing it to be artificial. In the [[AnachronicOrder third movie]] we see how she got it.

* Happens a couple times to Joseph Joestar in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders''. His prosthetic hand gets destroyed in the fight against the Empress stand, then sliced off at the start of the High Priestess fight.
* Several examples among the Yato in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': lampshaded by Abuto during the Shogun Assassination Arc when Momochi's puppet blows up while he's holding it, destroying his prosthetic arm ("What do all of you have against my left arm?!") and Umibozu loses his at the start of his fight with [[spoiler:Utsuro]] during the Battle on Rakuyo Arc.
* Averted by Private Nikaidou in ''Manga/{{Golden Kamuy}}'', who constantly loses new body parts throughout the series while his prosthetics stay in fairly good shape.

* In the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' comic ''ComicBook/DeffSkwadron'', Killboy has had to replace his limbs 35 times after [[CaptainCrash crashing]] after each of his 35 missions.

* In a ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' annual, Deathstroke cut off Cyborg's hands.

* During the FinalBattle of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'', [[TheBrute Commander Hildread]] attempts to strike Twilight Sparkle with her metallic, razor-sharp wing. [[BarrierWarrior Shining Armor]] engulfs his sister with a force field, and Hildread's wing shatters upon striking it.
* This proves crucial in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5011216/1/Fire-and-Ice Fire and Ice]]''; [[spoiler:during Anakin's duel with Palpatine, he wins by deliberately dropping his guard so that Palpatine will cut off his right hand. Anakin correctly guessed that Palpatine will forget that Anakin already lost that hand to Dooku in the heat of the battle due to his arrogance leading to him assuming that Anakin just made a mistake, leading to Palpatine dropping his guard in the assumption that he's just inflicted a crippling injury when in reality Anakin is now prepared to kill Palpatine by transferring his lightsaber to his other hand]].

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', Jim stabs and impairs Silver’s mechanical leg. Silver is next seen using his mechanical arm as a crutch, in a nod to the 1950 version of ''Film/{{Treasure Island|1950}}''.

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* In the film version of ''Film/TheFugitive'', the legendary One-Armed Man is exposed when Richard Kimble wrestles with him after his wife's murder and pops his artificial arm partially off.
* In ''Film/HappyGilmore'', Chubbs has a prosthetic hand. Happy accidentally knocks it off, and Chubbs tells him [[TemptingFate not to worry, as it's real sturdy]] - only for it to promptly get run over by a semi truck and crushed to bits. He later glues it back together.
* [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in ''Film/IRobot'', where [[spoiler:Spooner’s]] robotic arm doesn’t get hurt aside from superficial damage to its artificial “flesh”, which is easier to replace than biological skin grafts would have been. However TheReveal of it being robotic is used for InUniverse DramaticIrony.
* In the film ''Film/LicenceToKill'' Bond's CIA friend Felix Leiter gets tossed into a shark tank, where the sharks rip off his (prosthetic) arm and leg. To reconcile this with the original novel ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie'' where the arm and leg were biological, John Gardner, who wrote the {{Novelization}} of ''Film/LicenceToKill'', wrote that Felix's prosthetic arm & leg get ripped off by sharks without the bad guys (who tossed him into the shark tank) noticing.

** ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'': When T'Challa captures Ulysses Klaue at the end of the car chase in South Korea, he yanks off Klaue's prosthetic left arm, which contains [[ArmCannon a sonic cannon]].
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''. Furiosa's mechanical arm gets forcibly yanked off a couple of times, and she's in visible pain as a result.
* ''Film/SpyHard'': BigBad General Rancor has two robotic limbs with various weapons. During the climactic battle with Dick Steele, he looses both and is forced to flee from Steele.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', when Darth Vader [[IShallTauntYou goads Luke into revealing himself]] in the Emperor's throne room, he is unprepared for the [[UnstoppableRage sheer ferocity]] of Luke's assault and loses his hand for his trouble. Luke is left staring at the burnt wires and metal of the cowering Vader's wrist and, recalling his own prosthetic hand, realise that [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim his rage is pushing him down the same path Vader took]].

* In the original novel ''Literature/LiveAndLetDie'' Bond's CIA friend Felix Leiter gets his [[AvertedTrope (biological)]] arm and leg eaten by sharks, but this isn't what happened in the film ''Film/LicenceToKill'' - the arm and leg were prosthetic in that adaptation. To reconcile the discrepancy, John Gardner, who wrote the {{Novelization}} of ''Film/LicenceToKill'', wrote that Felix's prosthetic arm & leg get ripped off by sharks without the bad guys (who tossed him into the shark tank) noticing.
* In ''[[Literature/TheRedVixenAdventures Shadow of her Sins]]'' Sallivera's prosthetic eye is torn out by Bloody Margo. Later she claims that "The second time around the novelty wears off."
* ''Literature/TheReynardCycle'': Reynard loses his BladeBelowTheShoulder during the climax of ''Defender of the Crown''. [[spoiler: It's shattered by the same person who lopped off his hand.]]
* In Creator/MichaelMoorcock's Eternal Champion sagas, the champion Corum is tortured and loses an eye and a hand, which are later replaced with artificial versions formerly belonging to a mysterious God of great power. When the god finally turns up to reclaim his lost arm and eye, Corum endures the pain of their forcible removal, and is left in shocked weakened agony (Just in time for his showdown with the human sadist who removed the original items.)

* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' gives us J. Walter Weatherman, a one-armed man who [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this trope when he gets involved in George Sr.’s plans to teach his kids a lesson by having his fake arm torn off in order to demonstrate what happens as a result of yelling and fighting.
* On ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Joey tells Monica and Phoebe about the time he accidentally threw the prosthetic leg of a woman he was dating into a fireplace when he thought it was a log, then ran out of her house before she woke up.
* One of the people on Earl’s list in ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' is a woman with a prosthetic leg that Earl destroyed. She appears chasing Earl, hopping on her one good leg, as a RunningGag throughout the series.

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* In ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' Season 10, Episode 9 (Fighting Fire), Agent Maine throws his bladed grenade-launcher at an Insurrectionist, cutting off his mechanical arm—and nothing else. ("Ow, my robot arm!")
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* A premade character in the ''TabletopGame/SerenityRolePlayingGame'' has a fancy (and expensive) Newtech electronic prosthetic arm to replace the one he lost in the [[GreatOffscreenWar Unification War]]. Damaging it is a major BerserkButton for him, and he makes sure to have a spare.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''
** Several supplements have rules for damaging the cyberware that characters implant into their bodies, including the ''Street Samurai Catalog'', ''Shadowtech'' and ''Cybertechnology''. Since PlayerCharacters tend to get into combat a lot, those with cyberware regularly take serious damage to it using these rules.

* In the ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110713013110/warhammer40k/images/0/05/Chapter_Master_Sarpedon.jpg Chapter Master Sarpedon]] of the SoulDrinkers chapter has eight arachnid legs as a result of warp exposure. One of these was torn off, replaced by a bionic one that keeps getting destroyed.

* In the first mission of ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', Raiden (a cyborg from the neck down) loses an arm and [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction doesn't even get angry over it.]] By contrast, the loss of his (still flesh-and-blood) left eye in the same incident is a much sorer spot for him, and [[spoiler: when Jetstream Sam [[AnArmAndALeg loses the use of his real arm]] in his DLC story, he's appropriately horrified.]]
--> '''Raiden:''' Shit. [[OhNoNotAgain Not again!]]
* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'': Whenever you use Nero's [[ArtificialLimb Devil Breaker]] when hit by an enemy's attack, it breaks. The player can also [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope and manually destroy the currently-equipped Devil Breaker using Break Away to let Nero break free from the enemy's grapple or crowd-control attacks. In the finale, [[spoiler:Nero destroys it himself with his manifesting Devil Trigger powers regrowing his lost arm as he rushes to stop Dante and Vergil's battle. In the epilogue, Nico gives him a newly-modified Devil Breaker system that fits over his regrown arm.]]
* ''VideoGame/TalesFromTheBorderlands'' has [[spoiler: Rhys forced to do this to ''himself'' in order to rid his cybernetics of [[BigBad Handsome]] [[GrandTheftMe Jack]]. He rips off his robot arm and [[EyeScream gouges out the ECHO device in his eye.]] Fortunately, both are replaced later on.]]

* In the season one finale of ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner'', [[spoiler: Lucks shoots off Masa's Meta Runner arm with his revolver.]]

* In the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon "WesternAnimation/BunnyHugged", The Crusher offers Bugs a handshake after the match. Despite the audience's warnings, Bugs shakes his hand back, only for the Crusher to grab the arm and bite it. Bugs being one step ahead, he actually gave Crusher a dynamite stick with a glove, which blows up in his face.

'''Tuffnut And Ruffnut:''' ''[together]'' ... [[{{Pun}} LAST LEG!]] ''[they laugh]''
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' short "Mickey's Rival", Mortimer Mouse shakes hands with Mickey with a fake hand as a prank. It comes off in Mickey's hand, and for additional humiliation, the hand is spring loaded, punching him in the face.

--> '''Ruffnut''' ''[After Hiccup tells the twin their dragon broke his first spare leg]'': So if my calculations are correct, and they usually are...
--> '''Tuffnut''': ... that would mean, that our dear Hiccup is on his...
--> '''Tuffnut And Ruffnut''' ''[together]'': ... [[{{Pun}} LAST LEG!]] "[Laugh]"
* In the WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse short "Mickey's Rival", Mortimer Mouse shakes hands with Mickey with a fake hand as a prank. It comes off in Mickey's hand, and for additional humiliation, the hand is spring loaded, punching him in the face.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles'', Lt. Raczak’s prosthetic arm is torn off several times and is once dipped in acid.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode “Who Shot Mr. Burns, Part II,” Smithers remembers shooting Jasper while drunk. After noting that nobody reported the shooting, the police check on Jasper and discover that Smithers shot him in his wooden leg: Jasper never even noticed.

** [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E18CrisisOnNaboo "Crisis on Naboo"]]: When [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Anakin fights with Dooku in a dining room on Naboo as Palpatine looks on]], at one point, Dooku sends several pieces of silverware and cutlery flying at him with the force. Two forks end up lodged in his mechanical hand, which he promptly removes with an audible electrical sound.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode "[[Recap/TeenTitansS1E3FinalExam Final Exam]]", Gizmo removes Cyborg's right arm in the first battle for Titans Tower. Cyborg later gains remote control over the arm to help the Titans take back their Tower, but in the moment it's a setback.
--> '''Cyborg''': In case you haven't noticed, I just became left handed!

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5: Whenever you use Nero's ArtificialLimb devil breaker when hit by an enemy's attack, it breaks. In the finale [[spoiler:Nero destroys it himself with his manifesting Devil Trigger powers as he rushes to stop Dante and Vergil's battle. In the epilogue he gets a new devil breaker that fits over it.]]

* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', Yang loses her prosthetic arm thrice. The first time was shits and giggles, detaching it while arm wrestling Nora and causing her to freak out. The next time, Mercury grabs her by the arm and she's forced to detach it, going to face [[spoiler:her mother]] with just one arm. After that, [[spoiler:the Jinxy peddler takes it before she can wake up on the Ever After.]] She gets it back in short order each time.

* In the first ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' movie, Shiki's left arm gets possessed and she ends up cutting it off, revealing it to be artificial. In the [[AnachronicOrder third movie]] we see how she got it.

* Happens in part one of ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'': Shiki's arm is mutilated by the poltergeist but is revealed to be a prosthetic made by Touko. Because of the story's AnachronicOrder, we learn how she got the prosthetic in later installments.

* In Devil May Cry 5, whenever you use devil breaker during enemy's attack, it breaks.

* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', Yang loses her prosthetic arm twice. The first time was shits and giggles, detaching it while arm wrestling Nora and causing her to freak out. The other time, Mercury grabs her by the arm and she's forced to detach it, going to face [[spoiler:her mother]] with just one arm.

* In the first mission of ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', Raiden (a cyborg from the neck down) loses an arm and [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction doesn't even get angry over it.]] It helps that [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 this isn't the first time that's happened.]] [[spoiler: By contrast, when Jetstream Sam [[AnArmAndALeg loses the use of his real arm]] in his DLC story, he's [[BodyHorror appropriately horrified.]]]]

-->''[Holds and regards his arm for a second, then dramatically points to the door with it]'' "[[ToTheBatnoun To the lumberyard]]!"

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': The very first time Martellus leaves his fortress after getting a mechanical hand it gets damaged in a fight with Gil and then [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20131122 chopped off by DuPree.]]

* In "Machinima/RedVsBlue" Season 10, Episode 9 (Fighting Fire), Agent Maine throws his bladed grenade-launcher at an Insurrectionist, cutting off his mechanical arm—and nothing else. ("Ow, my robot arm!")

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* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'', Anakin infiltrates a Seperatist compound on Nelvaan that has been performing [[BodyHorror horrifying experiments]] on the native population. First he was specifically chosen by the Nelvaanian shaman because he had a fake hand. Then the people who had been corrupted by the experiments tasked him to destroy the facility. Anakin does this by sticking his artificial hand in an energy sphere and stealing a critical component, but loses his robot hand in the process. The Nelvaanians see Anakin's mechanical stump as a symbol of their own freedom and respond by tearing off the [[ArmCannon arm cannons]] that the Sepratists placed on them and cheer Anakin triumphantly.

* ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'': One of the {{Running Gag}}s of the series is Hiccup's peg leg being detached, whether by accident or to use it as tool or weapon. UpToEleven in the episode "Zippleback Experience" where he has to use several spare legs to replace the broken ones:

* This proves crucial in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5011216/1/Fire-and-Ice Fire and Ice]]''; [[spoiler:during Anakin's duel with Palpatine, he wins by deliberately dropping his guard so that Palpatine will cut off his right hand, correctly guessing that Palpatine will forget that Anakin already lost that hand to Dooku, with the result that what would be an incapacitating injury just puts Anakin in a position where he can kill Palpatine while the Emperor's guard is down]].

This character has ArtificialLimbs, ElectronicEyes or other prostheses, and while they don't have to be a full {{Cyborg}} — the rest of them can just be squishy human flesh — what they do have is far stronger, more durable and just plain better than their former body part (if it existed). There's only one problem: it keeps getting wrecked. Enemies shoot like there's a bullseye on it, falling rocks gravitate towards it and it falls off at the drop of a hat like the character is some SteamPunk leper. Meanwhile, their natural appendages never suffer more than flesh wounds, despite being made of far less hardy stuff.