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* ''Anime/MazingerZ'':
** Several [[{{Robeast}} Mechanical Monsters]] -such like Deimos F3 and Briver A3- could dettach its hands from themselves and attacking with them, or simply picking or holding its enemy.
** The titular HumongousMecha is an heroic example: During his first battle in the manga Doublas M2 coiled one of its necks around one of its forearms and ripped it off... and then [[RocketPunch the wrenched arm flew on its own and punched through Doublas M2]]. This scene was replied in the first opening. [[TheHero Kouji]] often also used Mazinger's fists to pick things or people.

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* This plays a large role in the 1976 Doctor Who Story The Hand of fear.



* In TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}, the Crawling Hand is an Undead monster; it can be fought normally, or, if you give it an item, it becomes your pet crawling hand and gives you a combat bonus.

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* In TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}, ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'', the Crawling Hand is an Undead monster; it can be fought normally, or, if you give it an item, it becomes your pet crawling hand and gives you a combat bonus.



* Master Hand and Crazy Hand from VideoGame/SuperSmashBros are giant, disembodied, floating, gloved hands.

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* Master Hand and Crazy Hand from VideoGame/SuperSmashBros ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' are giant, disembodied, floating, gloved hands.



* The old Infocom text adventure "The Lurking Horror" had one, in the form of an amputated human hand you could reanimate. It's actually very helpful to you, and is key for surviving some of the late game challenges, including helping you defeat the FinalBoss.

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* The old Infocom text adventure "The ''The Lurking Horror" Horror'' had one, in the form of an amputated human hand you could reanimate. It's actually very helpful to you, and is key for surviving some of the late game challenges, including helping you defeat the FinalBoss.



* BobAndGeorge [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/031016c You have fun with Chadling's hand]].

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* BobAndGeorge ''BobAndGeorge'' [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/031016c You have fun with Chadling's hand]].
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Little Gift Shop of Horror", one segment involves Grunkle Stan's hands getting stolen by a "Handwitch", who has a veritable army of disembodied hands at her beck and call.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', the titular character Emily has a skeletal right arm. After she first appears rising from the ground, said arm starts crawling after a fleeing Victor until she picks it back up. Much later in the movie, when the two are performing a piano duet, her hand comes off on its own and proceeds to crawl onto Victor's shoulder.


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* The old Infocom text adventure "The Lurking Horror" had one, in the form of an amputated human hand you could reanimate. It's actually very helpful to you, and is key for surviving some of the late game challenges, including helping you defeat the FinalBoss.
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Not to be confused with HandyHelper or the game of the same name played on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway''

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* In the 1838 penny dreadful ''Hugues, the Wer-Wolf'', a butcher who'd chopped the werewolf's hand off tries to get rid of the severed part by burying it or dropping it down a well, but it keeps turning up again at his home. [[spoiler: A subversion, as it's strongly implied that his daughter is secretly retrieving it and planting it in her father's house, to punish him for maiming the werewolf with whom she's in love.]]

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* In the 1838 penny dreadful ''Hugues, the Wer-Wolf'', a butcher who'd chopped the werewolf's hand off tries to get rid of the severed part by burying it or dropping it down a well, but it keeps turning up again at his home.home, as if it's crawling back when he's not watching. [[spoiler: A subversion, as it's strongly implied that his daughter is secretly retrieving it and planting it in her father's house, to punish him for maiming the werewolf with whom she's in love.]]
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* In the 1838 penny dreadful ''Hugues, the Wer-Wolf'', a butcher who'd chopped the werewolf's hand off tries to get rid of the severed part by burying it or dropping it down a well, but it keeps turning up again at his home. [[spoiler: A subversion, as it's strongly implied that his daughter is secretly retrieving it and planting it in her father's house, to punish him for maiming the werewolf with whom she's in love.]]

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Not to be confused with the game of the same name played on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway''

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* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''. A zombie gets hacked up by one of the protagonists, but its limbs are still twitching. When a guard burst in with the intention of shooting them, a zombie hand [[AnkleDrag grabs his ankle]], distracting him. The protagonists knock the guard out and the last thing we see as the automatic doors close is [[NightmareFuel the hand crawling up to the unconscious man's face...]]

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* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''. A zombie gets hacked up by one of the protagonists, but its limbs are still twitching. When a guard burst bursts in with the intention of shooting them, a zombie hand [[AnkleDrag grabs his ankle]], distracting him. The protagonists knock the guard out and the last thing we see as the automatic doors close is [[NightmareFuel the hand crawling up to the unconscious man's face...]]
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* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''. A zombie gets hacked up by one of the protagonists, but its limbs are still twitching. When a guard burst in with the intention of shooting them, a zombie hand does an AnkleGrab distracting him. The protagonists knock him out and the last thing we see as the doors close is [[NightmareFuel the hand crawling up to the unconscious guard's face...]]

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* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''. A zombie gets hacked up by one of the protagonists, but its limbs are still twitching. When a guard burst in with the intention of shooting them, a zombie hand does an AnkleGrab [[AnkleDrag grabs his ankle]], distracting him. The protagonists knock him the guard out and the last thing we see as the automatic doors close is [[NightmareFuel the hand crawling up to the unconscious guard's man's face...]]

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* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''. A zombie gets hacked up by one of the protagonists, but its limbs are still twitching. When a guard burst in with the intention of shooting them, a zombie hand does an AnkleGrab distracting him. The protagonists knock him out and the last thing we see as the lift doors close is [[NightmareFuel the hand crawling up to the unconscious guard's face...]]

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* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''. A zombie gets hacked up by one of the protagonists, but its limbs are still twitching. When a guard burst in with the intention of shooting them, a zombie hand does an AnkleGrab distracting him. The protagonists knock him out and the last thing we see as the lift doors close is [[NightmareFuel the hand crawling up to the unconscious guard's face...]]





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* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''. A zombie gets hacked up by one of the protagonists, but its limbs are still twitching. When a guard burst in with the intention of shooting them, a zombie hand does an AnkleGrab distracting him. The protagonists knock him out and the last thing we see as the doors close is [[NightmareFuel the hand crawling up to the unconscious guard's face...]]

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* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods''. A zombie gets hacked up by one of the protagonists, but its limbs are still twitching. When a guard burst in with the intention of shooting them, a zombie hand does an AnkleGrab distracting him. The protagonists knock him out and the last thing we see as the lift doors close is [[NightmareFuel the hand crawling up to the unconscious guard's face...]]
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* In ''VideoGame/BatenKaitosEternalWingsAndTheLostOcean'' you have the Develish Hands and their [[PalleteSwap family of monsters]]. Unusual in that they're two hands, fused together at the bottom of the palm, and they crawl along akin to a GiantSpider.
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** Rick actually manages to turn it to his advantage. A sword is lying just out or reach, but once a severed mummy hand grabs it he then just grabs the hand and pulls the sword to him.
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* ''GoodEats'' lampshades Thing from ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''.
** The Thing in Good Eats is canonically the grandson of the one from ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''.

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* ''GoodEats'' ''Series/GoodEats'' lampshades Thing from ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''.
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''Series/TheAddamsFamily''. The Thing in Good Eats ''Good Eats'' is canonically the grandson of the one from ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''.
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* This plays a large role in the 1976 Doctor Who Story The Hand of fear.
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* The iconic Choking Hands from ''{{Blood}}''.

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* The iconic Choking Hands from ''{{Blood}}''.''VideoGame/{{Blood}}''.
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* The EdutainmentGame ''Pinball/TheBrain'' has a disembodied hand on the playfield to represent the sense of touch.
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* ''Webcomic/Paranatural'' has [[MeaningfulName Lefty]].
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* The playfield for ''Pinball/PinballMagic'' features Magna Matra's disembodied hand, holding her MagicWand.

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* The playfield for ''Pinball/PinballMagic'' features Magna Matra's Matra Magna's disembodied hand, holding her MagicWand.
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* The playfield for ''Pinball/PinballMagic'' features Magna Matra's disembodied hand, holding her MagicWand.
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Not to be confused with the game of the same name played on ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway''

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* In ''Pinball/TheAddamsFamily'', Thing will come out of its box at certain times to pluck pinballs.


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* In ''Pinball/TheAddamsFamily'', Thing will come out of its box at certain times to pluck pinballs.
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* In some scenarios of ''Mansions of Madness'' dead bodies spawn 2 autonomous hands under GM's control. These buggers are more annoying than all the zombies and demons combined.
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jarvis is a very smart OS
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* ''Film/IronMan3'' had an impressive scene where Jarvis detaches a modular armors forearm to help Tony without any prompting [[spoiler: as he was too busy drowning at the time]].

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