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* The 1999 movie {{Idle Hands}} had a teenager whose forced to cut off his right hand after it becomes possessed by an evil spirit and goes on a killing spree.

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* The 1999 movie {{Idle Hands}} ''Film/IdleHands'' had a teenager whose forced to cut off his right hand after it becomes possessed by an evil spirit and goes on a killing spree.



* {{The Iron Giant}}: The titular {{Nigh Invulnerable}} giant is able to detach and reattach his mobile limbs, including his hand, which causes a bit of trouble around the house for {{Kid Hero}} Hogarth who tries to hide it from his mother.

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* {{The Iron Giant}}: ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'': The titular {{Nigh Invulnerable}} giant is able to detach and reattach his mobile limbs, including his hand, which causes a bit of trouble around the house for {{Kid Hero}} Hogarth who tries to hide it from his mother.
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* ''DungeonsAndDragons'' [[TropeOverdosed obviously]] has this in many forms. The most infamous being the [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Crawling Claw]] which are disembodied hands, which are often used to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath strangle its original owner]].
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* In ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' level boss Peep has his eyes go around the room after he's [[TurnsRed taken enough damage]].
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* ''TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'' has The Magician's disembodied floating arm in the episode "Vanishing Act".

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* ''TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'' has The Magician's disembodied floating arm in the episode "Vanishing Act".
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!!Vertical Split
When someone splits in half vertically as opposed to horizontally (if it's horizontal, that falls under DetachableLowerHalf).

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* There were [[https://www.behance.net/gallery/HBF-Essentials-Campaign-TVC/5722569 three ads]] for Western Australian health insurance company HBF which had the tagline "Join and claim at the same time". In it, a customer, after learning about the benefits of said insurance, would split in half, with one half staying to continue talking on the phone, and the other going to, depending on the ad, the dentist, an optometrist or a physician.
* An [[https://vimeo.com/67124018 ad]] for Fontvella featured vertical halves of people.

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* In the Series/TheHauntedHathaways episode "Haunted Kids", Taylor and Frankie won't speak to each other, so Ray splits in half to avoid having to give them the same advice twice.
* Karroll's Christmas features the Ghost of Christmas Past splitting in two to prove to someone the existence of ghosts. Unfortunately, the shock causes him to suffer a heart attack.


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* CraniumChase: A character's body chases after their severed or separated head.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tML1z720C4 Tooheys Extra Dry]] is this mixed with AnimateBodyParts.
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* On ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', the demon "Sweet" is able to pull off his mouth, which keeps singing to Dawn in the episode "Once More, With Feeling."

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* On ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', the demon "Sweet" is able to pull off his mouth, which keeps singing to Dawn in the episode "Once More, With Feeling."
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* On ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', the demon "Sweet" is able to pull off his mouth, which keeps singing to Dawn in the episode "Once More, With Feeling."
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* Migi from {{Parasyte}} by Hitoshi Iwaaki partly qualifies, being a shapeshifting symbiote occupying and taking the form of Shinichi's hand. Beside the ability to morph itself into various weapons like its more parasitic kind, it is also able to separate from his host's body for a short time, as it did when it tried to hunt down a human who saw it's true form (before Shinichi convinced it to stop).

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* Migi from {{Parasyte}} ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'' by Hitoshi Iwaaki partly qualifies, being a shapeshifting symbiote occupying and taking the form of Shinichi's hand. Beside the ability to morph itself into various weapons like its more parasitic kind, it is also able to separate from his host's body for a short time, as it did when it tried to hunt down a human who saw it's its true form (before Shinichi convinced it to stop).
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* Happens to Spongebob in the episode "Slimy Dancing" where Squidward removes his mouth for talking back at him.
* In EdEddNEddy, at point in ''[[MindScrew One Plus One Equals Ed]]'', Eddy pulls Sarah's mouth off because she wouldn't stop yelling. Her disembodied mouth then bites Eddy.

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* Happens to Spongebob WesternAnimation/{{Spongebob|Squarepants}} in the episode "Slimy Dancing" where Squidward removes his mouth for talking back at him.
* In EdEddNEddy, ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', at point in ''[[MindScrew One Plus One Equals Ed]]'', Eddy pulls Sarah's mouth off because she wouldn't stop yelling. Her disembodied mouth then bites Eddy.
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* {{The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy}} had an entire episode, "Wild Parts" revolving around a "nasal-mancer", or nose wizard, enchanting the noses of the city, including Billy's, into removing themselves from their owners' faces and forming a parade to the shopping mall where the nasal-mancer tries to find noses to replace the one he lost. Throughout the episode, Billy's nose is shown to have a personality of its own, slapping his owner with a steak for making an {{Incredibly Lame Pun}} after Billy decides to give half of his nose to the nasal-mancer after losing his real nose during a nose-balloon chase {{It Makes Sense in Context}}.

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* {{The ''WesternAnimation/{{The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy}} Mandy}}'' had an entire episode, "Wild Parts" revolving around a "nasal-mancer", or nose wizard, enchanting the noses of the city, including Billy's, into removing themselves from their owners' faces and forming a parade to the shopping mall where the nasal-mancer tries to find noses to replace the one he lost. Throughout the episode, Billy's nose is shown to have a personality of its own, slapping his owner with a steak for making an {{Incredibly Lame Pun}} after Billy decides to give half of his nose to the nasal-mancer after losing his real nose during a nose-balloon chase {{It Makes Sense in Context}}.
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* SabrinaTheTeenageWitch has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNwQvXE7Lc0 this]].

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* SabrinaTheTeenageWitch Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNwQvXE7Lc0 this]].
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* Spongebob has his arm come off in many episodes but especially "[=MuscleBob=] [=BuffPants=]" and "Graveyard Shift".
* {{Reboot}} has Gigabyte who gets his arm cut off and then [[PullingThemselvesTogether reattaches it moments later]].
* TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron has The Magicians disembodied floating arm in the episode "Vanishing Act".

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* Spongebob ''WesternAnimation/{{Spongebob|Squarepants}} has his arm come off in many episodes but especially "[=MuscleBob=] [=BuffPants=]" and "Graveyard Shift".
* {{Reboot}} ''{{Reboot}}'' has Gigabyte who gets his arm cut off and then [[PullingThemselvesTogether reattaches it moments later]].
* TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron ''TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'' has The Magicians Magician's disembodied floating arm in the episode "Vanishing Act".


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* The enire plot of Yasunari Kawabata's novel "One Arm" revolves around the protagonist's girlfriend's detached right arm for him to spend the night with it.

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*The enire plot of Yasunari Kawabata's novel "One Arm" revolves around the protagonist's girlfriend's detached right arm for him to spend the night with it.
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* Kovaliov's nose in Nikolai Gogol's ''The Nose''.

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* Kovaliov's nose in Nikolai Gogol's ''The Nose''.
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* The 1988 movie {{Waxwork}} had an exhibit filled with wax monsters and famous psychopaths come to life with the souls of 18 victims. After the heroes manage to escape exhibit with the wax effigies burned inside, they begin to walk home, not noticing that a hand from the Zombie display scuttling away from the rubble.

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* The 1988 movie {{Waxwork}} ''Film/{{Waxwork}}'' had an exhibit filled with wax monsters and famous psychopaths come to life with the souls of 18 victims. After the heroes manage to escape exhibit with the wax effigies burned inside, they begin to walk home, not noticing that a hand from the Zombie display scuttling away from the rubble.
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Though BeyondTheImpossible this is a case someones mouth is detached but can still move and talk.

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Though BeyondTheImpossible this is a A case someones mouth is detached but can still move and talk.
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* {{The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy}} had an entire episode, "Wild Parts" revolving around a "nasal-mancer", or nose wizard, enchanting the noses of the city, including Billy's, into removing themselves from their owners' faces and forming a parade to the shopping mall where the nasal-mancer tries to find noses to replace the one he lost. Throughout the episode, Billy's nose is shown to have a personality of its own, slapping his owner with a steak for making an {{Incredibly Lame Pun}} after Billy decides to give half of his nose to the nasal-mancer after losing his real nose during a nose-balloon chase {{It Makes Sense in Context}}.



* {{The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy}} had an entire episode, "Wild Parts" revolving around a "nasal-mancer", or nose wizard, enchanting the noses of the city, including Billy's, into removing themselves from their owners' faces and forming a parade to the shopping mall where the nasal-mancer tries to find noses to replace the one he lost. Throughout the episode, Billy's nose is shown to have a personality of its own, slapping his owner with a steak for making an {{Incredibly Lame Pun}} after Billy decides to give half of his nose to the nasal-mancer after losing his real nose during a nose-balloon chase {{It Makes Sense in Context}}.
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* Migi from {{Parasyte}} by Hitoshi Iwaaki partly qualifies, being a shapeshifting symbiote occupying and taking the form of Shinichi's hand. Beside the ability to morph itself into various weapons like its more parasitic kind, it is also able to separate from his host's body for a short time, as it did when it tried to hunt down a human who saw it's true form (before Shinichi convinced it to stop).


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* The 1999 movie {{Idle Hands}} had a teenager whose forced to cut off his right hand after it becomes possessed by an evil spirit and goes on a killing spree.
* The second half of the 1997 dual horror anthology {{Quicksilver Highway}} had a man whose hands tried to foment a rebellion, based on Clive Barker's short story "The Body Politic".
* The 1988 movie {{Waxwork}} had an exhibit filled with wax monsters and famous psychopaths come to life with the souls of 18 victims. After the heroes manage to escape exhibit with the wax effigies burned inside, they begin to walk home, not noticing that a hand from the Zombie display scuttling away from the rubble.
* {{The Iron Giant}}: The titular {{Nigh Invulnerable}} giant is able to detach and reattach his mobile limbs, including his hand, which causes a bit of trouble around the house for {{Kid Hero}} Hogarth who tries to hide it from his mother.


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* {{Dungeons and Dragons}} had "Crawling Claws", which were severed hands of various creatures animated by necromancy. When not receiving orders, they overwhelm their foes in groups.
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* {{The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy}} had an entire episode, "Wild Parts" revolving around a "nasal-mancer", or nose wizard, enchanting the noses of the city, including Billy's, into removing themselves from their owners' faces and forming a parade to the shopping mall where the nasal-mancer tries to find noses to replace the one he lost. Throughout the episode, Billy's nose is shown to have a personality of its own, slapping his owner with a steak for making an {{Incredibly Lame Pun}} after Billy decides to give half of his nose to the nasal-mancer after losing his real nose during a nose-balloon chase {{It Makes Sense in Context}}.
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* Stopping at a diner in Florida while searching for his escaped gargoyle Pazuzu, Professor Farnsworth uses a remote control on his detachable teeth to help chew his food. Said teeth develops a taste for blood after biting Fry, culminating in it flying around the room biting people while Farnsworth slurps his slop through a straw obliviously.
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** Another episode had Rocko's tooth turn into a mutant giant due to Filbert's attempts to be a dentist.
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* In EdEddNEddy, at point in ''[[MindScrew One Plus One Equals Ed]]'', Eddy pulls Sarah's mouth off because she wouldn't stop yelling. Her disembodied mouth then bites Eddy.
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* {{Beetlejuice}} has Adams teeth with gums, tongue, uvula and the rest of the mouth anatomy excluding lips detached from him in the climax of the film and can still move and talk.

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* {{Beetlejuice}} ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' has Adams teeth with gums, tongue, uvula and the rest of the mouth anatomy excluding lips detached from him in the climax of the film and can still move and talk.



* In SonOfTheMask Dr. Arthur Neuman has his face removed from his head by Loki.
* Barbara from Beetlejuice removes her face to scare the living folk out of their house. This portion of the trope is played in a particularly gruesome manner.

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* In SonOfTheMask ''SonOfTheMask'' Dr. Arthur Neuman has his face removed from his head by Loki.
* Barbara from Beetlejuice ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' removes her face to scare the living folk out of their house. This portion of the trope is played in a particularly gruesome manner.

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* ''SesameStreet'': Ernie has upon occasion [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbpmsBajfLM pulled Burt's nose off.]] Burt is usually annoyed by this, and talks like he has a cold until his nose is put back on, but is otherwise unharmed. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtbRdnthw6w Ernie's nose is also removable.]]

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!!Eyes
Not to be confused for EyeSpy this time their eyes come off and can sill see although not attached for other reasons.

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* In the TheRenAndStimpyShow episode "Robin Hoek" it happens to Ren in his dream where his eyes run away from vicious monks (don't ask).
* Happens in two SpongebobSquarepants episodes first in the episode "The Smoking Peanut" where Spongebob's eyes fall out in fear.
** Happens again in the episode "Pranks a Lot" only this time it's a random fish instead of Spongebob and his eyeballs can run and drive away.
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!!Mouth
Though BeyondTheImpossible this is a case someones mouth is detached but can still move and talk.

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* In a Unlimited calling Virgin Mobile phone ad some girl talking on the phone moves her phone to the bench with her mouth detaching from her face and following the phone and still talking on it. The video is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11kUFXxhatA Here]].

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* Happens to Spongebob in the episode "Slimy Dancing" where Squidward removes his mouth for talking back at him.
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!!Tongue
The lesser variant of Mouth where the tongue detaches from the mouth but can still move despite not being attached.

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* Happen in an ad for Doritos Chili Heatwave where some guy has those chips and his tongue is got so hot [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd67PaAp8Jc the guy spits out his tongue into the water, then his girlfriend picks up his tongue which is seen shaking from the heat and then places it back into his mouth.]]
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!!Teeth
This is a less noticeable but more common version of mouth where every part of the mouth except lips is detached or just simply teeth and gums are detached. Does not count if the teeth are fake or cannot be reattached. Teeth can sometimes still move and/or talk.

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* {{Beetlejuice}} has Adams teeth with gums, tongue, uvula and the rest of the mouth anatomy excluding lips detached from him in the climax of the film and can still move and talk.

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* Happen in the RockosModernLife episode "Yarn Benders" where the Old Lady Giant removes her teeth and instead of her toothless mouth talking her teeth (which are just Gums and Teeth) move and talk instead.
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!!Face
This is all the above combined where someones face is removed from their body but the face can still, breathe, see, talk, feel and move despite not being attached to the head. While the face becomes like a living mask when not attached the bodies head becomes TheBlank.

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* In SonOfTheMask Dr. Arthur Neuman has his face removed from his head by Loki.
* Barbara from Beetlejuice removes her face to scare the living folk out of their house. This portion of the trope is played in a particularly gruesome manner.

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* SabrinaTheTeenageWitch has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNwQvXE7Lc0 this]].

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* Happens to Spongebob in the episode "Squids on Strike" the second time Squidward pulls off his face by pulling him away from the window.
* Ren's Face gets ripped off by a baboon and thrown into a tree in the episode "Travelogue" with his face reattached not long after.
* {{Catdog}} has cat lose his face in the episode that [[CanonDiscontinuity probably never happened called]] "Movin' On Up".
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!!Ears
Someone gets their ear detached from their body but they can still hear and possibly move if the can wiggle their ears.

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*TheAmandaShow has this happen to the character played by Drake Bell in the Barber Shop sketch where his ear gets cut off and the barber shouts in his disembodied ear and then he runs away and his ear is then put in a trash can full of ears ([[FridgeHorror Implying it happened before]]).

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* Possible Subversion with Wilbur Cobb has is ear fall off in the episode "Stimpy's Cartoon" where it seems to be attached only by what appears to be bubblegum.
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!!Upper Head
Someone who has the forehead, scalp and all the hair on it and occasionally ears detached from the rest of their head usually exposing their brain but can feel it.

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* In FairlyOddparents Timmy Turner has this happen quite a few times.
* Patrick loses this portion of his head as a plot point in the episode "Patrick [=SmartPants=]".
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!!Neck
This is a rare case of someones neck being detached from their head and body but can still feel and move.

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!!Hands
When a hand is seperated from the arms or the more minor fingers and/or thumbs are seperated from palms of hand. Either way the hand(s) or hand part can still move and feel under the persons control but if the hands have a mind of their then it falls under HelpingHands.

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*[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p82UO_ki7Yk&feature=related This YouTube Video]]

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*Spongebob in the episode "Artist Unknown" detaches his hand from his body because of Squidward upsetting him by insulting his art skills.
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!!Arms
The ability to detach arms from torso with arms still being able to move and feel under the persons control.

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*Arm-Fall-Off-Boy is pretty self explanatory.

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* In TheLastStarfighter an alien gets its arm which was holding the blaster cut off which not long after continues shooting through its severed arm.

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* Spongebob has his arm come off in many episodes but especially "[=MuscleBob=] [=BuffPants=]" and "Graveyard Shift".
* {{Reboot}} has Gigabyte who gets his arm cut off and then [[PullingThemselvesTogether reattaches it moments later]].
* TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron has The Magicians disembodied floating arm in the episode "Vanishing Act".
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* Happens in FanboyAndChumChum episode "Pick a Nose" where they even go as far as to [[LegoBodyParts switch noses]].

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