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* '''Lampshaded''': Bob points out that Alice should have been careful. If she was, she wouldn't have lost a limb.
* '''Discussed''': Bob asks why Alice is missing her arm.



* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': Bob points out that Alice should have been careful. If she was, she wouldn't have lost a limb.
* '''Discussed''': Bob asks why Alice is missing her arm.
* '''Invoked''': ???
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* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Implied''': Alice always covers one of her arms with a [[FashionableAsymmetry long sleeve and glove]]



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* '''Played For Horror''': Having her hand cut off is the beginning of Alice's CruelAndUnusualDeath, as the killers need only her fingerprints to identify her.
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* '''Inverted''': Alice [[HealingFactor regrows]] a limb.

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Alice [[HealingFactor regrows]] a limb.limb.
** Alice grows an extra arm and leg.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Without her lost limbs, Alice loses the opportunity to many things.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Without her lost limbs, Alice loses the opportunity to do many things.
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* '''Reconstructed''': ...but she manages to find a way to get by.

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* '''Reconstructed''': ...but she manages to find a way to get by.by.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character loses one or more limbs.
*'''Played straight''': Alice loses one of her arms.
*'''Exaggerated''': Alice not only loses an arm, but also that arm's shoulder.
*'''Downplayed''': Alice does not lose her arm ''per se'', but she can no longer use it.
*'''Justified''': Someone severed Alice's arm from her.
*'''Inverted''': Alice [[HealingFactor regrows]] a limb.
*'''Subverted''': Alice claims to have lost one arm, but she was born without it.
*'''Double-subverted''': Alice's other arm is lost. Or one of her legs.
*'''Parodied''': Alice can [[DetachmentCombat pull off her limbs]] at will.
*'''Lampshaded''': Bob points out that Alice should have been careful. If she was, she wouldn't have lost a limb.
*'''Discussed''': Bob asks why Alice is missing her arm.
*'''Zig-zagged''': Alice loses an arm, but regrows it. But then she loses it again, only to regrow it.
*'''Deconstructed''': Without her lost limbs, Alice loses the opportunity to many things.
*'''Reconstructed''': ...but she manages to find a way to get by.

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