Line #43 AnArmAndALeg/ComicBooks


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6	[[AnArmAndALeg Amputations]] in ComicBooks.
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8	* ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'': [[spoiler:the speedster, Pronto,]] loses both legs in the first chapter.
9	* ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'': In ''ComicBook/Aquaman1994'', Aquaman loses his right hand when Charybdis commands a school of piranha to strip it to the bone.
10	* ''ComicBook/ArtOps'': [[TheProtagonist Reginald]] has his harm torn off by some wall graffiti in an alley. He gets it replaced with an arm made of living paint, but now he has to regularly spray himself to keep the paint from taking him over.
11	* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': During the final battle with Haazheel Thorn, he rips off Hellaynnea's arms when she tries to stop him from killing Wismerhill.
12	* ''ComicBook/Calico2020'': During his ColdBloodedTorture of a family who hunted and killed a lioness, [[TheProtagonist Calico]] chops the father's arms off.
13	* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': John Walker, a former US Agent, loses an arm and a leg to Nuke and his energy axe. Although he knows Tony Stark and could easily get a replacement, he refuses on the grounds that he doesn't want to become like the cyborg who did this to him. Mind you, it's shown that [[HandicappedBadass he can kick more than enough ass on his own]]. He later gets new biologically-created limbs to replace the ones he lost.
14	* ''ComicBook/TheCrow'': Eric slices off ''both'' of a mobster's legs, leaving him to die from blood loss.
15	* ''ComicBook/DeepGravity'': Warner, a shuttle pilot, is attacked by a venomous native lifeform on Poseidon's surface, and the doctors have to amputate his legs. (It's not a case of AmputationStopsSpread, though — they stop the spread by other means, the toxin having already done its damage.) However, Warner points out that he doesn't need legs to fly his shuttle, and ends up [[spoiler:rescuing the rest of the surviving cast that way]].
16	* ''ComicBook/{{Dolltopia}}'': Soccer Scotty loses an arm [[spoiler:and gets half his face damaged in an attack]] soon after leaving his life like Kitty did. When he gets to Dolltopia, the doctor is quick to fix him.
17	* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'': The warrior troll king Guttlekraw likes to punish disobedient elf slaves "one finger, then one limb at a time". Case in point: Ekuar, who lost half a leg, one arm, and one finger of the remaining hand that way. He was the luckiest.
18	* ''ComicBook/GIZombie'': In his debut issue alone, [[TheProtagonist Jared Kabe]] gets his hand cut off by his partner to convince the [[WesternTerrorists Western Terrorist]] group they're investigating to let he in. Thanks to his HealingFactor, he's able to reattach it later on.
19	** Jared later rips the arm off a guy who was getting ready to beat his wife.
20	* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'':
21	** During the ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'', Risk attempts to take revenge against (then-renamed) Superman-Prime for having done this to him earlier (see below), only to have his left arm ripped off as well.
22	** Green Lantern Sath Varn loses both of his legs during the ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', but his sector partner Isamot Kol has his own legs amputated to donate them to Varn, as Kol's own physiology lets him regrow the limbs in question.
23	** Ganthet's tenure as self-appointed Green Lantern of Sector 0 ended when his ring-bearing hand was destroyed during the ''ComicBook/WarOfTheGreenLanterns'' arc, though he later has it restored when Saint Walker heals him using the blue light of hope.
24	* ''ComicBook/Hitman1993'': Hacken has his compatriots cut off his hand after he's bitten by a zombie penguin. They later revealed that he was never in danger.
25	* ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'': Risk of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' has his right arm ripped off by Superboy-Prime.
26	* ''ComicBook/JSAClassified'': Delores Winter's meta-human organ theft group cut off Grogamesh's arms. Later, Delores loses one of her own arms when she tries to use the power she's stolen from Icemaiden to attack Mid-Nite and freezes her own limb off.
27	* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Judge Logan has the misfortune of repeatedly losing limbs. After being wounded during the Fargo rescue, he gets an {{Artificial Limb\|s}} in place of his left arm before switching it for a specially regrown one. Then he loses ''that'' one to Mortis's rotting touch.
28	* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'':
29	** In the "Age of Obsidian" arc from ''ComicBook/JLA1997'', ComicBook/TheFlash has both his legs torn off by Tezumak. His legs are later restored by magic.
30	** In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice'', [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Roy Harper]] gets his arm chopped off by Prometheus. This, combined with his daughter's death, drives him over the DespairEventHorizon and he becomes a more brutal AntiHero.
31	* ''ComicBook/{{Legends\|DCComics}}'': The villain Sunspot uses his power blast to get out of the ankle cuff that Guy Gardner holds him upside-down by, but in the process, he accidentally blasts off his right foot. Guy tends to Sunspot's injury, but threatens to cut off the villain's left hand if he uses his power blast again.
32	* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': The actual superpower of gag character [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Arm-Fall-Off Boy]] is to remove his arm from his body. [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway Needless to say, his Legion application was not accepted.]]
33	* ''ComicBook/{{Madman}}'': One of Madman's earlier adventures involves him rescuing an alien who landed among a Lamanite tribe two thousand years earlier. The Lamanites thought he communicated with the gods, and thus cut off his legs and one of his arms to prevent him from leaving.
34	* ''ComicBook/MagicTrixie'': In the first book, [[FrankensteinsMonster Stitch]]'s hand falls off his arm while he's waving to Trixie.
35	* ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'':
36	** When Shadow Man goes on the attack to prove his loyalty to Ra Moon, Crash Man loses his Crash Bomber cannons and [[OhCrap pisses himself]], in addition to screaming in pain.
37	---> '''Crash Man:''' (screams in pain) My non-hands!
38	** Magnet Man is defeated this way due to his powers disorienting his sense of direction during his fight with the Blue Bomber, who severs his right arm with a Shadow Blade.
39	** Spark Man, just like Crash Man, loses his arms, which leads to his defeat.
40	---> '''Spark Man:''' No! My arms!
41	* ''ComicBook/TheMiceTemplar'': Leito has his arm chopped off by Captain Tosk. Later, [[spoiler:Leito gets his revenge on Tosk by slicing off ''both'' of his arms]].
42	* ''ComicBook/TheOrder2007'': James Wa lost both of his legs to a drunk driver, ending his baseball career. However, he went on to create a brand of high-tech prosthetic legs and made a fortune.
43	* ''ComicBook/ThePitifulHumanLizard'': The titular Human-Lizard loses an arm in a fight against a huge monster. However, by then he's already gained his HealingFactor, so all he has to do is put the arm back where it was on his body, and let his power do the rest.
44	* ''ComicBook/RebelDeadRevenge'': As in real life, Stonewall Jackson's arm is amputated before he succumbs to his [[FriendOrFoe friendly fire]] wounds. This causes a major snag for Satan: the arm is missing when Stonewall's body is reanimated. If not restored, it could result in a power drain and alert the devil's enemies to his schemes.
45	* ''ComicBook/RedSonja'': A late arc in Creator/GailSimone's run has Sonja destroys both her hands by charring them in a fire to prevent herself from wielding a weapon.
46	* ''ComicBook/{{Reyn}}'': The penultimate issue has [[spoiler:Reyn himself]] losing an arm while fighting Brother M'Thall. It isn't until after he loses his arm that it's revealed that [[spoiler:Reyn is not human, since he doesn't bleed the way a normal human would]].
47	* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Johnny Warlock lost his hand when Robin tossed a sealing quick-hardening gel on his gun and Johnny fired it even as he was being warned that doing so would have disastrous results for him. He later replaced it with a hook.
48	* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'': Nico Minoru lost her left arm during ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'', replacing it with the Witch Arm after her resurrection. In ''ComicBook/RunawaysRainbowRowell'', however, her arm is back to normal, which is eventually revealed to be the work of "the One."
49	* ''ComicBook/SimonDark'':
50	** Simon and Tom each rip an arm and hand off of Vincent, respectively. While Vincent runs off screaming, he regrows them by the next time he appears a day later.
51	** When Tom was murdered his hand was cut off, and the stitching from reattaching it is the most noticeable scar left over from his revivification.
52	* ''ComicBook/{{Snowman}}'': In the {{Flashback}} to The Snowman's backstory, we find out that in life, he got attacked by a bear. His left leg was gouged so deeply it had to be cut off at the knee. It ruined his chances at becoming a warrior for his tribe, and made hunting a lot harder. Despite that, however, he still managed to become one of his tribe's main providers.
53	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
54	** Peter's old high school rival-turned-buddy Flash Thompson lose both his legs in Iraq.
55	** Peter losing a leg is the reason he retires as a superhero in the original ''ComicBook/SpiderGirl'' comics.
56	** In the ''ComicBook/SpiderManBeyond'' storyline, ComicBook/{{Morbius}}' entire left arm is amputated by a blast from the Beyond building's security system.
57	* ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries Spotlight: Wheelie]]'': The title character loses his arm to a Chaosterous for a time before retrieving it. Reattaching it without proper medical help proves difficult, and the arm remains functionally dead and makes transforming incredibly difficult, not least because whenever Wheelie transforms, said arm just dangles from his undercarriage.
58	* ''ComicBook/StarWarsKanan'': When Grievous ambushes Depa Billaba and her padawan Caleb with a troop of droids, Depa cuts off two of his (already mechanical) arms in their duel.
59	* ''ComicBook/SunnySeries'': Sunny's (great-)uncle Danny lost one of his arms in a farm accident when he and her Gramps were kids. Gramps uses the story of how Danny had to struggle with his life changes to help Sunny process her angst about Dale's dealing with and overcoming his substance abuse, explaining that it can take a lot of steps and some backsliding on the path.
60	* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
61	** Supporting character Professor Hamilton loses his arm during ''ComicBook/TheFallOfMetropolis'' when he's shot by a hallucinating prostitute and his arm is too badly damaged to be saved by the time he's rescued.
62	** In ''ComicBook/TheKillersOfKrypton'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} grabs Harry Hokum's left arm when he attempts to stab her with a knife. Right then Hokum is teleported away, but his left hand is sliced up and left behind by the teleporting portal.
63	* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': Dismemberment happens all the time, though the limbs themselves can usually be replaced. The situations all have some significance: Cyclonus severing Rung's arm is PlayedForLaughs; Drift cutting off [[spoiler:Pharma's]] hands leads to the latter's DisneyVillainDeath, with Ratchet later taking them up; Black Shadow rips off Hyperion's arm while simultaneously blasting away another Wrecker to show how powerful he is; and [[MarkOfShame Empurata]] cuts of the victim's hands and head and replaces them with claws and a CyberCyclops head.
64	* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates3'' sees Valkyrie lob off Pyro's hands in retaliation for his role in his and Mastermind's AttemptedRape of her.
65	* ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'':
66	** [[spoiler:Colossus]] gets both of his arms torn off by Sieglinde prior to his CruelAndUnusualDeath.
67	** [[spoiler:Siegmund]] loses an arm after being briefly overwhelmed by [[ZergRush 90 Soviet tankmen]].
68	** A particularly awful version happens to [[spoiler:Leah]] during the battle of Calais. Her leg is left dangling from a few strands of tendon, and can't be properly amputated due to her SuperToughness. [[spoiler:It later gets restored by Maria]].
69	** [[spoiler:Razor/Colossus II]] loses an arm saving a defecting [[spoiler:Siegmund]] from a nuclear bomb.
70	* ''ComicBook/{{Violine}}'': An early villain, Muller, falls to his apparent death in a crocodile-infested moat. After losing both arms in fighting them off, he [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]], obtains clawed arms, and becomes the series' bigger bad.
71	* ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'': The Governor takes Rick's arm as punishment for refusing to fight in his gladiatorial arena.
72	* ''ComicBook/WeaponHex'': The first time Laura fights Hellhound outside of training, it ends with Hellhound cutting off Laura's left arm, right hand, and both legs. [[spoiler: Laura gets better.]]
73	* ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers'': This is integral to the backstory of Master Pandemonium. Originally a spoiled, rich actor named Martin Preston, a car crash one night after drinking heavily severed one of his arms. Dying and yelling for help, the demon Mephisto appeared and [[DealWithTheDevil offered him a deal, which he accepted]]. Mephisto summoned four demons; one of them wrenched its own arm off and used it to [[AppendageAssimilation replace the lost limb]], whereas the other three repeated the trick with Preston's good limbs. Since then, as Master Pandemonium, the four demons are his servants while in Mephisto's employ, and he can detach any (or all) of his limbs, which causes them to turn into the demons who donated them.
74	* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'': In issue #1 of ''ComicBook/{{Wolverines}}'', [[spoiler:Daken]] has one of his arms ripped off by Sinister, who takes it along with Wolverine's corpse for research purposes. [[spoiler:Ordinarily this wouldn't be an issue for him, but in the last issue of ''[[ComicBook/DeathOfWolverine The Logan Legacy]]'', his HealingFactor was stripped from him by Siphon, leaving him in danger of bleeding out.]]
75	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
76	** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': During ''ComicBook/TheContest'' Diana meets one of the Bana, who is struggling with a rudimentary crutch and lost a leg helping defend the island while Circe had it trapped in a hellish dimension. It is used to help highlight the disparity in equality between the two tribes of Amazons even though the Bana sacrificed more in the defenses during their fight to survive.
77	** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanBlackAndGold'': In "I'm Ageless", an American G.I. that Diana was conversing with ends up losing his arm in a surprise attack from a German Panzer. She ends up keeping in contact with him for the rest of his life and visiting his grave for decades long after his death.
78	* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
79	** The backstory for ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'' sees ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s counterpart Weapon X lose his left hand in battle against that reality's ComicBook/{{Cyclops\|MarvelComics}}. However, [[spoiler:he didn't lose the claws in his arm, as Cyclops later discovers to his dismay]].
80	** In ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2011'', ComicBook/EmmaFrost loses an arm against Mr. Sinister. Being in diamond form, she doesn't die from blood loss or anything, and she gets better.
81	** In ''ComicBook/XMenSecondComing'', multiple people end up losing limbs.
82	*** Archangel slices off Stryker's arm (specifically, his right arm, which he'd covered with Nimrod's), before slicing him in half.
83	*** Karma loses a leg to Cameron Hodge.
84	*** Bastion loses an arm due to Nightcrawler teleporting away with it. He soon grows a new one.
85	*** Hellion loses both his arms at the elbow to the Nimrods.
86	* ''ComicBook/XStatix'':
87	** The Coach of the original team had a large left arm as part of his mutant powers. He lost it sometime after Edie Sawyer joined the team.
88	** Ocean of O-Force loses both her legs to the zombies summoned by Arnie Lundbeg. After he realizes what a little shit he's been, he uses his powers to restore her legs.
89	** El Guapo loses both of his legs on a mission.
90	* ''ComicBook/Youngblood2017'': [[spoiler:Shaft lose an arm]].

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