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13	[[caption-width-right:279:Don't bring your arms to a Captain America fight, dummy.]]
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15	->''"''Cho mai'' translates as 'to cut off the weapon hand.' Because this strike instantly ends an opponent's ability to use a weapon but does not kill, ''cho mai'' is a preferred move in combat."''
16	-->-- '''Cin Drallig''', ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force]]''
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18	Sometimes, in the middle of a fight, it becomes necessary to separate a combatant from their weapon. However, standard disarming techniques aren't working or just don't quite have the effect desired, and instead, the disarmer feels the need to remove a whole hand to make sure their opponent can't fight back. This has the added advantage of making sure the attacker doesn't need to worry about their enemy retrieving the weapon and continuing the fight... they no longer have any means of gripping the weapon in the first place.
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20	This method of disarming tends to be used mostly by anti-heroes and villains, since hacking off someone's limbs is painful and very much permanent, barring a HealingFactor or some other extraordinary recovery method. All bets are off if the victim's weapons ''are'' their limbs... in such an instance, this may be the only practical way of removing said weapons.
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22	Lighter works may decide to make sure that the arm lost [[FakeArmDisarm wasn't flesh and blood to begin with]], or invoke GoodThingYouCanHeal afterwards to prevent the damage from being permanent. When played for laughs, a {{Pun}} about "disarming" is usually imminent. Note that this trope only applies when the removal of a limb is ''specifically'' done in a fight to make the improvised amputee less threatening... if it's an official punishment, it's AmputativeSentencing; otherwise, it's just AnArmAndALeg.
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25	!!Examples:
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29	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
30	* ''Manga/BlackButler'': Sebastian cleanly slices off [[spoiler:Joker]]'s arm with just a dagger near the end of the [[spoiler:Circus Arc]].
31	* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'':
32	** After Samurai Sword's Devil power had run dry, he still has a handgun to use against Kobeni's knife. She dodges his bullets, slices off his forearm, snags the firearm it was holding, and [[UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem shoots him with it]]--all in one motion.
33	** When Denji and many other characters are accosted by the Darkness Devil, it enters the scene by popping their arms off like they were action figures. Bizarrely, most of the survivors' limbs reattach by being stuck back on (even if they were just humans), except for [[spoiler:one of Aki's and both of Angel's]].
34	* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', when Nappa is battling the Z-Fighters, he surfaces his energy, charges Tien, and punches his left arm off. Vegeta snidely noted of Tien, "he's been disarmed."
35	** Much later in the Android Saga, Vegeta caps off his manhandling of Android 19 by ripping ''both'' of the android's arms off. In this case, there is a practical reason: 19's hands have a ki-draining node in the palms, which both Yamcha and a illness-stricken Goku fell prey to earlier. Android 20, aka [[spoiler:Dr. Gero]] has the same kind of palm nodes, and Piccolo manages to rip one hand off and crush it, sending the android into a hasty retreat.
36	* ''Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks'': Gilgamesh draws Ea, the ultimate weapon that can destroy worlds, but before he can fire it, Shirou Emiya slices his arm off.
37	* ''Manga/FrierenBeyondJourneysEnd'': Frieren idly notes she can't easily break Draht's RazorFloss when he attempts to behead her. She can however easily sever the hand controlling the threads.
38	* ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'': Gama (in a variation) finally defuses [[SuperStrength Ginki's threat]] by chopping his fingers off, forcing him to drop his [[CarryABigStick steel club]], though the latter apparently survives. Much later, Kurogane Jinsuke aims at [[spoiler: Koma's]] arm to prevent him from using his polearm-based secret technique. Unlike Ginki, the receiver doesn't survive.
39	* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Shigaraki takes off Overhaul's arms to render him essentially Quirkless.
40	* Episode 3 of the ''Manga/QueenEmeraldas'' anime ends with the title heroine lopping off the cyborg mass murderer Vaidas' hands, before Hiroshi finishes him off with a headshot.
41	* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': Kirito and Eugeo are forced to do this to defeat Raios and Humbert. The latter loses his right arm, while the former loses both hands and ends up bleeding to death.
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44	[[folder:Comic Books]]
45	* Franchise/MarvelUniverse:
46	** In ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' #334, John Walker fights training dummies to get used to Cap's shield. He throws it with too much force, accidentally cutting a dummy's hand off.
47	--->'''John Walker:''' Now's my chance to disarm it. Oops! [[LampshadeHanging I didn't mean to do it literally!]]
48	** The "Judgement War" ''ComicBook/XFactor'' storyline culminates in Marvel Girl absorbing the energy of the alien factions of the planet where the story took place, and transferring it to Cyclops to stop the Celestials' judgement. A cosmic symbol imprinted on Arishem's hand could start the judgement process if his verdict was negative, so Cyclops destroyed the hand with a powered-up optic blast.
49	** Forge of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' had his bionic hand (and leg) removed by Cameron Hodge during the ''X-Tinction Agenda'' crossover to make him less dangerous. It was also twisted payback for deliberately putting himself in stasis so nobody could find the X-Men's plan by scanning his mind.
50	** In ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'''s 2016 series, Logan has to defend a Canadian town from an attack by the Reavers, and at one point he cuts Lady Deathstrike's deadly clawed hands off.
51	** ''ComicBook/SWORD2020'': During the events of ''King in Black'', Frenzy tears off Kid Cable's artificial limb and clubs him with it, also depriving him of his bodyslide tech, which he'd been using to TeleportSpam.
52	* In ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'', Kilowog disarms a defeated Arkillo by cutting off his ring finger, thereby removing his power ring.
53	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Hippolyta cuts the arm off of one of Darkseid's brainwashed victims in order to get him to let go of [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna]]. Donna does not appreciate the level of violence her mother brings to the fight as she was hoping to take him out of the fight without causing permanent damage, but it does allow them to move forward with uncovering Darkseid's plot.
54	* In ''ComicBook/WynonnaEarp: Home on the Strange'', Wynonna rips an arm off one of the zombie mailmen and uses it to beat him to death (again).
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57	[[folder:Fan Fiction]]
58	* In ''Fanfic/ABrighterDark'', Corrin finishes her duel against Kaze by slicing off his sword-wielding hand moments before executing him and Rinkah.
59	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14109254/12/The-Veil The Veil]]'' during a fight with some Death Eaters, Isolt casts a spell that removes the wand arm of one of them and then banishes it at him.
60	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/45522/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Insanity-of-Hogwarts Harry Potter and the Insanity of Hogwarts]]'' a panicked Hermione accidentally disarms Peter Pettigrew by saying ''Expellilimbus'' instead of the correct disarming spell of ''Expelliarmus''.
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63	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
64	* In ''WesternAnimation/SherlockGnomes'', Irene Adler rips the arm off Big Boy Gorilla while arm-wrestling him.
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67	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
68	* In ''Film/SixtyEightKill'', Dwayne literally disarms Leroy by using a shotgun to blow off the arm with which Leroy is holding the pistol.
69	* In ''Film/ArmyOfFrankensteins'', Jimmy has his arm ripped off by a Frankenstein who then proceeds to literally [[StopHittingYourself beat him with the soggy end]].
70	* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': When the remaining Avengers corner and restrain [[spoiler:Thanos in his retirement garden]] a couple of weeks after the finger snap, Thor cuts his [[spoiler:Infinity Gauntlet-wearing]] arm off for good measure so he won't be able to use it. Turns out [[spoiler:Thanos destroyed the six Infinity Stones, meaning the Gauntlet is now useless.]]
71	* In ''Film/DraculaVsFrankenstein'', Dracula rips both arms off the FrankensteinMonster during their fight in the forest, before [[OffWithHisHead ripping off his head]].
72	* ''Film/TheEroticRitesOfFrankenstein'': When Dr. Frankenstein's reanimated corpse attempts to strangle Dr. Seward, Inspector Tanner throws HollywoodAcid over its arms; causing its hands to come off at the wrists.
73	* ''Film/FreddyVsJason'': During their fight in the dream realm, Jason cuts off both of Freddy's arms to deprive him of his WolverineClaws, then looks on in confusion as Freddy just laughs mockingly and regrows his arms. During their final battle at Camp Crystal Lake, [[spoiler:Jason physically rips Freddy's arm off at the shoulder and later stabs him with the his own bladed hand.]]
74	* In the first shootout of ''Film/TheInvincibleDragon'', Kowloon managed to disarm a rival mob boss shooting at him... by repeatedly shooting the boss' wrist, removing the arm in the process.
75	* ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'':
76	** TheDragon at one point slices off an agent's arm for this reason, leaving him staring at the now-severed limb in bewilderment (and slow motion).
77	** TheDragon herself later suffers a posthumous version, losing one of her leg blades, which are used to kill the BigBad.
78	* ''Film/LadyFrankenstein'': During the final battle, Charles cuts off one of the Monster's arms with an axe.
79	* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'': King Arthur cuts off both of the Black Knight's arms and both of his legs, and the Black Knight still refuses to surrender.
80	-->'''King Arthur:''' Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left!\
81	'''Black Knight:''' [[ImplausibleDeniability Yes I have!]]\
82	'''King Arthur:''' Look! ''(points at an arm that was chopped off)''\
83	'''Black Knight:''' [[OnlyAFleshWound It's just a flesh wound!]]
84	* During the final showdown in ''Film/{{Savaged}}'', Zoe cuts off Trey's hand with a knife. The severed hand remains clamped on the throttle of the [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] he is wielding, keeping it running.
85	* ''Film/SpyHard'': General Rancor loses his arms when Special Agent WD-40 blows up his helicopter. When he comes BackFromTheDead, he is using prosthetic arms, which leads to a [[AntiClimax [anti-]climatic fight]] when his remaining arm detaches just as he's about to strike WD-40 with a fire-axe.
86	-->'''Rancor''': ''(raises his arm to strike WD-40)'': Ah-hah!
87	-->(''arm falls off'')
88	-->'''WD-40''': Oh-hoh!
89	-->-- (''WD-40 stands up and starts moving towards Rancor, who backs away in terror'')
90	-->'''Rancor''': Leave me alone, I'm an unarmed man!
91	* ''Franchise/StarWars'' is rife with this, with lightsabers leaving [[BloodlessCarnage bloodless wounds]] and the wide availability of [[ArtificialLimbs replacement limbs]]. (These are marks of contact known as ''cho mai'' and ''cho sun''.)
92	** Poor Anakin is on the receiving end of this trope a ''lot''.
93	*** In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', Count Dooku separates him from his hand and forearm (and lightsaber) for the first time, necessitating a bionic replacement afterwards and preventing him from intervening in Dooku and Yoda's duel right afterward.
94	*** In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', he loses his ''other'' arm, as well as both legs for good measure, at the end of his duel with Obi-Wan on Mustafar, which leaves him helplessly burning up next to a river of lava.
95	*** Finally, in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', he loses his hand again, this time to Luke, which allows the latter to win the duel between them through making Luke realize just how close to TheDarkSide he's coming.
96	** In ''Film/ANewHope'', the lightsaber is shown being used in combat for the first time when Obi-Wan Kenobi uses his in the Mos Eisley Cantina to stop two men about to shoot Luke, cutting the arm off one of them.
97	** ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'':
98	*** Luke slices off the right arm of the wampa as it attacks him, though it doesn't have a weapon and is just an animal. Mark Hamill disapproved of the scene for that reason and thought it was out of character for Luke to do so.
99	*** Luke Skywalker loses his hand during a duel with Darth Vader, which leaves him helpless for the duration of the now-famous "LukeIAmYourFather" scene.
100	** ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'':
101	*** Obi-Wan slices off the forearm of bounty hunter Zam Wesell as she tries to pull a blaster on him, in an InternalHomage to the barfight scene in ''Film/ANewHope''.
102	*** Mace Windu also cuts off Jango Fett's right hand in combat, and since Jango is known for DualWielding pistols and has a flamethrower and who knows how many other weapons on his person, beheads him too.
103	** ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'':
104	*** This happens to Count Dooku in his rematch with Anakin, costing him both his hands (and a few seconds later, [[OffWithHisHead his head]]).
105	*** General Grievous has this happen to him during his fight with Obi-Wan, as well, costing him both of his upper limbs' hands and the lightsabers he was holding in them.
106	*** Mace Windu loses his right hand when Anakin cuts it off in a desperate attempt to stop him from killing a disarmed (but still dangerous) Palpatine.
107	* ''Film/SympathyForLadyVengeance'': When one of Mr. Baek's assassins uses Geum-ja's daughter as a HumanShield, she closes [[ShootTheHostageTaker blows the hand holding the knife off at the wrist]].
108	* ''Film/TotalRecall1990'': Quaid disposes of Richter when he tried to hang on to his dear life at the end of their ElevatorActionSequence but didn't notice that they are entering another floor until it was too late. His arms were torn off and fell to his death.
109	* ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'':
110	** ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'': Optimus Prime pulls this move twice, first by chopping off Grindor's rotor arm while being ganged-up on by Decepticons in the forest (with the appendage flying about and hitting Megatron in the process), then later during the climax he gets Megatron to shoot himself ''in the face'' with his own fusion cannon before severing the limb completely.
111	** ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'': During their climactic duel, [[spoiler:Sentinel Prime]] knocks Optimus' ax out of one hand and tears off the other sword-wielding arm.
112	* The ActionPrologue of ''Film/YesMadam'' has it's CowboyCop getting into a shootout against multiple robbers using a shotgun she retrieved off a dead cop. The last mook tries grabbing his pistol even as she had the shotgun trained on him, so she removes his arm with the shotgun's last shell.
113	* ''Film/ZombiesZombiesZombies'': When Pamela transforms into a zombie, she rips an arm off one of her fellow whores and starts eating it.
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116	[[folder:Literature]]
117	* ''Literature/BinderOfShame'': In "Monty Python Mishaps in the Deepest Pit of Homebrew Hell", El Disgusto's ninja character has his arms severed by the Most Holy of the Spider Elves.
118	-->'''El Disgusto:''' I attack again.\
119	'''Cheating Bastard:''' How? How are you going to attack?\
120	'''[=AB3=]:''' You know he has a point... your ninja has been totally disarmed.
121	* ''Literature/ChrysalisRinoZ'': Thinking that the ants have been sent by heaven, Beyn the preacher taps Anthony with a ceremonial mace -- so Anthony bites his arm off. The stump gets healed, but it's not easy for humans to grow limbs back, so Beyn remains one-armed after that. Interestingly enough, it doesn't stop Beyn from worshipping the ants.
122	* In ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'', after efforts to conventionally disarm the villain [[spoiler:Jin Guangyao]] fail, allowing him to take Jin Ling hostage with RazorFloss, Lan Wangji cuts off the villain's hand to free Jin Ling.
123	* {{Inverted\|Trope}} in ''Literature/PeterPan'': at some point prior to the events of the book, Peter and Captain Hook dueled and Peter cut off Hook's right hand, throwing it to a crocodile. [[MeaningfulName Hook]] made the most of this situation and [[HookHand weaponized his missing member]].
124	* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'':
125	** At the climax of Oliver and Nanao's battle with [[spoiler:Vera Miligan]] in volume 1, their opponent reveals a [[DeadlyGaze basilisk eye]] grafted to the back of her hand. That should have ended it, except [[spoiler:Nanao spontaneously invents the eponymous Seventh Spellblade and cuts everything between her and Miligan's wrist with sheer force of will, [[AbsurdlySharpBlade including the space between them]]]], sending that hand flying. For her part, [[spoiler:Miligan]] later reanimates the severed appendage to serve as her familiar.
126	** In the epilogue, Oliver does the same thing to [[spoiler:Darius Grenville, using the Fourth Spellblade, Angustavia, to find the [[MultipleChoiceFuture one future in ten thousand]] where he won the duel]].
127	* In ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' Daylen loses both of his arms to [[spoiler: Lyrah]], in an attempt to immobilize him for a CoupDeGrace. As he has some [[AmplifierArtifact sunstones]] tucked under his clothing, however, he's able to [[DismembermentIsCheap quickly regenerate]] both of them.
128	* ''Literature/StarWarsHonorAmongThieves'': BountyHunter Baasen Ray is about to shoot Chewbacca when Han gets to a dropped blaster first and shoots the other's gun hand clean off. When Baasen reappears later, he's placed a metal cap over the stump.
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131	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
132	* ''Series/Danger5:'' Hitler Boss shoots off both hands of the Colonel when he puts on a ring that would supposedly give him god-like powers.
133	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]", during the duel between the [[TheNthDoctor newly regenerated Tenth Doctor]], the Sycorax cuts off the Doctor's right hand which was holding the sword. However, thanks to the Doctor being within 15 hours of his regeneration he is able to [[HealingFactor regrow his hand]] with a stronger better ''fighting hand'', where he proceeds to overwhelm the Sycorax leader and knock him down.
134	* ''{{Series/Highlander}}'': Duncan cuts off Xavier St. Cloud's hand though he isn't able to behead him then. Xavier gets a prosthetic and a lot of speculation on Immortal healing abilities was generated.
135	* In season 3 of ''Series/{{Justified}}'', a running ChekhovsGun is that villain Robert Quarles has a secret gun rail hidden in the sleeve of his jacket. Any time he extends his arm, his opponent is in danger of being shot and killed. In the season finale, Quarles extends his arm to shoot the protagonist, Raylan Givens, only to have his arm cleaved off at the shoulder by Limehouse, the butcher Quarles had threatened earlier in the scene.
136	* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'': The Questioner had cut off the hands of the Aes Sedai before burning her.
137	* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace''. Uncle Kelboe, fearing that Justin will report him to the Wizard Council for being [[Music/{{Shakira}} Shakira]], reveals that the council punishes wizards by [[BlackComedy having a dragon break their hands]] to take away their ability to use a wand.
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140	[[folder:Religion]]
141	* ''Literature/TheBookOfMormon'': Ammon defends himself from a gang of club-wielding robbers by "smiting their arms with the edge of his sword". He apparently cut all the way through, because his fellow servants then proceed to gather up the fallen arms, to present to the king as [[BringingBackProof evidence of his achievement]].
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144	[[folder:Roleplay]]
145	* In ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'' Tagg slices off Tokarev's pistol hand with an Aura blade to prevent him from shooting him while the latter is trying to beat him to death.
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148	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
149	* In the Dark Eldar codex for ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', it says that Lelith Hesperax once offered a Chaos warband freedom if their leader were to beat her in combat. [[CurbStompBattle She disarmed him this way with her first attack]].
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152	[[folder:Video Games]]
153	* Encouraged against [[MechaMooks Loader enemies]] in ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' and the expansions of ''VideoGame/Borderlands3''. In addition to the shoulder joints of most models being [[AttackItsWeakPoint weak points]] that take critical hit damage when shot, dealing enough damage to the joint removes the Loader's arm along with any weapons carried/[[ArmCannon built into]] said arm. Loaders disarmed this way are reduced to using a weak and slow EyeBeam attack.
154	* This is a relatively common tactic among ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' players; hacking off an opponent's hand deprives them of not only a weapon, but parrying capabilities, as well, leaving them open for a potentially fatal blow--or you can wait a while until [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome they pass out (and probably die) from blood loss.]]
155	* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsIntoReverie'', [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure Arios MacLaine]] does this towards Emperor Dogma after Nadia notes that they need to separate the [[ArtifactOfDoom Heavenly Regalia]], which is attached to his shoulder, from his body at the climax of [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Rufus']] chapter 4 in his [[BreakoutCharacter route.]].]]
156	* In ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm'''s first episode, "Awake", you have the option of playing a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' game. The final boss of said [[ShowWithinAShow game within a game]] is wearing a bracer that protects him against fire. If you choose the right options, Chloe's character will be able to chop his arm off, allowing the other player's wizard to blast him with a fire spell.
157	* In the ''Videogame/MechWarrior'' series, shooting the arm off of an enemy HumongousMecha will destroy any weapons mounted there, and on mechs that have entirely arm-mounted arsenals such as the ''Rifleman'', a dangerous enemy can be turned into a hapless walking target. In ''Mechwarrior Living Legends'', this is also permanent - damaged weapons in the torso can be repaired, but a lost limb or external weapon pod cannot. Pilots of lighter mechs may go straight for the arms of heavier enemies they cannot (directly) defeat to spite them.
158	* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' uses this twice: first against Death Metal, the very first boss in the game, where Travis slices off both hands, causing his {{BFS}} to go flying into the ceiling. The second one is used against Shinobu, removing her right hand (and her katana), preventing her from fighting Travis any further.
159	* It's entirely possible for you to do this in ''VideoGame/{{Postal 2}}'' with the ''Apocalypse Weekend'' expansion (or if you have the game on Steam). Attacking an opponent with an edged melee weapon allows you to sever their limbs (or [[OffWithHisHead heads]], if you are so inclined), which renders them utterly incapable of fighting back, as they'll drop whatever they were holding and run around in a blind panic, basically nullifying the theat that they pose. Enemies with two-handed weapons will block your blows, but this doesn't stop you from cutting their legs off and leaving them collapsed on the floor.
160	* In ''VideoGame/{{The Punisher\|THQ}}'', Frank Castle tears off Bushwacker's ArmCannon before killing him with it.
161	-->'''Bushwacker''': "You bastard! What are you doing?!"
162	-->'''Frank Castle''': "Disarming you."
163	* In ''Videogame/{{Rimworld}}'' it's possible to capture a raider, replace their healthy limbs with {{Seadog Peg Leg}}s and/or {{Hook Hand}}s, and release them. Your doctors will get experience from performing the amputations and the raider will be significantly less threatening if they ever attempt to attack your colony again. Amputating limbs can also be used as [[NailedToTheWagon an extreme measure to deal with colonists with addictions to drugs.]]
164	* The WebGame ''VideoGame/SandsOfTheColiseum'' (where limbs can be individually targeted) has some variations: a fighter with a two-handed weapon can't attack at all, but if they have a shield they can still perform a ShieldBash attack, and use the other weapon if they were DualWielding. Destroying a leg makes every fighter except polearm wielders (who can throw their weapon) unable to attack, though they can still [[ManaBurn intimidate opponents]] and hold out longer if they have shields. Taking the torso or head is insta-death.
165	* ''A Spot of Bother'' mentions in the intro that Stavros "[[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Bulldog]]" [=McGrogan=] once tore an opponent's arm off with his ''teeth'' before using his nose to crack the guy's head - through ''shock resistant armor'', mind you.
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168	[[folder:Webcomics]]
169	* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', the only way to stop Non-Alternate Mynd was literally cutting his limbs off. [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/050226 First arm]], [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/050227 second arm]], [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/050228 legs]]. The last comic also features a reference to ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' because there is NoFourthWall.
170	* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
171	** Captain Vole the Jaeger deals with a would-be assassin branishing a DeadMansSwitch bomb by [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070611 ripping off]] the guy's arm along with the bomb.
172	** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070910 "Revenge of the Weasel Queen"]]:
173	--->'''Agatha:''' Ah, good. I wanted a chance to test my pocket de-arming device.\
174	'''Giant rabbit:''' Ha! Foolish human! I need no weapons!\
175	'''Agatha:''' ...I didn't say anything about weapons. ''[Bzzzrip!]''\
176	'''Giant rabbit:''' ''[from the opposite panel side as his arms]'' AGH! My arms!
177	* In the FinalBattle of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', [[spoiler:PM disarms Jack by cutting off the arm on which he's wearing the [[RingOfPower Queen's ring]], thus de-powering him.]]
178	* In ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'', there's a RunningGag that attempting to disarm someone with a laser sword ends up cutting off their hand thanks to bad dice rolls.
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181	[[folder:Western Animation]]
182	* ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': Megatron has an ArmCannon in the form of his T-Rex beast-mode's head, which fires powerful lasers out its mouth. Optimus had to resort to slicing it off altogether in one of his rare head-on fights with Megatron, and was pretty outclassed until he did.
183	* Similar thing happens to another Megatron, this time in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''. Both he and Optimus are each armed with a BFS, but because Megatron wields his otherwise-stronger sword with only one hand, he gets knocked back upon clashing with Optimus' two-handed grip, and quickly gets his sword-wielding arm[[note]]which was grave robbed from one of the Thirteen Primes and grafted onto him, which allowed him to use a Prime-only artifact that crafted the sword in the first place[[/note]] chopped off, by Optimus' quicker counter.
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