1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character loses one or more limbs. |
2 | * '''Played straight''': Alice loses one of her arms. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Alice not only loses an arm, but also that arm's shoulder. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice does not lose her arm ''per se'', but she can no longer use it. |
5 | * '''Justified''': Someone severed Alice's arm from her. |
6 | * '''Inverted''': |
7 | ** Alice [[HealingFactor regrows]] a limb. |
8 | ** Alice grows an extra arm and leg. |
9 | * '''Subverted''': Alice claims to have lost one arm, but she was born without it. |
10 | * '''Double-subverted''': Alice's other arm is lost. Or one of her legs. |
11 | * '''Parodied''': Alice can [[DetachmentCombat pull off her limbs]] at will. |
12 | * '''Zig-zagged''': Alice loses an arm, but regrows it. But then she loses it again, only to regrow it. |
13 | * '''Averted''': ??? |
14 | * '''Enforced''': ??? |
15 | * '''Lampshaded''': Bob points out that Alice should have been careful. If she was, she wouldn't have lost a limb. |
16 | * '''Discussed''': Bob asks why Alice is missing her arm. |
17 | * '''Invoked''': ??? |
18 | * '''Exploited''': ??? |
19 | * '''Defied''': ??? |
20 | * '''Implied''': Alice always covers one of her arms with a [[FashionableAsymmetry long sleeve and glove]] |
21 | * '''Deconstructed''': Without her lost limbs, Alice loses the opportunity to do many things. |
22 | * '''Reconstructed''': ...but she manages to find a way to get by. |
23 | * '''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. |
24 | Back to: AnArmAndALeg |
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26 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
27 | %% ??? |
28 | %% * '''Played for Laughs''': ??? |
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