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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.
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26%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
27%% ???
28%% * '''Played for Laughs''': ???

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