Amputations in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- All For Luz:
- Luz occasionally loses limbs in her more serious fights, especially in the Battle of Gravesfield. Luckily, this is nothing that her Super Regeneration Quirk can't fix.
- Lilith's fight against All For One cost the witch her right arm 14 years ago at the climax of the war.
- Avengers: Infinite Wars;
- Separatist General Lok Durd loses an arm when his arm catches on fire and one of his droid soldiers ‘assists’ him by stamping it out.
- When various Spider-Men are sent to another reality, during a confrontation with the Sinister Six of that world, a version of Peter Parker who has been trained as a Jedi cuts off Hammerhead's right arm with his lightsaber.
- The Boys: Real Justice: The Deep loses his right arm during the fight with the Legion of Doom, courtesy of Black Manta.
- In Chapter 69 of BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant, Adam Taurus hacks off his own left arm to escape the rubble it was trapped in so he could chase after Blake when she was escaping him.
- Child of the Storm has Harry default to this in the sequel when fighting non-human opponents, usually via his telekinesis or a very sharp sword. He suffers it himself when, as the Red Son, Magneto is forced to blast his arm off. He gets a techno-organic replacement immediately, and then regenerates it as the Dark Phoenix.
- Code Prime: During the fight over the Tox-En, Rai's left arm gets crushed when a blow from Nemesis Prime caves in his Knightmare. Upon being attended to back at the Ark, it's determined that the arm is too damaged to save, so it's amputated.
- Cycles Upon Cycles: Saren gets his arm bitten off by a Zergling while invading a Zerg colony.
- The interlude of The Dark Lords of Nerima has Prince Herb and one of the Joketsuzoku elders launching a successful Combination Attack against Queen Beryl that shreds one of his arms. This does nothing to slow him down; he removes what's left with an energy blade, uses its heat to cauterize the wound, and gets right back to leading his forces.
- The Devil Fruit Hero: When Shigaraki tries attacking Hilda at the USJ, Izuku chops his hands off at the wrists with the power of the Op-Op Fruit.
- Fate of the Clans:
- Okada cuts off Reisi's legs and leaves him to bleed out.
- Gouki Zenjou lost his left arm in the Kagutsu Incident.
- Kuroh gets his right forearm servered.
- Kiyohime gets her left arm and both legs cut off.
- Mordred cuts Okada's right hand off.
- Cú Chulainn Alter slices Mikoto's right arm off.
- A way for a Master to steal someone's Command Seal is to cut the arm possessing it off the other person.
- Fujino's mystic eyes twisted Shiki's left arm, rendering it unusable and it had to be replaced with one of Touko's prosthetics.
- Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters:
- During the Sack of Torus Finley, Aldarn shoots off one of Servantis's hands, with the rest of that arm needing to be removed after it becomes gangrenous.
- Elyon blasts off one of Ludmoore's hands as he's in the middle of teleporting to flee his attacked manor.
- Uncle's arm is vaporized by his final attack on Phobos.
- Lothar loses the lower half of his left leg during the Final Battle between the Rebellion and Phobos' forces.
- Infinity Crisis: The follow-up Powers and Marvels sees the Mandarin blow up both of his hands when Iron Man seals them in a coolant he uses to contain lab fires just as the Mandarin tries to use his rings; the Mandarin subsequently receives new reptilian hands from the High Evolutionary.
- Leviathan in Manehattan's Lone Guardian employs an unorthodox method of defeating a dragon when conventional attacks fail and it tries to eat her. She succeeds, but one of her arms is reduced to a mess of molten metal. An application of Reddocite is required to return the arm to its original shape and functionality.
- In A Midsummer Night's Dream chapter 8, we learn that Spitfire lost a leg and wing crashing her zeppelin into Rasputin.
- My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator:
- The Slayer brutally rips off Shigaraki's arm at the mall. While it couldn't be recovered initially due to police scrutiny, the Slayer's One-Man Army fight against the Steel Sabers allows Kurogiri to get the arm back. Despite this, Sayaka argues that even if they do re-attach it, his ability to use his Quirk in that arm is badly weakened.
- Rips off several of Chainsaw's arms, including two chainsaw arms to get himself a replacement chainsaw.
- Two chapters later, he rips off both of Swordkill's arms and uses the arm blades to decapitate him.
- Shadows over Meridian:
- Jade cuts off a soldier's hand during the battle at Snowpoint.
- Downplayed with Vera Bexley who has given Jade and the Phobos loyalists at Snowpoint some serious trouble with her Revenge Before Reason mentality yet is needed as their political hostage. To ensure Vera won't bother them anymore while suffering in the process, Jade paralyzes one of Vera's arms by having a Leech Khan eat the shadow of said body part.
- Shattered Skies: The Morning Lights: Complications from a shattered kneecap result in Cure Marine's left leg being amputated above the knee by the heroes' makeshift medical staff.
- Spiderhead: Spider-Man lost a leg while saving Batman from a bomb. He's more annoyed about it than anything, as he can grow the leg back but it takes over a month (and Bruce won't let him out of the house until it's fully grown back).
- Spider-Man and Power Girl invokes this when Power Girl assists Spider-Man in a confrontation with the Scorpion, as she takes time to establish if the villain's tail is artificial or an actual part of the villain. When Spider-Man confirms that it's artificial but still cybernetically linked to Gargan so that just taking it off would be like ripping off a limb, Karen instead targets the circuitry allowing Gargan to control his tail, leaving the limb intact but useless.
- Tattered Capes Under a Shattered Moon covers the accident when Ironwood lost his right limbs to an out-of-control Paladin. Dragon considers giving him Tinkertech prosthetics but decides not to since Atlas' are good enough.
- Tavi's Blood And Fire: Nihlus survives his encounter with Saren, but loses a hand to an attack on the Spectre compound.
- Twisted Steel
has Clarke Griffin lose both her arms in a traumatic accident up on the Ark — her left arm completely lost and the right severed up to the elbow — requiring her father and Raven to develop a pair of artificial arms for Clarke's use.
- Sporadic Phantoms: Stevie gets a call at the end of episode 4 that her sister Nicole has been taken to the hospital after a car accident caused her hand to be amputated. However, considering that the show is within the world of Animorphs and Nicole is a full member of the Sharing, it's more likely that it was severed by Ax in a fight.
- Phantom Skin Feeling the Cold Air: Ikki loses her right arm as a result of injuries sustained after saving her sister, Jinora, during Kuvira's attack on Republic City. It is revealed in a later chapter the full extent of why Ikki lost her arm in the first place — she was defending an unconscious Jinora from Earth Empire soldiers, and the unstable rubble surrounding them collapsed. Ikki ran to push Jinora out of the way, resulting in her right arm getting crushed beyond repair.
- Vow of the King:
- Tosen's hands are maimed, potentially beyond recovery, by Bambietta when she turns his zanpakuto into a bomb while he's holding it.
- Unohana loses several limbs (they grow back) while fighting Ichigo.
- Ichigo in turn loses his right arm fighting Unohana, though Orihime restores it.
- Grimmjow's left arm is annihilated by Ichigo's bankai during their first fight.
- Winter War: Isane manages to wound the Barragan Fragment... but it turns out that its blood has the same "age things to death" power as the whole thing, and some of that blood splatters on her hand and lower arm, necessitating an amputation to save her life. In the Backstory of the same fic, Kensei lost most of his leg under similar circumstances — he was hit by one of Barragan's attacks, and Rose saved his life with an emergency amputation.
- "The Beginning of Uncertainty" begins in an AU aftermath of The Flash (2023) where Barry's actions create a new timeline. When Zod comes to Earth and ends up facing the Justice League of this new timeline (now including Kara and Hal Jordan/Green Lantern but with Cyborg unaccounted for), the battle concludes when Flash uses a piece of the Black Zero ship to cut off Zod’s arm, the shock of such a serious injury forcing Zod to retreat.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
- What If I Know Too Many Reasons I Can Be Strong?: Tanjiro loses his left forearm in Chapter 1.
- An Arm and a Leg is a Frozen (2013) fanfic where Anna is hit by Hans's sword a few seconds before freezing. She loses her right arm.
- Twisted Princess: Ariel is missing an arm for unspecified reasons. She has a fork in its place.
- Here Comes the Sun: In this Encanto fanfic, Camilo's leg survives the initial plane crash, but it had to be amputated when it gets an infection that would have killed him if they left it.
- The Sage's Disciple:
- Kiritsugu loses an arm to Lancer during his attack on the Hyatt Hotel due to Crow warning Kayneth that he was coming. Irisviel replaces it with an Artificial Limb made of Alchemy-enhanced iron.
- When Kirei tried to remove the Crow Mask during the Banquet of Kings, it burned his hand to charcoal and cursed it with the inability to heal.
- Heavily downplayed in Lucky Number Thirteen, as Sharon didn't actually end up losing any limbs, but she reveals that when Christian suspended her from the ceiling of his playroom during a BDSM session, he tied her up in such a way her arm was dislocated and tore a ligament, which required surgery to repair the damage. She said it sure felt like she'd nearly had her arm torn off, though.
- A Brighter Dark: The author has a certain style. Whenever someone gets directly hit, it will usually either be Killed Off for Real or this.
- Kaze loses an arm in an attempt to assassinate Garon during his own execution.
- Selena lops off the arm of a Hoshidan soldier during Corrin's escape from Hoshido.
- Hans has his arm nearly severed in a fight with some Nohrian soldiers, and has to have it amputated.
- Hinoka loses An Arm and a Leg in a major battle.
- The Choices That Make Us: Regulus cuts off his right arm after he takes Voldemort's Horcrux in order to get rid of the Dark Mark that could be used to track him, and to fake his death.
- In Finding A Place To Call Home Lucius tries to strike Hera when she punishes him via Riches to Rags. This turns his right arm to nothing but bone.
- In How Friendship Accidentally Saved Magical Britain, George accidentally burns most of Lupin's right hand/paw off trying to defend himself from his werewolf form. Since that was his wand hand, Lupin has to relearn all of the wand movements all over again using his left, which he turns into a highly effective learning opportunity for the remaining month of school- any student able to pull off the spell being taught before Lupin manages it gets ten House points, and the first one to pull it off gets fifty.
- Saying No plays this for rather Black Comedy as Harry and Ron experiment with summoning charms to disarm Voldemort. It doesn't get any better for this particular Dark Lord.
- Hivefled has several ghosts who bear the wounds of their deaths; Keskay Sigsia's arm is missing as it was eaten before she died, while Ukuthe Lorain died of blood loss when her arm was torn off and now has it floating beside her shoulder stump.
- Becoming a True Invader:
- Dib loses a hand on Oberox thanks to a Life-or-Limb Decision.
- Zim cuts the Tallests' legs off to make them shorter than him.
- During their last fight, Gaz cuts off both of Tak's arms.
- Ruby Pair: In "Beefus Megabombus", Gaz fights Ned, first mate of the pirate space bees, and ends up cutting off his wings, his stinger, and all six of his limbs. Somehow, he quickly gets the upper four limbs replaced with hooks and the lower two with peg legs.
- The Violet Demon: Gaz wins the first match we see her in by cutting off Gornakk the Crusher's arm and forcing him to yield.
- Queen of Shadows:
- Sanshobo chops off the arms of kitsune leader Deshi when ambushing his tribe.
- Himitsu gets his arm below the elbow shot off by one of Rosuto's arrows. He regrows it thanks to a potion, only for Gurando to rip it off again. Then he reattaches it upon entering his short-lived Super Mode.
- Kuro takes one of Kyouaku's hands during their duel at the Second Battle of Awaji.
- During the Battle of Tobe, Ikazuki takes off Yasashi's fighting arm during their duel. A little later on, the Weaver stabs Jade through the knee to try and stop her escaping.
- In The Geeky Zoologist's reimagining of Jurassic World, Roberta the tyrannosaur bites off the Indominus's right forearm, and later, Claire Dearing also loses her right forearm when the Indominus closes her jaws on it just after the mosasaur grabs her.
- Kingdom Hearts: The Antipode: When Xaldin stabs Elsa in the heart with a shard of enchanted glassnote , she retaliates by freezing his arm off. Kristoff later finds and pockets Xaldin's dismembered (and frozen) arm for some Black Comedy.
- Broken Chords Can Sting A Little has Yui becoming a victim of a railway accident, resulting in her left arm being amputated.
- Bound Destinies Trilogy: In Wisdom and Courage, Veran launches a major attack on Termina, setting fire to Romani Ranch in the process. According to Romani, Cremia's arm was so badly burnt in the fire that it has to be cut off, therefore making her unable to work on the ranch anymore.
- In 14,000,606, Peter Parker performs the final Snap to destroy Thanos’s army (Avengers: Endgame), but the subsequent damage results in his left arm being amputated and his left eye being blinded; Shuri notes that he would have been worse off without his powers giving him enhanced healing.
- Canid has Fenrir, Loki's cursed wolf son, biting off the hand of his guard Tyr as a major turning point for the story.
- Cheat Code: Support Strategist: Without Izuku there to save him, Tenya's attempt to get revenge on Stain leads to one of his arms being rendered unusable, requiring amputation.
- In Juxtapose, Shigaraki has Izuku at his mercy and threatens to kill him for being All Might's successor, but he makes the mistake of waking Izuku up after knocking him unconscious previously. Cue Shigaraki's hands getting sliced off by Scalpel.
- Type-2 Hero: Bakugou blows off one of Izuku's arms, rendering it unsalvageable, Izuku afraid of explosions and suffering from PTSD, and unable to truly smile. This comes to bite Bakugou in the ass when a very livid Nezu (once he finds out via Kamui Woods and Edgeshot) kicks Bakugou out of UA before he could apply, gives him a Red Mark when he is The Unapologetic, then tells Bakugou that he was more of a villain for what he did to Izuku.
- In Inter Nos, which puts the characters in a Roman setting, Natsuki takes an arrow to the left calf, and is unable to get medical attention before the wound becomes badly infected and goes septic. When Shizuru shows up to save the day, she finds Natsuki, badly injured, and the medics tell her the only way to save her life is to amputate the leg. Though it's initially a shock to her, she eventually adapts and becomes a Handicapped Badass.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- In Blood Is Thicker than Friendship, Applejack gets one of her hind legs torn off defending Ponyville from a hydra.
- Blooming Moon Chronicles: Thorn of the Rose, Thorn Blackfeather gets one of his forelegs caught in a massive gear, requiring it to be amputated.
- In chapter 11 of Diplomacy Through Schooling, Tirek's arm gets essentially burned away when Twilight unleashes pure solar magic on it. Which has the side effect of giving him cancer throughout his body.
- In Equestria Total War, Pinkie has a hind leg torn off by a manticore. Being driven temporarily insane by the horrors of war, she then stabs the manticore in the eye with the shattered remains of her leg.
- Jericho: Jericho suffers both type type 2 and 3. A half-crab, half-octopus creature in a swamp hacks off a hoof (most of it, at least) and destroys another; this ends up giving Jericho's right foreleg/arm blood poisoning. Then, within days, his right foreleg dies of said blood poisoning, so he has to cut it off. Using only his mouth, a sword, and a bonfire. This prompts C, the Skinwalker, to cut off his own regenerating arm and give it to Jericho. Jericho's hunt for magic capable of restoring his foreleg/arm, along with his missing eye and horn, drive the plot of Act 2. A few chapters later, to prevent Cherry Berry from raping him, Jericho chews off his chained right forehoof. Twice. Because the skinwalker's limb regenerates and is semi-sentient, and actually took mild offense to Jericho's first attempt at chewing part of it off. Word of God says that the writing and editing team are very fond of this trope when concerning Jericho himself. Their team motto is even "Fuck Jericho". Word of God also states that the author is a sociopath who simply enjoys making beloved characters suffer.
- In Marionettes, Trixie gets her right front leg sliced off by Masquerade's BFS during the final battle. Due to being an android, Trixie isn't as badly affected as a normal pony (in part because she doesn't have blood to bleed out), but she still has to force herself to remember that fact, and that her creator Dr. Bright Future can just make her a replacement later, to avoid completely freaking out.
- In the Gelel arc of Dreaming of Sunshine, Shikamaru gets his arm turned to stone and crushed by Ishidate.
- Space to Breathe: Since Sakura isn't present to act as his Morality Chain in the Forest of Death, Sasuke keeps twisting when he gets his hands on Zaku's arms, until both come completely out of their sockets, literally disarming the Sound-nin.
- Your Heart a Haven of Thorns: The Point of Divergence driving the series is that Sakura encounters a giant tiger named Kikyō inside the Forest of Death and enters a summoning contract with her. In order to prove her willingness to sacrifice whatever it takes to protect her teammates, Sakura offers her left arm to her, letting it be severed just beneath the shoulder.
- your move, instigator (draw your weapon and hold your tongue):
- Uchiha Izumi loses their left leg during the Kumo Crush attempt. When Sakura visits them in the hospital, they remark that their injuries are extensive enough that their other leg will likely have to be amputated as well, and tearfully insist that they're happy to have received a Game-Breaking Injury that will force them to retire, rather than being constantly shunted from one battlefield to the next.
- After the Sandaime responds to a young Uchiha begging not to be shipped back to the frontlines by smiling and claiming they'll be just fine, the Uchiha crosses the Despair Event Horizon and screams about how they'll chop off one of their own limbs, as clearly that's the only way they'll be allowed to stop fighting. They're dragged off while still ranting, their ultimate fate left unclear.
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Silver Resistance: The main character, Char, loses an arm in the Temporal Tower arc.
- Better For Loving You: Colonel Fitzwilliam is clipped by a cannon blast during his military service. He eventually recovers from the internal bruising, avoids his extensive wounds becoming infected, and is able to walk again with a cane, but his left arm is a loss and has to be amputated. Still, he is naturally resilient, and later even learns to waltz, except he has to move slowly and lead with his right hand.
- In And everything's gonna change, now., it's mentioned that Raven's dad Victor lost a hand a while back. He's stopped cooking since then.
- The Crimson Badger: Captain Perrett has his leg cut off in the final battle, but still manages to kill two Long Patrol hares before he dies. Captain Bandon also loses his left leg but survives. Urthblood loses his swordpaw in the duel with his brother.
- Tommy's legs get amputated near the end of Human After All.
- My Abominable Monster Classmates Can't Be This Cute!: Grimmified Ruby has an Apathy Grimm's right arm similar to canon Cinder's arm, and Grimmified Yang has a gigantic right Grimm arm that was originally fashioned out of two Beringels. Both are transplants which were fashioned onto the sisters after they were hybridized, implicitly because their original right arms weren't among the bits of them that survived their transformations.
- RWBY: Scars: Yang has one of her arms torn off by an Ursa at the end of Volume 3.
- Forum of Thrones:
- One of the most prominent mutilations in the entire story takes place in Chapter 4, when Argilac Durrandon, the Storm King, mutilates Corilyan Celtigar, ambassador of Dragonstone, over something he perceived as a slight against his beloved daughter.
- Before he is killed, the Solver posing as Butterfly loses his sword hand in his fight against Samantha.
- Holt Torv, the head torturer of Harrenhal, lost his foot on the battlefield years before the story starts.
- At the end of the Raid on Maybros, Sadie gets into a duel with Durren Stallhart. It ends as well as you might expect, with Durren slicing off Sadie's sword hand and nearly killing her.
- Tales of Sonic the Hedgehog: During the climax of the South Island arc, Robotnik's left hand is crushed underfoot by Sonic, who's hopped up on negative chaos energy and has become Dark Sonic. At the beginning of the Westside Island arc, Robotnik is forced to amputate his left arm to prevent the corruption of Dark Sonic's energy from spreading through his body.
- In The Chaotic Three, Rey loses a hand in a fight with Darth Maul, and Mace Windu's arms are both severed from the elbow in his duel with Palpatine.
- In Eros Turannos, Padme only learns that Vader already has an artificial arm when he cuts it off to get out of a crashed ship.
- In "Star Wars: Legends Never Die", when Kylo Ren is about to kill Han, Luke (from the Star Wars Legends reality) is able to pull Han just out of the way enough that the blow isn't fatal, although it does cost Han his left arm. Later on, Luke is able to sever Kylo Ren's right leg in a duel, although Kylo is able to escape.
- In Missing Pieces, Sam Winchester loses his left leg in a car accident while he's still at Stanford, the rest of the story looking at Sam, Dean, and John's contrasting efforts to adjust to such a brutal injury.
- Jewel of Darkness: During the fight in Midnight's lair at the end of the Jump City arc, she rips off one of Cyborg's arms and smashes it. Of course, since it's a robotic limb, he just rebuilds it in the arc epilogue.
- Monster Chronicles: Cody ends up losing his right hand to Cedric during the events of the final chapter, and replaces it with the talisman.
- In Glory and Honor, Shockwave loses both an arm and a leg in Unicron's attack on Cybertron. He takes advantage of this by leaving both limbs behind in the ruins to fake his death and begin plotting a revolt against Galvatron.
- With This Ring: The Justice League's rules of engagement, which also apply to the team, require that Thou Shalt Not Kill, and after US law is updated to recognise all sapient creatures, that even includes undead — "but you're perfectly free to rip off his arms and legs, since they're weapons and his body isn't functioning biologically." Cue Deacon Blackfire's right arm flying past.
- His Lie in April: Kousei's first accident that leads to his eventual demise is his left foot getting crushed by the weight of an oncoming car when he slips and falls on the pavement of the crosswalk in a rainstorm; he also hits his head on a metal lamp post as he falls down.
