An Arm And A Leg / Visual Novels

Amputations in Visual Novels.

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• Type 3 happens in Chaos;Head when Nanami's right hand gets cut off and then sent to the main character, as a way to intimidate him.
• In The Crown & the Flame, this is part of Whitlock's backstory. He rescued some villagers from being massacred by the Nevrakis army, and as punishment, they cut off his arms and left him to die, but the grateful villagers came back and prevented him from bleeding to death. In the present, Whitlock has mechanized hands and arms in place of the ones he lost.
• During Leo's route in Echo, Clint tells the protagonist Chase a grisly tale of a man who lived in the town of Echo in the late 1800s and, when he slipped up trying to catch the train, ended up getting his legs run over by it, amputating them on the spot. The man lived, but proceeded to have hallucinations (?) of someone whispering horrible things to him, leading to him committing suicide in the hospital room.
  • The worst part? Much later in the same route we find out that was Foreshadowing, since if you choose the Bad Ending by not telling Leo that the relationship is over, Leo will prevent Chase from getting on the train out of Echo with the rest of the gang by dragging him down, leading to Chase also getting his legs amputated via train wheels. Chase will then die later by blood loss, in Leo's obsessive embrace.
• During the climactic battle scene of The Eden of Grisaia, Travis walks calmly to the battlefield to face Yuuji. When he arrives, he's horrified to realize that everyone is already dead and he has no idea where Yuuji is. Before he realizes that anything is wrong, Yuuji takes his left hand with a combat knife, causing him to fire wildly with the gun in his right hand before he loses that too.
• Shirou of Fate/stay night loses his left arm in the Heaven's Feel route. This also counts as Major Injury Underreaction. ("Man, I panicked too much. All I lost was my left arm!") Shirou's arm is later replaced by Archer's.
• Interea and Khemia, respectively the midquel and sequel to Adastra (2018), feature the uplifted wolverine Brunis, who lost his arm after his species suffered a brutal nigh-genocide at the hands of the wolves. However, after becoming a citizen to the advanced Khemia civilization, he at least got a sick Cyborg arm for his troubles.
• In Katawa Shoujo, both Emi Ibarazaki and Miki Miura went through Type 2 in their backstories. Emi was involved in a car accident that cost her both her legs and her father. Miki lost her left hand in an undisclosed workshop incident.
• In Marco & the Galaxy Dragon, Gargouille slices off Dosgoro's left arm to show him that she means business. He's sporting a cybernetic replacement by his next appearance. Much later on, Astaroth rips off Marco's right arm. She nearly dies, though Pandagraph manages to save her life and reattach the arm with a risky surgical procedure.
• In the School Days Updated Re Release, there's a bad end where Kotonoha is on the receiving end of a Type 3. After Makoto chooses her over Sekai, the mentally broken Sekai goes Murder the Hypotenuse and pushes Kotonoha on the train line they're standing next to. Makoto tries to catch Kotonoha but fails to save her from being hit by the train... and finds himself holding the dead Kotonoha's torn-off hand.
• In Slay the Princess, freeing the Princess from the shackle on her right arms means you either cut her right hand off or she chews through it to be free from her shackles. Either way, the Princess doesn't react at all. It ties into the Princess being Ambiguously Human, since she's still a massive physical threat even with only one hand.
• Spirit Hunter: NG:
  • Throughout the Screaming Author case, Akira and his companions find cassette tapes that record a Mad Doctor amputating the arms and legs of young girls. What makes it particularly horrifying is that they're awake for it, and beg for their limbs back. The reason for doing so is elaborated on later; he was converting them into dolls in order to pacify a spirit and keep her sealed away.
  • In one of the Screaming Author Bad Ends, Ban's arm is severed off when the Screaming Author drags them away with razor wire, reflecting how the Author itself had its limbs removed when it was alive.
• Depending on the player's choices in Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius, Ava Crescentia can lose her right arm (along with her right eye) when a console explodes in her face. The sequel shows that she survived and that the Sunrider's medics were able to regenerate her arm, though she'll wear a glove throughout the game as its skin tone doesn't match the rest of her body yet.
• Sigma from Virtue's Last Reward discovers that he lost his left eye and both arms during an incident 45 years prior, with both arms later being replaced by cybernetics. The Interquel, Zero Time Dilemma, reveals that Sigma lost said body parts attempting to disarm a bomb set by D-Team that accidentally kills Q-Team.
• In Winter Shard, Frederick gets his right arm torn off by Temonz. He gets a replacement right arm that can tear through flesh and drain the warmth from any living or undead being after making a deal with Krotus.

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