Basic Trope: A character loses one or more limbs.
- Played straight: Alice loses one of her arms.
- Exaggerated: Alice not only loses an arm, but also that arm's shoulder.
- Downplayed: Alice does not lose her arm per se, but she can no longer use it.
- Justified: Someone severed Alice's arm from her.
- Inverted:
- Alice regrows a limb.
- Alice grows an extra arm and leg.
- Subverted: Alice claims to have lost one arm, but she was born without it.
- Double-subverted: Alice's other arm is lost. Or one of her legs.
- Parodied: Alice can pull off her limbs at will.
- Zig-zagged: Alice loses an arm, but regrows it. But then she loses it again, only to regrow it.
- Averted: ???
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: Bob points out that Alice should have been careful. If she was, she wouldn't have lost a limb.
- Discussed: Bob asks why Alice is missing her arm.
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Implied: Alice always covers one of her arms with a long sleeve and glove
- Deconstructed: Without her lost limbs, Alice loses the opportunity to do many things.
- Reconstructed: ...but she manages to find a way to get by.
- Played For Horror: Having her hand cut off is the beginning of Alice's Cruel and Unusual Death, as the killers need only her fingerprints to identify her.
