Basic Trope: After getting a replacement hand of some kind, the person immediately uses it for masturbation.
- Straight: Bob loses his arm in an accident. After getting a prosthetic, one of the first things he does is masturbate.
- Exaggerated: Bob loses both arms in an accident. The second he gets his prosthetic arms, he spends the entire day masturbating.
- Downplayed:
- Bob only loses a few fingers in the accident, and starts using them for masturbation rather quickly.
- Although it's not the first thing he does after getting his prosthetic arm, Bob does get to masturbating soon.
- Justified:
- Might as well use your new prosthetic arm for something you enjoy, right?
- Bob was unable to masturbate properly (especially in the case of the exaggerated example), so he's excited to finally be able to do it again.
- Inverted: Bob loses his prosthetic arm and never masturbates ever again.
- Subverted:
- Bob says that he's going to use his new arm for "one of his favorite activities" with a rather suggestive look on his face. Everyone assumes that this is what he's going to do, but his favorite activity in this case ends up being painting.
- Alice walks in on Bob soon after he gets his prosthetic arm and assumes that she caught him with his pants down, but it turns out that Bob was Mistaken for Masturbating. He's actually just figuring out how his new arm works.
- Double Subverted:
- He was lying.
- "Painting" is an Unusual Euphemism for masturbation.
- He was figuring out how his new arm works by masturbating.
- After Alice leaves, Bob opens a porn tab...
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Bob decides against and for using his new arm for this purpose multiple times.
- Averted:
- Nobody gets a prosthetic arm to begin with.
- Bob doesn't use his arm to masturbate.
- Enforced: To add Vulgar Humor to the scene where Bob gets his prosthetic arm.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Inventors make prosthetics with extra features that come in handy in the bedroom.
- Exploited:
- The inventors get rich selling their prosthetics with such specific appeal.
- The inventors including a vibrator function in their prosthetic.
- Defied: The medics and physical therapists constantly monitor Bob and never give him a moment of privacy because they don't want Bob to injure himself in a very specific way.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Bob says "Ah... now I'm gonna go... test these out." before running offscreen soon after getting his prosthetic arms.
- Deconstructed: Bob ends up harming his region due to the difference in a prosthetic arm's material compared to a person's hand.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob decides to do so carefully.
- Bob gets a prosthetic arm that feels similarly to a person's arm, so not much difference occurs.
- Played for Drama: Bob had suffered a hard breakup or lost his girlfriend.
Back to Breaking In Old Habits... ah, so that's what you're gonna use your new arm for.
