Redwen: ...But then with the very last bit of strength, she soared skyward, a tempest clad in steel before crashing down upon the fiend, her sword ablaze with righteous fury!
Timothy: Wowww! And then what, and then what?
Redwen: With a mighty smite, her blade cleaved the devil's face in two, slicing off his horn!
Timothy: No waaaay!
Timothy: Wowww! And then what, and then what?
Redwen: With a mighty smite, her blade cleaved the devil's face in two, slicing off his horn!
Timothy: No waaaay!
—Dungeons & Doodles: Tales from the Tables, Episode 50 "Homecoming Part 3
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The journey of the hero and their allies is often fraught with risk to life and limb. When a creator isn't quite willing to kill off a major character but still wants to show the stakes and danger involved, they can instead focus on the "limb" part — have a major character suffer a crippling and/or disfiguring injury during the climax as a consequence they'll carry forward the rest of their life. Conversely, a villain surviving but suffering such an injury is a way to satisfy the audience's desire to see them punished for their actions (especially if it's a Karmic Injury).
An Arm and a Leg, Covered with Scars, Dramatic Spine Injury, Eye Scream, Facial Horror, Fingore, Half the Man He Used to Be, Impaled with Extreme Prejudice, Knee-capping, Literal Disarming, Mutilation Conga, Tear Off Your Face, and Tongue Trauma are some of the many injury types that qualify. Basically, if the character winds up clearly disfigured or disabled in some way, it qualifies. Another key element is that the character actually needs to survive the work. If they're maimed but then die anyway, it's one of the many Death Tropes at play instead.
Despite the injury, the character may claim I Can Still Fight! at the climax, or possibly I Will Only Slow You Down instead.
Almost always results in a Bittersweet Ending (at best) for the heroes. May lead to a Hospital Epilogue where other characters visit the injured one while recovering. If they're bedridden for a while as a result of the injury, expect a friend or loved one to stay with them for as long as they need. Can be a Career-Ending Injury for the sufferer. If there is another installment, the character may be shown working a Post-Injury Desk Job or as Dented Iron. Eyepatch After Timeskip is possible for an eye injury.
May be done intentionally as part of a Life-or-Limb Decision. Compare Game-Breaking Injury and Drama-Preserving Handicap, which typically happen earlier in the work and have an impact on the remaining story. See Amputative Sentencing if the maiming is done intentionally as punishment, Symbolic Mutilation if it is done for a specific purpose, and Punished with Ugly for disfiguring the vain. See also Disabled in the Adaptation, where a non-disabled character in the source work is given a disability in the adaptation. In a Sci-Fi or Fantasy setting where Dismemberment Is Cheap, the impact of this "maiming" is naturally lessened.
As an Ending Trope, Spoilers are off. You Have Been Warned.
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- The War Amps (a Canadian nonprofit organization for disabled veterans) released a Public Service Announcement showing their mascot, Astar the Robot, jumping through Saw Blades of Death, but getting an arm sawn off. In the next scene, he reattaches the limb with the message "You can't do the same, so play safe".
Anime & Manga
- During the Eclipse at the end of the Golden Age Arc of Berserk, Guts loses his left hand and his right eye. The hand is lost through Guts having to chisel it off with what's left of a broken dagger in order to free himself from the jaws of a demon. The eye is lost as it's clawed out by another demon as he's being Forced to Watch his former best friend Griffith, newly awakened as the fifth member of the Godhand Femto, rape his lover Casca. The right eye is closed for the remainder of the manga, but the left hand and the part of the arm that was lost with it are replaced with the prosthetic arm with the cannon inside that he uses as the Black Swordsman.
- Black Lagoon: During the climax of the Baile de la Muerta arc, Roberta has a couple of her fingers blown off. It does absolutely nothing to slow her down.
- Downplayed in Delicious in Dungeon; Marcille reveals that in the ending her time as Dungeon Lord robbed her of some of her desires, namely her desire to braid her hair - significant since her elaborate hairdos have been one of her most notable traits - and, more concerningly, her desire to resist her other desires, i.e. her ability to reconsider before taking action.
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Roy Mustang is blinded in the final battle when Wrath and Pride force him to open the Gate of Truth. In the 03 adaptation he instead loses an eye after being shot by Archer.
- Gundam:
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team: Following the final fight between the Gundam EZ-8 and the Apsalus, we're shown Shiro and Aina escaping through an exit, Shiro missing a leg.
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: In the climactic battle of the first season, Mikazuki strains himself pushing the Gundam Barbatos's Brain–Computer Interface past its safe limitations, causing him to bleed profusely from his right eye. After the battle, he is rendered blind in that eye and suffers total paralysis in his right arm, both of which can only be corrected by being connected to the Barbatos. This occurs again in the leadup to the climax of the second season, this time rendering him completely paralyzed on the right side of his body unless plugged into the Barbatos Lupus.
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury: The permet burn from her final battle with Ericht and the subsequent strain from going beyond permet score 8 leaves Suletta with severe nerve damage, and even years later she needs crutches to walk.
- Hellsing: Integra loses her left eye during the final confrontation with the Major, and wears a patch over it during the thirty years that she waits for Alucard's return.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
- Battle Tendency: During the final fight, just as Joseph assumes he's beaten Kars after dropping him into a volcano, a slash of energy emerges from beneath the ground and slices off his left hand. Despite the loss, Joseph is still able to defeat Kars and later receives a prosthetic during the weeks of his recovery.
- JoJolion: In the last battle against Toru, Joshu ends up losing his right arm to save Yasuho's life so she can use her Paisley Park to help Josuke. While he managed to preserve some of it, he is left with essentially a tiny dangling deformed arm by the end of the story.
- My Hero Academia: At the end of the Overhaul arc, the titular villain is being escorted to prison when the convoy is suddenly attacked by the League of Villains. To avenge one of their members, who Overhaul killed at the start of the arc, Shigaraki uses his Quirk to disintegrate Overhaul's arms, leaving him alive but completely unable to use his own Quirk. Overhaul doesn't take it very well.
- In Naruto, Naruto and Sasuke's climatic fight at the end of the series ends with both boys obliterating their arms — Naruto's right, Sasuke's left — in a final clash between the Rasengan and the Chidori. While they get healed shortly after, Naruto is forced to use a Zetsu-derived prosthesis, while Sasuke purposely refuses one as penance.
Fan Fiction
- The Blood of the Covenant: When confronting Azula for the second time, she strikes Katara with lightning. Thanks to the Avatar spirit's interference, she lives. But she's left with terrible scarring on her hands and arms, which leaves the normally strong girl sobbing.
- The Dragon and the Butterfly: Hiccup loses his leg like in canon but here, Mirabel is also left with a horrific burn on her arm. There's enough of Julieta's food to heal the burn but she's left with a large scar from the injury.
- More than My Friend: When Terrence leads an army of bullies to attack Mac for having the audacity to be Happily Adopted by a mother figure who loves him, Bloo and the other residents of Foster's are able to stop him. However, Mac is severely injured and taken to the hospital, where it's found he has a serious heart condition. That condition keeps him bedridden for the rest of the fic until a donor sacrifices themselves to give their heart to Mac.
- The Morrigan: At the climax of book 3, Guel loses his leg to damages he sustained while fighting Gundam Aerial and later protecting the Children of the Coven from a sneak attack. This solidly ends his career as a mobile suit pilot, which he is content with, and he has a gund prosthetic in book 4.
- Spiderhead: Spider-Man jumps on a bomb to save Batman, losing his leg in the process and spending the next two days unconscious. Bruce is guilt-ridden over what happened to Spider-Man... until Peter tells him that one of his powers is growing back lost limbs.
- Spider-Ninja: A villainous example during a three-chapter arc. Towards the end of an Enemy Mine between Shredder and the Hamato Clan, he tried to get Spider-Ninja to join him. When she said no, Shredder tried to attack the Turtles. She responded by throwing a bottle (not knowing it held acid) at his face. The acid leaves him with horrific burns across his face and one blinded eye. The end of the arc confirms that he'll have those scars forever.
- A Thing of Vikings: At the climax of Book IV, Stoick is shot out of the sky while flying to meet King Henry. Part of the story then shifts to a Medical Drama for a few chapters while Mwenda performs surgery on Stoick. His life is saved, but he loses a hand and an eye, the same injuries that the gods Tyr and Odin have.
- When Did I Become a Parent?: During the battle between Simba and Kondo, Timon takes a flying leap at the enemy lion and manages to knock him off balance enough to fall off a cliff. On the way down, Kondo claws Timon across the back, leaving behind several gashes. Kondo is killed, though the meerkat manages to survive. While Timon heals, he's left with scars across his back for the rest of his life (although he notes he's lucky that his fur will mostly cover them).
Films — Animated
- Coraline: At the end of Act Two, it's shown that the Other Mother stitched the Other Wybie's mouth into a permanent grin when he frowned around Coraline (which might have tipped her off to the Other World's true nature). While Coraline manages to undo the stitching, it's shown towards the end of the film that the Other Mother killed Other Wybie for letting Coraline escape (in an implicitly violent manner, as she strung his clothes from a flagpole as a trophy).
- How to Train Your Dragon (2010): While Hiccup survives the climactic fight with the Red Death, he wakes up in the village afterwards to find that he's lost his left leg and it's been replaced with a wooden prosthetic. It provides a neat parallel with Toothless, for whom Hiccup had designed a prosthetic wing earlier in the film.
- The Lion King II: Simba's Pride: When an ambush on Simba fails due to Kovu's Heel–Face Turn and leads to Nuka's death, Zira scratches Kovu across the face, leaving him with a mark identical to Scar's.
- Princess Mononoke: Near the end, after Lady Eboshi shoots the Forest Spirit, she loses her right arm to Moro's detached head, meaning that she can never fire a rifle again.
Films — Live-Action
- 127 Hours ends, as it did in real life, with Aron Ralston cutting off his trapped right arm so he can finally escape.
- Aliens: The Alien Queen makes her entrance for the climactic fight by impaling Bishop and then tearing him in half. Since he's an android, he survives and is even able to help save Newt despite missing his entire lower body.
- Hannibal: Starling handcuffs herself to Hannibal Lecter to prevent him from escaping at the end of the film. However, he lops off his own hand and manages to escape anyway. She's able to use it as evidence that she did all she could to stop him while he's now less threatening as a one-handed serial killer.
- Marvel Cinematic Universe:
- Captain America: Civil War:
- During the pre-climactic airport battle between the supporters of Iron Man and those of Captain America, Col. Rhodes is knocked out of the sky and suffers a spinal injury (with only the War Machine armor saving his life). Tony builds him cybernetic braces that allow him to walk and he continues to wear them through his other appearances in the MCU, though by the time of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, they've been upgraded so that they're barely noticeable.
- After having been previously revealed to have lost his left arm in a more traditional fashion between the events of The First Avenger and The Winter Soldier, Bucky's cybernetic replacement gets blown off by Iron Man during the climactic fight. He's actually shown living without it while hiding out in a small village in Wakanda, but when it becomes apparent that greater threats are on their way, the Wakandans give him a Vibranium replacement.
- Thor: Ragnarok: Hela slashes out Thor's eye with one of her blades during their fight in the climax. Thor patches it up with an eyepatch in the epilogue and in Avengers: Infinity War, he has it replaced with a robotic eye.
- Captain America: Civil War:
- Men in Black 3: A variation. Present-day Boris the Animal lost his arm in a fight with Agent K in 1969. When Boris travels back to that year to Make Wrong What Once Went Right and meets his 1969 self, the younger Boris doesn't believe any human could defeat him and blames his future self for letting the injury happen, saying, "That wasn't me, it was you!" While the two Borises work together to change the future, the climactic battle at Cape Canaveral ends with young Agent K shooting 1969 Boris's arm off, proving that K and J succeeded to Set Right What Once Went Wrong and that young Boris failed to avoid his future self's mistake.
- In O'Dessa, Neon Dion cuts off O'Dessa's ring finger before she heads to Onederworld, and Plutonovich invokes this on her guitar by clipping all of its strings but one.
- Star Wars:
- The Phantom Menace: Obi-Wan defeats Darth Maul by slicing him in half. While he's believed to have died at the time, Star Wars: The Clone Wars would ultimately reveal that Maul survived.
- Attack of the Clones: Anakin has his hand cut off by Count Dooku during their climactic duel, in an eerie parallel with what Anakin (as Vader) will later do to his own son. By the final scene, he's received an artificial replacement.
- Revenge of the Sith: Obi-Wan ends his climactic duel with the newly-christened Darth Vader by slicing his remaining limbs off in one clean stroke. If that's not enough, the dismembered Vader narrowly avoids tumbling into a river of lava and is horribly burned by convection. All of this necessitates the iconic life-support suit he wears in the original trilogy.
- The Empire Strikes Back: During the climactic lightsaber battle with Darth Vader, Luke's right hand is cut off. He gets a nearly-as-functional replacement Artificial Limb, though it still serves as a Chekhov's Gun come Return of the Jedi when he sees Vader's severed artificial hand, giving Luke the realization that he's becoming more like his father.
- Terminator Salvation: When John Connor fights the newly activated T-800 at the climax, he receives two severe injuries. The first is having his face clawed by a red-hot Terminator hand, leaving scars he'll bear for the rest of his life. Moments later the T-800 stabs him in the heart, which he manages to survive thanks to a transplant from Marcus.
- X-Men: First Class: During the climax, Xavier is struck in the spine by a bullet accidentally deflected by Magneto. As a prequel, it shows how he became a paraplegic in the rest of the X-Men Film Series franchise. In later installments, While Xavier does seemingly downplay the severity of this trope by taking medicine that allows him to walk, a side effect is that it makes him unable to use his powers, which double-subverts it.
Literature
- The Beginning After the End:
- At the climax of the attack on Xyrus Academy at the end of Volume 3, Claire is impaled In the Back. While the injury is ultimately non-fatal, it did destroy her mana core which forces her into a premature retirement and renders her unable to actively participate in the coming war.
- Following the climactic battle at the Wall midway through Volume 7, Durden loses one of his arms.
- At the end of Volume 9, Kezess sends the pantheon warrior Taci down to the djinn sanctuary to exterminate the Dicathian resistance for refusing his (admittedly ulterior) offer. Upon arrival, Taci is confronted by the remaining Lances, who he single-handedly crushes despite their best efforts. The Lances only survive due to Aya's Heroic Sacrifice to trick Taci into thinking he killed them, and even then Varay and Mica came out of the ordeal missing their left arm and left eye respectively.
- During Agrona's final assault on Dicathen at the end of Volume 11, Dragoth loses one of his horns when Mica rips it off his head. This severely weakens the Scythe given that as a Vritra-blooded, the horns are the source of his magical power.
- Claw (2024): Near the end of the story, Mia's daughter Ridley is kidnapped alongside her birth mother Natalie by Davie Cavalcanti, who has one of his doctors amputate Ripley's right arm offscreen while Natalie is Forced to Watch. The arm is unfortunately left to decay so it passes the viability window for it being reattached, and Ripley still suffers phantom pains from it weeks after Natalie manages to kill Davie personally.
- The Garden of Sinners: At the climax of the last chapter, Lio Shirazumi tortures Mikiya by jabbing a combat knife in his knee, then tries to finish him off by stabbing him in the face. Thinking that Mikiya is dead, Shiki finally breaks her promise to him not to kill and promptly executes Lio, only to discover that Mikiya's glasses have stopped the blade, saving his life at the cost of his eye. When Shiki picks Mikiya up at the hospital in the epilogue, we learn that he has lost the use of both his eye and his knee.
- Inheritance Cycle: At the end of Eragon, the titular protagonist has his back sliced open by Durza while he is mentally overwhelmed from prodding too far into Durza's memories. He is able to summon enough strength to deliver a fatal blow to Durza while Durza is distracted, before passing out and waking up with a serious scar across his back that makes it difficult to fight over the first two-thirds of the following book, Eldest. This lasts until a major Elven festival sees an echo of dragons from long ago reshape him from human into more of an elven figure, healing his back in the process.
- Kindred (1979): The story begins with Dana, a black woman, and her husband, Kevin, a white man, being questioned by the police over her mutilated arm, but after she convinces the cops that Kevin had nothing to do with her "accident," they agree not to tell anyone what they have experienced because no one would believe them. Near the end, it's revealed that after Dana travels to the past to check up on Alice, the slave woman she befriended at the plantation, she has hanged herself due to Rufus, her master, lying about selling off her children and announcing he he intends to keep Dana as replacement for Alice. When Dana tried to escape to her time Rufus attempts to rape her, causing her to kill him, and when she gets back to the present, she discovers she lost her arm due to Rufus holding on to her as she teleported across time.
- The Lord of the Rings: During the climax of the final book, Frodo succumbs to the ring's temptation and puts it on. Gollum then attacks him and bites off his finger to get the ring, though as he celebrates having it back, he loses his balance and falls into Mount Doom, destroying both it and him. It's the final of many injuries suffered by Frodo, showing how It Sucks to Be the Chosen One.
- The Magicians:
- In the final confrontation between the Physical Kids and the Beast, the latter starts the fight by Crippling the Competition, biting off Penny's hands and depriving the team of their best battle-magician. Though Penny survives the battle, he's left incapable of magic without hands and retreats into another realm of the Neitherlands in despair soon afterwards. In the second book in the series, he turns up with new magical powers, having been tutored in the art of casting spells via the muscles of his body.
- In the same battle, Quentin mouths off to the Beast and is immediately mauled, losing two-thirds of his collarbone, most of his right shoulder, and his biceps in the process. While Quentin recovers at a centaur-run hospital during the epilogue, the ruined areas are replaced with prosthetic bones and skin made from animated wood, which remain with him for the rest of the series.
- Mushoku Tensei: After the battle against the hydra at the end of Volume 12/the anime's second second season, Rudeus loses his right hand. It takes a long while before he is eventually able to replace it.
- In the climactic duel of Perelandra, Ransom receives a leg injury. He's not sure at which point this happened, exactly, but the injury lasts and causes him pain throughout the next book, keeping him too immobile to do heroics himself and relegated to leading and mentoring the good guys. He's also legally changed his name to Fisher-King.
- The Traitor Baru Cormorant: Near the end of the book, Baru takes a nasty head injury from a mace. When she regains consciousness, she discovers she's been left with hemispatial neglect, a kind of cortical blindness that renders her incapable of registering the existence of anything on her right — give her a plate of food and she'll leave the right side untouched, ask her to draw a clock and she'll crowd all the numbers in on the left. In one sense, it's Laser-Guided Karma for everyone she betrayed in the climax; in another, it's a literal blind spot to match the intellectual one that lets other schemers Out Gambit her throughout the book.
Live-Action TV
- The Defenders (2017): In the final episode climax, Misty Knight loses her right arm above the elbow when diving to stop Bakuto from decapitating Claire. This causes her to gain the iconic robotic right arm she sports in the comics, starting in the second season of Luke Cage (2016).
- Hello Tomorrow!: Near the end of the series, Gambling Addict Eddie owes a large Mob Debt. The enforcer that comes to collect/make an example out of him burns Eddie's hand off in a retro-futuristic toaster.
- In the fourth season finale of Homicide: Life on the Street, Pembleton suffers a stroke and is last seen being rushed into surgery, with his doctor saying survival is unlikely. The following season has him return to work, but suffering from aphasia, and impaired memory and speech. Since Pembleton is an Insufferable Genius who prides himself on his eloquence and intelligence, this is a living hell for him and he lashes out at his wife Mary and partner Bayliss, pushing them away. However, he's able to reconcile with them and eventually fully recovers.
- NCIS: During the penultimate episode of Season 7, the Reynosa Cartel launch an attack on Mike Franks' house; when Gibbs arrives to back him up, the attackers are dead but Franks is nowhere to be seen. The finale reveals that Franks escaped, albeit at the cost of two of his fingers.
- No Good Deed: Margot is classic Trophy Wife to famous actor JD following an apparent Meet Cute. It turns out she's a malicious Gold Digger who arranged their meeting, sunk her hooks in to marry him, is spending all of his money, and then plans to divorce him to get prenup money out of escrow. Unknown to her, he's washed-up and is career is tanking, meaning they're broke. The only thing of value they have is their house, which she threatens him into signing over to her. In the final episode, in some serious Laser-Guided Karma, her bath candles burn down the house, leaving her burned on half of her face and then she gets arrested for her crimes on top of it.
Video Games
- At the climax of the first season of Batman: The Telltale Series, a key decision by the player determines who ends up getting maimed. If players refuse to reveal Batman's identity to Vale, she will attack Alfred and blind him in one eye, after which he starts wearing an eyepatch. If players reveal Bruce's identity to Vale, conversely, she will attack him instead, taking a chunk out of his ear.
- Cyberpunk 2077: In "The Tower", an ending to the main quest added by the Phantom Liberty DLC, V has "the Relic" that is slowly killing them removed from their brain by NUSA scientists. It is the only ending that confirms V will live past a few months, but it comes at the price of V no longer being able to use Cyberware. Considering that absolutely everyone has at least some body parts replaced by Cyberware to grant them greater physical capabilities, the ability to interact with technology directly (V has two pieces at the start of the game and, depending on gameplay choices, can have every slot, from eyes to limbs to organs, filled by Cyberware by the end), or even just to survive, this leaves V effectively "crippled" in comparison and admitting to feeling "disconnected" from people and like "the world is closing in" on them.
- Dragon Age: Inquisition: The Inquisitor is marked with the "Anchor" on their left hand, a magical means to open and close Fade Rifts. However, it is also slowly killing them. At the end of the Trespasser DLC that serves as an epilogue to the main game following a two-year Time Skip, the Anchor is wildly unstable so Solas/Fen'harel magically amputates the Inquisitor's left arm to save them. Both the DLC's Modular Epilogue and The Stinger show the Inquisitor without their arm.
- Final Fantasy:
- Final Fantasy XIV: In the endgame story for A Realm Reborn, Raubahn loses his left arm when the Crystal Braves betray the heroes. After his release from prison, his lacking an arm proves to be only a minor hinderance to his prowess in battle. In addition, this occurs to Y'shtola and Thancred as a result of the former's use of the dangerous teleportation spell "Flow". Thancred gets stuck in The Lifestream and, upon managing to pull himself out, finds himself prematurely aged and no longer able to use magic. Y'shtola, on the other hand, has to be rescued from the Lifestream, after which she finds that she has gone completely blind. She can compensate by visualizing surrounding aether, but seeing this way is gradually killing her.
- Final Fantasy XV: Ignis uses the Ring of the Lucii to fend off Ardyn shortly after the battle with Leviathan and Lunafreya's death, preparing to sacrifice himself in the process. While he survives the battle, he ends up losing his sight in the process.
- Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes: Snake (actually the medic) and Kaz both suffer crippling injuries at the end of the game. Snake loses an arm, an eye, and is stuck with a chunk of shrapnel in his skull while Kaz loses An Arm and a Leg.
- Sly 2: Band of Thieves: In the final section of the game, after Bentley pulls out Clockwerk's Hate Chip, he gets crushed by Clockwerk's mouth, leaving him unable to walk and confining him to a wheelchair for the rest of the series.
Web Animation
- Parodied in The Light of Courage: Near the end of part 3 of the "trilogy", Link, Zelda, and the Triforces of Power and Courage confront Ganon. After some shenanigans, Zelda uses the Triforce of Power to shoot a beam at Ganon, slicing off his hand. Zelda quickly grabs a key from Ganon's severed hand and unlocks a chest, then throws the chest to Link. The Hero of Time opens up the chest and uses its magic to power up the Master Sword.
- RWBY: During the Fall of Beacon at the climax of Volume 3, Yang has her right arm cut off by Adam, taking her out of commission for the rest of the volume. She eventually gains a prosthetic replacement during Volume 4.
Western Animation
- Amphibia:
- Grime's left arm is sliced off by Darcy in the penultimate episode, as he takes the strike for Sasha. It takes him out of the rest of the final battle, but pisses Sasha off enough to start kicking Darcy's ass. In the Distant Finale, he's shown to be living a happy and fulfilled life even without his arm.
- Also in the penultimate episode, Andrias loses his left arm and leg when he lets Anne strike him down. Like Grime, he is shown content in the ending, using his old friend Barrel's warhammer as a crutch.
- Hazbin Hotel:
- Lute loses her arm during the season 1 finale, choosing to rip it off herself over being trapped and unable to help Adam.
- In the season 2 climax, Emily loses one of her wings when she's hit with Vox's angelic weapon.
- Justice League: In "The Enemy Below", Aquaman's brother Orm attempts to take control of Atlantis by killing Arthur and his infant son. During the climax, Arthur is forced to cut off his own hand to save himself and his child. He has it replaced with a metal hook.
- The Lion Guard: In the Season 3 opener, "Battle for the Pride Lands", where Kion and the Guard mount a final attack on Scar and his allies. In accordance with Scar's planned counterattack, Kion is bitten by Ushari paralleling how Scar received his own namesake injury (in this continuity anyway) and receives a permanent mark over his left eye. Ono also ends up getting exposed to hot ashes while trying to save Bunga and loses his eyesight. At the end of the episode, Rafiki confirms the severity of the injuries; Ono is practically blind and loses his Keenest of Sight status on the Guard, while Kion not only bears the scar but also is at risk of being mentally corrupted due to the lasting effects of Ushari's venom. The Guard's absence during the latter half of "The Lion King II: Simba's Pride" is explained by their needing to leave the Pride Lands to seek treatment, which they ultimately receive near the end of the season.
- The Owl House: Part of Eda's curse means that her limbs are detachable. This saves her from the Draining Spell that Emperor Belos activates in the Season 2 finale, as Raine is able to detach the arm to which her Coven Sigil was applied. Eda permanently loses that arm as it disintegrates away, but survives as a result.
- Star Wars Rebels: During the Season 2 finale, "Twilight of the Apprentice", Kanan Jarrus has his eyes slashed out by Maul's lightsaber, blinding him. Unlike most other examples in the franchise, he does not receive any prosthetics to make up the difference, remaining blind for the rest of the series and having to find ways to use the Force to compensate.
- The Venture Bros.: During the season three finale "The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together Part II", H.E.L.P.eR. has been rigged to explode by the Monarch and goes off accidentally at the very end of the episode. His head ends up lodged in Brock Samson's chest and, at the start of the next season, Brock has him removed and the hole covered by a metal plate that he would sport for the rest of the series (of course, being Brock Samson, this plate just makes him that much more unkillable).
Real Life
- Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain famously led the 20th Maine in the defense of Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg in the The American Civil War, winning a Medal of Honor for his efforts. Later, at the Battle of Petersburg, he was shot in the hip but kept himself upright by leaning on his sword to prevent his men from retreating for several minutes. With the wound believed to be mortal, he was given a deathbed promotion to General by Ulysses S. Grant... but Chamberlain survived. He returned to action, was shot two more times in the arm and chest, but again survived both. He'd live with these injuries the rest of his life but returned to Maine to serve as governor and lived to the ripe age of 85.
