Starscream? You cut my arms off and make me eat them if i try to hug you?.....Do you deep fry them first at least and add some flavors? Uncooked meat sounds vulgar. >:D
It was just a threat! I don't like being touched, that's all.
A Brief History of Arm Removal in The Adventure Zone: Balance
I need to be stopped.
(updated to include TAZ Imbalance)
For the purposes of this list, we’re defining arm removal as
an instance of a being/force removing or destroying the arms of another being while not destroying the rest of the body.
Legs/other appendages don’t count. (but are listed in honorable mentions for funsies)
Exploding/disintegrating/unmaking a being who has arms doesn’t count, since it destroys the whole body at once, not just the arms.
the arm does not have to be completely intact when it is removed e.g. #10
If the rest of the disarmed being’s body is targeted post-arm removal, that’s OK as long as the arm(s) were targeted first and separately. e.g. #2, #7
my method: going through the transcripts on tazscripts.tumblr.com (thanks @tazscripts!) and Ctrl+F-ing “arm” “leg” and “limb”
I did not go through Here There Be Gerblins since the whole arm removal brand™ started after Moonlighting, but by all means lmk if you can think of a significant arm removal before then, or if you found one that I didn’t include (that fits the criteria).
The original - in the trial of initiation, Magnus slowly tears a mannequin’s arms off (Moonlighting)
Taako technically cuts Trent the treant’s arm off shortly before disintegrating him (Petals to the Metal)
Taako blasts the crystal golem’s arm off (Crystal Kingdom)
Magnus takes off Hodgepodge’s arm as a trophy (Crystal Kingdom)
The Infamous Chop - Magnus chops off Merle’s arm to save him from fully crystalizing (Crystal Kingdom)
Magnus performs a mass disarmament of deactivated/dead robots in the robot room (Crystal Kingdom)
Magnus rips robot Magic Brian’s arm off (Crystal Kingdom)
Griffin mentions a robot “that Carey and Noelle kinda trashed earlier. It’s missing an arm” so the implication is that Carey and Noelle disarmed it (Crystal Kingdom)
Merle takes off his soulwood arm for a mud bath (Lunar Interlude III: Rest and Relaxation) (it’s non-aggressive, but it is still arm-removal)
Magnus burns and then chops off Roswell’s arm during the bank robbery (Eleventh Hour)
Magnus pulls an arm off a mannequin during the Heart Attack dating show thing (Suffering Game)
Magnus performs another mass disarmament of mannequins during the Boss Rush (Suffering Game)
The Reversal - Edward-Magnus ripping off mannequin-Magnus’s arm (Suffering Game)
Killian snaps a hunger-beast-skeleton’s arm off (Story and Song)
Live shows (not comprehensive)
Taako explodes a monster arm in Live Boston Stunt Spectacular by high-fiving it real hard
Magnus cuts his own arm off at SDCC live show bc he stuck his hand in a mimic chest
Magnus rips a bunch of tiny metal arms off some robots at live candlenights 2018
TAZ Imbalance
Magnus cuts a slow burn guy’s arm off in the first episode
Arm Removal Count Per Character
Magnus: 8 individual arms removals (including his own), 3 occasions of mass disarmament of a large amount of robots/mannequins.
Total arms removed: at least 12, counting each mass disarmament as 1 and remembering that both of the arms of the robot in Moonlight were ripped off.
Taako: 3
Killian: 1
Carey and Noelle: 1
Edward: 1
Merle: 1 (non-aggressive)
Total # of Arm Removals (counting each mass disarmament as 1): 18
Honorable mentions
Feeding Magnus’ arm collection into the maw of the purple worm (Eleventh Hour)
The big laser pylon thing cuts a guy’s legs off when it slices the top off of the Shark Tank (Petals to the Metal)
Attaching a giant robot arm to the Starblaster (Stolen Century)
Chopping down Trent the treant could be argued as chopping off his legs (Petals to the Metal)
Magnus rips the mandibles off a cockroach. I don’t know cockroach anatomy well enough to judge whether or not they count as “arms” (Crystal Kingdom)
Magnus loses an arm wrestle despite rolling a 27 (Eleventh Hour)
One could argue that the 2 times Roswell explodes into a big blob of clay constitute “arm removal” since it caused them to no longer have arms. However, as it does not specifically target their arms, it isn’t counted in this list. (Eleventh Hour)
Roswell gets their legs knocked off jumping from one cart to another (Eleventh Hour)
Taako/Dupree bites the top off the fake shark tank during the Boss Rush and in doing so bites the Maarvey mannequin in half, cutting off his legs (Suffering Game)
Noelle walks over to Magnus and says “thanks for not rippin’ my arms off” (Story and Song)
Magnus cuts the legs off Greg Grimaldis’ final form at Nashville live show
There is a LOT of octopus leg removal at San Francisco live show. Since octopus tentacles are both legs and arms we’re not counting them for this list.
Dupree whacks the legs off some animated armor at Atlanta live show
