Random Comic Book Characters Who Lost Limbs (15 items)

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  (#6) Roy Harper

  Roy Harper has gone through many epithets in his journey from the Green Arrow’s sidekick to a legitimate hero in his own right - Speedy, Red Arrow, and Arsenal. It is in the latter role that Harper experiences a moment that would come to define his character for years to come, via the gruesome events of Justice League: Cry For Justice #5.

  While working with the Justice League, Harper confronts Prometheus, who is essentially an evil Batman. During the fracas, Prometheus cuts Arsenal’s right arm off at the bicep, intending to cause him lethal harm - but he survives thanks to the medical intervention of his fellow heroes. 

  To make matters worse, Prometheus blows up Star City in that same event, resulting in the demise of Harper’s young daughter, Lian. He eventually gains a high-tech prosthetic arm - and then a brand new one altogether via a continuity reboot - but nothing could ever replace the loss of his child, and the character goes down a dark path for many years after this incident. 
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  (#15) Atom Eve

  Image Comics’ Invincible series, created by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, has always prided itself on providing a more realistic take on the classic superhero story - including the many bloody implications of super strength and the like. The comic’s main characters suffer just as much as its villains in this regard, as proven by the devastating events of Invincible #111.

  Samantha Eve Wilkins is the hero known as Atom Eve and the primary love interest of series protagonist Mark Grayson, but even that doesn’t save her from harm. During one brutal attack, the couple's former friend, Robot, slices Eve's leg off. Under normal circumstances, Eve could regenerate the limb, as she has the power to manipulate matter; however, using her powers in any significant way could cause harm to her unborn child.

  Fortunately, Mark is able to carry Eve to safety in time to save the lives of both her and their daughter, and Eve is later outfitted with a prosthetic leg.
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  (#3) Thor

  • Journey into Mystery

  In more than a millennium of existence, Thor has been through a lot, and that includes some serious maiming - despite his godly durability. Several possible future versions of the Odinson have depicted him as becoming the king of Asgard, but having lost an arm and an eye along the way. In Thor Vol. 4 #1, one of those futures comes to pass.

  During a period of time in which he thinks himself unworthy, and has been replaced as the wielder of Mjolnir by Jane Foster, Thor battles with Malekith the Accursed - and it does not go well. Malekith manages to get his hands on Thor’s replacement weapon, the mighty ax Jarnbjorn, and with one fell swoop removes the god of thunder’s left arm at the bicep.

  Thor is soon after equipped with an uru prosthetic, something he can still be seen wearing thousands of years into the future - indicating that he’ll never get back the original article. 
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  (#8) Flash Thompson

  Eugene “Flash” Thompson is an interesting case, because the loss of his legs comes long before his time as a superhero - and before he can be considered much of a good guy at all. Best known as Peter Parker’s high school bully, that changed with Amazing Spider-Man #574, when Flash sacrificed his limbs, and nearly his life, in service of his country and to save his fellow soldiers.

  When Flash returns from war, he settles in as a supporting character of Spider-Man, but it isn’t long before he gets his own chance to play costumed crusader. A government agency recruits Thompson to experiment with a sedated version of the alien symbiote that Parker himself once wore, and the result is Agent Venom - a new identity that gives Flash both the use of his legs and the ability to keep on fighting the good fight. 
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  (#9) Rick Grimes

  Fans who are only familiar with The Walking Dead through the AMC television series might be surprised to pick up a comic and see protagonist Rick Grimes walking around with only one hand. That’s due to a moment from The Walking Dead #28 that the show didn’t replicate - a horrific maiming of Grimes by the Governor, the series’ first real big bad.

  Up until that moment in the story, Grimes is large and in charge, but the Governor quickly humbles him by outnumbering and then overpowering him in their first confrontation. When Rick refuses to pay homage to this self-appointed post-apocalyptic dictator, the Governor ups the stakes by holding Rick down and chopping his hand off. 

  Rick is saved by quick medical treatment and eventually - after the Governor’s own bloody end - fitted with a clever prosthesis, but he also has to live through the rest of the zombie apocalypse with a disability, exacerbating his already dangerous lifestyle. 
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  (#10) Aaron Cash

  Aaron Cash is a character whose most distinguishing feature is his missing hand and hook-shaped replacement. Indeed, his dismemberment had already occurred sometime before his first comic book appearance. It has long been known that the long-time Arkham Asylum guard lost his left hand when he got a little too close to Killer Croc during a riot, but that moment isn’t depicted on-page until Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #4.

  As if that wasn’t a traumatic enough memory, it is later revealed that Croc and other inmates subsequently used Cash’s severed hand to spring themselves from the asylum. Unlike most other maimed characters, Cash has maintained his hook hand even after DC Comics rebooted its entire continuity. 

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