Alita: Battle Angel - 16 WTF Moments

12. Severed Arms Everywhere

Alita Battle Angel Movie
Fox

Proving that Star Wars doesn't hold a monopoly on gratuitous severed arms, Alita features a distracting number of arms being sliced off throughout the film (though in order to retain that PG-13 rating, they're all robotic in nature).

First off, Dr. Ido slices off an attacking cyborg's arm during the first-act alley-way fight, and moments later Alita smashes Grewishka's (Jackie Earle Haley) apart with the sheer might of a powerful kick.

In a rematch with Grewishka later on, however, she gets diced up with her arm being severed, and finally, Hugo loses one of his cyborg arms in the film's climax when a security thresher slice sit off, and loses the other when Alita tries in vain to pull him to safety.

That's...a lot of dismemberment.

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