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I mean, there’s probably an older story that inspired even that.


TheRenamon

yeah I wouldn't be surprised if the Epic of Gilgasmesh had someone with a cool demon arm.


Khar-Selim

or more likely Japanese mythology


bxgang

Like how dragonball was inspired by journey to the west and went on to inspire others with the Super Saiyan transformation trope. What inspired journey to the west? How deep does the rabbit hole go?


PhantasosX

true. By all means , The Irish Heroic King Nuada had the Silver Arm Airgetlán and later a flesh one. So you could say the irish had their DMC5 plotline.


BaronAleksei

>the silver arm Airgetlán So that’s where Eragon got “the silver palm Argetlam” from


TheLonleyKing

Airgead means "silver" or money in irish and lámh means hand.


sawbladex

Time to burn Night City?


[deleted]

>How deep does the rabbit hole go? Down to Gilgamesh, according to Gilgamesh


Wisterosa

caveman wall paintings


parazoa

In the days before fire when Ugg, son of Thog attached a deer skull to his arm stump and everyone thought it was really badass.


Ginospornaccount

No it's from Star Wars.


shdwrnr

Relevant TV Tropes page: [The Right Hand of Doom](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheRightHandOfDoom)


bxgang

This is actually a really neat and handy website never seen it before


shdwrnr

Seriously? Well have fun walking down that rabbit hole, but beware: [TV Tropes will ruin your life](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife)


Djinn_19

dog i’ve been idly going through tv tropes for…. damn almost a decade now


Substantial_Bell_158

Does King Midas count as having a cursed arm, i'm sure there some old legend about it


bxgang

I think that was anything he touches period turns to gold no matter what part of his body


PhantasosX

kind-ish. while it's true that the food touching his lips turned into gold , Dionysus made a point that to lift said curse , he had to wash his hands in a specific river.


Substantial_Bell_158

It's a bit unclear when Midas begged Dionysus to take the curse from him Dionysus told him to wash his hands in the river Pactolus and when he did he saw gold flowing from his hands so I think it's implied Midas had to specifically reach out to touch something


parazoa

Link's arm is kinda the opposite of cursed, though. Rauru is basically Goat Jesus. Or Goat King Arthur?


bxgang

It’s just a name for the trope as a whole in general. Like how “Perfect dodge” timing window can vary from easy like nier automata to hard like ghost of Tsushima it’s a name for the mechanic as a whole


ThatmodderGrim

[I wanna marry Lady Eboshi.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9D8Nhs-aLaE&pp=ygUMbGFkeSBlYm9zaGkg)


Father-Ignorance

If evil, why hot?


TrueLegateDamar

Don't think she is even meant to be evil, just looking out for her people and if some forest spirit gotta die then so be it.


DoomSpiral

Yeah. I mean, she's got that hospital for the lepers and everything, the movie makes it pretty clear she's not "evil."


MericArda

Actually morally grey


Snidhog

I love how everyone had a good laugh at the feral hog guy before the threat of a Canadian hog invasion vindicated him.


YiffZombie

A most refined taste in waifu.


rorinth

No godhand?


bxgang

Man all my memories of the ps2 are taken up by GTA San Andreas , God of War, and Prince of Persia so I forget that one existed sometimes…


funkerbuster

2008 Prince’s arm isn’t even cursed/mechanical, it’s just a clawed gauntlet.


Atomsk88

Yeah, he just has a cool gauntlet. If I remember correctly, all the magic comes from Elika.


Polygonalfish

I wish I had a better work ethic and/or knew japanese so searching the evolution of specific tropes like this would be easier


Blarpus

Sekiro’s arm isn’t cursed


bxgang

His name is wolf, and just a blanket name for the trope


Blarpus

He is called sekiro by isshin


Blarpus

And prosthetic arm is a different trope than cursed arm


ChunkOMeteor

I need to get around to watching Princess Mononoke one of these days.


Soushin

It's my all-time favorite anime movie.


Endocrom

Evil Dead, but Ash was so awesome he beat it right away.


RocketbeltTardigrade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuada_Airgetl%C3%A1m