loses right hand
gets second left hand
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
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That's a left hand though.
The guy did have an iron hand that looked pretty similar to this one (obviosuly in a right hand variant). It looks like someone found a similar image but didnt check that it was the same prosthetic.
These are the actual prosthetics:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiserne_Hand_(G%C3%B6tz_von_Berlichingen)
Which makes it all even more impressive
Every time this meme is posted.
Since it was already pointed out that this is a left arm (or mirrored, which would be weird), I want to instead point out that scary fucking screw that looks like this prosthetic is to be screwed in to the stump.
probably safe to assume they'd figured out how to put a 'base' on his arm and then attach this to it when necessary (or another implement), and not screw this massive screw directly into him lol
Yeah, probably. Still looks huge and painful.
I think the screw was to manipulate the fingers. It could grasp things after all.
That's an image of a left arm...
Maybe the image is mirrored?
Probably, thought it was funny though.
Well now I want the context of that poem. Is it James Joyce style? Chaucer? Shakespeare? Su Dongpo?
It's not written by Götz von Berlichingen but by Goethe about Götz von Berlichingen
Mich ergeben! Auf Gnad und Ungnad! Mit wem redet Ihr! Bin ich ein Räuber! Sag deinem Hauptmann: Vor Ihro Kaiserliche Majestät hab ich, wie immer, schuldigen Respekt. Er aber, sag's ihm, er kann mich im Arsch lecken!
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand, act 3, Goethe's Werke, vol. 8 (1889), p. 109
It can be translated as:
Me, surrender! At mercy! With whom do you speak? Am I a robber! Tell your captain that for His Imperial Majesty, I have, as always, due respect. But he, tell him that, he can lick me in the arse!
Is that what inspired mangaka?