Several Hindu deities are depicted with multiple arms and sometimes also multiple legs. In popular culture Edward Albee's stage play The Man Who Had Three Arms tells the story of a fictional individual who was normal at birth but eventually sprouted a third functional arm, protruding from between his shoulder blades. After several years of living with three arms, the extra limb was reabsorbed into his body and the man became physically normal again. In Albee's play, the title character is extremely angry that we (the audience) seem to be much more interested in the period of his life when he had three arms, rather than his normal life before and after that interval. Monty Python's Flying Circus performed a skit about a man with three buttocks. He believes that he has been invited to be interviewed on television because he is a nice person, and is dismayed to learn that he has only been invited because the interviewer is curious about his unusual condition. The Dark Backward is a 1991 comedy film directed and written by Adam Rifkin, which features Judd Nelson as an unfunny garbage man who pursues a stand-up comedy career. When the "comedian" grows a third arm out of his back, he becomes an overnight hit. Justice, the main antagonist in the cartoon Afro Samurai, has a fully formed extra arm protruding from his right shoulder. Paco, a playable character in Brawlout, is a four-armed frog- and shark-like creature. Spiral, character in the X-Men stories of Marvel Comics, has six arms. A 6-armed Spider-Man frequently appears as an alternate reality incarnation of the character, and is sometimes referred to as "Polymelian". In the Mortal Kombat series, the Shokan is a race of humanoids known to have four arms. Ibid: A Life is a fictional biography of Jonathan Blashette, a man with three legs. Zaphod Beeblebrox, a character in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, has a third arm as well as a second head. See also Dipygus Dysmelia Polydactyly Polysyndactyly Supernumerary body parts References Sources Avian Diseases, 1985 Jan-Mar; 29(1): pp. 244-5. Polymelia in a broiler chicken., Anderson WI, Langheinrich KA, McCaskey PC.: "A polymelus monster was observed in a 7-week-old slaughterhouse chicken. The supernumerary limbs were smaller than the normal appendages but contained an equal number of digits.". External links 2013: child with two left legs Youtube video of child with notomelia Pathology Rare