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** ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' introduces Freddy's counterpart in the Black Adam Family, Amon Tomaz/Osiris. Tortured by Intergang and rendered wheelchair-bound, Black Adam gave him some of his powers the same way that Billy gave some to Freddy, making him an able-bodied superhero. Unlike Freddy, Amon stayed in this form all the time, but he was rendered disabled again when he renounces his powers. [[spoiler:[[BuryYourDisabled And is killed instantly]] by his friend [[HorrorHunger Sobek]]]].

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', near the end of the series, in a rather dark turn, Tanjiro turning into [[spoiler:a demon immediately healed the most damaging injuries he got with fighting against Muzan: his lost right eye and lost left arm grew back good as new; however, when Tanjiro is cured of his demonic condition and became human again, his eye and arm's healing process is disrupted, not to the point of losing them but it renders Tanjiro with disabilities: his sight on the right eye is very poor, and he can just barely move his left arm now]].
* A secondhand example in ''Anime/FutureBoyConan'': Attempts to torture Dr. Lao for information rendered him blind and deaf, but he has a PsychicLink with his granddaughter Lana (she has other PsychicPowers, but only outright telepathy with him) that lets him use her as his eyes and ears.

* Hayate Yagami in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' is paralyzed from the waist down, but regains the use of her feet as long as she is [[FusionDance in Unison with Reinforce]]. Luckily for her, she recovers completely in the ten years' TimeSkip to the next season.

* In ''Manga/{{MAR}}'', when Ginta arrived at world of Mar Heaven, he noticed he doesn't need his glasses anymore, along with general SuperStrength.
* When Karasuma in ''Manga/{{Birdmen}}'' became one of the eponymous Birdmen, his vision got cured so he doesn't wear his glasses anymore.

* ''Anime/DragonBallSuperSuperHero'' shows that Gohan doesn't need his glasses when he turns [[GoldenSuperMode Super Saiyan]].

* [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel Junior]] is Freddy Freeman, who has an injured spine and leg, but when he is transformed into Captain Marvel Jr. his legs work just fine. It most pointedly does not permanently cure him, but at least having magic-based powers means his crutch and ([[LongRunnerTechMarchesOn where visible]]) leg brace simply re-materialize where they're needed when he powers down.
** ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' introduces Freddy's counterpart in the Comicbook/BlackAdam Family, Amon Tomaz/Osiris. Tortured by Intergang and rendered wheelchair-bound, Black Adam gave him some of his powers the same way that Billy gave some to Freddy, making him an able-bodied superhero. Unlike Freddy, Amon stayed in this form all the time, but he was rendered disabled again when he renounces his powers. [[spoiler:[[BuryYourDisabled And is killed instantly]] by his friend [[HorrorHunger Sobek]]]].
* Flash Thompson lost both his legs in the UsefulNotes/IraqWar, but regrows them while he is bonded with the ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote. Since he is the first-ever person to actually control Venom, he narrowly averts a CurseThatCures.
* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': For a while, Tony Stark was completely paralyzed except when wearing his Iron Man armor. Earlier than that, Tony had to wear the chest plate that powered his suit as it was the only thing keeping the shrapnel in his chest from reaching his heart.
* In ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' and ''ComicBook/AvengersUndercover'', Nico Minoru's magically-generated Witch Arm compensates for the loss of one of her actual arms.

** Another character, Komodo, uses a variant of the Lizard Serum to grow legs. She’s absolutely terrified of being depowered as it’s the only way she can walk.
* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' had the same chemicals that blinded him also give him his signature radar senses, which let him neatly bypass many of the problems blind people experience in RealLife.

* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': Deadpool's HealingFactor keeps him alive despite a normally terminal form of cancer. Furthermore, the constant degeneration and regeneration of his brain due to his brain cancer and HealingFactor respectively is why he's out of his mind.
* ''ComicBook/TrollhuntersTheSecretHistoryOfTrollkind'': When Bular blinds Deya with reflected sun, she is able to use the magic of the amulet to counteract it.

** After a boxing match with Flash Thompson, Peter’s glasses break and he discovers that he can see perfectly, the spider bite that gave him his powers probably fixed it. He decided against using the glasses as a disguise.
** Dr. Curt Conners designed the Lizard Serum with the aim of regrowing lost limbs as he had lost his in war. [[GoneHorriblyRight It worked way too well.]]

* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's origin is rooted in this - Steve Rogers wanted to join the Army and fight against the Nazis, but his sickly and frail body meant that he was rejected from the army. His devotion and patriotic nature, however, made him the perfect candidate to receive the Super Soldier Serum, which allowed him to become physically fit and the peak of human physicality.

* In ''FanFic/WaitingIsWorthIt'' Izuku is paralyzed from the waist down and had to grow through years of physical to be able to stand on his own. With his leg braces and telekinesis, Izuku is able to walk and function independently.
* In ''FanFic/SonOfTheSannin'', [[SparedByTheAdaptation Shisui]] relies on his [[MagicEye Sharingan]] to maintain depth perception after one of his eyes is stolen. [[spoiler:One of the things he's happiest about after getting the eye back is not having to do that anymore.]]

* In the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'', when Peter Parker wakes up the next day after he gets bitten by the genetically enhanced spider, the first thing he noticed is that he no longer needs his glasses to see clearly. Played with in the second movie, where his internal conflicts make him lose control of his powers and turns his bad eyesight back. It's only when he has talked to Mary Jane and Doc Ock subsequently kidnapped her that his resolve, along with his eyesight, turn back for the better.
* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'': Dr. Connors developed the cell-growing Lizard serum to regrow his missing hand, but it has a side effect of turning him into a lizard monster with SuperStrength.
* In ''Film/MySuperExGirlfriend'', the magic meteor that gives her superpowers also corrects her eyesight, changes her breast size and makes her more conventionally attractive in general.
* Played with in ''Film/TheMummy1999'': The recently awoken mummy, in order to regenerate himself, needs to harvest various organs from the people who opened the chest containing his original, mummified organs. As it happens, the guy whose eyes he takes had very poor vision, and the mummy consequently has very poor vision until he is able to regenerate completely to his original body.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' -- the serum that keeps Xavier ambulatory ''suppresses'' his mutation. It's only when he stops taking it that his powers return and his ability to walk leaves.
** ''Film/Deadpool2016'': Wade's HealingFactor stops his cancer. When he gets arrested and forced to wear a PowerNullifier in ''Film/Deadpool2'', his cancer comes back.

* ''Film/OilyManiac'': The titular monster in human form is a cripple, being a man suffering from polio since age 9. But when he gains the power of the Oily Maniac and transforms into a BlobMonster with a humanoid form, he's crippled no longer.

* Mantles of power in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' generally have this effect. [[spoiler:Harry Dresden]] breaks his back in ''Literature/{{Changes}}'' and has to make a deal with a powerful Fae, trading his service for such a mantle, which seemingly cures him. When the Fae temporarily takes the mantle away, however, he discovers that his back is still very much broken, and the mantle only negates it while he wears it.

* In ''Literature/TheLostYearsOfMerlin,'' the title character is blinded in a fire early in the first book, but later develops "second sight." It's basically the same thing, except that sometimes he can also see things that are invisible to others.
* "Shellpeople" in ''Literature/TheShipWho'' books start off as babies and young children with severe disabilities, mostly congenital. When they're installed into their [[PeopleJars shells]] they're entirely immobilized and lose most of their own sensory input, instead perceiving and responding to the world [[ManInTheMachine entirely through mechanical pickups]]. They come to process information differently and can draw on recorded memories without effort. After schooling and graduation, they're installed as the "brains" of [[LivingShip spaceships]] and [[GeniusLoci hospitals, cities, or space stations]], which they come to regard as their bodies and can control in depth, including using robot arms. Thanks to conditioning, they regard "softshells" as having pitiful limitations, but they do still partner with [[HandyHelper "brawns"]] for things that really need a human hand.
* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', Skitter spends a large chunk of the Echidna battle blinded. However, her ability to see through the senses of the bugs around her is so acute that nobody else realizes she's blind until another parahuman uses EmpathicHealing on her.

* ''Series/{{MANTIS}}'' is about a wheelchair-bound man who creates an exoskeleton suit that gives him super-strength as well as the ability to walk.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' had a girl called "Daphne", who had the ability of SuperSpeed. We later learn after her powers get disabled in one episode that before she had her powers, she needed crutches to walk, and the superpower allowed her to walk normally.

* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': The same accident that blinded Matt Murdock also gave him heightened senses that grant him perception in many ways better than sight (though with their own drawbacks).
* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': Nate's hemophilia was [[spoiler:"cured" an episode after he was introduced by getting injected with Super-Nazi serum]].

* In ''TabletopGame/RogueTrader'' Astropaths are blind as a result of the ritual that mentally binds them to the Emperor, but their psyker powers allow them to act like they can see anyways.

* Downplayed in one [[Webcomic/MoringmarkTOHComics MoringMark]] [[https://reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/rhrc31/moringmark_a_new_way/ comic]] centering on the character Eileen from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''. She technically isn't disabled in any way, but the fact that her particular species of demon lacks a mouth [[TheUnintelligible makes all her attempts to talk come across as muffled noise]]. In order to help her get around this, Gus tutors her in illuson magic so she can turn her words into readable text.
* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' has Handi-man, who is quadriplegic but has the power to move his arms and legs. Or so he claims, anyway.

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* Earthbending in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' can be used to sense tremors and vibrations across solid objects, including the earth. Toph Beifong, blind since birth, discovered that she could "see" through these vibrations when she learned to earthbend. This crosses over with DisabilitySuperpower, as anyone can be taught how to do this, but Toph's blindness was what led her to discover it herself. Toph can't "see" things that aren't touching the ground, or on non-earthen surfaces like wood.
* In the SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', villainess Ming-Hua, who was born without arms, uses her waterbending to create prostheses. [[MultiArmedAndDangerous And she's not limited to just two, either]].
* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' with the in-universe spin-off ''Mind Quad'', which is about a man without limbs with psychokinetic powers. (His limbs weren't blown ''off,'' they were blown ''in''--into his mind!) He is capable of riding a quad bike and his sidekick is a paraplegic boy in a wheelchair with a speech-generating device.
* Inverted by the Creator/HalSeeger cartoon series ''WesternAnimation/FearlessFly'', in that the near-sighted housefly Hiram attained SuperStrength when he donned a pair of square glasses. The opening narration explains that these glasses "magnify the thousands of tiny muscles in his head." HollywoodScience at its finest.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'': In the beginning, Nero loses his [[RedRightHand Devil Bringer right forearm]] to the stranger that he took into his home. At first, he only used the [[ArtificialLimbs Devil Breakers]] to compensate, which have different abilities of their own; however, this trope fully comes in in the climax, where [[spoiler:Nero's desire to stop his long lost father and uncle from killing each other awakens the demonic power within him, causing him to regrow his right forearm with said demonic power]].