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* DismembermentIsCheap
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* DismembermentIsCheap
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* HeroicAlbino
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* BlindWeaponmaster: Your skills can be increased if you obscure your vision.

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* BlindWeaponmaster: Your skills A blind person who can be increased if you obscure your vision.still do well in a fight.
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* InformedDeformity: A character is said to be ugly in spite of not looking any worse from the other characters.

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* InformedDeformity: A character is said to be ugly in spite of not looking any worse from than the other characters.
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* AbledInTheAdaptation

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* AbledInTheAdaptationAbledInTheAdaptation: A character who has a disability in the original work does not have the disability in the adaptation.



* AnArmAndALeg

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* AnArmAndALegAnArmAndALeg: A character gets their limbs cut off.



* ArtificialLimbs
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny

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* ArtificialLimbs
ArtificialLimbs: Robotic prosthetic limbs.
* AttentionDeficitOohShinyAttentionDeficitOohShiny: A character who has trouble paying attention and gets easily distracted by the most trivial of things.



* BlindAndTheBeast
* BlindBlackGuy
* BlindMistake

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* BlindAndTheBeast
BlindAndTheBeast: A blind person befriends an ugly being.
* BlindBlackGuy
BlindBlackGuy: A black man who is blind.
* BlindMistakeBlindMistake: A blind person's inability to see results in them making hilarious mistakes.



* BlindSeer
* BlindWeaponmaster
* BullyingTheDisabled
* BuryYourDisabled

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* BlindSeer
BlindSeer: A blind person who is able to see the future.
* BlindWeaponmaster
BlindWeaponmaster: Your skills can be increased if you obscure your vision.
* BullyingTheDisabled
BullyingTheDisabled: A bully picks on people with disabilities.
* BuryYourDisabledBuryYourDisabled: Disabled characters get killed off.



* CripplingOverspecialization

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* CripplingOverspecializationCripplingOverspecialization: You're so good at something that it's the only thing you ''can'' do and are unable to do anything else competently.



* DarkLordOnLifeSupport

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* DarkLordOnLifeSupportDarkLordOnLifeSupport: The villain is being kept alive by a life support system of sorts.



* DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery
* DisabilityImmunity
* DisabilityNegatingSuperpower
* DisabilitySuperpower
* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor

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* DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery
DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery: A disabled person uses the excuse that having a disability means they can get away with being an asshole.
* DisabilityImmunity
DisabilityImmunity: Having a disability makes you immune to something that would affect those who do not have the disability.
* DisabilityNegatingSuperpower
DisabilityNegatingSuperpower: A disabled person gains super powers in exchange for losing their disability.
* DisabilitySuperpower
DisabilitySuperpower: A person's disability makes them more powerful than a non-disabled person.
* DisabledCharacterDisabledActorDisabledCharacterDisabledActor: A disabled character is played by an actor who has the disability for real.



* DisabledInTheAdaptation

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* DisabledInTheAdaptationDisabledInTheAdaptation: The adaptation gives a character a disability that they didn't have in the original story.



* DisabledMeansHelpless

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* DisabledMeansHelplessDisabledMeansHelpless: The belief that a disabled person can't survive without non-disabled people helping them.



* EunuchsAreEvil

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* EunuchsAreEvilEunuchsAreEvil: People who've had their genitals removed are portrayed as evil.



* EvilCripple
* EyepatchOfPower

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* EvilCripple
EvilCripple: A disabled person who is a villain.
* EyepatchOfPowerEyepatchOfPower: Someone wears an eyepatch.



* GeniusCripple

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* GeniusCrippleGeniusCripple: A highly intelligent person who can't walk.



* TheGrotesque
* HandicappedBadass

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* TheGrotesque
TheGrotesque: An ugly person who means well in spite of their hideous appearance.
* HandicappedBadassHandicappedBadass: A disabled person who is still capable of incredible feats.



* HollywoodTourettes

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* HollywoodTourettesHollywoodTourettes: The stereotype that people who have Tourettes Syndrome have a habit of constantly swearing for no reason.



* InformedDeformity
* InspirationallyDisadvantaged

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* InformedDeformity
InformedDeformity: A character is said to be ugly in spite of not looking any worse from the other characters.
* InspirationallyDisadvantagedInspirationallyDisadvantaged: A disabled person gets special treatment by everyone else.



* ObfuscatingDisability

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* ObfuscatingDisabilityObfuscatingDisability: A character pretends to be disabled.



* ProstheticLimbReveal

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* ProstheticLimbRevealProstheticLimbReveal: A character reveals that one of their limbs is really a prosthetic.



* SeadogPegLeg
* SerialProstheses

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* SeadogPegLeg
SeadogPegLeg: The tendency for sailors and other sea-fairing folk to have peg legs.
* SerialProsthesesSerialProstheses: A character keeps losing limbs and getting more prosthetics.



* SpeechImpediment
* SuperOCD

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* SpeechImpediment
SpeechImpediment: A character has difficulty speaking properly because of a mental disorder.
* SuperOCDSuperOCD: A character who goes nuts when things are not neat and organized.



* TemporaryBlindness

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* TemporaryBlindnessTemporaryBlindness: The episode revolves around a character temporarily losing the ability to see.
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* AutismInMedia
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* MentalHealthRecoveryArc
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* AbandonTheDisabled
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* ReflectionlessUselessEyes
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* PlugNPlayProsthetics
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* DisabledInTheAdaptation
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* LoonWithAHeartOfGold
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* BullyingTheDisabled
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* MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency

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Tropes about how disability is portrayed in fiction.
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+ DisabilitySuperpower



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+ LeadYouCanRelateTo




Tropes about how disability is portrayed in fiction.
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* DisabilityAlibi
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* ForgotTheDisability


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* IgnoreTheDisability
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* GoodProstheticEvilProsthetic
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* FictionalDisability
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* SuperpowerDisability
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* AbledInTheAdaptation
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This trope was cut.


* WeaponsForHands
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* CripplingOverspecialization
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* AbledInTheAdaptation
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* AbledInTheAdaptation
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* WeaponsForHands
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* DeafComposer
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Start a trope at the Trope Launch Pad, not on an index.


* WhiteGuyWhoLikesTrains
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I keep seeing this trope and I feel ike it should be added

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