History Main / IronicallyDisabledArtist

* ''Series/Angel'': Perennial arsehole Lyndsey lost his right hand to Angel, and everyone cheered. Only later on did we see him preparing for the day ahead and looking longingly at a guitar in his closet. Sympathy ensued.

* * ''Series/Angel'': Perennial Asshole Lyndsey lost his right hand to Angel, and everyone cheered. Only later on did we see him preparing for the day ahead and looking wistfully at a guitar in his closet. Sympathy ensued.

* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': One episode had Charles treat a soldier who was a trained pianist, but his right hand was badly injured. Charles obtains sheet music written specifically for pianists with only a left hand.

* The 1996 film ''Vibrations'' is about a would-be rock star whose hands are severed in a car accident. He then falls in with some ravers who make him a Daft Punk-esque cyborg suit with metal prosthetic hands, and uses them to become a live techno star.

** Season 20 third-placer Noah Galloway lost his left arm and leg in the Iraq War, and refused the use of a prosthetic arm throughout the show.

* Rin Tezuka of ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' lacks arms due to a birth defect, and thus paints with her feet and mouth. The trope gets discussed during her route, when she tells Hisao about a boy in her art club who paints despite being blind.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Reynolds Jaspertarian was a famous painter whose portraits were met with great acclaim by the public. The big twist of his debut episode is that he was actually blind and relied completely on his touch to identify the objects he painted. This becomes a problem for Stan, since one of the paintings is of Francine's vulva.

* Music/DefLeppard's drummer Rick Allen lost an arm in a car accident, but continued drumming with a specialized drum kit.

* Andre de Toth was a film director who worked from the 1940s to the late '70s, and is probably best-remembered for making ''Film/HouseOfWax1953'', one of the biggest and best of the [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie 3D movies]] of the '50s. De Toth only had one eye, and therefore was incapable of seeing or appreciating the [=3D=] effect.

-->-- ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', "The 30% Iron Chef"

* After German pianist and composer Ludwig Van Beethoven became completely deaf at the age of 44, he continued to compose for a full decade after losing his hearing. During this time, he produced several significant works, including his 9th and final symphony.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Reynolds Jaspertarian was a famous painter whose portraits were met with great acclaim by the public. The big twist of his debut episode is that he was actually blind and relied completely on his touch to identify the objects he painted.

* In Disney's version of ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'', the obviously {{Hook Hand}}ed Captain Hook plays a melancholy rendition of his own leitmotif on an old but fancy piano located on his ship whilst trying to convince Tinker Bell to betray Peter Pan (as pictured above).
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', one of the [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood Inn Thugs]] has a large hook hand. His dream is to become a concert pianist and demonstrates his talent despite the hook in the musical number "I've Got A Dream." In the epilogue, he is shown to have gotten his dream.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'', while searching for Puss in Boots, King Harold visits a BadGuyBar where Captain Hook is playing the piano and serenading the patrons in a ShoutOut to the ''Peter Pan'' example above. He's got a gravelly voice, and remains his hook hand.

* In [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Pirates Of Teh Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest]], Davy Jones's mutation has turned his left hand into a lobster claw. However, he can still play his pipe organ using the tentacles of his prehensile beard.

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wittgenstein Paul Wittgenstein]] [[note]]Older brother of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein[[/note]], who had his right arm amputated after a gunshot wound in UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne. Undaunted, he commissioned several prominent composers to write pieces for one hand; the most famous was Music/MauriceRavel's "Piano Concerto for the Left Hand."

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wittgenstein Paul Wittgenstein]] [[note]]Older brother of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein[[/note]], who had his right arm amputated after a gunshot wound in UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne. Undaunted, he commissioned several prominent composers to write pieces for one hand; the most famous was Music/MauriceRavel's "Concerto for the Left Hand."

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* ''WebAnimation/CloverLoveHopeFaithAndLuck'': In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlYdp8P1s6c "Still Dancing"]], Brenda pursued her dreams as a dancer but was suddenly struck with paralysis which would gradually spread from her legs to the rest of her body. Her daughter helps her find other ways to dance; with her arms, then with her voice, then in her head as the disease got worse, helping Brenda remain hopeful even after she succumbed to her disease.

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* In Disney's version of ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'', the obviously {{Hook Hand}}ed Captain Hook plays a melancholy rendition of his own leitmotif on an old but fancy piano located on his ship whilst trying to convince Tinker Bell to betray Peter Pan.
* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', one of the [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood Inn Thugs]] has a large hook hand. His dream is to become a concert pianist and demonstrates his talent despite the hook in the musical number "I've Got A Dream." In the epilogue, he is shown to have gotten his dream.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'', while searching for Puss in Boots, King Harold visits a BadGuyBar where Captain Hook is playing the piano and serenading the patrons. He's got a gravelly voice as well as a hook hand.

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%%In this section, please describe how the disability affected their music. If not, put the example in the Real Life section.

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* The Franchise/{{LEGO}} 18+ ''Creator'' set 10273 Haunted House features the [[OminousPipeOrgan Organ of Catarino]] in Manor von Barron, home of the ''Toys/LEGOAdventurers'' villain Baron Samuel von Barron. Although Baron von Barron has a HookHand, he ordered the custom-built organ and is rumored to have played TV-show theme songs on it.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Jimmy has a pervasive stutter and stammer, but his main pursuit is stand-up comedy, meaning his jokes often take a little while longer to deliver. He's also a bard in ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'', and has the same issue when singing.

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* After German pianist and composer Ludwig Van Beethoven became completely deaf at the age of 44, he continued to compose for a full decade after losing his hearing. During this time, he produced several significant works, including his 9th and final symphony.

* ''Series/BreakingBad'' Skinny Pete, despite being a meth-addled junky and one half of [[ThoseTwoGuys]], is shown to be a talented classical pianist, playing Solfeggietto by Bach.

* Rin Tezuka of ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' lacks arms due to a birth defect, and thus paints with her teeth and mouth. The trope gets discussed during her route, when she tells Hisao about a boy in her art club who paints despite being blind.

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* Rin Tezuka of ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' lacks arms due to a birth defect, and thus paints with her teeth and mouth.

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* Sarah Biffin was a Victorian painter born without arms who learned to write and paint via her mouth and was famous for her miniature paintings and portraits.

* ''Series/AmericasGotTalent'': Creator/DrewLynch explained in his appearance that he got a stutter following a sports injury and entered stand-up comedy in order to make the most of a negative situation.

Fiction loves juxtaposition, and so in fiction you're likely to come across a character with a disability at odds with their art, like a one-handed pianist, a colorblind painter or a one-legged dancer.

* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', one of the [[NotEvilJustMisunderstood Inn Thugs]] has a large hook hand. His dream is to become a concert pianist. In the epilogue, he is shown to have succeeded, somehow.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'', while searching for Puss in Boots, King Harold visits a BadGuyBar where Captain Hook is playing the piano and serenading the patrons.

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%%In this section, please describe how the disability affected their music. If not, put the example in the Real Life section.
* Jazz guitarist Music/DjangoReinhardt suffered a burn on his left hand which greatly limited the mobility of his ring and pinky fingers. He continued playing and developed a new style more conducive to two-finger fretting, so his later music includes plenty of fast arpeggios and expressive string bends.
* Music/ScatmanJohn was a talented pianist and vocalist who spent his whole life struggling with a severe stutter. He incorporated this into his music by including a lot of {{scatting}}, which includes a lot of repetitive sounds.

* In his appearance on ''Series/AmericasGotTalent'', Creator/DrewLynch explained that he got a stutter following a sports injury and entered stand-up comedy in order to make the most of a negative situation.

* The Netlix ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' series gives [[BigBad Count Olaf]] a comedic VillainSong. One of Olaf's usual minions, the Hook-Handed Man (whose ''two'' hands have been replaced by hooks[[note]]They were the typical pirate hooks in the book, but not in the series, where they are more realistic prosthetics, making this scene marginally less absurd[[/note]]), plays the piano. Badly.

* German calligrapher and artist Thomas Schweicker was born armless so he would sit on the floor and use his feet to paint and write.

* In Disney's version of ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'', Captain Hook plays a melancholy rendition of his own leitmotiv on an old but fancy piano located on his ship whilst trying to convince Tinker Bell to betray Peter Pan.