History Main / ObfuscatingDisability

* Charles Xavier in ''TwistedToyfareThatre'' had been shown to do this a few times like jumping up and run when he was caught using his mental powers to cheat at Blackjack.

** Mentioned but Averted in season one episode "Dale the Whale." Dale, A massively overweight crime boss, is acused of killing a judge against him, but he's so fat he can't get out of bed. He quickly disproves any theories that he is faking his weight by lifting his bedsheets to the police. [[NausiaFuel One of them threw up.]] [[spoiler: Played straight by the ending. The judge was killed by a thin man in a fat suit who knew that suspicion would fall upon the boss, who could not be proven guilty.]]

* [[spoiler: Yoda]] in {{Star Wars}}. Don't piss him off. He will PWN you.

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* The first criminal seen in ''DetectiveConan''. To be precise, the villain claimed to have a broken leg and couldn't walk. [[spoiler:Just a check of hospital records revealed otherwise.]]

* [[spoiler:Peter Stillman]] in ''MetalGearSolid 2'' who faked his disability to [[spoiler:avoid facing the families of the victims of a bomb he was unable to defuse.]]

* [[spoiler: Haghi, the leader of the spy ring]] in FritzLang's ''Spies''.

* Although he has other significant problems, Bromden in ''OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'' is not "deaf and dumb." He just got so used to people disregarding him that he gave up trying to communicate with them, and now finds that being considered a deaf-mute has the advantage that staff are careless about what they discuss when he's around. [[spoiler: He throws off the charade partway through the book and - aside from McMurphy - none of the patients notice because they never paid much attention to him in the first place.]]

See also ThrowingOffTheDisability.

* In Red Robin, Tim Drake has faked getting shot through the spine to prove he isn't the title character.

* The killer in the JohnDicksonCarr novel [[spoiler:The Problem of the Wire Cage]] uses his recent [[spoiler:car accident, and its attendant injuries]], to pull off a murder he seemingly couldn't have physically committed. Unfortunately, circumstances turn it into a murder NO ONE could've committed.

* BillyWilder's ''The Fortune Cookie'' has Jack Lemmon as a TV cameraman who's accidentally tackled during a football game. His AmbulanceChaser brother-in-law, played by Walter Matthau, convinces him to feign paralysis of the legs in order to collect a huge insurance indemnity.

* Billy Wilder's ''The Fortune Cookie'' has Jack Lemmon as a TV cameraman who's accidentally tackled during a football game. His AmbulanceChaser brother-in-law, played by Walter Matthau, convinces him to feign paralysis of the legs in order to collect a huge insurance indemnity.

* In a season 2 episode of ''PushingDaisies'', we see a brief flashback to Emerson Cod's childhood. His mother faked putting him in danger to expose a man who had made fraudulent insurance claims. She pushed a stroller with a baby doll in it down a flight of stairs- the allegedly wheelchair-bound man with a neckbrace and a broken arm ran from his wheelchair to catch the baby with both hands.

** Sam leapt into a blind piano player and had to pretend he was blind. The mother of the leapee's girlfriend caught him though, and thought the character was really pretending; but when he was tested he was temporarily blinded by the muzzle flash from a gun.
** He also lept into the body of a legless Vietnam vet. To one "unfortunate" [[NurseRatched sadistic orderly]], Sam looked like he was floating above the ground when he got up and walked.

* An episode of ''RescueRangers'' had Dale fake a broken toe to get out of doing work, and get spoiled by Gadget. Later in the episode Dale saved the day, breaking his toe for real, and got his comeuppance when he had to miss a party because of it.

* An episode of ''GarfieldAndFriends'' has one where Nermal fakes that he broke his leg to get sympathy from Jon. Everytime Garfield and Odie try to proof he's faking, they get in trouble with Jon. At the end where they unravel Nermal's foot, Jon believes Nermal's injury was healed. To make matters worse, Garfield and Odie were actually injured, but instead of getting rightful sympathy, they were put in full body casts and not able to eat anything while Nermal gets the last laugh. The whole episode was one large KarmaHoudini.