History Main / SuperWheelChair

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* [[InvisibilityCloak Invisibility]]

A SubTrope of DisabilitySuperpower and CoolChair together.

** Appears in several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons.'' In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E22TheySavedLisasBrain They Saved Lisa's Brain]]", for example, Hawking saves Lisa from the power-hungry Springfield chapter of UsefulNotes/{{Mensa}} in a special wheelchair, complete with an WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget-style retractable helicopter attachment and a spring-loaded boxing glove.

* Acutely (and deliberately) averted when ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Gordon became ComicBook/{{Oracle}}, actually preferring "normality" to show that she does not want special attention. Creator/GailSimone even explicitly forbade anything like hidden missile launchers when taking suggestions for a new chair. The fanciest thing she's had are holders for her eskrima sticks. It's been explicitly stated a few times that she doesn't even have handles on her chair, as she'd rather get where she's going by herself than be pushed. Though this [[DependingOnTheArtist depends on who's drawing it]]. It helps that she's still as physical and active as she can be.\\\
However, it has still been played straight on occasion, such as in [[Series/BirdsOfPrey2002 the 2002 TV series]], which (to the dismay of actress Creator/DinaMeyer) gave Barbara a power chair rather than a manual one, and in Creator/TerryMoore's run, in which she did have a nonstandard wheelchair, modeled after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT iBOT]].
* In the 2009 one-shot comic book ''Cameron And His Dinosaurs'', the titular KidHero character gains this, which during the book's climactic battle is revealed to become able to transform into a flying machine that can fire blasts.

* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' has the "La-Z-Boy OF DOOM", designed by Brianna Diggers. Its first iteration alone was capable of anti-gravity flight and packed a crapload of MoreDakka (and enough missiles for a nicely-sized MacrossMissileMassacre), and it has only gotten nastier (as in "can take AlienInvasion dreadnaught-sized starships on its own" nastier) ever since.
* Lampshaded in the first ''ComicBook/LargoWinch'': Nerio, a very old and even richer man stuck in a wheelchair, is talking to the man who asked to come kill him (MakesSenseInContext). The gunman tells him to turn around slowly, to which Nerio responds "What, are you afraid I keep machine guns in the armrests? [[YouWatchTooMuchX You go to the movies too often.]]"

* The brace variation occurs in ''ComicBook/NewWarriors''. HandicappedBadass Silhouette walks with the aid of twin braces that she has outfitted with tasers and spikes.
* Zodon from ''ComicBook/PS238'' has one[[note]]it's never been made clear whether he actually ''needs'' the chair, or just prefers it to something as mundane as "walking"[[/note]]. Unfortunately, when it becomes damaged, the faculty will not allow him to repair it himself (rightly fearing that he would take the opportunity to weaponize it further). Instead, it is "repaired" by another student who makes it conform to her own, much different, tastes.
* In [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel's]] ''ComicBook/TheTombOfDracula'', Quincy Harker (great-grandson of John and Mina Harker) had his wheelchair rigged with WoodenStake-firing rocket-launchers.
* Not a wheelchair, but an issue of Marvel's ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' series set in the far future sees the geriatric Red Skull challenge a much more limber Captain America sitting in what he aptly named his "Armchair of Death".
* ''Franchise/XMen'':
** Charles Xavier's chair bounces back and forth between this and more conservative varieties DependingOnTheArtist and timeline: The antigravity models are generally established as gifts from his soulmate Lilandra (empress of a spacefaring alien race).[[note]] They're avians, so completely skipped over the concept of a "wheeled chair" when designing their own accommodations for disabilities.[[/note]]

* The supplement for ''[[TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} Cyberpunk RED]]'' ''Cyberchairs: New Options in Mobility'' features a pair of these. The first is a cheap and practical chair capable of both high speed and all terrain travel, while the second is a four-legged spider chair capable of taking arm, leg or general limb mods in each leg.

* After Monty from ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'' gets beaten half to death by the AxCrazy janitor in the first game, he ends up confined to a wheelchair in ''VideoGame/Kindergarten2''. A wheelchair equipped with a laser cannon bigger than he is. Given what a GadgeteerGenius he is, it's very possible that he installed it himself.

-->--''The Adventures of VideoGame/SlyCooper''

A subtrope of DisabilitySuperpower and CoolChair together.

* The short-lived series ''Series/{{MANTIS}}'' deals with a paraplegic inventor who develops an exoskeleton that grants him full mobility. Then at some point, he realizes that it is only a minor step from there to PoweredArmour...