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* Since ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' is about dating disabled girls, this tends to come up, though it varies depending on the girl, and the story generally goes out of its way to humanize each girl and make them more than just their disability. Whether the girl is able to overcome her difficulties also depends on Hisao making the right decisions.
** Emi Ibarazaki has learned to adapt to losing her legs in an accident, with her ArtificialLimbs working just fine for her. The accident itself, however, [[spoiler:also took her father]] and left her with psychological scars from the experience, so she's incredibly reluctant to get close to anyone in fear she will feel the pain of loss again.
** Hanako Ikezawa's scars stem from her house fire that [[spoiler:killed her parents]], and she was bullied for it in school, resulting in her becoming a ShrinkingViolet and hating herself.
** Shizune Hakamichi's deafness is revealed to have socially isolated her from everyone, with her sign language translator Misha being her OnlyFriend, and it has caused her to develop a blunt and competitive attitude towards everything that's only caused more problems for her. Even her own father mistreats her due to her disability and refuses to understand her.
** Rin Tezuka's lack of arms doesn't present much difficulty for her in the present day, as she has long since learned how to compensate with her feet and mouth, and she's very nonchalant about it. [[spoiler:However, her heavily implied but unspecified ''mental'' disability causes her nothing but pain. She has trouble comprehending her emotions and putting them into words, so when she does speak, she comes off as a {{cloudcukoolander}}, and nobody wants to really get close to her because of it, so she has no real close bonds; everyone just treats her as the weird funny girl. It also serves as the main source of conflict between her and Hisao, who wants to understand her but can never get a straight answer from her on anything.]]
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* Since ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' is about dating disabled girls, this tends to come up, though it varies depending on the girl, and the story generally goes out of its way to humanize each girl and make them more than just their disability. Whether the girl is able to overcome her difficulties also depends on Hisao making the right decisions.
** Emi Ibarazaki has learned to adapt to losing her legs in an accident, with her ArtificialLimbs working just fine for her. The accident itself, however, [[spoiler:also took her father]] and left her with psychological scars from the experience, so she's incredibly reluctant to get close to anyone in fear she will feel the pain of loss again.
** Hanako Ikezawa's scars stem from her house fire that [[spoiler:killed her parents]], and she was bullied for it in school, resulting in her becoming a ShrinkingViolet and hating herself.
** Shizune Hakamichi's deafness is revealed to have socially isolated her from everyone, with her sign language translator Misha being her OnlyFriend, and it has caused her to develop a blunt and competitive attitude towards everything that's only caused more problems for her. Even her own father mistreats her due to her disability and refuses to understand her.
** Rin Tezuka's lack of arms doesn't present much difficulty for her in the present day, as she has long since learned how to compensate with her feet and mouth, and she's very nonchalant about it. [[spoiler:However, her heavily implied but unspecified ''mental'' disability causes her nothing but pain. She has trouble comprehending her emotions and putting them into words, so when she does speak, she comes off as a {{cloudcukoolander}}, and nobody wants to really get close to her because of it, so she has no real close bonds; everyone just treats her as the weird funny girl. It also serves as the main source of conflict between her and Hisao, who wants to understand her but can never get a straight answer from her on anything.]]
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* The music video to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ILDFp5DGA Hello]]" by Music/LionelRichie has a TeacherStudentRomance between a blind woman and a music teacher. The teacher [[StalkerWithACrush spends the video stalking and lurking around]] but the ending implies a mutual attraction.
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* The live musical version of ''Theatre/TheToxicAvenger'' also includes the blind girlfriend.
* Mark Medoff's ''Children of a Lesser God'' involves a romance between a teacher at a school for the deaf and a female former student (now custodian) at the facility. Deaf actress Marlee Matlin played the latter in the 1986 film adaptation, becoming the first deaf actress to win an Oscar for Best Actress.
* In Len Jenkin's ''Margo Veil: AN Entertainment'', Mortmain the Magician falls in love with Ruta, a blind girl.
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* The live musical version of ''Theatre/TheToxicAvenger'' also includes the blind girlfriend.
* Mark Medoff's ''Children of a Lesser God'' involves a romance between a teacher at a school for the deaf and a female former student (now custodian) at the facility. Deaf actress Marlee Matlin played the latter in the 1986 film adaptation, becoming the first deaf actress to win an Oscar for Best Actress.
* In Len Jenkin's ''Margo Veil: AN Entertainment'', Mortmain the Magician falls in love with Ruta, a blind girl.
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* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'':
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', the archer Noire suffers from anemia and tends to get tired much faster than the others. She can be this either to the second generation guys or to a Male Avatar.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', both Saizo (in the Hoshido side) and Niles (in the Nohr one) were subjected to EyeScream for different and very messy reasons. Each can be this to a Female Avatar (and a male one, regarding Niles) and to most of the first generation women in their respective armies.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'':
** The Iron Bull, who is a romance option for Inquisitors of every race and gender, is missing one eye and parts of a few fingers and wears a leg brace.
** Cullen, who can be romanced by female Inquisitors who are human or elven, is struggling with PTSD from his years as a Templar and [[spoiler:withdrawal as he weans himself off of [[FantasticDrug lyrium]].]] The former condition leaves him exhausted from nightmares and poor sleep, while the latter is indicated in the game to cause him chronic pain.
** As of the end of the ''Trespasser'' DLC, [[spoiler:the Inquisitor themselves is this for their love interest, having lost most of their left arm]].
* In ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', Baiken is a female {{Samurai}} warrior with a missing arm and a missing eye, but it doesn't stop her from being an attractive woman. [[HandicappedBadass Doesn't stop her from kicking ass either]] - in a universe full of magic users and {{Half Human Hybrid}}s, she is just an ordinary woman with a katana, and yet in the first game she was the unlockable OptionalBoss. Go figure.
** And she is the LoveInterest to Anji Mito, who is a NiceGuy and benign male take on the VainSorceress. Their relationship is effectively the inverse of BroodingBoyGentleGirl... or at least, this is the kind of relationship Anji wants.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** The series gives us a male example: Joker, the DeadpanSnarker ace pilot with Vrolik syndrome (brittle bone disease) who is [=EDI=]'s love interest.
** Another male example, one of the potential love interests for a female player character is Thane, who has a lung disease somewhat similar to Cystic Fibrosis which is slowly killing him.
** Downplayed compared to the previous two, Kaidan is Shepard's main male human love interest and lives with a migraine disorder and chronic pain from electric shocks thanks to his [[FlawedPrototype outdated biotic implants]].
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', the archer Noire suffers from anemia and tends to get tired much faster than the others. She can be this either to the second generation guys or to a Male Avatar.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', both Saizo (in the Hoshido side) and Niles (in the Nohr one) were subjected to EyeScream for different and very messy reasons. Each can be this to a Female Avatar (and a male one, regarding Niles) and to most of the first generation women in their respective armies.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'':
** The Iron Bull, who is a romance option for Inquisitors of every race and gender, is missing one eye and parts of a few fingers and wears a leg brace.
** Cullen, who can be romanced by female Inquisitors who are human or elven, is struggling with PTSD from his years as a Templar and [[spoiler:withdrawal as he weans himself off of [[FantasticDrug lyrium]].]] The former condition leaves him exhausted from nightmares and poor sleep, while the latter is indicated in the game to cause him chronic pain.
** As of the end of the ''Trespasser'' DLC, [[spoiler:the Inquisitor themselves is this for their love interest, having lost most of their left arm]].
* In ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', Baiken is a female {{Samurai}} warrior with a missing arm and a missing eye, but it doesn't stop her from being an attractive woman. [[HandicappedBadass Doesn't stop her from kicking ass either]] - in a universe full of magic users and {{Half Human Hybrid}}s, she is just an ordinary woman with a katana, and yet in the first game she was the unlockable OptionalBoss. Go figure.
** And she is the LoveInterest to Anji Mito, who is a NiceGuy and benign male take on the VainSorceress. Their relationship is effectively the inverse of BroodingBoyGentleGirl... or at least, this is the kind of relationship Anji wants.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** The series gives us a male example: Joker, the DeadpanSnarker ace pilot with Vrolik syndrome (brittle bone disease) who is [=EDI=]'s love interest.
** Another male example, one of the potential love interests for a female player character is Thane, who has a lung disease somewhat similar to Cystic Fibrosis which is slowly killing him.
** Downplayed compared to the previous two, Kaidan is Shepard's main male human love interest and lives with a migraine disorder and chronic pain from electric shocks thanks to his [[FlawedPrototype outdated biotic implants]].
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* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'':
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', the archer Noire suffers from anemia and tends to get tired much faster than the others. She can be this either to the second generation guys or to a Male Avatar.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', both Saizo (in the Hoshido side) and Niles (in the Nohr one) were subjected to EyeScream for different and very messy reasons. Each can be this to a Female Avatar (and a male one, regarding Niles) and to most of the first generation women in their respective armies.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'':
** The Iron Bull, who is a romance option for Inquisitors of every race and gender, is missing one eye and parts of a few fingers and wears a leg brace.
**''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': Cullen, who can be romanced by female Inquisitors who are human or elven, is struggling with PTSD from his years as a Templar and [[spoiler:withdrawal as he weans himself off of [[FantasticDrug lyrium]].]] The former condition leaves him exhausted from nightmares and poor sleep, while the latter is indicated in the game to cause him chronic pain.
** As of the end of the ''Trespasser'' DLC, [[spoiler:the Inquisitor themselves is this for their love interest, having lost most of their left arm]].
* In ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', Baiken is a female {{Samurai}} warrior with a missing arm and a missing eye, but it doesn't stop her from being an attractive woman. [[HandicappedBadass Doesn't stop her from kicking ass either]] - in a universe full of magic users and {{Half Human Hybrid}}s, she is just an ordinary woman with a katana, and yet in the first game she was the unlockable OptionalBoss. Go figure.
** And she is the LoveInterest to Anji Mito, who is a NiceGuy and benign male take on the VainSorceress. Their relationship is effectively the inverse of BroodingBoyGentleGirl... or at least, this is the kind of relationship Anji wants.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** The series gives us a male example: Joker, the DeadpanSnarker ace pilot with Vrolik syndrome (brittle bone disease) who is [=EDI=]'s love interest.
** Another male example, one of the potential love interests for a female player character is Thane, who has a lung disease somewhat similar to Cystic Fibrosis which is slowly killing him.
** Downplayed compared to the previous two, Kaidan is Shepard's main male human love interest and lives with a migraine disorder and chronic pain from electric shocks thanks to his [[FlawedPrototype outdated biotic implants]].pain.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', the archer Noire suffers from anemia and tends to get tired much faster than the others. She can be this either to the second generation guys or to a Male Avatar.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', both Saizo (in the Hoshido side) and Niles (in the Nohr one) were subjected to EyeScream for different and very messy reasons. Each can be this to a Female Avatar (and a male one, regarding Niles) and to most of the first generation women in their respective armies.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'':
** The Iron Bull, who is a romance option for Inquisitors of every race and gender, is missing one eye and parts of a few fingers and wears a leg brace.
**
** As of the end of the ''Trespasser'' DLC, [[spoiler:the Inquisitor themselves is this for their love interest, having lost most of their left arm]].
* In ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', Baiken is a female {{Samurai}} warrior with a missing arm and a missing eye, but it doesn't stop her from being an attractive woman. [[HandicappedBadass Doesn't stop her from kicking ass either]] - in a universe full of magic users and {{Half Human Hybrid}}s, she is just an ordinary woman with a katana, and yet in the first game she was the unlockable OptionalBoss. Go figure.
** And she is the LoveInterest to Anji Mito, who is a NiceGuy and benign male take on the VainSorceress. Their relationship is effectively the inverse of BroodingBoyGentleGirl... or at least, this is the kind of relationship Anji wants.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** The series gives us a male example: Joker, the DeadpanSnarker ace pilot with Vrolik syndrome (brittle bone disease) who is [=EDI=]'s love interest.
** Another male example, one of the potential love interests for a female player character is Thane, who has a lung disease somewhat similar to Cystic Fibrosis which is slowly killing him.
** Downplayed compared to the previous two, Kaidan is Shepard's main male human love interest and lives with a migraine disorder and chronic pain from electric shocks thanks to his [[FlawedPrototype outdated biotic implants]].
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* [[spoiler:Subverted with]] Bentley and Penelope in the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' games. Bentley was crushed by Clock-La the end of ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'', and was a wheelchair user since. Penelope falls for him anyway, owing to his genuine concern for her when she's captured by [=LeFwee=], and through their shared love of technology. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime But in reality]], she's only pretending to love him to get his skills for profit, even insulting him in private]].
* Calvina, the female protagonist of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment'' lost the use of her arms in battle prior to the events of the game and gets a tortured romantic subplot with the HumanAlien knight who was responsible for crippling her.
* At some point in ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'' [[spoiler:Milla]] becomes unable to walk for a period of time, and has to be carried by [[spoiler:Jude]], ride a horse, go into a wheelchair, or just outright crawl.
* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonFour'': [[PlayerCharacter Clementine]] can possibly start as one to Louis or Violet, if the player chose the [[spoiler:"Alone" ending in [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonTwo season two]], where Clem loses a part of he left pinky finger]]. In episode three, [[spoiler:Louis can potentially have his tongue cut out and Violet can become blinded, and whoever of the two you didn't let the raiders take in episode two can lose their finger]]. Finally, in episode four, [[spoiler:Clementine will become bitten, with [=AJ=] amputating her leg below the knee, forcing her to use crutches. Clem will always lose her leg no matter what the player does.]]
** The comic continuation has Clementine gain a love interest in Ricca, a nearly blind girl. While she can still see with glasses to some extent by appearances her sight is getting worse.
* In ''VideoGame/WildArms2'', Billy Pilder is in a wheelchair ''and'' has severe head trauma, but Brad Evans still loves him. [[spoiler:At the end of the game, Brad settles down in T'Bok with Billy, taking care of him.]]
* Calvina, the female protagonist of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment'' lost the use of her arms in battle prior to the events of the game and gets a tortured romantic subplot with the HumanAlien knight who was responsible for crippling her.
* At some point in ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'' [[spoiler:Milla]] becomes unable to walk for a period of time, and has to be carried by [[spoiler:Jude]], ride a horse, go into a wheelchair, or just outright crawl.
* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonFour'': [[PlayerCharacter Clementine]] can possibly start as one to Louis or Violet, if the player chose the [[spoiler:"Alone" ending in [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonTwo season two]], where Clem loses a part of he left pinky finger]]. In episode three, [[spoiler:Louis can potentially have his tongue cut out and Violet can become blinded, and whoever of the two you didn't let the raiders take in episode two can lose their finger]]. Finally, in episode four, [[spoiler:Clementine will become bitten, with [=AJ=] amputating her leg below the knee, forcing her to use crutches. Clem will always lose her leg no matter what the player does.]]
** The comic continuation has Clementine gain a love interest in Ricca, a nearly blind girl. While she can still see with glasses to some extent by appearances her sight is getting worse.
* In ''VideoGame/WildArms2'', Billy Pilder is in a wheelchair ''and'' has severe head trauma, but Brad Evans still loves him. [[spoiler:At the end of the game, Brad settles down in T'Bok with Billy, taking care of him.]]
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* ''VisualNovel/C14Dating'': Hendrik via prosthetic arm, Kyler via cochlear implant. Depending on how one defines a disability, Melissa's diabetes can also count.
* ''VisualNovel/EfAFairyTaleOfTheTwo'': Renji's love interest, Shindou Chihiro, is missing her left eye in addition to her inability to [[spoiler: form new long-term memories.]] She lost both her eye [[spoiler: and her memories]] when she was hit by a car years ago.
* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'': Being a romance-based VisualNovel set in a school for students who require regular medical care or educational accommodations as a result of disabilities, [[ThemedHarem all five of Hisao's potential love interests fall under this trope]]. Shizune Hakamichi is deaf-mute, Lilly Satou is blind since birth, Hanako Ikezawa has burn scars over much of her body, Emi Ibarazaki's legs were amputated just below the knees, and Rin Tezuka has stumps for arms. From the girls' perspective, ''Hisao'' counts as this as well; he has [[HeartTrauma cardiac arrhythmia]]. The girls from the April's Fools joke, Rika (heart illness) and Saki (ataxia), would've counted as well.
* In the ''Anime/CodeGeass'' DatingSim ''Lost Colors'', the FeaturelessProtagonist Rai can romance several of the girls in the cast. One of them is Nunnally Lamperouge, who is a wheelchair user ''and'' blind. [[KnightTemplarBigBrother And has a super overprotective older brother]], too.
* Kotori of ''VisualNovel/IfMyHeartHadWings'' is in a wheelchair.
* An in-development SpiritualSuccessor to ''Katawa Shoujo'', ''VisualNovel/MissingStars'', is set in a school for teenagers with psychiatric disorders. The protagonist himself counts as disabled as well, as he goes to the school.
* Riki, the narcoleptic protagonist of ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'', inverts this since he's an example from the perspective of the heroines in his harem, as no one else from the main cast besides Riki has a disability.
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* ''VisualNovel/C14Dating'': Hendrik via prosthetic arm, Kyler via cochlear implant. Depending on how one defines a disability, Melissa's diabetes can also count.
* ''VisualNovel/EfAFairyTaleOfTheTwo'': Renji's love interest, Shindou Chihiro, is missing her left eye in addition to her inability to [[spoiler: form new long-term memories.]] She lost both her eye [[spoiler: and her memories]] when she was hit by a car years ago.
* ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'': Being a romance-based VisualNovel set in a school for students who require regular medical care or educational accommodations as a result of disabilities, [[ThemedHarem all five of Hisao's potential love interests fall under this trope]]. Shizune Hakamichi is deaf-mute, Lilly Satou is blind since birth, Hanako Ikezawa has burn scars over much of her body, Emi Ibarazaki's legs were amputated just below the knees, and Rin Tezuka has stumps for arms. From the girls' perspective, ''Hisao'' counts as this as well; he has [[HeartTrauma cardiac arrhythmia]]. The girls from the April's Fools joke, Rika (heart illness) and Saki (ataxia), would've counted as well.
* In the ''Anime/CodeGeass'' DatingSim ''Lost Colors'', the FeaturelessProtagonist Rai can romance several of the girls in the cast. One of them is Nunnally Lamperouge, who is a wheelchair user ''and'' blind. [[KnightTemplarBigBrother And has a super overprotective older brother]], too.
* Kotori of ''VisualNovel/IfMyHeartHadWings'' is in a wheelchair.
* An in-development SpiritualSuccessor to ''Katawa Shoujo'', ''VisualNovel/MissingStars'', is set in a school for teenagers with psychiatric disorders. The protagonist himself counts as disabled as well, as he goes to the school.
* Riki, the narcoleptic protagonist of ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'', inverts this since he's an example from the perspective of the heroines in his harem, as no one else from the main cast besides Riki has a disability.
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* ''Webcomic/GirlsWithSlingshots'' has Melody, a young deaf woman, in a relationship with Chris, another supporting character.
* ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' has a few examples.
** Vriska is missing an eye and has a robotic arm (though she later regains her eye and arm when she attains god-tier power). Tavros, on whom she has a crush, is paraplegic (though he later regains the ability to walk, after receiving robotic legs).
** Terezi's a borderline case. She's blind, but she has [[TheNoseKnows super-developed senses of smell and taste]] which, as far as she's concerned, [[DisabilitySuperpower more than make up for her lost sight]]. Her boyfriend just wishes she'd stop trying to lick his face.
** Spades Slick is missing an eye and an arm, and Snowman still has the hots for him. Granted, she's the one who poked out Spade's eye and ripped off his arm in the first place.
** [[spoiler:Mituna]] has a brain injury of unknown nature and is frequently incoherent, confused, flipping between personalities, etc. Despite all this, he and [[spoiler:Latula, who incidentally lost the ability to smell]] have been together for "eons".
** AmicableExes example: [[spoiler: Kurloz Makara accidentally deafened his then-girlfriend Meulin Leijon and was so horrified he ''chewed off his tongue and sewed his mouth shut'' (at least that's the reason his friends assume). They eventually broke up but remain close friends.]]
* Mia from ''Webcomic/UnintentionallyPretentious'' is blind, and is [[http://www.unintentionallypretentious.com/index.asp?c=124 usually]] [[http://www.unintentionallypretentious.com/index.asp?c=71 played]] [[http://www.unintentionallypretentious.com/index.asp?c=129 straight]].
* Mike, of ''Webcomic/SexyLosers'' has a blind girlfriend. It's generally played for laughs, as he met her while helping the blind because they wouldn't realize that he had no pants on and was constantly masturbating around them.
* KoreanWebToon ''Webcomic/CantSeeCantHearButLove'' has two disabled love interests, a manhwa artist who went blind and his deaf-mute wife; they are in turn the objects of desire for his ''{{tsundere}}'' assistant and her group home's RoyalBrat president, respectively.
* ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' has a few examples.
** Vriska is missing an eye and has a robotic arm (though she later regains her eye and arm when she attains god-tier power). Tavros, on whom she has a crush, is paraplegic (though he later regains the ability to walk, after receiving robotic legs).
** Terezi's a borderline case. She's blind, but she has [[TheNoseKnows super-developed senses of smell and taste]] which, as far as she's concerned, [[DisabilitySuperpower more than make up for her lost sight]]. Her boyfriend just wishes she'd stop trying to lick his face.
** Spades Slick is missing an eye and an arm, and Snowman still has the hots for him. Granted, she's the one who poked out Spade's eye and ripped off his arm in the first place.
** [[spoiler:Mituna]] has a brain injury of unknown nature and is frequently incoherent, confused, flipping between personalities, etc. Despite all this, he and [[spoiler:Latula, who incidentally lost the ability to smell]] have been together for "eons".
** AmicableExes example: [[spoiler: Kurloz Makara accidentally deafened his then-girlfriend Meulin Leijon and was so horrified he ''chewed off his tongue and sewed his mouth shut'' (at least that's the reason his friends assume). They eventually broke up but remain close friends.]]
* Mia from ''Webcomic/UnintentionallyPretentious'' is blind, and is [[http://www.unintentionallypretentious.com/index.asp?c=124 usually]] [[http://www.unintentionallypretentious.com/index.asp?c=71 played]] [[http://www.unintentionallypretentious.com/index.asp?c=129 straight]].
* Mike, of ''Webcomic/SexyLosers'' has a blind girlfriend. It's generally played for laughs, as he met her while helping the blind because they wouldn't realize that he had no pants on and was constantly masturbating around them.
* KoreanWebToon ''Webcomic/CantSeeCantHearButLove'' has two disabled love interests, a manhwa artist who went blind and his deaf-mute wife; they are in turn the objects of desire for his ''{{tsundere}}'' assistant and her group home's RoyalBrat president, respectively.
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* Averted by Marcie from ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' who has a crush on Malaya, which is unrequited at best - Malaya just isn't interested in girls, on the evidence.
* Subverted by Mecha Maid from ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}''; she has ALS and becomes the love interest of [[spoiler: Spinnerette herself]], but [[HandicappedBadass compensates for her handicap]] with her [[PoweredArmor exo-skeleton suit]] and has been a mainstay of the series since the earliest storylines.
* ''Webcomic/{{Forestdale}}'' gives us a budding romance between Jordan Noel and Susan Summers, the latter of which is a wheelchair-using rabbit girl.
* Subverted by Mecha Maid from ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}''; she has ALS and becomes the love interest of [[spoiler: Spinnerette herself]], but [[HandicappedBadass compensates for her handicap]] with her [[PoweredArmor exo-skeleton suit]] and has been a mainstay of the series since the earliest storylines.
* ''Webcomic/{{Forestdale}}'' gives us a budding romance between Jordan Noel and Susan Summers, the latter of which is a wheelchair-using rabbit girl.
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* [[http://allieinarden.tumblr.com/post/121267473649/ive-noticed-this-revisionist-greek-myth-is-common This]] Website/{{Tumblr}} post [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation speculates]] whether the relationship between [[LoveGoddess Aphrodite]] and [[GeniusCripple Hephaestus]] in Myth/ClassicalMythology may have been more than just an ArrangedMarriage.
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* [[http://allieinarden.tumblr.com/post/121267473649/ive-noticed-this-revisionist-greek-myth-is-common This]] Website/{{Tumblr}} post [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation speculates]] whether the relationship between [[LoveGoddess Aphrodite]] and [[GeniusCripple Hephaestus]] in Myth/ClassicalMythology may have been more than just an ArrangedMarriage.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** One episode has Chris wanting to date Ellen, a girl with Down Syndrome and succeeding in this endeavor but losing interest after it turns out that she's not so nice as he expected all people with Down Syndrome to be.
** Brian once dated a blind girl, who hated dogs. She didn't know ''he'' was a talking dog.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Dean's erstwhile LoveInterest Triana gets together with Raven, a {{Goth}} who walks with crutches and looks like [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]].
* Shannon in ''WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones'' has a prosthetic leg and BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill. It doesn't seem to bother her aside from the fact it made the title robot her AbhorrentAdmirer.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** [[ZigzaggingTrope Zigzagged]] in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', where Jake reveals he learned to read Braille from his ''ex''-girlfriend. [[SubvertedTrope She wasn't blind, however]]. [[RuleOfCool She just thought it was cool]].
** Losing his arm (twice!) hasn't made [[spoiler:[[KidHero Finn]]]] any less of a ChickMagnet.
* When Danse from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' [[SingleEpisodeHandicap breaks her leg]] she befriends a blind man while in rehabilitation. He was blinded at age three after an accident. She falls for him, though [[GirlOfTheWeek he doesn't appear afterwards]].
** One episode has Chris wanting to date Ellen, a girl with Down Syndrome and succeeding in this endeavor but losing interest after it turns out that she's not so nice as he expected all people with Down Syndrome to be.
** Brian once dated a blind girl, who hated dogs. She didn't know ''he'' was a talking dog.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Dean's erstwhile LoveInterest Triana gets together with Raven, a {{Goth}} who walks with crutches and looks like [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]].
* Shannon in ''WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones'' has a prosthetic leg and BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill. It doesn't seem to bother her aside from the fact it made the title robot her AbhorrentAdmirer.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** [[ZigzaggingTrope Zigzagged]] in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', where Jake reveals he learned to read Braille from his ''ex''-girlfriend. [[SubvertedTrope She wasn't blind, however]]. [[RuleOfCool She just thought it was cool]].
** Losing his arm (twice!) hasn't made [[spoiler:[[KidHero Finn]]]] any less of a ChickMagnet.
* When Danse from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' [[SingleEpisodeHandicap breaks her leg]] she befriends a blind man while in rehabilitation. He was blinded at age three after an accident. She falls for him, though [[GirlOfTheWeek he doesn't appear afterwards]].
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* In ''Manga/GetBackers'', there has been some ShipTease between Shido Fuyuki and his blind companion, Madoka Otowa.
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* Leo in ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' is a wounded Iraq War vet; he was introduced as a serving soldier in B.D's unit, the strip covered his wounding and recovery, and he and Alex later became love interests.
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* Luis Fuerte in ''ComicStrip/SafeHavens'' uses a wheelchair. He unintentionally wins the hearts of two women who had boyfriends, and it's been stated that he's quite the looker. [[spoiler: He ends up with Jenny because she alone [[IgnoreTheDisability ignored the disability]].]]
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* ''Film/LuckyStar'': Tim and Mary have a MeetCute before UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, but their romance doesn't really get underway until Tim comes home from the war--in a wheelchair.
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* Ian Stott of Cherie Priest's ''Bloodshot'' fulfills this trope. He's a handsome, charming, urbane vampire who was [[spoiler:blinded by government experiments]].
* As a teenager, the protagonist of ''The Shadow of the Wind'' falls in love with an older woman who is blind.
* In ''Literature/ThingsNotSeen'' by Andrew Clemens, Bobby falls in love with a blind girl.
* In ''Hornet's Sting'' by Creator/DerekRobinson, Major Cleve-Cutler falls in love with a beautiful woman who happens to have lost a leg (we never find out how).
* In the ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novels, deaf sniper Nessa is repeatedly referred to as attractive or downright beautiful.
* Dea in ''Literature/TheManWhoLaughs'' is a beautiful and virtuous blind girl and the primary love interest of the protagonist.
* It's not acknowledged at first since Du Ze in ''Literature/TheReaderAndProtagonistDefinitelyHaveToBeInTrueLove'' tried to hide it, but after a traumatic incident, he reveals that he is deaf and his so-called headphones are actually somewhat old school hearing aids.
* Amy a.k.a. Cucumber from ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'' is missing a hand, which the protagonist Dave interestingly enough doesn't discover until midway through the novel.
* Theodora "Teddy" Carella, the hot wife of Detective Steve Carella, in the ''Literature/EightySeventhPrecinct'' novels by Ed [=McBain=].
* Jeffrey Deaver's LincolnRhymes series features the titular crime scene investigator who also happens to be a quadriplegic. He ends up dating his FairCop partner Sachs.
* [[spoiler:Peeta]] from ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' becomes this to [[spoiler:Katniss]] after losing a leg in the arena. Averted in the film adaptation, where he gets to keep his leg for practical reasons.
* [[spoiler:Thorgil, Jack's]] love interest in ''Literature/TheSeaOfTrolls'', becomes this after she quite literally [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu breaks her hand punching out Satan]].
* As a teenager, the protagonist of ''The Shadow of the Wind'' falls in love with an older woman who is blind.
* In ''Literature/ThingsNotSeen'' by Andrew Clemens, Bobby falls in love with a blind girl.
* In ''Hornet's Sting'' by Creator/DerekRobinson, Major Cleve-Cutler falls in love with a beautiful woman who happens to have lost a leg (we never find out how).
* In the ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novels, deaf sniper Nessa is repeatedly referred to as attractive or downright beautiful.
* Dea in ''Literature/TheManWhoLaughs'' is a beautiful and virtuous blind girl and the primary love interest of the protagonist.
* It's not acknowledged at first since Du Ze in ''Literature/TheReaderAndProtagonistDefinitelyHaveToBeInTrueLove'' tried to hide it, but after a traumatic incident, he reveals that he is deaf and his so-called headphones are actually somewhat old school hearing aids.
* Amy a.k.a. Cucumber from ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'' is missing a hand, which the protagonist Dave interestingly enough doesn't discover until midway through the novel.
* Theodora "Teddy" Carella, the hot wife of Detective Steve Carella, in the ''Literature/EightySeventhPrecinct'' novels by Ed [=McBain=].
* Jeffrey Deaver's LincolnRhymes series features the titular crime scene investigator who also happens to be a quadriplegic. He ends up dating his FairCop partner Sachs.
* [[spoiler:Peeta]] from ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' becomes this to [[spoiler:Katniss]] after losing a leg in the arena. Averted in the film adaptation, where he gets to keep his leg for practical reasons.
* [[spoiler:Thorgil, Jack's]] love interest in ''Literature/TheSeaOfTrolls'', becomes this after she quite literally [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu breaks her hand punching out Satan]].
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** She's also lusted after by one of her other coworkers. As much of a jerk as the guy is, we never once get the impression that he's pursuing her to satisfy some kink or fetish of his, nor out of pity. He's just a typical horndog chasing after a pretty girl.
** Also has aspects of BlindAndTheBeast, as Dolarhyde's cleft lip and abusive upbringing have convinced him he's a hideous freak. He's had enough reconstructive surgery and is in good enough shape that most women he knows actually find him quite attractive, but he doesn't realize that.
* Emily Alexander in ''Literature/HonorHarrington''. Although the disablement was after her marriage, it fits this trope because her husband never stopped loving her. [[spoiler:Not even [[ItMakesSenseInContext when they marry someone else]].]]
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Not a full-blown {{Love Interest|s}}, but there's some mutual flirting between [[CasanovaWannabe Marco]] and Collette, one of the disabled teenagers who make up the [[MauveShirt Auxiliary Animorphs]].
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Cloudtail fell for Brightheart before she was maimed but didn't begin courting her until after the incident. Brightheart was mauled by a dog, which left her with serious facial scarring and only one eye.
** Also has aspects of BlindAndTheBeast, as Dolarhyde's cleft lip and abusive upbringing have convinced him he's a hideous freak. He's had enough reconstructive surgery and is in good enough shape that most women he knows actually find him quite attractive, but he doesn't realize that.
* Emily Alexander in ''Literature/HonorHarrington''. Although the disablement was after her marriage, it fits this trope because her husband never stopped loving her. [[spoiler:Not even [[ItMakesSenseInContext when they marry someone else]].]]
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Not a full-blown {{Love Interest|s}}, but there's some mutual flirting between [[CasanovaWannabe Marco]] and Collette, one of the disabled teenagers who make up the [[MauveShirt Auxiliary Animorphs]].
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Cloudtail fell for Brightheart before she was maimed but didn't begin courting her until after the incident. Brightheart was mauled by a dog, which left her with serious facial scarring and only one eye.
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** ''Literature/{{Son}}'' also has Einar for Claire. He's one of the few people in the seaside village who she really bonds with, continuing to treat her well even after finding out about her TeenPregnancy, and he's missing part of his foot. This one ''is'' temporary, due to the fact that Claire has to leave [[spoiler:so she can find Gabriel]].
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* Matt of ''Series/SeventhHeaven'' dated a deaf girl off and on for several seasons, even learning sign language for her.
* There was a beautiful blind girl in an episode of ''Series/ThirtyRock'', too. Subverted though, as at the end of the episode, the blind girl touches Kenneth's face for the first time and brushes him off immediately.[[note]]She also touches her own face in the same spot, so it's possible she determined they were related.[[/note]]
-->'''Tracy:''' Yeah, well... you're not so good looking yourself!\\
'''Jennifer:''' No, I'm pretty sure I'm hot.
* There was a beautiful blind girl in an episode of ''Series/ThirtyRock'', too. Subverted though, as at the end of the episode, the blind girl touches Kenneth's face for the first time and brushes him off immediately.[[note]]She also touches her own face in the same spot, so it's possible she determined they were related.[[/note]]
-->'''Tracy:''' Yeah, well... you're not so good looking yourself!\\
'''Jennifer:''' No, I'm pretty sure I'm hot.
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* In ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', Michael dates a blind lawyer for a short while (possibly a ShoutOut to ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}''). This was [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] as she was fully capable of sight (except when some incident left her temporarily blind); she just acted like that to play with the emotions of the jury.
* One episode of ''Series/HappyDays'' has Fonzie falling for a GirlOfTheWeek and, when he does his usual "finger snap girl-attention-grabbing gesture", finding it doesn't work. He worries that he's lost his mojo for a few seconds until Richie realizes that the girl in question is deaf.
* Another male version, Artie from ''Series/{{Glee}}'' is in a wheelchair and dated DumbBlonde Brittany for a while.
** Becky is this for her boyfriend in Season 6. Everyone else thinks it's weird or creepy, but he doesn't care about her disability.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E06Melora Melora]]", Dr. Bashir falls for GirlOfTheWeek [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Melora_Pazlar Melora Pazlar]], who, having been raised on a low gravity planet, cannot walk in normal gravity.
* ''Series/DoogieHowserMD'', Vinnie falls for a girl in the hospital who is blind. By the end of the episode, she gets a cornea transplant and can see; however, he gets cold feet now that she can really see him.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' features Chandler dating a girl with a prosthetic leg, and having to come to terms with it. Eventually, he realizes that it's not a relevant flaw... and she [[MinorFlawMajorBreakup dumps him for having a third nipple]].
--> "[[RunningGag It's... it's more of a nubbin...]]"
** Before the series began, Joey also dated the same girl (whose name was Ginger.) He tried to keep Chandler away from her because he was afraid she would recognize him (their relationship ended badly: they went to a cabin, the fire in the hearth died down, Joey went to throw another log on the fire and didn't realize she had a wooden leg...)
* On ''Series/TheWestWing,'' Josh has a crush on the deaf pollster Joey Lucas. She seems to reciprocate his feelings to some degree (or at the very least, she enjoys flirting with him just for the fun of it), but she ultimately doesn't pursue a relationship, because she's savvy enough to realize that Josh's assistant, Donna, is in love with him.
* Daphne Millbrooke on ''{{Series/Heroes}}'' has a degenerative condition which prevents her from walking, but her powers override it and give her SuperSpeed. When an eclipse takes those powers back, she becomes weak again, but this does not dissuade Matt.
** And had the show received a fifth season, the deaf character of Emma would have become Peter's love interest.
* ''Series/DarkAngel'' had Logan / ''Eyes Only'', a hunky dude in a wheelchair, as [[SuperSoldier Max's]] love interest.
* Bennett Halverson on ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}''. It's Creator/SummerGlau with her arm in a sling, and she's [[PairTheSmartOnes just as smart as]] [[ReluctantMadScientist Topher]].
-->'''Topher:''' Imagine Creator/JohnCassavetes in ''The Fury'' as a hot chick.\\
'''Topher-Victor:''' Which you know I often have!
* Deconstructed in the ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'' episode "Denise Handicapped", where Larry continues dating a pretty woman in a wheelchair to gain popularity and sympathy from his friends. [[spoiler:When he loses her phone number, he finds a ''different'' woman in a wheelchair to date.]]
* In an episode of ''Series/StupidStupidMan'', Nick dated a hot blind girl and seemed to have genuine feelings for her. However, he ended up dumping her because he couldn't get past the fact that she would never be able to appreciate exactly how gorgeous he was.
* On an episode of ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'', Carrie is temporarily blind after bad laser eye surgery. Her husband Doug tries to console her by saying her blindness makes her more approachable.
--> "Like Marlee Matlin! She's very hot but the deaf thing makes you think 'Hmm, I can get her!'"
* Auggie on ''Series/{{Covert Affairs}}''. Blind and very handsome. Also has better romantic chemistry with Piper Perabo's character than either of the intended male romantic leads.
* One episode of ''Series/HappyDays'' has Fonzie falling for a GirlOfTheWeek and, when he does his usual "finger snap girl-attention-grabbing gesture", finding it doesn't work. He worries that he's lost his mojo for a few seconds until Richie realizes that the girl in question is deaf.
* Another male version, Artie from ''Series/{{Glee}}'' is in a wheelchair and dated DumbBlonde Brittany for a while.
** Becky is this for her boyfriend in Season 6. Everyone else thinks it's weird or creepy, but he doesn't care about her disability.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E06Melora Melora]]", Dr. Bashir falls for GirlOfTheWeek [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Melora_Pazlar Melora Pazlar]], who, having been raised on a low gravity planet, cannot walk in normal gravity.
* ''Series/DoogieHowserMD'', Vinnie falls for a girl in the hospital who is blind. By the end of the episode, she gets a cornea transplant and can see; however, he gets cold feet now that she can really see him.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' features Chandler dating a girl with a prosthetic leg, and having to come to terms with it. Eventually, he realizes that it's not a relevant flaw... and she [[MinorFlawMajorBreakup dumps him for having a third nipple]].
--> "[[RunningGag It's... it's more of a nubbin...]]"
** Before the series began, Joey also dated the same girl (whose name was Ginger.) He tried to keep Chandler away from her because he was afraid she would recognize him (their relationship ended badly: they went to a cabin, the fire in the hearth died down, Joey went to throw another log on the fire and didn't realize she had a wooden leg...)
* On ''Series/TheWestWing,'' Josh has a crush on the deaf pollster Joey Lucas. She seems to reciprocate his feelings to some degree (or at the very least, she enjoys flirting with him just for the fun of it), but she ultimately doesn't pursue a relationship, because she's savvy enough to realize that Josh's assistant, Donna, is in love with him.
* Daphne Millbrooke on ''{{Series/Heroes}}'' has a degenerative condition which prevents her from walking, but her powers override it and give her SuperSpeed. When an eclipse takes those powers back, she becomes weak again, but this does not dissuade Matt.
** And had the show received a fifth season, the deaf character of Emma would have become Peter's love interest.
* ''Series/DarkAngel'' had Logan / ''Eyes Only'', a hunky dude in a wheelchair, as [[SuperSoldier Max's]] love interest.
* Bennett Halverson on ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}''. It's Creator/SummerGlau with her arm in a sling, and she's [[PairTheSmartOnes just as smart as]] [[ReluctantMadScientist Topher]].
-->'''Topher:''' Imagine Creator/JohnCassavetes in ''The Fury'' as a hot chick.\\
'''Topher-Victor:''' Which you know I often have!
* Deconstructed in the ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'' episode "Denise Handicapped", where Larry continues dating a pretty woman in a wheelchair to gain popularity and sympathy from his friends. [[spoiler:When he loses her phone number, he finds a ''different'' woman in a wheelchair to date.]]
* In an episode of ''Series/StupidStupidMan'', Nick dated a hot blind girl and seemed to have genuine feelings for her. However, he ended up dumping her because he couldn't get past the fact that she would never be able to appreciate exactly how gorgeous he was.
* On an episode of ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'', Carrie is temporarily blind after bad laser eye surgery. Her husband Doug tries to console her by saying her blindness makes her more approachable.
--> "Like Marlee Matlin! She's very hot but the deaf thing makes you think 'Hmm, I can get her!'"
* Auggie on ''Series/{{Covert Affairs}}''. Blind and very handsome. Also has better romantic chemistry with Piper Perabo's character than either of the intended male romantic leads.
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* One of the most famous roles by Chilean actor Bastian Bodenhoffer is a rather atypical version of this, the blind bookseller Leo from the SoapOpera ''Te conte''. Leo is remarkably cheerful and HotBlooded for the trope, sort of a HandsomeLech as well, very popular with women (especially the female leads, [[{{Tsundere}} Gianna/Shanna]] and [[{{Ojou}} Sabrina]]) and [[spoiler: he wasn't born blind - he lost his sight in an accident when he was a teenager. By the end of the story he goes through the archetypical operation that may restore his sight... and it actually ''fails'', thus Leo is blinded forever]].
* The ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'' episode "The Thing In The Pit" features a brief but memorable appearance[[note]]ironically, many didn't notice her missing hand because they were distracted by the realistic-looking prosthetic penis she's wearing[[/note]] by this (Warning--{{NSFW}})[[http://i53.tinypic.com/zoi45s.jpg]] extra with one hand.
* ''Series/SwitchedAtBirth'' has several deaf characters, all of whom are quite attractive - Daphne, Emmett, Emmett's mother-and have relationships with hearing people. However, they're all played as ordinary people, with some of the relationships lasting a very long time.
* In ''Series/DaysOfOurLives,'' the "supercouple" Kayla and Steve used to have both of its members like this. Steve was (and, to date, is) still half-blind, wearing an EyepatchOfPower, and Kayla, after a (then) unknown assailant gets her into a gas explosion, loses her voice and hearing due to an odd combination of physical and psychological damage. After Kayla wakes up, Steve starts to woo her more eagerly, until they eventually elope. However, [[UnexplainedRecovery shortly before the marriage, Kayla gets a nigh-impossible recovery, regaining both voice and hearing]].
** Steve himself later gets a prosthetic to fix at least the cosmetic part of his handicap, but he's forced to return to his badass eyepatch.
* The ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'' episode "The Thing In The Pit" features a brief but memorable appearance[[note]]ironically, many didn't notice her missing hand because they were distracted by the realistic-looking prosthetic penis she's wearing[[/note]] by this (Warning--{{NSFW}})[[http://i53.tinypic.com/zoi45s.jpg]] extra with one hand.
* ''Series/SwitchedAtBirth'' has several deaf characters, all of whom are quite attractive - Daphne, Emmett, Emmett's mother-and have relationships with hearing people. However, they're all played as ordinary people, with some of the relationships lasting a very long time.
* In ''Series/DaysOfOurLives,'' the "supercouple" Kayla and Steve used to have both of its members like this. Steve was (and, to date, is) still half-blind, wearing an EyepatchOfPower, and Kayla, after a (then) unknown assailant gets her into a gas explosion, loses her voice and hearing due to an odd combination of physical and psychological damage. After Kayla wakes up, Steve starts to woo her more eagerly, until they eventually elope. However, [[UnexplainedRecovery shortly before the marriage, Kayla gets a nigh-impossible recovery, regaining both voice and hearing]].
** Steve himself later gets a prosthetic to fix at least the cosmetic part of his handicap, but he's forced to return to his badass eyepatch.
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* One of the most famous roles by Chilean actor Bastian Bodenhoffer is a rather atypical version of this, the blind bookseller Leo from the SoapOpera ''Te conte''. Leo is remarkably cheerful and HotBlooded for the trope, sort of a HandsomeLech as well, very popular with women (especially the female leads, [[{{Tsundere}} Gianna/Shanna]] and [[{{Ojou}} Sabrina]]) and [[spoiler: he wasn't born blind - he lost his sight in an accident when he was a teenager. By the end of the story he goes through the archetypical operation that may restore his sight... and it actually ''fails'', thus Leo is blinded forever]].
*''Series/DaysOfOurLives'':
** The''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'' episode "The Thing In The Pit" features a brief but memorable appearance[[note]]ironically, many didn't notice her missing hand because they were distracted by the realistic-looking prosthetic penis she's wearing[[/note]] by this (Warning--{{NSFW}})[[http://i53.tinypic.com/zoi45s.jpg]] extra with one hand.
* ''Series/SwitchedAtBirth'' has several deaf characters, all of whom are quite attractive - Daphne, Emmett, Emmett's mother-and have relationships with hearing people. However, they're all played as ordinary people, with some of the relationships lasting a very long time.
* In ''Series/DaysOfOurLives,'' the"supercouple" Kayla and Steve used to have both of its members like this. Steve was (and, to date, is) still half-blind, wearing an EyepatchOfPower, and Kayla, after a (then) unknown assailant gets her into a gas explosion, loses her voice and hearing due to an odd combination of physical and psychological damage. After Kayla wakes up, Steve starts to woo her more eagerly, until they eventually elope. However, [[UnexplainedRecovery shortly before the marriage, Kayla gets a nigh-impossible recovery, regaining both voice and hearing]].
** Steve himself later gets a prosthetic to fix at least the cosmetic part of his handicap, but he's forced to return to his badass eyepatch.hearing]].
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* ''Series/SwitchedAtBirth'' has several deaf characters, all of whom are quite attractive - Daphne, Emmett, Emmett's mother-and have relationships with hearing people. However, they're all played as ordinary people, with some of the relationships lasting a very long time.
* In ''Series/DaysOfOurLives,'' the
** Steve himself later gets a prosthetic to fix at least the cosmetic part of his handicap, but he's forced to return to his badass eyepatch.
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* Seems disabled characters are a normal occurrence in SoapOpera fiction, as ''Camila'' in ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220251/ Nano]]'', the protagonist main love interest, is (psychosomatically) deaf and mute. Coupled with the fact Manuel, the titular ''Nano'' is already married and spends most of the story unaware than Camila is none other than his long lost ChildhoodFriendRomance, and [[spoiler: she regains her voice and hearing in the end when Manuel divorces his nagging wife to hook up with her]], makes of Camila a thinly veiled expy of WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}
* Again, an entire storyline in ''Series/GuidingLight'' revolves about ''Beth'' being declared legally dead, while she was just mute, amnesiac and out of town, living a romance with her savior. Elsewhere on the show, Amish EveryonesBabySister Abby was deaf (as was her actress, Amy Ecklund) but quickly became the love interest of one of the show's legacy characters shortly after she was introduced.
* ''Series/PortCharles'': Paralyzed Matt successfully courted nurse Grace and fellow doctor Ellen.
* Raj, in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''; he's, by himself, a selective mute unable to vocally communicate with the opposite sex, a thing women tend to find cute and endearing (until he gets drunk, at which point his selective mutism disappears but he tends to make an ass of himself). However, his friends try to set him up with a stunningly beautiful deaf-mute girl, on the account that, being deaf, she wouldn't notice or care for Raj's handicap. She [[spoiler: ends dumping him the same, as she was just interested in Raj's money]].
* One episode of ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'' had Jim meeting an attractive blind psychologist. While she was technically only a temporary love interest, she does show up again in a later episode. Jim still held a flame for her, but she was engaged to another man.
* Judy, of ''Series/{{Taxi}}'' is the love interest of Louie, the despicable manager. She's also blind. One episode featured her having an operation to restore her sight and Louie's fear that she'll leave him once she sees what he really looks like. [[spoiler:She doesn't]].
* ''Series/{{The Mentalist}}'' has Rosalind, who was a lover of the elusive [[BigBad Red John]]. Turns out she is blind and therefore cannot identify what he looks like and most likely is the main reason he hasn't killed her.
* ''Series/SueThomasFBEye'': Sue is deaf and there's certainly an attraction between her and Jack (which [[EveryoneCanSeeIt everyone can see]]), not to mention all the men she's dated over the course of the series. The show featured many deaf characters prominently, so whenever they paired up with someone they became this as well.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In later seasons, Sam dates Eileen, a hunter who was made deaf by a banshee when she was an infant.
* Played with in a sketch from ''Series/MrShow'' in which [[CockFight two men argue]] over their [[LoveTriangle shared love interest]], a blind woman. Subverted when she reveals she isn't really blind; double subverted when one of the men reveals that [[MindScrew he really IS blind]].
* In ''Series/DeadLikeMe'', George has a [[GirlOfTheWeek one-episode flirtation]] with a schizophrenic boy who can see gravelings.
* The rather infamous Mexican SoapOpera ''Series/MariaLaDelBarrio'' has Alicia aka "la maldita lisiada" (Spanish for "the fucking cripple"), the cute girl in a wheelchair who captures the attention of [[FormerTeenRebel Nandito]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D_vyMDKFjs and gets]] [[MemeticMutation memetically yelled at]] by [[BigBad So]][[EvilIsHammy ra]][[MrsRobinson ya]].
* ''Series/NipTuck'': At one point [[TheCasanova Christian Troy]] dated a blind woman. He was initially intrigued by her because she couldn't simply judge him by his appearance, and was wondering at the time if women saw anything more in him than his looks and status.
* In the Australian show ''Series/CopShop'', Constable Tony Benjamin fell in love with his sergeant's paraplegic daughter Claire. This was no temporary love interest, however, as they eventually married and had children, remaining together for the rest of the run.
* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'':
** Sherlock falls for an autistic woman named Fiona. Sherlock himself is ambiguously on the spectrum, but it hasn't been confirmed.
** Thomas tries to date a woman, however she pushes him away. He originally thinks it's related to his work, however it turns out she's scared because she has been diagnosed with [=MS=] and worries how it will affect him. The episode ends with an open ending that they will continue dating.
* One ''Series/ColdCase'' episode centered around the murder a young man who had caused a car accident that apparently paralyzed a female friend that he had feelings for. [[spoiler:The killer turns out to be the woman's now-husband, who had been the first responder on scene at the accident; the victim realized that she was actually paralyzed not in the crash, but as the result of a botched rescue]].
* The Chilean SoapOpera ''La chica del bastón'' (''The girl with the walking stick'') offers an inversion: the one with the disability ''is the protagonist and female lead'', rather than the love interest. The titular "girl with the walking stick", Claudia, is a LonelyRichKid who was both severely injured ''and'' left with TraumaInducedAmnesia after a car accident, which also [[ParentalAbandonment killed her parents]]; now under the care of her greedy and bitter OldMaid aunt, she [[HikikoMori locks herself in her room]] and refuses to see anyone, so her young doctor and LoveInterest must first "defeat" her reluctance to get adequate treatment.
* At the end of season 11 of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', [=McGee=] starts a relationship with a hot [=DoD=] analyst named Delilah. At the beginning of season 12, she loses the use of her legs in a terrorist attack. As of the end of season 14, they're married and expecting.
* Creator/PeterDinklage played one of [[Creator/TinaFey Liz Lemon's]] [[GirlOfTheWeek guys of the week]] on ''Series/ThirtyRock''.
* In the ''Series/KidsIncorporated'' episode, "[[Recap/KidsIncorporatedS2E4ILoveYouSuzanne I Love You, Suzanne]]" Ryan develops a crush on Riley's cousin, before learning that she's blind.
* ''Series/AgentCarter'' features Daniel Sousa, a World War II vet who lost a leg during the war and uses a crutch or cane regularly. In contrast to other examples, though, he's not a temporary love interest but is [[spoiler: Peggy's primary love interest and possible future husband]].
* In ''Series/{{Weeds}}'', Silas' girlfriend, Megan Graves, is deaf.
* ''Series/PhilipKDicksElectricDreams'': In "[[Recap/PhilipKDicksElectricDreamsS1E8Autofac Autofac]]" Emily's boyfriend, Avishai, has a limp and walks with a crutch. He's also a NiceGuy and NonActionGuy, a nerdy librarian with the mission to recover and preserve mankind's great books in this post-apocalyptic world. Unlike some examples here, he isn't a temporary love interest, nor does his disability disappear by the end (it was only incidental to his character).
* ''Series/TheMurders'': Meg's wife Emily it turns out is deaf, and uses sign language. She only appears in "Toxic", and isn't treated as different from hearing characters.
* Again, an entire storyline in ''Series/GuidingLight'' revolves about ''Beth'' being declared legally dead, while she was just mute, amnesiac and out of town, living a romance with her savior. Elsewhere on the show, Amish EveryonesBabySister Abby was deaf (as was her actress, Amy Ecklund) but quickly became the love interest of one of the show's legacy characters shortly after she was introduced.
* ''Series/PortCharles'': Paralyzed Matt successfully courted nurse Grace and fellow doctor Ellen.
* Raj, in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''; he's, by himself, a selective mute unable to vocally communicate with the opposite sex, a thing women tend to find cute and endearing (until he gets drunk, at which point his selective mutism disappears but he tends to make an ass of himself). However, his friends try to set him up with a stunningly beautiful deaf-mute girl, on the account that, being deaf, she wouldn't notice or care for Raj's handicap. She [[spoiler: ends dumping him the same, as she was just interested in Raj's money]].
* One episode of ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'' had Jim meeting an attractive blind psychologist. While she was technically only a temporary love interest, she does show up again in a later episode. Jim still held a flame for her, but she was engaged to another man.
* Judy, of ''Series/{{Taxi}}'' is the love interest of Louie, the despicable manager. She's also blind. One episode featured her having an operation to restore her sight and Louie's fear that she'll leave him once she sees what he really looks like. [[spoiler:She doesn't]].
* ''Series/{{The Mentalist}}'' has Rosalind, who was a lover of the elusive [[BigBad Red John]]. Turns out she is blind and therefore cannot identify what he looks like and most likely is the main reason he hasn't killed her.
* ''Series/SueThomasFBEye'': Sue is deaf and there's certainly an attraction between her and Jack (which [[EveryoneCanSeeIt everyone can see]]), not to mention all the men she's dated over the course of the series. The show featured many deaf characters prominently, so whenever they paired up with someone they became this as well.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In later seasons, Sam dates Eileen, a hunter who was made deaf by a banshee when she was an infant.
* Played with in a sketch from ''Series/MrShow'' in which [[CockFight two men argue]] over their [[LoveTriangle shared love interest]], a blind woman. Subverted when she reveals she isn't really blind; double subverted when one of the men reveals that [[MindScrew he really IS blind]].
* In ''Series/DeadLikeMe'', George has a [[GirlOfTheWeek one-episode flirtation]] with a schizophrenic boy who can see gravelings.
* The rather infamous Mexican SoapOpera ''Series/MariaLaDelBarrio'' has Alicia aka "la maldita lisiada" (Spanish for "the fucking cripple"), the cute girl in a wheelchair who captures the attention of [[FormerTeenRebel Nandito]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D_vyMDKFjs and gets]] [[MemeticMutation memetically yelled at]] by [[BigBad So]][[EvilIsHammy ra]][[MrsRobinson ya]].
* ''Series/NipTuck'': At one point [[TheCasanova Christian Troy]] dated a blind woman. He was initially intrigued by her because she couldn't simply judge him by his appearance, and was wondering at the time if women saw anything more in him than his looks and status.
* In the Australian show ''Series/CopShop'', Constable Tony Benjamin fell in love with his sergeant's paraplegic daughter Claire. This was no temporary love interest, however, as they eventually married and had children, remaining together for the rest of the run.
* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'':
** Sherlock falls for an autistic woman named Fiona. Sherlock himself is ambiguously on the spectrum, but it hasn't been confirmed.
** Thomas tries to date a woman, however she pushes him away. He originally thinks it's related to his work, however it turns out she's scared because she has been diagnosed with [=MS=] and worries how it will affect him. The episode ends with an open ending that they will continue dating.
* One ''Series/ColdCase'' episode centered around the murder a young man who had caused a car accident that apparently paralyzed a female friend that he had feelings for. [[spoiler:The killer turns out to be the woman's now-husband, who had been the first responder on scene at the accident; the victim realized that she was actually paralyzed not in the crash, but as the result of a botched rescue]].
* The Chilean SoapOpera ''La chica del bastón'' (''The girl with the walking stick'') offers an inversion: the one with the disability ''is the protagonist and female lead'', rather than the love interest. The titular "girl with the walking stick", Claudia, is a LonelyRichKid who was both severely injured ''and'' left with TraumaInducedAmnesia after a car accident, which also [[ParentalAbandonment killed her parents]]; now under the care of her greedy and bitter OldMaid aunt, she [[HikikoMori locks herself in her room]] and refuses to see anyone, so her young doctor and LoveInterest must first "defeat" her reluctance to get adequate treatment.
* At the end of season 11 of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', [=McGee=] starts a relationship with a hot [=DoD=] analyst named Delilah. At the beginning of season 12, she loses the use of her legs in a terrorist attack. As of the end of season 14, they're married and expecting.
* Creator/PeterDinklage played one of [[Creator/TinaFey Liz Lemon's]] [[GirlOfTheWeek guys of the week]] on ''Series/ThirtyRock''.
* In the ''Series/KidsIncorporated'' episode, "[[Recap/KidsIncorporatedS2E4ILoveYouSuzanne I Love You, Suzanne]]" Ryan develops a crush on Riley's cousin, before learning that she's blind.
* ''Series/AgentCarter'' features Daniel Sousa, a World War II vet who lost a leg during the war and uses a crutch or cane regularly. In contrast to other examples, though, he's not a temporary love interest but is [[spoiler: Peggy's primary love interest and possible future husband]].
* In ''Series/{{Weeds}}'', Silas' girlfriend, Megan Graves, is deaf.
* ''Series/PhilipKDicksElectricDreams'': In "[[Recap/PhilipKDicksElectricDreamsS1E8Autofac Autofac]]" Emily's boyfriend, Avishai, has a limp and walks with a crutch. He's also a NiceGuy and NonActionGuy, a nerdy librarian with the mission to recover and preserve mankind's great books in this post-apocalyptic world. Unlike some examples here, he isn't a temporary love interest, nor does his disability disappear by the end (it was only incidental to his character).
* ''Series/TheMurders'': Meg's wife Emily it turns out is deaf, and uses sign language. She only appears in "Toxic", and isn't treated as different from hearing characters.
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** While Kayla's recovery is suspiciously complete, even after a whole story-arc as a TragicallyDisabledLoveInterest, tragically disabled love interest, her knowledge of sign language isn't forgotten. Instead, becomes a plot point in every other occasion where the cast is meant to interact with deaf individuals.
