History PlayingWith / HandicappedBadAss

** TheLeader, Bob, tells Alice: "I can't let you fight."

** Her [[SuperWheelchair wheelchair]] is [[MiniMecha WHY she's badass.]]

** Alice has a [[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight gun.]]

** [[BadassPacifist That's because her skills are located elsewhere.]]

** Wheelchair-bound Alice manages to cleave her way through an army of EliteMooks, TheBrute, the EvilGenius, the DarkActionGirl, ''and'' TheDragon ... only to be stopped by a set of stairs.[[note]]That still doesn't stop her.[[/note]]

* '''Invoked''': Alice [[EyeScream tears out her own eye]] to [[EyepatchOfPower win the respect of her peers.]]

** [[Webcomic/TheBMovieComic The pirates in the show gain strength proportional to the amount of body parts they lose.]] When Hiro and company find a pirate with a patch on both eyes, two peg legs, and two {{hook hand}}s, they elect to leave him alone.

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** Wheelchair-bound Alice manages to cleave her way through an army of EliteMooks ''and'' TheDragon … only to be stopped by a set of stairs.[[note]]That still doesn't stop her.[[/note]]

** A bully comes for Alice because she is disabled, thinking she is easy pickings. One short TimeSkip later, the bully is being chased by Alice in a HumongousMecha/with her carrying a {{BFG}}/by herself (with how the heck she managed to terrorize the bully so badly [[InstantMysteryJustDeleteScene conveniently left a mystery]]), whatever is funnier DependingOnTheWriter.

** Her wheelchair is [[MiniMecha WHY she's badass.]]

** Alice had faked her previous disability, but some time later, she really winds up in the wheelchair. And she can still kick ass.

* '''Averted''': Alice's disability prevents her from fighting.

** "I can't let you fight."

** She's undiminished intellectually and contributes to the team effort.

* '''Played for Horror''': Alice is a PersonOfMassDestruction and every single enemy she faces [[UnderestimatingBadassery takes one look at the fact she's in a wheelchair and starts to laugh]], even the ones who are pragmatic. The ones who don't become bloody smears on the walls a nanosecond later Alice plays with, [[BerserkButton because she doesn't like it when they make fun of her disability]].

** She's undiminished intellectually and contributes to the FiveManBand's strategy.

* '''Defied''': "I can't let you fight."

** Alice has no arms or legs and [[IllGirl a raft of chronic illnesses]], but is still better than any fighter on TheTeam.

** Alice is paralyzed from the neck below. She's still badass.

** Alice has no arms or legs, but is still better than any fighter on TheTeam.

* '''Zig-Zagged''': Whether or not Alice's disability makes her the team badass or the team damsel depends on the MonsterOfTheWeek.

** [[Webcomic/TheBMovieComic The pirates in the show gain strength proportional to the amount of body parts they loose.]] When Hiro and company find a pirate with a patch on both eyes, two peg legs, and two {{hook hand}}s, they elect to leave him alone.

* '''Played for Horror''': Alice is a PersonOfMassDestruction and every single enemy she faces [[UnderestimatingBadassery takes one look at the fact she's in a wheelchair and start to laugh]], even the ones who are pragmatic. The ones who don't become bloody smears on the walls a nanosecond later Alice plays with, [[BerserkButton because she doesn't like it when they make fun of her disability]].