1 | Tropes about how mental and physical disabilities are portrayed in fiction. |
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3 | !!Media Indexes |
4 | [[index]] |
5 | * AutismInMedia: Works of fiction about autistic people and autism spectrum disorders. |
6 | * BlindnessInMedia: Works of fiction about blind or legally blind characters. |
7 | * DeafnessInMedia: Works of fiction about deaf and hard of hearing characters. |
8 | * DwarfismInMedia: Works of fiction that feature people with dwarfism. |
9 | * PhysicalDisabilityInMedia: An index of works about or prominently featuring physically disabled people. |
10 | [[/index]] |
11 | |
12 | !!Tropes: |
13 | [[index]] |
14 | [floatboxright: |
15 | '''Categories:''' |
16 | + {{Autism}} |
17 | + DisabilitySuperpower |
18 | + GlassesTropes |
19 | + MadnessTropes |
20 | ] |
21 | * AbandonTheDisabled: A disabled character's caretaker(s) abandon(s) them. |
22 | * AbledInTheAdaptation: A character who has a disability in the original work does not have the disability in the adaptation. |
23 | * AlbinosAreFreaks: Characters are ostracised for their albinism. |
24 | * AnArmAndALeg: A character gets their limbs cut off. |
25 | * ArmCannon: A prosthetic arm that doubles as a gun. |
26 | * ArtificialLimbs: Robotic prosthetic limbs. |
27 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: A character who has trouble paying attention and gets easily distracted by the most trivial of things. |
28 | * BlindAndTheBeast: A blind person befriends an ugly being. |
29 | * BlindBlackGuy: A black man who is blind. |
30 | * BlindMistake: A blind person's inability to see results in them making hilarious mistakes. |
31 | * BlindMusician: A professional musician who is blind. |
32 | * BlindPeopleWearSunglasses: Sunglasses used as visual shorthand for blindness. |
33 | * BlindSeer: A blind person who is able to "see" by supernatural means. |
34 | * BlindWeaponmaster: A blind person who can still do well in a fight. |
35 | * BullyingTheDisabled: A bully picks on people with disabilities. |
36 | * BuryYourDisabled: Disabled characters get killed off. |
37 | * CareerEndingInjury: An injury or illness that causes disability and forces the afflicted to give up their job/ambition. |
38 | * ColorblindConfusion: A character has problems because they're colorblind. |
39 | * CripplingOverspecialization: You're so good at something that it's the only thing you ''can'' do and are unable to do anything else competently. |
40 | * CripplingTheCompetition: Injuring one's opponent to cheat. |
41 | * CuteMute: A character incapable of speech is portrayed as adorable and innocent. |
42 | * DarkLordOnLifeSupport: The villain is being kept alive by a life support system of sorts. |
43 | * TheDarknessBeforeDeath: A character goes blind before dying. |
44 | * DeafComposer: Someone enjoys doing something related to a sense they don't have (e.g. a literal deaf composer, or a blind painter). |
45 | * DepravedDwarf: A villain, usually a guy, with dwarfism. |
46 | * DiagnosedByTheAudience: Viewers think it seems like a character might have a learning disability or neurological disorder which impacts them greatly enough to be considered a disability. |
47 | * DiagnosisOfGod: The creator confirms a character has a disorder (which can include physical disabilities). |
48 | * DisabilityAlibi: Someone is disabled, so they couldn't have committed the crime. |
49 | * DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery: A disabled person uses the excuse that having a disability means they can get away with being an asshole. |
50 | * DisabilityImmunity: Having a disability makes you immune to something that would affect those who do not have the disability. |
51 | * DisabilityNegatingSuperpower: A disabled person gains superpowers in exchange for losing their disability. |
52 | * DisabilitySuperpower: A person's disability makes them more powerful than a non-disabled person. |
53 | * DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: A disabled character is played by an actor who has the disability for real. |
54 | * DisabledDeity: A divine being with some sort of disability. |
55 | * DisabledInTheAdaptation: The adaptation gives a character a disability that they didn't have in the original story. |
56 | * DisabledMeansHelpless: The belief that a disabled person can't survive without non-disabled people helping them. |
57 | * DisabledSnarker: A disabled character with a [[DeadpanSnarker smart mouth]] that's linked to their disability somehow. |
58 | * DismembermentIsCheap: Characters are able to regrow lost limbs or get prostheses that work perfectly. |
59 | * DramaticSpineInjury: Someone's back/spine injury causes drama in the story, often due to the resulting paralysis. |
60 | * DreamCrushingHandicap: Someone wants to do something, but can't because of a disability they have. |
61 | * EunuchsAreEvil: People who've had their genitals removed are portrayed as evil. |
62 | * EvilCripple: A disabled person who is a villain. |
63 | * EyepatchOfPower: Someone wears an eyepatch. |
64 | * FictionalDisability: A disability that doesn't exist in real life. |
65 | * FlippingHelpless: Someone cannot get up after being flipped on their back. |
66 | * ForgotTheDisability: Someone forgets that their friend is disabled. |
67 | * TheFreakshow: A circus sideshow that involves people with strange disabilities, along with regular circus performers. |
68 | * GeniusCripple: A highly intelligent person who can't walk. |
69 | * GlassEye: A character with a glass or wooden eye. |
70 | * GoodProstheticEvilProsthetic: Heroic amputees have realistic prostheses, but villainous amputees have bulky, showy prostheses. |
71 | * TheGrotesque: A character who means well in spite of their physical deformities. |
72 | * HandicappedBadass: A disabled person who is still capable of incredible feats. |
73 | * HandyHelper: A character helps a disabled person by acting as the body part that is absent or doesn't work. |
74 | * HidingTheHandicap: Someone tries to pretend they're not disabled. |
75 | * HollywoodAutism: Autistic people are all white, male, quiet or talkative, nerdy, stoic, heartless, and severely disabled. |
76 | * HollywoodTourettes: The stereotype that people who have Tourette's Syndrome have a habit of constantly swearing for no reason. |
77 | * HookHand: A character has a missing hand and replaces it with a hook or similar. |
78 | * ICantFeelMyLegs: If someone's legs go numb, they're in serious danger. |
79 | * IgnoreTheDisability: A disabled character is coming, and other characters are told to ignore, and/or avoid mentioning, their disability to avoid offending them. |
80 | * InformedDeformity: A character is said to be ugly in spite of not looking any worse than the other characters. |
81 | * InspirationallyDisadvantaged: A disabled person gets special treatment by everyone else. |
82 | * IronicallyDisabledArtist: An artist whose disability is at odds with their method of creating art. |
83 | * KeepingTheHandicap: A character voluntarily chooses to live with a disability or impediment, even if they could feasibly get rid of it. |
84 | * LIsForDyslexia: Different portrayals of dyslexia. |
85 | * LegCannon: Someone's prosthetic leg is, or contains, a gun. |
86 | * LittlePeopleAreSurreal: A character with dwarfism who appears in a surreal work and/or behaves in a surreal way. |
87 | * LoonWithAHeartOfGold: Someone is kind and also either insane or very eccentric. |
88 | * MadOracle: Someone who can predict the future, but is also insane. |
89 | * MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency: Someone has an intellectual disability and is evil. |
90 | * MentalHealthRecoveryArc: A mentally ill person tries to get better. |
91 | * MentallyUnwellSpecialSenses: People with mental problems can see or sense things that others cannot. |
92 | * MermaidInAWheelchair: Mermaids use wheelchairs on land. |
93 | * NeurodiversityIsSupernatural: Someone is autistic, schizophrenic, etc because of something supernatural. |
94 | * ObfuscatingDisability: A character pretends to be disabled. |
95 | * ObsessivelyOrganized: A character who goes nuts when things are not neat and organized. |
96 | * OneArmedWarrior: A character only needs one hand to fight. |
97 | * OrganDodge: A character survives an injury because the organ that would've been there wasn't. |
98 | * PhysicalTherapyPlot: A character becomes disabled after severe injuries and begins taking physical therapy to become mobile again. |
99 | * PlugNPlayProsthetics: Putting on a prosthetic is effortless. |
100 | * ProphetEyes: Psychics with cataracts. |
101 | * ProstheticLimbReveal: A character reveals that one of their limbs is really a prosthetic. |
102 | * ReflectionlessUselessEyes: Eyes that don't reflect light, and usually mean that the person has limited sight or is even blind. |
103 | * SeadogPegLeg: The tendency for sailors and other sea-fairing folk to have peg legs. |
104 | * SerialProstheses: A character keeps losing limbs and getting more prosthetics. |
105 | * SexyFlaw: Disabilities serving as romantic and/or sexual "turn-on". |
106 | * ShrunkenOrgan: The reason why someone behaves inappropriately is that they have an organ (usually their heart or brain) that is tiny. |
107 | * SingleEpisodeHandicap: A character spends an episode disabled. |
108 | * SpeechImpededLoveInterest: Somebody's love interest can't talk perfectly. |
109 | * SpeechImpediment: A character has difficulty speaking properly because of a mental disorder. |
110 | * SuperWheelchair: Someone needs a wheelchair, but the wheelchair has cool stuff attached (lasers, a rocket pack, etc). |
111 | * SuperpowerDisability: A character's superpower gives them a disability. |
112 | * SwissArmyAppendage: A character has several different prostheses with different uses. |
113 | * SymbolicMutilation: A character is rendered disabled in a symbolic way. |
114 | * TemporaryBlindness: The episode revolves around a character temporarily losing the ability to see. |
115 | * ThrowingOffTheDisability: Somebody suddenly loses their disability. |
116 | * TragicallyDisabledLoveInterest: The (usually [[TemporaryLoveInterest temporary]]) love interest of a main character, who's disabled and usually a woman. It is not enough for the love interest to be disabled; they must be ''tragically'' disabled. |
117 | * WheelchairAntics: Comedy that comes from a character using a wheelchair. |
118 | * WheelchairWoobie: You're [[TheWoobie supposed to pity]] this character because they use a wheelchair, crutches, or similar. |
119 | [[/index]] |
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