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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]]
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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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