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| 14 | In the world of fiction, physical impairment = scientific credibility. The world is actually an RPGMechanicsVerse, and when this {{Munchkin}} rolled up their character, they were MinMaxing. Anyone in a wheelchair will possess super intelligence to compensate for his disability. This allows the character to remain a vital part of the cast without being expected to do anything physical. They are the exact opposite of DumbMuscle, which exist on the same principle. |
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| 16 | A form of DisabilitySuperpower. See also EvilCripple for when a Genius Cripple turns out to be evil. |
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| 18 | Examples will often be a SquishyWizard, BlindMusician, BlindSeer, or DeafComposer. See also IronicallyDisabledArtist, when physical impairment doesn't stop creative skill (as opposed to brains). Also compare HandicappedBadass for the physical counterpart of this trope, and GeniusBruiser if both tropes overlap with each other. SicklyNeuroticGeek and GeekPhysiques can be similar to downplayed versions of this trope. |
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| 21 | !!Examples: |
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| 24 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 25 | * ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Subverted with Nunnally vi Britannia. While not a genius on the level of her brother [[MagnificentBastard Lelouch]], blind and wheelchair-using Nunnally joins [[spoiler:Schneizel, successfully convinces him to hand over the key to the F.L.E.I.J.A. warheads, and comes up with a plan that's ''eerily'' similar to Lelouch's, focusing all the world's hatred on a single target (in this case, ''Damocles'')]]. However, this is actually all part of [[spoiler:Schneizel's latest XanatosGambit, which he starts off by [[ILied lying to Nunnally about Pendragon and his own motives]], and later on intends to abandon Damocles with her on it after setting it to self-destruct in order to thwart Lelouch, and later on build another fortress and stockpile even more [[WeaponOfMassDestruction FLEIJAs]], this time, with no one else to stop him or claim sovereignty over Britannia]]. So Nunnally basically becomes an UnwittingPawn. [[spoiler:Though she ''does'' wise up and then becomes a decent Empress after the GrandFinale.]] |
| 26 | * ''Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ'': Morihiko Dan is a wheelchair-using old man who is also a detective so competent that he's one of the few (if not the only) detectives with an authorized firearms license, which is notoriously difficult to obtain in Japan. One of the biggest demonstrations of his deductive skills is when he's able to solve and break down a complicated murder plan in a short time just from reading his students' case report. |
| 27 | * ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'': [[spoiler:Izaya becomes this. During his fight with Shizuo, he's horribly injured and left on the verge of death. In his spin-off, it's revealed that he survived but lost the ability to use his legs. Thus, he now uses a wheelchair, albeit a moderately tricked-out one. However, Izaya is still highly intelligent and a ManipulativeBastard, plus his knife skills haven't changed]]. |
| 28 | * Mashiro from ''Manga/MyHime'' uses a wheelchair throughout most of the series, but is otherwise very capable both as a school principal and spiritual leader to some of the [=HiME=]. It helps that in [[Anime/MyHime the anime version]], she's [[spoiler:supposedly ''way'' [[OlderThanTheyLook older than her 11 years of age]]]]. |
| 29 | * ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': Yomi, although blind, didn't let that stop him from being the first person in the series to manipulate Kurama. |
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| 32 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 33 | * ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'': Double amputee Roger Bochs, who invented a robot called Box and controls it with a mental interface helmet; a later version allows him to physically merge into it, making him a GeniusBruiser. |
| 34 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': |
| 35 | ** Barbara Gordon started out as ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, being presented as reasonably sharp. Then she was shot and paralyzed by the Joker, and suddenly remembered that she had an eidetic memory and world-class hacking, strategic, and organizational skills, and she became the information broker Oracle. The [[ComicBook/Batgirl2011 reboot version of Barbara]], on the other hand, eventually regained the ability to walk after three years of being paralyzed, but flashbacks show that Barbara's smarts were there well before she was shot. |
| 36 | ** Harold Allnut was a mute hunchback who served for years as Batman's mechanic and was a genius with gadgets and technology. |
| 37 | ** In ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' the original ComicBook/{{Anarky}} becomes Tim's VoiceWithAnInternetConnection while recovering from being poisoned and temporarily paralyzed. |
| 38 | ** One of the cruel animal experiments performed by the villain of the Ace the Bat-Hound story "Hounded" in ''Batman: Urban Legends'' was to remove a chicken's legs while teaching her to play chess, to see if the lack of motor functions meant her neural pathways could be rerouted. She gets around in a little wheelchair she controls by pecking at a computer, and her creator has ''no idea'' just how smart she's become. |
| 39 | * ''ComicBook/TheBeano'': The titular character of ''Rubi's Screwtop Science'' is a young GadgeteerGenius who uses a wheelchair. |
| 40 | * ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': Niles Caulder is a paraplegic (for reasons that have never been explained) who moves around in a hovering wheelchair. His genius shows in that he was able to devise means for which the Doom Patrol can control their powers while being as presentable as possible to the public (like putting Robotman's brain into a robot body or wrapping Negative Man in lead-lined bandages). Depending on the iteration, [[spoiler:he may also be an EvilCripple as he triggered the accidents that gave the Doom Patrol their powers in the first place]]. |
| 41 | ** His genius further shows in ''[[ComicBook/JusticeLeague JLA: Year One]]'' where he builds devices to give the Leaguers (who have been crippled by an attack by the Doom Patrol's nemeses, the Brotherhood of Evil) temporary substitutes for their lost powers (such as an ArmCannon for ComicBook/GreenLantern and an artificial voice box for ComicBook/BlackCanary). |
| 42 | * ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': The [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] version of villain Hector Hammond. Unusual for this trope, his handicap and intellect are not natural, but the result of exposure to a strange meteorite, which caused Hammond's brain to mutate, but also crippled his body and took away his ability to speak. He instead relies on telepathy to communicate. |
| 43 | * ''ComicBook/TheMovement'': Discussed when one of the captured cops asks the wheelchair user Vengeance Moth if she's the one who set up the headquarters to be off the power grid with an internet connection, which she denies. This may also be a MythologyGag to Creator/GailSimone's earlier work on ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'', which features the wheelchair user super hacker Oracle, and a reference to the fact that people made comparisons when Vengeance Moth was first introduced. |
| 44 | -->'''Vengeance Moth:''' I get this a lot. Because everyone in a wheelchair is automatically Stephen Hawking, right? |
| 45 | * Zodon from ''ComicBook/PS238'' is an underaged boy with super-genius powers. He is ambulatory only through his hover-chair and he's never seen outside of it. |
| 46 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': |
| 47 | ** Alistair Smythe, the inventor of many a Spider-Slayer, at least until he turns himself into a cyborg. Probably best remembered as the Kingpin's [[DisabledSnarker snarky]], SuperWheelChair-driving aide-de-camp in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries''. |
| 48 | ** In his {{Rewrit|e}}ten origin story, ComicBook/{{Morbius}} was this before being "cured" by becoming [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a living vampire]]. He won a Nobel prize but couldn't attend the ceremony due to his frailty. He walked with a cane and lifting a full cup of tea would break the bones in his fingers. |
| 49 | * Lionel Canter from ''ComicBook/TheSurrogates'' is Stephen Hawking crossed with Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}. He's the original creator of the surrogates and [[spoiler:even modified his own to use [[ShockAndAwe lightning in combat]]]]. |
| 50 | * ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'': Jossie Beller/Circuit Breaker. After being paralyzed in a Decepticon attack, she builds herself a suit of surprisingly clingy PoweredArmor that allows her to fly and shoot lightning. |
| 51 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': |
| 52 | ** Professor Xavier is paraplegic and not just smart, but also the most powerful telepath in the world. His ''ComicBook/Marvel1602'' counterpart Carlos Javier has to be carried everywhere. Wheelchairs did exist in his time, but they were rare enough that he's probably never heard of such a thing. |
| 53 | ** There's a minor mutant called Whiz Kid, a boy genius with the ability to turn his wheelchair into any machine he can think of. |
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| 56 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 57 | * ''ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise'': Professor Nicomede Katris, the BigBad of "The Zombie", is a parplegic computer genius who believes that humanity would be better off under a one-world government run by a computer. |
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| 60 | [[folder:Film -- Animation]] |
| 61 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBreadwinner'': Downplayed with Nuralla, Parvana's father. He lost a leg in the war, but before that, he was a teacher and as such is well-versed in history and literate in two languages. He, and later Parvana, uses this literacy to earn money as a scribe. |
| 62 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': Dr. Finkelstein, who doubles as an EvilCripple (or at least a Jerkish Cripple). He's a wheelchair user MadScientist who is the creator and father figure of the film's deuteragonist Sally. |
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| 65 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 66 | * Dr. Connors in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'', whose right arm was amputated above the elbow, although he'd rather people didn't think of him as this trope: "I'm not a cripple, I'm a scientist, and I'm the world's foremost authority on herpetology." |
| 67 | * Subverted in ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', when the title character [[spoiler:spends most of the movie posing as a bad-tempered, handicapped disabled self-made millionaire ("I didn't blame anyone for the loss of my legs! Some Chinaman took them from me in Korea!"), and turns out to be a phony. That is to say, he's not a genius, as Walter learns the hard way; he genuinely is crippled.]] |
| 68 | * The brilliant, wheelchair user Dr. Leonard Gillespie from the ''Film/DrKildare'' films. Also an example of DisabledCharacterDisabledActor, as the actor who played Gillespie (Creator/LionelBarrymore) used a wheelchair due to severe arthritis. |
| 69 | %%* ''Film/DrStrangelove'', although he regains the ability to walk a second before the world ends. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; where does the genius part come in?) |
| 70 | * Spider from ''Film/{{Elysium}}'' walks with a limp and has to carry around a walking stick. He is also a brilliant hacker. |
| 71 | * Played with in ''Film/TheFly1986''. When brilliant scientist Seth Brundle allows Veronica to see him again after a month's estrangement, his ongoing, accelerating mutation into a HalfHumanHybrid having progressed significantly in the interim, he is using two canes to slowly walk because he's hunched over and cannot maintain his balance otherwise. When she sees him again a few days later, however, he has not only adjusted to a PrimalStance but is downright jumpy and spry -- due in part to discovering an ability to WallCrawl. |
| 72 | %%* Eugene in ''Film/{{Gattaca}}''. He's intelligent enough to fit the trope, but also a former Olympic-level swimmer and [[DesignerBabies genetically engineered]] "perfect" man, and whatever potential he might have isn't strong enough to withstand all his regrets and depression. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how is he crippled?) |
| 73 | * ''Film/MadMax'': |
| 74 | ** Master, the brains of the "Master Blaster" tag team in ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'', has dwarfism, in contrast with his huge but mentally impaired partner Blaster. |
| 75 | ** Corpus Colossus from ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' has osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease), which severely stunts his growth and limits his mobility, and he serves as a {{foil}} to his DumbMuscle brother Rictus. |
| 76 | * ''Film/PacificRim'' has Dr. Hermann Gottlieb, who is able to use mathematics to predict [[spoiler:that three kaiju of unprecedented power are going to come out of the portal]] and uses a cane to move around. |
| 77 | * Dr. Ashford of ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse'', [[spoiler:creator of the T-Virus]] and confined to a wheelchair. |
| 78 | * The BigBad in ''Film/SirArthurConanDoylesSherlockHolmes'' is a GadgeteerGenius who was paralyzed by a police bullet and uses an exoskeleton to move around. |
| 79 | * ''Film/SpyKids3DGameOver'': Juni chooses to have his disabled grandfather accompany him on his journey inside the video game ''Game Over'', deducing that while he's been unable to walk for 30 years, his remaining strength has gone to his upper body and mind. [[spoiler:Not long after arriving, his grandfather gets a Mega Legs power-up that more than fixes the "unable to walk" problem.]] |
| 80 | * ''Film/TheTheoryOfEverything'', which is about the above-pictured wheelchair-using astrophysicist Creator/StephenHawking and his first wife. |
| 81 | * Kuato in the original ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' is a genius deformed Siamese twin. |
| 82 | * Creator/SamuelLJackson's character Elijah Price in the movie ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'' fits this rather well, [[spoiler:[[EvilCripple in the villain sense]]]]. He manages to manipulate the entire cast of ''Film/{{Glass|2019}}'' into giving him exactly what he wants ([[spoiler:bringing The Beast out of Kevin, having David fight him, recording the AncientConspiracy killing David, and exposing both their existence and the existence of superpowered people]]) while almost never leaving his wheelchair due to his condition leaving him with extremely brittle bones. |
| 83 | * ''Film/WildWildWest'': Dr. Arliss Loveless does not have congenital dwarfism like [[Series/TheWildWildWest his TV counterpart]] (Miguelito Loveless). Dr Arliss is literally half a man, missing from about his hips downward, in a [[GadgeteerGenius steampunk wheelchair]]. That sometimes sprouts legs. And not just two -- sometimes four. He is also a MadScientist and a member of the Confederacy, even after the end of the Civil War. |
| 84 | * ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'': |
| 85 | ** Charles Xavier's mutation gives him one of the most powerful minds in the world, and he is confined to a wheelchair after the events of ''Film/XMenFirstClass''. |
| 86 | ** Jason Stryker from ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' is barely able to lift an eyebrow, but that's made up for by a very impressive mind -- although his ability to think on his own has been almost lost due to a brain surgery. |
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| 89 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 90 | %%* Eli Glinn in the Literature/AgentPendergast novels, who is left in a wheelchair after the events of ''Literature/TheIceLimit''. [[spoiler:This is fixed in the Gideon Crew novel ''The Lost Island''.]] (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how is he a genius?) |
| 91 | * Beldin in ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' is a disfigured hunchback. He also has the sharpest mind in the whole series, and Belgarath readily acknowledges that Beldin is much more clever than him. |
| 92 | * Creator/DanBrown's novels ''Literature/AngelsAndDemons'' and ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'' both have characters with disabilities who are also highly respected professors. The guy in the wheelchair is probably a reference to Creator/StephenHawking. |
| 93 | * Lord Vetinari from the Literature/{{Discworld}} series is uncannily clever at [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating people]] and [[XanatosGambit creating plans that work to his advantage whatever happens]]. Fairly early in the series, he gets shot in the leg with a prototype gun and uses a cane to walk for the rest of the series, and after that point, he seems to get even more scary-smart than he was before. |
| 94 | * Sand dan Glokta of ''Literature/TheFirstLaw''. Crippled and disfigured, the Inquisitor is easily the most intelligent of the three main protagonists, and consistently demonstrates a higher level of cunning and insight than almost any other character. |
| 95 | * Garrett's partner in the ''Literature/GarrettPI'' novels might qualify, in that he's a physically-immobile genius who could out-think most people in his sleep. Unusual in that he's not just paralyzed, but ''dead'' and haunting his own corpse. |
| 96 | * In the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' prequel novel ''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'', John (the Master Chief) notes that the SPARTAN-II candidates who don't make it through the dangerous physical augmentation processes fully intact (some die, others are blinded, and a few are wheelchair users) will fulfill such a role in the UNSC as strategists and the like, as the candidates for the program were selected for their intelligence and instructed in history, science, math, and tactics in order to be both physically perfect soldiers and brilliant field strategists. |
| 97 | * ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Over the course of his career as an Auror, Alastor "[[MadEye Mad-Eye]]" Moody has lost a leg, an eye, [[note]]though this wasn't crippling at all, as he got a magical replacement that allows him to see in all directions and through solid objects[[/note]] and part of his nose, and acquired a series of nasty scars. He's still an extremely skilled wizard and strategist, albeit something of a BunnyEarsLawyer due to being ProperlyParanoid all the time. He's also an incredible Dark Wizard hunter, and it's said that half the cells in [[TheAlcatraz Azkaban]] are filled because of him. |
| 98 | * ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': |
| 99 | ** While not a ''scientific'' genius, Lady Emily Alexander, [[spoiler:senior]] wife and political advisor of Lord Hamish Alexander, 13th Earl of White Haven and First Lord of the Admiralty, certainly qualifies. Crippled by an aircar accident and using an advanced life support chair (and flying to boot) for the rest of her life, she's easily ''the'' [[TheChessmaster most shrewd and cunning]] single politician in the whole Kingdom of Manticore. [[JustifiedTrope It might be argued]], though, that it was the injury that forced her to switch from acting to writing, and that it's her extremely long and successful career as a playwright and producer that gave her the scheming skills and understanding of the human character prerequisite for a good politician. |
| 100 | ** Less obvious is Honor's own treecat partner Nimitz. Due to an injury sustained in ''In Enemy Hands'', Nimitz is rendered telepathically mute. He can hear other treecats telepathically, and his empathic sense is fine, but he can't communicate beyond that. However, with a bit of help, he's instrumental in adapting human sign language for 'cat use. |
| 101 | * Hile Troy from ''[[Literature/TheChroniclesOfThomasCovenant The Illearth War]]'' is a congenitally blind genius at military strategy who gains his sight after being transported to The Land. It's Troy's gaining of sight, which he's never had, which leads him to believe that The Land is real (in contrast to Covenant, "The Unbeliever"). |
| 102 | * The ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'' has the High Priest [[AmbiguousGender (Priestess?)]] of Helgrind. They possess incredible magical skills and PsychicPowers, and very nearly out-magick four skilled magicians in a mental battle. They're also missing all four limbs and [[TongueTrauma part of their tongue]]. They also qualify as an EvilCripple, because let's face it, leading a ReligionOfEvil that practices ritual mutilation [[note]]which is how they lost all those body parts[[/note]] and HumanSacrifice kind of makes you a dick. |
| 103 | * ''Literature/InSpectre'': {{Downplayed}} with protagonist Iwanaga Kotoko, a genius young woman who was chosen by the {{youkai}} of Japan to become their [[GreatDetective "Goddess of Wisdom"]] (a TokenHuman advisor and mediator figure); one of the requirements for the post was for her to assume the image of a one-eyed one-legged deity (i.e. her right eye and left leg were amputated). She usually hides her disability with realistic prosthetics, and is athletic enough that she can still walk and run without much difficulty (while she does carry a cane, she says it's only at her parents' insistence). |
| 104 | * Dr. Heilan Rotham from the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'''s ''Literature/LegacyOfTheForce'' books. In ''Betrayal'', she uses a repulsorlift-powered wheelchair of some kind and serves the plot by providing the Jedi with specialized information that other experts were unable to give. |
| 105 | * The titular character from Jeffrey Deaver's ''Literature/LincolnRhyme'' novels, who is a quadriplegic forensics expert. |
| 106 | * The Rat in ''Literature/TheLostPrince'', to an extent: He's a hunchback and his legs are crippled, but his mind is sharp, and at the age of thirteen he has a grasp of military tactics and strategy that impresses adults. |
| 107 | * Melody Brooks from ''Literature/OutOfMyMind'' is a girl who has cerebral palsy. As she says, it's not her brain that doesn't work, but her body. She has a photographic memory and is like a living encyclopedia (though her weak point is [[EverybodyHatesMathematics math]]). She is even called her school's own Creator/StephenHawking. |
| 108 | * Ivar the Boneless from ''Literature/RagnarLodbrokAndHisSons''. Supposedly, Ivar was a 9th century Viking warlord whose legs contained only cartilage, but no bones, and therefore he was unable to walk. However, he was the most clever and cunning of his brothers and led them to many a victory, as his stratagems usually won the day when the brute strength of his brothers failed. |
| 109 | * Inquisitor Gideon Literature/{{Ravenor}} at your service. Not just crippled but reduced to a sack of melted flesh and in a state of AndIMustScream... and still a genius philosopher with [[DisabilitySuperpower phenomenal psychic powers]]. |
| 110 | * Yarvi, one of the main characters of ''Literature/TheShatteredSea'', has a crippled arm and hand which prevent him from taking part in the activities expected of a man/warrior. However, he makes up for his lack of physical prowess by being extremely well-read, an accomplished orator, and extremely clever/cunning. |
| 111 | * ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': |
| 112 | ** Doran Martell uses a wheelchair due to extreme gout. And yet, he's more dangerous than many of the other great lords who are on their feet. Even Tywin speaks of him with respect. |
| 113 | ** Dwarf Tyrion Lannister is at least the second most intelligent person in the series. |
| 114 | ** Willas Tyrell has a crippled right leg from a jousting accident, and if it weren't for Obern Martell screaming for the maesters to help Willas, the heir to Highgarden would have lost his leg. So instead of being a knight, as his father wanted, Willas indulges in scholarly studies, with him even writing letters to Oberyn (to whom he bears no ill will) about horses. |
| 115 | %%** [[spoiler:Arguably, Bran Stark.]] (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 116 | * Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's Miles Vorkosigan from the Literature/VorkosiganSaga: Stunted, hunchbacked, and with brittle bones that break at the drop of a hat, but always comes out on top by being the smartest guy on the planet. ''[[MartyStu Any planet.]]'' After he gets all his bones replaced by synthetics by around age 25, he's not so fragile -- but then, by his early 30s, he's picked up several other potentially debilitating health problems: seizures, extensive vascular damage... |
| 117 | * Waldo Farthingwaite-Jones of the [[Creator/RobertAHeinlein Heinlein]] novella ''Literature/{{Waldo}}''. He might be the inspiration for most of the later versions. He's a super-genius with myasthenia gravis that leaves him 1/10 as strong as an average human. He's invented many incredible devices and is best known for the actual devices known as Waldos and named for the invention of the book. |
| 118 | %%* In ''Literature/WingsOfFire'', [[spoiler:Starflight becomes this after having his eyes burned out by a volcano]]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how is he a genius?) |
| 119 | * Crippled midget Fenn is the brain behind the operations of "[[AmoralAttorney Codhringer and Fenn]]", a law firm appearing in ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' saga. He's actually not made up for tax purposes by Codhringer, but his disability means he simply never leaves their office and lets his partner do the talking. |
| 120 | * Henrietta Marvell in Judith Merril's "That Only a Mother" is a BrainyBaby who's speaking in sentences and even singing before she's a year old. But [[spoiler:because of her parents' exposure to radiation, she has no arms or legs]]. |
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| 123 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 124 | * ''Series/SevenDays1998'': Dr. John Ballard designed the time machine that is the impetus of the show, and is paraplegic due to a diving accident in his youth (he was showing off in a rock quarry to impress some girls). |
| 125 | * ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'': |
| 126 | ** During the Creator/LindaThorson years, the Avengers' boss, called "Mother", is a stocky man in a wheelchair (who can get around briskly in his office via a series of ceiling-mounted hand grips). |
| 127 | ** Dr. Armstrong from "The Cybernauts" is another wheelchair-using genius, though this is a villainous one, planning to put humanity under the rule of an artificial intelligence since he thinks they make better decisions than humans. |
| 128 | * ''{{Series/Bones}}'': During the last season and a half, Jack Hodgins is rendered paraplegic from an explosion but remains a vital member of the lab, even becoming its temporary head in the end. He's also been very smart all along. |
| 129 | * Franchise/CSIVerse: |
| 130 | ** ''Series/{{CSI}}'': Doc Robbins, the medical examiner, is (and is played by) a double amputee. |
| 131 | ** ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' has wheelchair-using forensics expert Dr. Leonard Giles in Season 1. |
| 132 | * ''Series/DarkAngel'': Logan's spine is damaged in the very first episode, leaving him paraplegic. He is still invaluable as a hacker and general computer whizz. |
| 133 | %%** Sebastian can barely move and requires a computer to talk. Yeah, he's pretty much a Creator/StephenHawking knockoff. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how is he a genius?) |
| 134 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 135 | ** The recurring villain Davros is usually injured/old enough that he can only control a single arm; his own wheelchair-like life support apparatus and cybernetic eye are implicitly the inspiration for the "travel machines" used by his infamous creations, the Daleks. Julian Bleach, one of the actors to portray him, called the character "a cross between Creator/StephenHawking and [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]]." |
| 136 | ** The Cybus Industries Cybermen were created by John Lumic, also an EvilCripple. He's a wheelchair user and has a wealth of life-support instruments hooked up. |
| 137 | ** The Face of Boe is a virtually all-knowing entity that has been around for billions of years... and just happens to be a gigantic, withered head in a life-support tank. [[spoiler:His probable identity -- Jack Harkness after eons of AgeWithoutYouth -- is quite a shock.]] |
| 138 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]" features a brilliant but crippled scientist named Dortmund. |
| 139 | ** Doctor Judson, the wheelchair-using computer scientist in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]". Who gets very grumpy about his medical assistant treating him as helpless: |
| 140 | --->'''Nurse Crane:''' A little respect for the wheelchair please, Commander. He's an invalid.\ |
| 141 | '''Doctor Judson:''' I'm not an invalid, I'm a cripple. I'm also a genius, so shut up, the pair of you! |
| 142 | * ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'': Bennett's left arm is permanently disabled. Unlike many examples, she was actually quite a genius ''before'' the arm was damaged. |
| 143 | * ''Series/{{ER}}'': Dr Kerry Weaver uses a cane and is revealed to have an IQ of 145. She is also an exceptionally capable emergency physician, and doesn't let her disability slow her down in the slightest. |
| 144 | * ''Exo-Man'': The failed-series-pilot features a scientist who permanently lost the use of his legs, and so built a super-powered robotic exoskeleton for himself to make up for it. |
| 145 | * ''Series/TheFlash2014'': Dr. Harrison Wells, the genius scientist who designed the particle accelerator, wound up injured and confined to a wheelchair after it exploded. [[spoiler:However, not only is he not whom he claims to be, he is actually faking being paralyzed. He's undeniably a genius, though.]] |
| 146 | * ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': |
| 147 | ** Nina Sharp is quite a brainiac and has an artificial arm. [[spoiler:In Season 5, she also needs a wheelchair.]] |
| 148 | ** "[[Recap/FringeS02E20BrownBetty Brown Betty]]": In this episode, when Walter tells a fairy tale to a child, his counterpart is in a wheelchair and has a heart condition (which is part of the plot). |
| 149 | %%** Dr. Walter Bishop is clinically insane and a drug addict. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how is he a genius?) |
| 150 | * ''Series/{{House}}'': Dr. House is a crippled genius (needing a cane to walk around), but that injury more often hurts his genius rather than enables or is neutral to it. On the other hand, to the extent this trope extends to the ''emotionally'' crippled... |
| 151 | %%* ''Series/Ironside1967'': Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside, and also in its {{remake}}, ''Series/Ironside2013''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how is he crippled?) |
| 152 | * ''Series/{{Lexx}}'': In the final season, we meet the wheelchair user physicist Dr. Ernst Longbore. |
| 153 | * ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'': Malcolm's BlackAndNerdy friend Stevie can only move around in a wheelchair and was born with only one lung, resulting in every other word he speaks being punctuated with gasps for air. Although he knows, and acknowledges, that the able-bodied Malcolm is a lot smarter than him (or anyone else, for that matter). |
| 154 | * ''Series/{{MANTIS}}'': The protagonist is a scientist who permanently lost the use of his legs, and so built a super-powered robotic exoskeleton for himself to make up for it. |
| 155 | * ''Series/NCISNewOrleans'': Wheelchair-using tech expert Patton Plame, who only avoids being a TwoferTokenMinority because the cast is split nearly 50-50 along racial lines. |
| 156 | * ''Series/{{Probe}}'''s "[[Recap/ProbeComputerLogicPart2 Computer Logic, Part 2]]": John Blane, Austin's only friend and creator of [[ArtificialIntelligence Crossover]], is a paraplegic. |
| 157 | * ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': |
| 158 | ** Genius scientist Dr. Virgil Swann, played by (former Franchise/{{Superman}}) Creator/ChristopherReeve, is in a wheelchair because the actor has trouble standing. |
| 159 | ** In Season 8, EvilGenius [[spoiler:Lex Luthor]] sustains horrific injuries, causing them to be confined to a wheelchair. |
| 160 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 161 | ** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'''s "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E24S7E1Descent Descent]]": Data plays poker against {{Hologram}}s of famous geniuses, including UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton, UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein, and Creator/StephenHawking (who [[AsHimself plays himself]] and is famous for being so crippled that he can't even talk). Naturally, Hawking beats everyone. After all, [[FridgeBrilliance how could you tell if he's bluffing? His tone of voice?]]. |
| 162 | ** ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'': The character of Aurellio, who was introduced in the episode ''[[Recap/StarTrekDiscoveryS3E12ThereIsATide There is a Tide]]'', was born with a birth defect that confined him to a hoverchair.[[note]]The character was created to allow Kenneth Mitchell to appear in Season 3 after ALS confined Mitchell to a wheelchair.[[/note]] |
| 163 | * ''Series/TheWildWildWest'': Miguelito Loveless has congenital dwarfism and builds SteamPunk devices. |
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| 165 | |
| 166 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 167 | * Billy, a character in former Music/PinkFloyd frontman Music/RogerWaters's ConceptAlbum ''Radio K.A.O.S.'', is a Welsh boy in a wheelchair speaking via a speech computer, who hears radio waves in his head. He learns to use a cordless phone stolen by his big brother, an unemployed miner, to broadcast his voice around the world. His brother is mistakenly arrested for allegedly kicking a stone from a bridge to a car during a miner's strike, killing the driver; the stone fell from a different bridge than one he and Billy were standing on. Upset by the loss of his family environment after he is sent to live with his uncle in L.A., the corporate greed that left his brother unemployed, his brother's false incarceration, and the state of the world in general, Billy [[spoiler:befriends a renegade, freeform DJ (played by Jim Ladd), then hacks his way through the cordless phone into Defense Department computers. Billy programs the computers to simulate a nuclear attack, then make it impossible for missile silos to deter the "attack". The DJ (and the world) believe it has only four minutes left until the end of the world. The world is ScaredStraight into becoming a nicer, happier, and more peaceful and compassionate as a result.]] |
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| 170 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 171 | * Myth/ClassicalMythology: Hephaestus, the ancient Greek god of the forge (counterpart to the Roman Vulcan), has a crippled foot -- according to one version of the story, he was severely injured as a child when he tried to intervene in a quarrel between his parents, Zeus and Hera, and was hurled off Mt. Olympus. Nevertheless, he's the local UltimateBlacksmith, able to invent robots and the ancient version of HumongousMecha. |
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| 173 | |
| 174 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 175 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': Autochthon, one of the few non-antagonistic Primordials in the setting, is characterized by an illness which causes his internal components to turn upon themselves, and has actually performed self-surgery on one of his own souls, essentially lobotomizing himself. He's also among the most advanced craftsmen in the setting (their version of Hephaestus or Vulcan, who in past editions was creating ray guns and teleporters while everyone else was working with swords and bows... albeit magical ones). |
| 176 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': |
| 177 | ** Although a fairly mild example, High Loremaster Teclis qualifies. Teclis suffers from considerable physical infirmity -- highly unusual among the normally disease-free High Elves -- such that he is only kept alive thanks to magical potions and the powers of his formidable magical items. Were it not for these measures he would probably have died in childhood, and even with them, he is still more feeble than any other elf in the game. Teclis is, however, the most powerful wizard in this age of the world, and possessed of a brilliant, obsessively analytical mind. |
| 178 | ** Venerable Lord Kroak has perhaps the most crippling of all disabilities -- he's dead. Not undead, just the ordinary not-moving-about kind. And although it has robbed him of most of his vast magical ability, he's still a very powerful wizard, even in this state. |
| 179 | ** To a lesser degree, even the living Slann come under this trope, as they are all but immobile thanks to their bloated, lethargic physiques and the terrible psychic strain that living in such a chaotic and disordered world has wrought on their minds. However, they're far more intelligent than the other Lizardmen, serving as priests, wizards, and leaders. |
| 180 | ** The Daemon Kairos Fateweaver is also a formidably powerful sorcerer, but shriveled and feeble thanks to his experience being thrown into the Well of Eternity. He's also blind to the present (although one of his two heads can see the past and the other the future), which means that he is virtually incapable of fighting in close combat. |
| 181 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': |
| 182 | ** Gideon Ravenor, a very intelligent and highly psychic Inquisitor whose body was completely crippled thanks to an aircraft crashing into it during an attack on a religious parade. He operates from within a sealed life support chair and occasionally possesses his followers to make use of their physical abilities. |
| 183 | ** The Emperor of Man is the most powerful psychic in the universe and "rules" his empire in a catatonic state from a massive life support system. |
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| 185 | |
| 186 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 187 | * ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': Despite her appearance through the paipai drone's hologram, Ayane is shown to be a wheelchair user, but she's also one of the most skilled hackers and a technological genius in general. The "Mysterious Console" DLC later shows Ayane has been outfitted with [[ArtificialLimbs leg enhancers]], allowing her to walk again. |
| 188 | %%* Kenny Kawaguchi of ''VideoGame/BackyardSports''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 189 | * Professor von Kriplespac from ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' is a MadScientist whose legs are nothing but stumps, requiring him to use a hover-chair to get around. |
| 190 | * Hugh Darrow from ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' pioneered the human augmentation project, but a genetic condition leaves him unable to augment himself, and thus he walks with a cane and braces. [[spoiler:May overlap with EvilCripple.]] |
| 191 | * ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas'''s [[spoiler:Mr. House]] is a 200-years-old person with a physical constitution to match -- he can't even exist, not to mention move, outside his capsule, as the diseases would kill him in less than a year, and he has to do everything through his interface and you, if you decide to join him. He's also an absolutely brilliant mind and the reason New Vegas is still standing -- it is stated that Luck in this game actually stands for capacity to compute statistics and probabilities, and his is ''maxed''. |
| 192 | * ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' has Lester, who has to use either a wheelchair or a cane to move around due to a degenerative muscular disease, but does most of the planning behind the protagonists' heists. The one time he doesn't plan a heist, [[spoiler:[[AxCrazy Trevor]] almost ends up selling a nuclear superweapon to the Chinese, [[DidntThinkThisThrough which would have put the group on the government's hit list for the rest of their lives]]]]. That misadventure serves to show exactly why he's so crucial to the heists' success. |
| 193 | * ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'': Taimi suffers from a bone disease that makes it hard for her to walk. She starts out using a personal golem for any trip longer than "across the room", but during ''End of Dragons'' she gets a set of jade-tech braces that gives her more mobility. |
| 194 | * Jasper Gunz of ''VideoGame/TheHouseOfTheDeadOverkill'', a quadriplegic [=PhD=], is a deliberately over-the-top example of this trope. |
| 195 | * ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'': |
| 196 | ** Rin Tezuka is an artistic child prodigy and a genius in every sense of the word (in real life, "genius" doesn't refer exclusively to people who are good with numbers) who gets accepted on a full scholarship to a prestigious Tokyo art school at the age of 18, and was born with a severe birth defect that resulted in both her arms being amputated just below the shoulder (and is heavily implied to also have an autism spectrum disorder on top of that). |
| 197 | ** Shizune Hakamichi is basically perfect at everything she does [[spoiler:except for interpersonal relationships]], academically excellent, a master manipulator, and can effortlessly beat a chess enthusiast at her own game ''while giving her a psychological analysis based on her play style''. She was also born deaf. |
| 198 | * Monty from ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten|2017}}'' is confined to a wheelchair in ''VideoGame/Kindergarten2'' after being beaten half to death by the AxCrazy janitor in the first game. His intelligence is also more emphasised in the second game since he can no longer [[HighSchoolHustler sell things]] past the start of the day. He's a kindergarten-aged GadgeteerGenius who can modify or disarm a bomb, has a laser cannon in his wheelchair that he likely built himself, knows how to synthesise the drugs that Ms. Applegate is addicted to, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking can read]]. |
| 199 | * ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has Doran, the creator of three starting items: the Doran's Shield, Blade, and Ring. Born with a passion for crafting, he became an UltimateBlacksmith at the age of 15, until he suffered an accident that made him become "soft-minded", but didn't rob him of his passion. Where once he crafted single masterpiece items, he now crafts simpler items in large quantities. |
| 200 | * The ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series has Huey Emmerich, father of Hal "Otacon" Emmerich, and one of the minds behind the predecessors to the Metal Gears. He suffers from a malformed spine that leaves him in a wheelchair. Around the time of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'', he has invented his own wheelchair that can navigate stairs, and by ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'', he seems to have replaced them with mechanical leg braces. |
| 201 | * Stephen from ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'', [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed being]] Creator/StephenHawking [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed with the serial numbers filed off]], and having created the Demon Summoning Program. [[spoiler:''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'' [[{{Superboss}} reveals]] that [[IAmNotLeftHanded he's actually a subversion]].]] |
| 202 | * Bentley of the ''Franchise/SlyCooper'' games becomes this in [[VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves the third game]] after he's crippled at the end of [[VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves the second]]. This does not hinder him from making a wheelchair fitted with gadgets as well, as making him a better fighter than he was before. |
| 203 | * ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Although Patchouli Knowledge has no specific disabilities, she is depicted as having a very fragile constitution. "[[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Patchouli_Knowledge It seems that she's capable of very powerful magic of all kinds]], [[ElementalPowers using many elements in a single spell]], but due to asthma and general poor health she's often unable to recite her spells." A popular fan observation is that she doesn't get nearly enough vitamin D. |
| 204 | * Dr. Sellers of the ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' trilogy, the games' resident EvilGenius and probably the only paraplegic left in the galaxy. In all fairness, he brought it on himself; [[spoiler:he sassed an already mentally-unstable Joachim Mizrahi while the planet Miltia was [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt figuratively going to Hell]], so Mizrahi pulled out a gun and capped him once in each leg]]. Harsh. |
| 205 | [[/folder]] |
| 206 | |
| 207 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 208 | * As per the [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 source material]], The Emperor in ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'' is hooked up to a giant machine to "rule" his empire. Except he isn't near the brink of death and instead has been trying to communicate since the Horus Heresy, as his mind is still in control of his body despite a fragment of his soul shining in the Warp. Once he has a text-to-speech device installed, he immediately starts bitching about how terrible his empire has become and begins a plan to take control again, succeeding in playing everyone, including his "son", [[spoiler:Fallen Primarch Magnus the Red]], and the Inquisition, in a massive plan that [[BatmanGambit hinges on everyone acting like themselves]]. |
| 209 | * ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Volume 7 introduces Pietro Polendina, one of the most brilliant minds in the Kingdom of Atlas. He is a paraplegic robotics engineer who gets around in a customised chair with four mechanical legs that move like a spider's. His speciality is creating robotic prosthetics, such as Yang's arm and Maria's eyes; he spends much of his spare time volunteering in the disadvantaged mining community of Mantle, who wouldn't otherwise have access to prosthetics and engineers of his quality. His crowning achievement is the P.E.N.N.Y. Project, where he created the world's first [[RobotGirl synthetic lifeform]] capable of generating an Aura; she is better known as Penny Polendina, his daughter. [[spoiler:His project has been so successful at bridging the divide between man and machine that Penny is [[BecomeARealBoy even capable]] of inheriting the [[ElementalPowers soul and magic of a Maiden]], which can only be inherited by young women.]] |
| 210 | [[/folder]] |
| 211 | |
| 212 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 213 | * In the webcomic ''WebComic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', the father of [=Dr McNinja's=] college friend Martin is a scientific genius who uses a wheelchair named Dr. Birding. He has some resemblance to [[Creator/StephenHawking Professor Hawking]] (down to the name), and can only communicate via a speaking computer (even expressing emotion through emotes). He does have an [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Incredible Hulk]] transformation mode that is utterly useless since he's still crippled even after the transformation. |
| 214 | * Lululu Lopez from Website/PlatypusComix's ''Webcomic/ElectricWonderland'' always has to travel in some type of wheeled object because of her mermaid tail, but she does know a lot about bombs. |
| 215 | * Mecha Maid from the series ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'' qualifies, as she designed the nerve stimulator that gives her super-strength and enables her to move around. Without it, she needs a wheelchair and has trouble even speaking due to her ALS. |
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| 217 | |
| 218 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 219 | * Doki [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/art/Well-Meaning-Nurse-337873785 is a nurse afflicted with a mild form of cerebral palsy]]. She is well-loved and has a large heart, coupled with the fact she has the skills of a doctor. |
| 220 | * As ''Website/TheOnion'' pointed out, Creator/StephenHawking built himself a robotic exoskeleton to replace his wheelchair. |
| 221 | * The ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' has several examples, including Juryrig and Kludge, both deviser/gadgeteers in extremely souped-up wheelchairs that fly and such. Kludge is also working on an "ComicBook/IronMan" suit of power armor so he can walk again. |
| 222 | [[/folder]] |
| 223 | |
| 224 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 225 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/AlphaTeensOnMachines'' has Garrett, who becomes the team's gear supplier after their first supplier [[spoiler:turns evil on them at the end of Season 1]]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how's he crippled?) |
| 226 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'': Viktor walks with a cane, and is clearly a very bright fellow. He built his own clockwork boat when he was just a little kid, and as young adult, Viktor helps Jayce successfully develop [[{{magitek}} Hextech]]. The BloodFromTheMouth he develops from a childhood breathing in poisonous gasses in the {{Undercity}} drives him even more to use hextech to save his life. |
| 227 | %%* The [[spoiler:future Joker]] in the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "The Knights of Tomorrow!". (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 228 | * ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' has a Creator/StephenHawking send-up called Professor Hawk, whose software factory is a technological [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] send-up itself. And in a subversion, he's not actually disabled, just too lazy to walk. Once he comes under the influence of [=DeeDee=], he sheds his jet-bird-shell-thing and takes up interpretive dance. |
| 229 | * Creator/StephenHawking shows up in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'' cartoon, too. He mocks everyone viciously while zipping in and out of [[OurWormholesAreDifferent his wormholes]] like an amphetamine-crazed rabbit. |
| 230 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' has a Creator/StephenHawking send-up who drives a rocket-powered chair and makes out Crocker the idiot. |
| 231 | * Creator/StephenHawking appears several times on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', first as a non-speaking character in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E1PeterPeterCaviarEater Peter Peter Caviar Eater]]" being kept on hold at the Pewterschmidt estates in case someone needs help with their ''math homework'', and later in an episode dealing with a black hole threatening to consume the Earth (in reality an April fools prank by Channel 6). This episode reveals that Hawking isn't even crippled, and the whole "crippled genius" bit is just a role he plays whenever the media needs a smart guy. |
| 232 | -->'''Hawking:''' This schtick is getting so old, man! That chair ''smells'', dude.\ |
| 233 | '''Surfer:''' Hey Stephen, surf's up!\ |
| 234 | '''Hawking:''' ''[grabs surfboard]'' Alright! Later, bitch! |
| 235 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Creator/StephenHawking is part of a group of nerds who travel in a school bus and use murder to solve many of their problems. In other episodes, Hawking's head shows up in a "way cool rocket" equipped with lasers. Oh, and he's at a huge science convention. And apparently has lasers in his eyes. Even he didn't know he was that awesome. |
| 236 | * The subject of the ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' episode "My Brother's Keeper". Sgt. Slaughter and Sci-Fi must rescue a handicapped (and frankly, [[InsufferableGenius pretty dickish]]) scientist named Dr. Jeremy Pinser. |
| 237 | * In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueGodsAndMonsters'', Lex Luthor is astoundingly brilliant but has a disease that, over the course of several years, leaves him confined to a chair. |
| 238 | * Felix, Ron's friend in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''. He handles a cool wheelchair that allows him to fly (built for him specifically by his mother), and governments and militaries want to work with him and his almost legendary brainpower. He prefers to goof off and play video games with Ron though. |
| 239 | * Carlos's younger brother from ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'' has a wheelchair with a parachute, an emergency raft, a crowbar, and various other useful things, and is a lot smarter than his brother or his brother's classmates. |
| 240 | %%* Berto from ''WesternAnimation/MaxSteel''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample) |
| 241 | * Dr. Wang from ''WesternAnimation/{{Minoriteam}}'', who was a BadassNormal before he was paralyzed. The only person comparable to him in intelligence is Dr. Genius, who can only move one of his fingers. |
| 242 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'': Cyrus Borg, the wheelchair-using head of Borg Industries. His inventions singlehandedly turned Ninjago City from a modern metropolis into a cyberpunk mega city. He's introduced using a spider-like mech for mobility and points out that his parents naming him "Cy Borg" sort of determined his future for him. |
| 243 | * Creator/StephenHawking appears as a cartoon version of himself on several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', driving a wheelchair that features a spring-loaded boxing glove and rockets. Even though it would have been really easy to get another computer to fake his voice, they got him into the studio to record his lines. According to later interviews, he loved it and planned to build a boxing glove into his next chair. He also presented a UsefulNotes/{{BAFTA}} for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' on one occasion. |
| 244 | * Chip Chase from ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers G1'' is your basic wheelchair user genius. |
| 245 | * Doctor Octopus in ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012''. Because of an accident, he lost the use of his limbs. He uses his metal arms to work, fight and move around, as his human body is basically pulled along for the ride like a talking puppet. He's still menacing and looks rather creepy, partially ''because of'', rather than despite, all this. Doubles as an EvilCripple. Eventually gets upgraded into a cyborg by Hydra, and eventually restored to a healthy normal body just in time to be the surprise BigBad of the two-part GrandFinale. |
| 246 | * In ''WesternAnimation/ZorroGenerationZ'', mute Bernardo is the maker of Diego's bat-gadgets. |
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| 248 | |
| 249 | %% Trope was declared Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease via crowner by the Real Life Maintenance thread, do not add real life examples. |
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