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12->'''Sly:''' The modifications you've made to that wheelchair are incredibly powerful.\
13'''Bentley:''' Yes, the upgrades should serve me well in the field. Blasters, mines, all the standard fare.
14-->-- ''The Adventures of Franchise/SlyCooper''
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16In RealLife, being a wheelchair user can range from inconvenient to extremely limiting. (Not the chair part—if you need a chair, using one is very freeing—but the lack of arrangements to accommodate it.) However, in fiction, this need not be the case! Thanks to TropeCo/TropeCo[[TradeSnark ™]] you can be the proud owner of one state-of-the-art super chair! Features include
17* [[JetPack Rocket Packs]]
18* [[EnergyWeapon Lasers]], tasers, electroshocks, etc.
19* {{Invisibility|Cloak}}
20* May or not be able to become a [[HumongousMecha mech]]
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22A SubTrope of DisabilitySuperpower and CoolChair, [[JustForFun/{{Troperithmetic}} added together]].
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28* ''Animation/{{Mechamato}}'': In episode 11, [=MechaBot=] mechanizes with Mara's wheelchair for her section of the relay race, turning it into a motorized rocket-propelled chair that allows her to zip around the track like a race car.
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32* Runover in ''Manga/BlackJoke'' is a mob bigwig who was paralyzed in an assassination attempt. He modified his chair to go after the perpetrator. He got his nickname from how he killed the guy -- by using his new chair to flatten his would-be killer's Ferrari.
33* In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Byouri Kihara rides a wheelchair that is armed to the teeth with weapons and can transform into a spider-like mecha.
34* In ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'', [[ReiAyanamiExpy Miaya Gekkougahara]] has a high-tech wheelchair, complete with a Monomi personal assistant and some nifty weapons to boot. She is slightly inconvenienced by her NG Code being "cannot turn right", though. [[spoiler:Not that it would have mattered anyways. She's a robotic clone of the real Gekkougahara Monaca made after murdering her, which explains the heavy weaponry she and her wheelchair possesses.]]
35* Frieza's iconic antigravity hover chair from ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. Unlike most examples of this trope, Frieza doesn't use it because he is disabled, but to show how [[PhysicalGod powerful]] and [[SmugSuper arrogant]] he is. In ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku Father of Goku]]'' this is better exemplified, as Bardock tries to kill him and save Planet Vegeta, but Frieza only raises his finger while on the hover chair and [[EarthShatteringKaboom blows the planet up]] without moving from it.
36* In the Izaya Orihara spinoff from ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'', [[spoiler:after his final fight with Shizuo, Izaya is rendered unable to use his legs, thus he uses a wheelchair. However, he buys a top-of-the-line custom model from a foreign company worth three million yen. It is made with carbon-fibre and includes a "run away" feature, allowing Izaya to propel himself at a high speed (for good reason).]]
37* The Agency head from ''Anime/GaReiZero'' tools around in a wheelchair for most of the series and seems smart but not very threatening. [[spoiler:Turns out it has miniguns, blades, and sacred wheels that engrave protective runes on the street. And that she's very proficient with the use of all three.]]
38* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
39** The franchise has several machines that combine this with HumongousMecha, consisting of a humanoid torso on top of a tank or hovertank base. The best-known is the Guntank from [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam the original series]], but examples exist in several universes, including ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' (the Tragos) and ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' (the Union Realdo Hovertank).
40** In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'', after Mikazuki [[spoiler:severely damages his nervous system in the latter part of the second season]], he's utterly unable to walk (and use one of his arms) without being connected to his Gundam, making it a pretty literal example of this trope.
41* [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Riehlvelt]] in ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' can apply rocket thrusts to his wheelchair, which is also equipped with electric whips. He is apparently in the top 1% of the world population in combat capability.
42* The mermaid queen in ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' uses a throne with tankthreads to get around on land.
43* The wheelchair in the last episode of ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' is revealed to be a cool chair because [[spoiler:it contains a hidden gun in one arm, a stick of dynamite in the other, and more dynamite stashed under the seat, all in place to lay a last-resort final blow on a weakened Mugen. It still isn't enough to kill him.]]
44* Towards the end of ''Anime/{{Symphogear}} G'', Professor Nastassja's wheelchair [[TransformingMecha transforms]] into a sweet mechsuit.
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48* From Creator/GeorgeCarlin's "Asshole, Jackoff, Scumbag" sketch, the Wilson Speedmerchant 5000, which is "The only wheelchair with a rollbar!" It is apparently suitable for transporting a person from their home all the way to Dover, Delaware.
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52* ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'': Acutely (and deliberately) averted when Barbara Gordon became Oracle, actually preferring "normality" to show that she does not want special attention. Creator/GailSimone even explicitly forbade anything like hidden missile launchers when taking suggestions for a new chair. The fanciest thing she's had are holders for her eskrima sticks. It's been explicitly stated a few times that she doesn't even have handles on her chair, as she'd rather get where she's going by herself than be pushed. Though this [[DependingOnTheArtist depends on who's drawing it]]. It helps that she's still as physical and active as she can be.
53** However, it has still been played straight on occasion, such as in [[Series/BirdsOfPrey2002 the 2002 TV series]], which (to the dismay of actress Creator/DinaMeyer) gave Barbara a power chair rather than a manual one, and in Creator/TerryMoore's run, in which she did have a nonstandard wheelchair, modeled after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT iBOT]].
54* ''ComicBook/CameronAndHisDinosaurs'': In the 2009 one-shot comic book, the titular KidHero character gains this, which during the book's climactic battle is revealed to become able to transform into a flying machine that can fire blasts.
55* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': Niles Caulder's chair bounces as an example.
56* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'': The "La-Z-Boy OF DOOM", designed by Brianna Diggers. Its first iteration alone was capable of anti-gravity flight and packed a crapload of MoreDakka (and enough missiles for a nicely-sized MacrossMissileMassacre), and it has only gotten nastier (as in "can take AlienInvasion dreadnaught-sized starships on its own" nastier) ever since.
57* ''ComicBook/LargoWinch'': Lampshaded in the first ''Largo Winch'' when Nerio, a very old and even richer man stuck in a wheelchair, is talking to the man who asked to come kill him (MakesSenseInContext). The gunman tells him to turn around slowly, to which Nerio responds "What, are you afraid I keep machine guns in the armrests? [[YouWatchTooMuchX You go to the movies too often.]]"
58* ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'': In ''[[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Superman: The Man of Steel]]'' Annual #5, Luthor the 60th has a wheelchair equipped with a life support system, controls to activate weapons, and a force field to protect him from attacks.
59* ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'': HandicappedBadass Silhouette walks with the aid of twin braces that she has outfitted with tasers and spikes.
60* ''ComicBook/PS238'': Zodon has one[[note]]it's never been made clear whether he actually ''needs'' the chair, or just prefers it to something as mundane as "walking"[[/note]]. Unfortunately, when it becomes damaged, the faculty will not allow him to repair it himself (rightly fearing that he would take the opportunity to weaponize it further). Instead, it is "repaired" by another student who makes it conform to her own, much different, tastes.
61* ''ComicBook/TheTombOfDracula'': Quincy Harker (great-grandson of John and Mina Harker) had his wheelchair rigged with WoodenStake-firing rocket-launchers.
62* ''ComicBook/WhatIf'': Not a wheelchair, but one issue set in the far future sees the geriatric Red Skull challenge a much more limber Captain America sitting in what he aptly named his "Armchair of Death".
63* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
64** [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Charles Xavier]]'s chair bounces back and forth between this and more conservative varieties DependingOnTheArtist and timeline: The antigravity models are generally established as gifts from his soulmate Lilandra (empress of a spacefaring alien race).[[note]] They're avians, so completely skipped over the concept of a "wheeled chair" when designing their own accommodations for disabilities.[[/note]]
65** Taki Matsuya, also known as Wiz Kid, has the power of "technoforming", the ability to make metal morph into any machine he can think of. His own wheelchair is usually the closest thing at hand. It's usually a normal wheelchair, but he'll modify it to fly, shoot missiles, etc.
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69* ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'': Portnoy, Hodge-Podge, and Opus want to get Cutter John one of these for his birthday, but the salesman shows them ordinary wheelchairs with the fanciest option being "mauve armrests", and tells them "Gentlemen... A wheelchair is ''not'' a vehicle for '''personal expression!!''' '''''PERIOD!'''''" So they build him [[https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/2022/10/24 a custom one]] out of a recliner chair (with a TV, fire extinguisher, fridge, and photon torpedoes).
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73* In ''Fanfic/TheInstituteSaga'', Xavier eventually replaces his ordinary wheelchair with a modified Kryptonian Hover-chair.
74* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K]]'': After injuring her leg during the first contact battle between the Republic and the Imperium, Dr. Shina spends the remainder of the series in a hovering wheelchair that has a built-in blaster which she can activate by pressing a button.
75* In ''Fanfic/VoyagesOfTheWildSeaHorse'', Dyna is a RobotGirl from an unnamed [[SkyIsland White Sea nation]] who was shot down in combat and promptly plunged down to the Grand Line, where she landed directly on an island. Between the initial combat damage and falling thousands upon thousands of feet, there wasn't much left of her outside of a ([[EyeScream one-eyed]]) head and the equivalent of a spinal column. Luckily for her, she was found by a kindly MadScientist who built a SteamPunk SpiderTank and integrated her half-blind, limbless, dying remains into it. Whilst comparatively crude and clunky, it gives her mobility, functioning arms, is loaded with weaponry, and also is implied to keep her alive.
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79* Mayor Tortoise John in the 2011 film ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'' has a wheelchair with mechanical grabbers, mechanized self-moving wheels (like an electric wheelchair without electricity), and a ''golf club''.
80* Within the Spider Society in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'', a Spider-Girl, known as [[HandicappedBadass Sun-Spider]], has a wheelchair that can shift into a spider-legged mode which allows her to crawl up walls.
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84* ''Film/AlienResurrection'': The wheelchair in question also disguises a small arsenal.
85* Patch Quartermain has one of these in ''Film/JohnnyEnglishReborn''. At one point Johnny is shot in the leg while being pursued and steals the wheelchair at gunpoint to continue his escape.
86* ''Film/MrNoLegs'': The eponymous HandicappedBadass Mafia enforcer moves around in a wheelchair with concealed shuriken (ninja throwing stars) on the wheels and shotguns on its armrests.
87* Villainous example: In ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors'', Freddy conjures up a rusty, spike-covered killer wheelchair to attack a paraplegic youth in his dream.
88* In ''Film/OnceUponASpy'', Creator/ChristopherLee's MadScientist has a rocket launcher concealed within his wheelchair.
89* Marty from ''Film/SilverBullet'' has a pretty badass wheelchair built by his uncle. Being more specific, both of the wheelchairs he uses throughout the film are motorized, but the one that bears the TitleDrop is a highly-modified ''racing motorcycle'' that even gets involved in a ChaseScene.
90* The kids' grandpa in the ''Film/SpyKids'' films has a wheelchair that can hover. Actor Creator/RicardoMontalban actually was a wheelchair user by that point in his life.
91* ''Film/{{Steel}}'' features "Sparky" Sparx, John Henry Irons's colleague from his former Army R&D days (the reason John Henry quit was because of an experiment GoneHorriblyWrong by his EvilFormerFriend, now the BigBad, which crippled her as collateral damage) and now MissionControl, who modifies her motorized wheelchair with a high-powered engine and concealed sonic cannons on the armrests, which she unleashes in the climax as a SuperweaponSurprise.
92* In the German kids' film ''Vorstadtkrokodile'', Kai adds miniature rockets to his wheelchair, giving him quite a boost when he's chased by bikers. He also adds loudspeakers controlled by his cell phone, which causes his friend Hannes to comment, "Were you on [[Series/PimpMyRide Pimp-My-Wheelchair]]?"
93* ''Film/WildWildWest''. Dr. Loveless's wheelchair has a built-in rear-firing gun and can deploy legs that allow it to move like a four-legged animal and stamp down on opponents. [[SteamPunk It is steam-powered.]]
94* In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Charles Xavier's elderly self has a wheelchair that hovers.
95* In ''Zombrex: VideoGame/DeadRising Sun'', George tricks out his wheelchair with a bunch of stuff found in a maintenance room in order to take down psychopath Takahashi.
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99* Kohler's wheelchair in ''Literature/AngelsAndDemons'' contains all sorts of gadgets. Granted, it's not as cool a collection as many on this list, but it still counts as a Super Wheelchair in that setting.
100* ''Literature/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Rozemyne uses her highbeast, a magic item that is usually used as a MechanicalHorse, as a mobility aid on account of her poor health. Said magic item has flight as a built-in function and she has figured out that "the shaping spell only allows for animals" means "you can make an AnimalVehicleHybrid". Being much more likely to be riding her highbeast at a given time has given her more options to respond to several sudden events compared to other people.
101* One ''Franchise/BattleTechExpandedUniverse'' novel has an in-universe action movie in which Subhash Indrahar, the director of the Draconis Combine's Internal Security Force, is portrayed as having a TransformingMecha for a wheelchair that allows him to have an epic kung fu battle with the film's hero. The real Subhash didn't have anything quite so crazy, but he did have a built-in Short Range Missile launcher that he used to kill a traitor to the Combine as a HeroicSacrifice.
102* In one of the ''Bedlam's Bard'' novels by Creator/MercedesLackey, a secondary character is left a paraplegic by events in the book. In the epilogue, we learn that she was given an elvensteed — a shape-shifting magical being able to take the form of any transport from horse to ''Harley Davidson'' — to help her get around. It pretends to be a normal wheelchair when mundanes are around, and can pretty much do whatever she needs at any other time; no need for a handicap-accessible remodel of her home with it on the job.
103* Susannah from the ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' series lost her legs in the early '60s when wheelchairs were constructed of heavier materials and were quite clumsy. She's thrilled by the amazing lightness and agility of the '80s-era wheelchair that Eddie finds for her, considering it to be this trope.
104* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
105** In ''Literature/MovingPictures'', Windle Poons's wheelchair has any number of outrageous attachments and functions (although none that increase his self-sufficiency, since he doesn't want to). It serves as a chariot at one point.
106** Mad Hamish's wheelchair in ''Literature/InterestingTimes'' and ''Literature/TheLastHero'' has SpikedWheels and storage for all the Silver Horde's spare weapons. The illustrations for ''The Last Hero'' also show that to get it through the pack ice of the Hublands, the Horde fitted it with skis.
107* ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'': In Creator/RussellTDavies's 2018 {{novelization}} of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Rose]]", the title character is shown a picture of a future incarnation of the Doctor described as a "[[AmbiguousGender boy or girl]] in a high-tech wheelchair".
108* ''Literature/DreamPark'': In ''The Moon Maze Game'', Asako Tabata is a veteran Gamer stricken by muscular dystrophy. She's given a special dispensation to participate in the Game using a mobile body-capsule with tracks and articulated arms; to justify its presence in a Victorian sci-fi Game scenario, it's given a {{Steampunk}} motif and a backstory involving [[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea Captain Nemo]].
109* In ''The Four Constables'' ([[SchizoTech set in Ancient China]]), Emotionless's wheelchair can launch a barrage of deadly mini-rockets.
110* ''Literature/KnownSpace'' has Lucas Garner, a U.N. world government agent whose wheelchair can fly, to the annoyance of his superior, who threatens to arrest him for operating an unauthorised airborne vehicle. He obliges by hiding the controls in the armrest.
111* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': When [[OurCentaursAreDifferent Chiron]] goes among [[{{Muggles}} mortals]], he conceals his horse legs in a {{Hammerspace}} wheelchair.
112* In ''Literature/TheShipWho Searched'', after Tia becomes [[ICantFeelMyLegs paralyzed from the chin down]] she's given the quadriplegic model of something called a Moto-Chair. The coolness of it is downplayed compared to most of the other examples - it moves very quickly, quietly, and precisely, there's incorporated plumbing so she doesn't have to ask for help using the bathroom, it has robotic arms that take her about half an hour to learn to use well enough to feed herself, and it's controlled with a combination of eye movements, tongue switches, and voice commands.
113* In ''Literature/SnowCrash'', the quadriplegic Ng uses a heavily-modified airport firetruck as his "wheelchair". It works pretty well, because in the [[OneNationUnderCopyright franchised future]], ''everything'' has a drive-through.
114* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': This is basically Hodor's job description for the cripple Bran Stark.
115* ''Literature/{{Tinker}}'': One of the short stories reveals that Lain originally needed a wheelchair after the accident that left her crippled. Due to her stepfather's wealth, she got a high-tech cube that extended legs to walk around. However, its onboard computer had a tendency to crash, frustrating Lain to no end. By the present day of the series, she walks with crutches.
116* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Inquisitor Gideon Literature/{{Ravenor}}'s "chair" is barely a chair at all -- it's an all-enclosing life support system on wheels with psycannons and psychic amplifiers built into it.
117* Played with in ''Literature/WorldWarZ''. A disabled man in a perfectly ordinary wheelchair nonetheless has one advantage: any crawling zombies that attack him from behind get the wheels instead of his legs. He mentions that this has saved him from infection more than once.
118%%* Pisces, resident GeniusCripple in ''Literature/ZodiacGirl'', uses one. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how is it super?)
119%%* ''Zoom!'' by Creator/RobertMunsch.
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123* A villain in ''Series/BlackScorpion'' called Slapshot has a similar suit of PoweredArmor for a similar reason. Only his was provided by a MadScientist.
124* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
125** Recurring GeniusCripple villain Davros's wheelchair contains a life-support system, a suspended animation system that allowed him to feign death for centuries, assorted sneaky weapons, and in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks Revelation of the Daleks]]" flight capacity.
126** In "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheStarBeast The Star Beast]]", UNIT scientist Shirley Anne Bingham has a wheelchair that fires tranq-darts and explosives. This is apparently absolutely standard for UNIT wheelchairs.
127* ''Series/TheFlash2014'':
128** A minor example with Harrison Wells's wheelchair. While it's a fairly high-tech one, it doesn't appear to do anything unusual, but we later learn that it functions as a charging station for the Speed Force.
129** Clifford [=DeVoe=], The Thinker, uses his to hover in the air to attack through tentacles and to kill people while absorbing their powers if they have them.
130* The short-lived series ''Series/{{MANTIS}}'' deals with a paraplegic inventor who develops an exoskeleton that grants him full mobility. Then at some point, he realizes that it is only a minor step from there to PoweredArmor...
131%%* The pimped-out wheelchair Randy gets for the comatose Earl on ''Series/MyNameIsEarl''. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; pimped out how?)
132%%-->'''Joy:''' Damn, Darnell, I'm tempted to cripple you just so we can get one of those.\
133%%'''Darnell:''' And I'm tempted to let you.
134* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Averted both in production and, consequently, InUniverse. For Melora Pazlar, they wanted to reuse a hoverchair that they had previously built for an episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', but unfortunately it wouldn't fit in the corridors of the space station sets. So they replaced it with a slightly zhuzhed-up version of an ordinary 20th-century motorized wheelchair, and wrote in a mention that Federation hoverchairs were incompatible with the Cardassian ArtificialGravity systems.
135* A ''Series/TopGear'' challenge involved modifying commercially-available off-road mobility scooters and then racing them against handicapped former U.K. military servicemen in a race to reach the top of a hill. Creator/JamesMay chose a wheelchair and added stuff like an arm to hold an iPad (with satellite navigation) and a gravel dispenser for additional traction while going through mud. It was pretty cool for using in an urban scenario, [[TheAllegedCar but its utility off-road was a bit hit-and-miss]]. [[HandicappedBadass The servicemen won the race, by the way.]]
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139* Rainer in ''Podcast/TheAdventureZone'' mostly gets around in a floating chair that includes underglow lights and multiple compartments, one of which houses her pet animated squirrel skeleton.
140* In ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'', Cecil's niece Janice builds herself a stealth wheelchair. She uses it to successfully infiltrate the Registry of Middle School Crushes.
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144* William Albacastle[=/=]Willy Pete, authorial character of the Creator/WhiteWolf ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' supplement ''Iteration X'' and a major character in the novel ''Judgement Day'' by Bruce Baugh, has a damn cool chair. His motorized wheelchair houses treads, robotic arms, and Hades knows what else.
145* Creator/{{TSR}}'s game ''Top Secret'', ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine #56 module "Mad Merc". The title character is an EvilCripple who uses a wheelchair with a built-in jetpack, which allows him (and up to 100 lb. extra) to fly up to 500 yards. It can travel at up to 30 m.p.h. for up to 1 minute and is capable of hovering.
146* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' has Space Marine Dreadnoughts, {{Walking Tank}}s crewed by grievously wounded but NotQuiteDead veteran Space Marines. DependingOnTheWriter and exactly how severe a mauling the Marine took, it can cross over into WeCanRebuildHim.
147* A supplement for ''[[TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} Cyberpunk RED]]'' called ''Cyberchairs: New Options in Mobility'' features a pair of these. The first is a cheap and practical chair capable of both high speed and all terrain travel, while the second is a four-legged spider chair capable of taking arm, leg or general limb mods in each leg.
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151* Kenny Kawaguchi from ''VideoGame/BackyardSports'' plays sports in a wheelchair. Though his legs don't work, he can somehow kick a football or soccer ball very far.
152* Kranke in ''VideoGame/TheCaligulaEffect2'' has one, but it doesn't become apparent until [[spoiler:she [[ThrowingOffTheDisability throws off her disability]] in]] her boss fight. It has its own health bar and can move around on its own to run over your party members.
153* [[GalacticConquerer Ozgar]] uses a hovering wheelchair in ''VideoGame/TheCrystalKey''.
154* Yes, you can build one of these in ''VideoGame/DeadRising2''. Doing so requires an assault rifle, a wheelchair, and a car battery. Chuck (and later, Frank) can ride in the self-propelled chair and gun down hordes of zombies with the trio of guns strapped to its frame. It is arguably one of the best [[MacGyvering Combo Weapons]], when you actually have the means to build one -- it kills zombies at range with a single shot, carries 250 bullets, and occasionally uses a speech synthesizer to taunt everyone you come across.
155* In ''VideoGame/DeBlob'', [[TheProfessor Prof]] has a hoverchair with a number of technological attachments. In the sequel, the BigBad steals it and uses it for the rest of the game. In the last level, he discovers that it has a cannon as well.
156* [[LastOfHisKind Yagrum Bagarn]] from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' has a variant. The [[BodyHorror Corprus Disease]] has left him bloated and unable to use his legs, so he gets around on a [[SteamPunk steam-powered]] set of mechanical [[SpiderMech spider legs]].
157* In the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' series, the Prophets, though possessed of enough strength to occasionally stand up and walk around, have all become too physically weak to perform all of their required locomotion on their own thanks to generations upon generations of utter sloth, and thus depend upon their Gravity Thrones (large hoverchairs, sometimes with built-in [[ForceField energy shielding]], defensive weapons, and/or short-range teleportation devices for good measure) -- or the more compact Gravity Belts, for the less ostentatious -- to get around. Thus, what were once {{Cool Chair}}s have developed into this trope instead.
158* The old man character in ''VideoGame/HappyWheels'' has a jet engine strapped to his wheelchair.
159* After Monty from ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten|2017}}'' gets beaten half to death by the AxCrazy janitor in the first game, he ends up confined to a wheelchair in ''VideoGame/Kindergarten2''. A wheelchair equipped with a laser cannon bigger than he is. Given what a GadgeteerGenius he is, it's very possible that he installed it himself.
160* Lyril is bound to a rail-mounted one in Creator/{{Sierra}}'s ''VideoGame/LighthouseTheDarkBeing'''. She has a keypad at her fingertips to control it, but since it served as life support after an accident that took her legs when she was four years old, the device itself is now so old that she can barely even speak properly.
161* Flipper Burns in ''VideoGame/TheLongestJourney'' has a hoverchair; a FetchQuest in the game involves getting a new antigravity module for it.
162* The Psilon in ''VideoGame/MasterOfOrion'' are humanoids with oversized brains whose bodies have atrophied due to generations of reliance on technology. They are generally depicted using hoverchairs in art, and some of the fluff mentions that their spaceships and tanks are effectively just extensions to these.
163* In ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever 2'', Volkov's wheelchair (in which Cate personally put him in the first game) is equipped with rocket launchers and jet engines.
164* Professor Ching from the obscure arcade brawler ''VideoGame/TheOutfoxies'' rides a wheelchair equipped with jet boosters and a mechanical arm for no reason other than that it's super, at least in the [[{{Bowdlerize}} Japanese version]].
165* In the "Superheroes II" mod for ''VideoGame/QuakeII'', Cripple with a Big Gun is a class with 40 HP and no strafing ability but unlimited chaingun ammo and the capacity to make an invulnerable ramming shield on a cooldown.
166* In ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad'', Sebastian Krist's wheelchair fires rockets and mines.
167* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell'': The Arm Chairmageddon, a wheelbound La-Z-Boy recliner with Gatling guns on it. It's also the representation of {{Sloth}}, meaning that it wants you to sit in it permanently.
168* Bentley's wheelchair in ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'' and onward is equipped with various gadgets such as jet boosters for double-jumping, a fishing pole for pickpocketing, and the ability to do a spin attack that actually makes him better at fighting than previously.
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172* ''WebAnimation/ShutUpCartoons'' introduces Clifford, a mentally handicapped boy who can't speak or move without a wheelchair. One episode reveals that this chair can [[HumongousMecha turn into a giant robot]].
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176* In ''Webcomic/GenocideMan'', the wheelchair-bound [[SuperSoldier Genocide Agent]] Lola Lamb has her chair tricked out with a high-power, target-seeking machine gun in order to [[spoiler:kill her fellow Genocide Man, Kevin Kid, when he gets too DrunkWithPower to be useful]].
177* ''Webcomic/HeroesUnite'': HUB from Heroes Alliance has a hover-wheelchair. When you're a technopathic millionaire, why not?
178* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Vriska helps [[WheelchairWoobie Tavros]] make a rocket to replace his wheelchair.
179* Iona in ''Webcomic/LeifAndThorn'' has a chair that hovers, but, notably, [[http://leifandthorn.com/comic/vampire-masquerade-3066/ doesn't fly]].
180* ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'':
181** After sitting in Dahlia's wheelchair through one shopping day and [[DisabledMeansHelpless being treated like a human vegetable]], Monette proposes a chair-mounted gun turret as the next upgrade.
182** Another strip has Dahlia taking Davan Christmas shopping... and fully taking advantage of the fact that she's mounted her motorized electrical chair with a cow catcher.
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186* Dan ''WebAnimation/TheAccuser'' Mason's wheelchair turns into a PoweredArmor which he uses to fight crime. Bonus points for the fact that he got it from a highly implied DealWithTheDevil.
187* Juryrig and Kludge are both wheelchair-bound at SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''. They both have their chairs souped up. Both fly and have weaponry. Juryrig has a personal forcefield generator in hers. During Team Tactics Class, Juryrig's team have a bad habit of breaking formation to protect her because they think of her as more vulnerable. They mean well, but she dislikes it. Phase thinks that Juryrig should build a set of PoweredArmor that works like her chair so that people will stop seeing only her disability. Wheelchair or not, she still has superpowers.
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191* Teo's wheelchair with hang glider attachment in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''.
192* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'':
193** This version of [[Comicbook/DoomPatrol The Chief]] gets around in a wheelchair that can fly and shoot lasers, among other things.
194** [[spoiler:The future Joker]]'s combination wheelchair/dodgem car in "The Knights of Tomorrow!".
195* Guest character Marty Thomson's flying wheelchair in the ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'' episode "One of the Guys".
196* In ''WesternAnimation/DoozyBots'', a re-versioning of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', the TokenMinority would have been transformed into a Guntank.
197* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' features Crippletron in the episode “No Meals on Wheels”.
198* Garrett in ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'' did ''not'' get one on the show. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen The unreleased prototype of the toy]], on the other hand, did, complete with over-the-shoulder blaster and swing-out ghost trap.
199* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' has Halcyon Renard, the aged CEO of Cyber-Biotics and father-in-law of David Xanatos, in a wheelchair that has weapons built into its arms and a retractable Pope-Mobile-style bubble to protect the rider. Justified in that this man made his fortune in the robotics industry and had no reason not to use his skills and wealth for his own benefit. Also, flashbacks reveal that he was once able to walk. Since businesspeople in this universe have no issue with sending mercenaries after each other, [[WildMassGuessing the weaponized chair may have started as a basic safety precaution]].
200* Recurring ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' character Felix Renton has a wheelchair tricked out with extendable robot arms, hover tech, video game-integrable AI, and more. One of the perks of having a genius roboticist for a mom. It's so impressive that in one episode, Drakken and Motor Ed (who happen to be cousins) steal it so they can reverse-engineer its technology to use on a vehicle, which raises a complaint from Shego since [[EvenEvilHasStandards even she thinks stealing a kid's wheelchair is stooping too low]].
201* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'' has Mikey, a kid with a wheelchair as magic as the bus.
202* Police officer Carmen the arctic fox in ''WesternAnimation/Patrol03'' has a wheelchair loaded with concealed gadgets, including multiple robotic arms.
203* In ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'', ChildProdigy Tennyson is a GeniusCripple who has no use of his legs. That hardly stops him, since he gets around in a hoverchair that is loaded to the gills with equipment which plays to his computer hacking talents.
204* Alistair Smythe uses one in the 1990s ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries''. His father only agreed to create Spider-Slayers for the Kingpin in exchange for the funds to build it -- unfortunately, he didn't live long enough to see Alistair in it. It's so cool that he keeps using it even after [[spoiler:he becomes a bio-engineered monster with working legs]]. It's ''still'' his preferred way of entering and leaving a battlefield.
205* Frequently employed by various animated incarnations of Creator/StephenHawking.
206** He appears in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' to explain how 2 + 2 really ''does'' equal 5 before flying away in his rocket-powered wheelchair. He and Crocker were classmates in college and, when Hawking flies away, Crocker goes after him trying to convince him 2 + 2 actually equals ''6''.
207** In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'', his chair has a wormhole generator.
208** Appears in several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons.'' In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E22TheySavedLisasBrain They Saved Lisa's Brain]]", for example, Hawking saves Lisa from the power-hungry Springfield chapter of UsefulNotes/{{Mensa}} in a special wheelchair, complete with an WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget-style retractable helicopter attachment and an ExtendoBoxingGlove.
209* One that may have been: The proposed re-versioning of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' in ''WesternAnimation/ToonMakersSailorMoon'' has Sailor Mercury in a wheelchair. She would have had a wheelchair-enabled sailboard which fired lasers of some sort in the animated sequences.
210* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'':
211** Taki Matsuya demonstrates this during the episode "No Mutant Is an Island". His mutant power is the capacity to transform any vehicle he's in, so he does so by turning his wheelchair into a miniature tank with a bulldozer blade.
212** Professor X also has his hover-chair. In this continuity, he has it long before he encounters the Shi'ar, and we never learn who made it.
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216* Meet [[http://www.greathouselabs.com/ Lance Greathouse]], wheelchair designer and ex-creator of battling robots.
217* Complex rehab wheelchairs, built for a single permanently disabled user, are this compared to the steel-and-vinyl folding ones that hospitals have fleets of. High-tech cushions and supports built into super-lightweight manual or high-speed/high-tech power bases can make a significant difference in how well someone can function.
218* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT iBOT wheelchair]] can balance on two wheels to raise its user up higher and it can even climb stairs.
219* The [[http://www.trackchairextreme.com/index.html Ripchair 3.0]] tracked all-terrain wheelchair fits the trope to a T.
220* [[http://i.imgur.com/cLZkzJz.gifv The OGO]] is best described as the wheelchair equivalent of a Segway.
221* Creator/StephenHawking's wheelchair, which had a computer that spoke for him to compensate for his other disability.
222* After former [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] wrestler Darren "Droz" Drozdov [[CareerEndingInjury became quadriplegic from a botched powerbomb in 1999]], he got hooked up with a custom-made wheelchair designed and financed by Kevin Plank (founder of sportswear company Under Armor and personal friend from college). The rig is effectively [[TankGoodness Droz's own portable tank]], and not only is it comfortable and convenient, when combined with Droz having since regained some control of his upper body, including his arms, it also allows him to resume his hobby of game-hunting.
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