Disabled in the Adaptation in Fan Works.
Works with their own pages:
Crossovers
- Ars Goetia: Byleth's glasses are a permanent part of her wardrobe, implying that she has some kind of vision problem.
- BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant:
- Adam slices off his left arm in Chapter 69 when he's pinned down by it, in contrast to the main series, where he kept both arms throughout his entire story.
- Ruby's confrontation with Terumi ends with him ripping out her right eye. This contrasts canon, where she still has both eyes throughout the series.
- Codex Equus: Many Codexverse characters have been given mental and/or physical disabilities that their canon selves didn't have originally.
- Gotaro Kujo of the Stardust Crusaders is autistic, giving him quirks like avoidance of eye contact, fixation on certain details, social awkwardness, literal-mindedness, and the tendency to stim. This is based on fan interpretation of Jotaro Kujo as being autistic, owing to his No Social Skills, his perpetual stoicism, and his Closet Geek hobbies. He also suffered from PTSD — whether from his foalhood bullying, his social marginalization, or having to kill people during and after his trip to Neighgypt.
- Unlike his canon counterpart, Radiant E. O. Speedwagon suffers from a load of psychological issues here — including PTSD from fighting various threats like Dio Brando and the Abyssal Ones, low self-esteem, and a notable Guilt Complex over his perceived failures to save his loved ones from the aforementioned threats. He also has lingering baggage from his broken upbringing, which led to him despising corrupt, elitist nobles as well as Abusive Parents.
- The Codexverse version of Hol Horse suffered from intense PTSD from his time as one of Godly Brand's Tarot Assassins, including having panic attacks whenever he is triggered by reminders of his former boss (an element taken from the spinoff manga Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak) and being afraid of failure even in the smallest things. Unlike his manga/anime canon counterpart or even his CDDH counterpart, however, he also has trauma from being frequently molested
and raped by Dio Brando/Godly Brand when the latter was alive. - Played with in regards to Prince Crimson Star, who is based on Magnus the Red. Magnus's loss of one of his eyes in canon depended on who wrote him — either he was a mutant born with only one eye, or he once had two eyes but gave one away when he made a pact with the Chaos god Tzeentch. Here, Crimson Star starts off with perfect sight, then becomes completely blind after saving a classmate in a carriage accident that left him horribly injured.
- Unlike her canon counterpart, Masquerade was badly affected by her time as one of the Jewel Wizard's slaves here, developing claustrophobia that went beyond a Pegasus' dislike of closed spaces. Due to this, she has panic attacks whenever something triggers her PTSD. This worsened after she Ascended to godhood as Princess Maya Dolos Ponyland, as she became a Stepford Smiler who used her domains of Disguise and Theater to hide her trauma for four Ages (i.e. tens of thousands of years). It's only by meeting Mentálne that she finally gets help.
- Unlike Okuyasu Nijimura, Sacred Peace Zeppelin-Goldstar was blinded by Vanilla Ice and suffers from PTSD from both his abusive upbringing and fighting evil Stand users like Fortunate Shadow. He also has a huge Guilt Complex believing that he is guilty of his older brother's crimes by proxy, since Blessed Wealth's misuse of the Stand Arrow caused multiple deaths and Sacred Peace helped him find targets to shoot at. He even blamed himself for Gosuke's grandfather dying to another serial killer Blessed Wealth had empowered.
- In this setting, Gosuke Goldstar went deaf trying to heal his friends from grievous injuries inflicted by Killer Queen's bombs. This didn't happen to Josuke Higashikata in Diamond is Unbreakable.
- Persona EG: Fan character Button Mash is portrayed as mentally disabled while most works have him being at least average intelligence. Vinyl Scratch also ends up going blind over the course of the story.
- Pokémon Crossing: In this series, Tank has ADD and it impacted his education to the point of failing his entrance exams.
- The RWBY Loops: Weiss initially seemed focused on the well-being of others before her own, so other characters assumed she was a workaholic until Alucard became her therapist. Her self-worth is based on being Remnant's Second Looper, she has OCD, PTSD, and overall anxiety. Her Jedi training has reinforced her flaws, she's struggling with suppressing her sexuality and she suffers from a Guilt Complex.
- There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton series:
- Julie ends up losing her arm when she and Ben were confronted by Sixsix.
- Bardock was paralyzed from the waist down prior to leaving Planet Vegeta.
- Kedabory's Elmore Chronicles: In canon, Mr. Small, while being rather thin and bony, was otherwise considered perfectly healthy. Here, after a stay in the hospital, they have a chronic cough that requires an inhaler to deal with.
- Everything she deserved: The Calamity Trio all have disabilities here that they didn't have in canon.
- Anne has a prosthetic arm and has PTSD.
- Sasha is missing an eye and has chronic pain from his back injury, so he needs to use crutches or a cane during a flare-up. He also has PTSD and BPD.
- Marcy is explicitly autistic here, while she was only confirmed to be so in canon. They note also use a wheelchair and have synesthesia.
- One chapter of All Assorted Animorphs AUs, "What if Marco was Deaf?", is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. His dad is deaf, too, and it can't be healed by morphing because it's genetic.
- Vow of the King: Senjumaru Shutara lost her arms fighting Baraggan centuries ago and has to use the Artificial Limbs granted by her shikai instead. In canon, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with her arms.
- Junpei in Airlocked loses an arm during the second round and has it replaced with a robotic one. (An Original Character also loses an eye and later becomes a Cyborg.) As well, all the characters develop moderate to severe PTSD over their experience in the Deadly Game.
- Danganronpa: Paradise Lost: Monaca is eventually revealed to have prosthetic legs. A major plot twist in canon involved her being able-bodied, and she still had her organic legs by the time of her final appearance.
- Everyday Life with Ultimate Girls: In canon, Mahiru's father was simply a lazy bum, which led to her taking care of him and having higher expectations for men. Here, the fanfic has him suffer from an anxiety disorder, brought on by learning that his war photographer wife was injured due to a bomb explosion, losing his job after he suffered an anxiety attack. Because of Japan's conservative beliefs about the mentally unwell, he hides his condition from his daughter, remembering how sad she was when she tried to tell her peers her mother wasn't there because of her job and they instead said Mahiru's mother abandoned her, making him feel that it would worsen if she found out he was "crazy".
- In canon, Himiko was shown to be perfectly healthy. In A New Hope (Danganronpa), she's confirmed to be a hemophiliac.
- In canon, Harley Quinn wore Purely Aesthetic Glasses as a psychologist but otherwise doesn't wear glasses. In Psalm of the Lark it's specified that she's near-sighted and normally wears contacts.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
- What If I Know Too Many Reasons I Can Be Strong?: Tanjiro loses his right eye and left forearm earlier than in the original manga.
- Wolf in the Streets, Sardine in the Sheets: Valvatorez goes from a Vegetarian Vampire to a human with a liver condition. His refusal to drink blood is translated to refusing to take 'unnecessary' blood transfusions, preferring to manage his condition through other means out of a belief that getting transfusions would take those resources away from others who need them more.
- Disney High School: A few characters, most notably Belle, wear glasses when they didn't in canon. Word of God also confirms that Adam is supposed to be dyslexic.
- Dear Journal: I'm Crazy:
- In the show proper, Doug seemed like a normal kid, albeit painfully shy. Here, it's heavily implied that he is schizophrenic and is taking medication to help with his symptoms.
- Also, Roger has no physical disabilities in the show, and his knees being bent most of the time is only part of his character. Here, it's revealed that his bent legs are a result of rickets from a Vitamin D deficiency. Even Doug can't help but feel bad for him.
- Since Julieta couldn't heal him, Agustín in How Far Do These Roots Go Down? walks with a limp until Dolores can heal him.
- In Shokugeki no Sōma: Nashi Saito de Chīfu, Soma is blind from birth.
- Friday Night Funkin' Soft:
- While Benjamin has autism and ADHD like the canon Boyfriend, he also has anxiety and PTSD, likely as a result of his parents' abuse towards him, things that the canon Boyfriend does not have.
- Comments by Benjamin and statements from Word of God heavily imply Grace has body image issues if not outright body dysmorphia, something the canon Girlfriend is never implied to have.
- An Arm and a Leg revolves around Elsa and Anna both being injured at the end of Frozen. Elsa becomes paralyzed from the waist down and Anna loses her right arm.
- In the fanfic Café Liégeois, Elsa was born blind. However, she lacks the depression and anxiety of canon Elsa.
- In An Only Child, Elsa has a vaguely-defined disability that means she can only say a few words and has trouble remembering to even eat and sleep.
- In Kaedehara Kazuha's Foolproof Guide to Accidental Kidnapping, Yoimiya has a prothetic leg. That's because the author believed she had one when they first saw her design, and being physically disabled themselves liked the idea too much to follow canon.
- In Co-Regulation, Egon is autistic, to the point of having meltdowns.
- In Don't Be Sorry, Egon seems to have some sort of anxiety disorder, since the episode he has is described as a "panic attack".
- In Hyperfantasia, Ray has ADHD and Egon is autistic.
- In Meltdown Moment, Egon has a combination of PTSD and sensory integration issues.
- In Formerly Known as Harry Potter?, Lily Evans-Granger (Harry Potter's identity after transitioning) is bipolar, epileptic, dyslexic, and she also has attention deficit disorder. Canon Harry Potter, aside from PTSD, had none of the aforementioned mental disorders.
- In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Harry has a disorder that results in his sleep cycles being 26 hours long, which has made it impossible for him to keep to a normal daily schedule. It seems to exist as a convenient excuse to give him a Time-Turner. This is, in fact, the in-universe reason; on the guidance of every prophecy ever, Dumbledore had secretly dosed him with potions to lengthen his sleep cycle.
- Link in Blind Courage is mute. Other than traditionally being a Heroic Mime, no canon version of Link has been mute.
- In Hyrule Castle High, Link's sister Aryll is autistic. In The Wind Waker she doesn't seem to be.
- Their Bond: Both Link and Zelda have largely untreated mental illness, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, from their years as Child Soldiers.
- In With Words Unspoken, Legolas can't speak.
- In The Birth of 11 Children, Leni was dropped as a baby.
- In The Broken House, Lynn uses a wheelchair.
- Subverted in The Edgy House — Leni's apparently brain damaged due to a fever she had as a child, but then it turns out that none of the story's events were real.
- My Sister Leni:
- The fic portrays Leni as being on the autistic spectrum rather than merely being just a Dumb Blonde as in canon.
- Lisa is also later revealed to be autistic.
- Due to the premise of the fic When One Becomes Many, all of the systems involved have either DID or OSDD, in addition to other mental disorders or disabilities (autism, PTSD, psychosis, etc.)
- In the Lucky Star comic Lonely Kagamin, Konata inherited her mother's mysterious illness and she is also depressed.
- All That Is Necessary does this with two characters from the series as they correspond to specific characters from Gone
- Manon Chamack, in the role of Little Pete, is autistic.
- While she hasn't yet appeared, cover art at the end of chapter 4 shows that Lila Rossi will lose her left arm like Drake Merwin. Though like Drake, her missing arm will be replaced by a whip made of flesh.
- Lady Fairy: Marinette is blind in this version of the story. Ironically, her adept hearing as compensation and her innate magic makes her much more graceful than canon.
- Nymph and the Corrupted Miraculous: Marinette ends up permanently in a wheelchair after pushing Chloé out of the way of a speeding truck, taking the blow in the process. In canon, Marinette is perfectly able to walk (coordination aside).
- Oh, You Don’t Have to Do That. (Communication): Marinette has partial ageusia and can't taste sour things. This turns out to be critical for distinguishing her from Lila in disguise.
- Stammering Adrien:
- Adrien was born with a stammering speech disorder. Both he and Nathalie also suffer from depression.
- Marinette has ADHD in this setting.
- Bakugou is left mute following Izuku's suicide in #14 (MHA).
- Ochako Uraraka in canon has perfect eyesight. In Constants and Variables (Aliandris) she wears glasses due to being Blind Without 'Em.
- Dermabrasion: Dabi does have carsickness and his burns in canon, but this fic takes things a step further. Here he has a weak stomach in general, which means that he is under several dietary restrictions (normal-sized portions, fatty food, anything fried, alcohol, cafeine, and other things are out of the question), he has to take vitamins, and a doctor warns him that he already has permanent brain damage which has shortened his lifespan by a few decades.
- The Gunslinger Hero: Flintlock: Izumi, as of the start of the story, is missing an arm and an eye, both of which have been replaced with technology.
- In canon, Izuku Midoriya is perfectly healthy, just Quirkless. In If I Only Had A Heart, Izuku Midoriya is missing an eye and an arm on top of suffering from a damaged spine after a villain attack wrecked a shop he was visiting. Luckily for him, he also got a heaping dose of Adaptational Intelligence, using his knack for inventing to help remove his disabilities over time through mechanical implants of his own design, though they don't always work quite as anticipated.
- Izuku in My Name's Deku, It Means Business is partially mute due to Bakugo apparently setting off his explosions while strangling him, leaving Izuku's vocal cords damaged.
- My Hero Academia: Mechanical green:
- Denki ends up losing an eye following the USJ, necessitating they get an artificial eye and take some time off so that their body doesn't reject it.
- Eri had her vocal cords removed by Overhaul after he got sick of her crying. She can still communicate via her telepathy, but she is physically mute now.
- Peace's Apprentice: Shinsou gets his throat badly burned and scarred in the USJ attack, leaving him mute and unable to use his Quirk.
- The plot of Waiting is worth it is about Izuku manifesting a quirk after becoming crippled and ending up in a wheelchair. It is also mentioned that Shota Aizawa was partially blind in his youth while Hizashi Yamada had hearing difficulties. Disabilities due to one's own quirk seem to be more common than one thinks, with UA having a program to help their students with these problems.
- Wishing Well: Rainbow Dash, now a male instead of a female, suffers from short-term memory loss. In canon, she has no such issue.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Bubbles: While canonically, Derpy is implied to have some sort of disability, the evidence points to it being her eyes. In the fanfic, however, she has a brain condition.
- Octavia in the fanfic Claro de Luna is mute and communicates through sign language. She was a voiceless extra in her scenes in season 1, but later episodes revealed that she could speak.
- Sunset's Recovery Arc depicts Sunset Shimmer having manic periods and periods of depression (though no disorder is mentioned in-series).
- The Wound's Still Bleeding:
- Kushina survives but she's still weakened from having Kyuubi removed.
- Obito suffers from PTSD. His time in a coma also meant he had to give up his dream of becoming Hokage.
- Nothing in canon suggests that Mari is neurodivergent. In Time to Disinfect, however, she's explicitly on the autism spectrum.
- Celadon's New Blossom:
- Erika's sleepyhead trait from the games is explained by her being narcoleptic.
- More emphasis is put on Sabrina's Split Personality being a psychological issue than in canon.
- Gym Leader Wiki:
- It's implied that Lt. Surge suffers from PTSD due to his military experience.
- Erika is narcoleptic, explaining why she's such a sleepyhead.
- At age ten, Will was blinded in his left eye due to an Onix attack. This is why he covers that eye.
- Guys Being Dudes: It's only mentioned once, but Candela and Arlo both are reimagined as having ADHD.
- Only Flowers Fall is a Pokémon Sun and Moon oneshot where Lillie has Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of her abusive mother.
- Pokémon Reset Bloodlines:
- Anabel is unable to talk, due to losing her voice after her parents died in a car accident. Somewhat subverted by the fact that she has developed telepathy to communicate with people.
- In canon, it's never explained why Erika is a Sleepyhead who falls asleep so often (even mid-sentence). It might be a disorder or it might be related to her grass-type Pokémon. In Reset Bloodlines she is explicitly narcoleptic.
- In The Powerpuff Girls Re Imagined, Professor Utonium is seeing a therapist for Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder. This isn't in the original Powerpuff Girls canon. His mental illness plays a huge role in the Powerpuff Girl's and Mojo Jojo's origin stories.
- Amoridere plays with this in Nozomi Moritomo's case, where a Nendoroid of her is shown in a wheelchair, though she doesn't use one in the anime. Apparently, according to the photo descriptions, Amoridere found her easier to pose for photos that way. This still carries over in Nendoroid doll form, as Nozomi is still using a wheelchair. One tweet says she's an ambulatory wheelchair user.
- The Rugrats Theory:
- Angelica has neonatal abstinence syndrome, which results in her Sanity Slippage (she begins hallucinating that her Imaginary Friends are real).
- Dil's eccentricity come All Grown Up! is explained as him having been hit by Angelica as a baby.
- In Going Down Swinging, Neo is mute because she's missing her tongue. In RWBY canon, Neo doesn't speak and it's vague why she doesn't speak.
- The reason why Yang hates Panthers so much in Pawprints is that her sister Ruby was mauled by one and left wheelchair-bound. In RWBY canon, Ruby has no such injury.
- React Watch Believe Yikes: Ruby has Multiple Personality Disorder. Played for laughs due to how radically different it makes her interactions with the cast.
- Downplayed in RWBY fic re:Bound (RWBY). Neo's muteness comes from her tongue having been cut out. In canon she's mute, but she has her tongue.
- RWBY: Scars:
- While she has a scar around her left eye, Weiss can see just fine. Scars' depiction of Weiss has the event that led to the scar also affect her sight in that eye, rendering it slightly near-sighted. The Weiss from Scars also suffers from mental health issues, including multiple suicide attempts and Self-Harm (said scar around her eye in Scars being the result of Weiss cutting herself rather than it being a Dueling Scar as in canon), something the Weiss of canon doesn't.
- Ren is shown to be suffering from PTSD related to his Dark and Troubled Past.
- Weiss's mother is schizophrenic, with her alcoholism partly being self-medication.
- Whitley Schnee is depicted with Antisocial Personality Disorder.
- Coco Adel is shown suffering from PTSD and leg pains due to an injury.
- Downplayed with both Fox and Neo, as Scars has them as respectively blind and mute before it was confirmed that these respective conditions were canon as well.
- Roman Torchwick of RWBY was an experienced fighter. Torchwick in Vale's Underground suffered an injury to his knee that renders him unable to fight and he now needs the assistance of his cane to walk.
- In Baby Seymour, Skinner (who canonically has PTSD but otherwise functions fine) has a delusion that he is a toddler.
A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones
- A Dragon's Roar: Tywin contracts the flux during an outbreak that occurs during the Civil War, and while he survives he's so severely weakened that he needs a wheelchair to move around at all.
- In the Modern AU Fic A Vicious, Vengeful Sea, Asha Greyjoy has cerebral palsy and walks with crutches. She's based on one of the author's friends.
- Little Hands, Big Attitude: Prior to being put to cryostasis for fifty years, Shadow was shot on the leg. Nobody ever removed the bullet fragments, so when he comes out of the ice, he's in extreme pain from that leg and has to rely on a makeshift cane to walk. This also means that he loses his signature Super-Speed. When Maddie and Alisson finally get the chance to X-Ray his leg and discover the bullet fragments, they're afraid that they'll have to amputate it if a proper surgeon doesn't operate on Shadow, and even then there may be nerve damage.
- Sonic the Comic – Online!: In the games, Tikal ascended with Chaos at the end of Adventure and hasn't appeared since. In Sonic the Comic Online, Tikal is physically transported to the present, but she is so traumatized by 8000 straight years of mental torture that Ebony mind-wipes her.
- After being saved from her kidnappers after the story in Splatoon 2, Callie suffers no apparent issue and is back to her normal Genki Girl self. In the fanfic Her Fractured Spirit, she's clearly traumatized (even if she tries to play it off) and has PTSD.
- In I've Got Your Back, Pearl's back is covered in Achey Scars from an unspecified incident in her youth, which occasionally sends bursts of pain through her whole body. It also halted her puberty, which feeds into her A-Cup Angst in the fic. Marina also tears a horrible gash across her chest on a jagged handrail, which leaves her enfeebled for several weeks.
- In the fan series Connieswap, Steven needs hearing aids.
- In Not a Monster, Bowser's son Lemmy is described as having an intellectual disability.
- In The Sea Shadow, Vivian is missing an eye when in canon, she still had both eyes and could see perfectly fine.
- In Love Feels Like Home, Sorey and Muse are autistic, whereas in the original game, there's no indications that they are.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
- Snow Blind: The Purple Dragons acquire a device that blinds it's target, and test it out by ambushing Donatello. Donnie spends most of the fic blinded. Downplayed in that the blindness isn't permanent, wearing off after about a week. However, it's the reason why he was caught off guard and stabbed during the fight in the first chapter and why he was so easily kidnapped by the Nightwatchernote .
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
- The Chronicles of Karai Getting Her Shit Together:
- Downplayed in Leo's case. While in his coma, Donatello believes that Leo might never walk again, and when he wakes up he is unable to move or feel his legs and is forced to rely on a wheelchair and Karai to get around. When given time to heal (more so than in canon) and doses of Donatello's experimental medicine, he eventually regains feeling in his feet and is able to walk again.
- When the turtles face off the Creep in-canon, they survive it virtually unscathed. Here, the experience leaves Raphael missing an eye. While his brothers are off-put by it, Casey and Raph think it makes him look cool.
- In canon, Duncan is implied to be perfectly healthy. In Privilege, he's a type 1 diabetic.
- In canon, the Goblin is simply a keet. In The Hospital Toys, he has ADHD.
- In Repair the Damage, Soundwave is blind and has to rely on his cassetticons to be able to see.
- In Blood! Rusty AU, upon exiling him, Scourge blinds Boulder in one eye as A Scar to Remember. In Warriors canon Boulder is not vision impaired.
- In Warriors canon, Snowtuft isn't deaf. ✨A Sadness Runs Through Him ✨ COMPLETE Snowtuft Warriors AU Map turns him deaf so that he can be Snowkit all grown up.
- In Warriors, it's mentioned that Willowpelt has "unusual eyes". What this means is never clarified. In Warriors Rewrite, she has clouded eyes due to being near-completely blind.
- In #TrustNo1, Fox Mulder is mute.
- Endings: The Hero Club learns to live with their disabilities rather than their bodies being fixed (or as shown in the second season, recreated) by Shinju-sama.
