Basic Trope: A musician who is blind.
- Straight: Bob is blind and a musician.
- Exaggerated:
- All the musician characters are blind.
- Bob, who has been completely blind since birth, is a savant who can play most instruments with ease and has composed for entire orchestras despite never being able to read sheet music.
- Downplayed:
- Bob is partially sighted.
- Bob may not be legally blind, but he sure is Blind Without 'Em.
- Bob enjoys playing at least one instrument as a hobby, but has no plans to professionally pursue music.
- Justified:
- Bob enjoyed music before going blind.
- Bob loves the arts and he chose a field where his disability would not affect his performance.
- Because Bob is blind, his hearing improved to compensate, making him a better musician.
- Inverted:
- Bob is a deaf visual artist.
- Or Bob is a musician in spite of his deafness.
- Subverted:
- Bob's vision is restored.
- It turns out Bob was Obfuscating Disability.
- Bob was merely assumed to be blind due to his signature dark sunglasses, and is in fact sighted.
- It turns out Bob doesn't actually write any of his own music or sing or play on any of his recordings.
- Double Subverted:
- But then he's blinded again (#1)/for real (#2 and 3).
- For #4; Then he starts doing so.
- Parodied:
- The moment Bob goes blind, he becomes a musical savant.
- The more skilled Bob gets with an instrument, the worse his eyesight gets.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob is completely blind and a musical savant but Charlie is also blind and cannot play worth a damn. On the other hand, Donna is sighted and an excellent musician.
- Averted:
- Bob is blind, but he doesn't even play music as a hobby.
- Bob is a musician, but he's sighted.
- Bob is neither blind nor a musician.
- Enforced: Bob is blind and thinks that the only way to become happy and popular is to be a musician.
- Lampshaded:
- Invoked:
- Alice intentionally blinds Bob, who is already a successful musician.
- Alice encourages Bob, who is blind, to pick up music.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: While it's never stated if Bob is blind, he's never shown without his signature sunglasses, even when he's playing in a dimly lit club.
