Basic Trope: A character that is able-bodied in the original work becomes disabled in an adaptation.
- Straight: Alice is confined to a wheelchair in the movie adaptation despite being able-bodied in the original book.
- Exaggerated: Alice, a Nigh-Invulnerable super being in the original work, is a powerless quadriplegic that could be killed in one shot in the movie.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is given a slight but noticeable limp in the movie that isn't quite as debilitating.
- Alice is bespectacled in the movie when her eyesight was fine in the original.
- Alice was already written with an unspecified mental disorder in the original work, and the adaptation simply expands on it.
- Alice spends most of the movie able-bodied but is crippled in the final battle.
- Justified:
- The movie takes place sometime after the original book, and during the time gap, Alice actually did suffer an injury that caused her to be unable to walk.
- Or, this is the logical conclusion of overexerting her body as she did in the book.
- Alice is killed in a fall in the original work; she is Spared by the Adaptation but breaks her legs.
- Inverted: Alice is disabled in the original work, but is able-bodied in the adaptation.
- Subverted: Alice is introduced as disabled but does an experimental treatment to rid herself of her disability.
- Double Subverted: ...But the treatment doesn't work and she's still disabled.
- Parodied: Alice loses the ability to smell whenever she is put in any adaptation other than a book because it can't depict it as well.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice is not given a disability in the adaptation.
- Enforced:
- The actor playing Alice becomes disabled as a result of an accident and this is incorporated into the adaptation.
- The director wanted to increase diversity by making Alice disabled.
- Alice is given a disability to fix writing hiccups in the original work; In the original work, she's a Faux Action Girl who grabs the Idiot Ball and dies in a fight with the Non-Action Big Bad; the adaptation makes her an actual Action Girl but gives her epilepsy, and now she dies because the villain hacked her lights and used them to force her into massive seizures through severe Sensory Abuse, before sneaking in and simply shooting her in the head while she couldn't fight back.
- Alice was Made of Iron in the original work; the work makes her endurance more realistic and has her eventually break a leg from the strain.
- Ability over Appearance: the actress who plays Alice is the one who was best in the casting call. Everything else can be worked around.
- The work was originally written during a time of Values Dissonance and so the adaptation decides to work in adjustments — Alice in the novel (written during the American Revolution) ingests a miracle cure of mercury to survive her Soap Opera Disease, Alice in the film (filmed in The New '10s) gets massive internal damage from the "cure".
- Lampshaded: A Mythology Gag joke is made about what Alice would do if her legs worked.
- Invoked: ???
- Defied: The casting call explicitly says the actor playing Alice must be able-bodied.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: When we see Alice's home for the first time in the movie, a cane is seen near her bed as she sleeps.
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