Basic Trope: A character says "I can't feel my legs", then something bad happens to them.
- Straight: Alice says "I can't feel my legs", then it turns out she needs a wheelchair for a certain amount of time.
- Exaggerated: Alice says that she can't feel her legs, then needs a wheelchair for the rest of her life, or loses her legs.
- Downplayed: Alice's legs fell asleep, and because she can't feel them, she falls over but is not seriously injured.
- Justified: Numbing in the legs was a symptom of something.
- Inverted: Something good happens to characters who complain of not being able to feel their legs.
- Subverted: Alice says "I can't feel my legs" because they fell asleep and nothing bad happens.
- Double Subverted: But later, something bad DOES happen.
- Parodied: Alice gets rushed to the hospital the second she complains of the numbness.
- Zig Zagged: All characters lose the feeling in their legs. Alice, Charlie and Diane end up in wheelchairs for a week but Bob, Dave and Carol are fine.
- Averted: Nothing bad happens after a character says they can't feel their legs, or nobody loses feeling in the legs.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "I can't feel my legs... and now that I can't something's bound to happen!"
- Invoked: The Dragon poisons Alice with a potion that makes her legs go numb and then fall off.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "How come whenever one of us loses feeling in our legs, we end up disabled?"
- Conversed: "I can't feel my legs... glad I'm not a character".
- Played for Laughs: Alice says she can't feel her legs, because she has been unknowingly turned into a fish and doesn't have any.
- Played for Drama: Losing feeling in the legs is a symptom of The Virus.
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