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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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