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* ''Series/PowerRangersCosmicFury'': The season premiere features Black Ranger Javi's right arm being disintegrated by a powerful energy backlash when he unlocks the Cosmic Fury Megazords from the altar containing them. He gains a mechanical prosthetic in the following episode, and after a couple more episodes of practice using it, he is able to fight as a Ranger again. He is also able to MegatonPunch a monster known as a Scuttleworm at SuperStrength levels while unmorphed in one episode.
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* Painfully subverted on ''Series/MadTV'' with the so-called Blind Kung-Fu Master. He claims that his heightened senses allow him to perform all kinds of feats, but all he does is make {{Blind Mistake}}s and then complain about people not helping him out. In one sketch, he manages to steal an enemy's gun and pulls the trigger... except he's pointed it at himself.
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* Stevie from ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' becomes a true avatar of this trope in the episode wherein Reese deliberately picks a fight with him as an easy opponent, only for Stevie to show up for the brawl in a FREAKIN' HOMEMADE EXOSKELETON and pound the tar out of him...
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* Painfully subverted on ''Series/MadTV'' with the so-called Blind Kung-Fu Master. He claims that his heightened senses allow him to perform all kinds of feats, but all he does is make {{Blind Mistake}}s and then complain about people not helping him out. In one sketch, he manages to steal an enemy's gun and pulls the trigger... except he's pointed it at himself.
* Stevie from ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' (who is not only wheelchair-bound, but breathes poorly) becomes a true avatar of this trope in the episode wherein Reese deliberately picks a fight with him as an easy opponent, only for Stevie to show up for the brawl in a FREAKIN' HOMEMADE EXOSKELETON and pound the tar out of him...
* Stevie from ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' (who is not only wheelchair-bound, but breathes poorly) becomes a true avatar of this trope in the episode wherein Reese deliberately picks a fight with him as an easy opponent, only for Stevie to show up for the brawl in a FREAKIN' HOMEMADE EXOSKELETON and pound the tar out of him...
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** Davros, an OmnicidalManiac who only has one (mechanical) eye and the use of one hand. Despite this, he and his Daleks are two of the most feared monsters in the show. Think Stephen Hawking aged several hundred years. Later on, he gets the one working hand shot off... and replaces it with a prosthetic that SHOOTS FRICKIN' LIGHTNING BOLTS.
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** Davros, an OmnicidalManiac who only has one (mechanical) eye and the use of one hand. Think Stephen Hawking aged several hundred years. Despite this, he and his Daleks are two of the most feared monsters in the show. Think Stephen Hawking aged several hundred years. Later on, he gets the one working hand shot off... and replaces it with a prosthetic that SHOOTS FRICKIN' LIGHTNING BOLTS.
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* ''{{Series/Fargo}}'': A recurring element in the series is the [[ThoseTwoBadGuys pair of quirky henchmen]] and of all of them, Season 1's Mr. Wrench is probably the most dangerous. He's a deaf hitman (played by the also deaf Russel Harvard) who nearly kills the BigBad of the first season and much later tears through the villains from Season 3 including that season's quirky henchman pair.
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* {{Inverted|Trope}} and played with on ''Series/{{Lost}}''. The BaldOfAwesome is revealed to have been paralyzed in the past, then revealed that his paralyzed self was weak and sad, then revealed that he was a sad little creature even before he was paralyzed. Then reveled that he was using the IdiotBall all through the seasons even after he was healed.
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* ''Series/{{Homeland}}'' from mid-Season 5 onwards. [[spoiler:Quinn retains most of his expert combat skills after sustaining severe organophosphate poisoning and a stroke. Despite barely surviving the antagonist terror cell testing their new batch of sarin on him, which profoundly compromises his vision, speech, memory, and motor control on the left of his body, he is still able to stealthily rob a gun shop while it is open, and repel an attack from a SWAT team, taking one of them hostage in the process. Amongst other things.]]
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* ''Series/{{Homeland}}'' from mid-Season 5 onwards. [[spoiler:Quinn retains most of his expert combat skills after sustaining severe organophosphate poisoning and a stroke. Despite barely surviving the antagonist terror cell MiddleEasternTerrorists testing their new batch of sarin on him, which profoundly compromises his vision, speech, memory, and motor control on the left of his body, he is still able to stealthily rob a gun shop while it is open, and repel an attack from a SWAT team, taking one of them hostage in the process. Amongst other things.]]
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* ''Series/{{Homeland}}'' from mid-Season 5 onwards. [[spoiler:Quinn retains most of his expert combat skills despite sustaining severe organophosphate poisoning and a stroke. Despite barely surviving the antagonist terror cell testing their new batch of sarin on him, and with profoundly compromised vision, speech, memory, and loss of motor control on the left of his body, he is still able to stealthily rob a gun shop while it is open, and repel an attack from a SWAT team, taking one of them hostage in the process. Amongst other things.]]
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* ''Series/{{Homeland}}'' from mid-Season 5 onwards. [[spoiler:Quinn retains most of his expert combat skills despite after sustaining severe organophosphate poisoning and a stroke. Despite barely surviving the antagonist terror cell testing their new batch of sarin on him, and with which profoundly compromised compromises his vision, speech, memory, and loss of motor control on the left of his body, he is still able to stealthily rob a gun shop while it is open, and repel an attack from a SWAT team, taking one of them hostage in the process. Amongst other things.]]
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* ''Series/{{Homeland}}'' from mid-Season 5 onwards. [[spoiler:Quinn retains most of his expert combat skills despite sustaining severe organophosphate poisoning and a stroke. Despite barely surviving the antagonist terror cell testing their new batch of sarin on him him, and with profoundly compromised vision, speech, memory, and loss of motor control on the left of his body, he is still able to stealthily rob a gun shop while it is open, and repel an attack from a SWAT team, taking one of them hostage in the process. Amongst other things.]]
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* ''Series/{{Homeland}}'' from mid-Season 5onwards. [[Spoiler:Quinn retains most of his expert combat skills despite sustaining severe organophosphate poisoning and a stroke. Despite barely surviving the antagonist terror cell testing their new batch of sarin on him and with profoundly compromised vision, speech, memory, and loss of motor control on the left of his body, he is still able to stealthily rob a gun shop while it is open, and repel an attack from a SWAT team, taking one of them hostage in the process. Amongst other things.]]
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* ''Series/{{See}}'': ThePlague rendered humanity completely blind and humans have had to learn to adapt to this, including fighting even when they can't see anythingusing their remaining senses. But even then, Baba Voss (Creator/JasonMomoa) really stands out, being a force to be reckoned with even against sighted opponents.
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* ''Series/{{Ironside 1967}}'', starring Raymond Burr as a chief of detectives in a wheelchair, was a piker. The series received a [[ShortRunners short-lived]] [[TheRemake remake]], ''Series/{{Ironside 2013}}'', with Blair Underwood as a {{Race Lift}}ed version of the original character.
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* ''Series/{{Ironside 1967}}'', starring Raymond Burr as a chief of detectives in a wheelchair, was a piker. The series received a [[ShortRunners short-lived]] [[TheRemake remake]], ''Series/{{Ironside 2013}}'', with Blair Underwood Creator/BlairUnderwood as a {{Race Lift}}ed version of the original character.
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* Dr. Kerry Weaver in ''Series/{{ER}}''. She walks with the aid of a crutch for the majority of the series, but is in no way impeded in helping her fellow doctors in emergency situations. In one episode, she assists in the arrest of a schizophrenic patient who had killed Med student Lucy Knight and seriously injured Dr. John Carter, by tripping him with her crutch. A few episodes after this, she uses the crutch to beat her way through a crowd of brawling High School footballers to help Malucci, who had been knocked unconscious in the chaos. Later, in Season 8, she leaps into a crashed ambulance, surrounded by fallen power lines, in a storm, to deliver an injured pregnant woman's baby ''via emergency C-section''. Also, she's everybody's boss for a significant chunk of the series.
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* Dr. Kerry Weaver in ''Series/{{ER}}''. She walks with the aid of a crutch for the majority of the series, but is in no way impeded in helping her fellow doctors in emergency situations. In one episode, she assists in the arrest of a schizophrenic patient who had killed Med student Lucy Knight and seriously injured Dr. John Carter, by tripping him with her crutch. A few episodes after this, she uses the crutch to beat her way through a crowd of brawling High School footballers to help Malucci, who had been knocked unconscious in the chaos. Later, in In Season 8, she leaps into a crashed ambulance, surrounded by fallen power lines, in a storm, to deliver an injured pregnant woman's baby ''via emergency C-section''. Also, she's everybody's boss for a significant chunk of the series.
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* Dr. Kerry Weaver in ''Series/{{ER}}''. She walks with the aid of a crutch for the majority of the series, but is in no way impeded in helping her fellow doctors in emergency situations. In one episode, she assists in the arrest of a schizophrenic patient who had killed Med student Lucy Knight and seriously injured Dr. John Carter, by tripping him with her crutch. A few episodes after this, she uses the crutch to beat her way through a crowd of brawling High School footballers to help Malucci, who had been knocked unconscious in the chaos. Later, in Season 8, she leaps into a crashed ambulance, surrounded by fallen power lines, in a storm, to deliver an injured pregnant woman's baby. Also, she's everybody's boss for a significant chunk of the series.
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* Dr. Kerry Weaver in ''Series/{{ER}}''. She walks with the aid of a crutch for the majority of the series, but is in no way impeded in helping her fellow doctors in emergency situations. In one episode, she assists in the arrest of a schizophrenic patient who had killed Med student Lucy Knight and seriously injured Dr. John Carter, by tripping him with her crutch. A few episodes after this, she uses the crutch to beat her way through a crowd of brawling High School footballers to help Malucci, who had been knocked unconscious in the chaos. Later, in Season 8, she leaps into a crashed ambulance, surrounded by fallen power lines, in a storm, to deliver an injured pregnant woman's baby.baby ''via emergency C-section''. Also, she's everybody's boss for a significant chunk of the series.
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* Dr. Kerry Weaver in ''Series/{{ER}}''. She walks with the aid of a crutch for the majority of the series, but is in no way impeded in helping her fellow doctors in emergency situations. In one episode, she assists in the arrest of a schizophrenic patient who had killed Med student Lucy Knight and seriously injured Dr. John Carter, by tripping him with her crutch. A few episodes after this, she uses the crutch to beat her way through a crowd of brawling High School footballers to help Malucci, who had been knocked unconscious in the chaos. Later, in Season 8, she leaps into a crashed ambulance, surrounded by fallen power lines, in a storm, to deliver an injured pregnant woman's baby.
** Also, she's everybody's boss for a significant chunk of the series.
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* Dr. Kerry Weaver in ''Series/{{ER}}''. She walks with the aid of a crutch for the majority of the series, but is in no way impeded in helping her fellow doctors in emergency situations. In one episode, she assists in the arrest of a schizophrenic patient who had killed Med student Lucy Knight and seriously injured Dr. John Carter, by tripping him with her crutch. A few episodes after this, she uses the crutch to beat her way through a crowd of brawling High School footballers to help Malucci, who had been knocked unconscious in the chaos. Later, in Season 8, she leaps into a crashed ambulance, surrounded by fallen power lines, in a storm, to deliver an injured pregnant woman's baby.
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* Mid-season four of ''Series/{{Blindspot}}'', [[spoiler:Jane Doe manages to take down a serial killer with over three dozen known victims who had managed to capture Jane, despite the fact that Jane was currently being affected by ZIP poisoning, which has reached a point where she's practically deaf and blind while dealing with searing headaches]].
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In the season 2 finale, Xander joins Buffy in the final battle with a broken arm. He does it again in the series finale after losing an eye.
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* Dr. Kerry Weaver in ''Series/{{ER}}''. She walks with the aid of a crutch for the majority of the series, but is in no way impeded in helping her fellow doctors in emergency situations. In one episode, she assists in the arrest of a schizophrenic patient who had killed Med student Lucy Knight and seriously injured Dr. John Carter, by tripping him with her crutch. A few episodes after this, she uses the crutch to beat her way through a crowd of brawling High School footballers to help Malucci, who had been knocked unconscious in the chaos. Later, in season 8, she leaps into a crashed ambulance, surrounded by fallen power lines, in a storm, to deliver an injured pregnant woman's baby.
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* ''{{Series/Fargo}}'': A recurring element in the series is the [[ThoseTwoBadGuys pair of quirky henchmen]] and of all of them, season 1's Mr. Wrench is probably the most dangerous. He's a deaf hitman (played by the also deaf Russel Harvard) who nearly kills the BigBad of the first season and much later tears through the villains from season 3 including that season's quirky henchman pair.
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* ''{{Series/Fargo}}'': A recurring element in the series is the [[ThoseTwoBadGuys pair of quirky henchmen]] and of all of them, season Season 1's Mr. Wrench is probably the most dangerous. He's a deaf hitman (played by the also deaf Russel Harvard) who nearly kills the BigBad of the first season and much later tears through the villains from season Season 3 including that season's quirky henchman pair.
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* Anthony Ryan Auld from ''Series/ProjectRunway'''s 9th season qualifies in that despite being color blind he managed to become a fan favorite for his season and eventually win the second All Stars season. Especially since he's a ''fashion designer'' and color blindness would usually be thought of as a huge disadvantage.
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* Anthony Ryan Auld from ''Series/ProjectRunway'''s 9th ninth season qualifies in that despite being color blind he managed to become a fan favorite for his season and eventually win the second All Stars season. Especially since he's a ''fashion designer'' and color blindness would usually be thought of as a huge disadvantage.
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** Castiel is this as of season 10, as he's lost [[spoiler:his ability to fly due to his wings being broken, seemingly irreparably]].
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** Castiel is this as of season Season 10, as he's lost [[spoiler:his ability to fly due to his wings being broken, seemingly irreparably]].
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* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': Finch walks with a limp [[spoiler: due to a metal spine graft caused by an explosion which killed his best friend]] and while not being a badass fighting wise, he is a master hacker, BadassBookworm and is willing to put himself in life-threatening situations to save his friends, in one case [[ToThePain threatening an assassin with death by electrocution to get him to back down]]. Also, Reese uses a wheelchair or crutches for one episode after being shot by the CIA. It doesn't stop him from taking down the villain-of-the-week.
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* Dr. Gregory Series/{{House}} has 1.5 legs because he lost the muscle from one due to sickness. It didn't dilute his MO of 'break into patient's houses' at all.
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* ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds'': Norton Drake is in a wheelchair, and can STILL beat your ass down with a big stick. And he'll cheat to make sure of it.
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* Jack Bauer has chronic (often torture-induced) heart problems throughout ''Series/TwentyFour'', and continues to kick ass in spite of having been clinically dead ''twice'' as a result.
* Agent Sousa of ''Series/AgentCarter''. A leg injury in WWII crippled him, forcing him to walk with a crutch. However he is still a dangerously smart SSR agent, and can still hold his own in a fight.
* Wesley Windham-Price in ''Series/{{Angel}}'' used a wheelchair temporarily at one point. It's a good thing he was handy with a {{shotgun|sAreJustBetter}}. In a vision of an alternate reality, Wesley was badass despite the loss of an arm.
* Llud the Silver-Handed from ''Series/ArthurOfTheBritons''. A one-handed warlord and Arthur's adoptive father, the "Silver-Handed" epithet comes from his (non-functional) silver prosthesis.
* Alfred Bester in ''Series/Babylon5''. It's easy to miss because his badassery is more of the ManipulativeBastard variety, and it's never mentioned in dialogue, but his left hand is immobile. It only becomes really obvious in a late episode where he has to use his teeth to help remove his right glove.
* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'':
** Col. Tigh had [[spoiler:his eye plucked out]] between the second and third seasons, and if anything becomes ''more'' badass as a result.
** [[spoiler:Samuel Anders]] took a bullet to the brain, survived and was then [[spoiler:hooked up directly to the ''Galactica'''s central computer]], essentially becoming ''Galactica'' itself for the final few episodes of the show.
** Lt. Felix Gaeta [[spoiler:lost his leg and shortly thereafter started a full-scale, devastating mutiny against his CO]].
* ''Series/BirdsOfPrey'': Barbara Gordon, formerly ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, was shot by ComicBook/TheJoker prior to the start of the series, leaving her a paraplegic. Normally she stays at the hideout as Oracle, but she's still quite capable of defending herself with gadgetry and collapsible batons (one extreme case saw her use technology to temporarily restore her ability to walk).
* Mid-season four of ''Series/{{Blindspot}}'', [[spoiler:Jane Doe manages to take down a serial killer with over three dozen known victims who had managed to capture Jane, despite the fact that Jane was currently being affected by ZIP poisoning, which has reached a point where she's practically deaf and blind while dealing with searing headaches]].
* Richard Harrow from ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'', who suffered a horrific facial injury in World War I that cost him an eye and damaged his nerves so that eating and drinking is very difficult. But he's still a very skilled sniper.
* ''Series/BreakingBad'':
** The protagonist's Reign of Badass began with his diagnosis of terminal cancer.
** One of the Cousins doesn't ease up on his RoaringRampageOfRevenge at all after his legs are amputated.
* T-Bag in the ''Series/BreakoutKings'' episode "The Bag Man". He stabs a guard to death with his prosthetic hand and then proceeds to go an a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* Robert Morehouse of ''Series/{{Copper}}'' lost his leg after a battle in the Civil War. Aside from being a GuileHero who can play Tammany Hall like a fiddle, at the end of the series he leads a manhunt to find John Wilkes Booth, and despite his missing leg and 1860s prosthetic he manages to be quite good at it. However, it takes its toll on him, and the chafing from the prosthetic causes him immense and crippling pain.
* Auggie Anderson of ''Series/CovertAffairs''. Went blind on a special ops mission, learned Braille in two years, is ''head of tech ops'' at the CIA, and [[Awesome/CovertAffairs kicked the collective asses of two members of the Russian mob on a moving train]], ''while {{shirtless|Scene}}.'' He probably still has nanobots in his body from his [[Series/{{Jake20}} days at the NSA]].
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' has Doc Robbins. He has two prosthetic legs and walks with the aid of a crutch, but if he catches you in his morgue and you don't have a right to be there, he ''will'' attack you, usually ''with'' his crutch and anything else that comes to hand. And if the odds are fair, he'll probably win.
* In an episode of ''Series/DarkAngel'', Logan struggles with an assailant and hauls them both to the ground. Logan then declares, "The thing about wheelchairs: they build upper-body strength" before beating the guy.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The [[TheNthDoctor First Doctor]] had to walk with a cane, and was just as badass as any of his future regenerations.
** Davros, an OmnicidalManiac who only has one (mechanical) eye and the use of one hand. Despite this, he and his Daleks are two of the most feared monsters in the show. Think Stephen Hawking aged several hundred years. Later on, he gets the one working hand shot off... and replaces it with a prosthetic that SHOOTS FRICKIN' LIGHTNING BOLTS.
** The Menoptera freed from the Crater of Needles in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E5TheWebPlanet "The Web Planet"]] had had their wings cut off when enslaved. They could still kick Zarbi ovipositor.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen "Oxygen"]], [[spoiler:the Doctor gets [[TemporaryBlindness blinded]] after having to give Bill his helmet during a spacewalk. He still saves the day with minimal help.]]
%%** Orcini in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks "Revelation of the Daleks"]]. How so?
* Dr. Kerry Weaver in ''Series/{{ER}}''. She walks with the aid of a crutch for the majority of the series, but is in no way impeded in helping her fellow doctors in emergency situations. In one episode, she assists in the arrest of a schizophrenic patient who had killed Med student Lucy Knight and seriously injured Dr. John Carter, by tripping him with her crutch. A few episodes after this, she uses the crutch to beat her way through a crowd of brawling High School footballers to help Malucci, who had been knocked unconscious in the chaos. Later, in season 8, she leaps into a crashed ambulance, surrounded by fallen power lines, in a storm, to deliver an injured pregnant woman's baby.
** Also, she's everybody's boss for a significant chunk of the series.
* ''{{Series/Fargo}}'': A recurring element in the series is the [[ThoseTwoBadGuys pair of quirky henchmen]] and of all of them, season 1's Mr. Wrench is probably the most dangerous. He's a deaf hitman (played by the also deaf Russel Harvard) who nearly kills the BigBad of the first season and much later tears through the villains from season 3 including that season's quirky henchman pair.
* Scorpius from ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. The jury-rigged hybrid product of a cruel MarsNeedsWomen project that used two species which were almost completely incompatible, he's in constant pain and almost constantly on the point of dying from heatstroke, depending on a ClingyCostume cooling system that includes a heat sink '''running through his skull into his cranial cavity'''. But as long as [[AchillesHeel his endothermic heat-absorbing rods get changed regularly]] he's a GeniusBruiser who can both beat the crap out of people and [[TheChessmaster outplot anyone in the universe]].
* In ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', the Alliance's brutal and unethical mental enhancement and training exercises leave River Tam with a case of borderline psychosis. It's unclear if she's a stone cold badass ''because'' of this or ''in spite'' of it.
* ''Series/FreakOut'', the short-lived British disabled lifestyle show, was presented by the short-armed martial artist [[http://matfraser.co.uk Mat Fraser]] and featured amputee stunt men, one who worked on Film/{{Predator2}} for the scenes where the Predator lost an arm. Another episode followed disabled hunters, but subverted the trope since, as Mat put it, it wasn't about independence as much as interdependence. Properly paired, two disabled hunters could hunt as well as any able bodied hunter.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Tyrion's stature certainly counts as a handicap in a world where it's mandatory for men to be big, strong and dangerous fighters. If his ability to talk, bargain or weasel himself out of dangerous situations doesn't make him badass enough, his final discovery of [[KneeCapping a useful fighting style for anyone under five feet]] certainly makes him so. That and talking a bunch of disheartened city guards into making a foray out of a city under siege.
** Although Bran can't walk, he's become quite a powerful warg and later on the second Three-Eyed-Raven.
** The Greatjon is still one of Robb's best soldiers despite losing two fingers.
** Jaime still manages to be a fairly competent fighter after having his right hand cut off, but he's understandably perturbed about losing most of his physical prowess, his only noticeable trait to the outside world (he is the ''Kingslayer'' after all) and skilled fighters like Bronn can easily knock him down, forcing Jaime to learn how to improvise. Though he does take out a Dornishman with the help of his golden hand, so there's that.
* Oswald Cobblepot of ''Series/{{Gotham}}''. Having his legs broken early in the series has made him walk like, well, a Penguin. He is still, however, an incredibly ruthless and cold blooded killer.
* An episode of ''Series/HawaiiFiveO'' called "Hookman" featured a deadly sniper with hooks for hands. The guy who played the sniper is a RealLife Handicapped Badass, private investigator J.J. Armes.
* ''Series/{{Highlander}}''[='s=] Joe Dawson has no legs and can kick your ass all day long. His cane is made to stand up to swordstrokes.
* Dr. Gregory Series/{{House}} has 1.5 legs because he lost the muscle from one due to sickness. It didn't dilute his MO of 'break into patient's houses' at all.
* ''Series/{{Ironside 1967}}'', starring Raymond Burr as a chief of detectives in a wheelchair, was a piker. The series received a [[ShortRunners short-lived]] [[TheRemake remake]], ''Series/{{Ironside 2013}}'', with Blair Underwood as a {{Race Lift}}ed version of the original character.
* In his second appearance in ''Series/JonathanCreek'', Gideon Pryke is in a wheelchair and can only move one finger, due to being hit by a sniper. With a voice-activated computer and a few other tricks built into the chair, he continues to be a brilliant and badass no-nonsense detective.
* Little known fact about Michael Knight. In the pilot, Detective Michael Long is shot in the face by a traitorous bitch. The only thing that saves him is a metal plate in his cranium from a war injury suffered ostensibly in Vietnam. The reconstructive surgery results in him becoming the ''Series/KnightRider''.
* ''Series/{{Longstreet}}'': Mike Longstreet was ''blind'' and studied ''martial arts'' with Creator/BruceLee. ''Bruce friggin' Lee.''
* {{Inverted|Trope}} and played with on ''Series/{{Lost}}''. The BaldOfAwesome is revealed to have been paralyzed in the past, then revealed that his paralyzed self was weak and sad, then revealed that he was a sad little creature even before he was paralyzed. Then reveled that he was using the IdiotBall all through the seasons even after he was healed.
* Stevie from ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' becomes a true avatar of this trope in the episode wherein Reese deliberately picks a fight with him as an easy opponent, only for Stevie to show up for the brawl in a FREAKIN' HOMEMADE EXOSKELETON and pound the tar out of him...
* In ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', the one-legged girl's boyfriend, despite missing both legs and an arm, [[CurbstompBattle brutally kicks Earl's ass.]]
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Mr. Gold walks with a limp as a result of a [[spoiler:self-inflicted injury]] during the Ogre Wars. Doesn't stop him from intimidating and manipulating everyone in town, as well as [[CaneFu delivering beatings with his cane]]. Also, {{Hook|Hand}}.
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': Finch walks with a limp [[spoiler: due to a metal spine graft caused by an explosion which killed his best friend]] and while not being a badass fighting wise, he is a master hacker, BadassBookworm and is willing to put himself in life-threatening situations to save his friends, in one case [[ToThePain threatening an assassin with death by electrocution to get him to back down]]. Also, Reese uses a wheelchair or crutches for one episode after being shot by the CIA. It doesn't stop him from taking down the villain-of-the-week.
* In ''Series/{{Powers}}'', both Triphammer and his successor, Martinez, are amputees. Bonus points for Martinez being a veteran.
* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'': Jenna, blinded after an accident when she and the Liars were fourteen, still manages to scare them senseless on and off for seasons at a time, what with her manipulations, lies, and frame ups. [[spoiler: After the TimeSkip at the end of the last season, she is now the [[BadassTeacher life skills teacher]] at Rosewood High. And still a Badass.]]
* Anthony Ryan Auld from ''Series/ProjectRunway'''s 9th season qualifies in that despite being color blind he managed to become a fan favorite for his season and eventually win the second All Stars season. Especially since he's a ''fashion designer'' and color blindness would usually be thought of as a huge disadvantage.
* Creator/{{PBS}}'s forensic history series ''Series/SecretsOfTheDead'' did an [[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/resurrecting-richard-iii-full-episode/1934/ episode]] on [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfPlantagenet King Richard III Plantagenet]]'s remains, even training a Renaissance reenactor with the same type of severe scoliosis as Richard in medieval fighting arts and getting him a custom-made suit of plate armor. Turns out that it would only have been a mild impediment on foot (mainly due to diminished lung capacity from the malformed ribcage) and no impediment at all on horseback (which neatly explains the "my kingdom for a horse" line in [[Theatre/RichardIII the play]]).
* [[spoiler:ComicBook/LexLuthor]] in Season 8 of ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. Left crippled after the previous season's finale, he is quadriplegic, and forced to breathe via a respirator. He still has [[{{Franchise/Superman}} Clark]], [[Comicbook/GreenArrow Oliver]], and all their friends quaking in their boots at the mention of his name, even though he's the one on ''life support''. Appearing for only one episode, he uses his [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] abilities to do more damage in that one than most villains do in a season. In addition to that one episode, [[spoiler: Lex]] spent most of the season as TheManBehindTheMan to [[spoiler: Tess]], further reinforcing his Chessmaster status.
* ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'': [[ColonelBadass Lieutenant Colonel TC McQueen]]. He's not crippled in the sense that he lacks full control of his body, but because due to injuries in the opening days of the Chig War, he has an electronic implant in his brain that acts as his Inner Ear. If it is exposed to High-G maneuvers, it will explode, inducing a stroke. So when an alien [[AcePilot fighter ace]] shows up in his [[AceCustom nigh-invincible prototype fighter]] and starts tearing entire squadrons apart, [=McQueen=] has the implant removed, and learns to walk, run, do pushups and chin-ups, and fly a high-performance space fighter... ''all without a sense of balance''. [[spoiler: He fights the Chig ace one-on-one, and kicks his ass after a lengthy and pitched battle.]]
* Holly in ''Series/TheSparticleMystery'' is missing half of her left arm, still has a role as the group's ActionGirl.
* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' movie ''Continuum'' Daniel Jackson loses his leg. Still doesn't stop him from busting caps in the Goa'uld.
** Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell shattered his leg in the battle against Anubis. He still has pins holding his leg together. He is also a ColonelBadass.
* Throughout ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]''
*** Captain Picard. It is revealed in "Tapestry" that a hot-headed younger Picard got into a bar fight and got stabbed in the chest, requiring an artificial heart to be put in. It worked reasonably well until he was shot during a riot. It takes on greater significance because the audience learns the fight, as well as Picard losing his original heart, is what ultimately led to him becoming a galaxy-class badass.
*** Lt. Commander Geordi [=LaForge=], "a man with unique vision".
** ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]''
*** General Martok is the classic example of a Handicapped Badass. He loses an eye from several successive no-holds-barred fights with Jem'Haddar, then carries on the war and eventually heads the Klingon Empire with only ONE EYE because "I DO NOT WANT AN OCULAR IMPLANT!"
*** Melora Pazlar is a Starfleet officer who, although not disabled as such, was from a low-gravity world and used a wheelchair and braces because the gravity on the station was too high for her. The treatment that Dr. Bashir developed for her didn't solve the problem, but they ''did'' make her partially ''phaser-proof'', and she went on to turn down the gravity at a crucial moment and whip the bad guy's ass.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** Bobby, after he gets injured and is unable to walk. He [[RetiredBadass retires from hunting]], but fights when he has to.
** Castiel is this as of season 10, as he's lost [[spoiler:his ability to fly due to his wings being broken, seemingly irreparably]].
** A season 11 episode features a hearing-impaired hunter named Eileen. Doesn't stop her from kicking monster ass.
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate_%28TV_series%29 Tate]]'' (starring David [=McLean=] aka [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlboro_Man The Marlboro Man]]) was a travelling gunfighter and bounty hunter who had lost the use of his left arm during the Civil War.
* During the intro to the second season of ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', Cameron suffers damage to her leg that limits her to a slow, unsteady limp. Naturally, while she is limping, Cameron becomes an order of magnitude more terrifying as she hunts the Connors.
* Billy Baxter, blinded during the war in Bosnia and ''still'' faster round the ''Series/TopGear'' test track than two of the fully sighted celebs. He also holds the blind solo motorbike land speed record.
** One of the team's challenges was to create a better off-road motorized wheelchair than the ones commercially available, and then do a navigation race against a team of former British Army soldiers that used the commercially available chairs to get to the top of a mountain. Through a variety of issues (including the fact that the team's wheelchairs were AwesomeButImpractical), the soldiers won.
* Wilson Wilson in ''Series/{{Utopia}}'' has just been [[EyeScream blinded]] at the hands of a {{cold|BloodedTorture}}-blooded TortureTechnician. When the torturer returns from a fag break, Wilson has managed to free himself and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard shoots him with his own pistol]] whilst completely unable to see. He's later sporting an EyepatchOfPower.
* The mercenary Ham Tyler (played by Michael Ironside) in ''[[Series/{{V 1983}} V: The Final Battle]]'' was originally written as wheelchair-bound. In his introduction scene, he was to knock Mike Donovan flat on his back.
* ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds'': Norton Drake is in a wheelchair, and can STILL beat your ass down with a big stick. And he'll cheat to make sure of it.
* After Omar breaks his leg jumping from a window in ''Series/TheWire'', he proceeds to kick five kinds of ass all over Baltimore. On one leg.
* Richard "Yin Yang Man" Branden of ''Series/WMACMasters'' was blind in his right eye after a car accident when he was a kid. When he confesses this to the rest of the cast, he tells about how his passion for the martial arts was reignited when he witnessed an exhibition by a martial artist confined to a wheelchair, who taught him to think of a perceived handicap as a challenge to work at overcoming.
* Alex Krycek from ''Series/TheXFiles''. Gets his [[AnArmAndALeg arm sawed off]] after escaping a Russian gulag, but it doesn't slow him down much. [[spoiler:It does eventually get him killed, though, as he can't hold a gun with his prosthesis.]]
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* Jack Bauer has chronic (often torture-induced) heart problems throughout ''Series/TwentyFour'', and continues to kick ass in spite of having been clinically dead ''twice'' as a result.
* Agent Sousa of ''Series/AgentCarter''. A leg injury in WWII crippled him, forcing him to walk with a crutch. However he is still a dangerously smart SSR agent, and can still hold his own in a fight.
* Wesley Windham-Price in ''Series/{{Angel}}'' used a wheelchair temporarily at one point. It's a good thing he was handy with a {{shotgun|sAreJustBetter}}. In a vision of an alternate reality, Wesley was badass despite the loss of an arm.
* Llud the Silver-Handed from ''Series/ArthurOfTheBritons''. A one-handed warlord and Arthur's adoptive father, the "Silver-Handed" epithet comes from his (non-functional) silver prosthesis.
* Alfred Bester in ''Series/Babylon5''. It's easy to miss because his badassery is more of the ManipulativeBastard variety, and it's never mentioned in dialogue, but his left hand is immobile. It only becomes really obvious in a late episode where he has to use his teeth to help remove his right glove.
* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'':
** Col. Tigh had [[spoiler:his eye plucked out]] between the second and third seasons, and if anything becomes ''more'' badass as a result.
** [[spoiler:Samuel Anders]] took a bullet to the brain, survived and was then [[spoiler:hooked up directly to the ''Galactica'''s central computer]], essentially becoming ''Galactica'' itself for the final few episodes of the show.
** Lt. Felix Gaeta [[spoiler:lost his leg and shortly thereafter started a full-scale, devastating mutiny against his CO]].
* ''Series/BirdsOfPrey'': Barbara Gordon, formerly ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, was shot by ComicBook/TheJoker prior to the start of the series, leaving her a paraplegic. Normally she stays at the hideout as Oracle, but she's still quite capable of defending herself with gadgetry and collapsible batons (one extreme case saw her use technology to temporarily restore her ability to walk).
* Mid-season four of ''Series/{{Blindspot}}'', [[spoiler:Jane Doe manages to take down a serial killer with over three dozen known victims who had managed to capture Jane, despite the fact that Jane was currently being affected by ZIP poisoning, which has reached a point where she's practically deaf and blind while dealing with searing headaches]].
* Richard Harrow from ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'', who suffered a horrific facial injury in World War I that cost him an eye and damaged his nerves so that eating and drinking is very difficult. But he's still a very skilled sniper.
* ''Series/BreakingBad'':
** The protagonist's Reign of Badass began with his diagnosis of terminal cancer.
** One of the Cousins doesn't ease up on his RoaringRampageOfRevenge at all after his legs are amputated.
* T-Bag in the ''Series/BreakoutKings'' episode "The Bag Man". He stabs a guard to death with his prosthetic hand and then proceeds to go an a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* Robert Morehouse of ''Series/{{Copper}}'' lost his leg after a battle in the Civil War. Aside from being a GuileHero who can play Tammany Hall like a fiddle, at the end of the series he leads a manhunt to find John Wilkes Booth, and despite his missing leg and 1860s prosthetic he manages to be quite good at it. However, it takes its toll on him, and the chafing from the prosthetic causes him immense and crippling pain.
* Auggie Anderson of ''Series/CovertAffairs''. Went blind on a special ops mission, learned Braille in two years, is ''head of tech ops'' at the CIA, and [[Awesome/CovertAffairs kicked the collective asses of two members of the Russian mob on a moving train]], ''while {{shirtless|Scene}}.'' He probably still has nanobots in his body from his [[Series/{{Jake20}} days at the NSA]].
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' has Doc Robbins. He has two prosthetic legs and walks with the aid of a crutch, but if he catches you in his morgue and you don't have a right to be there, he ''will'' attack you, usually ''with'' his crutch and anything else that comes to hand. And if the odds are fair, he'll probably win.
* In an episode of ''Series/DarkAngel'', Logan struggles with an assailant and hauls them both to the ground. Logan then declares, "The thing about wheelchairs: they build upper-body strength" before beating the guy.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The [[TheNthDoctor First Doctor]] had to walk with a cane, and was just as badass as any of his future regenerations.
** Davros, an OmnicidalManiac who only has one (mechanical) eye and the use of one hand. Despite this, he and his Daleks are two of the most feared monsters in the show. Think Stephen Hawking aged several hundred years. Later on, he gets the one working hand shot off... and replaces it with a prosthetic that SHOOTS FRICKIN' LIGHTNING BOLTS.
** The Menoptera freed from the Crater of Needles in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E5TheWebPlanet "The Web Planet"]] had had their wings cut off when enslaved. They could still kick Zarbi ovipositor.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen "Oxygen"]], [[spoiler:the Doctor gets [[TemporaryBlindness blinded]] after having to give Bill his helmet during a spacewalk. He still saves the day with minimal help.]]
%%** Orcini in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks "Revelation of the Daleks"]]. How so?
* Dr. Kerry Weaver in ''Series/{{ER}}''. She walks with the aid of a crutch for the majority of the series, but is in no way impeded in helping her fellow doctors in emergency situations. In one episode, she assists in the arrest of a schizophrenic patient who had killed Med student Lucy Knight and seriously injured Dr. John Carter, by tripping him with her crutch. A few episodes after this, she uses the crutch to beat her way through a crowd of brawling High School footballers to help Malucci, who had been knocked unconscious in the chaos. Later, in season 8, she leaps into a crashed ambulance, surrounded by fallen power lines, in a storm, to deliver an injured pregnant woman's baby.
** Also, she's everybody's boss for a significant chunk of the series.
* ''{{Series/Fargo}}'': A recurring element in the series is the [[ThoseTwoBadGuys pair of quirky henchmen]] and of all of them, season 1's Mr. Wrench is probably the most dangerous. He's a deaf hitman (played by the also deaf Russel Harvard) who nearly kills the BigBad of the first season and much later tears through the villains from season 3 including that season's quirky henchman pair.
* Scorpius from ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. The jury-rigged hybrid product of a cruel MarsNeedsWomen project that used two species which were almost completely incompatible, he's in constant pain and almost constantly on the point of dying from heatstroke, depending on a ClingyCostume cooling system that includes a heat sink '''running through his skull into his cranial cavity'''. But as long as [[AchillesHeel his endothermic heat-absorbing rods get changed regularly]] he's a GeniusBruiser who can both beat the crap out of people and [[TheChessmaster outplot anyone in the universe]].
* In ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', the Alliance's brutal and unethical mental enhancement and training exercises leave River Tam with a case of borderline psychosis. It's unclear if she's a stone cold badass ''because'' of this or ''in spite'' of it.
* ''Series/FreakOut'', the short-lived British disabled lifestyle show, was presented by the short-armed martial artist [[http://matfraser.co.uk Mat Fraser]] and featured amputee stunt men, one who worked on Film/{{Predator2}} for the scenes where the Predator lost an arm. Another episode followed disabled hunters, but subverted the trope since, as Mat put it, it wasn't about independence as much as interdependence. Properly paired, two disabled hunters could hunt as well as any able bodied hunter.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Tyrion's stature certainly counts as a handicap in a world where it's mandatory for men to be big, strong and dangerous fighters. If his ability to talk, bargain or weasel himself out of dangerous situations doesn't make him badass enough, his final discovery of [[KneeCapping a useful fighting style for anyone under five feet]] certainly makes him so. That and talking a bunch of disheartened city guards into making a foray out of a city under siege.
** Although Bran can't walk, he's become quite a powerful warg and later on the second Three-Eyed-Raven.
** The Greatjon is still one of Robb's best soldiers despite losing two fingers.
** Jaime still manages to be a fairly competent fighter after having his right hand cut off, but he's understandably perturbed about losing most of his physical prowess, his only noticeable trait to the outside world (he is the ''Kingslayer'' after all) and skilled fighters like Bronn can easily knock him down, forcing Jaime to learn how to improvise. Though he does take out a Dornishman with the help of his golden hand, so there's that.
* Oswald Cobblepot of ''Series/{{Gotham}}''. Having his legs broken early in the series has made him walk like, well, a Penguin. He is still, however, an incredibly ruthless and cold blooded killer.
* An episode of ''Series/HawaiiFiveO'' called "Hookman" featured a deadly sniper with hooks for hands. The guy who played the sniper is a RealLife Handicapped Badass, private investigator J.J. Armes.
* ''Series/{{Highlander}}''[='s=] Joe Dawson has no legs and can kick your ass all day long. His cane is made to stand up to swordstrokes.
* Dr. Gregory Series/{{House}} has 1.5 legs because he lost the muscle from one due to sickness. It didn't dilute his MO of 'break into patient's houses' at all.
* ''Series/{{Ironside 1967}}'', starring Raymond Burr as a chief of detectives in a wheelchair, was a piker. The series received a [[ShortRunners short-lived]] [[TheRemake remake]], ''Series/{{Ironside 2013}}'', with Blair Underwood as a {{Race Lift}}ed version of the original character.
* In his second appearance in ''Series/JonathanCreek'', Gideon Pryke is in a wheelchair and can only move one finger, due to being hit by a sniper. With a voice-activated computer and a few other tricks built into the chair, he continues to be a brilliant and badass no-nonsense detective.
* Little known fact about Michael Knight. In the pilot, Detective Michael Long is shot in the face by a traitorous bitch. The only thing that saves him is a metal plate in his cranium from a war injury suffered ostensibly in Vietnam. The reconstructive surgery results in him becoming the ''Series/KnightRider''.
* ''Series/{{Longstreet}}'': Mike Longstreet was ''blind'' and studied ''martial arts'' with Creator/BruceLee. ''Bruce friggin' Lee.''
* {{Inverted|Trope}} and played with on ''Series/{{Lost}}''. The BaldOfAwesome is revealed to have been paralyzed in the past, then revealed that his paralyzed self was weak and sad, then revealed that he was a sad little creature even before he was paralyzed. Then reveled that he was using the IdiotBall all through the seasons even after he was healed.
* Stevie from ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' becomes a true avatar of this trope in the episode wherein Reese deliberately picks a fight with him as an easy opponent, only for Stevie to show up for the brawl in a FREAKIN' HOMEMADE EXOSKELETON and pound the tar out of him...
* In ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', the one-legged girl's boyfriend, despite missing both legs and an arm, [[CurbstompBattle brutally kicks Earl's ass.]]
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Mr. Gold walks with a limp as a result of a [[spoiler:self-inflicted injury]] during the Ogre Wars. Doesn't stop him from intimidating and manipulating everyone in town, as well as [[CaneFu delivering beatings with his cane]]. Also, {{Hook|Hand}}.
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': Finch walks with a limp [[spoiler: due to a metal spine graft caused by an explosion which killed his best friend]] and while not being a badass fighting wise, he is a master hacker, BadassBookworm and is willing to put himself in life-threatening situations to save his friends, in one case [[ToThePain threatening an assassin with death by electrocution to get him to back down]]. Also, Reese uses a wheelchair or crutches for one episode after being shot by the CIA. It doesn't stop him from taking down the villain-of-the-week.
* In ''Series/{{Powers}}'', both Triphammer and his successor, Martinez, are amputees. Bonus points for Martinez being a veteran.
* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'': Jenna, blinded after an accident when she and the Liars were fourteen, still manages to scare them senseless on and off for seasons at a time, what with her manipulations, lies, and frame ups. [[spoiler: After the TimeSkip at the end of the last season, she is now the [[BadassTeacher life skills teacher]] at Rosewood High. And still a Badass.]]
* Anthony Ryan Auld from ''Series/ProjectRunway'''s 9th season qualifies in that despite being color blind he managed to become a fan favorite for his season and eventually win the second All Stars season. Especially since he's a ''fashion designer'' and color blindness would usually be thought of as a huge disadvantage.
* Creator/{{PBS}}'s forensic history series ''Series/SecretsOfTheDead'' did an [[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/resurrecting-richard-iii-full-episode/1934/ episode]] on [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfPlantagenet King Richard III Plantagenet]]'s remains, even training a Renaissance reenactor with the same type of severe scoliosis as Richard in medieval fighting arts and getting him a custom-made suit of plate armor. Turns out that it would only have been a mild impediment on foot (mainly due to diminished lung capacity from the malformed ribcage) and no impediment at all on horseback (which neatly explains the "my kingdom for a horse" line in [[Theatre/RichardIII the play]]).
* [[spoiler:ComicBook/LexLuthor]] in Season 8 of ''Series/{{Smallville}}''. Left crippled after the previous season's finale, he is quadriplegic, and forced to breathe via a respirator. He still has [[{{Franchise/Superman}} Clark]], [[Comicbook/GreenArrow Oliver]], and all their friends quaking in their boots at the mention of his name, even though he's the one on ''life support''. Appearing for only one episode, he uses his [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] abilities to do more damage in that one than most villains do in a season. In addition to that one episode, [[spoiler: Lex]] spent most of the season as TheManBehindTheMan to [[spoiler: Tess]], further reinforcing his Chessmaster status.
* ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'': [[ColonelBadass Lieutenant Colonel TC McQueen]]. He's not crippled in the sense that he lacks full control of his body, but because due to injuries in the opening days of the Chig War, he has an electronic implant in his brain that acts as his Inner Ear. If it is exposed to High-G maneuvers, it will explode, inducing a stroke. So when an alien [[AcePilot fighter ace]] shows up in his [[AceCustom nigh-invincible prototype fighter]] and starts tearing entire squadrons apart, [=McQueen=] has the implant removed, and learns to walk, run, do pushups and chin-ups, and fly a high-performance space fighter... ''all without a sense of balance''. [[spoiler: He fights the Chig ace one-on-one, and kicks his ass after a lengthy and pitched battle.]]
* Holly in ''Series/TheSparticleMystery'' is missing half of her left arm, still has a role as the group's ActionGirl.
* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' movie ''Continuum'' Daniel Jackson loses his leg. Still doesn't stop him from busting caps in the Goa'uld.
** Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell shattered his leg in the battle against Anubis. He still has pins holding his leg together. He is also a ColonelBadass.
* Throughout ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]''
*** Captain Picard. It is revealed in "Tapestry" that a hot-headed younger Picard got into a bar fight and got stabbed in the chest, requiring an artificial heart to be put in. It worked reasonably well until he was shot during a riot. It takes on greater significance because the audience learns the fight, as well as Picard losing his original heart, is what ultimately led to him becoming a galaxy-class badass.
*** Lt. Commander Geordi [=LaForge=], "a man with unique vision".
** ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]''
*** General Martok is the classic example of a Handicapped Badass. He loses an eye from several successive no-holds-barred fights with Jem'Haddar, then carries on the war and eventually heads the Klingon Empire with only ONE EYE because "I DO NOT WANT AN OCULAR IMPLANT!"
*** Melora Pazlar is a Starfleet officer who, although not disabled as such, was from a low-gravity world and used a wheelchair and braces because the gravity on the station was too high for her. The treatment that Dr. Bashir developed for her didn't solve the problem, but they ''did'' make her partially ''phaser-proof'', and she went on to turn down the gravity at a crucial moment and whip the bad guy's ass.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** Bobby, after he gets injured and is unable to walk. He [[RetiredBadass retires from hunting]], but fights when he has to.
** Castiel is this as of season 10, as he's lost [[spoiler:his ability to fly due to his wings being broken, seemingly irreparably]].
** A season 11 episode features a hearing-impaired hunter named Eileen. Doesn't stop her from kicking monster ass.
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate_%28TV_series%29 Tate]]'' (starring David [=McLean=] aka [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlboro_Man The Marlboro Man]]) was a travelling gunfighter and bounty hunter who had lost the use of his left arm during the Civil War.
* During the intro to the second season of ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', Cameron suffers damage to her leg that limits her to a slow, unsteady limp. Naturally, while she is limping, Cameron becomes an order of magnitude more terrifying as she hunts the Connors.
* Billy Baxter, blinded during the war in Bosnia and ''still'' faster round the ''Series/TopGear'' test track than two of the fully sighted celebs. He also holds the blind solo motorbike land speed record.
** One of the team's challenges was to create a better off-road motorized wheelchair than the ones commercially available, and then do a navigation race against a team of former British Army soldiers that used the commercially available chairs to get to the top of a mountain. Through a variety of issues (including the fact that the team's wheelchairs were AwesomeButImpractical), the soldiers won.
* Wilson Wilson in ''Series/{{Utopia}}'' has just been [[EyeScream blinded]] at the hands of a {{cold|BloodedTorture}}-blooded TortureTechnician. When the torturer returns from a fag break, Wilson has managed to free himself and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard shoots him with his own pistol]] whilst completely unable to see. He's later sporting an EyepatchOfPower.
* The mercenary Ham Tyler (played by Michael Ironside) in ''[[Series/{{V 1983}} V: The Final Battle]]'' was originally written as wheelchair-bound. In his introduction scene, he was to knock Mike Donovan flat on his back.
* ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds'': Norton Drake is in a wheelchair, and can STILL beat your ass down with a big stick. And he'll cheat to make sure of it.
* After Omar breaks his leg jumping from a window in ''Series/TheWire'', he proceeds to kick five kinds of ass all over Baltimore. On one leg.
* Richard "Yin Yang Man" Branden of ''Series/WMACMasters'' was blind in his right eye after a car accident when he was a kid. When he confesses this to the rest of the cast, he tells about how his passion for the martial arts was reignited when he witnessed an exhibition by a martial artist confined to a wheelchair, who taught him to think of a perceived handicap as a challenge to work at overcoming.
* Alex Krycek from ''Series/TheXFiles''. Gets his [[AnArmAndALeg arm sawed off]] after escaping a Russian gulag, but it doesn't slow him down much. [[spoiler:It does eventually get him killed, though, as he can't hold a gun with his prosthesis.]]
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