History Main / DisabledDeity

* Myth/AztecMythology:
** Tezcatlipoca, the god of night and magic, lost a foot while creating the earth from a giant crocodile monster. [[ArtificialLimbs He replaced it with an obsidian mirror]].
** Xolotl, the god of bad luck, was depicted as a hunchback with deformed limbs and eyes that tended to be pulled out of their sockets.
** Nanahuatzin was a Disabled Deity... until he threw himself on a sacrificial fire and became the sun.

** After the god Set killed the god Osiris, he ripped his body into 14 pieces and scattered them across the world. The goddess Isis gathered up all of the body parts except his phallus (which had been eaten by a catfish) and bandaged them together like a mummy. The other Egyptian deities then resurrected him... well, ''almost'' all of him. However, Isis made him a prosthetic out of wood, and [[AWizardDidIt since she's a god of magic]] it apparently worked well enough to conceive their son, Horus.

* Morgoth from ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' was burned by the Silmarils and lost the power to shapeshift as a result. The burns will also [[WoundThatWillNotHeal hurt him for eternity.]]

** After the god Set killed the god Osiris, he ripped his body into 14 pieces and scattered them across the world. The goddess Isis gathered up all of the body parts except his phallus (which had been eaten by a catfish) and bandaged them together like a mummy. The other Egyptian deities then resurrected him... well, ''almost'' all of him.

** The battles between Horus and Set resulted in the former having a wounded eye (the Moon) and the latter losing his testicles.

* In ''Literature/EverWorld'', David comes up with a plan to save the Greek gods from the Hetwan and Ka Anor. To convince Hephaestus to help, he helps him design a wheelchair (Hephaestus is described as having a gorilla's upper body with kid's legs).
* In ''Literature/TheCrocodileGod'', Haik, [[CharacterTitle the title's Tagalog crocodile-god]], marries the mortal tribeswoman Mirasol in the newly-colonized Philippines. When she's pregnant and he declares that their daughter will be a god to the Spaniard she works for, [[ImperiledInPregnancy the Spaniard shoots her.]] Haik tries to help, but can only heal Mirasol, and [[RuleOfSymbolism their tiny whale-calf daughter]] [[AdultFear ends up stillborn.]] In modern-day California, Mirasol dreams of going to the Otherworld and finds out the other Tagalog gods managed to bring the whale-goddess back to life as an adult -- but her legs are [[ScarsAreForever heavily scarred]] and she needs a walking stick in the mortal world. She's not too bothered, since [[RuleOfSymbolism she can still SWIM.]]

* ''Literature/{{Belgariad}}'': [[BigBad Torak]]'s disability doubles as a RedRightHand. The [[CosmicKeystone Orb of Aldur]] burned the left side of his body leaving especially his [[TwoFaced face]] and hand horribly scarred. Gods are also incapable of healing because they are (the Orb notwithstanding) incapable of being harmed.

* In ''Film/ThorRagnarok,'' Thor, a PhysicalGod of Thunder loses an eye. He thus becomes similar to his father Odin the Allfather, who lost his eye before the events of ''Film/{{Thor}}''.

* In ''Literature/TheCrocodileGod'', Haik [[CharacterTitle the title's Tagalog crocodile-god]] marries the mortal tribeswoman Mirasol in the newly-colonized Philippines. When she's pregnant and he declares that their daughter will be a god to the Spaniard she works for, [[ImperiledInPregnancy the Spaniard shoots her.]] Haik tries to help, but can only heal Mirasol, and [[RuleOfSymbolism their tiny whale-calf daughter]] [[AdultFear ends up stillborn.]] In modern-day California, Mirasol dreams of going to the Otherworld and finds out the other Tagalog gods managed to bring the whale-goddess back to life as an adult--but her legs are [[ScarsAreForever heavily scarred]] and she needs a walking stick in the mortal world. She's not too bothered, since [[RuleOfSymbolism she can still SWIM.]]

* [[HumanoidAbomination The Colonel]] in ''VideoGame/CultistSimulator'' is CoveredInScars, including his eyes scarred shut. In this case it's self-inflicted; the scars protect him from the gaze of a rival hour, the Seven-Coils.

** The Church of the Broken God sees most of the strange technology the foundation locks up as fragments of Him, from a retrovirus that turns people into ClockPunk cyborgs to a machine that converts any metal thrown into it into more of itself, to the {{Ridiculously Human Robot}}s they have.

** Hephaestus, the GeniusCripple [[UltimateBlacksmith smith-god]]. One [[http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5070/5673353509_2f015984e5.jpg piece of ancient art depicts]] him in a classical-era flying SuperWheelchair.

* How you define "deity" in the TrekVerse is tricky, but there is an entity in the Q Continuum trilogy named 0 (as in the number) who is a Q-level RealityWarper. He is also ''very'' much a bad guy. The Q Continuum punished him by restricting his travel speed to light speed and putting up a barrier around the ''entire galaxy'' just to keep him out (yes, this is the one Kirk kept running into in TheOriginalSeries. Oh, and the barrier being in the center instead of the edge of the galaxy in Star Trek V isn't an error; ''that's'' a second barrier to hold one of 0's underlings.) His restricted movement is represented by his having a bum leg in his human form/disguise.

** Bes, the dwarf god.

This is for gods with physical disabilities, injuries, and such. For deities who are mentally ill or just not all there, see MadGod and AlmightyIdiot.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}'': While in his prime, the God-Emperor of Mankind was in excellent physical condition, in the universe's "present" he's been dependent on life support for millennia.

* [[GodOfEvil The Crippled]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds God]] from ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'', due to a severe case of WoundThatWillNotHeal. Millennia of pain haven't done [[MadGod his state of mind]] much good either.

** Nanahuatzin was a DisabledDeity... until he threw himself on a sacrificial fire and became the sun.

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** One of his numerous sons, Roboute Guilliman shares practically the same fate. Ironically enough, despite being seen as inferior physically in-universe. This is partly [[JustifiedTrope justified, as Roboute's body is still mostly preserved]], while his father's... [[WaitingSkeleton not so much.]]

* Creator/MichaelMoorcock's ''Literature/{{Corum}}'' stories. In the first trilogy Corum loses his left hand and right eye, and is given the Hand of Kwll and the Eye of Krynn to replace them. These items were originally part of the ultra-powerful beings Kwll and Krynn, who were disabled by their loss.

* In ''Videogame/EternalDarkness'', Mantarok--the EldritchAbomination that kept the three others in balance--eventually sustains a major disability: Death. However, even as a "dead god", it wields considerable power. [[spoiler:The True Ending, in fact, reveals that everything that transpires was all part of its plan to eliminate the other three, leaving Mantarok uncontested.]]

* The ''Videogame/Neptunia'' series subjects its protagonists to this often. Causes range from [[AmnesiacHero simple amnesia]], [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly having their worshipers turned to the villains' side]], being TrappedInAnotherWorld where they don't qualify as deities, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs being]] TrappedInAnotherWorld with [[AfterTheEnd no one left to worship them]], or just having their powers [[PowerParasite stolen]] by the villain.