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* In ''Literature/EverWorld'', Hephaestus is described as having an upper body the size of a gorilla's with legs that look like they belong to a child. David helps him design a wheelchair to get him on their side in the fight against the Hetwan.

** The blind god Hodur in Myth/NorseMythology, who is best known for his AccidentalMurder (abetted by Loki) of his brother Baldr.

** According to one story, Ebisu (best known as one of the Seven Lucky Gods), was born without bones. He outgrew that, but even as an adult was traditionally considered to be hard-of-hearing.

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

* The main plot of ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' is that [[PhysicalGod Mata]] [[BigGood Nui]] the [[HumongousMecha giant robot god]] is off-line and the heroes have to wake him up. As the story progresses, they find out not only is he unconscious, Mata Nui is dying and his internals got wrecked when he crashed down from space. Among other mishaps like the plug over his heart having shot out of his body (becoming the floating island Voya Nui), the characters learn that ''they'' are also parts of Mata Nui's body (explaining the title, "[[{{Portmanteau}} Biological Chronicle]]") and have to return to him. At certain points some of them, like Turaga Nuju, wonder if a god who is this disabled and voulnerable is worth all their sacrifices.

*** Arguably Justified considering he had been ''Thrown off of Mt. Olympus'' as a newborn.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation's Church of the Broken God seeks to [[PiecesOfGod put theirs back together]], [[EldritchAbomination something the Foundation would rather not happen]].

* 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.]]

** Prince Crimson Star is also blind. He was previously an InsufferableGenius, but then he got horribly injured in a carriage accident caused by a worker's slip-up after he pushed a classmate out of the way of a runaway carriage, costing him his eyes. His blindness was treatable then, but it later became [[WoundThatWillNotHeal permanently untreatable]] thanks to a combination of a failed DealWithTheDevil to restore his sight, the JerkassRealization and suicidal depression that followed, and the vicious bullying he received from a few of his brothers. Golden Scepter refused to give up on him however and helped him adapt to his blindness as best as he could by teaching him how to use magic to get around and hiring certain people to make reading materials that he's able to read without sight. He has since accepted his blindness, and sees it as both a sign that he was 'punished' for his foolishness and a reminder of what'll happen should he become arrogant again.

** Prince Crimson Star is also blind. He was previously an InsufferableGenius, but then he got horribly injured in a carriage accident caused by a worker's slip-up after he pushed a classmate out of the way of a runaway carriage, costing him his eyes. His blindness was treatable then, but it later became [[WoundThatWillNotHeal permanently untreatable]] thanks to a combination of a failed DealWithTheDevil to restore his sight, the JerkassRealization and suicidal depression that followed, and the vicious bullying he received from a few of his brothers. Golden Scepter refused to give up on him, however, and helped him adapt to his blindness as best as he could by teaching him how to use magic to get around and hiring certain people to make reading materials that he's able to read without sight. He has since accepted his blindness, and sees it as both a sign that he was 'punished' for his foolishness and a reminder of what'll happen should he become arrogant again.

* 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 Rhynn to replace them. These items were originally part of the ultra-powerful beings Kwll and Rhynn, who were disabled by their loss.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Like his Myth/NorseMythology counterpart, Hoder, the Northern God of Winter, is blind. His priests wear blindfolds while on duty, which both causes them some trouble on uneven ground and leaves them ignorant of the fact that one of their visitors is [[spoiler:a vampire]].

** The [[GodIsEvil evil]] 4[[superscript:th]] god Torog is covered in [[WoundThatWillNotHeal Wounds That Will Not Heal]], has his legs visibly twisted and broken, and has his spine twisted backwards in an L-shape. He's called "The King That Crawls" and is the patron of jailers and torturers.

* Myth/CelticMythology:
** The first king of the Tuatha de Danann, Nuada Airgetlam (literally “Nuada Silver Hand”) lost an arm and lived with a fully functional silver replacement.

* The misfortune gods in ''Manga/BinboGamiGa'' often walk around with bandaged limbs due to the various accidents that result from their [[BlessedWithSuck divine powers]].

* ZUN initially conceived of Okina Matara from the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' game ''[[VideoGame/TouhouTenkuushouHiddenStarInFourSeasons Hidden Star in Four Seasons]]'' as being in a wheelchair, representing her being a god of the disabled, but changed his mind because he didn't want to come off as preachy when he didn't know what it was like to be disabled himself. He returned to his original idea in the ''[[Manga/TouhouSangetsusei Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' manga, which features Okina in a wheelchair. (Okina's earlier portrayals, which show her standing and walking, can be explained as her having some degree of independent mobility; she certainly seems to prefer sitting or kneeling to standing.)

** Morai-heg, goddess of fate and [[GodOfTheDead death]], had her hand cut off to [[DisabilitySuperpower gain knowledge of the future]].
** The UltimateBlacksmith Vaul was blinded and crippled by the WarGod Khaine in an ancient [[DivineConflict war of the gods]], yet still forges weapons for Khaine to [[EvilVersusOblivion fight the forces of Chaos]]. His [[ReligionIsMagic priests]] ritually blind themselves to [[DisabilitySuperpower gain Vaul's skill and insight]].
* ''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.

** The [[GodIsEvil evil god]] Vecna of the TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}'' setting is missing his left hand and eye, both of which have a tendency to resurface in the setting as [[ArtifactOfDoom Artifacts Of Doom]]. Depending on the edition, he lost the parts to [[TheStarscream a treacherous lieutenant]] before his [[DeityOfHumanOrigin apotheosis]].
** The [[GodIsEvil evil]] 4[[superscript:th]] god Torog is covered in [[WoundThatWillNotHeal Wounds That Will Not Heal]], has his legs visibly twisted and broken, and has his spine twisted backwards in an L-shape. He's called "The King That Crawls" for good reason and is the patron of jailers and torturers.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': The Eldar/Elf pantheon contains Morai-Heg, who had her hand cut off to gain knowledge of the future.
%% ** The Eldar/Elf pantheon contains the smith-god Vaul, who is the Eldar/Elf equivalent of Hephaestus.

** Prince Crimson Star is also blind. He was previously an InsufferableGenius, but then he got horribly injured in a carriage accident caused by a worker's slip-up after he pushed a classmate out of the way of a runaway carriage, costing him his eyes. His blindness was treatable then, but it later became [[WoundThatWillNotHeal permanently untreatable]] thanks to a combination of a failed DealWithTheDevil to restore his sight, the JerkassRealization and suicidal depression that followed, and the vicious bullying he received from a few of his brothers. Golden Scepter refused to give up on him however and helped him adapt to his blindness as best as he could by teaching him how to use magic to get around and hiring certain people to make reading materials that he's able to read without sight. He has since accepted his blindness, and sees it as both a sign that he was 'punished' for his foolishness and a reminder of what'll happen should he become arrogant again.

* In ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'', [[spoiler:Vulcan]] can't walk, and has difficulty with her vision and hearing. However, she can imbue herself into an inanimate object, moving it around and using it to see and hear.

** Prince Crimson Star is also blind. He was previously an InsufferableGenius, but then he got horribly injured in a carriage accident caused by a worker's slip-up after he pushed a classmate out of the way of a runaway carriage, costing him his eyes. His blindness was treatable then, but it later became [[WoundThatWillNotHeal permanently untreatable]] thanks to a combination of a failed DealWithTheDevil to restore his sight, the JerkassRealization and suicidal depression that followed, and the vicious bullying he received from a few of his brothers. Golden Scepter refused to give up on him, however, and helped him adapt to his blindness as best as he could by teaching him how to use magic to get around and hiring certain people to make reading materials that he's able to read without sight. He has since accepted his blindness, and sees it as both a sign that he was 'punished' for his foolishness and a reminder of what'll happen should he become arrogant again.

* In ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', God apparently took physical form to go golfing, was seriously injured and spends most of the movie as an old man on life support.

* 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 Rhynn to replace them. These items were originally part of the ultra-powerful beings Kwll and Rhynn, who were disabled by their loss.

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

* [[BigBad The Crippled]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds God]] from the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' is a severe case of WoundThatWillNotHeal from the fall that brought him into the realm he is now chained in. He cannot physically move and spends his time in a tent plotting TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and likes to collect worshippers and paws which are, like him, imperfect or disabled in some way. Millennia of pain haven't done [[MadGod his state of mind]] much good either.

* In ''Literature/TheElenium'', Azash was castrated by the Younger Gods, which weakened him enough that he could be trapped inside an idol.
* In the Literature/SpiritAnimals series, four of the godlike Great Beasts were [[HeroicSacrifice slain while protecting humanity from the Devourer.]] As immortals, they cannot truly die, and the series kicks off with the four reincarnating as the [[BondCreature spirit animals]] of four children. However, death and rebirth has stripped them of much of their power, and there's no telling how long it will take to return.

* 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 Dogma, God apparently took physical form to go golfing, was seriously injured and spends most of the movie as an old man on life support.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'', if a god is disabled in myth, they'll also be so in the game.

* ZUN initially conceived of Okina Matara from the ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' game ''[[VideoGame/TouhouTenkuushouHiddenStarInFourSeasons Hidden Star in Four Seasons]]'' as being in a wheelchair, representing her being a god of the disabled, but changed his mind because he didn't want to come off as preachy when he didn't know what it was like to be disabled himself. He returned to his original idea in the ''[[Manga/TouhouSangetsusei Visionary Fairies in Shrine]]'' manga, which features Okina in a wheelchair. (Okina's earlier portrayals, which show her standing and walking, can be explained as her having some degree of independent mobility; she certainly seems to prefer sitting or kneeling to standing.)

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Like his Myth/NorthMythology counterpart, Hoder, the Northern God of Winter, is blind. His priests wear blindfolds while on duty, which both causes them some trouble on uneven ground and leaves them ignorant of the fact that one of their visitors is [[spoiler:a vampire]].

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* Vecna of the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}'' setting is missing one hand and one eye, both of which have a tendency to resurface in the setting as [[ArtifactOfDoom Artifacts Of Doom]].
* 4th edition D&D has Torog, who is covered in [[WoundThatWillNotHeal Wounds That Will Not Heal]], has his legs visibly twisted and broken, and whose spine has been twisted so he bends backwards at the pelvis into a capital L-shape. Needless to say, there's a very good reason he's called "The King That Crawls".
* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'':
** Tyr, the god of justice, was blinded by Ao the Overgod for questioning one of his decisions, and, much like his Myth/NorseMythology counterpart, had his hand bitten off during an attempt to subdue Kezef the Chaos Hound.
** The Orc deity Gruumsh is said to have lost an eye while battling the Elven deity Corellon Larethian, although the church of Gruumsh insist this is a heresy spread by the elves and Gruumsh has always had one eye.
** [[CrystalDragonJesus Ilmater]] is a borderline example. His body is covered in [[WoundThatWillNotHeal Wounds That Will Not Heal]], symbolic of his role as the god of martyrdom.