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* Anatha is arguably a little bit like this for Bethany in ''SoulSurfer'' in some ways. On her facebook site Bethany as much as called her that in RealLife.

[[AC:Real Life[=/=]Urban Legend]]
* A cop sees a car driving erratically, pulls it over on suspicion of drunk driving. Turns out the driver is blind. He's driving because his passenger ''is'' drunk (so he's acting as Designated Driver), but the drunk passenger is giving the blind man driving directions because [[CaptainObvious the man is blind]].

* In ''{{Ratatouille}}'', Linguini is a bad cook (not sure if he's a LethalChef, but he's close). Remy is a good one, but he also happens to be a [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman rat]]. They discover that if Remy hides in Linguini's hat, Remy can smell the ingredients and direct Linguini to choose the right ones by pulling his hair.

* ''{{Ben-Hur}}'' has a mutual example. When Simonides and Malluch meet in the dungeons and are both released, Simonides acts as Malluch's tongue and Malluch acts as Simonides' legs.

* In ''FullmetalAlchemist'', Colonel Mustang fights Father while blind, with Lieutenant Hawkeye serving as his eyes.

* One episode of ''MacGyver'' has [=MacGyver=] and his boss, Peter, working together. Peter has been temporarily blinded and [=MacGyver=] can't use his hands. Together... they can operate a golf cart!

* In ''{{Blindness}}'' a woman who is immune to the virus causing blindness helps guide seven blind people.

* Anatha is arguably a little bit like this for Bethany in SoulSurfer in some ways. On her facebook site Bethany as much as called her that in RealLife.

* A mutual example in Film/SeeNoEvilHearNoEvil: Dave is deaf, Wally is blind. Dave acts as Wally's eyes, Wally conveys information to Dave through lipreading.

* In ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' Riva a diplomat is deaf from a hereditary genetic deficiency, but has his "chorus", an entourage of three people in telepathic communication with Riva and able to enunciate his thoughts. This trope is repeated in the same episode when [[spoiler:Riva's "chorus" is killed and Data must read his sign language and translate for him]] This happens in another episode of ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Gen]]'' where [[spoiler:[=LaForge=] and a Romulan lose the use of some of their senses due to interference from the planet Galorndon Core, and compensate for each other's lost senses]]

* In ''OnceUponATimeInMexico'', [[spoiler: Agent Sands]] is blinded and has to rely on a street kid he met earlier to guide him around.

* In the ''{{Little House on the Prairie}}'' series, Mary is stricken blind and her sister Laura becomes her eyes by describing everything she sees for Mary's benefit whenever she asks.
* ''Gathering Blue'' provides a proposed mutual example. [[spoiler:Kira's father turns out to be alive despite his being {{left for dead}} before Kira was born and now lives in a village where people with disabilities all live this way.]] He is blind and offers Kira the chance of coming with him to his village, with Kira as his eyes and him as her legs (Kira has a deformed leg).

* In ''{{Star Trek The Next Generation}}'' Riva a diplomat is deaf from a hereditary genetic deficiency, but has his "chorus", an entourage of three people in telepathic communication with Riva and able to enunciate his thoughts. This trope is repeated in the same episode when [[spoiler:Riva's "chorus" is killed and Data must read his sign language and translate for him]] This happens in another episode of ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Gen]]'' where [[spoiler:[=LaForge=] and a Romulan lose the use of some of their senses due to interference from the planet Galorndon Core, and compensate for each other's lost senses]]

* In ''KingLear'', Glouscester's faithful son Edgar (under the guise of Poor Tom) leads his father around after his eyes are plucked out on Edmund's orders.

* One of the ''TheLandBeforeTime'' sequels had villains Dil and Ichy, a near-blind crocodile and a bird, respectively. Ichy would act as Dil's eyes.

* In ''{{Wurr}}'', the resident IllGuy Sinjal is carried around on his packmates' backs.

* ''RedDwarf'':

* A cop sees a car driving erratically, pulls it over on suspicion of drunk driving. Turns out the driver is blind. He's driving because his passenger ''is'' drunk (so he's acting as Designated Driver), but the drunk passenger is giving the blind man driving directions because [[CaptainObvious the man is blind]].

* In [[TheBible The Book of Exodus]], Aaron serves as his brother Moses's speaker, since Moses has a speech disability.

* In a chapter of ''BlackJack,'' an aspiring sushi chef is accidentally hit by a truck driver and loses his arms. To make amends, the driver offers to help the chef by serving as his hands. However, in a cruel twist of fate, the truck driver is himself killed in a traffic accident. Black Jack ends up grafting his arms onto the sushi chef.

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* In OnePiece, Chopper, the medic, is unable to move very much after [[spoiler: after using Monster Point]] so Robin helps him with medical duties, by moving him around.
* Used and brought to a mentally scarring twist ending in FrankenFran

* At the end of ElHazard, the hero and the chick cooperate like this - he wields the sword while she helps him with her ability to see through illusions of the BigBad.

* In ''[[MadMax Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome]]'', Master is an intelligent-yet-physically-weak midget. The strong-yet-dim Blaster(he has Down's Syndrome) serves as Master's arms and legs.

* FreakTheMighty (and of course the movie adaptation, The Mighty) is a mutual example of this. Freak is brilliant and outspoken but frail, while Max is big and strong but none too bright; together they can face down just about anybody.

* One episode of MacGyver has [=Maver=] and his boss, Peter, working together. Peter has been temporarily blinded and [=MacGyver=] can't use his hands. Together... they can operate a golf cart!

** In season one season VII episode Lister has lost an arm, so Kryten does everything for him, including things he could still do, like wiping his mouth with a napkin.
** Spoofed in season I when, after being brought back to life as an [[IntangibleMan hologram]] Rimmer asks Lister to be his hands. Lister refuses on the grounds he knows the type of things Rimmer liked to touch..
* In {{Firefly}} Simon Tam is River's Amygdela built for two.

* a cop sees a car driving erratically, pulls it over on suspicion of drunk driving. Turns out the driver is blind. He's driving because his passenger ''is'' drunk (so he's acting as Designated Driver), but the drunk passenger is giving the blind man driving directions because [[CaptainObvious the man is blind]].

* Invoked in ''Literature/FateZero''; when [[spoiler:Kayneth]] becomes crippled as a result of getting shot by Kiritsugu's Origin Bullet, [[spoiler:Sola-ui]] offers to become [[spoiler:Lancer]]'s new master, whether forcefully or otherwise.

* ''{{RedDwarf}}'':

* Exaggerated in an episode of ''{{RedDwarf}}''. Lister has lost an arm, so Kryten does everything for him, including things he could still do, like wiping his mouth with a napkin.

* Anatha is arguably a little bit like this for Bethany in SoulSurfer in some ways. On her facebook page Bethany as much as called her that in RealLife.

* Anatha is arguably a little bit like this for Bethany in SoulSurfer in some ways.

[[AC:Live Action TV]]
* One episode of MacGyver has [=Maver=] and his boss, Peter, working together. Peter has been temporarily blinded and [=MacGyver=] can't use his hands. Together... they can operate a golf cart!
* Invoked in an episode of ''TheMentalist'' where Jane gets a millionaire to let him drive his car while blindfolded - Jane steers by having the person's hand on his shoulder, responding to his tension as Jane drives.
* In ''{{Star Trek The Next Generation}}'' Riva a diplomat is deaf from a hereditary genetic deficiency, but has his "chorus", an entourage of three people in telepathic communication with Riva and able to enunciate his thoughts. This trope is repeated in the same episode when [[spoiler:Riva's "chorus" is killed and Data must read his sign language and translate for him]] This happens in another episode of ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration Next Gen]]'' where [[spoiler:[=LaForge=] and a Romulan lose the use of some of their senses due to interference from the planet Galorndon Core, and compensate for each other's lost senses]]
* Exaggerated in an episode of ''{{RedDwarf}}''. Lister has lost an arm, so Kryten does everything for him, including things he could still do, like wiping his mouth with a napkin.

[[AC:Literature]]
* In ''TheSharingKnife'' series, Dag is one-handed. Normally this isn't a problem for him, but when he breaks his other arm, his then-fiancée Fawn ends up acting as his hands.
* In the ''{{Little House on the Prairie}}'' series, Mary is stricken blind and her sister Laura becomes her eyes by describing everything she sees for Mary's benefit whenever she asks.
* ''Gathering Blue'' provides a proposed mutual example. [[spoiler:Kira's father turns out to be alive despite his being {{left for dead}} before Kira was born and now lives in a village where people with disabilities all live this way.]] He is blind and offers Kira the chance of coming with him to his village, with Kira as his eyes and him as her legs (Kira has a deformed leg).
* In [[TheBible The Book of Exodus]], Aaron serves as his brother Moses's speaker, since Moses has a speech disability.
* Magpie and Dog in ''Fox'' by Margaret Wild. Magpie's wing was injured in a forest fire, and Dog has only one eye, so Magpie rides around on Dog's back being his binocular vision, and when he runs it's ''almost'' as good as flying.
* ''{{Ben-Hur}}'' has a mutual example. When Simonides and Malluch meet in the dungeons and are both released, Simonides acts as Malluch's tongue and Malluch acts as Simonides' legs.
* FreakTheMighty (and of course the movie adaptation, The Mighty) is a mutual example of this. Freak is brilliant and outspoken but frail, while Max is big and strong but none too bright; together they can face down just about anybody.
* At the end of the ''[[HeraldsOfValdemar Mage Storms]]'' trilogy, Karal's eyesight is burned out. He can only see through his mind link with Altra. When Natoli writes to ask him to return to Valdemar, she says "I can be your eyes too" (not literally, as she doesn't have any PsychicPowers).

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* In ''{{Wurr}}'', the resident IllGuy Sinjal is carried around on his packmates' backs.
[[AC:Tabletop Games]]
* Subverted in D&D - The naga are a race of snake-headed humans and most of them cope just fine, either through dextrous mouths or magic. However, they do notice the trope and consider it a proof that they are a superior race - after all, they are best suited for thinking, while lesser creatures serve as their limbs - so this must be the intended natural order.
[[AC:Visual Novels]]
* [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Rin]] from ''KatawaShoujo'' has no arms, and [[GenkiGirl Emi]] helps her with things she cannot do (although Rin is quite able on her own). Another character who does this, [[LargeHam Misha]] serves as a TranslatorBuddy to deaf-mute [[SpiritedCompetitor Shizune]].
* Invoked in ''Literature/FateZero''; when [[spoiler:Kayneth]] becomes crippled as a result of getting shot by Kiritsugu's Origin Bullet, [[spoiler:Sola-ui]] offers to become [[spoiler:Lancer]]'s new master, whether forcefully or otherwise.

Bob loves Alice, and is dismayed by her sadness over her handicap. So Bob takes Alice's face tenderly in his hands and tenderly tells her "Do not worry, '''I Will be Your Hands'''."

'''I Will Be Your Hands''' is when a character compensates for another character's disability or deformity by basically becoming that appendage the other person is lacking. This altruistic attitude is usually attributed to, at least, a bond of friendship, and often is borne out of genuine love, be it brotherly, parent-child or romantic.

This trope is always in play to make us sympathize with the characters, although sometimes the disabled character might be upset that the other character does things for him, feeling [[DisabledMeansHelpless the helper is being condescending]]. The disabled character might also be [[DisabledSnarker pretty snarky]] about the whole situation.

Contrast TakeUpMyArm


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