History Main / ICantFeelMyLegs

* [[spoiler: Havoc,]] from ''FullmetalAlchemist'', utters this in the anime after being stabbed by [[spoiler: Lust.]]

* Occurs in ''StarTrekVoyager'' in the season 6 finale. The crew begin searching the badly damaged ''Equinox'' for survivors. Kim and Seven of Nine find one crew member buried under debris. The man mentions that he can't feel his legs, and asks Seven to check and tell him if they're still there. In a subversion, his legs are fine and he is later seen walking under his own power, so they'd probably just gone numb.

* In ''[[Film/{{X-Men}} X-Men: First Class]]'', Xavier says this after [[spoiler: being shot in the back]]. Given the character is usually best known for A. his psychic powers, B. being bald, and C. being confined to a wheelchair, this is more or less a ForegoneConclusion.

This trope is usually a spoiler, as well as a StockPhrase.

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* PlayedForLaughs in ''Silver Bullet'', the film adaptation of StephenKing's ''Cycle of the Werewolf'', after the kids have killed the werewolf, Jane asks Marty if he's okay, and Marty (who is paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair), says "No... I think something's wrong with my legs! I can't feel them!" Cue the DopeSlap in response.

* A very depressing (or ''very'' dark-humored) example from a kid's movie, no less. In ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}'' , as Z is holding his dying friend's [[spoiler: severed]] head, said friend mutters the exact phrase.

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* Stevie used this at least once as a joke on ''MalcolmInTheMiddle''.

* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' - Dojo, the team's dragon companion, says this while pinned under a boulder. [[TheBigGuy Clay]] lifts the boulder and reminds him that he doesn't ''have'' legs.

* A very depressing (or ''very'' dark-humored) example from a kid's movie, no less. In ''{{Antz}}'' , as Z is holding his dying friend's [[spoiler: severed]] head, said friend mutters the exact phrase.

* In the ''WarriorCats'' series, a tree falls in the camp and lands on the young cat [[spoiler:Briarpaw]]. She cannot feel her hind legs. It turns out that her spine is broken and her hind legs are paralyzed.

* ''{{Charmed}}'' episode "All Hell Breaks Loose". [[spoiler: Piper has been shot.]]

* [[spoiler: Havoc,]] from ''FullmetalAlchemist'', utters this in the anime after being stabbed by [[spoiler: Lust. HeGotBetter.]]

* Subverted in the first ''True Blood'' novel. Sookie gets beaten almost to death and says that she can't feel her legs. [[spoiler: However, Bill then [[IGotBetter heals her with vampire blood.]]]]

-->'''Doctor:''' Of course you can't - I've cut off your arms.

* {{Rudi}} tries to pick up a woman at the supermarket by "accidentally" hitting her with his shopping cart. But he is nervous and uses too much power...

* Danny, almost word for word, on {{CSI NY}}, after the shooting at the bar.

This trope is PlayedForLaughs a lot nowadays, with the character saying "I can't feel my legs" ''already a cripple'', and somebody reminding them that they couldn't before.

* TheSimpsons: Falling asleep on a particularly long bus trip, Homer awakes and puts his hands on the blanket spread over his legs, then realizes he can't feel them. He starts punching them, screaming he can't feel his legs, when Marge groggily tells him they belong to the extremely tall guy behind him.

* In ''ExtremeGhostbusters'', the local HandicappedBadass Garrett invoked this--PlayedForLaughs, of course, as he is one of the best-adjusted paraplegic around.