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8	->"''Hephaestus spoke, and the huge craftsman rose from the anvil block limping, but his shrunken legs moved nimbly beneath him ... and he put on a tunic, took up his thick staff, and went out the door, limping; and supporting their master were attendants made of gold, which seemed like living maidens."''
9	-->-- ''Literature/TheIliad'', Book XVIII (translation by Caroline Alexander)
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11	A Disabled Deity is a god or similar being who, despite the power and physical resilience that comes with divine status, is disabled in some way. Because of the obvious complications in even figuring out what would count as a disability to an entity like a SentientCosmicForce, this trope is generally applied to {{Physical God}}s. This trope is OlderThanFeudalism, dating back at least as far as Hephaestus in Myth/ClassicalMythology. It's not uncommon for contemporary uses of this trope to be inspired by mythological figures.
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13	Somehow, using their godly powers to cure themselves [[StatusQuoIsGod never comes up as a viable option]]. Depending on how divine powers work in this setting, there may be a certain amount of FridgeLogic involved regarding why a being who can change shape or ''alter reality'' can't grow back a lost body part. This may be justified out-of-universe if the disability has [[RuleOfSymbolism symbolic significance]] or is part of the deity's "theme" (such as [[BlindSeer visual impairment]] for a god of knowledge, or a RedRightHand for a GodOfEvil).
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15	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. For gods that are not just disabled but completely broken up, see PiecesOfGod.
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18	!!Examples:
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23	* 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.
24	* The misfortune gods in ''Manga/GoodLuckGirl'' often walk around with bandaged limbs due to the various accidents that result from their [[BlessedWithSuck divine powers]].
25	* In ''Manga/RecordOfRagnarok'' the gods that win their fights in the tournament often do so with some sort of lost limb or organ. While Zeus, Thor and [[spoiler: Beelzebub]] got off mostly scot-free, Shiva lost three of his four arms against Raiden and [[spoiler: Buddha lost an eye in his fight with Hajun]]. While the divine medics seem to be able to perform miracles when it comes to healing fighters, both gods seem to still be missing their limbs.
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29	* In ''Fanfic/CodexEquus'', there are a few deities (and demi-deities) who have some kind of disability.
30	** Prince Healing Song is a blind Alicorn who lost his sight as a baby; he got infected with retinoblastoma, a rare ocular cancer, and doctors had to [[EyeScream surgically remove his eyes]] to prevent spreading. When he Ascended to godhood on his deathbed, he was still blind, but he [[HandicappedBadass managed to get around this]] thanks to his mentor, [[Music/ElvisPresley Blue Suede Heartstrings]]. Despite being blind all his life, he refused to [[DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery let it define or embitter him]], and he's quite willing to joke about himself. He does get annoyed and [[DisabledSnarker snarky]] when people insult/patronize him, however. A large reason why he ended up befriending Gagal of the Kaluan Pantheon is due to Gagal admiring him for accepting his blindness, just like how he accepted his albinism.
31	** Muet, the Great Skunk goddess of Pantomime, Performance Art, and Silence, was born with mutism, which physically renders her unable to speak. Even after Ascending to true godhood, her disability remained. She's somewhat sensitive over how people react to her mutism, especially in a negative way, but is generally accepting of it and hasn't let it embitter her.
32	** Gagal was born with albinism; while he's not blind like Healing Song, he suffers from bad eyesight and he's extremely photosensitive, forcing him to wear sunglasses and carry umbrellas with him all the time. However, like Healing Song, he never let his disability embitter him and sees it as a fault that he's willing to work with. He was bullied for being albino as a foal, but he didn't let it affect him, and his albinism didn't really become a social issue anymore once he reached adulthood.
33	** 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, his JerkassRealization and suicidal depression that followed, and the vicious bullying he received from a few of his brothers. However, Golden Scepter refused to give up on him 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.
34	** Prince Varázsló is also blind, though it was self-inflicted - when he was younger, he and his twin brother Cselszövő were thrown into the [[EldritchLocation Well of Eternity]], which gave them both incredible knowledge and power, but transformed them into eldritch gods and drove them insane. He in particular was so tormented by the psychic visions he would constantly receive that he desperately tore out ''all of his eight eyes'' just to make the visions stop... except it didn't work because being blind now meant the potency of his visions increased. He has since learned to live with it, but it's common for people in his hell-fief to hear him [[MadOracle screaming/muttering random prophecies]].
35	* In ''Fanfic/WeMakeOurOwnLight'', Dark Sun Gwyndolin was reliant on a nest of snakes carrying him since he was barely able to walk under his own power. After losing them, he has to undergo physical therapy and now can move independently, but his stamina is still shot to Hell and his lungs are quite vulnerable to cold.
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39	* 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}}''. Partway through ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Rocket gives him a cybernetic eye to replace it (presumably so Chris Hemsworth didn't need to wear an eyepatch for the entirety of shooting).
40	* The title characters in ''Film/TimeBandits'' are renegade angels and not full-fledged gods, but they count because Creator/TerryGilliam cast actors with dwarfism to play them all.
41	* In ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', God apparently took physical form to play skeeball, was seriously injured, and spends most of the movie as an old man on life support.
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45	* 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.
46	* [[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 pawns which are, like him, imperfect or disabled in some way. Millennia of pain haven't done [[MadGod his state of mind]] much good either.
47	* Blind Io, chief of the Literature/{{Discworld}}'s gods, is an aversion. While he has no eyes in his head and wears a blindfold, he has a bunch of eyes floating around him that let him see (which causes problems when a raven comes around).
48	* ''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; by dint of this, Torak feels the fresh pain of his injury, the severity of which has rendered him catatonic for millennia at a time.
49	* In ''Literature/TheElenium'', Azash was [[GroinAttack castrated]] by the Younger Gods, which weakened him enough that he could be trapped inside an idol.
50	* 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.
51	* TheGrimReaper in ''Literature/TheSecretsOfTheImmortalNicholasFlamel'' has a HookHand.
52	* 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]].
53	** Sauron is missing a finger by ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings,'' it having been cut off (along with the titular Ring) at the end of the Second Age; Gollum specifically mentions his torturer having four fingers. His inability to heal may be related to the fact that he can't take any beautiful form anymore.
54	* How you define "deity" in the Franchise/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.
55	* In ''Literature/EverWorld'', Hephaestus is described as having an upper body the size of a gorilla 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.
56	* In ''Literature/TheCrocodileGod'', Haik, 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]] 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.]]
57	* ''Literature/WiddershinsAdventures'': After all but one member of his cult is slaughtered, Olgun is dependent on Widdershins for survival and is only capable of performing minor miracles, like swaying probability in her favor.
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61	* Myth/EgyptianMythology:
62	** 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 penis, and [[AWizardDidIt since she's a goddess of magic]], it apparently worked well enough to conceive their son Horus.
63	** The battles between Horus and Set resulted in the former having a wounded eye (the Moon) and the latter losing his testicles.
64	** Bes, the dwarf god, protector of women giving birth.
65	** Ptah, the creator god of Memphis, was also often depicted with dwarfism.
66	* Myth/NorseMythology:
67	** The blind god Hodur in Myth/NorseMythology is best known for his AccidentalMurder (abetted by Loki) of his brother Baldr.
68	** The Allfather Odin was missing one eye. He sacrificed it at Mimir's Well in order to gain the Wisdom of Ages.
69	** The god Tyr was depicted as missing one hand. When the gods wanted to bind the Fenris Wolf with the magical ribbon Gleipnir, Fenris refused to let Gleipnir be put upon him unless one of the gods put his hand in Fenris' mouth. Tyr volunteered to do so. When Fenris found he couldn't escape Gleipnir, he bit Tyr's hand off.
70	* Myth/ClassicalMythology:
71	** Hephaestus/Vulcan, the GeniusCripple [[UltimateBlacksmith smith-god]]. One [[https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/K7.6.html piece of ancient art depicts]] him in a classical-era flying SuperWheelchair.
72	** Plutus, the god of wealth, is blind, supposedly blinded by Zeus so he would be fair to rich and poor alike.
73	** The Graeae (who show up in the myth of Perseus) are three old women with only one eye and one tooth between the three of them that they have to share.
74	* Myth/JapaneseMythology:
75	** 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.
76	* Myth/NativeAmericanMythology:
77	** Myth/AztecMythology:
78	*** 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]].
79	*** Xolotl, the god of bad luck, was depicted with deformed limbs, a hunched back, and eyes that tended to be pulled out of their sockets.
80	*** Nanahuatzin was a Disabled Deity... until he threw himself on a sacrificial fire and became the sun.
81	** The Inuit sea goddess Sedna is missing her fingers (along with maybe her hands or even her whole arms, DependingOnTheWriter).
82	* 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.
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86	* ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'': [[GodOfEvil The Nameless God]] is a villainous and self-inflicted example. Chained into a breach in the firmament by the other gods as punishment for attempting to conquer all creation, he rages and tears off bits of his own body to free himself. His mortal followers seek to emulate him and sacrifice body parts one by one as they ascend through the ranks of his cult. This doesn't make them any less dangerous, which can make veteran players ''very'' nervous when they encounter a one-eyed NPC.
87	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
88	** 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]].
89	** The [[GodIsEvil evil]] 4[[superscript:th]] Edition 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.
90	** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'':
91	*** Tyr, the god of justice, was blinded by Ao the [[TopGod 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.
92	*** 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.
93	*** [[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.
94	* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': Autochthon has what, among primordial proto-gods with bodies the size of worlds, is roughly analogous to cancer; he was able to self-medicate fairly efficiently, but once he slipped into dormancy he began to slowly die from it. Appropriate, since he's the setting's equivalent of Hephaestus, if Hephaestus were a giant steampunk EldritchAbomination with cyber-organic cancer.
95	* ''TabletopGame/{{Hackmaster}}'' supplement ''Gawds & Demi-Gawds'': In the world of Aldrazar (the ''TabletopGame/{{Hackmaster}}'' campaign setting) the greater gawd Luvia is blind. This gives him a -4 to hit in combat.
96	* ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'': If a god is disabled in myth, they'll also be so in the game. ''Scion: Ragnarok'' introduces the concept of using disabilities as Birthrights (because they've become part of their owner's Legend), allowing the Scion/God to channel a related Purview without any relics... but if the disabled deity in question tries to get around the disability (Tyr getting a prosthetic hand is the example used), it cuts off the mythic connection that allows this to work. Both Odin and Tyr use this option, Odin with his missing eye allowing him to channel Prophecy and Tyr with his missing hand allowing him to channel Justice.
97	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
98	** The GodEmperor of Mankind was in excellent physical condition in his prime, but in the universe's "present" he's been dependent on life support for millennia.
99	** 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.]]
100	* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'' has two in the Elf pantheon:
101	** Morai-heg, goddess of fate and [[GodOfTheDead death]], had her hand cut off in exchange for [[DisabilitySuperpower knowledge of the future]].
102	** The UltimateBlacksmith Vaul was blinded and crippled by the WarGod Khaine in an ancient DivineConflict, 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]].
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106	* 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 that 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.
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110	* The Thunder Dragon Lanayru in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' is long dead in the present and suffering from a terrible disease in the past. The player must do some time warping to make his medicine and cure him so he'll be at full health in the present.
111	* The halfing thief god Bolo in ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' is said to only have one arm; the other was cut off as punishment for him [[IntangibleTheft stealing the shadow]] of Progo the god of storms.
112	* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': The Empyrean Malenia is an extreme example- she has lost ''three'' of her limbs and her eyes to the Scarlet Rot, forcing her to wear magical prosthetics to hold the Rot back. This doesn't stop her from being a fierce warrior and the game's resident {{Superboss}}.
113	* 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.]]
114	* In ''VideoGame/DungeonCrawl'' Ashenzari, the god of knowledge and divination, deliberately had itself nailed to the sky. Being bound and crippled, Ashenzari gains the ability to see and know everything. As a result, it grants divine favor and knowledge for handicapping yourself by wearing cursed items and exploring the world.
115	* 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.
116	* [[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.
117	* 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, though he also clarified in one of the {{Universe Compendium}}s that it's less that she, herself, is disabled, but more-so that she, being a god, is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of disability itself.
118	* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', [[spoiler:Zodiark]] is shown to have ''many'' missing or truncated body parts when the player encounters him in the flesh during the ''Endwalker'' expansion. These include three of his six arms, two of his four wings, many of his tentacle legs, and a good chunk of his abdomen and waist. [[spoiler:These deformities are the result of him being [[PiecesOfGod sundered into fourteen pieces]] by Hydaelyn and then put back together in an incomplete state by his Ascian followers.]]
119	* ''Videogame/LittleBigAdventure 2'': According to a religious text Twinsen can read on Celebration Island, the god Dark Monk has a disfigured face after breathing in fumes from a sulphur mine.
120	* ''VideoGame/KidIcarus'': The protagonist, Pit, is an angel and [[WingedHumanoid as such has wings]], however [[WingsDoNothing he can't actually use them to fly]] without Palutena's help, which is [[OurAngelsAreDifferent different from most winged angels, which CAN use their wings to fly.]]
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124	* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Like his Myth/NorseMythology counterpart, Hoder, the Northern God of Winter, is blind. His priests wear blindfolds while on duty, which both cause them some trouble on uneven ground and leave them ignorant of the fact that one of their visitors is [[spoiler:a vampire]].
125	* ''Webcomic/LoreOlympus'':
126	** Hephaestus has limb difference, and uses one prosthetic arm and two prosthetic legs.
127	** The child-goddess that is seen in Hades' dream with Persephone has a visible hearing aid. [[spoiler:She's later revealed to be their [[KidFromTheFuture future daughter]] Melinoe, who is deaf and signs.]]
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131	* The Website/SCPFoundation's Church of the Broken God believes in two deities; Yaldabaoth, a god of organic life, and Mekhane, a god of civilization, technology, and the mind. Yaldabaoth got pissed when Mekhane gave some of his creations minds and free will, and tried to kill them all. Mekhane then made a HeroicSacrifice and broke themself to pieces to imprison Yaldabaoth. The Church of the Broken God wishes to piece Mekhane back together, but unfortunately for them, their last attempt didn't go too well. They're most well known for their belief that various mechanical SCP items are pieces of Mekhane.
132	** 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.
133	* One of the [[PhysicalGod First Born]] of the [[VideoGame/TheTraderOfStories Forest Bed]] is Weeping Willow, who went blind after crying her eyes out over the first Dancing Tree (she thought the seed was dead, but it just needed more water to grow).
134	* [[WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice If The Emperor Had a Text to Speech Device]]:
135	** The "Decius Breaks the News" special has him dunk on every other god of the setting; he describes Khorne as "a paraplegic sociopath".
136	** From the perspective of the present-day Imperium, the Emperor himself would qualify, being a God-Emperor dependent on life support and needing a speech synthesizer not unlike Creator/{{Stephen Hawking}}'s to communicate his will to his followers.
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140	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' has Odin appear in one episode. {{Subverted}}, however, in that he gets his eye ''back'' at the end. The Eye of Odin was a recurring ArtifactOfDoom in the series; it turns from a dangerous medallion into an actual eye once Odin puts it back where it belongs.
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