Disability Immunity: Difference between revisions

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This is a subtrope of [[Disability Superpower]] where, rather than a character's disability giving them an actual power, it instead renders them immune to some sort of attack, trap, or ploy that would otherwise be effective against them.

See also: [[Disability Superpower]] (for when this grants other abilities to compensate), [[Too Kinky to Torture]], [[Too Dumb to Fool]], [[Insanity Immunity]] (which fall under the "frame of mind" variation), and [[Kryptonite Factor]] (for the opposite; someone being ''more'' vulnerable to something to balance out their power). See also [[One Curse Limit]], when being affected by one thing prevents immunity to being affected by ''anything'' else. [[The Hard Hat]] is when a steel plate left in the skull from surgery makes someone immune to [[Mind Rape]].

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* There was a bizarre issue of ''[[Blackhawk]]'' back in the '60s or '70s in which the villain had incapacitated five members of the Squadron, one by one, with weapons that attacked a different sense each time. Blinding, deafening, a ghastly odor that left the poor guy unable to smell anything ''else'', something the victim described as tasting like "chewing on a dynamo," and a numbing drug that wiped out the man's sense of touch. But then, the next time he faced them, [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|the previous attack had immunized one team member against each of his new attacks]], and like a relay race, they passed on the necessary tools and [[Determinator|got ever closer, until they'd defeated him]].

* ''[[Signs]]'' - [[Mel Gibson]]'s son has asthma, and an asthma attack prevented him from breathing in the aliens' poisonous fumes.

* ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'' - Po is [[The Chosen One]] not just because [[Time to Unlock More True Potential|he has a LOT of potential]], but because he is [[Big Fun|just too fat]] to be affected by Tai Lung's [[Pressure Point]] attacks.