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== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Something *Positive]]'': As a young boy, Fred was admitted to a hospital for an ear infection, where he was antagonized at every turn by a boy in a wheel-chair, who used his disability as an excuse to rage at the world, and every other child at the hospital hates him. Eventually, Fred and his friends team up to scare him and teach him a lesson... {{spoiler|whereupon it is revealed that the boy is in the hospital for a heart condition, and the shock of the scare ends up killing him.}}
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** Inverted with Joe, who is paralyzed from the waist down, but is generally outgoing and friendly. In one episode where Joe regains the ability to walk, NOT being disabled turns Joe into a complete ass hole to his friends and his wife. It isn't until Joe gets crippled again that he is brought back down to humble levels.
* In ''[[The Proud Family]]'', Penny dates a disabled boy, Johnny , who seems angelic at first, but turns out to be a rude prick who uses his disability to get his way.
* In ''[[South Park]]'', Eric Cartman once claimed to have [[Hollywood TourettesTourette's|Tourettes]] so that he could get away with making racial slurs and insulting people.
** In the episode "Ass Burgers" he attempted to do this with Asperger's Syndrome, but failed due to a very basic misunderstanding of the condition. (He thought it meant that burgers come out of his ass.)
* Earl of Lemongrab of ''[[Adventure Time]]'' is a bizarre variation of this. He has obvious mental/emotional/social problems as a result of being a failed science experiment. He also think it's okay to be a complete asshole to everybody.
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