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* Shiba'i in ''[[Ikki Tousen]]'' is [[The Chessmaster]] behind Kyosho Academy's Sousou Motoku, and though she later does start walking around it's not made clear whether or not it's because she was faking being disabled or if {{spoiler|Motoku (who had turned her into his [[Soul Jar]] this point) was the one who allowed her to do it}}. Shiba'i is based on [[Romance of the Three Kingdoms|Sima Yi]], who faked an illness, which suggests that she was able to walk the entire time.

* One of the ''[[Code Geass]]'' manga spin-offs makes {{spoiler|Nunnally}} a straight-up [[Yandere]] whose hatred for the world results in another personality developing.

* The Chairman in ''[[Paprika]]''.

* Mashiro Kazahana in ''[[My-HiME]]'' falls more into morally ambiguous throughout much of the series, given that she actively manipulates the HiME and has certain [[Creepy Child]] tendencies, though by the end of the series she's fully on the side of the good and provides a convenient [[Deus Ex Machina]] to the heroes.

* [[Psycho for Hire|Gauron]] became one late in ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', as the result of injuries sustained during the first season finale. He still managed to set in motion events that led to Kaname's near death at the hands of one of his [[Creepy Twins]], the destruction of a major portion of downtown Hong Kong, and the deaths of multiple high-ranking Mithril and Amalgam personnel.

* Edge Turus in [[Until Death Do Us Part]] started off as just plain evil; only after going too far ''and'' invoking [[Diplomatic Impunity]] did he lose [[An Arm and a Leg]].

** {{spoiler|Also in the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|2003 anime]], we have Frank Archer, who lost half his body in Lior and had to have his whole left side replaced by automail.}}

* The ''[[Area 88]]'' manga and OVA, have Farina, an elderly arms dealer who is confined to a wheelchair.

 

== Comic Books ==

* [[Spider-Man]] villains:

** [[The Don| Elderly crime boss Silvermane]] is either wheelchair bound and often on some sort of life support, except the times he's a [[Cyborg]]. There was even a time when he was running his criminal organization while bedridden.

* And [[MODOK]] in most of his incarnations is in a powered wheelchair.

* Miami drug czar Ulysses X. Lugman, aka the Slug, (who first appeared in [[Captain America]]'s comic) is so enormously obese, he can't move on his own, requiring a custom-made mechanical wheelchair with tank treads. He has been known to asphyxiate a man in the folds of his flesh when he wants to kill someone personally.

** Another Superman villain, the Ultra-Humanite, is most commonly and most famously shown as an albino gorilla, but he actually began as a mad scientist in a wheelchair. He soon gained the ability to [[Body Swap]] with any person or animal he pleased, however, so he didn't stay crippled for long.

* ''[[X-Men]]'' villain Apocalypse employed a few of these within his Horsemen, artificially curing their condition as a sort of [[Deal with the Devil]]. The original Horsemen included War, a quadriplegic army veteran confined to an iron lung; Famine, an anorexic teenage girl whose body was morbidly withered by the disorder; and Death, the X-Man Angel who lost his wings.

 

== Film ==

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' has Lothar Frey, nicknamed "Lame Lothar", one of the masterminds of the "[[Moral Event Horizon|Red Wedding]]".

* Non-wheelchair example: In ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', one of Count Olaf's more frightening henchmen has hooks for hands—interestingly, he's the only one who eventually gets a semi-detailed backstory and becomes relatively sympathetic.

** The Hammer-Heads from the first book were mean guys who lived on a large hill in the Quadling Country, who had no arms. Unfriendly and xenophobic, they attacked anyone who trespassed on their hill with their hard heads on stretchy, elastic necks, their lack of arms hardly a problem.

** The Wheelers in the third book were a race native to the Land of Ev, who had wheels for hands and feet. Like the Hammer-Heads, they were unfriendly and coveted the magic trees that grew lunchboxes (which really weren't theirs at all). Not truly dangerous or malicious, they still liked scaring people away. (The movie ''[[Return to Oz]]'' made them [[Adaptational Villainy|much more darker and hostile.]])

 

== Live Action TV ==

** Also Lumic, creator of the new series Cybermen.

** The Captain, of classic Who story ''The Pirate Planet''.

* Arguably, Nessarose in ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]''.

* Shakespeare's ''[[Richard III]]'' is quite possibly the [[Trope Codifier]].

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[No One Lives Forever]] II'' (which is an [[Affectionate Parody]] of [[Spy Fiction]] in general), a villain from the original game returns in a wheelchair... with integrated rocket launchers. For starters.

* Von Bolt from ''[[Nintendo Wars|Advance Wars: Dual Strike]]''.

* Subverted in one of the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' games. The killer is wheelchair-bound, but he's easily one of the series' most [[Sympathetic Murderer|sympathetic murderers]] and it's even said that he isn't really a bad man.