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See also [[Evil Albino]], [[Depraved Dwarf]], [[Hook Hand]], [[Red Right Hand]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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== Film ==
* One of the most famous examples, and possibly the inspiration for many others of this type, is the eponymous ''[[Doctor Strangelove]]'', an ex-Nazi scientist. At the very end of the film he manages to stand up out of his chair... and then the world ends.
* The crappy [[B
** Another ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' example: [[The Dragon]] from the episode, ''[[Space Mutiny]]'', who uses a cane to get around (and to occasionally kill people.) Tom Servo describes him as "Handi-''capable''."
* Obesandjo, the Nigerian crime boss from ''[[District 9]]'', is confined to a wheelchair. Speculation that it might be his version of a throne crumbles when the viewer notices the knock-kneed way he sits and how he never gets up from it, even when his men are getting bumped off.
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* [[Dr. No (Film)|Dr. No]] in the eponymous ''James Bond'' film lost his hands in an industrial accident and replaced them with mechanical ones. He's hated the world ever since.
* Ivan Igor (Lionel Atwill) in ''[[Mystery of the Wax Museum]]''.
* Blanche Hudson (Joan Crawford) in ''[[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Film)|What Ever Happened to Baby Jane]]''
* Jason Stryker in ''[[X 2 X Men United (Film)|X 2 X Men United]]'' was experimented on by his father, a mutant-phobe, and turned into a living [[Lotus Eater Machine]] confined to a wheelchair in contrast to Charles Xavier, who is with the good guys. Jason is portrayed sympathetically, but his appearance is definitely intended to be creepy.
* Though more of a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] [[Anti
* {{spoiler|Elijah Price}} in ''[[Unbreakable]]'', a movie which draws from comic book lore and explicitly compares the villain's physical frailty with the "unbreakability" of the main character.
* Darth Vader in ''[[Star Wars]]''. He is a severe burn victim and was repeatedly mutilated, so he has to rely on his suit. Of course, given his slow descent into villainy, the deformities were more icing on the cake than the direct cause.
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* The drug kingpin in ''[[Brick]]'' has a clubfoot, and walks with a cane.
* The Man With A Plan from ''[[Things to Do In Denver When You're Dead|Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead]]''. Bonus points for being played by Christopher Walken.
* The [[Man Behind the Man]] of ''[[Once Upon a Time In The West]]'' is a crippled (and dying) and walking only by crutches [[Railroad Baron]]. However, he's pretty much a [[Anti
* Ephialtes, the deformed, treacherous hunchback in ''[[Three Hundred|300]]''.
* A pedophile and drug dealer from ''[[Easter Bunny Kill Kill|Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill!]]'' has some unspecified condition which requires him to use crutches.
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* Leigh Teabing in ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'' was wheelchair-bound due to polio, and turns out to have been in on the [[Gambit Roulette]] surrounding the location of the Grail.
* The "Tzaddik" in [[Philip Pullman]]'s ''[[Sally Lockhart]]'' detective novels.
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Gaunts Ghosts]] novel ''Only In Death'', when Hark finds {{spoiler|Soric}} at the end, his keepers are an old woman with a deformed face, and a hunchbacked dwarf. {{spoiler|Judging by the psychic impressions of them that other characters received from Soric throughout the book, they are evil indeed; Maggs was convinced that the woman was [[Grim Reaper|Death itself]]. They do their best to keep Hark from [[I Cannot Self
* In [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''[[The Jungle Book (Literature)|The Jungle Book]]'', Shere Khan the tiger, Mowgli's great enemy who separated him from his parents at infantry and presumably killed them.
{{quote| ''"His mother did not call him Lungri [the Lame One] for nothing," said Mother Wolf quietly. "He has been lame in one foot from his birth. That is why he has only killed cattle. Now the villagers of the Waingunga are angry with him, and he has come here to make our villagers angry. They will scour the jungle for him when he is far away, and we and our children must run when the grass is set alight. Indeed, we are very grateful to Shere Khan!"''}}
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* ''[[League of Legends]]'': Jericho Swain. He's a cripple with a cane. He's one of the bad guys, has a raven that can blast enemies with lightning, and he can shapeshift into a giant humanoid vampiric raven himself. He also walks faster than the game's phoenix and gyrocopter pilot champions.
* ''[[Crysis (Video Game)|Crysis]] 2'':{{spoiler|Jacob Hargreave}} - He guides you, designed the suit you're wearing, has the most intimate knowledge of the Ceph incursion {{spoiler|then turns on you, tries to kill you to peel you out of the suit (that is keeping you alive!), and when that fails, tries to blow you up. Oh, and he was crippled, floating in a stasis tank the whole time.}}
* Ozwell E. Spencer, [[Big Bad]] and [[The Man Behind the Man]] to almost everything in the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' games, is ultimately revealed to be a sick, crippled [[Evil Old Folks|old man]] in a wheelchair, hooked up to life support and [[A God Am I|dreaming of godhood]]. Without his [[Dragon
* {{spoiler|Hugh Darrow}} from ''[[Deus Ex Human Revolution (Video Game)|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]''.
* During [[Triple H]]'s story in ''[[Smackdown vs. Raw|WWE 12]]'', [[The Miz]] is confined to a wheelchair after a career-ending leg injury. {{spoiler|Or so it appears; it's eventually subverted when he jumps out of his chair and attacks you during one of your matches.}}
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