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In the world of fiction, physical impairment = scientific credibility. The world is actually a [[RPG Mechanics Verse]], and when this [[Munchkin]] rolled up their character, they were [[Min-Maxing]]. Anyone in a wheelchair will possess super intelligence to compensate for his disability. This allows the character to remain a vital part of the cast without being expected to do anything physical.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Mashiro from ''[[My-HiME]]'' is confined to a wheelchair throughout most of the series, but is otherwise very capable both as a school principal and spiritual leader to some of the HiME. It helps that in the anime version, she's {{spoiler|supposedly ''way'' [[Older Than They Look|older than her 11 years of age]]}}.
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== Literature ==
* Eli Glinn in the ''Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child'' novels.
* In Dan Brown's novels ''[[Angels and Demons]]'' and ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'', both had characters with disabilities and were also highly respected professors. The guy in the wheelchair was probably a reference to Stephen Hawking.
* Doran Martell from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' fits this to a tee. {{spoiler|Arguably, also Bran Stark.}} And dwarf Tyrion Lannister is at least the second most intelligent person in the series.
* [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s [[Vorkosigan Saga|Miles Vorkosigan]]: Stunted, hunchbacked, with brittle bones that break at the drop of a hat, but always comes out on top by being the smartest guy on the planet. ''[[Marty Stu|Any planet]]''.
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* [[House (TV series)|House]] is a crippled genius, but that injury more often hurts his genius rather than enables or is neutral to it. On the other hand, to the extent this trope extends to the ''emotionally'' crippled...
* Wheelchair-bound physicist Dr. Ernst Longbore in the final season of ''[[Lexx]]''.
* Sebastian from ''[[Dark Angel]]'' can barely move and requires a computer to talk. Yeah, he's pretty much
** Logan would probably qualify as well.
* Dr. John Ballard from ''[[Seven Days]]''.
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* Mecha Maid from the series [[Spinnerette]] qualifies, as she designed the nerve stimulator that gives her super strength and enables her to move around. Without it, she is confined to a wheelchair and has trouble even speaking due to her ALS.
* ''[[xkcd]]'' noted [https://xkcd.com/799/ how] the press tend to handle this (i.e. fail to meaningfully communicate with Hawking and just use him as a living [[Magic 8-Ball]] instead).
== Web Original ==
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== Real Life ==
* [[Older Than They Think|Leonhard Euler]]: 18th century mathematician, and one of the most prolific of all time. He went blind in one eye at the age of 21; and blind in the other when he was about forty. After this, he kept turning out papers by dictating them to his secretaries. In addition to many fundamental results, Euler innovated much of current mathematical notation. Euler was able to juggle the symbols and numbers of the most difficult problems of his day entirely in his head; at one point during his blindness, he even managed to ''prove that a 10-digit number was prime''. Around this time, he was publishing papers at the average rate of one per week.
* The [[Trope Maker|inspiration for many of these entries]]: the late [[Stephen Hawking]], perhaps one of the most famous scientists in the world
** Hawking may also
* Another real life example: Jean-Dominique Bauby, who was left with his left eyelid as his only functional body part after a stroke. Using a system of blinking that eyelid, he was able to dictate an entire book about his life with Locked In Syndrome, during which he had to keep the entire book in his memory and edit the whole thing before giving instructions to his typist.
* Irish writer and artist [[wikipedia:Christy Brown|Christy Brown]], who could only move his left foot due to cerebral palsy, but still wrote several poetry books and became a very famous in the Irish literary circles. Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar for portraying him in the movie ''My Left Foot''.
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