Handicapped Badass/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A Badass who has disabilities, but can still fight.

  • Straight: Alice is in a wheelchair, but can still fight competently.
  • Exaggerated:
    • Alice is in a wheelchair, but is also the most Badass of her team.
    • Alice is paralyzed from the neck below. She's still badass.
  • Downplayed: Alice has a sprained ankle, but can still fight competently.
  • Justified: Alice trained harder to compensate for her disability.
  • Inverted: Alice is not disabled, but is unable to fight.
  • Subverted: Alice had faked her disability.
  • Double Subverted: Alice had faked her previous disability, but some time later, she really winds up in the wheelchair. And she can still kick ass.
  • Parodied: Alice has no arms or legs, but is still the team Badass.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Alice's disability prevents her from fighting.
  • Enforced:
    • The writers want to show that disabled doesn't equal weak.
    • "How do we make Alice even more badass? Make her a paraplegic, and still be able to kick ass!"
  • Lampshaded: "We're getting beat by the cripple?"
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: "Just because someone is disabled doesn't mean they're defenseless."
  • Conversed: "Alice is in a wheelchair, but she can fight like that? Hard to believe."

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