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* Probably one of the reasons why the fandom ate up the concept of Cinque in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]''. Enemy [[Little Miss Badass]]? Nice, but we've seen lots of that in previous seasons. Enemy [[Little Miss Badass]] [[Eye Scream|who lost an eye in battle]] [[Eyepatch of Power|and doesn't let that little problem keep her out of the front lines]]? [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]. Similarities to a certain ''[[Metal Gear]]'' character [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS/Characters|has been noted]].
* ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'': {{spoiler|Roberto's right arm and hand are crippled after being shot by Tenma. It's strong enough to choke you so hard that your tongue pokes out, but not strong enough to actually kill you. His left, on the other hand...}}
** Early in the series, Red-Haired Shanks
*** It's mentioned that, previous to losing his arm, he'd regularly sparred with the best swordsman in the world, Dracule "Hawkeye" Mihawk, who {{spoiler|defeats Zoro literally without trying and nearly kills him.}}
▲** ''[[One Piece]]''
*** The first chapter shows Shanks doing a couple of things of things primarily with his left hand (holding booze, eating.) He also wears his sword on the right hip, which would imply that he was left-handed. [[Word of God]] states that losing his left arm hasn't diminished his fighting ability at all. [[Fridge Logic|That makes no sense at all,]] but it's still freaking awesome.
*** According to the [[Other Wiki]], left handed people can develop ambidexterity much more easily then right handed people. When you think about it, it isn't all that unbelievable.
** While he may not be missing an arm or a leg, or even his eyesight, [[Badass Grandpa|Whitebeard]] definitely qualifies, as he manages to wipe the floor with several high-ranking Marines at once, shrugging off any wound on his person, after having been hooked on life support equipment for at least a few years.
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** Post [[Time Skip]], we also have {{spoiler|Zoro}}, who has lost {{spoiler|an eye.}}
** Sanji's mentor "Red Leg" Zeff; despite the ''loss'' of one leg being a [[Career-Ending Injury]], he's still an excellent fighter, able to use his peg-leg to ''deflect bullets''.
** Fujitora is a swordsman whose skill is legendary among the Marines, despite being completely blind. By his own account, sometime in his past he saw something ''so'' horrific that he purposely blinded himself - exactly what, he will not say.
* Sara from ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'', who despite (or possibly because of) being blind, is easily one of the most powerful warriors in the series, easily capable of defeating the already insanely skilled and [[Badass]] protagonists in a one on one duel.
* {{spoiler|Dragon Shiryu, later Cygnus Hyoga and Kraken Isaac}} in ''[[Saint Seiya]]''. Subverted with Virgo Shaka, who like Kenpachi ''purposely'' handicaps himself (in his case, by closing his eyes despite not being blind)
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* Two examples in ''[[The Heritage of Shannara]]''. [[Action Girl|Wren]]'s [[Mentor]] is a Rover named Garth. He's a [[Badass]] [[Mighty Glacier]] who taught Wren everything she needs to know about how to survive in an incredibly hostile world. He's one of the few humans in series capable of fighting [[The Heartless|The Shadowen]] without the use of magic. He's also deaf. Then there's Walker Boh, who's probably the poster boy for this trope: a [[Determinator]] of a Druid who overpowers Shadowen and monsters alike, takes on [[The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]], and finally kills the series' [[Big Bad]], all while having only one arm.
* The main character Tavi of ''[[Codex Alera]]'' straddles this trope and [[Badass Normal]] ( {{spoiler|for the first few books}}). He is [[Badass Normal]] in terms of what he can ''do'', but because he is an [[Un-Sorcerer]] (the only Aleran not to have ''any'' furycrafting), his interactions with his world is that of a Handicapped Badass.
* In ''[[Spellbent]]'', Jessie Shimmer loses an arm and an eye in the first chapters. She kicks a great deal of ass over the rest of the novel.
* The protagonist of ''The Door in the Wall'' by Marguerite de Angeli is Robin, the son of a knight who longs to become a great warrior like his father. The story taking place in the Middle Ages, the black plague is running rampant. Robin survives his bout with it, thanks to the care of a monk, but is left a lifelong cripple with misshapen legs. This does not in the least stop him from helping to save his people from invaders; in fact, it ''aids'' him, because he's able to slip past enemy lines without arousing suspicion thanks to his crutches, and then he's able to get reinforcements and defeat the invasion, being knighted for his noble spirit.
* Colonel Lomax in the [[Matthew Hawkwood]] novels. Pinned under a dead horse and caught in a grass fire, the left side of Lomax's was badly burned; crippling his left arm and destroying his left eye. Still badass enough that he is the first person Hawkwood approaches when he needs allies to storm a [[Bad Guy Bar]].
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