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* ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' portrays at least two examples of this trope:
** Libra Dohko: an old man of more than 250 years old that walks using a stick (and that's actually an [[Expy]] of [[Star Wars]] Yoda), can be even more [[Badass]] than any of the younger Saints. Not to mention that {{spoiler|he actually hides his young shape intact, shelled inside his old body, ready to use if becomes necessary}}
** In the spinoff ''Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas'', is revealed that the ancient Virgo Saint, Asmita, is in fact blind. However he absolutely doesn't need sight, as his powers and perception are in the ranges of [[Pure Awesomeness]] .
* [[Speed Grapher|Suitengu]] spends a short time pretending to be wheelchair-bound after {{spoiler|Shinzen}} shoots him in both knees. He drops the act at his earliest opportunity, as it annoyed him to act so confined.
* In one chapter of ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]: Tokyo'', {{spoiler|a rich businessman pretends to have had a stroke and be suffering from dementia, so that he can see how his family members acted when he seemingly wasn't watching. Because of this, he sees his wife work hard to take care of him, their child, and her in-laws, foils a plan to trick him into divorcing her, and leaves her half of his estate.}}
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* The tactic of a famous magician (Ching Ling Foo) in ''[[The Prestige]]'' that inspired Borden and is used as a literary device to describe his methods without actually revealing them.
{{quote|'''Borden's Memoir:''' My deception rules my life, informs every decision I make, regulates my every movement... everything in this account represents the shuffling walk of a fit man.}}
* In [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s Free Bards novel ''The Robin and the Kestrel,'' the church of the city that the heroes are visiting uses this, among other techniques, in order to enact "miraculous healings."
* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series has {{spoiler|"p-p-p-poor s-s-stuttering Professor Quirrell"}}.
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* Happened in an episode of ''[[Cadfael (TV series)|Cadfael]]'', when the cripple had hidden his disability-less-ness from everyone including his ''sister'', then tries to collect money after he is "healed" by touching a reliquary. He is revealed when he runs away, sans crutches.
* Used in the two-part ''[[Get Smart]]'' episode "Ship of Spies". It involves a wheelchair bound water polo player.
** ''[[Get Smart]]'' also featured Leadside, a villain in a wheelchair. He pulls off an impressive infiltration because while he is incapable of walking or standing up, the act of running is still within his power.
* ''[[The X-Files]]'', "The Amazing Maleeni." When a stage magician who made his head rotate 360 degrees as part of his act turns up decapitated, Mulder and Scully quickly believe his bank manager brother could have been his double -- but the bank manager proves that couldn't be the case, as he lost both his legs in a car accident. That is, until later, when Mulder tumbles him out of the wheelchair; he's got both legs, because ''he'' was the stage magician and was pulling off an illusion.
* The "Lost Ending" to ''[[It's a Wonderful Life]]'' as seen on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' showed Mr. Potter was faking.
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]:'' In the last four episodes of season 2, Spike is only pretending to still need his wheelchair.
* In the Mexican soap opera ''[[En Nombre Del Amor]]'', Carlota the head villainess pretends to be paralyzed in order to not go to prison after trying to murder her niece Paloma. Doctors cannot figure out what is wrong with her. The audience may even be fooled. Carlota tries to bribe a nurse in order to get assistance in leaving the hospital- but the nurse refuses. Carlota then hits the nurse with a bottle and steals her scrubs and mask, then places the unconscious nurse on the bed and flees the hospital without incident.
* In ''[[So Little Time]]'', Riley goes to school in a wheelchair to get the attention of a paraplegic whom she has a crush on.
* A ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]'' episode has Radar apparently hitting an elderly Korean villager with a jeep. When the uninjured man demands $50 not to report Radar to the MPs, a visiting officer susses out that he's a well-known con man known as "Whiplash Wang".
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