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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"The wheelchair is for respect."''
|'''Guy Caballero''', ''[[SCTV]]''}}
Sometimes a person with an apparent disability will be more than they seem. Sometimes they will turn out not to be disabled at all. The reasons for faking a disability vary, but it is usually to cause others to underestimate them.
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'''Spoilers Ahoy!'''
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== Anime
* The first criminal seen in ''[[Detective Conan]]''. To be precise, the villain claimed to have a broken leg and couldn't walk. Just a check of hospital records revealed otherwise.
* Rachel from ''[[Tower of God]]'' was supposedly paraplegic after Ho stabbed her in the back and Yu Han Sung prevented any treament to stop Baam from climbing the tower. {{spoiler|Then she stands up and pushes Baam down the "The Wineglass", the lake their test takes place in. This is only the beginning of the [[Wham! Episode]].}}
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* In ''[[Red Robin]]'', Tim Drake has faked getting shot through the spine to prove he isn't the title character.
* Richard Dragon in ''[[The Question]]''.
* Charles Xavier in ''[[Twisted
* In one [[EC Comics]] story, a woman pretend to have paralyzed in an accident, so as to gain control over her husband. She plays the role for three months flawlessly{{spoiler|, then when a fire breaks out in her house when she's alone, she learns that her legs have become atrophied.}}
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== Western Animation ==
* An episode of ''[[Fillmore!]]'' had an exciting chase sequence when a wheelchair-bound suspect got up and ran unexpectedly. She claimed without much remorse that she never told anyone that she NEEDED the wheelchair, she just preferred it.
* One ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' episode had Phoebe taking advantage of Helga's niceness when she broke a leg and kept the cast even after it healed.
* One episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has Bart pretending to be blind so he and Homer can pull off confidence tricks.
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{{reflist}}
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[[Category:Disguise Tropes]]
[[Category:More Than Meets the Eye]]
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[[Category:Disability Tropes]]
[[Category:Infauxmation Desk]]
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