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== Anime & Manga ==
* 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]].}}
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII Advent Children]]'', Rufus Shinra always sits in a wheelchair and is covered in a long cloak, making him appear to be crippled and highly disfigured. That way Kadaj constantly keeps turning his back to him, which comes in handy in the end, as he can stand, walk, and use guns without much problems, at least for a short time.
* In ''[[Ghost in The Shell]]:[[Stand Alone Complex]]'', the Laughing Man went into hiding by hacking the computers of a mental hospital for children and youths and creating a fake identity of being a patient suffering from severe mental disabilities and being almost unresponsive to other people. Which is particularly appropriate as his [[Calling Card]] was an image that included the quote from ''[[The Catcher in The Rye (Literature)|The Catcher in The Rye]]'' "I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes."
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* Willy Wonka's introduction in ''[[Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory]]''. As Wonka walks out limping with a cane, he apparently trips and suddenly does a somersault. Gene Wilder wanted to do this so that [[Establishing Character Moment|neither the audience nor the characters could completely trust Wonka]].
* An elderly Chinese stage magician in ''[[The Prestige]]'' is shown doing this, pretending to have frail and stiff legs even off stage for the sole purpose of a trick where he makes a fish bowl appear: the fishbowl is hidden between his legs but since the audience thinks he's a cripple, they don't consider the obvious. This inspires one of the main characters to do something similar. {{spoiler|Not that "being only a single person and not twins" is a disability per se.}}
** The Chinese magician was actually a real historical figure, who indeed was recorded having done this very thing. [
* [[Phony Veteran|"Four-Leaf" Tayback]] in ''[[Tropic Thunder]]''.
* Jean-François in ''[[Brotherhood of the Wolf]]'', although the exact motivation for doing so is a trifle hazy.
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** He also leaped into the body of a legless Vietnam vet. To one "unfortunate" [[Nurse Ratched|sadistic orderly]], Sam looked like he was floating above the ground when he got up and walked.
* Happened in ''[[Diagnosis Murder (TV)|Diagnosis Murder]]'', probably more than once, usually discovered by Dick Van Dyke's character.
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* Subverted in a ''[[Taxi]]'' episode: an old lady sues Louie for hitting her with his cab, and he learns that she's a scam artist with a history of phony lawsuits. When he tries to "prove" his innocence in court by pushing the wheelchair-bound woman out the door and toward a staircase in the assumption that she'll jump off, he discovers that in this particular case she wasn't faking it.
* [[Little House On the Prairie (TV)|Nellie Olson]] faked paralysis after falling off a horse so her parents would give her presents and Laura would be her slave out of guilt.
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