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* ''[[Everest]]'': one of the kids had braces, whose tendency to contract in extreme cold would become a problem on the high altitudes of Everest. As a result, he was sent home.
* Parodied in ''[[The Onion Movie]]''. We are introduced to the "inspirational portrait of the week", which involves a man with no legs (and then no arms) first declaring that he wanted to do ballet since he was a child. After maybe 15 seconds, what he wanted to do all his life was hockey. A sequence of him follows being tackled harshly.
* ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and Thethe Prisoner of Azkaban (film)|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' - "Sorry Ron, but seeing as you can't walk" *they vanish*
* In ''[[From Russia with Love]]'', Tatiana Romanova explains that she wanted to be a ballerina, but was rejected for being too tall.