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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Exalted]]'' has a few examples, given that the setting has hardwired rules about [[Magic aA Is Magic A|what certain Exalts can or cannot do]], and [[Beyond the Impossible|a steady subtext of, "...but feel free to ignore it if your players are sufficiently awesome."]] One of the more frightening examples, though, is [[Ax Crazy|Raksi]]. She's one of the most skilled Lunar sorcerers in all of Creation - but as a Lunar, she's inherently limited to the first two circles of sorcery, and not the top circle that's reserved for the Solar Exalted. But she's got her hands on a book that covers all three circles, and she's been spending centuries trying to find ''some way'' to unlock the third circle... no matter who she has to hurt to do it. Anyone who knows of her ambition devoutly hopes she never achieves it, considering that she's [[Ax Crazy|completely]] [[I'm a Humanitarian|out]] [[But You Screw One Goat!|of]] [[Depraved Bisexual|her]] mind.
 
 
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* The [[Blue Man Group]] requires its performers to be between 5'10" and 6'1" with an athletic build.
* Subverted by Jim Abbott, former MLB pitcher who was born without a right hand. To get around this, Abbott would rest a right-handed thrower's glove on the end of his right forearm. After releasing the ball, he would quickly slip his hand into the glove, usually in time to field any balls that a two-handed pitcher would be able to field. Then he would remove the glove by securing it between his right forearm and torso, slip his hand out of the glove, and remove the ball from the glove, usually in time to throw out the runner.
* Subverted by [[wikipedia:Rick Allen chr(28)drummerchr(29drummer)|Rick Allen]], drummer of [[Def Leppard]], who lost his left arm, but continues to drum for the group using a combination of rapid armwork and a custom drum setup to let him play the snares with his left foot.
 
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