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Not to be confused with [[All of the Other Reindeer]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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'''Stan:''' Don't you oppress me.<br />
'''Reg:''' I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?! }}
* The hunchbacked Ephialtes in ''[[
** A review of the comic once remarked they could have used him as a skirmisher, messenger, water carrier or whatever.
* [[Rudy]], you're too short to play football!
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* In ''[[How To Be A Superhero]]'', Captain Eagle breaks into an orphanage to find a kid who's parents were killed by a mugger and might want revenge on crime. One boy seems promising, until one of the other orphans points out "But you've only got one leg, Bobby-Ray!"
* Done backwards in ''The Scarlet Ibis'', where Doodle's brother has his dreams of a sibling he could run/play with dashed when his brother is born disabled.
* ''No Arms, No Cookies'' is supposedly an autobiography by a woman who had, well, parents who [[Card
* In ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'' this happens twice:
** Jaypaw just wants to be a great warrior, and won't listen when other cats tell him that he can't because of his blindness. He does get the chance to train as a warrior apprentice, but when a patrol he's on gets into a fight and he's easily beaten by an enemy apprentice because he can't make sense of what's going on, he has to come to terms with the fact that he'll never be a warrior. He ends up becoming a medicine cat instead.
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** Turk has a hard time finding the courage to tell a young concert pianist who has earned a scholarship to Julliard that he lost use of his right hand in surgery.
** The trope is parodied in another episode, where Eliot is taking on the incredibly unpleasant task of giving such bad news to patients simply so she can get some respect from Dr. Cox (she claims she enjoys helping people deal with such news, but it's really making her an emotional wreck). Cox tests her by asking her to tell a young woman who is a professional dancer and just had her legs amputated, that she cannot have her physical therapy (or recovery) in the hospital; as her medical insurance was through her husband, who just died. [[Extreme Doormat|She agrees, and asks what room the patient is in]]. He stares at her, and then admits that there is no such patient, and he made up the most depressing thing he could think of.
* ''[[
** Charles saves a man's leg from amputation, but the man's hand is beyond repair and loses some flexibility. After the surgery, Charles learns his patient is a concert pianist. Fortunately, as a classical music aficionado, he manages to find copies of one-handed concertos that the man can play with just his left hand. The young musician points out that he's not going to have a career playing a handful (no pun intended) of gimmicky pieces from one composer, and Charles agrees that that's not likely -- what makes him a musician, however, isn't what's in his hands. Charles himself knows how to play, but he can't make music like this man can: he can write, he can teach, he can conduct, he can still make music the center of his life, even without playing.
** Other episodes dealt with a college football player whose career is [[Incredibly Lame Pun|sidelined]] by an amputated leg, and an infantryman whose face is disfigured and attempts suicide rather than go home and face his fiancee.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Exalted]]'' has a few examples, given that the setting has hardwired rules about [[Magic
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