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== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[The Animatrix]]'' short "World Record", a sprint runner almost exits the Matrix during the record-breaking sprint but is pulled back inside, where his mind [[Your Mind Makes It Real|decides he has ran past his body capacities and breaks said body]]. He is left in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

* In ''[[Battle Angel Alita]]'', Alita's motorball trainer used to be a racer but had to retire after overuse of reflex-boosting drugs damaged his nervous system. Subverted for Jasugun {{spoiler|who knows his brain is dying from being tampered with too much but chooses to die on the track as a champion}}.

* In ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]'', Nekota was forced to give up boxing {{spoiler|after an illegal punch from his opponent resulted in permanent mid-brain damage and punch-drunk syndrome, although he experienced the symptoms of the latter before the fight (it was from a fight with his friendly rival)}}.

* In the ''[[Case Closed]]'' [[Non-Serial Movie]] ''The Fourteenth Target'', the murderer is revealed to be {{spoiler|a sommelier whose taste buds were destroyed in an accident, taking revenge on the people who ended his career}}.

 

== Comic Books ==