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[[File:wchairwoobie_1214.jpg|link=AIR (Visual Novel)|frame|Awww, the poor kid...]]
 
 
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Code Geass (Anime)|Code Geass]]'': Nunnally Lamperouge/vi Britannia, although in [[Nightmare of Nunnally]], {{spoiler|she regains her ability to walk in the end}}.
** The anime also makes reference to her undergoing physical therapy, but we don't see any results within the actual show.
* Hayate Yagami from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As (Anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As]]'', though she gets better, both in terms of mobility and life situation, by the third season. Also qualified for [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] by the end of ''A's''.
* Sylvette Suede of ''[[Tegami Bachi (Manga)|Tegami Bachi]]''. Her mother died in childbirth, and she is eventually separated from the brother who raised her and lives in poverty. {{spoiler|And it turns out that Gauche did not actually recover his memory when he comes back, denying her a reunion with him}}.
* [[Naruto (Manga)|Rock Lee]] ends up heavily injured by Gaara during the exam and has to use crutches. The others fear that he may be permanently crippled, which would destroy his dream of ever becoming a ninja. {{spoiler|He gets better.}}
* The pictured example is Kamio Misuzu from ''[[AIR (Visual Novel)|AIR]]'' in the second half of the show. [[It Makes Sense in Context|Let's just say that she]] [[Ill Girl|got sick]] to the point in which she needed to be on a wheelchair. {{spoiler|Unlike some of the other examples, she doesn't get better, but instead worse. Very worse}}.
* Subverted in ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'' Part 7 by Johnny Joestar. He's shown as a somewhat frail and even effeminate boy but he's still determined enough to take part in the Steel Ball Run horse race even without working legs to follow [[Big Brother Mentor|Gyro Zeppeli]] and to find out the secret of his [[It Makes Sense in Context|steel balls]].
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Stevie from ''[[Malcolm in Thethe Middle]]''. However he sometimes subverts it by doing some pretty impressive stuff (like punching Reese into submission).
* Orson from ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' after the plane crash during season 6 leaves him paralyzed. He even takes advantage of his condition in order to get his revenge against Bree.
* On ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', Maeby tries to invoke this trope with her false identity of wheelchair-bound, dying Shirley.
* Artie from ''[[Glee (TV)|Glee]]'' drifts into this on occasion.
* When [[Snoop Dogg (Music)|Snoop Dogg]] hosted ''[[Saturday Night Live (TV)|Saturday Night Live]]'', he played a mediocre, wheelchair-bound rapper who continually wins battles by reminding the audience that he's in a wheelchair - until he goes up against a blind rapper.
* John Locke from ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]''.
* Matthew from [[Downton Abbey]] is seen by many as this. YMMV, though.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Acro from the second ''[[Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Ace Attorney]]'' game. {{spoiler|He lost his brother and his ability to walk to an accident that should have been just an innocent prank!}}
* Diana in ''[[Sakura Taisen (Video Game)|Sakura Wars V]]''.
** Her self pity can keep people from feeling sorry for her [[Your Mileage May Vary|in some cases.]]
* The player's brother, Doned, in the opening of ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]''. He spends the rest of the game in a world where he can magically walk and gets upsets with the player for trying to restore their original world. Wonder why.
** In the end, he's back in his wheelchair, but more accepting of his situation.
* ''[[Mega Man Legends (Video Game)|Mega Man Legends]] 1'' has a little girl named Ira who is confined to a wheelchair. Despite the hospital's aging equipment stalling her recovery, she remains hopeful that she'll walk again. [[Video Game Caring Potential|If you donate enough Zenny so the hospital can buy new equipment, she will.]]
* {{spoiler|Emi Ibarazaki}} from ''[[Katawa Shoujo (Visual Novel)|Katawa Shoujo]]'', though it's temporary; {{spoiler|she has an infection that prevents her from using her prosthetic legs}}.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Tavros Nitram from ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'', whose misfortunes are [[Trauma Conga Line|too plentiful to name here,]] although there's a delightfully comprehensive list in his entry of the [[Homestuck (Webcomic)/Characters|character page.]] [[Cyborg|He does get better]] eventually, though.
** {{spoiler|[[Impaled Withwith Extreme Prejudice|...Right before he]] [[Killed Off for Real|dies.]]}}
* Mecha maid (without her armour) in ''[[Spinnerette (Webcomic)|Spinnerette]]''
* Amara from ''[[Keiki (Webcomic)|Keiki]]'', especially when one comic showed her becoming a popular trendsetter, then {{spoiler|realizing it was [[All Just a Dream]]}}.
* Lululu Lopez, an impoverished land-based mermaid from ''[[Electric Wonderland (Webcomic)|Electric Wonderland]]'', might come off as this if not for the moments when she comes off as a [[Bratty Half-Pint]].
 
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* On ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'', Timmy - in a wheelchair, and who can only say his own name - is protective of his status as the Wheelchair Woobie when he meets Jimmy - a boy with an unnamed disease which withered his legs, making him walk with two forearm crutches, but who does inspirational [[Stand Up Comedy]]. Timmy even tries to kill Jimmy.
* In one episode of ''[[Blinky Bill (Animation)|Blinky Bill]]'', poor little Shifty Dingo breaks his leg and has to be in a wheelchair.
* [[Family Guy (Animation)|Joe Swanson]] is occasionally this when he's not being a [[Handicapped Badass]].
* Subverted on ''[[The Proud Family]],'' where Penny starts dating a boy in a wheelchair, who she felt sorry for. But it is revealed that his actually an incredibly bossy jerkass who exploits his handicap and pretends to be more weak and gentle than he is to get people to do what he says. He even uses this to escape punishment. (to clarify, Penny and her friends were suspended because they were suspected of having been the vandals. All he has to do when he's caught? Apologize.)
* On ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]],'' [[Butt Monkey|Tinny Tim]] is a parody version of this, an orphaned robotic child with a crutch for one arm and differently-sized legs.
* On ''[[Young Justice (Animationanimation)|Young Justice]],'' [[The Archer|Artemis]]' mother Paula. Losing her mobility in her former career ({{spoiler|as a criminal}}) is just ''part'' of what makes her [[The Woobie|Woobie-ish]].
* One episode of ''[[The Wild Thornberrys]]'' features a character of the week being a girl in a wheelchair. Eliza tries very hard not to treat her any differently than she would any other girl but has a hard time not bringing it up.
* [[Camp Gay|Gillette]] from ''[[Archer]]'' was shot through the spine, confining him to a wheelchair. Archer's [[Jerkass]] persona lead to many [[Kick the Dog]] moments. {{spoiler|Subverted when it is revealed that he wasn't actually crippled and just liked the sympathy and attention being in a wheelchair afforded him.}}
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