History Main / DisabilityNegatingSuperpower

** Although he underwent a similar super-soldier program, part of what makes [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier the Winter Soldier]] so iconic and effective is his metal arm, given to him when he lost his previous one falling off a train. ''Film/BlackPanther'' shows that the Winter Soldier without his arm is just a normal, if ripped, human.
** As of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', Rhodes uses similar technology to the Iron Man/War Machine suits [[spoiler:to allow him to walk after he was crippled while fighting Team Cap]].

A character who had previously lost one of their senses, limbs, or the ability to use any of the above gains some StockSuperpowers that, as a side effect, negate their disability while they are active. The drawback being, of course, that once the superpowers deactivate, the character goes right back to being physically handicapped.

* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': For a while Tony Stark is completely paralyzed except when wearing his Iron Man armor.

* Subverted by ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': the serum that keeps Xavier mobile''suppresses'' his mutation. It's only when he stops taking it that his powers return and his ability to walk leaves.

** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' has scrawny little Steve Rogers, an army wanna-be with a list of medical conditions as long as he is tall. That is, until he takes the super-soldier serum and becomes Captain America, an extremely strong and fit superhero.

* ''LiveActionTV/TheOuterLimits1995''. Experimental medical nanomachines fix a test patient's health problems, including his poor eyesight, and begin adding additional capabilities (like gills). Of course, this being ''The Outer Limits'', [[BodyHorror things don't exactly stop there.]]

* In ''[[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Doctor Strange]]'', Stephen Strange is tipped off about the existence of the wizard monastery by a man who is revealed to use magic to overcome nerve damage that left him quadriplegic.

* [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel Junior]] is Freddy Freeman, who has an injured spine and leg, but when he is transformed into Captain Marvel Jr. his legs work just fine. It most pointedly does not permanently cure him, but at least having magic-based powers means his crutch and leg brace simply re-materialize where they're needed when he powers down.

* [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel Junior]] is Freddy Freeman, who has an injured spine and broken leg, but when he is transformed into Captain Marvel Jr. his legs work just fine.

* {{SelfDemonstrating/Deadpool}}'s HealingFactor keeps him alive despite a normally terminal form of cancer. Furthermore, the constant degeneration and regeneration of his brain due to his brain cancer and HealingFactor respectably is why he's out of his mind.

* In the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'', when Peter Parker wakes up the next day after he gets bitten by the genetically enhanced spider, the first thing he noticed is that he no longer needs his glasses to see clearly. Played in the second movie, where his internal conflicts makes him lose control of his powers and turned his bad eyesight back. It's only when he has talked to Mary Jane and Doc Ock subsequently kidnapped her that his resolve, along with his eyesight, turn for the better.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' with the in-universe spin-off ''Mind Quad'', which is about a man without limbs with psychokinetic powers. (His limbs weren't blown ''off,'' they were blown ''in''--into his mind!) He is capable to ride a quad bike and his sidekick is a paraplegic boy in a wheelchair with a speech-generating device.

* ''Literature/GuardiansOfTheFlame'': Although not a superpower per se, this is why James Michael loves This Side, where he's his character, an able-bodied dwarf, whereas on Earth he has muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair.

* ''Literature/GuardiansOfTheFlame'': Although not a superpower per se, this is why James Michael loves The Other Side, where he's his character, an able-bodied dwarf, whereas on Earth he has muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair.

** Temporary example: fter Uryu Ishida is paralyzed by Mayuri Kurotsuchi's poison, he uses a PeoplePuppets Quincy power to manipulate his disabled limbs telekinetically and hops straight back into the fight.

* {{SelfDemonstrating/Deadpool}}'s HealingFactor keeps him alive despite a normally terminal form of cancer.

* Inverted in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Kaname Tosen is a BlindWeaponmaster. He has the power to remove all light from a region around him, effectively making his opponents as blind as he is, only he has an advantage in being way more experienced at moving around blind than his opponents will ever be.

Contrast CurseThatCures, where it's a negative effect (rather than a beneficial superpower) that also accidentally fixes a disability, DisabilitySuperpower, where the character gains superpowers as a result of and/or in order to compensate for their disability, and [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=bhjl2ujyci73zbg0kwjc6g44 Superpower Induced Disability]], where the character is actually disabled in some way in addition to gaining superpowers. See also DisabilityImmunity, where a disability a character suffers actually protects them in some situations. [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=ef9woxgwsiw4ac64yr2vemp5 Eye Correcting Superpowers]] is a subtrope specifically about eyesight. See also NotDisabledInVR, where the disability doesn't exist in a virtual world.

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': The auxiliary Animorphs are recruited among permanently disabled teens. Since [[VoluntaryShapeshifting morphing] is based on DNA, this means that they can turn into completely healthy animals (or people), and if their disabilities aren't congenital, then they're healed once they resume their normal forms. Most of their disabilities actually are congenital, but their leader, James (who was hit by a car) is perfectly able-bodied after his first morphing.

** Apparently, the morphing technology's inventors, the Andalites, actually ''don't'' use it this way, because their culture has [[DeliberateValuesDissonance a somewhat backwards view of disabled people]] and think that their trying to get healthy again is dishonorable.

* In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', when ComicBook/BlackAdam and Isis rescue the latter's brother Osiris, he has had his legs broken beyond repair by his captors and cannot walk, but when Adam induces him into his Marvel family and grants him the power of Shazam, Osiris turns back into a healthy (superpowered) young man. However, when Osiris renounces this power later in the plot, he loses control of his legs once again.
* Flash Thompson lost both his legs in the UsefulNotes/IraqWar, but regrows them while he is bonded with the ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote. Since he is the first ever person to actually control Venom, he narrowly averts a CurseThatCures.

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': The auxiliary Animorphs are recruited among permanently disabled kids and teens, morphing gives them a body that have complete control over for two hours at a time, as the morphing completely restores any injuries suffered in either state. Some individuals (called vecols by Andalites) are genetically incapable of having their wounds healed this way, [[WhatTheHellHero judging by Ax's reaction]] they're nearly pariahs among the Andalites.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' with the in-universe spin-off ''Mind Quad'', which is about a man without limbs with psychokinetic powers. He is capable to ride a quad bike and his sidekick is a paraplegic boy in a wheelchair with a speech-generating device.

* Tetsuo of ''Manga/{{AKIRA}}'' gets his arm destroyed, and uses [[MindOverMater telekinesis]] to make an operate an artificial arm made from scrap.

* Earthbending in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' can be used to sense tremors and vibrations across solid objects, including the earth. Toph Beifong, blind since birth, discovered that she could "see" through this vibrations when she learned to earthbend. This crosses over with DisabilitySuperpower, as anyone can be taught how to do this, Toph's blindness was what led her to discover it.

* Earthbending in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' can be used to sense tremors and vibrations across solid objects, including the earth. Toph Beifong, blind since birth, discovered that she could "see" through this vibrations when she learned to earthbend.

* Hayate Yagami in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' is paralyzed from the waist down, but regains the use of her feet as long as she is [[FusionDance in Unison with Reinforce]]. Luckily for her, she recovers completely in the ten years' TimeSkip to the next season.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': After the TimeSkip, it's revealed that Aokiji lost a foot after the battle with Akainu. He uses his [[AnIcePerson ice powers]] to create a replacement foot.
** Similarly, Eustass Kid loses an arm during this same time skip and uses his [[MagnetismManipulation magnetism powers]] to create a prosthetic arm made out of scrap metal parts.
* Inverted in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Kaname Tosen is a BlindWeaponmaster. He has the power to remove all light from a region around him, effectively making his opponents as blind as he is, only he has an advantage in being way more experienced at moving around blind than his opponents will ever be.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': After the TimeSkip, it's revealed that Aokiji lost a foot after the battle with Akainu. He uses his ice powers to create a replacement foot.

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