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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun'': Johnny Joestar regains the use of his legs through both Tusk Act 4 and the Golden Spin returning sensation to them.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': Steel Ball Run's Johnny Joestar regains the use of his legs through both Tusk Act 4 and the Golden Spin returning sensation to them.

* JoJosBizarreAdventure: Steel Ball Run's Johnny Joestar regains the use of his legs through both Tusk Act 4 and the Golden Spin returning sensation to them.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S1E15TheNewBreed The New Breed]]", 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]].
* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': The same accident that blinded Matt Murdock also gave him heightened senses (including sight).

* ''Videogame/DevilMayCry5'': In the beginning, Nero loses his [[RedRightHand Devil Bringer right forearm]] to the stranger that he took into his home. At first, he only used the [[ArtificialLimbs Devil Breakers]] to compensate, which have different abilities of their own; however, this trope fully comes in in the climax, where [[spoiler:Nero's desire to stop his long lost father and uncle from killing each other awakens the demonic power within him, causing him to regrow his right forearm with said demonic power]].

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A character who had previously lost one of their senses, limbs, or the ability to use any of the above gains some {{Stock Superpowers|Index}} 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 (''if'' they deativate, anyway). The character may be a HenshinHero or have a SuperpoweredAlterEgo to explain why they are still disabled part-time.

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* ''Series/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 ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', near the end of the series, in a rather dark turn, Tanjiro turning into [[spoiler:a demon immediately healed his most damming injuries he got dealt with fighting against Muzan: his lost right eye and lost left arm, they grew back good as new; however, when Tanjiro is cured of his demonic condition, becoming human again, his eye and arm's healing process is disrupted, not to the point of losing them but it renders Tanjiro with disabilities: his sight on the right eye is very poor, and he can just barely move his left arm now]].

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', neat the of end the series, in a rather dark turn, Tanjiro turning into [[spoiler:a demon immediately healed his most damming injuries he got dealt with fighting against Muzan: his lost right eye and lost left arm, they grew back good as new; however, when Tanjiro is cured of his demonic condition, becoming human again, his eye and arm's healing process is disrupted, not to the point of losing them but it renders Tanjiro with disabilities: his sight on the right eye is very poor, and he can just barely move his left arm now]].

** In ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'', Nodoka has low stamina due to [[IllGirl a respiratory disease she contracted when she was younger]]. When she first becomes Cure Grace, she discovers she is no longer held down by it in that form.

* Inverted in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': the serum that keeps Xavier ambulatory ''suppresses'' his mutation. It's only when he stops taking it that his powers return and his ability to walk leaves.

** Zig-zagged by ''Film/IronMan'' doesn't use the same arc reactor to power his suit and keep the shrapnel from invading his heart, but it's nonetheless an integral part of being Iron Man. That is, until ''Film/IronMan3'', when he has the shrapnel and arc reactor removed. By the time he gets a new chest-mounted arc reactor in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', it's not a medical implement (which is pointed out by Pepper) but housing for the nanobots that form his newest suit.

** 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.]]
** 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. Strange himself sought out the Sanctum in order to heal the severe damage done to his hands following a car accident.
** In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Jane Foster sought out Mjölnir in the hopes that it would cure her cancer. Upon getting it, she gets the same powers as Thor. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it's subverted, as while Mjölnir does grant her incredible powers, it didn't help with her cancer at all. In fact, using Mjölnir actually makes her cancer worse, because as a human, using its powers puts a great strain on her body, hindering her ability to fight off the cancer. Using Mjölnir basically changed Jane from a human with cancer, to a superhero with cancer.]]

* PlayedWith in ''Film/Shazam2019'' for Freddy Freeman. Rather than literally being un-crippled when using the powers of Shazam, this version of Freddy instead makes his still-useless leg a moot point through constant use of the {{Flight}} part of being a FlyingBrick.

* ''[[Film/Deadpool2016 Deadpool's]]'' HealingFactor stops his cancer. When he gets arrested and forced to wear a PowerNullifier in ''Film/Deadpool2'', his cancer comes back.

* Tragically {{Inverted}} in ''Literature/TheAbles''. It's mentioned that one of Phillip's classmates was born with Super Hearing but has since gone deaf.

* The short-lived series ''Series/{{MANTIS}}'' is about a wheelchair-bound man who creates an exoskeleton suit that gives him super-strength as well as the ability to walk.

* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': the same accident that blinded Matt Murdock also gave him heightened senses (including sight).
* ''Series/{{Legends of Tomorrow}}'': Nate's hemophilia was [[spoiler: "cured" an episode after he was introduced by getting injected with Super-Nazi syrum]]

* Of a sort in ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues''. Edward remains disabled from the waist down after he receives his superpower, but the clones that he creates don't necessarily have to share his disability. He first discovered this when he found an injured Nurse Dini, and created a clone that could walk over and pick her up.

* This trope is parodied in ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'''s review of ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'', when a joke character named Angst first claims that he's deaf... and then immediately adds that his superpowers have given him superhearing. The Critic promptly {{lampshade}}s this.

* 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, but Toph's blindness was what led her to discover it herself. Toph can't "see" things that aren't touching the ground, or on non-earthen surfaces like wood.

* In one storyline of ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'', Bruce Banner is shot in the head while turning into the Hulk. With the Hulk's HealingFactor, he survives (and even manages to remain in control of it) but, since the bullet remains lodged in his brain, has to refrain from turning back into Banner at all costs or ''die immediately''. This continues until the Leader manages to remove the bullet.
* ComicBook/{{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 respectively is why he's out of his mind.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

* ''Anime/DragonBallSuperSuperhero'' shows that Gohan doesn't need his glasses when he turns [[GoldenSuperMode Super Saiyan]].

* 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 make him lose control of his powers and turns 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 back for the better.

* In ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', some of Gon's and Killua's opponents in the Heavens Arena received Nen powers at the cost of some of their limbs. To compensate, they use their powers to stay fully functional: The man who lost an arm learned to channel his life force into solid constructs and used it to make a substitute arm, the paraplegic boy in a wheelchair learned to emit his life force and uses it as a means of fast propulsion, and the man who outright ''lost'' his legs has learned to [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning spin really fast]] on his single peg leg to stay balanced and move about.

Tragically {{Inverted}} in ''Literature/TheAbles''. It's mentioned that one of Phillip's classmates was born with Super Hearing but has since gone deaf.

A character who had previously lost one of their senses, limbs, or the ability to use any of the above gains some {{Stock Superpowers|Index}} 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. The character may be a HenshinHero or have a SuperpoweredAlterEgo to explain why they are still disabled part-time.

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. The character may be a HenshinHero or have a SuperpoweredAlterEgo to explain why they are still disabled part-time.