History Main / FictionalDisability

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** Subverted with Sunny. Everyone thought she was disabled or deformed - her eyes are the wrong colour, she's too small, she doesn't have a stinger tail, and she just looks off - but she isn't. She's just a hybrid. Her father was [[spoiler:a [=NightWing=].]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw,'' the title character and all the men in his family suffer from a HereditaryCurse that makes them BornUnlucky and TheJinx. This is presented as if it were a sort of weird medical condition, with the whole family having CrazyPrepared habits to deal with it.

** In Tuuri's flashback to her childhood settlement that wouldn't let the non-immune come and go freely, her combination of wanderlust and lack of immunity play out like a DreamCrushingHandicap.
** Tuuri and Reynir need to wear breathing masks when they venture too far from the tank.

* The ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books treat [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent lycanthropy]] like this. Lupin regularly takes medication to alleviate the worst effects of his condition and required extensive accommodations during his school years. When his wife becomes pregnant, he worries "WhatIfTheBabyIsLikeMe"

** The Dagrenning program in Iceland exists to let non-immune parents have children that are The Immune.
** In Tuuri's flashback to her childhood settlement that wouldn't let the non-immune come and go freely, her combination of wanderlust and lack of immunity play out like a Dream-Crushing Handicap.

* Gems from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' are an artificially created for specific purposes in their FantasticCasteSystem. At times however, the circumstances of their "birth" leave them with various defects of deformities, giving them different body-types and even differences in their powers, abilities and mindsets. These types of gems are referred to as "Off-Color." Due to the strict caste system, these gems are usually discarded, persecuted and even exterminated.

* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': Buwaro's birth defect, which makes him psychologically and physiologically different from normal demons. [[spoiler:He's naturally always in a Berzerk State. His necklace is what keeps him in check.]]

* Scootaloo from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is a downplayed example. She's a pegasus filly who can't fly, even though her classmates can, but the show is deliberately vague about whether Scootaloo is permanently disabled or just a late bloomer.
* Tempest Shadow from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'' has a broken horn as a result of an accident as a filly. While it doesn’t negate her ability to use magic entirely, her magic is erratic and unfocused compared to a unicorn with a full horn.

* Tempest Shadow from ‘’WesternAnimationMyLittlePonyTheMovie2017’’ has a broken horn as a result of an accident as a filly. While it doesn’t negate her ability to use magic entirely, her magic is erratic and unfocused compared to a unicorn with a full horn.

* Everyone in ''VideoGame/WeHappyFew'' is required to take Joy, a FantasticDrug that elevates mood and suppresses memories of [[NoodleIncident The Very Bad Thing]] that traumatized the entire city, Wastrels are immune to Joy's positive effects, and taking the drug only makes their mental issues worse.

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* Tavi, the main character of ''Literature/CodexAlera'', is unable to furycraft when every single other human in the world can. [[spoiler: This turns out to be a result of his mother stunting his abilities to avoid people realizing he's the heir to the throne. Given a few years to recover, he quickly gains enough power to make him a PersonOfMassDestruction.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', Tracer was displaced in time by an experimental aircraft she was test-piloting. She must wear (or at least be nearby) a device called a chronological accelerator to avoid simply fading out of existence. While this leaves her CursedWithAwesome (since it gives her the ability to teleport around or reverse time), it leaves her with a glaring weakness (as Doomfist demonstrated in his trailer when he damaged the accelerator and left Tracer to start uncontrollably shifting through time).

* The beginning of the {{Cyberpunk}} novel ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'' describes protagonist Case as a once-talented computer hacker who was rendered unable to access [[{{Cyberspace}} virtual cyberspace networks]], after his central nervous system was damaged with a mycotoxin as punishment for stealing from his employers. An offer Case receives to fix this damage is what sets the rest of the story's plot in motion.

* Webcomic/SlightlyDamned: Buwaro's birth defect, making him psycho / physio-logically different from normal demons. [[spoiler:He's naturally always in a Berzerk State. His necklace is what keeps him in check.]]

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* In ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'', the inventor of cybernetics, Hugh Darrow, has a rare condition that causes his body to reject any cybernetics all together (most people's bodies reject them to some degree, but this can be [[PhlebotinumPills controlled with medication]]). This means that he must walk with a cane. [[spoiler: His bitterness over this is why he takes part in the EvilPlan to turn the public against cybernetics.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', Tracer was displaced in time by an experimental aircraft she was test-piloting. She must wear (or at least be nearby) a device called a chronological accelerator to avoid simply fading out of existence. While this leaves her CursedWithAwesome (since it gives her the ability to teleport around or reverse time), it leaves her with a glaring weakness (as Doomfist demonstrated in his trailer).

* Scootaloo from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is a downplayed example. She's a pegasus filly who can't fly, even though her classmates can. But the show is deliberately vague about whether Scootaloo is permanently disabled, or just a late bloomer.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': Teclis is the greatest mage the Elves have ever produced (and one of the greatest mages in world history). He is also a ''ridiculously'' SquishyWizard, requiring healing potions just to stay alive, and having a limp uncurable by magic. By contrast, his brother Tyrion is an unpeered swordmaster.

* ''VideoGame/KidIcarus'': Pit has the classic [[WingsDoNothing "flying being that cannot fly" disability]] for some unexplained reason. It's quite the sore spot for him. In ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'', Palutena can grant Pit the Power of Flight to guide him places as if he were flying, but not for more than five minutes at a time, or else Pit's wings will come aflame. By contrast, his EvilKnockoff Dark Pit gained limitless flight under his own power by slaying Pandora and plundering her powers [[spoiler: until he traveled to the Rewind Spring, where Pandora revived herself from said powers]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries, Baby Doll suffers from "systemic hypoplasia"[[note]]Real medical terminology for a non-existent condition (hypoplasia is when someone is born with an organ that isn't properly developed)[[/note]], [[NotGrowingUpSucks meaning that she can never grow]], and resembles a little girl despite being well into adulthood.

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