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* Seteth and Flayn from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' qualify for the "fantastic condition" category. [[spoiler:They're part of the Nabatean race, people who can normlly transform into draconic forms. Neither of them have their dragon forms shown on-screen though, unlike Rhea (who is shown transforming in both the ''Crimson Flower'' and ''Silver Snow'' routes) or Indech and Macuil (who are only ever seen in their dragon forms). Seteth specifically mentions having "lost" his ability to transform, while Flayn suffered heavy injuries that caused her to sleep for several hundred years to heal. Presumably, they both suffered some kind of physical damage that keeps them from transforming.]] While they have few difficulties with things most normal people do, [[spoiler:they're both permanently locked out of an ability that most of their species has]].

* ''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 travelled to the Rewind Spring, where Pandora revived herself from said powers]].

** Eda's curse where she turns into a massive owl beast is treated as if it were a disability in-universe. She takes potions to suppress the transformation, things like stress and sleep deprivation can make it worse, and it affects her body in other ways as well, such as corrupting her magic and allowing her to detach her limbs at will. [[spoiler:Eda eventually comes to accept that her curse is never going to go away, and that learning to live with it is her best course of action]].

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E06Melora Melora]]", the eponymous character is [[{{Lightworlder}}from a planet with very low gravity]]. Most Elaysians never leave their homeworld for this reason. Melora adapting to "standard" gravity requires a special chair, which is treated as if it were a disability. She starts treatment that would make it possible for her to function completely normally in standard gravity but decides not to go through with it as it means she'd never be able to return to her homeworld.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E06Melora Melora]]", the eponymous character is from a planet with very low gravity. Most Elaysians never leave their homeworld for this reason. Melora adapting to "standard" gravity requires a special chair, which is treated as if it were a disability. She starts treatment that would make it possible for her to function completely normally in standard gravity but decides not to go through with it as it means she'd never be able to return to her homeworld.

* Starfire in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' season one finale is shown to have an allergy to metallic chromium, which for the plot is convenient since the TimeStandsStill bomb device Slade uses a good deal of it so they can track down its location by Starfire sneezing. As long as the other Titans don't stand too close to her when she sneezes and makes little explosions.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'': Wheezy's missing squeaker is treated as if it's this trope.

* ''Series/BlackBooks'': Played for laughs in an episode where Manny reveals to Bernard that he suffers from a condition called "Dave's Syndrome", which will cause bad things to happen if the temperature hits 88 degrees Fahrenheit. Bernard treats this as a joke and decides to deliberately make Manny overheat in order to see what will happen, but forgets about the whole thing by the end of the episode. The last shot is a trail of destruction and beaten-up bystanders leading to Manny jumping up and down on the bonnet of a car, waving a torch, naked except for a hot water bottle strapped to his groin and EAT ME painted on his torso, as a pair of pedestrians look at him sadly and one says to the other, "Poor bloke -- Dave's Syndrome".

** Many fan works expand on Scootaloo's canonical inability to fly. Some of them have her being told that she will never fly, and having to cope with that. Others suggest that there is hope for her to get flying, but she has some condition which would give her a harder time getting there than the average pegasus. A few of them have her flying with the aid of [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetic wings]], gliders, or other technology (just as many people with disabilities in real life use technology to compensate).

* Similarly, Unsouled from the ''Literature/CradleSeries'' are born with a weak soul that prevents them from doing the magic that even some plants and animals can do. They are banned from marriage lest they pass on their affliction, and are considered beneath contempt.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': The Golden Guard, aka Hunter, is incapable of doing magic without his staff, despite being a [[MageSpecies witch]]. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that he's actually a magically-created clone called a Grimwalker, although it's unknown if his lack of magic is because he was cloned from a human or if all Grimwalkers lack it regardless of what they were made from]].
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Gems are artificially created for specific purposes in their HiveCasteSystem. 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 gems' strict caste system, these are usually discarded, persecuted, and even exterminated:

** Because Earth's beta Kindergarten was made under lax conditions in a hurry due to an ongoing war, most of the quartzes made there likewise deviate from their intended build. Carnelian has a figure similar to Amethyst, while Skinny Jasper is very thin.

* ''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 travelled to the Rewind Spring, where Pandora revived herself from said powers]].

** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'': Tempest Shadow has a broken horn as a result of an accident as a filly. While it doesn't negate her ability to use magic entirely, she is unable to use even basic skills such as telekinesis and can only release her magic as an uncontrolled, destructive torrent of energy.[[note]]Her subsequent appearances in the IDW comic have her using telekinesis, but with a very different aura than a unicorn with an intact horn.[[/note]]

** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'': Tempest Shadow has a broken horn as a result of an accident as a filly. While it doesn't negate her ability to use magic entirely, she is unable to use even basic skills such as telekinesis and can only release her magic as an uncontrolled, destructive torrent of energy.[[note]]Her subsequent appearances in the IDW comic have her using telekinesis, but with a very different aura than a unicorn with an intact horn.[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': [[spoiler:The Golden Guard, aka Hunter]] is incapable of doing magic without [[spoiler:his]] staff, despite being a [[MageSpecies witch.]]

# Disabilities in non-humans with BizarreAlienBiology. (e.g. a member of a flying species who is effectively flightless).

This trope can be used as a way to write disabled characters in settings that have magic or technology which would fix most real-life disabilities, or to explore the social consequences of the magic and technology existing (although this can lead to a SpaceWhaleAesop; "Don't invent faster computers or people will lose the ability to eat plant matter!"). {{Cyberpunk}} and other social science fiction settings love using both variations, since including characters who can't benefit from the technology is a fascinating way of analysing its effect on society.

** The most frequently referenced is him having a "Narrow Urethra", which renders him ''nearly'' infertile. In reality, no such condition exists, and the width of the male urethra has no connection to fertility.
** Another episode reveals he suffers from a condition called "Diminished Gluteal Syndrome (DGS)", which basically means he "has no ass", forcing him to sit on a prosthetic buttocks. The condition is fictional, but the symptoms are in line with real conditions, such as Deep Gluteal Syndrom, Piriforis Syndrome, and Dead Butt Syndrome. The prosthesis is entirely fictional though.