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* Inverted in a ''TheBoondocks'' episode, in which Granddad gets tripped by a mean old blind and black man. Huey seems convinced that the man must be one of those Samurai, so sensitive ot movement around them that they are somehow superior fighters in battle compared to those with sight. Granddad spends a lot of time getting in shape preparing to get him back; but it turns out he was just a blind man who had gotten lucky, and ends up getting killed by Granddad. Oops.

* Shuh from ''{{Fist of the North Star}}'' is possibly the second deadliest master of the ''Nanto Seiken'' style next to Souther himself, despite having literally clawed out his own eyes years before the story begins.

** Tavros, who is wheelchair-ridden, not only gets a rocket chair but can also commune with animals. [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower YES, ANY ANIMAL.]]

* While his primary role in ''Corsair'' is that of an extreme [[TheWoobie woobie]], there is still a certain badassness about Canale, perhaps best exemplified by his effortless victory in a duel with another pirate, despite the fact that he's blind.

* Takehiko Inoue's ''Vagabond'' has a few of these. Ito who lost three fingers from his right hand leaving only his ring finger and pinky and still manages to floor Musashi with a palm strike (without even drawing his sword!). Kojiro Sasaki who was born deaf and main rival of Musashi. Sasaki's first teacher Kanemaki Jisai lost the ability to use his right arm after getting it injured in a fight and still keeps going. Master Fudo a guy who fought Kojiro was covered in scars and in his fight with Kojiro he lost his right arm and he thought it was "less distracting". Musashi himself qualifies as he fought at one point with only one eye and in another, on one leg.
* ''Blade of the Immortal'', [[Blood Knight]]/Terminator Shira lost his right hand. What does he do? Scrapes the flesh from his bones, then sharpens the bones in order to use them as weapons. Later, he loses his other hand and his left eye and still wants more.

* Forge, also of the X-Men. Got his arm and leg blown off in 'Nam, so what does he do? He ''built himself cooler ones.''

* The Condor Knight, from "The 7 Lives of the Sparrowhawk" ("Les 7 Vies de L'épervier" in French) is a hell of a kind. Despite losing an entire arm, an eye and being like, fifty years old, he is certainly the most dangerous swordsman of the entire world. With his handicaps, he has defeated more than 125 people in single combat and be said to have wiped out entire indians tribes and we don't even talk about before his accidents.

* Captain Storm in TheDCU. One eye, a woden leg and the toughest naval officer in WorldWarTwo. He had 18 issues of his own ttle and then served as commander of ''TheLosers''.

* In the Wolverine arc ''Old Man Logan'', aged Avenger Hawkeye is blind. However, his archery skills aren't diminished in the least, such as when [[spoiler: his captive daughter merely gives angles for him to hit the right target dead on]].

* In a once-popular and now-dead SailorMoon epic, Sailor Orion was blind in her civilian life but was still pretty awesome.

* ''Blind Fury'' is an American remake of film 17 of the Zatoichi series. It stars Rutger Hauer as an American soldier who gets blinded by an explosion during the VietnamWar. With the help of some friendly locals (shown via TrainingMontage) he learns to kick all kinds of ass while blind, then returns to America as a traveling swordsman.

*** Not really a handicap, though Your Mileage May Vary: chinese folklore and literature and film feature many eunuchs who achieve nearly-superhuman powers. Most notable is Pai Mei from ''Executioners from Shaolin, Clan of the White Lotus,'' and ''Kill Bill Volume 2''

* Sparky from ''Steel'' is crippled in a training accident, but makes up for it by loading her wheelchair with projectile weapons that she can fire while spinning the chair. As [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Nostalgia Critic]] put it, "Holy shit, that kicks ass! Okay, clearly this chick should have been the superhero."

* In Mary Gentle's ''The Golden Witchbreed'', Ruric ''amari'' is a one-armed warrior in a society where warriors fight with two swords, one in either hand. She is the T'An Commander of the army of the Southland.
* Stephen King's ''TheDarkTower''': Susannah Dean. Her legs were hit by a train as a child, but she still went on to join Roland's ''[[{{Nakama}} ka-tet]]'' and be ''awesome''.

* Bobby Clark in Dana Stabenow's ''Kate Shugak'' series of detective novels. Epitomises this trope by having no legs yet still being a ''very'' ScaryBlackMan when occasionally necessary.

* Captain Ahab, anyone?

* Gateman from AndrewVachss's Burke books is confined to a wheelchair, but enough of a crack shot that other cons respect him.
* [[spoiler:[[MagnificentBastard Gen]] ]]from Megan Whalen Turner's TheQueensThief fits this [[spoiler:after he loses his right hand. Even with that severe handicap, he's still more than a match for the ''entire Attolian Guard'' in one-on-one sparring matches]]. Of course, [[spoiler:he]] complains about it ''all the time'', but given this is [[spoiler:''Gen'']] we're talking about, it's anyone's guess how much is genuine Wangst and how much is just part of his XanatosGambit.

* SpaceAboveAndBeyond: [[ColonelBadass Lieutenant Colonel TC McQueen]]. He's not crippled in the sense that he lacks full control of his body, but because due to injuries in the opening days of the Chig War, he has an electronic implant in his brain that acts as his Inner Ear. If it is exposed to High-G maneuvers, it will explode, inducing a stroke. So when an alien [[AcePilot fighter ace]] shows up in his [[AceCustom nigh-invincible prototype fighter]] and starts tearing entire squadrons apart, McQueen has the implant removed, and learns to walk, run, do pushups and chinups, and fly a high-performance space fighter... ''all without a sense of balance''. [[spoiler: He fights the Chig ace one-on-one, and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome kicks his ass after a lengthy and pitched battle]].]]

** The white synthetic blood is a reference to {{Policenauts}}, which is supposedly set in the same universe as MetalGearSolid and {{Snatcher}} (although, obviously, the timeline has since undergone retcons). In {{Policenauts}}, the AP unit of the space station's police force were specifically grown to use white blood (which required regular transfusions) and the blood was so advanced compared to the natural red blood found in humans that someone could operate normally after suffering several dozen gunshots due to the blood loss having less of an effect on oxygen transportation.

* Venom, member of the rival guild ''Axis of Anarchy'' in TheGuild. Total badass.

* Inverted in a ''Boondocks'' episode, in which Granddad gets tripped by a mean old blind and black man. Huey seems convinced that the man must be one of those Samurai, so sensitive ot movement around them that they are somehow superior fighters in battle compared to those with sight. Granddad spends a lot of time getting in shape preparing to get him back; but it turns out he was just a blind man who had gotten lucky, and ends up getting killed by Granddad. Oops.

* Leela from Futurama counts, as she flies an intergalatic spaceship and kicks much ass despite no depth perception.

* Garrett ([[NamesTheSame another one?]]) from ''QuestForCamelot''. He's blind like [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Toph]] up there, but according to TheNostalgiaCritic, he "makes Daredevil look like an eight-year-old gymnast".

->''"Now damn it, cookie! Square that rig and approach the rail!!"''\\
-- '''The famous "12 steps" scene from the climax of Men Of Honor'''

->''"Ha! Never underestimate the abilities of the physically challenged!"''\\
-- '''Garrett Miller''' from ExtremeGhostbusters, after kicking the butts of two CIA agents from the confines of his wheelchair.

* Kaiser Wilhelm II had a whithered arm.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIBRSaGzuqY This 66 years old wheelchair bound man]] punch out two robbers away. Sure they got his wallet and his chain but they sure as hell had to fight for it.
* TheodoreRoosevelt, manliest US president in history, was asthmatic and blind in one eye. This did nothing to stop his incredibly athleticism, blackbelt in judo, amazing skill at boxing, ability to kill anything on the planet, or ability to give a ninety minute speech after being ''shot in the chest''. This is what is technically known as "going overboard in compensating for health issues".

* One word: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvarino_%28Mapuche%29 Galvarino]]. Granted, he was not handicapped at start, but still - did the Spanish think they could stop him by ''cutting both his hands?'' (And yes, he offered his other hand to be chopped as well.) Nope, his people, the Mapuche, just attached two blades to his stumps and he just got on kicking spaniard asses in the later battle, even though he and his warriors were still defeated.

* Wheelchair-bound Acro from ''AceAttorney''. Badass enough to [[spoiler: nearly get away with murder.]]

* [[MeaningfulName Kiling]] Meehilbis "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast of the Ghosts]]" in ''MitsumeteKnight'' is not only an Handicapped Badass due to his blindness, he's also a BadassGranpa ; yet he's the NumberTwo of the enemy mercenary brigade Valpha-Valaharian, a master [[TheSTrategist strategist]], and a powerful foe in battle using a SinisterScythe. {{Badass}} indeed!

** [[CompletelMonster Vri]][[HeroicSociopath ska]] is half blind and has a robotic replacement arm. She has managed to fuck up [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder both her allies and her enemies]] something fierce. [[spoiler: Shortly after Terezi masterminded the removal of her eye, arm, and Vision Eightfold, Vriksa picked herself up, still bleeding from her eye and stump, and mindcontrolled Tavros into mindcontrolling Terezi's in-egg lusus into mindcontroling her into walking out during the daytime and staring at the sun. She was the one who blinded Terezi.]]

** [[CompletelMonsterVri]][[HeroicSociopath ska]] is half blind and has a robotic replacement arm. She has managed to fuck up [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder both her allies and her enemies]] something fierce. [[spoiler: Shortly after Terezi masterminded the removal of her eye, arm, and Vision Eightfold, Vriksa picked herself up, still bleeding from her eye and stump, and mindcontrolled Tavros into mindcontrolling Terezi's in-egg lusus into mindcontroling her into walking out during the daytime and staring at the sun. She was the one who blinded Terezi.]]

** To be precise, she becomes the greatest source of info in the DCU, leader of the {{Birds of Prey}}, member of the JLA, the hero who can pick up hundreds of millions from a supervillain's secret account and employ them somewhere else, the one who can ''break the Internet should she so wish''

* Terezi of ''{{Homestuck}}'' was blinded by an unfortunate "extreme [=LARPing=] accident", but more than makes up for it with her skill at both [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating other characters]] and beating up Imps in the Medium [[CaneFu with her cane.]]

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* [[CovertAffairs Auggie Anderson.]] Went blind on a special ops mission, learned Braille in two years, is ''head of tech ops'' at the CIA, and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome kicked the collective asses of two members of the Russian mob]], [[BeyondTheImpossible on a moving train]], ''while [[ShrtlessScene shirt]][[FetishFuel less]].''

* Malik from ''{{Assassins Creed}}''. He loses an entire arm early on and yet later leads five or six fellow assassins against a small army. Successfully. With him ''fighting in the front.''
** Only four guys, actually. And the small army was composed of ''fellow assassins'' who were BrainwashedAndCrazy at the time. So basically, Malik takes on a small army of men who have received the ''exact same training'' that he has, and he ''still'' kicks their asses. And considering that he preceded the asskicking of said army with a BigDamnHeroes moment by saving ''[[MemeticBadass Altaïr]]'', that entire part of the game serves as a BeyondTheImpossible CrowningMomentOfAwesome for Malik.