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* Hyakkimaru from ''{{Dororo}}'' is notable in that his eyes, nose, ears and ''all of his limbs'' are prosthetics, and yet he still manages to be a {{Badass}}. It helps that he has PsychicPowers that compensate for his missing parts, and that his prosthetic arms are where he keeps [[BladeBelowTheShoulder his swords]].

* Hyakkimaru from ''{{Dororo}}'' is notable in that his eyes, nose, ears and ''all of his limbs'' are prosthetics, and yet he still manages to be a {{Badass}}. It helps that his prosthetic arms are where he keeps [[BladeBelowTheShoulder his swords]].

* [[AloofBigBrother Sesshomaru]] from ''Inuyasha'' is missing one arm. This does not make him any less of a ''Badass''.

* [[spoiler: Jean Havoc.]] in ''FullmetalAlchemist''. Not to mention [[spoiler: Corporal Mustang in the first anime's movie.]]

** Other automail-using badasses include Paninya (automail legs with freakin' cannons in them) and lately in the manga, [[spoiler: Lan Fan, who not only battles through agonising automail surgery in record time, but has a retractable sword built into her arm.]]
** Unfortunately, [[spoiler: Roy]] is something of a subversion. While he's unquestionably one of the series' premier badasses, his [[spoiler: loss of eyesight]] comes so suddenly that he hasn't gotten a chance to figure out how to work around it. Which is a '''''BAD THING''''' when it's the FinalBattle and one of the heaviest hitters just became TheLoad.
*** It's quite possible it won't stay this way, though. [[spoiler: Roy]] lost his eyesight to the [[JerkassGods Truth]], who is a firm believer in EquivalentExchange. Truth always gives his victims greater knowledge and skill in alchemy as compensation. [[spoiler: Roy]] likely got something (maybe a DisabilitySuperpower) he just hasn't found it with all the other crap going on at the time.
**** You called it, as of chapter 107 he's back on the job [[spoiler: with less precision but more sheer power. He needs [[MeaningfulName Hawkeye]] to direct his aim, though.]]
** Arguably King Bradley in Brotherhood since he since he rarely takes off his eyepatch.

* Wheelchair-bound Acro from ''AceAttorney''. Badass enough to [[spoiler:nearly get away with murder.]] And Godot, who, [[spoiler:despite having to spend, it seems, half his life getting medical checks and is blind without his visor]] still manages to [[spoiler:retrain as a prosecutor, kill his dead girlfriend's mother, then, despite the fact that he should be too much of an emotional wreck to do so, manages to comfort his victim's terrified young niece, then prosecute the subsequent murder case and, well... generally be Godot.]]

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Allen_(drummer) Richard "Rick" Allen]], drummer for Def Leppard. He still plays with the band despite ''having lost his left arm in an accident''.

* Tony Iommi, guitarist of BlackSabbath, plays even after losing the tips of two fingers on his fretting hand in a welding accident.
** Similarly, Django Reinhart became famous as a guitar player after losing the use of two fingers on one hand in a fire.

* [[{{ptitleer2yom57x65f}} Jack Bauer]] has just joined this trope. ''24'' being the kind of show it is, we have to see if it sticks.

* Frank Grimes in ''TheWalkingDead'' gets his dominant hand chopped off about midway through the series. The other survivors force him to admit that he's much more vulnerable with the handicap, but necessity forces him to get out of a number of scrapes using his off-hand, and his tenacity makes him pretty badass.

** Zato-Ino the "blind swordspig" in ''UsagiYojimbo'' is an obvious ShoutOut to the character.
** As is Zato-1 from ''GuiltyGear'', though he doesn't fight with a sword. ("One" in Japanese is "ichi.")

* The eponymous heroes from the kung fu movies ''One-Armed Swordsman'' and ''One-Armed Boxer'' are all about this trope. In ''One-Armed Boxer vs. Flying Guillotine'', the Master of the Flying Guillotine is a blind man who uses his exceptional hearing. He goes on a killing spree hunting down one-armed men, several of whom are martial artists.
** Chinese films seem to have a thing for martial arts masters with disabilities. ''Crippled Avengers'' features a blind man with super-hearing, a deaf-mute with incredible eyesight, an armless man with deadly steel prosthetic arms, a legless man with iron legs and a severly mentally handicapped fighter who is nearly invincible.
*** 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 ''KillBill Volume 2''
**** Speaking of ''KillBill'',Elle Driver fits the trope.

* In ''{{Darkman}}'', Darkman's nemesis Durant has henchman with a wooden leg that hides a machinegun.
** The titular character is also a burn victim, who's lost his sense of touch as a result of the operation that keeps him from living in agony.
* In the newest ''[[Film/SherlockHolmes Sherlock Holmes]]'' movie, Doctor Watson walks with a cane, that doubles as a deft weapon when he goes into ass-kicking mode.
** During the movie, he's caught in an explosion and his arm winds up in a cast. Only moments later he is shown knuckling up with the bad guys as Holmes and Irene play with some terrorist contraption.

* Baiken from ''GuiltyGear'' is a {{Badass}} one-armed, one-eyed swordswoman.

*** It's quite possible it won't stay this way, though. [[spoiler: Roy]] lost his eyesight to the [[JerkassGods Truth]], who is a firm believer in equivelent exchange. Truth always gives his victims greater knowledge and skill in alchemy as compensation. [[spoiler: Roy]] likely got something (maybe a DisabilitySuperpower) he just hasn't found it with all the other crap going on at the time.

* Every person with a disability that dares to walk completely alone in Caracas, one of the most dangerous cities on earth (also very filthy and pretty much full of irregularities in the ground). And not only that, but also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5M3hUDHQfE&feature=related taking the subway.]]

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

** Ironically, his handicap was an '''advantage''' for him in air combat, because it took longer for him to black out while performing high G-force manuevers.

* [[WorldOfWarcraft Farseer Nobundo]] is not a draenei shaman; he is ''the'' draenei shaman. That said, he's also a gimpy, arthritic Broken.

** shortly after receiving his prosthetic legs Bader was told that he would never walk without crutches. His response? "I'll never walk '''with''' the bloody crutches.

* LoisMcMasterBujold's Miles Vorkosigan, whose brittle bones and stunted growth arguably enhance his badassitude.