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, the trope was redefined to tragically disabled love interests and renamed.
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Your studly, womanizing main man is walking down the school hall, and eyes a gorgeous woman he's never seen before. When he tries to start putting his moves on her, he finds out something.
She's blind.
Or deaf, or has a prosthetic leg, or something like that. But don't worry, she'll still probably fall for him anyways.
The Disabled Love Interest is a (usually [[GirlOfTheWeek temporary]]) LoveInterest, most often InspirationallyDisadvantaged. She'll overcome her challenges in the end, and have a steamy kiss while she's at it. Homework question: Why is she usually only temporary? UnfortunateImplications indeed.
Still, Administrivia/TropesAreTools. The love interest doesn't have to be InspirationallyDisadvantaged and can be a normal person with human thoughts and feelings, with CharacterDevelopment. Moreover, [[SexyFlaw the disability itself may serve as a romantic "turn-on" for the hero]].
See Also: CrazyInTheHeadCrazyInTheBed, BlindAndTheBeast, DelicateAndSickly, HandicappedBadass, and FlorenceNightingaleEffect. A downplayed version of the trope is a SpeechImpededLoveInterest.
She's blind.
Or deaf, or has a prosthetic leg, or something like that. But don't worry, she'll still probably fall for him anyways.
The Disabled Love Interest is a (usually [[GirlOfTheWeek temporary]]) LoveInterest, most often InspirationallyDisadvantaged. She'll overcome her challenges in the end, and have a steamy kiss while she's at it. Homework question: Why is she usually only temporary? UnfortunateImplications indeed.
Still, Administrivia/TropesAreTools. The love interest doesn't have to be InspirationallyDisadvantaged and can be a normal person with human thoughts and feelings, with CharacterDevelopment. Moreover, [[SexyFlaw the disability itself may serve as a romantic "turn-on" for the hero]].
See Also: CrazyInTheHeadCrazyInTheBed, BlindAndTheBeast, DelicateAndSickly, HandicappedBadass, and FlorenceNightingaleEffect. A downplayed version of the trope is a SpeechImpededLoveInterest.
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She's blind.
Or deaf, or
The Disabled Love Interest is a (usually [[GirlOfTheWeek temporary]]) LoveInterest, most often InspirationallyDisadvantaged. She'll overcome her challenges
Unfortunately, before the Anti-Ableism movement arose to demand proper representation, disabled characters only
Still, Administrivia/TropesAreTools. The love interest doesn't have to be
Why temporary, though? The answer is in the first paragraph. Whenever a disabled character enters a relationship or becomes romantically interested in someone, chances are that the couple is doomed to experience tragedy and disability-related conflict.
Maybe the disabled lover dies, perhaps by succumbing to a chronic illness. Maybe they are denied adequate accommodations, resulting in job/study opportunities being denied. Maybe their parents are ashamed and abuse them, leaving the abled love interest to pick up the pieces.
Do note that incapacitating mental illnesses also count here. In fact, physical and mental disabilities tend to be comorbid due to the trauma caused by the former leading to the latter, so they can
It doesn't matter whether the
See Also: CrazyInTheHeadCrazyInTheBed, BlindAndTheBeast, DelicateAndSickly,
Now, Administrivia/TropesAreTools, so while most early portrayals of such characters abound with UnfortunateImplications, some works use them to draw attention to the many challenges brought by disability and
Contrast BlindAndTheBeast (someone with a
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Clearing non-applicable examples for the rename to Tragically Disabled Love Interest (examples that don't explain the "tragedy" part), as well as ZCEs in general.
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* Bikko from ''Manga/KessonShojo'' [[VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo used to be]] the premier Disabled Love Interest on Website/FourChan.
* Cheza in ''Anime/WolfsRain'' is very pretty. She's also blind, and weak-bodied, but that never seems to trouble her. Of course, being not quite human she doesn't have any romantic interests, except for Kiba and he's a ''wolf''.
* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': Kagura was initially only trying to get Sesshomaru to kill Naraku for her and free her, but eventually fell in love with him somewhere along the line. Sesshomaru spends most of the story with a missing left arm but he's so powerful, his disability barely hinders him (in fact, he eventually admits it's made him stronger than he used to be). Part of why Kagura falls for him is precisely because he's so powerful even despite the disability. Sesshomaru is [[ImpliedLoveInterest implied]] to have feelings for Kagura as well.
* ''Manga/PerfectWorld'' is centred around this, with the slight twist that protagonist Tsugumi Kawana actually had a crush on her love interest Itsuki Ayakawa years ago in high school prior to him needing to use a wheelchair. It isn't revealed that in his young adulthood he had spinal injury until after they became reacquainted through their mutual work in interior design & architecture. The manga also uses its building industry elements to investigate accessibility issues in Japan.
* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', Sayaka's crush and childhood friend Kyosuke Kamijou got into an accident (which included the loss of mobility in his hand as well as difficulty to walk) and is bedridden because of it. Of course, due to Sayaka having access to a wish-granting entity, he doesn't stay disabled for long. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, he does not end up as her boyfriend after her wish, which, combined with several other factors, leads to her becoming a witch.]]
* ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** Edward Elric for Winry in the ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' manga and ''Brotherhood'' anime. Edward is the DisabledBadass protagonist who has an automail arm and leg, after losing them trying to revive his recently deceased mother.
** Rose in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' becomes a CuteMute as a result of severe trauma and is Edward's ImpliedLoveInterest. Her mental state is exploited by the ultimate villain and one of said villain's goals is to [[spoiler:swap bodies with Rose and rape Edward to be "loved" by Hohenheim's son.]]
* [[AcePilot Ayase]] from ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'' is the ThirdOptionLoveInterest for [[TheHero Shu]] [[spoiler:and also his only surviving love interest by the end of the last episode]]. She's also a wheelchair user, but that doesn't keep her from being a highly valuable asset for the protagonists.
** On the other hand, [[spoiler: Shu himself loses his right arm in episode 17 and his eyesight in episode 22.]]
* Averted in ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose''. Marie Mueller is a cute girl in a wheelchair and she clearly likes [[spoiler: male lead Lundi]], but it's just as clear that she'd ''never'' stand a chance against [[spoiler: his canon girlfriend Jeudi]].
* In season 3 of ''Anime/SonicX'', there have been some hints [[TimeSkip six years later]] between Chris Thorndyke and his childhood friend in a wheelchair, Helen.
* Cheza in ''Anime/WolfsRain'' is very pretty. She's also blind, and weak-bodied, but that never seems to trouble her. Of course, being not quite human she doesn't have any romantic interests, except for Kiba and he's a ''wolf''.
* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': Kagura was initially only trying to get Sesshomaru to kill Naraku for her and free her, but eventually fell in love with him somewhere along the line. Sesshomaru spends most of the story with a missing left arm but he's so powerful, his disability barely hinders him (in fact, he eventually admits it's made him stronger than he used to be). Part of why Kagura falls for him is precisely because he's so powerful even despite the disability. Sesshomaru is [[ImpliedLoveInterest implied]] to have feelings for Kagura as well.
* ''Manga/PerfectWorld'' is centred around this, with the slight twist that protagonist Tsugumi Kawana actually had a crush on her love interest Itsuki Ayakawa years ago in high school prior to him needing to use a wheelchair. It isn't revealed that in his young adulthood he had spinal injury until after they became reacquainted through their mutual work in interior design & architecture. The manga also uses its building industry elements to investigate accessibility issues in Japan.
* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', Sayaka's crush and childhood friend Kyosuke Kamijou got into an accident (which included the loss of mobility in his hand as well as difficulty to walk) and is bedridden because of it. Of course, due to Sayaka having access to a wish-granting entity, he doesn't stay disabled for long. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, he does not end up as her boyfriend after her wish, which, combined with several other factors, leads to her becoming a witch.]]
* ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** Edward Elric for Winry in the ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' manga and ''Brotherhood'' anime. Edward is the DisabledBadass protagonist who has an automail arm and leg, after losing them trying to revive his recently deceased mother.
** Rose in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' becomes a CuteMute as a result of severe trauma and is Edward's ImpliedLoveInterest. Her mental state is exploited by the ultimate villain and one of said villain's goals is to [[spoiler:swap bodies with Rose and rape Edward to be "loved" by Hohenheim's son.]]
* [[AcePilot Ayase]] from ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'' is the ThirdOptionLoveInterest for [[TheHero Shu]] [[spoiler:and also his only surviving love interest by the end of the last episode]]. She's also a wheelchair user, but that doesn't keep her from being a highly valuable asset for the protagonists.
** On the other hand, [[spoiler: Shu himself loses his right arm in episode 17 and his eyesight in episode 22.]]
* Averted in ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose''. Marie Mueller is a cute girl in a wheelchair and she clearly likes [[spoiler: male lead Lundi]], but it's just as clear that she'd ''never'' stand a chance against [[spoiler: his canon girlfriend Jeudi]].
* In season 3 of ''Anime/SonicX'', there have been some hints [[TimeSkip six years later]] between Chris Thorndyke and his childhood friend in a wheelchair, Helen.
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* Played with in a ''Manga/CaseClosed'' case. It features a blind, beautiful [[TheOjou and very rich]] woman named Kurumi Shudou... but instead of merely waiting around, she hires Kogoro to find [[ChildhoodFriendRomance the boy she once loved]], one that has a scar on his body. [[spoiler: Even more inverted when it turns out Kurumi ''already'' knew who the man was... her very [[UndyingLoyalty devoted]] and [[GreaterNeedThanMine humble]] [[SubordinateExcuse butler]], Taisuke Honya, so this was a BatmanGambit from Kurumi to make him come forward and let their shared feelings being known.]]
* Jun Misugi from ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'' had a [[HeartTrauma heart disease]], and he is ''[[ShipTease very]]'' [[ShipTease strongly hinted]] to have [[ChildhoodFriendRomance a relationship]] with his CuteSportsClubManager, Yayoi Aoba. When they were in elementary school, she even asked her their common friend [[TheHero Tsubasa]] if he could let Misugi win the match - it was the semi-final match in the tournament. (Which got Misugi [[BerserkButton REALLY]] [[DontYouDarePityMe angry]] for a while). Misugi eventually recovered by getting proper treatment, limiting his share of exercise until he was more or less healthy, and ultimately he returned to his soccer career - though he still has to deal with some handicaps (specifically, [[GlassCannon he has extremely limited stamina and can't play more than one half of a whole game]])
* [[GodEmperor Sankt Kaiser]] [[HandicappedBadass Olivie Sagebrecht]] of ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'' is revealed to have lost both arms at an early age and uses a pair of medieval ArtificialLimbs in their place. This didn't stop [[WarriorPrince Hegemon Claus Ingvalt]] from falling in love with her, even after he first laid eyes on her without her aforementioned ArtificialLimbs.
* Jun Misugi from ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'' had a [[HeartTrauma heart disease]], and he is ''[[ShipTease very]]'' [[ShipTease strongly hinted]] to have [[ChildhoodFriendRomance a relationship]] with his CuteSportsClubManager, Yayoi Aoba. When they were in elementary school, she even asked her their common friend [[TheHero Tsubasa]] if he could let Misugi win the match - it was the semi-final match in the tournament. (Which got Misugi [[BerserkButton REALLY]] [[DontYouDarePityMe angry]] for a while). Misugi eventually recovered by getting proper treatment, limiting his share of exercise until he was more or less healthy, and ultimately he returned to his soccer career - though he still has to deal with some handicaps (specifically, [[GlassCannon he has extremely limited stamina and can't play more than one half of a whole game]])
* [[GodEmperor Sankt Kaiser]] [[HandicappedBadass Olivie Sagebrecht]] of ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'' is revealed to have lost both arms at an early age and uses a pair of medieval ArtificialLimbs in their place. This didn't stop [[WarriorPrince Hegemon Claus Ingvalt]] from falling in love with her, even after he first laid eyes on her without her aforementioned ArtificialLimbs.
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* Togo from ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'' uses a wheelchair due to [[spoiler:injuries related to having previously been a [[MagicalGirlWarrior Hero]] and having lost the memories.]] She is the closest thing Yuna has to a love interest, being [[WordOfGay canonically]] in love with her and having high levels of [[ShipTease romantic subtext]] between the two. [[spoiler:Togo eventually recovers the use of her legs in the finale, along with everyone else's MagicalGirl related injuries healing.]]
* Miyako's crush Takaaki from ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'' is a boy she met as a little girl. Due to an illness, he is a wheelchair-using boy stuck in a hospital.
* Josee in ''Anime/JoseeTheTigerAndTheFish'' can't walk since birth and is mostly bound to her wheelchair.
* Miyako's crush Takaaki from ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'' is a boy she met as a little girl. Due to an illness, he is a wheelchair-using boy stuck in a hospital.
* Josee in ''Anime/JoseeTheTigerAndTheFish'' can't walk since birth and is mostly bound to her wheelchair.
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* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'':
** One of Jughead Jones's love interests in the early 1990s comics was Anita Chavita, a paraplegic with genius-level intellect. She looked as good as your average Archie girl but was stuck in a wheelchair.
** More recently, Archie himself dated Veronica's cousin Harper, who is an incomplete paraplegic. She's actually a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed of the late disabled author [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Kats Jewel Kats]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'': Barbara Gordon is a wheelchair user, but [[BadassBookworm she can still]] [[HandicappedBadass kick your ass]]. She is one of the main love interests to Dick Grayson, the first Robin and currently ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}. After the ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}} CosmicRetcon puts her back on her feet. However, in the new continuity, she was in a wheelchair for at least three years, and her status as a Disabled Love Interest is hardwired in her character, as almost everything reminding her of her past handicap (getting a gun pointed to her belly, seeing a wheelchair lift...) acts as a TraumaButton for her post-traumatic stress disorder. Babs herself attained one of these of her own now in Ricky, an ex-gang member who lost a leg in a robbery gone bad and chose to get out of the crime business.
* ''ComicBook/CreatureTech'': Katie. She's blind in one eye and has a withered hand. Dr. Ong falls in love with her and feels terrible for having mocked her back when they were in school together. Ong himself gets an alien symbiote attached to him [[CursedWithAwesome which he considers very disfiguring]]. At the end of the story, Ong gets access to a HealingPotion, but only enough for a single person, and he pointedly gives it to Katie rather than using it himself.
* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': Matt Murdock, who is blind, falls in love with a deaf woman, who in reality is a superheroine named "Echo".
** Matt Murdock also falls in love with an average blind woman, Milla Donovan.
* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'': Rillfisher went deaf, but that may have been after she and Treestump became an item. (Her deafness contributed to her death because she couldn't hear the breaking branch that fell on her.)
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Ben Grimm's blind girlfriend, now wife, Alicia Masters.
* ''ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger'': Cassandra Craft, the blind girlfriend of the Phantom Stranger.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Peter Parker dated Anna-Maria Marconi, a woman with dwarfism, in ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan2013''. [[spoiler: This was when Doctor Octopus's mind was in Peter Parker's body]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Subverted with the wheelchair user Lori Lemaris, whom Clark fell for in college. Turned out that she sat in a wheelchair with a blanket over her lap to hide the fact that [[spoiler: she was a mermaid]].
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersTillAllAreOne'': Disability is explored a bit with Knock Out's Conjux Endura (husband) Breakdown. While by Cybertronian standards he's considered able-bodied, in the speed-focused culture of Velocitron those born with larger slower frames, like Breakdown, are seen as disabled and accessibility is limited for them.
** One of Jughead Jones's love interests in the early 1990s comics was Anita Chavita, a paraplegic with genius-level intellect. She looked as good as your average Archie girl but was stuck in a wheelchair.
** More recently, Archie himself dated Veronica's cousin Harper, who is an incomplete paraplegic. She's actually a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed of the late disabled author [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Kats Jewel Kats]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'': Barbara Gordon is a wheelchair user, but [[BadassBookworm she can still]] [[HandicappedBadass kick your ass]]. She is one of the main love interests to Dick Grayson, the first Robin and currently ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}. After the ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}} CosmicRetcon puts her back on her feet. However, in the new continuity, she was in a wheelchair for at least three years, and her status as a Disabled Love Interest is hardwired in her character, as almost everything reminding her of her past handicap (getting a gun pointed to her belly, seeing a wheelchair lift...) acts as a TraumaButton for her post-traumatic stress disorder. Babs herself attained one of these of her own now in Ricky, an ex-gang member who lost a leg in a robbery gone bad and chose to get out of the crime business.
* ''ComicBook/CreatureTech'': Katie. She's blind in one eye and has a withered hand. Dr. Ong falls in love with her and feels terrible for having mocked her back when they were in school together. Ong himself gets an alien symbiote attached to him [[CursedWithAwesome which he considers very disfiguring]]. At the end of the story, Ong gets access to a HealingPotion, but only enough for a single person, and he pointedly gives it to Katie rather than using it himself.
* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': Matt Murdock, who is blind, falls in love with a deaf woman, who in reality is a superheroine named "Echo".
** Matt Murdock also falls in love with an average blind woman, Milla Donovan.
* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'': Rillfisher went deaf, but that may have been after she and Treestump became an item. (Her deafness contributed to her death because she couldn't hear the breaking branch that fell on her.)
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Ben Grimm's blind girlfriend, now wife, Alicia Masters.
* ''ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger'': Cassandra Craft, the blind girlfriend of the Phantom Stranger.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Peter Parker dated Anna-Maria Marconi, a woman with dwarfism, in ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan2013''. [[spoiler: This was when Doctor Octopus's mind was in Peter Parker's body]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Subverted with the wheelchair user Lori Lemaris, whom Clark fell for in college. Turned out that she sat in a wheelchair with a blanket over her lap to hide the fact that [[spoiler: she was a mermaid]].
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersTillAllAreOne'': Disability is explored a bit with Knock Out's Conjux Endura (husband) Breakdown. While by Cybertronian standards he's considered able-bodied, in the speed-focused culture of Velocitron those born with larger slower frames, like Breakdown, are seen as disabled and accessibility is limited for them.
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** One of Jughead Jones's love interests in the early 1990s comics was Anita Chavita, a paraplegic with genius-level intellect. She looked as good as your average Archie girl but was stuck in a wheelchair.
** More recently, Archie himself dated Veronica's cousin Harper, who is an incomplete paraplegic. She's actually a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed of the late disabled author [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Kats Jewel Kats]].
* ''ComicBook/CreatureTech'': Katie. She's blind in one eye and has a withered hand. Dr. Ong falls in love with her and feels terrible for having mocked her back when they were in school together. Ong himself gets an alien symbiote attached to him [[CursedWithAwesome which he considers very disfiguring]]. At the end of the story, Ong gets access to a HealingPotion, but only enough for a single person, and he pointedly gives it to Katie rather than using it himself.
* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': Matt Murdock, who is blind, falls in love with a deaf woman, who in reality is a superheroine named "Echo".
** Matt Murdock also falls in love with an average blind woman, Milla Donovan.
* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'': Rillfisher went deaf, but that may have been after she and Treestump became an item. (Her deafness contributed to her death because she couldn't hear the breaking branch that fell on her.)
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Ben Grimm's blind girlfriend, now wife, Alicia Masters.
* ''ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger'': Cassandra Craft, the blind girlfriend of the Phantom Stranger.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Peter Parker dated Anna-Maria Marconi, a woman with dwarfism, in ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan2013''. [[spoiler: This was when Doctor Octopus's mind was in Peter Parker's body]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Subverted with the wheelchair user Lori Lemaris, whom Clark fell for in college. Turned out that she sat in a wheelchair with a blanket over her lap to hide the fact that [[spoiler: she was a mermaid]].
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersTillAllAreOne'': Disability is explored a bit with Knock Out's Conjux Endura (husband) Breakdown. While by Cybertronian standards he's considered able-bodied, in the speed-focused culture of Velocitron those born with larger slower frames, like Breakdown, are seen as disabled and accessibility is limited for them.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' fanfic ''Fanfic/CafeLiegeois'' Anna falls for a blind woman named Elsa that she [[MeetCute meets at a cafe]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' fic ''Fanfic/BlackAsNight'', Astrid still falls for Hiccup even after she accidentally blinds him during dragon training.
* The ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9901930/1/Twist-of-fate Twist of fate]]" has this apply to Tori ''and'' Jade; Jade was blinded by a stroke a few months before Tori started at Hollywood Arts, and Tori was left paralyzed from the waist down in the same accident that killed her mother and Trina.
* In ''Fanfic/ClaroDeLuna'', Princess Luna falls for Octavia, a mute cellist.
* ''Fanfic/TrustingInFaith'' is a ''Wicked'' oneshot where Glinda [[SettleForSibling begins dating Elphaba's sister]] after Elphaba drops out of Shiz. Elphaba's younger sister Nessarose was born without arms.
* Both of Winry's love interests in ''Fanfic/ThePlanets'' count: Her [[TheLostLenore unobtainable]] FirstLove Edward has an automail arm and leg, while she falls for the partially-blind Roy when he turns up at her house needing an automail arm.
* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'', Shisui had his left eye stolen by Danzo shortly before he and Shizune started dating (Itachi mentions the possibility of getting a transplant [[spoiler:due to all the spares laying around from the failed Uchiha coup]], but he turns down the offer). [[spoiler:He does eventually get the original back, but this is long after he and Shizune get married.]]
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12652830/chapters/28835313 Repair the Damage]]'', [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Skywarp]] falls in love with Soundwave, who is blind in this fic.
* In the ''Series/LawAndOrderUK '' story [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7706832/1/Surviving Surviving]], Matt recovers from his shooting, but is left paralyzed from the waist down. This doesn't stop him and Alesha from getting together and the story finds them HappilyMarried (or cohabiting at the very least) and expecting their first child.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' fanfic ''Fanfic/CafeLiegeois'' Anna falls for a blind woman named Elsa that she [[MeetCute meets at a cafe]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' fic ''Fanfic/BlackAsNight'', Astrid still falls for Hiccup even after she accidentally blinds him during dragon training.
* The ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9901930/1/Twist-of-fate Twist of fate]]" has this apply to Tori ''and'' Jade; Jade was blinded by a stroke a few months before Tori started at Hollywood Arts, and Tori was left paralyzed from the waist down in the same accident that killed her mother and Trina.
* In ''Fanfic/ClaroDeLuna'', Princess Luna falls for Octavia, a mute cellist.
* ''Fanfic/TrustingInFaith'' is a ''Wicked'' oneshot where Glinda [[SettleForSibling begins dating Elphaba's sister]] after Elphaba drops out of Shiz. Elphaba's younger sister Nessarose was born without arms.
* Both of Winry's love interests in ''Fanfic/ThePlanets'' count: Her [[TheLostLenore unobtainable]] FirstLove Edward has an automail arm and leg, while she falls for the partially-blind Roy when he turns up at her house needing an automail arm.
* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'', Shisui had his left eye stolen by Danzo shortly before he and Shizune started dating (Itachi mentions the possibility of getting a transplant [[spoiler:due to all the spares laying around from the failed Uchiha coup]], but he turns down the offer). [[spoiler:He does eventually get the original back, but this is long after he and Shizune get married.]]
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12652830/chapters/28835313 Repair the Damage]]'', [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Skywarp]] falls in love with Soundwave, who is blind in this fic.
* In the ''Series/LawAndOrderUK '' story [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7706832/1/Surviving Surviving]], Matt recovers from his shooting, but is left paralyzed from the waist down. This doesn't stop him and Alesha from getting together and the story finds them HappilyMarried (or cohabiting at the very least) and expecting their first child.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' fic ''Fanfic/BlackAsNight'', Astrid still falls for Hiccup even
* The ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9901930/1/Twist-of-fate Twist
* ''Film/LuckyStar'': Tim and Mary have a
* In ''Fanfic/ClaroDeLuna'', Princess Luna falls for Octavia, a mute cellist.
* ''Fanfic/TrustingInFaith'' is a ''Wicked'' oneshot where Glinda [[SettleForSibling begins dating Elphaba's sister]] after Elphaba drops out of Shiz. Elphaba's younger sister Nessarose was born without arms.
* Both of Winry's love interests in ''Fanfic/ThePlanets'' count: Her [[TheLostLenore unobtainable]] FirstLove Edward has an automail arm and leg, while she falls for the partially-blind Roy when he turns up at her house needing an automail arm.
* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'', Shisui had his left eye stolen by Danzo shortly before he and Shizune started dating (Itachi mentions the possibility of getting a transplant [[spoiler:due to all the spares laying around from the failed Uchiha coup]],
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12652830/chapters/28835313 Repair the Damage]]'', [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Skywarp]] falls in love with Soundwave, who is blind in this fic.
* In the ''Series/LawAndOrderUK '' story [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7706832/1/Surviving Surviving]], Matt recovers from his shooting, but is left paralyzed from the waist down. This
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* Francis from ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'' bonds with a pretty female cat named Felicity, who is blind. [[spoiler:She gets beheaded minutes after being introduced.]] Francis later meets another cat but according to the books, it was a noncommittal sex-filled fling.
* Another male example is Garrett from ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'', who is blind and certainly "pretty" enough to become [[ActionGirl Kayley's]] love interest [[spoiler: and be with her in the end]]. This is actually a rare example of this trope done well, as he [[spoiler:isn't magically cured of his disability by the end of the movie]], as so often happens, and also doesn't define himself by his blindness:
-->'''Kayley:''' Why won't you look at me when I'm talking to you? ...Oh. Oh, I didn't realize you were...\\
'''Garrett:''' What? Tall? Rugged? Handsome?\\
'''Kayley:''' ...Blind.\\
'''Garrett:''' Oh yeah, I always forget that one.
* Francis from ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'' bonds with a pretty female cat named Felicity, who is blind. [[spoiler:She gets beheaded minutes after being introduced.]] Francis later meets another cat but according to the books, it was a noncommittal sex-filled fling.
* Another male example is Garrett from ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'', who is blind and certainly "pretty" enough to become [[ActionGirl Kayley's]] love interest [[spoiler: and be with her in the end]]. This is actually a rare example of this trope done well, as he [[spoiler:isn't magically cured of his disability by the end of the movie]], as so often happens, and also doesn't define himself by his blindness:
-->'''Kayley:''' Why won't you look at me when I'm talking to you? ...Oh. Oh, I didn't realize you were...\\
'''Garrett:''' What? Tall? Rugged? Handsome?\\
'''Kayley:''' ...Blind.\\
'''Garrett:''' Oh yeah, I always forget that one.
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* Ian Stott of Cherie Priest's ''Bloodshot'' fulfills this trope. He's a handsome, charming, urbane vampire who was [[spoiler:blinded by government experiments]].
* As a teenager, the protagonist of ''The Shadow of the Wind'' falls in love with an older woman who is blind.
* In ''Literature/ThingsNotSeen'' by Andrew Clemens, Bobby falls in love with a blind girl.
* In ''Hornet's Sting'' by Creator/DerekRobinson, Major Cleve-Cutler falls in love with a beautiful woman who happens to have lost a leg (we never find out how).
* In the ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novels, deaf sniper Nessa is repeatedly referred to as attractive or downright beautiful.
* Dea in ''Literature/TheManWhoLaughs'' is a beautiful and virtuous blind girl and the primary love interest of the protagonist.
* It's not acknowledged at first since Du Ze in ''Literature/TheReaderAndProtagonistDefinitelyHaveToBeInTrueLove'' tried to hide it, but after a traumatic incident, he reveals that he is deaf and his so-called headphones are actually somewhat old school hearing aids.
* Amy a.k.a. Cucumber from ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'' is missing a hand, which the protagonist Dave interestingly enough doesn't discover until midway through the novel.
* Theodora "Teddy" Carella, the hot wife of Detective Steve Carella, in the ''Literature/EightySeventhPrecinct'' novels by Ed [=McBain=].
* Jeffrey Deaver's LincolnRhymes series features the titular crime scene investigator who also happens to be a quadriplegic. He ends up dating his FairCop partner Sachs.
* [[spoiler:Peeta]] from ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' becomes this to [[spoiler:Katniss]] after losing a leg in the arena. Averted in the film adaptation, where he gets to keep his leg for practical reasons.
* [[spoiler:Thorgil, Jack's]] love interest in ''Literature/TheSeaOfTrolls'', becomes this after she quite literally [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu breaks her hand punching out Satan]].
* In ''Literature/RedDragon'' (and [[Film/RedDragon both]] of the [[Film/ManHunter movies]] based on it), Francis
* Another male example
** She's also lusted after by
-->'''Kayley:''' Why won't you look at me
** Also has aspects of BlindAndTheBeast, as Dolarhyde's cleft lip and abusive upbringing have convinced him he's a hideous freak. He's had enough reconstructive surgery and is in good enough shape that most women he knows actually find him quite attractive, but he doesn't realize that.
* Emily Alexander in ''Literature/HonorHarrington''. Although the disablement was after her marriage, it fits this trope because her husband never stopped loving her. [[spoiler:Not even [[ItMakesSenseInContext when
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Not a full-blown {{Love Interest|s}}, but there's some mutual flirting between [[CasanovaWannabe Marco]] and Collette, one of the disabled teenagers who make up the [[MauveShirt Auxiliary Animorphs]].
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Cloudtail fell for Brightheart before she was maimed but didn't
'''Garrett:''' What? Tall? Rugged? Handsome?\\
'''Kayley:''' ...Blind.\\
'''Garrett:''' Oh yeah, I always forget
* In ''Literature/TheGiverQuartet'', Kira becomes this to Jonas. She was born with a deformed leg and uses a cane to walk, and he calls her "beautiful" when he first meets her at the end of ''Literature/{{Messenger}}''. The "temporary" part is pleasantly averted, as they're married and have two children by the time of ''Literature/{{Son}}''. Even more fascinatingly, when her friend Matty discovered her power of HealingHands, he offered her to heal her leg, but [[KeepingTheHandicap she refused because her disability is intrinsic to who she is]].
** ''Literature/{{Son}}'' also has Einar for Claire. He's one of the few people in the seaside village who she really bonds with, continuing to treat her well even after finding out about her TeenPregnancy, and he's missing part of his foot. This one ''is'' temporary, due to the fact that
* Jetamio is a downplayed one to Thonolan in ''Literature/EarthsChildren''. She suffered seizures, one of which caused her to have partial paralysis that gives her a limp. However, she doesn't let it interfere with her life and is quite independent now she's recovered, nor does it have any bearing on how Thonolan feels about her. Sadly, her paralysis results in [[spoiler:childbirth complications, and [[DeathByChildbirth both she]] and [[TragicStillbirth her baby son die]], leaving Thonolan devastated]].
* Grace to Jonathan in ''Literature/LetMeCallYouSweetheart''. She didn't start out as disabled but suffered early on-set arthritis, which has steadily worsened over the years. She's now in her early sixties and can barely walk at all, relying on a wheelchair to get around and being mostly housebound as she finds it too difficult to go out. Jonathan still stands by his wife and does what he can to support her physically and emotionally; they clearly [[HappilyMarried love each other very much]]. It ends up being PlayedForDrama in the ending; [[spoiler:it's revealed that eleven years ago Jonathan had difficulty coming to terms with his wife's deteriorating health, compelling him to conduct an affair with Suzanne, whom he later killed. Part of the reason Jonathan is desperate to keep this from coming out is because he feels he must protect Grace, to the point he's willing to kill again]].
* Tariq to Laila in ''Literature/AThousandSplendidSuns''; he lost one of his legs to a landmine as a child and wears a prothesis. It doesn't bother Laila at all, though at one point she gets upset when he talks about the occasional physical discomfort it causes. She also hates it when people refer to Tariq as a "cripple" and fiercely defends him. When Tariq finds out Laila has been bullied by a local boy, he removes his prosthetic leg and uses it to beat up the bully to defend her honor. [[spoiler:After they're reunited, he also starts getting migraines (possibly as a side effect of PTSD), and Laila stays up with him at night when they strike, holding him and trying to comfort him]].
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* ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'': One of Barbarella's sex partners is the blind (and initially flightless) angel Pygar, who's also her most enduring ally.
* Madeleine Stowe in ''Film/{{Blink}}'' is blind. Before Aidan Quinn is assigned to her case, he sees her on stage playing the violin. Hoping to catch her eye, he strips down to his underwear while dancing to her music; he is put out when she doesn't even notice him. Another character tells Stowe's character about it later, saying that he was a "big showoff." Her response: "How big?"
* ''Film/TheInvincibleFist'' is an old martial arts film revolving around a MasterSwordsman and his lover, a blind waitress who [[spoiler:turns out to be the daughter of the BigBad]].
* Subverted in ''Film/ShallowHal''. Hal is BlessedWithSuck ([[AnAesop or maybe]] CursedWithAwesome) and sees women as attractive based on their "inner beauty". As a result, the disability part is hidden (particularly in the case of disfigurements) and the "hottie" part an illusion.
* In ''Literature/{{Crash}}'' (the one by David Cronenberg), a woman with leg braces and pretty bad scars on her legs fascinates a number of men ([[EvenTheGirlsWantHer and one woman]]) in a sexually fetishistic way.
* In ''Film/{{Mask|1985}}'', Rocky Dennis falls in love with a beautiful blind girl. This is an interesting subversion because ''he'' is the InspirationallyDisabled one, not her.
* ''Film/TheToxicAvenger'' from the Creator/{{Troma}} trash movies has a hot girlfriend who's blind. Very convenient since he's monster-like ugly. See also BlindAndTheBeast.
* In ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'', Gord meets a wheelchair-using nurse named Betty while at the hospital impersonating a doctor. She turns out to have a somewhat unsettling obsession with fellatio and dreams of building a rocket-powered wheelchair.
* Creator/CharlieChaplin falls in love with a blind woman in ''Film/CityLights''.
* Creator/MarleeMatlin in ''Film/ChildrenOfALesserGod''; see Theater, below.
* ''Film/AtFirstSight'' features a rare male example in Val Kilmer's blind character.
* ''Film/APatchOfBlue'': Selena Darcy is a blind love interest for Gordon.
* In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', it's hinted that [[spoiler:Charles briefly had a romance with Moira after his spinal cord injury, but he is forced to end their relationship to protect himself and his students from the CIA]].
* ''Film/HeWasAQuietMan'': Venessa becomes one for Maconel after she loses the use of her legs as a result of the office shooting and is confined to a wheelchair, in part because he feels guilty first that he didn't save her from being shot and later [[spoiler:that he couldn't finish the job]].
* Inverted in ''Theatre/TheLightInThePiazza''. Clara has a childish mentality due to ChildhoodBrainDamage. While in Italy with her mother, she falls for a man. Clara's mother has difficulties telling Fabrizio and his family about her daughter's disability, in fear that they will reject her. [[spoiler:It works out in the end and the two get married.]]
* ''Film/LuckyStar'': Tim and Mary have a MeetCute before UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, but their romance doesn't really get underway until Tim comes home from the war--in a wheelchair.
* ''Literature/ToLive'': The mute Fengxia is introduced to Erxi who has a club foot. The friends and family think it's a good match specifically because they're both handicapped.
* In ''Film/NightSong'', Dan is a BlindMusician who Cathy falls for and wants him to start composing again.
* ''Film/StellaMaris'': Stella is in love with John. She's been bedridden and paralyzed her entire life. Halfway through the film [[ThrowingOffTheDisability she is able to walk]] thanks to surgery.
* Early on in ''Film/PlanetTerror'', Creator/RoseMcGowan loses a leg to zombies--right around the time she starts rekindling her relationship with Creator/FreddyRodriguez.
* ''Film/HeadInTheClouds'': Mia walks with a limp due to a leg injury during her youth. It turns out she'd previously been Gilda's lover and has a mutual attraction with Guy.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Ian Stott of Cherie Priest's ''Bloodshot'' fulfills this trope. He's a handsome, charming, urbane vampire who was [[spoiler:blinded by government experiments]].
* As a teenager, the protagonist of ''The Shadow of the Wind'' falls in love with an older woman who is blind.
* In ''Literature/ThingsNotSeen'' by Andrew Clemens, Bobby falls in love with a blind girl.
* In ''Hornet's Sting'' by Creator/DerekRobinson, Major Cleve-Cutler falls in love with a beautiful woman who happens to have lost a leg (we never find out how).
* In the ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novels, deaf sniper Nessa is repeatedly referred to as attractive or downright beautiful.
* Dea in ''Literature/TheManWhoLaughs'' is a beautiful and virtuous blind girl and the primary love interest of the protagonist.
* It's not acknowledged at first since Du Ze in ''Literature/TheReaderAndProtagonistDefinitelyHaveToBeInTrueLove'' tried to hide it, but after a traumatic incident, he reveals that he is deaf and his so-called headphones are actually somewhat old school hearing aids.
* Amy a.k.a. Cucumber from ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'' is missing a hand, which the protagonist Dave interestingly enough doesn't discover until midway through the novel.
* Theodora "Teddy" Carella, the hot wife of Detective Steve Carella, in the ''Literature/EightySeventhPrecinct'' novels by Ed [=McBain=].
* Jeffrey Deaver's LincolnRhymes series features the titular crime scene investigator who also happens to be a quadriplegic. He ends up dating his FairCop partner Sachs.
* [[spoiler:Peeta]] from ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' becomes this to [[spoiler:Katniss]] after losing a leg in the arena. Averted in the film adaptation, where he gets to keep his leg for practical reasons.
* [[spoiler:Thorgil, Jack's]] love interest in ''Literature/TheSeaOfTrolls'', becomes this after she quite literally [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu breaks her hand punching out Satan]].
* In ''Literature/RedDragon'' (and [[Film/RedDragon both]] of the [[Film/ManHunter movies]] based on it), Francis Dolarhyde is infatuated with a woman at work who is blind. She happens to mention she always wanted to "see" (by touching) a Bengal tiger. Dolarhyde knows about a nearby zoo where a tiger is having some dental work, requiring it to be sedated. He takes her along, she really touches the tiger quite closely, noticing everything about it, whereupon she is so happy by what he has done, that she goes home with him and screws his brains out. She is clearly blind, but she's got no problem doing vigorous woman-on-top-sex with the essentially clueless Dolarhyde. Sadly, she doesn't realize he's a SerialKiller.
** She's also lusted after by one of her other coworkers. As much of a jerk as the guy is, we never once get the impression that he's pursuing her to satisfy some kink or fetish of his, nor out of pity. He's just a typical horndog chasing after a pretty girl.
** Also has aspects of BlindAndTheBeast, as Dolarhyde's cleft lip and abusive upbringing have convinced him he's a hideous freak. He's had enough reconstructive surgery and is in good enough shape that most women he knows actually find him quite attractive, but he doesn't realize that.
* Emily Alexander in ''Literature/HonorHarrington''. Although the disablement was after her marriage, it fits this trope because her husband never stopped loving her. [[spoiler:Not even [[ItMakesSenseInContext when they marry someone else]].]]
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Not a full-blown {{Love Interest|s}}, but there's some mutual flirting between [[CasanovaWannabe Marco]] and Collette, one of the disabled teenagers who make up the [[MauveShirt Auxiliary Animorphs]].
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Cloudtail fell for Brightheart before she was maimed but didn't begin courting her until after the incident. Brightheart was mauled by a dog, which left her with serious facial scarring and only one eye.
* In ''Literature/TheGiverQuartet'', Kira becomes this to Jonas. She was born with a deformed leg and uses a cane to walk, and he calls her "beautiful" when he first meets her at the end of ''Literature/{{Messenger}}''. The "temporary" part is pleasantly averted, as they're married and have two children by the time of ''Literature/{{Son}}''. Even more fascinatingly, when her friend Matty discovered her power of HealingHands, he offered her to heal her leg, but [[KeepingTheHandicap she refused because her disability is intrinsic to who she is]].
** ''Literature/{{Son}}'' also has Einar for Claire. He's one of the few people in the seaside village who she really bonds with, continuing to treat her well even after finding out about her TeenPregnancy, and he's missing part of his foot. This one ''is'' temporary, due to the fact that Claire has to leave [[spoiler:so she can find Gabriel]].
* Jetamio is a downplayed one to Thonolan in ''Literature/EarthsChildren''. She suffered seizures, one of which caused her to have partial paralysis that gives her a limp. However, she doesn't let it interfere with her life and is quite independent now she's recovered, nor does it have any bearing on how Thonolan feels about her. Sadly, her paralysis results in [[spoiler:childbirth complications, and [[DeathByChildbirth both she]] and [[TragicStillbirth her baby son die]], leaving Thonolan devastated]].
* Grace to Jonathan in ''Literature/LetMeCallYouSweetheart''. She didn't start out as disabled but suffered early on-set arthritis, which has steadily worsened over the years. She's now in her early sixties and can barely walk at all, relying on a wheelchair to get around and being mostly housebound as she finds it too difficult to go out. Jonathan still stands by his wife and does what he can to support her physically and emotionally; they clearly [[HappilyMarried love each other very much]]. It ends up being PlayedForDrama in the ending; [[spoiler:it's revealed that eleven years ago Jonathan had difficulty coming to terms with his wife's deteriorating health, compelling him to conduct an affair with Suzanne, whom he later killed. Part of the reason Jonathan is desperate to keep this from coming out is because he feels he must protect Grace, to the point he's willing to kill again]].
* Tariq to Laila in ''Literature/AThousandSplendidSuns''; he lost one of his legs to a landmine as a child and wears a prothesis. It doesn't bother Laila at all, though at one point she gets upset when he talks about the occasional physical discomfort it causes. She also hates it when people refer to Tariq as a "cripple" and fiercely defends him. When Tariq finds out Laila has been bullied by a local boy, he removes his prosthetic leg and uses it to beat up the bully to defend her honor. [[spoiler:After they're reunited, he also starts getting migraines (possibly as a side effect of PTSD), and Laila stays up with him at night when they strike, holding him and trying to comfort him]].
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* ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'': One of Barbarella's sex partners is the blind (and initially flightless) angel Pygar, who's also her most enduring ally.
* Madeleine Stowe in ''Film/{{Blink}}'' is blind. Before Aidan Quinn is assigned to her case, he sees her on stage playing the violin. Hoping to catch her eye, he strips down to his underwear while dancing to her music; he is put out when she doesn't even notice him. Another character tells Stowe's character about it later, saying that he was a "big showoff." Her response: "How big?"
* ''Film/TheInvincibleFist'' is an old martial arts film revolving around a MasterSwordsman and his lover, a blind waitress who [[spoiler:turns out to be the daughter of the BigBad]].
* Subverted in ''Film/ShallowHal''. Hal is BlessedWithSuck ([[AnAesop or maybe]] CursedWithAwesome) and sees women as attractive based on their "inner beauty". As a result, the disability part is hidden (particularly in the case of disfigurements) and the "hottie" part an illusion.
* In ''Literature/{{Crash}}'' (the one by David Cronenberg), a woman with leg braces and pretty bad scars on her legs fascinates a number of men ([[EvenTheGirlsWantHer and one woman]]) in a sexually fetishistic way.
* In ''Film/{{Mask|1985}}'', Rocky Dennis falls in love with a beautiful blind girl. This is an interesting subversion because ''he'' is the InspirationallyDisabled one, not her.
* ''Film/TheToxicAvenger'' from the Creator/{{Troma}} trash movies has a hot girlfriend who's blind. Very convenient since he's monster-like ugly. See also BlindAndTheBeast.
* In ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'', Gord meets a wheelchair-using nurse named Betty while at the hospital impersonating a doctor. She turns out to have a somewhat unsettling obsession with fellatio and dreams of building a rocket-powered wheelchair.
* Creator/CharlieChaplin falls in love with a blind woman in ''Film/CityLights''.
* Creator/MarleeMatlin in ''Film/ChildrenOfALesserGod''; see Theater, below.
* ''Film/AtFirstSight'' features a rare male example in Val Kilmer's blind character.
* ''Film/APatchOfBlue'': Selena Darcy is a blind love interest for Gordon.
* In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', it's hinted that [[spoiler:Charles briefly had a romance with Moira after his spinal cord injury, but he is forced to end their relationship to protect himself and his students from the CIA]].
* ''Film/HeWasAQuietMan'': Venessa becomes one for Maconel after she loses the use of her legs as a result of the office shooting and is confined to a wheelchair, in part because he feels guilty first that he didn't save her from being shot and later [[spoiler:that he couldn't finish the job]].
* Inverted in ''Theatre/TheLightInThePiazza''. Clara has a childish mentality due to ChildhoodBrainDamage. While in Italy with her mother, she falls for a man. Clara's mother has difficulties telling Fabrizio and his family about her daughter's disability, in fear that they will reject her. [[spoiler:It works out in the end and the two get married.]]
* ''Film/LuckyStar'': Tim and Mary have a MeetCute before UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, but their romance doesn't really get underway until Tim comes home from the war--in a wheelchair.
* ''Literature/ToLive'': The mute Fengxia is introduced to Erxi who has a club foot. The friends and family think it's a good match specifically because they're both handicapped.
* In ''Film/NightSong'', Dan is a BlindMusician who Cathy falls for and wants him to start composing again.
* ''Film/StellaMaris'': Stella is in love with John. She's been bedridden and paralyzed her entire life. Halfway through the film [[ThrowingOffTheDisability she is able to walk]] thanks to surgery.
* Early on in ''Film/PlanetTerror'', Creator/RoseMcGowan loses a leg to zombies--right around the time she starts rekindling her relationship with Creator/FreddyRodriguez.
* ''Film/HeadInTheClouds'': Mia walks with a limp due to a leg injury during her youth. It turns out she'd previously been Gilda's lover and has a mutual attraction with Guy.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* Ian Stott of Cherie Priest's ''Bloodshot'' fulfills this trope. He's a handsome, charming, urbane vampire who was [[spoiler:blinded by government experiments]].
* As a teenager, the protagonist of ''The Shadow of the Wind'' falls in love with an older woman who is blind.
* In ''Literature/ThingsNotSeen'' by Andrew Clemens, Bobby falls in love with a blind girl.
* In ''Hornet's Sting'' by Creator/DerekRobinson, Major Cleve-Cutler falls in love with a beautiful woman who happens to have lost a leg (we never find out how).
* In the ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novels, deaf sniper Nessa is repeatedly referred to as attractive or downright beautiful.
* Dea in ''Literature/TheManWhoLaughs'' is a beautiful and virtuous blind girl and the primary love interest of the protagonist.
* It's not acknowledged at first since Du Ze in ''Literature/TheReaderAndProtagonistDefinitelyHaveToBeInTrueLove'' tried to hide it, but after a traumatic incident, he reveals that he is deaf and his so-called headphones are actually somewhat old school hearing aids.
* Amy a.k.a. Cucumber from ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'' is missing a hand, which the protagonist Dave interestingly enough doesn't discover until midway through the novel.
* Theodora "Teddy" Carella, the hot wife of Detective Steve Carella, in the ''Literature/EightySeventhPrecinct'' novels by Ed [=McBain=].
* Jeffrey Deaver's LincolnRhymes series features the titular crime scene investigator who also happens to be a quadriplegic. He ends up dating his FairCop partner Sachs.
* [[spoiler:Peeta]] from ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' becomes this to [[spoiler:Katniss]] after losing a leg in the arena. Averted in the film adaptation, where he gets to keep his leg for practical reasons.
* [[spoiler:Thorgil, Jack's]] love interest in ''Literature/TheSeaOfTrolls'', becomes this after she quite literally [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu breaks her hand punching out Satan]].
* In ''Literature/RedDragon'' (and [[Film/RedDragon both]] of the [[Film/ManHunter movies]] based on it), Francis Dolarhyde is infatuated with a woman at work who is blind. She happens to mention she always wanted to "see" (by touching) a Bengal tiger. Dolarhyde knows about a nearby zoo where a tiger is having some dental work, requiring it to be sedated. He takes her along, she really touches the tiger quite closely, noticing everything about it, whereupon she is so happy by what he has done, that she goes home with him and screws his brains out. She is clearly blind, but she's got no problem doing vigorous woman-on-top-sex with the essentially clueless Dolarhyde. Sadly, she doesn't realize he's a SerialKiller.
** She's also lusted after by one of her other coworkers. As much of a jerk as the guy is, we never once get the impression that he's pursuing her to satisfy some kink or fetish of his, nor out of pity. He's just a typical horndog chasing after a pretty girl.
** Also has aspects of BlindAndTheBeast, as Dolarhyde's cleft lip and abusive upbringing have convinced him he's a hideous freak. He's had enough reconstructive surgery and is in good enough shape that most women he knows actually find him quite attractive, but he doesn't realize that.
* Emily Alexander in ''Literature/HonorHarrington''. Although the disablement was after her marriage, it fits this trope because her husband never stopped loving her. [[spoiler:Not even [[ItMakesSenseInContext when they marry someone else]].]]
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Not a full-blown {{Love Interest|s}}, but there's some mutual flirting between [[CasanovaWannabe Marco]] and Collette, one of the disabled teenagers who make up the [[MauveShirt Auxiliary Animorphs]].
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Cloudtail fell for Brightheart before she was maimed but didn't begin courting her until after the incident. Brightheart was mauled by a dog, which left her with serious facial scarring and only one eye.
* In ''Literature/TheGiverQuartet'', Kira becomes this to Jonas. She was born with a deformed leg and uses a cane to walk, and he calls her "beautiful" when he first meets her at the end of ''Literature/{{Messenger}}''. The "temporary" part is pleasantly averted, as they're married and have two children by the time of ''Literature/{{Son}}''. Even more fascinatingly, when her friend Matty discovered her power of HealingHands, he offered her to heal her leg, but [[KeepingTheHandicap she refused because her disability is intrinsic to who she is]].
** ''Literature/{{Son}}'' also has Einar for Claire. He's one of the few people in the seaside village who she really bonds with, continuing to treat her well even after finding out about her TeenPregnancy, and he's missing part of his foot. This one ''is'' temporary, due to the fact that Claire has to leave [[spoiler:so she can find Gabriel]].
* Jetamio is a downplayed one to Thonolan in ''Literature/EarthsChildren''. She suffered seizures, one of which caused her to have partial paralysis that gives her a limp. However, she doesn't let it interfere with her life and is quite independent now she's recovered, nor does it have any bearing on how Thonolan feels about her. Sadly, her paralysis results in [[spoiler:childbirth complications, and [[DeathByChildbirth both she]] and [[TragicStillbirth her baby son die]], leaving Thonolan devastated]].
* Grace to Jonathan in ''Literature/LetMeCallYouSweetheart''. She didn't start out as disabled but suffered early on-set arthritis, which has steadily worsened over the years. She's now in her early sixties and can barely walk at all, relying on a wheelchair to get around and being mostly housebound as she finds it too difficult to go out. Jonathan still stands by his wife and does what he can to support her physically and emotionally; they clearly [[HappilyMarried love each other very much]]. It ends up being PlayedForDrama in the ending; [[spoiler:it's revealed that eleven years ago Jonathan had difficulty coming to terms with his wife's deteriorating health, compelling him to conduct an affair with Suzanne, whom he later killed. Part of the reason Jonathan is desperate to keep this from coming out is because he feels he must protect Grace, to the point he's willing to kill again]].
* Tariq to Laila in ''Literature/AThousandSplendidSuns''; he lost one of his legs to a landmine as a child and wears a prothesis. It doesn't bother Laila at all, though at one point she gets upset when he talks about the occasional physical discomfort it causes. She also hates it when people refer to Tariq as a "cripple" and fiercely defends him. When Tariq finds out Laila has been bullied by a local boy, he removes his prosthetic leg and uses it to beat up the bully to defend her honor. [[spoiler:After they're reunited, he also starts getting migraines (possibly as a side effect of PTSD), and Laila stays up with him at night when they strike, holding him and trying to comfort him]].
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** Luz is a neurological variant as she's described as neurodivergent, later specified via AscendedFanon as her having ADHD and is implied to have some form of Social Anxiety Disorder, but it doesn't really interfere in her relationship with [[spoiler:Amity]] who's fully aware that Luz struggles with her mental health and happily serves as a much needed LivingEmotionalCrutch for her.
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** [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]] is a neurological variant as she's described as neurodivergent, later specified via AscendedFanon as her having ADHD and is implied to have some form of Social Anxiety Disorder, but it doesn't really interfere in her relationship with [[spoiler:Amity]] who's fully aware that Luz struggles with her mental health and happily serves as a much needed LivingEmotionalCrutch for her.
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->Whatever lucky man becomes my husband shall see far worse than that.
-->--'''Kushana''' invoking this trope in reference to her ArtificialLimbs, ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''
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* ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'': Several years ago, Garret suffered an accident that permanently placed him in a wheelchair, and his wife Mercy is desperately doing everything she can to treat him. [[spoiler:However, Garret had [[KeepTheDisability long accepted the fact that he'll never walk again]], and after playing along to Mercy's wishes, he finally lashes out at her for trying to "cure" him. He's at least grateful that he's alive and that he still has his family, and Mercy learns to accept that his disability has become a part of him.]]
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* ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'': Several years ago, Garret suffered an accident that permanently placed him in a wheelchair, and his wife Mercy is desperately doing everything she can to treat him. [[spoiler:However, Garret had [[KeepTheDisability [[KeepingTheHandicap long accepted the fact that he'll never walk again]], and after playing along to Mercy's wishes, he finally lashes out at her for trying to "cure" him. He's at least grateful that he's alive and that he still has his family, and Mercy learns to accept that his disability has become a part of him.]]
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** While Kayla's recovery is suspiciously complete, even after a whole story-arc as a DisabledLoveInterest, her knowledge of sign language isn't forgotten. Instead, becomes a plot point in every other occasion where the cast is meant to interact with deaf individuals.
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** While Kayla's recovery is suspiciously complete, even after a whole story-arc as a DisabledLoveInterest, TragicallyDisabledLoveInterest, her knowledge of sign language isn't forgotten. Instead, becomes a plot point in every other occasion where the cast is meant to interact with deaf individuals.
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* [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Ben Grimm's]] blind girlfriend, now wife, Alicia Masters.
* [[Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} Matt Murdock]], who is blind, falls in love with a deaf woman, who in reality is a superheroine named "Echo".
* [[Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} Matt Murdock]], who is blind, falls in love with a deaf woman, who in reality is a superheroine named "Echo".
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* [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Ben Grimm's]] ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'':
** One of Jughead Jones's love interests in the early 1990s comics was Anita Chavita, a paraplegic with genius-level intellect. She looked as good as your average Archie girl but was stuck in a wheelchair.
** More recently, Archie himself dated Veronica's cousin Harper, who is an incomplete paraplegic. She's actually a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed of the late disabled author [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Kats Jewel Kats]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'': Barbara Gordon is a wheelchair user, but [[BadassBookworm she can still]] [[HandicappedBadass kick your ass]]. She is one of the main love interests to Dick Grayson, the first Robin and currently ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}. After the ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}} CosmicRetcon puts her back on her feet. However, in the new continuity, she was in a wheelchair for at least three years, and her status as a Disabled Love Interest is hardwired in her character, as almost everything reminding her of her past handicap (getting a gun pointed to her belly, seeing a wheelchair lift...) acts as a TraumaButton for her post-traumatic stress disorder. Babs herself attained one of these of her own now in Ricky, an ex-gang member who lost a leg in a robbery gone bad and chose to get out of the crime business.
* ''ComicBook/CreatureTech'': Katie. She's blindgirlfriend, now wife, Alicia Masters.
in one eye and has a withered hand. Dr. Ong falls in love with her and feels terrible for having mocked her back when they were in school together. Ong himself gets an alien symbiote attached to him [[CursedWithAwesome which he considers very disfiguring]]. At the end of the story, Ong gets access to a HealingPotion, but only enough for a single person, and he pointedly gives it to Katie rather than using it himself.
*[[Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': Matt Murdock]], Murdock, who is blind, falls in love with a deaf woman, who in reality is a superheroine named "Echo".
** One of Jughead Jones's love interests in the early 1990s comics was Anita Chavita, a paraplegic with genius-level intellect. She looked as good as your average Archie girl but was stuck in a wheelchair.
** More recently, Archie himself dated Veronica's cousin Harper, who is an incomplete paraplegic. She's actually a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed of the late disabled author [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Kats Jewel Kats]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'': Barbara Gordon is a wheelchair user, but [[BadassBookworm she can still]] [[HandicappedBadass kick your ass]]. She is one of the main love interests to Dick Grayson, the first Robin and currently ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}. After the ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}} CosmicRetcon puts her back on her feet. However, in the new continuity, she was in a wheelchair for at least three years, and her status as a Disabled Love Interest is hardwired in her character, as almost everything reminding her of her past handicap (getting a gun pointed to her belly, seeing a wheelchair lift...) acts as a TraumaButton for her post-traumatic stress disorder. Babs herself attained one of these of her own now in Ricky, an ex-gang member who lost a leg in a robbery gone bad and chose to get out of the crime business.
* ''ComicBook/CreatureTech'': Katie. She's blind
*
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* Barbara Gordon (ComicBook/{{Oracle}}), from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' and ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'', is a wheelchair user, but [[BadassBookworm she can still]] [[HandicappedBadass kick your ass]]. She is one of the main love interests to Dick Grayson, the first Robin and currently ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}. After the Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}} a CosmicRetcon puts her back on her feet. However, in the new continuity, she was in a wheelchair for at least three years, and her status as a Disabled Love Interest is hardwired in her character, as almost everything reminding her of her past handicap (getting a gun pointed to her belly, seeing a wheelchair lift...) acts as a TraumaButton for her post-traumatic stress disorder. Babs herself attained one of these of her own now in Ricky, an ex-gang member who lost a leg in a robbery gone bad and chose to get out of the crime business.
* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'''s Rillfisher went deaf, but that may have been after she and Treestump became an item. (Her deafness contributed to her death because she couldn't hear the breaking branch that fell on her.)
* One of Jughead Jones's love interests in the early 1990s ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' was Anita Chavita, a paraplegic with genius-level intellect. She looked as good as your average Archie girl but was stuck in a wheelchair.
** More recently, Archie himself dated Veronica's cousin Harper, who is an incomplete paraplegic. She's actually a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed of the late disabled author [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Kats Jewel Kats]].
* From ''ComicBook/CreatureTech'', Katie. She's blind in one eye and has a withered hand. Dr. Ong falls in love with her and feels terrible for having mocked her back when they were in school together. Ong himself gets an alien symbiote attached to him [[CursedWithAwesome which he considers very disfiguring]]. At the end of the story, Ong gets access to a HealingPotion, but only enough for a single person, and he pointedly gives it to Katie rather than using it himself.
* Cassandra Craft, the blind girlfriend of ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger.
* Subverted in ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' with the wheelchair user Lori Lemaris, whom Clark fell for in college. Turned out that she sat in a wheelchair with a blanket over her lap to hide the fact that [[spoiler: she was a mermaid]].
* ComicBook/SpiderMan dated Anna-Maria Marconi, a woman with dwarfism. [[spoiler: This was when Doctor Octopus's mind was in Peter Parker's body]]
* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'''s Rillfisher went deaf, but that may have been after she and Treestump became an item. (Her deafness contributed to her death because she couldn't hear the breaking branch that fell on her.)
* One of Jughead Jones's love interests in the early 1990s ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' was Anita Chavita, a paraplegic with genius-level intellect. She looked as good as your average Archie girl but was stuck in a wheelchair.
** More recently, Archie himself dated Veronica's cousin Harper, who is an incomplete paraplegic. She's actually a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed of the late disabled author [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Kats Jewel Kats]].
* From ''ComicBook/CreatureTech'', Katie. She's blind in one eye and has a withered hand. Dr. Ong falls in love with her and feels terrible for having mocked her back when they were in school together. Ong himself gets an alien symbiote attached to him [[CursedWithAwesome which he considers very disfiguring]]. At the end of the story, Ong gets access to a HealingPotion, but only enough for a single person, and he pointedly gives it to Katie rather than using it himself.
* Cassandra Craft, the blind girlfriend of ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger.
* Subverted in ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' with the wheelchair user Lori Lemaris, whom Clark fell for in college. Turned out that she sat in a wheelchair with a blanket over her lap to hide the fact that [[spoiler: she was a mermaid]].
* ComicBook/SpiderMan dated Anna-Maria Marconi, a woman with dwarfism. [[spoiler: This was when Doctor Octopus's mind was in Peter Parker's body]]
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* Barbara Gordon (ComicBook/{{Oracle}}), from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' and ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'', is a wheelchair user, but [[BadassBookworm she can still]] [[HandicappedBadass kick your ass]]. She is one of the main love interests to Dick Grayson, the first Robin and currently ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}. After the Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}} a CosmicRetcon puts her back on her feet. However, in the new continuity, she was in a wheelchair for at least three years, and her status as a Disabled Love Interest is hardwired in her character, as almost everything reminding her of her past handicap (getting a gun pointed to her belly, seeing a wheelchair lift...) acts as a TraumaButton for her post-traumatic stress disorder. Babs herself attained one of these of her own now in Ricky, an ex-gang member who lost a leg in a robbery gone bad and chose to get out of the crime business.
* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'''s''ComicBook/ElfQuest'': Rillfisher went deaf, but that may have been after she and Treestump became an item. (Her deafness contributed to her death because she couldn't hear the breaking branch that fell on her.)
*One of Jughead Jones's love interests in the early 1990s ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' was Anita Chavita, a paraplegic with genius-level intellect. She looked as good as your average Archie girl but was stuck in a wheelchair.
** More recently, Archie himself dated Veronica's cousin Harper, who is an incomplete paraplegic. She's actually a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed of the late disabled author [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Kats Jewel Kats]].
* From ''ComicBook/CreatureTech'', Katie. She's''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Ben Grimm's blind in one eye and has a withered hand. Dr. Ong falls in love with her and feels terrible for having mocked her back when they were in school together. Ong himself gets an alien symbiote attached to him [[CursedWithAwesome which he considers very disfiguring]]. At the end of the story, Ong gets access to a HealingPotion, but only enough for a single person, and he pointedly gives it to Katie rather than using it himself.
girlfriend, now wife, Alicia Masters.
* ''ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger'': Cassandra Craft, the blind girlfriend ofComicBook/ThePhantomStranger.
the Phantom Stranger.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Peter Parker dated Anna-Maria Marconi, a woman with dwarfism, in ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan2013''. [[spoiler: This was when Doctor Octopus's mind was in Peter Parker's body]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Subvertedin ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' with the wheelchair user Lori Lemaris, whom Clark fell for in college. Turned out that she sat in a wheelchair with a blanket over her lap to hide the fact that [[spoiler: she was a mermaid]].
* ComicBook/SpiderMan dated Anna-Maria Marconi, a woman with dwarfism. [[spoiler: This was when Doctor Octopus's mind was in Peter Parker's body]]mermaid]].
* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'''s
*
** More recently, Archie himself dated Veronica's cousin Harper, who is an incomplete paraplegic. She's actually a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed of the late disabled author [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Kats Jewel Kats]].
* From ''ComicBook/CreatureTech'', Katie. She's
* ''ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger'': Cassandra Craft, the blind girlfriend of
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Peter Parker dated Anna-Maria Marconi, a woman with dwarfism, in ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan2013''. [[spoiler: This was when Doctor Octopus's mind was in Peter Parker's body]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Subverted
* ComicBook/SpiderMan dated Anna-Maria Marconi, a woman with dwarfism. [[spoiler: This was when Doctor Octopus's mind was in Peter Parker's body]]
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* In ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', Michael dates a blind lawyer for a short while (possibly a ShoutOut to ''Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}''). This was [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] as she was fully capable of sight (except when some incident left her temporarily blind); she just acted like that to play with the emotions of the jury.
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* In ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', Michael dates a blind lawyer for a short while (possibly a ShoutOut to ''Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}'').''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}''). This was [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] as she was fully capable of sight (except when some incident left her temporarily blind); she just acted like that to play with the emotions of the jury.
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Alphabetizing example(s), Crosswicking (Potion Permit)
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'':
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', the archer Noire suffers from anemia and tends to get tired much faster than the others. She can be this either to the second generation guys or to a Male Avatar.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', both Saizo (in the Hoshido side) and Niles (in the Nohr one) were subjected to EyeScream for different and very messy reasons. Each can be this to a Female Avatar (and a male one, regarding Niles) and to most of the first generation women in their respective armies.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'':
** The Iron Bull, who is a romance option for Inquisitors of every race and gender, is missing one eye and parts of a few fingers and wears a leg brace.
** Cullen, who can be romanced by female Inquisitors who are human or elven, is struggling with PTSD from his years as a Templar and [[spoiler:withdrawal as he weans himself off of [[FantasticDrug lyrium]].]] The former condition leaves him exhausted from nightmares and poor sleep, while the latter is indicated in the game to cause him chronic pain.
** As of the end of the ''Trespasser'' DLC, [[spoiler:the Inquisitor themselves is this for their love interest, having lost most of their left arm]].
* In ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', Baiken is a female {{Samurai}} warrior with a missing arm and a missing eye, but it doesn't stop her from being an attractive woman. [[HandicappedBadass Doesn't stop her from kicking ass either]] - in a universe full of magic users and {{Half Human Hybrid}}s, she is just an ordinary woman with a katana, and yet in the first game she was the unlockable OptionalBoss. Go figure.
** And she is the LoveInterest to Anji Mito, who is a NiceGuy and benign male take on the VainSorceress. Their relationship is effectively the inverse of BroodingBoyGentleGirl... or at least, this is the kind of relationship Anji wants.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', the archer Noire suffers from anemia and tends to get tired much faster than the others. She can be this either to the second generation guys or to a Male Avatar.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', both Saizo (in the Hoshido side) and Niles (in the Nohr one) were subjected to EyeScream for different and very messy reasons. Each can be this to a Female Avatar (and a male one, regarding Niles) and to most of the first generation women in their respective armies.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'':
** The Iron Bull, who is a romance option for Inquisitors of every race and gender, is missing one eye and parts of a few fingers and wears a leg brace.
** Cullen, who can be romanced by female Inquisitors who are human or elven, is struggling with PTSD from his years as a Templar and [[spoiler:withdrawal as he weans himself off of [[FantasticDrug lyrium]].]] The former condition leaves him exhausted from nightmares and poor sleep, while the latter is indicated in the game to cause him chronic pain.
** As of the end of the ''Trespasser'' DLC, [[spoiler:the Inquisitor themselves is this for their love interest, having lost most of their left arm]].
* In ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', Baiken is a female {{Samurai}} warrior with a missing arm and a missing eye, but it doesn't stop her from being an attractive woman. [[HandicappedBadass Doesn't stop her from kicking ass either]] - in a universe full of magic users and {{Half Human Hybrid}}s, she is just an ordinary woman with a katana, and yet in the first game she was the unlockable OptionalBoss. Go figure.
** And she is the LoveInterest to Anji Mito, who is a NiceGuy and benign male take on the VainSorceress. Their relationship is effectively the inverse of BroodingBoyGentleGirl... or at least, this is the kind of relationship Anji wants.
* ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'': Several years ago, Garret suffered an accident that permanently placed him in a wheelchair, and his wife Mercy is desperately doing everything she can to treat him. [[spoiler:However, Garret had [[KeepTheDisability long accepted the fact that he'll never walk again]], and after playing along to Mercy's wishes, he finally lashes out at her for trying to "cure" him. He's at least grateful that he's alive and that he still has his family, and Mercy learns to accept that his disability has become a part of him.]]
* [[spoiler:Subverted with]] Bentley and Penelope in the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' games. Bentley was crushed by Clock-La the end of ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'', and was a wheelchair user since. Penelope falls for him anyway, owing to his genuine concern for her when she's captured by [=LeFwee=], and through their shared love of technology. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime But in reality]], she's only pretending to love him to get his skills for profit, even insulting him in private]].
* Calvina, the female protagonist of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment'' lost the use of her arms in battle prior to the events of the game and gets a tortured romantic subplot with the HumanAlien knight who was responsible for crippling her.
* [[spoiler:Subverted with]] Bentley and Penelope in the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' games. Bentley was crushed by Clock-La the end of ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'', and was a wheelchair user since. Penelope falls for him anyway, owing to his genuine concern for her when she's captured by [=LeFwee=], and through their shared love of technology. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime But in reality]], she's only pretending to love him to get his skills for profit, even insulting him in private]].
* Calvina, the female protagonist of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment'' lost the use of her arms in battle prior to the events of the game and gets a tortured romantic subplot with the HumanAlien knight who was responsible for crippling her.
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* Calvina, the female protagonist of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment'' lost the use of her arms in battle prior to the events of the game and gets a tortured romantic subplot with the HumanAlien knight who was responsible for crippling her.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'':
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', the archer Noire suffers from anemia and tends to get tired much faster than the others. She can be this either to the second generation guys or to a Male Avatar.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', both Saizo (in the Hoshido side) and Niles (in the Nohr one) were subjected to EyeScream for different and very messy reasons. Each can be this to a Female Avatar (and a male one, regarding Niles) and to most of the first generation women in their respective armies.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'':
** The Iron Bull, who is a romance option for Inquisitors of every race and gender, is missing one eye and parts of a few fingers and wears a leg brace.
** Cullen, who can be romanced by female Inquisitors who are human or elven, is struggling with PTSD from his years as a Templar and [[spoiler:withdrawal as he weans himself off of [[FantasticDrug lyrium]].]] The former condition leaves him exhausted from nightmares and poor sleep, while the latter is indicated in the game to cause him chronic pain.
** As of the end of the ''Trespasser'' DLC, [[spoiler:the Inquisitor themselves is this for their love interest, having lost most of their left arm]].
* [[spoiler:Subverted with]] Bentley and Penelope in the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' games. Bentley was crushed by Clock-La the end of ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'', and was a wheelchair user since. Penelope falls for him anyway, owing to his genuine concern for her when she's captured by [=LeFwee=], and through their shared love of technology. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime But in reality]], she's only pretending to love him to get his skills for profit, even insulting him in private]].
* In ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', Baiken is a female {{Samurai}} warrior with a missing arm and a missing eye, but it doesn't stop her from being an attractive woman. [[HandicappedBadass Doesn't stop her from kicking ass either]] - in a universe full of magic users and {{Half Human Hybrid}}s, she is just an ordinary woman with a katana, and yet in the first game she was the unlockable OptionalBoss. Go figure.
** And she is the LoveInterest to Anji Mito, who is a NiceGuy and benign male take on the VainSorceress. Their relationship is effectively the inverse of BroodingBoyGentleGirl... or at least, this is the kind of relationship Anji wants.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'':
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', the archer Noire suffers from anemia and tends to get tired much faster than the others. She can be this either to the second generation guys or to a Male Avatar.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', both Saizo (in the Hoshido side) and Niles (in the Nohr one) were subjected to EyeScream for different and very messy reasons. Each can be this to a Female Avatar (and a male one, regarding Niles) and to most of the first generation women in their respective armies.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'':
** The Iron Bull, who is a romance option for Inquisitors of every race and gender, is missing one eye and parts of a few fingers and wears a leg brace.
** Cullen, who can be romanced by female Inquisitors who are human or elven, is struggling with PTSD from his years as a Templar and [[spoiler:withdrawal as he weans himself off of [[FantasticDrug lyrium]].]] The former condition leaves him exhausted from nightmares and poor sleep, while the latter is indicated in the game to cause him chronic pain.
** As of the end of the ''Trespasser'' DLC, [[spoiler:the Inquisitor themselves is this for their love interest, having lost most of their left arm]].
* [[spoiler:Subverted with]] Bentley and Penelope in the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' games. Bentley was crushed by Clock-La the end of ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'', and was a wheelchair user since. Penelope falls for him anyway, owing to his genuine concern for her when she's captured by [=LeFwee=], and through their shared love of technology. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime But in reality]], she's only pretending to love him to get his skills for profit, even insulting him in private]].
* In ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', Baiken is a female {{Samurai}} warrior with a missing arm and a missing eye, but it doesn't stop her from being an attractive woman. [[HandicappedBadass Doesn't stop her from kicking ass either]] - in a universe full of magic users and {{Half Human Hybrid}}s, she is just an ordinary woman with a katana, and yet in the first game she was the unlockable OptionalBoss. Go figure.
** And she is the LoveInterest to Anji Mito, who is a NiceGuy and benign male take on the VainSorceress. Their relationship is effectively the inverse of BroodingBoyGentleGirl... or at least, this is the kind of relationship Anji wants.
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* The rather infamous Mexican SoapOpera ''Series/MariaLaDelBarrio'' has Alicia aka "la maldita lisiada" (Spanish for "the fucking cripple"), the cute girl in a wheelchair who captures the attention of [[FormerTeenageRebel Nandito]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D_vyMDKFjs and gets]] [[MemeticMutation memetically yelled at]] by [[BigBad So]][[EvilIsHammy ra]][[MrsRobinson ya]].
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* The rather infamous Mexican SoapOpera ''Series/MariaLaDelBarrio'' has Alicia aka "la maldita lisiada" (Spanish for "the fucking cripple"), the cute girl in a wheelchair who captures the attention of [[FormerTeenageRebel [[FormerTeenRebel Nandito]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D_vyMDKFjs and gets]] [[MemeticMutation memetically yelled at]] by [[BigBad So]][[EvilIsHammy ra]][[MrsRobinson ya]].
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* Edward Elric for Winry in the ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' manga and ''Brotherhood'' anime. Edward is the DisabledBadass protagonist who has an automail arm and leg, after losing them trying to revive his recently deceased mother.
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* ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** Edward Elric for Winry in the ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' manga and ''Brotherhood'' anime. Edward is the DisabledBadass protagonist who has an automail arm and leg, after losing them trying to revive his recently deceasedmother.mother.
** Rose in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' becomes a CuteMute as a result of severe trauma and is Edward's ImpliedLoveInterest. Her mental state is exploited by the ultimate villain and one of said villain's goals is to [[spoiler:swap bodies with Rose and rape Edward to be "loved" by Hohenheim's son.]]
** Edward Elric for Winry in the ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' manga and ''Brotherhood'' anime. Edward is the DisabledBadass protagonist who has an automail arm and leg, after losing them trying to revive his recently deceased
** Rose in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' becomes a CuteMute as a result of severe trauma and is Edward's ImpliedLoveInterest. Her mental state is exploited by the ultimate villain and one of said villain's goals is to [[spoiler:swap bodies with Rose and rape Edward to be "loved" by Hohenheim's son.]]
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* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Dr. Bashir falls for GirlOfTheWeek [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Melora_Pazlar Melora Pazlar]], who, having been raised on a low gravity planet, cannot walk in normal gravity.
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* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E06Melora Melora]]", Dr. Bashir falls for GirlOfTheWeek [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Melora_Pazlar Melora Pazlar]], who, having been raised on a low gravity planet, cannot walk in normal gravity.
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* [[AcePilot Ayase]] from ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'' is the ThirdOptionLoveInterest for [[TheHero Shu]] [[spoiler:and also his only surviving love interest by the end of the last episode]]. She's also wheelchair-bound, but that doesn't keep her from being a highly valuable asset for the protagonists.
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* [[AcePilot Ayase]] from ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'' is the ThirdOptionLoveInterest for [[TheHero Shu]] [[spoiler:and also his only surviving love interest by the end of the last episode]]. She's also wheelchair-bound, a wheelchair user, but that doesn't keep her from being a highly valuable asset for the protagonists.
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* Togo from ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'' is wheelchair-bound due to [[spoiler:injuries related to having previously been a [[MagicalGirlWarrior Hero]] and having lost the memories.]] She is the closest thing Yuna has to a love interest, being [[WordOfGay canonically]] in love with her and having high levels of [[ShipTease romantic subtext]] between the two. [[spoiler:Togo eventually recovers the use of her legs in the finale, along with everyone else's MagicalGirl related injuries healing.]]
* Miyako's crush Takaaki from ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'' is a boy she met as a little girl. Due to an illness, he is a wheelchair-bound boy stuck in a hospital.
* Miyako's crush Takaaki from ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'' is a boy she met as a little girl. Due to an illness, he is a wheelchair-bound boy stuck in a hospital.
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* Togo from ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'' is wheelchair-bound uses a wheelchair due to [[spoiler:injuries related to having previously been a [[MagicalGirlWarrior Hero]] and having lost the memories.]] She is the closest thing Yuna has to a love interest, being [[WordOfGay canonically]] in love with her and having high levels of [[ShipTease romantic subtext]] between the two. [[spoiler:Togo eventually recovers the use of her legs in the finale, along with everyone else's MagicalGirl related injuries healing.]]
* Miyako's crush Takaaki from ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'' is a boy she met as a little girl. Due to an illness, he is awheelchair-bound wheelchair-using boy stuck in a hospital.
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* Barbara Gordon (ComicBook/{{Oracle}}), from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' and ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'', is wheelchair-bound, but [[BadassBookworm she can still]] [[HandicappedBadass kick your ass]]. She is one of the main love interests to Dick Grayson, the first Robin and currently ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}. After the Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}} a CosmicRetcon puts her back on her feet. However, in the new continuity, she was wheelchair-bound for at least three years, and her status as a Disabled Love Interest is hardwired in her character, as almost everything reminding her of her past handicap (getting a gun pointed to her belly, seeing a wheelchair lift...) acts as a TraumaButton for her post-traumatic stress disorder. Babs herself attained one of these of her own now in Ricky, an ex-gang member who lost a leg in a robbery gone bad and chose to get out of the crime business.
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* Barbara Gordon (ComicBook/{{Oracle}}), from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' and ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'', is wheelchair-bound, a wheelchair user, but [[BadassBookworm she can still]] [[HandicappedBadass kick your ass]]. She is one of the main love interests to Dick Grayson, the first Robin and currently ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}. After the Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}} a CosmicRetcon puts her back on her feet. However, in the new continuity, she was wheelchair-bound in a wheelchair for at least three years, and her status as a Disabled Love Interest is hardwired in her character, as almost everything reminding her of her past handicap (getting a gun pointed to her belly, seeing a wheelchair lift...) acts as a TraumaButton for her post-traumatic stress disorder. Babs herself attained one of these of her own now in Ricky, an ex-gang member who lost a leg in a robbery gone bad and chose to get out of the crime business.
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* Subverted in ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' with the wheelchair-bound Lori Lemaris, whom Clark fell for in college. Turned out that she sat in a wheelchair with a blanket over her lap to hide the fact that [[spoiler: she was a mermaid]].
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* Subverted in ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' with the wheelchair-bound wheelchair user Lori Lemaris, whom Clark fell for in college. Turned out that she sat in a wheelchair with a blanket over her lap to hide the fact that [[spoiler: she was a mermaid]].
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* In ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'', Gord meets a wheelchair-bound nurse named Betty while at the hospital impersonating a doctor. She turns out to have a somewhat unsettling obsession with fellatio and dreams of building a rocket-powered wheelchair.
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* [[spoiler:Subverted with]] Bentley and Penelope in the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' games. Bentley was crushed by Clock-La the end of ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'', and was wheelchair-bounded since. Penelope falls for him anyway, owing to his genuine concern for her when she's captured by [=LeFwee=], and through their shared love of technology. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime But in reality]], she's only pretending to love him to get his skills for profit, even insulting him in private]].
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* [[spoiler:Subverted with]] Bentley and Penelope in the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' games. Bentley was crushed by Clock-La the end of ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'', and was wheelchair-bounded a wheelchair user since. Penelope falls for him anyway, owing to his genuine concern for her when she's captured by [=LeFwee=], and through their shared love of technology. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime But in reality]], she's only pretending to love him to get his skills for profit, even insulting him in private]].
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* In the ''Anime/CodeGeass'' DatingSim ''Lost Colors'', the FeaturelessProtagonist Rai can romance several of the girls in the cast. One of them is Nunnally Lamperouge, who is wheelchair-bound ''and'' blind. [[KnightTemplarBigBrother And has a super overprotective older brother]], too.
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* In the ''Anime/CodeGeass'' DatingSim ''Lost Colors'', the FeaturelessProtagonist Rai can romance several of the girls in the cast. One of them is Nunnally Lamperouge, who is wheelchair-bound a wheelchair user ''and'' blind. [[KnightTemplarBigBrother And has a super overprotective older brother]], too.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Forestdale}}'' gives us a budding romance between Jordan Noel and Susan Summers, the latter of which is a wheelchair bound rabbit girl.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Forestdale}}'' gives us a budding romance between Jordan Noel and Susan Summers, the latter of which is a wheelchair bound wheelchair-using rabbit girl.
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** Joe Swanson is a man's man, from the waist up anyway. Greased-up Deaf Guy? Not so much.
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* Male example in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': Dean's erstwhile LoveInterest Triana gets together with Raven, a {{Goth}} who walks with crutches and looks like [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]].
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* Male example in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Dean's erstwhile LoveInterest Triana gets together with Raven, a {{Goth}} who walks with crutches and looks like [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]].
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* In the ''Anime/CodeGeass'' DatingSim ''Lost Colors'', the FeaturelessProtagonist Rai can romance several of the girls in the cast. One of them is [[DisabledHottie Disabled Cutie]] Nunnally Lamperouge, who is wheelchair-bound ''and'' blind. [[KnightTemplarBigBrother And has a super overprotective older brother]], too.
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* In the ''Anime/CodeGeass'' DatingSim ''Lost Colors'', the FeaturelessProtagonist Rai can romance several of the girls in the cast. One of them is [[DisabledHottie Disabled Cutie]] Nunnally Lamperouge, who is wheelchair-bound ''and'' blind. [[KnightTemplarBigBrother And has a super overprotective older brother]], too.
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* ''Film/HeadInTheClouds'': Mia walks with a limp due to a leg injury during her youth. It turns out she'd been previously been Gilda's lover and has a mutual attraction with Guy.
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* ''Film/HeadInTheClouds'': Mia walks with a limp due to a leg injury during her youth. It turns out she'd been previously been Gilda's lover and has a mutual attraction with Guy.
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** Deconstructed with Eda. She suffers from a curse that is treated as a FictionalDisability, and her refusal to open up to others about it put so much strain on her relationship with Raine that they couldn't handle it and broke up with her.
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** Deconstructed with Eda. She suffers from a curse that is treated as a FictionalDisability, and her refusal to open up to others about it put so much strain on her relationship with Raine that they couldn't handle it and broke up with her. [[spoiler: The two eventually have a MaybeEverAfter that comes after Eda has learned to trust her friends and loved ones with her curse, which is actually also after she [[AnArmAndALeg has to start using a prosthetic hand]].]]
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* ''Film/HeadInTheClouds'': Mia walks with a limp due to a leg injury during her youth. It turns out she'd been previously been Gilda's lover and has a mutual attraction with Guy.
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* Male example in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': Dean's erstwhile LoveInterest Triana gets together with Raven, a {{Goth}} who walks with crutches and looks like [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward Cullen]].
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* Male example in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': Dean's erstwhile LoveInterest Triana gets together with Raven, a {{Goth}} who walks with crutches and looks like [[Literature/{{Twilight}} [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]].
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* Early on in ''Film/PlanetTerror'', Creator/RoseMcGowan loses a leg to zombies--right around the time she starts rekindling her relationship with Creator/FreddyRodriguez.
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* Another male example is Garrett from ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'', who is blind and certainly "pretty" enough to become [[ActionGirl Kayley's]] love interest [[spoiler: and be with her in the end.]] This is actually a rare example of this trope done well, as he [[spoiler:isn't magically cured of his disability by the end of the movie,]] as so often happens, and also doesn't define himself by his blindness:
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* Ian Stott of Cherie Priest's ''Bloodshot'' fulfills this trope. He's a handsome, charming, urbane vampire who was [[spoiler:blinded by government experiments.]]
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* In ''Hornet's Sting'' by Creator/{{Derek Robinson}}, Major Cleve-Cutler falls in love with a beautiful woman who happens to have lost a leg (we never find out how).
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* Amy a.k.a. Cucumber from ''Literature/{{John Dies at the End}}'' is missing a hand, which the protagonist Dave interestingly enough doesn't discover until midway through the novel.
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* Amy a.k.a. Cucumber from ''Literature/{{John Dies at the End}}'' ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'' is missing a hand, which the protagonist Dave interestingly enough doesn't discover until midway through the novel.
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* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Not a full-blown LoveInterest, but there's some mutual flirting between [[CasanovaWannabe Marco]] and Collette, one of the disabled teenagers who make up the [[MauveShirt Auxiliary Animorphs]].
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* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Not a full-blown LoveInterest, {{Love Interest|s}}, but there's some mutual flirting between [[CasanovaWannabe Marco]] and Collette, one of the disabled teenagers who make up the [[MauveShirt Auxiliary Animorphs]].
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* One of the most famous roles by Chilean actor Bastian Bodenhoffer is a rather atypical version of this, the blind bookseller Leo from the SoapOpera ''Te conte''. Leo is remarkably cheerful and HotBlooded for the trope, sort of a HandsomeLech as well, very popular with women (especially the female leads, [[{{Tsundere}} Gianna/Shanna]] and [[TheOjou Sabrina]]) and [[spoiler: he wasn't born blind - he lost his sight in an accident when he was a teenager. By the end of the story he goes through the archetypical operation that may restore his sight... and it actually ''fails'', thus Leo is blinded forever.]]
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* One of the most famous roles by Chilean actor Bastian Bodenhoffer is a rather atypical version of this, the blind bookseller Leo from the SoapOpera ''Te conte''. Leo is remarkably cheerful and HotBlooded for the trope, sort of a HandsomeLech as well, very popular with women (especially the female leads, [[{{Tsundere}} Gianna/Shanna]] and [[TheOjou [[{{Ojou}} Sabrina]]) and [[spoiler: he wasn't born blind - he lost his sight in an accident when he was a teenager. By the end of the story he goes through the archetypical operation that may restore his sight... and it actually ''fails'', thus Leo is blinded forever.]]forever]].
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* In the ''Series/KidsIncorporated'' episode, "[[Recap/KidsIncorporatedS2E4ILoveYouSuzanne I Love You Suzanne]]" Ryan develops a crush on Riley's cousin, before learning that she's blind.
* ''Series/AgentCarter'' features Daniel Sousa, a World War II vet who lost a leg during the war and uses a crutch or cane regularly. In contrast to other examples, though, he’s not a temporary love interest but is [[spoiler: Peggy’s primary love interest and possible future husband.]]
* ''Series/AgentCarter'' features Daniel Sousa, a World War II vet who lost a leg during the war and uses a crutch or cane regularly. In contrast to other examples, though, he’s not a temporary love interest but is [[spoiler: Peggy’s primary love interest and possible future husband.]]
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* In the ''Series/KidsIncorporated'' episode, "[[Recap/KidsIncorporatedS2E4ILoveYouSuzanne I Love You You, Suzanne]]" Ryan develops a crush on Riley's cousin, before learning that she's blind.
* ''Series/AgentCarter'' features Daniel Sousa, a World War II vet who lost a leg during the war and uses a crutch or cane regularly. In contrast to other examples, though, he’s not a temporary love interest but is [[spoiler: Peggy’s primary love interest and possible futurehusband.]]husband]].
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* The music video to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ILDFp5DGA Hello]] by Music/LionelRichie has a TeacherStudentRomance between a blind woman and a music teacher. The teacher [[StalkerWithACrush spends the video stalking and lurking around]] but the ending implies a mutual attraction.
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* The music video to [[https://www."[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ILDFp5DGA Hello]] Hello]]" by Music/LionelRichie has a TeacherStudentRomance between a blind woman and a music teacher. The teacher [[StalkerWithACrush spends the video stalking and lurking around]] but the ending implies a mutual attraction.
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** Sherlock falls for an autistic woman named Fiona. Sherlock himself is [[AmbiguousDisorder ambiguously on the spectrum]], but it hasn't been confirmed.
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** [[spoiler:Mituna]] has an [[AmbiguousDisorder ambiguous brain injury]] and is frequently incoherent, confused, flipping between personalities, etc. Despite all this, he and [[spoiler:Latula, who incidentally lost the ability to smell]] have been together for "eons".
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** [[spoiler:Mituna]] has an [[AmbiguousDisorder ambiguous a brain injury]] injury of unknown nature and is frequently incoherent, confused, flipping between personalities, etc. Despite all this, he and [[spoiler:Latula, who incidentally lost the ability to smell]] have been together for "eons".
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* ''Webcomic/{{Forestdale}}'' gives us a budding romance between Jordan Noel and Susan Summers, the latter of which is a wheelchair bound rabbit girl.
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** Luz is a neurological variant as she's described as neurodivergent, later specified via AscendedFanon as her having ADHD and is implied to have some form of Social Anxiety Disorder, but it doesn't really interfere in her relationship with [[spoiler:Amity]] who's fully aware that Luz struggles with her mental health and happily serves as a much needed LivingEmotionalCruch for her.
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** Luz is a neurological variant as she's described as neurodivergent, later specified via AscendedFanon as her having ADHD and is implied to have some form of Social Anxiety Disorder, but it doesn't really interfere in her relationship with [[spoiler:Amity]] who's fully aware that Luz struggles with her mental health and happily serves as a much needed LivingEmotionalCruch LivingEmotionalCrutch for her.
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** Downplayed with Luz. She's neurodivergent (later specified via AscendedFanon as her having ADHD), but it doesn't interfere in her relationship with [[spoiler:Amity]].
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** Downplayed with Luz. She's neurodivergent (later Luz is a neurological variant as she's described as neurodivergent, later specified via AscendedFanon as her her having ADHD), ADHD and is implied to have some form of Social Anxiety Disorder, but it doesn't really interfere in her relationship with [[spoiler:Amity]].[[spoiler:Amity]] who's fully aware that Luz struggles with her mental health and happily serves as a much needed LivingEmotionalCruch for her.
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* In ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', Baiken is a female {{Samurai}} warrior with a missing arm and a missing eye, but it doesn't stop her from being an attractive woman. [[HandicappedBadass Doesn't stop her from kicking ass either]] - in a universe full of magic users and {{Half Human Hybrid}}s, she is just an ordinary woman with a katana, and yet in the first game she was the unlockable BonusBoss. Go figure.
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* In ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', Baiken is a female {{Samurai}} warrior with a missing arm and a missing eye, but it doesn't stop her from being an attractive woman. [[HandicappedBadass Doesn't stop her from kicking ass either]] - in a universe full of magic users and {{Half Human Hybrid}}s, she is just an ordinary woman with a katana, and yet in the first game she was the unlockable BonusBoss.OptionalBoss. Go figure.
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Still, Administrivia/TropesAreTools. The love interest doesn't have to be InspirationallyDisadvantaged and can be a normal person with human thoughts and feelings, with CharacterDevelopment.
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Still, Administrivia/TropesAreTools. The love interest doesn't have to be InspirationallyDisadvantaged and can be a normal person with human thoughts and feelings, with CharacterDevelopment.
CharacterDevelopment. Moreover, [[SexyFlaw the disability itself may serve as a romantic "turn-on" for the hero]].
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