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7	A character who had previously lost one of their senses, limbs, or the ability to use any of the above gains some {{Stock Superpowers\|Index}} that, as a side effect, negate their disability while they are active. The drawback being, of course, that once the superpowers deactivate, the character goes right back to being physically handicapped (''if'' they deactivate, anyway). The character may be a HenshinHero or have a SuperpoweredAlterEgo to explain why they are still disabled part-time.
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9	Contrast CurseThatCures, where it's a negative effect (rather than a beneficial superpower) that also accidentally fixes a disability; DisabilitySuperpower, where the character gains superpowers as a result of and/or in order to compensate for their disability; and SuperpowerDisability, where the character is actually disabled in some way by gaining superpowers. See also DisabilityImmunity, where a disability a character suffers actually protects them in some situations. See also NotDisabledInVR, where the disability doesn't exist in a virtual world.
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11	Because characters being permanently crippled, gaining superpowers ''or'' being miraculously cured are all usually plot-changing events, expect '''heavy spoilers'''.
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13	!!Examples:
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17	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
18	* Tetsuo of ''Manga/{{AKIRA}}'' gets his arm destroyed, and uses [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]] to make and operate an artificial arm made from scrap.
19	* ''Manga/{{Birdmen}}'': When Karasuma became one of the eponymous Birdmen, his vision was cured, so he doesn't wear his glasses anymore.
20	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
21	** Inverted by the BlindWeaponmaster Kaname Tosen. He has the power to remove all light from a region around him, effectively making his opponents as blind as he is, only he has an advantage in being way more experienced at moving around blind than his opponents will ever be.
22	** Temporary example: After Uryu Ishida is paralyzed by Mayuri Kurotsuchi's poison, he uses a PeoplePuppets Quincy power to manipulate his disabled limbs telekinetically and hops straight back into the fight.
23	* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': Yoru is faceblind and it's implied one reason she took Asa's body but [[SharingABody has kept her original mind alive]] is so Asa can identify other people for her.
24	* Near the end of ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', in a rather dark turn, Tanjiro turning into [[spoiler:a demon immediately heals the most damaging injuries he got with fighting against Muzan: his lost right eye and lost left arm grow back good as new. However, when Tanjiro is cured of his demonic condition and becomes human again, his eye and arm's healing process is disrupted -- not to the point of losing them, but it renders Tanjiro with disabilities. His sight on the right eye is very poor, and he can just barely move his left arm now]].
25	* A secondhand example in ''Anime/FutureBoyConan'': attempts to torture Dr. Lao for information rendered him blind and deaf, but he has a PsychicLink with his granddaughter Lana (she has other PsychicPowers, but only outright telepathy with him) that lets him use her as his eyes and ears.
26	* [[spoiler:Yuri Kitajishi]] in ''Manga/{{Gamma}}'' is eventually revealed to be paraplegic as a result of the injuries she sustained during her tenure as a MagicalGirl, but since even residual traces of her old power were enough to keep her legs operational, she had never realized that--[[spoiler:until she uses up the remainder of her powers completely in the ending]].
27	* In ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', some of Gon's and Killua's opponents in the Heavens Arena received Nen powers at the cost of some of their limbs. To compensate, they use their powers to stay fully functional: The man who lost an arm learned to channel his life force into solid constructs and used it to make a substitute arm, the paraplegic boy in a wheelchair learned to emit his life force and uses it as a means of fast propulsion, and the man who outright ''lost'' his legs has learned to [[SpectacularSpinning spin really fast]] on his single peg leg to stay balanced and move about.
28	* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun'': Johnny Joestar regains the use of his legs through both Tusk Act 4 and the Golden Spin returning sensation to them.
29	* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
30	** In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'', Hayate Yagami is paralyzed from the waist down but regains the use of her feet as long as she is [[FusionDance in Unison with Reinforce]]. Luckily for her, she recovers completely in the ten years' TimeSkip to the next season.
31	** In ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'', the Sainkt Kaiser, Vivio's DNA template, was born without arms. She ends up using her superior martial arts skills to make her prosthetics move.
32	* In ''Manga/{{MAR}}'', when Ginta arrived at world of Mar Heaven, he noticed he doesn't need his glasses anymore, along with general SuperStrength.
33	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
34	** After the TimeSkip, it's revealed that Aokiji lost a foot after the battle with Akainu. He uses his [[AnIcePerson ice powers]] to create a replacement foot.
35	** Similarly, Eustass Kid loses an arm during this same time skip and uses his [[MagnetismManipulation magnetism powers]] to create a prosthetic arm made out of scrap metal parts.
36	* In the anime adaptation of ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'', after Migi fuses part of his body with Shinichi's in order to save his life, Shinichi gains a number of superhuman abilities. His first sign of the changes to his body is his discovery that he no longer needs his glasses.
37	* ''Anime/PrettyCure''
38	** In ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'', Tsubomi and Yuri are shown wearing glasses and/or contacts as normal girls, but when transformed into Cure Blossom and Cure Moonlight, they disappear and implied they don't need them.
39	** In ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'', Nodoka has low stamina due to a respiratory disease she contracted when she was younger. When she first becomes Cure Grace, she discovers she is no longer held down by it in that form.
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43	* In ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' and ''ComicBook/AvengersUndercover'', Nico Minoru's magically generated Witch Arm compensates for the loss of one of her actual arms.
44	* ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative'':
45	** Constrictor has both of his arms torn off by the villain K.I.A. Afterwards, the Initiative outfits him with new cybernetic arms that improve on his old abilities.
46	** Another character, Komodo, uses a variant of the Lizard Serum to grow legs. She's absolutely terrified of being depowered, as it's the only way she can walk.
47	* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' is rooted in this -- Steve Rogers wanted to join the Army and fight against the Nazis, but his sickly and frail body meant that he was rejected from the army. His devotion and patriotic nature, however, made him the perfect candidate to receive [[SuperSerum the Super Soldier Serum]], which allowed him to become physically fit and the peak of human physicality.
48	* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': The same [[ChemistryCanDoAnything chemicals]] that blinded Matt Murdock also give him his signature [[SuperSenses radar senses]], which let him neatly bypass many of the problems blind people experience in RealLife.
49	* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': Deadpool's HealingFactor keeps him alive despite a normally terminal form of cancer. Furthermore, the constant degeneration and regeneration of his brain due to his brain cancer and HealingFactor (respectively) is why he's out of his mind.
50	* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': In one storyline, Bruce Banner is shot in the head while turning into the Hulk. With the Hulk's HealingFactor, he survives (and even manages to remain in control of it) but, since the bullet remains lodged in his brain, has to refrain from turning back into Banner at all costs or ''die immediately''. This continues until the Leader manages to remove the bullet.
51	* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': For a while, Tony Stark was completely paralyzed except when wearing his [[PoweredArmor Iron Man armor]]. Earlier than that, Tony had to wear the chest plate that powered his suit, as it was the only thing keeping the shrapnel in his chest from reaching his heart.
52	* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'':
53	** Captain Marvel Junior is Freddy Freeman, who has an injured spine and leg, but when he is transformed into Captain Marvel Jr., his legs work just fine. It most pointedly does not permanently cure him, but at least having magic-based powers means his crutch and ([[LongRunnerTechMarchesOn where visible]]) leg brace simply re-materialize where they're needed when he powers down.
54	** ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' introduces Freddy's counterpart in the Black Adam Family, Amon Tomaz/Osiris. Tortured by Intergang and rendered wheelchair-bound, Black Adam gave him some of his powers the same way that Billy gave some to Freddy, making him an able-bodied superhero. Unlike Freddy, Amon stayed in this form all the time, but he was rendered disabled again when he renounces his powers [[spoiler:[[BuryYourDisabled and is killed instantly]] by his friend [[HorrorHunger Sobek]]]].
55	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
56	** After a boxing match with Flash Thompson, Peter's glasses break, and he discovers that he can see perfectly; the spider bite that gave him his powers probably fixed it. He decides against using the glasses as a disguise.
57	** Dr. Curt Conners designed the Lizard Serum with the aim of regrowing lost limbs as he had lost his in war. [[GoneHorriblyRight It worked way too well]].
58	** Flash Thompson lost both his legs in [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the Iraq War]], but regrows them while he is bonded with the ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote. Since he is the first-ever person to actually control Venom, he narrowly averts a CurseThatCures.
59	* ''ComicBook/TrollhuntersTheSecretHistoryOfTrollkind'': When Bular blinds Deya with reflected sun, she is able to use the magic of the amulet to counteract it.
60	* In ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'', the Guardians learn that the Heart of Candracar is slowly fixing what it feels are imperfections, including Taranee’s eyesight. Taranee, already in a rebellious streak, is so incensed at this, she temporarily quits the team.
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64	* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'', [[SparedByTheAdaptation Shisui]] relies on his [[MagicEye Sharingan]] to maintain depth perception after one of his eyes is stolen. [[spoiler:One of the things he's happiest about after getting the eye back is not having to do that anymore.]]
65	* In ''Fanfic/WaitingIsWorthIt'' Izuku is paralyzed from the waist down and had to grow through years of physical to be able to stand on his own. With his leg braces and telekinesis, Izuku is able to walk and function independently.
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69	* ''Anime/DragonBallSuperSuperHero'' shows that Gohan doesn't need his glasses when he turns [[GoldenSuperMode Super Saiyan]].
70	* The Moon King in ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'' is blind, but can "see" through the moon. This gives him [[SinisterSurveillance incredible surveillance ability]], but only for outdoor places at night, allowing Kubo to hide away for years by staying in a cave before sundown.
71	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei doesn't need her glasses when she turns into a giant red panda.
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75	* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'': Dr. Connors developed the cell-growing Lizard serum to regrow his missing hand, but it has a side effect of turning him into a lizard monster with SuperStrength.
76	* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
77	** [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] in the ''Film/IronManFilms'' -- Tony doesn't use the same arc reactor to power his suit and keep the shrapnel from invading his heart, but it's nonetheless an integral part of being Iron Man. That is, until ''Film/IronMan3'', when he has the shrapnel and arc reactor removed. By the time he gets a new chest-mounted arc reactor in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', it's not a medical implement (which is pointed out by Pepper) but housing for the nanobots that form his newest suit.
78	** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' has scrawny little Steve Rogers, an army wannabe with a list of medical conditions as long as he is tall. That is, until he takes the super-soldier serum and becomes Captain America, an extremely strong and fit superhero.
79	** Although he underwent a similar super-soldier program, part of what makes [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier the Winter Soldier]] so iconic and effective is his metal arm, given to him when he lost his previous one falling off a train.
80	** As of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', Rhodes uses similar technology to the Iron Man/War Machine suits [[spoiler:to allow him to walk after he was crippled while fighting Team Cap]].
81	** In ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'', Stephen Strange is tipped off about the existence of the wizard monastery by a man who is revealed to use magic to overcome nerve damage that left him quadriplegic. Strange himself sought out the Sanctum in order to heal the severe damage done to his hands following a car accident.
82	** In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Jane Foster sought out Mjölnir in the hopes that it would cure her cancer. Upon getting it, she gets the same powers as Thor. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it's {{subverted\|Trope}}, as while Mjölnir does grant her incredible powers, it didn't help with her cancer at all. In fact, using Mjölnir actually makes her cancer worse, because as a human, using its powers puts a great strain on her body, hindering her ability to fight off the cancer. Using Mjölnir basically changed Jane from a human with cancer to a superhero with cancer.]]
83	* Played with in ''Film/TheMummy1999'': The recently awoken mummy, in order to regenerate himself, needs to harvest various organs from the people who opened the chest containing his original, mummified organs. As it happens, the guy whose eyes he takes had very poor vision, and the mummy consequently has very poor vision until he is able to regenerate completely to his original body.
84	* In ''Film/MySuperExGirlfriend'', the MagicMeteor that gives Jenny her superpowers also corrects her eyesight, [[BreastExpansion changes her breast size]] and [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatHotness makes her more conventionally attractive in general]].
85	* ''Film/OilyManiac'': The titular monster in human form is a cripple, being a man suffering from polio since age 9, but when he gains the power of the Oily Maniac and transforms into a BlobMonster with a humanoid form, he's crippled no longer.
86	* Played with in ''Film/Shazam2019'' for Freddy Freeman. Rather than literally being un-crippled when using the powers of Shazam, this version of Freddy instead makes his still-useless leg a moot point through constant use of the {{Flight}} part of being a FlyingBrick.
87	* ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'': In [[Film/SpiderMan1 the first movie]], when Peter Parker wakes up the day after being bitten by the genetically enhanced spider, the first thing he notices is that he no longer needs his glasses to see clearly. Played with in [[Film/SpiderMan2 the second movie]] when [[PsychosomaticSuperpowerOutage his internal conflicts make him lose control of his powers]] and turns his bad eyesight back. It's only when he talks to Mary Jane and Doc Ock subsequently kidnaps her that his resolve, along with his eyesight, turn back for the better.
88	* ''Film/SpyKids3DGameOver'': Overlaps with NotDisabledInVR. Grandpa receives a powerup shortly after arriving in the game world that cures his paralysis and gives him super strong legs but only while in the game world. He is understandably hesitant to go back to the real world at the end of the film.
89	* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
90	** {{Inverted\|Trope}} in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' -- the serum that keeps Xavier ambulatory ''suppresses'' his mutation. It's only when he stops taking it that his powers return and his ability to walk leaves.
91	** ''Film/Deadpool2016'': Wade's HealingFactor stops his cancer. When he's arrested and forced to wear a PowerNullifier in ''Film/Deadpool2'', his cancer comes back.
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95	* Tragically {{inverted\|Trope}} in ''Literature/TheAbles''. It's mentioned that one of Phillip's classmates was born with SuperHearing but has since gone deaf.
96	* ''Literature/AkataWitch'': As an albino, Sunny has a debilitating sensitivity to sunlight. When her juju powers awaken, she's overjoyed to find that they protect her completely, without any active effort on her part.
97	* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'':
98	** The auxiliary Animorphs are recruited among permanently disabled teens. Since [[VoluntaryShapeshifting morphing]] is based on DNA, this means that they can turn into completely healthy animals (or people), and if their disabilities aren't congenital, then they're healed once they resume their normal forms. Most of their disabilities actually are congenital, but their leader, James (who was hit by a car) is perfectly able-bodied after his first morphing.
99	** One of the Auxiliaries, Timmy, struggles to gasp out the simplest sentences. In morph, you have {{Telepathy}}. [[MotorMouth He loves this]].
100	--->''<You want to know what hell on Earth is? ''[...]'' Having a large vocabulary, an encyclopedic knowledge of musical theater, and a speech impediment.>''
101	* Mantles of power in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' generally have this effect. [[spoiler:Harry Dresden]] breaks his back in ''Literature/{{Changes}}'' and has to make a deal with a powerful Fae, trading his service for such a mantle, which seemingly cures him. When the Fae temporarily takes the mantle away, however, he discovers that his back is still very much broken, and the mantle only negates it while he wears it.
102	* ''Literature/GuardiansOfTheFlame'': Although not a superpower per se, this is why James Michael loves This Side, where he's his character, who's an able-bodied dwarf, whereas on Earth he has muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair.
103	* In ''Literature/TheLostYearsOfMerlin'', the title character is blinded in a fire early in the first book, but later develops "second sight." It's basically the same thing, except that sometimes he can also see things that are invisible to others.
104	* "Shellpeople" in ''Literature/TheShipWho'' books start off as babies and young children with severe disabilities, mostly congenital. When they're installed into their [[PeopleJars shells]], they're entirely immobilized and lose most of their own sensory input, instead perceiving and responding to the world [[ManInTheMachine entirely through mechanical pickups]]. They come to process information differently and can draw on recorded memories without effort. After schooling and graduation, they're installed as the "brains" of [[SpaceshipGirl spaceships]] and [[GeniusLoci hospitals, cities, or space stations]], which they come to regard as their bodies and can control in depth, including using robot arms. Thanks to conditioning, they regard "softshells" as having pitiful limitations, but they do still partner with [[HandyHelper "brawns"]] for things that really need a human hand.
105	* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', Skitter spends a large chunk of the Echidna battle blinded. However, her ability to see through the senses of the bugs around her is so acute that nobody else realizes she's blind until another parahuman uses {{Empathic Heal\|er}}ing on her.
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109	* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': The same accident that blinded Matt Murdock also gave him [[SuperSenses heightened senses]] that grant him perception in many ways better than sight (though with their own drawbacks).
110	* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' has a girl named Daphne who has the ability of SuperSpeed. We later learn after her powers get disabled in one episode that before she had her powers, she needed crutches to walk, and the superpower allowed her to walk normally.
111	* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': Nate's hemophilia is [[spoiler:"cured" an episode after he's introduced by getting injected with a Nazi SuperSerum]].
112	* ''Series/{{MANTIS}}'' is about a wheelchair-bound man who creates an [[PoweredArmor exoskeleton suit]] that [[SuperWheelchair gives him super-strength as well as the ability to walk]].
113	* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S1E15TheNewBreed The New Breed]]", experimental medical nanomachines fix a test patient's health problems, including his poor eyesight. Unfortunately, the nanomachines were never programmed to stop, and start inducing mutations to correct perceived flaws. Drowning? Add gills. This being ''The Outer Limits'', [[BodyHorror things get progressively worse from there]].
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117	* Of a sort in ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues''. Edward remains disabled from the waist down after he receives his superpower, but the clones that he creates don't necessarily have to share his disability. He first discovered this when he found an injured Nurse Dini and created a clone that could walk over and pick her up.
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121	* Games which use PointBuildSystem character generation generally assign negative points to disabilities, effectively providing additional points to buy [[DisabilitySuperpower enhanced powers]]. The rules in such games generally note that the GameMaster should not allow players to use this trope to [[{{Munchkin}} abuse the system]] by gaining negative points for a disability and then buying a power that renders the disability moot (e.g. you don't get points for being unable to walk if your powers let you fly and levitate instead).
122	* ''TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful:'' It's not unknown for Princesses to have a disability in their civilian form, while their idealized Transformed state lacks this disability. These Princesses are particularly likely to seek out the Court of Mirrors, whose Practical Magic lets you remain Transformed indefinitely.
123	* In ''TabletopGame/RogueTrader'', Astropaths are blind as a result of the ritual that mentally binds them to the Emperor, but their psyker powers allow them to act like they can see anyways.
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127	* In Noah Smith's stage version of ''Theatre/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', Jekyll has a deformed and paralyzed hand, while Hyde doesn't. Depending on the production, Jekyll also wears glasses that Hyde doesn't need.
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131	* ''VideoGame/BlueReflection'': An accident caused the protagonist's legs to be damaged, to the point that she cannot jump very well anymore. Pretty bad for someone who performed ballet. But when she transforms into her magical girl self, she's ecstatic to learn that she can jump and run just fine.
132	* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'':
133	** In the beginning, Nero loses his [[RedRightHand Devil Bringer right forearm]] to the mysterious hooded stranger [[spoiler:Vergil]] who arrived in his garage. At first, he only used the [[ArtificialLimbs Devil Breakers]] to compensate, which have different abilities of their own; however, this trope fully comes near the finale, where [[spoiler:Nero's desire to stop his long lost father and uncle from killing each other awakens the demonic power within him, causing him to regrow his right forearm with said demonic power]].
134	** Short-ranged {{teleportation}} and assistance from [[SummonMagic summons]] help V compensate for his otherwise limited mobility.
135	* ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'': One of the Psychonaut interns, Morris Martinez, can't use his legs but uses his psychic levitation to float in a lawn chair.
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139	* ''Webcomic/MoringMarkTOHComics'': Downplayed in [[https://reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/rhrc31/moringmark_a_new_way/ one comic]] centering on the character Eileen from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''. She technically isn't disabled in any way, but the fact that her particular species of demon lacks a mouth [[TheUnintelligible makes all her attempts to talk come across as muffled noise]]. In order to help her get around this, Gus tutors her in [[MasterOfIllusion illusion magic]] so she can turn her words into readable text.
140	* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' has Handi-man, who is quadriplegic but has the power to move his arms and legs... or so he claims, anyway.
141	* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': It seems to be common for {{magical girl}}s' powers to compensate for significant physical disabilities when they transform. For example, Vedika's glasses vanish upon her transforming into Mindful Eye, and Steffi's [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetic leg]] is replaced by a pink magical construct when she transforms into Pop Blitz.
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145	* This trope is {{parodied\|Trope}} in ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'''s review of ''Film/Daredevil2003'', when a joke character named Angst first claims that he's deaf... and then immediately adds that his superpowers have given him SuperHearing. The Critic promptly {{lampshade\|Hanging}}s this.
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149	* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' with the ShowWithinAShow ''Mind Quad'', which is about a man without limbs with psychokinetic powers. (His limbs weren't blown ''off,'' they were blown ''in''--into his mind!) He is capable of riding a quad bike and his sidekick is a paraplegic boy in a wheelchair with a speech-generating device.
150	* ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
151	** [[DishingOutDirt Earthbending]] in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' can be used to [[BizarreAlienSenses sense tremors and vibrations across solid objects]], including the earth. Toph Beifong, blind since birth, discovered that she could "see" through these vibrations when she learned to earthbend. This crosses over with DisabilitySuperpower, as anyone can be taught how to do this, but Toph's blindness was what led her to discover it herself. Toph can't "see" things that aren't touching the ground, or on non-earthen surfaces like wood.
152	** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', villainess Ming-Hua, who was born without arms, uses her [[MakingASplash waterbending]] to create prostheses -- and [[MultiArmedAndDangerous she's not limited to just two, either]].
153	* Inverted by the Creator/HalSeeger cartoon series ''WesternAnimation/FearlessFly'', in that the near-sighted housefly Hiram attained SuperStrength when he donned a pair of square glasses. The opening narration explains that these glasses "magnify the thousands of tiny muscles in his head". HollywoodScience at its finest.
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