History Main / ThrowingOffTheDisability

!!!'''In General:'''
* Temporary paralysis is a frequent version of HollywoodHealing seen on {{Soap Opera}}s. Usually, the character snaps out of their paralysis in order to save themselves or another character from a life-threatening situation.
!!!'''By Series:'''

* In ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', Felicity Smoak was a particularly egregious example of this. She was said to be "permanently" crippled after an assassination attempt, accepting the fact that she would be in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. However the resident genius on Team Arrow invents a device enabling her to walk again, enabling her to dramatically get up from her wheelchair several episodes later to emphasize that she was in fact literally walking out of Oliver Queen's life. To say this wasn't well-received by fans would be an understatement.

* ''Film/{{Cthulhu}}'' (2007). A disabled man who says he lost the use of his legs and testicles in an accident, offers the protagonist a chance to impregnate his wife. [[spoiler:When he turns down the offer (as he's gay) he gets drugged and raped instead. When angrily confronting the wife later, he's surprised when the husband (who's got full use of his legs) attacks him. It turns out the whole thing was a setup by the local cult who needed his offspring for their own dark purposes. Another possibility is that he really was paralyzed -- he implies the Order will give the use of his legs back to him if his wife births a child, which she did and they apparently lived up to their end of the bargain.]]

* In ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', Felicity Smoak was a particularly egregious example of this. She was said to be "permanently" crippled, accepting the fact that she would be in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. But of course this only lasted a few episodes before she dramatically and inexplicably got up from her wheelchair to emphasize that she was in fact literally walking out of Oliver Queen's life. To say this wasn't well-received by fans would be an understatement.

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* ‘’Fanfic/CodePrime’’: At the end of ''R1'', Nunnally regains her sight through a combination of her own willpower and being exposed to the Matrix of Leadership. Later in ''R2'', she’s outfitted with leg braces that help her walk while healing her muscles and nerves with nanotechnology.

* ''[[Magazine/RedDwarf Red Dwarf Smegazine]]'': USA!Rimmer pulls a type 1 at the end of the Red Dwarf USA pitch in "Red Dwarf USA", standing up from his wheelchair to save his friends.

* In ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'', [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} Nico Minoru]] had her left arm blown off in an attack. For about [[ComicBook/AvengersUndercover two]] [[ComicBook/AForce years]] afterwards, she used a prosthetic arm as a replacement. When ''ComicBook/RainbowRowellsRunaways'' opened, she suddenly had her left arm back. It was later revealed that the Staff of One had regenerated it sometime before the new series started.

* ''Fanfic/PokemonHarmonyAndChaos'': One of the main traits of Flash Sentry's Riolu, Springer, is that [[spoiler:he absorbed the energy of an Everstone years ago, [[HandicappedBadass preventing him from ever being able to evolve]] into a Lucario]]. In the penultimate chapter of the series though, [[spoiler:Springer's [[ThePowerOfFriendship bond with Flash]] becomes so powerful it overhelms the Everstone energy he absorbed, allowing Springer to finally evolve into Lucario [[EleventhHourSuperpower during their championship match against Shining Armor]]]].

* ‘’Fanfic/CodePrime’’: At the end of ‘’R1’’, Nunnally regains her sight through a combination of her own willpower and being exposed to the Matrix of Leadership. Later in ‘’R2’’, she’s outfitted with leg braces that help her walk while healing her muscles and nerves with nanotechnology.

* 1. The character can override the disability through HeroicWillpower. This is most believable if it's a short-lived emergency override of a disability that makes normal physical activity very painful and difficult, but not outright impossible. Often seen in [[PhysicalTherapyPlot Physical Therapy Plots]].

* 2. The disability was temporary, and rest and/or medical treatment have healed it in time for the plot-relevant moment.
* 3. The character was [[ObfuscatingDisability only feigning the disability]] in the first place, or exaggerating their impediment.
* 4. The otherwise incurable disability was miraculously cured through DivineIntervention or by AppliedPhlebotinum.
* 5. The disability could just disappear for no reason at all, possibly as a {{Retcon}} or as CanonDiscontinuity.

* Website/FimfictionDotNet has an entire folder dedicated to stories involving Scootaloo [[https://www.fimfiction.net/group/473/folder/4723/taking-flight gaining the ability to fly.]] Some of them involve [[Main/ArtificialLimbs prosthetic wings]] or other assistive technology, but most of them have her flying naturally, more in line with the spirit of this trope. Justified in that it was never explicitly established in-universe that Scootaloo was not expected to ever be able to fly.[[note]]"Growing Up is Hard to Do" and "The Last Problem" showed her adult body with child-size wings, but even that is up for interpretation as Bulk Biceps can fly despite having much smaller wings on a much larger frame. Even the [[Main/WordOfGod social media post]] confirming the [[https://derpicdn.net/img/2019/10/1/2157535/full.png obvious intent]] behind her adult form stated "But fans are welcome to interpret things how they like." Presumably that translates into "We know you all are comparing her to Bulk Biceps, but we can't think of a decent explanation as to why he can fly and she can't".[[/note]]

** When Bill was diagnosed with diabetes, [[DoctorJerk his jerkass of a doctor]] dismissively showed him a pamphlet of wheelchairs he would need since the disease would affect his legs. Bill defeatedly accepts his fate but then learns to enjoy life regardless after he meets a basketball player in a wheelchair. Bill at one point subconsciously gets up from his wheelchair without realizing it and discovers that his diabetes had receded, but this gets him mistaken for faking his disability and causes his friendship with his wheelchair-bound friends to sour. He feels so guilty that he overindulges in pure sugar so that he could get diabetes again and reunite with his friends, though said friends stop by and tell him to embrace his ability to walk again and that he can still be confident and be the person he wants to be without having to be in a wheelchair for it. Bill celebrates by visiting his doctor and proceeding to give him TheReasonYouSuckSpeech before kicking his ass behind closed doors.
*** Techniqually there was nothing wrong with Bill's legs. The jerk doctor told him that ''eventually'' he would lose his legs to gangrene (which would have required his legs to be amputated) and that he might as well just give up and get a wheelchair now since the doctor assumed Bill would never be willing to diet and exercise. Bill got discouraged and took the doctor literally and got a wheelchair he didn't need yet because he lost hope for getting his diabetes under control. All his exercise in the wheelchair got it under control, but his legs techniqally worked the whole time (since the doctor said he'd eventually lose them to gangrene and they obviously weren't amputated). So Bill kind of did unintentially fake being disabled because he took the doctor too literally.

*** Techniqually there was nothing wrong with Bill's legs. The doctor told him that ''eventually'' he'd lose his legs to gangrene (which would have required his legs to be amputatd) and that he might as well give up and get a wheelchair now since the doctor assumed Bill would never be willing to diet and exercise. Bill just took the doctor literally and got a wheelchair he didn't need yet because he lost hope for getting his diabetes under control. All his exercise in the wheelchair got it under control, but his legs techniqally worked the whole time (since the doctor said he'd lose them to gangrene and they obviously weren't amputated). So Bill kind of did unintentially fake being disabled because he took the doctor too literally.

** Played with in episode 23. For the last eighteen months, Princess Lemrina has been [[spoiler:impersonating her comatose sister Asseylum to rally the Vers Knights]]. Due to [[WheelchairWoobie her own disability]], she has to pretend [[spoiler:Asseylum had been paralyzed during the events of Episode 12 - not ''completely'' unlikely, since she was shot in the back and it ''could'' have have damaged her back and/or spine]]. So when the ''real'' [[spoiler:Asseylum]], having woken up without having lost her mobility, delivers a speech to the Knights that culminates in her stepping right out of her wheelchair, it appears to be this, when really she'd never even pretended to be paralyzed.

* In episode 12 of ''VisualNovel/WalkureRomanze'', Mirielle, who was wheelchair bound due to a horse riding accident, manages to regain the use of her legs after watching her sister Noel fight in the tournament. [[spoiler:While Noel loses the match, she's not too upset about it in light of her sister being able to walk again.]]
* Using the DangerousForbiddenTechnique Mankai in ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'' causes [[MagicalGirlWarrior Heroes]] to lose bodily functions. Yuna loses her ability to taste foods, Fu loses [[spoiler:eyesight in her left eye]], Itsuki loses [[spoiler:her ability to speak]], and Togo loses her ability to hear in one ear. Later in the series it's revealed [[spoiler:Togo was a Hero who ForgotTheCall, explaining why she is wheelchair bound.]] In the last two episodes both Karin and Yuna [[spoiler:become seriously disabled, becoming blind-deaf on top of losing ability in their limbs (Yuna even ends up in a catatonic state).]] In the end though [[spoiler:everyone's disabilities are fixed, or rather, the abilities they sacrificed are returned]].

** Aquaman, along with other prominent [[ApparentlyHumanMerfolk Atlantean residents]] such as Mera, originally could only stay on dry land for an hour before growing weak and imperiled. Somewhere around Sub Diego, this was hand waved to him actually being able to survive on land but prefer remaining submerged according to a conversation with Martian Manhunter. Later, Mera is seen on land all through Blackest Night as she fights off the titular ZombieApocalypse, and in the beginning of Brightest Day, enjoying a blissful reprieve with a newly revived Aquaman at the Curry Lighthouse. As if to set the latter into status quo, the post-Flashpoint canon officially states that Aquaman is fully amphibious as a HalfHumanHybrid who grew up living on land, as are Atlantean/other aquatic nobility including Mera.

* In the ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'' Bruce Banner gets ALS, and is eventually cured by Reed Richards using a complex procedure involving DNA samples taken from Brian Banner's corpse and infused into his damaged genetic structure by Ant-Man, the Hulk's transformation back into Banner infusing the new DNA into his system and healing his disease. (The issue ends with Banner BreakingTheFourthWall, saying it's Just A Story and there's no real cure for ALS, encouraging people to donate to the research to Find A Cure.)

* For a time, ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'s deafness was cured by Franklin Richards, but he lost his hearing again in 2014, when one his villains [[EarAche jammed arrows in each of his ears]].

* A [[ItWasHisSled famous]] "heroic" will example is the title character of ''Film/DrStrangelove''. As he enthuses over the upcoming end of the world, he rises from his wheelchair to describe his plan before proclaiming [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler "Mein Fuhrer]], I can walk!" Allegedly, [[ThrowItIn this wasn't scripted]]--Sellers forgot in the moment that Dr. Strangelove was a cripple and ad libbed the line to cover the mistake.

* The "Run, Forrest, Run!" scene in ''Film/ForrestGump'' is somewhere between the willpower and healing versions of this trope. As a child, Forrest was made to wear leg braces for scoliosis. The braces break off when he runs away from a group of bullies, revealing that he apparently doesn't need them anymore.
** this also bridged the plot problem between Forrest’s early disability, and subsequent events..

* Parodied in ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' where after it has been discovered that the title character ([[IAmNotShazam not the protagonist]]) has been a fraud in a number of aspects of his life, Walter suspects that he's faking being a cripple (he's not).

* Van Helsing does this in Jesus Franco's 1970 adaptation of Dracula staring Christopher Lee. During the film he suffers a stroke and becomes a wheelchair user, only to rise again shortly after in order to fend off Dracula.

** Of course, in this case the 'disability' was being (mostly) dead, and Westley did actually lack the strength to fight. It should be noted, however, that shortly after their escape, he had found the strength to perform the [[TheBigDamnKiss Kiss That Blew Them All Away]].

* Happens twice in ''Film/{{Limelight}}'' - first dramatically, then played for laughs. After having failed at suicide by sleeping pills and gas, the female lead believes she has become paralyzed and cannot move her legs anymore. Half-way through the movie, during a RousingSpeech to the male lead, she suddenly notices that she can walk again. Later, during one of her ballet performances, she feels paralyzed, not able to go on with the show. Her love interest is unimpressed and slaps her in the face which immediately sends her out of her paralysis.

* Stella from ''Film/StellaMaris'' has been paralyzed her entire life. Halfway through the film she is given a surgery so that she can walk. After a three year TimeSkip, Stella's out of bed for good.
* ''Film/{{Thunderheart}}''. The protagonist encounters a bitter Native American ex-con in a wheelchair. Later he's revealed to be a government informant working with corrupt federal agents; TheReveal is accompanied by him getting out of his wheelchair to walk around the room while talking of how he committed the murder that sets off the plot.

* ''Film/ListenToYourHeart'': Ariana chooses to get a cochlear implant near the end of the film, over her mother's objections because there's a risk of complications, but it works fine and after this she can hear.

* ''Film/{{Mythica}}'': Marek starts out disabled due to a clubfoot, using a walking stick and leg brace. However, she's trained to fight in spite of it, and gets quite nimble. [[spoiler:Later, her foot is healed entirely.]]

* ''Film/TheHazing'': Tim, who is [[WhydidItHaveToBeSnakes afraid of the dark]], cannot raise his voiceabove a whisper when in the dark. When the possessed Marsha tries to shove Delia through the portal to hell in the darkened cellar, Tim manages to find his voice and scream. This distracts Marsha long enough for Delia to turn the tables and hurl her through the portal.

* A ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'' book had a character paralyzed after an accident. Subverted in that her paralysis was never intended to be permanent in the first place and that her doctors stated she would walk again after rest and physical therapy. However, she remained wheelchair-bound long past her expected recovery time and it is soon realized that she is subconsciously creating her paralysis so that her boyfriend won't leave her. However, when her babysitting charge falls into the pool, she has to jump in to save him. Turns out the kid is a champion swimmer and did it on purpose to snap her out it.

* ''Literature/BrotherCadfael'': ''The Pilgrim of Hate'' contains a DivineIntervention example. Rhun is confirmed to be physically lame early in the novel, but during the festival of St. Winifred he drops his crutches and walks up the steps to her reliquary. He becomes a recurring character in the series, and retains the ability to walk whenever he appears.
* ''Literature/GuardiansOfTheFlame'': Going into the other world has this affect on James Michael, as he changes from his usual wheelchair-bound self into Ahira, his game character, who's an able-bodied dwarf warrior. This is the main reason he never wants to go back.

* In the Season 1 finale of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', Fitz nearly drowns and suffers brain damage due to oxygen deprivation. In this episode, and for the first few episodes of Season 2, it's repeatedly stated that he'll probably never be the same again, and it's shown that he's lost a lot of mobility in his hands, can no longer speak coherently, suffers from violent outbursts and hallucinations, and seems to have lost much of his knowledge of [[GadgeteerGenius engineering and physics]] that made him a valuable member of the team. He makes a slow recovery over the course of the first half of Season 2, and while his progress is quite amazing considering earlier fears he would literally be rendered catatonic and the fact that he'd made almost no improvement in the first few months after his injury, it's still broadly believable. However, after the mid-season break it's only rarely brought up and never shown to hamper him any more, and notably the whole "life changing injury" story for his character is ''never once mentioned'' in the whole of Season 3, when he's fully functional once again and any differences from his Season 1 characterization are attributed to the emotional trauma he's suffered. In-universe it's treated as an example of HeroicWillpower with a dash of HollywoodHealing, though the lack of follow-up suggests that it's been quietly [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] along with a few other details from Season 2.

* On ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', Matthew is told he'll never walk again after a bomb blast in the WWI trenches. A few episodes later, he starts feeling tingles, but is told it's just psychosomatic. He finally bolts up out of his wheelchair to grab Lavinia when she falls. This is treated somewhat realistically, for a number of reasons:

** The doctor is revealed to have known there was a small chance, but didn't want to give false hope, which is consistent with his depiction as medically conservative.

* In ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', Felicity Smoak was a particularly egregious example of this. She was said to be "permanently" crippled, accepting the fact that she would be in a wheelchair for the rest of her life. But of course this only lasted a few episodes before she dramatically and inexplicably got up from her wheelchair to emphasize that she was in fact literally walking out of Oliver Queen's life. To say this wasn't well-received by fans would be a understatement.

* ''Series/{{Glee}}'': Type Three: In "Wheels", [[spoiler:Tina reveals to Artie that she's been faking her stutter to avoid people, and wants to stop.]] The actually-disabled Artie takes the news quite badly, pointing out the UnfortunateImplications of pretending to have a disability.

* Inverted in ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', as Daphne's disability comes back during the eclipse, when her powers are turned off temporarily.

* Subverted on ''Series/{{Justified}}'' with Johny Crowder. After getting shot in season one, Johny is later shown to be using a wheelchair and appears to be paraplegic. However, when some man come to kill him, he gets out of his wheelchair and walks out the back door to evade them. It is explained that he was not paralyzed from the gunshot but the injuries were severe enough that he is in considerable pain when he walks so he stays in the wheelchair most of the time. As the series progresses, Johny gets out of the chair more often and walks using a cane. It takes more than a year before he is able to walk without the cane and he is never as physically fit as he was in season one.
* An episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' ended with an apparently wheelchair bound woman being pushed into a swimming pool by her angry husband (who the detectives had just made realize had only her word that she was still disabled). [[spoiler:She was indeed faking and the episodes ends with the detectives, perhaps a little too smugly, informing her that she'll now be going to jail.]]

* Averted on ''Series/PicketFences'' for realism's sake, when the older brother recuperates after getting shot. The gradual reduction of his spinal cord's swelling, that restores his ability to walk, takes up a good part of that season, and his getting out of his wheelchair is preceded by episodes where he regains a sense of touch in his feet and the ability to urinate without a catheter.

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': Subverted in "[[Recap/SherlockS01E01AStudyInPink A Study in Pink]]": army doctor John Watson returns after being wounded in Afghanistan, now walking with a limp and cane. But, as pointed out by others, the limp and pain are not constant, and disappear when he is occupied with something dangerous, exciting, or curiosity-inspiring -- letting them conclude it's mostly psychosomatic. They are right, and during the first episode it happens more and more often for extended periods until the limp and the cane disappear entirely. We later learn that he was wounded in the ''shoulder'', not the leg.

* Julian Wilkes was confined to wheelchair during Season 1 of ''Series/{{Viper}}'', having been hit by a stray bullet years ago, when he got caught in a gang shoot-out crossfire while walking home from school. He returns in Season 4, now walking normally, having created a new bio-mechanical device that mimics the nerve tissues' electro-chemical reactions, and implanted it in his spine.

* Wrestling/BretHart would pull off a similar stunt in 2010, during his return to the WWE (formerly WWF). Despite patching things up with Wrestling/ShawnMichaels over a [[Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob rather controversial event in the past]], WWE owner Wrestling/VinceMcMahon continued to hold a grudge, leading up to a match between the two at Wrestlemania 26. In the buildup to the match, Hart was injured while getting into his limo, as a car backed up into the door as he was getting in, damaging his leg. Hart, using crutches, was further taunted by [=McMahon=], who thought he had the advantage going into their grudge match. During the contract signing, however, Hart stood up from his chair, tossed aside his crutches and revealed that he wasn't injured and that he was ready to exact revenge on [=McMahon=]... [[spoiler:which he did.]]

* ''Theatre/WesterosAnAmericanMusical'': Walder Frey, who is by far the oldest character from the orginal story to make it onstage, needs a cane to walk. When he accepts an offer that would make one of his daughters Robb's Queen, he's so enthuastic he briefly no longer needs his cane to stand up and manages somewhat of a HappyDance.
* The musical adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' changed Nessarose's disability from being born without arms to needing a wheelchair, probably [[PragmaticAdaptation to simplify casting the role.]] In the second act, Elphaba changes Nessa's ordinary silver slippers into magical ruby slippers in order to give Nessa the ability to walk. It works, but causes things to go FromBadToWorse.

* A [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] example in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' games: Joker has Vrolik Syndrome, which makes his bones extremely fragile, reducing him to an awkward limp for a walk. Whenever he runs, or fires a gun, [[LetsGetDangerous you know things are serious]], and this happens twice in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''.

** ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'': Makoto has trauma-induced psychogenic blindness. When she's reunited with [[spoiler:her estranged brother, Tachibana, after he's been tortured to death by the Dojima Family]], her desire to see his face is so strong that she actually regains her sight. Downplayed in that her recovery happens gradually instead of all at once; at first she can only see shadows and vague outlines, and in the epilogue she still hasn't fully recovered.
** In the prologue sequence of ''Videogame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' set 18 years prior to the actual start of the game, Masato Arakawa (who is wheelchair-bound due to getting hypothermia as an infant) uses a foreign-made ephedrine to allow himself to walk temporarily for his birthday. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, he underestimates how long it works and his legs give out while making his way home. In the modern day, after changing his identity to "Ryo Aoki" he was able to attain a lung transplant in America that gave him the ability to walk permanently]].
* A type 1 example in ''VideoGame/Persona5'' where Ryuji, who lost his edge at running after his leg was broken, (it has since healed, but he's far from his prime) temporarily runs fast enough to secure a lifeboat for the Phantom Thieves, and also manages to survive the explosion of the boat they're on. (albeit knocked out).

* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' parodies the ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'' example above. One of the doctor's old college friends has a Hulk-type power, which is the result of his totally-not-Stephen-Hawking father's experiments to try to cure his own paralysis. His father will involuntarily hulk out too if he gets angry enough. He gets big, muscly, and purple, and falls out of his wheelchair, since he's still paralyzed.

* Played for laughs in ''WesternAnimation/TheOldManOfTheMountain'' - an old man (not the title character) with bandaged feet limps around on a pair of crutches, only to get one look at WesternAnimation/BettyBoop's curves, and immediatly finds himself reinvigorated, tossing aside the crutches.

** Peggy had to go through this when her muscles had atrophied after being released from her body-cast due to a skydiving accident. In this case she chose to forgo normal physical therapy for Cotton's method, where he purposefully got her angry in order to provoke a response. It was still a long and involved process, though.
** When Bill was diagnosed with diabetes, [[DoctorJerk his jerkass of a doctor]] dismissively showed him a pamphlet of wheelchairs he would need since the disease would affect his legs. Bill defeatedly accepts his fate, but then learns to enjoy life regardless after he meets a basketball player in a wheelchair. Bill at one point subconsciously gets up from his wheelchair without realizing it and discovers that his diabetes had receded, but this gets him mistaken for faking his disability and causes his friendship with his wheelchair bound friends to sour. He feels so guilty that he overindulges in pure sugar so that he could get diabetes again and reunite with his friends, though said friends stop by and tell him to embrace his ability to walk again and that he can still be confident and be the person he wants to be without having to be in a wheelchair for it. Bill celebrates by visiting his doctor and proceeding to give him TheReasonYouSuckSpeech before kicking his ass behind closed doors.

** One episode has Joe revealing that God told him that he could walk one time. He was saving it for his daughter's wedding, but used it to escape an uncomfortable conversation, instead.

* An unfortunate belief about ADHD is that people eventually outgrow it. While some people do lose their symptoms upon reaching adulthood, in most cases the symptoms just change form, causing restlessness of both body and mind instead of hyperactivity. As a result, the disorder is under-diagnosed in adults.
* Many people have the belief that UsefulNotes/HighFunctioningAutism is something that people eventually outgrow, since those who have it aren't [[HollywoodAutism stereotypically autistic]]. However, autistic people remain autistic even in adulthood -- they're just better at hiding symptoms in public (called 'masking') than they were when they were younger, and have learned how to better cope with neurotypical environments.

* ''[[Magazine/RedDwarf Red Dwarf Smegazine]]: USA!Rimmer pulls a type 1 at the end of the Red Dwarf USA pitch in "Red Dwarf USA", standing up from his wheelchair to save his friends.

* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by Professor X in ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen''. The first time you see him in the [[BadFuture future]], he stands up and runs out of the Cerebro chamber. However, it quickly becomes clear that he is wearing robotic leg braces and he is later shown to be unable to use his legs without them.

* {{Subverted}} on ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow,'' when a disabled classmate named Gordon claims that Rollo and his friends inspired him so much that he's going to learn to walk again. He begins to climb out of his wheelchair, then laughs, because after all, he's actually paralyzed.
-->'''Rollo:''' [[LampshadeHanging You’ve got kind of a]] [[BlackComedy dark sense of humor]].

* In ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'', [[Characters/{{Runaways}} Nico Minoru]] had her left arm blown off in an attack. For about [[ComicBook/AvengersUndercover two]] [[ComicBook/AForce years]] afterwards, she used a prosthetic arm as a replacement. When ''ComicBook/RainbowRowellsRunaways'' opened, she suddenly had her left arm back. It was later revealed that the Staff of One had regenerated it sometime before the new series started.

* In ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'', ComicBook/NicoMinoru had her left arm blown off in an attack. For about [[ComicBook/AvengersUndercover two]] [[ComicBook/AForce years]] afterwards, she used a prosthetic arm as a replacement. When ''ComicBook/RainbowRowellsRunaways'' opened, she suddenly had her left arm back. It was later revealed that the Staff of One had regenerated it sometime before the new series started.

* In ''Fanfic/FlashbackMHA'', Toshinori quickly gets his GameBreakingInjury healed thanks to [[SemanticsSuperpower Eri]] reverting his age to his prime.