Handicapped Badass/Playing With

Basic Trope: A Badass who has disabilities, but can still fight.

• Straight: Alice is in a wheelchair, but can still fight competently.
• Exaggerated:
  • Alice is in a wheelchair, but is also the most Badass of her team.
  • Alice is paralyzed from the neck below. She's still badass.
• Downplayed: Alice has a sprained ankle, but can still fight competently.
• Justified: Alice trained harder to compensate for her disability.
• Inverted: Alice is not disabled, but is unable to fight.
• Subverted: Alice had faked her disability.
• Double Subverted: Alice had faked her previous disability, but some time later, she really winds up in the wheelchair. And she can still kick ass.
• Parodied: Alice has no arms or legs, but is still the team Badass.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: Alice's disability prevents her from fighting.
• Enforced:
  • The writers want to show that disabled doesn't equal weak.
  • "How do we make Alice even more badass? Make her a paraplegic, and still be able to kick ass!"
• Lampshaded: "We're getting beat by the cripple?"
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: ???
• Defied: ???
• Discussed: "Just because someone is disabled doesn't mean they're defenseless."
• Conversed: "Alice is in a wheelchair, but she can fight like that? Hard to believe."

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