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Inspirationally Disadvantaged

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Inspirationally Disadvantaged	comment	A.k.a. the Magical Disabled Person (to go with Magical Negro, Magical Asian, Magical Queer, Magical Native American, and all their outdated magical friends). Sometimes a Girl of the Week (if the disability is played for tragedy or drama, might qualify for Tragically Disabled Love Interest) or part of a Very Special Episode or Made-for-TV Movie, the Inspirationally Disadvantaged Person superficially appears weak or downtrodden but has hidden reserves of strength which often results in An Aesop. This trope comes in three flavors: Patronizing: A lot of the time, especially in the Sitcom, the Inspirationally Disadvantaged person's reserves of strength are applied to doing some perfectly ordinary task such as competing in the school talent show, graduating, or going on a date. It's only elevated to the heights of heroism because the person doing it is "differently abled". Advocacy groups have spoken out against the practice, since it's more than a little patronizing to portray a disabled person as heroic for doing something the rest of us do all the time - comparable to You Are a Credit to Your Race. That's one reason that this trope is a lot less common than it used to be, though a few shows that aren't afraid of a little Glurge still do it from time to time. It's also been noted that people seem to like to shower actors who portray these kind of characters with awards, thus prompting more than a little cynicism about the motives of actors who take on these roles. The late Australian disability activist Stella Young referred to this as "inspiration porn," as it can be seen as a way of objectifying people with disabilities to make non-disabled individuals feel good. Her TED talk on the subject can be found here. Superpowered: Disparagingly known as the "super-crip" by disabled people, these are characters with disabilities shown as going above and beyond the level of even non-disabled people in spite of their disabilities. This has led to the belief that a wheelchair user should be training for the Paralympics or a Genius Cripple, the mentally handicapped and blind should be practicing to be famous artists, and that having clinical depression should turn you into an awesome writer. In some cases, the character turns out to have a special talent or skill that no other character can beat, sometimes implicitly "making up" for the disability, sometimes bordering on Disability Superpower. In certain cases, the story goes out of its way to paint the handicap as a good/bad thing that influences (or is influenced by) the character's capacity to interact with whatever magic is in the setting, meaning that Neurodiversity Is Supernatural. While it's certainly an improvement on pity, it can get irritating since most disabled people really just want to get on with relatively normal lives, with maybe a few accommodations like ramps, appropriate medication, and as little patronising as possible. See Handicapped Badass and Disability Superpower. Magical: This Inspirationally Disadvantaged person is of the Magical kind, with shades of Incorruptible Pure Pureness. This flavor of Inspirationally Disadvantaged is there to be a good influence and teach the non-disabled lead, who is often white and male (but with some exceptions), a Very Special Lesson. Quite often, the person who is Magically Inspirationally Disadvantaged is Too Good for This Sinful Earth. All types are seen as exploitative, with disabled characters often being little more than gimmicks to tug the heartstrings of able-bodied and able-minded viewers and make them feel "inspired" without actually challenging them to do anything about the systems that make life so difficult for the disabled in the first place, objectifying actual disabled people (hence the reason why disabled people refer to this trope as "inspiration porn"). In addition, the trope is so well known that many people slap ANY disabled character with the label regardless of how they're portrayed. See also Idiot Savant, Waif Prophet, Ironically Disabled Artist and its subtrope Deaf Composer, and Whoopi Epiphany Speech. Dream-Crushing Handicap and Wheelchair Woobie are essentially inversions of this trope. Also somewhat related to Littlest Cancer Patient. Can result in Glurge if handled poorly. Compare Graceful in Their Element, contrast Evil Cripple.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_12b2b8a6	comment	Unbreakable: Elijah Price has brittle bones, which confines him to a wheelchair for a good deal of the movie, but is a successful comic book museum owner who encourages the protagonist David Dunn to find the hero within himself. However, this trope is ultimately subverted, with the ending coming off as a grotesque mockery of the trope. He declares that he's finally found the meaning in his life... becoming a supervillain responsible for the deaths of hundreds.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_1785d9d5	comment	In the Brother Cadfael novel "The Pilgrim of Hate", Rhun is a teenager who has had a crippling disability since he was a young child, but his serene acceptance and uncomplaining nature ultimately make him deserving of a miracle cure from the local saint. In contrast, the titular pilgrim Ciaran has chosen to walk barefoot across the country with a heavy cross around his neck, and his wallowing in his "chosen disability" is depicted as self-serving and arrogant.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_17e0915e	comment	Manga Soprano: Sae from the episode Because I was visually impaired,My mother said "You're a child I don't want." [sic] fits this trope to a T, as she can somehow make beautiful paintings despite being completely blind. The The original Japanese version has her refer to herself in the third person to emphasize her innocence, even to the point of adding the suffix -chan to it.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_19d5167b	comment	Parodied in Chappelle's Show which had a clip from a fictional movie "Little Foot, Long Foot", where the main character has one of his legs severely atrophied. He gets a standing ovation from accomplishing the monumental task of getting up on a barstool without help.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_1e25e89e	comment	Sabres of Infinity, Cazarosta, as a Deathborn, is unable to sense or manipulate the Bane. The social stigma attached to his status would be expected to considerably hamper his military career, yet his skill as a soldier is such that he frequently outclasses you in combat drills and never falls behind you in rank.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_1f52721d	comment	Kevin, a.k.a. "Freak" in Freak the Mighty, a preteen Genius Cripple and witty Disabled Snarker who eventually suffers Death by Newbery Medal..
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_24f3b357	comment	The Idiots: The film takes a somewhat postmodern approach to this trope — the title characters are an Upper-Class Twit and his peers who invoke it In-Universe, both to amuse themselves and to take advantage of strangers' hospitality, not to challenge anyone's perception of developmental disability so much as play some juvenile game. The movie clearly depicts them as jerkasses, best shown when actual developmentally disabled people (played by actually developmentally disabled people) are invited to the group's compound, angering their leader.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_261c8d3f	comment	Parodied in The Simpsons episode "Stealing First Base", when Nelson Muntz befriends Kevin, a blind boy. Upon noticing Kevin's disability, Nelson becomes extremely protective of him and threatens to "destroy" anyone trying to mess with him, to which Kevin answers that no one messes with him. Then Nelson tells Kevin that he's not a freak, and when Kevin answers that he doesn't think of himself as a freak, a very touched Nelson exclaims, "So BRAVE!".
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_2731ae3b	comment	Johnny Belinda: The titular character Belinda (played by Jane Wyman) is deaf and mute! She's learning to read and raising a child! Isn't that inspiring?
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_27831967	comment	Subverted in Parks and Recreation: Leslie reads an "inspiring" book about a woman with no limbs who tried to swim the English Channel, and drowned instantly.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_27aeb99d	comment	Master and Commander: Invoked; poor little Midshipman Blakeney has to have his arm amputated after it gets riddled with shots. Captain Aubrey visits Blakeney resting in his hammock after his surgery. The two share some very typically British Stiff Upper Lip dialogue and Aubrey recommends a book to the boy; an account of the Battle of the Nile, with several fine illustrations. Aubrey departs and leaves Blakeney to skim through the book, which opens with an illustration of the famous Lord Nelson, also missing an arm. It's quite obvious that Aubrey offered the book to the young lad intentionally to inspire him, and true enough, little Blakeney rises up to the challenge.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_298a47a9	comment	The Big Lebowski: Parodied with the titular character, an insanely arrogant rich guy who milks the fact that he's in a wheelchair for all it's worth, ranting about how inspiring it is that he got where he is despite his disability. It's later revealed that his success is a complete lie (his wife was the rich one; he just inherited her wealth after she died), and Walter suspects that Lebowski isn't even really crippled. He's wrong; turns out, being crippled was the one thing Lebowski didn't lie about, and Dude and Walter end up traumatizing him by knocking him out of his wheelchair.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_2c15b0d3	comment	A new Batgirl, Cassandra Cain, is barely able to speak and read. The martial skills that earned her the Batgirl position were a result of Training from Hell that destroyed her ability to comprehend language. Despite her speech impediment and illiteracy, Cassandra is by no means stupid, but watching her struggle to read books with the complexity of Hop On Pop, as well as communicating in language not much more complicated than can be found in said book, can make her appear as an Idiot Savant.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_2dab4fef	comment	Snopes' Glurge Gallery includes a couple of stories starring Inspirationally Disadvantaged individuals. In each case, the article discusses why the story in question represents a seriously unhealthy attitude towards people with disabilities: One of them features the 100-yard dash event at the Special Olympics, where one of the runners stumbles and falls, then the others stopped to help and all of them linked arms and walked to the finish line together. Unlike most of the Glurge Gallery, this one is partially true: there was a case in 1976 where one of the runners fell down, but only one or two of the others stopped to help as opposed to all of them. Another one is about a boy with a learning disability who joins a baseball game and scores a winning home run... because the players on the opposing team went out of their way to let him get it.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_30d9627b	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) played with this by featuring a device that simulated this effect. Since all forms of diseases, death and discomfort had been effectively removed from the most advanced parts of the galaxy, people started to realize the importance of this trope, and so anybody out to become famous in the galaxy took to wearing a watch-like device that would simulate the challenges of being deaf/blind/handicapped/crippled/chased by assassins without the inconvenience of actually being disabled.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_32c3b145	comment	Canada's Worst Driver had an Incorruptible in Season 7's Aaron. Subverted in that he was a genuinely terrible driver—as bad as any other candidate—but he invoked this trope by insisting on staying through every episode, so that the other contestants would be inspired to be better drivers because of what happened to him (he spent six months in a coma and is physically disabled because of a car crash). He was the last graduate.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_3497ec74	comment	The Ringer: A guy invokes this trope by faking being intellectually disabled in order to join and rig the Special Olympics. Surprisingly, it manages to avoid being as disparaging to disabled people as one would expect from the premise (the Farrellys actively work with intellectually disabled people when they're not filmmaking), but it's also been praised for not going in the other direction, either. The Olympians are treated more like actual people (it helps that people with actual mental disabilities were hired to play them), crowd-favorite Jimmy Washington has a massive ego and is hated by the other Olympians, and uses their disabilities for one or two jokes (like when main character Steve has to break out a whiteboard and provide visual aids to explain his plan once he's caught) while the Olympians also get to crack a few jokes of their own.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_3558eaa2	comment	In Community episode Debate 109, their debate opponent from City College is Jeremy "Soulpatch" Simmons who is rather aggressive about using his handicap status to win debate arguments. Deconstructed with Abed himself. Though he is referred to as "a magical, elf-like man that makes us all more magical by being near him", his neurodivergence tends to cause just as many problems as solutions.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_3c4ddc1e	comment	Shannon Lake, the classic inspiring high-school classmate from the comic strip For Better or for Worse. True to her origins as an avatar for the author's developmentally-delayed niece, Shannon fulfills this trope very literally. At one point, mocked one time too many in the cafeteria, she gets up on a table and delivers a lengthy plea for understanding on behalf of all special-needs kids everywhere. This did not, to put it as kindly as possible, help her cause as a believable character.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_3d258702	comment	The Wizard: A young, implicitly autistic boy turns out to have a talent for beating arcade games. His older brother decides to use this skill to gain money — and everyone he meets encourages him to do so.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_3d48fbe3	comment	The mythology of Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind describes how Hippogriff/Gamari Horse-Mother eventually made peace with the brutal amputation of her wings. If she had never lost them, the history goes, she would never have realized that she was strong enough to succeed even without them.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_3d78b2f	comment	Avoided by Runewriters. Main character Tareth is deaf but while her deafness affects events, it is not the focus of the story or even of Tareth's character arc. She can speak (with a "deaf accent") and read lips before the story begins, but often avoids contact outside of her small circle of friends and family. She steps up to help a friend when he suffers a magical mishap.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_3e5de40b	comment	In Scrubs: Doctor Kevin Casey is an incredibly skilled surgeon with OCD. He attributes his skill directly to this, explaining that he was forced by his condition to read reference books obsessively until he memorised them. However, the trope is subverted at the end when the main characters get jealous and go to confront him, only to see him several hours after surgery still obsessively washing his hands, leading them to realise how much he really is suffering. Made worse by the Reality Subtext of Michael J. Fox 's battle with Parkinson's. Also subverted with one of the security guards. No one ever comments on his hook hand, because everyone knows him as the guy with the gigantic afro.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_40349c86	comment	The Theory of Everything: Stephen Hawking is shown this way, as he overcomes his body getting weaker and weaker from ALS. But it also deconstructs this trope — while Stephen's mind remains brilliant, he is shown as a flawed human being while his body deteriorates. He makes references to sex like a normal man would, sneaks beer into church to drink it with Jonathan, gets frustrated as he loses motor control, and eventually leaves his wife Jane despite her years of faithfulness and being The Caretaker.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_444e73d4	comment	Issue #81 of the Italian comic Dylan Dog, "Johnny Freak", checks many tropes of the "Magical" type of inspirationally disadvantaged, with Johnny being a Too Good for This Sinful Earth victim of human trafficking, Dylan himself filling the role of the white male lead that 'learns' things while taking care of Johnny as a surrogate son, everyone getting Glurge-y whenever Johnny displays his talents such as playing Dylan's clarinet or making stunning Surreal Fantasy paintings on walls, and in the end he proves to be so pure and incorruptible to the point of asking to donate his heart to save his abusive brother, despite being shot to death by him. "Johnny Freak" is considered by fans to be one of the greatest Dylan Dog stories despite it all.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_4551706c	comment	Rain Man: The main protagonist's brother, Raymond (played by Dustin Hoffman), is an autistic savant and a quintessential example of the trope. The film's use of this trope as Oscar Bait — combined with its pop culture infiltration, which has spread the stereotype that all autistic people are genius savants — makes its legacy controversial.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill. Invoked in "Ceci N'est Pas Une King of the Hill": Peggy starts making sculptures out of discarded propane tanks, which draws the eye of an art dealer. However, at her first exhibition, she learns that the guy has been portraying her as an idiot savant hillbilly.note The exhibition is even titled "I Ain't Got No Learnin'", and her work is shown alongside that of someone with an actual intellectual disability. Needless to say, she's not happy, and Hank is even less so, but her spirits get lifted at the end of the episode when a few people express honest love of her "pro-bots". "Dia-Bill-Ic Shock" deals with Bill being told by a jerkass doctor that he will inevitably lose his legs due to diabetes. Misinterpreting the doctor's angry ranting, Bill obtains a wheelchair, starts using it (despite there being nothing wrong with his legs), and joins a handicapped rugby team. When Bill drunkenly stands up and begins to walk to the bathroom, he and his new friends discover that he can walk, and his diabetes had also gotten under control. Being branded as a fraud and no longer praised as an inspiration, he begins to scoop sugar into his mouth to regain his diabetes and restore the new life he had forged for himself. Hank and one of his rugby friends show up to stop him. Bill laments that he misses the attention he had gotten while using his wheelchair. Hank counters that Bill had cured himself of diabetes after his doctor had written him off as a lost cause — that what he had done was legitimately inspiring without having to be Inspirationally Disadvantaged.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_48c95353	comment	America's Next Top Model: Heather Kuzmich was a 21-year-old college student when she went on the show. On her application, she listed her Asperger's, which she had been diagnosed with at fifteen, only under "medical disabilities". She was put on the show and, much to her befuddlement, portrayed as Inspirationally Disadvantaged. And the other models became All of the Other Reindeer thanks to Manipulative Editing. They fared slightly better years later with contestant (and eventual winner) Nyle DiMarco, whose deafness was treated with a surprising amount of respect from Tyra and the editors. Cynics could accuse Tyra of handing him the win because he's deaf, but it just so happened that he was one of the strongest models of his season and simply deserved it.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_495a05e2	comment	J.J.'s new school has this reaction to him in Speechless. His entrance is applauded the moment he enters his class, simply because he's disabled. Then he's immediately nominated for class president by his homeroom before they even meet him. When pressed further, the teacher just gives out meaningless platitudes about how brave J.J. is instead of saying it outright.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_4be3aedd	comment	An episode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers did something similar with Melissa, a Deaf teenager who initially struggled in Kimberly's dance class—however, it's made clear that this is because Kimberly had forgotten to use sign language (which she was completely fluent in despite never mentioning it before or ever again). Later, Melissa is the only person not affected by the Villain of the Week Gnarly Gnome and his Mind-Control Music—she's able to follow the other hypnotized teens to his lair, then run back and alert Kimberly, allowing the Rangers to track down Gnarly Gnome and defeat him.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_4dd1da27	comment	An episode of Clifford the Big Red Dog has Clifford, T-Bone, and Cleo meeting K.C., a dog who's missing a leg. T-Bone and Cleo are afraid of him at first and fear that if they touch him they will lose a leg, and Clifford is worried that he can't play as well as they can. K.C. eventually tells them that they won't lose their legs and proves that he can play as well as a four-legged dog. They even balance it out with K.C. admitting towards the end of the episode that while it does annoy him when others assume he constantly needs help, he does need help from time to time and he is grateful that Clifford is willing to offer it.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Latula from Homestuck parodies this: she cannot smell, which apparently is treated as a big deal on Beforan society, and one character even talks about how, with great effort and diligence, she was able to approximate smelling with other senses. Kankri in particular seems to look up to her as an example of this trope. Terezi occasionally dons the persona of one of these characters in order to make other people feel awful - for instance, luring John into laughing at her so she can scream at him about how disgusting he is for laughing at a blind girl. Also parodied with Caliborn, who admits to having learning difficulties and is assured that this doesn't need to hold him back and that if he tries hard he can still achieve everything he wants...except Caliborn is a villain and a sociopath at that, so his achievements would mostly involve indiscriminate murder.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_5376d898	comment	In The Fault in Our Stars, Isaac lampshades this after he becomes blind by jokingly saying, "come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could." Even though all three of the teenage leads are disadvantaged â€“ Isaac with his blindness, Hazel and Augustus with their terminal cancer â€“ they're all pointedly portrayed as fully human, flawed, normal, and not "inspirational."
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_5717177a	comment	Many stories in the Chicken Soup for the Soul are stories written by disabled people about living with their disabilities or by non-disabled people about disabled people they know. Either way, readers are meant to find some "inspirational" value in the disability element.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_585e7270	comment	Ray: Subverted with the titular protagonist, the blind pianist Ray Charles. While Ray did become a famous musician later in life, his blindness still presented a lot of problems for him and he had to overcome multiple tragedies and hardships to get there. The film also doesn't gloss over or sugarcoat Ray's various flaws and mistakes, such as his drug abuse, his womanizing, and his ruthless business dealings. When the real Ray Charles was given a Braille copy of the script before production began, he only objected to two scenes where he was forced to learn piano (he expressed an interest on his own) and when he shared drugs with Margie Hendricks (he refused to let her try heroin because he knew what it was doing to him).
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_5a3533fe	comment	My Name Is Earl: The one-legged Didi has a chance meeting with a young man who has lost both of his legs and one of his arms, and the two fall in Love at First Sight. He's always willing to protect Didi, especially from Earl (who wronged her in the past, and whom she resents). He's kind of a subversion, though, because he beats up Earl before the latter even says anything. The trope is also played with when Randy says to a young woman "For someone in a wheelchair, you're not very inspirational."
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: Daredevil who has a Disability Superpower: he is blind but his other senses are heightened to a superhuman degree due to toxic waste. His mentor was a blind, old martial artist named Stick who seemed to do everything Daredevil can do... but he technically had no superpowers. He just trained himself that well. Silhouette of New Warriors fame. She was partially paralyzed when she was younger, resulting in her having to walk with braces. Despite this, she is an agile martial artist that can not only use her braces in her fights but has them tricked out with weapons. Parodied in Marvel Adventures: Super Heroes. Hank Pym's ants praise him for performing feats of heroism with only four limbs and believe he must be an inspiration to cripples everywhere. Cruelly parodied in the Ultimates Annual. The Ultimate Defenders welcome wheelchair-bound Whiz-Kid into their ranks, but they don't respect him in the slightest; they only let him join in order to con their sponsors into giving them money for a new vehicle on the grounds that their old one wasn't handicap-accessible. Just in case their insincerity wasn't already glaringly obvious, their new vehicle turns out to be a sports car. In one issue of What If?, Spider-Man is unable to reverse the process to remove his extra arms, even with the help of both the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. Professor X suggests that he should use his extra arms to his advantage and inspire other people, though he privately admits it's for more selfish reasons to hold off the rising tide of anti-mutant hysteria. Ultimately, Spidey's luck improves and he's treated as the inspiration that Professor X hoped he would be.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_653e6c9f	comment	Spoofed in The Michael J. Fox Show, where Mike, a newscaster with Parkinson's Disease, has to keep dealing with people who see him as the trope when he just wants to be seen as a regular guy.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_66df4af1	comment	Tom from The Secret Life of the American Teenager is portrayed rather realistically as a young adult with Down Syndrome. Some of his family and friends will patronize him sometimes (which is, unfortunately, the truth for many people with developmental disabilities) but they usually treat him just the same as anyone else. He gets in just as much trouble as his sister when he screws up and gets equal praise when he does well.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_6ce0d19c	comment	Deconstructed and then reconstructed on an episode of Quantum Leap which featured a young woman deafened as the result of a childhood accident. As such, she had been unable to keep a job, yet refused to admit that she needed help. However, she had become a very talented dancer (she could map out the tune of the music by feeling the vibrations). Sam convinced her to audition for a dance troupe. Although she initially performed well, she was unable to understand that she was to improvise her own routine because she had been unable to read the instructor's lips (not knowing of her condition, the woman had turned away from her as she was speaking). Humiliated, she prepared to begin working for an escort service, only to have Sam show up and convince her and the dance troupe leader to give her another chance.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_722ce24d	comment	This is parodied on The Inbetweeners with Alistair. Alistair was a Jerkass before he had a kidney transplant and ended up in a wheelchair, and is still one after. However, everyone except the main gang treats him like a wonderful person, even holding a fundraiser for him.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_75584731	comment	Tropic Thunder: The Oscar Bait Film Within a Film Simple Jack mocks this trope. It wound up backfiring on its star, Tugg Speedman, and it came to be viewed as one of the worst films of all time (though it's inexplicably popular among Golden Triangle drug lords). Kirk Lazarus attributes the film's failure to the fact that Tugg "went full retard" and played the title character as too mentally disabled (rather than having a vague intellectual/developmental disability) and lacking the "inspirational" part of this trope, citing i am sam as an example. As a result, Tugg's performance was just plain insulting and uncomfortable to watch In-Universe.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_757cf125	comment	Rocket Power has Reggie take this trope to extremes when she meets a girl her age with a fake leg and a passion for sports. She decides to write an article about her in a magazine and gleefully declares that she'll say that she's the best handicapped snowboarder ever. To which Sam replies "I think she'd rather be the best snowboarder period!". At the end of the episode, the girl takes offense when Reggie deliberately wipes out to let her win the snowboard race.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_7884ec15	comment	Subverted in the Seinfeld episode "The Jimmy", when Kramer, who's still under the effects of Novocaine (he's slurring his words and drooling a bit) and still wearing Jimmy's strange training shoes, is mistaken for a mentally-challenged adult by an executive of a benefit for "Able Mentally-Challenged Adults" and invited to the event. Kramer, completely oblivious, goes along with this.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_79416f79	comment	Bowfinger: The Oscar Bait angle gets a brief mention:
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_7988cb68	comment	In Mass Effect, your pilot, Joker, has Osteogenesis Imperfecta a.k.a. brittle bone disease, but is a very good pilot. It's also subverted on two accounts: piloting a ship is something that doesn't require strong bones, and Joker is still the best pilot in the Alliance, and if you ask him about his background, he says, "If you're looking for an inspirational story about the crippled kid who overcame impossible odds, you're gonna be disappointed." Turns out that since his parents were spacers, he was going to join the Academy regardless of whether he had his disability. In Mass Effect 2, you even play as Joker for a brief period near the end and he manages to get around the ship just fine with a slight hunch and a limp. He does break bones semi-frequently, though. In the third game, however, his love for EDI convinces him to get off the ship more and overcome his disease, something that nothing else was able to do.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_82439e64	comment	The Office (US): In "The Injury," Michael tries to invoke this with the wheelchair-bound building superintendent Billy Merchant (in order to gain sympathy after he burned his foot). Billy, however, is having none of it, especially since Michael parked in the handicapped space.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_83898284	comment	Homestar Runner: This is parodied with Li'l Brudder, a drawing of a one-legged dog that Strong Bad uses to reduce Homestar Runner to tears. Li'l Brudder, however, is not based on Strong Sad. Strong Bad thinks of Strong Sad as a two-legged elephant named Tendafoot, who can power a small city with his whining.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_85c47924	comment	i am sam is about a single dad with an intellectual disability fighting the state for custody of his daughter. Unfortunately, Roger Ebert was just one of the critics who thought the movie represented a bad case of Strawman Has a Point when it came to portraying Sam as in the right.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_8752fe1d	comment	The Other Sister: The film attempts to avoid this trope, but much like Shallow Hal's utter failure at being "fat positive", the movie falls short of showing a developmentally disabled girl's moving out of her parents house and falling in love as anything other than a Narmy "triumph of the human spirit."
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_87b55b5d	comment	The Onion has spoofed this. "Coming up next: Serial killer with Down Syndrome commits fifth inspirational murder". Oscar Pistorius, double amputee and Olympic-grade sprinter, was one of the great Real Life human interest stories of the 2012 Olympic Games. Unfortunately, in February 2013 he was arrested for the murder of his girlfriend. The Onion article "World Now Down To 5 Stories That Are Inspirational" was written in its wake, as well as the photo caption "Double Amputee Proves He Is Capable Of Anything".
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_898a1932	comment	Journey to Chaos has an in-universe example. One of the reasons Dengel is looked upon so favorably by humans is that he became a powerful mage despite possessing a magical disorder called Low Mana Inhibition, which makes controlling mana substantially harder. Thus, he is the "super crip". Eric, who knows him to be an arrogant jerkass, is not at all inspired.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_8a3a1edd	comment	One episode of Saved by the Bell has Zack falling for a girl who uses a wheelchair, and part of the plot included the gang putting on a wheelchair basketball game as a fundraiser. Subverted: the girl berates Zack for calling attention to her disability to the crowd after the game. She just wanted to be treated like any other person.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_8aa6bda7	comment	Always Human: Austen's "Egan's Syndrome" makes her ineligible for the setting's ubiquitous Bio-Augmentation "mods", which are used for everything from healthcare to study to cosmetics. She hates this trope, explaining that it's a chronic condition that requires a lot of extra effort to manage and that she'd happily use mods if she could. Her relationship with Sunati has occasional hurdles when Sunati makes the mistake of exoticizing her.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Played straight with Sean in Glee, a quadriplegic football player, whose injury and subsequent development into a singer and math genius is used to teach the series' heroine an Aesop about how there's more to her than singing after she temporarily loses her voice due to a bout of tonsillitis.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_8d8401c2	comment	Parodied in the second episode of Ramy, when Ramy and Steve's techbro ex-boss tells Steve (who has muscular dystrophy and requires a special wheelchair to get around) that when he looks at Steve, he is reminded that life could be so much worse.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_8d840259	comment	Parodied on SCTV, where station manager Guy Cabellero uses a wheelchair simply to gain sympathy from the viewers (and possibly money to fund the titular station), though he is fully ambulatory.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_8feafd95	comment	Silhouette of New Warriors fame. She was partially paralyzed when she was younger, resulting in her having to walk with braces. Despite this, she is an agile martial artist that can not only use her braces in her fights but has them tricked out with weapons.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Felix from Kim Possible. Kim treats him as a disadvantaged boy through the episode, until she learns to accept that he kicks ass. It's also played for laughs with Ron, who treats Felix like any other guy. Felix is glad Ron doesn't give a wet slap, but it seriously bugs Kim.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_90c3c92d	comment	Sawtooth Waves: "The REAL Reason Scootaloo Can't Fly" speculates on how pegasus flight works and why it doesn't quite work for Scootaloo. The video then acknowledges Rainbow Dash's prosthetic wing from one of the alternate timelines of "A Cutie Re-Mark", then mentions that there was no evidence Scootaloo ever bothered to look into anything like that (showing the scene from "The Last Problem" with her as a teacher at the School of Friendship). Sawtooth then states that it was "inspiring" to see Scootaloo give up on her dream of flight without investigating potential solutions. They justify that by stating that "fancy workarounds aren't always possible". While that may be true with respect to people with disabilities in Real Life, it doesn't change the fact that: For Scootaloo, some wort of workaround more likely than not WOULD be possible (Other episodes also showed off a hang glider, Tank's Magitek propeller, and two pedal-powered helicopters.)note "You don't need to be not-disabled to be special" is a fine Aesop in and of itself, but passing off feel-good platitudes as a substitute for real solutions is pretty patronizing, even without explicitly playing the "Inspirationally Disadvantaged" card. Regardless of what remedies may or may not exist for someone's disability, calling them "inspiring" for leading a perfectly ordinary life is often regarded as patronizing (see trope description). Especially considering that Scootaloo's disability has relatively little impact on her day-to-day life — most of the other ponies in her home town can't fly either. By most standards, "If you're faced with a Dream-Crushing Handicap, give up without even trying to find a solution" is not a particularly inspiring message to begin with.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_924bb56e	comment	Lampshaded in the first episode of Dollhouse, when Echo's programmed personality is a hostage negotiation specialist. Topher explains that her glasses aren't to make her look smarter; her implanted personality is short-sighted and her intellect comes from the drive to overcome such imperfections.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_93b87ae5	comment	The Wild Thornberrys has Eliza learn how annoying this trope can be. The episode in question has her meet a lively girl with Cerebral Palsy and a penchant for adventurous activities. Eliza is understandably worried that she might end up hurting herself and her efforts to accommodate the girl are marked by what she dubs the "I'm sorry you're disabled look." The episode culminates in the two having an argument about it and Eliza realizing that her efforts only made it seem like she couldn't see anything other than the girl's disability.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_980ffdc9	comment	Guiding Light is also a blind Alicorn and has several abilities/skills to make up for it, but it's noted his Ascension came about solely because the Shinseina Pantheon was impressed by his compassion and altruism. And like his friends in the Black Heron Corpse Investigation Team, he's a cynical person with a morbid sense of humor (due to being around corpses all the time) and opportunistic greed, which his divine peers genuinely find off-putting and potentially detrimental to any good he might do in the future. Despite their constant ribbing, Guiding Light is close to his friends since they treat him as part of the gang instead of a helpless invalid.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_9b1636a1	comment	The Imitation Game: This is applied heavily to real-life wartime code-breaker Alan Turing — who was reportedly not like this in real life (a notable scene is where he's shown to be Sarcasm-Blind; the real Turing was described as quite witty and charming by people who knew him). One of the film's main criticisms came from focusing on this and downplaying his homosexuality to the point that it was almost an Informed Attribute.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_9d5b3ed6	comment	Downplayed in Caves of Qud. Master gunsmith Sparafucile is mute, and he communicates with you primarily through gestures and charades. One of your dialogue options is to remark how inspiring it is that someone like him managed to become such a legendary tinker. Sparafucile is not flattered.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_9edf7c1d	comment	In one issue of What If?, Spider-Man is unable to reverse the process to remove his extra arms, even with the help of both the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. Professor X suggests that he should use his extra arms to his advantage and inspire other people, though he privately admits it's for more selfish reasons to hold off the rising tide of anti-mutant hysteria. Ultimately, Spidey's luck improves and he's treated as the inspiration that Professor X hoped he would be.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: A new Batgirl, Cassandra Cain, is barely able to speak and read. The martial skills that earned her the Batgirl position were a result of Training from Hell that destroyed her ability to comprehend language. Despite her speech impediment and illiteracy, Cassandra is by no means stupid, but watching her struggle to read books with the complexity of Hop On Pop, as well as communicating in language not much more complicated than can be found in said book, can make her appear as an Idiot Savant.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama has Bender during the episode Bendin' In The Wind. After getting paralyzed from the neck down in a can opener accident, Bender joins Beck's band as a washboard and becomes a voice for broken and malfunctioning robots. His malfunction heals the night before a big charity concert and he accidentally reveals this in front of the entire crowd, causing his fanbase and Beck to turn against him.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_a4616794	comment	Friendship is Witchcraft: The ninth episode, "Seed No Evil", features a Show Within a Show named Snowblind that parodies the Snowdrop (2013) animation. Snowdrop is not only not content with her lot in life as a blind filly constantly bullied by her classmates, but she also calls everyone out for seeing her as a "Christmas-special martyr" whose only purpose is to make them feel better about themselves just because she's blind. In other words, the aesop presented here is that even special treatment (which Snowdrop received in the original source) can be as disrespectful to the disabled as treating them cruelly.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_a6102a00	comment	Subverted, and then some, by a scenario on What Would You Do? in an episode based on viewer ideas. A wheelchair-using woman, who had sent the idea in, played herself in a supermarket as an actress not only went up to her and gushingly lampshaded the trope, she went on to patronizingly do things for her that she was clearly capable of doing for herself, even wheeling her around at one point. All were things the woman said had actually happened to her. Most of the passersby reacted by telling the actress to calm down and back off.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_ad9ec2c0	comment	Snowdrop (2013): The titular character, Snowdrop, is an innocent, downtrodden, blind pegasus filly who sculpts snowflakes while trying to imagine what stars look like. On top of that, her conversation with her mother all but explicitly sends the message that being Inspirationally Disadvantaged is better than not having the disability in question.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_aeb84363	comment	Tiny Tim from A Christmas Carol is the Trope Codifier, if not the Ur-Example, for being unusually hopeful and big-hearted despite his difficult circumstances. He even says in text that he hopes people find him inspirational.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_aefefb1b	comment	Deconstructed in Astra's Garden. Vinegar needs to take medicine to keep her body from rotting to pieces, but the side effects are so awful that she feels too sick to do anything she likes. She is very open about how much pain she is in, and she hates it when people tell her to not give up on her life, because all it does is put needless pressure on her. Astra's brother Cassava had the same illness, and he was also told to stay strong and not give up. Cassava put on a happy face and started hiding how much pain he was in just to keep his family happy. When the pain got so bad that Cassava secretly stopped taking his medicine and allowed himself to die, his family felt betrayed.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_b1072514	comment	Forrest Gump was spoofed by The Fast Show, with a trailer for a fictional film about 'a cute disabled man'. It won an award for 'best portrayal of a disabled man by a fit and healthy young actor'.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_b2bf1826	comment	Touched by an Angel and its spinoff series Promised Land featured a few. Of note is Chris Burke, an actor with Down Syndrome who appeared on both shows. In Promised Land, he's a regular guy named Bob, but in Touched by an Angel, he's an angel named Taylor. This isn't necessarily meant as patronizing but comes across that way. Other disabilities covered on both shows include autism, Asperger's Syndrome (though this is not specifically identified), and cerebral palsy.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_b50833f7	comment	Roar of the LION: Leon's younger sister, Terra. When they were children, they were attacked by a Grimm, and she suffered horrific injuries to her legs. While they were rescued by a Huntress, Terra's leg injuries were so serious that she may never walk again, and she currently lives at the physically disabled ward at Vale General Hospital, undergoing weekly check-ups and taking constant painkillers to soothe the chronic pain. Despite this, Terra remains chipper and optimistic for the future. When he sees her, Mercury actually feels sorry for her enough that he makes powered leg braces for her and gives them to her in secret.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_bca0874	comment	The Sessions: Mark O'Brien has to deal with this within the film. One of our first introductions to him is a news program making a big deal of the fact that he graduated despite his polio.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Prince Crimson Star originally wasn't blind, but he was such an Insufferable Genius that after he was blinded saving a classmate from a runaway carriage, he was rather depressed by it, and eventually saw his blindness as a "punishment" for his own foolishness. He did manage to become an Alicorn demigod later on, but it's because he made amends for his bad behavior and used his knowledge and talents for good, not because he became disabled. In addition, despite his royal demi-divine status and great power, he is flawed like any other person, and his relationships with his brothers, like Fanged Paw, can get vitriolic.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_bd8b694d	comment	Codex Equus: Averted and deconstructed. In the Codexverse, disabled people are depicted as well-rounded people with their own strengths and flaws despite their handicaps, and are no more good or evil for it. While some are willing to joke about themselves, generally they hate being treated as 'inspirational' as it's demeaning and implies they're lazy wastes of spaces who can't look after themselves if they don't work to compensate for their disabilities. Some deities who have some kind of handicap, like albinism, blindness, and mutism, have accepted their handicaps as part of them and use their powers to make their own lives a little easier. Prince Healing Song is a Blind Musician who lost his sight during infancy after undergoing a medical operation to prevent the spreading of a rare ocular cancer. While he's a famous musical prodigy-turned-teacher who learned from the likes of Blue Suede Heartstrings, and later became an Alicorn on his deathbed, he isn't treated any differently for it and his Ascension happened purely because of a Karmic Jackpot for his good deeds. He also feared dying one day, but his friends helped him accept his mortality. In-Universe, Healing Song himself hates the 'inspirationally disadvantaged' trope because of the toxic mentality it promotes, and helps students defy this by teaching them how to succeed while also acknowledging their own limits. If they manage to Ascend like he did, then it happens, but it's still an achievement worthy of praise. Guiding Light is also a blind Alicorn and has several abilities/skills to make up for it, but it's noted his Ascension came about solely because the Shinseina Pantheon was impressed by his compassion and altruism. And like his friends in the Black Heron Corpse Investigation Team, he's a cynical person with a morbid sense of humor (due to being around corpses all the time) and opportunistic greed, which his divine peers genuinely find off-putting and potentially detrimental to any good he might do in the future. Despite their constant ribbing, Guiding Light is close to his friends since they treat him as part of the gang instead of a helpless invalid. Spell Cyclone of the Nightmare Breakers is a paraplegic Magical Filly and requires a wheelchair to get around. This would normally make her an easier target in Meridia, with Everything Trying to Kill You in full force, so she developed her sniping skills and magic to make up for this. She hates the idea of pushing herself beyond her normal limits in order to be something of worth to others, a view shared by Prince Healing Song, who is blind and would later become her friend. She welcomes Maelstrom's insults because it means the latter really cares for her and treats her like an equal. Prince Crimson Star originally wasn't blind, but he was such an Insufferable Genius that after he was blinded saving a classmate from a runaway carriage, he was rather depressed by it, and eventually saw his blindness as a "punishment" for his own foolishness. He did manage to become an Alicorn demigod later on, but it's because he made amends for his bad behavior and used his knowledge and talents for good, not because he became disabled. In addition, despite his royal demi-divine status and great power, he is flawed like any other person, and his relationships with his brothers, like Fanged Paw, can get vitriolic.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_c357fe92	comment	Criticized in a Springhole article on offensive tropes (which calls it condescending) and another on sketchy spiritualities.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The end of "The Washouts" bears a very close resemblance to the "Patronizing" flavor of Inspirationally Disadvantaged. First, Scootaloo reveals her motivation for joining the titular stunt team — she had accepted her limitations, and found the Washouts to be a satisfying second choice to following Rainbow Dash into the Wonderbolts, something that would make good use of her scooter skills and appeal to her adrenaline-junkie nature, but not require flight. Soon after that, when Lightning Dust nearly gets her killed, we've given the message that this was a BAD thing. The episode ends with Scootaloo getting her own fan club, despite not really having done anything particularly fan-club-worthy (in this episode or any other). This would imply that she shouldn't need the Wonderbolts or the Washouts to be happy - that she shouldn't bother trying to do anything noteworthy with her life, instead she should just be praised for whatever mundane things she's capable of and be satisfied with that.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Tommy in "Planet of the Spiders", a mentally disabled man with a taste for shiny objects. He appears to represent innocent goodness in the story's Buddhist symbology.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_c5476634	comment	It Happened in Hollywood: Billy, the disabled orphan who runs away from a hospital in the Midwest and makes his way to Hollywood to see his hero Tim Bart. His faith in Tim starts Tim on his path to redemption.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_c5f20698	comment	Corky, a kid with Down Syndrome who goes to high school, from Life Goes On at the beginning of the series. This changes in later seasons when despite being a good person he is not the perfect little angel others hoped him to be because gasp he is human. (The actor himself, Chris Burke, has the syndrome).
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_c6b46684	comment	A character on the show Guiding Light, Abby (and the actress playing her) had been deaf from birth but could read lips so well that other characters often forgot that she couldn't hear them. Aside from this, the character was given typical Soap Opera storylines, all of which never made her disability an issue—aside from her Attempted Rape, where she was unable to hear her attacker creeping up on her—and eventually, the actress' Real Life decision to have a cochlear implant was incorporated into the show.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_c720f71e	comment	The YouTube comedy show My Gimpy Life in Episode 3: Inspirational. The main character Teal (who's in a wheelchair) bombs an audition of The Vagina Monologues and knows it, but is applauded and called "inspirational" by the members of the company putting it on, all of whom are African American. Eventually, Teal gets sick of it and calls out the company, saying it's as if she had complemented them for being articulate or said that they could pass for white. They, of course, are massively offended.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_c93e12f5	comment	7th Heaven featured a number of these. Laying the patronizing aspect on extra-thick, years later, in a Clip Show framed as Simon's art film, each of the characters appears in a montage. While other characters in the montage are identified with labels explaining their roles (Such as "fireman" or "teacher"), the Inspirationally Disadvantaged characters are each identified with the label "Angel". Y'know, because they're closer to God and all.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_cc1ec7ec	comment	Daredevil who has a Disability Superpower: he is blind but his other senses are heightened to a superhuman degree due to toxic waste. His mentor was a blind, old martial artist named Stick who seemed to do everything Daredevil can do... but he technically had no superpowers. He just trained himself that well.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_d40aa94e	comment	More Than Ever: Defied; the cancer patient Bent deletes all comments on his blog about how brave he is, finding them condescending.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_d4412e3	comment	Tommy is actually not about a "deaf, dumb, and blind kid (who) sure plays a mean pinball!" and is an aversion of this. Tommy's father was a WWII soldier mistakenly listed as dead. His mother became involved with another man. Then his father returned home and killed the lover (in other versions the lover killed him, becoming Tommy's stepfather). Tommy saw this and was told repeatedly not to tell anyone, that he didn't see or hear anything. His life from that point was anything but inspirational or idyllic. His ability to play pinball well was not an inspiring message, it was just the last tenuous link back to the outside world that he had left before finally breaking through his mental block. When people do look to him for inspiration, he tells them that unless they are willing to blind, deafen, and mute themselves, they will not be able to be like him, and they turn on him. The stage adaptation The Who's Tommy (written in The '90s) has the post-recovery Tommy telling Sally Simpson that she and others who see him as an inspiration shouldn't want to be more like him, given what he went through. Since he won't give them the answers they're seeking in life (and play this trope straight), they turn on him. Ironically, he almost regresses back to his old state after this rejection, but pulls himself out of it and reconciles with his family instead.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_d4fdfff4	comment	ER: Kerry Weaver. Despite walking with a crutch throughout most of her time on the show (due to congenital hip dysplasia), she was consistently portrayed as an excellent physician. Even more remarkably, this was in a specialty like Emergency Medicine which requires considerable mobility. Her having an abrasive personality, rather than being warm and fuzzy, might even subvert this example. The series also featured a small arc in an early season where Peter Benton discovered that his son was deaf. He met a doctor who was marketed as a "deaf specialist" of sorts only to discover that the doctor herself was deaf and relied on an interpreter for communication. The doctor had been profoundly deaf since she was young and still managed to complete medical school in a time where treating the disabled like everyone else was uncommon. She slightly invokes this trope in the sense that her character is primarily used as an example to Peter that being deaf is not the end of the world, but also to other staff as well.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_d523f952	comment	The Elephant Man: Deconstructed. The deformed title character, John Merrick (based on Joseph Merrick), is a former circus freak and is indeed an intelligent, sensitive, and very kind man despite his severe deformities. But the film takes a very dim view of any attempts at making him into a symbol — and the people who try to do so end up being overcome with guilt after being called on it.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_d56cd064	comment	In an episode of Power Rangers Zeo, Rocky takes an interest in a girl who practices karate, and whose Establishing Character Moment is to defeat three male opponents in a row, and that's before we learn that she's actually blind. She actually helps the Rangers when she mentions that she recognized the voice of the Monster of the Week, thanks to her enhanced hearing. An episode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers did something similar with Melissa, a Deaf teenager who initially struggled in Kimberly's dance class—however, it's made clear that this is because Kimberly had forgotten to use sign language (which she was completely fluent in despite never mentioning it before or ever again). Later, Melissa is the only person not affected by the Villain of the Week Gnarly Gnome and his Mind-Control Music—she's able to follow the other hypnotized teens to his lair, then run back and alert Kimberly, allowing the Rangers to track down Gnarly Gnome and defeat him.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_d849efdf	comment	Being There (and the Seemingly Profound Fool character type in general) was actually an aversion of this, and now can be seen as a subversion of straight examples such as Forrest Gump. Chance has an intellectual disability and is forced out on the streets when the master of his household dies. He rises to great heights and inspires others - but not because of any of his own qualities. Instead, he happens to encounter powerful people who think he's extremely intelligent, and interpret his concrete statements as metaphors. He's a sweet fellow but has no great inner reserves of strength or wisdom. He's just very lucky.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_d916aebe	comment	USA High had Jackson falling for a blind girl in a Very Special Episode. It gets subverted when the girl's blindness is rather incidental to the main conflict - Jackson being afraid of commitment - and the girl only assumes his break-up with her is because of her blindness.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: Parodied and deconstructed in "Conjoined Fetus Lady": Nurse Gollum is a school nurse who has had her dead twin attached to the side of her head since birth, and who only wants to do her job without being fawned over for her "courage." She doesn't even mind kids getting freaked out by her appearance. But when Kyle's mom finds out about her, she persuades the town to put on a week-long event to raise awareness of her condition. This culminates in an awards banquet featuring an "inspirational" movie about Gollum's life (mostly a series of photos clearly taken without her consent) and a parade for people with her condition (of which she is the only one in town) complete with dead fetus headbands for the audience! Nurse Gollum is clearly irritated at being singled out like that. The episode ends with her calling them out on their behavior, expplaining that she just wants to live her life and be treated like any other person, not be put on a pedestal, and she became a minor reoccurring character for a while.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_dd0a4790	comment	Blair's cousin Geri on The Facts of Life. She was played by Geri Jewell, an actress and stand-up comedienne who, like "Cousin Geri", has cerebral palsy. She was the first performer with a disability to have a recurring role in a TV series. Cousin Geri was treated as inspirational by some of the girls, but Cousin Geri herself was rather snarky about her condition as well as not having much use for being seen as anything but a person. Jewell continued as a recurring regular for four years; when, in the sixth season, the showrunners wanted Cousin Geri to only appear in Very Special Episodes once a season, Jewell quit.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: Joe started as a straight example, before Flanderization made him as much of a jerk as everyone else. In "Petarded", Peter finds out he's functionally intellectually disabled. He even gets a social worker who makes a big deal over everything he does, saying "Good job, Peter! High-five! Alright!" Eventually, he uses his diagnosis to get away with all kinds of Jerkass behavior, and when that puts Lois in the hospital, the state takes custody of his kids from him. And when Peter finds himself in court after a failed scheme to get his kids back, this trope is referenced in a Bait-and-Switch Comment: Deconstructed in "Run, Chris, Run". Chris gets elected Homecoming King...but then finds out he was elected only because his classmates felt sorry for his mental problems. Chris is upset at his classmates for only caring about making themselves feel better and storms off.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_eb7bf281	comment	The Kid & I: Aaron Roman's cerebral palsy does not stop him from demonstrating tenacity, optimism, and friendship to washed-up actor Bill Williams.
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Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_f18a9d9c	comment	Highway to Heaven has several: Recurring character Scotty is a paraplegic who, in his first appearance passes the bar exam despite his handicap. Scotty makes appearances in later episodes where his law firm is failing but then succeeds because he doesn't quit and partially because he helps others with perceived disabilities. In the same episode that introduces Scotty, a high-school student with a promising career in sports loses the use of his legs, but thanks to the inspiration of Scotty and the boy that caused him to be paralyzed, the boy learns gymnastics, which is something of a head-scratcher, considering that the event he learns to do is the pommel horse, which probably isn't possible with a pair of paralyzed legs flopping around. The homeless boy in "Alone". All he wants is someone to love him. He manages to reunite a family and gain one of his own in the process. In "A Special Love", this two-part episode has Todd, a boy with Down Syndrome, afraid to participate in any sports until he meets the inspirational Scotty (see above).
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