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Mermaid in a Wheelchair

104 statements
19 feature instances
6 referencing feature instances

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Mermaid in a Wheelchair	page	MermaidInAWheelchair
Mermaid in a Wheelchair	comment	Mermaids, like most aquatic creatures, are more mobile and graceful when in their own element. On land, if they can't grow legs, their choices are either to drag themselves around or use a wheelchair. If they have to disguise their nature for whatever reason, merfolk can hide their tails under a blanket. Mermaids can be an outright metaphor for or commentary on disability,note Sirenomelia, also called mermaid syndrome, is a rare disorder in human beings where the legs fail to separate in the womb. perhaps implying that someone who seems disabled/hindered in a conventional environment might flourish under the right conditions. But just as often the work doesn't explore that and merely uses the wheelchair as a prop for the character to be able to move around on land. Compare Bathtub Mermaid for a less mobile example of mermaids on land, and Mobile Fishbowl for another way for aquatic species to move around. For other creatures with fantastic anatomy's varying uses of human furniture, see Human Furniture Is a Pain in the Tail. Contrast Tailfin Walking.
Mermaid in a Wheelchair	fetched	2024-02-27T13:00:25Z
Mermaid in a Wheelchair	parsed	2024-02-27T13:00:26Z
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair	isPartOf	DBTropes
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_436883f7	comment	Well World: On land, the mermaid-like Umiau move using electric wheelchairs unless they wish to crawl about.
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_470a1314	type	Mermaid in a Wheelchair
Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_470a1314	comment	Resonance Days: Oktavia, a mermaid-like Witch, is usually in a wheelchair on land and has to be wheeled around by the other characters. The rest of the time, she's being carried around.
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_6449f850	comment	Monster Musume: Mero the mermaid uses a wheelchair to travel around, although she sometimes has trouble controlling it, as seen in her first appearance.
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_67a83c24	comment	Fairy Navigator Runa has Shizuku, a mermaid with water powers, use a wheelchair to get around on land.
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_6aa56be	comment	Pet Foolery: A normal-looking young woman approaches a werewolf who's holding a Monsters Anonymous meeting. She claims that she's the daughter of a mermaid/minotaur romance who got the human half of both. After the werewolf chews her out for mocking their problems, she tells him she's just here to drop off her brother. Cut to a bull-man with a fish tail, sitting in a wheelchair-like contraption and looking unhappy at the werewolf bothering his sister.
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_793c3360	comment	H₂O: Just Add Water: Emma's first moonspell renders her unable/unwilling to change back to human form, which means the others have to hide her from her extended family. Lewis manages to get ahold of Emma's grandmother's wheelchair, while Cleo and Rikki cover her with a jacket and blanket, and they wheel her into her room.
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_8a27d31c	type	Mermaid in a Wheelchair
Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_8a27d31c	comment	October Daye: Dianda Lorden, like most merrows, can transform her tail into legs, but that doesn't mean she wants to. When she meets Toby privately for the first time, she's in a wheelchair with no human disguise.
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_8d0c222c	comment	Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK: When Tiobald the merman enrolls at Hogwarts, he uses a magical wheelchair to travel around. It can even climb stairs by itself. He still needs a translator, though. Notably, having non-human students is normal enough by then that the news of a student in a wheelchair spreads faster than the news of a merfolk student.
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Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_8d0c222c
Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_8df5521b	type	Mermaid in a Wheelchair
Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: Superman's ex, Lori Lemaris, is a mermaid (it's... complicated) who lives on land by using a wheelchair and keeping her tail covered. Eventually she is magically given the power to turn into a human (any contact with water changes her back, though.)
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Superman (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_8df5521b
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_8e0312e6	comment	Invoked in Season 10 of RuPaul's Drag Race. For one of the runways, the queens were tasked with dressing as mermaids in wheelchairs (wheeled onstage by one of the Pit Crew members), as an homage to Bette Midler mentioned below.
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_8f99cb4c	comment	American Dragon: Jake Long: One mermaid goes undercover at Jake's school for several months as his principal, using a wheelchair. Justified by the fact that she doesn't know how to use her legs in her human disguise.
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_9320a31d	comment	Round the Twist: In the final scene of "Nails", Andrew is now stuck in a wheelchair as his father takes him to the harbor, at which point he jumps into the water, revealing his Slow Transformation made him a merman.
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_a0b02e39	comment	Rubber Girl: Selina Gill uses a wheelchair for her on-land dates with her human boyfriend, Arthur Fisher. Katie Elaz and Robert Patrix go on a double date with Selina and Arthur at the restaurant McDaffy's. Her wheelchair has a bucket and water tubes so that her gills can stay wet.
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_a458c94b	comment	Aquamarine: Human girls Claire and Hailey borrow a wheelchair from Claire's grandfather so Aquamarine can leave the pool and go on a date with human boy Raymond. Notably, this was absent from the adaptation, where she could grow legs.
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_c1b44782	comment	Aquaman: On the cover of one issue, a mermaid named Sheeva uses a wheelchair.
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_cb32d0d5	comment	Disenchantment: Mora uses a steampunk wheelchair, a pedicab, and even a baby carriage to get around in Steamland.
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_d30b713a	comment	Xanadu (Storyverse): Most of the people transformed into mer by the Change are permanently stuck in their forms. As such, they mostly use wheelchairs to get around on land.
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_e397b152	comment	Supernatural Academy: Opal, one of the students at the titular academy, is a mermaid who uses a wheelchair on land, though she prefers being in the water.
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Mermaid in a Wheelchair / int_fa5c1b11	comment	River of Dancing Gods: After one of the characters gets body-swapped with a mermaid, she gets the ability to transform into a human when she's dry (because the wizard who transformed her had recently seen Splash). However, her human legs are extremely weak so she needs a wheelchair to get around.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Mermaid in a Wheelchair	processingCategory2	Disability Tropes
Mermaid in a Wheelchair	processingCategory2	Mer Tropes
Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK (Fanfic) / int_3afb8a82	type	Mermaid in a Wheelchair
Harry Is A Dragon, And That's Okay (Fanfic) / int_3afb8a82	type	Mermaid in a Wheelchair
Xanadu (Storyverse) / int_3afb8a82	type	Mermaid in a Wheelchair
Fairy Navigator Runa (Manga)	processingUnknown	Mermaid in a Wheelchair

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