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Temporary Blindness
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The hero(ine) of an action/adventure series is blinded at the beginning of the episode. The character is told that the damage will heal, provided he does not do any action/adventure heroic things for the next hour. Since the viewer did not tune in to watch the hero convalesce, the plot goes on. A supporting character helps the hero get used to his condition. Often, the blinded character's other senses will become much more acute. Unfortunately, the villain of the story sometimes discovers the hero's condition and instantly realizes he now has an overwhelming advantage. However, the hero may still win because the villain usually underestimates how well he has adjusted to his situation — in some cases, the temporary disability may actually give the hero a useful advantage. An almost identical plot structure can be used with temporary paralysis, deafness, concussions, etc. Similar but not the same as the Status Effects, as this trope uses blindness for plot reasons. |
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In Himitsu no Akko-chan the titular heroine, in the deaf variant of his trope, upon meeting a new deaf kid at her school, uses her magic mirror wish herself deaf and mute, thus empathizing better with the kid. In a rather scary moment of Fridge Brilliance, Akko-chan realizes that — having wished herself to go mute as well — she's unable to hit the Reset Button by asking the mirror, which only responds to verbal commands, to make her normal again. The Reset Button presses itself anyway, but not before some days of Wangst and the usual Aesop. | |
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In Worm, Skitter is blinded for about one (extremely action-packed) day. She gets by using her swarm-sense, so it doesn't actually limit her very much. Since she also wears a mask, she is able to hide it quite easily, leading to shocked reactions when casually mentions she's been blind the whole time. | |
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Superman suffers incredibly blurry vision for a time when he arrives in 1943 during his time-traveling adventures in Time and Time Again. | |
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The Supermen, a Resident Evil/Justice League of America crossover, has Wesker survive the events of Resident Evil 5, but only just. Temporary blindness from the missile explosion (he ducked before they could hit him but was still in the blast radius) is just one of his many injuries. It heals eventually, although as of Chapter 2 (the fic is still in progress) his vision is only partly restored. | |
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In Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, Ron Burgundy goes blind in the second act. It turns out to be fixable, but Veronica didn't let him know. | |
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In Basara, Sarasa becomes temporary blind and must go to Okinawa to see a healer. This disability is very important to the Okinawa story arc. Because of this, Asagi tries to abuse her. In Okinawa, she witnesses a crime but can only identify the voice of the murder. | |
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Rainbow Dash gets hit with this in Waking Nightmares. | |
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Nidia was blinded by Tajiri with a mysterious black mist, and her boyfriend, Jamie Noble, subsequently took advantage of this by putting her in harm's way to win matches. | |
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In Kevin & Kell, Tammy the moth stared too long at the light from Ray the firefly, resulting in corneal burns in all 3,000 eyes. Unsure whether she would recover, the two bonded on a much less superficial level than before, Tammy gaining love and respect for him. When she could see again, she said she saw Ray "for the first time." | |
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Michelangelo also has his own "Blind Sight" arc in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures, wherein he was blinded by a Molotov Cocktail, then survived a plane crash into the ocean, and was then captured and tortured by the U.S. government. After going through all that, and still blind, he managed to find it in his heart to save the man who tortured him from drowning. | |
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A quest in Darkstone involves a priest being blinded, and the first step of the quest involves restoring his sight. | |
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In Fullmetal Alchemist, Roy Mustang is forced to open the Gate and loses his eyesight as a toll. He still takes part in the final battle, with Hawkeye guiding him. When it's all over, he regains his eyesight thanks to Dr. Marcoh and his philosopher's stone. | |
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In Eyes of a Stranger the protagonist's sister loses her sight (and hearing) at the beginning of the film after being attacked, and regains her senses after sucessfully defending herself from a second attack at the end of the film. | |
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Wonder Woman experiences a bout of blindness in one mini-arc of Wonder Woman (1987). A variation in that she intentionally does it to herself so she can fight a Gorgon without getting turned to stone. | |
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The Highlander fanfic Seeing It Through has Methos left blind after being captured by a jerkass immortal with a grudge against Methos due to a previous escape. Despite the immortal Healing Factor, Methos doesn't immediately regain his sight, and spends time worrying he'll be in trouble since a blind immortal likely wouldn't survive long. | |
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In his Paradiso, Dante loses his sight for some time after his reunion with Beatrice. He was so eager to see her again he didn't avert his eyes from her radiant soul until the virtues made him. | |
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Jaina Solo, Han's daughter and a Jedi pilot, gets temporarily blinded at the start of one book of the New Jedi Order. She's a Jedi in a 'verse with high enough tech to get over that kind of thing, but she was still not allowed to fly until she'd healed. The main impact of it on that book's plot was to cause angst for her parents. | |
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In Birds of Prey, when Jason Bard tries to save Black Canary and they're caught in the act, a gun going off in his face blinds him. Because the villain has no reason to spare him, Black Canary insists on escaping with him despite his blindness; his training makes him reasonably good at supporting her despite his condition, and at the end, it is revealed that medical treatment can restore his sight. | |
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At First Sight: Inverted. Virgil has been blind since he was three years old, and halfway through the movie he goes through a surgery that brings back his vision; however, this recovery is revealed to only be temporary, and by the end of the movie he's blind again. | |
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In the Discworld fic Nature Studies, student Assassin Catherine Perry-Bowen is blinded and disfigured by an enraged rogue baboon. Both Catherine and her teachers are sure she will be permanently blinded and will have to leave the Assassins' School. But this is Ankh-Morpork. Which has Igors. The sequel There's Nothing Like A Fresh Pair Of Eyes revisits Catherine as an Ascended Extra. She is seen recovering from Igor transplant surgery. But nobody expected the occult side-effects of her new eyes... | |
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In Inuyasha, the titular character is blinded by Sesshomaru's poisonous claws. This helps Inuyasha to master his Wind Scar attack since it requires one to locate the spot where demonic aura of the user and the opponent collide. This is easier to do by using one's sense of smell and since Inuyasha couldn't see anything at all at the time... With the help of his Healing Factor, he later makes a full recovery from his temporary blindness. | |
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In the novel Blindness, this happens to an entire (unnamed) country, progressively, but for one woman. The "blindness" in question is unusual: milky-white instead of pitch-black. Needless to say, civilization crumbles in it. | |
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WWE has used this as the focal point of angles several times: Jake "The Snake" Roberts was blinded for several months after "The Model" Rick Martel sprayed cologne in his eyes, and the two had a feud leading into a Blindfold match, in which both men were blindfolded to make things fair. Nidia was blinded by Tajiri with a mysterious black mist, and her boyfriend, Jamie Noble, subsequently took advantage of this by putting her in harm's way to win matches. |
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CM Punk at the hands of Jimmy Rave and The Embassy. | |
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Wonder Woman: Bloodlines: Diana blinds herself to face off against Medusa without being petrified and later her vision is restored. | |
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Haruhi Suzumiya goes almost blind in one eye in episode 1 of the Pretty Cure-style reboot, SOS Pretty Cure, and is paralyzed from the waist down in episode 3. Both times she recovers completely. | |
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In Death Spa, Laura is temporarily blinded when the chlorine pumped into the Sauna of Death burns her eyes and spends most of the film with her eyes bandaged. This leads to her being unaware of things like David stalking through the house, or Marci's body being stuffed into her locker. She regains her sight just in time for the climax. | |
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In The Last Church, the last place of worship on Earth, the Church of the Lightning Stone, was founded on a miracle where a blind man had his eyesight restored after a freak thunderstorm dislodged a massive hematite pillar with a lightning bolt. The sheer force of the strike not only tore off the titular Lightning Stone, but cured the man of his blindness - with the first sight being a vision of God. The Church's last visitor, a man calling himself "Revelation", refutes this, saying that the stone was broken off by erosion and that the founder's "miracle" was just a religious and imaginative man being shocked out of an extreme case of hysterical blindness. | |
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The Prince of Tennis has two instances of this. Early on, the main character, Ryoma Echizen, nearly permanently blinds himself after his own racket breaks and ricochets into his eyelid. Due to excessive bleeding, he is given a ten-minute time limit for finishing the match, and with three minutes left, finally gets serious and wins. Much later, Fuji, from the same team, breaks concentration and has a ball slammed into the side of his head, somehow blinding him. Not one to give up a match, he continues, though his opponent quickly grasps the situation and starts to make a comeback. Fuji then somehow surpasses his own limits and is able to "feel" the presence of the ball, making for a ridiculous victory. | |
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A major beat of the fourth Cut and Run book, Divide and Conquer, is that Zane is blinded after being caught in an explosion, unexpectedly baring some stark personal and relationship issues for both himself and his partner. Not to mention causing the bomber's accomplice to have a moment of clarity when he encounters Zane and realizes his condition is their fault. | |
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Superman: Superman suffers incredibly blurry vision for a time when he arrives in 1943 during his time-traveling adventures in Time and Time Again. Superboy suffered from a type of blindness but he could still see while wearing his Clark Kent glasses, since they were made from round-ish shards of the Kryptonian glass that was part of his rocket. When he suggested to his dad that he should make 'contact lenses' from other glass, Jonathan Kent convinced him that he'd be risking what sight he had, since the Kryptonian glass could damage his Kryptonian eyes, just as if a human placed shards of glass in his eyes. Kal eventually gets better. |
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In Vader's Quest, Luke is blinded when he goes into a cave full of light-amplifying crystals and ignites his lightsaber in response to a threat. Gasping "A J-Jedi doesn't... need eyes!", he then fights off over a dozen people who weren't blinded, without killing them. He's more cautious for the duration of his blindness, but with the Force, he doesn't have to adjust too much. | |
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In Dragon Ball Super, Gohan fights a Poisonous Person opponent who spits in his eyes, blinding him; he deals with it by using his own ki like sonar. After the battle ends in a draw, a Senzu bean fixes Gohan's vision. | |
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In Dragon Ball GT, Goku becomes blind when Eis Shenron claws his eyes; he regains his sight later on. In Dragon Ball Super, Gohan fights a Poisonous Person opponent who spits in his eyes, blinding him; he deals with it by using his own ki like sonar. After the battle ends in a draw, a Senzu bean fixes Gohan's vision. |
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This trope kicks off the whole plot of The Day of the Triffids. The story begins the day the protagonist is expecting to finally regain his sight, only to discover he's quite literally Slept Through the Apocalypse. | |
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In The Box, the son of the main characters is deafened and blinded. The writers go on to suggest that one of his parents (both mostly innocent) murdering the other and being imprisoned to reverse his new disability is the heroic and upright thing to do. In other words, the message of the writers is that homicide is preferable to living with a disability. This film was fortunately and probably not coincidentally Richard Kelly's last work as of 2019. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Happens to Arya Stark as part of her training as a Faceless Man, so she can learn to get around and fight without seeing. Her instructors then remove this, but then render her temporarily deaf, then temporarily crippled... | |
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Partners in Crime Averted in one story, where Tommy is pretending to be blind (complete with shades and cane) for reasons that made sense at the time. He's caught by the villain, who gloatingly puts him in a room where an electrical system will kill him at the slightest contact. A seeing person would have no problem navigating it, of course, hence the villain's complete breakdown when Tommy does just that. | |
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Jake "The Snake" Roberts was blinded for several months after "The Model" Rick Martel sprayed cologne in his eyes, and the two had a feud leading into a Blindfold match, in which both men were blindfolded to make things fair. | |
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Another inversion of the trope occurs in the pages of Superior Iron Man: After Matt confronts him over his recent actions, Tony uses the Extremis virus he infected San Francisco with to restore Matt's eyesight but tells him it'll only last for a few hours, though he'd be willing to cut a deal with Matt to make it permanent. Naturally, Matt turns it down, though he does manage to actually see his friend Foggy just as his eyesight starts fading again. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Subverted in the Mirage comic book story "Blind Sight", in which Leonardo is blinded via poison during a fight with a Foot Ninja, who was himself blinded by Leonardo in a previous battle. Leonardo lands what he believes to be a killing blow until he realizes that the ninja was gone and that he'd actually stabbed a homeless person who was in the area. This leads to a sequel mini-series, where the still-blind Leonardo deals with the Heroic BSoD caused by the experience. Michelangelo also has his own "Blind Sight" arc in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures, wherein he was blinded by a Molotov Cocktail, then survived a plane crash into the ocean, and was then captured and tortured by the U.S. government. After going through all that, and still blind, he managed to find it in his heart to save the man who tortured him from drowning. |
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One of the many afflictions faced by gunslinger Jonah Hex in his career (in Weird Western Tales #24). Another storyline has him thrown from a wagon with the resultant jarring of his spine leaving him temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. | |
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In Transcending Legends, Twilight has to wear a blindfold after a rainbow liquid explosion damages her eye nerves. | |
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There's a short story arc in Spider-Man in which Spider-Man goes blind. Daredevil helps him use his Spider-Sense in order to navigate. | |
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Gensokyo 20XX: We have this with an age-regressed Reimu, in the aftermath of her eating rat poison and the resulting brain damage thereof during the events of chapter 24 and didn't regain her sight until about 24 chapters later. Earlier in the series, we had this with Chen when she was blinded out of mercy during the events of 20XXI and didn't regain her sight until 20XXIV. In that vein, we had Yukari near-blind the which she didn't recover from until about the end of 20XXIV. So far, Miko hasn't displayed any signs of recovery. |
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A lengthier than usual example happens in Cloak and Dagger (Marvel Comics), in which Dagger stays blind for a full year; a fair amount of page space is devoted to her learning to cope. | |
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In Gifts of Wandering Ice Kalare lost her sight to an explosion during one of her experiments. She has to rely on her apprentice's - Elie - help until her eyes are healed. | |
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A bored Sydney in Unintentionally Pretentious buys white Naruto-style contact lenses from Luthor's store to temporarily blind herself in order to relate to her blind roommate better. And later for her Toph cosplay. | |
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Daredevil: An issue has the blind Matt Murdock/Daredevil temporarily lose his enhanced senses. He gets better. Daredevil: Black and White features a total inversion of the trope, however — Daredevil is given sight by experimental surgery, but it fades away before long. Good thing it's All Just a Dream. Another inversion of the trope occurs in the pages of Superior Iron Man: After Matt confronts him over his recent actions, Tony uses the Extremis virus he infected San Francisco with to restore Matt's eyesight but tells him it'll only last for a few hours, though he'd be willing to cut a deal with Matt to make it permanent. Naturally, Matt turns it down, though he does manage to actually see his friend Foggy just as his eyesight starts fading again. Once, Daredevil and Spider-Man team up and the villain brings out his trump card: he uses a device that blinds the target on Daredevil. Spidey pretty much feels sorry for the poor guy when Daredevil lets him have it. (It is not common knowledge to non-heroes that Daredevil is blind.) |
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In Slam Dunk, Rukawa plays a good part of the Toyotama match blinded after a Jerk Jock player elbows him on the head. | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: When Penny opts to participate in a dubious program to experience how blind people get around in "The Service Dog," she uses Bolt as her guide dog and wears blackout glasses to make things as authentic as possible. | |
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Alien Worlds had a case of temporary blindness happen in the "ISA Conspiracy" three-parter, where Maura Cassidy is blinded by the Chrell to try and persuade her into telling them where the statue of their god Narl is. She eventually has her sight restored by the Deitons. | |
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Mystia Lorelei, the night-sparrow youkai, can inflict night-blindness with her singing. She uses it to turn a profit with her well-lit grilled-lamprey stand by inflicting passers-by with night-blindness, then lifting the effect as they eat her grilled lamprey. | |
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The Lone Ranger was shot in the throat and rendered temporarily mute in the 1940s radio serial. For several subsequent episodes, the Lone Ranger was unable to speak above a hoarse whisper while Tonto carried the plot. This was a case of Real Life Writes the Plot since voice actor Earle Graser had died suddenly in a car accident. After five episodes of gradual recovery, Brace Beemer was the new voice of the Lone Ranger. | |
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Rurouni Kenshin: In the manga, during his days as a hitokiri, some guys tried to take him out by using tricks to weaken his sight and hearing. He was still able to kill them even with barely functioning senses, but did have a little more trouble than usual. And his wife Tomoe died in the mess. In the anime, Kenshin also was temporarily blinded during his fight with Shougo Amakusa. He recovers his sight later. Note that Shougo has blinded his own uncle and teacher several years later, and the poor man never recovered his sight, so... |
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Kingdom of Loathing has a "temporary blindness" effect, which is caused by drinking moonshine, among other things. It's required in order to fight Hard Mode Falls-From-Sky. | |
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