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The Rain Man

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The Rain Man	comment	The Rain Man has a Disability Superpower. Karmic law dictates that every mental birth defect has a compensating benefit. Like taking flaws on an RPG character, there is always an intelligence point payback, and usually a special skill, too. Some Rain Men are friendless creepy freaks, others are lovable weirdos. Rain Men are always equipped with supernatural skills. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })These skills are usually mental and often geeky. At the low end are super keen observation, memory and calculation. At the high end are telekinesis and hacking into the world's computational substrate. In the namesake film, the skills are near-instantaneous observation and counting that makes Dustin Hoffman's character a nightmare for a decent casino. Would-be kidnappers and other baddies will think the Rain Man makes an easy target, on account of his not-intimidating frame. But these hidden skills will come to the fore in the hour of need. In Real Life, autism is a complex brain development disorder associated with interaction/communication problems and restricted repetitious behavior. Extreme cases can be disabling, but the negative medical view of autism is highly controversial in some quarters. Autism is seen by many autistics (including some people with Asperger syndrome, or "Aspies") as more akin to a different viewpoint and way of life. Savant skills are rare, although repetitious behavior does tend to result in autistics acquiring some unusual skills through practice. But none of that makes good television, does it? Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Oh, and savant skills aren't always associated with autism to begin with. The person "Rain Man" was based on, a savant named Kim Peek, was probably not autistic, but had FG syndrome, an X-linked genetic disorder that causes serious physical and mental abnormalities in the affected (he was, however, misdiagnosed with autism during his lifetime, hence Raymond's autism in the movie, but posthumous analyses generally concur that he more likely had FG Syndrome). See also Science-Related Memetic Disorder, for a truly exaggerated take on the subject; Absent-Minded Professor and TV Genius, for somewhat milder takes; Crazy Awesome, for when their effectiveness depends on their abnormal behaviour; Genius Ditz when the disability is just plain stupidity, and Neurodiversity Is Supernatural for if the character's "gift" is a superpower. Can overlap with High-Functioning Autism. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })A subtrope of Idiot Savant. If you are looking for the film called Rain Man, it is here. Examples:
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The Rain Man / int_1360882c	comment	Little Pete from Gone. He is a five-year-old and severely autistic. In Diana's Random Power Ranking system, muggles are 0, most mutants are 1-3, The Hero and the Big Bad are 4, and Little Pete is 10.
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The Rain Man / int_139f246	comment	Cassandra from Rage of the Dragons is autistic and perfectly capable of kicking your ass.
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The Rain Man / int_1463a028	comment	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit once featured a little girl with Williams Syndrome. She made the perfect witness because 1) she literally had no concept of lying, and 2) she had really, really good hearing. (She was also completely adorable.)
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The Rain Man / int_1657352d	comment	Parenthood: Max Braverman, the 8-year-old son of Adam and Kristina Braverman, has Asperger's. Several episodes have featured characters on the autism spectrum or issues related to the disorder.
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The Rain Man / int_1ef9a5ac	comment	Mark, in Death Grip, is childish and awkward in his interactions, but he can open locks almost preternaturally fast, and he manages to replicate two keypad codes after having heard them being entered once while he was asleep.
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The Rain Man / int_202462bc	comment	Indeed, part of Alphas' premise is that most Alphas have at least a shade of this, the same altered brain chemistry which provides their unique abilities making them prone to thematically related mental disorders. The Ghost's manipulative powers, which he uses to carry out elaborately planned assassinations using mind-controlled stooges, clearly suffers from considerable OCD, mapping out every aspect of his life with the same precision he plans assassinations—to the point that he considers four minute's tardiness an offense punishable by death.
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The Rain Man / int_231ede78	comment	The FOX series Touch seems to be all about this, seeing as it focuses on the father of a severely autistic child (he's even nonverbal) who serves as a conduit for the patterns of the universe.
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The Rain Man / int_2477688c	comment	One of The Baby-Sitters Club's clients was an Autistic girl who couldn't talk unless she was asked to name a date or if singing was part of the music she heard (she was a piano savant). At one point her sitter discovers that a neighborhood boy was charging other children to see the freaky savant girl.
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The Rain Man / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Several episodes where Homer meets autistic characters, including: "Stark Raving Dad" — Homer is mistakenly(?) sent to a mental institution, where he meets a man who can figure out complicated mathematical problems in his mind (although the question Homer asks is "what is 5 plus 9"). "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)" — Homer gets a job as a blackjack dealer at Mr. Burns' casino, and two men resembling Charlie and Raymond Babbit from Rain Man are at the blackjack table. Homer is impressed by Raymond's card-counting abilities ... until "Raymond" hears a roulette wheel spinning and starts mimicking the opening spiel of Wheel of Fortune; Homer tries to restrain "Raymond", who begins to panic and beat the palm of his hand against his head... after which Homer begins to do the same!
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The Rain Man / int_27777760	comment	Averted by Eureka. Kevin's supernatural powers are due not to his autism but to absorbing the Akashic Field. However, his ability to name the day of the week for any given date is a classical view of an autistic superpower. And then they pull this: Which nobody ever did: November 3rd, 1957 was a Sunday, according to both Linux' cal(1) function and The Other Wiki.
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The Rain Man / int_28fe1376	comment	Fringe has an episode about a mentally challenged individual (forget if they mentioned the cause) who is given IQ steroids to the point of being able to predict outcomes and create Rube Goldberg deathtraps.
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The Rain Man / int_3558eaa2	comment	Abed from Community. Lampshaded after Abed has managed to sit perfectly still for twenty-six hours waiting in a room simply because Annie asked him to: There's another direct reference in one episode in a blink-and-you'll-mis-it moment: Jeff spills a bag of bagels and Abed notes how many have fallen on the floor at a glance. This echoes a scene in Rainman when Raymond first demonstrates his savant abilities by doing the same with toothpicks. Though it's actually a Stealth Pun once you realize Abed counts 13. As in, a baker's dozen, the most likely number.
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The Rain Man / int_392e13d	comment	Mass Effect: Ascension has Gillian Grayson, a high-functioning autistic preteen with extremely high biotic potential (gravity manipulation/telekinesis). Early on while she's doing schoolwork she only occasionally types in an answer, but it's always the right one. However, she does seem to be somewhat realistically portrayed - physical contact is alternately not felt and painful, she doesn't understand other kids, she doesn't always respond to someone speaking. Kahlee Sanders, taking care of her, thinks that going off the Cerberus medication she was taking and being in an environment suit among suited-up quarians contribute significantly to her disability becoming somewhat less severe by the end of the book. She shows some emotion and more curiosity about things happening around her, and with the suit insulating her from the outside world, physical contact doesn't overload her senses.
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The Rain Man / int_3c7d6b13	comment	NeuroTribes gives a few Real Life examples of this trope, such as two severely autistic twin brothers who can discover 8-digit prime numbers in their heads.
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The Rain Man / int_3d258702	comment	Jimmy, the titular Wizard in The Wizard, is an Instant Expert in every video game he plays. He's even able to locate the World 1 Warp Whistle in Super Mario Bros. 3 on his first try in the middle of an intense competition.
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The Rain Man / int_404c9387	comment	In Red vs. Blue, Caboose, the lovable idiot who never quite figured out that not everyone offering orange juice and a cookie has his best interests in mind, is the only character strong enough to lift the bomb Tex has prepared to blow up O'Malley's base. The other Blues describe this as "God's way of compensating" for the fact that Caboose lacks the capacity to do basic addition. And if he ever does get legitimately angry...
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The Rain Man / int_4447019e	comment	The intellectual disabled custodians in Kingdom Hospital have a connection to "the Old Kingdom," the spectral otherworld.
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The Rain Man / int_4551706c	comment	"$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)" — Homer gets a job as a blackjack dealer at Mr. Burns' casino, and two men resembling Charlie and Raymond Babbit from Rain Man are at the blackjack table. Homer is impressed by Raymond's card-counting abilities ... until "Raymond" hears a roulette wheel spinning and starts mimicking the opening spiel of Wheel of Fortune; Homer tries to restrain "Raymond", who begins to panic and beat the palm of his hand against his head... after which Homer begins to do the same!
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The Rain Man / int_4b882a66	comment	St. Elsewhere: In the series finale "The Last One", the entire series is revealed to be the figment of the autistic teenager Tommy Westphall's imagination; a tiny building set inside a snow globe served as the hospital, St. Eligius, where the main action was set.
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The Rain Man / int_4f9a3b9f	comment	An episode of In Plain Sight had a bookie's accountant who had Aspergers. She was the perfect witness because she couldn't lie, but she was the worst protected witness because it was impossible for her maintain a new identity. On top of that she still believed her boss was her friend and tried to visit him during the trial, which nearly got her killed.
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The Rain Man / int_5090b9e6	comment	In Clive Barker's Jericho, Cpl. Simone Cole has the ability to hack into reality itself by the magic of autistic weirdness and high mathematics.
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The Rain Man / int_5ae0bec6	comment	WWE had Eugene, Eric Bischoff's "special" nephew, whose savant skill just happened to be Professional Wrestling. Later they introduced Jesse and his cousin Festus, the latter of which seems to be heavily autistic, but "wakes up" whenever he hears the ring bell and becomes a superb powerhouse wrestler, only to go back off to his own little world when the bell rings again at the end of the match. These were both played for laughs, with the best usage being when John Morrison and The Miz more or less herded "stupid" Festus into the ring with a bell, and proceeded to ring it over and over to watch him snap back and forth, with Morrison at one point leaving Festus in "battle" mode to watch him chase Miz around the ring. It must be noted the fellow who plays Festus is REALLY dedicated to the character. The Festus gimmick was randomly abandoned and he, real name Andrew Hankinson, was reintroduced as Luke Gallows, with the explanation that his previous behavior was due to drug use. Under this name, he was a Heel and the muscle in CM Punk's Straight Edge Society.
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The Rain Man / int_625e571	comment	Detective Goren from Law & Order: Criminal Intent is awkward and stutters but has an exceptional attention to detail and problem solving skills. He also faced down against an Aspie who was able to arrange murders so that no one would ever notice a pattern. He was so good that Goren and Eames only caught him because someone else made a mistake. That, and he would unconsciously arrange things in a certain pattern, including the "random" dump sites.
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The Rain Man / int_629cd094	comment	Sandal from Dragon Age: Origins is a natural at enchantments (enhancing weapons with magical properties), but has virtually no communication skills, typically only saying words like, "Hello" and "Enchantment". His adoptive father mentions that he was actually called a savant by the people at the Ferelden Circle, since typically takes years of practice before someone can fold lyrium properly into enchantments and very few people can do so safely. This skill also serves a Running Gag where the player can find him in the middle of a room filled with darkspawn corpses and covered in blood, with absolutely no explanation of how he killed them all aside from "Enchantment!".
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The Rain Man / int_6bbde1c8	comment	Symmetra from Overwatch is confirmed as an autistic person and was gifted with an unique ability to bend light to her own imagination, which is why the Vishkar Corporation plucked her out of her childhood poverty life and trained her to be an architect using their Hard Light technology. Her being on the autistic spectrum (including lack of social skills and developing a Super OCD and obsession on order) used to bother her, but over time she learned to utilize her differences to do things her co-workers couldn't. Unfortunately, as it turns out, Vishkar is one bad bad corporation that probably used Symmetra's talents for dubious ends, something that she suspected and doubted that they really are doing things for the greater good as they claimed, but due to their indoctrination on her and obsession on order (which Vishkar is technically bringing onto others), she cannot turn away from the organization.
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The Rain Man / int_6d9a0c36	comment	Friendly of Best Served Cold (followup novel to The First Law) is a bit odd, taciturn, and, well, Ax-Crazy, but he's also excellent with numbers. He gets hung up on counting especially, such as the fact that there are eight letters in "counting," and that two times eight is sixteen which is the square root of two hundred fifty-six which...
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The Rain Man / int_750f8ad0	comment	Jiro Sasaki from Ruby's World. Somewhat subverted in that he was a literal example in his youth, but his autistic brain has been complemented by the Super Soldier process to which he was subjected. His body and brain are augmented by nanotech, so his talents can be applied to pretty much anything... except understanding other human beings.
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The Rain Man / int_7668653a	comment	In the Overlord mission of Mass Effect 2, Doctor Archer's autistic brother David is a math whiz and also turns out to be capable of both understanding and perfectly mimicking the otherwise-indecipherable signals used in geth communication, to the point where he can issue them orders. The plot hits the bad end of cynicism and Doctor Archer is all too willing to abuse this talent with paper-thin justifications for the way David has to be treated to weaponize it. The contraption looks like something worse than you'd see in The Matrix, and just about the only thing David can say afterwards is "QUIET! MAKE IT STOP!"
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The Rain Man / int_7850acf6	comment	The autistic kid in The Regulators is a telepath.
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The Rain Man / int_78ec49bd	comment	A Wizard Alone, the sixth book in the Young Wizards series, centered around an autistic character who was portrayed as locked up in his own head on account of being autistic (which is a very inaccurate portrayal of what it is like), but was taking advantage of this writers' error to lock up the Big Bad in there with him. A little off in that being autistic didn't seem to give him a lot, otherwise, and was basically treated as something awful that'd been sicced on him by the Forces of Entropy and a metaphor for people closing themselves off because of a trauma such as grief. In the end he pushes it off on Satan is everywhere the Lone Power and becomes a normal wizard, apart from his special ability to be two places at once, which is caused by being a conduit for holy power. Which is unrelated to the autism, incidentally, or at least not said to be related. Something like that.
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The Rain Man / int_7a380f3b	comment	Spinelli on General Hospital is so good with computers that the Port Charles Mob...convinces him to work for them. At one point, Matt Hunter wants to test him for autism, but he refuses, telling him he is Spinelli, and no further explanation is needed.
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The Rain Man / int_8125b468	comment	Blackwolf, the Batman Expy from Soon I Will Be Invincible, gets his observational skills and planning powers from a form of high-functioning autism.
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The Rain Man / int_869a0304	comment	The Millennium Trilogy: Lisbeth Salander is a combination of The Rain Man, Dark Action Girl, and a healthy serving of Broken Bird. She's incredibly withdrawn and doesn't get on well with others (to the point where she was legally declared mentally incompetent), but she has a Photographic Memory and extraordinary talents for hacking and working with machinery and can dig up practically any information about someone given enough time. In the books she is speculated to have Asperger Syndrome, but she doesn't really fit the definition given the calculated ruthlessness and flexible independence. The author himself, in talks with his editor, stated that he saw her more as a borderline sociopath with an incredibly bad upbringing, which would fit better, or how he envisioned a modern Pippi Longstocking might turn out after growing up in the Swedish bureaucratic system as an orphan with an Ambiguous Disorder.
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The Rain Man / int_8d81f086	comment	Monk "It's a gift... and a curse." Sttotlemeyer even refers to it as his "Rain Man thing" in one episode.
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The Rain Man / int_8deb62ad	comment	Haywire from Prison Break, who supposedly has a "schizoaffective disorder with bipolar tendencies," not only has a perfect photographic memory, but has no need for sleep. A Television Without Pity recapper noted "I love it when being mentally disabled really means you have superpowers."
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The Rain Man / int_952de5e1	comment	The midget lady in The Best Offer, whose superhuman skill is her Photographic Memory.
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The Rain Man / int_98c55b59	comment	Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura has the "Idiot Savant" background, which gives you a huge boost to intelligence and gambling, at the expense of social abilities including the 'stupid' dialogue trees.
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The Rain Man / int_9a539f56	comment	Espurr in Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon. She displays mental wisdom and prowess far beyond her age (despite her species of pokemon canonically not being able to control such powers), but has absolutely no qualms about seeking out dangerous ghosts for fun or living without parents.
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The Rain Man / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Pokémon creator Satoshi Tajiri is this. The franchise's existence stems largely from his love of collecting things, which might as well explain the Loads and Loads of Characters (not to mention a certain trope-naming phrase).
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The Rain Man / int_a45128da	comment	AMY is an autistic girl who has telekinetic powers. The two are related on a meta level: Lana (the main character, Amy's social worker) cannot leave Amy lest she be infected with the zombie virus, and she also acts as a Living Emotional Crutch for Amy (something autistic people commonly have). Because of the aforementioned zombie immunity, Amy forms the basis of an Escort Mission, and real life autistic people will often need to be taken by the hand, and may wander off after being told to stay somewhere (which Amy also does). In his review of the game, Yahtzee pointed out how common this trope is in horror, and suspects Alma of F.E.A.R. and Cheryl of Silent Hill of being examples as well (although these are just Wild Mass Guesses that are currently unconfirmed).
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The Rain Man / int_a60e61d2	comment	The intellectual disabled "Duddits" from Dreamcatcher has a telepathic connection to his friends and is able to help fend off the alien invasion. In the movie he was "off" because he actually was an alien... apparently.
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The Rain Man / int_a6492af2	comment	The Stand: M.O.O.N., that spells "Magic People With Mental Conditions"... The sort that ward off evil interdimensional apocalyptic overlords. They also tend to be secretly wise characters who have Karmic Protection against the villain.
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The Rain Man / int_ac03f223	comment	FlashForward (2009) used the 'prattling savant' variety of this trope with Gabriel.
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The Rain Man / int_ac4b6a62	comment	In Questionable Content, Hannelore's OCD and germ phobia make her see Marigold's room as a "challenge". In addition, OCD-fueled counting makes her a great drummer as soon as she learns how to use the drums, since she sees it as "counting with your whole body".
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The Rain Man / int_b36952af	comment	Kazan from Cube is a textbook example, incapable of forming complete sentences but able to do complex mathematics in his head. Some of his lines come from Rain Man.
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The Rain Man / int_ba7203f7	comment	Gary Numan's "Remind Me To Smile".
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The Rain Man / int_bd310eaa	comment	Noah in El Goonish Shive has an number of Aspergers-like traits, including having absolutely no idea how social conversations are supposed to work. Knowing the series, however, it's more likely he'll turn out to be an alien or other-worldly being who just doesn't get human culture. It's very heavily hinted (his connection to Damien, how he sees Grace, the fact he was seen when talking about a sixth experimental chimera (OK, in shadow, but his hair is far to unique to miss) that he has at least some connection to Grace and the other Chimera prior to being adopted by Raven.
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The Rain Man / int_be9b3374	comment	Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids: The 1979 episode "The Mainstream," where a young boy named Dennis, with a "mild form of intellectual disablity" — the depiction is consistent with autism-like characteristics — shows off his talents at his school's art, and teaching the gang and his classmates that he can rise above his apparent disability.
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The Rain Man / int_bf3a0285	comment	An episode of Without a Trace had an autistic boy go missing. The parents were asked if he had any special abilities. They outright say "You mean like Rainman? No!" Although, he does do some pretty detailed drawings and can recite all the eras of the geologic time scale.
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The Rain Man / int_bfa1d565	comment	Jerry Espenson on Boston Legal; he has Asperger's Syndrome and is also one of the most brilliant lawyers at the firm.
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The Rain Man / int_cbe9419f	comment	Last Res0rt's Daisy Archanis is an autistic Mad Scientist; while the only real 'power' she's demonstrated so far are some kickass deduction skills that helped her figure out Jigsaw was a vampire before anyone else AND discreetly inform Jigsaw of this by exploiting Jigsaw's new thought-reading skills in order to avoid breaking The Masquerade, bonus materials imply that her autistic facets are actually a symptom of being a Light Child and thus having the potential for supernatural powers (albeit lacking the training to use them).
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The Rain Man / int_cd1550c5	comment	The Dark Tower, Although Sheemie Ruiz is mentally deficient, he turns out to be a powerful Breaker and can teleport people.
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The Rain Man / int_d4412e3	comment	Tommy: that deaf, dumb, and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball. Although Tommy's disabilities were trauma induced.
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The Rain Man / int_df6c9f95	comment	Airwolf: A boy with Down Syndrome has the ability to accurately draw something for memory. His father, an aircraft designer, gets kidnapped by people who appear to be working for a certain non-democratic state. He is able to draw the outside of the house, thus allowing Airwolf's image recognition system to find it.
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The Rain Man / int_e7e37776	comment	River Tam from Firefly, though in her case she started out just fine (better than fine), until her fourteenth birthday, when she was convinced to go to the Academy. From there, things got worse.
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The Rain Man / int_eb095079	comment	Max from Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse: He has no long term memory, the attention span of a fly and no social skills, but he has latent psychic powers which are linked to Toys.
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The Rain Man / int_ec80dae4	comment	In his review of the game, Yahtzee pointed out how common this trope is in horror, and suspects Alma of F.E.A.R. and Cheryl of Silent Hill of being examples as well (although these are just Wild Mass Guesses that are currently unconfirmed).
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The Rain Man / int_f3c3ca42	comment	The Sewer Urchin from The Tick. On ground level, he is generally considered ineffectual and unpopular (particularly because of his smell), but in his home territory of the sewers, he's one of The City's most effective superheroes. As an added bonus, he actually sounds and acts like Dustin Hoffman's Rain Man.
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The Rain Man / int_f4313238	comment	Genetic scientist Anton of Ender's Shadow says he was inspired by Rainman-like savants, who showed him the human brain could be far smarter than it typically was. But that intelligence always comes with a cost: in the case of the children he genetically enhances in utero, it's a drastically reduced lifespan.
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The Rain Man / int_f4e799ee	comment	In Burn Notice: The schizophrenic Spencer sees patterns in everything, which helps him find Michael and alert him to a woman who's selling coded messages to enemy agents. Unfortunately, he also sees messages sent on beams of light from aliens and that the enemy agents are evil aliens seeking to destroy the universe, which makes him hard to work with. Spencer receives a happy ending when Barry gets him a cryptography job and he gets on some anti-psychotics. Averted with Dougie in a later episode. He has no particular abilities, he's just a good (but 'slow') guy who's a Pet the Dog moment for his drug dealer cousin and the target of a violent criminal seeking to use him. Fiona has a Mama Bear moment on his behalf.
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The Rain Man / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Lampshaded with Joey in Friends, when Chandler comments that Joey can't add five hundred and five hundred in his head, but when you put him near a woman he becomes the Rainman.
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The Rain Man / int_f84e9cf5	comment	These were both played for laughs, with the best usage being when John Morrison and The Miz more or less herded "stupid" Festus into the ring with a bell, and proceeded to ring it over and over to watch him snap back and forth, with Morrison at one point leaving Festus in "battle" mode to watch him chase Miz around the ring. It must be noted the fellow who plays Festus is REALLY dedicated to the character. The Festus gimmick was randomly abandoned and he, real name Andrew Hankinson, was reintroduced as Luke Gallows, with the explanation that his previous behavior was due to drug use. Under this name, he was a Heel and the muscle in CM Punk's Straight Edge Society.
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The Rain Man / int_f897fbcd	comment	Christopher from The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime is a maths genius who is so advanced that he's doing A-Level maths before he's old enough to do his GCS Es, and can solve complicated problems in seconds, claiming them to be easy. It's stated that he is the first person in his school ever to take any sort of A-Levels. However, his autistm is such that he is barely able to function in almost every other respect.
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