Disability Tropes by Disability

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I've been pondering the portrayal of disabled people in fiction, and to that end have sorted the Disability Tropes at TV Tropes into categories. It got so long I decided to separate it out from my fledgeling draft post, and anyway I think it's interesting in and of itself.


From Disability Tropes and Indexitis.

EDIT: Mental Illness has it's own large set of tropes. That could make a whole separate post :)

Amputated Limb:

• Arm Cannon
  
• Artificial Limbs
  
• Hook Hand
  
• Swiss Army Appendage
  
• We Can Rebuild Him
  

Autism:

• The Rainman

Vision problems:

• Blind Seer
  
• Milky White Eyes
  
• Mr Magoo And The Monster

Albinism:

• Evil Albino
  
• Heroic Albino

Disease:

• Ill Girl
  
• Victorian Novel Disease
  
• Soap Opera Disease
  
• Littlest Cancer Patient
  

Learning:

• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
  
• L Is For Dyslexia
  

Speech:

• Speech Impediment
  
• Tourettes Shitcock Syndrome
  
• Cute Mute
  

Mobility problems:

• Evil Cripple
  
• Genius Cripple

And now the ones that can apply to any disability:

• Disability Superpower
  
• Disabled Hottie
  
• Disabled Means Helpless
  
• Handicapped Badass
  
• Inspirationally Disadvantaged
  
• Single Episode Handicap
  
• Sorry Billy, But You Just Don't Have Legs
  
• Red Right Hand
  

Are there any major tropes you think are missing? Does anyone have a problem with the way I've categorised them?

Comments

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Good point. That has to be in the wiki somewhere. *pokes about*