List of fictional characters with disabilities

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This is a list of fictional characters with disabilities in various mediums, including novels, comics, television, and movies. A disability may be readily visible, or invisible in nature. Some examples of invisible disabilities include intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, mental disorders, asthma, epilepsy, allergies, migraines, arthritis, and chronic fatigue syndrome.[1] There are many different causes of disability that often affect basic activities of daily living, such as eating, dressing, transferring, and maintaining personal hygiene; or advanced activities of daily living such as shopping, food preparation, driving, or working. However, causes of disability are usually determined by a person's capability to perform the activities of daily life.

Due to the number of entries, this page does not include autistic fictional characters, although it does include characters with other intellectual disabilities.

The names are organized alphabetically by surname (i.e. last name), or by single name if the character does not have a surname.

Comics and Manga[]

Year Character Gender Series/Franchise Author/Publisher Notes
2001-2010 Izumi Curtis Female Fullmetal Alchemist Hiromu Arakawa Izumi has a chronic illness due to missing organs.[2]
2001-2010 Edward Elric Male Fullmetal Alchemist Hiromu Arakawa Many characters are disabled, notably Edward, a double amputee.[3]
Multiple years Barbara Gordon Female Various DC Comics series Multiple authors Originally Batgirl, she became paraplegic when shot in the 1988 graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke and revamped as the computer hacker Oracle. The character's paralysis has been the subject of much critical commentary for and against restoring her mobility.[4][5]
1989-Present Guts (Berserk) Male Berserk Kentaro Miura Half Blind. Missing left arm replaced by a mechanical one with a hidden cannon inside.
2004-2014 Celty Sturluson Female Durarara!! Ryohgo Narita Mute and communicates with a PDA.[6] Also appears in the 2010 and 2015-2016 anime, two mangas, light novels, and elsewhere.
2009-2016 Homestuck trolls Vaired Homestuck Andrew Hussie Many protagonists have disabilities, mostly from battle.[7] Notably, Tavros Nitram has lower-body paralysis, Meulin Leijon is deaf, Terezi Pyrope is blind and synesthesic, and Mituna Captor has brain damage.
2013 Silver Scorpion (Bashir Bari) Male The Silver Scorpion Ron Marz and Ian Edginton Bashir loses his legs in an accident. Later he becomes the new host of an ancient power hidden for centuries.[citation needed]

Literature[]

Year Character(s) Gender Book Author(s) Notes
1964 Barquentine Male Gormenghast series Mervyn Peake One-legged, hunchbacked dwarf.[8]
1996-Present Tyrion Lannister Male A Song of Ice and Fire George R. R. Martin Dwarf, one of the series' most popular characters, who later appeared in the TV series Game of Thrones, voiced by Peter Dinklage.[9][10]
2012 Adam Parrish Male The Raven Cycle Maggie Stiefvater In the first book of the series, Adam becomes deaf in his left ear due to abuse.[11]
2015 Wylan Van Eck Male Six of Crows Leigh Bardugo Wylan is unable to read or write due to severe dyslexia.[citation needed]
2018 Naomi Kaya Female The Savior's Champion Jenna Moreci Twin sister to the protagonist, Tobias. In an accident that killed their father, Naomi's spine was damaged, crippling her from the waist down. She becomes Tobias's motivation to enter the Sovereign's Tournament.

Film[]

Year Character Gender Actor Film Notes
2011 Heinz Doofenschmirtz (2nd Dimension) Male Dan Povenmire Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension He is like Heinz Doofenschmirtz in the regular dimension but has a different demeanor, hairtyle, and outfit, along with an eye-patch with a scar running over it, which covers his left eye socket.[12][13][14][15] He reappears in the Phineas and Ferb episode "Tales from the Resistance: Back to the 2nd Dimension."
2015 Imperator Furiosa Female Charlize Theron Mad Max: Fury Road She is missing an arm and uses a robotic prosthetic.[16][17]
2021 Jie Female Kaylee Hottle Godzilla vs. Kong A young, deaf orphan Iwi native who forms a special bond with Kong, and is the adopted daughter of Ilene Andrews.[18][19]
2015 Marie Nakazawa Female Tao Tsuchiya Library Wars: The Last Mission She is deaf in one ear and HoH in the other, using a hearing aid.[20][21]

Television[]

Year Character Gender Actor(s) Episode(s) Series Notes
2017-2019 Red Action Female Kali Hawk OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes A cyborg teenage girl from the year 301X as a member of a superhero team known as the Hue Troop,[22] escaping to the present after accidentally shattering her team's Prism Crystal. She is also missing a leg and uses a prosthetic. She eventually becomes Enid's girlfriend with the two running a dojo together in the series epilogue.[23][24][25]
2018-Present Amaya Female N/A The Dragon Prince Amaya is a deaf maternal aunt of Callum and Ezran who communicates in sign language and is in love with Janai, a Sunfire elf.[26][27]
2009-2016 Arthur "Artie" Abrams Male Kevin McHale Glee Guitarist and paraplegic wheelchair user portrayed by Kevin McHale.[28]
2002-2008 Butchie Male S. Robert Morgan The Wire Blind bar owner and advisor to Omar Little portrayed by a blind actor.[29][30]
2016-2020 Christina Female Montse Hernandez Elena of Avalor Uses a wheelchair, and in one episode, "Team Isa," the sister of the protagonist, Isabella, uses her science skills to build Christina a new wheelchair called the "Super Chair."[31][32]
2010-2018 Finn the Human Male Jeremy Shada Adventure Time Beginning in Season 6, he has a robotic, prosthetic arm, and previously a grass sword coming from his arm, the latter which transformed itself into a humanoid, sentient being.[33]
2012-2018 Gobber the Belch Male Craig Ferguson DreamWorks Dragons Blacksmith of Berk, Stoick's closest friend, who has a prosthetic left arm and right leg, and a 'prosthetic' tooth.[34] He appears in the films of the How to Train Your Dragon and DreamWorks Dragons: Rescue Riders and has been confirmed as gay.[35]
2018-Present Gary Goodspeed Male Olan Rogers Final Space He has a prosthetic, cybernetic arm, beginning in the first season.[36]
2016 Izetta Female Himika Akaneya Izetta: The Last Witch She is a wheelchair user as shown in the show's final episode.[37]
2018-Present Kazi Non-binary Ashleica Edmond The Dragon Prince Sunfire Elf sign language interpreter who goes by they/them pronouns.[38][39]
2020 Eleanor Kimble Female Cassidy Marie Huff "The Rival Racer" Spirit Riding Free: Riding Academy Paraplegic wheelchair user and horse-riding champion portrayed by a disability advocate with Conradi-Hünermann syndrome.[40][41]
1987-1994 Geordi La Forge Male LeVar Burton Star Trek: The Next Generation Blind since birth, and uses technological devices to allow him to see.[42]
2020 Lancelot Male Rupert Penry-Jones Wizards: Tales of Arcadia Wears a common suit of knight's armor, but has a prosthetic left arm and shoulder that is white with golden clockwork.[43]
2013-Present Neopolitan Female N/A RWBY Born as Trivia Vanille and better known as Neo, she uses a weapon called Hush, a parasol with a concealed blade, and is mute.[a]
1989-1993 Corky Thatcher Male Chris Burke Life Goes On First major character with Down syndrome on a television series, portrayed by a person who also has Down syndrome.[44]
1994-2009 Kerry Weaver Female Laura Innes ER Limp in her gait due to congenital hip dysplasia, and a lesbian.[45][46]
2013-Present Yang Xiao Long Female Barbara Dunkelman RWBY She is an amputee and uses a robotic prosthetic.[47]

Notes[]

  1. ^ She was "voiced" by Casey Lee Williams in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, to give fighting noises

See also[]

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