Handicapped Badass/Playing With

Basic Trope: A Badass who has disabilities, but can still fight.
 * Straight: Alice is in a wheelchair, but can still fight competently.
 * Exaggerated:
 * Alice is in a wheelchair, but is also the most Badass of her team.
 * Alice is paralyzed from the neck below. She's still badass.
 * Downplayed: Alice has a sprained ankle, but can still fight competently.
 * Justified: Alice trained harder to compensate for her disability.
 * Inverted: Alice is not disabled, but is unable to fight.
 * Subverted: Alice had faked her disability.
 * Double Subverted: Alice had faked her previous disability, but some time later, she really winds up in the wheelchair. And she can still kick ass.
 * Parodied: Alice has no arms or legs, but is still the team Badass.
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: Alice's disability prevents her from fighting.
 * Enforced:
 * The writers want to show that disabled doesn't equal weak.
 * "How do we make Alice even more badass? Make her a paraplegic, and still be able to kick ass!"
 * Lampshaded: "We're getting beat by the cripple?"
 * Invoked: ???
 * Exploited: ???
 * Defied: ???
 * Discussed: "Just because someone is disabled doesn't mean they're defenseless."
 * Conversed: "Alice is in a wheelchair, but she can fight like that? Hard to believe."

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