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* [[Spider-Man]] villains:
** [[The Don| Elderly crime boss Silvermane]] is either wheelchair bound and often on some sort of life support, except the times he's a [[Cyborg]]. There was even a time when he was running his criminal organization while bedridden.
** [[Robot Master| Alistair Smythe]], one of many villains to build the Spider-Slayer robots, was originally unable to walk and
* And [[MODOK]] in most of his incarnations is in a powered wheelchair.
* Miami drug czar Ulysses X. Lugman, aka the Slug, (who first appeared in [[Captain America]]'s comic) is so enormously obese, he can't move on his own, requiring a custom-made mechanical wheelchair with tank treads. He has been known to asphyxiate a man in the folds of his flesh when he wants to kill someone personally.
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== Literature ==
* [[Peter Pan|Captain Hook]], [[Trope Maker]] for [[Hook Hand]], although he did claim the hook was "worth a score of hands".
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' has Lothar Frey, nicknamed "Lame Lothar", one of the masterminds of the "[[Moral Event Horizon|Red Wedding]]".
* Non-wheelchair example: In ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', one of Count Olaf's more frightening henchmen has hooks for hands—interestingly, he's the only one who eventually gets a semi-detailed backstory and becomes relatively sympathetic.
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** The Hammer-Heads from the first book were mean guys who lived on a large hill in the Quadling Country, who had no arms. Unfriendly and xenophobic, they attacked anyone who trespassed on their hill with their hard heads on stretchy, elastic necks, their lack of arms hardly a problem.
** The Wheelers in the third book were a race native to the Land of Ev, who had wheels for hands and feet. Like the Hammer-Heads, they were unfriendly and coveted the magic trees that grew lunchboxes (which really weren't theirs at all). Not truly dangerous or malicious, they still liked scaring people away. (The movie ''[[Return to Oz]]'' made them [[Adaptational Villainy|much more darker and hostile.]])
* President Snow, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[The Hunger Games]]''; a very old man, he suffers from very bad tuberculosis.
== Live Action TV ==
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* Arguably, Nessarose in ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]''.
* Shakespeare's ''[[Richard III]]'' is quite possibly the [[Trope Codifier]].
** The discovery of the real king's remains in 2012 confirmed the real English monarch Richard III did indeed suffer from rather prominent scoliosis (which modern medicine could have easily rectified). Like any leader in a civil war, plenty of contemporary demonizing of him to be found.
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[No One Lives Forever]] II'' (which is an [[Affectionate Parody]] of [[Spy Fiction]] in general), a villain from the original game returns in a wheelchair... with integrated rocket launchers. For starters.
* Belger, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Final Fight]]'' appears to be one at first, confronting the heroes in a wheelchair using poor Jessica as a [[Human Shield]]. {{spoiler|Subverted, however, in that one successful throw against him shows he's faking it and can walk just fine.}}
* Von Bolt from ''[[Nintendo Wars|Advance Wars: Dual Strike]]''.
* Subverted in one of the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' games. The killer is wheelchair-bound, but he's easily one of the series' most [[Sympathetic Murderer|sympathetic murderers]] and it's even said that he isn't really a bad man.
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