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This is a list of fictional characters with disabilities in novels, comics, tv and movies.

A-D

  • Arthur "Artie" Abrams played by actor Kevin McHale is a character from the series Glee (TV series). He is a guitarist and paraplegic manual wheelchair user.
  • Barquentine is a character in Gormenghast. He is the son of Sourdust of Gormenghast castle. He is a one-legged, hunchbacked dwarf.
  • Butchie is a fictional blind man on HBO drama season The Wire, portrayed by S. Robert Morgan. Butchie is Omar Little's bank and advisor. He runs an East-Side Baltimore bar.
  • Charles "Corky" Thatcher (played by Chris Burke (actor)), in Life Goes On (TV series) has Down syndrome. He is one of the Thatcher family and the stories revolve around them. The show is set in the Chicago suburb Glenbrook, Illinois.

E-H

  • Fusion (Twin Terror) is a name of twin supervillains in Marvel. Hubert and Pinky Fusser are twins born with dwarfism. A radiation accident causes them to become a twin-headed radioactive being which contains both of their personalities.
  • Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge has been blind since birth and uses technological devices that allow him to see - a visor initially then replaced by ocular prosthetic implants.
  • Barbara Gordon is a fictional superhero from comic books published by DC Comics. Initially she appeared as daughter of police commissioner James Gordon and Batgirl. The Joker shoots her through the spinal cord in her civilian identity, resulting in paraplegia. She develops a character as a computer expert and information broker known as Oracle.
  • Jack Hodgins is paralyzed from the waist down in Season 11 of Bones when a bomb is planted in the body of a police officer.
  • Augustus Hill is a fictional character, played by Harold Perrineau on the American television show Oz, serving as the show's narrator.

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M-P

  • Mongo the Magnificent is a fictional private eye and criminologist who has dwarfism, appearing in several books by George C. Chesbro. His real name is Dr. Robert "Mongo" Frederickson. Before the stories began he had worked as an acrobat where he got his nickname.
  • Puck is the code name used by both a member of the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight. He is Eugene Judd and later his daughter Zuzha Yu also used the code name. The original Puck was a dwarf though that was later determined to have been caused by mystical influences.

Q-T

  • Jake Sully, played by Sam Worthington, is a disabled former Marine who becomes part of the Avatar Program after his twin brother is killed.

U-Z

  • Dr. Kerry Weaver was portrayed by Laura Innes on the television series ER. The character exhibits a limp in her gait, which is aided by the use of a forearm crutch, later revealed to be caused by congenital Hip dysplasia.
  • Charles Xavier/Professor X portrayed by James McAvoy and by Patrick Stewart in the recent X-Men films. The cause of his paralysis is varied depending on the saga as well as the timeline and impact. However he is generally wheelchair bound.

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