List of fictional characters with disabilities

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Fictional characters with disabilities appear 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, autistic fictional characters are listed on their own page and are not included here.

Literature

A painting of Quasimodo by Antoine Wiertz

An illustration of Long John Silver by N. C. Wyeth

Year	Character	Book(s)	Author(s)	Disability	Ref.
1818	The Monster	Frankenstein	Mary Shelly	A man made from the bodies of other people, imperfect, abused because of his visible differences and communication disabilities.	[2][3]
	DeLacey			An old blind man who cannot see the monster so isn't prejudiced by his sight, and offers the only genuine friendship the monster has ever experienced.
1831	Quasimodo	The Hunchback of Notre-Dame	Victor Hugo	Quasimodo is born a hunchback, is half-blind, and becomes deaf due to his living in the bell tower of the cathedral.	[4]
1838	Smike	Nicholas Nickleby	Charles Dickens	He has deformed limbs and has intellectual and communication difficulties related to the abuse he has suffered.	[5]
1843	Tiny Tim	A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens	Tiny Tim is believed to have had either rickets, tuberculosis (TB), polio, and/or cerebral palsy.	[6][7]
1851	Captain Ahab	Moby-Dick	Herman Melville	A whale bit off Ahab's leg, and he stands on what's left of the bone. The sound of his ivory limb echoes on the deck. Ahab experiences a constant, piercing pain in his groin that represents the world's suffering.	[8]
1883	Long John Silver	Treasure Island	Treasure Island	A pirate with a missing leg, and eyepatch and another who has lost his sight.	[9]
	Blind Pew
1904	Captain Hook	Peter and Wendy	J. M. Barrie	A pirate with a missing hand	[10]
1911	Colin Craven	The Secret Garden	Frances Hodgeson Burnett	Colin Craven is a character who experiences a disability that is described as a hunchback and an inability to walk.	[11]
1928	Clifford	Lady Chatterley's Lover	D. H. Lawrence	Clifford is dependent on a wheelchair for mobility. Clifford's disability is a significant metaphorical form in the novel. The novel satirizes Clifford's technological obsessions, focus on "the life of the mind", and insistence on industrial wealth.	[12][13]
1937	Lennie Small	Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	He is a migrant worker with learning and communication disabilities. He relies on his best friend for support.	[14]
1937	Candy			Candy is an old man with a stooped posture and no right hand, which he lost in an accident on the ranch.
1937	Crooks			Crooks has a crooked spine from an accident with a horse. Crooks is doubly marginalized by his disability and race.
1964	Barquentine	Gormenghast series	Mervyn Peake	One-legged, hunchbacked dwarf.	[15]
1973	Mr Johnny Gotobed	Carrie's War	Nina Bawden	He has both communication and learning disabilities.	[16][17]
1978	Walter	Walter	David Cook	He has learning and communication disabilities.	[18][19]
1996	Tyrion Lannister	A Song of Ice and Fire	George R. R. Martin	An unspecified type of dwarfism and severe facial disfigurement.	[20][21]
2001	Shawn	Stuck In Neutral	Terry Trueman	Cerebral palsy	[22]
2012	Adam Parrish	The Raven Cycle	Maggie Stiefvater	In the first book of the series, Adam becomes deaf in his left ear due to abuse.	[23]
2012	Hazel Grace Lancaster, Augustus Waters, and several other characters	The Fault in our Stars	John Green	The book is about characters with several types of cancer and resulting disabilities including a blind character and one with a prosthetic leg.	[24][25]
2015	Kaz Brekker	Six of Crows	Leigh Bardugo	Kaz has a limp and uses a cane. He also experiences post-traumatic stress disorder. These are major parts of his experiences and development throughout the Six of Crows duology.	[26]

Live-action films

The costume of Imperator Furiosa used in Mad Max: Fury Road, featuring her prosthetic arm

Year	Character	Film	Character's Disability	Actor	Ref.
1952	Larry Nevins	Bright Victory	Blind	Arthur Kennedy	[27]
1954	Hal Jeffries	Rear Window	Wheelchair user	James Stewart	[28]
1965	Selina D'Arcey	A Patch of Blue	Blind	Elizabeth Hartman	[29]
1967	Susy Hendrix	Wait Until Dark	Blind	Audrey Hepburm	[30]
1969	Singer	The Heart is a Lonely Hunter	Deaf and mute	Alan Arkin	[31]
1982	Walter	Walter	Learning disabilities	Ian McKellen	[32]
1985	Mr Will	Places in the Heart	Blind	John Malkovich	[33]
1988	Willow Ulfgood	Willow	Short stature (dwarfism)	Warwick Davis	[34]
1988	Eric Cruise	Mac and Me	Wheelchair user	Jade Calegory	[35]
1989	Nick Parker	Blind Fury	Blind	Rutger Hauer	[36]
1992	Lennie Small	Of Mice and Men	Learning disabilities	John Malkovich	[14]
1992	Frank Slade	Scent of a Woman	Blind	Al Pacino	[37]
1994	Forrest Gump	Forrest Gump	Borderline intellectual functioning	Tom Hanks	[38]
1999	Lincoln Rhyme	The Bone Collector	Quadriplegic	Denzel Washington	[39]
2002	Charles Xavier	X-Men	Wheelchair user	Patrick Stewart	[40]
2002	Bill Porter	Door to Door	Cerebral palsy	Williams H. Macey	[41]
2003	Finbar McBride	The Station Agent	Dwarfism	Peter Dinklage	[42]
2004	Rory O'Shae	Inside I'm Dancing	Quadriplegic wheelchair user	James McAvoy	[43]
2004	Ivy Elizabeth Walker	The Village	Blind	Bryce Dallas Howard	[44]
2007	Art Honeyman	Music Within	Cerebral palsy	Michael Sheen	[45]
2007	H.W. Plainview	There Will Be Blood	Deaf	Dillon Freasier & Russell Harvard	[46]
2008	Laura Miller	Sweet Nothing in My Ear	Deaf	Marlee Maitlin	[47]
2013	Tim	House of Last Things	Cerebral palsy	RJ Mitte	[48]
2014	Laila	Margarita with a Straw	Cerebral palsy	Kalki Koechlin	[49]
2014	Gazelle	Kingsman	Double leg amputee	Sofia Boutella	[50]
2015	Imperator Furiosa	Mad Max: Fury Road	She is missing an arm and uses a robotic prosthetic.	Charlize Theron	[51][52]
2015	Marie Nakazawa	Library Wars: The Last Mission	She is deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other, using a hearing aid.	Tao Tsuchiya	[53][54]
2016	Will Traynor	Me Before You	Paralysed	Sam Clafin	[55]
2016	Lee Chandler	Manchester by the Sea	Post-traumatic stress disorder	Casey Affleck	[56]
2016	Dr Strange	Marvel Cinematic Universe (first appearance in Doctor Strange)	He suffered irreversible nerve damage to his hands. His hands are permanently injured. Strange's hands shake, his hands clench up or lose grip on objects without warning, he experiences painful spasms and can occasionally become paralyzed.	Benedict Cumberbatch	[57]
2016	Trevor	The Fundamentals of Caring	Wheelchair user	Craig Roberts	[58]
2017	Philip Lacasse	The Upside	Wheelchair user and paralysis	Bryan Cranston	[59][60]
2017	James	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Dwarfism	Peter Dinklage	[61]
2017	Rose	Wonderstruck	Deaf	Millicent Simmonds	[62]
2018	Regan Abbot	A Quiet Place	Deaf	Millicent Simmonds	[63]
2019	Gary	Joker	Dwarfism	Leigh Gill	[64]
2019	Diane	Sound of Metal	Deaf	Lauren Ridloff	[65]
2019	Travis	Standing Up for Sunny	Cerebral palsy	RJ Mitte	[66]
2019	Zak	The Peanut Butter Falcon	Down syndrome	Zack Gottsagen	[67]
2020	Izzy Simmons	Christmas Ever After	Wheelchair user	Ali Stroker	[68][69]
2020	Roman Lunyov	I Care a Lot	Dwarfism	Peter Dinklage	[70]
2020	Steve	The Oak Room	Cerebral palsy	RJ Mitte	[71]
2020	Daughter	Run	Wheelchair user	Kiera Allen	[72]
2021	Makkari	Eternals	Deaf	Lauren Ridloff	[73]
2021	Tim	Help	Physical disability	Arthur Hughes	[74]
2021	Jie	Godzilla vs. Kong	Deaf	Kaylee Hottle	[75][76]
2021	Cyrano	Cyrano	Dwarfism	Peter Dinklage	[77]
2021	Garrick	Infinite	Wheelchair user	Liz Carr	[78]
2021	Sophie	See for Me	Blind	Skyler Davenport	[79]
2021	Kackie Rossi	Coda	Deaf	Marlee Maitlin	[80][81]
2021	Frank Rossi		Deaf	Troy Kotsur
2021	Leo Rossi		Deaf	Daniel Durant
2022	Clifford	Lady Chatterley's Lover	Physical disability from war injuries	Matthew Duckett	[82]
2022	Phil	American Dreamer	Dwarfism	Peter Dinklage	[83]
2022	Barbara Lisicki	Then Barbara Met Alan	Wheelchair user	Ruth Madeley	[84]
2022	Alan Holdsworth		Physical disability	Arthur Hughes
2022	Lorcan	An Irish Goodbye	Down syndrome	James Martin	[85]
2023	Oompa Loompa	Wonka	Short stature	Hugh Grant	[86]
2023	Elliot	Battery	Wheelchair user	Zak Ford-Williams	[87]
2023	Tommy Olsen	The Unseen	Cerebral palsy	RJ Mitte	[88]
2023	Sam	Monico Perseus	Down Syndrome	Sam Barnard	[89]
2024	Maker Keeper	Dune: Part Two	Short stature (dwarfism)	Alison Halstead	[90]
2024	Nessarose	Wicked	Wheelchair user	Marissa Bode	[91]

Live-action television

First year	Character	Series	Character's Disability	Actor	Ref.
1967	Robert T. Ironside	Ironside	Wheelchair user	Raymond Burr	[92]
1968	Detective Columbo	Columbo	Vision impaired	Peter Falk	[93]
1969	Dom Issigri	Doctor Who	Vision impairment	Esmond Knight	[94] [95]
1985	Sil	Doctor Who	Short stature and mobility	Nabil Shaban	[96] [97]
1987	Geordi La Forge	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Blind since birth, and uses technological devices to allow him to see.	LeVar Burton	[98]
1989	Corky Thatcher	Life Goes On	Down syndrome	Chris Burke	[99]
1994	Kerry Weaver	ER	Limp in her gait due to congenital hip dysplasia	Laura Innes	[100][101]
2000	Barquentine	Gormenghast	Physical disability	Warren Mitchell	[102]
2002	Butchie	The Wire	Butchie is blind and is portrayed by a blind actor.	S. Robert Morgan	[103][104]
2003	Peter Hamil	Hollyoaks	Wheelchair user	Peter Mitchell	[105][106]
2004	Gregory House	House M.D.	An aneurysm in his thigh had clotted, leading to an infarction and causing his quadriceps muscle to become necrotic. Dead muscle was removed and this resulted in the partial loss of use in his leg and chronic pain, meaning he has to rely on a cane and vicodin to get through life.	Hugh Laurie	[107]
2005	Bescot	Doctor Who	Limb difference	Rhiannon Clements	[108] [109]
2005	Porridge	Doctor Who	Short stature (dwarfism)	Warwick Davis	[110] [111]
2005	Diane	Doctor Who	Limb difference	Nadia Albina	[112] [113]
2008	Walter White Jr.	Breaking Bad	He has cerebral palsy, which manifests itself in speech difficulties and impaired motor control, requiring crutches to walk.	RJ Mitte	[114]
2008	Hector Salamanca	Breaking Bad	Hector uses a wheelchair.	Mark Margolis	[115]
2009	Arthur "Artie" Abrams	Glee	Paraplegic wheelchair user	Kevin McHale	[116]
2009	Will	Cast Offs	Limb difference	Matt Fraser	[117]
	Carrie		Short stature (dwarfism)	Kiruna Stamell
	Dan		Wheelchair user	Peter Mitchell
	Gabriella		Deaf	Sophie Woolley
	April		Facial difference	Victoria Wright
	Tom		Blind	Tim Gebelles
2010	Amelia	The Silence	Deaf	Genevieve Barr	[118]
2010	Izzy Armstrong	Coronation Street	Wheelchair user	Cherylee Houston	[119][120]
2011	Martin Goodman	Friday Night Dinner	Hard of hearing and uses a hearing aid.	Paul Ritter	[121]
2011	Tyrion Lannister	Game of Thrones	Short stature (dwarfism)	Peter Pinklage	[122]
2011	Warwick Davis	Life's Too Short	Short stature (dwarfism)	Warwick Davis	[123]
2011	Harry	Trollied	Cerebral palsy	Jack Carroll	[124]
2012	Richard III	The Hollow Crown	Physical disability	Benedict Cumberbatch	[125]
2012	Reggie Jackson	Call the Midwife	Down syndrome	Daniel Laurie	[126]
2013	Clarissa Mullery	Silent Witness	She has arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, a rare genetic condition that limits joint movement. She is a mobility scooter user.	Liz Carr	[127][128]
2014	Miss Scott	Grantchester	Limb difference	Melissa Johns	[129]
2014	Paul the Illustrated Seal	American Horror Story: Freak Show	Limb difference	Matt Fraser	[130]
	Ma Petite		Short stature (dwarfism)	Jyoti
	Legless Suzi		Limb difference	Rose Siggins
	Toulouse		Short stature (dwarfism)	Drew Rin Varick
	Salty		Microcephaly	Christopher Neiman
	Pepper		Microcephaly	Naomi Grossman
	Jimmy Darling		Limb difference	Evan Peters
2014	Donna Yates	EastEnders	Short stature (dwarfism) and wheelchair user	Lisa Hammond	[131]
2015	Isobel Reilly	Home Fires	Blind	Gillian Dean	[132]
2015	Helen Milton	Vera	Short stature (dwarfism) and wheelchair user	Lisa Hammond	[133]
2015	Garrett	Superstore	Wheelchair user	Colton Dunn	[134]
2015	Cass	Doctor Who	Deaf	Sophie Leigh Stone	[135] [136]
2015	Alex Warner	Coronation Street	Down syndrome	Liam Bairstow	[137][138]
2016	Courtney Campbell	Hollyoaks	Wheelchair user	Amy Conachan	[139][140]
2016	Louise	Two Doors Down	Deaf	Sophie Leigh Stone	[141][142]
2017	Cherry Dorrington	Harlots	Dwarfism	Francesca Mills	[143]
2017	Roger Frosty	Loudermilk	Limb difference	Matt Fraser	[144]
2017	Imogen Pascoe	Coronation Street	Limb difference	Melissa Johns	[145][146]
2018	Penny Stevenson	Doctors	She was born with a right arm that ends just below the elbow.	Cerrie Burnell	[147]
2018	Ryan Stocks	Emmerdale	Cerebral palsy	James Moore	[148][149]
2018	Connie	The Walking Dead	Deaf	Lauren Ridloff	[150]
2018	Hanne	Doctor Who	Blind	Ellie Wallwork	[151] [152]
2019	Tim	Jerk	Both the character and actor have cerebral palsy.	Tim Renkow	[153][154]
2019	Baba Voss	See	Blind	Jason Momoa	[155] [156] [157]
	Queen Kane			Sylvia Hoeks
	Tamacti Jun			Christian Camargo
	Charlotte			Olivia Cheng
	Wren			Eden Epstein
	Lord Harlan			Tom Mison
	Paris			Alfre Woodard
	Captain Gosset			Martin Roach
	Bow Lion			Yadira Guevara-Prip
	Tormada			David Hewlett
	Toad			Hoon Lee
	Ranger			Michael Raymond-James
	Edo Voss			Dave Bautista
2019	Raymond Van Gerrit	His Dark Materials	Limb difference	Matt Fraser	[158][144]
2020	Sue	CripTales	Wheelchair user	Ruth Madeley	[159]
2020	Annette		Wheelchair user	Carley Houston
2020	Stacy Hadfield		Limb difference	Jackie Hagan
2020	Hamish		Cerebral palsy	Robert Softley Gale
2020	Mat		Limb difference	Mat Fraser
2020	Meg		Wheelchair user	Liz Carr
2020	Hannah Taylor	Life	Limb difference	Melissa Johns	[160]
2020	Rebecca	Never Have I Ever	Down syndrome	Lily D. Moore	[161]
2022	Katie	Ralph & Katie	Down syndrome	Sarah Gordy	[162]
2022	Ralph		Down syndrome	Leon Harrop
2022	Ollie	Am I Being Unreasonable?	Short stature (dwarfism)	Lenny Rush	[163]
2022	Freya Calder	Hollyoaks	Wheelchair user	Ellie Henry	[164][165]
2022	Bobby Crawford	Coronation Street	Cerebral palsy	Jack Carroll	[166][167]
2022	Willow Ulfgood	Willow	Short stature (dwarfism)	Warwick Davis	[168]
2022	Morgan	Dodger	Short stature (dwarfism)	Lenny Rush	[169]
2022	Ashley Wilton	The Chelsea Detective	Deaf	Sophie Leigh Stone	[141][142]
2023	Kirsty Millar	Doctors	Dwarfism	Kiruna Stamell	[170]
2023	Sam Burrell	The Last of Us	Deaf	Keivonn Woodard	[171]
2023	Owen Davies	Better	Owen starts the series as non-disabled but catches meningitis. His mobility and speech are both profoundly affected and the actor used his own condition, Cerebral Palsy, and his experience of having to learn to walk again after major surgery to portray the character's journey through rehabilitation.	Zak Ford-Williams	[172]
2023	Lacey Lloyd	Hollyoaks	Short stature (dwarfism)	Annabell Davis	[173][174]
2023	Lacey Lloyd	Hollyoaks	Short stature (dwarfism)	Annabell Davis	[175][176]
2023	Mike	Mobility	Mike has cerebral palsy and uses a walking frame.	Jack Carroll	[177][178]
2023	Sonny	Mobility	Wheelchair user	Zak Ford-Williams
2023	Dan	Mobility	Down syndrome	Ruben Reuter
2023	Paul	Shrinking	Parkinson's disease	Harrison Ford	[179]
2023	Isaac Godwin	Sex Education	Wheelchair user	George Robinson	[180]
2023	Shirley Bingham	Doctor Who	Wheelchair user	Ruth Madeley	[181][182]
2023	Lacey Lloyd	Hollyoaks	Short stature (dwarfism)	Annabell Davis	[183][184]
2024	Harry Hardacre	The Hardacres	Little's disease	Zak Ford-Williams	[185]
2024	Freya	We Might Regret This	Wheelchair user	Kyla Harris	[186]
2024	Lord Remington	Bridgerton	Unknown condition, but he is a bath chair user	Zak Ford-Williams	[187]
2024	Oswald 'Oz' Cobb	The Penguin	Physical disability	Colin Farrell	[188][189]
2024	Victor Aguilar	The Penguin	Stammer	Rhenzy Feliz
2024	Morris Gibbons	Doctor Who	Short stature (dwarfism)	Lenny Rush	[190] [191]
2024	Matthew Shardlake	Shardlake	He has radial dysplasia affecting his right arm.	Arthur Hughes	[192][193]

Animated films and TV series

Neopolitan from RWBY is mute

Yang Xiao Long from RWBY has a robotic prosthetic right arm

First year	Character	Title	Character's Disability	Voice Actor	Ref.
1979-1980	André Grandier	Rose of Versailles	Later loses sight in his left eye and his condition slowly worsens until he is completely blind.	Tarô Shigaki	[194][195]
1987	Bart Simpson	The Simpsons	Has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.	Nancy Cartwright	[196]
1997	Ned Gerblanski	South Park	Missing his right arm, speaks with an electrolarynx.	Trey Parker	[197]
1999	Joe Swanson	Family Guy	He is paraplegic and uses a wheelchair.	Patrick Warburton	[198][better source needed]
2000	Timmy Burch	South Park	Has both palsy and tourette's, uses a wheelchair.	Trey Parker	[199][200]
2001	Jimmy Valmer	South Park	Ataxic cerebral palsy, exotropia, use of crutches to assist in equinus and crouch gait.	Trey Parker	[199][201]
2004	Nathan	South Park	Down syndrome and possible sociopathy.	Trey Parker	[202]
2006	Toph Beifong	Avatar: The Last Airbender	Blind	Michaela Jill Murphy	[203]
2007	Thomas	South Park	Tourette's syndrome	Matt Stone	[204][205]
2008	Scott Malkinson	South Park	Type 1 diabetes and a speech impediment.	Matt Stone	[206][207]
2010	Hiccup	How to Train Your Dragon	Has a prosthetic left leg	Jay Baruchel	[208]
2010	Finn the Human	Adventure Time	Beginning in Season 6, he has a robotic, prosthetic arm, and previously a grass sword coming from his arm.	Jeremy Shada	[209]
2010	Gobber the Belch	How to Train Your Dragon	Has a prosthetic left arm and right leg	Craig Ferguson	[210][211]
2011	Heinz Doofenshmirtz (2nd Dimension)	Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension	He has an eye-patch with a scar running over it, which covers his left eye socket.	Dan Povenmire	[212][213][214][215]
2013	General James Ironwood	RWBY	Has robotic prosthetics.	Jason Rose	[216][a]
2013	Neopolitan	RWBY	Mute		[217][218][b]
2013	Yang Xiao Long	RWBY	Has a robotic prosthetic arm.	Barbara Dunkelman	[219][c]
2016	Izetta	Izetta: The Last Witch	She is a wheelchair user.	Himika Akaneya	[220]
2016	Christina	Elena of Avalor	Uses a wheelchair.	Montse Hernandez	[221][222]
2017	Red Action	OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes	A cyborg teenage girl who is missing a leg and uses a prosthetic.	Kali Hawk	[223][224][225][226]
2018	Amaya	The Dragon Prince	Amaya is deaf and communicates in American Sign Language.	—	[227][228]
2018	Gary Goodspeed	Final Space	He has a prosthetic, cybernetic arm.	Olan Rogers	[229]
2018	Violet Evergarden	Violet Evergarden	Uses metal prosthetic arms and has prosthetic hands.	Yui Ishikawa	[230][231][232][233][234][235]
2019	Sophie Gray	South Park	Type 1 diabetes	Becca Scott	[206]
2020	Lancelot	Wizards: Tales of Arcadia	Has a prosthetic left arm and shoulder.	Rupert Penry-Jones	[236]
2020	Eleanor Kimble	Spirit Riding Free: Riding Academy	Paraplegic wheelchair user portrayed by a disability advocate with Conradi-Hünermann syndrome.	Cassidy Marie Huff	[237][238]
2023	Ringo	Blue Eye Samurai	Amputee	Masi Oka	[239][better source needed]
2023-	Lakan	The Apothecary Diaries	He is a face-blind, monocle-wearing official and the head of the La clan.	Takuya Kirimoto	[240]
2024	Megumi Kaionji	Narenare: Cheer for You!	She is a wheelchair user.	Miku Itō	[241][242]

Comics and manga

First year	Character	Series/Franchise	Author/Publisher	Disability	Ref.
1963	Professor X	X-Men	Marvel Comics	Wheelchair user.	[243]
1963	Dr Strange	Avengers, Defenders, Illuminati, Infinity Watch, Midnight Sons, New Avengers and The Order	Marvel Comics	Nerve damage in his hands that limits his ability to perform surgeries. Loss of fine motor control.	[57]
1964	Daredevil	Daredevil	Marvel Comics	Blind	[244][243]
1966	Barbara Gordon	Detective Comics, Batman	DC Comics	Became paraplegic when shot in the 1988 graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke. The character's paralysis has been the subject of much critical commentary for and against restoring her mobility.	[245][246]
1984	Jericho	Teen Titans	DC Comics	Mute and communicates with American Sign Language.	[247]
1991	Hotaru Tomoe (Sailor Saturn)	Sailor Moon	Naoko Takeuchi	Hotaru has mysterious seizures due to being the host of the Daimon Mistress 9.	[248]
2001	Izumi Curtis	Fullmetal Alchemist	Hiromu Arakawa	Izumi has a chronic illness due to missing organs.	[249]
	Edward Elric			Edward is a double amputee.	[250]
2004	Celty Sturluson	Durarara!!	Ryohgo Narita	Mute and communicates with a personal digital assistant.	[251]
2004	Johnny Joestar	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure	Hirohiko Araki	Paraplegic and wheelchair user after being shot in the back.	[252]
2009	Homestuck trolls	Homestuck	Andrew Hussie	Many protagonists have disabilities, mostly from battle. Notably, Tavros Nitram has lower-body paralysis, Meulin Leijon is deaf, Terezi Pyrope is blind and synesthesic, and Mituna Captor has brain damage.	[253]

Video games

A promotional model depicting Venom Snake with his eyepatch and prosthetic arm.

A promotional model depicting Kenshi Takahashi, a blind character from Mortal Kombat

First year	Character(s)	Actor(s)[note 1]	Game/Series	Disability	Ref.
1990	Big Boss	David Hayter and Akio Otsuka, among others	Metal Gear	Has a missing eye and wears an eyepatch	[254]
1993	Jax	Ed Boon, among others	Mortal Kombat	Has two bionic prosthetic arms	[255]
1997	Barret Wallace	Beau Billingslea and Masahiro Kobayashi, among others	Final Fantasy VII	Has a missing hand replaced with a gatling gun called a "Gimmick Arm"	[256]
1998	Revolver Ocelot	Patric Zimmerman and Kōji Totani, among others	Metal Gear	Had a missing arm replaced with a transplant from Liquid Snake	[257]
2000	Alice Liddell	Susie Brann	American McGee's Alice and Alice: Madness Returns	Psychosis	[258][259]
2001	Raiden	Quinton Flynn and Kenyu Horiuchi	Metal Gear	Had much of his body destroyed and replaced with cybernetics	[260]
2002	Kenshi Takahashi	Noah Fleder	Mortal Kombat	Blind	[261]
2005	Goro Majima	Hidenari Ugaki, Mark Hamill, and Matthew Mercer	Yakuza	Has a missing eye and wears an eyepatch	[254]
2007	Jeff "Joker" Moreau	Seth Green	Mass Effect	Brittle bone disease	[262]
2008	Nero	Johnny Yong Bosch and Kaito Ishikawa	Devil May Cry	Has a prosthetic arm called the Devil Bringer	[263]
2012	Clementine	Melissa Hutchison	The Walking Dead	Has an amputated leg	[264]
2012	Sir Hammerlock	J. Michael Tatum	Borderlands 2	Amputee	[262]
2012	Taimi	Debi Derryberry	Guild Wars	Unspecified degenerative bone disorder	[262]
2012	Billie Lurk	Kristy Wu	Dishonored	Has a missing right eye and right arm.	[262]
2013	Zero	Tara Platt and Maaya Uchida	Drakengard 3	Has a prosthetic arm	[265]
2014	Max Hass	Alex Solowitz	Wolfenstein	Severe brain damage since birth	[266][262]
2015	Venom Snake	Kiefer Sutherland	Metal Gear	Has a missing eye and arm, wears an eyepatch and prosthetic limb.	[267][268]
2015	Fran Bow	—	Fran Bow	Psychosis	[269]
2016	Cassidy	Matthew Mercer	Overwatch	Has a cybernetic prosthetic arm	[270]
2016	Symmetra	Anjali Bhimani		Has a cybernetic prosthetic arm	[271]
2016	Junkrat	Chris Parson		Has a prosthetic right leg	[262]
2017	Doomfist	Sahr Ngaujah		Has a cybernetic prosthetic arm	[272]
2017	Diogenes	—	Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy	Has no lower body mobility.	[262]
2017	Mae Borowski	Em Halberstadt	Night in the Woods	Depression, anxiety, dissociation	[273][274]
2017	Gregg Lee	—		Bipolar disorder	[273]
2017	Senua	Melina Juergens	Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice	Severe psychosis	[275]
2019	Lena, the Cryptozoologist's wife	Tegen Hitchens	Disco Elysium	Paraplegia	[276]
2019	Kukrushka		Gnosia	Muteness	[277]
2020	Sunny	—	Omori	Depression	[278]
2022	Olivia	—	Fear & Hunger 2: Termina	Paraplegia	[279]
2023	Link	—	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom	Has an injured arm, replaced by a magical prosthesis. At the end of the game, the prothesis disappears.	[280]

Mascots

The Paralympic Phryge, the mascot of the 2024 Summer Paralympics, has a prosthetic leg

Year	Character	Origin	Creator	Disability	Ref.
1992	Petra	1992 Summer Paralympics	Javier Mariscal	Missing arms	[281]
1994	Sondre	1994 Winter Paralympics	Tor Lindrupsen and Janne Solem	Missing leg	[282]
2024	Paralympic Phryge	2024 Summer Paralympics	Gilles Deleris	Missing leg, wears a prosthesis	[283][284]
2026	Milo	2026 Winter Paralympics	Istituto Comprensivo Taverna	Missing leg	[285]

See also

• Cripping-up
• List of fictional characters with bipolar disorder
• List of blind people#Fictional
• Disability in the arts
• Disability in the media
• Disability culture
• Theatre and Disability

Notes

1. Actors described will only apply to those who voiced or provided motion acting for the video game versions, not any film or television depictions.

1. Much of his body is made of mechanical prosthetics...Kerry Shawcross [said]...once you see he's part metal the audience can put the pieces together
2. that hoped-for voice actress...never solidified...with no approved voice for the character, Neo remained quiet in her debut—a decision which resulted in her most famous quality.
3. [in] Volume 3...Yang grapples with the loss of her arm...though Yang's injury doesn't happen until late in RWBY's third volume, Barbara Dunkelman knew about it from the start...Ironwood...gives Yang a robotic arm after she loses a limb during the Battle of Beacon...among Adam's crimes is his severing of Yang's arm during the Battle of Beacon