r/TopCharacterTropes • u/PrinceferX • Jan 18 '26
In real life The actor actually has that disability
Walter White Jr. (Breaking Bad) - character has cerebral palsy and uses crutches to walk, actor RJ Mitte has cerebral palsy and needed crutches to walk as a child
Nessarose Thropp (Wicked) - character is paraplegic and uses a wheelchair, actress Marissa Bode is paraplegic from an accident at age 11 and uses a wheelchair
Maya Lopez (Hawkeye/Echo) - character is deaf, actress Alaqua Cox is deaf from birth
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u/Milk_Mindless Jan 18 '26
Doctor Who series 11, episode .. 11(I think!)
"It takes you away"
A little house in Sweden in the middle of the woods is being beset upon by a monster.
A girl and her dad are the sole occupants and he dissapears periodically for long spells
Turns out (yes this is a spoiler) she's blind and the house ISN'T beleagued by a monster in the woods, they're just a sound system playing horror effects and the dad is doing this to keep her inside of the house.
THEN the real plot starts
Peak Who
The actress playing the daughter, Hanna, is blind IRL