BW Media Spotlight

You know, just when I start to settle in to the current level of stupidity coming out of the entertainment industry someone comes up with something even stupider to say. For example, Russell T. Davies tells us that he and his staff were insistent upon giving Davros an unmutated body because they were concerned their audience would equate being in a wheelchair with being evil. You know, instead of brilliant scientist going mad after experiments mutated his body into a half-Dalek, thus inspiring him to create full Daleks. You know, the blobs that were once people but are still Nazis. So…barely people.

This is as dumb as Bad Wolf Productions seems to think their audience are. In the history of fiction I have to fight to recall three villains in a wheelchair. On the other hand, I could use kids shows alone to go over a bunch of wheelchair bound guest, main, and recurring characters who have fought for the forces of good, or at least helped in some way or were nice to other people. I wanted to limit myself to five, but a sixth insisted they get talked about. So here you go; six wheelchair bound heroes that were done because they could be good in a story as much as to show the handicapped/handicapable/whatever this month’s term is can still be cool.

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