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UnfairRepresent
01/27/20 11:45:07 AM
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They always go the route of Daredevil or Geordi La Forge where they are "blind" but yet actually can see fine in a pragatic sense and in fact see better than everyone else in the story.

In fact shouldn't everyone on the Enterprise wear Geordi Visors? They seem superior to human eyes, they can scan all sorts of data, levels of radiation etc and even let you know when people are lying or not.

I think the Grandfather from DinoRiders was blind but he wasn't really a hero.

There was a blind Templar dude in Dragon Age Origins who looked like Richard O'Brien and helped people but he died after like 76 seconds and no one ever mentions him again

There was that guy from Becker too. He was actually blind. Not sure if he was a hero though or just a dude. I remember one episode where his girlfriend breaks up with him, takes all his stuff and then leaves a goodbye note for him to read. That bitch was evil and probably broke all sorts of laws.

I dunno, I'm not blind obviously but it just seems odd/self-defeating to me to give the character an interesting handicap that might create challenges in day to day life but then write it into the plot that he doesn't actually have the handicap at all in a practical sense.

Is there anyone obvious I am missing?
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Garioshi
01/27/20 11:46:01 AM
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Chirrut from Rogue One?

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refmon
01/27/20 12:08:59 PM
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Being blind is much more than an

UnfairRepresent posted...
interesting handicap that might create challenges in day to day life


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Xenozoa425
01/27/20 12:11:42 PM
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Neo in the Matrix Revolutions.

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DevsBro
01/27/20 12:12:47 PM
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Mr. Magoo


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DevsBro
01/27/20 12:13:51 PM
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Garioshi posted...
Chirrut from Rogue One?
He's definitely a Daredevil type.

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KingWhiteKnight
01/27/20 12:15:35 PM
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Toph and Daredevil have ways to compensate for their blindness but at the of the day they are still blind.
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InTheEyesOfFire
01/27/20 12:15:37 PM
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Ron Burgundy was blind for that bit in the second movie.

Honestly cant think of any...

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UnfairRepresent
01/27/20 12:17:51 PM
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refmon posted...
Being blind is much more than an


okay?

But why write a hero who is a blind and then go "Actually they see better than everyone else"?

Seems less interesting than a blind hero who doesn't see better than everyone else because they are blind.

Imagine if they made a TV series of Unbreakable and gave Samuel L. Jackson cyborg impants so he was stronger and more powerful than everyone else and regularly saved the day.

Wouldn't that defeat the narrative? And the raise the question of why not give everyone cyborg implants?
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LightHawKnight
01/27/20 12:18:30 PM
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Does Mamoru Hijikaka count? While he has tech sunglasses that plug into his brain to allow echo location to work, it does require sound and can be blocked out by loud noises or other interference and he still kicks major ass without them on.

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UnfairRepresent
01/28/20 7:12:43 AM
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Also Kenshi from Mortal Kombat

Blind but sees better than everyone else because he's psychic

No really
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specialkid8
01/28/20 7:41:09 AM
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Theres an inhuman called Reader who's blind.
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Serious Cat
01/28/20 8:14:06 AM
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Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman

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spikethedevil
01/28/20 8:15:35 AM
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Toph?

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fusespliff
01/28/20 8:20:17 AM
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There's an 80s movie with Rutger Hauer IIRC where he played a blind vagabond swordsman in modern day USA. Think the character was called Nick

EDIT: Found it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Fury

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bknight
01/28/20 8:23:43 AM
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Al Bundy after he sees Marcy topless.
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SH_expert44
01/28/20 8:26:19 AM
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Ray Charles in the movie Ray.

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TheoryzC
01/28/20 8:53:39 AM
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Does it not count when they train to highten their other senses?

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Master_Bass
01/28/20 8:55:51 AM
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Arya for a while in the A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones.
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