Characters who are missing something

[madclairvoyant.livejournal.com]

So I've noticed how some characters lose a limb or the use of it in many books. LIke in The Lost Symbol, there is Peter Solomon's missing hand, and then in Harry Potter there is Peter (I'm seeing a pattern here) Pettigrew's missing one, and Sirius almost loses one to a bread knife. Then in Gathering Blue, Kira is born a cripple. Of course, there is Gen.

So are there anymore characters you have come across that are missing a limb, or otherwise handicapped?
And do you think this reflects the real world to any extent?