In Fairytopia, for example, the spindly little heroine is the only fairy without wings. Because of her disability, though, she alone is not sickened by the poison spread by the bad guy...and she musters up her courage and defeats the villain in some way.
And as a reward, she gets wings.
See? She doesn't learn that her uniqueness is what makes life livable. She doesn't come to recognize her deformity as some kind of superiority. She was braver than she wanted to be, and is rewarded with really, really pretty wings.
As I said in the comments, I feel like there's a connection to the general rejection of happy endings that I was talking about here. Interesting.
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