Vujicic began the Life Without Limbs Organization and tells his story in more than 54 countries around the world. And sure, his motivational speaking is faith-based, which means a bunch of you just said to yourselves, "I'm an atheist, so now it's time to stop reading this and enter a Photoshop contest." To which we say, "You don't have to declare that you're an atheist to yourself all the time. You should understand that inherently without having to state it out loud."

Still ... what can he actually do, other than tell people around the world that they have hope in their lives? Did we mention Nick can swim? That dude can totally swim. Here he is insulting your laziness, and if that's not good enough, here he is surfing all over your prejudices. Basically, he spends a lot of time doing things most of us are too busy compiling all the family histories of Game Of Thrones to try. He's the ultimate "if he can do it, I can do it," example. And that's what his motivational speeches are all about.

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Here he is about to swim with sharks, and then presumably convince them to follow Jesus.

Still ... you're probably saying, "Great. He's a motivational speaker. What kind of a life can he actually have with no arms and no legs? I grade people's overall worth by the sex they can and can't have, so let's be real for a minute." I'm paraphrasing you in a hypothetical situation, which makes this quote about as accurate as a dog's eyewitness testimony in a cat-murder case. But, we know you thought something similar to that, and you've never read a Cracked article before, and you're reading this with all of your delusions intact, which will make this all the sweeter when we tell you that Vujicic got married in 2012 and fathered a child shortly after ... probably just to prove you wrong.

Nick Vujicic
"I like this game. Go on, tell me I'll never win the lottery either."

Well, love probably had something to do with it, but we're going with the retribution angle because we have this affliction where we hold an imagined grudge for a really long time. Honestly, we probably need one of Nick's talks soon.

Jacob is amazing because it's common to think that those diagnosed with autism can't learn or even be intelligent. But this kid started sneaking into the back of college lectures at IUPUI at the age of 8, supposedly remaining inconspicuous because everyone is obsessed with Doogie Howser, M.D. and knows kids like that are common. We think Neil Patrick Harris is great but will never do anything else, and he's the straightest guy we've ever known. Again, please let us know if it ever got past 1991.

Jacob Barnett
If not, Jacob can just invent time-travel and send us back to live there forever.

It should be noted that Jacob isn't a typical kid with autism, and that people who are diagnosed have a wide range of intelligence. But this is an article about people who found superpowers against all odds, and he's one of them.

Nick got into high school and college wrestling and won over 300 matches despite this disability. That's freaking insane. At some point, many of the guys he beat were probably wondering how he was typing in the Konami cheat code and applying it to wrestling. This is all after winning only two of his first 24 matches his freshman year. He was so small he had to wrestle a girl in his first match, which he lost. He nearly gave up, but his mom told him not to, and he kept trying. By his senior year, he won a record 53 matches.

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Despite countless managers interfering with steel chairs.

However, when he entered MMA Nick had a difficult time finding people who would fight him. It's a classic case where opponents felt beating a guy like that would be equivalent to going to your mother's nursing home and beating up Freddy "Notorious Arthritis" Creakyknees. (We think that's how his birth certificate lists it, but we'll have to rely on memory.) Everyone expects victory in that scenario, so there's no glory in winning. On the other hand, losing such a fight would lead to merciless teasing. It's the classic lose-lose scenario, kind of like when you're playing football and your helmet displays a Tennessee Titans logo.

But find opponents he has, and Newell's won 12 of 13 MMA matches in the lightweight division. Here he is fighting Keon Caldwell, winning with a first-round submission. After watching this, you'll wonder how he does it, kind of like how former one-handed Major League pitcher Jim Abbott used to pitch and manage to put on a glove, all in one motion. As a Yankee, he pitched no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians in 1993. Unsurprisingly, Newell cites Abbott as an inspiration.

Nick Newell
Though Abbott never got to sucker-punch the most badass action hero of his time.

Nick is currently a part of the World Series Of Fighting, and he recently fought for a championship belt against Justin Gaethje. Newell lost by TKO, suffering his first defeat in professional MMA, but considering the fact that, oh, he has to fight with one arm ... just getting there is more impressive than anything we've ever done.

You probably didn't think anyone could make a missing limb cool, but taking a look at these pictures, we kind of ... want one. It would transform our species' inevitable, scary, natural evolution into kill-happy cyborgs to a fashionable evolution into kill-happy cyborgs. And don't we want to look awesome when we're destroying the oppressive human race? The fact that Viktoria calls herself a "bionic woman" on her own website tells you where she sides in that discussion.

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The natural next step.

But, modeling is not all Viktoria does, as we mentioned. She also sings. Even if you don't like this kind of music, it's pretty admirable she doesn't pigeonhole herself as a model and diversifies her interests. We're pretty sure if we had a prosthetic leg we'd only be interested ... in revenge. On somebody. Possibly innocent. As long as someone pays, dammit.