Henry VIII of England has been overlooked as a disabled figure and as a policy maker who deeply impacted disability history in England. Though Henry used the first stairlift in England, writers are hesitant to call the king disabled. This project examines why and how our perception of Henry VIII across time shows larger cultural trends about disability. This project first examines how cultural intermediaries successfully portray Henry as nondisabled, using the tools of magnificence to make himself royally super-abled. Pivotal policy changes during Henry VIII’s reign led to a more hostile world for disabled people, while the Henrician Reforms professionalized and centralized the medical system of England. Later in the Tudor period, Henry as super-abled persists, but by comparison with other designated disabled characters, which I call disabled scapegoats. After the Tudor period, cultural intermediaries prove more willing to criticize Henry, particularly in children’s histories. These histories create a tyrant trope which relies on ableism and fatphobia to understand the once magnificent king as a villain. In twentieth and twenty first century film and television, Henry is rebranded into a celebrity and consumable sex object. Despite repeating tropes of royal masculinity of Henry’s time, moments in these onscreen depictions offer a new relatable and intimate look at Henry. To understand how English values and laws regard bodies that were forcibly exported across the globe, we must understand the upheavals of how disability was treated through one of England’s most notorious kings.