Introduction: Much has been written about Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning book The Overstory. The broader themes of the book and its relation to the environment and the Anthropocene are most present in articles that discuss it. However, there seems to not be too much scholarship that explores the characters themselves that make up the understory of the novel. The trees do play a role in connecting all of these characters but not much is commented on about the characters as individuals. Furthermore, there is a lack of scholarship that tackles the subject of disability and its connection to the environment. Even with prominent and important characters such as Neelay, the discussion of him being in a wheelchair is written as if it were a trivial matter and nothing more. However, when other characters are discussed such as Mother N and Patricia Westford, scholars write about them and argue that they fit into certain archetypes of different ideas and/or tropes. I argue that we should look at other characters more closely like some have already done with characters such as Patricia. Therefore, this paper attempts to pinpoint where Neelay exists within the confines of disability literature by comparing it to other literature, characters in The Overstory, and using literary theories. At the end of this exercise, it can be determined that in Richard Powers’ The Overstory the character Neelay displays tropes of either the posthuman, the cyborg, or the ‘Super-Crip’ or the combination of all three, a Posthumanist Cyborg ‘Super-Crip’.