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* Gazzy and Angel from ''Literature/{{MaximumRide}}''.Sure, they're cute and all, being the youngest members of the group, but [[{{Gasshole}} Gazzy]] can blow you up with the MANY explosives he keeps somewhere in his clothes while [[CreepyChild Angel]] can effectively [[MindManipulation control your mind]]

* In ''Literature/ThePaleKing'', Leonard Stecyk is an [[CheerfulChild excruciatingly upbeat]],kind, and [[ChildProdigy hard-working]] bully magnet. He's also the only one who [[spoiler: rushes in to save his wood shop teacher from dying of shock and blood loss after an accident with a machine. His little apron keeps his clothes from getting drenched in blood, and he makes a perfectly-tied tourniquet on the fly.]]

* Gazzy and Angel from ''Literature/{{MaximumRide}}''.Sure, they're cute and all, being the youngest members of the group, but [[Gasshole Gazzy]] can blow you up with the MANY explosives he keeps somewhere in his clothes while [[CreepyChild Angel]] can effectively [[MindManipulation control your mind]]

** Tualha, a black kitten who lives in Ireland. She ultimately [[spoiler: gives The Lone Power (read Satan) a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Reason You Suck]] speech in order to get it mad.

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* Melissa from ''Literature/{{Dreamsnake}}''. Undersized, [[TheWoobie vulnerable]], twelve-year-old [[spoiler:abuse survivor]]? Sure. Quite possibly ''the'' bravest character in the book? Yeah; that, too.

* Melissa from ''Literature/{{Dreamsnake}}''. Undersized, [[TheWoobie vulnerable]], [[spoiler:abused]] twelve-year-old girl? Sure. Quite possibly the bravest character in the book? Yeah; that, too.

* Literature/PippiLongstocking is a cute, quirky eleven-year-old... with incredible super-strength. Given that she lives in an otherwise mostly mundane world, we never really get to see just where the limits to her strength is, but she is perfectly capable of overpowering stampeding bulls, angry tigers and fierce sharks without the slightest difficulty.

* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'''s cute fluffy animal KidHero characters. D'awww, fwuffy ickle mousey. Who just happens to be wielding a BFS. Big for a mousey, anyway. From our perspective, it'd be about the size of a kitchen knife at best.

* Praise be to [[YoungWizards Ponch]], the [[spoiler:Dog Who Is God! The Wolf of Darkness clashed with the Hound of Starlight, and the Hound threw his old Enemy to the floor of Heaven.]]

* Huang Rong, from ''Literature/LegendOfTheCondorHeroes''.

** CloudCuckooLander Luna Lovegood.

** Neville Longbottom is THE {{Badass}} {{Adorkable}}.

* ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'':

* {{Temeraire}}, although unusually for the trope, the badass is the most immediately obvious (he is a ''dragon'', after all), and the adorable comes out in his interactions with the other characters, particularly with Laurence.
* ''{{Redwall}}'''s cute fluffy animal KidHero characters. D'awww, fwuffy ickle mousey. Who just happens to be wielding a BFS. Big for a mousey, anyway. From our perspective, it'd be about the size of a kitchen knife at best.
* ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'':
** Mr. Nutt. TheWoobie, UglyCute, NoSocialSkills, uses hilarious SesquipedalianLoquaciousness ("We must be bursting with machismo!"), starts out as an ExtremeDoormat, and could snap a person's neck with his bare hands. He never actually does anything of the sort, and one gets the impression he probably never would, but just threatening it is enough.

* The three Baudelaire siblings from ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' but especially Sunny, who's a baby.
* [[TheLordOfTheRings Hobbits]]. For creatures the size of human children, they prove to be surprisingly adept at arse-kicking.
* Madeline of ''{{Madeline}}''.
* ''Literature/{{Coraline}}'': Coraline.

* Alisa in the ''Literature/AliceGirlFromTheFuture'' series.

* In ''ThePaleKing'', Leonard Stecyk is an [[CheerfulChild excruciatingly upbeat]],kind, and [[ChildProdigy hard-working]] bully magnet. He's also the only one who [[spoiler: rushes in to save his wood shop teacher from dying of shock and blood loss after an accident with a machine. His little apron keeps his clothes from getting drenched in blood, and he makes a perfectly-tied tourniquet on the fly.]]

* Melissa from ''{{Dreamsnake}}''. Undersized, [[TheWoobie vulnerable]], [[spoiler:abused]] twelve-year-old girl? Sure. Quite possibly the bravest character in the book? Yeah; that, too.

* The treecats in Creator/DavidWeber's ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series are cute, cuddly, and great with children. They also can read minds and will turn into steel-clawed, near-unstoppable killing machines when they detect someone planning to harm their human friends.

* ''{{Redwall}}'''s cute fluffy animal KidHero characters. D'awww, fwuffy ickle mousey. Who just happens to be wielding a BFS.[[hottip:* :Big for a mousey, anyway. From our perspective, it'd be about the size of a kitchen knife at best.]]

* Charlie [=McGee=], the eponymous ''{{Firestarter}}''; a cute, little, red-haired girl who even gets called "button" more than once, theoretically capable of ''cracking the Earth in two'' when she comes into her full power. Certainly already capable of vaporizing a man with very little effort.

* Huang Rong, from ''LegendOfTheCondorHeroes''.

* Melissa from ''{{Dreamsnake}}''.

* {{Madeline}}.
* ''Literature/{{Coraline}}''.

* [[CloudCuckoolander Luna Lovegood]] in ''Literature/HarryPotter''.
** Dobby. [[spoiler:He's saved [[TheHero Harry]]'s sorry ass quite a few times, disarmed/attacked several wizards, and says the most awesome line an elf could ever say: "Dobby has no master!!!" He even died like a {{Badass}}! Hit by a knife thrown by a crazy chick you just dropped a Chandelier on while apparating three other people out of the domain of Voldemort.]] Though arguably, not EXACTLY adorable.

* The Archive from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' is a prepubescent girl who shows her Badassitude when she's attacked by Red Court vampires while she's moderating a duel. [[spoiler:She grabs a piece of anti-life being used and, with sheer force of will, thrusts it into the vamps heads and torsos, vaporizing them]]. In a later book she's attacked by a dozen fallen angels in an area cut off from magic. Using the little magic she could store in her tiny body she starts taking them down, two at a time, even while Harry carries her away. She even makes a point of trash talking the angels, although she's not that good at it. [[spoiler:She's only captured because the demons take advantage of her low body weight and gas the whole area.]] She's also very fond of [[CutenessProximity cats]] and renders official documents in crayon.

* Mr. Nutt, from ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals''. TheWoobie, UglyCute, NoSocialSkills, uses hilarious SesquipedalianLoquaciousness ("We must be bursting with machismo!"), starts out as an ExtremeDoormat, and could snap a person's neck with his bare hands. He never actually does anything of the sort, and one gets the impression he probably never would, but just threatening it is enough.

* ''TheMysteriousBenedictSociety'':

* Charlie [=McGee=], the eponymous ''{{Firestarter}}''; a cute little red-haired girl who even gets called "button" more than once, theoretically capable of ''cracking the Earth in two'' when she comes into her full power. Certainly already capable of vaporising a man with very little effort.

** Twelve yearold, ponytailed Kate Wetherall carries around a bright red bucket full of weapons, crawls through air vents, and can kick a Ten Man's ass any day of the week.

** Neville Longbottom is THE [[Badass]][[Adorkable]].

* And let's not forget 12-year-old, ponytailed Kate Wetherall from ''TheMysteriousBenedictSociety'' who carries around a bright red bucket full of weapons, crawls through air vents, and can kick a Ten Man's ass any day of the week.

* The treecats in David Weber's ''HonorHarrington'' series are cute, cuddly, and great with children. They also can read minds and will turn into steel-clawed, near-unstoppable killing machines when they detect someone planning to harm their human friends.

* Alisa in the ''AliceGirlFromTheFuture'' series.

* Huang Rong, from LegendOfTheCondorHeroes
* [[CloudCuckoolander Luna Lovegood]] in Literature/HarryPotter.
** Dobby. [[spoiler:He's saved [[TheHero Harry]]'s sorry ass quite a few times, disarmed/attacked several wizards, and says the most awesome line an elf could ever say: "Dobby has no master!!!" He even died like a {{Badass}}! Hit by a knife thrown by a crazy chick you just dropped a Chandelier on while apparating three other people out of the domain of Voldemort.]] though arguably, not EXACTLY adorable.

** Dobby. [[spoiler:He's saved [[TheHero Harry]]'s sorry ass quite a few times, disarmed/attacked several wizards, and says the most awesome line an elf could ever say: "Dobby has no master!!!" He even died like a {{Badass}}! Hit by a knife thrown by a crazy chick you just dropped a Chandelier on while apperating three other people out of the domain of Voldemort.]] though arguably, not EXACTLY adorable.

** Lucy: The entire Telmarine army skidded to a stop in mid-retreat, scared stiff of one small adorable girl smiling sweetly at them from across the bridge (their only escape route) while brandishing a dagger. And that's before [[BigDamnHeroes Aslan]] stepped up beside her.