History BadassAdorable / VideoGames

* Being a fighting game with a variety of characters, the SoulSeries is bound to have some adorable folks kicking ass. Although the biggest one is probably Pyrrha Alexandra, who is able to [[spoiler: wield [[EvilWeapon SoulEdge]] without losing her soul to it.]]

* Being a fighting game with a variety of characters, the SoulSeries is bound to have some adorable folks kicking ass. Although the biggest one is probably Pyrrha, who is able to [[spoiler: wield Soul Edge without losing her soul to it.]]

* Toro Inoue, Creator/SonyComputerEntertainment's Japanese {{Mascot}} of sorts, because anyone that can take on [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Heihachi]] [[VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken twice]] (while still being cute) [[VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale should count]].

** Also, Makoto Nanaya. A squirrel girl ([[IThoughtItMeant No,]] [[SquirrelGirl not THAT one]]), with cute ears and a big bushy tail. However, messing around with her is a bad idea. [[MusclesAreMeaningless She's a small girl who can punch people]] [[BlownAcrossTheRoom and send them flying]].

* Roll from ''MegaManPoweredUp'' and especially VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom. Even though she's normally one of the sweeter characters, she is more than capable of taking out not only Dr. Wily's army of Robot Masters (Dr. Light's brainwashed Robot Masters, that is), but also the Lord of Darkness himself, [[spoiler: Yami]], WITH A BROOMSTICK OF ALL THINGS!
** Rockman himself is absolutely adorable. And he's saved the world eleven times.
** Taken UpToEleven in the three-episode OVA, which is made of this trope. Adorable chibi robots, Roll looks so cute in that kimono... [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Did Proto Man just hack a missile while it was in flight?!]]

* [[KickChick Chun Li]] from ''StreetFighter''. She may be the "strongest woman in the world", but when she wins a match she jumps up and down girlishly and shouts "yatta!"

* Micah, the main character from ''RuneFactory3'', is a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human, half-monster hybrid]], and has the ability to transform between a human and monster form. Of course, his monster form is that of an adorable, fluffy sheep-like creature called a Wooly, and looks like [[http://dsmedia.ign.com/ds/image/article/100/1001217/rune-factory-3-a-fantasy-harvest-moon-20090706100540754_640w.jpg this.]] The "badass" part comes in when he defeats countless giant monsters in that form with his bear paws.
* The {{anime}} fanmade versions of the commandos from ''CommandAndConquer Red Alert 3'', lovely.
* [[KidAppealCharacter Tails]] from ''SonicTheHedgehog'' fits this to a T. Young two-tailed fox who likes to invent things and go on adventures with his bestest buddy [[TheMcCoy Sonic]].

** In ''SonicUnleashed'', [[spoiler:''Chip'']] ultimately proves to be one of these. Because what could be more {{badass}} than [[spoiler:turning a bunch of temples into a mecha around yourself]]?

** Speaking of those two, in SonicX, [[spoiler: she manages to do something Sonic, Knuckles, and Rouge weren't able to do; defeat and destroy Emerl]].
** Sonic himself, especially his Genesis incarnation. VideoGame/SonicGenerations just bumps it UpToEleven.

* The entire point of ''KoihimeMusou'', but especially Kan'u. Even more so in the first game.

** {{Lampshaded}} by {{LetsPlay/Chuggaaconroy}} in his LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker''. "Cuteness never looked so badass."

* [[SuperMarioBrothers Yoshi]]. The adorable dinosaur that can swallow anything whole, turn said anything into eggs, and THEN use them as ammo. He took on a super-sized Bowser Junior while at the exact same time keeping a baby on his back and running an obstacle course, all the while trying to keep the baby from being kidnapped!

* Every character in ''Videogame/{{Inazuma Eleven}}'', some of whom can and have stop flaming soccer balls with their ''bare hands and/or legs'' and have preformed [[{{Finishingmove}} kickass shots]] after [[{{Tookalevelinbadass}} major level grinding]]. Oh, and they're all in junior high, with most of the main cast putting regular {{Shota}}s to shame.

* And lets not forget most of the cast of the ''Videogame/{{Danball Senki}}'' series, which was produced by the same company. Little kids controlling tiny robots that can be armed to the teeth with any and ''every'' weapon known to man, including {{BFS}}s, {{BFG}}s, spears, rifles, bladed knuckles, bombs, and CHAINSAWS to preform badass finishers that, in reality, would turn your living room into the embodiment of a war-zone. make of that as you will.
** said robots have also been used in the game's anime to preform ''and'' prevent [[spoiler: Kidnappings, (attempted)Assassinations, Professional hacking jobs, robberies, and a world wide terrorist plot]]. Again, make of it as you will

* Peter the Phoenix from ''ShiningForce 2''.
* Starfy and Starly from the ''[[TheLegendaryStarfy Starfy]]'' series. This should require no explanation.
* Taokaka from ''BlazBlue'' may not look adorable, and she can be pretty deadly in combat, but just the way she talks and acts in her story mode in a game full of psychos, monsters, and jaded veterans, is just too damn cute.

* ''LittleBigPlanet's'' Sackboy. Powers of a god. Time manipulation, matter control, creation and destruction, and immortality (If you're playing the level editor). And as Yahtzee put it, he "looks like the result of a sinister experiment to concentrate cuteness to a weaponised level for use against angry girlfriends".

** Made even more adorable in ''[[MarvelVSCapcom Marvel VS Capcom 3]]'', in which Ammy is a playable character.

* The ''{{Disgaea}}'' games:

** Kurtis seems to get this a lot since he reincarnated as a Prinny. Nevermind the fact that he still has the same deep voice and [[BadAss his]] [[HotBlooded character]] is still as it always was.

* ''SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'' packs a few, being one of Nippin Ichi's more serious titles. You have Danette, cute, ditzy and slightly amnesiac who tears through enemies with knives and regularily makes remarks about snapping peoples' necks (and actually does so to one of your allies). Trish, a refined merchant's daughter, always positive and cheerful, who leads a mercenary company. And then there are the angels. Cute little baby-like guys... ''armed with guns''.
* SquareEnix loves this trope. You've got [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Moogles]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX Black Mages]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI Tarutaru]], and even [[VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroesRocketSlime Slimes with battle tanks]]. The [[KillerRabbit Tonberrys]] are adorable, but extremely dangerous if one underestimates them.
** There is a young, lovely, cute, spunnky, aloof, innocent, friendly, childish GenkiGirl in almost every ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' game: '''Rydia''', '''Krile''', '''Relm''', '''Yuffie''', '''Selphie''', '''Eiko''', '''Rikku''', '''Penelo''', '''Vanille'''. And all of them cover the {{Badass}} part of the trope. They are capable to decimate anything, be it with bombs, BlackMagic, SummonMagic or just oversized weapons that they shouldn't be able to carry.

** HalfIdenticalTwins '''Palom''' and '''Porom''' are BadassAdorable ''twins''.

* Sora, Roxas, Ven and Xion from ''KingdomHearts''. Still, the absolute best example is none other than '''[[KingdomHearts Mickey Mouse]]''', who they managed to turn into freaking ''[[StarWars Yoda]]'', of all things.
** His Badass quotient has only increased over the games. In ''Chain Of Memories'', he's a support character that appears to cast spells. By ''II'', he's playable whenever Sora is defeated, but can't actually finish off bosses (Although his agile combo actually makes him pretty good at wearing them down) . When ''358/2 Days'' made him playable, he was on about the same level as the other playable characters. By ''Dream Drop Distance'' [[spoiler: he's capable of [[TimeStandsStill pulling a ZA WARUDO]] on every member of the new Organization XIII (including the Big Bads from ''I'' and ''II'') in time. The only person capable of resisting is the incarnation of Xehanort with power over time itself.]] All this from a former steamboat captain.

* ''SuperRobotWars'' gives us several examples. There's Latooni, TheWoobie who is also arguably the best pilot in the OriginalGeneration games; Mai Kobayashi, {{Tykebomb}}, one-time end-game boss, and adorable in the extreme; Ibis Douglas, the luckless but tenacious flat chested girl; and even the villain of the second OriginalGeneration game Einst Alfimi, ridiculously {{moe}} and ridiculously broken once you manage to recruit her.

** ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' -- Sophie. Just see it for yourself if you don't [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0RT_Sg7K2E believe]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJGify05etQ&feature=related it]].

** VideoGame/TalesOfInnocence -- Ruca Milda

** Also Lilina from ''[[FireEmblemElibe Sword Of Seals]]'' and Nino of ''[[FireEmblemElibe Blazing Sword]]''.
** Yuria Bahara from ''[[FireEmblemJugdral Genealogy of the Holy War]]'' is a PrincessClassic with a high amount of {{Moe}} ([[http://i43.tinypic.com/1zwn1qq.jpg See her here.]]), [[TheWoobie who's very shy and somewhat depressing (she's usually depicted as crying. A lot.)]] Mind you, she's a GlassCannon stat wise, and would be that way but usually she's got one of two weapons, one is her trademark "Resire" which makes her practically invincible, the other is a stacked GameBreaker- as she is already, her [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity Plus 20]] Tome, Naga, which, increases her stats by 20 (ignoring the {{Cap}}s, oh and that tome? It fires a Dragon at her hapless foes.

** VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening takes this trope to new levels with [[spoiler:Lucina]]. In the battlefield she's arguably the most badass female character in the entire game, only contested by a female Avatar, and easily enters the Top 5 of the entire series (and that's saying a LOT). But during her support conversations and quite a few cutscences, you just want to hug her dearly just out of sheer cuteness!
* You can make one in ''{{Spore}}'' if you're clever enough.

** Four times? Meet [[http://www.wowhead.com/npc=22898 Supremus]], the Largest boss currently in the game. A Gnome can tank that-- it's about 10 to 15 times the size of a Night Elf (a rather tall character).
* ''NinjabreadMan'' -- A cute, little cookie that so happens to know self defense. Too bad the game blows.

* ''GhostTrick'' has Missile, a yappy little Pomeranian who is adorable even by Pomeranian standards. After he dies [[spoiler: for the second time, he gains ghost trick powers. His reach is far longer than Sissel's and he has the ability to swap objects of different sizes, even huge stone statues.]]

* ''ArTonelico'' has Cocona Bartel in the second game. She's about ten years old or so, four-foot-nothing, wears her long hair in pigtails with two absurdly large hair ornaments, and is the main character's adopted little sister. She is a very cheery girl who is always willing to help her big brother and often pouts in the cutest way whenever he's late. Turns out that she accompanies her "big brother" on his knight missions, and fights by taking her hair ornaments off and using them as a sort of transforming baton weapon. Despite her size, she keeps up with the adult frontline fighters, including her older brother. And the kicker? She is a Reyvateil, a species that is usually kept in the back lines far away from the physical fighting.

* ''MassEffect'':
** In [[MassEffect1 the first game]], [[HotScientist Liara]] and [[WrenchWench Tali]]. Liara is a socially awkward archaeologist that has never been in a relationship before, and can scatter enemy troopers like papers in a hurricane and crush tanks like tin cans. Tali is NaiveNewcomer that, similarly to Liara, has never been in a relationship, but can shut down your shields, make your weapons explode, and poison your nervous system with a few taps on her omni-tool.
*** Note that, [[CerebusSyndrome with the serious turn towards the dark]] that happens in ''MassEffect2'', the "adorable" factor for these two gets reduced. In the two years between the games, [[spoiler:Shepard's death, Cerberus' attack on the Migrant Fleet, Liara's newfound obsession with the Shadow Broker]], and the Collector attacks, the galaxy has become a ''much'' rougher place, particularly for these two. Tali becomes adorable (and {{Adorkable}}) again in her romance, as does Liara if you have ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' added. By the time ''MassEffect3'' rolls around, though, Liara and Tali are just as hard and [[WarIsHell weary]] as every other character.

* RatchetAndClank from the series of the same name. A cute little fuzzy alien with big round eyes, an incredibly expressive face, and enough weaponry to take down a dozen intergalactic armies..... literally, and his cute little robot friend, a secret agent who can grow into a Godzilla sized living weapon and control time. Saving all of time and space while looking incredibly cute.

** Iris is one. Drayden's assistant in ''Black'', Gym's Leader in ''White' and [[spoiler:[[TookALevelInBadass Champion]] in the sequels. She also pretends to do a roar at the beginning of battle... and then she sends out a Hydreigon]].
* {{Opoona}}, Copoona, and Poleena all look like Playskool figurines. All of them fight the forces that corrupt half an entire planet.

* The Pet Dragon from ''KingsBounty: Armored Princess''. Basically, a winged technicolored [[LiloAndStitch Stitch]], who likes to play with a little snail and dance around his pot tree ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSBQReA4tn0 check him out]]). Oh, look, he's summoning fountains of lava to engulf the enemies in searing agony, conjures lightning balls and finishes the surviviors off with a somersault kick. Awww!
* EccoTheDolphin, of course, being both a [[CaptainObvious dolphin]] and the protagonist of an adventure game series, would obviously qualify as this, but it tends towards FridgeBrilliance when you consider that the label BadassAdorable arguably applies to real-life dolphins as well. Then again, real dolphins tend towards [[KillerRabbit a more sinister variety of badass adorable]].

* {{Lego Adaptation Game}}s are known to do this: first we have ''LegoStarWars'', that allows the player to re-live ''all'' the series' AwesomeMoments while playing as Lego minifigures. Then came ''LegoBatman'', that is just this side of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' in terms of sheer badassness. And now we got ''LegoHarryPotter'' and ''LegoPiratesOfTheCaribbean''... you name it, really.
* ''Every'' single playable character of the ''{{Neptunia}}'' games can be considered as one.
* Milly from ''BatenKaitos Origins''. She's the sheltered daughter of an Alfard nobleman, and she has ''butterfly wings''. She also dual-wields clubs and can kick you across the room.

* In ''StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' one of the Bounty Hunter's companions is Blizz. He's a Jawa, ya know those cute robed little guys with glowy yellow eyes? He's a tank. He also ''[[PintSizedPowerhouse wields a rocket launcher]]''.
* From ''EternalSonata'':

* If you are going to call Mazzy, the halfling pseudo-paladin from ''BaldursGate II'' this, you're well advised to do it somewhere where she can't hear you.

* Practically any character (even ''yours'') in ''VideoGame/{{Happy Wars}}''.

* Toro Inoue, SonyComputerEntertainment's Japanese {{Mascot}} of sorts, because anyone that can take on [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Heihachi]] [[VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken twice]] (while still being cute) [[VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale should count]].

* {{Kirby}}, the little [[color:pink:pink]] puffball of kickass.

*** He destroyed a [[spoiler: gigantic bleeding eyeball]] ''twice.''

*** HE SINGLEHANDEDLY DESTROYED AN ENTIRE FRICKIN' [[SuperSmashBros SUBSPACE GUNSHIP]] BY CRASHING INTO IT WITH A MAGICAL LEGENDARY RAINBOW HOVERBOARD.

* Dog from ''VideoGame/DragonAge'': he is a BigFriendlyDog... and also a Mabari: a breed of dogs who are basically part of [[TheKingdom Ferelden's]] elite troops and are used among other things to stop charging knights. While traveling with the Warden, Dog will jump headfirst intp the fray, tear his ennemies to pieces, then will come back, covered in blood, wagging his short tail and looking at his master with puppy eyes waiting for him or her to scratch Dog behind the ears
** And in ''Videogame/DragonAgeII'' there is Merrill. She's a thin, naive, innocent, sweet-natured, easily distracted, practicing blood mage and Demon Summoner who becomes a MotorMouth when nervous. She also has only offensive magic and vicious combat buffs, not even the slightest healing spell, and fearsome drive to revive the glory of Arlathan for which she is willing to sacrifice her life. Absolutely ''{{Adorkable}}'' and she can a-splode you from half a mile away with her mind.

** His Badass quotient has only increased over the games. In ''Chain Of Memories'', he's a support character that appears to cast spells. By ''II'', he's playable whenever Sora is defeated, but can't actually finish off bosses. When ''358/2 Days'' made him playable, he was on about the same level as the other playable characters. By ''Dream Drop Distance'' [[spoiler: he's capable of [[TimeStandsStill pulling a ZA WARUDO]] on every member of the new Organization XIII (including the Big Bads from ''I'' and ''II'') in time. The only person capable of resisting is the incarnation of Xehanort with power over time itself.]] All this from a former steamboat captain.

** "I'm not just the pretty sidekick, buster!"

* A number of champions from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' are members of the local "adorable midget" race, the yordles, like Poppy the Iron Ambassador and Veigar the Tiny Master of Evil.

* Being a fighting game with a variety of characters, the SoulSeries is bound to have some adorable folks kicking ass. Although the biggest one is probably Pyrrha, who is able to [[spoiler: wield Soul Edge without losing her soul to it.]]

* {{Lego Adaptation Game}}s are known to do this: first we have ''LegoStarWars'', that allows the player to re-live ''all'' the series' AwesomeMoments while playing as Lego minifigures. Then came ''LegoBatman'', that is just this side of ''BatmanArkhamAsylum'' in terms of sheer badassness. And now we got ''LegoHarryPotter'' and ''LegoPiratesOfTheCaribbean''... you name it, really.

* [[HotScientist Liara]] and [[WrenchWench Tali]] from ''MassEffect''. Liara is a socially awkward archaeologist that has never been in a relationship before, and can scatter enemy troopers like papers in a hurricane and crush tanks like tin cans. Tali is NaiveNewcomer that, similarly to Liara, has never been in a relationship, but can shut down your shields, make your weapons explode, and poison your nervous system with a few taps on her omni-tool.

* In [[ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura Arcanum]], there is a spell to summon a wild animal to help you in combat. The animals get progressively stronger depending on how good your character is with magick. They go from wolves to cougars, to tigers, to gorillas and finally, strongest of them all, ... a fluffy white bunny rabbit. Yes, the Vorpal Bunny is a level 40 creature with extremely high strength, maxed out melee and dodge skills and Master level proficiency in both.

** [[spoiler:Legion]], among other [[BadassAutomaton badass]] [[ColdSniper desig]][[FriendlySniper nations]], also qualifies as Badass {{Adorkable}}.

** FireEmblemAwakening takes this trope to new levels with [[spoiler:Lucina]]. In the battlefield she's arguably the most badass female character in the entire game, only contested by Female My Unit, and easily enters the Top 5 of the entire series (And that's saying A LOT!). But during her support conversations and quite some cut scences, you just want to hug her dearly just out of sheer cuteness!

* Quite a few characters from ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' can turn out this way.

** Also Lilina from ''[[FireEmblemSwordOfSeals Sword Of Seals]]'' and Nino of ''[[FireEmblemBlazingSword Blazing Sword]]''.
** Yuria Bahara from ''[[FireEmblemGenealogyOfHolyWar Genealogy of the Holy War]]'' is a PrincessClassic with a high amount of {{Moe}} ([[http://i43.tinypic.com/1zwn1qq.jpg See her here.]]), [[TheWoobie who's very shy and somewhat depressing (she's usually depicted as crying. A lot.)]] Mind you, she's a GlassCannon stat wise, and would be that way but usually she's got one of two weapons, one is her trademark "Resire" which makes her practically invincible, the other is a stacked GameBreaker- as she is already, her [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity Plus 20]] Tome, Naga, which, increases her stats by 20 (ignoring the {{Cap}}s, oh and that tome? It fires a Dragon at her hapless foes.

* Practically any character (even ''yours'') in ''VideoGame/{{Happy Wars}}''.

* [[AmazonianBeauty Chun Li]] from ''StreetFighter''. She may be the "strongest woman in the world", but when she wins a match she jumps up and down girlishly and shouts "yatta!"

** T3's SpiritualSuccessor in ''The Old Republic'', T7-01, definitely counts. A cute little astromech droid [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld who hasn't had a memory wipe for at least two centuries]], considers himself the true hero of the story (partially justifiable, considering that [[TheGump he had front row seats to the start of the last war]]) and is the first astromech droid who had his language translated - and he is speaking in equations! That is the first companion character a Jedi Knight gets. [[BewareTheNiceOnes He is a tank]].

* Practically any character (ever ''yours'') in ''VideoGame/{{Happy Wars}}''.

* Practically any character (ever ''yours'') in [[VideoGames Happy Wars]].

* One of the default animals in ''VideoGame/TokyoJungle'' is a feral Pomeranian dog... who is still able to bring down gazelles with a well-timed Clean Kill.

*** He defeats enemies by ''[[ExtremeOmnivore eating them]]'' and taking their powers.

* Micah, the main character from RuneFactory3, is a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human, half-monster hybrid]], and has the ability to transform between a human and monster form. Of course, his monster form is that of an adorable, fluffy sheep-like creature called a Wooly, and looks like [[http://dsmedia.ign.com/ds/image/article/100/1001217/rune-factory-3-a-fantasy-harvest-moon-20090706100540754_640w.jpg this.]] The "badass" part comes in when he defeats countless giant monsters in that form with his bear paws.

** Speaking of [[{{Moe}} Cream the Rabbit]] and [[{{Sidekick}} Cheese the Chao]], in SonicX, [[spoiler: she manages to defeat and destroy Emerl, while her friends weren't able to do so]].

** Then there's '''Rinoa''', who is cute but also a Sorceress, wield a large chakram that is shot from her wrist!

*** He beat a witch that turns into a gigantic 8-eyed paint monster just so he could get his arms and legs back. And yes, that means he beat her without his arms and legs.

*** He beat a witch that turns into a gigantic 8-eyed paint monster just so he could get his arms and legs back.