History BadassAdorable / WesternAnimation

->''"Okay, okay I surrender! You can stop behaving in a way counter-intuitive to how you superficially appear!"''

* Cubbi from ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears''. Cute and badass. He dreams of being a knight and a hero, but he's proven himself worthy many times even though he's just a little bear cub. He's at his most badass when he dons a mask and takes a vigilante persona called "The Crimson Avenger". Heck, ''any'' of the Gummi Bears get a LetsGetDangerous moment anytime they use gummiberry juice to ward off foes.

* Wasp from ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes''. She's an adorable, spunky {{Moe}}[=/=]ActionGirl who isn't afraid to fly right up to ultra-powerful {{Big Bad}}s and blast them in the face while [[DeadpanSnarker smack-talking]] them.

* All of the members of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' except for [[TheBigGuy Monty]] have their moments, but none more consistently than the fly Zipper, who almost never shows any fear when something thousands of times his size threatens his friends.

%%** Danny himself.

%%* Quailman, a.k.a. ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}.

* Lexington from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': He's tiny by gargoyle standards (and none too big by human standards) and has flying-squirrel-like patagia for wings, owlish eyes, and a reedy tenor voice. He's also [[TheSmartGuy the team nerd]]. That said: he's still a gargoyle warrior. ''Don't piss him off''.

* Ding-A-Ling Wolf from ''WesternAnimation/HokeyWolf'' cartoons. In one episode, he witnessed a robot trying to strangle Hokey and what did he do? He grabbed a massive stick and beat the living crap out of the robot. Keep in mind this is an adorable wolf cub with PuppyDogEyes and an innocent personality.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Rufus. He's a pink rodent that can ride in someone's cargo pant's pocket and an official member of Team Possible.
** Also, Kim and Ron themselves due to their dorky nature.

* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'':
** Badass Adorable-ness is more or less Mickey Mouse's main characterization; he's cheerful and upbeat, but he always manages to save the day in the end. In particular, he [[TookALevelInBadAss takes a level in badass]] in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' and ''VideoGame/EpicMickey''. He is like that in the [[ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse comics]], too, since the very start in 1930. Watch him fight crooks, pirates and the like with pistols, lead pipes(!) or just his fists. He might be a nice guy, but he's no sucker.
** His half-brother, WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit, ain't such a pushover himself. Notwithstanding his role in ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'', stunts pulled in Oswald's shorts included beating up a [[BearsAreBadNews huge bear]] and [[FurIsClothing relieving it of its fur coat]] and grabbing a gun and pumping a live lion full of lead.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** Meap is an intergalactic cop who roams the universe busting people who do stuff they're not supposed to do. He's two feet tall, doe-eyed, pink, and all he can say without his translator is "Meap!" Meap's second appearance includes a look at his home planet, [[SugarBowl a society based on cuteness]]. This does ''not'' stop them from mobilizing for war. In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhL5EiK7_Kc tanks that skip]]''.
---> '''Mitch''': [[LampshadeHanging Okay, okay, I surrender! You can stop behaving in a way counter-intuitive to how you superficially appear!]]
** Perry the Platypus. As his theme song states, he's a ''semi-aquatic egg-laying mammal'' '''''of action'''''.
** Isabella has proven herself to be quite the ActionGirl at times. In "Meapless in Seattle", she ''uses her cuteness as a weapon'' to beat Mitch.
** The [[ScoutOut Fireside Girls]] as a whole. They look darling in their scout uniforms and one of their accomplishment patches is ''wrestling an alligator.''
** Phineas and Ferb themselves. If they wanted, they could invent a KillSat or HumongousMecha in their free time. They built fifty foot tree house robots to have a rock'em sock'em robot battle with their teenage sister. They used the cumulative might of their inventions to stop an invasion of killbots from another dimension! They also built a space laser when the got the blueprints mixed up for their giant sundae maker. They just left the giant laser unattached before launching it into orbit.
** Their older sister Candace is a cute teenage girl who has shown time and time again that she's capable of amazing feats given enough motivation (often when she's trying to bust or protect her brothers).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'':
** Spinelli is one of the most triumphant examples in the series, as she's a small adorable nine-year-old girl with her hair in GirlishPigtails, yet she's the toughest kid in school.
** T.J. Detweiler. Short, chubby, wide-eyed, sweet, and adorable. He's also the leader of the gang, who's responsible for all of their awesome moments.
** NaiveNewcomer Gus Griswald, who is one of the cutest kids among the main six, being the [[NiceGuy sweetheart]] of the gang. He can be a bit of a fraidy cat at times though when he stands up for what he believes in, he's extremely badass.
** [[MysteriousStranger El Diablo]], the best dodgeball player of his generation that one day mysteriously disappeared. When the Kindergartner Hector gets hit in the face by a dodgeball he returns to avenge him and leave as soon as he came. His name is [[spoiler: Gus Griswald]].
** Outside the main six, Miss Grotke is the kids' fourth grade teacher who is absolutely ''adorable'' and a martial arts expert.

%%* Rocko from ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' can be a real asskicker when he gets mad.

* Maggie on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. [[spoiler:She shot Mr. Burns.]] Also, when the whole town failed to confront the mobsters who were threatening to murder Homer Simpson, Maggie shot all of them from her bedroom when they arrived at the house. Homer didn't see her do it, but when he heard those gunshots and saw those mobsters fall to the ground, he said "I must have a guardian angel with a rifle." The irony is, this approach might have put her into some sort of EnfanteTerrible AntiHero category if not for how obvious it was that [[PayEvilUntoEvil her targets deserved it]].
** In the movie she [[spoiler: stoved [[BigBad Russ Cargill's]] head in with a [[PintSizedPowerhouse rock as big as she was]], right when he was about to shoot Homer at point-blank range with a shotgun]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' has the title character, Star Butterfly. She's a perky teenage princess with hearts on her cheeks who likes cute animals, pretty dresses... and beating up monsters. And this is ''before'' she inherits her mother's magic wand which, in the wrong hands, has the power to destroy the universe, and which tends to malfunction in hilariously dangerous ways when Star uses it for any purpose besides combat.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
** Ahsoka Tano is a female Togruta that fits this trope. Considering she is in her early teens during the first two and a half seasons, and a large number of her enemies are at least twice her size, not to mention her large eyes, voice, personality, general appearance, and small frame in comparison to the rest of the main characters make her very adorable, she can be very cute yet badass in the course of the same episode.
** R2-D2 gets to show more of his badass attitude throughout the installment in addition to being very cute.
** The younglings introduced during the Young Jedi arc also count because they are younger, cute, and less sure of themselves but still Jedi in training.

* Kit Cloudkicker of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', master of SkySurfing and HyperCompetentSidekick to Baloo.

%%* From ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'':
%%** Sam
%%** Clover
%%** Alex

%% ** [[ActionGirl Arcee]].
%%* The Trollz in ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollz}}''
%%** Amethyst.
%%** Topaz.
%%** Sapphire.

** Rarity, the most [[ProperLady prim and proper]] of the [[IncrediblyLamePun Mane]] [[FanNickname Six]], has one reaction to a manticore charging at her: ''kick it in the face''. Despite acting delicate, she's demonstrated proficiency at martial arts more than a few times. Her manipulative cunning is also not to be underestimated.

* WesternAnimation/Pibby, a cute preschool character who can kick ass after witnessing her home and friends getting destroyed and chased by zombie-like creatures.

** Phineas and Ferb. If they wanted, they could invent a KillSat or HumongousMecha in their free time. They built fifty foot tree house robots to have a rock'em sock'em robot battle with their teenage sister. They used the cumulative might of their inventions to stop an invasion of killbots from another dimension! They also built a space laser when the got the blueprints mixed up for their giant sundae maker. They just left the giant laser unattached before launching it into orbit.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' has many examples, but the [[UpToEleven best example by far is]] [[CuteAndPsycho Izzy]]. She is an absolutely adorable TheCutie GenkiGirl with a MotorMouth and endearing child-like CloudCuckooLander personality. [[PintSizedPowerHouse She also]] defeats [[ScaryBlackMan Chef]], who is at least three times her size and purely muscle, in hand-to-hand combat multiple times to the point that it becomes a [[RunningGag RUNNING GAG]] throughout the first five seasons. She is also on the run from [[TheGovernment the RCMP]] for [[MysteriousPast unknown reasons]], a secret DemolitionsExpert which she uses to her advantage many times throughout the first two seasons, and becomes an ImpossibleGenius who discovers the secret to time travel during the third season when a blockage in her brain clears up (though reverts to her old self soon after because it would be an absolute StoryBreakerPower, and StatusQuoIsGod). She has the best survival skills of any Total Drama character ever without a doubt. [[AchillesHeel The only reasons she never wins]] are that [[AxCrazy her instability scares the other characters into voting her out]], and the occasional NonGameplayElimination due to the government showing up and forcing her out.

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** Also, Kim and Ron themselves due to their {{Adorkable}} nature.

* Rigodon from ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog''. He's as anthropomorphic cat in a suit and cute as a button. He's a sweet, good, friendly fellow and a loyal servant. But he can kick some serious ass. He used to be a circus artist, so he's very fit, and if anybody threatens Mr. Fog, Princess Romy or his friend Tico, he'll fight vigorously. One of his most badass moments happens when he single-handedly saves Romy from the suttee when he's massively outnumbered and knows he could be killed in the process.

* Dogtanian from ''WesternAnimation/DogtanianAndTheThreeMuskehounds'' is an adorable young pup. However, he's also an excellent swordfighter and, on several occasions throughout the series, is shown to be capable of beating older and more experienced swordsmen.

* Rigodon from ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog''. He's as anthropomorphic cat in a suit and cute as a button. He's a sweet, good, friendly fellow and a loyal servant. But he can kick some serious ass. He used to be a circus artist, so he's very fit, and if anybody threatens Mr. Fog, Princess Romy or his friend Tico, he'll fight vigorously. One of his most badass moments happens when he single-handedly saves Romy from the suttee when he's massively outnumbered.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' has the members of the titular band themselves.

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** [[LifeOfTheParty Pinkie Pie]] is usually a comic relief character who bounces along but in the big fight scene at the end of season 2, she started to harness her [[CloudCuckoolander weirdness]] towards being awesome. DO NOT break a Pinkie promise, or else she will hunt you [[ImplacableMan to the ends of Equestria]], screaming with the VoiceOfTheLegion, to exact retribution.

** [[HappilyAdopted Ike Broflovski.]] His most badass moment is when he [[spoiler:becomes part of a jewel heist planned by Obama and Mc Cain as part of the "Presidential Crime Syndicate" to steal the Hope Diamond by blowing up a jet containing dummies of the Syndicate and altering hospital records to declare everyone involved legally dead.]]

** The younglings introduced during the Young Jedi arc also count because they are younger, cute, and less sure of themselves but still jedi in training.

* All main 6 kids in ''[[WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures Of Blinky Bill]]'' become cute badasses after the Extraordinary Excursion in season 2. How they survived all that despite being kids. Just so badass.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': Bamm-Bamm Rubble, the adopted son of Barney and Betty, could shake an entire house with his club even as a toddler. At times he even got Barney and Uncle Fred out of a pinch with his super strength.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
** Korra's EstablishingCharacterMoment take place with a DynamicEntry, where she [[DishingOutDirt Earthbends]] a wall [[ThereWasADoor across the room]], [[NoIndoorVoice loudly and proudly]] proclaims herself the Avatar''[[note]][[MemeticMutation And that you gotta DEAL with it!]][[/note]]'', and demonstrates by bending three elements at once. ''[[PintsizedPowerhouse She's four at that time.]]'' As a teenager, she's sturdily built, sweet-faced, energetic, and prone to occasionally pouting (read: still cute).
** Aang's three [[BlowYouAway airbending]] grandchildren, who are quite capable of taking on [[spoiler: an ''equalist invasion'' of Air Temple Island.]]
** Korra's pet polar bear-dog Naga is the most badass mothafucker in the franchise. Bitch-slaps the Lieutenant in mid-air off a cliff, rips open steel prison cells, and knocks down gigantic platinum mechs like dominoes. She's ''usually'' quite a friendly and affectionate mutt...
** Bolin is baby-faced, wide-eyed, [[{{Keet}} exuberant]], and generally dorky. After establishing himself in Book 1 as an [[UnskilledButStrong entirely competent, if not too well-trained, earthbender]], he [[spoiler:pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment just in time to prevent [[ArchnemesisDad Asami's father]] from invoking the OffingTheOffspring trope]] in the finale. And from the season 3 finale onwards, [[spoiler:he can [[MagmaMan lavabend]].]]
** Zhu Li is a petite young woman who works as a beleaguered assistant to an egotistical boss. But she's also an excellent [[MiniMecha mecha-suit]] pilot, and, when given the opportunity, [[spoiler:she pretends to turn on her boss so that she can sabotage an evil dictator's war-machine from the inside]].
* Captain Barnacles Bear and Kwazii Cat of ''WesternAnimation/TheOctonauts'' qualify. Barnacles has SuperStrength and Kwazii has the agility of a cat (as you'd expect of a cat). And they are [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter both so cute]]!
* Mort from ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar.'' Mort is usually rather cute and pathetic, but he has been known to beat Skipper at arm-wrestling, uproot whole trees and smash things with them, and beat up gorillas (though the last one was a result of one of Kowalski's experiments accidentally making him extremely large and muscular). Private may also qualify. Despite being very "cute and cuddly" he's been shown to be an excellent fighter, able to fend of Skipper's attacks while training blindfolded in one episode. And all without breaking a sweat.
** In general, all the penguins invoke this trope to keep up their [[SecretIdentity identity as zoo animals.]] Private is just more adorable than the others.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
** The Powerpuff Girls are described on their own page as "Cute {{Flying Brick}}s".
** Specifically [[TheKirk Bubbles]] who is far and away the most adorable of all of them. Only one time does she ever truly get angry. After [[TookALevelInBadass taking a level in badass]] she becomes more than a match for both sisters, easily beating them up by herself.
** [[TheSmartGuy Blossom]] and [[TheLadette Buttercup]] take it to the CuteBruiser category.
* Maggie on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. [[spoiler:She shot Mr. Burns.]] Also, when the whole town failed to confront the mobsters who were threatening to murder Homer Simpson, Maggie shot all of them from her bedroom when they arrived at the house. Homer didn't see her do it, but when he heard those gunshots and saw those mobsters fall to the ground, he said "I must have a guardian angel with a rifle." The irony is, this approach might have put her into some sort of EnfanteTerrible AntiHero category if not for how obvious it was that [[PayEvilUntoEvil her targets deserved it]].
** In the movie she [[spoiler: stoved [[BigBad Russ Cargill's]] head in with a [[PintSizedPowerhouse rock as big as she was]], right when he was about to shoot Homer at point-blank range with a shotgun]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has loads of this to go around, what with how cute, tiny, multi-coloured ponies are living in a world full of monsters. It applies to practically all the main characters. Any badass who is a pony is automatically this. One presumes that it's inherent to Equestria's military (Consider a brightly-coloured Unicorn war hero).
** Twilight Sparkle is the pony equivalent of [[ComicBook/XMen Jean Grey]], down to the huge power and even more powerful mentor. Can levitate massive weights, teleport, and ''reverse gravity''. All of which she foregoes when a hydra threatens her friends, and she decides to ''charge at it'' instead.
** Fluttershy is normally a quiet, timid pegasus who is a FriendToAllLivingThings, but '''DO NOT''' hurt or otherwise threaten her friends. Accomplishments include staring down a cockatrice ''[[TakenForGranite as it was turning her to stone]]'', taming Cerberus, and glaring down a dragon hundreds of times her size.
** Rainbow Dash for [[LeeroyJenkins rushing in at every possible threat]], plus being the only pony who can fly fast enough to make a sonic boom. Worth noting that she ''kicked'' the above-mentioned dragon.
** Rarity, the most [[ProperLady prim and proper]] of the [[IncrediblyLamePun Mane]] [[FanNickname Six]], has one reaction to a manticore charging at her: ''kick it in the face''. Despite acting delicate, she's demonstrated proficiency at martial arts more than a few times. Her manipulative cunning is also not to be underestimated.
** Applejack lacks the special powers of her pegasus and unicorn friends, but she can be relied on to handle a dangerous situation at least as well as any of the others. Her daily routine is kicking apple trees to dislodge the fruit; she can also kick small objects through the air hard enough to use as projectile weapons.
** [[LifeOfTheParty Pinkie Pie]] is usually a comic relief character who bounces along but in the big fight scene at the end of season 2, she started to harness her [[CloudCuckoolander weirdness]] towards being awesome. DO NOT break a Pinkie promise, or else she will hunt you [[ImplacableMan to the ends of Equestria]], screaming with the VoiceOfTheLegion, to exact retribution.
** Princess Luna is cute... [[PhysicalGod while accidentally stomping the ground hard enough to crack it and manipulating the weather with a thought to emphasize what she is saying.]] Then there's her '''[[NoIndoorVoice ROYAL CANTERLOT VOICE!!!]]'''
** Starlight Glimmer. An anti-heroine, she matches alicorn Twilight in magic and likely one of the most powerful unicorns in Equestria. More emphasis on the "adorable" part after her HeelFaceTurn, where she adopts a more unique manestyle and is overall a much happier, more pleasant pony with a socially awkward personality.
** Taken to a whole new level by [[GooGooGodlike Flurry Heart]]: a newborn baby alicorn who is possibly [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter one of the cutest creatures ever conceived by the mind of man]]. One of the first things we see her do is send a giant laser beam through the roof by ''sneezing.''

** Princess Luna is {{Adorkable}}... [[PhysicalGod while accidentally stomping the ground hard enough to crack it and manipulating the weather with a thought to emphasize what she is saying.]] Then there's her '''[[NoIndoorVoice ROYAL CANTERLOT VOICE!!!]]'''
** Starlight Glimmer. An anti-heroine, she matches alicorn Twilight in magic and likely one of the most powerful unicorns in Equestria. More emphasis on the "adorable" part after her HeelFaceTurn, where she adopts a more unique manestyle and is overall a much happier, more pleasant pony with an {{Adorkable}} socially awkward personality.

** Steve is normally calm and {{Adorkable}}, but has a short temper and has beat people much tougher than him on several occasions.

** The main duo themselves could arguably count. Joey's a scrawny, {{Adorkable}} NiceGuy while AP's a talking sock puppet, but when they're together, they're Atomic Puppet -- a superhero duo able to kick the asses of any evildoer who comes to Mega City. Not to mention, the latter [[BalefulPolymorph used to be]] Captain Atomic, one of the greatest and most powerful superheroes in the show's world.

** Penny Sanchez is a [[{{Adorkable}} cute, nerdy girl]] who's managed to have a number of badass moments herself, such as in "Chalk Queen", "Double Trouble", and "Taffy" (among others).

* Dexter from ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' is about a foot tall, {{adorkable}} and knows martial arts.
%%* Quailman, a.k.a. ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', who's Badass {{Adorkable}}.

* Lexington from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': He's tiny by gargoyle standards (and none too big by human standards) and has flying-squirrel-like patagia for wings, owlish eyes, and a reedy tenor voice. He's also [[TheSmartGuy the team]] [[{{Adorkable}} nerd]]. That said: he's still a gargoyle warrior. ''Don't piss him off''.

** NaiveNewcomer Gus Griswald, who is one of the cutest kids among the main six, being the {{Adorkable}} [[NiceGuy sweetheart]] of the gang. He can be a bit of a fraidy cat at times though when he stands up for what he believes in, he's extremely badass.

** Bolin is baby-faced, wide-eyed, [[{{Keet}} exuberant]], and generally {{adorkable}}. After establishing himself in Book 1 as an [[UnskilledButStrong entirely competent, if not too well-trained, earthbender]], he [[spoiler:pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment just in time to prevent [[ArchnemesisDad Asami's father]] from invoking the OffingTheOffspring trope]] in the finale. And from the season 3 finale onwards, [[spoiler:he can [[MagmaMan lavabend]].]]

* Colleen from ''WesternAnimation/RoadRovers''. She has no actual superpowers. You know those big concrete blocks that they have in parking lots to keep people from driving onto walkways or into the side of the building? She broke one of those like it was nothing, after a monster threw it at her. You know those 2 big, rabid-looking cano-mutants that used to act as Parvo's main goons? They run off in terror when she reminds them of the first time they met (she beat them up on top of a train). She also routinely beats the crap out of the doberman who has super strength and extra-sharp unbreakable claws. She also beat up a pack of werewolves, because they drooled on her and ruined her hairdo. She also turned into a large {{werewolf}} capable of piloting a helicopter.