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** ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'' has Ako, a high school student-athlete who is brash at times but can be very emotional when it comes to her teddy bear or her true love Dan.

** ''Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger'' has Miku, an adorable powerhouse that can be a big eater and would even hate homework a ot of times just like Kenta making them good friends.

** ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'' has Ako, a high school student athlete who is brash at times but can be very emotional when it comes to her teddy bear or her true love Dan.
** ''Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger'' has Miku, an adorable powerhouse that can be a big eater and would even hate homework a ot of times just like Kenta Date makking them good friends.

** ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'' has Ako, a brash and cheeky high school student-athlete joining Jetman for money but having a soft side especially when her favorite teddy bear had turned into a monster by Vyram.

** ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'' has Ako, a ''brash'' and ''cheeky'' high school student-athlete joining Jetman for money but having a soft side especially when her favorite teddy bear had turned into a monster by Vyram.

** ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'' has Ako, a [[brash]] and [[cheeky]] high school student-athlete joining Jetman for money but having a soft side especially when her favorite teddy bear had turned into a monster by Vyram.

** ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'' has Ako, a brash and cheeky high school student-athlete joining Jetman for money but having a soft side especially when her favorite teddy bear had turned into a monster by Vyram.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has an episode revolving around an actual, working wishing well. One of the wishers was a small boy who was being bullied. He got super-strength, along with [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor a bad temper]].

** ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'' has Ako, a brash and cheeky high school student-athlete telling Jetman she would join for money but later on the series, she would have an emotional side with her favorite teddy bear being turned into a monster by Vyram.

** ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'' has Ako, a brash and cheeky high school student-athlete who would then tell Jetman she would join them for money but later on the series, she would have an emotional side with her favorite teddy bear being turned into a monster by Vyram.

** ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'' has Ako, a brash and cheeky high school student Jetman for money but the later on would have an emotional side with her favorite teddy bear being turned into a monster by Vyram.

** ''Series/ChoudenshiSentaiJetman'' has Ako, a brash and cheeky high school student Jetman for money but the later on would have an emotional side with her favorite teddy bear being turned into a monster by Vyram.

* Cameron from ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles''. She looks like a perfectly benign, cute, harmless teenager.... right up until [[SuperStrength she rips the door off a car, punches through a solid concrete wall]] [[ThereWasADoor (she could have gone through the door, but the wall was faster)]], [[ImmuneToBullets wade through torrents of gunfire]], [[StoneWall and isn't even harmed when she's crushed between two big rig trucks.]]

* Moune from ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger''. A [[TheBigGuy strong]] [[KidAppealCharacter bumbling]] [[TheChick girl]] who knows [[DishingOutDirt how to rock]].
** [[Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger Kotoha Hanaori and Kaoru Shiba]] also qualify.

* Cameron from ''{{Terminator}}: TheSarahConnorChronicles''. She looks like a perfectly benign, cute, harmless teenager.... right up until [[SuperStrength she rips the door off a car, punches through a solid concrete wall]] [[ThereWasADoor (she could have gone through the door, but the wall was faster)]], [[ImmuneToBullets wade through torrents of gunfire]], [[StoneWall and isn't even harmed when she's crushed between two big rig trucks.]]

* Jo [=McCormick=] from ''BigBadBeetleborgs'' fits this perfectly (especially since she's a pre-adolescent girl).

* ''{{Buffyverse}}'':

* Jenny, "She-Force" from IPTV's ''NoHeroics.''

* Macy Misa on ''{{Jonas}}'' is very cute and petite and acts very girly but she also plays for every sport the school has (basketball, football, hockey, baseball, ''bowling'') and has enough brute strength to be considered TheBigGuy in their FiveManBand.

* ''{{Smallville}}'''s Tess Mercer is a DarkActionGirl who does not believe in WaifFu. Most other girls on the show dance around their opponents and use a lot of kicks. Tess prefers to just punch you in the face.

* Caroline from ''TheVampireDiaries''. A lot stronger and tougher than she looks once she becomes a vampire, and cute as hell.

* Cameron from ''{{Terminator}}: TheSarahConnorChronicles''

* River Tam of ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. Basically she's a genius girl of about seventeen who is insanely talented in every single thing imaginable, and starts out very innocent-looking until she suddenly beats up multiple enemies at once with her crazy martial-arts-style moves. On top of that, due to experimentation done on her by [[TheEmpire the government]], she is mentally unstable, usually being very calm and soft-spoken until something sets her off (and we don't always know what that something will be).
** This is most obvious in TheMovie, ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', when she first beats up a whole bar full of enemies, and later when she locks herself in a room with a bunch of crazed zombie-like people, just one of whom could kill several ordinary people, and kills them all.
** Let's just say anyone played by SummerGlau qualifies.

*** Safe to say, JossWhedon is very fond of this trope.

* While not a superheroine/villainess Sam Puckett in ''ICarly'' is widely acknowledged as the toughest kid of either gender in her school, took down a bully twice her size and ripped the chain lock off a door when in pursuit of Freddie in "iKiss". Did I mention that she was towing a kid heavier than herself at a full run at the time and wasn't out of breath? Of course in both cases cited she was in UnstoppableRage mode at the time but still.
** As for the cute part, she's still a preteen and when she cleans up is quite easy on the eyes. However, asking her out may result in having your thumb broken...just ask [[TheWoobie Gibby]]
*** Preteen? She is just a teen. Around 14 when the show started, around 19 at the moment. Cute bruisers do not have to be preteens, of course.
** Shelby. My word Shelby. Described by one male character as ''smoking hot'', yet still somehow adorably cute, and by a female character by something along the lines of, "I'm sure your butt is super cute." And she's a world class mixed martial arts fighter.

* Male Example: Wyatt Halliwell from ''Series/{{Charmed}}''. Seriously, as a kid he's able to fight demons already.
** And the one time we see him fight as a young man he looks like one of the Backstreet Boys but is the destined [[spoiler:wielder of Excalibur]] and wipes out an entire room full of upper level demons just by raising his hands.

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': John is ''definitely'' adorable, and shorter, being 5'7, though he's also [[GentleGiant gentler]] and older than Sherlock but [[BewaretheNiceOnes mess with his friend]] and [[OhCrap you're screwed.]] Doesn't help he ''[[TheBigGuy kicked two villain asses]]'' and threatened death on one of them. Also, he's [[BloodKnight an adrenaline junkie]] but ''piss him off enough'' by messing with his friend, he ''will'' kill you. He might've sucker-punched Anderson in the nose, since the guy dissed Sherlock, but mess with his friend, he will kill you. [[BadassAdorable And look adorable while doing it.]] Yeah, ''not a survivable move if a detective's being messed with.'' Mess with him, and be prepared to get killed by a mild-mannered doctor.

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': John is ''definitely'' adorable, and shorter, being 5'7, though he's also [[GentleGiant gentler]] and older than Sherlock but [[BewaretheNiceOnes mess with his friend]] and [[OhCrap you're screwed.]] Doesn't help he ''[[TheBigGuy kicked two villain asses]]'' and threatened death on one of them. Also, he's [[BloodKnight an adrenaline junkie]] but ''piss him off enough'' by messing with his friend, he ''will'' kill you. He might've sucker-punched Anderson in the nose, since the guy dissed Sherlock, but mess with his friend, he will kill you. [[BadassAdorable And look adorable while doing it.]]

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': John is ''definitely'' adorable, and shorter, being 5'7, though he's also [[GentleGiant gentler]] and older than Sherlock but [[BewaretheNiceOnes mess with his friend]] and [[OhCrap you're screwed.]] Doesn't help he ''[[TheBigGuy kicked two villain asses]]'' and threatened death on one of them. Also, he's [[BloodKnight an adrenaline junkie]] but ''piss him off enough'' by messing with his friend, he ''will'' kill you. He might've sucker-punched Anderson in the nose, since the guy dissed Sherlock, but mess with his friend, he will kill you. And look adorable while doing it.

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': John is ''definitely'' adorable, and shorter, being 5'7, though he's also [[GentleGiant gentler]] and older than Sherlock but [[BewaretheNiceOnes mess with his friend]] and [[OhCrap you're screwed.]] Doesn't help he ''[[TheBigGuy kicked two villain asses]]'' and threatened death on one of them. Also,, he's [[BloodKnight an adrenaline junkie]] but ''piss him off enough'' by messing with his friend, he ''will'' kill you. He might've sucker-punched Anderson in the nose, since the guy dissed Sherlock, but mess with his friend, he will kill you. And look adorable while doing it.

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': John is ''definitely'' adorable, and shorter, being 5'7, though he's also [[GentleGiant gentler]] and older than Sherlock but [[BewaretheNiceOnes mess with his friend]] and [[OhCrap you're screwed.]] Doesn't help he ''[[TheBigGuy kicked two villain asses]]'' and threatened death on one of them. Also,, he's [[BloodKnight an adrenaline junkie]] but ''piss him off enough'' by messing with his friend, he ''will'' kill you.

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': John is ''definitely'' adorable, though he's also [[GentleGiant gentler]] and older than Sherlock but [[BewaretheNiceOnes mess with his friend]] and [[OhCrap you're screwed.]] Doesn't help he ''[[TheBigGuy kicked two villain asses]]'' and threatened death on one of them.

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': John is ''definitely'' adorable, though he's also [[GentleGiant gentler]] and older than Sherlock but [[BewaretheNiceOnes mess with his friend]] and [[OhCrap you're screwed.]] Doesn't help he ''TheBigGuy kicked two villain asses]]'' and threatened death on one of them.

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': John is ''definitely'' adorable, though he's also [[GentleGiant gentler]] and older than Sherlock but [[BewaretheNiceOnes mess with his friend]] and [[OhCrap you're screwed.]] Doesn't help he ''kicked two villain asses'' and threatened death on one of them.

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': John is ''definitely'' adorable, though he's also [[GentleGiant gentler]] and older than Sherlock but [[BewaretheNiceOnes mess with his friend]] and [[OhCrap you're screwed.]]

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': John is ''definitely'' adorable, though he's also [[GentleGiant older]] than Sherlock but [[BewaretheNiceOnes mess with his friend]] and [[OhCrap you're screwed.]]