History Main / GirlWithPsychoweapon

Most commonly the weapons are knives, but other psycho weapons are also common, such as [[DropTheHammer hammers]], {{chainsaw|Good}}s or other instruments of pain and destruction.

* The major part of the psycho weapon-wielding anime girls [[TropeCodifier are predated]] by [[spoiler: Mariko Shinobu]] from ''Manga/DearBrother''. In the last part of the series, when the local AlphaBitch [[spoiler: Aya Misaki]] mocks her due to [[spoiler: her parents's extremely messy and public divorce]]... an already very unstable [[spoiler: Mariko]] [[FreakOut snaps so badly]] that she [[spoiler: ''slashes Aya's arms, clothes and back with a knife that she had somehow smuggled into her school things''.]] These events [[spoiler: get Mariko kicked out of the Sorority... and start the "rolling snow ball" that concludes with the dissolution of said Sorority]].
** [[AdaptationExpansion The anime expands]] [[AdaptationDistillation quite a bit on this]], and it's even creepier [[TearJerker and sadder.]] [[spoiler: Mariko]]'s GWPW stint is predated by a whole episode focusing on her issues [[spoiler: with her parents]]: after [[spoiler: finding her father Hikawa with the woman that he cheated on her mother Hisako with]] and running off as a result, [[spoiler: Mariko]] goes home and finds her "weapon of choice" [[spoiler: (in this version, a modern boxcutter)]] among her school things, and [[spoiler: she's '''this''' close to use it to slit her wrists open but barely decides against it.]] Then she takes it to [[spoiler: school]]... and the first paragraph happens.

* ''Manga/SaitamaChainsawShoujo'' -- Betcha can't guess the main character's weapon of choice. Her name is Fumio Kirisaki, and that's her up at the top of the page. It's not just some random weapon she grabbed, either: she comes from a family of highly-skilled chainsaw users, and has trained with one for most of her life. It's also heavily implied that her grandfather was the chainsaw-wielding sheriff from ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2''.
* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' is built on this trope, to the point where some call it "the Killer-Loli anime". The series features the iconic, AxCrazy Ryuugu Rena, a.k.a. "Cleaver Girl". (The weapon, [[DependingOnTheWriter depending on who you ask]], is either a cleaver, a hooked machete, or a billhook/cleaver.) The machete is, mostly, used to find cute things. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Mostly]]. The Sonozaki family has an elaborate torture room that is put to good use, while Shion favors her taser. And even Rika wields a large butcher knife at one point. A syringe also makes a few appearances as a weapon, [[spoiler:although it's never actually used for ill -- it's always either an antidote for the show's slow-acting HatePlague or a hallucination]] (except for [[spoiler:when one was used to kill Tomitake]]). Rika's weapon of choice, however, seems to be a '''mop''' [[spoiler:, as seen in the Atonement chapter]]. This is even her weapon in Daybreak, a ''fighting'' game.
* Cho Hakkaimon from ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime'' is a cute girl wielding a giant, scary maul-like weapon.

* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': In an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKbALlgvUHs infamous scene]], Osaka thought she'd wake up Yukari-sensei by banging on a frying pan, but since she was half-asleep herself at the time, she took a knife out of the cupboard instead, with the result that Yukari woke up to see a [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant groggy-eyed, knife-wielding Osaka]] standing in the bedroom doorway.
* ''[[Manga/TheWallflower Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge]]'': Because Sunako [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette resembles]] [[Literature/TheRing Sadako]] so closely, it's not surprising how creepy Sunako looks with a knife in her hand. Most of the time it's only there to chop fish with... but it looks creepy nonetheless.
* [[{{Yandere}} Kaede Fuyou]] of ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'' is best known for doing this [[spoiler: on the very UnluckyEverydude she's chasing after, when she thought he was to blame for her mother's death; a part of [[ExtremeDoormat her devotion to Rin]] comes from her guilt over this incident]]. In the anime version, she also [[[spoiler:snaps on her love rival Asa and attacks her with a box cutter]].
* Skuld in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' tends to build these to threaten Keiichi with, from the ubiquitous "Skuld-Bombs", to the home-built ''chainsaw'', "Texas Murder" (Murder-kun in the original). This being played for comedy, AmusingInjuries are the worst that can happen.
* An extremely unusual instance of this trope occurs in ''Manga/{{Trigun}}''. Milly is generally a very large, quiet, cheerful woman. However, when danger looms, she pulls out a ''freaking enormous'' gun from underneath her voluminous cloak.
** Considered it's non-lethal, she can cut loose with unfettered blasting without it ever actually being psycho. But the appearance is there, and certainly cowed a saloon-full of leering thugs in her introduction. Her typically genial smile probably came across as DissonantSerenity to them.
** Milly's gun only counts as nonlethal because its mode of damage dealing involves ''high velocity blunt force trauma'' powerful enough to leave targets on the floor in terrifying amounts of agony. Also powerful enough to flip a car.

* Chachazero from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', a PerversePuppet who seems to have been [[FrozenFace built]] with a constant, innocent smile is somewhere over a foot in height and carries a knife over twice that size.
** Though calling ''that'' "a knife" seems like an understatement, considering the damn thing is longer than she is tall. (She ''does'' actually carry a knife too, one that ''isn't'' bigger than her head... or body.)
* Leena Toros from ''Franchise/{{Zoids}}'' is the HumongousMecha variant. She likes to act cute and sweet, but when her signature ([[TheWorfEffect and often only]]) attack is a MacrossMissileMassacre....
* The {{Yandere}} Belarus from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' is sometimes seen with a knife in her hands...

* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MiraiNikki.jpg Gasai Yuno]] from ''Manga/FutureDiary'', to go along with her AxCrazy {{Yandere}} tendencies. People who get between her and her Yuki-kun have a tendency to ''disappear''. Well, not disappear exactly, more... Be replaced by a mangled corpse and a puddle of blood. Ironically, she has ''so many'' psycho weapons that she doesn't have an iconic one: she seems most comfortable with knives, but has also demonstrated extreme skill with axes, handguns, assault rifles, grenades, and even, on occasion, a katana.
* [[TheMole Due]] of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers''. Weapon of choice? A clawed glove straight out of ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' that she [[FingerLickinEvil loves to lick bodily fluids off from]].

** There's a couple of instances, like the AlternateUniverse mystery episode and in one Zan episode (the one introducing Oora), in which nearly every girl in the class would qualify.
* Nekoko from ''Manga/DestinyOfTheShrineMaiden'' attacks with a giant syringe the size of her body.
* Kokoa of ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire Season 2'' turns a small bat named Kyou into any weapon she feels like having. On the front of the second volume she is seen carrying some kind of saw-sword or [[http://animeradius.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Rosario2-2-Cover-.jpg something ]].

* The "Princess" in ''Manga/PrincessResurrection'' is seen using a different one of these [[OncePerEpisode every single issue]].
* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': Hansel [[spoiler:and/or Gretel]], when [[spoiler:the current]] Hansel wields the axe [[spoiler:(Since they switch personas, if one of them is a girl, it'd be this - at the very least, it'd be Cute Boy With Psycho Weapon)]]. Also Sawyer the Cleaner, a cute-looking gothic woman whose weapon of choice is a ''{{chainsaw|Good}}''.

* Many, if not all, of the Otherworld characters in the ''Franchise/BlackRockShooter''-verse uses one of these as their weapon of choice. The list includes Black★Gold Saw ([[{{BFS}} King Saw]]), Dead Master ([[SinisterScythe Dead Scythe]]), Strength (mechanical gauntlets almost as big as she is called Ogre Arms)...Even the eponymous character has one in the form of the [[{{BFG}} Rock Cannon]] (As an added bonus, she has a {{Katana|sAreJustBetter}} as well).
* Most Pandora in ''Manga/{{Freezing}}''. Special mention goes to Satellizer's Nova Blood, a giant razor, and Chiffon's Anti-Nova Trial Version, a giant clawed gauntlet.
* Two examples crop up in ''Manga/HighSchoolOfTheDead'', one playing this fairly straight, one subverting the trope hardcore.
** Saeko Busujima is known to be a kendo expert and had practice later on in the afternoon that the outbreak occurred, so nobody's really surprised at the fact that she's wielding a [[WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter bokan]] at the time. It's not until later we learn that she rather...enjoys being able to wield her full strength and skill without remorse or worry, and becomes [[TheImmodestOrgasm very excited]] when the main hero gives her a proper sword and effectively tells her to have at it.
** Saya Takagi gets her first kill while cornered in a supply closet, and the only thing she can grab at is a [[ThisIsADrill power drill.]] The subversion is that, while she doesn't hesitate (since she, y'know, doesn't want to get eaten), she has a [[HeroicBSOD complete breakdown]] over the situation, so the psycho part isn't so much AxCrazy as it is post traumatic stress disorder.
* In ''Manga/BitterVirgin'', Kazuki wields a pair of scissors and on several occasions has attempted to stab Hinako as she sees her stealing Daisuke from her. When Yuzu asks her about said scissors, Kazuki casually replies they are for "protection from perverts".
* Erza from ''Manga/FairyTail'' in her flashback wielding [[DualWielding two]] {{BFS}}ES.
* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', Tenten wields a Jidanda: one oversized [[SpikeBallsOfDoom Spiky Ball of Doom]].
* Saya's Katana from ''Anime/BloodPlus'' and ''Anime/BloodC''.
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Jessie likes that bazooka of hers a little ''too'' much...
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'': Choose any girl in a Mobile Armor.
* In ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'', Haruko is definitely psycho and uses her bass guitar like a battleaxe. The best example of this trope is when she pulls a "crazy nurse" routine in the first episode.
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': [[AxCrazy Himiko]] [[NightmareFetishist Toga]] is a cute-looking teenage girl in a sailor fuku, who also happens to be a psychotic SerialKiller who drinks people's blood to take on their appearance [[spoiler: and Quirks, if applicable]]. She uses a large knife and large syringe to kill and drain people of their blood.
* ''Manga/SleepyPrincessInTheDemonCastle'': The titular Princess' weapon of choice is a [[ShearMenace giant pair of scissors]], which she primarily uses to hack up [[BedsheetGhost Ghost Shrouds]] into bedsheets.
* ''Manga/PsychicSquad'': Shiho really ''loves'' that taser of hers. Even before that, she also carried around a gun and had no problems using it on people.

* In ''Fanfic/FrozenMoonlight'', Kaoru [[LampshadeHanging notes that she probably looked like a raging, murderous psycho]] during that time when she taped a knife to her wrist and started swinging.
* In ''Fanfic/SakiAfterStory'', [[RonTheDeathEater Teru]] wields a pipe and a box cutter against her own sister, {{Manga/Saki}}, as well as against Nodoka when she tries to help Saki.
* The Guild of Assassins in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}} of Creator/AAPessimal... well, how long a list is needed? [[BadassIsraeli Rivka ben-Divorah]] with makeshift guided missiles, flamethrowers, and incendiaries; [[{{Tykebomb}} Famke Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons]] with hand grenades; Famke's mother, who has creative thoughts about using Golems as suicide bombs, if the chem is written correctly... and then there is Ruth Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons, younger sister of Famke, daughter of the nerdy wizard Ponder Stibbons. She is artistically inclined with just enough magic in her, aged about nine, to draw the attention of senior witches who want to see which way she might go. Ruth is usually unworldly, quiet, shy and gentle. But she knows about sympathetic magic and fire. If she takes out her sketch pad, draws a picture of you and then meaningfully rattles a box of matches - it is best to find out how you've annoyed her, and make apology.
* In ''Girl Genius'' story ''Fanfic/RaisedByJagers'' Agatha, ''often'', usually with a Death Ray. In her first day at Gkika's, she grabs Pyrrhus Heterodyne's old sparker off the trophy wall and threatens the Jaegerfrau with it when they make fun of her. When it goes off accidentally, Agatha and Gkika have a serious conversation about what it means to point a weapon at someone.
* ''Fanfic/Earth27'': Jo Harvelle may be just a kid, but she's still a hunter, and she always carries a big hunting knife.

* Creator/QuentinTarantino wrote one of these girls (Gogo Yubari) into ''Film/KillBill''. She used a wakizashi on a perverted salaryman with very gory results and battled the Bride with a saw-bladed meteor hammer.

* At the end of ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', [[spoiler:River uses a sword and axe taken from the Reavers to wipe out every Reaver in a hallway during the battle on Mr. Universe's moon]].
* The Japanese revenge-porn movie ''Film/TheMachineGirl'' is built entirely on this trope; Ami, the title character, is an adorable Japanese schoolgirl with a comically oversized machine gun fitted over the stub of her severed left hand. Before the injury, she wielded a kama sickle.
* In ''Film/HighTension'', when the protagonist Marie's best friend Alex is abducted by a depraved serial killer, Marie fights psycho with psycho by wielding a butcher knife, a club wrapped in barbed wire, and even a ''circular saw'' in her efforts to get her friend back. In fact the saw is an industrial concrete/steel saw, a tool that can be used to cut through reinforced walls. You could probably take on the Franchise/{{Terminator}} with one of those things.

%%^ * The entire point of ''Film/HollywoodChainsawHookers''.%%% aAdministrivia/ZCE
* Creator/ElliotPage dons WolverineClaws as Boltie in ''Film/{{Super}}''.
* Invoked by the title of ''Machete Maidens Unleashed!'', a documentary about Filipino {{Exploitation Film}}s.
* One character in ''Film/TheRaid2Berandal'' apparently keeps two carpenter hammers in her handbag.

* [[{{Yandere}} Senjougahara Hitagi]] from ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}''. Who knew a utility knife and mechanical pencil could be such useful weapons?
* Haruna from ''Literature/IsThisAZombie'' also wields a chainsaw.

* Probably every girl in ''Literature/{{Kampfer}}'' could qualify, but Shizuku (chained daggers), and Akane (single gun) are the most notable.
* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' gives us a literal example: [[spoiler:the mostly-stable Sonohara Anri wields Saika, a demonic sword which is itself quite insane]].

* Several of the characters in Riser Phenex's Peerage from ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' use chainsaws and swords.
* ''Literature/RatsBatsAndVats'' does this as part of [[spoiler:the SpoiledBrat [[MeaningfulName Virginia "Ginny" Shaw]]'s]] [[{{Pun}} getting]] [[ChainsawGood better]].
* [[TheGrimReaper Death's]] adopted daughter in ''Literature/TheLightFantastic'':
-->Ysabell was standing in the archway, smiling faintly. She held a scythe in one hand, a scythe with a blade of proverbial sharpness. Rincewind tried not to look down at his blue lifeline; a girl holding a scythe shouldn't smile in that unpleasant, knowing and slightly deranged way.
** In later Literature/{{Discworld}} books, her daughter Susan has much the same effect, despite being [[OnlySaneMan decidedly un-deranged]]. She does still have a SinisterScythe, after all, and there's something ''more'' chilling about her variety of sanity.
** Of course, due to the level of {{Retcon}} in the early Discworld books, when we properly meet Ysabell in ''Literature/{{Mort}}'', just ''two books later'', she's a perfectly normal (normal enough, anyway) girl, albeit a bit spoiled.
* Mitsuko Souma in ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' uses a ''kama'' (Japanese sickle) as her signature weapon in all three versions of the story.

* ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'': Nyarko is primarily a CrowbarCombatant, but at one point she pulls a {{chainsaw|Good}} out of [[TrouserSpace Skirt Space]] and uses it to cleave through a horde of minion-level enemies.
* Shallan Davar in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''. Cute, shy, DeadpanSnarker, and [[spoiler: carries a [[SoulCuttingBlade Shardblade]]]].
* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', the supervillain Bonesaw looks like a young girl with carefully styled curly blond hair. She is actually a Tinker, an extremely talented mad scientist whose specialty is altering biological organisms. She takes pleasure in kidnapping people and using them in horrific experiments, remaking them into monsters. Imp might also fit this more directly, as she is described as a pretty teen girl who walks around with knives and fireaxes, and her PerceptionFilter superpower makes it easy for her to walk right up to people and stab them, which seems to amuse her greatly.

** Um, Buffy and the rocket launcher, anyone? That she aimed at her own ex-boyfriend and his crew.
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' gives us China White, who is a white-haired girl played by the ''not-at-all unattractive'' Creator/KellyHu, yet in every appearance carries a knife with her, and in her first appearance, casually kills somebody by slitting his throat.

* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', the Sisters of Battle ([[AmazonBrigade an entire army]] of [[ChurchMilitant Nuns With Guns]]) feature large numbers of women carrying [[KillItWithFire gigantic flame-throwers]], [[{{BFG}} fully automatic armour-piercing rocket-propelled-grenade launchers]], and [[EnergyWeapon guns which melt tanks]]...as a basic troops choice, but this being ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', this is nothing to raise a brow at. The true psycho-weapon carriers are Sisters Repentia, entire squads of women wearing three strategically-placed scraps of parchment and carrying ''[[{{BFS}} eight-foot-long]] [[ChainsawGood chainsaw swords]]'', driven on by an armoured woman with a barbed cat-o-nine-tails in each hand.

* "Conclusion of Blood," the bad ending from the VisualNovel ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' involves [[spoiler:[[{{Yandere}} Kotonoha Katsura]] using a saw as a murder weapon]], and so does [[spoiler:the anime ending]].

* The eponymous character from ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice'' slices and dices everyone and everything with her wicked kitchen knife. Until she needs to kill faster and more efficiently, that is. This is a literal psycho example, since she's really [[CuckooNest locked up in an insane asylum]] and all this is [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind a battle for her sanity]].

%% ** [[NinjaMaid Sakuya Izayoi]] seems to be this, to an extent.
%% ** [[SinisterScythe Elly and Komachi]] also fit the trope.

* Baby Bonnie Hood from ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'', who is modeled after Red Riding Hood, has a whole arsenal of weapons in her basket (which she also uses as a weapon).
* ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'': Sapphire and her chainsaw. Played for laughs in one of the funniest moments of the third game. She's also proficient with {{ax|Crazy}}es.
* Tira from ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries SoulCalibur]]'' uses a weapon that's crazy in itself, being [[RingsOfDeath a bladed hula hoop sort of thing]].
* Each Little Sister in the ''VideoGame/BioShock'' games wields an ADAM-harvesting syringe as big as herself - but the real danger comes from the [[RobotBuddy Big Daddy]] that protects her.
* Krusche Elendia of ''VideoGame/ArTonelicoMelodyOfElemia'' isn't a psycho per se, but being a WrenchWench as she is, her weapon of choice is a chainsaw.
* Alfimi from ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' is an adorable EmotionlessGirl who pilots [[strike:a HumongousMecha]] an EldritchAbomination styled after a Japanese demon wielding a katana. In her ultimate attack, she smiles cheerfully while impaling the enemy and wiggling the sword inside the wound, which is even more disturbing when she does it in ''[[VideoGame/EndlessFrontier Endless Frontier EXCEED]]'' without her mecha.
* The Bella Sisters in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''. Imagine the earlier [[ChainsawGood Dr.]] [[ThatOneBoss Salvador]] fight, but with [[DistaffCounterpart female]] Spanish [[{{Meido}} maids]]. As in ''plural''. Something of a subversion as ''male'' Ganado aren't any ''less'' AxCrazy than the females.
* CuteWitch Evie from ''VideoGame/{{Vindictus}}'' gains the ability to wield an increasingly large, elaborate, and frightening-looking SinisterScythe (some versions of which are larger than she is).
* Lady in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' sports the "Kalina Ann," a modified [[{{BFG}} rocket launcher]] that is topped off with a bayonet.
* [[OlderThanTheyLook Presea]] [[EmotionlessGirl Combatir]] of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' fame wields a battleaxe.
* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' has [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Maneater Mildred]] who suddenly attacks the player with a giant meat cleaver.
* ''VideoGame/PonyFantasyVI'' has [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Applebloom]], whose weapons include a {{Chainsaw|Good}} and Automatic Crossbow.
* ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw''. A cheerleader in a midriff-barring outfit with a friggin' chainsaw. Nuff said.
* ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'' has Vivi the Vampiress. Just when you think she can do a manicure as in "treatment for fingernails", she uses the word "manicure" as in "[[AnArmAndALeg cutting off people's hands]] with a butcher knife", which she has! Yikes!
* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadTelltale'':
** Molly from season 1 fights with an ice axe she calls Hilda, and she's more badass with it than all the other characters combined. She also uses it to help her scale walls and pull off [[LeParkour parkour moves]] while she traverses Savannah.
** [[spoiler:Minerva]] from season 4 goes AxCrazy in the final episode after [[spoiler: her former friends all [[WeUsedToBeFriends renounce her as a violent traitor]] after she makes clear her allegiance to The Delta, the militia group who kidnapped her and her sister, who they eventually goaded her into killing to prove her loyalty. The main characters destroy The Delta's cargo ship to free their captured friends, and Minnie gets bit by walkers in several places in the process. She then proceeds to chase after the group with an axe in one hand and a gun in the other, intending to kill her brother Tenn so that they can be TogetherInDeath, and if she can get the chance, take down Clementine as well, [[NeverMyFault who she blames for her friends all turning against her]], since she's the reason they all decided fight back against The Delta's tyranny instead of just letting themselves be captured.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'', [[spoiler:Aubrey in the real world wields a spiked baseball bat]].
* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' gives Haru, a sweetheart third-year, a battle axe as her weapon of choice, with the higher-level ones getting more more savage and barbaric. ''[[UpdatedRerelease Royal]]'' has [[spoiler:Lavenza]] posing with a chainsaw in her All-Out Attack portrait.
* Both ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' and ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'' have this in spades. Female characters pack all sorts of psycho weapons like knives, bladed hoop weapons, and in one particularly notable instance (''Dynasty Warriors''' Bao Sannang) what appears to be a [[KillerYoyo giant yoyo with blade attachments]].
* Both Erika Furudo and Bernkastel wield a giant scythe in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry''. The only difference is that Erika's is blue while Bernkastel's is black, not to mention Beatrice and the 7 Stakes, and the Siestas' unhealthy obsession of [[http://www.zerochan.net/335160 arrows]] [[http://www.zerochan.net/318385 that]] [[http://www.zerochan.net/78477 never]] [[http://www.zerochan.net/79414 miss]].
* ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'':
** The infamous "axe" ending of ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' has [[spoiler: Clover getting her hands on an axe and murdering June, Santa, Seven and finally Junpei]].
** One particular scene in ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'' has Akane getting her hands on a chainsaw.
* Aya from ''VideoGame/MadFather'' finds a mini-chainsaw, although she isn't insane and she doesn't use it as a weapon, she still uses it very casually.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'': Lisa is a young, cute-as-a-button, nice girl who wields a giant axe as a War Cleric. In her appearance in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriors'', here she uses axes right from the start and is actually seen with an axe in her character artwork.
* ''VideoGame/{{Dungeons}}'': Frights are small adorable girls hiding butcher knives behind their backs.
* ''VideoGame/CaptiveRPGMaker'': In the Remember ending, [[spoiler:the VillainProtagonist]] wields a knife while killing [[spoiler:the blonde girl]], and she also has two bloody chainsaws lying around, indicating she used them at some point.

** ''Another'' Red, this time from ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked'', wields a psycho weapon - an Axe, and is one of the more psychologically unstable characters in the series.

** At one point, however, [[spoiler:Torg makes her agree]] not to use violence anymore, so while she'll still attack Hereti-Corp employees when Override B-1 kicks in, she won't arm herself beforehand while she's lucid, resulting in the use of pencils (and notably a laser cannon she's been told is "the biggest Sharpie they make") as Psycho Weapons. It is AWESOME.
* Lily from ''Webcomic/AfterLily'' wields her psycho weapon (a knife) as early as page [[http://www.drunkduck.com/After_Lily/index.php?p=421878 4]] with very... bloody results.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': the [[OnlySaneMan level-headed]] teenage TeamMom troll Kanaya carries lipstick that happens to be a {{chainsaw|Good}} MorphWeapon. She sometimes uses it for its MundaneUtility, sometimes for horrifying but well-intentioned uses like [[spoiler:[[BackAlleyDoctor sawing off]] Tavros' paralyzed legs in his sleep so he can get [[ArtificialLimbsAreStronger prosthetic upgrades]]]], and sometimes for BewareTheNiceOnes carnage like [[spoiler:[[https://www.homestuck.com/story/3534 bisecting Eridan]] in retribution for turning against them]].
* In the world of ''Webcomic/AnecdoteOfError'', magic-users are armed with {{Ray Gun}}s called [[ConLang arrintays]], and schoolchildren are taught to use them. As such, each character is associated with one, and their unique designs are detailed on the character model sheets. That said, the only person to use them efficiently so far has been Shimei, the [[AlphaBitch school bully]], who, when [[spoiler:they confront an enemy soldier who infiltrated that school and claims not to want to harm children]], shoots first and asks questions later.
** That said, even [[BewareTheNiceOnes Atshi]] tries to use them during the same event, but it backfires because of her ineptitude.

* Not just girls, but ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'' Agents in general, tend to be unbalanced. They also tend to have a thing for [[{{BFS}} pointy objects]], {{BFG}}'s, [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]], and {{Death Ray}}s.

* [[WebOriginal/OSTan Windows 98 SE-tan]] a.k.a. "Secchan" is usually depicted with a ''can opener'' which she uses to [[DoesNotLikeMen castrate all men.]]
* ''{{WebAnimation/RWBY}}'' has main character Ruby, whose weapon is Crescent Rose: a red and black scythe taller than she is which also incorporates a high-caliber sniper rifle. Against the [[AnimalisticAbomination Creatures of Grimm]], she's a brutal whirlwind of death and dismemberment. She is also TheHeart of the main characters, a sweet idealistic girl who mainly wants to help people through slaying monsters.

* Spinel from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' uses a huge scythe as a weapon, which can wipe away the memories of the gem it hits.
* Polly Plantar from ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}''. Despite only being a [[ALizardNamedLiz pollywog]], she has wielded several weapons throughout the series, including giant axes, maces, mushroom grenades, etc.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'': Lisa is a young, cute-as-a-button, nice girl who wields a giant axe as a War Cleric.

* In the story ''Literature/DarkRedMind'', the [[NoFourthWall fourth wall]] [[JustForPun cutting]] Kaitlyn Wernher is a slight example of this trope. Upon first glance, she just seems like an exceptionally cheery twenty year old woman. But it's all a mask. Mentally, she's severely crazy, completely insane and totally fucking bonkers. As for her weapon, she doesn't need one. Her superhuman power is ''cutting. She can fucking split anything she looks at in half.''

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* ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'' gave us the Imperial Mourning Wolves, which are an AmazonBrigade of these. Picture a thousand {{Action Girl}}s with the [[DeathSeeker temperament]] of [[{{TabletopGame/Warhammer}} Troll Slayers]], wielding kusari and Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}-style claws. And then there's Valerie Duval, who thought building a single-shot 20mm autocannon into the handle of a tonfa with a 6-inch blade already on it was a good idea.

* In ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}'', [[spoiler:Aubrey in the real world wields a spiked baseball bat]].

* ''Manga/CellsAtWork'': Macrophages are depicted as [[BoobsOfSteel busty]], [[DissonantSerenity oddly-calm]] young ladies in maid dresses... who cheerfully dismember pathogens with various oversized weapons (enormous cleavers being a favorite) and then [[EatingTheEnemy eat them]].

* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'':

* In VideoGame/{{OMORI}}, [[spoiler:Aubrey in the real world wields a spiked baseball bat.]]

* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' ''[[UpdatedRerelease Royal]]'' has [[spoiler:Lavenza]] posing with a chainsaw in her All-Out Attack portrait.

* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': [[AxCrazy Flandre]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Scarlet]], a [[LittleMissBadass little girl]] wielding [[{{BFS}} Laevatein]].

* Probably every girl in ''LightNovel/{{Kampfer}}'' could qualify, but Shizuku (chained daggers), and Akane (single gun) are the most notable.

* The Guild of Assassins in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}} of Creator/AAPessimal... well, how long a list is needed? [[BadassIsraeli Rivka ben-Divorah]] with makeshift guided missiles and incendiaries; [[{{Tykebomb}} Famke Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons]] with hand grenades; Famke's mother, who has creative thoughts about using Golems as suicide bombs, if the chem is written correctly... and then there is Ruth Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons, younger sister of Famke, daughter of the nerdy wizard Ponder Stibbons. She is artistically inclined with just enough magic in her, aged about nine, to draw the attention of senior witches who want to see which way she might go. Ruth is usually unworldly, quiet, shy and gentle. But she knows about sympathetic magic and fire. If she takes out her sketch pad, draws a picture of you and then meaningfully rattles a box of matches - it is best to find out how you've annoyed her, and make apology.

* Haruna from ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'' also wields a chainsaw.

* In ''LightNovel/CubeXCursedXCurious'' the girls ARE the weapons and some are not particularly stable.

* ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'': Nyarko is primarily a CrowbarCombatant, but at one point she pulls a {{chainsaw|Good}} out of [[TrouserSpace Skirt Space]] and uses it to cleave through a horde of minion-level enemies.

* ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw''. A cheerleader in a BareYourMidriff outfit with a friggin' chainsaw. Nuff said.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Jessie likes that bazooka of hers a little ''too'' much...

* [[{{Yandere}} Senjougahara Hitagi]] from ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}''. Who knew a utility knife and mechanical pencil could be such useful weapons?

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' gives us a literal example: [[spoiler:the mostly-stable Sonohara Anri wields Saika, a demonic sword which is itself quite insane]].

* Several of the characters in Riser Phenex's Peerage from ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' use chainsaws and swords.

* In ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'', Shiki Ryougi is a pretty, affable girl who is obsessed with large knives.

Most commonly the weapons are knives, but other psycho weapons are also common, such as {{chainsaw|Good}}s or other instruments of pain and destruction.

** Played almost straight in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' with [[TheChick Merrill]]. While only carrying a simple staff of any kind, she is a [[BloodMagic Blood Mage]] who works together with demons, which in the world of Thedas is considered the second highest kind of evil abomination, only surpassed by mages that have become permanently possessed by demons.

* The Guild of Assassins in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}} of Creator/AAPessimal... well, how long a list is needed? [[BadassIsraeli Rivka ben-Divorah]] with makeshift guided missiles and incendiaries; [[{{Tykebomb}} Famke Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons]] with hand grenades; Famke's mother, who has creative thoughts about using Golems as suicide bombs, if the chem is written correctly...

* Polly Plantar from [[WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}} Amphibia]]. Despite only being a [[ALizardNamedLiz pollywog]], she has wielded several weapons throughout the series, including giant axes, maces, mushroom grenades, etc.