History Main / GirlsWithGuns

SmallGirlBigGun is a subtrope--Girls With Guns aren't necessarily small, and their guns aren't necessarily big. Yeah-heh.

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* On ''Series/N.C.I.S,'' a therapist pegs this as Tony's type. To which he responds: "Who ''doesn't'' like girls with guns?"

* On ''Series/NCIS,'' a therapist pegs this as Tony's type. To which he responds: "Who ''doesn't'' like girls with guns?"

* ''Manga/TokureiSochiDantaiStellaJogakuinKoutoukaC3Bu'' and ''Manga/{{Sabagebu}}'' are about {{Japanese School Club}}s revolving around guns usage (albeit [[{{UsefulNotes/Airsoft}} not real guns]]) and mock battles with those guns. Somehow both these clubs are [[AmazonBrigade all-female]], but given they're set in an [[SchoolgirlSeries all-girls school]]...

%%* ''Film/{{Battleship}}'' With Rihanna's character.

%%* ''GunCrazy''

* ''Film/{{Colombiana}}'' starring Zoe Saldana as a girl who witnessed her parents' assassination and grows up to become a killer.

* ''Film/BadGirls'', about four WildWest prostitutes who are wanted by the law.
* ''Film/{{Bandidas}}''. One of the girls is afraid, and quite rubbish, with guns, and so uses knives; but still uses one at the climax of the movie. The other is definitely a gun kind of girl.

* ''Film/AeonFlux'' based on the MTV series of the same name, with the titular protagonist being an assassin and killing machine armed with dual guns.

* ''Film/MissMeadows'': Miss Meadows is a proper young school teacher who's carrying a gun in her purse at all times which she uses against criminals that cross her path. Although quite feminine, she's a confident, strong young woman most of the time, and deadly vigilante.

* ''Film/AnnieGetYourGun'' - a biopick about Annie Oakly, a real-life 19th century entertainer and sharpshooter.

%%* ''Film/AeonFlux'' With the protagonist of the same name.

* ''Tough Beauty and the Sloppy Slop'', a ripoff of Michelle Yeoh'as Film/{{Supercop}}, starring Cynthia Khan and Yuen Biao.

* ''Widow Warriors'', where true to its title, a band of women from a triad family avenge their spouses by shooting the living souls out of the rival mob responsible for their deaths.

* ''Series/WynnonaEarp'' focuses on the adventures of its gun-slinging titular character.

* Mirri of ''Series/XCompany'' is one of these, although she also becomes adept with blades and unarmed combat

* ''Film/SpecialFemaleForce'', a reboot of the ''Film/TheInspectorWearsSkirts'' series of movies.

* ''Angel on Fire'', an attempt to cash-in on the ''Iron Angels'' films, starring Taiwanese action star Cynthia Khan (budget Michelle Yeoh) as the titular angel.

* ''Film/SpecialFemaleForce'', a series of movies starring Hong Kong's elite police squad battling terrorists and gunrunners. Jadce Leung from ''Black Cat'' (listed above) stars as the police lieutenant of both movies.

* ''Deadly Target'' starring Yukari Oshima and Sharon Yeung as female cops taking on Philippine mobsters.

* ''Special Female Force'', a reboot of the ''Inspector Wears Skirts'' series of movies.

* ''Anime/BurstAngel'' starring Jo, the titular Angel who is a BoubtyHunter and gunslinger.

* Creator/BeeTrain and Koichi Mashimo in particular deserve a special recognition for popularizing the genre with their trilogy:[[note]]Mashimo was also the director of the LightNovel/DirtyPair Movie ''Project EDEN''[[/note]].

* ''Anime/{{Canaan}}'' features a female assassin living in Shanghai and having to defeat an old friend who turned on her. With triads and terrorists added in the plot, plenty of shootouts follows.

%%* ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' (probably kicked off the genre, at least within anime)

* ''Beauty Investigator'', one of the last collaborations between Yukari Oshima and Moon Lee, where the actresses respectively plays an assassin and a cop who ends up taking on the triads.
* ''Bury Me High'', one of the higher-budget films starring Moon Lee and Sibelle Hu, which ends with a full-scale battle involving tanks, helicopters, and exploding bunkers and munition piles.
* ''The Dragon Fighter'' starring Sibelle Hu as a hitwoman and triad killer.
* ''Fire Phoenix'' starring Sibelle Hu as a soldier finding herself on the battlefields in the big city against mobsters.

* ''Wonder Seven'', starring Creator/MichelleYeoh as a mobster's girlfriend who had a change of heart and ends up joining a vigilante team to take on the entire mob. Yeoh gets to fire pistols while riding on a motorcycle.