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* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerGlimmer Glimmer]] wears pink and purple, literally has pink sparkles as her powerset, and enjoys dressing up in pretty dresses as well as giving Adora a makeover for Princess Prom. However, she also really enjoys fighting and can pack a heavy punch. Her introduction even shows her clashing with her mother because she so desperately wants to fight for the Rebellion more than her mother is willing to allow.

* [[Characters/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilStarButterfly Star Butterfly]] from ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' is a perky teenage girl who wears frilly dresses and likes cute animals. She also likes beating up monsters, taming wild unicorns, and taking her MuggleBestFriend, Marco, along with her on dimension-hopping adventures.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': [[Characters/TeenTitans2003Starfire Starfire]] is the bubbly [[TheHeart heart]] of the team, rocking a mini skirt and ZettaiRyouiki. According to the episode "[[Recap/TeenTitansS5E10Go Go]]", her "girliness" is something she's picked up since coming to Earth. Before then, she was more of a ProudWarriorRaceGirl (though that might have also been partly from being imprisoned).

** Wendy has a no problem with beating up Cartman in a pink hat and unicorn shirt after he makes some rather offensive remarks about breast cancer. She's also a brave activist when she's not physically fighting.

** May and Dawn are Coordinators, and to be a good one you ''must'' have Pokémon that are both flashy and /elegant/cute/etc, as well as strong on the battlefield. Some Coordinator Contests ''also'' require the trainer to dress up: in such cases, May dons a BellyDancer outfit and Dawn puts on a cute frilly dress... and still direct their Pokémon in battle.

* ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'': Itsuki Myoudouin is a girl who [[CutenessProximity adores cute things]] but has been [[{{Bifauxnen}} forcing herself to act and dress like a boy]] since her brother fell ill and she had to take over as HeirToTheDojo. She grows into this trope [[CharacterDevelopment as she comes to realize that her hobbies aren't mutually exclusive]].

* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'' has the star protagonist evoking this with her baseball bat and tights. Blugeoning people and being adorable. One example being when she finished off Penguin in "New Gotham" and innocently asked her crew if they could go get coffee.

* [[Characters/GravityFallsMabelPines Mabel Pines]] from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' loves [[GlurgeAddict kittens and glittery stickers]], but she packs a mean punch. She's the [[BrainsAndBrawn Brawn]] to her brother Dipper's [[BrainsAndBrawn Brains]] whenever the two of them work together. She gives Dipper two black eyes in "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E1TouristTrapped Tourist Trapped]]" (by accident, no less!) and even makes a gnome throw up after she kicks him in the stomach. It comes in full force in "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E3Headhunters Headhunters]]" when she fights off [[spoiler:an army of living wax figures]]. Also, she high-fives ''hard''. It doesn't take much to make her gung-ho about fighting. It also says something that according to Stan, the first thing Mabel did was sock the doctor who delivered her in the jaw. From "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E11NotWhatHeSeems Not What He Seems]]":

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Starfire is the bubbly [[TheHeart heart]] of the team, rocking a mini skirt and ZettaiRyouiki. According to the episode "[[Recap/TeenTitansS5E10Go Go]]", her "girliness" is something she's picked up since coming to Earth. Before then, she was more of a ProudWarriorRaceGirl (though that might have also been partly from being imprisoned).

* [[Characters/GravityFallsMabelPines Mabel Pines]] from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' loves [[GlurgeAddict kittens and glittery stickers]], but she packs a mean punch. She's the [[BrainsAndBrawn Brawn]] to her brother Dipper's [[BrainsAndBrawn Brains]] whenever the two of them work together. She gives Dipper two black eyes in "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E1TouristTrapped Tourist Trapped]]" (by accident, no less!) and even makes a gnome throw up after she kicks him in the stomach. It comes in full force in "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E3Headhunters Headhunters]]" when she fights off [[spoiler:an army of living wax figures]]. Also, she high-fives ''hard''. It doesn't take much to make her gung-ho about fighting. From "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E11NotWhatHeSeems Not What He Seems]]":

* Invoked in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird''. Female Voice 1 for the Boss can say stereotypically feminine things such as [[IBrokeANail complaining about chipped nails]], and there's nothing stopping you from kicking massive amounts of arse while wearing makeup, a skirt, and heels. [[WholesomeCrossdresser Even if you're a guy.]]

** The trope image is Charlotte Birkin, AKA "Bad Girl", but she's an odd, mixed example. Despite her fondness for pink and frilly fashion, she's a [[SirSwearsALot foul-mouthed]], [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl beer-swigging]], [[AxCrazy murderous psychopath]] who uses a [[BatterUp baseball bat]], and fights with [[MusclesAreMeaningless improbable strength]] and brutal cunning. She's also the #2 assassin in the game, and canonically the person who comes closest to actually ''killing'' Travis by [[spoiler:[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown repeatedly bashing Travis' skull]] [[TakingYouWithMe in her dying moments]]]].

** Vita is the girliest of the [[BadassFamily Wolkenritter]], which is especially emphasized during her original appearance in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs''. Her outfit is a fancy ElegantGothicLolita dress (compared to Signum's utilitarian trench coat-style outfit and Shamal's more androgynous robes), complete with a hat adorned with BunniesForCuteness. She also wields an [[DropTheHammer enormous warhammer]] as her primary weapon and fights with an aggressive style that relies on battering her opponents into submission with raw power. Later appearances downplay her girliness in favor of having her play [[CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough the Sergeant Rough to Nanoha's Captain Smooth]].

* Alice and Rosalie from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' love fashion and shopping, but are powerful fighters.

** Kanaya Maryam is a [[TeamMom motherly]], fussy LipstickLesbian who [[TheFashionista loves designing clothes]] and reading [[Literature/{{Twilight}} trashy rainbowdrinker novels]]. She wields a lipstick as a weapon. By the way, this lipstick [[MorphWeapon can transform]] into a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]]. [[GirlWithPsychoWeapon She has bisected at least two people]] and gutted a [[HiveQueen Virgin Mother Grub]] with it... while staying perfectly elegant and feminine.

* Cindy from ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'' is a little girl in a pink dress and GirlishPigtails who enjoys playing house, loves her pet dog Biscuit, and rewards the protagonist with a pink flower for being a good boyfriend. As for the bruiser part, while she usually prefers to have her boyfriends do her dirty work for her, she's potentially lethal if she ''does'' decide to get physical, as can be seen when she stabs the protagonist in the head [[DisproportionateRetribution if he doesn't play house well enough]] and when she [[spoiler:bites the janitor's ear off and then rips his head off]] if she finds out that [[spoiler:he killed her dog and used its flesh for his "Biscuit Balls"]].

* The titular Manga/GorgeousIrene primarily uses very feminine tools to accomplish her goals. Her makeup allows her to transform into other personalities, activate her more aggressive fighting style, and allow her to draw lines on reflective surfaces to make a hypnotized opponent tear themselves apart according to where she drew. Her false nails are even deadlier, as she can use them as projectiles. She also has a hypnotic dance to lull her opponents into a false sense of security or paralyze them.