History Main / LittleGirlsKickShins

* In ''ChromeShelledRegios'', [[LittleMissSnarker Felli]] usually kicks things when she gets upset. If said thing is a person, it's usually in the shins. Note that she once kicked a refrigerator so hard she ''dented'' the door, so you can probably guess this hurts a lot.

* Sakura from the ''CardCaptorSakura'' anime and manga kicks her older brother in the shin with her rollerblades in the first issue/episode, as well as a couple other times in other episodes.

* [[LittleMissSnarker Felli]] usually kicks things when she gets upset. If said thing is a person, it's usually in the shins. Note that she once kicked a refrigerator so hard she ''dented'' the door, so you can probably guess this hurts a lot.

* Gender-swap version in {{Teen Titans}} Mas can’t do much without his brother Menos, but how many other twelve-year-olds will run up and kick someone who’s six times bigger than they are?

* Laura from SilentHill does this often, but she's regarded as a BrattyHalfPint by the main character.

* In the GeckoEnding of the ''SoulEater'' anime, Angela does this to Black Star (or rather, she kicks him [[GroinAttack a little higher]]...).
* Sakura from the ''CardCaptorSakura'' anime and manga kicks her older brother in the shin with her rollerblades in the first issue/episode.
** And a couple other times in other episodes, too.

** A generation earlier, Esk from ''Discworld/EqualRites'' likewises used kicks against the Dungeon Things.
* Scout Finch tries to do this in ''ToKillAMockingbird''. In the book she's surprised to see her victim fall back in real pain -- "I had meant to kick his shin, but aimed too high."

* Happens to poor Aoki-sensei in KodomoNoJikan, among [[EarAche other]] [[GroinAttack things]].

Compare with AgonyOfTheFeet. Probably related to GirlScoutsAreEvil when it is invoked. You'd think that the girl would grow up to be a KickChick, but it rarely happens (although both tropes might come from a similar line of thinking).

[[SeenItAMillionTimes We all know this one:]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Little Girls Kick Shins.]] There doesn't seem to be any particular reason for it, but fiction writers everywhere seem to have agreed that little girls are violent (perhaps in response to the DeadHorseTrope that girls should act ladylike and therefore be groomed to act ladylike from birth) and that the ideal expression of this violence is to kick people in the shins. People will put up with quite a bit more from little girls than they will from little boys (bringing to mind a DoubleStandard, as boys aren't quite free from their own grooming just yet) it seems, and so girls' lashing out violently at everyone about them is treated as cute and adorable, rather than, say, a sign of instability. The audience might think of her as a BrattyHalfPint, but be assured that the characters in the story most assuredly do not.

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* During the shopping trip in ''{{Freefall}}'', Florence's friend's daughter does this on occasion. Most notably when she punishes a stranger for grabbing Florence's tail ("You pull the doggy's tail again, I ''kick'' you again!").

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* Pharaoh's son kicks Moses in the shins in TheTenCommandments, presumably so we don't feel too bad when the little brat dies.

* The Westing Game. Turtle Wexler can REALLY kick shins so hard the bruise will show through your detailed disguise of another man with a compass name.

* ''TheFirstLaw'' gave us the daughter of Crummock-i-Phail, who gets away with quite a bit more than her siblings do. Her father remarks that he always remembers who she is by her kicking.
* Nazca (of the ''GentlemanBastard Sequence'') was given ''steel-toed boots'' by her father for the very purpose of indulging in this practice whenever she so pleases.
* Turtle from ''TheWestingGame'' is known for this, especially in response to her braid being touched.
* [[spoiler:little Kay]] might be doing this to Edgeworth in case 4 of ''AceAttorneyInvestigations''. It's kinda hard to see if it is this or his privates.
* Invoked in the SomethingAwful LetsPlay of ''PrincessMaker'': Lizzie's last name is Shinkicker. (And she does indeed kick much shin, as well as ass.)
* Neither little nor a girl, but MickFoley in his "Dude Love" persona had as his finishing move "Sweet Shin Music" where he kicked his opponent in the shin; a JustForPun parody of ShawnMichaels' "Sweet Chin Music" (superkick).
* One of the "Punishment Games" in ''SilentLibrary'' involves having a player stand there and let a little girl walk into the library and kick him in both shins.

* Happens to Pete in ''AGoofyMovie'' when he tries to show Goofy how much better he is at handling children.
* During the shopping trip in ''{{Freefall}}'', Florence's friend's daughter does this on occasion. Most notably when she punishes a stranger for grabbing Florence's tail ("You pull the doggy's tail again, I ''kick'' you again!").
* In ''Discworld/TheWeeFreeMen'', when the nine year old witch needs to distract the [[TheFairFolk Elf]] [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]]: "Tiffany kicked her on the leg. It wasn't a witch thing. It was ''so'' nine-years-old, and she wished she could have thought of something better".
** A generation earlier, Esk from ''Discworld/EqualRites'' likewises used kicks against the Dungeon Things.
* Though they're teenagers, the spirit of this trope still applies when ''KimPossible'' and her sidekick Ron switch bodies and are confronted by [[TheDragon Shego]]. Ron (in Kim's body), always more TheChick of the pair, kicks her in the shin and they run away.
* Laura from SilentHill does this often, but she's regarded as a BrattyHalfPint by the main character.
* The Doctor Octopus fanfic series ''TheLifeAfterDeathTrilogy'' has Mouse, Ock's adoptive daughter, utilize this on several occasions.

TruthInTelevision, since Aillie Hu kicked me in the shins from middle school to high school.

* The little girl in RushHour 2's reaction to being rescued by the lead character is to kick him in the shin and ask him what took him so long.

* [[ChromeShelledRegios Felli Loss]], [[XJustX just Felli]].