History Main / LittleGirlsKickShins

* A little girl kicks Patrick in the shins for taking away her "toy" (Actually one of the Smurfs.) in the film version of TheSmurfs.

* In Creator/AAPessimal's ''Literature/Discworld'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12650047/5/Strandpiel Strandpiel]]'', Rebecka Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons, aged four or five, reacts badly to the death of a beloved family pet. She displays she takes after ''both'' her parents - with the magic-user's ability to see [[DontFearTheReaper Death]] coming to take the soul of the old family dog. Then screaming with rage and kicking Death vigorously in the shins. Her Assassin mother is bemused[[note]]and later quietly pleased, after it has been explained to her [[/note]] to see Bekki screaming and kicking at an empty space. Her Wizard father can not only see who Bekki is kicking, he (with the aid of a Witch who is present) drags her away, still furiously screaming and kicking. Ponder Stibbons, not for the first or the last time, stammers apologies to a poor AnthropomorphicPersonification who is only doing his job, and now has to do it with aching shins.

* In Creator/AAPessimal's ''{{Discworld}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12650047/5/Strandpiel Strandpiel]]'', Rebecka Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons, aged four or five, reacts badly to the death of a beloved family pet. She displays she takes after ''both'' her parents - with the magic-user's ability to see [[DontFearTheReaper Death]] coming to take the soul of the old family dog. Then screaming with rage and kicking Death vigorously in the shins. Her Assassin mother is bemused[[note]]and later quietly pleased, after it has been explained to her [[/note]] to see Bekki screaming and kicking at an empty space. Her Wizard father can not only see who Bekki is kicking, he (with the aid of a Witch who is present) drags her away, still furiously screaming and kicking. Ponder Stibbons, not for the first or the last time, stammers apologies to a poor AnthropomorphicPersonification who is only doing his job, and now has to do it with aching shins.

* In Creator/AAPessimal's ''{{Discworld}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12650047/5/Strandpiel Strandpiel]]'', Rebecka Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons, aged four or five, reacts badly to the death of a beloved family pet. She displays she takes after ''both'' her parents - with the magic-ser ability to see [[DontFearTheReaper Death]] coming to take the soul of the old family dog. Then screaming with rage and kicking Death vigorously in the shins. Her Assassin mother is bemused[[note]]and later quietly pleased, after it has been explained to her [[/note]] to see Bekki screaming and kicking at an empty space. Her Wizard father can not only see who Bekki is kicking, he (with the aid of a Witch who is present) drags her away, still furiously screaming and kicking. Ponder Stibbons, not for the first or the last time, stammers apologies to a poor AnthropomorphicPersonification who is only doing his job, and now has to do it with aching shins.

* In Creator/AAPessimal's ''{{Discworld}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12650047/5/Strandpiel Strandpiel]]'', Rebecka Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons, aged four or five, reacts badly to the death of a beloved family pet. She displays she takes after ''both'' her parents - with the magic-ser ability to see [[DontFearTheReaper Death]] coming to take the soul of the old family dog. Then screaming with rage and kicking DEath vigorously in the shins. Her Assassin mother is bemused to see Bekki screaming and kicking at an empty space. Her Wizard father can not only see who Bekki is kicking, he (with the aid of a Witch who is present) drags her away, still furiously screaming and kicking. Ponder Stibbons, not for the first or the last tiome, stammers apologies to a poor AnthropomorphicPersonification who is only doing his job, and now has to do it with aching shins.

* Done multiple times to one bad guy by Molly of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', to the point that he yelled "No! Not the shin!"

* Invoked in the Website/SomethingAwful LetsPlay of ''PrincessMaker'': Lizzie's last name is Shinkicker. (And she does indeed kick much shin, as well as ass.)

* In VideoGame/{{Grandia}}, Justin informs his friend Sue that he's sailing to the new continent alone, not with her like she had assumed. Sue's response is to run home in tears... only to run back up to him after a few seconds, call him a traitor while kicking him in the shins, then run off again (she ends up stowing away on the ship he takes and comes along anyway). Later in the adventure, she tries to do the same to Gadwin, but he's TheBigGuy and doesn't even seem to notice or care.

Little girls kick people in the shins when they're angry. There doesn't seem to be any particular reason for it (sometimes it's that tiny rugrats can't kick much higher, but bigger kids still tend to go for the shins), but fiction writers everywhere seem to have agreed that when little girls are violent, the ideal expression of this violence is to kick people in the shins. Girls' lashing out violently at everyone about them is treated as cute and adorable, rather than brattiness or jerkassery.

* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' SeriesFinale Dawn returns, after having been drugged and kidnapped so she would be out of harm's way for the final battle. Buffy ordered Xander to do it and gave her a note explaining...Dawn stops mid way through, tazers Xander and takes control of his car, driving back. When she sees Buffy Dawn punts her in the leg, which ''hurts'' the ''Slayer.''

* ''MarriedWithChildren'': In a two-part episode, Al wouldn't allow a woman to breastfeed her baby in the shoe store. In retaliation, Marcy brings several women with babies to protest. He then recognizes one of them as Jefferson holding a doll. Enraged, Al took it from him and asked if he knew what Al intended to do with it. Then a little girl appeared and Jefferson suggested returning it to the little girl he took it from. Al did and [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished got kicked for that]].
* Done in ''ILoveLucy'' when Lucy takes on a babysitting job. However the mother neglected to mention it would be for twins (when she met Lucy to drop one of them off. She waited till both were out of sight to drop off the other twin). So when Lucy goes to get one of them snacks and encounters the other who demands the same thing. The twin start whining and kicks her in the leg.

* Laura from ''SilentHill2'' does this often, but she's regarded as a BrattyHalfPint by the main character.

* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' SeriesFinale Dawn returns, after having been drugged and kidnapped so she would be out of harm's way for the final battle. Buffy ordered Xander to do it and gave her a note explaining...Dawn stops mid way through, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome tazers Xander and takes control of his car, driving back.]] When she sees Buffy Dawn punts her in the leg, which ''hurts'' the ''Slayer.''

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* [[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.

* Turtle from ''TheWestingGame'' is known for this, especially in response to her braid being touched. This actually helped her solve the mystery when [[spoiler: a single kick caused two separate people to start limping.]]

Little girls kick people in the shins when they're angry. There doesn't seem to be any particular reason for it, but fiction writers everywhere seem to have agreed that when little girls are violent, the ideal expression of this violence is to kick people in the shins. Girls' lashing out violently at everyone about them is treated as cute and adorable, rather than brattiness or jerkassery.

* Invoked in the SomethingAwful LetsPlay of ''PrincessMaker'': Lizzie's last name is Shinkicker. (And she does indeed kick much shin, as well as ass.)

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* Subverted in ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'': Scout Finch tries to do this. 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."

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

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

* During the shopping trip in ''Webcomic/{{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!").

* Happens to Pete in ''AGoofyMovie'' when he tries to show Goofy how much better he is at handling children.
* 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) kicks her in the shin and they run away.
* Gender-swap version in WesternAnimation/{{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?
* Done multiple times to one bad guy by Molly of ''TaleSpin'', to the point that he yelled "No! Not the shin!"
* Velma does this in the ''ScoobyDoo'' episode "Jeepers, It's The Creeper."