History Main / StrongerThanTheyLook

* Creator/RumikoTakahashi's ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf''
** Ranma himself, since he is capable of [[RapidFireFisticuffs throwing hundreds of punches in the space of a second]], and each one of those punches is likely capable of shattering multi-ton boulders. Ranma seems to have an average teenager build, and can even [[GenderBender turn into a girl]], yet "her" strength remains unchanged.
** "Lost Boy" Hibiki Ryoga carries an umbrella with him that he uses as a truncheon, a javelin or as cutting disc. A minor character once tried to lift it, but failed despite using both hands. Ryoga, however, retrieves it with one hand effortlessly, though he looks like an otherwise normal boy his age.
%%** Hell, a lot of the Nerima Wrecking Crew count: Mousse can land some strong kicks, zips around like a fly and can take a considerable pounding before going down. Ryoga can easily charge around like a bull and is only a MightyGlacier compared to Ranma and Mousse. He even lampshades this himself when fighting Lime, a super-strong character (even by ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' standards) who is less than super-fast, which makes Ryoga realize that all those fights with Ranma have made ''him'' very very fast in turn.

* ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'': {{TabletopGame/Vampire|TheMasquerade}}s [[StrongerWithAge grow stronger as they age]], and their physical strength is no longer connected to their appearance. An ancient vampire, or one with high level [[SuperStrength Potence]], might look like a slender woman, an old man, or a child and yet have the strength to break every bone in a person's body with one strike, leap such great distances that they appear to fly, and create shockwaves from the force fo their hits.

* ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'': Vampires grow stronger as they age, and their physical strength is no longer connected to their appearance. An ancient vampire, or one with high level of Potence, might look like a slender woman, an old man, or a child and yet have the strength to rip a man's head off.

** Both of the Fire siblings. They may be young but they're very talented firebenders, especially Azula who can bend lightning.
** The same series also gives us Toph and Aang. Although you ''would'' expect Aang to be more of a FragileSpeedster, mastering all the elements other than just air really helps him with the bruisin'.

** Rainbow Dash, who is a boisterous tomboy and has been shown to not only fly fast enough to accomplish the legendary "Sonic Rainboom" -- the only pegasus known to have ''ever'' done so, including the two ''[[GodEmperor god-princess]] [[WingedUnicorn alicorns]]'' -- but has since also gained enough control over the ability to manipulate it into a thermonuclear explosion used to utterly demolish a huge old barn. And that's just the tip of the iceberg; on another occasion, she kicked a fully grown dragon in the face hard enough to not only provoke it into going on the offensive, when the entire problem the dragon posed was that it refused to get up from its nap, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXsPcp_KtJw actually whine near-tearfully about it afterwards]] in conjunction with Fluttershy's [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath amazing verbal beatdown]].

* Candace from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has demonstrated remarkable strength on few occasions despite being a teenager. These occasions include when was able to cripple an alligator with her bare hands ("Fireside Girl Jamboree") and when she subdued a giant video game boss Buford by smacking him across the face with her in-game life bar ("Gaming the System"). She can perform one-handed push-ups ("I Was a Middle Aged Robot") and she has also been shown to be able to lift and carry her mother with no apparent difficulty.

** Tellius (ninth and tenth) installments
*** Ike is a pretty straightforward example of this. In ''Path of Radiance,'' he starts out a FragileSpeedster, but about halfway through, he becomes almost as strong and well armored as the {{Mighty Glacier}}s, but also retains his initial speed advantage. He ''starts out'' this way in ''Radiant Dawn'', and only gets better (barring slight speed issues).
*** As is Sety (who actually has the possibility of getting enemies a 0% chance to hit him) and the swordmaster class.
*** Pretty much ANY Second Generation FE 4 character. Except for poor Corpul. Even those who'd appear to be {{Squishy Wizard}}s , [[GameBreaker like Yuria]], for example (Yuria's notable, her Physical Defense sucks, like a typical SquishyWizard-- but due to the fact that she's known for "vamping" via the Resire/Nosfetaru spell, are fully capable of taking even the hardest of hits and shrugging them off like they were nothing) are examples of this.
** Many "Mercenary/Hero" class characters gain great speed and strength gains. And are strong enough to wield the heavier swords [[FragileSpeedster myrmidons cannot.]]

** Trueblades, the class that Swordmasters turn into after level 20 in ''Radiant Dawn'', could also count, especially Mia. They have a ridiculous evasion rate, hit their target most of the time, and between all of their offensive stats you'd be hard-pressed to find anything short of a mini-boss or boss that can survive more than a single round with one; usually they'll end up getting killed by critical hits or their Astra ability.