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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep'', Kaiko is the one who performs all of the maintenance on the Aronnax and its gear. Fonatine is shown to have inherited her mother's knack for pulling things apart and putting them back together.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep'', ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep2015'', Kaiko is the one who performs all of the maintenance on the Aronnax and its gear. Fonatine is shown to have inherited her mother's knack for pulling things apart and putting them back together.

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* The ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' series has two: Sparks in Wing Commander II and Rachel Coriolis in Wing Commander III/Wing Commander Prophecy.

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* The ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' series has two: Sparks Janet "Sparks" [=McCullough=] in Wing Commander II and Rachel Coriolis in Wing Commander III/Wing Commander Prophecy.


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* ''WesternAnimation/WingCommanderAcademy'': The mechanic usually fixing up Blair's fighter is Maya [=McEaddens=]. Blair not only trusts her with his ship, but also with a letter to send to his family if he doesn't make it back from a mission.

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* "G-3" Jun from ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' is the team's expert in electronics and explosives.


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* "G-3" Jun from ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' is the team's expert in electronics and explosives.
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* "G-3" Jun from ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' is the team's expert in electronics and explosives.
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* ''VideoGame/CrescentPrism'': Rain is an Engine Knight who specializes in building machines in the middle of battle. Bonus points for wielding wrenches as her weapon.
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* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' has the Tinkatink line, an [[OneGenderRace all-female]] species of PintsizedPowerhouse [[TheBlacksmith blacksmith]] {{mons}} who forge their own [[DropTheHammer hammers]] and homes out of scrap metal.

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* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' has the Tinkatink line, an [[OneGenderRace all-female]] species of PintsizedPowerhouse [[TheBlacksmith blacksmith]] {{mons}} who forge their own [[DropTheHammer [[HumongousHeadedHammer hammers]] and homes out of scrap metal.



* The second season of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' involved finding ancient Cybertronian weapons created by Solus Prime, one of the 13 original Primes created by Primus, who was also the archetype for female Transformers to come. She preferred a [[DropTheHammer big hammer]] over any old wrench. The 13 original Transformers are treated as semi-divine, communicating from a higher realm and being the patron saint of whatever type of 'bot they're the first of; repair bot Fixit has been known to say "Sweet Solus Prime!" when surprised. Every nigh-magical ArtifactOfDoom in this series (and maybe others) is her personal handiwork.

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* The second season of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' involved finding ancient Cybertronian weapons created by Solus Prime, one of the 13 original Primes created by Primus, who was also the archetype for female Transformers to come. She preferred a [[DropTheHammer big hammer]] hammer over any old wrench. The 13 original Transformers are treated as semi-divine, communicating from a higher realm and being the patron saint of whatever type of 'bot they're the first of; repair bot Fixit has been known to say "Sweet Solus Prime!" when surprised. Every nigh-magical ArtifactOfDoom in this series (and maybe others) is her personal handiwork.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ZigAndSharko'': Marina is often shown working with cars and engines.
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* ''Series/TheFlyingDoctors'' had Emma Plimpton, who ruled the hangar with an iron fist and kept the RFDS' fleet airborne.

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* ''Series/TheFlyingDoctors'' had Emma Plimpton, who ruled the hangar with fixed everything in Cooper's Crossing that wasn't an iron fist and kept the RFDS' fleet airborne.aeroplane.
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* ''Series/TheFlyingDoctors'' had Emma Plimpton, who ruled the hangar with an iron fist and kept the RFDS' fleet airborne.
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* ''Film/WerewolvesWithin'': Gwen is a mechanic who runs the town's garage, and she's a tough, self-confident person who was introduced wearing coveralls berating her male assistant over showing up late for work.

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* ''Film/WerewolvesWithin'': Gwen is a mechanic who runs the town's garage, and she's a tough, self-confident person who was introduced wearing coveralls berating her male assistant husband over showing up late for work.
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* In ''VideoGame/DiceyDungeons'': The Inventor was apparently a cute girl before being forcibly transformed into a dice. As the GadgeteerGenius among the contestants, one of her starting weapons is a Spanner.
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* The wife of celebrity steeplejack and steam enthusiast Creator/FredDibnah gave into reality and got heavily involved with the steam engines, figuring this was the only way she'd get to see anything of him. Sheila Dibnah became quite knowledgeable in her own right and enthusiastic about the preservation of old steam engines, carrying on the work after Fred's death.
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* Olga Romanoff, an Air Policewoman in Ankh-Morpork, is also a largely self-taught broomstick technomancer who stands apart from other witches in that she knows what makes one go and is prepared to roll up her sleeves and ''really'' work on souping up the standard model. She and her friend and fellow flight technomancer Irena Politek operate a hangar full of customised broomsticks in City Watch service. Working with Dwarf brothers the Messers Schmidt and Zlobenian dwarf Mig Oyeff, they currently fly ME-109's and the MIG-21 broomsticks. Their prototype ME Schmidt 262 is going to be ''revolutionary''. The girls appear in ''Fanfic/SlippingBetweenWorlds'' and other tales in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' ExpandedUniverse.

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* Olga Romanoff, an Air Policewoman in Ankh-Morpork, is also a largely self-taught broomstick technomancer who stands apart from other witches in that she knows what makes one go and is prepared to roll up her sleeves and ''really'' work on souping up the standard model. She and her friend and fellow flight technomancer Irena Politek operate a hangar full of customised broomsticks in City Watch service. Working with Dwarf brothers the Messers Schmidt and Zlobenian dwarf Mig Oyeff, they currently fly ME-109's and the MIG-21 broomsticks. Their prototype ME Schmidt 262 is going to be ''revolutionary''. The girls appear in ''Fanfic/SlippingBetweenWorlds'' ''Fanfic/ThePriceOfFlight'' and other tales in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' ExpandedUniverse.
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* ''Anime/PokemonHorizonsTheSeries'': Orla is the Brave Asagi's engineer, and Episode 18 reveals she actually ''built'' it up from Ludlow's boat, turning it into an airship at Friede's request to travel all over the world.
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* Ivy in ''WesternAnimation/CarmenSandiego''; she built and maintained Zack's race car during his stint as a race driver, and built Carmen's grappling hook and concealed hang-glider, as well as the Red Drone.
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* Asami from ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra'' repairs a damaged airship downed in the desert with minimal equipment and then builds a [[MacGyvering sand-sailer]] when the airship is destroyed by a giant [[MixAndMatchCritters sandshark]].

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* Asami from ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra'' ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' repairs a damaged airship downed in the desert with minimal equipment and then builds a [[MacGyvering sand-sailer]] when the airship is destroyed by a giant [[MixAndMatchCritters sandshark]].



--> I'm dying to get a machine-gun mount so I can rest a .22 on one and shoot rabbits.

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* In ''Film/TheyLiveByNight'', Keechie helps run her father's gas station (and, given he is TheAlcoholic, she probably does the bulk of the work), and spends the early part of the film dressed in greasy coveralls.



** Charlie Watson (Creator/HaileeSteinfeld) from ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'' is hugely in car repair and used to fix cars with her father before he passed away. [[spoiler:However, at the end of the film, she finishes the last car she and her father started working on before his death.]]

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** Charlie Watson (Creator/HaileeSteinfeld) from ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'' is hugely in into car repair and used to fix cars with her father before he passed away. [[spoiler:However, at the end of the film, she finishes the last car she and her father started working on before his death.]]
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* ''Film/CrimesOfTheFuture2022'': Berst and Dani are two female assassins with the cover of being technicians. The two almost always dress in coveralls, and kill their targets with power drills to the head.
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* ''Fanfic/TheNakedJedi'': Sarza, the titular naked Jedi, singlehandedly repairs her parents' ruined shuttlecraft, constructs her own lightsaber, and assembles Essex over the course of the first story. Her Artisan specialization gives her the "Mental Tools" talent, which ignores any penalties for not having the proper tools for a given Mechanics check, and she has the [[MindOverMatter Manipulate Force Power and the upgrade that allows her to add Force Dice up to her Force Rating to Mechanics checks, spending Force Points on Sucess or Advantage]].
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* ''Film/{{AWOL}}'': Joey studies auto repair in the Army, so she can service not only the Army's vehicles but later cars professionally on leaving.
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* ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'':
** The original trilogy has Creta Biscuit, the chief engineer of the Elsior who's often found at the hangar doing maintenance to the Emblem Frames. Aside from her looks, she also has a rather cheery personality and an event in the first game reveals she's a huge fan of young idols.
** The ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngelII'' trilogy brings Coronet Crouxcreme and Maria Stellene, two of the most prominent members of the engineers' staff of the Luxiole. Coronet is often fighting with Croix, the chief engineer, while Maria prefers to spend her time with the Chrono String Engines and doesn't like to talk to anyone except Lily.
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* KK built and maintains her own steam copter amongst other toys in ''[=FreakAngels=]]'' oh and has wicked [[spoiler:PsychicPowers]].

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* KK built and maintains her own steam copter amongst other toys in ''[=FreakAngels=]]'' ''Webcomic/FreakAngels'' oh and has wicked [[spoiler:PsychicPowers]].
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Often a MsFixIt and TheBlacksmith, a Wrench Wench might have MachineEmpathy and can diagnose problems just by listening to the motor. Her tools extend to pure electronic devices, but she is also likely to be found with a blowtorch and ratchet set. When her talents go beyond mere fixing things to outright creating machinery, she is a GadgeteerGenius. If it is computers and the Internet instead of mechanics, she is a {{Hackette}}.

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Often a MsFixIt [[MrFixIt Ms. Fix It]] and TheBlacksmith, a Wrench Wench might have MachineEmpathy and can diagnose problems just by listening to the motor. Her tools extend to pure electronic devices, but she is also likely to be found with a blowtorch and ratchet set. When her talents go beyond mere fixing things to outright creating machinery, she is a GadgeteerGenius. If it is computers and the Internet instead of mechanics, she is a {{Hackette}}.



-->'''Mikaela:''' Guys don't like it when you know more about cars than they do.

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* ''VideoGame/RelicOfWar'' Jeanice. Her portrait has her literally holding onto a wrench.

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* ''VideoGame/RelicOfWar'' Jeanice. Her ''VideoGame/RelicOfWar'': Jeanice's portrait has her literally holding onto a wrench.



* KK built and maintains her own steam copter amongst other toys [[http://www.freakangels.com FreakAngels]] oh and has wicked [[spoiler:PsychicPowers]].

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Pulse}}'', before becoming an busty armored super-heroine, possible [[MrFixIt Ms Fix It]] Annie's previous job at her SuperheroSchool was repairing equipment. [[http://pulse.webcomic.ws/comics/89/ She sometimes returns to that as therapy.]] She can be known to be CuriousAsAMonkey and have almost a compulsive urge to take thing apart.

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Pulse}}'', before becoming an busty armored super-heroine, possible [[MrFixIt Ms Ms. Fix It]] Annie's previous job at her SuperheroSchool was repairing equipment. [[http://pulse.webcomic.ws/comics/89/ She sometimes returns to that as therapy.]] She can be known to be CuriousAsAMonkey and have almost a compulsive urge to take thing apart.



* Victoria Drummond [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever OBE]] was the first woman certified as a [[TheEngineer Marine Engineer]] in the United Kingdom. Despite being born in [[BlueBlood an upper-class Scottish family]] and being named after her godmother, [[UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria]], she developed an interest in machinery and engineering, taking an apprenticeship at a shipyard. She went on to serve aboard a number of freighters during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo, even helping to boost the speed of one ship to evade a German air attack.

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* Victoria Drummond [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever OBE]] was the first woman certified as a [[TheEngineer Marine Engineer]] in the United Kingdom. Despite being born in [[BlueBlood an upper-class Scottish family]] and being named after her godmother, [[UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria]], UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria, she developed an interest in machinery and engineering, taking an apprenticeship at a shipyard. She went on to serve aboard a number of freighters during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo, UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, even helping to boost the speed of one ship to evade a German air attack.
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** ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' replaces the mechanic skill with the handiness skill which allows sims to upgrade appliances in addition to repairing them.
** ''VideoGame/TheSims4'' furthers the repair skill by allowing the sim to be able to craft better quality items as a result of their increased repair skill.
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** ''VideoGame/TheSims1'' has it so your sims can level up the mechanic skill by repairing appliances.
** ''VideoGame/TheSims2'' expands upon the repair skill by making it so certain careers require certain levels of mechanic skill.
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* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfNewerth'' includes an engineer class (which allows you to build weapons) which includes female characters such as Engineer Rosie as well as Soaker Rosie.
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* ''Film/FirehouseDog:'' Pep is the only woman who works in the Dogpatch unit, and she’s the firehouse’s mechanic. She’s competitive about the speed of their fire truck in comparison to the other units, and she’s the most excited when the firehouse gets a shiny new engine.
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* In ''VideoGame/StateOfDecay2'' your female survivor can be one of these with the ability to repair weapons, vehicles as well as crafting in general. You can even wear a mechanic outfit with gloves, boots and a boiler suit.
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* There is a professional organization, [[https://swe.org/ Society of Women Engineers]], dedicated to helping more women get into engineering.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has Scootaloo shown doing mechanical work on a parade float in the episode "One Bad Apple." Later, in "Twilight Time," she's shown developing these skills further under Twilight Sparkle learning how to disassemble and reassemble unicycles and scooters.

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** in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E4OneBadApple One Bad Apple]]",
Scootaloo is shown doing mechanical work on a parade float in the episode "One Bad Apple." float. Later, in "Twilight Time," "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E15TwilightTime Twilight Time]]," she's shown developing these skills further under Twilight Sparkle learning how to disassemble and reassemble unicycles and scooters.scooters.
** "[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyRainbowRoadtrip Rainbow Roadtrip]]" has Torque Wrench, who fixes the Mane Six's hot-air balloon after it crashes and rebuilds the rainbow generator.

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