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7->''"There's just something about oversized sharp objects that really bring out the craziness."''
8-->-- '''[[http://blogsuki.com/archives/2008/11/16/2076/ Jason Miao]]'''
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10Sometimes you'll come across a girl, [[KillerRabbit often cute and sweet-looking]]... but she'll be brandishing some sort of scary weapon at you in a murderous fashion! [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl EEEEEK!]] Run for the hills!
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12Most commonly the weapons are knives, but other psycho weapons are also common, such as [[CarryABigStick hammers]], {{chainsaw|Good}}s or other instruments of pain and destruction.
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14She's usually also {{Yandere}}, or, failing that, CuteAndPsycho. A close subtrope to NothingNiceAboutSugarAndSpice.
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16Compare GrotesqueCute, SmallGirlBigGun, GlacierWaif, and AxCrazy.
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24* In ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', Skuld tends to build these to threaten Keiichi with, from the ubiquitous "Skuld-Bombs", to the home-built ''chainsaw'', "Texas Murder" (Murder-kun in the original). This being played for comedy, AmusingInjuries are the worst that can happen.
25* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': In an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKbALlgvUHs infamous scene]], Osaka thought she'd wake up Yukari-sensei by banging on a frying pan, but since she was half-asleep herself at the time, she took a knife out of the cupboard instead, with the result that Yukari woke up to see a [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant groggy-eyed, knife-wielding Osaka]] standing in the bedroom doorway.
26* In ''Manga/BitterVirgin'', Kazuki wields a pair of scissors and on several occasions has attempted to stab Hinako as she sees her stealing Daisuke from her. When Yuzu asks her about said scissors, Kazuki casually replies they are for "protection from perverts".
27* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': Hansel [[spoiler:and/or Gretel]], when [[spoiler:the current]] Hansel wields the axe [[spoiler:(Since they switch personas, if one of them is a girl, it'd be this - at the very least, it'd be Cute Boy With Psycho Weapon)]]. Also Sawyer the Cleaner, a cute-looking gothic woman whose weapon of choice is a ''{{chainsaw|Good}}''.
28* Many, if not all, of the Otherworld characters in the ''Franchise/BlackRockShooter''-verse uses one of these as their weapon of choice. The list includes Black★Gold Saw ([[{{BFS}} King Saw]]), Dead Master ([[SinisterScythe Dead Scythe]]), Strength (mechanical gauntlets almost as big as she is called Ogre Arms)...Even the eponymous character has one in the form of the [[{{BFG}} Rock Cannon]] (As an added bonus, she has a {{Katana|sAreJustBetter}} as well).
29* ''Manga/CellsAtWork'': Macrophages are depicted as busty, [[DissonantSerenity oddly-calm]] young ladies in maid dresses... who cheerfully dismember pathogens with various oversized weapons (enormous cleavers being a favorite) and then [[EatingTheEnemy eat them]].
30* Nina from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' starts as the ShrinkingViolet with a crush on Euphemia Li Britannia [[spoiler:and after [[FreakOut she finds she died]], she puts the 'psycho' back in PsychoLesbian by creating a nuclear weapon to kill Zero along with Tokyo]]. After the TimeSkip, turns out [[spoiler: she succeeds on the second part]].
31* Hibana from ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' and [[strike:Renji's]] her giant whip-sword, as well as all the female Deadman.
32* The major part of the psycho weapon-wielding anime girls [[TropeCodifier are predated]] by [[spoiler: Mariko Shinobu]] from ''Manga/DearBrother''. In the last part of the series, when the local AlphaBitch [[spoiler: Aya Misaki]] mocks her due to [[spoiler: her parents's extremely messy and public divorce]]... an already very unstable [[spoiler: Mariko]] [[FreakOut snaps so badly]] that she [[spoiler: ''slashes Aya's arms, clothes and back with a knife that she had somehow smuggled into her school things''.]] These events [[spoiler: get Mariko kicked out of the Sorority... and start the "rolling snow ball" that concludes with the dissolution of said Sorority]].
33** [[AdaptationExpansion The anime expands]] [[AdaptationDistillation quite a bit on this]], and it's even creepier [[TearJerker and sadder.]] [[spoiler: Mariko]]'s GWPW stint is predated by a whole episode focusing on her issues [[spoiler: with her parents]]: after [[spoiler: finding her father Hikawa with the woman that he cheated on her mother Hisako with]] and running off as a result, [[spoiler: Mariko]] goes home and finds her "weapon of choice" [[spoiler: (in this version, a modern boxcutter)]] among her school things, and [[spoiler: she's '''this''' close to use it to slit her wrists open but barely decides against it.]] Then she takes it to [[spoiler: school]]... and the first paragraph happens.
34* The small CatGirl Nekoko from ''Manga/DestinyOfTheShrineMaiden'' attacks with a giant syringe the size of her body.
35* Cho Hakkaimon from ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime'' is a cute girl wielding a giant, scary maul-like weapon.
36* In ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'', Haruko is definitely psycho and uses her bass guitar like a battleaxe. The best example of this trope is when she pulls a "crazy nurse" routine in the first episode.
37* Most Pandora in ''Manga/{{Freezing}}''. Special mention goes to Satellizer's Nova Blood, a giant razor, and Chiffon's Anti-Nova Trial Version, a giant clawed gauntlet.
38* Yuno Gasai from ''Manga/FutureDiary'', to go along with her AxCrazy {{Yandere}} tendencies. People who get between her and her Yuki-kun have a tendency to ''disappear''. Well, not disappear exactly, more... Be replaced by a mangled corpse and a puddle of blood. Ironically, she has ''so many'' psycho weapons that she doesn't have an iconic one: she seems most comfortable with knives, but has also demonstrated extreme skill with axes, handguns, assault rifles, grenades, and even, on occasion, a katana.
39* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'':
40** The {{Yandere}} Belarus is sometimes seen with a knife in her hands.
41** Hungary likes to wield a frying pan, but only when she's ''very'' pissed off.
42* Two examples crop up in ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'', one playing this fairly straight, one subverting the trope hardcore.
43** Saeko Busujima is known to be a kendo expert and had practice later on in the afternoon that the outbreak occurred, so nobody's really surprised at the fact that she's wielding a [[WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter bokan]] at the time. It's not until later we learn that she rather...enjoys being able to wield her full strength and skill without remorse or worry, and becomes [[TheImmodestOrgasm very excited]] when the main hero gives her a proper sword and effectively tells her to have at it.
44** Saya Takagi gets her first kill while cornered in a supply closet, and the only thing she can grab at is a [[ThisIsADrill power drill.]] The subversion is that, while she doesn't hesitate (since she, y'know, doesn't want to get eaten), she has a [[HeroicBSOD complete breakdown]] over the situation, so the psycho part isn't so much AxCrazy as it is post traumatic stress disorder.
45* Due of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers''. Her weapon of choice is a clawed glove straight out of ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' that she [[FingerLickinEvil loves to lick bodily fluids off from]].
46* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': [[AxCrazy Himiko]] [[NightmareFetishist Toga]] is a cute-looking teenage girl in a sailor fuku, who also happens to be a psychotic SerialKiller who drinks people's blood to take on their appearance [[spoiler: and Quirks, if applicable]]. She uses a large knife and large syringe to kill and drain people of their blood.
47* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', Tenten wields a Jidanda: one oversized [[SpikeBallsOfDoom Spiky Ball of Doom]].
48* Chachazero from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', a PerversePuppet who seems to have been [[FrozenFace built]] with a constant, innocent smile is somewhere over a foot in height and carries a knife over twice that size.
49* The "Princess" in ''Manga/PrincessResurrection'' is seen using a different one of these [[OncePerEpisode every single issue]].
50* ''Manga/PsychicSquad'': Shiho really ''loves'' that taser of hers. Even before that, she also carried around a gun and had no problems using it on people.
51* Kokoa of ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire Season 2'' turns a small bat named Kyou into any weapon she feels like having. On the front of the second volume she is seen carrying some kind of saw-sword or [[http://animeradius.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Rosario2-2-Cover-.jpg something ]].
52* ''Manga/SaitamaChainsawShoujo'': Betcha can't guess the main character's weapon of choice. Her name is Fumio Kirisaki, and that's her up at the top of the page. It's not just some random weapon she grabbed, either: she comes from a family of highly-skilled chainsaw users, and has trained with one for most of her life. It's also heavily implied that her grandfather was the chainsaw-wielding sheriff from ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2''.
53* Kitsu Chiri from ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''. Weapon of choice: The knife, switching to a shovel later on (her name is, amongst other things, a pun on the act of burying something).
54* [[{{Yandere}} Kaede Fuyou]] of ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'' is best known for doing this [[spoiler: on the very UnluckyEverydude she's chasing after, when she thought he was to blame for her mother's death; a part of [[ExtremeDoormat her devotion to Rin]] comes from her guilt over this incident]]. In the anime version, she also [[[spoiler:snaps on her love rival Asa and attacks her with a box cutter]].
55* ''Manga/SleepyPrincessInTheDemonCastle'': The titular Princess' weapon of choice is a [[ShearMenace giant pair of scissors]], which she primarily uses to hack up [[BedsheetGhost Ghost Shrouds]] into bedsheets.
56* ''Manga/SoulEater'':
57** Maka Albarn, with her [[SinisterScythe scythe]] Weapon Soul Eater. Kim's Weapon Jackie does not ''look'' too dangerous as a lantern. [[KillItWithFire Until she starts using her as a flamethrower]]. [[StuffBlowingUp Or an explosive at close range]]. The crazed smile on the lantern's side should have been a hint, one thinks. And then there's Patti wielding pistol Liz with potentially deadly enthusiasm.
58** And then you have Crona, whose gender hasn't been decided on by the creator. His/Her weapon is quite literally psycho. It's fueled by madness (as it is made of Crona's black blood), and can [[BodyHorror rip out of Crona's back]] into either a muscular humanoid or draconic form. Both of which are anchored to Crona's spine. Yecht.
59* An extremely unusual instance of this trope occurs in ''Manga/{{Trigun}}''. Milly is generally a very large, quiet, cheerful woman. However, when danger looms, she pulls out a ''freaking enormous'' gun from underneath her voluminous cloak.
60** Considered it's non-lethal, she can cut loose with unfettered blasting without it ever actually being psycho. But the appearance is there, and certainly cowed a saloon-full of leering thugs in her introduction. Her typically genial smile probably came across as DissonantSerenity to them.
61** Milly's gun only counts as nonlethal because its mode of damage dealing involves ''high velocity blunt force trauma'' powerful enough to leave targets on the floor in terrifying amounts of agony. Also powerful enough to flip a car.
62* Rin Kagamine from Music/{{Vocaloid}} owns a giant roadroller that she likes to squish people with. And Kiku Juon's Signature items are 2 giant cleavers.
63* ''Manga/TheWallflower'': Because Sunako [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette resembles]] [[Literature/TheRing Sadako]] so closely, it's not surprising how creepy Sunako looks with a knife in her hand. Most of the time it's only there to chop fish with... but it looks creepy nonetheless.
64* Leena Toros from ''Franchise/{{Zoids}}'' is the HumongousMecha variant. She likes to act cute and sweet, but when her signature ([[TheWorfEffect and often only]]) attack is a MacrossMissileMassacre.
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68* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics:'' Rosie the Rascal, the MirrorUniverse version of Amy Rose, carries her own version of Amy's Piko-Piko Hammer. It has spikes on it. Rosie's one of the few individuals Scourge the Hedgehog is totally afraid of.
69* Throughout the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheKillersOfKrypton'', sweet, cute, sixteen-year-old ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} carries around an oversized, double-headed battleaxe which manipulates and fuels its wielder's anger.
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73* ''Fanfic/BetweenMyBrotherAndMe'': Yvonne Maxa is a loud bombastic puppeteer who also is a PsychoKnifeNut willing to slice people's throats or stab them until they beg for mercy. She's shown to use multiple stabby weapons like a switch blade, barbed daggers and a stiletto.
74* The Guild of Assassins in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal:
75** [[BadassIsraeli Rivka ben-Divorah]] with makeshift guided missiles, flamethrowers, and incendiaries; [[{{Tykebomb}} Famke Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons]] with hand grenades.
76** Famke's mother, who has creative thoughts about using Golems as suicide bombs, if the chem is written correctly.
77** Ruth Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons, younger sister of Famke and daughter of the nerdy wizard Ponder Stibbons. She is artistically inclined with just enough magic in her, aged about nine, to draw the attention of senior witches who want to see which way she might go. Ruth is usually unworldly, quiet, shy and gentle. But she knows about sympathetic magic and fire. If she takes out her sketch pad, draws a picture of you and then meaningfully rattles a box of matches - it is best to find out how you've annoyed her, and make apology.
78* ''Fanfic/Earth27'': Jo Harvelle may be just a kid, but she's still a hunter, and she always carries a big hunting knife.
79* In ''Fanfic/FrozenMoonlight'', Kaoru [[LampshadeHanging notes that she probably looked like a raging, murderous psycho]] during that time when she taped a knife to her wrist and started swinging.
80* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': Chloe Cerise uses a donut holer -- a pipe advertised to punch holes into items to turn them into donuts -- as her go to weapon. And once she gets a cloak that lets her breathe fire, then she can attack you with a pipe set on fire.
81* In ''Girl Genius'' story ''Fanfic/RaisedByJagers'' Agatha, ''often'', usually with a Death Ray. In her first day at Gkika's, she grabs Pyrrhus Heterodyne's old sparker off the trophy wall and threatens the Jaegerfrau with it when they make fun of her. When it goes off accidentally, Agatha and Gkika have a serious conversation about what it means to point a weapon at someone.
82* In ''Fanfic/SakiAfterStory'', [[RonTheDeathEater Teru]] wields a pipe and a box cutter against her own sister, {{Manga/Saki}}, as well as against Nodoka when she tries to help Saki.
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86* Fans of Takashi Miike's work may remember a little film named ''Film/{{Audition}}''. Asami Yamazaki is gentle and soft-spoken - but what she does with razor wire and acupuncture needles in the last twenty minutes will make even the most hardened horror fan cringe. The appearance of a previous boyfriend in a dream sequence shortly before gives some idea of [[{{Yandere}} what she will do to prevent her lovers from leaving her]].
87* The quiet female protagonist gets this way when she and her grandfather are terrorized in ''Film/{{Axe}}''.
88* In ''Film/HighTension'', when the protagonist Marie's best friend Alex is abducted by a depraved serial killer, Marie fights psycho with psycho by wielding a butcher knife, a club wrapped in barbed wire, and even a ''circular saw'' in her efforts to get her friend back. In fact the saw is an industrial concrete/steel saw, a tool that can be used to cut through reinforced walls. You could probably take on the Franchise/{{Terminator}} with one of those things.
89* ''Film/IntoTheWoods'': Little Red Riding Hood is supposed to be young and cute...until she pulls a knife on you.
90* Creator/QuentinTarantino wrote one of these girls (Gogo Yubari) into ''Film/KillBill''. She used a wakizashi on a perverted salaryman with very gory results and battled the Bride with a saw-bladed meteor hammer.
91* Invoked by the title of ''Machete Maidens Unleashed!'', a documentary about Filipino {{Exploitation Film}}s.
92* The Japanese revenge-porn movie ''Film/TheMachineGirl'' is built entirely on this trope; Ami, the title character, is an adorable Japanese schoolgirl with a comically oversized machine gun fitted over the stub of her severed left hand. Before the injury, she wielded a kama sickle.
93* One character in ''Film/TheRaid2Berandal'' apparently keeps two carpenter hammers in her handbag.
94* At the end of ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', [[spoiler:River uses a sword and axe taken from the Reavers to wipe out every Reaver in a hallway during the battle on Mr. Universe's moon]].
95* Creator/ElliotPage dons WolverineClaws as Boltie in ''Film/{{Super}}''.
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99* Yamasaki Asami, the psychotic serial killer from author Ryu Murakami's book ''Literature/{{Audition}}'', on which the Takashi Miike movie above is based, fits this trope to a T. Not only does she paralyze her victims using a syringe injected straight into the skin under the tongue, but she removes a man's foot with a wire saw and would have gotten the other foot too if she [[spoiler: hadn't been killed]].
100* Hitagi Senjougahara from ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' wields a utility knife and a mechanical pencil as dangerous weapons.
101* Mitsuko Souma in ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' uses a ''kama'' (Japanese sickle) as her signature weapon in all three versions of the story.
102* Every angel (especially the main character) in ''Literature/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'' wields a dangerous weapon, usually with extremely violent and gory results. The title character Dokuro uses her giant spiked club Excalibolg on Sakura to repeatedly [[MadeOfPlasticine splatter him into tiny bits]] whenever she gets mad at him, only to revive him soon after.
103* In ''Literature/CubeXCursedXCurious'' the girls ARE the weapons and some are not particularly stable.
104* In the story ''Literature/DarkRedMind'', the [[NoFourthWall fourth wall-cutting]] Kaitlyn Wernher is a slight example of this trope. Upon first glance, she just seems like an exceptionally cheery twenty year old woman. But it's all a mask. Mentally, she's severely crazy, completely insane and totally fucking bonkers. As for her weapon, she doesn't need one. Her superhuman power is ''cutting. She can fucking split anything she looks at in half.''
105* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
106** [[TheGrimReaper Death's]] adopted daughter in ''Literature/TheLightFantastic'':
107--->Ysabell was standing in the archway, smiling faintly. She held a scythe in one hand, a scythe with a blade of proverbial sharpness. Rincewind tried not to look down at his blue lifeline; a girl holding a scythe shouldn't smile in that unpleasant, knowing and slightly deranged way.
108** In later books, her daughter Susan has much the same effect, despite being [[OnlySaneMan decidedly un-deranged]]. She does still have a SinisterScythe, after all, and there's something ''more'' chilling about her variety of sanity.
109* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'': The mostly-stable Anri wields Saika, a demonic sword which is itself quite insane.
110* In ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'', Shiki Ryougi is a pretty, affable girl who is obsessed with large knives.
111* In ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'', [[spoiler:Ryoko Asakura reveals her true colors when she wields a knife in a menacing fashion - despite [[FridgeLogic the fact that she can]] [[RealityWarper alter reality]] [[JustHitHim and could probably make Kyon's head]] [[YourHeadASplode explode]] [[JustHitHim just by thinking about it]]]]. And [[spoiler:Asakura]] does all this while [[StepfordSmiler smiling pleasantly]].
112* Cora from ''Literature/TheHeartsWeSold'' is a pretty, eighteen year old GoGetterGirl who has a gun, and isn't afraid to wave it around when necessary. Turns out, she got a concealed carry license the second she was legally able to. James laments this fact, wondering why she couldn't have just started smoking or gotten a tattoo like everybody else.
113* Several of the characters in Riser Phenex's Peerage from ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' use chainsaws and swords.
114* Haruna from ''Literature/IsThisAZombie'' wields a chainsaw.
115* Probably every girl in ''Literature/{{Kampfer}}'' could qualify, but Shizuku (chained daggers), and Akane (single gun) are the most notable.
116* ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'': Nyarko is primarily a CrowbarCombatant, but at one point she pulls a {{chainsaw|Good}} out of [[TrouserSpace Skirt Space]] and uses it to cleave through a horde of minion-level enemies.
117* ''Literature/RatsBatsAndVats'' does this as part of [[spoiler:the SpoiledBrat [[MeaningfulName Virginia "Ginny" Shaw]]'s]] [[{{Pun}} getting]] [[ChainsawGood better]].
118* Shallan Davar in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''. Cute, shy, DeadpanSnarker, and [[spoiler: carries a [[SoulCuttingBlade Shardblade]]]].
119* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', the supervillain Bonesaw looks like a young girl with carefully styled curly blond hair. She is actually a Tinker, an extremely talented mad scientist whose specialty is altering biological organisms. She takes pleasure in kidnapping people and using them in horrific experiments, remaking them into monsters. Imp might also fit this more directly, as she is described as a pretty teen girl who walks around with knives and fireaxes, and her PerceptionFilter superpower makes it easy for her to walk right up to people and stab them, which seems to amuse her greatly.
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123* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' gives us China White, who is a white-haired girl played by the ''not-at-all unattractive'' Creator/KellyHu, yet in every appearance carries a knife with her, and in her first appearance, casually kills somebody by slitting his throat.
124* ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'':
125** The verse gives viewers Faith and that wicked looking knife. Buffy with a scythe doesn't count, that's saved for Willow when she goes round the bend when magic is gone from the world, takes the scythe to England, has it ready when she goes to visit Angel and he threatens her after a mass demon attack and not knowing who is at the door, and uses it to slice up his son.
126** And there's Dana wielding a bonesaw.
127** There's also Fred. This is practically her thing: Crossbows, Ax-apults, flamethrowers, automatic scythe traps, sniper rifles. The writers seemed to be competing with each other to see what loony item she holds next.
128--->'''Fred:''' The halberd could work. Acting like I'm all addle-brained talking about other dimensions. ''(mocking)'' Pylea? Never heard of it! ''(angry)'' Right. How 'bout a flail-whipping? Would that take a nice long time?\
129'''Angel:''' Hours, if you do it right. — Not that you should do it at all. ''(takes whip from her)'' Ever.
130* April Ludgate from ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' is seen threatening Ann while brandishing a comically sizable syringe.
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134* While women carrying big, scary looking weapons is fairly common in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Maiden of the Mirthless Smile]] is probably the one with most of this.
135* ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'' gave us the Imperial Mourning Wolves, which are an AmazonBrigade of these. Picture a thousand {{Action Girl}}s with the [[DeathSeeker temperament]] of [[{{TabletopGame/Warhammer}} Troll Slayers]], wielding kusari and ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}-style claws. And then there's Valerie Duval, who thought building a single-shot 20mm autocannon into the handle of a tonfa with a 6-inch blade already on it was a good idea.
136* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', the Sisters of Battle ([[AmazonBrigade an entire army]] of [[ChurchMilitant Nuns With Guns]]) feature large numbers of women carrying [[KillItWithFire gigantic flame-throwers]], [[{{BFG}} fully automatic armour-piercing rocket-propelled-grenade launchers]], and [[EnergyWeapon guns which melt tanks]]...as a basic troops choice, but this being ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', this is nothing to raise a brow at. The true psycho-weapon carriers are Sisters Repentia, entire squads of women wearing three strategically-placed scraps of parchment and carrying ''[[{{BFS}} eight-foot-long]] [[ChainsawGood chainsaw swords]]'', driven on by an armoured woman with a barbed cat-o-nine-tails in each hand.
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140* In ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}'', when Robin, as Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, has kidnapped Dame Hannah, she draws a small dagger to defend herself with, but what makes him cringe in terror is when she seizes a much larger dagger from an armored figure and tosses the smaller one to him.
141-->"Now then, it's one to one, and let the best man win!"
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145* The eponymous character from ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice'' slices and dices everyone and everything with her wicked kitchen knife. Until she needs to kill faster and more efficiently, that is. This is a literal psycho example, since she's really [[CuckooNest locked up in an insane asylum]] and all this is [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind a battle for her sanity]].
146* Krusche Elendia of ''VideoGame/ArTonelicoMelodyOfElemia'' isn't a psycho per se, but being a WrenchWench as she is, her weapon of choice is a chainsaw.
147* Each Little Sister in the ''VideoGame/BioShock'' games wields an ADAM-harvesting syringe as big as herself - but the real danger comes from the [[RobotBuddy Big Daddy]] that protects her.
148* ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'' has Vivi the Vampiress. Just when you think she can do a manicure as in "treatment for fingernails", she uses the word "manicure" as in "[[AnArmAndALeg cutting off people's hands]] with a butcher knife", which she has! Yikes!
149* ''VideoGame/CaptiveRPGMaker'': In the Remember ending, [[spoiler:the VillainProtagonist]] wields a knife while killing [[spoiler:the blonde girl]], and she also has two bloody chainsaws lying around, indicating she used them at some point.
150* ''VideoGame/ChampionsOnline'' has the [[CreepyTwins Harajuku Twins]]: ElegantGothicLolita Rin wields a truely SinisterScythe with a bat-wing-shaped blade ''in one hand'' and GenkiGirl Shizuko carries a [[GatlingGood gatling]] [[SmallGirlBigGun gun]] with a teddy bear sitting on the barrel/s. Oh, and the two are good girls! They aid players in battle for one hour, after being summoned with a certain "henchman device". Buying that device also unlocks their weapons.
151* From Season I on, ''VideoGame/ConquerorosBlade'' female player characters can use any hero weapon—even the particularly large and threatening poleaxe, maul, and nodachi.
152* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' has [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Maneater Mildred]] who suddenly attacks the player with a giant meat cleaver.
153* Baby Bonnie Hood from ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'', who is modeled after Red Riding Hood, has a whole arsenal of weapons in her basket (which she also uses as a weapon).
154* Lady in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' sports the "Kalina Ann," a modified [[{{BFG}} rocket launcher]] that is topped off with a bayonet.
155* ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'': Sapphire and her chainsaw. Played for laughs in one of the funniest moments of the third game. She's also proficient with {{ax|Crazy}}es.
156* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
157** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'':
158*** Averted with [[JeanneDArchetype Leliana]], a heroic equivalent who first shows up trying to talk down the bad guys while dressed in the robes of a priestess (I may add that no priestess has been seen so far in the game with any sort of lethal weapon) and jumps in on your side with a long knife when things go south.
159*** Female elven warrior Warden. [[{{BFS}} Two-handed broadsword]]. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Run]].
160** Played almost straight in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' with [[TheHeart Merrill]]. While only carrying a simple staff of any kind, she is a [[BloodMagic Blood Mage]] who works together with demons, which in the world of Thedas is considered the second highest kind of evil abomination, only surpassed by mages that have become permanently possessed by demons.
161* ''VideoGame/{{Dungeons}}'': Frights are small adorable girls hiding butcher knives behind their backs.
162* Both ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' and ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'' have this in spades. Female characters pack all sorts of psycho weapons like knives, bladed hoop weapons, and in one particularly notable instance (''Dynasty Warriors''' Bao Sannang) what appears to be a [[KillerYoyo giant yoyo with blade attachments]].
163* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'': Lisa is a young, cute-as-a-button, nice girl who wields a giant axe as a War Cleric. In her appearance in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriors'', here she uses axes right from the start and is actually seen with an axe in her character artwork.
164* In ''VideoGame/HeavenlySword'', the supporting heroine, Kai, is an adorable girl who seems not all there in the head. She wields some sort of [[AutomaticCrossbows giant reloading crossbow]]. She also won't hesitate to threaten an enemy's '[[GroinAttack weak point]]' for 'massive damage'.
165* ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw''. A cheerleader in a midriff-barring outfit with a friggin' chainsaw. Nuff said.
166* Aya from ''VideoGame/MadFather'' finds a mini-chainsaw, although she isn't insane and she doesn't use it as a weapon, she still uses it very casually.
167* In ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'', [[spoiler:Aubrey in the real world wields a spiked baseball bat]].
168* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' gives Haru, a sweetheart third-year, a battle axe as her weapon of choice, with the higher-level ones getting more more savage and barbaric. ''[[UpdatedRerelease Royal]]'' has [[spoiler:Lavenza]] posing with a chainsaw in her All-Out Attack portrait.
169* ''VideoGame/PonyFantasyVI'' has [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Applebloom]], whose weapons include a {{Chainsaw|Good}} and Automatic Crossbow.
170* The Bella Sisters in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''. Imagine the earlier [[ChainsawGood Dr.]] [[ThatOneBoss Salvador]] fight, but with [[DistaffCounterpart female]] Spanish [[{{Meido}} maids]]. As in ''plural''. Something of a subversion as ''male'' Ganado aren't any ''less'' AxCrazy than the females.
171* Tira from ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries SoulCalibur]]'' uses a weapon that's crazy in itself, being [[RingsOfDeath a bladed hula hoop sort of thing]].
172* Alfimi from ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' is an adorable EmotionlessGirl who pilots [[strike:a HumongousMecha]] an EldritchAbomination styled after a Japanese demon wielding a katana. In her ultimate attack, she smiles cheerfully while impaling the enemy and wiggling the sword inside the wound, which is even more disturbing when she does it in ''[[VideoGame/EndlessFrontier Endless Frontier EXCEED]]'' without her mecha.
173* [[OlderThanTheyLook Presea]] [[EmotionlessGirl Combatir]] of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' fame wields a battleaxe.
174* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': [[AxCrazy Flandre]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Scarlet]], a [[LittleMissBadass little girl]] wielding [[{{BFS}} Laevatein]], the weapon forged by Loki used to slay Viðofnir. Though in this case, it takes on the form of a wand that forms, according to the ''Grimoire of Marisa'', a giant flaming blade.
175* ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadTelltale'':
176** Molly from season 1 fights with an ice axe she calls Hilda, and she's more badass with it than all the other characters combined. She also uses it to help her scale walls and pull off [[LeParkour parkour moves]] while she traverses Savannah.
177** [[spoiler:Minerva]] from season 4 goes AxCrazy in the final episode after [[spoiler: her former friends all [[WeUsedToBeFriends renounce her as a violent traitor]] after she makes clear her allegiance to The Delta, the militia group who kidnapped her and her sister, who they eventually goaded her into killing to prove her loyalty. The main characters destroy The Delta's cargo ship to free their captured friends, and Minnie gets bit by walkers in several places in the process. She then proceeds to chase after the group with an axe in one hand and a gun in the other, intending to kill her brother Tenn so that they can be TogetherInDeath, and if she can get the chance, take down Clementine as well, [[NeverMyFault who she blames for her friends all turning against her]], since she's the reason they all decided fight back against The Delta's tyranny instead of just letting themselves be captured.]]
178* CuteWitch Evie from ''VideoGame/{{Vindictus}}'' gains the ability to wield an increasingly large, elaborate, and frightening-looking SinisterScythe (some versions of which are larger than she is).
179* In ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'', Madotsuki can use a kitchen knife, which causes some characters to move away from her if equipped, and is only effective against characters are harmless anyway (Uboa can't be stabbed, and the Toriningen take multiple hits, and will almost certainly get you first). She has 24 effects/items that she can use in total, but judging by the FanArt, the knife is easily the most remembered. Most player characters in ''Yume Nikk'' fangames tend to wield one. Urotsuki from {{VideoGame/Yume2kki}} in particular uses a {{C|hainsawGood}}HAINSAW, and another one uses [[VideoGame/DotFlow a pipe]] and another [[BiggerStick a club with nails in it]], [[{{VideoGame/LCDDEM}} another]] an axe, and more.
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183* "Conclusion of Blood," the bad ending from ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' involves [[{{Yandere}} Kotonoha Katsura]] using a saw as a murder weapon, and so does the anime ending.
184* ''Franchise/WhenTheyCry'':
185** ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'':
186*** Rena Ryuugu iconically wields a cleaver which she uses to find cute things. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Mostly]].
187*** The blue-haired little girl Rika wields a large butcher knife at one point, but her weapon of choice seems to be a mop, which is her weapon in the fighting game ''Daybreak''.
188** ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': Young-looking blue-haired girls Erika Furudo and Bernkastel wield a giant scythe.
189* ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'':
190** The infamous "axe" ending of ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' has [[spoiler: Clover getting her hands on an axe and murdering June, Santa, Seven and finally Junpei]].
191** One particular scene in ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'' has Akane getting her hands on a chainsaw.
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195* Lily from ''Webcomic/AfterLily'' wields her psycho weapon (a knife) as early as page [[http://www.drunkduck.com/After_Lily/index.php?p=421878 4]] with very... bloody results.
196* In the world of ''Webcomic/AnecdoteOfError'', magic-users are armed with {{Ray Gun}}s called [[ConLang arrintays]], and schoolchildren are taught to use them. As such, each character is associated with one, and their unique designs are detailed on the character model sheets. That said, the only person to use them efficiently so far has been Shimei, the [[AlphaBitch school bully]], who, when [[spoiler:they confront an enemy soldier who infiltrated that school and claims not to want to harm children]], shoots first and asks questions later. That said, even [[BewareTheNiceOnes Atshi]] tries to use them during the same event, but it backfires because of her ineptitude.
197* Little Red Riding Hood from ''Webcomic/EverAfter'' uses a saw (the second little pig's, given to her by the surviving one) as her signature weapon.
198* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': the [[OnlySaneMan level-headed]] teenage TeamMom troll Kanaya carries lipstick that happens to be a {{chainsaw|Good}} MorphWeapon. She sometimes uses it for its MundaneUtility, sometimes for horrifying but well-intentioned uses like [[spoiler:[[BackAlleyDoctor sawing off]] Tavros' paralyzed legs in his sleep so he can get [[ArtificialLimbsAreStronger prosthetic upgrades]]]], and sometimes for BewareTheNiceOnes carnage like [[spoiler:[[https://www.homestuck.com/story/3534 bisecting Eridan]] in retribution for turning against them]].
199* Mell Kelly of ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'' has an ''alarming'' tendency to get her hands on such weapons, which, coupled with [[HeroicComedicSociopath her nature]], makes her one of the scarier ([[RuleOfFunny in a funny way]]) characters of the series.
200* Red from ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked'', wields a psycho weapon - an Axe, and is one of the more psychologically unstable characters in the series.
201* Oasis from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' is a very sweet girl until something comes between her and Torg or she spots a Hereti Corp employee. Then the knives come out.
202** At one point, however, [[spoiler:Torg makes her agree]] not to use violence anymore, so while she'll still attack Hereti-Corp employees when Override B-1 kicks in, she won't arm herself beforehand while she's lucid, resulting in the use of pencils (and notably a laser cannon she's been told is "the biggest Sharpie they make") as Psycho Weapons.
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206* Don't piss WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick off. Lord MacGuffin learned this when she pointed a gun at him, and Lupa nearly got stabbed in the chest because she had Todd's "[[StalkerWithACrush affections]]". Elisa strangles Paw with a scarf and pokes him in the crotch (twice!) with his own dart after it accidentally hit one of her stuffed Phantom dolls.
207* ''WebOriginal/OSTan'': Windows 98 SE-tan a.k.a. "Secchan" is usually depicted with a ''can opener'' which she uses to [[DoesNotLikeMen castrate all men.]]
208* Not just girls, but ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'' Agents in general, tend to be unbalanced. They also tend to have a thing for [[{{BFS}} pointy objects]], {{BFG}}'s, [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]], and {{Death Ray}}s.
209* ''{{WebAnimation/RWBY}}'' has main character Ruby, whose weapon is Crescent Rose: a red and black scythe taller than she is which also incorporates a high-caliber sniper rifle. Against the [[AnimalisticAbomination Creatures of Grimm]], she's a brutal whirlwind of death and dismemberment. She is also TheHeart of the main characters, a sweet idealistic girl who mainly wants to help people through slaying monsters.
210* Jade Sinclair (Generator) of the Literature/WhateleyUniverse ''loves'' this trope. There's her plush cabbit doll... that turns into a KillerRabbit and once slaughtered around a dozen badguys in one fight. There's her Hello Kitty compact, which flies... and knives pop out of the sides to become a [[SpectacularSpinning spinning top of doom]]. There's 'Spinner', which is basically a lawnmower blade spinning at high speed without the lawnmower engine or housing getting in the way. There's the big athame that she turned into a spinning blade. The railroad spikes. The bear trap.
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214* Polly Plantar from ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}''. Despite only being a [[ALizardNamedLiz pollywog]], she has wielded several weapons throughout the series, including giant axes, maces, mushroom grenades, etc.
215* Spinel from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' uses a huge scythe as a weapon, which can wipe away the memories of the gem it hits.
216* [[CreepyChild Clare]] from ''WesternAnimation/TitanMaximum'' wields a serrated {{BFS}} made of aggregated diamond nanorods. [[note]]Aggregated diamond nanorods are a real substance.[[/note]]
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