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| 11 | [[caption-width-right:328:Her [[PimpedOutDress frilly]] [[MinidressOfPower dress]] coordinates so well with the blood she splatters.]] |
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| 13 | ->''Rocket candy, all the colors, planet happy\ |
| 14 | She woke up to change the world\ |
| 15 | Wears her make-up, shiny shoes, and secret sprocket\ |
| 16 | You're my hero with the\ |
| 17 | Lightning flower superpower!'' |
| 18 | --> -- '''Leslie Mills''', "Rocket Candy" |
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| 20 | The majority of {{Action Girl}}s out there are all quite physically attractive and feminine in their own right, but there tends to be [[RealWomenDontWearDresses an arbitrary line drawn between exactly how feminine]] an ActionGirl can be. |
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| 22 | The Girly Bruiser disagrees. |
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| 24 | She will be [[SilkHidingSteel tough as leather and as soft as silk]]. If there is a TomboyAndGirlyGirl situation, then she will be the GirlyGirl but will not be any less of a badass. Traits of the Girly Bruiser can include having a [[TheFashionista love of fashion and make-up]], having stereotypically "girly" hobbies, [[CutenessProximity loving cute animals]], and loving [[PinkMeansFeminine the color pink]] (or [[TrueBlueFemininity other]] [[GracefulLadiesLikePurple colors]] with similar connotations of femininity), in addition to doing and liking those activities as much as she does and likes kicking ass. She may even do her ass-kicking while wearing frilly girls' clothes, though it's not necessary. However, she's not necessarily lacking in [[GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak tomboyish qualities]]. |
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| 26 | Personality traits associated with this character include TheDitz, GenkiGirl, ThePollyanna. Can often be a PrettyPrincessPowerhouse and/or BadassAdorable as well. More often than not, the {{Tomboy}} will usually be a BloodKnight, and the GirlyGirl will usually be a MartialPacifist, the latter of whom will try ToWinWithoutFighting before resorting to violence. The Girly Bruiser differs from the LadyOfWar in that she doesn't have to be elegant with her ass-kicking (although she ''can'' be). |
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| 28 | The classic MagicalGirl intersects with this {{trope}} somewhere: she's at her most powerful when she's wearing as many pretty FrillsOfJustice and {{Frilly Upgrade}}s as possible. |
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| 30 | SubTrope of CuteBruiser. SuperTrope to SuperCuteSuperPowers. A SisterTrope to LadyOfWar (the elegant counterpart), KickingAssInAllHerFinery (the fashionable counterpart), NothingNiceAboutSugarAndSpice (the dark/villainous version), and AgentPeacock (the SpearCounterpart). Contrast RealWomenDontWearDresses. |
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| 33 | !!Examples: |
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| 37 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 38 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO6CesdSwQ0 This Japanese commercial]] features actress and karate black belt Rina Takeda in a pink dress, breaking tiles with her head. |
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| 41 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 42 | * In ''Manga/{{Aruosumente}}'', Rita Rina is one of Lante's White Knights, wears rather form-fitting armour which obviously includes a skirt, wears her hair long, and is in love with Lante. At the same time, she has no problems defeating several opponents during the tournament without breaking a sweat. |
| 43 | * Lizzie of ''Manga/BlackButler'' wants to be a perfect lady for Ciel, is very cutesy, and loves to wear pretty dresses. She also is very capable of [[spoiler:striking down zombies with swords while wearing a frilly dress, therefore saving Ciel when he was trying to save her, and knocking Ciel on his bottom when she thinks he's cheating on her and attempting to hit him]]. Even stronger, [[spoiler:Lizzie has actually been hiding this nature to the outer world because she is to be wed to Ciel later and the people around her believe that NoGuyWantsAnAmazon, so she pretends to be strictly a GirlyGirl]]. |
| 44 | * Noelle Silva from ''Manga/BlackClover''. She's a stuck-up royal who has refined tastes and wears a dress regularly. She also becomes a powerful attack mage, eventually developing a spell to encase herself in an elegant water armor to move fast and hit hard with a spiraling lance. |
| 45 | * ''Manga/CellsAtWork'': The Macrophages are depicted as gentle, beautiful women in old-fashioned white maid outfits, and always smile and behave gracefully. They also carry huge metal cleavers and can turn most any bacterium or virus into a smear on the ground without batting an eye... or a stain on their dress. |
| 46 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': |
| 47 | ** Chi-Chi is a skilled martial artist but she also enjoys being a housewife and she likes wearing makeup. |
| 48 | ** The Universe 6 Saiyan [[Characters/DragonBallUniverse6MajorCharacters Kale]], from ''[[Anime/DragonBallSuper Super]]'', rocks the crop top, mini-skirt, lipstick, and earring attire with her occasional boxing style and petite frame. When she accesses her Super Saiyan forms, she gains a more muscular physique. |
| 49 | * In ''Anime/{{Endride}}'', Louise claims to be relieved when Alicia joins the team, saying she is sick of only hanging around men and wants a girl to talk to.[[note]]She's trying to butter Alicia up, but it's still probably true[[/note]] However, compared with Alicia's GirlNextDoor vibe, Louise is frank, energetic and the most physically powerful teammate the [[LaResistance Ignauts]] have, courtesy of her [[HalfHumanHybrid Zoozian heritage]]. |
| 50 | * ''Manga/FairyTail'': Mirajane Strauss is the guild's [[TeamMom mother figure]] who cooks and [[TheBartender serves drinks]] in the titular guild. She is also a [[MsFanservice gravure model]] and has never worn pants once in the series. She is charming and friendly, and loves to gossip with other members, especially with Lucy concerning her [[ShipTease love life]]. [[BewareTheNiceOnes When pushed to the edge]], it becomes clear why Mira holds S-Class rank in Fairy Tail as she transforms into a [[PowersViaPossession ferocious demon]] using her Satan Soul powers, which were enough to ''trash'' Freed Justine and Kamika, and even [[spoiler:demolish the Tartaros demons' respawn point]]. |
| 51 | * The titular Manga/GorgeousIrene primarily uses very feminine tools to accomplish her goals. Her makeup allows her to transform into other personalities, activate her more aggressive fighting style, and manipulate the whims of her opponents. Her false nails are even deadlier, as she can use them as projectiles. She also has a hypnotic {{Dance Battl|er}}ing technique that makes her opponents do as she desires or paralyzes them. |
| 52 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': As an adult, Hungary is a long-haired TeamMom who often wears a [[{{meido}} maid uniform]] and is a die-hard YaoiFangirl, but when she had to go into the battlefield or confronts someone getting in her nerves, [[BoisterousBruiser she's not exactly girlish]]. In fact, [[BadassAdorable she]] ''[[BadassAdorable will]]'' [[BadassAdorable kick your ass]] and more often than not, with her long hair down under her uniform hat. |
| 53 | * ''Anime/KillLaKill'': [[TheDragon Nui Harime]] [[FauxAffablyEvil speaks in a cutesy manner]], wields a pink ParasolOfPain, and has the WickedHeartSymbol on her pink earrings, the center of her pink bow, the collar of her frilly pink MinidressOfPower, and the highlights in her knee-length pigtails. She can also beat down on 3-Star Goku Uniforms and [[GigglingVillain giggles cheerfully]] while [[ReminiscingAboutYourVictims reminiscing]] about [[spoiler:[[YouKilledMyFather murdering Ryuko's father]].]] |
| 54 | * ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'': |
| 55 | ** Nanoha herself. Her outfits are uniformly feminine dresses and skirts adorned with all the frills, ribbons, and bows you could want, her [[PowerGlows mana color]] is [[PinkHeroine bright pink]], and she has a motherly and supportive personality even as a child. She's also one of the strongest mages in the franchise, has been known to ''demolish buildings'' that are in her way, and is entirely willing to unleash her firepower on her opponents if they prove unwilling to back down. |
| 56 | ** Vita is the girliest of the [[BadassFamily Wolkenritter]], which is especially emphasized during her original appearance in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs''. Her outfit is a fancy ElegantGothicLolita dress (compared to Signum's utilitarian trench coat-style outfit and Shamal's more androgynous robes), complete with a hat adorned with BunniesForCuteness. She also wields an [[CarryABigStick enormous warhammer]] as her primary weapon and fights with an aggressive style that relies on battering her opponents into submission with raw power. Later appearances downplay her girliness in favor of having her play [[CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough the Sergeant Rough to Nanoha's Captain Smooth]]. |
| 57 | ** During her original appearance in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', Vivio doesn't really count, being more "young" than "girly" and only achieving "bruiser" [[BrainwashedAndCrazy by force]]. By ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'' a few years later, though, she fits the trope to a T. She's a perfectly normal grade school girl who loves sweets, cute things, her mothers, and spending time with her friends beating the snot out of each other in "Strike Arts" tournaments -- a sport that [[KungFuWizard mixes magic and martial arts]]. And even then, her [[MagicWand Device]] takes the form of [[BunniesForCuteness a cute bunny plushie]]. |
| 58 | * In ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'', Princess Kougyoku is the youngest royal princess of TheEmpire, who wears a [[PrincessesPreferPink pink]] PimpedOutDress, has a very girly crush on the king of a foreign country, and adores making flower crowns... and kick ass with her bigger-than-her sword and/or with her Djinn Equip. |
| 59 | * ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'': Lafter Frankland is first seen painting her nails pink in the cockpit of her mobile suit, and later in that episode, she is the first person to fight [[KidHero Mikazuki]] to a draw. |
| 60 | * In ''Manga/MonsterMusume'', Tionishia is easily the most feminine member of MON, having a penchant for cute things and loving shopping for girly dresses. She also happens to be a ''seven foot five inches tall ogre'', with SuperStrength that's high even for a liminal. |
| 61 | * ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'': |
| 62 | ** Ino Yamanaka is very girly and loud but is an aggressive ActionGirl too. |
| 63 | ** Hinata Hyuga is very feminine and quiet, but she's a great and strong-willed fighter, especially in Part II. |
| 64 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 65 | ** From the third movie, ''[[Anime/Pokemon3 Spell of the Unknown]]'', the little girl Molly uses Pokémon such as Flaaffy, a cute pink sheep, and Teddiursa, a teddy bear. Thanks to the power of her dreams, they're all nigh unstoppable. |
| 66 | ** May and Dawn are Coordinators, and to be a good one you ''must'' have Pokémon that are both flashy and /elegant/cute/etc, as well as strong on the battlefield. Some Coordinator Contests ''also'' require the trainer to dress up: in such cases, May dons a belly dancer outfit and Dawn puts on a cute frilly dress... and still direct their Pokémon in battle. |
| 67 | %%** Misty from the anime has stereotypically "girly" Pokémon such as Goldeen, a white-and-pink fish with frilly-looking fins; Staryu and Starmie, starfish that have jewels in their core (the Pokémon themselves are valued as jewellery at times); and Horsea, a cute seahorse. [[CutenessProximity She also adores cute things unabashedly]], and acts as a mother figure to baby Togepi. (Elaboration on the "bruiser" part, please.) |
| 68 | * ''Anime/PrettyCure'': |
| 69 | ** ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'': Mai Mishou has a name derived from "dancing" and "beauty", and is a gentle artist. She is also a wind-based Pretty Cure capable of beating the crap out of monsters five times her size. |
| 70 | ** ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'': Itsuki Myoudouin is a girl who [[CutenessProximity adores cute things]] but has been [[{{Bifauxnen}} forcing herself to act and dress like a boy]] since her brother fell ill and she had to take over as HeirToTheDojo. She grows into this trope [[CharacterDevelopment as she comes to realize that her hobbies aren't mutually exclusive]]. |
| 71 | ** ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'': Hime, being a princess, always wears a dress, and as a Pretty Cure, she has the most feminine dance forms, that of a ballerina and a hula dancer. She starts out clumsy and fearful, but develops into a proper, powerful Cure over the course of the season. |
| 72 | ** ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'': The four Cures, Haruka, Minami, Kirara, and Towa, are all boarding school students who are taught a variety of ladylike things, such as sewing, ballet, and tea manners. As Pretty Cures, they each have a unique superpower (flowers, water, stars, and fire, respectively) that they use to defeat the forces of Dys Dark and protect the world's dreams. |
| 73 | ** ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'': [[spoiler:Kotoha]] has bright pink hair, wears dresses and flowers, loves to play, and whoops monster ass as [[spoiler:Cure Felice, the reincarnation of BigGood Mother [=RaPaPa=]]]. |
| 74 | ** ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'': Yukari is proper, if snobby, always dresses like a fashion model, and regularly claws her enemies to a pulp as Cure Macaron. |
| 75 | ** ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'': Emiru is the daughter of two very wealthy, refined artists, and always dresses in frills and ribbons. However, she's also a Pretty Cure, and with her music-based powers and teamwork with Cure Amour, keeps Criasu at bay. |
| 76 | ** ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'': Madoka is a refined pianist, floral arranger, and archer, as well as a badass Pretty Cure with a powerful bow of ice. |
| 77 | ** ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'': The gentle, flower-loving Nodoka is also the tough KickChick Cure Grace. |
| 78 | * ''Literature/ProblemChildrenAreComingFromAnotherWorldArentThey'': Asuka Kudou wears a frilly dress and hair ribbons, [[BattleBallgown because the former has an "aura of protection"]]. With her CompellingVoice, she can make you grovel at her feet. [[spoiler:Then she gains a HumongousMecha ally.]] |
| 79 | * ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': |
| 80 | ** Mami Tomoe. Who else is awesome enough to host tea parties after gunfights with witches? |
| 81 | ** Although Madoka does very little physical fighting, she can [[spoiler:save the universe]] using nothing but frilly pink gloves. [[spoiler:In the original timeline, she smites witches with pink arrows in her white and pink magical girl outfit. Then she gives her friends a hug.]] |
| 82 | * In ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' Mari Makinami, with a pathological love for pink, singing, and cutesy cat noises. With the aid of her mecha, she will cheerfully rip the occasional EldritchAbomination to shreds, score an instant headshot in a flying mecha, and at one time even single-handedly saves the remainder of humanity under circumstances that involved jumping into an abyss of several kilometers. She's a hardcore BloodKnight, the only person in the show who has ever found Eva piloting to be ''fun'', and says that the smell of LCL is her favorite in the world (in the original series, Shinji claims it smells like blood). |
| 83 | * ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': |
| 84 | ** Kurumu Kurono is very girly and flirty. But she's a powerful fighter too. Her similar mom qualifies as this too. |
| 85 | ** Yukari Sendo, who's quite bubbly and cutesy, is someone you shouldn't mess with just because she's a GirlyGirl or young. |
| 86 | ** Ruby Tojo is traditionally ladylike, but powerful too. |
| 87 | * ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': |
| 88 | %%** The Sailor Guardians. Their transformation cry is "X power ''make up''!" and their costumes are {{Sailor Fuku}}s with bows and frilly skirts. The girls themselves also like archetypically girly stuff like fashion, cooking, pop music, makeovers, romance, etc.; for example, there's a whole scene in the anime where Minako and Usagi bond over Usagi possibly getting a haircut while Minako combs Usagi's hair. (Elaboration on the "bruiser" part, please.) |
| 89 | ** Minako/Venus is boy-crazy and cheerful and her dream is being an IdolSinger. She also can use [[LightIsGood very effective light and energy-based attacks]]. Heck, one of her attacks is named "Venus Love and Beauty Shock", and it's a heart-shaped projectile that's delivered via [[KissOfDeath blowing a kiss to the enemies]]! And on top of that, [[KickChick she kicks extremely hard]]. |
| 90 | ** Michiru/Neptune is very feminine, collected, and soft-spoken. She has wavy long hair and wears flowing dresses. She has very cultured and artsy interests like classical music ([[ElegantClassicalMusician plays the violin]]), painting, and reading. She's the one with the reins in her relationship with [[ButchLesbian Haruka]] ''and'' is a powerful LadyOfBlackMagic. |
| 91 | * ''Anime/SandsOfDestruction'': Rhi'a keeps her ElegantGothicLolita motif but ups her AxCrazy, bringing her more in line with the trope. She loses it in the it in the manga, where she [[NeutralFemale forgets how to shoot]] (or even to bother to carry her guns, though she does still have [[UselessAccessory her holsters]]). |
| 92 | %%** Morte is a downplayed example. While she is still wearing her [[PinkMeansFeminine hot pink]] coat and miniskirt and still has her long hair, she's never mentioned to specifically love things which are particularly girly, and the only real reminder that she's a lady underneath is that she takes care to mind her MagicSkirt, holding it down when she's forced to sit on the ground and freaking out when it's torn. The [[AnimeFirst later-created]] [[Manga/SandsOfDestruction manga]] almost drops it all together, with her [[HotterAndSexier forgetting her modesty]]. We ''do'' later see a flashback memory of Morte [[PetTheDog cuddling with]] a PreciousPuppy and giggling with embarrassment at [[spoiler:the fact that she thought a world with talking animals would be cute]], but it seems her "girly" side and her "bruiser" side have a hard time coexisting in the manga; [[RealWomenDontWearDresses she can be one or the other, but not both at once]]. (Elaboration on the "bruiser" part, please.) |
| 93 | * ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'': Jun the Swan's Gatchaman suit features a pink minidress, white elbow-length gloves, go-go boots, and a white cape colored red on the inside. She loves fashion, shopping, and feminine-type activities. She acts sweet and kind, has a schoolgirl-like crush on TheHero, and is generally as girly as they come. She can also lay out full-grown men across the floor in a fight with relatively little effort. |
| 94 | %%* In ''Manga/SoulEater'', Liz normally serves as Kid's [[EquippableAlly weapons]] alongside her sister but she can wield one another just as easily and grew up on the streets of Brooklyn. |
| 95 | * ''Anime/SpaceDandy'': Honey is a pretty and bubbly waitress who can punch out and then powerslam you without difficulty. |
| 96 | * Mikoto Ishino in ''Anime/TomicaHyperRescueDriveHeadKidouKyuukyuuKeisatsu'' loves fashion and the color pink. She's also a competent Drive Head driver, known for being daring, and can be especially destructive when [[CombiningMecha Synchro Fused]] with the Rescue Bull Chainsaw. |
| 97 | * ''Anime/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'': The crux of Kasuga's conflict is that she doesn't think this trope is possible and she has to choose one or the other. Keima attempts to close her arc by encouraging her to become a "feminine, strong, and cute martial artist." She eventually agrees to try. [[note]]It should be noted that her feminine side fought her to a draw, and thus certainly qualifies for this trope.[[/note]] |
| 98 | * Yuzu Haragi (Zuzu Boyle in the English dub) in ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' is a kind-hearted girly girl with a hot temper and a paper fan that she will hit you with if you get on her nerves. |
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| 100 | |
| 101 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 102 | * ''Franchise/TheFlash'': Golden Glider, AKA Lisa Snart; she typically wears a pretty golden dress modelled after a figure skating outfit and uses weaponised jewelry in her capers, while also often spending fights kicking people in the face with her bladed boots. This was particularly notable during the Messner-Loeb era where she'd undergone a semi-HeelFaceTurn alongside the other Rogues, and was portrayed as a LovableAlphaBitch who nonetheless was the most violent and dangerous of the Rogues due to her unstable temper and willingness to mutilate others in a fight. |
| 103 | * ''ComicBook/{{Huntress}}'' Helena Bertinelli has a love of high fashion, has model-quality looks, and adores children. She's also a crack shot with a crossbow, a skilled motorcyclist and driver, and [[CombatPragmatist absolutely]] [[GroinAttack vicious]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in a fight]]. |
| 104 | * ''ComicBook/JillTrentScienceSleuth'' is thin and attractive, wears skirts, hats, and heels like other stylish '40s gals... and punches out bad guys with ease. |
| 105 | %%** Jill's HeterosexualLifePartner Daisy Smythe also qualifies. |
| 106 | * Creator/HarveyComics' ''ComicBook/RichieRich'': Richie's girlfriend, Gloria Glad. Most of the time, Gloria is a GirlyGirl but if challenged, she's quite happy to exchange her short skirt, blouse, and hair ribbon for trousers, shirt and helmet and go play gridiron with the boys. Her willingness to try earns her more respect than her (average at best) ability. |
| 107 | %%* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': Billy Batson's sister, Mary, when she's wielding the power of Shazam as ComicBook/MaryMarvel. |
| 108 | %% * In the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', Amy ''easily'' blocks the mace of a giant, hyper-muscled warlord whose blows normally create earthquakes, Amy flattening him in every encounter. |
| 109 | * In ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', Mary Jane Watson is a girly model[=/=]actress with self-defense training from ComicBook/CaptainAmerica himself. Do not try to put her in a DamselInDistress situation; [[DamselOutOfDistress she will]] ''[[DamselOutOfDistress end]]'' [[DamselOutOfDistress you]]. |
| 110 | * In ''ComicBook/StrikeforceMorituri'', Domenica Contreras (a.k.a. "Brava") ''embodies'' this trope. She's a seven-foot-tall, athletic Spanish beauty with flowing black hair who wears a uniform that highlights her feminine figure... and also happens to be strong enough to toss tanks around like marbles. |
| 111 | %%* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'', at least back during her magical skirt days. |
| 112 | * ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': |
| 113 | ** Glamora Treat, one of the Holliday Girls, is demure, fashion-conscious, and highly aware of any attractive males near her to the point that Diana feels uncomfortable having Glamora go on a mission with ComicBook/SteveTrevor. She also gleefully and eagerly joins on dangerous expeditions, is a crack shot with a rifle, can do a lot of damage with a club, has trained in Amazonian martial arts and loves beating up Nazis. For bonus points, she is the girly girl in a TomboyAndGirlyGirl pairing with Roberta "Bobby" Strong. |
| 114 | ** The version of Etta Candy in ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'' is a fashionista GlamorousWartimeSinger, and hasn't lost any of her spunk, shooting abilities and love of fighting from her Golden Age iteration. |
| 115 | * Honey Badger of the ''ComicBook/XMen''. Gabby is an ActionGirl with WolverineClaws and a HealingFactor who FeelsNoPain. She also painted a [[HumongousMecha Sentinel]] with flowers and rainbows, and many of her costumes incorporated both symbols. |
| 116 | [[/folder]] |
| 117 | |
| 118 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 119 | [[AC:{{Crossover}}]] |
| 120 | * In ''Fanfic/{{Heroes and Villains|Dreamsmith}}'', Buffy is fiercely protective of her beauty and will beat the living crap out of anyone who so much as smudges her makeup or musses her hair. Short skirts and high heels are required accessories, and even protective gear like goggles to protect her eyes while sparring must be stylish as well as practical. |
| 121 | * In ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'', Chloe Cerise is a girl with long maroon hair, a dress, a sweet and caring personality and a love of chocolate. She ''also'' is armed with a donut holer -- an [[PipePain L-bend steel pipe that is used to make things into donuts]] (ItMakesSenseInContext) -- which she can use to whack you across the head or use it as a baseball bat. And when pushed into a corner, will beat you senseless with a paint can all while looking like she's coated in blood. |
| 122 | * In ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'', Lily starts out as a [[NobleProfession nun]] of TheChurch, polite and soft-spoken. Highly proficient with the Church Pick, she proves to be a [[ActionGirl fighter]] just as capable as her {{Tomboy}} peer [[TheLadette Sanakan]], even rocking a long skirt all the while. |
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| 124 | [[AC:''Literature/TheHungerGames'']] |
| 125 | * In ''Fanfic/SomeSemblanceOfMeaning'', [[AlphaBitch Amber Sheen]] is highly attractive and very aware of it, enjoying flirting and wearing nice, pretty clothes. Her other hobbies include practicing her already near-flawless archery skills and, in her spare time, [[BloodKnight betting on how many arrows she can shoot into her enemies' flesh before they die]]. |
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| 127 | [[AC: ''WesternAnimation/{{Luca}}'']] |
| 128 | * ''Fanfic/TheStoryOfApolloDaphneAndLucaAnItalianTragedy'': [[ThinksLikeARomanceNovel Rosa]] is the story's resident quintessential GirlyGirl (sweet, giggly, romantic and innocent), but packs a pretty mean punch. |
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| 130 | [[AC:''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'']] |
| 131 | * ''Fanfic/TheCelestiaCode: The Luna Cypher'' features a giant battle between ponies and various monsters. Applejack naturally bulls through her enemies with brute force and takes some pride in how many she'd defeated. Until [[TheFashionista Rarity]] counters the claim ... with some backing. (They're distracted before they can resolve their Legolas/Gimli style kill dispute.) The author's justification is basically a few screenshots from Rarity's entry in Western Animation below as "just a reminder that prissy pretty ponies can also dish out some serious hurt when the occasion calls for it". |
| 132 | * Raindrops in ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'' is stronger than most earth ponies, knows martial arts, and regularly goes out and smashes rocks to gravel to burn off her anger so she won't end up crippling somepony again. She also loves romance novels, squees over the Pinkie/Bluie ship, and dresses up in a pink Princess Platinum costume for Nightmare Night. |
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| 134 | [[AC:''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'']] |
| 135 | * In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', not only is [[ThatOneBoss Whitney]] a powerful and girly gym leader, but she can physically lift people and carry them long distances. |
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| 137 | [[AC:''VideoGame/PunchOut'']] |
| 138 | * ''Fanfic/MaFille'': In the final chapters of the story, Glass Joe's daughter Katrina (the titular "fille"), who is always dressed in pink, loves cake, and likes to do her hair, enters the ring as a boxer, following in her father's footsteps. |
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| 140 | [[AC:''ComicBook/SpiderWoman'']] |
| 141 | * ''Fanfic/UltimateSpiderWoman'': Mary Jane Watson has superhuman strength, martial arts training, the ability to shoot {{Hand Blast}}s, and a variety of other powers. She's also a ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' fangirl who {{Squee}}s over Music/JustinBieber, takes pride in how good she looks in her SexySantaDress, [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals loves the teddy bear her boyfriend got her for Christmas]], enjoys [[TheFashionista shopping for fashionable clothing]] and lives for her [[AllWomenLoveShoes enormous shoe collection]]. |
| 142 | [[/folder]] |
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| 144 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 145 | * ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': Astrid is the best fighter of her entire age group, but she's also quite girly when compared to other women in her village: she wears bright red and blue clothes and favors a headband instead of the traditional [[HornyVikings helmet]], as if to show off her (almost shiny) blond hair. Fittingly, the dragon she rides is one of the most beautiful breeds, with glimmering blue scales... and a bladed tail that can shoot spearlike horns with frightening accuracy. |
| 146 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': Rapunzel reads, cooks, paints, and brushes her hair all day. She doesn't discover that she's a badass until she leaves her tower at age 18. At that point, her weapons of choice become her 70 feet of shimmering hair and a frying pan. |
| 147 | [[/folder]] |
| 148 | |
| 149 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 150 | * Creator/MoonLee made a career for herself playing this type of characters in the late 80s and early 90s, in multiple GirlsWithGuns films and action movies, where she's often portrayed as a feminine lady who can actually kick sixteen shades of ass when she needs to. |
| 151 | * ''Film/MissMeadows'': Miss M is always dressed in a vintage dress and gloves. She carries a purse and maintains impeccable old-fashioned proper manners. Nonetheless, she's also a vigilante, carrying a gun in her purse that she's quite good at using on criminals. |
| 152 | * ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002'': Daphne is a [[TheFashionista fashionista]] who [[UnlimitedWardrobe never wears the same outfit twice]] and cares greatly about her appearance. She is also the most formidable member of Mystery Inc. when it comes to hand-to-hand combat, becoming a black belt while separated from Mystery Inc. |
| 153 | * ''Film/{{Thunderbirds}}'': Creator/SophiaMyles's portrayal of Lady Penelope fits this. She is a [[ProperLady prim and proper member of the British aristocracy]] that wears nothing but bright pink. Then when she finds the villains on Tracy Island she proceeds to show off her martial arts skills and wipe the floor with them. She does this while wearing her pink high heels and uses her parasol too. |
| 154 | * ''Film/TheWolverine'': Mariko Yashida is a capable ActionGirl and a very feminine YamatoNadeshiko. |
| 155 | [[/folder]] |
| 156 | |
| 157 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 158 | * In ''Literature/AlongTheWindingRoad'', Charlotte is a zombie hunter who loves shoe shopping, flirting with boys, and polishing her rifle. |
| 159 | * ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Rachel is a [[ActionFashionista glamorous blonde shopaholic who will eagerly morph into a grizzly bear to fight]]. She's described as being so glamorous it's like she has her own personal spotlight, and manages to look beautiful even when CoveredInGunge. She also goes from someone who loves a good scrap to scaring everyone, ''especially herself'', with the extent her BloodKnight tendencies can take her to as the series goes on and the team becomes more war-weary. |
| 160 | * ''Literature/BeastTamer'': Kanade's outfit of choice is a dress with ruffled sleeves and ribbons in her hair at the base of her ears. This more feminine appearance, and generally cheerful personality when compared to others like the thrill seeking Tania, obscures the fact she is her group's physical powerhouse and a solid martial artist. |
| 161 | * In ''Literature/BrimstoneAngels'', Havilar enjoys wearing frilly and/or revealing outfits, ogling cute boys, and brutally handing bad guys their backsides with her glaive. WordOfGod explicitly describes her as a silly, somewhat vain teenage girl -- who is also very, very good with a deadly polearm. |
| 162 | * In ''Literature/DeadFamous'' by Creator/BenElton, Dervla Nolan is beautiful, elegant, ladylike, caring, and almost all the male housemates are attracted to her -- but she reveals herself to be a kickboxing champion who breaks Garry's nose by kicking him in the face. |
| 163 | * In the last arc of the ''Literature/{{Emberverse}}'', Heuradys d'Ath, champion and right-hand woman of future High Queen Orlaith, is perhaps the best knight in the kingdom. Tending to be a bit of a dandy even on a mission, where she typically wears men's garb for convenience, off-duty she likes nothing better than dressing in elaborate, high-fashion gowns to go dancing. Takes after her two mothers: her biological mom Delia is TheFashionista, while "Mom Two" Tiphaine is a [[MasterSwordsman legendary swordswoman]]. |
| 164 | %%* Sophronia and Monique in Gail Carringer's ''Literature/TheFinishingSchoolSeries''. Monique rather more than Sophronia. |
| 165 | * ''Literature/InCryptid'': Verity Price balances her two lives, ballroom dancing and secret warrior-scientist ([[TripleShifter she also works as a waitress to make a living]]). She also dresses much girlier than her sister Antimony. |
| 166 | * ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Hailey Heleti is an elegant noble who is fond of dancing, flirting, and fashion. The dancing influences her fighting style and she has special hunting outfits for spearing plague wolves. In a fist-fight she and [[{{Tomboy}} Tiza are evenly matched]]. |
| 167 | * ''Literature/AMasterOfDjinn'': Siti loves to wear beautiful dresses, [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery fighting while in them]] too with her [[WolverineClaws silver claws]]. |
| 168 | * In ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'', Vin becomes a girly bruiser over the course of the first book, then winds up rejecting girliness in much of the second, and ends up settling on LadyOfWar in the third. |
| 169 | * Lucy from ''Literature/{{Pale}}'' has pink and red colour motifs, engages in the most feminine of hobbies compared to her two friends and fellow witches, and ends up as the witch who fights and duels the most. |
| 170 | * ''Literature/TalesOfAnMazingGirl'': Sarah has a pet kitten named "Super Skittles". She can also lift up the Chrysler Building. |
| 171 | * Alice and Rosalie from ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' love fashion and shopping, but are powerful fighters. |
| 172 | * Mina of ''Literature/UncommonAnimals'' loves [[AllWomenLoveShoes shoes]], [[TheFashionista clothes]], and decorating The House. Short, and thin, with pointed features, she looks younger than her late twenties. When fighting as [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent a human]], she will use [[CombatPragmatist her fists, her speed, and whatever is lying around handy to beat you until you stop moving]]. |
| 173 | * ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' has a number of examples: |
| 174 | ** Sergeant Taura is a giant bioengineered SuperSoldier who likes makeup, pretty clothes, and the color pink. She's a very nice girl when she isn't being ''terrifying''. |
| 175 | ** Ludmilla "Drou" Koudelka (née Droushnakovi) is a female bodyguard for the Barayarran Imperial family. She can pass as a decorative hanger-on to the women she protects, but she can take on and beat most of the male soldiers she works alongside. |
| 176 | %%** Drou later taught armed and unarmed combat to her four daughters. |
| 177 | * In ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' saga, Ciri is the girly half of her TomboyAndGirlyGirl duo with Mistle. However, it is Ciri who is the deadliest fighter in their entire gang thanks to her training with the eponymous Witchers. |
| 178 | [[/folder]] |
| 179 | |
| 180 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 181 | * Penny from ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' is an attractive, outgoing, and quite boy-crazy aspiring actress. However, she's incredibly strong for a woman and way more capable of handling herself on a physical level than any of the guys on the show. |
| 182 | ** In one episode she breaks Howard's nose with just one punch. |
| 183 | ** She punches Sheldon pretty good in another as well. |
| 184 | ** When Leonard and Sheldon's apartment is broken into Penny wishes she had been there, because she would have gone Nebraska on their ass. |
| 185 | ** Another example is when Sheldon's ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' account gets hacked. Penny eventually shows up and kicks the thief in the groin. |
| 186 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 187 | ** Buffy herself is incredibly girly in the first season and her appearance was even tweaked to look more like a ValleyGirl. She defeated a BigBad (The Master himself!) while wearing an evening gown and spends her time cheerleading, dancing, and boy chasing whenever she's not slaying vampires. WordOfGod states that she was created to exist as a defiance of weak feminine characters. Her girliness mellows out after season one and (especially) after she graduates high school. Even during the first season, some aspects (like the cheerleading) drop away very quickly. |
| 188 | ** [[LipstickLesbian Willow and Tara]] [[TookALevelInBadass take a level in badass]] over the course of the show but remain girly. They're witches and this is a show where LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards is in effect. |
| 189 | ** While Cordelia [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] on ''Buffy'', she legitimately became this on ''Series/{{Angel}}'' through some serious [[CharacterDevelopment character development]]. It's a similar case to Buffy but minus the super slayer powers. |
| 190 | ** OneShotCharacter Candy Gorch is a decently tough vampire who nearly defeats Buffy in a fight and wears a pink feather boa and purple clothes. |
| 191 | * All of the Charmed Ones from ''Series/Charmed1998'' ones are this, likely due to being normal women for twenty-plus years before becoming badass witches. All do stereotypically feminine things and are seen wearing the latest fashions every week -- most of the time while fighting their enemies. |
| 192 | * ''Series/CornerGas'': Emma Leroy is an old lady with standard old lady hobbies like knitting and gardening, but also has borderline inhuman strength and a fairly short temper. ''Nobody'' ever wants to be on Emma's bad side. |
| 193 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': While Clara Oswald is more of a pacifist most of the time, whenever she's pressed into mustering up her fighting spirit, she ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes really delivers]]'', all the while being her dorky, cute, [[PluckyComicRelief often goofy]] [[BadassAdorable self]]. |
| 194 | * ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'': |
| 195 | ** Nico Saiba is an amalgam of '90s fashion and an incredibly nasty GenkiGirl. Even her room is painfully colorful. She fights [[MonsterOfTheWeek Bugsters]] as [[LethalJokeCharacter Rider Player Nico]] and manhandles people who annoy her. |
| 196 | ** Poppy Pipopapo, {{Keet}} mascot of rhythm game dressed in pastel yellow shirt and pixel skirt that loves singing and having fun with her friends. When she debuted as Kamen Rider Poppy, she was among the four most powerful riders in the story. |
| 197 | * In a ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'' episode, Lizzie worries that being a great football player who can rough it up with the guys will stop them from thinking she's feminine. The BrawnHilda of a coach then reveals that she is a GirlyGirl at heart and likes to sew her own dresses (which are bright pink) and go swing dancing at the weekends. |
| 198 | * ''Series/Merlin2008'': At the end of season four, Guinevere helps win back Camelot, all while wearing a shirt embroidered with flowers. |
| 199 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Snow White is a princess, and (usually) dresses as such, but [[BewareTheNiceOnes do not underestimate her]]. |
| 200 | * ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': |
| 201 | ** Kimberly of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' often wears such girly outfits as a pink dress and jewelry and beats up putties in them. Before becoming a ranger, she was a gymnast. She has taken out more monsters singlehandedly than anyone in the team if we don't count Tommy's ''[[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]]'' return. |
| 202 | ** Kat, Kim's successor as well the Pink Ranger from ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' and later ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'', is a gymnast, swimmer, and ballet dancer. Her flexibility comes in very handy in battle. |
| 203 | ** Ashley Hammond from ''Turbo'' and ''[[Series/PowerRangersInSpace In Space]]'' is a cheerleader and aspiring fashion designer, yet also took auto shop and fights in a tiny miniskirt. |
| 204 | ** Syd from ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'', a wealthy socialite who loves shopping and is the GirlyGirl of the TomboyAndGirlyGirl duo she makes up with Z (who is similar to Vida). She will kick your ass and make it look like she's having fun doing it. |
| 205 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'': Zigzagged with Vida. She is initially shown to be very brash and hates the color pink. However, she does not have a problem with skirts as casual wear or showing a softer side, and embraces her ability to sprout fairy wings. |
| 206 | %%*** Vida's sister Maddie qualifies as a straight example of this trope, being the girly girl to Vida's tomboy. |
| 207 | ** Summer Landsdown from ''[[Series/PowerRangersRPM RPM]]'' used to be this. As a RichBitch she was still trained in karate but now as the Yellow Ranger, her girliness is de-emphasized. |
| 208 | ** In ''[[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Megaforce]]'', Gosei chose Emma for two reasons; 1.) kind-hearted NatureHero and 2.) BMX biker. |
| 209 | %%* All the ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' are this at different times. Some notable moments are Spencer in the 2B finale, Emily in the 3A finale and 7A finale, Aria in the 4A finale and 5A premier, Hanna in the season 4 finale and 7A finale. Mona is Girly by day Bruiser by hoodie. Technically Emily is the {{Action Girl}} but by any other show's standards would be considered feminine. |
| 210 | * ''Series/{{Psych}}'': |
| 211 | ** Jules O'Hara counts as one, being an upbeat woman with a smile on her face and demeanor who is still a formidable cop and partner to Head Detective Lassiter. |
| 212 | ** In the final season, we also see EleventhHourRanger Betsy Brannigan. She's a chipper woman who loves knitting, especially clothes for her nephew, and also quite the badass who is similar to Lassiter (down to preference of the same gun). |
| 213 | * ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' has Kara Kent - beauty queen and superhero. |
| 214 | * ''Series/Supergirl2015'': Kara Danvers is one of the more feminine female characters in the cast as she adores cute animals and cat videos, was a fan of boy bands like Music/{{NSync}} as a teenager, and enjoys romantic comedies. She's also very cheerful and outgoing, and is very much a CuddleBug. Her wardrobe also frequently includes a lot of pastel colors and skirts. And of course, being Kryptonian, she is basically the strongest person on Earth and can pack quite the punch in fights. |
| 215 | * ''Franchise/SuperSentai'': |
| 216 | ** Kotoha from ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' is a cute, retiring [[ThePollyanna pollyanna]] who is associated with the [[DishingOutDirt earth element]]. Especially when contrasted with Shinken Pink Mako, who leans more to the LadyOfWar. ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'', being a ShotForShotRemake of Shinkenger, means the same goes for Emily. |
| 217 | ** While Ahim aka Gokai Pink from ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' normally goes GunsAkimbo she is in her Gokaiger form, when untransformed she is just as willing to kick your ass when she feels appropriate and is quite willing to mix it up by getting in close when using Ranger keys with more close combat-oriented powers such as [[Series/DenshiSentaiDenziman Denzi Pink]]. And she happens to be the girliest Ranger in franchise history; a princess from a world destroyed by the villains pre-series, wearing a pink dress most of the time and being [[FormalCharactersUseKeigo extremely formal and polite]] even when informing you that if you do not back off, ass-kicking shall commence. |
| 218 | * ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'': Caroline the LovableAlphaBitch is easily the most feminine of the three main girls, but also a lot stronger and tougher than she looks, especially after she turns into a vampire and [[TookALevelInBadass Takes a Level in Badass]]. |
| 219 | * ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': Of the girls in the main group, Trina fits the stereotype of a girly girl most closely. However, she's been shown to not only be the strongest but also have some martial arts training. |
| 220 | * ''Series/WonderWoman'': Princess Diana. For example, in "Beauty on Parade", Wonder Woman is JustInTime to save multiple military generals and Major Steve Trevor by throwing a telephone pole at the bad guys and catching fired bazooka shells out of the air. Then she wins the [[BeautyContest Miss G.I. Dream Girl 1942 beauty pageant]]. It doesn't get much girlier or bruisier than that! |
| 221 | [[/folder]] |
| 222 | |
| 223 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 224 | * In "Good to Be a Girl" by Music/TriciaBrock, the singer compares herself to ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' and [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery fights in heels and a dress]], yet also loves makeup and has an army of [[PinkMeansFeminine women in pink]]. |
| 225 | [[/folder]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 228 | * The majority of the Actress Girl'Z roster, who are promoted in such a way to make even JD Star look hardcore and serious while still doing enough to emphasize they can and will bruise you up if you're bounced atop Ozaki Maika's shoulders or under Nishima Eimi's fist. They quickly caught the attention of and entered a joint project with JD Star's official SpiritualSuccessor, World Wonder Ring STARDOM. |
| 229 | * The Australian Pink Ladies; Madison Eagles is partial to polka dot skirts and [[Wrestling/BillieKay Jessie McKay]] wears tights with holes in them cut to resemble lips with glitter simulating lipstick. Eagle's is also partial to putting people through chairs and tables, while [=McKay=] has more of an affinity for technical wrestling but does favor a yakuza kick. |
| 230 | * One of Wrestling/BlackRose's most prized possessions is her hair iron. She'll endure chair shots but complain loudly to the referee if anyone pulls her extensions. She'll go into street fights and [[NoHoldsBarredContest super libres]] in skirts and dresses. |
| 231 | * [[Wrestling/AjaKong Erica]] in Future of Wrestling. Wrestling/FightingOperaHustle gave her flowers to hand out, heart stamps on her cheeks, and an equally girlish tag team partner, [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Margaret]]. These women gave Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys a run for their money. |
| 232 | * Estrellita, a wisp of a luchadora who began as a ''Manga/SailorMoon'' {{expy}} and later incorporated Britney Spears into {{the gimmick}}, took on a more physically aggressive style and noticeably bulked up during her runs in Wrestling/{{CMLL}} and REINA. But after initially dropping the MoonSpears look in PDM she took it back up following a HeelFaceTurn in the formerly mentioned promotions. |
| 233 | * Hailey Hatred described two of her joys as getting into brawls while sore and playing Barbie pony games while the rest of her family was asleep, adding that the latter was [[SelfDeprecation nothing a twenty-year-old woman should be doing]]. |
| 234 | * La Morena, equally queen of fashion and violence. |
| 235 | * Wrestling/NatalyaNeidhart has always worn pink and wears more pink than any other Diva on WWE's active roster (pink and black are her family's colours) yet it doesn't make her any less of a badass. She's like this in real life too as a glance at her numerous tweets about shoe shopping will tell. |
| 236 | * Yoshimoto Women's Pro Wrestling Jd' was subtitled "Beauty Athlete" after the 1996 series of events that same year and soon became known for living up to it, promoting the looks of wrestlers as almost as much as their athleticism. Still, the promotion was a vehicle to push Jaguar Yokota, who had been forced to retire from [[Wrestling/{{AllJapanWomensProWrestling}} Zenjo]] after turning 25, and spent much of that push feuding with The Bloody, [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep who did exactly that]]. When the title belts of powerful gaijins Wrestling/LunaVachon, Wrestling/MercedesMartinez, and Lola González were desired, the wrestlers sent to their promotions to take them were pink-plastered Emi Motokawa, who previously migrated to the [[GarbageWrestler fearsome]] IWA Japan; an exotica [[NewMeat from their own dojo]] named Wrestling/SumieSakai -- [[LetsGetDangerous who also loved the violence of IWA Japan]] -- and Wrestling/LionessAsuka of the legendary Crush Gals ([[InformedAttribute who wasn't actually girly]] but trained the girly two before their departures). The "girlishness" was kicked up a notch in 2001 when Yokota left and the JD Star "athtress" program started with the goal of finding girls of model quality who would get acting careers after wrestling training. "Athtress" was largely unsuccessful but did produce Yumi Ohka, who would become TheAce and first double champion of WAVE, and Ohka's [[OlderHeroVersusYoungerVillain younger]] rival Misaki Ohata, princess of submissions. |
| 237 | [[/folder]] |
| 238 | |
| 239 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 240 | * An optional rule in the ''TabletopGame/LegendOfTheFiveRings'' roleplaying game is for female samurai to have a social expectation on them to make up for spending some of their time doing manly things like hitting people with swords, they are required to be almost ridiculously demure and feminine when "off duty". |
| 241 | [[/folder]] |
| 242 | |
| 243 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 244 | * ''VideoGame/ArTonelicoQogaKnellOfArCiel'': [[spoiler:Mute]] acts like a HouseWife in Phase 4 and goes on to [[spoiler:put Raphael into a paralyzing bear hug]]. |
| 245 | %%** Clustanian reyvateils in general --they're front line soldiers. |
| 246 | %%* ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'': |
| 247 | %%** Kasumi |
| 248 | %%** Lei Fang |
| 249 | %%** Helena |
| 250 | %%** Tina |
| 251 | %%** Honoka |
| 252 | %%** Marie Rose |
| 253 | %%** Nyotengu |
| 254 | * Leliana of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is vocal about her love of [[AllWomenLoveShoes shoes]], dresses, music, and cute animals. She's also very good with a bow and arrow or a set of knives. Oh, and [[spoiler:she used to be a professional spy and assassin]]. |
| 255 | * Veronica Santangelo in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' is a Brotherhood of Steel journeyman scribe and player companion who prefers to fight by punching with her PowerFist, and her goal is to find a nice dress in the post-apocalyptic Mojave Wasteland where she lives. |
| 256 | * In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', Jason tells you that the [[MusclesAreMeaningless waif-thin]] [[GenderFlip Pollux]] was the best among the Argonauts at boxing. This is despite the fact that ''[[TheAce Heracles]]'' was among the crew. It's well deserved though; Jason is referencing a mythical boxing match that ended on the first blow when Pollux killed King Amykos of Bithynia by punching him in the ''elbow'' of all things. |
| 257 | ** Goddess of justice Astraea's pseudo-Servant avatar is the wrestling maniac Luvia Edelfelt, who has a [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery blue-and-gold silk gown]] and [[OjouRinglets perfectly curled hair]] down to her ankles, and judges the unworthy with a German suplex in her Noble Phantasm attack. |
| 258 | ** Saint Martha, who spent most of her appearances in the Bible worried about providing SacredHospitality to Christ Himself, is nicknamed "Punch Saint" in her summer swimsuit Ruler form and pairs her cute, ruffled bikini with a set of brass knuckles. Also, she apparently tamed the Tarasque not through prayer alone, but also by beating it down despite Tarasque having scales of stone. |
| 259 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 260 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'''s Tifa seems to be the [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Tomboy to Aerith's Girly Girl]], but is actually a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak, having good domestic skills; being a TeamMom; showing gentleness to Cloud, the man she loves; and dreaming of a DamselInDistress fantasy, despite being an ActionGirl who can take care of herself. She's a BareFistedMonk who's one of the physically strongest characters in the party, and capable of beating up enemies like giant robots and mutated monsters. Inversely, Aerith acts a lot more tomboyish, seductive, and is keen on handling things with a direct approach despite being the white mage of the game. It's even reflected with half her weapons being metal staffs used for bludgeoning rather than wizard staves. |
| 261 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'''s battle system revolves around changing into different outfits to gain new powers. The arch-rival [=LeBlanc=] wears a pink outfit and has a steel fan as a weapon. One of her attacks is even called "Love Tap". |
| 262 | * ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': |
| 263 | ** Cherche from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' is a charming, pink-haired young woman in her early 20s (presumably) who enjoys cooking and sewing. She has a calm and serene personality, a beautiful smile, and always carries herself with grace and dignity. Even when she's tearing enemies apart with her axe while riding on a big-ass wyvern. What a lovely lady! |
| 264 | ** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'': |
| 265 | *** Subverted with Charlotte. She looks like a delicate flower who is capable of cutting people in half with a battle axe, but it's all an act. She was bullied as a child for being a {{Tomboy}}, and only acts like a lady because that's what society expects of her. For example, she uses the axe because it's very unladylike to [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon beat people to death with your bare hands]]. |
| 266 | *** Played very straight with Oboro, an ActionFashionista who loves clothes and shopping and is also a top contender for the title of most dangerous soldier in the Hoshidan army short of the royals themselves. |
| 267 | ** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' has Hilda, a self-proclaimed "delicate flower" with a love of fashion and making accessories. She's also (much to her chagrin, as she'd rather be off the front lines) one of the game's strongest physical fighters. |
| 268 | * Cindy from ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten|2017}}'' is a little girl in a pink dress and GirlishPigtails who enjoys playing house, loves her pet dog Biscuit, and rewards the protagonist with a pink flower for being a good boyfriend. As for the bruiser part, while she usually prefers to have her boyfriends do her dirty work for her, she's potentially lethal if she ''does'' decide to get physical, as can be seen when she stabs the protagonist in the head [[DisproportionateRetribution if he doesn't play house well enough]] and when she [[spoiler:bites the janitor's ear off and then rips his head off]] if she finds out that [[spoiler:he killed her dog and used its flesh for his "Biscuit Balls"]]. |
| 269 | * ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': In ''III'' the headstrong [[Characters/KingdomHeartsKairi Kairi]] is at her most action oriented (particularly in ''Re:Mind''), and is decked out in a frilly pink dress with a feminine bobbed haircut and a Keyblade with the teeth made from a bouquet of flowers. She also has the most offense-oriented combat style of the trio, capable of performing a corkscrew-spinning ground-to-air combo effective for stunning foes, chaining heavy hits, and being strong enough to completely ''disperse'' Xemnas's Ethereal Blades (which had just blocked and deflected [[TheHero Sora]], [[PurposefullyOverpowered Roxas]], and [[ActionGirl Xion]] moments before he tried to do the same to Kairi) and put him on the defensive for several seconds before he is able to trap her with Nothingness and drain her energy. And later on we have her joining Sora in fighting Master Xehanort, a battle in which she can be the playable character. |
| 270 | %%* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': |
| 271 | %%** [[CuteBruiser Athena Asamiya]] |
| 272 | %%** [[DanceBattler Momoko]] |
| 273 | %%** [[MsFanservice Mai Shiranui]] |
| 274 | %%** [[GlacierWaif Hinako Shijou]]. |
| 275 | * ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has Gwen the Hallowed Seamstress, a chipper and whimsical young lady dressed in an ElegantGothicLolita dress, formerly an actual doll [[HumanityEnsues that was mysteriously turned into a human]] by [[ThePowerOfLove the power of her creator's love.]] She's also a committed fighter who wants to rid the world of [[ZombieApocalypse the Black Mist]], and wields a magically empowered version of [[ShearMenace her creator's scissors]] to shred her enemies to pieces. In gameplay, she's by far the cutest [[CloseRangeCombatant "skirmisher"]], and not only is she able to survive in extended teamfights, but ''encouraged'' to thanks to her ability to [[LifeDrain siphon enemy health]] and create fields of NighInvulnerability for herself. |
| 276 | * ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw'' has Juliet Starling, a cheerleader with the aftermentioned chainsaw used for killing zombies. |
| 277 | * ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'': |
| 278 | ** The trope image is Charlotte Birkin, AKA "Bad Girl", but she's an odd, mixed example that edges on TheLadette. Despite her fondness for pink and frilly fashion, she's a [[SirSwearsALot foul-mouthed]], [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl beer-swigging]], [[AxCrazy murderous psychopath]] who uses a [[BatterUp baseball bat]], and fights with [[MusclesAreMeaningless improbable strength]] and brutal cunning. She's also the #2 assassin in the game, and canonically the person who comes closest to actually ''killing'' Travis by [[spoiler:[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown repeatedly bashing Travis' skull]] [[TakingYouWithMe in her dying moments]]]]. |
| 279 | ** Shinobu Jacobs, with her [[{{Joshikousei}} schoolgirl uniform]] (later swapped out for a MinidressOfPower), numerous fashionable trinkets, and astounding talent with a katana. |
| 280 | * ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'', in addition to the return of Shinobu [[PromotedToPlayable as a playable character]]: |
| 281 | ** Kimmy Howell, from is a cheerful, bubbly schoolgirl with GirlishPigtails and a recorder that turns into a double-bladed beam katana. She's also an AffablyEvil professional killer, and a {{fangirl}} of the protagonist... in the most completely {{yandere}} way possible. |
| 282 | ** Margaret Moonlight has a distinct [[ElegantGothicLolita Gothic Lolita]] fashion, and unlike Bad Girl, her demeanor more or less matches the style. She also has a pair of Gothic Lolita themed ''anti-material rifles'', with scythe bayonets. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNM5mFQ9siI And a hell of a singing voice]] she uses [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to taunt Travis]]. |
| 283 | * ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'': |
| 284 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona3'': Yukari Takeba is a fashionista who is good at cooking and loves both the color pink and sweets, but she's also a skilled athlete who kicks Shadow ass on a regular basis. |
| 285 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona4'': Yukiko Amagi is sweet, well-mannered, often dresses in traditionally "feminine" clothing, and overall is the [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Girly Girl to her best friend Chie's Tomboy]]. She is also not someone you would want as your enemy: In the TV World, she possesses high-level fire magic (though this tends to take a back seat to her being TheMedic), while in the real world, she shows herself to be fairly badass when handling a sleazy reporter who is threatening her family's inn (although without resorting to violence in this particular case). |
| 286 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Haru Okumura is an elegant, refined heiress who's [[NiceGirl one of the most genuinely kind characters]] you'll meet in the entire game, but in the Metaverse, she's a sadistic BloodKnight who wields axes and grenade launchers. |
| 287 | * Champion Iris in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' wears a frilly dress, has a starry rainbow battle theme, does a pretend roar when you challenge her... and then sends out a Hydreigon, which is a huge dragon with three heads. |
| 288 | * ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' |
| 289 | ** Claire Redfield is the most feminine playable protagonist in the early games. She's fond of {{pink| is feminine}}, [[MamaBear motherly]], openly emotional, averse to {{spiders| are scary}} and cockroaches, and [[LongHairIsFeminine has longer hair]] than most of the other female characters in the franchise. She even has a scene in [[Videogame/ResidentEvil2Remake the second game's remake]] where she has a ''very'' GirlyRun. |
| 290 | ** Ada Wong to a lesser degree. She has shorter hair and a deeper voice than Claire, and doesn't have typically feminine mannerisms. However, in ''Videogame/ResidentEvil4'', she wears a red evening dress throughout the whole game, and is animated with a GirlyRun. She's also fond of wearing CombatStilettos in each game she appears in. |
| 291 | * Invoked in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird''. Female Voice 1 for the Boss can say stereotypically feminine things such as [[IBrokeANail complaining about chipped nails]], and there's nothing stopping you from kicking massive amounts of arse while wearing makeup, a skirt, and heels. [[WholesomeCrossdresser Even if you're a guy.]] |
| 292 | * ''VideoGame/SandsOfDestruction'': |
| 293 | ** Morte enjoys [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]] sparkly dresses, [[{{BFS}} oversized swords]], [[AllWomenLoveShoes high-heeled boots]], and StuffBlowingUp - not necessarily in that order. An optional SideQuest has her running into various Feral women who want to [[TheFashionista trade the latest popular clothes with her]]. She also has [[LongHairIsFeminine waist-length hair]] and is extremely insulted when [[LikeBrotherAndSister Agan]] insinuates that she isn't feminine. |
| 294 | ** Rhi'a counts a bit as well, as though she may not be the BloodKnight Morte is, she's still a capable ActionGirl with a refined ElegantGothicLolita aesthetic. |
| 295 | * Amy Rose from ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' is an adorable [[PinkIsFeminine pink]] hedgehog in a cute red dress who's ladylike and has a rather childish crush on TheHero and also carries a hammer that makes cute little tapping noises when it hits, creating bubbles of [[PowerOfLove heart-shaped magic]] in some incarnations. Said hammer, when wielded by Amy, has always been wielded like nobody's business, and has also repeatedly reduced gigantic, deadly battle robots to scrap metal. |
| 296 | * ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' has Ibuki, who seeks romance, decorates her clothes with Tanuki-themed accessories, and is capable of beating 8-foot men in hand-to-hand combat while still keeping her GenkiGirl personality. |
| 297 | * ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'': |
| 298 | ** Lili de Rochefort, who maintains her elegant poise as she dispatches foes multiple times her size in her beautiful white dress and fancy shoes. She's also got [[LesYay quite a bit of interest]] in her tomboy rival, Asuka. |
| 299 | ** While her sister Nina tends to prefer catsuits, Anna Williams typically fights in fancy cocktail dresses and CombatStilettos. |
| 300 | ** Josie Rizal is a feminine and crybaby GenkiGirl that dresses in fancy and feminine clothes, yet she's also a trained kickboxer with brutal and painful-looking moves. |
| 301 | %%** Ling Xiaoyu is a GenkiGirl who loves amusement parks and anything cute and whose best friend is a giant panda. Yes, she has her share of pink outfits. |
| 302 | %%** Michelle and Julia Chang are more softened versions of the trope, being badass versions of CloserToEarth. |
| 303 | * ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' is famous for frilly-dressed girls able to kick ass. Yukari is an example, favoring dresses while boasting some very powerful abilities, such as BulletHell by the series' standards. |
| 304 | * The protagonist of ''VideoGame/TormentedSouls'' is Caroline Walker, a young woman who dresses like a biker chick and moves with a sultry SupermodelStrut, but this doesn't mean she isn't a badass. Whether it is bashing a mutant's braincase in with a crowbar, fighting off madmen with an improvised shotgun, or [[spoiler:cutting her own eye out for a BorrowedBiometricBypass.]] |
| 305 | * The ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'' has Anelace Elfead from [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky the Sky trilogy]]. She's a GirlyGirl with a major sense of CutenessProximity who loves shopping, fashion, and stuffed animals... but she's also a skilled Eight Leaves One Blade user like [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Rean Schwarzer]], the protagonist of the Cold Steel games. In fact, her grandfather ''invented'' the style. |
| 306 | * In ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter'', Eileen is a teenage girl who amps up her cuteness by utilizing Monkey Kung Fu, complete with monkey-like gestures and hopping. |
| 307 | [[/folder]] |
| 308 | |
| 309 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 310 | * When she has the freedom to really be herself, Jaehee Kang from ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger'' dresses very femininely, choosing to grow her hair out and wear clothes with gemstones and ruffles. She's also a black belt in judo. |
| 311 | [[/folder]] |
| 312 | |
| 313 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 314 | * ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': |
| 315 | ** Nora Valkyrie is an extremely [[GenkiGirl excitable and energetic]] girl who is physically powerful and fights with a giant warhammer that can transform into a grenade launcher. She favours wearing pink skirts into battle and adorning herself with heart designs. Her ammunition tends to release pink smoke trails and, when she fires a full round of six grenades from her weapon, they form a heart design in the air before exploding into their target. Her [[FairyTaleMotifs inspiration]] is the [[Myth/NorseMythology Norse God Thor]], but from the story where he is forced to disguise himself as Frejya, the Norse Goddess of war and love, to reclaim his stolen warhammer. |
| 316 | ** Coco Adel is a very fashion-conscious girl, who takes great pride in her appearance and is always seen with a large, but fashionable, bag. When Creatures of Grimm attack the city, she complains that they destroyed her favourite clothing store before destroying everything in her path with the [[GatlingGood huge mini-gun]] that her bag transforms into. During the Vytal Festival tournament, she pauses to compliment her opponent, Emerald Sustrai, on her appearance. However, when Emerald destroys Coco's sunglasses during the fight, Coco's opinion of her changes for the worse. |
| 317 | [[/folder]] |
| 318 | |
| 319 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 320 | * In ''Webcomic/AgentsOfTheRealm'', both Kendall and Adele are very girlish, with plenty of make-up and cool clothes, but excellent fighters nevertheless. |
| 321 | * [[spoiler:Zola]] of ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' may like to dress in pink and frills, but she's also highly trained in the ways of the smoke and is a ''very'' formidable and dangerous opponent once she drops her mask of innocence and picks up a weapon. ''None'' of the protagonists stand a chance against her on their own, or even in most groupings. |
| 322 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': |
| 323 | ** Rose Lalonde is an elegant, sophisticated 13-year-old girl with a love for knitting and the color violet. She's incidentally also an [[BlackMagicianGirl eldritch sorceress]] channeling the power of the [[EldritchAbomination Noble Circle of Horrorterrors]]. In her very first battle, she uses [[ImprobableWeaponUser a pair of knitting needles]] to kill an [[GiantMook Ogre]] by [[EyeScream gouging its eyes out]] and then choking it with knitting thread. |
| 324 | ** Kanaya Maryam is a [[TeamMom motherly]], fussy LipstickLesbian who [[TheFashionista loves designing clothes]] and reading [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga trashy rainbowdrinker novels]]. She wields a lipstick as a weapon. By the way, this lipstick [[MorphWeapon can transform]] into a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]]. [[GirlWithPsychoWeapon She has bisected at least two people]] and gutted a [[HiveQueen Virgin Mother Grub]] with it... while staying perfectly elegant and feminine. |
| 325 | ** Jade Harley is an adorable, girly BespectacledCutie with a love for gardening and [[ShowWithinAShow the Squiddles]] (the comic's version of My Little Pony). She's also an expert sharpshooter who has been learning marksmanship literally from infancy, has the balls to shoot at [[HeroKiller Jack Noir]] with an assault rifle, and later on becomes [[spoiler:a nigh-omnipotent RealityWarper. At one point, she juggles planets and drives a spaceship through the fourth wall.]] |
| 326 | ** Jane Crocker, who, despite her penchant for [[WholesomeCrossdresser crossdressing]], is rather traditionally feminine, liking to bake cakes and fawning over [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Jake]], whom she perceives as a very masculine GentlemanAdventurer. That doesn't stop her from constantly evading assassination attempts set up by [[spoiler:the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Empress of Alternia]] herself]], and later slaying almost unkillable skeletal {{Mooks}} using an enormous fork as a weapon. |
| 327 | * Played with by {{Moe}} the ninja in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob''. She became a ninja because it was the family business and certainly can kick butt... but never particularly wanted to ninja for a living and seems to enjoy girly stuff like pretty dresses and cooking. |
| 328 | * ''Webcomic/KarabearComicsUnlimited'': Sparkle is a super-girly woman, who is also built like the Hulk. |
| 329 | * Bia of ''Webcomic/NotDrunkEnough'' may flounce around in a cute dress and be the most petite member of the team, but Lord knows she can beat the daylights out of a monster when necessary. |
| 330 | * {{Webcomic/Realmwalker}} has Sigrun- a girly girl Valkyrie who loves pastel pink almost as much as she loves her viking battleaxe- and Freya, the literal goddess of love and beauty, who's always either picking fights or up for a fight. |
| 331 | * Haley Starshine from ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' is fashion-conscious, romantic, giggly, loves shiny things, and being mistaken for a boy makes her decide "some flaunting [of her body] is in order." She also can take out 22 hobgoblins in one engagement using nothing but her longbow and 3 arrows, which TokenEvilTeammate Belkar describes as "too awesome to ruin with words." |
| 332 | * Heartful Punch from ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain''. Her design is full of pink and hearts, and she's a tall, athletic brawler. |
| 333 | [[/folder]] |
| 334 | |
| 335 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 336 | * ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': |
| 337 | ** Superchick, the unicorn-loving FlyingBrick of Team Wondercute, a terrifyingly BadassAdorable training team led by [[CuteAndPsycho Generator]]. |
| 338 | ** Ribbon certainly looks the part, as she appears to be about eleven, dresses in ElegantGothicLolita fashions, and has SuperStrength, SuperToughness, and a hefty HealingFactor. However, the CreepyChild vibe she gives off (since she used to be a [[OlderThanTheyLook fifty-year-old]] [[GenderBender male]] [[WrenchWench auto mechanic]] before a MadScience cancer cure unintentionally transformed her) undercuts that a bit. This hasn't kept Wondercute from pestering her to join them, however. |
| 339 | [[/folder]] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 342 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': Rose is a fierce, no-nonsense martial artist as Huntsgirl, but when she's not in the costume, she wears clothing with pink and flower patterns, has a bedroom with stuffed unicorns and other frills, and gushes over a teenaged pop star. |
| 343 | * ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Numbuh 3/Kuki. The girliest of the main team, a cheerful airhead who loves anything cute and cuddly, and most certainly an ActionGirl. Can be dangerous when angered. |
| 344 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'': Ditzy is a sweet, cheerful girl wearing pink clothing and displaying [[BlushSticker cheek blushes]] who is the girliest of the Crumpet sisters ([[MassiveNumberedSiblings at least the ones who are named]]), and is either an airhead (she is also a literal one with a string attached like a balloon) or a GeniusDitz in philosophy or some situational logic. In one episode, after her family neglects her grounded head and she recovers, the [[NotHerself selfish]] Ditzy retaliates at her older sister Caprice by immediately choking her with the string, and she slams her head at her younger brother King to the air. Another episode shows that she can achieve the upper hand in wrestling Caprice. |
| 345 | * ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'': Astrid has a minor vanity streak (as shown in a FreudianSlip), performs acrobatic jumps on the back of her dragon, and as the second-best DragonRider on the island, she's the official NumberTwo of the Berk Dragon Training Academy. |
| 346 | * ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': Sarah's literally the most out-of-control little terror on the cul-de-sac with all the kids terrified of her. She also loves playing dress-up, having tea parties, keeps a diary, and her prized possessions are her "dollies". |
| 347 | %%** Nazz counts as this as well, depending on the episode. |
| 348 | * Mabel Pines from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' loves [[GlurgeAddict kittens and glittery stickers]], but she packs a mean punch. She's the [[BrainsAndBrawn Brawn]] to her brother Dipper's [[BrainsAndBrawn Brains]] whenever the two of them work together. She gives Dipper two black eyes in "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E1TouristTrapped Tourist Trapped]]" (by accident, no less!) and even makes a gnome throw up after she kicks him in the stomach. It comes in full force in "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E3Headhunters Headhunters]]" when she fights off [[spoiler:an army of living wax figures]]. Also, she high-fives ''hard''. It doesn't take much to make her gung-ho about fighting. It also says something that according to Stan, the first thing Mabel did was sock the doctor who delivered her in the jaw. From "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E11NotWhatHeSeems Not What He Seems]]": |
| 349 | -->'''Mabel:''' Alright, here's the plan. I'll take out those two guard guys, you karate chop the other dude in the neck and then we'll backflip through the front door! |
| 350 | * ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'' has the [[Characters/HarleyQuinn2019TheCharacter star protagonist]] evoking this with her baseball bat and tights. Blugeoning people and being adorable. One example being when she finished off Penguin in "New Gotham" and innocently asked her crew if they could go get coffee. |
| 351 | -->'''Harley:''' Can we go get coffee? |
| 352 | * The ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' show and comics have The Girly Rangers, an organization of sweet, smiling {{Genki Girl}}s that won't hesitate to bust open a can of whoop-ass should their [[DeliberatelyCuteChild charms]] not result in someone buying their cookies. They have a ninja-like fighting style and use their cookies as ninja stars. Their organization's name is a combination of the Girl Scouts of America and ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', which pretty much says it all. |
| 353 | * Roxy from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' is presented as the "tough girl" of The Misfits (especially before the SixthRanger Jetta came along). She is still presented as feminine as the others, and in "Roxy Rumbles", she dresses herself with jewels and a cute pink dress when she wins the lottery. |
| 354 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': [[Characters/TheLegendOfKorraAsamiSato Asami Sato]] has glossy hair, [[WakeupMakeup is always seen wearing lavender eyeshadow and cherry-red lipstick]], is extremely fashionable, and loves shopping. She's also the most proficient of New team Avatar in trouncing the average Equalist {{mook}}. She's a bit lacking against Mecha-tanks on account of being TheTeamNormal but [[spoiler:she fixes that problem by hijacking one for herself]]. |
| 355 | * ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugMarinetteDupainCheng Marinette Dupain-Cheng]] is a hyperfeminine teenage girl who loves [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]] and is [[TheCutie cutesy]], [[GenkiGirl bubbly]], and [[ThinksLikeARomanceNovel romantic]], designs and sews her own clothes from scratch (and even models them on occasion), a talented SweetBaker, and is affectionate with her friends and family, not to mention [[SmittenTeenageGirl absolutely smitten]] with Adrien Agreste (as well as Luka Couffaine for some time). She's also a strong fighter as the [[MagicalGirlWarrior superhero Ladybug]], and is the protector of Paris, who tends to pick up the slack of her male and more conventionally masculine partner [[CatBoy Cat Noir]] often, even winning in fights against him when he is BrainwashedAndCrazy. |
| 356 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 357 | ** [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicRarity Rarity]] is ''very'' classically feminine and dainty, is TheFashionista who runs a dress boutique. But she's also very tough and is [[ActionFashionista just as liable to jump into the fray in a dangerous situation as any other pony]]. She can do pretty well at sports or physical activities (once she gets over [[NeatFreak her distaste for dirt and muck]]), she is quick to accept a challenge, tends to get surprisingly physical in a fight, and is in fact usually one of the first of the Mane Six to get ready ''to'' fight. Specifically, in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony Friendship is Magic]]", she's the first to attack a manticore. In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E21DragonQuest Dragon Quest]]", she's perfectly prepared to lay down a whoopin' to protect Spike, even threatening to rip her opponents, a group of teenage ''dragons'', apart. It's also shown in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 A Canterlot Wedding]]" where she straight up knocks out {{Mook}}s with right hooks. In [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW IDW Comic #29]], she partakes in and ''wins'' a tag-team wrestling match! All the while looking fabulous. The last thing you'd ever expect from her if you saw her in her day-to-day routine, but she is quicker to resort to force than brash, athletic Rainbow Dash or the physically strongest team member, farm girl Applejack. We see her ''take on martial arts fighting stances'' more than once. |
| 358 | ** [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicPinkiePie Pinkie Pie]] is a party and sugar-loving GenkiGirl who won't hesitate to whip out her [[{{BFG}} Party Cannon]] to lay a beating on the bad guys. |
| 359 | ** [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicFluttershy Fluttershy]] is an overly shy FriendToAllLivingThings [[StaringDownCthulhu who can stare down a dragon]]. |
| 360 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocoyo}}'': Elly, nonetheless. Seen in the season 2 episode "Talent Show", in which Elly shows her skills in "ballet karate". |
| 361 | * ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'': |
| 362 | ** Blossom represents "everything nice" in the chemical mix that created the girls. She wears a pink dress. |
| 363 | ** Bubbles overlaps with BadassAdorable as she represents "sugar" in the chemical mix that created the girls. It could be justified since she's only five years old. |
| 364 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': Ms. Finster rules the playground with an iron fist, boxes, and gets up at 5 a.m. to do bench presses. She also loves to hula dance, go to the beauty parlour, wear face cream, and of course drives a bright pink car. |
| 365 | * ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig'': |
| 366 | ** Megan Sparkles is a GirlyGirl who loves pink and pageantry and can also kick butt. She's earned the title of Little Miss Mixed-Martial Arts, according to her Nickelodeon Africa character bio. |
| 367 | ** An InUniverse example: Foxtrot, a character in the game ''Spirit Animal Pro Fighter 2'', is a badass female fighter who [[PinkMeansFeminine wears a pink dress]]. |
| 368 | * ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerGlimmer Glimmer]] wears pink and purple, literally has pink sparkles as her powerset, and enjoys dressing up in pretty dresses as well as giving Adora a makeover for Princess Prom. However, she also really enjoys fighting and can pack a heavy punch. Her introduction even shows her clashing with her mother because she so desperately wants to fight for the Rebellion more than her mother is willing to allow. |
| 369 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 370 | ** Wendy has no problem with beating up Cartman in a pink hat and unicorn shirt after he makes some rather offensive remarks about breast cancer. She's also a brave activist when she's not physically fighting. |
| 371 | ** Wendy's best friend, Bebe, is even more feminine than Wendy and is a pretty brutal combatant herself, managing to hold her own when where she fights Wendy over the titular list in "The List". She even gave Butters a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown when he insulted her in "The Worldwide Privacy Tour" (while Butters doesn't really make any effort to fight back, her right hook is mean enough to draw some blood from the latter's ''cheek'' of all places). |
| 372 | * [[Characters/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilStarButterfly Star Butterfly]] from ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' is a perky teenage girl who wears frilly dresses and likes cute animals. She also likes beating up monsters, taming wild unicorns, and taking her MuggleBestFriend, Marco, along with her on dimension-hopping adventures. |
| 373 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': |
| 374 | ** [[Characters/StevenUniverseRoseQuartz Rose Quartz]] wore a long, frilly white dress at all times, sported pink hair in RegalRinglets, lived in a room made entirely of pink clouds, and loved flowers, animals, and humans so completely as to put a Disney princess to shame. She was also the leader of a bloody rebellion against her home planet and goes into battle with a pink shield and matching pink sword, having been made to be a warrior. |
| 375 | ** [[Characters/StevenUniversePearl Pearl]] is the most traditionally feminine of the Crystal Gem, being modeled after a ballerina and valuing orderliness and good manners. She was also Rose's [[NumberTwo second-in-command]] during the Gem War, being a skilled swordswoman and a vicious fighter. |
| 376 | * ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'': Jinmay is kind, polite, adorable, and girly as they get, but you'd better hope she's on your side, or she'll blow you to bits with her eye lasers, or some of the many missiles loaded in her robot body. She's not too bad at chucking vehicles, either. |
| 377 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': [[Characters/TeenTitans2003Starfire Starfire]] is the bubbly [[TheHeart heart]] of the team, rocking a mini skirt and ZettaiRyouiki. According to the episode "[[Recap/TeenTitansS5E10Go Go]]", her "girliness" is something she's picked up since coming to Earth. Before then, she was more of a ProudWarriorRaceGirl (though that might have also been partly from being imprisoned). |
| 378 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': All three main agents tend to fall into this, as well as [[SixthRanger Fourth Ranger]] Britney. Clover plays the trope the straightest as she's the most feminine of the lead female characters. |
| 379 | * ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'': Kitty Pryde fits the stereotypical ValleyGirl personality yet still kicks as much ass as the other X-kids. |
| 380 | %%** Jean Grey is girly and nobody is about to question her badassery. |
| 381 | * ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': Miss Martian is easily the girliest girl on the team and unarguably its biggest powerhouse (Martian strength is in the same league as Kryptonians and Superboy is not pure Kryptonian). It turns out, though she does genuinely like the girly stuff, she's also deliberately playing up her girliness in order to make herself more likeable, due to the fact she suffered from FantasticRacism on her homeworld and reasons that Earth would probably be worse if she didn't present herself as so cute. [[spoiler:The reason she adopts a [[CuteMonsterGirl much more human-like form]] than the ComicBook/MartianManhunter is because her true form is so monstrous that even ''other Martians'' find it hideously ugly. This is because Miss Martian is a White Martian, the savage and brutal counterpart to the Green Martians.]] |
| 382 | [[/folder]] |
| 383 | |
| 384 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 385 | * Creator/LaurenFaust loves puppies and kitties as much as the next girl, yet has incredible CreatorWorship and can be quite the MamaBear for her Bronies. She's long been out to prove that there's far more to girls than what the media led us to believe until ''Friendship Is Magic'' came to be. |
| 386 | * [[https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2010/02/100209_outlook_katrina_hodge.shtml Miss England 2009]], [[https://kekpe.pe/i/5f86619b14700.jpg Corporal Katrina Hodge]], self-identifies as a girly girl and has stated her intention to persuade more girly girls to join the armed forces. She first came to the attention of the media after she punched a gunman to the ground. |
| 387 | * Soviet AcePilot Lydia Litvyak flew more than 60 combat missions in World War II and had 12 confirmed kills. She was also known for fashioning scarves out of dyed parachute scraps, dyeing her hair blonde, and collecting flowers to decorate her cockpit. |
| 388 | [[/folder]] |
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