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[[caption-width-right:225:[[FullmetalAlchemist Huh. Never thought I would be envious of a wrench]].]]

-->''"I just said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in...engine grease, you're... No, especially, ''especially'' when you're covered in engine grease."''\\
- '''Simon to Kaylee''', ''{{Firefly}}''

There's something even better than a hot girl: a hot girl all covered in dust and sweat, climbing down a ladder, asking for a Fluke tester and some UTP CAT-6 cable.

You only have Plenum CAT-5? Aww, you're cute - but no, not unless everyone is going to die in a minute.

Girls interested in machines seem like [[GeekyTurnOn an ideal fantasy]] for guys into motor-powered things. By default, {{Wrench Wench}}es manage to combine the fact NerdsAreSexy and {{tomboy}}s are MoeMoe. This can sometimes extend to pure electronic devices, but a WrenchWench is more likely to be found with a blowtorch and ratchet set. She will always be confident about her own work, but because she's technically an {{otaku}} she sometimes has trouble with other things.

She must have a good supply of exfoliating pads and moisturisers, that's for sure.

Usually too self confident to ever need a BeautifulAllAlong plot, but very likely to have at least one SheCleansUpNicely moment.

When a {{Wrench Wench}}'s talents go above and beyond the practical or realistic, she's also a GadgeteerGenius.

Compare with female versions of TheBlacksmith or MrFixit; the appeal is similar. Also compare to HoodOrnamentHottie, where the woman may be dressed or posed as if she was the mechanic, but actually isn't.
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!!Examples

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Winry Rockbell in ''FullMetalAlchemist''. She even uses a wrench as her weapon of choice.
** As well as her [[NeverMessWithGranny grandma]] Pinako.
* Ikuyo in ''HanaukyoMaidTai''.
* [[AuthorAppeal Several of the girls]] in ''AhMyGoddess'', most prominently Chihiro Fujimi.
** Although the lead character Keiichi's little sister, Megumi Morisato, gets more screentime, and seems to fit this trope just as well.
* Miyuki Kobayakawa of ''YoureUnderArrest'' practically ''built'' her mini patrol car from the ground up, and maintains Natsumi's motorcycles.
* Lavie Head in ''LastExile''.
* Morinas in ''{{Simoun}}''.
* Bulma in ''DragonBall'', especially in DragonballZ.
* Ritsuko in ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is both this and the HotScientist
* Kana in ''HaibaneRenmei''.
* Parfet Balblair from ''{{Vandread}}''.
* Fio from ''PorcoRosso'' - who turns out to be the heiress of ''four generations'' of female aircraft builders. (Her great-grandmother wields a mean tinsmithing hammer.) The entire workforce of Piccolo Aviation are women, since the men are all abroad looking for work.
** So she's a Fit Fitter. If she got a FanservicePack, she'd be a Fitter Fitter. If she then worked on [[MnogoNukesTacticalDeliverySystems Su-17s]], she'd be a Fitter "Fitter" Fitter.
*** Please excuse TV Tropes while we [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha "Befriend"]] the above editor.
* Miss Yuki from ''Idaten Jump''.
* Alto of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' is a mechanic in addition to a helicopter pilot. The [=post-StrikerS=] TimeSkip reveals that she spends her spare time restoring vintage cars.
* Leona Ozaki of ''DominionTankPolice''. Built her mini-tank, "Bonaparte" from the wreckage of the squad leader's AwesomeButImpractical super-tank.
* Kururu from ''AirGear''. For that matter, the Tool Toul To team is completely ''made'' of {{Wrench Wench}}es.
* Rain Mikamura from ''GGundam''.
* Rally Vincent in ''{{Gunsmith Cats}}''.
* Reite from ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.
* Kuroe Ayaka from ''StrikeWitches''
* Nae Aki in Medarot Spirits; she never was anything near fanservicey, but, in another hand, had Ikki slightly fawning over her. Justified by the fact that she's the granddaughter of Dr. Aki, the modern Medarot inventor. Thing is, if you [[DisContinuity considers the series' existence at all]].
* Miyuki Ayukawa from ''{{Basquash}}''.
* Hilde Schbeiker from GundamWing, who has her own scrapeyard and is quite proficient with computers.
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[[folder:ComicBooks]]
* Betty Cooper, from {{Archie Comics}}, can be considered one in some comics.
* Agent Boysenberry in Donald Duck comic books (the "Tamers of Nonhuman Threats" subseries featured in Gemstone's ''Donald Duck Adventures'').
* "Ma" Hunkel, the original Red Tornado from the GoldenAge of TheDCU, worked as a riveter during WWII. All that heavy labor probably helped with her right hook.
* Maggie Chascarrillo, a.k.a. Maggie the Mechanic, from Jaime Hernandez's half of ''{{Love and Rockets}}''
* P.J., who ran her own garage in {{Y the Last Man}}
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[[folder:Film]]
* Mikaela (Megan Fox) in the live-action ''[[TransformersFilmSeries Transformers]]''.
* Stacy Ferguson plays a lesbian WrenchWench in ''Planet Terror''. Then her brain gets eaten.
* Jet Girl from ''{{Tank Girl}}'' (both film and comic).
* Alex (Jennifer Beals), the main character from ''Flashdance''. She works part time as a welder in a steel mill.
* Monique in Film/BetterOffDead, who fixed Lane's Camaro that would otherwise keep catching rust.
* Audrey from ''[=~Atlantis: The Lost Empire~=]''.
* Lisa from ''My Cousin Vinny'', whose insane (or rather dead-on-balls accurate) knowledge of cars saves the defendants in the murder trial.
* Clear from the first ''FinalDestination'' movie.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Cord in ''{{Anathem}}''.
* To an extent, Rosalie in ''{{Twilight}}''.
* The main character of C. E. Murphy's ''Urban Shaman'' trilogy is one of these, being a dedicated car enthusiast who restored a 1969 Mustang all by herself, and worked as a mechanic for the Seattle Police Dept. She even continues to use the idea of fixing a car to work her healing magics (fixing a broken windshield, replacing a flat tire, using windshield wipers to clear her vision, etc.).
* Nadia Chernyshevski of the RedMarsTrilogy was a nuclear engineer in Siberia before her job building mankind's first base on Mars. Her skills in solving technological problems earned her the nickname "Universal Solvent".
* [[MercyThompson Mercedes the VW Mechanic]]
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[[folder:LiveActionTV]]
* Mac on ''{{Veronica Mars}}''
* Kaylee of ''{{Firefly}}'' and ''Serenity'', as quoted above. She actually joined the crew because the captain walked in on her having sex with the ship's mechanic in the engine room. She [[CoitusUninterruptus diagnosed the engine's problem while in the act]], and fixed it on the spot when Mal showed up. He fired his mechanic and hired her as she was getting dressed.
** There are numerous hints (including dialog by the first ship's mechanic) that her major motivation in having sex with him there was to get up close and personal with the ship's engine room and grok it, she being a technophilic homebody / ground-pounder up to that point.
*** The same scene also implies that Mal's decision to replace his mechanic with Kaylee wasn't so much a savvy decision, as a necessary undo of the completely boneheaded one to hire the first guy to begin with.
* Betty Jo Bradley (the youngest daughter) from ''PetticoatJunction''.
* Gilina Renaez from ''Farscape''.
* B'Elanna Torres from ''[[StarTrekVoyager Star Trek: Voyager]]''. Although Star Trek engines tends to be rather clean, she does still manage to get covered in dirt and grease on a fairly regular basis.
* Bonnie and April in ''{{Knight Rider}}''.
* Cally on ''BattlestarGalactica'' would qualify, if her personality didn't make her TheScrappy of the series. And she didn't smell like boiled cabbage.
* Theora Jones of ''MaxHeadroom'' is of the high-tech variety rather than the grease-monkey variety.
* Heather from ''Jericho''.
-->'''Heather:''' Mind if I pitch in?
-->'''Jake:''' Do you know how to strip wires?
-->'''Heather:''' Ever since junior high.
-->(Jake stares at her)
-->'''Heather:''' Yeah, I was ''that'' popular.
*In ''{{CSI}}'', both Sara and Catherine have their moments doing experiments or processing a car. It actually became something of a RunningGag in TelevisionWithoutPity that Sara delighted in tearing vehicles apart.
* Charlene in ''Neighbours''. Played by KylieMinogue, no less.
** And later Steph Scully in Neighbours. Then Janae Timmons took up the mantle.
* Bella Banks in ''Young Americans''. She is a high school student who works as a mechanic at her dad's auto repair shop.
* The series has had several {{Hot Scientist}}s down the years, but it wasn't until ''PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'''s Ronny that it got a WrenchWench to balance things out. Her tendency for [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar practically]] ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar fondling]]'' [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar new weaponry]] [[{{Nerdgasm}} with an awed smile on her face]] makes one wonder how the show stayed TV-Y7.
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[[folder:ProfessionalWrestling]]
* WOW, a short-lived women's wrestling promotion populated largely with goofy FetishFuel gimmicks, had Wendi Wheels to fill this role.
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[[folder:VideoGames]]
* Li Kohran in ''SakuraTaisen''.
* Roll Casket (and Tron Bonne) in the ''MegaManLegends'' series.
** And then you have Geo Stelar in the second [[MegaManStarForce Star Force]] game, even though the character is a boy.
* Jessie from ''FinalFantasyVII'', who also displays a fascination with explosives.
* Led Campbell from ''SepterraCore''.
** It should be noted that the wrench part applies literally in her case. Her primary means of tinkering, along with beating people up, is a giant, meter long wrench.
* From WingCommander:
** Janet "Sparks" [=McCullough=] from ''WingCommander II''
** Rachel Coriolis from ''WingCommander III'' and ''WingCommander Prophecy''.
* Maureen [[spoiler:Corley]] from ''FullThrottle''.
* Tali from ''MassEffect'' is a fairly non-sexual example. We never even find out what she looks like under the containment suit. Still, her personality is possibly more pleasant than either OptionalSexualEncounter available to a male PC.
* Alyx from ''{{Half-Life}} 2'' is a Wrench Wench and an ActionGirl combined in one.
* Keira from the ''JakAndDaxter'' trilogy.
* The kappa Nitori Kawashiro from the ''TouhouProject'' series; an earlier example is/are Rika | Rikako Asakura.
* ValkyriaChronicles has Isara Gunther, who is also Squad 7's main tank driver and second [[TheSmartGuy idea person]].
* Lucca from [[ChronoTrigger Chrono Trigger]], according to some.
* Luca from ''FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears''. A little portly (she's a dwarf, and amazingly, one who mostly defies OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame), but otherwise fits.
* Rikku from FinalFantasyX.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Ash Upton from ''{{Misfile}}''. But there's [[GenderBender more about her than meets the eye]]...
** There's also Missi Fuller, and Emily [=McArthur=] is starting to pick up some of the tendencies.
* [[http://machall.com/view.php?date=2004-01-19 Commented on]] in a ''MacHall'' comic.
* Lith from ''[[WalkyVerse It's Walky!]]''
* One has recently [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080328.html been released]] in SchlockMercenary.
** Don't forget Elf's prowess with the fabbers...
* Aby from ''{{Kevin And Kell}}''; going so far that she is actually {{Married To The Job}}.
* Alice from IWasKidnappedByLesbianPiratesFromOuterSpace
* Wrench from ''AntiheroForHire''.
* Florence from ''{{Freefall}}.''
* Kestrel from ''TalesOfTheQuestor''
* Pop's Autos from ''NipAndTuck''. The main drawing feature are the Pop's girls, all working on your car in daisy dukes.
* Lin 47223b, the main character in {{Slipshine}}'s {{Linburger}}.
* Kammi from ''{{Inhuman}}''. She doesn't exactly fit "gearhead fantasy", seeing as most of the other characters are terrified of her.
** "You let Jet drive you and you live with a homicidal madman, but you're afraid of Kammi?"
* Sasha the EnsembleDarkHorse from ''{{SluggyFreelance}}''
* Good gravy, how has anyone not mentioned [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090306 Agatha Clay]] [[spoiler: Heterodyne]] yet?
* How about [[http://www.1977thecomic.com/2009/08/14/voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea/ Robyn]] from ''1977 The Comic''?
* [[TeamFortress2 Engineer]]-[[DistaffCounterpart tan]] from ''[=~Nerf NOW!!~=]'', of course.
* KK built and maintains her own steam copter amongst other toys [[http://www.freakangels.com FreakAngels]] oh and has wicked [[spoiler:{{PsychicPowers}}]]
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[[folder:WebOriginal]]
* Katherine Blanco from ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'' version three was the best mechanic in her school until she was killed by a hornet's sting on the island.
* Kilngirl of the CF.netter villains from ''AHDotComTheSeries''.
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[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
* Leela from {{Futurama}}
* Gadget Hackwrench in ''ChipAndDaleRescueRangers''. Also a GadgeteerGenius.
* Gretchen Grundler and Ashley Spinelli in ''{{Recess}}''. "Regular, or ratchet?"
* Charley from ''BikerMiceFromMars''.
* Aja Leith from ''JemAndTheHolograms'' shares some traits here.
* An early appearance by Luanne in ''KingOfTheHill'' had her showing signs of this trope. However, she quickly devolved to the airhead we all know now.
* Audrey Ramirez in ''AtlantisTheLostEmpire''.
* Bizarrely enough, Disney seems to be taking Tinker Bell, of all characters, in this direction with her new CGI movie. The reasoning is actually fairly logical--why else would she be named ''Tinker'' Bell?
-->Maybe because Barrie was referring to the lower-class tinkers. This is a case of {{Did Not Do the Research}} on Disney's part.
* Lori in ''TransformersCybertron''.
* Widget from ''[[WowWowWubbzy Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!]]''
* Ginger Snap from ''StrawberryShortcake''.
* Charlene aka Charley from ''BikerMiceFromMars''.
* Jenny 10 from ''DexHamiltonAlienEntomologist''.
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[[folder:RealLife]]
* Rosie the Riveter from the USA World War Two propaganda.
* Kari Byron and Scottie Chapman from ''{{MythBusters}}''.
* Victoria Pendleton. Just... [[http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/04_01/cycling0504_468x434.jpg Victoria Pendleton.]]
* Back in the day, Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth (now Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Second) was one. She was trained as an army mechanic during WorldWarTwo; she served as an ambulance driver, but British vehicles being [[TheAllegedCar what they are]] [[TakeThat she had to be trained as a mechanic too.]]
* [[http://www.rosiesgirls.org/ Rosie's Girls]] is a day camp for preteen girls that teaches, among other things, welding, carpentry, wiring, engineering, and presumably advanced badassness.
* Photographer Dave Perry has made an entire career out of shooting [[HoodOrnamentHottie models working on hot rods]]. He admits in the introduction that his inspiration was a young woman working in a desert junkyard.
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