Avatar: The Last Airbender
- In Field of Innocence, Iroh claims that he was first attracted to his future wife Kei Rin when he saw her pulling off an extremely advanced firebending form. Like Father, Like Son - while in the Earth Kingdom, Lu Ten falls in love with Jun on witnessing her "amazing" skills.
Blue Exorcist
Crossover
- Assassin Among Heroes: Ritsu's attraction to Shiki Ryougi is not only unhindered by how lethal she is, but it also seems to be the main reason for it.
- Zwei a Corgi, tries to court the Absol that ended up stuck on Remnant in Boldores And Boomsticks. Aside from being a good four or five times his mass, she's also tough enough to take a Beringel one-on-one and win.
- Braigen's DCU (Now With Owls): Luz gives a Sigh of Love when watching Amity wipe the floor with some of Scarecrow's Mooks in Owls in the Belfry.
- Child of the Storm: Harry is invariably attracted to forceful badass women, including his psionics teacher, Betsy Braddock, a Lady of War, his second cousin and, initially, opponent Maddie Pryor who's one of the few psychics stronger than he is and trained as a Human Weapon and who he finds distinctly attractive, and particularly Carol Danvers, one of his best friends, who's nearly six feet tall, muscular and curved, and more than capable of beating most enemies up (and more than willing to go up against the ones she can't beat anyway, should it be necessary). Harry finds this utterly enthralling, and the two of them take Flirting Under Fire to an extreme while pretending they're doing nothing of the kind. In chapter 46 of the sequel, they finally get together.
- The Dragon and the Butterfly: Fitting the typical Viking body-type, Luisa becomes rather popular amongst Berk's eligible bachelors.
- The Dragon That Will Pierce the Heavens: Zoro and Luffy prove to be this, the former showing no real interest in the protagonist Hikari until she literally dropped on Buggy like a ton of bricks and the latter growing attached ever since she helped take down Alvida's crew.
- The Ghost Boy and the Combatants: While a bit uncomfortable both of them fight over him, Danny does genuinely show interest in both Hsien-Ko and Lilith, partially because of their fighting prowess.
- Harry Potter: Pokémon Master: Harry Potter ends up falling for Jasmine Kenway, the daughter of revolutionary Jack Kenway. Jasmine is older, taller than him, and absolutely loves violence and fights; fighting Voldemort's Agents causes her to moan like she's having mindblowing sex. She gets it from her parents: her adopted father Jack fell in love with Clair, a tall beauty who at one point jumps into a fighting pit and lashes out at Jack, cutting his face and striking him with a bo staff. Jack sees it as foreplay.
- Incarnation of Legends: Seeing the Radiance in action gives Bell his very first crush and a preference for strong, confident women.
- Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus: Tony Clark gets saved by Chloe Cerise and falls in love with her because she's famous on the Train for her bravery and fighint off bad guys (in fact they first meet just as she saved him and Yuri from Gentleman Thief Indigo who's packed with Ragnarok Online spells). They end up having a date that involved swinging around skyscrapers, mint chocoalte smoothies and fighting off masked murderers.
- Last Child of Krypton: Shinji loves and is drawn to Asuka, who IS an Amazon and is one of the few persons in the planet who rivals with him in strength, speed and fighting capabilities.
- The Many Dates of Danny Fenton: Danny Fenton seems to be the most attracted to his dates that are like Kim Possible, Kara Kent or Starfire, who are all heroines in their own right and capable fighters.
- Mass Effect: Human Revolution: Garrus. "Neither did I, but it turns out I've got a thing for strong human women who can kick my ass. Who knew?"
- My Huntsman Academia: Izuku has an Imagine Spot where Yang is flexing her "guns" for him and immediately turns into a blushing mess. They do end up dating.
- Origin Story: Louise Harris presents a female version of this trope. Louise is no small woman herself (standing 5'10" tall), but she openly admits that what first attracted her to her partner Alex was the fact that Alex is 6' 2" and is so muscled she looks like you took a male athlete and stuck huge breasts onto her.
- A Possible Encounter for a Phantom: Danny Fenton is very attracted to Kim Possible, a Badass Normal who is capable of fighting with his ghost form without needing weapons designed specifically to fight ghosts. He also has a small crush on Shego, a villainess who can also fight him off.
- A Song of Silk and Saplings: After their duel, Maki develops an attraction to Hornet specifically because she's capable of fighting on his level. Kina teases him over being a "an old-school mantis" — since, in traditional mantis culture, men pair up with women who can tear their heads off. Literally, in the past.
"No, it's pretty obvious you do," Kina sing-songed. "And you must be a real old-school mantis, too. 'Cause you're totally into women who'll actually just kill you!"
"I-I don't know what you're talking about!" Maki sputtered. "And besides! No one does... that anymore."
"Hey, calm down, Maki," Kina teased. "Don't lose your head."
"That's not funny!"
- Son of the Seven Kingdoms: William Baratheon explicitly states that one of the things he likes most about Arya is her willingness and ability to fight.
- A Starstruck, Phantasmic Romance: Before, Starfire was his Abhorrent Admirer due to how clingy she was, but Danny eventually bonds with her and goes on a normal date with her. Seeing Starfire beat up Skulker causes Danny to grow attracted to her.
- Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: Shinji feels is very attracted to Asuka, who is a superb fighter, an excellent Humongous Mecha pilot, and a super-heroine can pulverize a mountain with her bare fists and is faster than a speeding bullet.
- The same happens in all of the Superwomen of Eva stories in which he is paired with the superheroine of the tale. He may not know they are supers, but he nevertheless is constantly attracted to how they an example of Silk Hiding Steel.
- Thousand Shinji: Shinji was attracted to Asuka because she was beautiful, brilliant, temperamental, overwhelming passionate... and because she was a fierce, furious and skilled warrior. It actually turned him on watching her fighting and hacking enemies away.
- Voyages Ofthe Wild Sea Horse: Harumi is first hinted to be attracted to the 426 centimeter tall curvaceous yet muscular shark-girl Miriam when they first meet in chapter 16, particularly given how he blushes when she picks him up off of the ground one-handed and stays very close to her as she literally bulldozes a path through dense jungle, but it becomes explicit in chapter 17, when he outright admits that her muscles are one of the things he finds attractive about her. He makes it explicit in that same chapter that he very much is interested in her, but he's shy about making the first move.
Danny Phantom
- In the Facing the Future Series, just like how Jack thinks Maddie is hot when she goes into "Warrior" mode, Danny is turned on by Sam's ghost strength.
- Danny Phantom: Fire And Ice: Danny tries to deny he's an Amazon Chaser, but Tucker rightly points out he's never been anything but one, albeit with a broader definition of Amazon than most - more based on strength of conviction and personality than actual ability to kick ass.
Discworld
- A.A. Pessimal sees the canonical policewoman Precious Jolson get a lot of this sort of attention. Precious is a girl with family roots in Howondaland. She is big, possibly around six foot four tall, and, in the words of a watch colleague, "that girl's got the muscles of a troll on her". On visits Home to rediscover her roots, she gets away with things like petting wild leopards as if they were domestic cats - the leopards take one look at her and decide not to protest. During a brief border war, in which she ends up fighting against her own peoplenote Precious is a City Watchwoman. The soldiers of her own ethnicity are fighting for the wrong cause for a mad Prince. Her loyalties are never in question, she punches out a native soldier who is pointing a spear at her. He wakes up, gazes upon her, and is immediately in love. Alas, the despotic insane Prince in charge of the hostile army also becomes enamoured of her, for the same reasons.
Ducktales 2017
Dragon Ball
Gravity Falls
Harry Potter
- A key plot element of "Ménage à Quatre
" is Harry's attraction to strong women, as he enjoys being dominated by Ginny Weasley and Katie Bell, each explicitly described as very muscular women who can physically overpower Harry with ease.
How to Train Your Dragon
Luca
Kill la Kill
Kung Fu Panda
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Miraculous Ladybug
- Feralnette AU: Marinette earns the attention of Kagami, Felix, and Adrien (much to Gabriel's dismay) after she gains some muscle. Adrien is also attracted to any of his friends that can beat him up.
- True Sight: Secrets of the Miraculous: When Adrien sees Marinette in a bikini for the first time, what he notices first isn't her breasts, hips or legs, but her surprisingly well toned muscles. He needs to make a deliberate effort to stop oogling at her.
Naruto
Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Advice and Trust: Shinji loves Asuka, among other reasons, because she kicks butts.
- The Child of Love: Shinji loves and is drawn to Asuka’s bravery and fierceness when she battles.
- When Shinji met Asuka in Children of an Elder God, he noticed two things about her: she was a beautiful girl... and she was a kick ass warrior. He fell very hard for her when he saw her fighting skills.
- A Crown of Stars: Shinji loves Asuka for her beauty, intelligence, bravery, determination... and also for her fighting skill and prowess. Even though he hated fighting he was incredibly drawn to her when she battled an enemy.
- In one scene he saw her twirling a gun. He thought that she was "incredibly hot".
Everyone’s eyes swung to Asuka. Shinji kept his head mostly down, but he too turned his head enough to watch her face closely. He could see a small, tight smile on her lips, and the beat of her pulse in her throat speeding up. He knew what she was going to say already. She’d want to be in the thick of it, winning glory and praise in the heat of battle. She was a fiery, unstoppable valkyrie, dancing in blood and death like a redheaded avatar of Kali... and he trailing right along with her, drawn to her fire even more than he was pushed away by her bloodlust and his own dislike of fighting.
- Evangelion 303: Shinji Ikari falls for Asuka not only because she is gorgeous but also for her strength of body and mind and her great piloting skills.
- HERZ: Shinji is in love with and married to a temperamental, Fiery Redhead soldier who is better pilot and fighter than him.
- In Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide, Shinji is drawn to Asuka partially because she's a strong-willed, powerful badass.
The Owl House
- The Forbidden Drink: Amity is very happy with how much more muscular Luz's new half-Titan form is, with a Running Gag of her melting into Abomination goo out of arousal at the sight of Luz working out quickly being established.
Persona 5
Pokémon
RWBY
A Song of Ice and Fire
- Forum of Thrones:
- Davith is notably attracted to the skilled fighter Samantha Ducard, among other things because of her ability to kick his ass.
- Samantha herself is very much into women who are good fighters. There are her implied feelings for Sasha, as well as the fact that she compliments the looks of Nymeria Aspys, who is an Amazonian Beauty.
- Her physical abilities are also outright mentioned by Irving as one of the reasons he is attracted to Maya.
Star Trek Online
Tolkien's Legendarium
Total Drama
- In fanfic Unbreakable Red Silken Thread Heather and Cody both have admitted on several occasions that they are attracted to Jasmine, though not for the same reason. By default Cody was this before his growth spurt because of how short and scrawny he was during the show's run in relation to almost all of the female contestants.
Yu-Gi-Oh!
