Badass Adorable / Video Games

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"Cream is a six-year-old that understands Chao, can fly with her ears, (which by the way apparently are strong enough to carry a hedgehog and a big-ass cat at the same time) AND knows how to grind on rails. Cream is a badass."

— Honest Biggums on Sonic Heroes

Badass Adorable in Video Games.

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Specific Examples

• Thanks to Abomi Nation's cutesy, pastel artstyle, Abomis all look adorable even as they fight to the death. Even the Big Bad, Furcifume, can be seen as Ugly Cute.
• Ace Attorney:
  • Pearl Fey is a powerful candidate, since she's saved the day quite a few times by channeling Mia.
  • For someone who is ostensibly the series' main Damsel in Distress, Maya certainly makes herself useful under the direst situations.
  • An evil example of this trope would be Dahlia Hawthorne. Not everyone has the guts to jump from a bridge into a river known for its deadly speed just to steal a jewel.
  • Athena Cykes is a Cute Bruiser, being super cheery but also strong enough to judo toss an adult male from behind her.
  • Ambassador Colias Palaeno from Investigations, who manages to really grow on a lot of players, and who shows up with a small army near the end and pressures the other country’s ambassador, Quercus Alba, into staying put with thinly veiled threats. And he keeps smiling while doing it.
• The entire premise of Anarcute; you control a squad of cute animal protesters and fight against the forces of the Brainwash Patrol.
• ANNO: Mutationem: Noni, the player character of the Mysterious Console DLC storyline, is introduced as a young girl who's in chibi-style and is quite versed in wielding various weapons against multiple enemies.
• In Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura, there is a spell to summon a wild animal to help you in combat. The animals get progressively stronger depending on how good your character is with magick. They go from wolves to cougars, to tigers, to gorillas and finally, strongest of them all, ... a fluffy white bunny rabbit. Yes, the Vorpal Bunny is a level 40 creature with extremely high strength, maxed out melee and dodge skills and Master level proficiency in both.
• Choko from Arc the Lad: at first she's a One Lolita Army, then, she gets an upgrade and becomes a Waif of Mass Destruction.
• Assassin's Creed III: The early game features a young Connor as he learns what will eventually become his trade, like hiding and countering attacks. He doesn't have the trademark hidden blade at this point, meaning he can One-Hit Kill wolves and bears with nothing but his hands.
• Astal, thanks to being an Adorably Precocious Child and can kick ass.
• The Atelier Series games are absolutely chock-full of these, considering how the franchise is dripping with Moe. The main characters of most of the games qualify, the majority being cute girls who can create powerful bombs to throw at you for massive damage. The 8-year-old Rorona from Atelier Meruru is a standout, being an adorable kid who kept all of her alchemic and combat prowess from before she was de-aged, and so is Homura from Atelier Shallie, who belongs to a race of Ridiculously Cute Critters but is still a very competent adventurer and combatant.
• If you are going to call Mazzy, the halfling pseudo-paladin from Baldur's Gate II this, you're well advised to do it somewhere where she can't hear you.
  Mazzy: I won't seem so cute when I break your legs!
• In Banjo-Kazooie, both bear and bird resemble sweet, heroic furries who always work together. Banjo is capable of grabbing and throwing at full force, slamming into foes and totally knows how to defend himself. Kazooie is capable of full speed movement, launching an entire arsenal of eggs and quickly pecking and slashing anyone who gets in her way.
• Milly from Baten Kaitos Origins. She's the sheltered daughter of an Alfard nobleman, and she has butterfly wings. She also dual-wields clubs and can kick you across the room.
  • Sagi probably counts as well.
  • Mizuti in the original game initially seems more weird and quirky than adorable until you see her face underneath the mask.
• From Battleborn:
  • Toby is a ridiculously cute penguin Aviant who rides in a Mini-Mecha that he uses to devastate enemies on the battlefield. His cuteness is his most prominent trait to such a degree that most people don't take him serious much to his chagrin.
  • In the same vein to his fellow Aviant is Ernest. Ernest is a cute pink chubby bird that hops around wherever he goes. He also happens to be a Drill Sergeant Demolitions Expert that uses a Grenade Launcher and other explosives. Unlike Toby's cuteness which is a very prominent trait much to the little guy's chagrin though, Ernest's own cuteness isn't as prominent of a trait.
• Taokaka from BlazBlue may not look adorable, and she can be pretty deadly in combat, but just the way she talks and acts in her story mode in a game full of psychos, monsters, and jaded veterans, is just too damn cute.
  • And then there's Carl Clover. The Cheerful Child who has the game's only infinite combo.
  • Also, Makoto Nanaya. A squirrel girl (No, not THAT one), with cute ears and a big bushy tail. However, unless your name is Relius Clover, messing around with her is a bad idea. She's a small girl who can punch people and send them flying.
  • How has Noel Vermillion not been mentioned?
  • Lambda-11; While initially portrayed as an Emotionless Girl, she develops into an endearingly innocent Kawaiiko, partly thanks to Noel. Her appearance in the Animated Adaptation was regarded as probably the best thing about it. And she's only slightly less combat capable than Nu-13! While she looks similar, Nu herself is far too crazy to qualify.
  • Perhaps Exaggerated in the case of Jubei, a three foot-tall fuzzy cat creature who also happens to be by far the most powerful being in existence. Jubei along with five other champions (known together as the Six Heroes) defeated a colossal Eldritch Abomination that wiped out Japan.
• Blazblue Cross Tag Battle is like a World of Badass Adorable. On top of Noel, Makoto and Platinum, you also have Es from the Blazblue side of things. Under Night In-Birth brings Orie, Vatista and Mika; and the guest characters, Heart Aino and Team RWBY.
• Bendy and the Ink Machine
  • Buddy Boris is a Lovable Coward cute cartoon wolf, who has survived being actively hunted by both Bendy and Alice since before Henry arrived at the studio.
  • Allison Angel is a cute Angelic Beauty who proves to be one of the greatest fighters in the game.
• Bomberman with his cute face and outfit, and oh did we mention BOMBS.
• Borderlands:
  • Lilith, one of the first vault hunters, is a beautiful and deadly Siren who loves nerding out over her hobbies.
  • Maya as just like her predecessor, Lilith, she's a beautiful, kind and deadly Siren.
  • Gaige, whose crimes are listed as "developing illegal military technology and excessive adorability."
  • Moze counts as she's a cute-looking, yet tough soldier who owns an Iron Bear mech and is a Vault Hunter like the rest of the crew.
  • On the side character side, Tiny Tina. She's an adorable if not-so-slightly nutty 13-year-old who also happens to be the most gifted demolitions expert on Pandora. Even as a 19-year-old seven years later, she hasn't lost her cuteness or her talent with explosives.
• Several characters from the Breath of Fire games. Seriously, just about any female character qualifies. The best example, though, is probably Peco from the third game who, despite looking like an anthropomorphic onion, can become possibly the most overpowered character in the series if you train him right.
• A few characters from Cave Story. King is a Mimiga (a rabbit-man) who takes out Balrog with a single swordstroke. Then there's Quote and Curly who... well, just look at this in-game art◊, depicting them in the act of storming Hell.
• Violet from Cel Damage is a cute demon girl who is one of the most aggressive characters in the game. Her intro alone should tell you everything you need to know about her.
• Aurora from Child of Light is an adorable child princess who gets sent to a Magical Land overrun by monsters. She uses a sword that's almost as big as her and light magic to destroy said monsters.
• Cuphead has the titular character and Mugman, the brotherly protagonists. They're cute little homages to cartoon protagonists from the 30s that, eventually, become strong enough to beat up the Devil himself. It helps that Cuphead and Mugman are adolescents as well.
• Villainous example: Dark Emperor Griffon from Dark Cloud 2 is a child-sized anthropomorphic bunny rabbit from the Moon with adorable eyes and ears and who only got into this mess because he loved flowers so much. He is also able to kick your ass 10 times over even without the power of the Atlamillia.
  • The heroes of the game, Max and Monica. Max is a cheerful young inventor who can make almost anything and his inventions never fail. He's also capable of piloting a Ridepod (robot) that can be armed with weapons ranging from iron fists to machine guns and portable missile platforms. Monica is a pink-haired Magic Knight from the future who's not only capable of holding her own in a fight, she's also a princess leading a resistance movement against the forces of Griffon.
• Most of the cast of the LBX: Little Battlers eXperience series, which was produced by the same company. Little kids controlling tiny robots that can be armed to the teeth with any and every weapon known to man, including BFSs, BFGs, spears, rifles, bladed knuckles, bombs, and CHAINSAWS to perform badass finishers that, in reality, would turn your living room into the embodiment of a war-zone. Said robots have also been used in the game's anime to perform and prevent kidnappings, (attempted) assassinations, professional hacking jobs, robberies, and a worldwide terrorist plot.
• Felicia from the Darkstalkers series, acts more catlike than human and is just too damn cute.
• The Disgaea games:
  • Princess Sapphire Rhodonite is a relatively straight example, as most fans find her psychotic outbursts amidst the Cloudcuckoolander demeanor make her even more adorable... in a deranged and troubling sort of way.
  • Kurtis seems to get this a lot since he reincarnated as a Prinny. Nevermind the fact that he still has the same deep voice and his character is still as it always was.
  • Raspberyl, a Fun Size young girl, number one delinquent, and self-proclaimed badass who shows it with her magical prowess.
  • Laharl, the cutest little Overlord ever.
  • Desco, a living weapon of mass destruction and Moe little sister of sorts who aspires to be a Final Boss someday.
  • Love Freak Flonne. Cutest archangel ever. One of her special attacks involves proclaiming "Love is a miracle!" while beating the crap out of the enemy in a spray of hearts.
  • Prinnies are Adorable Evil Minions who can be quite destructive at high levels. Or when thrown.
  • Pleinair is a young and quiet girl with a plush bunny, but whenever she does take part in battles, she's extremely strong.
  • Usalia of Toto Bunny is self-aware, weapons-grade Moe who much of her group sees as a little sister of sorts. A bit less adorable when she goes berserk, but no less badass.
  • Slumber Cats are cute little cat-people with perpetually-closed eyes and have animations where they play with yarnballs. They are also capable of inflicting the same kind of calculator-breaking damage that other classes can.
• Dixie Kong from the Donkey Kong Country games. On the badass front, she, like all the other sidekicks in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, can do everything DK can in co-op mode. In addition to this, she can spin her ponytail like a helicopter to either extend the height and distance of her jumps or swim through strong currents underwater, which is generally seen as the most useful of the three sidekicks' special abilities for easily navigating most levels. On the adorable front, it's clear that Retro Studios was really trying to play up the "cute" factor: they gave her great big puppy dog eyes (noticeably bigger than the other characters'), a squeaky high-pitched voice, and several cute mannerisms such as her tendency to giggle a lot and the silly little happy dance she does upon successfully completing a puzzle piece challenge, finishing a level with all KONG letters, etc.
• Dog from Dragon Age: Origins. While outwardly he's a Big Friendly Dog the size of a small pony, he's actually a Mabari; a special breed of War-dogs created by Tevinter Magisters to be as intelligent as a human. Contingents of Mabari have traditionally served as elite units in the Ferelden army and used for breaking enemy formations and taking down Knights. While travelling with the Warden, Dog will jump headfirst into the fray and tear his enemies to pieces, before coming back covered in blood, wagging his tail and waiting to be scratched behind the ears by his Master. Sten considers him a true warrior, Oghren is convinced he's trying to steal his pants and Morrigan complains that he keeps leaving dead rabbits in her pack, because he thinks she needs to eat more.
  • And of course, his counterpart in Dragon Age II. Hawke's companions will occasionally come to their home simply to visit the Dog, Varric plays regular games of cards with him and Aveline even asks to borrow him to help train the Kirkwall City Guard, so they can learn how people in Ferelden don't soil themselves when they see a massive Mabari charging at them.
  • In Dragon Age II, there is also Merrill. She's a thin, naive, innocent, sweet-natured, easily distracted, practicing blood mage and Demon Summoner who becomes a Motor Mouth when nervous. She also has only offensive magic and vicious combat buffs, not even the slightest healing spell, and fearsome drive to revive the glory of Arlathan for which she is willing to sacrifice her life. Absolutely adorable and she can a-splode you from half a mile away with her mind.
• The EarthBound Series is full of this.
  • The main trio in Earthbound Beginnings are cute little kids.
  • The four main protagonists of EarthBound (1994), adorable young children who take on an Eldritch Abomination to save the world. Paula, in particular, stands out with her cute bow.
  • Most of the main party from Mother 3 belongs here (To an extent, even Duster, thanks to the art style). Lucas is a shy and kind young boy, Kumatora is a cute but brash and tomboyish young princess, and Boney is an adorable and devoted dog. They also fight tons of freakish and powerful monsters in their quest to restore peace to the Nowhere Islands.
• Ecco the Dolphin, of course, being both a dolphin and the protagonist of a brutally difficult action/adventure game series, would obviously qualify as this, but it tends towards Fridge Brilliance when you consider that the Badass Adorable label arguably applies to real-life dolphins as well.
• Echo:
  • Jenna is not only a cute short girl, but an anthropomorphic kit fox to boot. Not only is she academically brilliant and often the cast's voice of reason, but she accomplishes some very impressive stuff despite her petite stature, such as beating The Big Guy Leo at a carnival high striker (mainly because she knows how they function), handling high stress situations better than most of the cast such as when they're kidnapped by Brian, and even saving all of Echo by talking the absolutely hysterical Heather out of destroying the whole town by sabotaging the dam. It also helps her badassery that she seems to have a special connection with her monstrous childhood friend, the Socket Man, who teleports and can turn anyone into mincemeat with one touch. Less adorable is her badassery in the Bad Ending to her route, where she talks Flynn into sniping Heather dead and then steals her father's dam blueprints and successfully destroys the town of Echo like Heather attempted.
  • In Leo's route, Kudzu is a small raccoon who, nevertheless, lives in a sick trailer house and rescues both Chase and Leo from the delusional and armed Duke and Brian, the latter being easily the largest character in the cast.
  • In Jenna's route, Micha is a diminutive twink who's also a fluffy bat. He is also a juvenile delinquent who has been fending for himself on the rough streets since he was basically a kid, and shows his experience by saving Leo and Chase from the huge bear Brian by beating the bastard in the face with a metal pipe. He is also easily the character who navigates the supernatural happenings around Echo the best, recognizing them as the work of "The Hum" his late friend Keith told him about.
• The Sophons of Endless Space are a race of goofy, short reptilian aliens with huge eyes and a curved iPod-like aesthetic to all their technology. Their whole species hat is being Genius Ditz Mad Scientists. They're not exactly great fighters by any stretch, but with the massive technological lead they can accrue, they can be a deadly threat to many more warlike races.
• From Eternal Sonata:
  • The twins, March and Salsa. A pair of adorable 8-year-old girls, one sweet and polite, the other something of a hothead. They wield twin chakrams, have access to powerful moves, and... are those sharp teeth and miniature skulls on those necklaces? On the other hand, their headgear is reminiscent of bunnies.
  • Beat, an 8-year-old boy who is sort of like a younger brother to Allegretto. He wields a repeating rifle with precision.
  • Polka, a sweet young teen with an unspecified illness. Her parasol is a powerful weapon, and she has some good magic in her arsenal.
• Zee Tee from Eversion, a cute flower with a Goomba Stomp and reality warping powers.
• EXA_PICO has Cocona Bartel in the second game. She's about ten years old or so, four-foot-nothing, wears her long hair in pigtails with two absurdly large hair ornaments, and is the main character's adopted little sister. She is a very cheery girl who is always willing to help her big brother and often pouts in the cutest way whenever he's late. Turns out that she accompanies her "big brother" on his knight missions, and fights by taking her hair ornaments off and using them as a sort of transforming baton weapon. Despite her size, she keeps up with the adult frontline fighters, including her older brother. And the kicker? She is a Reyvateil, a species that is usually kept in the back lines far away from the physical fighting. Also thanks to her BFS in her Limit Break.
• Veronica from Fallout: New Vegas. She's a sarcastic Straight Gay Brotherhood Scribe, with a compulsion against showing her hair. She's also very good with a Power Fist. Being voiced by Felicia Day might also have something to do with this. Also, ED-E the Super Prototype Eyebot, a floating little robot that plays a catchy little tune when flying into combat armed with a laser and a perk that practically gives you max Perception.
• Fancy Pants Man himself from Fancy Pants Adventures. The most badass character in the series (that's him!) turns out to be a cute stick figure who just wants to save the day and protect his sister. It helps that Fancy Pants Man is a teenager as well.
• Most characters in Far Beyond the World are humanoid wolves each standing at around 7ft of height, but, out of them, the she-wolf Cora manages to come off as truly adorable. She has fluffy fur, a pretty smile and a nice figure, and personality-wise she's kind, helpful, funny and a Friend to All Children. However, when Aldris and Dran threaten the frail human Caelan, Cora shows off the Badass part by pulling a knife on them to defend him, fearless towards the two people who got her own mother executed and, in general, are The Dreaded due to being cunning and good at getting rid of undesirables. To reiterate, Cora pulled a blade on the two people Mother.Fuckin'.Vulgor. is afraid of.
• Quite a few characters from Fire Emblem can turn out this way.
  • Amelia can take this to an absurd degree if you make her into a General. Basically, she remains an adorable teenage girl in all of the cutscenes, but on the battlefield she's seven feet tall, covered from head to toe in plate mail, and wields weapons that make Cloud's Buster Sword look like a toothpick. Combine this with positively absurd stat-growth and you have what is basically a walking wall of certain death. An adorable, shy wall of certain death. Ross is a Hot-Blooded boy who idolizes his Retired Badass dad but is quite the sweetheart to others, and Ewan is a cheery prankster with a talent for magic. Raise them well and promote the first one into either a Berserker or a Warrior, while making the other a Summoner or a Druid. The three trainees become absolutely Moe killing machines — and double if you get any of the boys to A Support level with Amelia.
  • Also Lilina from Binding Blade and Nino of Blazing Blade.
    • If that wasn't enough, try Badass Adorable FAMILY, as Nino will have twin boys, Lugh and Raigh of Binding Blade, with Lugh being a gentle, good-natured boy who's friendly with those around him, and Raigh being rough and cynical, yet still a good kid either way. Lugh is a mage while Raigh is a shaman, so magical badassery runs in the family.
    • Binding Blade has a twofer in Fae, who not only is a adorable girl, but turns into a cute dragon!
  • Princess Julia Bahara from Genealogy of the Holy War is a Princess Classic with a high amount of Moe (See her here.◊), who's very shy and somewhat depressed (she's usually depicted as crying. A lot.) Mind you, she's a Glass Cannon stat wise, and would be that way but usually she's got one of two weapons, one is her trademark "Resire" which makes her practically invincible, the other is a stacked Game-Breaker- as she is already, her Infinity Plus 20 Tome, Naga, which, increases her stats by 20 (ignoring the Caps, oh and that tome? It fires a Dragon at her hapless foes.
  • And there's plenty more in the Tellius canon, Path ofRadiance and Radiant Dawn: Queen Elincia, Mia, Mist, Sanaki, Ilyana, Rolf, Marcia, Nephenee, Astrid... Take your pick!
  • Most of the female manaketes throughout the series (Tiki, Fa, Myrrh, and Nowi, to be specific) definitely qualify.
  • Fire Emblem: Awakening:
    • Lucina. In the battlefield she's one of the most badass female characters in the entire game, only contested by a female Avatar, and easily enters the Top 5 of the entire series. But during her support conversations and quite a few cutscenes, you just want to hug her dearly just out of sheer cuteness!
    • Nowi, a cute, sweet and adorable little girl who loves to play...and who's really a Manakate — a race of beings who live for centuries who turn into giant dragons to toast their enemies.
    • The Avatar, whether male or female. In this game you can customize your Player Character's looks, and one of the three prospect Body Builds you're offered is one of a boy or a girl who seems to be 14-years-old tops, and can have his/her hairstyles and expressions also arranged to your whims. This means, you can make your Player Character the most badass Person of Mass Destruction... and one who looks like a super adorable kid while laying the smackdown on the enemy.
  • Fire Emblem Fates has several characters qualifying for this, starting with the Avatar. This time they have two builds, one proper of a young teen no older than 16 and another close to an older teen/very young adult. Both builds are quite cute-looking... and like in Awakening, they can and will lay down destruction while looking super cutesy.
    • The little sisters on each side, Elise and Sakura, are definitely this when they promote and go from white mages to combat medics.
    • Hayato is an expy of Ricken, just as adorable in looks and powerful regarding magic if raised well. He also dislikes being called adorable, tho.
    • The Second Generation has the tiny but powerful Kana, whether as a boy or as a girl. Their friends Midori (a Cute Bookworm who is also a promising archer), Percy (an Adorably Precocious Child who rides a huge wyvern), Mitama (a snarky potential Combat Medic) and several others qualify as this too.
    • Even non-royal characters can get in on the action. Mozu starts out as a relatively frail villager, but if you train her up right, she becomes an absolute wrecking ball. One of the easier paths to take would be to reclass Mozu into Archer then Kinshi Knight, which has some of the best speed and mobility in the game.
• Freedom Planet has the three main playable characters (Lilac, Carol and Milla) as this.
• The main cast of Fuga: Melodies of Steel are downright huggable Precious Puppy and Cute Kitten kids (the youngest of whom is four, mind you), and yet they're the ones taking down an entire invading army through the use of a super-powered tank.
• Genshin Impact has a veritable Cast Herd of playable characters, and while not all of them are cute, the ones that are can also wipe the floor with you easily if you're not careful:
  • The Traveler is the "canon" Player Character of the game; a powerful warrior from another world searching for their sibling who is capable of unleashing the full power of Teyvat's various elements without a Vision of their own even after being stripped of their Divine Powers by an Unknown God, and whether you're playing as Aether or his sister Lumine both have endearing moments of cuteness throughout the story.
  • Playable characters with the "short female" model (i.e. a child-sized model, disregarding if they are Older Than They Look or Really 700 Years Old) are more-often-than-not very cute and capable of kicking some major arse in the process.
    • Diona is a cute Cat Girl bartender who is both a crack shot with a bow and capable of using her Cryo Vision to turn one of her drinks into a massive ice field that both decimates enemy forces while healing her allies.
    • Dori acts cutesy and silly but the Djinn she's got hanging around her is an adorable little creature capable of hefting Claymores and when infused with magic from Dori's Electro Vision can shock enemies into submission or heal her allies.
    • Klee is an adorable little moppet who is effectively the honorary little sister of the Knights Of Favonius, who are in charge of keeping an eye on her while her mother is away. Klee also happens to be a Pyro Vision bearer and her main hobby is making very potent explosives out of the stuffed bunny dolls her mom gave her. Suffice to say, her badassitutde and adorableness are about even.
    • Nahida is a tiny and adorable child who uses her Dendro Magic to make swings and paper dolls to play with. She's also one of, if not the most, powerful Dendro users in Teyvat, using the same magic she uses to make paper dolls to utterly decimate whole battlefields even though she's either playing hopscotch or making picture hands with it. This is because Nahida is Lesser Lord Kusanali, the Dendro Archon.
    • Qiqi is a cute Undead Child who works with the Bubu Pharmacy as an herbalist, but she's also able to use her Cryo Vision in tandem with an affinity for swordplay and some Adeptus magic to serve as a potent Combat Medic.
    • Sayu is a tiny Ninja who dresses like a mujina, has a Sleepyhead streak a mile wide, and also has some serious Height Angst, but her ninja abilities are augmented by an Anemo Vision and a knack for hefting claymores with it; she may be cute but she's not to be underestimated.
    • Sigewinne is an adorable Cute Monster Girl - half-human, half-Melusine - with a gentle heart and a sweet disposition that looks like a child like Klee or Yaoyao, but don't let that fool you, she's the head nurse of the Fortress of Meropide and has that Hydro Vision for a reason. She demonstrates her combat capabilities and intelligence well when she takes down Lyney and Lynette, both of whom are Fatui Agents, as well as Vision-Wielding Allogenes like herself, and tranquilizes them both before they could even know what happened.
    • Yaoyao is an Adorably Precocious Child who always has a bright smile on her face as well as a kind word for everyone she meets, who would rather be playing with Qiqi or her stuffed bunny, Yuegui instead of practicing polearm arts in her hometown of Qingce Village. That being said, she's still well-trained enough with her polearm skills that she can take down most anything that threatens her, and her Yuegui dolls are Adeptal Gadgets given to her as a gift from Liyue's Adepti that can further dish out pain or heal allies when infused with magic from her Dendro Vision.
  • From Mondstadt:
    • Amber is a cheerful Genki Girl who's always smiling radiantly and doesn't have a mean bone in her body, who loves playing with her stuffed bunny doll, Baron Bunny. She's also the only Outrider on the Knights of Favonius' payroll, which she takes incredibly seriously, and is a crack shot with a bow, which really comes to the forefront when she uses her Pyro Vision to create a rain of flaming arrows.
    • Barbara is an adorable Idol Singer, an incredibly sweet Nice Girl, and a universally-adored Deaconess of the Church of Favonius, who uses her Hydro Vision to work as a healer of the sick, and when she fights, it's with sparkles, idol flourishes, musical notation, and rainbows. She also happens to be one hell of a Glacier Waif, capable of taking and tanking almost anything the enemy tries to throw at her.
    • Bennett's got a really, really bad streak of bad luck, but in spite of that he's an adorable and upbeat young man who uses his Pyro Vision and swordplay to survive and overcome even the most overwhelming of odds.
    • Fischl is a cute girl who is also a chuunibyou up the wazoo... And she's a capable and well-experienced adventurer with a raven familiar in Oz and an ability to turn any fight in her favor with her Electro Vision and masterful archery skills.
    • Mona is cute, friendly, and smart though very Money Dumb, and she's also an accomplished and powerful astrologist whose biggest trick is using her Hydro Vision to create an absolutely enormous explosion of water that can send most enemies packing within moments.
    • Noelle is a cute and kind-to-a-fault Meido who wants to be a full-fledged member of the Knights of Favonius one day who happens to use claymores as big as she is and whose Geo Vision makes her a powerful Stone Wall that can tank anything and everything her enemies throw at her.
    • Sucrose is an adorable bookworm and a massive sweetheart with a Shrinking Violet streak a mile wide, to the point where her in-game title is "Harmless Sweetie". Don't be fooled, though - she's a master of offensive biological alchemy, and her specialization is using her Anemo Vision to summon an emulation of one of the game's bosses to wreck faces and take names.
    • Venti looks like a playful bishonen who serves as one of the many bards that play and sing throughout Mondstadt, but he can use Anemo Magic to send enemies flying beyond the horizon and is a crack shot with a bow. What else could you expect from Mondstadt's Archon, Lord Barbatos?
  • From Liyue:
    • Ganyu is a cute Horned Humanoid half-adeptus living among humankind with a bit of a Sleepyhead streak due to the workload she carries for the Qixing as their secretary and a desire to be an ordinary person despite her Adeptal nature, and is a very sweet person underneath her professionalism. She's also one of the veterans of the Archon Wars alongside such figures as Cloud Retainer, Mountain Shaper, and Liyue's Archon Rex Lapis Morax, also known as Zhongli, and she uses her skills in archery and Cryo Vision to bring that knowledge and skill to bear against her enemies.
    • Hu Tao is a bit of a weirdo as the current director of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, but her radiant smile and unending energy make her highly endearing nonetheless. Just don't cross her, or she'll use her Pyro Vision and talent with polearms to send you on an express trip to Hell early.
    • Keqing is the petite and pretty Yuheng of the Qixing with a theming around cats and a lovably Tsundere attitude toward Liyue's Archon who can't help but melt like chocolate around her Trademark Favorite Food. Pissing her off, however, is a really bad idea: she's an Electro Vision bearer, and she'll not hesitate to use it in tandem with her swordplay to beat you utterly senseless if you do.
    • Xiangling is a cute Anime Chinese Girl with a highly excitable personality, a gentle and soft voice, and a master-level knowledge of the cuilnary arts, which is the main thing she uses her Pyro Vision for. If she ever gets into a fight, though, she's highly capable with a polearm and in the event that her polearm skills aren't enough she can also summon her red panda friend, Gouba, into the fray to use his Jueyun chili-induced fire breath to even the playing field.
    • Xiao, also known as Alatus, looks like a petite and cute young man at a glance. However, this guy is the last survivor of a group of Liyue's Adepti known as the Yakshas, known throughout Liyue as powerful demon slayers and exorcists, and Rex Lapis help you if you get in his way - much like Hu Tao, he'll use his proficiency with polearms and his Anemo Vision to send you to Hell early, but unlike Hu Tao, who will do it with a cheeky grin and a wink, he'll do it with icy precision and quiet but still-boiling rage. Of all the adorable badasses listed here, Xiao is probably the scariest one to encounter for a normal person.
    • Yun Jin may look aloof and graceful at first glance, but underneath that operetta's stage personality is a big and playful sweetheart who longs for a time where she can show her playful side to the world. She's also a masterful Dance Battler who learned polearm arts as part of her stage training and adds in the powers her Geo Vision gives her to add an extra bit of flourish to her fighting skills.
  • From Inazuma:
    • Arataki Itto is a tall and handsome Hunk who also happens to be a very cute Manchild thanks to his enormous Sweet Tooth, kind heart, and love for Inazuma's children (and his Animal Companion, Ushi). He's also an Oni, which includes all of the requisite strength, and he can use his Geo Vision and preference for claymores to clean house quickly and loudly should the situation call for it.
    • Ei is a big sweetheart, if a bit of a Hikikomori, who often shows childlike innocence when she's out and about and has a Sweet Tooth almost as big as Arataki Itto's or the various kids he hangs out with. She's also the Raiden Shogun, Inazuma's ruler and Electro Archon (also known as Beelzebul), and an accomplished master of the polearm and the sword whose Musou no Hitotachi is infused with Electro Magic to deliver a devastating One-Hit Kill to anyone unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end. One only needs to ask Kaedahara Kazuha's unnamed friend or La Signora what it's like to have something like that come at you full force.
    • Gorou is a handsome and cute young man who has a big Sweet Tooth and dog features like dog ears and a big, bushy tail that he gets flustered about whenever someone asks him if they can touch them. He's also the second-in-command Frontline General of the Sangonomiya Resistance, and a big reason why the resistance hasn't fallen in Inazuma's vicious Civil War is because of his fighting prowess, manifested as being a crack shot with a bow, and his use of his Geo Vision to act as a rallying point for the soldiers under his command.
    • Kamisato Ayaka is an adorable and elegant young woman who's just as sweet as she is elegant and serves as one of the commanding officers of the Yashiro Commission, the branch of Inazuma's Tri-Commission that focuses on civil matters. If she's ever caught in a fight, though, she'll not hesitate to use her swordplay and Cryo Vision to teach her enemies a lesson.
    • Sangonomiya Kokomi is the head priestess of Watatsumi Island's Orobashi-worshipping religion and a very pretty young woman, who uses her Hydro Vision to heal and protect her allies. She's also the head strategist and leader of the Sangonomiya Resistance, which, despite its smaller numbers versus the might of the Shogun's armies, has kept the enemy at a stalemate throughout the brutality of Inazuma's Civil War, and should she ever get into a fight she'll not hesitate to use her powers to turn the tide in her allies' favor.
    • Yoimiya is a cheerful, bubbly, and adorable Nice Girl who loves her fireworks and playing with kids, who even made fast friends with Klee over a shared love of explosives. She's also a crack shot with a bow and her preferred method of fighting is to infuse her fireworks with energy from her Pyro Vision to make some really hard-hitting projectiles.
  • From Sumeru:
    • The Aranara of Sumeru are fairy-like beings similar to Breath of the Wild's Koroks, with all the innocence and cuteness such a similarity implies. However, Arabalika, one of these Aranara, is able to destroy ruin guards with his Aranara magic and an Aranara named Arama is a crucial ally in the fight to destroy Marana's Avatar, the main avatar of the cancer-like Withering that's destroying Sumeru.
    • Collei is an adorable young lady who has a bit of a clumsy streak and a heartbreaking Dark and Troubled Past, which she's largely healed from since the time of the prequel webcomic which featured it, though a consequence of said past is that she Hates Being Touched. She's also suffering from Eleazar, which is why she's got the clumsy streak and has left her debilitated and weak. She also happens to be one of the Avidya Forest Rangers, if a ranger-in-training, who can use her skills with a bow and her Dendro Vision to keep enemies off their feet, and if that doesn't cut it, she can call in her cat doll, Cullein-Anbar, to even the odds.
    • Layla is a big Sleepyhead with a penchant for Sleepwalking and a Cute Bookworm par excellence who spends most of her time cooped up in the Rtawahist Darshan of Sumeru's Akademiya. However, she's still got a Cryo Vision that she uses to summon shields with and can use that alongside her knowledge of swordplay to wreck faces and take names should push come to shove, and her "Star's Blessing" aspect that manifests whenever she sleepwalks is capable of some absolutely bonkers feats, such as scaling the Wall of Samiel dividing Sumeru's rainforest from its desert on her own and gaining Super-Strength. Layla's adorable and less than five minutes away from conking out asleep, but that doesn't mean she should be underestimated.
    • Nilou is a cute Bedlah Babe who doesn't have a mean bone in her body, even when dealing with academics in Sumeru's Akademiya who would want to suppress or look down upon her love of the arts, dance in particular. When push comes to shove, however, Nilou can use her skills with the sword and her Hydro Vision to turn her dance moves into a flurry of swordplay that both entrances and flattens enemies that stand in her way.
  • From Fontaine:
    • Freminet is a Shrinking Violet who works with the Hotel Bouffes d'ete and is a fairly attractive young man with ties to the duo of Lyney and Lynette who is also an experienced diver. Using his Claymores and Cryo Vision he can also take on and decimate enemy forces with the greatest of ease, something that comes from the fact that he, alongside Lyney and Lynette, all have combat training from the Fatui.
    • Lynette is a cute Cat Girl who stoically works alongside her brother, Lyney, to perform all matter of incredible feats of stage magic. Should a fight come to pass, however, her mastery of swordsmanship and Anemo Vision, not to mention her training from the Fatui, give her the power to send any enemy flying into the horizon.
    • Lyney is an attractive master magician from the Hotel Bouffes d'ete who loves the spotlight and uses his Pyro Vision and mastery of archery to bring a whole lot of pain and death to those who would dare threaten his siblings or the innocence of children. This is because he, alongside Lynette and Freminet, have Fatui combat training.
    • Navia is a girl whose kindness is as sweet as the pastries she bakes, but make no mistake, she possesses a mighty claymore-wielding battle arm and can blast the bad guys with her gunbrella or call upon an artillery of Geo-infused cannonballs to rain down on her enemies.
• Ghost Trick has Missile, a yappy little Pomeranian who is adorable even by Pomeranian standards. After he dies for the second time, he gains ghost trick powers. His reach is far longer than Sissel's and he has the ability to swap objects of different sizes, even huge stone statues.
  • And in an alternate timeline he waited ten years for the events of that night to play out again, so this time he could convince Sissel to help Lynne.
  • Sissel, considering he's actually a little black cat. At the end, he's a little black kitten.
• Golden Sun games adore this trope, and usually at least one playable member is a young, adorable teenager with Squishy Wizard and/or Glass Cannon tendencies at the least.
  • Sveta in Dark Dawn is a champion of this trope, a ridiculously Moe kitty-dog... deer... furry person, who is the series' first warrior-type Wind Adept and the series' first true Action Girl (most have been primarily casters). And this is before you sack all her Djinn to turn her into a giant anthropomorphic wolf who backhands bosses across the room.
  • Thirty years before being a snarky pirate in Dark Dawn, Eoleo was a dorky toddler who could wrap his great-grandma around his little finger and blew up Alhafra's prison with his mind to rescue his daddy.
• Granblue Fantasy has an ensemble of characters who are both adorable and capable adventurers that can compete with the setting's divinity.
  • The playable Captain is a good-hearted youngster, be it the modest and polite Gran or the spunky and affectionate Djeeta, who is as charmingly adorable in-series as out. They're also almost single-handedly the strongest characters in the setting and can take on countless roles in battle.
  • The Twelve Divine Generals are shrine maidens who fervently defend their designated place of worship, each being themed after an animal of the Eastern Zodiac. And all of them are positively adorable young ladies, as young as 14, who embody their respective animals, from the cuddly Anila, the Gyaru-patterned Kumbhira, and the spacey-but-sweet Catura.
• Gravity Rush:
  • Kat. She's a very cute, dorky girl who has gravity shift powers and can kick ass at the same time.
  • Raven. Just like Kat, she is young, beautiful, and a extremely strong girl.
  • Dusty. He's a kitten who has the ability to use gravity and help Kat with it.
• Guilty Gear has two examples that stick out like sore thumbs compared to the macho style of the rest of the cast:
  • May, introduced in the first game, is a cheerful little pirate girl who fights by swinging an anchor about her own size.
  • Bridget, introduced in XX, is a sweet and adorable bounty hunter who fights with yo-yos and her teddy bear.
• Hamsterdam: The Player Character is an adorably-round little hamster named Pimm... who can easily beat up gangster twice as big as he is
• Higurashi: When They Cry: Most of the cast counts, really. (Mion and Shion fall into Cute Bruiser territory.)
  • Rena, whose primary prerogative on a normal day is to find cute things to take home. When pushed to protect herself or her friends, she can (non-fatally) swing around a cleaver like no one else.
  • Satoko, appropriately dubbed 'The Trap Master' by the rest of the cast, is somewhere between 9 and 12 years old and very frequently The Woobie, yet she can trap, confuse or outright take out trained, fully grown men with minimal effort on her part.
  • Rika, whose very presence in early arcs was basically to say something cute for Rena to Squee over, proves herself to be this when she goes it alone and tries to take out Shion with mace and a syringe. She failed, but it was still Badass. She's also Really 700 Years Old and eventually becomes determined to Screw Destiny.
  • Hanyuu, a little girl around Rika's age, cute enough to be kidnapped by Rena three times in two minutes, who is also Oyashiro-sama, a Physical God who is promoted from The Voice and The Scapegoat to a full cast member during the final arc.
• The protagonist of Hollow Knight is a little Cute Mute cartoon insect with big eyes, is shorter than most of the other characters, and who falls asleep on benches if allowed to sit on them for a minute. Their job involves habitually marching up to giant monsters and slicing them to bits.
• A few playable characters from Honkai: Star Rail are not only cute but able to beat their enemies into the ground easily:
  • From Jarilo-VI and its sole remaining city of Belobog:
    • Hook is a Cheerful Child who wants to help out the forces of Belobog's resident resistance, Wildfire, as the leader of a subunit within it known as the Moles. Unlike the other Moles, who are largely just artful dodgers who do recon for the Moles, Hook has a massive mining tool on one of her hands that allows her to light her enemies on fire and walk the Path of The Destruction.
    • Lynx is a scientist and explorer with an adorably fluffy cat motif to her, but this belies the fact that she's able to survive in the wilderness of her Stellaron-infected homeworld, Jarilo-VI, on her own without dying - for reference, most ordinary people would die from exposure within hours of leaving Belobog, if the cancer-like Fragmentum or the monsters it creates doesn't kill them first. This intimate survival knowledge has led to Lynx walking the Path of The Abundance and becoming a specialist with quantum probabilities, using her weaponry to entangle enemies within quantum uncertainty while healing her allies.
    • Pela is the youngest member of Belobog's Silvermane Guards at only 16 years old and is a Bespectacled Cutie and Geek who loves her some romance novels up the wazoo. However, she's second to Bronya in the chain of command and a follower of the Path of The Nihility who uses ice-based weaponry to keep her enemies off-balance.
  • Aboard the Xianzhou Luofu:
    • Bailu is an adorable and tiny Vidyadhara child^note technically - she's Really 700 Years Old but a child by her species' standard who serves as a doctor and follower of the Path of The Abundance aboard the Xianzhou Luofu, often helping to heal the sick and wounded. A specialty of hers, however, is healing the Mara-Stricken of the Xianzhou, meaning that she has to be a competent fighter as Mara-Stricken are insane and combative against anyone and everyone in their way, leading to her using lightning powers to zap her target into submission before administering a water-based healing salve to get her patient on the road to recovery.
    • Qingque is a petite and pretty girl with an incredible intellect that put her on the Path of The Erudition and got her a lucrative career at the Xianzhou Luofu's Divination Commission, though she would rather be playing her Mahjong-like tile game than doing her job^note which she does do well, mind - she's just such a Professional Slacker that she has optimized her ability to slack off in it. When push comes to shove, however, she can manipulate quantum probabilities to her advantage to weaponize those same jade tiles she plays her games with to leave her enemies a bruised mess.
    • Sushang is a cute and youthful-looking^note While the Xianzhou are human, they're also immortal due to a poorly-thought-out pact they brokered with Yaoshi, The Abundance, so it's unclear if Sushang is actually young or if she's Older Than They Look who has pledged her allegiance to the Path of The Hunt as a soldier of the Cloud Knights guarding the Xianzhou Alliance's worldships and hunting down the Mara-Stricken Abominations of The Abundance that plague their people. Even though she's relatively unexperienced as a Cloud Knight, Sushang is still able to simply wipe her enemies clear off the map with sheer, brute Physical force from her sword or the giant chicken she summons with her Limit Break.
  • Others:
    • Asta is a cute and kindly young lady who serves as the chief astronomer aboard the Space Station owned by Herta who also happens to be a little Money Dumb - however, getting in her way is a bad idea, as members of the Antimatter Legion found out the hard way, as her telescope can unleash beams of fire like a magic staff and she is a highly capable Chessmaster who is more than capable of outwitting any foe she encounters, thanks to her allegiance with the Path of The Harmony.
    • March 7th^note Real name unknown is an adorable and peppy Genki Girl who also happens to be a Master Archer and An Ice Person who follows the Path of The Preservation^note gameplay-wise, in the game's lore she follows the Path of The Trailblaze that can protect her allies with shields and freeze enemies solid with her arrows, best exemplified with her Limit Break where she pelts the enemy with a Trick Arrow that turns into ice grenades shaped like the conductor of the Astral Express, Pom-Pom.
    • Topaz and Numby are both cute in their own way - Topaz is a beautiful and lovable Reasonable Authority Figure of the Interastral Peace Corporation who can't help but melt like chocolate around cute animals, including her pet Warp Trotter, Numby, who can also take down her enemies with her fire weaponry and high speed brought about by her walking the Path of The Hunt. As for Numby, this little Warp Trotter might be as cute as any other Trotter but is the means by which Topaz burns her enemies to the ground.
• Every character in Inazuma Eleven, some of whom can and have stop flaming soccer balls with their bare hands and/or legs and have preformed kickass shots after major level grinding. Oh, and they're all in junior high, with most of the main cast putting regular young boys to shame.
  • And they're successors in GO!, who can summon Kenshin; giant avatars capable of wiping the soccer field with you in one fell swoop.
• The main character of JumpJet Rex is an adorable T. rex who is capable of defeating enemies much bigger than himself, and is the only who can save Earth from an incoming asteroid.
• They turn up in the KeyAni adaptations, of all places.
  • Mai Kawasumi from Kanon. Even if the demons she fights every night are emanations of her own powers resulting from her reluctance to embrace them, you have to admit she's pretty handy with a sword.
  • Tomoyo Sakagami from CLANNAD. Just ask the local biker gangs. Or Sunohara.
  • From the same series, Kyou Fujibayashi also qualifies as this.
• From Kid Icarus, Pit! He's cheerful and dorky, he's skilled with every kind of weapon ever, and he regularly kicks the asses of GODS.
• The Pet Dragon from King's Bounty: Armored Princess. Basically, a winged technicolored Stitch, who likes to play with a little snail and dance around his pot tree (check him out). Oh, look, he's summoning fountains of lava to engulf the enemies in searing agony, conjuring lightning balls and finishing the surviviors off with a somersault kick.
• Kirby:
  • The little puffball of kickass. Why is Kirby so badass? Let us count the ways:
    • He punched one planet in half. He blew another one up with a space ship.
    • He's defeated God knows how many monsters every single day.
    • Crash Ability.
    • He defeats enemies of equal size by eating them and taking their powers.
    • He blasted a hole into his planet's moon.
    • He used a sword to chop a volcano, an angelic orb, and a giant ship in half.
    • He destroyed a gigantic, insane, bleeding eyeball Eldritch Abomination, a Big Bad generally considered horrific by the standards of games with age ratings twice that of this series, twice.
    • During a brief crossover cameo, he displayed complete immunity to the life draining abilities of the titular creatures from the Metroid franchise (whom are feared as the deadliest beings in the universe in their home series).
    • He fought a witch that turns into a gigantic 8-eyed paint monster just so he could get his arms and legs back. And yes, that means he defeated a sorceress without his arms and legs.
    • He tore through armies of monsters and an unsealed lord of the underworld just because someone stole his cake.
    • He destroyed and sunk a flying battleship from the inside after getting shot off it twice, as well as all of the robots and knights defending it (one of said knights capable of defeating the greatest warrior in the galaxy).
    • He fell for a trap made by some jester guy, then proceeded to beat the ever-loving shit out of both him and a planet-sized clockwork god. He then fought a zombie version of said jester after beating up every single monster he fought before in a Boss Rush.
    • He single-handedly destroyed an entire Subspace gunship by crashing into it with a magical rainbow hoverboard thing.
    • After being split into ten different Kirbies and losing his abilities, he manages to, in a rather brutal display, destroy another Big Bad before recombining himself.
    • He fell for another trap made this time by an adorable alien, then joined forces with a dragon for a dogfight with the alien's starship, then defeated the alien himself twice, the second time while said alien was possessed by an Artifact of Doom (which, for good measure, shattered in the ensuing battle).
    • He killed a giant queen bee combined with a mile-high beanstalk by inhaling and spitting out a laser beam she fired, then killed her when she was revived and powered up with four Miracle Fruits, then killed her after she ripped her own head out of the beanstalk for a final stand.
    • He fought a CEO's superpowerful, wish-granting computer bent on destroying every organic lifeform in the universe by using his own Mini-Mecha to fuse with a gigantic flying battleship, destroying said computer and another planet-sized clockwork god with a drill attack. Then he went on to kill said clockwork god a second time by beating the shit out of its mechanical heart.
    • He tore through Dedede and Meta Knight again and then proceeded to invade and destroy a flying fortress (not alone this time. He had help) while battling and defeating the three commanders of said fortress. Following that he flew out into space (did we mention he can breathe in space) and fought upgraded versions of previous bosses (and Kracko) to reach an even bigger flying fortress and destroy that one, after defeating the leader of the cult he's been hunting. Then he beat the ever loving shit out of the dark god the cult was trying to summon who was implied to be connected to at least half of the aformentioned abominations on his kill list!
    • After being transported to an entirely different world, he tore through armies of sentient animal-like creatures including Dedede (who was Brainwashed and Crazy), eventually meeting up with the leader of the clan and took him down. He also fought against a malevolent alien related to the tagalong companion, Elfilin, and once it fuses with Elfilin, it becomes more powerful. Luckily, Kirby was able to defeat it by the combined efforts of Elfilin and inhaling a truck to take it down. That's right, he took down an Eldritch Abomination with a truck.
    • He is the only survivor after an Eldritch Abomination turns every other character into a spirit.
    • "He's one tough cream puff." There's a reason why he named American Kirby Is Hardcore.
  • Meta Knight, when you break his mask. He may look like Kirby, but he has his own battleship, can create tornadoes as an attack, and is capable of defeating the greatest warrior in the galaxy three times.
  • Recurring Optional Boss Galacta Knight is the strongest warrior in the galaxy, sealed in crystal for fear of his massive power, and one of the few Kirby characters to have a rock song as his theme. He's also a bright pink Walking Head that's presumably the same species as Kirby and Meta Knight.
  • King Dedede is no slouch either. He resembles a chubby penguin with large blue eyes and a goofy smile, and is also a very strong and powerful mallet-wielding fighter who always proves to be a tough game for anyone involved.
    • Do you see that long list of achievements Kirby has done above? King Dedede is someone who can consistently keep up with and is considered a rival to someone capable of doing all of that. (having even directly contributed to some of those achievements himself) And this is before he puts on the mask!
  • As of Return to Dream Land Deluxe, Magolor counts as well. After getting possessed by the Master Crown and being defeated by Kirby, Magolor ends up lost in Another Dimension with all his powers stripped...and proceeds to go on a journey to regain them and redeem himself, collecting the pieces of the very first Gem Apple. When the Master Crown returns and uses it to become a gigantic, twisted apple tree, Magolor proceeds to create his own Ultra Sword and chop it in half.
• The entire point of Koihime†Musou, but especially Kan'u. Even more so in the first game.
• Kolibri the hummingbird from Kolibri is a tiny little hummingbird who was given the magical power to shoot lasers and bullets. This only adds to the fact that he's from an incredibly cute and incredibly aggressive group of animals.
• Mega Man:
  • Mega Man himself. An adorable Robot Kid who has saved the world eleven times.
  • Exaggerated in the three-episode OVA, which is made of this trope. Adorable chibi robots, Roll looks so cute in that kimono.
  • Roll from Mega Man Powered Up and especially Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. Even though she's normally one of the sweeter characters, she is more than capable of taking out not only Dr. Wily's army of Robot Masters (Dr. Light's brainwashed Robot Masters, that is), with a broomstick.
  • Mega Man Battle Network's incarnation of Mega Man is an artificial intelligence designed to look and act like a sweet young boy. He (and his equally young owner) fights terrorists. And gangsters. And cybernetic evil space gods. And Bass.
  • MegaMan Volnutt in Mega Man Legends, much like his original counterpart. He dislikes fighting and shows compassion towards others, including his enemies, but when the time comes, he will kick your ass.
• Klonoa, anybody? He's an adorable cat-like creature with big long ears. He could also throw you across the screen.
• T3-M4 from Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel. Particularly takes a level in badass in the sequel, where at one point he casually shuts down HK-47 when he starts getting too snoopy.
  • Not to mention single-handedly demolishing three HK-50 droids at once on Nar Shaddaa. In one-on-one combat.
  • T3's Spiritual Successor in Star Wars: The Old Republic, T7-01, definitely counts. A cute little astromech droid who hasn't had a memory wipe for at least two centuries, considers himself the true hero of the story (partially justifiable, considering that he had front row seats to the start of the last war) and is the first astromech droid who had his language translated — and he is speaking in equations! That is the first companion character a Jedi Knight gets. He is a tank.
  T7-01: T7 + Jedi = save galaxy! // T7 + Jedi = best heroes ever!
  • Jedi Consulars get Nadia Grell for a Padawan. The pampered daughter of a Senator (and only known Force Sensitive member of her species) who looks like a strong breeze could whisk her away...and things explode when she gets too excited because she has the strongest raw talent in Force telekenesis the Order's seen in a generation.
  • On the Imperial side of The Old Republic we have the Bounty Hunter's first companion Mako. Despite working in a distinctly amoral career she constantly supports light-sided actions and takes the time to comfort a woman terrified out of her mind after you two just shot your way into the building. As for the badass side of the equation, we'll let the girl speak for herself:
  "I'm not just the pretty sidekick, buster!"
  • Hunters also get Blizz. He's a Jawa, ya know those cute robed little guys with glowy yellow eyes? He's small, even by their standards. Calls you "Boss." As excitable and cheery as a sugar-high squirrel. Somehow manages to carry a rocket-launcher under his cloak. Mechanically, he's a tank.
  • Also on the Imperial side we have Ashara, the Sith Inquisitor's melee DPS. She's calm, quiet, contemplative, gets rather nervous when the possibility of a relationship is approached, and will murder you with two lightsabers if she feels it's necessary.
  • Treek, a companion you get via Microtransactions is an Ewok who is geared as a tank/healer hybrid and is a pretty vicious little ankle-biter despite the fact that she's about two-feet tall.
• A number of champions from League of Legends
  • Yordles are a race of small, fuzzy gnome-like people from a plain outside of the human realm. They're very cute and pure of heart, but herald a number of experienced warriors, mages, and inventors who can ruin your day if you endanger them.
    • Poppy for example is no taller than a human child. She's also clad in thick armor and fights with a hammer that's almost twice we're height in length, displaying Herculean levels of strength.
  • Lux is considered the most powerful mage in all of Demacia, being able to fire huge lasers and awaken a colossal gargoyle. She's also a cute, sweet and preppy young woman who's too nice to even Trash Talk her enemies.
  • Nami is a benevolent mermaid who's super cute and a Friend to All Living Things ... with the ability to trap you inside a bubble and send a gigantic tidal wave crashing down on you.
  • Nunu and Willump are a duo consisting of a energetic young boy and his big, furry yeti-friend. Their "fighting style" consists of chucking snowballs and rolling around in the ice, more playing than battling, yet they're both worthy of being some of the greatest heroes in the Freljord.
• Tita Russel from The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky is an adorable 12-year-old girl who looks like she couldn't put up much of a fight. But one blast from her cannon should prove otherwise. In a series where distance means a lot in battle, she can aim just about anywhere on the battlefield, and outside of combat is a Wrench Wench in training who's not afraid to get her hands dirty. Later, in Trails of Cold Steel III, her group's one of the ones that Class VII doesn't have to back up during an Ouroboros attack, likely because she's the only Thors Branch Campus student to have fought Ouroboros previously. The same game also gives us protagonist Estelle Bright, a ditzy, none too bright teenage girl who frequently gets herself into trouble. Enemies learn the hard way not to underestimate her not insignificant skill with the staff, and just as she's quick to smile, she's also quick to anger.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • Young Link from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is a downright adorable child who attracts a lot of puppy love from many equally adorable girls. He's also pretty skilled with a sword, and able to take down hostile monsters with relative ease. In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, he manages to perform even bigger feats like fighting off aliens with a bow and arrow, chasing down a mechanical goat, becoming the captain of an army of skeletons, and suplexing a giant sand worm! His Deku and Goron forms are cute and badass in their own ways.
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: Even among the other Links who often fall into this trope, this Link stands out in the Hyrule Historia timeline as having the most known accomplishments. Let us review: he survived having Hyrule turned against him, was the first Hero after the death of the Hero of Time long ago, defeated Ganon, was whisked away to save the Oracles of the Goddesses of Power and Wisdom, Din and Nayru, rescued the lands of Holodrum and Labrynna, brought down Twinrova, slayed Ganon once again, and on his way back home liberated the Wind Fish and the island of its dreams from the Nightmares infesting it before presumably making it back home to Hyrule. That is quite the resume. Even in Hyrule Encyclopedia's version of the timeline, he stands out for being the only (canon) Link to defeat Ganon when the latter has the power of the full Triforce.
  • The Link in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, despite not even being related to the other Links, manages to succeed where the other Links in his timeline failed and kill Ganondorf for good while looking cute as a button the entire time. There is also how he kills him: A plunging stab to the head that buries the Master Sword almost to its hilt.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess:
    • Midna as well, at least in her "imp" form.
    • Colin is an utterly adorable little boy that's also pretty timid and unsure of himself, so much so that you just wanna hug the poor kid. However, he's the one who keeps trying to raise the spirits of the other children by choosing to believe Link will come for them, and when King Bulblin nearly tramples Beth, Colin leaps over and shoves her out of the way before giving the foe that's many times his size the most badass, defiant glare ever. When rescued, he's definitely changed for the better because he realizes his dad was nudging him to have courage all along. The ending even shows him returning home while carrying the Ordon Sword and either the Ordon Shield or Wooden Shield on his backside.
  • Many incarnations of Zelda herself count, especially in The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks where she can take over a giant walking suit of armor while still retaining a cute/innocent personalty. Then in the endgame, she and Link form an adorable Battle Couple to take on a demon bent on and capable of destroying the world.
  • Tulin from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is young Rito warrior who looks like an adorable bird. He's also a warrior prodigy who rivals and ultimately surpasses the skill of both his father and the legendary Rito champion Revali despite being younger than either of them. And from a gameplay perspective, he and his Sage Avatar are by far the most effective in combat, being the only ones who can reliably stun foes with headshots.
• LEGO Adaptation Games are known to do this: first we have LEGO Star Wars, that allows the player to re-live all the series' Awesome Moments while playing as LEGO minifigures. Then came LEGO Batman, that is just this side of Batman: Arkham Asylum in terms of sheer badassness. And now we got LEGO Harry Potter and LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean... you name it, really.
• LittleBigPlanet's Sackboy. Powers of a god. Time manipulation, matter control, creation and destruction, and immortality (If you're playing the level editor). And as Yahtzee put it, he "looks like the result of a sinister experiment to concentrate cuteness to a weaponized level for use against angry girlfriends".
• The titular Little King in Little King's Story. A 3-foot tall child who takes over the world, frees and marries seven princesses, and opens up sealed cans of Badass just to punch them out.
• Juliet Starling from Lollipop Chainsaw. A cute blonde cheerleader who kills zombies with a pink chainsaw. Enough said.
• Being a Doujin Fighting Game that crosses five different Cute Witch animes (those being Ojamajo Doremi, Twin Princess of Wonder Planet, Princess Comet, Fan Fan Pharmacy, and Kasumin), Magical Chaser: Stardust of Dreams has these for every playable character. Yes, even Meteo and Bibin
• Mass Effect:
  • In the first game, Liara and Tali. Liara is a socially awkward archaeologist that has never been in a relationship before, and can scatter enemy troopers like papers in a hurricane and crush tanks like tin cans. Tali is Naïve Newcomer that, similarly to Liara, has never been in a relationship, but can shut down your shields, make your weapons explode, and poison your nervous system with a few taps on her omni-tool.
    • Note that, with the serious turn towards the dark that happens in Mass Effect 2, the "adorable" factor for these two gets reduced. In the two years between the games, Shepard's death, Cerberus' attack on the Migrant Fleet, Liara's newfound obsession with the Shadow Broker, and the Collector attacks, the galaxy has become a much rougher place, particularly for these two. Tali becomes adorable again in her romance, as does Liara if you have Lair of the Shadow Broker added. By the time Mass Effect 3 rolls around, though, Liara and Tali are just as hard and weary as every other character.
  • Legion, among other badass designations.
  • The Retaliation DLC for Mass Effect 3 allows you to play as a volus in multiplayer.
  • Mass Effect: Andromeda has the salarian Pathfinder Zevin Raeka, who talks with a bright and bubbly voice, and kicks enough ass in the space of ten minutes that Nakmor Drack wonders if she's actually half-krogan.
• Dr. Fetus from Super Meat Boy. He may be pretty ugly and be disgusting in some ways, like when you really acknowledge that he's a fetus, but that little fetus body is just adorable! Really, almost the entire cast qualifies. Yes, even Bandage Girl.
• Metal Gear:
  • Otacon, for that matter. Combine his male-Meganekko-osity, shyness, niceness, and nerdiness with his genius hacker-dom, the fact that he's the creator of freakin' Metal Gear Rex, and his Heroic Sacrifice tendencies, and you get one true Badass Adorable.
  • Sunny from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Seven years old, cute as a button, and able to take down an AI that has effectively taken over the world.
• In Minecraft, you travel a many Earth-sized world on your own (or with a small handful of friends), hunting and gathering to keep yourself fed enough to stay alive, building your own homes and even cities from scratch out of wild and underground raw materials, slaying hundreds upon hundreds of undead and Eldritch Abominations, smelting metals into your own 24-Hour Armor, mastering arcane magic and navigating the netherworld. All while being a cartoonish toylike being Built with LEGO.
• Monster Hunter:
  • The Felynes, a race of two-foot-tall bipedal cat people who have integrated into human society, serving as cooks, farmers and housekeepers. Some of the bravest ones are chosen to become Palicos, assisting hunters in battle by using support items and knocking the hunter out of the way of attacks. Well-trained and equipped Palicos are capable of bringing down large wyverns on their own! Despite the misconception that Felynes are mere Battle Thralls, they are actually equal citizens in the human realm, and in fact Felcote was a mere Felyne who attained the rank of Guild Knight; Guild Knights outrank hunters and are responsible for ensuring hunters abide by guild regulations, as well as protecting major population centres from monster attacks.
  • Probably the most badass Palico the player meets is Whitescruff from Cheeko Sands. He spends a large portion of the game sitting in the village whining about how he's a cowardly loser who panicked at the sight of an Akantor who beat his old master; dealing with this same Akantor will get him to ask you for a job. Not only is Whitescruff a capable Palico but he's also an aggressive Fighter-type Palico who unlocks two key abilities; his health and attack shoot up when you're badly hurt, and he has a special attack that involves jumping at the monster's face to claw its eyes out. Not bad, little guy.
  • Monster Hunter: Rise introduces Palamutes, which are basically dogs compared to the more humanoid Felynes. That said, they can be trained and equipped to have damage output on par with the player character just like Palicoes. They can also perform a Wall Run just like Hunters with the added bonus of not losing any stamina.
• The fangame Mother: Cognitive Dissonance and Mother 4 have this as well, with a hat wearing Mr. Saturn in Cognitive Dissonance and the three kids of Mother 4.
• The Nasuverse is peppered with this trope.
  • Arcueid from Tsukihime is more well known for being a bit adorably ditzy than being sexy. Also known more for her outrageously broken strength.
  • The Fate/stay night girls all have their moments.
  • Ilya is probably the most prominent there. Of course, she also happens to be a complete (but intensely sympathetic) psychopath loli who isn't as young as she looks.
  • Some would even regard Shiki Ryougi as one.
• Ninjabread Man — A cute, little cookie that so happens to know self-defense.
• Octopath Traveler:
  • Merchant Tressa Colzione fights a lot of threats no regular merchant should fight. She fends off an entire pirate horde by herself and even takes down its two bosses, liberates Quarrycrest from the evil landlord robbing everyone from their gold findings, fights and kills a damn saber-tooth tiger with poisonous attacks, and defeats a dangerous female thief who had stolen her diary. Lampshaded by the last one of the list who can't believe "a little child" like her bested them in combat.
  • The cleric, Ophilia, also qualifies. She is a soft-spoken sweetheart, but underneath her modest demeanour is one of the strongest resolves of the eight protagonists, having experienced loss of loved ones in her life and recovered thanks to her adoptive sister Lianna's love and support. Good thing too, because she has to deal with a cult on her journey that successfully convinces Lianna that they can bring her recently-deceased father Back from the Dead if she helps them corrupt the Sacred Flame with a God of Evil's power.
• Prince Cornelius and Princess Mercedes from Odin Sphere. The former was cursed into an adorable rabbit-like creature while the other is a fairy from an enchanted forest. They both hold powerful weapons, though, with Cornelius's being a magic sword while Mercedes has an enchanted crossbow.
• Ōkami: Never has divinity been so... so... fluffy. Unless you're a goblin (or some other disposable monstrosity), you can ignore Amaterasu's other defining characteristic. Seriously, she won't even mind if you walk right up to pet her; Kushinada does this every time she sees Ammy. It helps that half the cast thinks she's just an ordinary dog even after she saves them, calling her Fluffy, Poochie, Fido, Wolfy, Furball, Snowy, Mutt, Powderpuff...
  • And if you thought Amaterasu couldn't get any more adorable, the Gaiden Game Ōkamiden one-ups the original by making the player character (named Chibiterasu) a tiny puppy dog instead. For an added bonus (if one was necessary), he spends most of the game carrying around kids on his back, most of whom are at least some degree of Badass Adorable in and of themselves. And, like his mother, Chibi can't catch a break in the name department, being variously referred to as Mutt, Pooch, Dude, and Squiddy.
  • Made even more adorable in Marvel vs. Capcom 3, in which Ammy is a playable character.
• Onmyoji is chock full of this which comes in the form of children, starting with one of the main characters Kagura. Some of them manage to be both this and Creepy Children.
• Opoona, Copoona, and Poleena all look like Playskool figurines. All of them fight the forces that corrupt half an entire planet.
  • This is pretty much their species hat in fact, to the point that their planet's constitution reads more like a warrior code.
• Ori and the Blind Forest: Ori. A young forest spirit willing to show kindness to others but still a force to be reckoned with.
• Overwatch:
  • Tracer is very cute, but make no mistake. She can tear the entire enemy team a new one if they don't know what coming to them.
  • D.va. She's a very cute 19-year-old girl who is a professional gamer that can keep up with seasoned combatants.
  • Mei. Cute as a button, and armed with devices which can freeze the hell out of you.
  • Orisa. She's a tough, heavily-armed machine built to defend her country of origin, but as shown in her Highlight Intro, she can go from violent and badass to cute and adorable in an instant.
  • Mercy is a beautiful yet skilled nurse equipped with both a healing staff and a medium-range blaster. She also has very cute quirks when choosing an emote of hers.
• Kooh from Pangya. The 11-year-old Token Mini-Moe is also a pirate captain who hauls around a cannon and rides a giant bomb.
• Planet 404 has Captain Death. He's a cute amoeba-like creature who runs a ruthless pirate business.
• The plants from Plants vs. Zombies are a (mostly) cute zombie-slaying, lawn-defending army that can be grown from just a few seeds and a little sunlight.
• Turrets from the Portal games. They will shoot the crap out of anything they target, but the things they say are incredibly adorable.
• Nippon Ichi also brought us Marona, of Phantom Brave fame: 13-year old orphan who just wants to be happy and make friends. Is also a mercenary-for-hire with an army of phantoms, routinely hired to go into some of the most inhospitable places in Ivoire to deal with supernatural threats and attacking armies, managed to slay a legendary monster that the legendary hero Scarlet only succeeded in sealing away, and spearheads the operation to defeat the game's Big Bad. (To say nothing of the postgame content.) Thanks to the game mechanics, it's also perfectly permissible to make her a Lightning Bruiser and have her curb-stomp enemies way above her own level without having to rely on her army.
• As stated, a good number of Pokémon and even their trainers.
  • All "cute Mythical Pokémon" (Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, Manaphy, Shaymin, Victini) qualify. Notably Jirachi has a creepy eye, Celebi can Time Travel, and Shaymin transforms into a more badass form which is just as adorable.
  • The protagonists and their rivals are almost always this, except for a few side game ones who are older.
  • Gardevoir. The paragon Cute Monster Girl in the Pokémon world, and one of the strongest Psychic-types in the game.
  • Dragonite. It flies and shoots hyper beams!
  • Iris is one. Drayden's assistant in Black, Gym Leader in White and Champion in the sequels. She also pretends to do a roar at the beginning of battle... and then she sends out a Hydreigon.
  • Ukulele Pichu from Guardian Signs. Unlike all other Pokémon, it will still do the assist even if it's hit by Beam Spam/whatever-attack of Pokémon engineered to be the most powerful one (Mewtwo) or even the god ITSELF (Arceus).
  • Eevee and all its possible evolutions, being adorable fox-like creatures. Sylveon of Gen VI in particular immediately gained this reputation once people learned of its type and what it's capable of doing. That badass Garchomp you're holding? Sylveon will eat it and ask for seconds. ^note Unless your Garchomp has a Steel type move, like Iron Head.
  • In Pokémon X and Y, any baby Pokémon you catch in the wild (Azurill, Budew, Riolu, etc.) will always have 3 maxed out IVs.^note Individual Values; basically genes that determine how high a Pokemon's stats can be trained.
  • Goodra, an adorable slime dragon who is very friendly, loves giving its trainers hugs, can take special attacks like a tank, and hits like one as well.
  • Pikachu, in Pokkén Tournament. The way he crosses his arms and scowls, it looks like he's trying to imitate Heihachi Mishima, and looks all the cuter for it. The similarities to one of Tekken's poster boys doesn't end there, though: he can also use a handful of Mishima-style Karate techniques. While Pikachu in the main series was generally of this trope, it's more noticeable here.
    • Pikachu Libre, a second, female, Pikachu who happens to be wearing a masked wrestler outfit and using bonecrushing throws, while still being an adorable Pikachu. Her trainer will even call her "adorably tough!"
  • Azumarill. It looks like an adorable cross between a rabbit and a beach ball. Its typing, movepool, and abilities makes it one of the game's most effective dragon slayers.
  • Cute Monster Girl Lopunny joins the ranks thanks to her Mega Evolution. Gains lots of speed, attack, and the Fighting-type.
  • Arcanine. It's a big fluffy dog, and its pre-evolved Growlithe form is a little fluffy puppy. It just so happens that Arcanine is a big fluffy dog that's 6' tall, 350 pounds, and breathes fire. Anyone that tries to harm its trainer will be sent into orbit◊.
  • The Sinnoh lake guardians are probably the cutest legendary trio, and are no less useful. Special mention to Azelf, who has the combination of an excellent movepool, sky-high offenses, and fantastic speed that makes it one of the better Pokémon in Smogon's UU tier.
  • The protagonists of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon by default. The player and partner are only cutesy first stage Pokémon, yet as the games go on they are eventually forced to fight (and beat) professional explorers, criminals, and Legendaries.
  • At the beginning of Pokémon Sun and Moon, a random Youngster asks Professor Kukui about the battle moves he's studying. After you become the League Champion, that same Youngster shows up to ask you for advice about battle moves... as a title challenger!
  • Poppy from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is a sweet little girl who greets everyone with a smile and gives all her Pokémon adorable nicknames. She's also an Elite Four member who packs the sort of power you expect from one. And what type of Pokémon does she specialize in? Steel-types!
    • The Teal Mask DLC ultimately reveals Ogerpon to be this: A small Ridiculously Cute Critter who is shorter than the player, sweet-natured, Constantly Curious, fun-loving, has four different Tera forms unlocked through her four masks, an absolutely massive Physical Attack stat, and kicked the butts of the Loyal Three six ways to Sunday to avenge her human companion after they attacked (and possibly murdered) him.
• The Professor Layton series gives us Emmy Altava, a young woman who was the Professor's first assistant. She's sweet, she likes her zingers, she's a good cook, and, when push comes to shove, she's a hyper competent fighter.
• The campers of Psychonauts are all pre-teen psychics in-training. Most notable is Raz, who not only learns several potent psychic techniques but is also a skilled acrobat due to his life as a Romani Circus Brat.
• Puyo Puyo has a number of examples:
  • The best-known example is Arle Nadja, the protagonist of the Madou Monogatari RPG series that Puyo Puyo was spun off from. She's able to take on giant chickens, zombies, various other enemies, and even Satan using only her magic, and in some of those games she's only a kindergarten student.
  • When controlled by human players, Lidelle from the Fever sub-series is this trope. As an AI opponent, however...
• Ratchet & Clank. A cute little fuzzy alien with big round eyes, an incredibly expressive face, and enough weaponry to take down a dozen intergalactic armies..... literally, and his cute little robot friend, a secret agent who can grow into a Godzilla sized living weapon and control time. Saving all of time and space while looking incredibly cute.
• Rayman and all his friends. His many, many friends (even if most of them are just glorified Palette Swaps).
• Rebecca Chambers, from the Resident Evil series. Originally just a pixie-esque medic, we later learn that she fought her way through a night of Lovecraftian horrors before Chris Redfield ever saw his first zombie. Also, in her cameo in the "Mercenaries Reunion" mode in Resident Evil 5, she sets people on fire.
• Leanne from Resonance of Fate, even in-Universe. Several NPCs gush about how adorable she is, and as for being a badass... well, she can gun down a tank or two.
• Rosemary from Rose of Winter is this in spades. She's a hopeless romantic, flusters easily, thinks "this is a bit of a pickle" is coarse language, and wants to be a knight not for the thrill of battle, but because she sees it as a way to help people. Which she does by swinging a sword that would make Cloud Strife jealous at any and all gigantic wild animals that try to harm the prince she's sworn to protect.
• Micah, the main character from Rune Factory 3, is a half-human, half-monster hybrid, and has the ability to transform between a human and monster form. Of course, his monster form is that of an adorable, fluffy sheep-like creature called a Wooly, and looks like this.◊ The "badass" part comes in when he defeats countless giant monsters in that form with his bear paws.
• Sands of Destruction features a couple:
  • Taupy is basically a living teddy bear, but he has a ridiculously powerful flurry attack combo that makes him a Lightning Bruiser. He has a deep voice and tough guy demeanor, but that doesn't stop Kyrie from calling him a stuffed animal (not that Taupy likes it).
  • Rhi'a is a Cute Monster Girl dragonkin. Aside from Taupy, she's the smallest to join your team, an Elegant Gothic Lolita, and she enjoys being a bit of a playful troll at times (particularly to Agan). She's also a crack shot with a pair of revolvers and can transform into a more draconic version of herself to deal damage with her claws.
  • The Hero Kyrie is a young Bishōnen who's led a very sheltered life thus far and knows little about the world outside Barni Village; his naivete, niceness, and wide-eyed idealism can evoke protective instincts. In addition to squeeing about Taupy being small and cute, his infatuation with Morte is so obvious it's comical and even endearing. While he's not incompetent at the start of the game, he later takes a level and becomes able to wipe the floor with just about any opponent.
• Sengoku Basara's resident Moe-fanbait is Sanada Yukimura — wide-eyed, naive, intensely loyal, incredibly polite... and completely oblivious to all things sexual. He's also the most stupidly Hot-Blooded Screaming Warrior in the series and looks like a fluffy puppy.
• Most of the playable cast from Senran Kagura counts, being super cute schoolgirl ninjas.
• Shadowverse: Luna is the cutest Necromancer to ever exist. Also, some of the lower-cost female follower cards are like this (especially the fairies, elves, maids, ninjas, and even undead creatures).
• Shall We Date?: Ninja Shadow has the Player Character Saori Shishido, a doll-like bifauxnen who arrives to Nagasaki as an Action Survivor who needs to hone her ninja skills fast so she can avenge her brother's death, but at the end of each route has grown into as a full-fledged Action Girl whose boyfriends LOVE how strong she has become AND how adorable she is.
• Shantae is an adorable young adult girl who also happens to be a very powerful half-genie. How badass is she? She was able to defeat the Pirate Master, who was merely sealed away by all the remaining genies. Shantae, as a half breed, was able to permanently kill him! If that wasn't enough, she also managed to defeat the Empress Siren, an entity described to be more black hearted than Risky Boots who had been only stripped of her powers before, and even after absorbing the essences of Plink, Vera, Zapple, Harmony, and Rotty, along with Risky's soul, Shantae succeeded in permanently killing her as well!
• Plenty of examples among the Skylanders, but the biggest standout is Whirlwind, a unicorn/dragon hybrid with feathery wings who shoots rainbows from her horn. When she went on a Roaring Rampage of Rescue against the trolls who hunted both of her species of origin, she became The Dreaded for the forces of evil.
  • All of the Minis, who are Fun Size versions of other Skylanders but pack just as much power as their full-size counterparts, count as well.
• Birb, the Player Character of SongBird Symphony, is a young chick with almost unseen before singing abilities. In a universe where singing is power, he definitely kicks ass while being a total cutie.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Tails. In case you don't know him already, he's a young two-tailed fox who likes to invent things and also likes to go on adventures with his bestest buddy Sonic. Take this moment from Sonic Adventure 2, for example, right after Eggman traps Sonic in a space pod that is set to explode upon launch ^note  though he escaped thanks to using Chaos Control with the fake emerald and Tails having witnessed it all:
    Tails: ... Sonic...
    Eggman: Huh?
    Tails: Sonic has asked me — for the first time — to do something for him. I won't let him down; I won't give up!
  • Arguments could be made for most of the cast, including Shadow◊. The resident badass Anti-Hero is three feet tall and fluffy.
• Soul Nomad & the World Eaters packs a few, being one of Nippin Ichi's more serious titles. You have Danette, cute, ditzy and slightly amnesiac who tears through enemies with knives and regularily makes remarks about snapping peoples' necks (and actually does so to one of your allies). Trish, a refined merchant's daughter, always positive and cheerful, who leads a mercenary company. And then there are the angels. Cute little baby-like guys... armed with guns.
• Being a fighting game with a variety of characters, the Soul Series is bound to have some adorable folks kicking ass. Although the biggest one is probably Pyrrha Alexandra, who is able to wield SoulEdge without losing her soul to it.
• Splatoon:
  • The Inklings are a species of Voluntary Shapeshifting teenagers that can transform between squids and humanoids with tentacles for hair, small fangs, and racoon-like eyes. The hottest sport in the Inkling world is called Turf War — which, were it not for Non-Lethal KOs, would effectively be a Blood Sport. As such, most Inklings are trained wielding a variety of ink-based weaponry, including Sniper Rifles, Gatling guns, and giant paint rollers and brushes. The same goes for their Octoling counterparts, who can transform into octopi.
    • Special mention goes out to your own player character, an agent of the New Squidbeak Splatoon who has faced off against octopus invaders, their powerful robotic war machines, and countless other threats.
  • The Octarian forces are comprised mainly of Waddling Head-like octopus tentacles that control miniature tanks and show no fear on the front lines (well, most of them). The more elite troops are made up of the aforementioned Octolings.
  • DJ Octavio, the Octarian military leader, spends all his time in his giant octopus form, which is actually rather cute, and very humorous. Nevertheless, he can still put up a fight from his Humongous Mecha while laying down spicy beats.
  • The Salmonids — a horde of fish creatures that have leveled countless Inkling cities — qualify under Ugly Cute with their big, goofy eyes.
• You can make one in Spore if you're clever enough.
• Starbound has the Florans, a race of extremely savage and dangerous plant people who hunger for flesh and nearly exterminated the entire Hylotl race, and are considered one of the most dangerous things in the universe. Never the less they are cute, colorful, childishly innocent, fun-loving and surprisingly friendly when they don't feel a need to fight you. The game also has the poptop, a little brown furry creature that looks like a cuddly toy... until it opens a massive fanged maw and attempts to chew your limbs off. If you find an actual poptop toy, most racial descriptions will point out how dangerous the real thing is and how wrong it is to make a toy of it.
• Meracle Chamlotte from Star Ocean: The Last Hope doesn't seem all that badass at first glance, being a Stripperific Moe Catgirl, but once you max out her Critical skill and get her some decent equipment her multi-hit killer moves become absurdly deadly; she can clear the field with a single Claws of Fury that scores something on the order of a dozen consecutive critical hits.
• The hero and sidekick of Stray are a friendly young ginger cat and a floating toy drone respectively. Throughout the game they survive hordes of Zurks, outwit and outrun the draconic Sentinels, and eventually work together to free the City from its extended period of isolation.
• Street Fighter — This trope actually applies to most, if not all females in the series.
  • Chun-Li. She may be the "strongest woman in the world", but when she wins a match she jumps up and down girlishly, strikes a V-Sign and shouts "Yatta!"
  • Sakura fits as well with various stereotypical 'schoolgirl' entries, fighting in a sailor suit and having a huge crush on Ryu that she seldom bothers to hide.
  • Makoto is the cutest karate girl ever! Ibuki and her cute hairstyle is also heart-wrenchingly cute as well!
  • Whenever Elena isn't busy battling in the arena, she's even busier making and hanging out with friends.
  • Karin is a schoolgirl who wears a school uniform similar to Sakura's but with different colors. She has curly blonde Goldilocks-esque hair, and wears high-heeled shoes. She is also highly trained in her family's own martial arts style, and will effortlessly kick a grown man's ass.
  • Cammy would also qualify with her long blonde braids and her cute win pose where she looks at you over her shoulder, winks, and gives a thumbs up.
  • And then we have Ingrid. She looks like a teenage girl and makes the exact sort of snappy quips that you'd expect an average teenage girl to make. She is also the closest the series has to God, and is exactly as powerful as you'd expect God to be, what with the whole "creating Psycho Power" thing.
• Summon Night: Swordcraft Story and its sequel has you playing as either a male or female youth who is also an apprentice smith. Early on in either game, you wind up pairing with one of four possible summon creatures, most of whom are pretty cute in their own right (Kutty, Sugar, Arno, etc.). The two of you will then go on to be a powerful force with your character learning and forging newer and more badass weapons while your summon learns newer and more powerful spells.
  • Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2 has Gabriel, a wolf-boy summon creature who is a good kid and quite cute in his own right. He's also the mysterious knight who fights you several times throughout the game, but he eventually backs down and tries to help you in the end. His ending is all sorts of Heartwarming.
  • Oddly enough, Goura, the final boss of the second game, is this once he's restored to his former self by the main character. After two battles with a gigantic, powerful final boss, it's kinda surprising to see this cute little imp/demon summon in his place once the battle's over!
• Super Mario Bros.
  • Yoshi. The adorable dinosaur that can swallow anything whole, turn said anything into eggs, and THEN use them as ammo. He took on a super-sized Baby Bowser while at the exact same time keeping a baby on his back and running an obstacle course, all the while trying to keep the baby from being kidnapped!
  • Mario himself qualifies, being a happy-go-lucky, cheerful man who can level armies with ease. His brother, Luigi is more of a Lovable Coward but still able to keep pace with Mario in terms of power. This is somewhat downplayed though, as they're both fully capable adults despite their goofy personalities and cute, cartoony designs.
  • The Koopa Troop, an army of adorable turtles, grumpy mushrooms, and giggling ghosts.
  • On the subject of antagonists, Jr. Troopa. Over the course of Paper Mario, he stalks and challenges you several times, each time with some new gimmick to throw you off, such as growing a spike or wings, or learning magic. In your final encounter with him, he knocks out the Koopa Bros. with ease so he can fight you, and when you beat him, the Bowser Door concludes that you, for all intents and purposes, did the equivalent of beating the Koopa Bros., and lets you through. Why did he chase you down, through freezing cold snow fields, a dark forest, an imposing castle, and other locations just to get to you? You entered his playground.
  • Anytime Peach gets dangerous, she proves to be at least as competent as Mario himself.
  • For every ounce of Badass Bowser has in him, Bowser Jr. has a pound of Badass Adorable. From his small and cute design, complete with a bib with fangs drawn on it, to his chipper attitude, always looking forward to a fight. In every game he appears in it's made clear that the main reasons he fights Mario and company is either because he takes it all as a big, fun game, or because he just wants to make his father happy. Even Bowser often drops his usual attitude in favor of Cuteness Proximity when he's interacting with his son.
  • There's also the Koopalings, though YMMV on how cute a number of them are with all their individual personality quirks, but special shout-out goes to Lemmy Koopa, who seems like he'd rather play and audition for the circus than take over the world. Doesn't stop him from trying to kick Mario's tail when he absolutely has to.
• Super Panda Adventures: The Player Character, Fu, is an adorable panda who has to fight off an invasion of alien robots, and save the princess they kidnapped.
• Tales Series:
  • Tales of Rebirth — Surprise, surprise... Eugene Gallardo. Though not in the main game, but is described in Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology as "big, fluffy, cute, huggable" by Tear. Mao could qualify, as well.
  • Tales of Vesperia — Karol Capel and Estelle, who is surprisingly effective at battle given her gentle nature. Patty as well, in the PS3 version. Rita also qualifies, especially considering her Tsundere nature and awkwardness in social situations...which does not prevent her from inventing Meteor Storm in an optional sidequest and otherwise tearing apart the battlefield.
  • Tales of Graces — Sophie. Just see it for yourself if you don't believe it.
  • Tales of the Abyss — Anise Tatlin. Luke also qualifies Post-Important Haircut as he gets downright dorky while having access to a power that could wipe out the whole world.
  • Tales of Eternia — Meredy, one of the cutest video game characters ever but also capable of wiping out the enemy with her summons.
  • Tales of Xillia — Elise Lutus. Quite possibly the most adorable out of all the examples and she has an Off Screen Moment Of Awesome where she holds off and punches back two Aquadragons that give you grief later by herself. Jude can be quite endearing himself and he punches out Maxwell among other achievements.
  • Tales of Berseria — Laphicet, a cute cheerful young boy who can dish out high-level spell Artes including Indignation like candy, manages to pull the main heroine of the game out of her Despair Event Horizon through sheer determination, decking a god in the face after promising to do so, and saves the entire world by becoming a new god in his place. Did we mention that he's also one of the youngest characters in the entire series?
• Tamarin: The titular Player Character is a cute-as-a-button little Tamarin who has to stop an invasion of invading Big Creepy-Crawlies by mowing them down with a variety of weapons.
• Them's Fightin' Herds: The main characters are all cute anthropomorphic ungulates designed by the same person responsible for Friendship is Magic. But this is a fighting game, so they are also all really good at beating the crap out of each other and the hundreds of Predators that try to get in their way to save their world.
• In TinkerQuarry, our cast includes a little girl, and several adorable toy animals. And nearly all of them are dangerous fighters.
• One of the default animals in Tokyo Jungle is a feral Pomeranian dog... who is still able to bring down gazelles with a well-timed Clean Kill.
• Tokyo Xanadu has a couple:
  • Sora Ikushima, one of the youngest of the party members available who is by far one of the cutest of the bunch, but is also considered a karate prodigy. Needless to say, she's a Lightning Bruiser who will lay the smackdown on foes and be an utter sweetie elsewhere.
  • Yuuki Shinomiya has shades of this, although he hides it behind a huge veneer of indifference to socializing with anyone else and total lack of social graces, but the friendship he forms with Kou has shades of a sweet boy underneath.
  • White Shroud is a TOTAL badass when you play him in eX+'s side chapters, being a knight of the church. Come the final chapter, you then will be stunned to find out this badass is none other than your adorable friend, Jun Kohinata!
• Touhou Project. Quite a lot of the Girls of Gensokyo are really, really cute, and they all either have crazy powers or plenty of danmaku with which to protect themselves.
  • Perhaps the best example here: Flandre Scarlet. A Cheerful Child, who loves her sister so much that she really doesn't mind having been locked in the basement for the past 495 years. And she canonically has the power to destroy absolutely anything. That's on top of enough firepower to utterly annihilate most humans she tries to play with. And you would never know it by looking at her◊.
• Undertale:
  • Your character, who can destroy the barrier without shedding a drop of blood or destroy the entire Underground despite being a small, cute little kid.
  • Toriel is an old lady that takes the player character to her home, protects them from traps and other monsters along the way, and is just so adorable (you can even hug her!). Don't let her kind demeanor fool you, for she is a very powerful user of magic and won't hesitate to kick your behind down the hall if she doesn't hold back.
  • Papyrus may be more Ugly Cute than outright cute, but his absolutely sweet and supportive personality make him adorable. He still shouldn't be taken lightly!
  • The king of them all, crossing over with Iron Woobie, is the goat monster Asgore. Throughout the story, the player gets information that he may be a big softie. He is indeed very sweet, yet sees killing the protagonist as something he has to do no matter how much he might not wish to.
• Little Nana of Vanguard Bandits who's around twelve, has her hair up in pig-tails and is always followed by her platypus pal Kyu-Kyu, is fully capable of being a terror on the battlefield with her personal ATAC even when under-leveled.
• Virtua Fighter: Eileen will scratch you to death with her Monkey Kung-Fu skills.
• The Walking Dead (Telltale) has Clementine, an 8 year old girl who is nice to almost everyone she meets and learns how to fight for herself with the help of Lee Everett. She starts taking levels in it around Episode 3 of the first season, and has grown into one by the beginning of the second season. In fact, it is Clementine that William Carver considers his biggest threat. By New Frontier, she's a teenage girl who's fully capable of kicking grown men and walkers's asses alike.
• A Witch's Tale has Liddell and the princesses, who are all adorable and can easily kick butt.
• In World Heroes, Ryoko may be very genki and short, yet she can perfectly throw a man who is double her size and weight.
• World's End Club: The main cast are a group of kids who awaken Personality Powers while on their trek back to Tokyo.
• World of Tanks. Yes even Tanks can be cute.
  • The Panzerspahwagen II Luchs features stubby proportions and incredible agility that earn the nickname of Puppy Tank. And its 30mm autocannon has good enough penetration to be a terror if it gets a free run on the enemies' flank. The M24 Chaffee has similar cute credentials but does not contest the nickname.
  • The hulking T29 American heavy tank boasts basically impenetrable frontal turret armour, a powerful gun and decent mobility that make it a potent, versatile threat. And two little 'ears' (coincidence rangefinders) on the side of the turret that earn it some cute credentials for many fans.
  • The AMX 40 is a tier 4 light tank with armour that would be good on a tier 5 heavy and bears a resemblance to a rubber duck, which is its nickname.
• World of Warcraft:
  • Gnomes. Especially the females. That three foot tall gnome with bright pink buns tanking a massive boss ten to fifteen times the size of the tallest player race? Adorable. A specific NPC example in Legion is Addie Fizzlebog, a gnome who travels with resident Great White Hunter Hemet Nesingwary and wants in on the action instead of just helping Nesaringwary write his novels. Hemet has the player let Addie tag along and help with quests to hunt down the various creatures of Highmountain, gaining experience as she does. In no time at all she's a crack shot and cheerfully eager for even more.
    Addie: You can't beat the thrill of hunting something ten times your size!
    • Also Millhouse Manastorm, who happens to sport one of the particularly hilarious male gnome hairdos...and will completely wreck your butt with arcane magic.
  • Female Pandaren are also super-cute, and exactly as capable of asskicking as any orc or elf.
    • particularly Li-Li, the daughter of Chen Stormstout. She's a pandaren child, and will kick your butt with a combination of magical beer and a very large stick. Luckily, she prefers healing.
  • Some female Goblin are also pretty cute and since their introduction in Cataclysm, of course badassery is in their traits now.
  • If you compare female blood elves with female of other races (except dwarf, gnome, and goblin, of course) who tend to be either Amazonian Beauty or Statuesque Stunner (even female humans have slightly visible muscle), female blood elves are 'cute' in a sense that they have a slender and petite body, and that they lack visible muscles, but that doesn't prevent them from being badass. Most of them fight as Farstriders, Blood Knights (who are even led by a woman), and various other classes.
  • Young Anduin Wrynn definitely counted. Blond ponytail, blue eyes, faintly ridiculous outfits... and capable of mind control. He has since graduated to Long-Haired Pretty Boy status.
  • Chromie. Looks like a female gnome with braid buns, talks in a high-pitched voice, and is nice to pretty much everyone. She's even cute in her dragon form, which is a welp. But don't let that fool you: she will kick your butt and make bad time puns while doing it.
• Xenogears has Chu-Chu. Adorable? Check? Badass enough to transform into a gear-sized pink.... thing...... who fights to support the man she loves? Double check.
• Veridadia from Yumina the Ethereal, who can turn herself into a BFS capable of destroying anything in a single strike.

Company Examples

• Atlus is fond of this trope.
  • Most of the Frost family of Shin Megami Tensei counts. Black Frost in Nocturne, to Batman fan Frost Ace and the adorably-armored Demonee-Ho in Strange Journey, or King Frost, with the possible exception of series regular Jack Frost, who begins as a Mascot Mook and can badass his way into becoming any of the prior examples.
    • Alice counts, too. Cutest girl ever seen in the games. Extremely lethal sorceress to boot.
    • The Protagonist of Devil Survivor is a 17-year-old who's almost childishly adorable at times. He's either an All-Loving Hero, an Evil Overlord overseeing Humanity's Rage Against the Heavens, or the world's savior.
    • From the same game, Amane Kuzuryu is a Rei Ayanami Expy with a very cute, rarely-seen smile, and she seriously needs a hug. She's also one of the strongest human magicians in the world, and humanity's most unwavering defender.
  • Persona:
    • Koromaru from Persona 3. His victory pose is him cutely scratching himself! Ken Amada, as a 10-year-old cute little boy, might also count. Hell, particularly the whole S.E.E.S. members are definitely this.
    • The Investigation Team in Persona 4 is certainly this, due to them being very good-looking and badass enough to take down anything that comes in their way. Naoto takes a special mention.
    • Naoto is the only party member with a license to carry weapons (specifically, firearms, which are even more heavily restricted), and at one point wins a high-school beauty contest by bailing on it, since it's seen as endearingly shy.
    • Uncle Ryotaro Dojima takes his utterly adorable, 7-year-old daughter Nanako to the shooting range to train with him, by telling her it's a game. It is strongly implied that she is very good at the shooting game.
    • The Phantom Thieves of Hearts in Persona 5 is certainly this but special mention goes to the female members and Morgana. The twins Caroline and Justine also qualify, being simultaneously young girls and the strongest enemies the Thieves can face save for Igor and the Big Bad.
  • Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE:
    • Tsubasa Oribe a Cute Clumsy Genki Girl who can get excited over the smallest things. She's also very handy with a spear and won't hesitate to pierce enemies with it.
    • Mamori Minamoto is an 11-year-old girl and wields an axe in battle.
• Square Enix loves this trope. You've got Moogles, Black Mages, Tarutaru, and even Slimes with battle tanks. The Tonberrys are adorable, but extremely dangerous if one underestimates them.
  • Dragon Quest:
    • Dragon Quest IV: Healie, a little, smiling, flying blue slime joins one of the heroes during the first chapter. He's pretty cute, but he's able to tough it out alongside Ragnar.
    • Dragon Quest V: When Bianca first joins the party, she is a cute, pigtailed 10-year-old who, unlike the Hero, is able to burn monsters to death.
  • There is a young, lovely, cute, spunky, aloof, innocent, friendly, childish Genki Girl in almost every Final Fantasy game: Rydia, Krile, Relm, Yuffie, Selphie, Eiko, Rikku, Penelo, Vanille, and Iris. And all of them cover the badass part of the trope. They are capable of decimating anything, be it with bombs, Black Magic, Summon Magic or just oversized weapons that they shouldn't be able to carry.
  • Selphie is willing to blow up a whole missile base, and that's just one of her moments. Not to mention she possesses the strongest Limit Break in the entire game, called The End, which will wish the enemy into the flower fields in a one-hit KO. Worst of it all? It works on the final boss.
  • One of Vanille's "battle sayings" is "I'm not all flowers and sunshine!" In a sickeningly cute, sweet, sing-song voice. You could hear the jaws hit the floor when it was learned that cute and cheery she had a summon that was a walking war machine. Not to mention that she's the harbinger of the apocalypse. Badass indeed.
  • Vivi from Final Fantasy IX. I mean, come on. The little cutie is the freakin' Woobie, but if he gets angry and/or determined, he will own you.
  • Then there's Rinoa from Final Fantasy VIII, who is cute but also a Sorceress, and basically wields a large chakram that is shot from her wrist!
  • Terra! Mysterious Waif of exotic ancestry? Check. Person of Mass Destruction? Check. Mama Bear? Oh so very, very check. (There is actually more, but you get the idea). And in case you don't, Dissidia Final Fantasy sets Terra up as the girl who snuggles moogles, then frightens Kefka into shutting up. Fans didn't like the badass-ness being underplayed to emphasize her development though.
    • And Gau. The cute, adorable little feral boy who was Raised by Wolves manages to wear out Sabin, the game's leading badass who can suplex a train, calling it a dance. In battle, Gau is a Disc-One Nuke and a Disc Two Tank, who is capable of scratching like a cat for massive damage.
    • There's also the aforementioned Relm, a cheery 12-year-old who uses a paintbrush as her weapon of choice, and threatens enemies by painting them a picture. That thing can actually do a lot of damage, and she's got the highest magic stat in the game, and properly grinded, becomes a ridiculous Game-Breaker.
  • Half-Identical Twins Palom and Porom are Badass Adorable twins.
  • Serah, Lightning's little sister, is the main character of Final Fantasy XIII-2. Damsel in Distress no more. She possesses fighting skills on par with the party members from the original game now, and she's no less cute from it. Her victory pose is catching Empathic Weapon and Team Pet Mog and giving him a hug.
  • Yuna in Final Fantasy X. Adorable girl, not even at adulthood, ready to sacrifice her life to end the world's suffering, all with a smile.
  • Aaaaaaaaaaaaand now we have Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, turning the World of Badass seen in Dissidia Final Fantasy into a World Of Badass Adorable.
  • Sora, Roxas, Ven, Kairi, and Xion from Kingdom Hearts. Still, the absolute best example is none other than Mickey Mouse, who they managed to turn into freaking Yoda, of all things.
  • His Badass quotient has only increased over the games. In Chain of Memories, he's a support character that appears to cast spells. By II, he's playable whenever Sora is defeated, but can't actually finish off bosses (Although his agile combo actually makes him pretty good at wearing them down) . When 358/2 Days made him playable, he was on about the same level as the other playable characters. By Dream Drop Distance he's capable of pulling a ZA WARUDO on every member of the new Organization XIII (including the Big Bads from I and II) in time. The only person capable of resisting is the incarnation of Xehanort with power over time itself. All this from a former steamboat worker.
  • Also from Dream Drop Distance, we've got the Dream Eaters, both Spirit and Nightmare. From bouncing blue "cat-dogs" and purple bats, to electric snails and deer, and undead dinosaurs and wizard rabbits, they really suit the term "adorable killers".
  • Aside from Final Fantasy, The World Ends with You gives us Mr. Mew. An adorable little cat plush that could rip your eyes out.
    • From the same game, Neku Sakuraba and Shiki Misaki, with the former being able to use a Superpower Lottery's worth of Psychic Powers and the latter actually being the one to control Mr. Mew.
    • The sequel brings us Rindo Kanade, while not as abrasive as Neku, is still an awkward teenager; Nagi Usui, an otaku college girl; and Shoka Sakurane, a Reaper turned Player who dresses in cute goth attire, including a Mr. Mew hoodie. All three are just as profient in pins and the other teams soon learn to not underestimate them.
  • Nearly all the Life Is Strange protagonists, but Max Caulfield, Chloe Price, and Alex Chen are the prime examples.
    • For Max: She's an undeniably a Cute Clumsy Girl, who has the power to rewind time. 'Nuff said.
    • For Chloe: She Took a Level in Badass or if not an extent like Max, but there is no doubt that she is beautiful and has a energetic side to her that make her dorky.
    • For Alex: She's really cute for a girl who with a history of beating people up when infected by other peoples' anger. She also had the guts to save Ethan from being scared of his fear to cross the tree in Episode 1.
  • Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider game released in 2013. She always been cute but the 2013 game puts emphasis on her youth, innocence, and overall inexperience.
  • Leah from Chrono Cross is an innocent little cave girl who's much stronger than her small and cute appearance might suggest.
  • Bravely Default gives us Agnes Oblige, an absolutely beautiful girl in both looks and personality as she's by far one of the sweetest characters ever with the purest heart imaginable, yet will stand by her friends and kick your ass to hell and back in whatever job you give her. To a slightly lesser extent is Tiz Arrior, who functions more as the player avatar, but is in turn a sweet boy committed to helping Agnes and others in need while also showing an almost wide-eyed fascination in the world given he's a simple country-boy. He too will kick ass and is more geared towards physical jobs to Agnes' more magical proficiency.
  • From Trials of Mana, we have Riesz, a cute, soft-spoken teenage girl with a spear who not only is the princess of Laurent, but is also the captain of the Amazon Guard, can learn different types of skills (both physical and magical), and can buff her allies and debuff her enemies. Charlotte also counts, being an adorable half-elf cleric who happens to be 15-years-old despite looking like a little kid and becomes your best White Mage.

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