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  • Aang by the end of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Although you would expect the short-statured and physically-unimposing airbender to be more of a Fragile Speedster, mastering the other three elements really shores up his weak points. Being able to summon a shield of earth or ice or a blast of fire boosts his effective offense and defense considerably.
    • His successor, Korra, from The Legend of Korra is even more of one, which shouldn't be surprising given that she's the result of the world's most intrinsically-talented bender being raised from childhood in multiple forms of martial arts. Even without the Avatar State, she's able to overpower just about everyone, and one she starts learning airbending, she becomes just as adept at evasion as she is at tanking hits.
      • The same could be said for many of the villains. Amon is an extremely agile and nimble fighter with the strength to take down even the most skilled benders with no sweat, Vaatu's massive size and damaging power definitely doesn't reflect his speed, just like other spirits and Unalaq moves extremely fast & hits very hard.
  • In American Dragon: Jake Long, the Huntsman is tall and broad-just look at his season 2 redesign-but he's a skilled fighter, with the strength and agility of a cougar.
  • Vilgax from Ben 10. He's about twice as tall as any of Ben's aliens except Way Big, strong enough to smack Fourarms around with ease and shatter Diamondhead's face. He's fast enough to catch XLR8 even as he flees, and tends to charge into battle with all the speed of a freight train (and fifty times harder to stop, too).
  • In Castlevania all vampires can move faster than the eye can track, hit with enough strength to smash skulls like watermelons and shrug off almost any attack with the notable exceptions of holy weapons and magic. However the biggest examples of this trope are Dracula and his son Alucard who are both so strong and so fast, they actually create shock waves while fighting like they're from DBZ. Season 4 has Striga an Amazonian Beauty vampire, who at one point fights an entire army by herself in a full set of armour, wielding a BFS and moving at blinding speeds.
  • Code Lyoko
    • Ulrich is a speedster, but also the heaviest hitter of the group and has excellent defense with his katana.
    • William counts too, as he's even faster than Ulrich with his Super Smoke power, and wields his BFS with terrifying power and speed.
  • The Godzilla (AKA Godzilla Jr.) in Godzilla: The Series is basically a Composite Character of the Tristar and Toho versions by having the former's speed and the latter's fearsome strength. He's shown to be really elusive and highly agile for a 55 meter mutant marine iguana. He's been able to even scale around a construction site without breaking it, easily keep pace with a speeding train, and can run at 300 MPH. Unlike his father Zilla, (who's been easily killed by missiles) even if he looks rather lithe and a tad bit "scrawny" with the appearance of a Fragile Speedster, he's able to actually withstand military weapons, and even if he gets injured he possesses a Healing Factor, has his own Breath Weapon, and he even has his own Rogues Gallery of kaiju antagonists of any kind, many of which that he's taken down (although he does get proper assistance from Nick and the team members of H.E.A.T. depending on how strong his opponent is) and usually comes out on top just like his Toho counterpart(s).
  • Jackie Chan Adventures: Dark Hand enforcer Hak Foo is strong enough to punch holes through stone walls and push off the much larger Tohru. He's on Jackie's level in agility and speed. It takes a lot of damage to take him down. However, he has an exploitable drawback in the form of his Calling Your Attacks habit: those who can catch what he's about to do from his loud exclamations can better defend themselves against him.
  • Jenny from My Life as a Teenage Robot definitely counts. She has super speed and strength.
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  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
    • Rainbow Dash is a boisterous tomboy and has been shown to not only fly fast enough to accomplish the legendary "Sonic Rainboom" — the only pegasus known to have ever done so, including the two god-princess alicorns — but has since also gained enough control over the ability to use it to create a large ground explosion in order to demolish a barn. And that's just the tip of the iceberg; Aside from breaking the sound barrier, Dash can also stand her own in a fight and on one occasion, kicked a fully grown dragon in the face hard enough to not only provoke it into going on the offensive, when the entire problem the dragon posed was that it refused to get up from its nap, but actually whine near-tearfully about it afterwards in conjunction with Fluttershy's amazing verbal beatdown. Flying at supersonic speeds, able to create an explosion powerful enough to crack rock miles away, enduring hits that would reduce anyone else to pulp with nothing but Amusing Injuries... Rainbow Dash is definitely an exaggerated example.
    • Applejack is physically the strongest of the Mane Six, able to easily buck apples off of trees or hit a high striker so hard its bell flies off, and she also has a very fast running speed. Rainbow Dash even admitted during her "Hot Minute" clip that she and Applejack raced each other completely fairly, meaning with Rainbow Dash not using her wings to cheat like she did in "Fall Weather Friends," Applejack might have beaten her.
    • In the Season 4 finale, Twilight Sparkle becomes this trope. With the combined magic of the three most powerful alicorns in Equestria, in addition to her own, Twilight goes toe to toe with Lord Tirek, who has the power of literally everyone else in the country... and she gains the upper hand, simultaneously overpowering them *and* moving with great speed, when not simply teleporting at a moment's notice. There's some signs that she can do this even without All Your Powers Combined, but doesn't usually press herself in this way.
  • The Real Ghostbusters: The Bog Hound is a huge four eyed irish Hellhound frightening enough to send lions, tigers and leopards up a tree like scared housecats, strong enough to smash through brick wall without slowing down, fast enough to chase down speeding cars and tear them asunder and agile enough to dodge the ghostbusters proton streams. In the end it takes some quick thinking on Egon's part to trap it.
  • Samurai Jack:
    • The Scotsman is about three times Jack's size, tough as nails, and easily capable of matching Jack's speed and strength. He also has a Scottish Claymore inscribed with ancient Celtic runes that made it nearly indestructible and increased its destructive power, allowing it to match even Jack's blade. It's because of the traits that Jack wound up fighting the Scotsman to a standstill for three days and nights.
    • Don't forget the Minions of Set. Despite having hugely overbuilt upper bodies, very short, slender legs and enough weight to make the ground rumble beneath their feet, they are extremely fast and agile. Jack is so overwhelmed by the way they constantly jump around in combat that he can hardly tell which direction their attacks are coming from.
    • Jack himself. During his Training from Hell with the Scotsman he was strong enough to carry massive boulders on his back like they were nothing and regularly slices apart building sized robots and monsters. Jack’s speed is crazy too as besides deflecting bullets with his sword, at one point he casually dodged a beam of sunlight. Jack also walked off falling to Earth from space, with the only noticeable damage being to his spacesuit and survived getting slashed up by the aforementioned Minions of Set. In Season 5, despite losing his Cool Sword, Jack is still the strongest, fastest and toughest warrior in the series as well as the most skilled thanks to centuries of experience as The Ageless.
    • Season 5 introduced the Daughters of Aku. They've been put through Training from Hell to go up against the likes of Jack. Their ambush on the samurai gave him a run for his money as they literally ran circles around him (via dodging bullets from his machine gun) whilst barraging through his armor piece by piece, and decked him so hard he got sent flying. Although as dangerous as they were as a group, they were only able to stand against Jack with surprise on their side, and ultimately all but one is easily incapacitated and later killed by Jack because he's more of an experienced and tactical combatant. The one daughter that survives, Ashi, stands out from her sisters the most, as best shown in Episode XCVIII, where she totally decimates an entire army of Orcs that came to kill Jack (she even grabs the first one while mashing through multiple ones down a cliffside) as well as defeating her own mother who was probably her most challenging fight besides Jack.
  • Zeb from Star Wars Rebels is the physically strongest member of the team, and is also very fast and acrobatic.
  • Steven Universe features Garnet, who's both superhumanly agile and a top-class bruiser. Her footwork and movement speeds are comparable to Pearl and Amethyst, and she's also the offensive heavyweight of the Crystal Gems. This makes sense as she's a fusion of Ruby and Sapphire.
  • In the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Hun is a humongous mountain of a man, and one of the largest human characters in the series — the official stats put him at 7'2 and 500 pounds. His speed and agility, however, is consistently shown to be on par with all the other martial artists.
  • Optimus Prime in Transformers: Generation 1, if the tech specs are anything to go by. Compared to the rest of the Ark crew, he matches or outpaces other characters who are considered specialists — among other things, he's stronger and tougher than Brawn, just behind Bluestreak in firepower, and every bit as fast as Windcharger. When you're a truck and the only character who can outrun you is a jet fighter, you know you're lightning-fast.
    • According the tech specs from the toy, Starscream is this compared to the rest of the Decepticon court being on the slow-but-powerful side. Almost all of Starscream stats range from 7/10 to 9/10, having all around decent-to-high stats, mixed up with a 10/10 in the stat speed. note  Starscream's cluster bombs and null rays combined with his alt mode of an F-15 Eagle Fighter plane makes him an extremely dangerous foe for the autobots capable of lay waste everywhere he goes. It worths nothing this is notable even in the Sunbow cartoon as his high speed and decent firepower means the autobots often have a hard time fighting him back whenever he's on the sky. If weren't for his cowardice and unability to fall in line he would be much bigger threat for the autobots.
  • Megatron from Transformers: Prime is Large and in Charge, and just as strong as he looks. The most terrifying thing about him however is his speed, and he made sport of many a Mighty Glacier through his run.

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