Don't mess with the Two Hand.
"There is just something sexy about a woman with a blaster, too bad my wife doesn't agree to that."
Action Girl meets The Gunslinger.
Girls With Guns describes a sub-genre of
action media that focuses on strong female leads being awesome with firearms. May or may not involve
Heroic Bloodshed. It was developed somewhere in the Hong Kong film industry and has since made itself a genre that is often used in anime. Usually involves gun fights, stunts and martial arts.
Small Girl, Big Gun is a subtrope—
Girls With Guns aren't necessarily small, and their guns aren't necessarily big. Yeah-heh.
Compare
Superhero Packing Heat. See also
The Other Wiki's page
on the subject
.
Note that this page describes a genre, not a character trope. Individual examples of
Girls With Guns go on
The Gunslinger.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- Bee Train and Koichi Mashimo in particular deserve a special recognition for popularizing the genre with their trilogy:
- Gunslinger Girl (though you should have known that from the title)
- Dirty Pair (probably kicked off the genre, at least within anime)
- Gunsmith Cats
- A Kite (and Kite Liberator, too)
- Najica Blitz Tactics
- Burst Angel
- Grenadier
- Shirow Masamune obviously has a fetish for Girls With Guns: though the boys get to play as well, the main characters in his books are usually female, and spend much of their time toting, and being awesome with, guns. (Or in one case, tanks). Some of his works:
- Canaan
- Mezzo Forte and Mezzo DSA
- Early Reins: Die Hard on a train, in The Wild West, with six girls with guns as the heroes.
- Black Lagoon has Revy (trope picture), Roberta, Balalaika, and the entire church of violence. Practically every fighter that survives for more than a episode is a woman. Fetish, anyone?
- Upotte is about girls who ARE guns.
Film
Literature
Live Action TV
- Sons of Guns: Steph as well as the customers for her 'white gun' line.
- American Guns: The pink M1911 for a customer, all the women in the class in the episode. Renee and Paige.
- The title character of The Sarah Connor Chronicles is a girl who's harder than nuclear nails. A female cyborg often acts as her partner.
Tabletop Games
Web Original
- In the Whateley Universe, Hive, aka Whateley Academy Security officer Samantha Everheart, who is capable of wielding anything including her own Barrett .50 caliber. Also, devisers Flashbang and Tinkertrain, whose new inventions tend not to be all that safe.
Western Animation
