Tomboy And Girly Girl / Western Animation

Examples of Tomboy and Girly Girl in Western Animation.

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• Adventure Time: Marceline and Princess Bubblegum. Marceline is a punk-rocker Vampire Queen who raises the dead and does what she wants, while Bubblegum is the lady-like ruler of the Candy Kingdom (although, she's also a scientist and Action Girl). The two are also dating.
• The Amazing World of Gumball: Carrie and Anais tend to be this whenever they both appear in an episode. In "Halloween", Carrie doesn't allow Anais to join herself, Gumball and Darwin in going to a party at a haunted house because Anais is dressed in a pink, frilly dress, and Carrie says "this party isn't for babies disguised as cheesecakes". In "The Pony", Anais wants to watch a movie called A Pony's Tail, while Carrie agrees with Gumball and Darwin that it's a movie worth of dread (though in an interesting subversion of expectations, it is Carrie, not Anais, who ends up liking it, suggesting the two are a Tomboy with a Girly Streak and a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak respectively).
• American Dad!: Hayley is the snide, rebellious Tank-Top Tomboy who often wears jeans in contrast to Francine, the perky housewife who always wears pink dresses.
• Arcane: Vi and Caitlyn. Vi is a tough street kid from the slums, with short hair, whose outfit for half the show is stolen from a male thug who tried stealing from her, and hobby of boxing leaves her with Handwraps of Awesome 24/7. Caitlyn grew up in the Victorian-esque wealthy household as a Proper Lady, has long hair, and her Enforcer outfit is a dress. Even her skills with a rifle is presented with an aristocratic air, something a wealthy lady could do as a hobby in the world of Arcane.
• Arthur:
  • Francine and Muffy. Muffy is a rich girly girl; Francine not only plays sports but is often the key to victory in most sports. They started being best friends mainly on the discovery that their middle names are the same.
  • Francine is also the tomboy to her more feminine sister, Catherine, who likes to shop, wear dresses, and generally behave more feminine.
  • The outgoing Sue Ellen who loves sports and shy Fern who likes to read and wear bows, who often seem to hang out together.
  • D.W. and Emily. Emily tends to have more refined manners and much less of a tendency to be bossy or take a leadership role. As seen in some episodes, D.W. will climb trees, play catch with Arthur and Dad, and do other tomboyish (for her age) things. She also seems like the hardier of the two girls when it comes to roughhousing/generally dealing with the Tibble twins.
  • D.W. has been on the Girly Girl side as well, notably when she got her own Tomboy counterpart, W.D., in the episode, "Best Enemies". Specifically, D.W. loves unicorns, while W.D. loves race cars.
• Atomic Betty has a pretty clear example between the athletic and sporty Betty, who loves comic books and skateboarding and is a full-fledged Action Girl, as the obvious tomboy to her rival, the stuck-up and prissy Alpha Bitch Penelope, who loves shopping and trendiness and wears lots of make-up. Part of their rivalry is based on how Penelope sneers at Betty's interests for being too boyish.
• Avatar franchise:
  • In Avatar: The Last Airbender Katara is a full-blown Action Girl, but her role as the Team Mom and Lady of War fighting tactics mean that she often clashes with Toph's more laid-back, One of the Guys mannerisms.
    • Princess Azula is this with both Ty Lee, and to a lesser extent, Mai.
    • Ty Lee is the most outwardly feminine of the trio, wearing lots of pink and being a very happy-go-lucky Nice Girl who favours a very acrobatic and graceful fighting style in comparison to Azula's brutal and aggressive one. In general, Ty Lee is genuinely a very gentle-minded and friendly person (when not pursuing the heroes, anyway) with a bubbly personality, while Azula is the exact opposite, being a relentless and psychotic warrior whose prim and regal front is only paper thin.
    • There's also Azula's tomboy to Mai's girly girl. While she puts on a stoic and brooding, snarky front, Mai actually has quite a lot of feminine qualities underneath. She can be quite romantic at times around Zuko and appears to have a fondness for fruit tarts with petals on them. She also hates getting dirty as shown when she refused to enter a slurry pipeline to chase her enemies. Meanwhile, despite indulging in her servants pampering her up during her leisure hours, Azula is otherwise anything but feminine. She is a cruel and ruthless militaristic young girl and warrior of the Fire Nation who as a child rejected dolls (aside from having them so she can display them with their heads cut off) and favoured knives. She is incredibly violent, competitive, and powerful. Even when she tries to be more romantic and girly and get herself a boyfriend, she messes it up by rambling on crazily about world domination.
  • The Legend of Korra:
    • Korra is a Boisterous Bruiser, has a Tomboyish Ponytail, and her life revolves around the study of Supernatural Martial Arts. Asami is a Spirited Young Lady of War with long, wavy Raven Hair, Ivory Skin, lavender eyeshadow, and red lipstick. Though, as Korra lampshades, "girly" does not mean "prissy", "stuck-up", or "helpless". Their relationship evolves over the course of the show from "just on the same team" to "begrudgingly beginning to like you in spite of myself" to "best friends" and, eventually, to Official Couple.
    • In the backstory, Lin was the tomboy who worked for the Republic City police force and Pema was the pacifistic temple acolyte.
    • Season 3 gives Lin a second Girly Girl to play off of: her half-sister Suyin, the elegant and motherly matriarch of Zaofu.
• Baby Shark's Big Show! has Vola the energetic, sporty tomboy and Goldie's glamorous, vain girly-girl.
• Uniqua from The Backyardigans wears overalls, has a gender-neutral voice, and usually plays gender-neutral roles. Tasha wears a dress, has a feminine voice, and usually plays feminine roles.
• Ben 10:
  • An evil version on the Negative 10 with Rojo and Charmcaster. Granted, Charmcaster isn't really super-feminine in personality, but compared to the butch Rojo she certainly seems so.
  • Ben 10: Omniverse has Gwen and Lucy Mann.
  • Going back to the original series, Gwen is the tomboy to Kai's Girly Girl in "Benwolf". While she later became more snarky and sharp-tongued in Omniverse, in the original series Kai was quite soft-spoken and mellow. This, along with the fact that her role was being the love interest to Ben in the episode, contrasted strongly with the snarky and sharp-tongued, short-tempered Gwen.
  • Gwen was usually the tomboy to any one-shot girl character that would show up for an episode in the original series, too. A prime example being "Ghostfreaked Out" where the snarky and brash, action-prone Gwen interacted with the snobbish and stuck-up, high class Alpha Bitch Tiffany from Bankcroft Academy.
• Camp Lazlo:
  • This applies to Gretchen (tomboy), who is aggressive and grouchy, and Patsy (Girly), who is more caring and emotional.
  • Their Scoutmasters are the traditionally feminine Miss Doe and the angry and tough Miss Mucus.
• The Casagrandes:
  • This spin-off series has Ronnie Anne, the tough Reformed Bully who loves skateboarding and video games, as the tomboy to her cousin, The Fashionista Carlota.
  • Maria (tomboy) and Frida (girly), to a lesser extent than their daughters. Frida is clearly a Girly Girl like Carlota, wearing a bright pink dress and a lot of jewelery, having a tendency to cry a lot and having a very dramatic personality in general. Maria, while not an outright tomboy in the same way as her daughter, has demonstrated some traits which come across as somewhat tomboyish. Examples include her grouchy, easily enraged mood whenever she drinks too much coffee, her tendency to share rather gross details about operations she did at work with her family (much to the excitement of Ronnie Anne and disgust of Carlota), and the time she played a harp in "Face the Music" and ended up throwing it on the floor and rocking out in a similar manner to Luna and her guitar instead. Also, when Maria isn't in her work uniform, she wears dark purple pants, in comparison to Frida's girly dress.
  • Sid is the tomboy to her sister Adelaide's girly girl.
• Jeff's mothers in Clarence combine this with being Fat and Skinny. One has Boyish Short Hair and dresses in masculine clothes while the other has long hair and dresses more girly.
• Code Lyoko has Yumi (tomboy dressing in black) and Aelita (girly girl dressing in piiiink) in the heroes' group. And for a rival (sort of) in love, Yumi has Sissi, the long-haired, fashion-obsessed Alpha Bitch. While Yumi was from the beginning a competent fighter, Aelita lacked any attacked in the first seasons and often was the Damsel in Distress, but started Taking a Level in Badass toward season 2 and got her own attack in season 3, which turned out to be an in-universe Game-Breaker. Ironically, by season 3, Jeremy's programs suggest she has become the most powerful of the Lyoko-Warrior.
• Codename: Kids Next Door: The two girls of Sector V, Abigail Lincoln, AKA Numbuh 5, the snarky and tough second-in-command who doesn't have much interest in anything girly, and Kuki Sanban, AKA Numbuh 3, the Rainbow Monkey-loving Genki Girl, are this respectively. Notably, in "Operation Future", Numbuh 5 was effected by the girlification rifles of Madame Margaret's Girl Squad, despite already being a girl, the rays turning her into a girly girl, while Numbuh 3 was unaffected.
  • When you add into the mix the feisty and rough, unladylike yet secretly into girly stuff behind closed doors Number 86, she can be either. She's the mean, aggressive tomboy to Numbuh 3's bubbly and nice girly girl, but the rainbow monkey and sleepover loving girly girl to Numbuh 5's cool, tough and snarky tomboy.
• C.O.P.S. (Animated Series):
  • Mirage is the typical girly girl in a necktie while computer whiz Mainframe stands out as the tomboy.
  • On the Crooks side, Brawn Hilda Ms. Demeanor might as well be One of the Boys, while Classy Cat-Burglar Nightshade is incredibly feminine. Ironically the former wears a dress and the latter usually wears pants.
• The Crumpets has two of the Crumpet sisters Triceps and Ditzy. Triceps is a powerful, sports loving, and tough-talking tomboy who likes to use physical force, although she gets curious into wearing more feminine clothes and makeup. Ditzy is a philosophical, cheerful, and more emotional girly girl who wears pink clothing and plays with dolls, and she rarely attacks her siblings. Caprice fits between tomboy and girly girl as she is fashionable, displays the color pink, and is a crybaby yet likes to be fierce and mean. Blister Crumpet is more of a tomboy, as she and her twin brother set pranks and play with explosives, and she wears a skirt and their bedroom is pink and blue.
• Darkwing Duck:
  • The series has the two girls of the Justice Ducks, Neptunia and Morgana. Neptunia being the sassy, pitchfork-wielding and tough-talking tomboy, and Morgana being the magic-using, dress-wearing, and all-loving Girly Girl.
  • One episode has Darkwing Duck travel to an alternate universe where he meets Gosalyn's counterpart, who is a complete girly girl in contrast to the regular Gosalyn's tomboy.
• Dexter's Laboratory has Dexter's mom (tomboy) and Dee-Dee (girly girl). Although Dexter's mother is a housewife, she is also an Action Mom who enjoys fighting. Dee-Dee enjoys ballet and playing with dolls. This is played with in that Dee Dee has no problem getting her hands (or whole body) dirty and she holds her own when she is called to action.
• Doc McStuffins: Lambie and Hallie. Hallie is practical and intellectual, while Lambie is very stereotypically feminine, cuddling everyone and doing ballet
• DuckTales (2017): Season 3 introduces the femininely dressed, elegant and mostly nice Girly Bruiser Daisy Duck, with her as Donald's girly love interest compared to his tomboyish sister, the adventurous and rambunctious adrenaline junkie Della.
• Dungeons & Dragons (1983): Diana and Sheila.

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• Ed, Edd n Eddy has Sarah (Tomboy) and Nazz (Girly Girl). Sarah is one of the most powerful female characters, possessing superhuman strength like her brother, and is able to beat up almost every other character (usually the Eds). She is also reckless with a short temper. Nazz, however, is gentle and caring but is seldom seen getting in physical altercations with the other characters. Although there are moments that prove that Nazz can hold her own in a fight, she is usually interested in cheerleading, cooking, cute boys, and makeup.
• The Fairly OddParents!:
  • Vicky and Tootie, sisters who are polar opposites. Vicky is known for being the most fiery, violent girl on the show, and also enjoys skateboarding, snowboarding, and watching anime. Her little sister Tootie, on the other hand, is nice, and enjoys playing with dolls and dress up. This is shown in contrast especially in the episode "Timmy's 2-D House of Horror" where the two took over Timmy's bedroom; turning one half into a pink and girly room with unicorns, and the other half into a medieval dungeon. Timmy couldn't tell which side scared him the most.
  • An early episode had Trixie secretly being a tomboy which in theory makes her fit this with her Valley Girl friend, Veronica. However, the concept has been dropped since.
  • To a much lesser extent, Wanda and her sister Blonda. While both of them are feminine, Blonda is an actress who cares a lot about her reputation and beauty, while Wanda is a fairy godmother with Action Girl tendencies who acts like a Tsundere sometimes. This is best shown when they switch bodies - Blonda can't handle Timmy's more chaotic wishes while Wanda's assertive personality makes it hard for her to kiss another actor.
• Family Guy: Lois is a tempermental and aggressive Abusive Parent who wears a green shirt and brown pants while her daughter, Meg, is a teenage girl who wears pink and has a girly room.
• Famous 5: On the Case has George's daughter Jo and Anne's daughter Allie, who duplicate their mothers exactly.
• Fish Police has hard working Fiery Redhead Perl, and seductive lounge singer Angel.
• Frosty the Snowman: Karen is a tomboy who is energetic, tough and brave to the extreme due to her difficulties which she can handle while Holly is a girly girl who is naive, caring and gentle due to her being lonely and had a hard time solving her difficulties. They both helped the titular snowman and are lovers of nature. The contrast is shown by having Karen overcome with her difficulties to bring Frosty back to the North Pole while Holly is being nice to Mr. Twitchell by offering him to be a Carnival King. Bonus points if you see Karen speed skating.
• From Gravity Falls comes Wendy, a Fiery Redhead Ladette with many brothers who's One of the Boys; she's the Tomboy while Mabel, who's an All-Loving Hero obsessed with boys, is the Girly Girl. Comparatively, Mabel is the unladylike, Outdoorsy Gal Tomboy to Pacifica Northwest's Rich Bitch Girly Girl.
• Hey Arnold!:
  • Helga is brash, violent, and The Lad-ette, and serves as a Tomboy foil to other girly female characters: her best friend Phoebe is a shy and sensitive Extreme Doormat, her rival Lila is a sweet and polite Proper Lady, and her sister Olga is a pretty, kind, and responsible Daddy's Girl.
  • Rhonda (girly) and her best friend Nadine (tomboy). Nadine likes insects, Rhonda is a Rich Bitch fashionista.
• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi has Yumi, a purple-haired punk rocker with combat boots as the tomboy and Ami, who is pink haired and dressed as a Go-Go girl as the Girly Girl.
• Iron Man: Armored Adventures has Pepper Potts as the tomboy and Whitney Stane as the Girly Girl. Unusually for this trope, the Girly Girl is a badass Action Girl whilst the Tomboy...is not. She does get better eventually by getting her own armor, but it takes two seasons for it to happen.
• Jimmy Two-Shoes: Heloise is the tomboy to her rival Mean Jean's girly girl in "Heloise's Rival". Heloise even calls her a girly girl when they first meet. Mean Jean is mean and evil just like Heloise, but while Heloise uses aggression, viciousness and physical violence to intimidate and hurt others, Mean Jean's approach is to play with people's feelings, manipulate them, or make them uncomfortable by trying to kiss them out of the blue. Also, Heloise has dark black evil robots while MJ has pink ones, and looks more girly overall.
• Justice League:
  • Wonder Woman is a literal Amazon but loves to go shopping, Hawkgirl has worked in the trenches with men all her life and behaves more like a straight-up Lad-ette.
  • Unlimited gives us Black Canary and Huntress. The latter dresses in pink, employs an elegant fighting style and was quite dolled up while wearing a red dress in "Grudge Match". Meanwhile, despite sometimes using her feminine wiles, Canary is otherwise The Lad-ette. She's an adrenaline junkie, if the way she rides her motorcycle is any indication, and is a bit of a Blood Knight (being the one to goad Huntress into a cage fight at the end of said episode), and is grossed out by Huntress's flirting with The Question at the end of "Double Date".
• KaBlam!: One-shot character Dawn and main character June. While Dawn is into girly stuff, like fashion and make-up, June is the tough-talking, strong tomboy.
• Kim Possible: Kim and Bonnie could qualify. While Kim isn't completely devoid of any feminine traits and is a cheerleader, she is a Teen Super Spy, knows various martial arts, plays other sports besides cheerleading, and has an outfit that often consists of shirts, pants, and tracksuits. Whereas Bonnie reserves her athletic prowess exclusively for cheerleading, has character traits associated with being an Alpha Bitch and is almost always seen wearing skirts, dresses and generally more feminine clothes.

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• The Legend of Zelda cartoon has Princess Zelda fill the tomboy role, ditching her Damsel in Distress role from the video game series to become a Tomboy Princess, to where she's usually doing the rescuing of Link. The girly girl role is filled by pink dress clad fairy princess, Spryte.
• The Life and Times of Juniper Lee: June's two best friends are Genki Girl Jody (girly girl) and Goth Ophelia (tomboy).
• The Lion Guard has a few recurring examples:
  • Fuli and Kiara, as Fuli's brash, rough around the edges personality clashes with Kiara's more cheerful and kind demeanour.
  • On the flip side, Kiara can be quite adventurous and rebellious at times and isn't afraid of a fight. She's also far less prissy than her friends, Tifu and Zuri, who are both bubbly girly girls who love makeovers and don't like getting their claws broke.
  • Comparatively, Fuli is the tomboy to Jasiri's girly girl. Downplayed as although they're both headstrong action girls, Fuli's brash, boisterous, and hot-headed attitude contrasts with Jasiri's flirtatious and nurturing one. However, Jasiri seems to be the tomboy compared to her sister Madoa, who is a less formidable fighter than her.
• Littlest Pet Shop (2012):
  • Goofy comedian skunk Pepper Clark and vain fashionista dog Zoe Trent.
  • Athletic Sue Patterson and fashion-designer Blythe Baxter.
  • In the episode "Sue Syndrome"; goofy comedian Pepper Clark and Southern Belle Mitzi.
  • In the episode "Seeing Red"; tough and street-smart red panda Scarletta Redd and sweet and sensitive giant panda Penny Ling.
• The Looney Tunes Show: Tina is a tough, street-smart, gum-smacking tomboy, Lola is a bubbly, clingy girly girl.
• The Loud House: All the Loud sisters have varying degrees of masculinity and femininity, but the most obvious examples are the twins, Lana (who loves dirty things) and Lola (who dresses like a princess). Best exemplified in the episode, "In Tents Debate", where the girly girls (Lori, Leni, Lola, Lucy, and Lily) vote to spend their summer vacation at the beach, while the tomboys (Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lisa, and Lana) vote for an amusement park.
  • Played with at the end of "Cover Girls". Lana is ostracized from her group of tomboy friends for looking like a girly girl in her sister Leni's clothes.
  • Lisa Loud, the mostly emotionally withdrawn, logical, deadpan, unkempt science genius plays the tomboy to her kindergarten friend Darcy Homendollar's girly girl, considering how emotionally sensitive Darcy is and how relatively feminine she dresses (messy hair and a sweater versus a shirt with a flower on it).
  • Aside from her obvious comparison with her pageant loving twin Lola, Lana also has another Girly Girl to play off in the form of her rival Lacey St Clair in "A Mutt Above", who antagonizes Lana from being so dirty and uncouth.
  • Lynn Loud Jr. is so competitive, athletic, aggressive, energetic, abrasive, boisterous, gross and uncompromisingly butch in every single way that she is the ultimate example of a tomboy in the series. Every other girl is practically "girly" in comparison, even other tomboys, such as her sports buddy Margo or the similarly abrasive Ronnie Anne.
• The Magic School Bus: Given there are four females among the Frizz Kids, it's a given there's going to be two pairs.
  • Wanda Li, always ready for an adventure in science, and Phoebe Terese, the Naïve Newcomer who's generally more reserved about these things.
  • Dorothy Ann, the class bookworm who happens to be rather good at baseball, and Keesha Franklin, the realist who studies ballet after school.
• M.A.S.K.: Vanessa and Gloria. Zig-zagged; Gloria is the professional racer and trained fighter, Vanessa comes across as the more badass moments on screen.
• Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Daisy Duck is the rough and tough tomboy, Minnie Mouse is the sensitive and innocent girly girl.
• Milo Murphy's Law: Melissa is more tomboyish while Amanda is more feminine. Melissa speaks in boyish slang, enjoys martial arts, and lacks "femergy" while Amanda wears lipstick and earrings, is a bit of a neatness freak, and is generally more outwardly romantic with Milo, in contrast to how Melissa shares a rougher and more banter-like relationship with Zack. In "The Mid-Afternoon Snack Club", Amanda gives Melissa a makeover to make her look more feminine, and Melissa doesn't appear too impressed with the results. Interestingly, Melissa is the one who more frequently wears a skirt out of the two.
• The Modifyers: Agent Xero fills both roles on her own, thanks to her spy ring. As for herself, she looks and dresses femininely and has hair long enough that it nearly reaches the floor. But when she switches to her cover identity, as Lacey Shadows, her hair becomes short with blue and purple streaks, she adopts a tomboyish attitude and a British accent.
• Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm had this with the two ladies of the team: Lieutenant Sonya Blade and Princess Kitana. Ironically, during their inevitable Girl's Night Out Episode, it's Sonya who asks Kitana if she ever misses "being a woman" what with all the violence in their lives. The difference between them is less pronounced in the video game series, where they don't have a particular relationship despite being the most popular female Kombatants in the franchise.
• Muppet Babies: Skeeter was created for the cast to be the tomboy to Piggy's girly girl. However, although Skeeter was the athlete and Piggy liked pink and lace and make-up and tea parties, Skeeter was actually rather nice, and Piggy was super strong, super bossy, and super un-ladylike. What can we say? Beware the Nice Ones.
• My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Of the two main female characters, Darby is an adventurous baseball cap-wearing girl who rides a scooter, while Porcupine wears pink, plays the flute, and likes to cook.
• In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, there are plenty of these characters:
  • There is the tough-and-tumble farm girl Applejack and the persnickety fashion designer Rarity.
  • In "May the Best Pet Win", Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, who are both Pegasi, have a duet that epitomizes their nature, with Fluttershy constantly trying to find an adorable little Ridiculously Cute Critter for Rainbow's pet, while the latter really wants a cool pet who is capable of flight.
  • Twilight Sparkle is slightly tomboyish and Pinkie Pie is the bubbly Genki Girl.
  • For the Cutie Mark Crusaders, there is the kindhearted Sweetie Belle and the tough Scootaloo. Apple Bloom can be either of them.
  • There is Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. Luna is more like a Tomboy Princess, while Celestia is a Princess Classic. Celestia is regal, elegant and always puts on a friendly and warm attitude and nice smile when speaking with her subjects. Luna can get very loud, very fast thanks to her excessive decorum, and is generally the more aggressive and hot-headed out of the two. A lot of things about Luna's appearance, from her chariot, to the design of her personal guards's armour, look a lot edgier and more gothic than Celestia's. Celestia is capable of getting in on the action when she has to and has a hidden energetic, wild side, but for the most part she pulls off the typical feminine, graceful ruler shtick off much better than her sister. That's not even going into their portrayal in the comics, where Luna is written as an excitable Blood Knight at times.
    • This dynamic was switched in the season 9 episode "Between Dark and Dawn". Celestia planned to do all sorts of thrilling and adventurous activities, like going over an Inevitable Waterfall in a barrel and riding a rollercoaster, while Luna wanted to do relaxing and usually more stereotypically feminine activities, like getting makeovers and going to the theater to see a pony version of Wicked.
  • The snarky, studious and unkempt Twilight (for example, Twilight claims the pink streak is not a fashion choice but a natural part of her hair, and she admitted in one episode to not caring how it looked) is also the tomboy compared to the vain and narcassistic, somewhat flamboyant Trixie's girly girl, especially considering how many times Trixie's been seen in the spa. The two are minor rivals of sorts in the show, and Trixie's overbearing boasting and image hyping often drives Twilight crazy.
  • Season nine has the villain team-up of Tirek, Chrysalis and Cozy Glow, where Chrysalis is the aggressive, confrontational and rather gross tomboy who ruled over her Changeling hive with an iron hoof to Cozy Glow's girly girl, who relies on being adorable and acting nice to gain power and influence over others, and insists she is "cute and lovable" despite being anything but.
  • While Gilda the Griffon is a hard butch tomboy in the present day, a flashback in "The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone" shows she was once a timid and shy Shrinking Violet like Fluttershy when she first met Rainbow Dash in flight camp, making her the girly girl to Rainbow Dash's tomboy when they were younger.
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: Enid has this dynamic with her Childhood Friend, Elodie. They’re both action girls but in different ways: Enid is a laid-back (occasionally aggressive) snarky slacker who is practicing to be a ninja and is more the rough and tough one of the two. In comparison to Elodie who is somewhat more of a Girly Bruiser-type who is pretty, popular, put-together, has a room full of pink & girly stuff and is famous for her charismatic attitude.
• The Owl House: Luz is an adventurous, boisterous macabre enthusiast with Boyish Short Hair and an androgynous appearance, while her girlfriend, Amity, has a smoother hairdo and fashionable attire.

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• Pet Alien has Melba (Tomboy) and Gabby (Girly Girl). While Melba's somewhat feminine herself, she's also short-tempered, bossy and prone to punching those who anger her. Gabby is far more demure and spends most of her screentime fantasizing about her crush Tommy coming to sweep her off her feet.
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • Candace plays the "girly" counterpart to Vanessa Doofenshmirtz, as demonstrated by the time they accidentally got each other's clothes. Generally, Candace displays several teenage Valley Girl traits while Vanessa is snarky, dark and not particularly girly in appearance or mannerisms. Slightly zig-zagged in that Vanessa is more goth than outright tomboy, she wears more lipstick and is actually the less abrasive of the two.
  • On the flip side, another example would be Candace playing the Tomboy relative to Stacy's Girly Girl. A conflict which often occurs between the two is how Stacy would rather be doing typical teenage girl stuff like shopping at the mall, while Candace would rather be busting her brothers. In addition, Candace is aggressive, loud-mouthed, confrontational, hot-headed and not very ladylike, while Stacy is more passive (though she does have her limits as shown when Candace pushes her levels of tolerance for her antics too far), polite, mellow and has a greater interest in shoes than Candace has.
  • The episode "My Fair Goalie" plays with this between Candace and Eliza. Eliza looks more tomboyish, resembling a British punk rocker, but their subplot together is actually about Candace failing to be polite and ladylike, and Eliza needing to teach her how to be a fair lady.
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998) has the Genki Girl Bubbles and the Lad-ette Buttercup. Blossom is in-between the two as a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak and is also the most intelligent of the three.
• Puppy Dog Pals: Season 5 introduces Roxy and Nougat. Roxy's the girly girl to Nougat's tomboy.
• Rainbow Brite: Mischievous Patty O'Green and fashionable Lala Orange, respectively.
• Ready Jet Go!:
  • Sydney, who has no interest in feminine things, and Mindy, who loves teddy bears, dolls, and tea parties.
  • Mindy is herself the tomboy to Lillian's girly girl, as seen in "The Grandest Canyon". Mindy may be fairly feminine in her own right, but Lillian appears to be even more so, right down to her blatantly feminine outfit when she first appears, in comparison to Mindy's more, um, plain usual outfit.
• Recess: Spinelli is a tough, aggressive Cute Bruiser with a masculine appearance including black leather jacket and leather boots (tomboy), Gretchen is sweet, naive, unathletic, wears a dress with a pink bow, and has pink socks as well (girly).
• Regular Show: Mordecai's two love interests (before he met Stef in the finale, who herself is probably somewhere in-between, appearing to be a bit of a goth type), CJ and Margaret fit this trope. Margaret is the giggly girly girl who's seen dressing up the most often, while CJ is the aggressive, competitive tomboy who plays dodgeball and video games, likes making gross dares, and is a former motocross racer.
• Rugrats has Susie (Tomboy) and Angelica (Girly Girl). Susie is very athletic, while Angelica loves playing with dolls and dressing up. All Grown Up! does this with Lil and Kimi instead. Lil plays soccer and mostly wears pants. Although she tries to be more girly to fit in, a few episodes emphasize that she is a tomboy at heart. Kimi meanwhile has more outfits with skirts, fawns over members of a Boy Band and still watches The Dummi Bears.
• The Save-Ums!: Loud, energetic Jazzi, and kindhearted Third-Person Person Foo!
• Scooby-Doo has the bookish, short-haired Velma and The Fashionista, longer haired Daphne. Velma is traditionally more into the actual investigations than Daphne, who is usually more of a Damsel in Distress however later incarnations made her more capable of self-defense.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power:
  • There's tomboy Adora, who is the titular Tomboy Princess and girly girl Glimmer, who aside from being a Rebellious Princess, has an endearingly awkward personality.
  • For the Horde, there's Catra, who is a Combat Pragmatist with Wild Hair and Scorpia, who despite having common Butch Lesbian traits (build and haircut), is surprisingly more feminine than Catra.
• Sheriff Callie's Wild West: Callie is the rough and tough tomboy, and Priscilla is the sweet and calmly girly girl.
• The Simpsons:
  • In most episodes set in the future, Maggie is usually a tough tomboy (dresses like a punk, is the lead singer of a rock band, etc.) and Lisa is usually a prim and proper girly girl.
  • Similarly, their mother Marge (a typical modest feminine housewife) has this dynamic with her sisters, Patty and Selma (a couple of chain-smoking, snide, aggressive, cynical deadpan snarkers).
• Sofia the First: Princess Amber is the girly girl to her stepsister Sofia's tomboy. Amber is a prim and proper princess who likes collecting tiaras and having fancy tea parties, while Sofia, who's learning to be prim and proper like her, likes racing at the derby and playing sports with James.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): Played with where Girly Girl Bunnie Rabbot is the bruiser of the Freedom Fighters while Tomboy Sally Acorn is the Badass Normal of the two. But Bunnie is the Southern Belle who wears make-up and actually looks feminine while Sally is a Tomboy Princess who is a battle strategist and has an appearance that borders on Lady Looks Like a Dude.
• South Park has a downplayed example between Wendy and Bebe. Wendy does have her own share of feminine character traits, but she is strong-willed, very aggressive and physically tough when the situation calls for it, has shown to be quite foul-mouthed at times, and is usually the girl least likely to blindly conform to a demeaning girly stereotype. In "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" and "The Hobbit" for example, she rejects joining the other girls in being a bratty whore or in getting obsessed over amplifying her appearance via Photoshop. Bebe, on the other hand, is considered the girliest of the group, conforming to these trends the most as well as having the greatest love for shoes.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Feisty, can-do, karate chopping techno whiz Sandy Cheeks, and spoiled Bratty Teenage Daughter Pearl Krabs.
• Steven Universe:
  • Amethyst, a goofy, crude, laid-back slob who acts like a Cool Big Sis to Steven, and Pearl, who is refined, elegant and neat and acts like an overprotective mother towards Steven. It's among many of their foils. Amethyst's complete lack of refinement and Pearl's delicate femininity clash throughout the show; although in a subversion, it's Pearl's insensitivity which eventually brings them to blows.
  • Ruby and Sapphire, in both appearance and action. Ruby is dressed like a martial artist, has Boyish Short Hair and is hot-headed. Sapphire wears a full ballgown with Giant Poofy Sleeves, High-Class Gloves, long hair, and is composed under duress. They are a case of Opposites Attract and their love allows them to create the ultra-stable fusion that is Garnet.
  • Among the humans, there are the Pizza twins - Jenny, a loud rambunctious party girl who hangs out with boys, and Kiki, who is calm, responsible and devoted to her family.
  • Rose Quartz and Jasper. "The Return" introduces Jasper, villainous foil with a personal grudge, a disdain for Earth, loyalty to The Empire, and Social Darwinist attitudes. Because each is a quartz, Rose and Jasper have some physical traits in common: they both have the same size, a similar Heroic Build, and equally-long hair. Their self-expression, though, could not be more different. Rose seems femininity incarnate: a Friend to All Living Things, graceful, beautiful, wears long white dress and huge pink Regal Ringlets, and has a pink rose motif in all her weapons, powers and artifacts. Jasper is thoroughly The Brute: brawny, ruthless, aggressive, and growling orders at anyone she considers subordinate.
    Jasper: I was looking forward to beating her into the ground.
  • Jasper is also the tomboy to the girly Lapis Lazuli, a waifish Broken Bird with water powers who wears a long skirt and can grow water wings like an angel or fairy. For a while, they get stuck together after Jasper coerces Lapis into fusion, only for Lapis to hijack the fusion and drag them both into the ocean, intending to keep her trapped forever.
  • In general, gems made to serve Yellow Diamond (Peridot, Jasper, Yellow Pearl) are tomboyish to some degree; they're arrogant, rude, assertive, hammy and wear form-fitting suits. Peridot is also a technician/engineer and Jasper is a soldier, jobs that would be considered traditionally male. In contrast, Gems made to serve Blue Diamond (Sapphire, Lapis Lazuli, Blue Pearl) are conventionally feminine, composed, soft-spoken, have a habit of clasping their hands and wear flowing dresses or skirts. Blue Diamond herself is introduced (in a flashback) wearing a cloak and gown and sitting on a throne like a traditional queen, and always speaks calmly even when she's losing her (very short) temper and ordering an execution. Meanwhile, Yellow Diamond has been compared to a businesswoman, wears huge shoulder pads, pants and Power Hair, and isn't as talented at remaining stoic.
• Supernoobs: Jennifer Shope, who is One of the Boys and generally has more masculine interests like science, football and video games, is the tomboy to the more conventionally feminine Amy Anderson.
• Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! has the two girls from the Hyperforce: the tough-as-nails, tomboyish fighter Nova and the cutesy, feminine Robot Girl Jinmay who joins the team later.
• The Sushi Pack has Kani (who short-tempered and tomboyish) and Maguro (who is more level-headed and calm).
• Teen Titans (2003): Raven (as the gothish tomboy) and Starfire (as the girly girl), though Starfire, being from a Proud Warrior Race Guy, is well capable of Let's Get Dangerous! moments.
• Thomas & Friends has the first 2 female engines introduced in the series: Daisy, who wears a lot of makeup and is over-dramatic, and Mavis, who is pretty rebellious and loves working.
• Mary Melody and Elmyra Duff, respectively, from Tiny Toon Adventures. Mary mostly wears pants and is into rollerblading and skateboarding, while Elmyra mostly wears a dress and is into dolls, tea parties, and cute things like animals.
• Total Drama:
  • Within the Screaming Gophers and later, the Killer Grips, Beth (tomboy) and Lindsay (girly girl).
  • Within Team Victory: Leshawna (tomboy) to Bridgette and Lindsay (girly girl).
  • Within Team Amazon: Sierra and Gwen (tomboy) to Heather and Courtney (girly girl).
  • Within the Mutant Maggots, Jo (tomboy) and Zoey and Anne Maria (girly girl).
  • Within the Heroic Hamsters, Sierra (tomboy) and Zoey and Courtney (girly girl).
  • Within Team Kinosewak, Jasmine and Scarlett (tomboy) and Amy and Samey (girly girl).
  • Within Team Maskwak, Sky (tomboy) and Ella and Sugar (girly girl).
  • Within the Ferocious Trout, Axel and Priya (tomboy) and Millie and Scary Girl (girly girl)
  • Within the Frogs of Death, Emma and MK (tomboy) and Julia and Nichelle (girly girl).
  • Within the Rat Faces, Priya and Axel (tomboy) and Emma, Millie, and Nichelle (girly girl).
  • Within the Skunk Butts, MK (tomboy) and Julia and Scary Girl (girly girl).
• Undergrads: This is pretty well the divide between Jessie (tomboy) and Kimmy (girly girl). No guess as to who the hero prefers, and who the audience does.
• Voltron: Legendary Defender: Pidge, who has short, chin-length hair, wears gender-neutral clothing, and isn't afraid to get her hands dirty is contrasted by Allura, who is a beautiful, kind princess who wears pink armor.
• Wakfu: PrincessAmalia Sheran Sharm of the Sadida Kingdom is the girly girl to her tomboy bodyguard, the archer Evangelyne.
• The Weekenders has Lor and Tish, the Tomboy and Girly Girl respectively.
• Wheel Squad: Jessica and Emilie. Jessica is a tomboy and the leader of the Wheel Squad, a young team of wheel aces. Emilie Rotter is a girly girl and the (step)daughter of a wealthy businessman. While Emilie isn't good enough to join the Wheel Squad, she does have the desire to partake in their activities.
• Word Party has Franny and Lulu respectively, with Franny being more adventurous and daring while Lulu being coy and timid.

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