History CuteBruiser / VideoGames

* Sugar from ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' is soft-spoken, laughs sweetly while speaking, wears puffy pants, has candies tied to her fingers, her text-speech is littered with emoticons, and all of her attacks are named after desserts. She's also [[ThatOneBoss the strongest boss in the game, with an enormous health bar and the ability to deal multiple attacks per turn with massive damage potential.]] Good thing she's a BonusBoss, although you will have to fight her if you want to [[GoldenEnding get the true ending.]]

* Sugar from ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' is soft-spoken, laughs sweetly while speaking, wears puffy pants, has candies tied to her fingers, her text is littered with emoticons, and all of her attacks are named after desserts. She's also [[ThatOneBoss the strongest boss in the game, with an enormous health bar and the ability to deal multiple attacks per turn with massive damage potential.]] Good thing she's a BonusBoss, although you will have to fight her if you want to [[GoldenEnding get the true ending.]]

* Sugar from ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' is soft-spoken, her text is littered with emoticons, laughs sweetly while speaking, wears puffy pants, has candies tied to her fingers, and all of her attacks are named after desserts. She's also [[ThatOneBoss the strongest boss in the game, with an enormous health bar and the ability to deal multiple attacks per turn with massive damage potential.]] Good thing she's a BonusBoss, although you will have to fight her if you want to get the true ending.

* Sugar from 'VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' is soft-spoken, her text is littered with emoticons, laughs sweetly while speaking, wears puffy pants, has candies tied to her fingers, and all of her attacks are named after desserts. She's also [[ThatOneBoss the strongest boss in the game, with an enormous health bar and the ability to deal multiple attacks per turn with massive damage potential.]] Good thing she's a BonusBoss, although you will have to fight her if you want to get the true ending.

* In ''VideoGame/SixteenWaysToKillAVampireAtMcdonalds'' Maggie is described as being 5ft tall and looking like [[Film/PeterPan Tinkerbell]]. This description comes right after she [[spoiler:beheads the vampire with a machete]]. She also fights vampires hand-to-hand.

* Sugar from ''/VideoGame/OFF'' is soft-spoken, her text is littered with emoticons, laughs sweetly while speaking, wears puffy pants, has candies tied to her fingers, and all of her attacks are named after desserts. She's also [[ThatOneBoss the strongest boss in the game, with an enormous health bar and the ability to deal multiple attacks per turn with massive damage potential.]] Good thing she's a BonusBoss, although you will have to fight her if you want to get the true ending.

* Sugar from VideoGame/OFF is soft-spoken, her text is littered with emoticons, laughs sweetly while speaking, wears puffy pants, has candies tied to her fingers, and all of her attacks are named after desserts. She's also [[ThatOneBoss the strongest boss in the game, with an enormous health bar and the ability to deal multiple attacks per turn with massive damage potential.]] Good thing she's a BonusBoss, although you will have to fight her if you want to get the true ending.

* Sugar from ''VideoGame/OFF'' is soft-spoken, her text is littered with emoticons, laughs sweetly while speaking, wears puffy pants, has candies tied to her fingers, and all of her attacks are named after desserts. She's also [[ThatOneBoss the strongest boss in the game, with a whopping health bar and the ability to deal multiple attacks per turn with massive damage potential.]] Good thing she's a BonusBoss, although you will have to fight her if you want to get the true ending.

** Whitney and her team from '"VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver''. If you manage to beat her Clefairy, her [[ThatOneBoss Miltank]] will trash you.

* This is honestly just about every playable character in VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}. Take pity in those who are foolish enough to underestimate them just because of their looks, especially [[HelloNurse Com]][[HospitalHottie pa]] with that giant syringe.
* Special mention to Peashy from ''VideoGame/{{Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory}}'', who's a ''toddler, for Christ's sake'', but has enough strength to send monstrosites (and even Neptune herself!) high up until they turn into {{A Twinkle In The Sky}}.

** Gnar, who is also a prehistoric, shapeshifting, feral yordle (and as such is also pint-sized), Nidalee (a [[ShapeShifting]] huntress who can transform into an adorable wildcat that has the potential to maul you to death), and Nunu (a yeti-riding, snowball-slinging child) all naturally fit the criteria for this trope. All of the aforementioned champions tend to be on the beefier side of the League champion pool, and can be very blunt and lethal in their combat styles.

* From the game ''StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'' we have the character [[DarkSkinnedBlond Peppita Rosetti]], whom, if you take the time to train her a lot, can become stronger than characters like Cliff or Fayt.

* [[SonicTheHedgehog Amy Rose]], a girly pink hedgehog who has actually fully utilized her HyperspaceMallet as her WeaponOfChoice. Even in ''SonicChronicles'' she's classified as a support character, but has enough damage output to put the [[AnAdventurerIsYou designated heavy hitters]] to shame. Her {{sidekick}} Cream the Rabbit is a Cute Bruiser by proxy, letting Cheese, her [[{{Mon}} Chao partner]] do the heavy hitting. (though in ''Chronicles'' she becomes the [[GameBreaker best]] [[WhiteMagicianGirl White Mage]] ''[[GameBreaker ever]]'')

* Prolific in ''WorldOfWarcraft'', thanks to PurelyAestheticGender and the lack of substantial stat differences between races. You're just as likely to be beaten senseless by a two-foot tall gnome girl with pink pigtails as you are by a nine-foot minotaur warrior with a [[{{BFS}} weapon larger than you are]]. Sometimes more likely, since the Gnomes are harder to click on in a crowded battlefield where tab-targeting is impractical.

* It's possible to create a character like this in the ''VideoGame/SeventhDragon'' series, due to character portrait and character class being completely separate. In fact, in promotional material for ''7th Dragon III: code VFD'', the female representative character for the God-Hand class, a class focused on dealing high-damage punches to enemies, is a ''maid'' with a slender build.

* It's possible to create a character like this in the ''VideoGame/SeventhDragon'' series, due to character portrait and character class being completely separate. In fact, in ''7th Dragon III: code VFD'', the female representative character for the God-Hand class, a class focused on dealing high-damage punches to enemies, is a ''maid'' with a slender build.

*** Additionally, any of the female children that are born can become a General and/or Dragon Knight as long as either their mother or father had access to the class. Out of the kids themselves, Sully's daughter Kjelle has Knight (the class that predates General) as her starter, and she's a teenage girl who always has her HUGE armor on.

* Veronica of ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' is a cheerful, slightly snarky girl voiced by FeliciaDay whose main ambition is owning a dress (and she will {{Squee}} if you give her the right kind). She is also quite capable, with the right tools, of punching the head off of something. And she bubbles with eagerness to do so.

* Most female weapon-users in the ''FireEmblem'' series are {{Fragile Speedster}}s or Archer, but ''Sacred Stones'' gave us Amelia, who starts out as a fairly raw recruit but can eventually become a General, Great Knight, or Paladin--or, for maximum application of this trope, take the "Super-Recruit" path, thus doing massive damage (as super-recruits have high CriticalHit rates) with a lance larger than she is.
** Jill from ''Path of Radiance'' and ''Radiant Dawn'' ([[SheIsAllGrownUp or not]]) might also qualify, as she's a member of the mighty Dragon Knight class and, according to a support conversation in ''Path of Radiance'', is about the same age as the TokenMiniMoe WhiteMagicianGirl Mist.

** Nowi from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' can become one if she class changes into a Wyvern Rider, as she's easily the youngest looking character out of the entire cast, yet potentially just as capable of handling a huge battle axe or lance.
*** In addition, any of the female children that are born can become a General and/or Dragon Knight as long as either their mother or father had access to the class. Out of the kids themselves, Sully's daughter Kjelle has Knight (the class that predates General) as her starter, and she's a teenage girl who always has her HUGE armor on.

* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'', if you keep Pixie with you during the whole game, you can eventually turn her into this through a sidequest.
** This carries over to ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'', ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', with a small caveat - they're all used on ''you''.
** Speaking of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', Chie certainly qualifies. An ExtremityExtremist that literally kicks her way out of battle, her follow-up attack allows her to turn an enemy, as well as {{miniboss}}es and even bosses, into ATwinkleInTheSky. On the top of that, Chie gains the powerful physical attack God's Hand, which will bring endless amounts of pain to her adversaries.
*** This doesn't begin to describe the unmitigated cuteness that Chie represents. Especially at higher levels and with proper equipment, her agility can get very high, to the point where she's quite difficult to hit. The cute part? When she dodges, she goes "Noink!" ''It doesn't stop being adorable''.
** And before Chie, there was ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}'''s Lisa Silverman.

* [[{{Joshikousei}} Sakura]] and [[{{Ninja}} Ibuki]], among others, from ''StreetFighter''.

** Tiny and sweet [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII Penelo]] is naturally more profficent with magic, but feel free to give her a two-handed greatsword and watch her plough through enemies.

* She may not have super strength, but Emilia of ''YggdraUnion'' otherwise fits the trope perfectly. The younger sister of the BigBad, she frequently appears at the worst possible times, outdone in this respect only by Aegina [[spoiler:and Luciana]], and is one of the most difficult recurring bosses in the series... and she's only 14. Granted, the game's art style makes everyone look about 10 years younger than they really are...

* Pop the Verdure Witch from ''LuminousArc2''.
** Actually, almost all of the witches from the LuminousArc serie are this.

* While it doesn't apply for all of them, a most of the [[KingdomHearts Heartless]] look too cute to be an army of bloodthirsty creatures.

* Irene from ''ShiningForceIII''. A tiny woman with girlish pigtails, big doe eyes and a fancy Chinese-style dress, who doesn't speak the local language well for extra vulnerability points. Her method of fighting, in a game where most humanoid characters carry big ol' swords, axes, lances and the like? One oversized boxing glove and her feet. Oh, and she's a monk.

* Cecille in ''SuikodenIII''. Cute as a button teen girl who's shorter than even Thomas (and Thomas is a shrimp, by his own admission). She also patrols Budehuc Castle all day ''in full plate armor'', wielding a spear ''larger than she is'' and a buckler, and trains every morning by ''running two miles'' in said plate armor. Her exclusive War Horse rune is also one of the most damaging attacks in the game, although it has low accuracy.
* This is honestly just about every playable character in {{Neptunia}}. Take pity in those who are foolish enough to underestimate them just because of their looks, especially [[HelloNurse Com]][[HospitalHottie pa]] with that giant syringe.
** Special mention to Peashy from ''{{Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory}}'', who's a ''toddler, for Christ's sake'', but has enough strength to send monstrosites (and even Neptune herself!) high up until they turn into {{A Twinkle In The Sky}}.

* Rare male example, Prince Dreambert of MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam turns out to be this. We see him take out Mooks at a few points but when you realize how just badass the little pillow guy can be is when he battles Antasma, a fearsome nightmare demon king, to a draw. Later on he ends up on the receiving end of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown by Antasma but that was only because he used the dream stone to increase his power in the dream world.