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* [[https://www.deviantart.com/discordantprincess Discordant Princess']] ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' works have this dynamic with OC Megan Lowell and her mother Marjorie (as well as her six older sisters). Marjorie and her oldest girls are "proper" ladies who put their efforts into looking good and roping a fine marriage, while Megan is a studious tomboy who eventually becomes a World War Two Army nurse. [[JustifiedTrope Justified,]] as in the time period Megan lives in, that's what was mostly expected of girls.

* ''Film/SignatureMove'': Zaynab is a ButchLesbian. Her mother Parveen is a traditional Muslim woman, always wearing a dress and mostly hijab too. They clash on many things, naturally, most particularly Parveen pushing for her to marry a man and have children, unaware at first Zaynab is a lesbian.

** The later ''Film/FreakyFriday2003'' looser adaptation of the [[Literature/FreakyFriday same source book]] departs from this with career woman psychologist Tess and rocker-chic teenager Anna who both are more on a grey area of the Girly-Girl to Tomboy ratio.

* In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', this is one of the many reasons that the Danvers family is so dysfunctional. Carol (the daughter) is a sporty, assertive, tomboy. Her mother, Marie, on the other hand, seems to be a typical housewife who puts up with her husband's emotionally abusive attitude with little complaint, never explaining to her daughter ''why''. [[note]] The short version: she RefusedTheCall despite her mother's urging, [[ShellShockedVeteran seeing what it did to her mother and her little brother]], and is terrified of Carol embracing it. [[/note]] Once this is explained, her HiddenDepths are revealed (Harry picks up on them almost immediately), and she resolves to put aside her fears and be proud of her "scrappy little warrior maiden", the two get on much better. She also effectively kicks her husband to the curb once she discovers how far he was ''really'' willing to go to make Carol more traditionally feminine ([[spoiler: get Harry to MindRape her. Harry reacts badly to this suggestion]]). He's still technically around, but only on temporary visits, [[KickedUpstairs having had a promotion out of state arranged for him]], never left alone with his children, with the implication that a divorce is on the cards - and this punishment is indicated to be ''significantly'' milder than what [[MamaBear Marie]] would have come up with if she'd found out about what had happened directly, rather than from her own mother.

** Felicity Merriman is the tomboyish protagonist -- she would rather explore and ride horses than sit and do embroidery. Her mother Martha is a ProperLady from a well-to-do family who expresses exasperation at Felicity's tomboyishness and wishes that her daughter matures into a genteel young woman. Throughout the series, Felicity matures enough to calm down but her mother accepts her less conventional hobbies and interests (even where she'd run her father's counter at their store when he is away).
** Kit Kittredge's mother (at least before TheGreatDepression wrecks the family's financial stability) is a housewife who loves hosting garden parties and wants to give her daughter a pink, princess-themed bedroom. Kit, however, is much more into baseball, writing her own newspaper, and idolizing real-life career women like Amelia Earhart.

* The ''Series/ColdCase'' Season 4 episode "Torn", the oldest unsolved case in the series, focuses on the death of a teenage socialite who falls in with the suffrage movement, much to the dismay of her conservative mother. [[spoiler:The mother turns out to be her killer in the end, though it's AccidentalMurder.]]

* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' establishes this dynamic between Aemma and her daughter Rhaenyra from their very first scene together. Aemma, a demure ProperLady has to explain to her strongly-opiniated tomboy of a daughter that her role as a woman with royal blood is to provide heirs for the Realm. Rhaenyra dismisses her mother's words and tells her she would rather be a knight who rides to battle and glory. Guess who ends up having 5 children in the end.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Helena Sandsmark is the prim feminine young mother of the very brash and tomboyish [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Cassie]] Sandsmark.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' - Episodes set in the future has this dynamic with cookie-cutter housewife Marge and her youngest child, Maggie, who dresses like a punk rocker.

* Blodeuwedd and Kari from ''VideoGame/DeadInVinland''. [[TheFace Blodeuwedd]] is a housewife and excellent cook, who's [[WantedAGenderConformingChild always trying]] to convince Kari to cook, clean, sew, and other traditionally feminine tasks. Kari is rude, snarky, and impatient, has a HairTriggerTemper, wears trousers, and would much rather go hunting with her dad and explore the IslandOfMystery they've ended up stranded on. Blodeuwedd even tells one of the ''[[NonActionGuy male]]'' [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide characters]] that she wishes she had a daughter like him. Complicated in that Blodeuwedd is also an axe-wielding LadyOfWar who's the best [[StoneWall tank]] in the game.

* A [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] example in
''Fanfic/TheStoryOfApolloDaphneAndLucaAnItalianTragedy'' with [[NamedByAdaptation Caterina]] Marcovaldo and her daughter Giulia. [[SensitiveArtist Caterina]], while not a full-fledged GirlyGirl or ProperLady, has a gentler, more soft-spoken and mild-mannered personality compared to the HotBlooded, blunt and tomboyish [[FieryRedhead Giulia]].

* A [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] example in Fanfic/TheStoryOfApolloDaphneAndLucaAnItalianTragedy with [[NamedByAdaptation Caterina]] Marcovaldo and her daughter Giulia. [[SensitiveArtist Caterina]], while not a full-fledged GirlyGirl or ProperLady, has a gentler, more soft-spoken and mild-mannered personality compared to the HotBlooded, blunt and tomboyish [[FieryRedhead Giulia]].

* A [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] example in Fanfic/TheStoryOfApolloDaphneAndLuca with [[NamedByAdaptation Caterina]] Marcovaldo and her daughter Giulia. [[SensitiveArtist Caterina]], while not a full-fledged GirlyGirl or ProperLady, has a gentler, more soft-spoken and mild-mannered personality compared to the HotBlooded, blunt and tomboyish [[FieryRedhead Giulia]].

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Inverted. Grace is a spunky, short-haired woman who is a famous Rhyhorn racer. While she wanted Serena to become a Ryhorn racer like her, Serena ended up leaning towards the IdolSinger-esque Pokemon Performer career instead. Serena has a more feminine look than her mother as well, though she did end up with an ImportantHaircut halfway through ''X&Y''.

* As a woman of roughly average levels of femininity, Rita Loud from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' both plays this trope straight with her more tomboyish daughters, [[TheRockstar Luna]], [[ThePrankster Luan]], [[PassionateSportsGirl Lynn Jr]], [[ThePigPen Lana]] and [[MadScientist Lisa]], while also inverting it with her more feminine ones, [[PhoneaholicTeenager Lori]], [[TheFashionista Leni]], [[LightFeminineDarkFeminine Lucy]], [[PrincessesPreferPink Lola]] and arguably [[TheBabyOfTheBunch Lily]].

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* In ''ComicStrip/PreTeena'', harrassed mother Tess Keene manages to look casually presentable and stylish in a well-dressed feminine manner. Older daughter Jeri is obsessed with appearance, style and makeup. Eleven-year old Teena, however, is a tomboy who prefers slopping around in jeans, or shorts, and t-shirt. She absolutely hates formal occassions where she has to wear dresses. Her idea of clothes-shopping is to spend no more than five minutes in locating a new pair of jeans and four or five t-shirts, and any time spent above this is time wasted. Her mother despairs.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Inverted. Helen is the ActionMom of the shy, boy crazy inviso-girl Violet.

** Kit Kitteridge's mother (at least before TheGreatDepression wrecks the family's financial stability) is a housewife who loves hosting garden parties and wants to give her daughter a pink, princess-themed bedroom. Kit, however, is much more into baseball, writing her own newspaper, and idolizing real-life career women like Amelia Earhart.

* ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'': In ''Children of the Lens'', Clarissa Kinnison is described as a womanly feminine lady who tried hard to make her daughters grow up as feminine women too -- and failed. They would not play house, or play with dolls; instead they played with atomic engines, flitters, and speedsters, and they also enjoyed roughhousing with their big brother Kit.

* {{Inverted}} in ''Literature/{{Remnants}}.'' One of the main characters is a teenager who goes by Miss Violet Blake (birth name: [[TomboyishName Austin]]). Violet was part of a clique called "Janes," because they prefer to dress and act in the style of Creator/JaneAusten characters. Her mother, in contrast, was a tough-as-nails businesswoman before the Rock hit, and the two often butt heads.
* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': Honor has shades of this with her mother Allison. Allison is a geneticist, small, beautiful, and from the planet Beowulf that has a very open attitude to sex. Honor is a naval officer, is 6 foot 2, and always felt plain and was content as one of the lads' after some unpleasant experiences at the Naval Academy. While not at each other's throats, Honor was always jealous of her mother's beauty and for her part, her mother was perturbed by Honor's lack of sex life.

* ''Literature/AmericanGirlsFelicity'': Felicity Merriman is the tomboyish protagonist -- she would rather explore and ride horses than sit and do embroidery. Her mother Martha is a ProperLady from a well-to-do family who expresses exasperation at Felicity's tomboyishness and wishes that her daughter matures into a genteel young woman. Throughout the series, Felicity matures enough to calm down but her mother accepts her less conventional hobbies and interests (even where she'd run her father's counter at their store when he is away).

* This is a major sticking point between Katarina and her mother in ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom''. The original Katarina was spoiled but still well-behaved (when she wasn't acting the AlphaBitch) and active in her engagement to Prince Jerod but the Katarina after regaining her PastLifeMemories is the opposite. Her less than ladylike hobbies such as farming and tree-climbing, and her complete lack of proper decorum for the daughter of a duke (much less the fiancee of a prince) infuriate her mother to no end, leaving her as literally the only person in the story who can't be won over by [[BlitheSpirit her simpleminded charm or quirkiness]].