History Main / GamerChick

** Suisei, Towa and Aqua are among the agency's most accomplished gamers. Suisei cleans house at ''VideoGame/Tetris'', Aqua has been known to speedrun Soulslikes, and Towa is up there with Botan when it comes to [=FPSes=]. The three of them form an ''VideoGame/ApexLegends'' team, [=StartEnd=], and they're perennial contenders for the championship in Hololive's annual ''VideoGame/MarioKart8Deluxe'' tournament (which Towa, incidentally, is also the host of).

** [=AZKi=] is a curious situational example. Historically, she's been perhaps the most IdolSinger-like member of Hololive, but in recent years she's begun doing more LetsPlay content - and it turns out that she's insanely good at one specific game, that being, of all things, ''VideoGame/GeoGuessr''.

* All the members of ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'' are gamers of one stripe or another, having at least one genre that they thrive in (e.g. Gura with rhythm games, Marine and Kiara with [=JRPGs=], etc.) and aren't shy about dipping their toes into others.

* A similar case was that of hafu, who was subjected to both racist and sexist harrassment in the [[https://www.ginx.tv/en/twitch/hafu-retells-horrific-story-of-a-professional-esports-team-harassing-her-while-competing/ World of Warcraft community]], and since then, she's become one of the best Team Fight Tactics players in the streamer space (also as part of the extended OfflineTV and Friends circle, thanks to being old friends with DisguisedToast).

* All the members of ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'' are gamers of one stripe or another, having at least one genre that they thrive in (e.g. Suisei with Tetris, Subaru with fighting games, Gura with rhythm games, Aqua, Towa, Botan and Ame with first-person shooters, Marine and Kiara with [=JRPGs=], etc.) and aren't shy about dipping their toes into others. This is why ''hololive GAMERS'' became an artifact title (now just used to refer to the unnumbered generation between the second and third gens), along with the fact that none of them are slouches with the idol singer part of the business even if they don't put as much focus on it as Sora, [=AZKi=] and Suisei.

** While on the subject of LilyPichu, her group and their extended network (OfflineTV & Friends) have no shortage of good-looking girls who are also excellent gamers considering they're all also variety streamers. In their occasional in-house games, it's difficult to predict who will come out on top (among both guys and girls) and xChocobars, QuarterJade, Sydeon, Valkyrae, TrulyTenzin, and even Katamina (despite her one earphone in cursed way of playing) have all proven themselves to be far better than average in most competitive FPS games, often not needing that much time to get up to speed in new competitive seasons for particular games, most notably Valorant (not sure about Fuslie, bless her, she tries though!).

** Youtube also hosts several female internet personalities that also happen to focus on games (in particular ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''). Some include [[https://www.youtube.com/user/sweetiebutt Natsumii]] and WebVideo/LilyPichu (the latter is also noted for having a real-life {{Moe}} voice)

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* Tyalie from ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'' is the self-described “ultimate” Gamer Chick. She lives in the VR version of Website/GameFAQs, in a basement apartment filled with game consoles, and her dialogue is peppered with all sorts of gaming terms and idioms. When she joins your party, her Platform/Nintendo3DS appears in your inventory as a Key Item without a bit of fanfare.

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* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi4ffgYCMVs commercial]] for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS shows a trio of grown men getting soundly beaten in ''VideoGame/MarioKart7'''s online multiplayer mode. As they speculate on who these mystery guys are, we cut to a pair of Japanese schoolgirls, who briefly wonder if they should show mercy on their opponents for once before laughing and returning to their game.

* In ''Manga/MitsuboshiColors'', Kotoha is usually seen carrying a UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS system with her, even if ''she's terrible'' at video games.

* ''Manga/WorldTrigger'': Yuu Kunichika keeps various consoles in Tachikawa Unit's Operation Room and even plays with her teammates from time to time, as seen in chapter 109/episode 67, where she and Tachikawa play an unknown game using controllers similar to those of the UsefulNotes/PlayStation family. In the anime, this is replaced with them playing a ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' lookalike in Super Famicom-looking console.

* This trope gets [[AvertedTrope butterflied away]] in ''Literature/PlayerTwoStart'', an AlternateHistory story where the partnership between Nintendo and Sony had over the UsefulNotes/{{SNESCDROM}} doesn't fall apart over Nintendo noticing the clause in the contract that would have given Sony 100% of the software royalties, with Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi deciding to instead renegotiate the contract with Sony because their technology was too good to pass up. This eventually results in video games becoming mainstream about five years earlier than they do in our world and the many, ''many'' effects of this on history, society, and culture. As far as this trope goes, video games not having had the time to be considered the secretive realm of "dude-bros" and fostering toxic masculinity, as well as the greater influence of Nintendo and Sega's quirkier sensibilities into the late '90s and '00s (a time when, in real life, they were losing ground to Sony and Microsoft), means that the idea of a girl playing games isn't considered notable when works comment on gaming in general and is more akin to Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs. By the 2000s, while there are games that aggressively target young men just like in our world, they are not as dominant over the culture, and genres like {{Adventure Game}}s and {{Life Simulation Game}}s have a significantly increased share of the industry's attention.

* Blog/AShotOfTsundereInYourGinger shows that Asuka is one. One of her posts featured a list of her favorite games and that she was waiting to get her hands on a new UsefulNotes/Playstation4. She attempted to play ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' for a record-breaking amount of time before she was caught by Misato and thrown out of the apartment to get some fresh air.

* Tyalie from ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'' is the self-described “ultimate” Gamer Chick. She lives in the VR version of Website/GameFAQs, in a basement apartment filled with game consoles, and her dialogue is peppered with all sorts of gaming terms and idioms. When she joins your party, her UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS appears in your inventory as a Key Item without a bit of fanfare.

* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/{{Unpacking}}'' owns an ever-increasing amount of systems and games, and seems to be especially fond of her UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube. [[spoiler:Her girlfriend/wife has some games of her own, though not as many.]]

* Nintendolife introduced us to [[http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/02/ninterview_heather_miss_gamer_girl_cascioli Heather "Miss Gamer Girl" Cascioli.]] The posters in her room feature such games as ''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Kingdom Hearts 3D, Battlefield, Brink'' and ''Mass Effect 3''. And she owns a UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy!

To counter the assumption that MostGamersAreMale, stories involving games have a tendency to incorporate at least one female character that is into the same sort of games as the male characters. Going beyond just TokenMinority, this character type has her own genetics that tend to show up more often than not. She's usually very {{tomboy}}ish and even might be a StereotypicalNerd, but because she is brought in for fanservice, she usually looks exceptionally feminine and well-kempt. She is confrontational and self-aware of her gender, with the need to mention it more often than she should.

* Wrestling/{{WOW|WomenOfWrestling}}'s Armenian Superhero Tatevik's red baron is the "The Gamer" because she's an avid player and likes to strike Franchise/StreetFighter poses...though what she wants to do her opponents can be seen in ''Franchise/MortalKombat''.

* ''VideoGame/TokyoXanadu'': Tsubasa spends the whole game shuttered in an arcade, until Kou receives a request from her father to confront her about it. She's so desheviled from her addiction that LadyLooksLikeADude.

* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} and ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' crossover ''FanFic/TheManyWorldsInterpretation'', by Creator/AAPessimal, Sheldon Cooper is engrossed in playing ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'' and doesn't notice visiting Discworlder Johanna Smith-Rhodes standing behind him. She watches for long enough to get a grasp of the game and the playing technique. [[note]]As Johanna is a graduate of the Guild of Assassins of Ankh-Morpork, this doesn't take her very long.[[/note]] She then gives Sheldon some telling, and impeccable, professional advice in how to win. Later on, she gets a chance to play Assassins' Creed herself. And asks Sheldon and Leonard if this is meant to be ''difficult''?

* Della Duck from ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' is shown to love video games, and it's one of the things she bonds with Huey over--she loves the action and adventure portions while he prefers to do things like farming and raising money. The OriginsEpisode "The First Adventure" also revealed that her skill as an AcePilot comes from [[IKnowMortalKombat spending her childhood playing flight simulators]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Marinette is shown to be a skilled gamer, quickly beating the top two (male) players at her school during a video game tournament. While she initially enters the tournament simply so she can hang out with her crush, both of her opponents acknowledge that she's the most skilled player there.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': At the end of "Dungeons & Discords", Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie both eagerly join the guys for their fantasy RPG.

* Wrestling/{{Naomi}} Knight, which isn't too surprising considering her association with Wrestling/TheUsos, though she prefers old-school platform games to the brothers' shooters.

* ''Webcomic/MoringMarkTOHComics'': Ayzee is repetedly shown to be a big fan of an RPG series called ''Coven Quest'', to the point of having a special illusion conjuring stone that can give her a real-time HUD to turn her everyday life into a video game. In nice bit of GenerationXerox, she first bonds with her eventual girlfriend Milan due to them both being fans of the series, bringing to mind how her mothers first became friends thanks to their shared interest in ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Good Witch Azura]]'' books.

* ''Franchise/ArchieComics'': Betty is sometimes portrayed as enjoying video games as much as the boys do. Sometimes, it helps her get closer to Archie through a shared interest.

* In ''Series/Supergirl2015'' tie-in comic ''ComicBook/AdventuresOfSupergirl'', [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} the titular character]] reveals she loves arcade games.

* Kaguya Houraisan from ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' gained notoriety as the "NEET-Hime" (NEET being the originally British acronym that came into Japanese use that functionally means "unemployed slacker" and hime meaning princess... basically a royal that doesn't do anything), and is frequently shown in fanworks as playing video games in her room. There is some justification for that - Kaguya is [[WhoWantsToLiveForever immortal and eternally bored to death]] - but Gensokyo, being rather like medieval Japan, [[AnachronismStew does not have that kind of technology]] (though items from the Outside sometimes wind up in Gensokyo, nobody there knows what they do and there's no electricity to power them). Fan interpretation almost universally assumes she's actually a massive gamer nerd, and often is shown being willing to game anyone in anything better than them if there is a storyline with some character being introduced to video games from the outside world involved.

** Youtube also hosts several female internet personalities that also happen to focus on games (in particular VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends). Some include [[https://www.youtube.com/user/sweetiebutt Natsumii]] and WebVideo/LilyPichu (the latter is also noted for having a real-life {{Moe}} voice)

* Team Siren was an all-female team for ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' which gained infamy due to their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gz9um3wV1o promotional video]], introducing some [[MemeticMutation meme-worthy]] lines like "Losing is not an option", "I'm a siren", and "Baited and outsmarted", all ensuring that they would never be taken seriously as a team by the League community. Following poor performances, they eventually disbanded within the year.

* Former ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' tournament pro "killcreek" ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Case Stevana "Stevie" Case]]) famous for "humiliating" Creator/JohnRomero at [=QuakeCon=], by [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame beating him at the game he designed]], she then [[DefeatMeansFriendshipbecame his girlfriend.

* Former ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' tournament pro "killcreek" ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Case Stevana "Stevie" Case]]) famous for humiliating Creator/JohnRomero at [=QuakeCon=], by [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame beating him at the game he designed]].

%%* ''WesternAnimation/GlitchTechs'': Miko plays this trope straight as an avid gamer, sometimes much to her family's annoyance.

To counter the assumption that MostGamersAreMale, stories involving games have a tendency to incorporate at least one female character that is into the same sort of games as the male characters. Going beyond just TokenMinority, this character type has her own genetics that tend to show up more often than not. She's usually very {{tomboy}}ish and even might be a StereotypicalNerd if not {{extraverted|nerd}}, but because she is brought in for fanservice, she usually looks exceptionally feminine and well-kempt. She is confrontational and self-aware of her gender, with the need to mention it more often than she should.