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* Jade of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' seems to have a penchant for launching into useless flying kick attacks and using her feet in combat.

* Reimi from ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheLastHope'' will flip-kick an enemy into the air for her close-range attack, and has a special that delivers [[RapidFireFisticuffs Rapid-Fire Kicks]], but being TheArcher, she's predominantly a long-range character; it's a good idea to [[GlassCannon keep her away from her opponents]].

* ''Anime/{{Aggretsuko}}'': Washimi, much like [[FurryReminder a real secretarybird]], uses kicking and stomping to get her point across, at one point intimidating her boss by drop-kicking his desk.

A character (typically AlwaysFemale, hence the name) who fights almost entirely with kicks for the purpose of [[LegFocus showing off her legs]]. She may occasionally throw a punch, but kicking is her primary means of offense. Why do some fighters do this? Perhaps it's because kicks have better range, or feet with shoes are less sensitive to pain than bare hands, or they have stronger legs than arms. However, in her case it's partly due to the RuleOfSexy.

Primarily an ActionGirl trope. A sub-trope of ExtremityExtremist, one that requires the character is female, that her fighting style is (almost entirely) kicks, and she has an essence of {{Fanservice}} to her kicking as well. Sometimes (but not always) they have strapping lower bodies as a result of the reliance on and muscular development of their legs. See also WaifFu. Compare RoundhouseKick.

* Annie Leonhart from ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' uses a unique fighting style, influenced heavily by Muay Thai. She focuses primarily on kicks, allowing her to quickly disable larger and stronger opponents. It doubles as FridgeBrilliance, since the military's primary equipment depends so much on having incredible leg strength and flexibility. [[spoiler: It's also a huge reason why she is absolutely ''lethal'' as the Female Titan]].

** It's also implied the reason she fights strictly with her feet is that [[TechnicalPacifist she absolutely refuses to kill a human being]] and want to fight the Gastrea at the same time.

* In ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' spin-off manga ''Shikkoku no Hana'', a high school girl named Tsukimori Azusa has gained contractor ability in a form of super strong legs. She proceeded to leap through city blocks InASingleBound and [[LudicrousGibs kick people apart]].

* Lucy Heartfilia from ''Manga/FairyTail'' usually summons her Celestial Spirits or uses her whip in a fight, but when she goes unarmed she usually uses mainly kicks. One of her attacks is even called "[[{{Anticlimax}} LUCY KICK]]!!!". Her kicks are sometimes PlayedForLaughs, but have also shown usefulness in real battle.

** It's not known if Doflamingo's lacky Dellinger is trans-anything but he is [[SissyVillain rather effeminate]], uses the girlish exclamation [[{{Squee}} "Kyaaa!"]] and wears high heels with booty shorts.
** Pirate Empress Boa Hancock. She's known as the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman and is a StatuesqueStunner with long beautiful legs she displays with cuts in her dresses. In actual combat, her leg's prove lethal as she spins and slams her legs into someone, often channeling her Devil Fruit power into them to [[TakenForGranite turn them to stone]] for added measure.

* Misao from ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' has a signature joke move which consist of a flying kick.

* Tsubasa Kazanari from ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'' is primarily a swordswoman, but her fighting style also involves UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}}-like spin-kicks with ArmedLegs. She also performs drop kicks, but with a {{BFS}} below her foot (heavy emphasis on "big"). She rarely uses her arms without using her sword.

* In the short time that she is with us in ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'', Fighter primarily fights with her kicks, and takes down a number of the goblins of the cave this way. Unfortunately, her last kick is [[PunchCatch caught]] by a LargeAndInCharge hobgoblin, the very first of its kind encountered in the series, and [[MetronomicManMashing things]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown turn]] [[RapeAsDrama bad]] for her in short order.

* Although it is not her only combat move, Characters/BlackCanary does use a lot of kicks, all the better to highlight her shapely [[StockingFiller fishnet clad legs]]. During her short lived 90s series, she fought a villain called Capoeira, whose combat style was also heavily based on kicks, making their battles very much a kick-fest.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, Lional Kebel, [[CampGay a man temperamentally disposed to taking an interest in female fashion]], contemplates the first generation of Lady Assassins who now teach at the School and that their girl students are taking fashion style from them as to how a female Assassin should dress and look stylish. Considering Miss Alice Band, he reflects that while she ''apparently'' favours tight pencil skirts [[note]]Edwardian fashion c1910[[/note]], they have insufficiently secured side-seams. So that if an unexpected high kick, say to the point of a client's jaw, is mandated by circumstances, the seam will rip up to the thigh very easily, thus allowing unfettered use of the legs and feet. He notes girl students influenced by Alice are dressing like her. For both style and function.

* The character ''Film/MaSuZhen'' from the 1970s movie series of the same names favours using kicks when beating up mooks.

* ''Literature/BeastTamer'': While Kanade does use punches on occasion, nearly every time she enters combat she relies primarily on kicks. Her first and most frequently seen move is a drop kick from above, and kicks or knee attacks are her typical opening move in a given fight.

* ''Literature/TheWitchOfKnightcharm'': After Emily crafts more magical amulets and works them into the soles of her shoes, she becomes this, using the power of the amulets to empower her kicks and thus make herself into a much stronger combattant.

* In ''Series/{{Alias}}'', Sydney Bristow is primarily a kickboxer. One episode lampshades this very trope when her opponent (played by Creator/QuentinTarantino), who is primarily a pugilist, observes that the problem with kick boxers is that they lack the upper body strength for either doling out or taking powerful punches. While Sydney accepts his criticism as valid, she eventually manages to prove that he can't take the kicks of a really good kick boxer either.

* Wrestling/SaraDelRey, of Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}, Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}, Wrestling/RingOfHonor and many other promotions, uses the Koppo Kick a lot, particularly against male opponents.

* Evie (Dakota Kai in NXT) stands out this way on Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}, whose roster is largely defined by pinning combinations, submission holds and head drops. She frequently tags her Twitter posts #[=TeamKick=]

* In ''VideoGame/AlienVsPredatorCapcom'', the female human character, Linn Kurosawa, is equipped with an automatic pistol and {{katana|sAreJustBetter}}, but also does more kicking than any other playable character.
* Two girls from ''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart'' fight with kick based styles: Tsuzura Saki and Inuwaka Akane. While Saki has some punches in her arsenal, Akane relies on kicks exclusively.

* Eve from ''VideoGame/DaemonBride'' is a miniskirted dominatrix rock singer who fights by kicking with blades on her boots. She throws [[KiManipulation Ki Attacks]] from her legs as well. Those blades were actually the Demon she made contract with and she abuses him like a dominatrix, said Demon (Beelzebub) doesn't seem to mind. Her only attacks that uses her hands are a blown kiss projectile and a hair flick projectile.

* ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'': Bronya Zaychik in her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P909aUnspT4&pp=ygUNaG9ua2FpIGJyb255YQ%3D%3D promotional animation]] primarily attacks her enemies by kicking them with her legs. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the fact that her legs are enhanced by a cybernetic exoskeleton that not only allows her to walk, but also float and presumably strengthens them.

** [[{{bifauxnen}} King]] is the series' foremost example, being a practitioner of the Nak Muay style of kickboxing. While her punches consists of jabs, hooks, and elbow strikes that inflict light damage, her kicks are generally stronger and are her chief means of attack. Even her [[KiManipulation "Venom Strike"]] and [[SpamAttack "Phantom Venom"]] are performed with her legs.

* [[VisualNovel/SteinsGate Kurisu Makise]] appears as a playable [[GuestFighter guest character]] in the FightingGame ''VideoGame/PhantomBreaker'' and its spinoff BeatEmUp ''Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds'' via DLC. Kurisu's fighting style consists in using several weapons based on the various future gadgets from her home game, and a lot of kicks for close combat.

* Reimi from ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheLastHope'' will flip-kick an enemy into the air for her close range attack, and has a special that delivers [[RapidFireFisticuffs Rapid-Fire Kicks]], but being TheArcher, she's predominantly a long-range character; It's a good Idea to [[GlassCannon keep her away from her opponents]].

** The possible TropeCodifier: [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Chun-Li]]. Strangely enough, she had some effective (and pretty hard) punches in both 2 and the Alpha games. It wasn't until 3 that her "legs that took down an organization" status really took hold, with most of her punches replaced by ineffective/silly looking chops or slaps. In particular, her crouch hard punch took a ''big'' hit.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' has Zero Suit Samus, notably in the fourth game after she got RocketBoots and her attacks and animations were changed to better emphase [[ShedArmorGainSpeed her agility]]. Also Zelda to a lesser extent, who is mostly a LadyOfBlackMagic but is known for delivering powerful [[FullContactMagic magic-enhanced]] Lightning Kicks almost as powerful as Captain Falcon's knee.
* In the ''VideoGame/TalesOf'' series, there are a few female characters who specializes in kicking:
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfHearts'' has Kohaku Hearts who is a unique hybrid of a fire mage, healer and a martial artist with her specialty being kicking. Kicking is also one of her traits as her wanted poster in a skit in Tales of Hearts R noted.

** Included in Sarah Bryant's arsenal are the knee, jumping knee, jumping spin kick, legsweep, flamengo stance kicks, kickflip, and the beat gatling throw.
** [[AnimeChineseGirl Pai-Chan]] mainly uses kicking attacks in TheAnimeOfTheGame. However, the bad guys catch up with her fighting style, and [[FauxActionGirl she's ended up useless]] in any non-{{mook|s}} battle. More exactly, Pai's Enseiken fighting style is said in-TV series to be useless in some battle conditions. The BigBad, Liu Kowloon, is also a martial artist and knows about this very well -- often sending out non-Mooks that are specially trained into creating said conditions and neutralising [[RunawayFiance Pai]] [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty so they can bring her back to him]] (there's even a whole scene in the beginning in which Kowloon explains this to Pai). Said conditions don't apply in the games for obvious reasons, so she retains her fighting competence.
* In ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadTelltale'', one of Clementine's go to moves is to block an incoming threat with her foot and kick them off, usually sending them into something dangerous. After being taught by Jane, she begin to kick walkers in the knee in order to stun them before stabbing them in the head.

** Neopolitan uses either her ParasolOfPain or kicks for battle, and has never been seen using her fists even though she wields her umbrella one-handed. Given how [[PintSizedPowerhouse tiny]] she is, she probably needs the extra power. [[spoiler:The one time she does use her hands, trying to hit Ruby as they're both falling, Ruby is able to block her punches rather easily because she has no experience with hand-to-hand.]]

* Black Widow and Zarda from ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble''. In the first season, Widow tends to have some closeups where whenever she kicks her legs appear as very attractive. but in the second season, the designs of her hair, eyes, body, legs, arms, and costume improve. whenever there is a closeup of Widow kicking with her legs(or crossing them), they are shown to be very powerful and curvaceous.

* Ivy, from ''WesternAnimation/WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego'', has flying kicks as her preferred method of combat. She has also kicked open doors bolted by heavy pieces of lumber, and her legs are strong enough she once freed herself from a pillory just by flexing her legs.
* Mystique once again, this time in ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009''. There's a particularly memorable kick in her introductory episode, when she's fighting Wolverine. He swipes at her, and she ducks...but while she's there, she throws out a back kick ''over her own head'' and nails him in the face.

* Female equines use kicking to not only repel predators, but to also deter unwanted mates while in heat.

* Chloe Bruce, a world martial arts champion and professional stuntwoman for films like the Star Wars sequels and Guardians of the galaxy, is the real-life personification of this trope. She takes great pride in her flexible kicks and has made them her trademark, to the point where she does things like cosplaying kick chick characters like Chun Li, filming herself doing the bottle cap challenge with her signature Scorpion Kick, and even establishing the world record for the most amount of Scorpion Kicks done in a single minute.

* Eve from ''VideoGame/DaemonBride'' is a miniskirted dominatrix rock singer who fights by kicking with blades on her boots. She throws [[KiManipulation Ki Attacks]] from her legs as well. Those blades were actually the Demon she made contract with and she abuses him like a dominatrix, said Demon (Beelzebub) doesn't seem to mind.

* In the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'', Batgirl and Catwoman rely heavily on their kicks, stomps, and heels as well as whole body maneuvers because [[MenAreStrongWomenArePretty neither of them are as muscular as the guys]]. Catwoman in particular almost always uses her legs to strangle enemies in predator mode. Foot attacks are also empowered by [[CombatStilettos high heels]].

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* In ''Manga/AllRounderMeguru'', Maki favors powerful Muay Thay kicks to take advantage of her great height ([[HugeSchoolgirl 179 cm and growing at 16]]), contrasting with most of the other female fighters who favor fists, grappling, or are more equilibrated.
* Emma Frost in the ''[[Anime/MarvelAnimeXMen X-Men]]'' anime fights using a Savate fighting style.

* The female version of ComicBook/{{Judomaster}} in Franchise/TheDCU used a lot of kicks in her fighting (exactly the way that judo doesn't).
* In nearly every incarnation, [[Characters/MarvelComicsMystique Mystique]] has an abundance of martial arts skills, but great emphasis is put on the many ways she can contort herself just to plant a foot in an enemy's face. It helps that her costume (or lack thereof) is custom-made to show a ''lot'' of leg.
* Although it is not her only combat move, Characters/BlackCanary does use a lot of kicks, all the better to highlight her shapely [[StockingFiller fishnet clad legs]]. During her short lived 90s series, she fought a villain called Capoeira, whose combat style was also heavily based on kicks, making their battles very much a kick-fest.

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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, Lional Kebel, [[CampGay a man temperamentally disposed to taking an interest in female fashion]], contemplates the first generation of Lady Assassins who now teach at the School and that their girl students are taking fashion style from them as to how a female Assassin should dress and look stylish. Considering Miss Alice Band, he reflects that while she ''apparently'' favours tight pencil skirts [[note]]Edwardian fashion c1910[[/note]], they have insufficiently secured side-seams. So that if an unexpected high kick, say to the point of a client's jaw, is mandated by circumstances, the seam will rip up to the thigh very easily, thus allowing unfettered use of the legs and feet. He notes girl students influenced by Alice are dressing like her. For both style and function.

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* ''Film/HighKickGirl''. She... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin kicks high]].

* B-movie queen Creator/CynthiaRothrock has made her career around flipping about and kicking bad guys.

* ''Film/CharliesAngels2000'': While all the Angels demonstrate various fighting moves, Natalie seems to kick a lot more, including interrogating one suspect by holding him against a wall with her bootheel. This is, of course, to show off Creator/CameronDiaz's long, toned legs.
* [[TheDragon Gazelle]] from ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'' employs a variant in that she does fight mostly with her prosthetic legs, but they function more like [[AbsurdlySharpBlade swords]].
* ''Film/WaynesWorld'': Creator/TiaCarrere not only plays a mean bass, but she can also take out a bar brawler with just one kick in the middle of a song and hardly even miss a beat.
* Mina from ''Film/OurFriendPower5'' is a Taekwondo fighter, meaning that she's mastered some powerful kicks and uses them constantly- whether it's to beat up Hyuk or kick an alien in the face, she's always using her legs.
* ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'': Harley Quinn, Huntress, and especially Black Canary tend to use a lot of kicks when they're not wielding weapons.
* In ''Film/BetYourLife'', BountyHunter ActionGirl Carmen uses a fighting style that primarily relies on kicks whenever she is not using guns. She is able to drop several of Joseph's armed {{mooks}} with kicks in the casino.
* In ''Film/Derailed2002'', ActionGirl Galina's fighting style seems to consist almost entirely of kicks.

* Kylaia Al Jmaa from Creator/TamoraPierce's Literature/TortallUniverse short story ''Student of Ostriches''. She starts developing her self-taught fighting style by watching ostriches kicking a wild dog (although she does develop and use techniques other than kicks).
* Ninette from ''Literature/ReservedForTheCat'' borders on this when she kicks an attacker into a wall. Justifiable because ballet requires both strong legs and precise movements with them.
* Literature/KateDaniels prefers to fight with a saber most of the time, but when she and the local head Werelion engage in some GoodOldFisticuffs, she really prefers kicking because it's the only thing she's got that can put a dent in his regeneration.
* The [[Literature/HereticsOfDune Honored Matres]] in the ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' universe have this as their signature style of unarmed combat, and have developed it to the point where a single kick can be instantly lethal. They are also, for reasons connected with specific training and possibly selective breeding, extremely fast. ''Some'' of the [[Literature/ChapterhouseDune best Bene Gesserit adepts are a match for them]], but that's about it.

* Literature/DominoLady's hand-to-hand combat style primarily involves high kicks; which show off her legs through her slit-to-the-hip gown. This is even more emphasised in her comic book incarnation.
* Bakgi from Literature/NanoMachine, is a male example. He came from a high-ranked clan that specialized in kicking.

* In ''Series/{{Alias}}'', Sydney Bristow is primarily a kickboxer. One episode lampshades this very trope when her opponent (played by Creator/QuentinTarantino), who is primarily a pugilist, observes that the problem with kick boxers is that they lack the upper body strength for either doling out or taking powerful punches. While Sydney accepts his criticism as valid, she eventually manages to prove that he can't take the kicks of a really good kick boxer either.

* Purdey of ''Series/TheNewAvengers'' has a long, strong, and deadly pair of legs.
* On ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'', Phoebe takes up kickboxing after she gets tired of having a passive power. We don't get to see it much.

* ''Webcomic/ThirtyTwoKickUp'': Mob enforcer Margaret fights purely with kicks.

* Enid from ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' fights almost exclusively with her legs, and is able to shoot energy from her boots. Her legs are noticeably muscular as a result.
* Mira Nova from ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' uses kicks as her main melee attack.
* Colleen from ''WesternAnimation/RoadRovers'' loves to do this. She even yells "HAI-YA!" whenever she does it.

* Characters/{{Mystique}} has a pretty wide range of skills, but artists just ''love'' to show off her long toned yet shapely blue legs by having her do all kinds of impossible kicks.

** Neopolitan uses either her ParasolOfPain or kicks for battle, and has never been seen using her fists even though she wields her umbrella one-handed. Given how [[PintSizedPowerhouse tiny]] she is, she probably needs the extra power.

** The Amazon was specifically called a Lightning Kicker in Atlus' character video for her. If she loses her BladeOnAStick, she will instead fight with a series of kick combos [[AssKicksYou and butt slams]].

* Although it is not her only combat move, Characters/BlackCanary does use a lot of kicks, all the better to highlight he shapely [[StockingFiller fishnet clad legs]]. During her short lived 90s series, she fought a villain called Capoeira, whose combat style was also heavily based on kicks, making their battles very much a kick-fest.

* In ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonNeon'', Linda's feet are her primary weapon when she's not [[WhipItGood wielding a whip]].

* Calynn from ''LightNovel/GatheringTheEnchanted'' uses leg armor to enhance the power of her kicks. She uses her feet as her only weapon.

* Subverted in ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'' you'd expect a Mystletainn Kick to be, well, [[ShapedLikeItself a kick]], [[ChainsawGood but...]]

* Calynn from ''LightNovel/GatheringTheEnchanted'' has literal feet of steel.

Primarily an ActionGirl trope. A sub-trope of ExtremityExtremist, one that requires the character is female, that her fighting style is (almost entirely) kicks, and she has an essence of {{Fanservice}} to her kicking as well. Sometimes (but not always) they have strapping lower bodies as a result of the reliance on and muscular development of their legs. See also WaifFu, and contrast WhiteMagicianGirl. Compare RoundhouseKick.

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* Sen Yarizui the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Ice Witch]] from ''LightNovel/BenTo''. While the other fighting girls use their fists or {{Improvised Weapon}}s of various sorts, she fights almost exclusively with kicks.
* [[NiceGirl Enju]] [[AllLovingHero Aihara]] in ''LightNovel/BlackBullet'' fights with her feet when combating the Gastrea. Justified, as the soles and the tip of the boots she wears are made of Varanium, and she's a [[AnimalMotifs Rabbit-Type]] Cursed Child, making her exceptionally good at jumping and kicking.

* In the short time that she is with us in ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'', Fighter primarily fights with her kicks, and takes down a number of the goblins of the cave this way. Unfortunately, her last kick is [[PunchCatch caught]] by a LargeAndInCharge hobgoblin, the very first of its kind encountered in the series, and [[MetronomicManMashing things]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown turn]] [[RapeAsDrama bad]] for her in short order.

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* Sachiko Ogasawara (''Rosa Chinensis en bouton'' from ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs'') appears in the doujin FightingGame ''[[VideoGame/{{Maribato}} Maribato!]]'' as a playable character. Although she doesn't get to the point of becoming an ExtremityExtremist, most of Sachiko's normal and special moves are heavily kick-based; She has a very fast DivingKick and flying kick among her moveset.

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