History Main / LittleGirlsKickShins

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
** It has happened at least once, from Palantir to Murphy, when the latter was preventing the former from going to rescue her friends, in [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/244-the-secret-of-the-forger-s-list-chapter-4 The Secret of the Forger's List (Chapter 4)]]:
---> A few dozen yards down the tunnel was a very upset Irene who was in a tug of war with Murphy.\\
“My friends are in there!” she squealed at the slightly larger girl with the rainbow-colored hair. \\
“What are mine, chopped tuna?” Murphy yelled back. “You’re not…” was a far as she got before Irene reared back and landed a solid kick to the older girl’s shin. “Son of a…” yelped Joanne as she crumpled to the floor, loosing her grip on Palantir in the process.
** Ten-year-old Pahelee is both a GadgeteerGenius and an [[SuperStrength Exemplar]], and like her friends in Team Awesome!, she is exceptionally powerful at both. The time [[TheBully Buster]] tried picking on them, she gave him a shin kick that would have broken a normal adult's leg.

* Pharaoh's son kicks Moses in the shins in ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'', presumably so we don't feel too bad when the little brat dies.
** Actually, the boy was kicking Moses's rod which he just used to demonstrate God's power by turning into a cobra, but it was still a defiant and insulting gesture to both Moses and God, so therefore we still don't mind too much what happens to the little brat.

--->'''Chante''': "My feet and your shins were destined to be as one!"

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': It has happened at least once, from Palantir to Murphy, when the latter was preventing the former from going to rescue her friends, in [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/244-the-secret-of-the-forger-s-list-chapter-4 The Secret of the Forger's List (Chapter 4)]]:
--> A few dozen yards down the tunnel was a very upset Irene who was in a tug of war with Murphy.\\

** Ten-year-old Pahelee is both a GadgeteerGenius and a high-level [[SuperStrength Exemplar]]. The time [[TheBully Buster]] tried picking on them, she gave him a shin kick that would have broken a normal adult's leg.

* Gender-swap version in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''; Mas can't do much without his brother Menos, but how many other twelve-year-olds will run up and kick someone who's six times bigger than they are?

* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': A RunningGag in the episode "Store Wars" is Bloo calling people a "rip-off artist" and kicking them in the shins when he doesn't agree with them. He ends up doing this to many store owners, Mac, and [[TooDumbToLive a police officer]]. At the end of the episode, [[LaserGuidedKarma Coco calls him a rip-off artist and kicks him in the shins]].

* Sakura from the ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'' anime and manga kicks her older brother in the shin with her rollerblades in the first issue/episode, as well as a couple of other times in other episodes.

* Happens to poor Aoki-sensei in ''Kodomo no Jikan'', among [[EarAche other]] [[GroinAttack things]].

* Done multiple times to one bad guy (Covington) by Molly of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', to the point that he yelled "No! Not the shin!"

* In ''Literature/ChromeShelledRegios'', [[LittleMissSnarker Felli]] usually kicks things when she gets upset. If said thing is a person, it's usually in the shins. Note that she once kicked a refrigerator so hard she ''dented'' the door, so you can probably guess this hurts a lot. Indeed, when really angry, she once kicked her brother's shin so hard that it ''broke''.

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* In ''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/fate-joyous-order-mash-and-charlies-awesome-adventure-fgo-extella-link.748186/ Fate/Joyous Order]]'', when Olga Marie is revived in Da Vinci's childlike backup body, Charlie calls her tiny and is promptly kicked in the shins.

* Pharaoh's son kicks Moses in the shins in ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'', presumably so we don't feel too bad when the little brat dies.
** Actually, the boy was kicking Moses's rod which he just used to demonstrate God's power by turning into a cobra, but it was still a defiant and insulting gesture to both Moses and God, so therefore we still don't mind too much what happens to the little brat.
* A little girl kicks Patrick in the shins for taking away her "toy" (Actually one of the Smurfs) in the film version of ''Film/TheSmurfs''.

* Not that she is particularly little at the time, but the teenaged Marian kicks Robin in the shins when he is teasing her at the start of ''Film/TheStoryOfRobinHoodAndHisMerrieMen''.
* In ''Film/DiamondsOnWheels'', Susan kicks the thug holding her in the shins to make him let go when the kids make their escape from the warehouse.

* ''Literature/TheFirstLaw'' gave us the daughter of Crummock-i-Phail, who gets away with quite a bit more than her siblings do. Her father remarks that he always remembers who she is by her kicking.
* Nazca (of the ''Literature/GentlemanBastard Sequence'') was given ''steel-toed boots'' by her father for the very purpose of indulging in this practice whenever she so pleases.
* Turtle from ''Literature/TheWestingGame'' is known for this, especially in response to her braid being touched. This actually helped her solve the mystery when [[spoiler: a single kick caused two separate people to start limping.]]

* One of the "Punishment Games" in ''Series/SilentLibrary'' involves having a player stand there and let a little girl walk into the library and kick him in both shins.

* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': In a two-part episode, Al wouldn't allow a woman to breastfeed her baby in the shoe store. In retaliation, Marcy brings several women with babies to protest. He then recognizes one of them as Jefferson holding a doll. Enraged, Al took it from him and asked if he knew what Al intended to do with it. Then a little girl appeared and Jefferson suggested returning it to the little girl he took it from. Al did and [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished got kicked for that]].
* Done in ''Series/ILoveLucy'' when Lucy takes on a babysitting job. However, the mother neglected to mention it would be for twins (when she met Lucy to drop one of them off. She waited till both were out of sight to drop off the other twin). So when Lucy goes to get one of the snacks and encounters the other who demands the same thing. The twin starts whining and kicks her in the leg.

* A heightwise rather than agewise version of this trope occurs in ''Series/AgentCarter''. Carter and Jarvis have to interview [[TheCasanova Howard Stark]]'s ex-girlfriends, none of whom are happy about it. Cue a montage where all the girls slap Jarvis across the face in lieu of Stark. Carter intercepts a slap from a short Asian beauty, who responds by kicking Jarvis in the shin instead.

* ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'': La Chilindrina sometimes pulls this on El Chavo or Quico when they make her mad. It's also been inverted: when El Chavo is kicking around the ground in anger, La Chilindrina walks by and she gets kicked in the shin.

* Podcast/DiceFunk: Anne does this to Rinaldo in order to buff him with magic.

* In ''VideoGame/Grandia1'', Justin informs his friend Sue that he's sailing to the new continent alone, not with her like she had assumed. Sue's response is to run home in tears... only to run back up to him after a few seconds, call him a traitor while kicking him in the shins, then run off again (she ends up stowing away on the ship he takes and comes along anyway). Later in the adventure, she tries to do the same to Gadwin, but he's TheBigGuy and doesn't even seem to [[NoSell notice or care]].

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/fixing-for-a-fixing/81048/ This]] Website/NotAlwaysRight entry has a girl kicking a homophobic customer in the shins.

* Velma does this in the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' episode "Jeepers, It's The Creeper" when the villain grabs Velma's glasses (after she says "You wouldn't hit someone with glasses, would you?" and he [[WouldHurtAChild rears his fist back to punch her]]).
* In the episode "Nightmare on Pound Street" of Creator/TheHub's ''[[WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010 Pound Puppies]]'', Mr. [=McLeish's=] niece gives her uncle a kick, in part because she believes (along with her brother) the only reason [=McLeish=] bothers to spend time with them is to kiss up to their father, the city's mayor.
* Louise in ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' does this in "Bob's Day Afternoon" when Sargent Boscoe tries to take the phone from her. Immediately inverted when he kicks her back.
* In the WesternAnimation/HumphreyTheBear cartoon "Hooked Bear", a boy kicks Humphrey in the shin after he pops the kid's fish balloon float. When Humphrey complains to the Ranger, the Ranger angrily tells him to "Leave the kiddies alone!" and hits Humphrey in the same shin with a bucket of fish.

* In ''LightNovel/ChromeShelledRegios'', [[LittleMissSnarker Felli]] usually kicks things when she gets upset. If said thing is a person, it's usually in the shins. Note that she once kicked a refrigerator so hard she ''dented'' the door, so you can probably guess this hurts a lot. Indeed, when really angry, she once kicked her brother's shin so hard that it ''broke''.

* Edith in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' kicks Dr. Nefario in the shins when he takes a chemical vial away from her. Earlier she kicks Gru's front door (while he's directly against it) in retaliation for pretending to be a recorded message.

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* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': A RunningGag in the episode "Store Wars" is Bloo calling people a "ripoff artist" and kicking them in the shins when he doesn't agree with them. He ends up doing this to many store owners, Mac, and [[TooDumbToLive a police officer]]. At the end of the episode, [[LaserGuidedKarma Coco calls him a ripoff artist and kicks him in the shins]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', Mandy Mandy once saved Billy and Grim from [[GodOfEvil Nergal]] by, you guest it, kicking him in the shin.

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* During the shopping trip in ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', Hazel (Florence's friend Niomi's daughter) does this on occasion. Most notably when she punishes a stranger for grabbing Florence's tail ("...and if you pull the doggy's tail again, I'll ''kick'' you again!"), as seen in the page image.

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* The little girl Earthling in ''[[VideoGame/ToejamAndEarl Toejam and Earl in Panic on Funkotron]]'' does this as her main attack.

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* Pharaoh's son kicks Moses in the shins in ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'', presumably so we don't feel too bad when the little brat dies.
** Actually, the boy was kicking Moses's rod which he just used to demonstrate God's power by turning into a cobra, but it was still a defiant and insulting gesture to both Moses and God, so therefore we still don't mind too much what happens to the little brat.
* A little girl kicks Patrick in the shins for taking away her "toy" (Actually one of the Smurfs) in the film version of ''Film/TheSmurfs''.
* In ''Film/ItHappenedAtTheWorldsFair'' Music/ElvisPresley gets kicked in the shins by a very young Creator/KurtRussell.

* Not that she is particularly little at the time, but the teenaged Marian kicks Robin in the shins when he is teasing her at the start of ''Film/TheStoryOfRobinHoodAndHisMerrieMen''.
* In ''Film/DiamondsOnWheels'', Susan kicks the thug holding her in the shins to make him let go when the kids make their escape from the warehouse.
* In ''Film/MrsSantaClaus'', Nora kicks Officer Doyle in the shins for her EstablishingCharacterMoment.
* ''Film/{{Pistolera}}'': When young Angel is grabbed by one of the hitmen who killed her parents,she kicks him in the shin hard enough to make him let go.

* [[https://notalwaysright.com/fixing-for-a-fixing/81048/ This]] Website/NotAlwaysRight entry.

* Happens during Goofy’s job in ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' when a young girl kicks Pete.

* Happens to Pete in ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' when he tries to show Goofy how much better he is at handling children.

** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E22Chosen Chosen]]" Dawn returns, after having been drugged and kidnapped so she would be out of harm's way for the final battle. Buffy ordered Xander to do it and gave her a note explaining... Dawn stops midway through, tazers Xander, and takes control of his car, driving back. When she sees Buffy Dawn punts her in the leg, which ''hurts'' the ''Slayer.''