History Main / LittleMissBadass

* ''Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy'': Lisbeth Salander ''is'' this trope.

* [[http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/10/23/young-hunter This girl.]] No moose is a match for her mad skills.

* [[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/4-year-old-twins-escape-deadly-wreckage-hike-for-help/ar-BBXV8ln?ocid=ob-fb-enus-280 4-year-old twins escape deadly wreckage, hike for help]]
* [[https://www.facebook.com/5281959998/posts/10152114402509999/ This five-year old]].

* Franchise/MonsterVerse: [[Characters/MonsterVerseHumans Madison Russell]] is a petite-sized teenage girl who is often regarded by adults around her including her father as a hapless little girl who poses no real threat and doesn't know what she's talking about half the time (no matter how much she's being the OnlySaneWoman). However, she also has survival training due to her upbringing in Monarch, and guts that even the {{Kaiju}} could probably admire; stealing the ORCA from a radical EcoTerrorist paramilitary and using it to stop a global Titan rampage at the cost of getting King Ghidorah (basically Kaiju Satan) personally pissed at her in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', and personally leading her friend and a grown man in an infiltration of [[EvilInc Apex Cybernetics]] to expose their shady secrets because no-one else will in ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''.

* ''Fanfic/{{Wonderful}}'' [[Literature/{{Worm}} Missy "Vista" Biron]] is thirteen. She's a super-hero capable of distorting space. In episode 13, she uses her power to avert cannonballs.

* Winnie from ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls''.

!!Examples:

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%% * ''LightNovel/AccelWorld'''s Nico isn't known as the Red King because it happens to be her favorite color...
* The quiet, petite Kirino Kotori of ''Manga/AiKora'' turns out to be HeirToTheDojo of a ninja clan, and also has a rather nasty temper on her.
* Angel/Tenshi/Kanade Tachibana from ''Anime/AngelBeats''. She's as close as you can get to a [[VideoGame/StarCraft Protoss Zealot]] ''and'' [[Film/TheMatrix Agent Smith]] packed in a small girl's body, although isn't evil like the latter and isn't an alien like the former.
* Hatoko, five-year-old controller of Suzuka from ''Manga/AngelicLayer''.
* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'''s Mikasa had bullies run scared just ''seeing'' her and isn't shy about [[BrightSlap punching friends out]] (or throwing them against walls) when needed, and ranked 1st in the army academy amplitude test. [[TookALevelInBadAss We can all thank]] [[spoiler:Eren]] [[TookALevelInBadAss for that]].
* ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'':
** Sechs was born/created less than two years before kicking major arse all around Jeru.
** Elf and Zwolf appear more as comedy characters, but they're still pretty capable fighters, albeit outshadowed by the WorldOfBadass ZOT tournament. In the earlier stages of the manga they routinely slice up their opponents with RazorFloss, and apparently got Sech's arm this way before the main story. And they're no older than Sechs.
* Sweet, adorable and harmless [[spoiler: Elizabeth "Lizzie" Middleford]] of ''Manga/BlackButler'' [[LadyOfWar turns out to be one]] when it's revealed in Chapter 57 [[spoiler:that because she didn't want her [[ChildhoodMarriagePromise fiancé]] Ciel to see her "uncute" side, she [[DeliberatelyDistressedDamsel deliberately hid]] her badass side and did a very good job of it until, finally, when Ciel despite his best efforts ends up [[DistressedDude injured and unable to save her]], Elizabeth candidly leaps into the air and [[WaifFu takes down the zombies]] with [[DualWielding swords in both hands]], saying that she will save him and become the wife of the Queen's Watchdog]].
* Eve in ''Manga/BlackCat''. She can turn her hair into nano-blades and cut you at a particle level.
* Gretel in ''Manga/BlackLagoon''. Despite being only 11 years old she has the ability to run and fire a [[{{BFG}} Browning Automatic Rifle]] to great effect as well. [[spoiler:She might be a cross-dressing boy though. Similarly, her "brother" may fit this trope...]]
** What we see of Revy's childhood also fits this trope.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Yachiru looks about 6-7 and uses her cutesy antics to get many things more serious people would never give her and is obsessed with sweets. She usually just rides around on Kenpachi's back and lets him do all the fighting, but she's second-in-command of the most violent {{Shinigami}} division, is capable of incredible speeds that catch even famously swift characters by surprise, and has extraordinary battle instincts that make her a powerful, dangerous fighter in battle.
** Nelliel looks like a helpless little toddler, whose most dangerous ability is her loud wailing whenever Ichigo tries to leave her behind somewhere safe. However, she's capable of capturing the ceros of very powerful Espada, swallowing them and regurgitating them back at the enemy. She's an ex-Espada, trapped in the form of a tiny toddler by an unhealed injury. Agitate her enough, and she can transform into her true adult form which allows her to access her full power for a very short period of time before her unstable, broken power collapses back to the toddler form.
** Liltotto Lamperd looks like a very young teenage girl at most, but she's also one of the strongest and smartest Sternritter not amongst the PraetorianGuard who can fight Captain-class Soul Reapers with the power to effectively [[ImAHumanitarian devour anything she wants]]. Out of the five Sternritter who attacked Byakuya post his TookALevelInBadass moment, Liltotto was the only one alongside [[SuperStrength Meninas]] not to fall. After [[LoveFreak Pepe]] mind controlled Meninas, Liltotto was able to defeat Meninas rather quickly without any visible injuries and managed to keep her alive. Pepe's initial target for defeating the competition was even Liltotto.
* Meiling/Meilin of ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura''. Took on the Fight Card (that is, a supernatural being created to do nothing but fight, and to do it well) in hand-to-hand combat, knowing full well that she couldn't beat it, just to distract it long enough for Sakura to figure out how to seal it. She literally almost got killed in the process, but it was CrazyEnoughToWork.
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' and ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'':
** Misaka Mikoto is the third strongest Esper for a reason.
** Her roommate and AbhorrentAdmirer PsychoLesbian StalkerWithACrush, Shirai Kuroko, is also one, as she once took down an armed bank robber many years older and much larger with a series of well executed martial arts moves. His partner took a bit more effort after he caught her off guard, but the situation ended with her hand on his face and her asking him if he wanted to bet if his power or hers were faster.
* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' has more of these than it knows what to do with. There's the sweet and positively precocious Riful, one of the most powerful awakened ones in existence. Her favorite hobby is having her boyfriend torture people into going OneWingedAngel. Then there's the other BigBad, Priscilla. Just like Riful she's cute as a button but, again, she's probably going to eat your soul. After the TimeSkip they threw in Miata who mixes it up by being just this side of AxCrazy.
* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Anya Earlstreim is one of the highest ranked knights in Britannia and pilots one of the biggest mecha yet seen... Yet she's barely 15 years old and looks about 12. Nunnally in the spin-off ''Manga/CodeGeassNightmareOfNunnally'' covers Anya's narative position in that work.
* ''Manga/DGrayMan'''s Road Kamelot is only 12 years old -- and yet she is one of the most fearsome villains. She's very powerful and is able to manipulate space. Her hobbies include playing, eating candies, and driving people insane. [[spoiler:It's possible that she's also multidimensional, as she mentions that she can teleport without using the Arc because she exists both in the real world and the world she lives in, which just so happens to be scary and nightmarish.]] And then it turns out that [[OlderThanTheyLook she only looks like a child.]] [[spoiler:She's the second eldest Noah after Adam, aka the Millennium Earl, and has looked 12 for the last 35 years.]]
* From ''Manga/DanceInTheVampireBund'', we have Mina Tepes, the Princess of all Vampires. She looks like a 10 year old girl [[spoiler: when not in her true form]] but is several centuries old. She can also kill you in many different ways.
* Emily from ''Manga/TheSeveringCrimeEdge'' is among the youngest Authors and is very skilled with her killing good. She even manages to curb-stop Kiri twice.
* Suou in the second season of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' is getting there, thanks in part to time spent [[TrainingFromHell being yelled at]] by a supreme badass and in part to the SmallGirlBigGun effect.
* Daida "Punishment" Hibana in ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' is a psychopathic kindergartner who was sent to the prison after dismembering several of her classmates. Brought up by her deranged mother to believe that injuring people helps them grow up, she wields a {{BFS}} twice her size with no apparent effort.
* Ai Haibara in ''Manga/CaseClosed'', despite being [[OlderThanTheyLook older than she looks]], is ''absolutely'' one. How often do you see an apparent first-grader calmly leveling a handgun at someone?
* Ruki Makino in ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', complete with BadassLongcoat and CoolShades in her debut.
* Cisqua of ''Manga/ElementalGelade'', who even the author implies has access to possibly infinite amount of space in her cape and ''hat''. And what does she use all the space for? Guns, missiles, bombs... anything that explodes.
%% * ''Manga/ElfenLied'' has the diclonii. Almost all of them go through a stage of been this.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
** Wendy, when she gets over her shyness and insecurity.
** At her first appearance, Merudy is a much smaller girl than other girls like Erza and Juvia, but she seems to be slightly bigger than Wendy, yet she is one of the most powerful wizards of the strongest dark guild in the whole region. [[spoiler: During her battle against the 2 Fairy Tail mages, she initially easily swept away Juvia and even came close to beating the mighty S-Class mage, Titania.]]
** Mavis Vermilion, Fairy Tail's first guild master, is capable of [[TheChessmaster planning]] an entire city-wide [[ParallelConflictSequence battle between eight five-man teams]] based on [[BatmanGambit how]] ''[[BatmanGambit everyone]]'' [[BatmanGambit will act and react]]. And that's not all: She is one of the most powerful characters in the series, to the point where she was voted Guild Master by Precht Gaebolg/Hades (the ArcVillain of the Sirius Island Arc and the GreaterScopeVillain of the first major portion of the series), Warrod Sequen (a member of the [[WorldsStrongestMan Four Gods of Ishgar]]), and Yuriy Dreyar, the father of the ''current'' master of Fairy Tail. And as if that wasn't enough, she was trained in magic by none other than [[spoiler:[[TheDreaded The Black Wizard]] [[BigBad Zeref]] himself. Whom she [[DatingCatwoman was in love with]] until he TookALevelInJerkass]].
** Sherria Blendy, the Sky God Slayer, is essentially Wendy but more confident and with pink hair instead of blue.
* Veronica from ''Manga/FrankenFran'', an ArtificialHuman with the body and personality of a preteen girl...and a healthy variety of weapons integrated. She also has a rather low killing threshold.
* May Chang in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has [[ChineseGirl cute braids]], a [[HeadPet little panda]] and very good manners. She also keeps pace with Scar and Ed when fighting off monsters.
* Mint Blancmanche in ''Anime/GalaxyAngel'', although she's actually a teenager (just barely, at 15), who [[OlderThanTheyLook just happens to look young]]. Though you really have to get on her bad side to make her mad enough to qualify, in the Anime, she has a habit of concocting selfish plots up to and including letting the rest of the Angel-tai drown rather than see her with her head stuck in a wooden cutout.
** Vanilla H is similar. She looks quite young, is a WaifProphet[=/=]OracularUrchin... and she'll give you three chances. Then she can destroy cities.
* ''Manga/{{Gangsta}}'''s Loretta Cristiano Amodio qualifies simply by already being the ''head'' of [[TheMafia The Cristiano Family]] at the age of 14, but then you find out she's not only packing heat but knows how to use it too.
* From ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', the eponymous {{cyb|org}}ernetic assassins, pre-teen children [[WeCanRebuildHim salvaged from near death]], trained and {{brainwashed}} to become Italy's most [[SuperSoldier elite]] counter-terrorism unit.
* Minnie May in ''Manga/GunsmithCats''. Bit of a subversion as well since she's [[OlderThanTheyLook also older than she looks]], and uses this to comical effect with her boyfriend, when, say, renting a hotel room. She's 17, looks about 13, and was originally a prostitute for paedophiles. After she met her boyfriend (a reputed underworld bomb maker), she picked up on his trade and is now something of a cute MadBomber.
* ''LightNovel/HarukaNogizakasSecret'''s Alice, a shy, sweet little maid [[spoiler:with a spiked bat, brass knuckles and enough strength to crack open a street and create a ha]].
* ''Anime/HellGirl'': Ai Enma, who takes on the form of a vulnerable young girl clad in either a kimono or a black and red fuku. When angered, she has the power to take out an entire village with powerful fire blasts. [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld She's also far older than she looks.]]
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': Girlycard has all of regular Alucard's powers in a funsized little-girl package. Why would an immortal, all-powerful shapeshifting vampire take on the form of a little girl? As far as the audience can tell, because [[ItAmusedMe it was amusing]].
** When Seras was younger, [[spoiler: seven years old in fact, after her parents were murdered and while her mother's corpse was being raped, she charged out of the closet that her mother had hid her in, picked up a fork, and stabbed him in the eye with it. She was then shot, but she survived]].
** Integra fit this trope when she was younger. She shot her uncle in cold blood immediately after it was made clear that her new pet would do it for her, earning her more of said pet's difficult-to-gain respect. Additionally, Manga flashbacks reveal she was capable of ordering around full grown men like they were lapdogs.
* Argent, Iono's pint-sized, [[LittleMissSnarker smart-mouthed]], [[LadyOfWar samurai-like]], special forces bodyguard in ''Manga/IonoTheFanatics''.
* ''Manga/InuYasha'''s Kanna, despite being ten years old (technically, less than a year old), can absorb and deflect most of the characters' attacks very easily. Not only that, here's an attack you definitely cannot block-her sucking out your soul.
* Mizho in ''Manga/KarakuridoujiUltimo''. You think that her {{Goth}} image is just a tough act? Well, this girl has kicked three guys' asses using just pocky and a crutch. She is seen [[SlasherSmile smiling and laughing]] during all of this.
%% * ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'''s Miu Fuurinji was like that when she was only six years old.
%% ** Also Shigure Kousaka as well
* One of the ''[[Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa Kirby Anime]]'''s {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s, Sirica, counts as one as well, being a young ActionGirl with a badass five-in-one weapon that can change into a flamethrower, grappling hook, bazooka, machine gun, and even a sword. Plus she's the daughter of the legendary Galaxy Soldier Garlude. And she's very cute, too. No wonder she's so popular despite only appearing in a few episodes.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'': In [[Anime/MagicalgirlLyricalNanoha the first season]], Nanoha and Fate are proficient magical combatants at age nine, joined by Hayate at the same age in the second, as well as the ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Vita. In the third season time has skipped ahead ten years, so Nanoha, Fate, and Hayate have grown up... but Vita hasn't (being immortal and thus [[NotAllowedToGrowUp no longer physically aging]]), and they have more to add to the mix, including Caro, a ten year old [[TheMedic medic]] who can summon [[{{Kaiju}} really]] [[PhysicalGod big]] [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]], and Vivio, [[spoiler: a clone of the legendary [[CrystalDragonJesus Sankt Kaiser]] whom Nanoha eventually adopts as her daughter]]. The fandom has been known to joke that any girl who cannot defeat a grown man by age 10 is disowned.
%% * The ghost girl Elizabeth from ''Anime/{{Maburaho}}''.
* Morgiana from ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'' seems fairly low-key at first, what with being a traumatised and much abused slave girl... Until you realize she belongs to the Fanalis, a {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}} hunting tribe with borderline superhuman fighting ability, and she puts her skills to ''very'' good use once she's released from her owner and joins the main group. The opening shows her kicking the hell out of freaking tigers bigger than her... and the series reveal later that even a single scratch from these tigers would have killed her.
%% ** In Chapter 29 of ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'', [[spoiler: Curren Huckebein]] also counted as this.
* ''Anime/MichikoAndHatchin'': Hatchin evolves over the story into a more mundane than average version of this. At one point near the climax she faced off with a [[GangBangers former gang lord]]; throwing ''rocks'' at the guy with a high-powered handgun.
* Syal from ''Manga/MotherKeeper'' is this, looks like a sweet teenager and is extremely happy go lucky. She's actually the mother keeper that does most the work and is the best fighter on Eden's side.
* ''Manga/NabariNoOu'' has some examples:
** [[{{Tsundere}} Raimei,]] a 14-year-old samurai with a bad attitude and really badass samurai techniques.
** Shijima, the cute white-haired girl who managed to have the most powerful ninjas of Nabari's asses handed to them with just her hands. Also mopped the floor with all the main cast. Then again, [[spoiler: she is actually a Cat. Who is about 300 years old. And is also immortal]]. That should pretty much explain it.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** The [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld young-looking but centuries-old]] vampire/wizardess Evangeline A.K. [=McDowell=] was a mostly played-for-laughs villain in an earlier arc, but shows her badassery in the Kyoto and Tournament arcs - her earlier weakness was explained away as affection for the hero. A (much) later chapter has a character draw a humorous [[PowerLevels "Strength Table"]]. The Demon God sitting at the very top? Evangeline (with Chachamaru's help) took him down in a little over a minute [[[LargeHam and most of that minute was telling everyone around to make sure to watch her kill it]]].
** Yue Ayase commanded three of her Valkyrie classmates who were years her senior to aid her in knocking out a Griffin Dragon. The final attack on it was done, by Yue, dodging her ally's covering fire, with one magic attack and a dull ceremonial knife. And she gets more badass from there.
* Miyabi in ''Manga/NinjaNonsense''. She's the only regular who's even remotely competent.
* ''Anime/{{Noir}}'''s Kirika. Quiet, sad, cute, and can kill in many creative ways. Taken to extremes when it's discovered that [[spoiler:she shot Mireille's parents, when she was a tiny tot in overalls]].
* ''Manga/OmamoriHimari'''s Shizuku qualifies as one as well as being the only little girl of the series. She can track someone using the moisture in the air alone, spit icicles at high speed, and she's ''not'' being arrogant when she states that her water can cut through anything-she uses it like a freaking SWORD. Being able to turn to water to avoid the consequences of being sliced in half. And if she's at full power, she can trap you [[spoiler:inside a whirlpool-ON LAND]].
** Then there's [[spoiler:Tama. Who, as part of her introduction chapter, pins the titular character to the ground and bites a chunk out of them. Said title character, Himari, can't even put up any resistance. Himari only lives because Tama thinks she tastes bad]].
* ''Manga/OnePiece [[Anime/OnePieceFilmZ Film Z]]'' : [[spoiler: [[FountainOfYouth Getting transformed into a kid]] doesn't cause Nami to lose any of her BadassAdorable-ness]].
* Mitsuki in ''Manga/{{Onidere}}'' looks like a cute grade-schooler who loves bears. But she is a member of the most feared gang in their area, the all-girl group Demon Head. She can also tame bears and get them to do what she wants.
* Alice the B-Rabbit (short for [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bloodstained Black Rabbit]] from ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' could be the TropeCodifier for this: She's wearing one of the fanciest dresses on this list, smart and cunning (not to mention a distinct {{Tsundere}}), and parenthetically the [[OurMonstersAreDifferent most powerful chain]] there is. [[spoiler: Except she's not.]]
* Believe it or not, Misty from the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' Original Series is 10 years old, the same age as Ash (although it's easy to miss because it's not stated in the dub).
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** ''Anime/PokemonMewtwoReturns'': Team Rocket agent Domino. She has literally no Pokémon of her own, and manages to kick ass merely with gymnastics and electric ''flowers''. She also successfully fools the main cast into thinking she's one of the good guys by acting like a traditional dumb blonde when her real personality is exactly the opposite.
*** Perhaps more badass than that is that Domino gets away with talking to ''Giovanni'' any way she damn well pleases, including telling him that he's crossed the line and lost all sense of PragmaticVillainy.
** All of the [[BadassAdorable female 'Dex Holders]] in ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' qualify as this. Of note is Yellow, who everyone underestimates until she [[spoiler: [[BerserkButton gets pissed off]] and [[SuperweaponSurprise completely crushes the competition]]]].
** [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} The anime]] has at least two in Ash's Bayleef and Snivy. ''Best Wishes'' character Iris is this too...[[spoiler:but not for [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass the same reasons]] as in ''Pokémon White''.]]
** ''Manga/PhantomThiefPokemon7'' has Lily who is, [[spoiler:or was]], one of the best grunts Team Galactic has to offer (and in this continuity they're quite the fearsome bunch), but can't be older than fifteen at best.
* Homura Akemi from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. She never flinches, she never falters, [[spoiler: and until Madoka nearly makes a contract with Kyuubey,]] she never loses her cool. Killing witches in the utmost badass of manners. Her friends are no pushover either, and all of them are around 14 years old.
* ''Manga/RozenMaiden'' has a cast full of girly, childish magical dolls that are from the human perspective as good as invincible.
* Lady Kayura in ''Anime/RoninWarriors'', who, according to [[WordOfGod Sunrise]], is physically 12 years old. Doesn't change the fact she was the only foe the warriors could never beat.
* To a lesser degree, the preteen sorceress Lily in ''Anime/RuneSoldierLouie''.
* ''Manga/ShamanKing'' gives us Anna Kyoyama, an Itako (traditional Japanese shaman) and spirit medium who is Yoh's trainer and fiance. She's calm and mature for her young age, plus she kicks ass with her bead necklace, which she can also channel other spirits into others with. And to top it all off, she even tamed Hao's Shikigamis and used them as her own guardian spirits [[spoiler: until Hao turned them against her and the rest of the Yoh-gumi]]. Now that's saying something.
** And then there's Jeanne, [[spoiler:the real leader of the X-Laws]]. At first sight, she's just a twelve-years-old cutie... [[spoiler: whose furyoku levels are of the closest to Hao.]]
* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'': Lina Inverse is clever cynicism personified -- and people who [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller know her only by name]] are often shocked to learn that this short, big-eyed, [[ACupAngst small-chested]] teenager is the infamous Dragon-Spooker and Bandit-Slayer herself.
* Maka Albarne from ''Manga/SoulEater'' is a young, sweet and friendly girl ... who wields a ginormous scythe. Yup.
* ''LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf'''s Holo is quite the tease, but [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld has lived for centuries]] and could turn into a big bad wolf to maul anyone who tries to attack her or Lawrence.
* Rio in ''Manga/{{Spiral}}''. She lures a teacher to his death, blows up her own chest to hide the evidence, built the bomb that did it.
* In ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' [[spoiler:Kaede Kaburagi]] ends up becoming Sternbild's most badass little girl after developing superpowers. [[spoiler:What other ten-year-old can claim to have saved almost every Sternbild superhero from a MadScientist's inescapable death trap?]]
%%* ''Manga/ToLoveRu'': Don't. Mess. With. The. Loli.... or her friends
* ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'''s Seth is both powerful and sneaky. And it turns out [[spoiler:she's waiting to correct the weakness against the UV and silver from her "Children" to make perfect soldiers who would conquer the Outer world. She never stopped her plans from world conquest]].
* Rebecca Hopkins of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' is twelve years old, in college, the American dueling champion and manages to hack into [=KaibaCorp=] to guide Seto and Yami Yuugi through while under attack from Dartz.
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* It's glossed over, as it happened about eight years before the book actually starts, but the protagonist of ''Literature/{{Graceling}}'' once killed her perverted distant cousin ''with one blow. When she was eight''.

* ''Series/{{Hanna}}'': Hanna. She's a short, slim teenage girl, but is a highly skilled martial artist and quite good with firearms. Sandy is another example, though really all the Utrax girls may count, as they're just teenagers but have been trained as assassins from childhood. In fact, that's why they were chosen, as people don't expect them to be a threat.I

** Sherria Blendy, the Sky God Slayer, is essentially Wendy but more confident and with [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair pink hair instead of blue]].

* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': [[FanNickname Girlycard]] has all of regular Alucard's powers in a funsized little-girl package. Why would an immortal, all-powerful shapeshifting vampire take on the form of a little girl? As far as the audience can tell, because [[ItAmusedMe it was amusing]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2000}}''. Although now a teenager, Cassandra Cain was revealed to have finished the majority of her assassination training at the age of eight. Most because she semi-failed her last test (she killed the guy but was so horrified by what she did that she ran away from David Cain, her father/mentor.) A FanNickname for Cassandra is "Little Miss Ninja Goddess".

* ''Film/{{Chocolate}}'': Zen, an autistic teenage girl who is martial arts savant.
* The pre-time skip version of Cataleya in ''Film/{{Colombiana}}''. And this was BEFORE she learned how to kill people.

** [[ComicBook/IllyanaRasputin Magik]] was the most sexualized of the female ComicBook/NewMutants. She has never been seen pursuing a romance, but would wear the skimpiest outfits and a few times flirted with bad guys while threatening them with eternal torment. Her antics are mild by today's standards (well, except for the dental floss she'd wear as the Darkchylde), but it still becomes a little awkward considering her true age.

* A mother in West Palm Beach, Florida was assaulted and robbed of her purse, but [[https://breaking911.com/see-it-girl-9-fights-off-robber-by-punching-him-in-the-face-after-he-attached-her-mom-outside-grocery-store/ was forced to run away after the mom's 9-year-old daughter punched the robber multiple times in the face, delaying him long enough for help to arrive.]]

%% ** Also Shigure Kousaka [[http://www.mangareader.net/337-23662-8/historys-strongest-disciple-kenichi/chapter-156.html as well]]

* In ''ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer'', the Princess Thais goes from RoyalBrat to LittleMissBadass pretty quickly.

* Ai Haibara in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', despite being [[OlderThanTheyLook older than she looks]], is ''absolutely'' one. How often do you see an apparent first-grader calmly leveling a handgun at someone?

** ''Film/FreddyVsJason'': Lori, (played by 5'1" Creator/MonicaKeena) pulling Freddy out of the dream world, setting a dock on fire, and killing him with Jason's machete. By the end she is one of the most kickass {{Final Girl}}s in either series (the hottest).

* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'': Marcy. Leah's more a CuteBruiser sort, but Marcy is more than happy to tell you her opinion of you as she's beating you down. Becomes playable later, too.

* ''VideoGame/HitmanAbsolution'' has the genetically engineered Agent-in-the-making Veronica, whom Agent 47 spends most of the game trying to safeguard/rescue from The Agency. Alluded to throughout the game, and finally shown when late in the game she suddenly kills a group of Dexter's soldiers in an impressive display of deadly reflexes.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Ruby Rose fits this trope pretty well. She’s a girl in her mid-teens that can wield a scythe twice her size and destroy an army of werewolves in her way.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Ruby Rose fits this trope pretty well. She’s a girl in her mid-teens that can wield a scythe twice her size and destroy an army of werewolves in her way. And given that she’s had to have years of training with such a dangerous weapon, she likely had this quality even as a younger girl.

* The opening of ''Film/Black Widow'' reveals that the titular heroine was this, disarming a soldier and threatening the soldiers of the Red Room at gunpoint to protect her sister Yelena. She was only 11 years-old at the time and just as badass as she is now.

* The opening of ''[[Fim/BlackWidow Black Widow (2021)]]'' reveals that the titular heroine was this, disarming a soldier and threatening the soldiers of the Red Room at gunpoint to protect her sister Yelena. She was only 11 years-old at the time and just as badass as she is now.

* The opening of ''Fim/[[BlackWidow Black Widow (2021)]]'' reveals that the titular heroine was this, disarming a soldier and threatening the soldiers of the Red Room at gunpoint to protect her sister Yelena. She was only 11 years-old at the time and just as badass as she is now.