History Main / LittleMissBadass

* ''VideoGame/ArTonelico2'': Cocona pushes this beyond the limits. She not only was a 11-year-old girl who used [[ImprobableWeaponUser her metamorphic hairbands(!)]] as her weapon of choice, alongside roundhouse kicks which are somehow capable of destroying doombots with such murderous efficiency that by the end of the game, your [[MagicFromTechnology wizard/cyborg/bards]] rarely get to cast their spells before all the enemies are already dead. Her supermove involves her shooting a giant laserblade out of her hair bands... [[RuleOfCool somehow]]. What makes her go above and beyond the call of being a Little Miss Badass, however, is that she does this while bodily protecting the reyvateil wizards/cyborgs/bards of the party, who are twice her age and body weight, [[spoiler: in spite of actually BEING a reyvateil herself, who is simply too young to manifest any real power]]. In a game filled with robot warriors, and highly trained knights with rocket lances with guns sticking out, the only listed reason for her badassery is that she is "a really energetic girl".

** Students at the Assassins' Guild School are not to be discounted either. In the right circumstances, thirteen-year old schoolgirls with weapons training and a reason to use it practically can be ''lethal''. See ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11536013/1/Hyperemesis-gravidarum Hyperemesis Gravidarum]] for the way Mariella Smith-Rhodes (same family) and [[BadassIsraeli Rivka ben-Divorah]] (who on our world might get a job offer from Mossad) put their training into practice. [[note]]Rivka, according to WordOfGod, is explicitly based on Nathalie Portman's character Mathilde[[/note]]

* ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'': Layla Miller, as written by Peter David. Don't mess with her: ''[[CatchPhrase she]] [[ConfusionFu knows stuff]].''

* ''Western Animation/SpiderManIntotheSpiderVerse'': Peni Parker may be an optimistic preteen, but she can be a fierce opponent and a powerful ally.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Nice turnaround for Violet, who was shy and insecure during the first half of the film. She develops into one during the course of the film, mentally and physically.

* Huge armies of Little Miss Badasses are the focus of Creator/HenryDarger's monumental fantasy novel ''Literature/InTheRealmsOfTheUnreal''. The child slaves of Glandelinia are incited to rebel by five-year-old Annie Aronburg, who promptly becomes a John Brown-like martyr to the cause of abolition. The seven daughters of Emperor Robert Vivian of nearby Abbieannia join Annie's sister Gertrude and become leaders and inspirational figures to the rebel children. Expect GirlsWithGuns and lots of ChildSoldiers.

* ''Western Animation/SpiderManInto theSpiderVerse'': Peni Parker may be an optimistic preteen, but she can be a fierce opponent and a powerful ally.

* ''Western Animation/SpiderManIntotheSpider-Verse'': Peni Parker may be an optimistic preteen, but she can be a fierce opponent and a powerful ally.

* ''Western Animation/Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Peni Parker may be an optimistic preteen, but she can be a fierce opponent and a powerful ally.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonHumans Madison Russell]] doesn't do any field work, but she's still got it: she's a thirteen-year-old girl who's still dealing with the PTSD of everything she went through in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', yet she wouldn't think twice about [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu flipping off a former head of Ghidorah]] in anger, and she personally mans the ORCA against [[spoiler:Keizer Ghidorah]].

* Franchise/MonsterVerse: [[Characters/MonsterVerseFamilies 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''.

* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': Mariel Gullwhacker. [[WaifFu Kicked the tail of a pirate king unarmed]], then beat up a seagull several times her size with nothing but [[WhipItGood a piece of knotted rope]].

* Lily Flyer from ''VideoGame/FZero GX''.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'': [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Empress Sanaki.]]

* Cynthia in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', at age ten raided [[TempleOfDoom tombs]] [[TreasureHunter looking for treasures]] and was able to beat the tar out of older kids trying to bully her.
* Chloce Cerise of ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'' is a ten-year-old girl traversing the Infinity Train with her [[PipePain steel pipe]] (or donut holer) that she uses to beat the hell out her opponents.
* Scootaloo in ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsAFairlyOddFriendship''. She knocks Chester and AJ to the ground when they make sexist comments and is quite capable in a fight.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'': And [[spoiler:Tetra's granddaughter,]] Zelda. Don't mess with her in her phantom armor...or when she has a bow in her hands.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' has Amy, Cream and Blaze, who are respectively 12, 6 and 14 years old (Even though Blaze is YoungerThanSheLooks). Despite their young age, all of them are more than capable of kicking plenty of ass [[BadassAdorable and get an "awww" out of players in the process]].

** ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'': Presea Combatir is a twelve-year-old [[spoiler: [[OlderThanTheyLook really at the very least twenty eight-year-old]]]], SugarAndIceGirl with [[AnAxeToGrind a giant ax]] bigger and heavier than she is, which she can just pick up like it was nothing due to AppliedPhlebotinum. Cue titanic ass-kicking.

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* UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar non-fiction book ''Literature/TheYankeePlague'' briefly mentions how one man who is helping harbor escaped Union [=POWs=]'s has his twelve-year-old daughter cross a mountain, by herself and in the middle of the night, to tell the prisoners that their hiding place is compromised before Confederate troops can arrest them (or her, if they catch her delivering the message).
* [[http://www.cracked.com/article_16497_7-people-who-cheated-death-then-kicked-it-in-balls_p2.html Alexis Goggins]], a seven-year-old girl, who jumped in front of her mother's gun-wielding boyfriend and [[TakingTheBullet took]] ''[[TakingTheBullet six bullets]]'' for her mom. [[MadeOfIron And]] ''[[MadeOfIron survived]]''.
* [[ImprobableAimingSkills Annie Oakley]] started hunting professionally at the age of nine.
* The girl who threw a badger at UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt while campaigning. No longer a little Miss, but still was when she was a child. Badass because: 1) She caught a badger, 2) Decided it was cute and fluffy enough to actually name, 3) [[RefugeInAudacity Tossed the Badger]] at [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent Theodore "President Action" Roosevelt]]. 4) Roosevelt decided the badger or the girl was badass enough to allow the badger to live with his bear.
* [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/6253878/Worlds-youngest-female-karate-black-belt-arrives-in-UK.html Varsha Vinod]], 5-year old karate black belt.
** Complete with pink ribbons and GirlishPigtails. That is some ''amazing'' GAR-{{moe}}, right there.
* [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120111172622/http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/32338/little+girl+shows+remarkable+poise+in+stare-down+with+african+lion/ This]] ''three year old'' girl stared down a lion for five minutes.
* [[https://www.themarysue.com/caitlin-kelley-mma-girl/ Caitlin "Meathook" Kelly]], 9-year-old UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighter with pink hair and a crush on Music/JustinBieber.
* [[http://sports.yahoo.com/news/internet-sensation--nine-year-old-girl-shredding-defenses-to-the-tune-of-25-touchdowns.html This girl]] She owns the boys.
* Malala Yousoufzai combines this with PluckyGirl, BadassBookworm and BadassPacifist, being a 15-year-old Pakistani activist who publically opposed the Taliban's ban on education for girls. For her efforts, the Taliban had her shot in the head. She survived, fully recovered, and has declared her intention to continue pushing for reform, despite the very real danger of further fatally-intended retribution. Oh, and she also happens to be the youngest person to ever win a Nobel Prize-award--[[BadassPacifist in Malala's case, she won the Nobel]] ''[[BadassPacifist Peace]]'' [[BadassPacifist Prize.]]
* [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/javiermoreno/this-9-year-old-girl-completed-a-24-hour-obstacle-course-des?utm_term=.lyGR4DjB7#.dppARWvBZ Milla Star Bizzotto]] who at 9 years old finished [=BattleFrog=]’s 24-hour Xtreme race. Designed by a Navy SEAL, it consists of a 36 mile run, an 8 kilometer swim, and 25 obstacles that include a rope climb, crawling under barbed wire and climbing a 12-foot wall – each of which she had to do six times, over six laps.
* Lydia Ko, a golfer born in Seoul but raised from infancy in New Zealand, absolutely fits. She first competed in her country's women's amateur championship in 2005, ''a few weeks before turning 8''. The amateur championship for ''adults'', mind you. Four years later (by now 12), she made the final match of the same event, losing to a 14-year old[[note]]who herself had competed in the 2005 event as a 10-year-old[[/note]]. Ko later became the youngest person ever to win a professional golf event at age 14 in 2011[[note]](a few months later, that record would fall to Canadian Brooke Henderson, a couple of months younger when she won)[[/note]]. And then she won multiple professional major championships and reached #1 in the world rankings while still a teenager.
* Ko was preceded as a women's golf prodigy by another member of the Korean diaspora in Honolulu native Michelle Wie. At age 10, she qualified for the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links[[note]]a now-defunct United States Golf Association championship for amateur golfers who were not members of private clubs[[/note]], and won the same event at 13. She hasn't enjoyed quite as much success on the LPGA circuit as Ko, but has picked up a major championship win of her own.
* Katherine Smart, who at 9 years old, had the presence of mind to remain quiet and still when a knife-wielding man entered her bedroom and abducted her sister, thinking, "If he knows you're awake, he might take you too, and you're the only one who's seen this", then immediately alerting her parents once she felt it was safe to leave her room. It was she who identified the kidnapper as someone who had done housework for the family over a year earlier, enabling the cops to catch the guy. The girl in question was Elizabeth Smart, who is herself an example of this trope--for 9 months, at only age 14-15, she survived an ordeal that would have broken most adults--starvation, repeated rapes, etc.
* Greta Thunberg, very loudly and publicly shaming ''the heads of state of the entire world'' for their negligence in dealing with climate change and other existential threats. If you think that doesn't require absolute nerves of steel, accusing the most powerful people in the world who could have you disappeared in literally minutes, you might want to reconsider.
* [[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/4-year-old-twins-escape-deadly-wreckage-hike-help-n1097701 4-year-old twins escape deadly wreckage, hike for help]]
* [[https://www.facebook.com/5281959998/posts/10152114402509999/ This five-year old]], who , wearing just socks and light clothing, carried an 18-month-old through subzero temperatures in Alaska after the power went out at the home where they had been left alone.
* This [[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/my-mommy-falled-down-cops-release-nj-4-year-olds-heroic-911-call/2244508/%3fakmobile=y&akdevice=androidphone&sslEnabled=true&amp 4 year old]], who not only called 911 when her mother collapsed, but calmly took care of her three younger siblings while waiting for the ambulance.
* [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebelle_(ship) Terry Jo Duperrault]], who at only 11, survived an ordeal that would have broken most adults--witnessing the murder of her entire family by the skipper of their yacht (who had murdered his wife as well), then being abandoned on the sinking vessel by the killer. She was able to launch a dinghy and drifted for four days, being within hours of death from exposure when she was finally rescued. The moment her killer heard she'd survived, he committed suicide, knowing she could destroy the lies he'd told investigators when he himself was rescued.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Oversteegen Freddie]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truus_Menger-Oversteegen Truus Oversteegen]] were teenage sisters who served in [[LaResistance the Dutch Resistance]] during World War Two. They would ride together on a bike, delivering messages, observing enemy patrols, [[BreadMilkEggsSquick shoot SS men to death...]]
* A '''''7''''' year old boy swam over a '''''mile''''' (a distance most ''adults'' couldn't manage) to get help for his father and sister after a boating accident. When asked how he became such a strong swimmer, he declared, "I have no idea".

* A mother in West Palm Beach, Florida was assaulted and robbed of her purse, but the robber[[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 him multiple times in the face, delaying him long enough for help to arrive.]]
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** In the second game there's Adell's nine-year-old sister Hanako.
** [[BadAssBookworm Raspberyl]] in the third game.

* ''WebVideo/VaguelyRecallingJoJo'', High Priestess, who happens to look like [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Blossom]] in this adaptation, pummels Jotaro and the others effortlessly at first.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': All three of them but most noticeable, Buttercup.

** Knocking out Homer by bonking him on the head with a mallet. Being strong enough to pick it up is badass enough, but when you can actually knock someone unconscious with it... Plus, let's not forget Homer can withstand: Several punches to the head, a chair to the head, being smashed with a wrecking ball, falling down a deep chasm head-first, survive being hit by a cannon ball, and has drunk himself silly for the past two decades. Knocking him out with one hit alone is not an easy task.

* Virra from ''Literature/LoyalEnemies'' is a seven-year-old half-elf girl. She is, however, a great archer, a KnifeNut in training and a member of [[spoiler:an elven clan gifted with the killing touch]]. She manages to take out a skilled, much, much older elven master wizard, dozens of vicious bird-reptile monsters and a barely visible giant werewolf-bear hybrid, all while looking and behaving like a sweet child.

* The UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar non-fiction book ''Literature/TheYankeePlague'' briefly mentions how one man who is helping harbor escaped Union [=POWs=]'s has his twelve-year-old daughter cross a mountain, by herself and in the middle of the night, to tell the prisoners that their hiding place is compromised before Confederate troops can arrest them (or her, if they catch her delivering the message).