History Main / MoreDeadlyThanTheMale

* In ''{Buffy}'' and ''{{Angel}}'', women usually end up more vicious in similar roles than men, particularly vampires Darla and Drusilla. Note also that Angelus originally got in touch with his sadistic side just to impress Darla.

* ''[[VorkosiganSaga Cordelia's Honor]]'':
** Princess Kareen realizes her son is alive and that she's been lied to. Without hesitation, she draws a nerve disrupter in a room full of soldiers and fires at her lover, the self-proclaimed Emperor.

* TheNostalgiaChick, especially in ''{{Kickassia}}''. She fights just as hard (and started it off when [[WhatAnIdiot he provoked her]]) as the Critic does in their mini-battle to review ''{{Ferngully}}''. When he rises to power and makes a hash of things, she convinces everyone she's [[BitchInSheepsClothing sweet and nice]] while trying to off him every five minutes.

This is the precursor to the modern ActionGirl. While she may [[BewareTheNiceOnes seem smaller and meeker]], but should she attack it will be a NoHoldsBarredBeatDown. Should you be foolish enough to want to trigger such behavior in a female, try [[MamaBear threatening her offspring]], [[WomanScorned crossing her in love]], or [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend crossing her love]]. This is the polar opposite of TheChick.

To help this trope along, expect the bad guys to totally ignore the female, [[GenreBlindness dismissing her as a threat]]. She may even appear to [[DoubleAgent capitulate or collude]] with the enemy, suffering indignities no one would expect her to tolerate, all in order get a better shot at revenge.

* Many women come to watch ice hockey solely because of the fights, not the game itself.

* Many women come to watch ice hockey solely because of the fights, not the game itself. Women enjoy seeing men beating each other into pulp.
** On schoolyard bullying, girls almost always side themselves on the side of the bully, not his victim.

-->--'''Rudyard Kipling'''

* Rudyard Kipling's poem, ''The Female of the Species'' sums this trope up poetically, and attributes it to the hardships of motherhood.

* In ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Ikari Gendo is a MagnificentBastard and the TropeNamer for ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive who commands a force of HumongousMecha. His son Shinji pilots one of these mecha. Gendo's wife and Shinji's mom, the YamatoNadeshiko Yui? She is [[spoiler: the soul of said mecha that Shinji pilots, prone to UnstoppableRage [[MamaBear in order to protect her son]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes and RIPPING HER OPPONENTS LIMB FROM LIMB BEFORE DEVOURING THEIR ORGANS!]] By the way, Ikari is ''her'' birth name, not Gendo's.

* In ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Ikari Gendo is a MagnificentBastard and the TropeNamer for ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive who commands a force of HumongousMecha. His son Shinji pilots one of these mecha. Gendo's wife and Shinji's mom, the YamatoNadeshiko Yui? She is the SOUL of said mecha that Shinji pilots, prone to UnstoppableRage [[MamaBear in order to protect her son]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes and RIPPING HER OPPONENTS LIMB FROM LIMB BEFORE DEVOURING THEIR ORGANS!]] By the way, Ikari is HER birth name, not Gendo's.

[[WhamLine She set up the castle to do what to intruders now?]]

* Madame DeFarge and Miss Pross in ''ATaleOfTwoCities.''

* ''That70sShow'': The guys taunt [[GirlNextDoor Donna]] and [[RichBitch Jackie]] with claims that while men can entertain themselves with play-fighting, girls get too angry and begin to fight for real. Cue the girls beginning a nice, playful fight that [[ItGotWorse quickly descends]] to barbed words and [[CatFight legitimate violence.]]