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Amphibia
- Sasha and the Frogs
- Sasha. She maneuvered around carnivorous tomato plants, causing them to tie themselves up. She almost succeeded.
- Anne also displays this in chapter 9 where she helped Captain Grime and the soldiers of Toad Tower fend off an ant infestation.
- Honor And Loyalty has Mai. You don't want to mess with her.
- The Secret Life of the Backyard Kids with Lola.
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
- It would be easier to find female characters in For Good that aren't this trope, because the main ones are either Royals Who Actually Do Something, captains, and/or hyper-competent sidekicks. (Not to mention that a couple of them are actually Chessmasters.)
- Detectives Mira, Clarice, and Kidney in One Hundred Days.
- Hayden and Kai from the Percy Jackson and the Olympians fanfic Riding the Waves.
- Pretty much every female character in That Guy with the Glasses in Space seems to fit this trope.
- Ace Combat: Equestria Chronicles has the Mirage squadron, seven female pegasus ponies (including Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy) as the main heroines.
- Children of an Elder God: Asuka and Rei are mecha pilots trained since they were little kids to fight Cthulhu and co. and have the powers of a bunch of Eldritch Abominations they killed.
- Child of the Storm has a number, with Natasha Romanova, Sif, Wanda Maximoff, Betsy Braddock, Agent Jessica Drew and, among the younger generation, Carol Danvers, Diana of Themyscira and Hermione Granger.
- In Children of Time:
- Beth Lestrade, whom we get to see grow up from a fifteen-year-old to an Inspector Lestrade in her mid-twenties.
- Kit Bennett, aka Kathy Watson, also qualifies as a Badass Bookworm and a Time Lord.
- Rosalina turns out to be one in Clash of the Elements, especially seeing as she is the first one to force Joe Dark to go all-out in his base form.
- Coreline: It probably would be easier to count the women that have appeared on stories in this setting that don't have a capacity to fight. Anything from trained soldiers to superheroines, and most that weren't badass within their canon Took a Level in Badass.
- In The Dragon That Will Pierce the Heavens, the protagonist Hikari is not afraid of getting into brawls alongside any of her crew-mates, being a Fairy Tail Dragon Slayer in the mold of Natsu.
- Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship:
- Rainbow Dash, who is the captain of all five sports teams, but the other Rainbooms can step up to the plate when necessary.
- Gilda, who is captain of Canterlot's Mixed Martial Arts team, along with her lackeys Lightning Dust and Rolling Thunder.
- Fate of the Clans:
- Seri is Reisi's lieutenant, the Blue Clan that she fights in being a police-like people that use swords in combat.
- All female Servants are bodyguards and the judge for the Holy Grail War is no pushover in combat.
- Gospel of the Lost Gods: Half of the Chicago Wards are action girls; Weaver, Grace, Cuff, and Romp all have time to shine in Westeros with their superpowers.
- Harmony's Warriors, a crossover between My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the Marvel Cinematic Universe has the Main Six functioning as the first line up of The Avengers.
- In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Green Lantern crossover In Brightest Day, most of the mane six (Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, and as of recently Pinkie Pie) become this after getting their rings. However ringless characters like Princess Cadence, Spitfire, and Cheerilee have their moments as well.
- The Pokémon: The Series and Infinity Train crossover Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail has Chloe Cerise slowly become one of these as she learns how to use her "donut holer" (a steel pipe that was given its name when The Cat used it to make "donuts" out of other things to Randall) to defend herself and is later given artifacts and abilities to increase her powers by letting her cast fire and summon demons. By the time she reaches the Fog Car in Arc 3, she's easily wrecking shit up against Delirium and the Bogeyman.
- Amelia Hughes is an older variation of this trope — as she is in her sixties — but she makes due with shotguns against zombies and Silent Hill baddies.
- In Justice League of Equestria, Rainbow Dash becomes an even better one once she gets her powers under control.
- Last Child of Krypton:
- Asuka's job consists of piloting giant robots and killing Eldritch Abominations that shrugs nnukes off. Later she becomes a super-heroine: Wonder Woman in the original story, Supergirl in the rewrite. As a result she kicks even more butts with her bare hands.
- Misato and Rei also are perfectly capable to fend for themselves in a fight. Naoko Akagi also gets to be one when she gets a spiffy new body.
- Legacy being an adventure fic starring three female leads and a female antagonist naturally has this.
- A lot of the girls that Danny goes out with in The Many Dates of Danny Fenton either have powers, are secret heroes or Badass Normal.
- An unnamed Blue Suns Commander in Mass Foundations: Redemption in the Stars. Jocelyn Song, aka the Lone Wanderer, definitely fits the bill in All the World's a Stage.
- The Night Unfurls: Female combatants are not uncommon in the setting due to the prevalence of Gender Is No Object. Sanakan and Lily, both main characters and Trick-Weapon-wielding Hunters, deserve special mention for their consistent performance in small fights and large battles, racking up an ever-increasing body count.
- Origin Story: Alex Harris doesn't hesitate in the least to rush in and help when people need help, nor does she shy away from fighting when a fight is what is needed. But then, half of her mental makeup is Xander Harris, and the other half is Kara Zor-L, so its to be expected.
- Rick and Morty New Drama Adventures: After her first adventure with Rick and Morty, Kitty begins regularly joining the two on their whacky adventures. Rick at first doubted her abilities, but Kitty quickly proved that she could hold her own and shoot just as good as the rest of them. Kitty isn’t afraid to face off against terrifying alien creatures if it means keeping her friends alive (and getting that great selfie)!
- Shadows over Meridian: In addition to the canonical examples of the Guardians and Jade, there's some Original Characters as well:
- Yoruichi, a Rebellion soldier who proves herself to be one of the most capable fighters in the battle inside Cavigor.
- Vera Bexley, leader of the Master Archers known as the Sky Hunters, who is skilled enough to make her The Dreaded to the Mogriffs.
- Amelia Emmony, a highly-skilled swordswoman in the same army that the Sky Hunters are part of.
- Rotha Vathib, a captain in the Rebellion's northern army (the same one that Vera and Amelia are part of), is noted to be one of their best spear users.
- Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: In this story Asuka becomes Supergirl. She kicks Robeast butt when she is piloting her giant robot and slaps criminals, aliens and Eldritch Abominations around when she is off duty.
- A Storm of Chaos: A Doctor Whooves Adventure: Derpy Hooves, as she is, of course, the Doctor's companion. She even weaponizes "I just don't know what went wrong."
- Swordsmen: Soujiro's adopted daughter Carrie, due to having undergone Training from Hell from her father, himself a Master Swordsman. There's also Kenshin's Immortal ally, Chiyoko, who is a brutal Combat Pragmatist. And of course, there's Amanda, Duncan's Love Interest and fellow Immortal.
- Thousand Shinji has Asuka and Rei. In addition to be Humongous Mecha pilots with many years worth of training, the former is a berserker super-soldier and the latter is a plaguemaster with super-healing.
- In The Vampire of Steel, Supergirl -a super-heroine with godlike powers- and Buffy the Vampire Slayer- join forces to beat down vampires and assorted eldritch threats.
- Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse: The Kamikaze Pirates are an entire pirate crew made up of ass-kicking girls. Of the four men, there's a Non-Action Guy Living MacGuffin, two super-martial artists who can turn into girls, and a swordsman who looks more like a girl than his girlfriend does.
- The Wizard in the Shadows contains several. Eowyn, Arwen, Ginny, Eirian, Hermione. Ginny's death toll for one battle gives the entire Fellowship a run for their money. Since the resident engine of destruction and near Physical God (at points, usually when being given a boost) Harry Potter is part of the Fellowship, this is very impressive.
- The World of the Creatures: One of the character is Buffy Summers. With seven years of experience, plus supernatural slayer strength, Buffy isn't afraid to go after a troop of cybermen with nothing but her bare hands. The other female characters get shades of this as the story goes on.
- There are a lot of badasses in Forest of Despair, including Akita, Mitsuru, Miyuki and Hotaru. For example, Akita punches two people in the face in the prologue alone.
- In Loud Boy: Altered, Violet and Jeannie S. are this.
- In Resurrected Memories, Sam, Valerie, Maddie and Dani are all very strong, competent fighters.
- While her female friends are also considered this, Keena Soga in Keena & the Defendants of Constan Magic Academy
is a notable version of this trope. She doesn't need guns or even magic, all she needs are her firsts and kicks and can take as many punches as possible. Remember, she previously was a damsel, and really wanted to prove herself. It took only two chapters for her ass-kicking to show up.
- Rika and Jeri in the Tamers Forever Series.
- The female Assassins named but so far not developed by Terry Pratchett in the Discworld. Alice Band, Johanna Smith-Rhodes, Jocasta Wiggs, Joan Sanderson-Reeves, and others, all capable of bringing a woman's gentle touch to the deadliest profession. A good starting point is The Graduation Class.
- In Crowns of the Kingdom, Minnie and Daisy are this. Also the Disney Princesses during one sequence.
- In The Great Disney Adventure Saga, Kelsey definitely qualifies as this as she finds a will to swordfight whenever she can. Elizabeth is a more conventional choice, and Mulan falls under this category as well.
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Fallout
- Children of the Atom has lots of these: Sarah from the Modus Operandi arcs certinly counts. Cass and Veronica from the Pro Posturas arcs as well. Jess is an odd case, as she is both the main character of Pro Posturas and not an Action Girl of any kind, instead a Ambadassador.
- Seventh Endmost Vision: Tifa Lockheart was a Badass Normal in canon; in the fic, she's a 1st Class SOLDIER. And unlike Cloud in FFVII canon, she actually was a SOLDIER, and a war hero to boot! Aerith, meanwhile, goes from the spunky flower girl of canon to the mightiest SOLDIER.
- Yuffie is also this, becoming the Tsiviet Yuffie the Transparent.
- For an example of someone who wasn't this in canon who is now, look no farther than Dr. Lucrecia, who is now a deadly, deadly combatant.
- There are several in The Tainted Grimoire. Examples include Adelle, Vili and all of Clan Falzen.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Vivienne Graham has become an Action Female-Kaiju after being resurrected by San as the other half of the Two Beings, One Body (biologically hermaphroditic) Monster X.
- Kaiju Revolution: Radon, Mothra and her female larva, the female Gorosaur, Kamoebas, Komodithrax, Jirass, Ogra and the female Manda are all more more than capable of combat and have even fought Godzilla at some point or another.
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
- Grim Tales from Down Below:
- Mandy is the queen of the underworld and is not afraid to get her hands dirty. She often charges into battles and refuses to retreat, even when her husband Grim does. Even before becoming the queen, she was an assassin who was very good at her job.
- Due to all the training that she went through growing up, Minnie is quite a skilled sword fighter and gets multiple chances to showcase her impressive fighting abilities, especially in comparison to her untrained brother.
- Hermione from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is one, being one of the three generals of the student armies. She's also founded an organization, S.P.H.E.W, the Society for the Promotion of Heroic Equality for Witches, to help other girls become this.
- The Rigel Black Chronicles: Antiope comes from a girls-only school that emphasises combat skills and teaches free-dueling. She gets permission from the judges to use a sword alongside her wand in the Triwizard Tournament, and wins her first duel without casting a single spell.
- Charlie Duncan of Sapphire Eleanor Rose Suzette De Mont Vs Canon. She's part of a team dedicated to exterminating Mary Sues, and serves as The Big Guy of her force, carrying guns, being to first to attack, and admitting to just wanting to kill something.
- Weasley Girl stars a Gender Flipped version of Ron Weasley, Veronica "Ronnie" Weasley. She's just as as hotheaded as her male canon counterpart, but more impulsive and even more likely to charge in where angels fear to tread.
- Wreckstuck: Zillah counts as this, as she manages to kill a dragon by beating it's head into a bloody pulp.
- In Some Semblance of Meaning, although there are some aversions, there are many Action Girls: the female Careers, Fen, Phlox... Even Vale herself eventually can be considered one.
- Becoming a True Invader:
- Gaz is an utter badass, bordering on being a One-Man Army.
- Kor isn't nearly as tough as Gaz, but is still a decent fighter.
- Tak is a villainous example, being The Dragon and the only one who can match Gaz in a fight.
- Ruby Pair:
- Tenn, being a highly trained Irken Invader, certainly counts for this.
- Gaz is an unstoppable fighter when she's motivated enough.
- The Violet Demon: Gaz has grown up into this from her Little Miss Badass days, which is what impresses Hrol enough to buy her as a gladiator.
- The Ultimate Evil: Nataline "Nat" Homato is a Hell-Bent for Leather demon hunter, in contrast to Valerie who is more of an Action Survivor at first.
- In Horseshoes and Hand Grenades and most of its side-stories, many of the female characters have been upgraded to fighters. This ranges from Yuki Jojima using her Hayabusa Plushie to punch people into oblivion, Tomoko Nozama using her snake skin as a whip and minor characters like Rumi Egawa charging toward people and kicking them in the face.
- In Kingdom Hearts 3: Final Stand, Kairi has developed into one. Case in point: in chapter 14, when one of Xehanort's henchmen (revealed several chapters later to be the Riku Replica) tries to nab her, she nonchalantly breaks free of his grip and flings him off of a cliff.
- Letters From Tomorrow: Chloe Price. While in the original game she was still the most badass person in the main cast, that was a very low bar to clear. In the fic, she's been exercising avidly for years and has been getting serious combat and shooting lessons from her step-father. She has a reputation around Blackwell as the ultimate badass because she easily beat up two star football players, a reputation she proves correct in every fight we see. It turns out that future!Max used her Mental Time Travel to manipulate Chloe towards getting stronger her entire life (including improving her relationship with her step-father so she'd have a teacher) solely so that when present!Max started investigating the conspiracy, she'd have a bodyguard.
- The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (DragonRand100)
- Impa is a skilled mage and combatant. Later, when Impa ends up blinded, she still manages to retain the title of Shadow Sage and is able to fight Ganondorf along with the other sages. After the seven-year time skip, Sheik is revealed to be a strong mage who can hold her own in combat along with her mentor Rin who is revealed to be Impa in disguise. As for Sheik, her role as an Action Girl is played with since as Zelda she doesn't take an active combat role despite doing great feats while disguised as Sheik.
- On the Gerudo side there is Nabooru, Aveil and their immediate family who uphold their status as warriors and thieves.
- The Lion King Adventures: Nala, just like in the 1994 film.
- Tali'Zorah in For Tomorrow We Die has become one of these after her long service on the Normandy.
- Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race Roll, Nomad, and Lynn Wersching.
- Mega Man Reawakened has Tron, Denise Marmalade, and Roll.
- Mega Man Recut has Roll.
- Cagalli Yamato in Gundam Seed Bloodlines, probably even more so than her canon counterpart.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Flutterspy: All of Ms. Worthy's ninjas, Fleur, and Fluttershy.
- A Future of Friendship, a History of Hate gives the cast of MLP a serious upgrade in awesome.
- The Immortal Game:
- All Mane Six are this, even if some of them might not this at first. Rarity, Applejack, [Princess Luna, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie mostly notably. Though Fluttershy stays out of the battle most of the time, she makes up for the most badass Big Damn Heroes in the story.
- Twilight also stays out the fight when she was released from her Superpowered Evil Side, later she regained her senses and becomes Physical God.
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Naruto
- A Growing Affection upgrades Hinata into one. Yugao might have been one before, but she definitely get to show her chops here. OC Kaede Mizuno also qualifies.
- While all the girls from the canon Naruto series are capable fighters already, they qualify even more so in Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox, with Tenten in particular playing it straight in that she constantly trains and goes out to fight so as to become stronger.
- A Crown of Stars:
- Asuka is a Hot-Blooded Blood Knight Ace Pilot with one decade worth of training that pilots Humongous Mecha and has beaten alien monsters, Humongous Mecha and whole armies.
- In canon Misato is a soldier and excellent strategist prone to go into Mama Bear rampages. In this fic she is one of leaders of an army and wears a Power Armor.
- All female soldiers of the Avalon Army, really. They are well-trained, experienced soldiers and many of them are Super Soldiers or have Psychic Powers.
- Advice and Trust: Asuka and Rei are Humongous Mecha Ace Pilots -particularly the former- that fight and destroy Eldritch Abominations.
- The Child of Love: Asuka, Rei, Misato… they are soldiers, and Humongous Mecha pilots (but Misato).
- In chapter 3 an Eldritch Abomination was about to stomp on the team. Asuka showed up and single-handily pushed it back. She fought with such a fierceness Shinji got stunned. And in chapter 7 she came up with strategies to defeat the Monster of the Week.
- In chapter 7 Rei destroyed a giant alien monster on her own.
- Evangelion 303: All female pilots -Asuka, Hikari, Mari...- are elite soldiers. Asuka is the best pilot in the base.
- HERZ: Misato and Asuka seldom fight the enemy directly nowadays, but they are still duly trained soldiers. Rei also can hold her own since she is a pilot and the merge of two Eldritch Abominations.
- Once More With Feeling (Crazy-88): Asuka and Rei are war mecha pilots and Misato is a soldier and army commander. The former two have fought and killed giant monsters together or separately.
- The Second Try: Asuka is a better action girl than her canon Ace Pilot self because she's now more experienced and more motivated than ever. May God have mercy upon your soul if you threaten her family because she has bad temper, a giant robot, and slays giant monsters for a living.
- The females of the Capricorn Pirates in One Piece: Parallel Works, especially Yuki-Rin, Hana, Yulia, and Aria.
- In A Mid-Sinnoh Night's Dream, there are several. Cheryl and Marley, who were originally one-off characters for team-up escort missions, while not participating in the Gym Challenge, do participate in the fights against Team Galactic and Legendary Pokemon. There's also Cynthia and Maylene, the former being the current champion of Sinnoh's Pokemon League as of the story's beginning, and Maylene, who runs her own gym for humans and Pokemon, a Badass Normal who easily kicks the ass of the superpowered protagonist.
- In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Journal, we have Kim, easily the most competent member of Team JUMP.
- Dawn from Poké Wars takes several levels in badass and morphs from a Pokémon coordinator to deadly accurate gunslinger.
- Starr from Pokéumans does all the same rescue and intrusion missions that all the men get to, and despite being a ten-year-old pacifist Jigglypuff Amy kicks considerable ass.
- Every female Power Ranger|s in Of Love and Bunnies. The standouts are Trini (who scared an entire squadron of Red Rangers into fleeing after they fought Serpentera without her), Kim (who fired an arrow into a fight between the Red and White Rangers), and the girl from the Chinese restaurant (who takes on a swarm of Mooks).
- In true Power Rangers tradition, Maria Aparicio and Hitomi Miyazawa of Power Rangers GPX. Maria actually takes it far enough to be a true badass.
- In Prehistoric Earth, Alice Denham proves very much capable of taking care of herself over the course of the missions she takes part in alongside her male companions on the rescue team. Colette DuBois likewise proves more than capable of kicking ass and taking names as a member of the park's security division. Both girls similarly prove very much quite the capable fighters in later Continuity Reboot Prehistoric Park Reimagined.
- The Professional Wrestling series The JWL had The Revolutionnote , "The Female Fighting Phenom" Jazz of The Hardcore Alliancenote , Lita of Team Xtremenote , Luna Vachon, Daffney Unger, Poison, Ice Cold and Jacklyn Hyde (more WOW alumnae) of The Misfitsnote , Jacqueline of American Badass Inc.note , Victoria, Natalya Neidhart of The Hart Dynasty, Harley's Angels (Thug, Charlie Davidson and EZ Ryder) (more WOW alumnae), Trish Stratus (sort of, she only won one match) of Stratusfaction Inc.note , Tori of Raven's Nestnote , and Aksana of Daivari International.note .
- Most of the women in Warriors of the World, given that they're either adventurers or mercenaries.
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Sherlock Holmes
- Mary Watson in A Study in Regret, notably because she's Taken A Level In Badass since her first appearance in the Sherlock Holmes canon, in which she is simply a Spirited Young Lady.
- While there are outstanding examples of this in its source material, Forum of Thrones has a larger number of prominent female fighters that are portrayed as being equally skilled as their male counterparts, despite the traditional role of women in Westerosi society. Notable examples include:
- Samantha Ducard, the dual axe-wielding sellsword from John Gutten's group and one of the primary Point-of-View characters.
- Her friend Sasha, who sports an exotic, eastern fighting style and wields her arakh with dangerous skill.
- Janae, another sellsword from John Gutten's group, is a former fighting pit slave and a deadly archer.
- It is not unheard of that women decide to be soldiers or guardsmen in the continuity of Forum of Thrones. These women, while vastly outnumbered by their male companions, are treated equally by most. Examples for this are Nora Recton and Edonia Bernile.
- Similarly, there is a vast number of female characters that decide to join a sellsword group for various reasons and they are typically presented as similarly skilled than male sellswords around them.
- Special mention goes to Argella Durrandon, who manages to be this trope, while still fitting into her role as the princess of the Kingdom of the Stormlands. While being fully capable of being a sweet and charming diplomat, she puts special emphasis on the fact that she is not only the princess of the Stormlands, but also the heiress to the kingdom.
- In Robb Returns, the Company of the Rose has quite a few warrior women. Also Brienne of Tarth. At least one Stark ancestor, as well.
- Cosmo Finds Tails gives Cosmo this treatment to a degree, considering she switches several roles with Tails in their relationship.
- The Femme Fatalex in Entropy. Members Captain Agent "Olly" Mjöllnir, Agent "Bazza" Bazooka aka Vanilla the Rabbit, and Agent Drainer. Sonic couldn't think of a nickname for Drainer.
- Ultimate Spider-Woman: Mary Jane Watson loves to keep up with the latest fashion trends, is a Twilight junkie and enjoys being the centre of male attention at parties. She's also won dozens of fights as a costumed superheroine, with a Rogues Gallery as long as her arm.
- The Star Trek (2009) fanfic Written in the Stars has a genderswapped Kirk, who kicks just as much ass as her male counterpart.
- Like Father, Like Daughter has Seraph, Marco’s daughter, who shows the same proficiency in fighting as her father. Both Star and Pony Head remark on how it should be obvious considering her parents.
- Tarkin's Fist:
- Ashla Ti, as a Jedi Knight, gets involved in numerous skirmishes and battles throughout the course of the story and is very adept with a lightsaber.
- Phasma Yos participates in a kidnapping and a rescue attempt, an attempted assassination and leads the loyalist fleets into battle against Seco's mutineers during the short lived Imperial Civil War
- Minor character Jill Harris, the First Lady of the North American Union, is placed in a safe house in Missouri with her two young children during the Empire-Earth War. She awakes one morning to find her Secret Service Agents dead and she hears strangers in her son's bedroom. What does she do? Grab a gun off of a dead agent and rush to the room to defend her boys. She's swiftly disarmed, but she doesn't hesitate to head into danger to protect her own children
- Minor character Tenel Hja, apprentice to Ashla Ti, plays with this trope. She was raised by a pair of Loag assassins after being abducted from Dathomir, and had spent a great amount of time as their servant working various wet-works jobs. Her time as an assassin with the Loag had left Tenel in the thrall of the Dark Side until Ashla was able to rescue her and convince her to become a Jedi. After becoming a Jedi Tenel grows increasingly disgusted with combat. She initially hoped to embrace a more peaceful, scholarly life. She is dragged back into action to stop the Confederacy from taking control of the superlaser on the Ares. She manages to dispatch the commandos aboard without killing most of them, and is the one who kills Major Eritech, but is too late to prevent Justin Mallory from reaching the firing controls. Thankfully, Tenel and Mal are both reasonable people, and the two are able to work out an arrangement that convinces the Empire to sue for peace with the Earth.
- Ezra Lost has Hera Syndulla and Sabine Wren, just as they are in the canon series. Hera shoots it up from the skies in the Ghost while Sabine is typically a gunner in the ship or blowing stuff up/shooting Imperials on the ground.
- A Force of Four has Power Girl, the world's greatest and mightiest hero, Huntress -the vigilante daughter of Batman and Catwoman-, the Amazon warriors Wonder Woman and her daughter Fury...
- Pretty much every named female hero in Future Shock, but special points go to Kara, and Susan Vasquez who is an absolute badass even before she gains powers of her own.
- Essentially, the entirety of female heroes of The DCU make at least one appearance in the Hellsister Trilogy. You can find flying bricks (Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Power Girl, Mary Marvel...), vigilantes (Batgirl, Huntress...), witches (Zatanna...), telepaths (Saturn Girl...), and more.
- Kara of Rokyn has Kara, a super-hero, wrestler and martial artist who still kicks butts every so often even though she is semi-retired.
- In Supergirl (2015) story Survivors, Kara crash-lands on Earth together with her cousin and becomes the world's first and greatest hero.
- In Paper Mario: The Temple of the Sun, the three girls in Mario's party - Hanner, Dulia, and Maizee - are all this. Fitting, since the first two Paper Mario games always included female partners along with male ones to join Mario. This is no exception.
- In the semi-genderbent story The Kirita Chronicles, the main character Kirigaya Kazuta (the genderbent version of the canon protagonist Kirito) is indeed an action girl.
- Total Shuffled Island Series has Jo, who saves the day with a doorstop, and is given the nickname "Action Girl" by the Celebrity Manhunt hosts.
- In Turning Red: Secrets of the Panda, Catherine Moore, as a skilled fighter with the ability to turn into a giant red panda, certainly qualifies.
- Secret War has many, first and foremost being the assassin Elandria (who can be easily said to be a Dark Action Girl, then Castella Lethe. Later there's Adelana Helgen, Helma and Delathasi.
- Daughter of the Sun (ShoutFinder) has female warriors, just like in the source material, but one of the most notable would be Skypaw. She's able to fight a bear on her own (with the help of her special powers, however).
- Atonement has Tether. Don't let her cutesy appearance fool you- Mads is an incredibly strong fighter, in no small part due to her large amounts of experience fighting a variety of villains, despite her relative inexperience in comparison with more "capable" heroes.
