Genki Girl / Video Games

Examples of Genki Girl in Video Games

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• Iris Sagan in AI: The Somnium Files is a bubbly, pink-haired Idol Singer/e-girl who's never seen without her Animal-Eared Headband and acts as a Cool Big Sis to Date's surrogate daughter Mizuki.
• Animal Crossing: The always female Peppy Villagers are very energetic and perky townsfolk who all act like animal Valley Girls.
• Arcana Heart: Heart Aino is a cheerful girl who always wants to make everyone happy, and always have a smile that is considered contagious to everyone.
• Backyard Sports: Gretchen Hasselhoff, who is both one of the fastest runners and the fastest talker in the series. It's only fitting that her nickname is "Jabberjaw."
• Baldur's Gate: Though she gets toned down a bit in the later games due to all the torture and all, Imoen is rather specifically described by one character like this:
  Valygar: For someone who supposedly has her soul tainted by the evil of a dead god, you remind me considerably of a chipmunk with a sugar high and a death wish.
  • Also, Neera, in the enhanced editions of both games seems to be cheerful, though to mostly set a facade behind her Dark and Troubled Past.
• Banjo-Kazooie: Kazooie, at least in the first game. She definitely has a lot of spunk and is pretty enthusiastic to go on adventures.
• BattleTech has Glitch, one of your starter pilots. Although you never see more of her than her static portrait, her voice set alone^note which is outright called "f_overload01" in the game files quickly gained her a lot of fans. No matter what happens, you can count on Glitch geeking out about it, whether it's fighting in a polar region ("After the mission, let's make snowmen!"), hitting multiple targets in the same turn ("YOU get a headshot, and YOU get a headshot!") or dealing heavy damage to something ("Did you see that? DID YOU SEE IT?"). Now imagine all of this in her perky, girly, almost child-like voice and you know why pretty much every player who can reloads the last save if Glitch is killed in battle. Even funnier, her bio reveals that she's actually an unrepentant criminal turned killer-for-hire. Really makes you wish for a spin-off that covers her ten-year stint in a Hellhole Prison.
• Borderlands 2: Tiny Tina incredibly hyper when it comes to explosives, and just life in general. In the Fight for Sanctuary DLC, she confides to the vault hunters that it feels like she needs to just keep moving around out of fear that she'll just stop. She figures it must be a defense mechanism for living on Pandora.
• In Carrie's Order Up!, the titular waitress is very energetic and cheerful, beginning and ending each round with a joyful quip. She's full of so much energy and enthusiasm, in fact, that she can't even stop until the round's over, making bumping into customers who are trying to get seated all to likely a possibility.
• Cherry Tree High Comedy Club: Miley Verisse. Most of her peers think of her as a weirdo because she's passionate about stand-up comedy.
• Chrono Trigger: Marle. To the point that her character's victory sprite is an energetic jumping up and down.
• Custom Robo Arena: Polly. At one point in the game, her battle cry is actually "I'm all hopped up on coffee! So I won't lose!" At another point, she sends you to fetch her "The Legendary Coffee" to allow the player to fight her. After the player wins, she asks, "Hmm...maybe all this coffee is stunting my growth?"
• Danganronpa series: Ibuki Mioda from the second game is energetic, unpredictable, and even bites our main character for fun in a scene
• Dead or Alive series:
  • Despite being always serious during her fights, Leifang is kind-hearted and cheerful. She always practices martial arts to self-improving her skills and hopes that this can help other people to do the same.
• DonPachi:
  • Perfect☆, the third boss of Dodonpachi Dai-Fukkatsu enters with a lively cry of "Mateeeeeeeeeeeeee~!" as she prepares to engage the players. And she's very loud as well throughout the fight.
  • In Sai-Daioujou, Hina is lively and cheerful even after becoming Hibachi. As Inbachi, however, she drops those traits and becomes The Stoic.
• Dragon Quest IV: Young princess Alevna is perky and enthusiastic to an almost absurd degree.
• Duel Savior Destiny: Nanashi, the local zombie girl, tends to bounce around happily without having a very clear understanding of what's going on around her.
• Final Fantasy:
  • Final Fantasy V: Krile Mayer Baldesion is the original example—her little sprite bounces all over the screen when she's happy.
  • Final Fantasy VI: This is followed by Relm, the youngest of the cast. Although some would consider her to be the true original example, as Krile doesn't have the bratty attitude like Relm does. The fact that she has no problems sassing her elders pretty much helps.
  • Final Fantasy VII: Yuffie Kisaragi, a mischievous take on the type. She is almost eternally energetic, cheerful, and upbeat.
  • Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII: Aerith Gainsborough in her younger incarnation, though she's remarkably sweet about it.
  • Final Fantasy VIII features two in the main cast. Rinoa is the leading lady and also doubles as a bit of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl for Squall. Uniquely she's called out on her attitude being immature and inappropriate for a military environment. Selphie meanwhile has managed to merge her Genki energy with competence in the military - resulting in her being Cute and Psycho.
  • In Final Fantasy IX, we get Eiko, who is also the game's resident Bratty Half-Pint. She has a great deal of energy and is usually excited about something.
  • Final Fantasy X: Rikku. The sad overtone kept her genki-ness down a bit, although she's still eccentric and cheerful. In Final Fantasy X-2, she becomes Genki Girl incarnate.
  • Final Fantasy XI: Lilisette and Prishe.
  • Final Fantasy XII: Although perhaps not to the degree of her "sisters", Penelo fills in this spot alongside Vaan in an otherwise very no-nonsense group.
  • Final Fantasy XIII: Vanille, on the other hand, is a particularly interesting example who is older than she looks. While she is onsistently cheerful and energetic despite the long journey, her cheerful attitude is just her way of running away from the fact that she knows that it is her Focus to destroy the world. Despite being always upbeat and positive, she has an authentic death wish and blames herself for everything that has happened.
  • Final Fantasy XIV:
    • Yda is always chipper, upbeat, and and is always eager to punch things to solve everyone's problems. Once it's revealed that the Yda everyone knew was a Dead Person Impersonation, she drops the act and becomes more serious.
    • While it's not as obvious due to being a Heroic Mime, the Warrior of Light also possesses a seemingly endless font of energy when it comes to adventuring. They're almost always eager to dive into a new adventure, is shown burning off excess energy in cutscenes with exercise, and their own Training from Hell is so grueling that the monks of the Fist of Rhalgr are exhausted by it when the Warrior doesn't even look winded after 10 hours of continuous training.
  • Final Fantasy Type-0: Cater and Cinque.
  • Final Fantasy XV: Iris Amicitia and Cindy Aurum. Also Prompto Argentum to some extent.
• The Fire Emblem series has a lot:
  • Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn: Mia, who is obsessed with finding her rival (a swordsperson in white) and dueling people at dawn.
  • Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War: Tiltyu is a tragic example of how a Genki Girl can eventually break down and cannot be genki anymore for the rest of her life. Sylvia also counts, and for the second half Fee and Patty (and her replacement Daisy) more than fit the bill.
  • Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade has Serra (for the most part), Rebecca, and Nino as energetic young ladies, while Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade has Shanna the Pegasus Knight and Lalam the dancer fill the role.
  • Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones: Princess Tana is the archetypical "cheerful, willful, plucky" example, but Princess L'Arachel is the trope taken to new extremes since she manages to mix the trope with Cloud Cuckoo Lander, Large Ham and Lord Error-Prone, which results in an incredibly... unique character as a whole.
  • Fire Emblem: Awakening: Lissa, Nowi, and Cynthia. Cynthia is an even bigger example than the other two, since she manages to combine this trope with Large Ham and Cloud Cuckoolander (similarly to L'Arachel).
  • Nowi in particular is a more realistic take on the trope. She's a manakete and painfully aware of she will outlive almost every single loved one he has, so her genkiness is both very genuine and a coping mechanism. After all, why spend her super-long life crying when she can spend it laughing most of the time?
  • Fire Emblem Fates: Elise is a super cheerful White Mage and pretty much the "ray of sunshine" among the somber, broken princes and princesses of Nohr. She stays as cheery in the Conquest path and Revelations, but falls into depression in the Birthright route and ends up as Too Good for This Sinful Earth there.
  • Fire Emblem: Three Houses has Annette, an extremely cheerful hard worker who sings silly little songs to herself while working to pass the time. She also has a tendency of crashing into things, partly due to how quickly she moves.
• Genshin Impact:
  • Pretty much any female with a Pyro vision (Klee, Amber, Yoimiya, Hu Tao, etc.). Hu Tao is of particular note as she is the director of a funeral home. Yanfei's genki status is slightly subdued due to being a legal advisor.
  • Cat Girl / Nekomata Kirara also has genkiness, even though she has a Dendro vision, not a Pyro one. Unlike the other catgirls in the game, she represents cats who are hyperactive.
  • Most females Cryo visionholders are the opposite of genki. Charlotte is the exception; a super-cheerful newspaper reporter whose enthusiasm often hurts her ability to get others to accept being interviewed by her.
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: Deconstructed in the GTA Radio. Amy from the VCPR station is a Genki Girl who was put on heavy anti-depressants ever since her family was brutally murdered.
• Grim Fandango: Year 2 features minor character Lupe, a coat-check girl at the Calavera Café, who tends to get overly enthusiastic about her job. This is pointed out in a conversation between Manny and police officer Carla when the latter cites Lupe's presence as the reason she stopped visiting the café:
  Carla: All that bubbly energy, I just want to strangle her!
  Manny: I've tried that. It doesn't stop her.
• Harvest Moon: Animal Parade: Maya. She seems to be so cutesy as an adult because her parents have been, and still are, the same way.

• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist:
  • Regardless of gender, a young Sol excitedly races Anemone to the classroom and looks forward to their first day of "Agricultural Soil Conveyance" (i.e, moving dirt). Even as successive lives disillusion them, their curiosity for all that life can offer never truly leaves them.
  • Nomi-Nomi fits this although they're nonbinary. They're the most cheerful among the love interests and are always happy to see Sol whenever they talk to them. They often flap their arms to greet Sol and talk about their interests with much gusto.
• The King of Fighters series:
  • Kula Diamond in all her hyper-cheery, candy-loving, Face Doodling glory. She's especially notable given her status as an Opposite-Sex Clone of the much more serious Kyo Kusanagi, and given that the same experiment that created her led to K.
  • Yuri Sakazaki has always been portrayed as cheerful and optimistic, but it gets dialed up in the Ko F series — to the point of bodering on outright childish behavior, at times. She's even gotten snarky, albeit in playful fashion with her friends.
  • KOF Maximum Impact: Mignon Beart. May be THE most triumphant example in this game.
  • Also, Athena Asamiya, Mai Shiranui, and Metal Slug crossover Fiolina Germi.
• King's Quest: Princess Rosella of Daventry is just as fond of adventuring as her dad, impulsive, fun-loving, and extroverted.
• Knights of the Old Republic: Mission Vao, a Satisfied Street Rat and Wide-Eyed Idealist, she cheerfully loved to explore rakghoul infested sewers that even Mandalorian mercenary Canderous didn't like venturing into. She's low on hit points, but her pickpocketing, hacking, and minesweeping skills, along with her snarky retorts, can get the party into (or out of) a lot of trouble.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap: Zelda seems to be a Genki Girl, at least from what we see of her before she's turned to stone pretty early in the game. During the Picori Festival at the beginning, she's ecstatically running to each stall happily expressing her excitement at the various exhibits and sales before going "Oh, what's that?" after just a few seconds and running to the next one, requiring Link to run after her.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: Apparently, Zelda isn't above dragging her childhood friend around to things she wants to do, doing all the talking whenever she's around (even if Link never talks), and pushing/jumping at him from potentially-lethal flights to make him use the sailcloth/catch her on his Loftwing.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Purah is a very energetic and showy character with quite a few theatrical character tics ranging from jumping up excitedly and exclaiming "Check it!" to saying "Snap!" when deeply involved in her various experiments, at several points chiding the stoic Link for not playing along with her sense of fun. It's implied, based on a brief bit of dialogue with Jerrin, that she retained this personality even as a centenarian pre-Fountain of Youth, and Purah notes that her younger sister Impa had to rein in her wilder antics at times.
• Izuna from the two games sporting her name certainly qualifies.
• Lollipop Chainsaw seems largely an answer to the question, "What would it be like to play as a Genki Girl?" It involves rainbows, heart symbols, and inexplicable background cheering whenever its protagonist, Juliet, makes an especially stylish kill.
  Juliet: It's more fun killing zombies in rainbow colors, huh?
  Nick: It's about the same. Maybe a little better.
• Magical Pop'n: The Princess can easily qualify as she stays upbeat regardless which situation she finds herself in. She drops this when she gets KO'ed, though.
• Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis: Jess. She's hiding something.
• Mass Effect 2: In a WRPG example, Kasumi Goto can qualify. She is Japanese, too.
  • She gets broken for a minute at the end of her loyalty mission in a very effective scene showing her having a quick emotional breakdown. She recovers quickly.
• Mega Man ZX Advent: Hedgeshock the Erinaceroid. She talks fast, walks around hyperactively, and her Idle Animation gives you the impression that she just can't stand still.
• Midnight Club 2: Gina.
• Mortal Kombat has Mileena- yes, you heard that right: Mileena. It's toned down a bit in Mortal Kombat X, but it's still there.
• Neptunia: Neptune, Nisa, and Ram (to a lesser extent).
• Neon White has Neon Violet, whose squeaky-voiced and upbeat energy is a sharp contrast to both the serene heavenly host and the rest of the sullen demon slayers.
• Neverwinter Nights 2: Neeshka has elements of this. Note her kleptomania, habit of speaking very rapidly, and general variance between overwhelmingly excited or deeply anxious.
• Night Trap: Megan.
• Octopath Traveler has Tressa, the youngest and most enthusiastic of the main characters. The other travelers often make note of her energy in travel banters.
• Octopath Traveler II: Ochette and Angea are both easily excitable, especially Ochette. Agnea is constantly cheerful and refuses to give up, while Ochette is easily distracted, runs with Airplane Arms, and also has her energy called out by those around her. Again, this is in part because they're the two youngest travelers.
• Overwatch has both Tracer and D.Va: the former is a giggling, energetic young woman while the latter is a Gamer Chick who treats combat like a video game. Tracer's genki-ness is cranked up to eleven in her debut trailer for Heroes of the Storm, when she becomes excited at all of the cool things and people she finds in the Nexus.
• Persona 4: Rise Kujikawa, the team's hot-blooded support member, has a ton of energy, moreso than any other female member.
• Pokémon:
  • The player's Childhood Friend Bianca from Pokémon Black and White is a ditzy, excitable, Cute Clumsy Girl and The Pollyanna of the group. The anime plays this up, with a Running Gag being her frequent Crash Into Hellos with Ash.
  • The Rival Nemona in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is an excitable girl who follows the Player Character around as they challenge the Gyms and jumps at every chance to battle she gets. During one of the player's Gym challenges she runs off claiming that she's going to go train twenty Pokémon at once.
  • Scarlet and Violet also have the Naranja/Uva Academy Battle Studies teacher, Dendra. She's very enthusiastic and often gets wrapped up in her lectures, and she jogs in place when the player gets to fight her in the Academy Ace Tournament.
• Power Stone: Ayame is this, in fitting with her origins as a 16-year old kunoichi masquerading as a Street Performer. It's especially evident in her constantly-sunny outlook on life and in her win poses- where among other things, she'll giggle, happily jump up and down and give a playful "V-for-Victory" gesture.
• The Records of Agarest: Noah, one of the three 3rd-Generation heroines. There's also the half-rabbit girl Qua, who makes her debut in the 4th Generation.
• From the Richman series:
  • Xiaomei is always excited and cheerful when something great happens to her, and happily wonder if she's dreaming.
  • Wu Mhi has a high voice, and also excited when something great happens to her.
  • Wumela also express her happiness when something great happened to her, as she's an Idol Singer.
• From the SSX series:
  • Kaori Nishidake. In a series about death-defying snowboarders, Kaori's excitable nature is explicitly childlike and she just has so much fun out on the snow.
  • Marisol Diez Delgado from Tricky also qualifies.
• Saints Row: The Third's Genkibowl DLC 'Genki Girls' couldn't personify this trope any more than they already do. Angry Tiger, Sad Panda, and Sexy Kitten are high-energy fast talking costume wearing minions of the aptly-named Professor Genki.
• Sakura Wars: The always high-spirited Erica Fontaine. For example, her Good Morning Dance.
• Samurai Warriors: Kunoichi, although she mixes an unhealthy amount of creepiness with it, what with her stalking Yukimura and enthusiastically suggesting the most dreadfully violent solutions to any problems that may pop up.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Amy Rose is a kind hedgehog who always willing to help anyone around her, specially Sonic, who seems worn out by her personality in some moments.
  • Sonic Rush Adventure: Marine the Raccoon is a hyperactive Australian slang-spouting Motor Mouth who considers herself to be the star of the adventure, despite being the Tagalong Kid.
  • Sonic Boom: Amy retains this trait in this series.
• Soul Series: Cassandra, Xianghua, and her daughter Leixia.
• Splatoon: Callie is usually very bubbly and perky, in contrast to her cousin Marie. Similarly, Frye in Splatoon 3 is incredibly energetic and can barely sit still, while her companion Shiver is far more relaxed and laidback.
• Star Ocean: Till the End of Time: Peppita Rossetti.
• Star Wars: The Old Republic: The Consular ends up with two. Holiday is a sentient hologram who is always excited when presented with new technology, a puzzle, or an intellectual challenge, which is part of the reason she and Tharan make such a good team. The other is the Consular's eventual Padawan, Nadia Grell. A Spoiled Sweet Senator's daughter, Nadia's force abilities tend to make things explode if she gets too excitable. Her species also is new to the galactic scene, and so she is incredibly happy if you take her with you to new planets or give her a chance to test her Force abilities, with a Catchphrase of "Yes! More exploring!"
• Street Fighter series:
  • Sakura is cheerful and optimistic virtually all the time, her victory animations even seeing her jump up and down in elation.
  • Elena is very sociable and energetic, and she is one of the few characters who views fighting as way to meet other people and befriend them.
• Many Suikoden characters are this; sometimes there are many in the same game. For example:
  • Suikoden V: Miakis, initially. Then she gets saddled with an overload of angst, but eventually reverts to form over the course of the rest of the game.
  • Suikoden II: Nanami. Her introduction sequence consists entirely of her shaking her brother around out of giddiness for about 2 minutes, culminating when she accidentally sends him hurtling into a cliff wall, leaving a hero-sized imprint in solid rock.
• Super Mario Bros.:
  • Princess Daisy. She definitely has a lot of energy to spare, especially once Deanna Mustard started voicing her.
  • Depending on the Writer, Peach can be just as energetic as Daisy. Probably the best example of this, is in Super Princess Peach , where whenever she uses the Joy and Calm Vibe she looks like she is having the time of her life.
  • Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story: Starlow/Chippy.
  • WarioWare:
    • Mona is a peppy girl who is a fan of Wario and whose job changes for every game.
    • Dr Crygor's granddaughter Penny comes quite close to counting, too.
• Aschen from the Super Robot Wars spinoff Endless Frontier becomes this whenever she lets out her full power. Makes for an...interesting contrast with her usual self. She even goes so far as cheerily shouting out things like "ASCHEN PUNCH!" and "ASCHEN KICK!" Considering that, appearance-wise, she looks more like something out of a robotic Amazon Brigade than a Genki Girl, it makes for an amusing contrast.
• Tales of Legendia: Norma Beatty. She goes as far as giving her party members strange nicknames like "Senny" and "Teach."
• Tales of Phantasia: Arche starts off very much like this, though she mellows considerably after the party visits the Elf Village, and her mother is seemingly executed in her place. Which, to be honest, is fairly understandable...
• Tekken: Ling Xiaoyu is a ball of energy who seems to be excited about everything. Her fighting style is fittingly fast-paced and energetic, with plenty of She-Fu moves to match her bubbly persona.
• Paprika from Them's Fightin' Herds, much like the character she was based on, is very bouncy and hyper, and is almost always laughing or giggling. But it's ramped up to the point where most of the cast see her as a lunatic, her own clan see her as some kind of monster, and she isn't even capable of properly speaking.
• In Mitsumete Knight there's Carol Palecki (who actually fakes the Genkiness and is really a Stepford Smiler), Hanna Shawsky, and Priscilla Dolphan.
• Touhou Project: Cirno is such a genki girl she gets an entire song in which to display it. "Chirumiru, chirumiru genki, chirumiru!" Marisa also displays levels of genkiness. What else would you expect from a Cute Witch that can fire a giant Wave-Motion Gun?
• Warcraft III: The Dryads' voice-set portrays this kind of personality, with a touch of The Ditz, for the entire race.
  "Fall, like leaves! In...fall!"

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