Dark Chick

aka: The Dark Chick

Hint: It's not the bird on that guy's shoulder.

"As the only female in Pazort's inner-circle, Kari possesses skills the others can only dream about."

— Shining Wisdom manual, under "Minions of Evil"

Simply put, the Evil Counterpart to The Chick. She is often set up as a direct foil to The Chick, and a Designated Girl Fight will ensue if each sticks around long enough.

The Chick is often The Heart of the ensemble and is good at reading emotions, resolving fights, and keeping an eye on the big picture. The Dark Chick possesses all of these strengths, and weaponizes them:

1. They are nonchalant about others' well-being and experts at sowing discord. If she doesn't outright ignore and belittle other people's feelings, she may prey on them for mind-games and manipulation.
2. She's also typically good at convincing others to do what she wants, either through feminine wiles, or as a ruthless middle manager that people are afraid to have to deal with. The latter is particularly common if she doubles as The Dragon; e.g. the other members of the organization really dislike her, but put up with her because she gets results or is needed for some facet of the plan.
3. Her skill set and motivations may also stand out from the others. If the others are on the front lines she may be a support unit or a liaison expert, Honey Trap, or spy. If the others are doing it For the Evulz, she may be doing it for love or loyalty (and vice versa for the really manipulative ones).

This character archetype almost always overlaps with at least one other, most often:

• Alpha Bitch
• The Baroness
• Dark Action Girl
• Femme Fatale
• Perky Female Minion
• The Vamp

Just as The Chick may be part of a Power Trio with The Leader and The Lancer, the Dark Chick tends to promote to Co-Dragon, or just become The Dragon of her team. If the Dark Chick is somehow related to the main villain this chance rises to a near certainty. As do the odds of her leaving her boss, if his actions repulse her enough, for whatever reason, to hook up with The Hero.

Having this character prominent adds a layer of the Interplay of Sex and Violence particularly with male heroes in action series.

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Examples

Anime & Manga

• In Black Cat Echidna Parass, Villainous Teleporter and Love Martyr to the Big Bad serves this role among the leadership of The Apostles Of The Stars. The only girl among the leaders, and present due to her crush on Creed, she's definitely the odd one out.
• Aaronerio Arrurei and Zommari Leroux are the Dark Chicks of Aizen's army in Bleach. Both are Token Minorities (Eldritch Abomination and Scary Black Man respectively) both are far less than stable, even for Arrancar, and both are definitely weird.
• In Chrono Crusade, this role can either fall to Rizel (a Dark Action Girl whose tactics depend mainly on controlling people like puppets while the other warriors in the group are more direct) or to Shader (a Perky Female Minion who doubles as the team's Evil Genius and rarely does any fighting—and, in fact, doesn't seem to even like fighting in the manga).
• Both Kanon Maldini and Nina Einstein (mix of this and Evil Genius) from Code Geass fulfill this role for Schneizel El Britannia.
• LadyDevimon from both Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02. In her first appearance she's the new Dragon to Piedmon after the other Dark Masters are eliminated, and both times she's really just there to have a Designated Girl Fight with Angewomon.
• In Fullmetal Alchemist, Lust. The only unambiguously female member of the Homunculi. She's also a manipulator on a team of arrogant brutes and sociopaths.
• Soi in Fushigi Yuugi fulfills this role for the Seiryuu seishi. She's both The Dragon and a Femme Fatale, and is the most sympathetic villain, driven out of love for the wrong kind of person.
• Himiko Toga in My Hero Academia, she is the sole female member of the main part of the Villain's Alliance, add this to the fact she is a bisexual Yandere with a lust for blood and a crush on a Hero Killer, on the main character, his Genki Girl best friend and their Cute Monster Girl friend.
• Gundam:
  • Garma Zabi in Mobile Suit Gundam is about as close as you get to an evil version of The Heart and is the most sympathetic of his team, however his sister Kycilia plays the Dark Chick role straighter as far as usurping The Dragon, manipulating people, and generally being a pain to deal with, combining with some traits of the Evil Genius.
  • In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Nicol Amalfi is this to the Antivillainous Le Creuset team. Combining Nice Guy with many traits commonly associated with The Evil Genius, Nicol was definitely the odd one out on a team that consisted of a Manipulative Bastard, his stoic Dragon, a Hot-Blooded Jerkass, and a Deadpan Snarker, none of whom would know "subtle" if it up and bit them.
  • In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, Cloudcuckoolander and Psychopathic Girlchild Stella is the Dark Chick of the Extended trio. Just contrast her behaviour with that of icy-cold Sting, Axe-Crazy Auel, or Manipulative Bastard Neo Roanoke.
• Miss Notch, the resident Ninja Maid of Hollow Fields. She is actually Miss Weaver's most potentially dangerous underling: she's a more loyal dragon than Mr. Croach, a more competent brute than Stinch, and, unlike Miss Rickets, actually survives to the end. However, she also lacks malicious intent unlike the other Engineers, and follows Weaver solely out of Blind Obedience.
• In Kill la Kill, Nonon Jakuzure is pretty obviously this in the Five-Bad Band that rules Honnouji Academy. She's a tiny pink-haired girl with cutesey mannerisms — and a mean streak a mile wide.
• Naruto:
  • Tayuya. Foul-mouthed, arrogant, and one of the least effeminate ninja the Sound village have ever produced (and one of the only females), she hates her teammates at least as much as she hates the enemy. Despite that she's also the second-in-command of the Sound Four and a Dark Action Girl, based on the impressively kinetic face-punching she inflicts on the titular character.
  • And Kin, also from Sound. Interestingly, she is the only character from said village who was not subject to any mutations. Pre-mortem, anyway.
  • Later on there's Karin, who is part this and Evil Genius. Her teammates abilities are mostly purely offensive or defensive, but hers are based on tracking and analysis (with some stealth and an emergency healing power). She's also mostly there because she wants to be with Sasuke (a lot).
  • Konan is this for Akatsuki: almost everyone else in the organization is based on offensive power (except Zetsu), her role is to be more on support and reconnaissance (though she eventually gets a chance to demonstrate her substantial fighting skills. Konan is also The Dragon to Pain who is the figurehead Big Bad. She's the most normal of the Akatsuki, not having any particular appearance quirks, fixations, or sociopathic tendencies. She's driven out of a genuine belief that they'll make the world better, and out of the memory for her lost friend.
• Most of the Smurfette Principle characters in the Pretty Cure franchise:
  • Poisonny and later Regine in Futari wa Pretty Cure.
  • Viblis in Futari wa Pretty Cure.
  • Karehaan and Moerumba are male examples in Futari Wa Pretty Cure Splash Star since Ms. Shitataare is the Evil Genius and the Kiryuu twins are the Sixth Rangers.
  • Arachnea and later Hadenya in Yes! Pretty Cure 5.
  • Shibiretta in Yes! Pretty Cure 5.
  • Eas in Fresh Pretty Cure!. Until her Heel–Face Turn.
  • Sasorina in Heartcatch Pretty Cure.
  • Falsetto, another male example, in Suite Pretty Cure ♪ since Seiren is The Dragon. Until he is promoted as the final Dragon.
  • Wolfrun, another male, in Smile Pretty Cure! since Majorina is the Evil Genius and he's one of the more good looking villains.
    • Bad End Cure Peace of the Bad End Pretty Cures.
  • Marmo and Camp Gay Leva in Doki Doki Pretty Cure.
  • Hosshiwa and Namakelder share this role in Happiness Charge Pretty Cure. They play the Straight Man to Oresky, who is The Brute and considers them his sidekicks. Both are not too happy about this.
• Ninja heir Kyoichi Kunugi in Real Bout High School. His nickname, "Kunoichi" (which means "female ninja"), drives the point home.
• Lady Kayura in Ronin Warriors, who's brought on to the Dark Warlord team and is much more competent and capable than they are. They begin to resent her for always one upping her, but she doesn't seem to care.
• Yumi, Neutral Female and ex-Hooker with a Heart of Gold is only a member of Big Bad Shishio's group in Rurouni Kenshin because she's in love with the psycho (who does, in fact, reciprocate). She's more or less an Anti-Villain is a group of villainous fighters, and serves as a Cool Big Sis to The Dragon during most of her on screen appearances.
• Sailor Moon
  • Zoisite/Zoycite of the Shittenou , especially in the anime's English dub where she had some serious schadenfreude.
  • Mimete from the Witches 5 in Sailor Moon S. She was definitely more concerned with meeting celebrities than villainous deeds. Her constant failures led to Tellu eventually killing her by shutting the power off from a television program that increased her powers.
  • Fisheye from the Amazon Trio. She's a Man in Japan also applies here.
  • PallaPalla of the Amazoness Quartet.
  • Esmeraude of The Black Moon Clan! She's vain, and she has a crazy laugh!
• Yu-Gi-Oh!: Mai Valentine is this to Dartz's following the mental breakdown she suffered at Dark Marik's hands, being the only female member of his gang, as well as brainwashed. Among the Big 5, Crump fills this role, having a pathetic backstory and a truly strange obsession with penguins (although he's a Not-So-Harmless Villain when it comes to actually dueling).

Comic Books

• Scarlet Witch in the original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
  • Destiny in Mystique's New Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
• The second Trickster in The Flash's Rogues. He's a Tagalong Kid who's one joke away from being freeze-rayed.
• Superboy-Prime never believed in the Sinestro Corps' cause. This led to betrayal motivated by revenge.
• Wallace has two in the Sin City story, Hell And Back. Blue Eyes poses as the friend to The Chick in order to seduce and kill him. Mariah is more hands-on and simply tries to kill him on the spot. There is also Maxine in that story but she works behind the scenes. All three women work for the same organization and make catty comments about each other quite a bit (Blue Eyes mostly does it in a separate story).
• Amora, the Enchantress, a villain of Thor, particularly when she was in the original incarnation of the Masters of Evil.
• Moonstone is this on pretty much every team she's ever been on, including the heroic(ish) Thunderbolts squads. Even if the motives of the group as a whole are pure, Moonstone exists in a moral grey area at best.
• Grey Smurfette is this in The Smurfs story "The Smurf Threat", though she only has one appearance and the most that she does is antagonize Smurfette into having a fight with her.
• Phondari in Pathfinder: Worldscape serves this role in Shareen's court, even though the Big Bad and The Dragon are female themselves, Phondari is the most genuinely friendly of the Five-Bad Band and ends up the sole survivor of the group.

Fanfic

• Slipstream on the Decepticon team from Transformers Meta.
• Dementia from My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic.
• Mindy of the X-Trio in Pokéumans, who uses deception and subterfuge more than her action-based male Co-Dragons.
• Julia Nakahamou from Shinra High SOLDIER is a rare protagonist example. She demonstrates a distinct lack of empathy for almost everyone around her, is a ruthless and uncaring manager and shows a disturbing inclination towards torture and murder.

Film

• James Bond has run into quite a few:
  • Miss Taro in Dr. No.
  • Pussy Galore in Goldfinger.
  • Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.
  • Helga Brandt in You Only Live Twice.
  • Rosie Carver in Live and Let Die.
  • Andrea Anders in The Man with the Golden Gun.
  • Magda in Film/Octopussy.
  • Jenny Flex in A View to a Kill.
  • Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye, who was also The Brute.
  • Cigar Girl in The World Is Not Enough.
  • Miranda Frost in Die Another Day.
  • Valenka in Casino Royale (2006).
• Animala, a Petting Zoo Person of indeterminate animal heritage (she's supposed to be made from four different forest creatures and acts most like a Catgirl) in The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.
• In Back to the Future Part II, Griff's gang has "Spike", the girl who asks Marty Jr, if he has the 'scrote' to pull the robbery with them, and then grabbing him by the balls and lifting him off the ground.
• The Baroness from G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.
• Lex Luthor has a fondness for unreliable Dark Chicks throughout the Superman films.
• Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises. She's a spy working for Bane initially, using her feminine wiles either as a meek maid in Wayne Manor or a Femme Fatale party girl, to get where she wants and his only named accomplice. She's not above killing but has a soft spot for her one friend and children, and eventually pulls a Heel–Face Turn after falling in love with Bruce Wayne.

• The Crow has an interesting example in Myca (Bai Ling), the Big Bad's sexy Chinese half-sister (who was not in the original comic). She at first appears to be in the film only for Fanservice, and tends to come off as The Ditz because at first she makes a show of barely being able to speak English ("I like the pretty lights"). But she proves to be a Magical Asian, having dark knowledge about the occult and black magic that the other gang members can't possibly understand - and it is she who divines that the titular black bird following Eric Draven around is the source of his zombie-like power, and nearly helps her half-brother triumph by kidnapping the bird, rendering Eric mortal and capable of bleeding when he gets shot.
• ''The Hunger Games: Glimmer in the Career Tributes' group.

Literature

• Armida in the Nightfall Series plays this role in the Big Bad Power Trio.
• Makala in the third book of The Blade of the Flame trilogy is the only villain who's not evil by choice
• Diana Ladris from Gone plays this part in Caine's Five-Bad Band
• Amycus and Alecto Carrow, a pair of sadistic twins who were part of Voldemort's Death Eaters in the Harry Potter series. Narcissa Malfoy tries to stay on the edges until her son and husband are in trouble.
• Koman, a sociopathic telepath who joined up For the Evulz in a Five-Bad Band where everyone else has an objective, is the Dark Chick in David Eddings' The Redemption of Althalus. In The Elenium Princess Arissa plays this role to the Five Bad Band headed up by Annias and Martel.
• Molly, from The Dresden Files, who falls off the "reformed warlock" wagon pretty hard to become The Dreaded in Chicago after Changes. Heartbreakingly, she did it to emulate Harry.
• Trapped on Draconica: Zarracka is the only member of Team Evil without a set role. At one point she's an informant and another she's a Super Soldier. Far more petty and less stoic than the others.

Live-Action TV

• Game of Thrones: Cersei Lannister is the pretty one of the family, who Tywin plans to marry into House Tyrell.
• In Power Rangers, the villainesses tend to mix this with Dark Action Girl.
  • Scorpina in the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
  • Vypra in Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue.
  • Camille in Power Rangers Jungle Fury.
• And in Super Sentai, they have a lot! (The list is as long as that for Dragons)
  • Farrah in Bioman
  • Zonnette in Carranger
  • Shibolena
  • Shelinda in Gingaman, she has reputation for most revealing outfit in the series.
  • Venus in Gogofive
  • Lira
  • Tsuetsue
  • And conversely, Lamie in Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger. In fact, since Battle Fever J, it became the norm for the villains to have at least one of these in the team, and the same holds true for the Power Rangers franchise.
• Mio Kuroki from Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon.
• Drusilla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, especially as part of The Whirlwind, amongst Angelus, Darla, and Spike.
• While she isn't seen very much, Degrassi: The Next Generation gives us Amy, who is mostly known for being Sean's rebound and giving Jay gonorrhea, which he then gave to Alex and Emma.
• On Leverage, though Sophie's skills match the typical depiction pretty well (as the group's lead Grifter and manipulator), she's actually the warmest and friendliest member of the team and usually the most moral (when it comes to anything but theft and ''lies'), generally serving as The Heart.
  • it is actually Parker who better fits the Dark Chick's personality and role within the group of Anti Hero Protagonists. The team all have, by season 2 at least, the desire help people for its own sake. But most of the crew are very sane and, although they enjoy the thrill of the chase, they really, really enjoy spending their earnings and living the high life. They also tend to be able to lead relatively normal lives aside from the addiction to con-jobs. Parker, meanwhile, is the loon who enjoys having and fondling money itself, rather than spending any of it. She enjoys the job itself more than any vacation and she has no understanding of any kind of life outside of committing crimes for their own sake.
• Kamen Rider
  • Kamen Rider Kiva has the Queen Fangire.
  • Kamen Rider Decade has Bee Woman.
  • Kamen Rider Double has Wakana Sonozaki.
  • Kamen Rider OOO has Mezool/Mezul/Mezuru.
  • Kamen Rider Fourze has Sonoda Sarina aka Scorpion Zodiarts, and Erin Suda/Aquarius Zodiarts.
• Revenge: If you go by Alternative Character Interpretation, Amanda Clarke (real Emily Thorne) is this to Emily Thorne/Amanda Clarke.
• Smallville: While the "real" (i.e. Earth-1) Tess Mercer is an Evil Genius, her Earth-2 counterpart is a Dark Chick Bastard Bastard who is much more damaged than E-1 Tess will ever be, and significantly less useful to boot.

Pinball

• General Kala of Flash Gordon, who flanks Ming the Merciless on the left slingshot bumper.

Professional Wrestling

• WWE's Ivory when she was a member of the Moral Guardians Heel Power Stable Right to Censor^note A Take That! to the real-life Parents Television Council, who had been making trouble for WWE in 2000-2001. While she generally was a Heel before she joined the group, and was an excellent wrestler, she had also been Ms. Fanservice. In fact, as part of this run, she did not take part in the photo shoot for the 2001 Divas in Hedonism DVD.

Theater

• Older Than Steam: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
• Harry Robinson in The Ladykillers is the least masculine of the band of criminals.

Video Games

• Rouge the Bat in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. She's a spy and thief among villains that are usually mad scientists, grizzled anti heroes or member of a robot army. Openly flirts with the heroes, and makes her way through the ranks of whatever her organization, even being The Leader of Team Dark in Sonic Heroes. Even in her original appearance she was the first member of Team Dark to Heel–Face Turn against Eggman when it was revealed she was actually a mole sent by the government and began to develop feelings for Knuckles on the Good Guys side.
• In Far Cry 5, Faith Seed is one of the main villains. She is manipulative and has an Angel appearance, though she seduces people with a non-sexual way.
• Fire Emblem tends to buiild up its female antagonists this way
  • Sonia in Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword who is a seductress that marries the leader of a mercenary gang to transform them into an evil army from the inside out. Stands out from most Morphs in that she believes she is human and thinks of herself as The Dragon to Nergal (only to be proven wrong by Limstella)
  • Fire Emblem: Path Of Radiance has General Petrine, a Pyromaniacal Lady of War who is utterly devoted to Mad King Ashnard. In theory she is Co-Dragons along with General Bryce and The Black Knight, but she is clearly subordinate to both of them, making her this instead.
  • Kleine in New Mystery of the Emblem is the most competant of her Quirky Miniboss Squad, essentially making her The Dragon to Eremiah.
• Scarlet in Final Fantasy VII.
• Axem Pink in Super Mario RPG.
• In Kingdom Hearts Larxene is The Dark Chick of Organization XIII. She's the only female member of the group, toys with Vexen and Axel, and generally has a nonchalant attitude towards things. By the end she's also The Dragon to the Big Bad of Chain of Memories as Dark Chicks tend to be upwardly mobile people.
• Kariya and Uzuki in The World Ends with You.
• Veronica in Shadow Hearts 2.
• Belleza in Skies of Arcadia.
• Shannon in God Hand.
• Sniper Wolf in Metal Gear Solid.
• Ghost Widow, Dollface, Countess Crey, and Vanessa DeVore from City of Heroes. Note that DeVore and Crey are the leaders of their villain groups.
• Mz Ruby and Dmitri in the Sly Cooper games.
• Mimi in Super Paper Mario.
• Knights of the Old Republic:
  • The first game has Bastila Shan, after her Face–Heel Turn.
  • The second has Visas Marr, before her Heel–Face Turn.
• Wendy O. Koopa in the Super Mario Adventures comics and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3.
• Fox, from the first Bloody Roar game. A sadistic transvestite in hot pink leather. Also considered his fox beastform "ugly", despite it being one of the most attractive animals to turn into — especially compared to the gorilla and boar.
• Barbariccia/Valvalis of the Four Fiends in Final Fantasy IV.
• In Final Fantasy VI, Kefka was the Dark Chick of the Five-Bad Band, despite the presence of Celes, the female general. In a twist, he also becomes the final Big Bad by killing another general and then the Emperor.
  • He takes a similar role in Dissidia: Final Fantasy. In a cast of villains mainly consisting of cold schemers and Tin Tyrants, he stands out as a giggling, unserious, destruction-loving maniac that none of the villains seem to take seriously. Which is a big mistake; at one point he pulls a You Have Failed Me on an Eldritch Abomination.
    • Another Dark Chick in Dissidia Final Fantasy is Kuja, whose flamboyance and comparative inexperience tend to separate him from the rest of the Chaos side. It does bear mentioning that, unlike most of the other villains in the series, both Kefka and Kuja actually succeed in inflicting lasting planetary-scale destruction in their original games.
• The villainous, ruthless crossdresser Flea, one of Magus's generals from Chrono Trigger.
• There's also some examples from Nintendo Wars like the playful Lash in Dual Strike who enjoys toying with her rivals as much as fighting them. She also makes the Heel–Face Turn.
• Whiptail from Heavenly Sword.
• While there are many examples in Cross Edge, Anesha is probably the best example.
• Persephone from Wild ARMs 5.
• Tamoko from Baldur's Gate: The only "minion" of Sarevok who actually cares about him and doesn't want him to go through with his somewhat insane plan. The others are presumably in it for a share of the power he's after. Tamoko has almost made a Heel–Face Turn by the time you first talk to her, and the PC can convince her not to attack at the end by being morally good enough.
• Rare PC example: Chloe from Mana-Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy.
• Mara Aramov, Elsa Weissenger, and Trinidad in the Syphon Filter series.
• Colonel Masako in Red Faction, and Quill in the second game after her Face–Heel Turn.
• In Pokémon Colosseum and its sequel, Cipher occasionally recruits this kind of character as a "face" (not a Face), to ease the population and divert them from what's going on behind the scenes. Venus and Snattle play it straight, while Lovrina uses it as a cover (she's actually the Evil Genius.)
• Enchantress in Marvel Ultimate Alliance's version of the Masters of Evil.
• Mileena from Mortal Kombat, especially in Mortal Kombat 9, where her pre-battle quotes show that she takes a childlike joy in inflicting pain and is clearly insane.
• Valara from Baten Kaitos Origins, who is easily the most ruthless of the Machina Vanguard.
• Another male example: Yun from Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight. If you're on the Light Side path, he sacrifices himself to give you a fair chance against his mistress, Sariss (who's more of an Evil Genius herself).
• BlazBlue has two, post Continuum Shift. The first is Tsubaki Yayoi, who used to be good friends with Noel, but becomes a victim of Mind Rape and ended up Brainwashed and Crazy, while still struggling to maintain her sanity. The other one is Litchi Faye-Ling, being the Token Good Teammate who's in only for curing herself and Arakune, and is not really happy on her position. While many would peg her as an Evil Genius due to her doctorate, she is a woman who's more moved by emotions rather than intellect, thus putting her as the Dark Chick.
  • And just like the rest of Five-Bad Band position, Hazama/Terumi fits here the same way Kefka fit his former position: In a place where nearly everyone else is all about keeping Order, he's a chaos-loving, blatantly Ax-Crazy psychopath.
• Heartless in Megaman Star Force 3, up until she betrays King and shoots him into outer space, making her the Sixth Ranger Traitor.
• Two members of Nightmare's gang in Soulcalibur IV fit this position; Tira and Token Good Teammate Sophitia.
• Erim, the Sinistral of Death in the Lufia series. She happens to be the most vital of the Sinistrals, as she can revive the others if they are killed. Each game has her take a Heel–Face Turn to help the hero, though with different circumstances each time.
• Neptunia:
  • Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2: Gender Flipped example with Brave The Hard/CFW Brave of the Four Felons, since he does not fill any of the other roles, and Magic The Hard takes the role of The Dragon. Brave is this trope since he is Affably Evil and believes what he does is good for children.
  • Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory: Abness, who believes what she does is good and she's often excluded from the evil plans of the Seven Sages. She is also The Unfought, since it's been established during her debut that she is weaker than actual children.
• In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Mages Guild Stewardess Ranis Athrys isn't outright "evil," but fits the trope. She is a red-eyed, dark-skinned Dunmer and she is a Nightblade, a class that supplements stealth with magical abilities. She has a With Us or Against Us, Join or Die attitude toward any mages who don't join the Guild as well.

Webcomics

• Kusari in Sluggy Freelance. She's a female costumed assassin on an Omniscient Council Of Vagueness that consists mostly of male Corrupt Corporate Executives and Mad Scientists. Later additions to the council, Frog (a talking frog) and Corsica (a non-talking frog) might also count. With such characters replacing original members, the board has become varied enough that Kusari doesn't really stand out like this any more. At the same time, her role as the CEO's Dragon has been emphasized more than before.
• Candi Shugari in Angel Moxie.
• Mary is this for the Imperial Guard in Dubious Company. Unlike the other members of the guard, Mary is unable to recognize her behavior as evil. Conquering neighboring countries? Killing peasants? Kidnapping and sacrificing Sal so that the Emperor can become a god of war? Clearly acts of good. After all, she used The Power of Love during all of them.
• In True Villains, little Mia performs each task she undertakes with ridiculous adorableness. She is also the Tagalong Kid of the group.
• Toyed with in The Order of the Stick. Haley notices a pattern after multiple Designated Girl Fight match-ups against these types, namely Sabine and Tsukiko (though she's also "pretty sure that druid's bird companion was female"), and quips about taking Favored Enemy "Airborne Skank" since they always seem to be flying too.

Web Original

• The Undersiders in Worm are generally serious and more-or-less professional when they go about their business, rob banks, and beat up superheroes. Regent is the exception, being a wise-cracking Deadpan Snarker whose cheerful facade masks his sociopathy. So, not only is he the cheerful one, he's also the Token Evil Teammate.

Western Animation

• Mochi Mochiato in the Legion of Low Tide from Sushi Pack.
• Sometimes turns up in Transformers.
  • Blackarachnia, who is both the Dark Action Girl and the Dark Chick - her characterisation is 'girl' and 'dark'. She's introduced as being much more competent than the other Predacons in adition to being a Femme Fatale. She ultimate pulls a Heelface Turn after falling in love with one of the Maximals. Given the amazing quality of the writing for Beast Wars this is not a bad thing.
  • Blackarachnia in Animated, and she doesn't pull the Heel–Face Turn.
    • And Slipstream, the female of the Starscream clone group, who seems to be based on Starscream's ability to bitch about everything.
    • Blitzwing is a male example, being set apart from the rest of the group by his weird powers and insanity.
  • Airachnid, a rogue female Decepticon from Transformers Prime whose hobbies include collecting endangered species. And in this case, "endangered species" means that she collects someone she's taken an interest in, then kills the rest of the species.
• The Baroness in G.I. Joe - seriously, that's what she's called.
• Bleez in Green Lantern: The Animated Series: Starts off as the leader of a Quirky Miniboss Squad before being promoted to The Dragon in the second story arc. Known for being particularly vicious, and much more competent than her cohorts.
• Azula in Avatar: The Last Airbender. She one ups both Zuko and Zhao as the main Fire Nation Avatar chaser much to Zuko's chagrin, operates with ruthless efficiency and manipulates people through her charisma or just because they're plain terrified of her.
  • When Azula gets promoted to The Dragon for the Fire Nation forces, Mai takes over as Dark Chick, ruthlessly efficient, but generally nonchalant and disinterested, until she starts a relationship with one of the heroes...
• Karai in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) who is Shredders adopted daughter. She usurps Hun and Stockman as The Dragon and has a love hate relationship with Leonardo on the good guys side. Unlike other villains who are in it for power or money, she's evil out of duty and honor to her father.
  • In the 2012 series she again becomes The Dragon over Xever and Bradford, has a love hate relationship with Leonardo (Dating Catwoman made more complicated when he finds out she's his sister. While she's loyal through and through to Shredder, she also just likes causing chaos and seeking excitement and weirdness.
• Paige in TRON: Uprising. She's motivated out of duty to Tessler, has the Dating Catwoman thing going on with the hero, and is Co-Dragon's to the Big Bad.
• Crasher in Challenge Of The Go Bots.
• Babette (Darph BoBo's Daughter) on Tripping the Rift
• The Scarlet Witch in X-Men: Evolution's version of the Brotherhood of Mutants.
• Daisy Dingo from Blinky Bill.
• Nightshade from C.O.P.S. (bonus for having a romance with one of the heroes and no subsequent Heel–Face Turn - but then, she's a cat-burglar and far less evil than the rest of the hoodlums from the start).

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