One Of The Boys / Western Animation

• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • Toph. As a prodigious Earthbender (who uses it to simulate sight), the girl literally loves to play in mud (she considers a coating of dirt to be healthy) and her favourite pastimes include practice brawls with Aang and ribbing Sokka. She can pretend to be lady-like when necessary but she'd rather not, however, and when she and Katara get to go to a spa she enjoys herself quite a bit.
  • Before joining the group, she belonged to a professional wrestling troupe and was the undefeated champion of the arena. She even teases Aang about not being manly when they first meet (in the ring), asking "Do people really want to see TWO little girls fighting out here?", and nicknames him "twinkle toes" because of how lightly he walks (consider how she "sees" and what her first impression would be in that case).
  • At one point, Aang and Sokka are playing around with Appa's shed fur. Katara is grateful to have another girl on the team until Toph decides to joins them.
• The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes:
  • For the first season, The Wasp subverted it. She was generally a Girly Girl, but was also the only girl on the team, enjoyed fighting supervillains more than anyone else on the team, and was extroverted enough to become a fan-favourite.
  • Season 2 brought Carol "Ms. Marvel" Danvers onto the team who, as an accomplished military woman, fighter pilot, and a new big gun on the team to use while they dealt with the missing Thor and Hulk during the first half of the season, more than played this role straight.
  • Then there's Mockingbird, who spent her guest episode mostly cracking jokes, kicking butt alongside Hawkeye, and, when captured by HYDRA as part of their plan to infiltrate the base, she bonds with the male agents guarding her by sharing war stories until they're almost willing to loosen her binds. Basically, if she's a costumed hero, on the same side as the Avengers, she's likely to be this.
• Bob's Burgers: Louise Belcher prefers to spend time with her father and brother over her mother and sister. The episode "Manic Pixie Crap Show" has Louise wonder if she's not being a girl "the right way" because she doesn't enjoy activities that girls her age usually engage in while preferring boyish interests and hobbies, until Tina assures her there's nothing wrong with that.
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: Gadget is never shown to have any real female friends, doesn't wear any makeup or jewelry (except for that one time), and her interests are anything but "girly," so she definitely fits this trope. Even so, though, she isn't exactly what you would call a "tomboy."
• Code Lyoko: Yumi Ishiyama prefers martial arts to any girly activity, hangs out solely with boys for the whole Season 1, and only gains a female friend once Aelita is materialized.
• Danny Phantom: Sam(antha) Manson hangs around with best pals Danny and Tucker. Though she's not too much of a tomboy, she often participates in activities her male friends do and there are a few instances where Danny and Tucker take her gender for granted, treating her more "like a guy" than the girl she is, causing her to be annoyed.
• Darkwing Duck: Gosalyn Mallard is extremely tomboyish and, when shown with other kids, it doesn't seem like she has any female friends at all.
• Dennis the Menace: Gina Gillotti often hangs out with Dennis, Joey, Peebee, and Jay. Sometimes subverts this by spending time hanging around with Margaret Wade instead though.
• Family Guy:
  • Not a specific character, but the concept is used for jokes occasionally, such as Peter mentioning a "woman trying way too hard to be one of the guys" in a strip club. There was also a Cutaway Gag about how the real reason Joan of Arc was burned at the stake was that she would constantly go on and on about how she's "not like other girls", which just annoyed everyone.
  • Lois, while normally being a regular housewife, became One of the Guys in an episode where she had to stand in for Peter on bowling night due to him being sick, and ended up befriending Joe and Quagmire and joining them on guy escapades.
• Gravity Falls: Deconstructed with Wendy Corduroy. Despite having a best friend who's a girl, she mostly has guy friends with whom she spends time. She spits, she brawls, and she gets her fashion sense from her father, Manly Dan. However, at the beginning of "Boyz Crazy", she smugly agrees with Dipper when he scoffs at Mabel and her friends' FanGirl behavior over Sev'ral Timez — yet at the end of the episode, after finding out that Robbie brainwashed her and when Dipper tries to take advantage of the situation, she reacts very emotionally and accuses guys of only thinking about themselves, showing that despite her tomboyishness, she's a girl nevertheless with stereotypically feminine feelings. She's also stated that she works at the Mystery Shack to avoid her family, and reveals in "Society of the Blind Eye" that being the only girl in a family of hypermasculine lumberjacks has had devastating effects on her stress levels, which is why she constantly puts on a relaxed front.
• Grojband: Laney Penn is a tomboy who hangs around Corey Riffin (whom she has a crush on) and Kin and Kon Kujira as part of their Garage Band. On the downside, she's so much like One of the Boys that she's frequently mistaken for a guy by other characters.
• Hey Arnold!:
  • Helga G. Pataki, being the Tomboy, prefers to spend more time with boys than girls. Harold Berman even commented on this trope by telling Helga that the game they were playing is for boys only in the episode "Helga's Makeover".
  • Rhonda Wellington Lloyd is also mostly seen hanging out with the boys. Despite her wealthy upbringing and snobby, self-righteous attitude, she has been known to play contact football and a variety of other sports along with the other children even to the point of destroying her beloved outfits in the process as seen in "Mudbowl" and "New Bully on the Block".
• Home Movies: Melissa hangs out exclusively with her friends Brendon and Jason, and her father gets worried that she acts more tough and manly than either of them (which, admittedly, is not much).
• Iron Man: Armored Adventures: Pepper can be seen as this. She is mostly seen hanging out with Tony and Rhodey, and Gene and Happy to a lesser extent. She has physically fought against opponents and knows how to pilot the armors before she even got her own. She went on the quests for the Mandarin rings as well. While on a date with Happy, she packs away an impressive amount of food and claims she can recite the entire alphabet and the names of all 50 states in a single burp.
• Jackie Chan Adventures: Jade is very much like this. One male friend, and a definite interest in martial arts.
  • Plus her belching habit in "Relics of Demons Past".
• King of the Hill: Minh is an expert sharpshooter (she learned in Laos), and even learns to have fun as the only woman in the local gun club.
  Dale: Minh is the coolest! She beat me at Stratego! And she can belch just like a dude.
• The Legend of Korra:
  • Korra doesn't like makeup and shopping and would much rather be playing sports alongside her guy-friends and besting them in belching contests. She later acknowledges that there's nothing wrong with femininity itself and that she shouldn't judge girly girls solely on their looks, however, bonding well with the girly Asami Sato. As in, ultimately Official Couple well.
  • Korra is also kind of a meta example: Nickelodeon had misgivings about making an action-oriented series with a predominately male target audience centred around a teen heroine. However, they found in test audiences that boys responded very positively to Korra as a cool, badass hero, and didn't really care that she was a girl.
• The Loud House:
  • There is an episode named after this trope. However, it ends up providing a gender-inverted example. Lincoln Loud begins the episode thinking he'd be happier with brothers instead of his sisters but ends the episode concluding he gets on with the girls a lot better and enjoys their company and habits more than the brothers he imagined he had. The episode also implies a more straightforward example. Girl Lynn Loud is shown to be pretty much identical to her male counterpart, even sharing the same name, suggesting personality-wise, Girl-Lynn is One Of The Boys. Lynn has a very masculine personality and is arguably the biggest tomboy in the show, so this is not surprising.
  • The episode "Be Stella My Heart" introduces Stella, a new student at Royal Woods Elementary who, after a feud between Lincoln and his (all guy) friends over trying to win her heart, and some making up, becomes part of the group from then on.
• Motorcity: Julie Kane of the Burners, especially compared to her girly girl friend Claire or Foxy, the leader of the Amazons.
• The My Adventures with Superman version of Lois Lane stands in stark contrast to her comic book and movie incarnations. Here, she's given a tomboy makeover, complete with shorthair and a preference for T-shirts, gym shorts, sweats, and yoga pants. She's also much more casual when she's with her best friends, Clark and Jimmy, who regard her as their mutual gal "pal"^note i.e. a close friend who just happens to be a girl. Rather than being friends with her because she's a girl.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In the more conventional sense, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash both get a nod for this behavior in Dungeons and Discords. When the main characters all leave town for an episode, a handful of male characters get together for a "Guys' Night." When the girls return at the end of the episode and see what they were missing, Dash and Pinkie gleefully join in with cheerful shouts of "Guys' Night!"
• PB&J Otter: Baby Butter (the "B" in between her big brother Peanut and big sister Jelly) loves playing in mud, and prefers to hang with big brother Peanut and his friends, rather than Jelly and her best friend, the very-much-girly Pinch Raccoon. This certainly didn't help with the Viewer Gender Confusion, as she has a similar character model to Peanut and no Tertiary Sexual Characteristics.
• Pepper Ann: Margaret "Moose" Pearson is extremely tomboyish. She has a very deep voice (especially for her age), she hates girly activities, she refuses to wear dresses, she mainly hangs out with boys, she loves extreme activities and sports, doesn't mind getting dirty, cracks her knuckles, and can belch louder than any boy in the school. In one episode, Pepper Ann even becomes worried about her very boyish behavior and tries to make her act more feminine. It doesn't work, but in the end, she decides that if she's happy being the way she is, she'll leave her alone.
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998): Buttercup is the unfeminine one of the group. At school, she hangs out with the boys in their class. She can also belch loud enough to make buildings shatter, she loves getting dirty, and she hates some of the things her sisters like, including make-up, jewelry, dolls, ponies, and the color pink.
• Ready Jet Go!: Because Sydney does not have any female friends who are her age (Mindy and Lillian are both younger than her), she hangs out with Jet and Sean, who gladly accept her into their circle. Sydney isn't hyperfeminine at all and enjoys traditionally masculine things like gaming and comic books.
• Recess: Spinelli is a wrestling fan and the "toughest kid in school".
• Rocket Power: Reggie Rocket is almost always seen launching off ramps, riding waves, or carving slopes with her brother Otto and their two male friends Twister and Sam.
• Skysurfer Strike Force: Kim aka Sliced Ice. Throughout the entire show, she is a Tomboy who is never shown to have any female friends, mainly hanging out with the other Skysurfers.
• Storm Hawks: Piper is the only female member of the Storm Hawks and a tomboy who's into aerial machinery as much as the guys. She even shares an attraction to girls with them.
• Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!: Nova is the only female monkey on the team, but her male teammates respect her and treat her as one of them.
• Voltron: Legendary Defender: Pidge, who starts the show posing as a boy. Even when she reveals her true gender to the rest of her male teammates, they are accepting of it and don't treat her any differently than they did before.