Tomboy And Girly Girl / Video Games

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Examples of Tomboy and Girly Girl in video games.

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• Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown: Avril Mead and Princess Rosa Cosette D’Elise. Avril is an ex-convict Wrench Wench, who swears like no-one’s business, was Raised by Dudes, and serves in the Osean Air Force. Rosa is a prim and proper princess, who spent most of the time as a propaganda girl for Erusea. They meet each other when Rosa’s plane is shot down by Erusean Rebels after she was forced to flee when Farbanti had fallen. Their friendship helps Rosa recover from the shock of witnessing the chaos that the war had caused, and helps to bring an end to it.
• The Japan-only video game Aconcagua features the knife wielding tomboy Julia and the more pacifistic girly girl Pachamama.
• In ANNO: Mutationem, main character Ann is the tomboy and her hacker friend Ayane is the girly girl — though to look at them, you'd probably guess it's the other way around.
• BlazBlue has best friends Noel and Makoto. Noel is a shy, clumsy Moe girl, and Makoto is a energetic, childish Boisterous Bruiser. Both are Badass Adorable in their own right. The Wheel of Fortune puts mature, reserved loyalist Tsubaki in Noel's place, but the dynamic between her and Makoto is pretty much the same.
• Bomberman: In Super Bomberman R, both Pink and Aqua respectively with Pink being the Action Girl, level-headed Tomboy and Aqua being the shy, polite Girly Girl
• Breath of Fire II: Lin/Katt (depending on which version you're playing) as the tomboy, and Nina as the girly girl.
• Chrono Trigger: Lucca (also a Gadgeteer Genius) and Marle (also a Tomboy Princess) fill the roles nicely. At the further ends of the spectrum sit Ayla (also Nubile Savage) and nonplayable Schala (a princess of Incorruptible Pure Pureness).
• Chrono Cross: While the game has way more than two female characters, the two potential love interests for Serge are Kid (a tomboy) and Leena (girly-girl).
• Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends: Ayaka and Chika for the Japanese pair, Kate (USA) and Natasha (Russia) for countries beyond.
• A Dance with Rogues can have the player as the tomboy and Pia as the girly girl.
• The series Dead or Alive has several such pairings. One common factor is the Tomboy having much shorter hair than the Girly Girl:
  • Ayane and Kasumi: Ayane has a boyish way of speaking, is sometimes grumpy and can be quite cocky and sarcastic, while also sporting short hair and occasionally wearing outfits with pants. Kasumi generally wears girly kimono-inspired dresses, is the friendly and sociable type and regarded as something of a princess by her clan (before her betrayal), while having long hair.
  • Christie and Helena: Christie is an assassin, sometimes wears suits and has a very serious, cold personality. Helena is an opera singer, fairly gentle and sports long hair, compared to Christie's short, spiky cut, and while Helena sometimes wears suits as well, she also has a lot of dresses.
  • Hitomi and Lei Fang: Hitomi prefers tank tops and pants, likes fighting to prove herself and is generally more focused on whatever is in front of her. Lei Fang wears long Qipaos and Combat Stilettos, looks more classically beautiful and has excellent, feminine manners.
  • Tina and her best friend Lisa/La Mariposa. Although both are wrestlers, Tina ultimately is the Girly Girl, as she went on to pursue The American Dream by wanting to become a model, actress, and pop star at different times in her life, while Lisa was a scientist working for DOATEC who then became a stockbroker.
• Diner Dash introduced Flo, a pony-tailed former stockbroker who eagerly dove into entrepreneurship and waitressing/restaurant management. Spin-off Wedding Dash added her roommate Quinn, a longer-haired, visibly feminine woman who initially seemed reluctant to work at all... and when she did find — or more accurately, was forced into — a profession she wanted to do, it was being a wedding planner.
• Dragon Age:
  • Dragon Age: Origins:
    • The game makes a bizarre example of girly-girl Leliana, a Girly Bruiser bard with an enthusiasm with shoes and fashion, and her tomboy counterpart being Shale, a dwarf turned golem, who at first had no knowledge of her former gender prior to meeting Caridin.
    • Alternately, Leliana and her love of shoes, fine clothes, and hairstyling can be placed across from a female player character who says things like "Shoes are shoes. They're there to keep your feet dry." and "It's just hair."
    • A female dwarf commoner Warden is this with her sister Rica. In the opening questline, you both work for the local crimelord, Rica as a High-Class Call Girl and you as one of his hired thugs.
  • Dragon Age II has the Aveline and Isabela interactions, but Isabela takes the opposite side of this trope when talking to Merrill.
    • Also, a non-mage female Hawke and her younger sister Bethany are the tomboy and girly-girl, respectively. Hawke consistently wears trousers (even in the Mark of the Assassin DLC, where she's dressed in formal attire), and displays a very 'rough and tumble' manner regardless of her class, implying that she fits the tomboy. Bethany is very much a girly-girl, expressing enjoyment of pretty clothes and shoes.
  • Dragon Age: Inquisition has Sera and Cassandra at the "tomboy" end, and Vivienne and Josephine at the "girly" end. Cassandra and Vivienne's interactions are most in line with this trope; Vivienne is a politician and Action Fashionista, while Cassandra is a sword-and-boarder who distrusts any social event where punching isn't an option. They get along perfectly well, but Cassandra is quick to rebuff Vivienne's efforts to get her into a dress. (However, Cassandra's love of romantic literature and overtures qualifies her for Tomboy with a Girly Streak.)
• Dragon Quest V: The hero's possible brides are Bianca Whitaker and Nera Briscoletti. Bianca is an innkeeper's daughter, enjoys adventures and wears plain clothes. Nera is a proper noblewoman, wears elegant dresses, and speaks softly and politely.

• In Fate/Samurai Remnant, Dayu is the Girly Girl to Musashi's Tomboy. While both are beautiful Japanese women, Dayu exemplifies the Japanese standards of beauty and ettiquette. Everything she does is carefully practiced and performed with grace suited for a famed performer and one of the most desirable women in Japan. Musashi is much more spontaneous in her thoughts and actions, eager for a fight, and pursues a traditionally masculine occupation as a swordmaster. Dayu also wears conservative, but decadent clothing in her role as an oiran, while Musashi's outfit is much more ostentatious and shows off the top of her chest.
• The Final Fantasy series has this a lot.
  • Final Fantasy V has Lenna and Faris. The former is a well-educated, selfless princess while the latter is a rough, violent pirate captain who passes herself off as a man (although at least one of her crew has a crush on her). Even the Job System acknowledges the dichotomy, as Lenna's outfits are stereotypically feminine while, with the sole exception of the Dancer class, Faris' would be equally appropriate on a man. Meanwhile, the third female on the team, Krile, is more of a child than anything. Furthermore, Lenna and Faris are sisters. Faris is the elder.
  • Final Fantasy VI has Terra (Girly-Girl) and Celes (Tomboy).
  • Final Fantasy VII, Aerith and Tifa, in an interesting inversion; the White Magician Girl in the pink dress is the boisterous one, and the Cute Bruiser in the cropped shirt is secretive and nervous. In later installments of the FFVII Compilation not involving Aerith, because she's dead, Tifa's calmer and more motherly personality makes her the Girly Girl to hyper ninja Yuffie's more tomboyish ways. Funny enough, Aerith herself posthumously got a healthy dose of Chickification due to her Incorruptible Pure Pureness being played up; her old sassy personality made way for a more demure one, which would have made her the Girly Girl to Tifa in the end; otherwise, both Aerith and Tifa now have the exact same girly personality, with Tifa being a tomboy only by virtue of her physical appearance and fighting style.
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake brought this dynamic back to a certain extent mainly due to their personalities now being more accurate to the original game, with Tifa being more demure while Aerith finally regained her old feisty tomboy attitude back.
  • Final Fantasy VIII the two trained mercenaries Quistis and Selphie against the sorceresses Edea and later Rinoa. Selphie is borderline enough to qualify as Tomboy with a Girly Streak, evoking this contrast with Quistis.
  • Final Fantasy IX has Little Miss Badass eidolon summoner Eiko and Lady of War Freya. Garnet/Dagger plays with the two types. She's an elegant princess and white mage, but is also an eidolon summoner and shows tomboy traits when trying to blend in as a commoner. At one point, a villager sees her picking up an oglop bug and tells her that girls are usually afraid of them, so she pretends to freak out over it.
  • Final Fantasy X-2 has the Tomboyish Paine and the maternal and empathic Yuna. Rikku the third female protagonist, is a combination of the two.
  • Final Fantasy XII is similar as it features three females. Fran is a Proud Warrior Race Girl and sky-pirate while Penelo is The Heart and a dancer. The third female Ashe is a combination, being the leader of La Résistance but also being a princess who has no problem wearing a Pimped-Out Dress when there isn't a war going on around her.
  • Final Fantasy XIII has two pairs. Guardian Corps soldier girl, Lightning and her sister, Serah, who wants to be a teacher. The other is Fang and Vanille.
  • In Final Fantasy Dimensions, Alba and Diana form this dynamic when they become Warriors of Darkness. Alba is brash, trash-talks the enemy, and a natural black mage. Diana is sentimental, her empathy is heightened into a mystical connection with the Crystals, and starts with white magic. There's even a scene where Diana refuses to enter a room infested with rats and Alba volunteers to help the "damsel in distress" by exterminating them.
• Fire Emblem: Awakening:
  • The game has Kjelle to the archetypical Tsundere Severa, whose supports involve the latter giving the former lessons on how to be a "proper lady"... which works so well that it somehow results in Kjelle forgetting how to fight. This is accentuated by their hairstyles and default class outfits - Kjelle has Boyish Short Hair and bulky armor as a Knight, while Severa has long Twin Tails with a more lithe, shoulder-baring Mercenary outfit.
  • To a lesser extent is Cynthia to Severa. While not nearly as obvious, Cynthia is still an excitable Genki Girl who wants to be heroic above all else and shows relatively little care for girly endeavors, while Severa, even if still a very capable fighter herself, puts a great deal of pride and emphasis into being a "proper lady".
• Fire Emblem: Three Houses:
  • In the Black Eagle House, Edelgard is the tomboy and Dorothea is the girly girl. Edelgard is the Lady of War heir to throne of the Adrestian Empire, whereas Dorothea is a former opera dancer.
  • The Blue Lions have Ingrid as the sole tomboy while Mercedes and Annette are the girly girls. Ingrid has dreams to become a knight, while Mercedes is a Church of Serios devotee and Annette is studious and does chores around the monastery, and both of them enjoy shopping.
  • The Golden Deer has Hilda as the girly girl and Leonie as the tomboy. Hilda is of noble birth and constantly gets annoyed when she gets all sweaty during a battle and enjoys putting on makeup and fashionable clothes. Leonie is a commoner born in a remote village, who has to make the most out of what little resources she has available, and enjoys fighting in the name of Jeralt.
  • For the Church of Serios, Catherine and Shamir are the tomboys to Manuela’s girly girl. Catherine is a devoted soldier for Lady Rhea, and Shamir is a mercenary under Lady Rhea’s employ, while Manuela is a former opera singer, and the physician for the monastery.
  • The Ashen Wolves have Constance as the girly girl and Hapi as the tomboy. Hapi is a cynical Deadpan Snarker who likes to give nicknames to people she knows. Constance is a haughty noblewoman who likes to show off her magic, and has dreams of restoring her house of Nuvelle.
• F-Zero X gives us Jody and Kate. In comparison, Mrs. Arrow, the wife of superhero Super Arrow, is a Tomboy to both.

• Gauntlet Legends: The Archer (Genki Girl) and the Valkyrie (Lady of War) respectively.
• The King of Fighters series has many, many duets like this:
  • Fatal Fury: Mai Shiranui and Blue Mary, while Xiangfei is somewhere is between
  • Art of Fighting: Yuri and King
    • Yuri and Kasumi, also comes to mind, considering their rivalry
  • Garou: Mark of the Wolves: Hotaru Futaba and Bonne Jenet
  • The original Women's fighters team in '94 acts as this to an extend, with Mai as the girly girl and King as the tomboy, while Yuri is somewhere in between
  • Mature and Vice, Rugal's secretaries and Iori's teammates in '96
  • The Ikari warriors team has this, with Leona being the more tomboyish one and Whip being the more feminine one
  • Many others such as Yuri and Athena, King and Chizuru, Malin and Yuri, Athena and Yuki, Athena and Kaoru, Whip and Kula...
• Harmful Park have the two main characters being a pair of sisters falling under this archetype. The elder sister has spiky Boyish Short Hair and spends the whole game in shirt and slacks, while the younger has long, flowing hair and wears a blouse with short skirt.
• Iconoclasts: Mina and Robin. Mina carries a large shotgun, bashes things with its butt, has enough body odor that a trained hunter can track her by scent, and gets angry a lot. Her chosen profession at the start of the game is wandering the world looking for stuff to take. Robin may have an oversized wrench but also carries a small stun pistol (and is a Technical Pacifist for most of the game), apparently bathes regularly, gets flustered, embarrassed, or scared far more easily, and even dolls up her hair. Her chosen profession at the start of the game is to fix up and nurture a settlement near where she lives. This distinction is on display in the fight against Mother, wherein Robin counters and dodges Mother's attacks, occasionally stunning Mother and pulling her out from protection while Mina just bashes Mother, inflicting the only actual damage against her, when Robin has made her vulnerable.
• Kingdom Hearts:
  • Kairi is the tomboy to Selphie's girly-girl tendencies on Destiny Islands. Though Kairi could also be considered this to Namine in the second one. While Kairi's not as much of a tomboy as she was in the original (as Word of God Nomura states it in the "KH Character Report" book), the duo of her and Selphie still seems to fit the trope simply because Selphie is so gleefully girly that Kairi seems less so by comparison. The fact that Selphie has a pink-striped handbag with a Moogle charm while Kairi has a simple brown satchel also helps.
  • You can also consider Namine the girly-girl to Xion's tomboy when they interact in 358/2 Days.
• In the reboot of King's Quest, the two Princesses Valanice are like chalk and cheese. Princess Vee is competitive, intelligent and a bonafide Deadpan Snarker, skilled with weapons, a talented archer and a fan of logic puzzles. Princess Neese meanwhile is cheerful, empathic, a gentle lover of animals... and a rockstar on the lute.
• League of Legends: The Freljord leaders, Sejuani and Ashe, fulfill this with Sejuani being the Tomboy, a tough close-range fighter with her flail, riding a boar, has short hair and has a rough, dour, ferocious and cruel personality, and Ashe being the Girly Girl, a dignified long range fighter with her bow, possesses long hair covered with her hood and has the personality of a fair, peace-loving, but determined lady. They are at complete odds with each other.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • Zelda is her OWN tomboy and girly girl when it comes to herself and her aliases. She wears extremely girly/regal clothing and acts rather feminine toward Link, but then turns around and becomes Sheik/Tetra/a Phantom, only the latter two of which retains any of her feminine traits. The Wind Waker also has a more immediately obvious one with Tetra, who is a tomboyish, roughhousing pirate leader, and Link's sister, Aryll, who is very sweet and girlish with her pigtails and dress.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Among the Champions, Mipha has the role of a White Magician Girl with a quiet, demure, and polite personality, while Urbosa has the role of the Lady of Black Magic with her more boisterous, combat-loving personality.
• LocoRoco It goes to two entire species. The pink one called Priffy is called "stylish princess" and the violet one called Viole is called "confident tomboy".
• Mass Effect:
  • Ashley Williams takes after her namesake, but Liara is a bit more naïve, being the Asari equivalent of a young adult - albeit one who has spent the last few decades travelling unknown planets on her own, trying to discover the reason for the Prothean extinction, often finding herself in fights with native wildlife or pirate gangs... This is Mass Effect we're talking about. The girls Had to Be Sharp.
  • Due to the large cast, Mass Effect 2 has multiple women in each category, but the contrast between Jack and Miranda is played somewhat like this.
• Metal Slug: Eri and Fio, the 2 female characters introduced in the 2nd entry.
• Ocean's Heart: Tilia is a swordfighter who wears a boyish tunic and goes on an action-packed adventure to rescue her loved ones and defeat a band of pirates. Her best friend Hazel, in contrast, is a non-action herbologist who wears a dress and who gets kidnapped by those pirates.
• Octopath Traveler II has Dolcinaea and her bodyguard Venonica who are these. Dolcinaea is a dancer who is certainly girly while Venonica is a strong bodyguard.
• In Overlord II the first two mistresses are this (a tough girl from the town the Overlad met as a child in the tutorial and The Vamp who's seducing leaders in the first part of The Empire you conquer respectively).

• In the console version of ''Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots'', Sam Manson is a purple gothic tomboy and Jenny Wakeman is a blue girly fembot.
• Persona:
  • Persona 2: In Innocent Sin, Yukino is still the tomboy she was in the original Persona, and her girly-girl is her co-worker Maya Amano. Lisa Silverman, on the other hand, mixes the two tropes together; she practices kung fu, but is very into fashion and has marrying Tatsuya as her primary dream. Maya is also the girly girl to her roommate Ulala Serizawa in Eternal Punishment.
  • Persona 4:
    • Chie Satonaka and Yukiko Amagi, and their respective roles are played with and deconstructed when they encounter their Shadow selves. Interestingly, it's the Tomboy Chie who uses Ice-based magic, while Yukiko specializes in hard-hitting Fire magic. Though Yukiko is also a great healer and (as demonstrated in Dancing All Night) a terrific ballet dancer, while Chie is better used as a physical attacker. Furthermore, Chie is the more fashion-conscious of the two and sometimes worries about coming off as unfeminine, while Yukiko can be pretty quirky when she lets her guard down (she's fond of telling scary stories that Chie and Naoto can't handle) and is also a terrible cook (though Chie isn't any better).
    • Later, two more girls are added with Rise, an Idol Singer and by far the girliest of the protagonists, and Naoto, a Kid Detective who is as Tomboyish as possible. Again, both get deconstructed: Rise is unsure if their stage persona Risette is really "her", or if people actually only love a fake Girly Girl, rather than herself. For Naoto, it's her conflict of being a girl in a male-dominated (almost male-exclusive) profession and what that says about her identity. It's especially telling for the latter, since facing her inner struggles involves an underground bunker out of a Spy Fiction setting, a horrifying-looking Gender Bender machine, and a Cyborg Naoto with Jet Pack and Ray Gun as her shadow.
  • Persona 5: Makoto and Futaba serve as the tomboys to Ann and Haru's girly girls. Makoto is the closest to being a tomboy out of the Phantom Thieves: despite her image as a refined Student Council President, she has masculine interests such as martial arts, action movies, and shounen manga, uses knuckledusters in the Metaverse, and her initial Persona takes the form of a motorcycle to go with her biker motif. Futaba isn't really a conventional tomboy, but she has a bit of an unkempt image, she's a very skilled hacker (a field that is considered traditionally masculine) and a Gamer Chick to boot. Ann is The Fashionista of the Thieves, works as a part-time model (though she initially treats it more as a passing hobby than something she's genuinely passionate about), has a big affinity for sweets, and is generally cheerful and sweet. Haru is graceful, refined and ladylike, generally wears pastel colors, and is a pretty good ballet dancer if Dancing in Starlight is anything to go by.
• Planescape: Torment: Annah (tomboy) and Fall-From-Grace (girly girl). Annah is a Hot-Blooded, foul-mouthed rogue who grew up on the streets of a Wretched Hive; Fall-From-Grace is an elegant, soft-spoken reformed succubus who acts as The Medic and talked her way out of slavery in one of the hells. Annah's dislike of Grace forms a lot of the game's flavor dialogue.
• Pokémon has several of these characters:
  • Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum has two female Quirky Miniboss Squad members, Agent Mars (short hair, no lipstick, less sexually provocative outfit) and Agent Jupiter (longer hair, lipstick, slightly Stripperiffic outfit) respectively. The two of them don't seem to get along, even though they often tag-team battle together for the sake of their team's goals.
  • In the case of the Pokemon themselves, there's Gothitelle and Gardevoir. Ironically, the girly-girl of this pair has a 50% chance of being male, while the tomboy only has a 25% chance.
    • Also, the feminine-looking starter Pokemon Delphox and Primarina, which respectively resemble a witch and a mermaid. However, not only they can still be both genders, they're more likely to be male than female.
  • Among the Kanto Gym Leaders, Misty, who's explicitly called a tomboy on the signpost outside of her gym, is the tomboy to nature-loving princess Erika's girly girl. In the animated series, Misty followed Ash and Pikachu everywhere he goes because he destroyed her bike in episode 1 due to a massive Spearow attack while bringing Pikachu to the Pokemon Center (all the way through her final farewell). Erika, on the other hand, had recently banned Ash from her perfume-filled gym but Team Rocket tricked him to become Ash(ley) while being in a cute formal gown prior to getting into the gym and getting their hands on a perfume bottle in which they blew up the gym with bombs, causing it to set on fire but Ash(ley) rescued Gloom from the gym's burning flames. In-game, you can also tell by their battle styles (Misty prefers brutal physical combat, while Erika is more a Lady of War type when it comes to battling), plus in all their appearances Erika's outfits^note none of which deviate from the "traditional Japanese" look look more conservative.
  • As far as trainer classes are concerned, Picnickers are tomboys, and Lasses are girly girls.
  • Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have Dendra and Tulip. Dendra is an enthusiastic P.E. teacher at the protagonist's school who likes Fighting-Types. Tulip is more fashionable, has her own makeup line, and prefers Psychic-Types. They're friends who get along quite well.
    • Dendra also gets this dynamic with Miriam if you go through Dendra's optional friendship scenes. Miriam is the school nurse, has long pink hair to contrast with Dendra's athletic looks, and is calmer and more patient than Dendra is.
• Resident Evil:
  • The original Resident Evil had a classic Zig-zag for it's two leading ladies: Jill Valentine happens to be the more feminine half but is well trained in firearms. Whereas the tomboy, Rebecca Chambers, has a better skill in medicine.
  • Resident Evil 2 also zig-zags this trope between Claire and Ada. Claire is a no-nonsense biker who has had firearms training, but she also wears pink and has a maternalistic streak. Likewise, Ada at first appears as an overtly feminine Damsel in Distress but she's secretly a spy who can more than hold her own.
  • Again, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard has a classic zig-zag with Zoe and Mia. Zoe appears as the more masculine of the two but is always treated as a Damsel in Distress, whereas Mia, the feminine half, at first appears as the Damsel in Distress but it's later revealed that she's trained with firearms and was working for an unknown organization. Her initial status as Damsel in Distress is only because of Eveline's influence over her.
• Rival Schools:
  • Natsu Ayuhara and Hinata Wakaba are the series' primary example. Natsu is the captain of Gorin High's volleyball team and is both the tallest and most athletic female character in the series (at 5'11½''), making her a Statuesque Stunner. By contrast, Hinata is short and feminine in appearance and mannerism, but no less spunky and VERY energetic.
  • This is the dynamic for the friendship between Akira (motorcycle-riding tomboy) and Yurika (girly girl musician).
• In River City Girls, Kyoko and Misako have this dynamic. However this is zigzagged as on the surface, Kyoko is the tomboy (band-aids, Tomboyish Ponytail, and lack of makeup), and Misako is the feminine one (lipstick, a hair decoration, heart-shaped backpack). Their personalities however would indicate the opposite: Kyoko is the bubbly, shopping obsessed and overall nice Girly Girl, while Misako is the aggressive Tomboy who loves to pick fights and is quite prickly to basically everyone.
• Rule of Rose: Jennifer and Wendy seemed to have this mechanic in their childhood. These roles seem to be curiously inverted in the game proper, where older Jennifer is extremely girly, while Wendy has crossdressed as a boy for most of the game.
• In Rune Factory 5, there are lifelong best friends Lucy and Priscilla. Lucy is a sporty, athletic tomboy who loves going fishing, though she's not a great chef unless fish are involved. She also gets very protective of Priscilla. Priscilla, meanwhile, is a very meek and bookish girly girl who loves writing, though she wants to be braver and more adventurous for her best friend Lucy.
• Scarlet Nexus: The co-protagonist Kasane with her cold and serious personality, and her bubbly sister Naomi are this as a Sibling Team. Although the gifts Kasane loves in the Yuito campaign show her to be a Tomboy with a Girly Streak.
• Skies of Arcadia: Aika is what you'd get if you pictured Pippi Longstocking as an Air Pirate with a big ass boomerang. Meaning, she's One of the Boys. Whereas Fina is a Proper Lady in White.

• Soulcalibur V: Taki's apprentice Natsu and her charge, Xianghua's daughter Leixia. It is even lampshaded in a victory quote after they face one another.
  Natsu: You go be cute, let me do all the fighting.
• Splatoon:
  • Close cousins Callie and Marie can be this. Although both look feminine and have equal levels of combat prowess, Callie wears her hair in Girlish Pigtails, occasionally wears street clothing, stuffs herself with food, and is a Large Ham with the big voice and awkwardness to match. By contrast, Marie is a more reserved and graceful girl who wears her hair in a Prim and Proper Bun and occasionally wears a kimono to represent her more low-key behavior.
  • Splatoon 2 has a downplayed example with Off the Hook, a tight-knit music duo whose members are Pearl, a spirited and quick-tempered rapper with a rather active lifestyle, and Marina, a reserved and gentle DJ/singer who's a fan of shoujo manga (even if she's also the group's techy).
• Star Fox was intended to have more female characters from the beginning, and Star Fox 2 introduces the brash, tomboyish (yet still slightly feminine) Miyu and elegant, pink and bow-wearing Fay.
• Stardew Valley: For the female bachelorettes, the Lovable Alpha Bitch Haley fits the extreme end of Girly Girl, while the Black and Nerdy Wrench Wench Maru fits the extreme end of Tomboy.
• Street Fighter:
  • Street Fighter Alpha 3: Sakura Kasugano is a shorthaired Blood Knight (like her hero, Ryu), which contrasts with Karin Kanzuki, who's a spoiled rich girl, complete with long blonde hair with Ojou Ringlets.
  • Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike and Super Street Fighter IV: The devs purposely made Ibuki feminine, while Makoto's appearance makes it difficult for some to tell she's a girl - between her short hair and facial features. Plus, she's muscular. Plus both of their alternate outfits tend to be supplements of each other with Ibuki getting cuter designs and Makoto getting outfits that sometimes make her gender ambiguous. And in their default outfits Ibuki's feminine features are not hidden at all despite being work clothes while the only hint of Makoto's femininity is in her own default is a red bra hidden underneath her clothes.
• Peach and Daisy from Super Mario Bros. are two sides of the same coin. Peach is a Princess Classic with long blonde hair and dolled up makeup, and wears a pink dress. Daisy is a Tomboy Princess with short brunette hair and wears an orange dress, who once sent Bowser flying with a bitchslap, for making the mistake of bothering her.
• Super Smash Bros. has Peach and Zelda, particularly during their mission together in the adventure mode of Brawl. Peach plays a Princess Classic, while Zelda is more of a Tomboy Princess with a cross-dressing streak, though they both have Action Girl elements.
• Tekken:
  • Starting with the first game, there's Nina Williams and her rival sister Anna.
  • Tekken 3 has Julia Chang and Ling Xiaoyu.
  • Tekken 5's Asuka Kazama and Emile "Lili" de Rochefort parallel Sakura and Karin's relationship from the Street Fighter series, with Asuka being the rough-and-tumble tomboy who won't back down from a challenge and Lili the rich girl from Monaco with whom she shares a heated rivalry.
• Touhou Project has many character pair-ups tend to reflect this trope:
  • Marisa tends to play the tomboy to the more feminine Patchouli, Alice, and Nitori.
  • Cirno is usually the tomboy to her best friend Daiyousei, mainly due to the title of her leitmotif, Beloved Tomboyish Girl.
  • Mokou is another tomboy; her rival Kaguya and her friend Keine are both rather more feminine too.
  • Boisterous oni Yuugi often gets paired with Clingy Jealous Girl Parsee.
  • Wriggle is also portrayed as a tomboy and contrasted by the somewhat girlier Mystia — it helps that like Mokou, she's one of the few girls of Gensokyo that wear pants.
  • Youmu is tomboyish and has a very masculine/chivalrous sense of honor. She serves her mistress, the princess of the netherworld, Yuyuko who serves as the Girly Girl in this pair.
  • The tomboyish Reimu and the elegant Yukari, who team-up in Touhou Eiyashou ~ Imperishable Night and Touhou Chireiden ~ Subterranean Animism.
• Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children: Giselle and Jane are best friends, in spite of the fact that Jane is a straight-shooting, no-nonsense cop who fights in melee and usually dresses in fatigues and body armor, while Giselle is a flirtatious, intensely aristocratic sniper who wears minidresses and high heels, even in battle. However, Jane is a Tomboy with a Girly Streak, and even more of a girly-girl than Giselle when she isn't on duty.
• Virtua Fighter: Sarah and Pai are opposites of their anime counterparts, with Sarah as the tomboy and Pai as the girly girl.
• Wild AR Ms 1: Cecilia Adlehyde and Jane Maxwell mix this up a little bit. Cecilia has the more tomboyish appearance with her short hair and choice of pants but she tends to be more refined and polite due to her royal upbringing and time spent in a convent. Jane has long, curly hair and wears dresses but is brash and foul mouthed. It's even reflected in their abilities. Cecilia uses magic while Jane is a gunslinger.
• Xenoblade Chronicles 2: A somewhat downplayed example with the two female leads that accompany The Hero Rex, who are the Blade twin Alternate Self sisters Pyra and Mythra that are a girly girl and somewhat of a tomboy respectively. Pyra is more reserved, nurturing, speaks with a calmer tone and overall gives a more "cute" vibe compared to Mythra, who is more brash, headstrong and speaks in a rougher and coarse tone which is especially notable when the two swap identities. It's downplayed however, as both of them still have conventionally feminine beauty, and are largely graceful with their movements, with a shared Lady of War demeanor. For irony points, Pyra sports the more typically tomboy associated short hair, short pants, and fire powers with complimentary red hair and attire despite not having the personality of a Fiery Redhead despite technically being one, being a calmer blue oni. Mythra meanwhile sports the more feminine associated long blond hair, prefers a skirt to shorts and uses Light 'em Up powers complimented by white attire despite not having the calm and pure demeanor associated with such a combination.
• Ys series:
  • IV has Karna, the spiky-haired Action Girl, and Leeza, the kind-hearted blonde Damsel in Distress.
  • V has Terra, the bandit family daughter, and Niena, the Mysterious Waif.
  • VI has Terra again, this time as a pirate, and Olha, the Rehda priestess.
  • Seven has Aisha, the Tomboy Princess, and Tia, the motherly herbs merchant.