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* Kate from ''[[Hydrophobia (video game)|Hydrophobia]]'' certainly fits this trope. Taking fearlessly diving under flooded corridors and tackling armed terrorists with only the slightest prompting from an annoying Scotsman. Also shown that she did quite a bit of rock-climbing before the incidents of the game too.

* Anne in ''[[Jurassic Park]]: Trespasser''. Favours guns, but will use sticks if necessary, and enjoys counting the number of rounds left in a gun out loud, and also has a heart-shaped tattoo on her breast that is an indicator of how much health she has left. Wow.

* [[Super Mario Bros.|Princess Peach]] always has been, and always will be, a classic textbook example of the [[Distressed Damsel]]. This, tragically, is her eternal fate. '''HOWEVER''', there are a ''couple'' of games in which she is temporarily spared of this horrific curse and given a chance to shine. Namely, ''[[Super Princess Peach]]'', ''[[Super Mario Bros 2]]'', ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', and ''[[Super Mario RPG]]''. Yes, believe it or not, ''Princess Freaking Peach'' is an Action Girl is those games. She even gets one single Action Girl moment towards the end of ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]''. There are also a few genuine Action Girls in other games; Bombette, Lady Bow, Watt, and Sushie from ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'', Goombella, Vivian, Ms. Mowz, and Madame Flurrie from ''[[Paper Mario ~~the~~ Thousand Year Door]]'', Rosalina from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'', Princess Daisy from the spin-off games, and Tippi, Carrie, Dottie, and Piccolo from ''[[Super Paper Mario]]''.

* [[Super Mario Bros.|Princess Peach]] always has been, and always will be, a classic textbook example of the [[Distressed Damsel]]. This, tragically, is her eternal fate. '''HOWEVER''', there are a ''couple'' of games in which she is temporarily spared of this horrific curse and given a chance to shine. Namely, ''[[Super Princess Peach]]'', ''[[Super Mario Bros 2]]'', ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', and ''[[Super Mario RPG]]''. Yes, believe it or not, ''Princess Freaking Peach'' is an Action Girl is those games. She even gets one single Action Girl moment towards the end of ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]''. There are also a few genuine Action Girls in other games; Bombette, Lady Bow, Watt, and Sushie from ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'', Goombella, Vivian, Ms. Mowz, and Madame Flurrie from ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', Rosalina from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'', Princess Daisy from the spin-off games, and Tippi, Carrie, Dottie, and Piccolo from ''[[Super Paper Mario]]''.

* Just like their comic book counterparts, ''all'' of the women in the ''[[Marvel Ultimate Alliance]]'' games are super-hardcore, super-badass Action Girls; Ms Marvel, Storm, Elektra, Invisible Woman, Songbird, Spider Woman, Jean Grey, Psylocke, and She-Hulk. And whatever new playable female characters that might be in the third game.

* Jean from ''[[Lunar|Lunar: Eternal Blue]]'' is both an professional dancer AND a martial arts expert who packs a seriously mean punch. Especially after she [[Took a Level In Badass]].

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** Illia and Phia from ''[[Star Ocean 1]]''.

** Opera, Precis, Celine, and Chisato from ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story]]''.

** Maria, Nel, Peppita, and Mirage from ''[[Star Ocean Till the End of Time]]''.

** Maria, Nel, Peppita, and Mirage from ''[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]''.

** Myuria, Reimi, Meracle, and Lymle from ''[[Star Ocean ~~the~~ Last Hope]]''.

** Myuria, Reimi, Meracle, and Lymle from ''[[Star Ocean: The Last Hope]]''.

* Alice herself [[Took a Level In Badass]] in ''[[American McGee's Alice]]''.

* ''[[Alan Wake]]'' has Sheriff Sarah Breaker, who is an indispensable ally and one of the few people you run into constantly that ''isn't'' a [[Jerkass]].