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{{quote|''"It ain't over till the fat lady sings."''}}
Brawn Hilda is, essentially, a strong, mannish, usually foreign woman. However, she's ''not'' a [[Hot Amazon]], her strength is seen as unattractive, as she usually (purposely or not) emasculates the hero by beating him up or outdoing him in "manly" activities ( such as arm wrestling, boxing, hot dog eating, pretty much anything unfeminine really...) She usually has a stereotypical German or Russian accent, a masculine face, and is often a stereotypical female immigrant (maid, mail-order bride, ''etc''....) or some sort of hardcore Olympic-esque athlete. Basically, the
In more serious contexts, she tends to turn into ''The Rosa Klebb'' version of [[The Baroness]]. Bonus points if she's blonde, wears braided twin tails, and possesses the name Helga, Hilda, or Olga (which is the Russian version of Helga!).
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* Much to the dismay of the men she saves, Big Bertha of the [[Great Lakes Avengers]] is one of these. (Much to her dismay, [[Deadpool]] is a fan.) But, to be fair, Deadpool is a ''fan'' of her when she is in her Ashley form.
** She only looks like that when she's using her powers. In civilian mode, she looks like [http://www.comicvine.com/big-bertha/29-2490/ashley-crawford/108-5355/big_bertha_nelson02/105-620168/ this.]
* Monstress of the post-''Zero Hour'' ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' is a girly-girl type who was accidentally mutated into a tall, stout, and very muscular
* The Baker Twins in ''[[Strangers in Paradise]]'' are big, tough and battle-scarred. They tower at least one head height over every other character and are the top enforcers for [[The Syndicate]]. They are never portrayed as "ugly," but are also never portrayed as feminine.
* Bianca Castafiore in the ''[[Tintin]]'' books ("The Milanese Nightingale") is somewhat like this.
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* Eorache of ''[[Bored of the Rings]]'', as a parody of [[Lord of the Rings|Eowyn]], a Germanic warrior-maiden.
* In ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', Vimes' wife sings part of a very famous dwarf opera, at which point Vimes mentions that given a winged helmet and a horse, she'd have no problem ferrying dead warriors off the battlefield.
** Her
** There's sort of a stereotype in British literature (but sometimes American works, too) of having a female gym instructor be like
* Honoria Glossop, Cora Bellinger ("Pretty massive. In shape, a bit on the lines of the [http://www.broadwayworld.com/columnpic/RoyalAlbertHall-exterior11.jpg Albert Hall]"), and Madeleine Bassett's friend Hilda (!) Gudgeon in [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]]'s ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'' stories.
** Wodehouse's description of the Bellinger (in ''Very Good, Jeeves!'') is priceless:
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== Theater ==
* This happens a good deal in opera, particularly with ''Heldensopran'' parts, due to the necessity of finding women with sufficient lung power to outsing a 100-piece orchestra without amplification. This is also sometimes done deliberately for comedy effect, as in the part of the Fairy Queen in [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s ''Iolanthe''. Other common examples include:
** A situation similar to the Wagner example in the main description comes up in productions of Puccini's masterpiece ''Turandot''. The eponymous princess is supposedly so beautiful, men will risk beheading for her hand in
* Such a woman is a [[One-Scene Wonder]] in ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', when she wins second place at the concert and won't get off the stage to keep soaking up applause.
* Fruma Sarah, Lazar Wolf's deceased wife in [[Fiddler on the Roof]], is sometimes depicted as one of these.
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* An episode of ''[[DuckTales]]'' was actually about Mrs. Beakley being kidnapped by Vikings due to her being dressed up like this while performing at an opera.
* The wife of the [[Barbarian Tribe|Odifferan]] leader Prince Uncouthma in an ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' episode; if I recall correctly, she ''was'' named Brawnhilda (everyone in the series had a [[Punny Name]], after all.)
* In the second episode of ''[[Glenn Martin, DDS]]'' ("The Grossest Show On Earth"/"Circus"), [[Hot Mom]] [[Green Eyed Red Head|Jackie Martin]] befriends the circus strongwoman (herself a shining example of this trope and [[Husky Russkie]]) and decides to take up a training regime. Unbeknown to her, the strongwoman slips in a cheat card: steroids. Thus, when Jackie finishes [[Training Montageher|very brief workout]], she immediately [[Clark Kent Outfit|removes her jacket to reveal]] huge guns and chiseled abs. She still retained her beauty in the facial department (and believed herself to very much be an [[Amazonian Beauty]]), but she sported a deepened voice and increased aggressiveness as a result of the roids (at one point, she strips
* Helga, of [[Hey Arnold!]] fame. Physically, she's just a young, scrawny kid, but her attitude and mannerisms ''more'' than make up for it. Extremely competative and cantankerous, she spends much of her time picking on the main character, even though she has a huge crush on him and admires him. She also plays sports (though most of the girls in the show play sports). Her older sister, Olga, is a saccharine opposite. Big Patty also counts as this trope.
* Both Muscle Princess and Susan Strong in ''[[Adventure Time]]''. Both of them are about three times Finn's height and as big across at the shoulders as Finn is tall. Neither one is actually presented as explicitly attractive or ugly, since everyone's pretty cutesy in the show's signature noodle-style, but Muscle Princess is pretty proud of her beef; in one episode she remarks that her hairstyle is deliberately unflattering because if her hair was any good people might pay too much attention to that and not enough attention to her muscles.
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