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{{trope}}
[[File:gamerchick.jpg|frame|"Yeah, that's right! I play [[Pac-Man Fever|PS1]] just as well as anyone else... and I'm a ''girl''!"]]
{{quote|''"[[The Merchant of Venice|If you prick us, do we not bleed?]] If you challenge us, will we not pwn you? Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go bring some hurt to my [[Halo]] multiplayer friends, and after that, maybe I'll go enjoy a spa treatment!"''|'''[[X-Play|Morgan Webb]]'''}}
With the assumption that [[Most Gamers Are Male]], fiction involving video games (and, to a lesser extent, card and tabletop games) have this tendency to always incorporate at least one female character that is into the same sort of games as the male characters. Going beyond just [[Token Minority]], this character type has her own genetics that tend to show up more often than not. She's usually very [[
Also common is for this character to have high skill in games (or at least higher than the misogynistic characters so she can promptly destroy them). A form of [[Positive Discrimination]], it was probably originally meant as a subversion (similar to sports, game "pros" often regarded women as inherently inferior), but has become ''so'' overused that it's now a subversion when the character ''doesn't'' have significantly better than average skill.
One thing worthy of note is that a female character playing games doesn't automatically make her a gamer chick as per the
This has become a [[Discredited Trope]] as of recently. With recent trends [https://web.archive.org/web/20121221115314/http://techie-buzz.com/social-networking/social-gaming-stats-infographic.html
Almost guaranteed to show up in a [[Two Gamers on a Couch]] series. In fact, you can probably have a "Start to Gamer Chick" scale for measuring how cliche a series is (which is funny, considering the definitive series of this type, ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'', went to great lengths to avoid this).
Compare [[Otaku Surrogate]]. Contrast [[Dungeonmaster's Girlfriend]], [[Nerd Nanny]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Ai Kora]]'': Yukari is revealed to be one of these.
* ''[[Arcade Gamer Fubuki]]'': All the girls.
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'': Vietnam, the Asian Tomboy, who was showed playing ''Uncharted 3'' on author's blog.
* ''[[Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai]]'': Sena Kashiwazaki, the beautiful, drop-dead gorgeously sexy school idol, turns out to have a thing for
* ''EXCITE!'' A [[Hentai]]-doujin, is about a guy who finds out the popular, quiet girl in his school is a gamer chick.
* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'': [[The Ojou|Sanzenin Nagi]] is very much this on top of being a loli [[Tsundere]] and pretty much a [[Hikikomori]] - basically, every waking moment she's not either harassing or fawning over Hayate or trying to draw a manga, she's playing a variety of [[RPG
* ''[[Koe de Oshigoto!]]'': Kotori, Kanna's friend, is one of these, but doesn't play eroge so she didn't know that Kanna got into voice acting.
* ''[[Lucky Star]]'': Konata. Kagami too, to a lesser extent.
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{{quote|'''Chisame''': OH GOD, SHE IS TOTALLY A FINAL BOSS CHARACTER! LOOK AT THAT DESIGN!
'''{{spoiler|Poyo}}''' (completely [[The Comically Serious|deadpan]]): I have a rather high status among {{spoiler|demonfolk}}. Yes, high enough to be "final boss" }}
* ''[[
* Eiko from ''[[
* ''[[Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko]]'': Yamamoto Yohko .
* ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' has Yuki Nagato, who at first doesn't even know how to operate a computer mouse, quickly defeats the Computer Club in an RTS game.
* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'': Genkai. Yes, the [[Old Master]] of Yusuke. She has a lot of free time after all.
* The ''[[Excel Saga (manga)|Excel Saga]]'' manga has Matsuya Misaki, whose interest in games is a shock to most of her male co-workers, except for the other gamer.
* Kuuko from [[Haiyore! Nyaruko-san]] is the shining exemplar of this, with Nyarko, and Mahiro's mother as lesser examples (in fact, this is what allows Kuuko and and Mahiro's mother to bond). Kuuko's sister is also quite the Gamer Chick {{spoiler|when you consider the fact she's willing to go into all night gaming marathon's at the drop of a hat, sleep be damned}}.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'': Sara is an example of this trope within tabletop gaming.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the ''[[RWBY]]'' fanfic ''[[Emergence]]'', [[Ice Queen|Weiss Schnee]] becomes one after spending a year living on Earth, to the point that she decides she'd rather be a video game designer than go back to Remnant and run the Schnee Dust Company.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' S1 Ep07, "The Dumpling Paradox." Penny isn't a gamer chick, but the first time she picks up an [[Xbox]] controller for the guys' ''[[Halo]]'' night, she manages to outclass all of them on her first try. And yes, the guys are 30-year-old geeks who play ''[[Halo]]'' religiously. However, considering Penny's more rounded characterization, this is surely less [[Positive Discrimination]] and more [[Rule of Funny]].
** Sheldon clearly doesn't believe in this trope.
{{quote|'''Sheldon''': I don't know how, but she is cheating. Nobody can be that attractive and this skilled at a video game.}}
** S2 Ep03, "The Barbarian Sublimation," also has Penny getting addicted to ''[[Age of Conan]]''.
* ''[[CSI: Miami]]''. The infamous episode "Urban Hellraisers" (which revolved around a group of gamers going around recreating crimes from the titular ''[[Grand Theft Auto|GTA]]''-esque game) had this as its final "twist": that the best gamer (and most brutal killer) was a woman, and that she did this both to get attention (!) from the male gamers as well as prove she was "better" than any man. Not only is this mind-bogglingly stupid, but the show then flashbacks to the bank robbery from the beginning showing the woman's voice giving the orders during said robbery despite the fact that when the events ''actually took place'', it was clearly a ''man'' speaking.
* ''[[Dollhouse]]'': Topher once imprinted Sierra as one of these as part of [[Is That What They're Calling It Now?|a "diagnostic"]]. She beat him at a Quasar-style game.
* ''[[Good Luck Charlie]]'': Jo, and she takes it very seriously. She ends up ''dislocating Gabe's shoulder'' when she thinks he's cheating at the game they're playing.
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* ''[[Kyle XY]]'': Andi started out as a tough-talking tomboy who Josh first encountered in a Halo-like game. However, her love of video games was barely ever mentioned after her debut episode.
* ''[[Martin]]'': While it may not involve video games, one episode has the title character so badly hustled by a female pool player that he goes home in his underwear.
* ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'': In the 'Fashion Week' episode, a group of fashion models turn out to be gamers, and play the fictional [[Brand X|Dungeons and Gargoyles]] with Justin and Zeke.
* ''[[Veronica Mars]]'': In the episode "[[Shout-Out|The Wrath of Con]]", Veronica disguises herself as an anime geek/gamer in order to track down a group of nerds who are running a [[419 Scam]]. She winds up sucking when playing a multiplayer shooter... but this is actually a ruse designed to get the scammer to reveal himself (she repeatedly [[Griefer|team-killed him]] in order to get his attention, the reason why she was doing so poorly).
* ''[[NCIS]]'': Max, Tim McGee's love interest from the eighth season episode "Kill Screen."
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[FoxTrot]]''
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** There were a few instances where Paige, oddly enough, gave off this vibe.
*** In one strip she complains to Roger that Jason is playing an extremely violent game, ''[[Primal Rage|Primal]] [[Killer Instinct|Instinct]]''. Roger first thinks she wants him to tell Jason he's too young for it, but instead Paige demands that he tell Jason to let her play too.
*** Another strip involves her trying Jason's game and being able to get past the boss he'd been [[That One Boss|trying to beat for a month]] simply [[Sheathe Your Sword|by walking past him]].
== Professional Wrestling ==
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* ''[[Touhou Project]]'' Thanks to a liberal application of [[Post-Modern Magik]] and [[Schizo-Tech]], it has a few odd mismatches. "Traditional Reporter" Aya Shyamemaru uses an old-style camera like one you would expect out of the 1950s, as she presumably salvaged it from the "normal world". Her new rival, Hatate, however, is a tech junkie who uses a cell phone camera, Google websearches for stories, and spends most of her time at her computer whenever she isn't trying to out-report Aya.
** Kaguya gained notoriety as the "NEET-Hime" (NEET being the Japanese acronym that functionally means "unemployed slacker" and hime meaning princess... basically a royal that doesn't do anything), and is frequently shown as playing in her room. Fan interpretation almost universally assumes she's actually a massive gamer nerd, and often is shown being willing to game anyone in anything better than them if there is a storyline with some character being introduced to video games from the outside world involved.
* [[Darkstalkers|Morrigan]], as shown in ''[[
** And ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom Clash of the Superheroes]]'' has her accepting Ryu's challenge in ''Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo''. Unfortunately, we never get to see the result of this battle.
* Ai from ''[[Neo Geo Battle Coliseum]]'' not only collects and plays video games, but has attacks themed after various Neo Geo games. Yeah, Neo Geo stuff isn't that popular, but hey, it still counts.
== Web Animation ==
* Tabletop Game variation in an episode of ''[[RWBY]]'', where all four of the main cast are shown playing a game that combines elements of ''[[Warhammer]]'' and ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. Ruby seems much better at it than the others.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Awkward Zombie]]'', Author, Katie Tiedrich, who occasionally appears in-comic via [[Author Avatar]].
* ''[[Cheer]]'' Lita differs from the stereotype in that she's a highly competitive D&D fanatic ''cheerleader'' who actually glories in being a girl because it allows her to use her "feminine wiles" to [
* ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]'' Lilah fits this perfectly. The more stereotypically extreme traits have been softened over time, at least, but she's still a tomboy (her father even mentions this in the polite way), still highly confrontational, and still self-aware of being female on the tournament level. She even regularly defeats Ethan at several games.
* [[Enjuhneer]] has a plethora of
* "''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131105222659/http://www.fanboys-online.com/ Fanboys]''" has Sylvia. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150426184653/http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?comic=229 The author has confessed that he originally intended to make the third main character a black male, but was afraid of being called racist if he made a single wrong move with him.]
* ''[[5 Color Control|Five Color Control]]'' has Jules. When she beats Elf Kid in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'', he assumes she must be a guy after all, because girls don't play ''Magic''.
* The dreadful webcomic ''Gamer Chicks'' is all about this trope, if you couldn't figure it out from the title.
* ''[[Garnet and Gure]]'' is something of an inversion. Though there is little evidence regarding the actual skill of the titular gamer girl, she often acts as a noobish foil to her traditionalist roommate. Any evocation of her sexuality is met with comically inversive results as well, notably in [
* ''[[Gender Swapped]]'' Eddy sort of plays with this trope a little bit. Formally a girl, 'she' is the best gamer in the comic. Another good example would be Morgan. A video game tournament in book 2 showcased a number of other gamer girls, the number of which, actually exceeded the males
** In fact, {{spoiler|every round of the tournament was won by a girl}}
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* ''[[Megatokyo]]'' Miho has some elements of this (amongst a ton of others), but she plays male characters and her staggering gaming prowess is due much in part to lying, cheating, backstabbing her party members, and [[Mundane Utility|misuse of her powers and knowledge to this effect]].
* ''[[Narbonic]]'' Parodied when Dave's tabletop gaming buddies treat him differently after his [[Gender Bender]].
* The ''[[No Need for Bushido]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20090106125438/http://www.noneedforbushido.com/nnpg/index.php?strip_id=3 bonus strips] which [[Mundanization|bring the characters into the modern day]], [[Rebellious Princess]] Ino becomes one of these.
* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' Even though it avoided this trope for years, they still played with it in the form of Annarchy (who is partially based on a real person). Even her introduction is memorable ([http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/01/31/ "No, on the Famicom. In the original Japanese."]).
** Gabe's wife Kara, however, only fits the trope in comparison to Tycho's wife Brenna.
* ''[[Stealth Parody|Powerup Comics]]'' Alix.
* ''[[PvP]]'' Marcy is a pretty cookie-cutter example. The same webcomic averts this trope with Jade, who both acts like a normal woman and isn't portrayed as being any more skilled at [[
* ''[[Slackerz]]'' Parodied. As they make a strip parodying gamer comics with one girl that's constantly complaining that the fact that she's a gamer does not make solid grounds for a relationship with a horribly incompetent male gamer.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' Gwynn has moments like this. It's not a major aspect, but there have been a couple sub-plots concerning her hogging the video game consoles and (along with Torg and Riff) becoming addicted to Fashion Rancher, a simulation game about being a supermodel's manager.
** Zoe also, though she took the piss during the beginning of Years of Yarncraft, she rebounded into an avid player.
* ''[[Something
** Note that PeeJee is not a better gamer, although she is the GM more often then anyone else.
* ''[[VG Cats]]'' Aeris, although at least she has some [[Fan Girl]] traits to balance this out. The comic also parodied this character type in one strip.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[The Guild]]''. Tinkerballa . Although she's slightly more feminine, she's even more confrontational. And there are two other, non-stereotypical females to balance it out.
** [[Felicia Day]] claims she got a lot of criticism for having not one, not two but three female gamers on her show, despite the numerous female MMO players.
** There's also Riley, better known as Stupid Tall Hot Girl, an [[FPS]] girl that shows up at the end of the second season. She's a lot more tomboyish then the MMO women and fits the trope much better.
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* ''[[Pure Pwnage]]'' Anastasia is a ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' player who at the start of the series is a fairly casual gamer but becomes increasingly more and more of a <s>harcore gamer</s> hopeless social-networking-site-with-graphics addict as the show progresses.
* [[The Game Station]] has surprisingly many female gamers, i.e. [[Press Heart to Continue]].
* [[Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?|Ashly Burch]].
* In season 2 of ''[[Bite Me (web video)|Bite Me]]'', Shawna becomes one after Greg introduces her to ''[[
* One of the more peculiar developments in light of [[Gamergate]] is the appearance of [[Vivian James]], a fictional character in the image of actual female gamers.
▲* In season 2 of ''[[Bite Me (web video)|Bite Me]]'', Shawna becomes one after Greg introduces her to ''[[Resident Evil Revelations|Resident Evil: Revelations]]''.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Batman Beyond]]'': Maxine (Max) Gibson. She's featured in a lot of the videogame based eps and in one ep she gains a [[Stalker with a Crush]] when she beats him at a an action/adventure game.
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'': Sam(antha) played this trope rather straight with Danny and Tucker uncharacteristically assuming Sam isn't a savvy gamer until she proved otherwise, and Danny even takes a shot at her about it ''afterward''.
** Also Sam said that all the girls who play the game as well are better then any boy playing.
* ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'': The episode, "The Boy Who Would Be Queen" revealed Trixie Tang was secretly a [[Tomboy]] who was both one of these and an [[Otaku Surrogate]]. This was a [[Compressed Vice]] and never brough up again.
* ''[[Invader Zim]]'': [[Creepy Child|Gaz]]. [[Strange Girl|Getting between her]] and her games is her [[Berserk Button]].
* Numbuh Three was able to beat Numbuh Four at video games in at least one episode of ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' . What made the scene hilarious is the fact that Numbuh Four is the [[Blood Knight]] of the team, while Numbuh Three can usually manage little more than a [[Genki Girl]] unless you make her angry.
* Kimiko Tohomiko from ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'' is shown to be this—although it could be justified in that her dad, Toshiro, is the owner/operator of the biggest electronics company in Asia, and Kimiko even said that he's gotten her pretty much every single electronic plaything there is. An interest in videogames is one of the main things that she has in common with Raimundo - their favorite videogame appears to be a franchise called ''[[Fictional Video Game| Goo Zombies]]''.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* There is some [[Truth in Television]] in how a great many female gamer do end up very frustrated with not being taken seriously by men.
** Some of the more skilled female gamer use this to their advantage. One ''[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]]'' (EGM) article interviewed a teen girl who was a hardcore ''[[Halo]]'' player and she mentions how the guys at a tourney would always assume she wasn't good just because she was a girl and some would even go a little easy on them, thinking they would still win, only to go home with their tails between their legs when she kicked their ass hard in the game.
** It got really bad at the late 1990s when female gamers began
** It doesn't help that there are no small few "gamer girls" out there who suffer from the same social anxieties as their male compatriots and as soon as they figure out that boobs = power, they compensate for their own failings. [[Truth in Television]] indeed.
* The aforementioned [[X-Play|Morgan Webb]] (also known as the "Gaming Goddess"), co-host of ''[[X-Play]]'' and source of the page quote. Since the show's premiere fans have continuously accused her of being chosen just to be eye candy and not really being a gaming fan.
** There was a different female co-host during the early days of ''[[Extended Play]],'' but [[Hollywood Homely|for some reason nobody seems to remember her.]] Kate Botello was the second female host, heading to 'Extended Play' after she left 'The Screen Savers'. The first host of the show was Lauren Fielder, back when it was Gamespot TV.
* IGN's Jessica Chobot.
*
* A study has shown that the girls tend to be better gamers than the guys. Something about having better hand eye co-ordination and having more dexterous fingers.
** [[Older Than the NES]]. One segment of [[VH-1]]'s ''I Love The 70s'' discussed the introduction of Pong, and how some women proved to be so good at it that they'd scam unsuspecting men in bars, betting hard cash that they could beat the guys at this Ur-arcade game.
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* Former ''[[Quake]]'' tournament pro "killcreek" ([[wikipedia:Stevie Case|Stevana "Stevie" Case]]) famous for humiliating [[John Romero]] at QuakeCon, by [[Beat Them At Their Own Game|beating him at the game he designed]].
** Actually, what made her famous was becoming Romero's [http://www.javno.com/en/foto.php?id=22&rbr=7720&idrf=371424 hot] [http://www.javno.com/en/foto.php?id=22&rbr=7720&idrf=371430 girlfriend] after that. After they broke up, he found himself another gamer chick: in early 2004, he married Raluca Alexandra Pleşca, a fan from Romania, whom he met by email. (You could say "chick" in more than one sense: she's 18 years his junior.)
* The Australian video game show ''[[Good Game]]'' on ABC (publically funded) has drawn a lot of flak for replacing one of their hosts, experienced gamer Junglist with girl-gamer Hex. ABC actually stated that the reason for Junglist's replacement was for broader mass appeal.
** The flak is mostly because they simply introduced Hex and went on, not even referencing the fact that Junglist was gone is what rubbed most fans the wrong way. He'd been on it since it started and now they act like he was never there.
** The show also has Rei, who was on before Hex came along. She does segments about the topical element of gaming culture such as "Art in Games" and [[
* [[Felicia Day]]. She even writes and stars in a web series [[The Guild|about gamers]].
* The Frag Dolls, a FPS tournament team sponsored by [[Ubisoft]]. They are reportedly terrible gamers, but very pretty.
* Korean ''[[
** Team SlayerS, pet project of legendary 'Father of Competitive RTS Gaming' Lim Yo Hwan, has a female manager. She has recently begun an effort to improve the position of females in ''[[
* [http://www.youtube.com/user/TheEcstacy TheEcstacy].
** And also her possible arch rival, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZjLUIfYppE TipperQueen], who faced her off in a number of pro competitions, such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BaBrvgmhvQ this one].
* [[Mila Kunis]] (Jackie from ''[[That '70s Show]]'') is a former ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' player. In one interview, she claims to be a completely different person when she plays.
* Former supermodel Paulina Porizkova stated in an issue of Family Circle that she and her kids are huge fans of ''[[World of Warcraft]]''.
* Lisa Foiles. Former ''[[All That]]'' cast member. Current [http://kotaku.com/5466983/lisa-foiles-bio Kotaku columnist] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030195048/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/top-5-with-lisa-foiles Escapist contributor], ''[[The Angry Joe Show]]'' reviewer, and ''[http://www.loadsavepoint.com/ Save Point]'' editor-in-chief.
* Lydia Winters, aka [
* According to [[The Colbert Report]], 40% of gamers are women, and 94% of girls under 18 play games. Those are, presumably, based on US estimates, rather than international. They also lampshade the GIRL aspect in the interview.
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