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One thing worthy of note is that a female character playing games doesn't automatically make her a gamer chick as per the mould. In order to qualify, she should have at least one of the traits mentioned above and have the fact that she plays games be a major character trait. If heavy emphasis is given to both the fact that she plays games and that she's female, it probably counts.
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 suggesting females as outnumbering male gamers] (though it is mostly due to the surge in social media games such as [[FarmVille]] and such stats not distinguishing casual and "hardcore" gaming), it has become almost offensive to portray female gamers in this fashion. It doesn't help that this trope often tends to evoke [[Straw Feminist|Straw Feminism]] both in the character's actions and the implications of their presence. As such, most modern fiction won't play this trope completely straight any more. This carries over to online fora, where real-life girl gamers attempting to attract attention by referring to their gender is generally met with a disinterested eye-roll except in the most socially maladjusted fora where it is met with both excitement by some and a LOT of hostility by others.
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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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* ''[[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.
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* 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]] ==
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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]].
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* 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]] ==
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* ''[[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 Gamer Chicks running around.
* "''[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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* ''[[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 [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s (which, interestingly enough, actually is one of the most popular genres amongst women) than an average person.
* ''[[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.
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* ''[[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]]''.
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* [[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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20131028111702/http://minecraftchick.com/ MinecraftChick].
* 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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