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Despite what you'd think, the Genki Girl is usually not [[The Ditz]]. However, there have been a few blends. She is, of course, very often a [[Motor Mouth]] or [[The Nicknamer|a Nicknamer]]. If she focuses her powers on getting a boring guy to relish life, she's a [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]. Less sympathetic portrayals often make her the [[Jerkass]] of the group. Alternatively she could be both. Some are even the resident [[Cloudcuckoolander]].

If a work of fiction gives its characters [[Flower Motifs|symbolic flowers]] that represent their personalities, the Genki Girl will likely get [[Sunny Sunflower Disposition|the sunflower]] while her animal is the [[Kindhearted Cat Lover|cat]], though her energy won't necessarily make her go [[Crazy Cat Lady|crazy]].

* Miki from ''[[Marmalade Boy]]''.

* Minori from ''[[Toradora (Light Novel)|Toradora]]''. Approaches everything with so much energy that she makes the surrounding people look lifeless.

* ''[[Bleach]]'':

** [[Morality Pet|Yachiru Kusajishi]] is Kenpachi's very own pink puffball of Genkiness.

* Dita from ''[[Vandread]]'' fills this role, right down to [[Dojikko|frequently falling over while running]].

* Nano-Nano Pudding of ''[[Galaxy Angel (Video Game)|Galaxy]] [[Galaxy Angel (Anime)|Angel]] II'', who may or may not be an [[Expy]] of Bu-ling.

* The Tachikomas from ''[[Ghost in The Shell Stand Alone Complex]]'' are Genki ''tanks''.

* Nakuru Akizuki from ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', who is also a [[Manipulative Bastard]]. And being a technically genderless spirit being rather than a human girl, though she more or less refers to herself as a girl.

** Villain Mojo has a [[Deadpan Snarker]] assistant, Majordomo, who in turn has a Genki Girl assistant, Minordomo. Minor can be expected to say "Ohmygosh, ''OH''mygolly..." at least twice per appearance, and will get worked up over something (complete with arm-waving and rapidfire talking -- her version of it goes from sentences to short phrases strung together in the end) more and more until finally having a ''heart attack''. Luckily, she's an artificial human, so Majordomo just has to hit her reset button to get her up and genki again.

** Early appearances of Kitty Pryde started her out as a Genki Girl, though she actually [[Character Development|matured]] during her run with the team.

** Megan Gwynn (Pixie) follows ''both'' girls in starting this role, then she met Illyana a few times, and [[Break the Cutie|she's slowly being broken out of this trope]].

* Harley Quinn, both in the comics and the [[DCAU]].

* Daisy Wicke from ''[[Bones (TV)|Bones]]'' manages to pull it off by being endearing when she isn't being ''incredibly'' annoying.

* Sonny Munroe from ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]''.

* ''[[Smallville (TV)|Smallville]]'''s Chloe Sullivan and Lois Lane are like this, and it's become a rather endearing trait in both of them.

* Brook from Season 17 of ''[[The Amazing Race]]'', who talked nonstop while working a speed bag and jumping rope. Also, Mallory from the same season.

* Momoyama Lily in the Japanese drama ''Anna-san no Omame'' (a.k.a ''The Best Friend of Beautiful Anna'').

** Vanille from ''[[Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIII]]'', on the other hand, is a [[Stepford Smiler|particularly interesting example.]]

* [[Rebellious Princess|Marle]] from ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]''. Although she's not exactly a speedster (though she does know Haste.)

* Sakura Kasugano from ''[[Street Fighter]]''.

* The ''[[King of Fighters]]'' series:

* Neeshka from ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'' has elements of this. Note her kleptomania, habituation to speak very rapidly, and general variance between overwhelmingly excited or deeply anxious.

* From the ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' series, [[Kawaiiko|Yumi Saotome]] and [[The Fashionista|Yuko Asahina]] in ''1'', [[Victorious Childhood Friend|Hikari Hinomoto]], [[Dojikko|Miyuki Kotobuki]], and [[Twin Switch|Maho Shirayuki]] in ''2'', and [[Bokukko|Itsuki Maeda]] and [[Twin Switch|Rui Nanakawa]] in ''4''. Yumi and Hikari even get [[Sunny Sunflower Disposition|the Sunflower]] as their [[Flower Motifs|symbolic flower]] to drive the genkiness point home.

* Eileen from ''[[Virtua Fighter]]''.

* Deconstructed in the [[GTA Radio]] from ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'', where Amy from the VCPR station is a Genki Girl who was put on heavy anti-depressants ever since her family was brutally murdered.

* Hagino apparently has this role assigned to her in [[Canvas 2]] and is required to be cheerful or Hiroki will get upset.

* In some of the incarnations of Zelda she seems to be full of energy, at least until she gets kidnapped. In ''[[The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'', she even ''helps you fight Ganondorf''.

* Nelie and Orpha in [[Eien no Aselia]]. Nelie's twin Shiah looks like she's trying, but she's a little shy.

* [[Rebellious Princess|Uriel Chuluun]] in ''[[Rift]]'' says "Isn't it exciting?" a lot. Her voice actress sounds cheery even when she's ranting about how her dad is out of touch or stating that "[[Perky Goth|there is something oddly perfect about death]]." She attempts to give her [[Les Yay|crush]] (who's [[Career Killers|an assassin]]) a cutesy nickname. She's even got [[Girlish Pigtails|twintails]]! This is all the more amusing in light of the fact that she's a bahmi (and therefore, a lilac-skinned, [[Storyboard Body|tattooed]] amazon of a [[Proud Warrior Race Girl]]) and a [[Necromancer]].

== Western Animation ==

* Goo from ''[[Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' is a straight-up example. Madame Foster herself sometimes fills this role too, despite the fact that she's an old lady. Coco also shows elements of this at times, with a heavy dose of [[Cloudcuckoolander]] and [[The Unintelligible]].

* Frida Suarez of ''[[El Tigre]]''.

* [[Perky Female Minion|Ty Lee]] from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', in contrast to her [[Foil]], [[Emotionless Girl]] Mai. Also, the latest Avatar, [[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|Korra]], in contrast to her mentor [[The Comically Serious|Tenzin]].

* ''[[Dexters Laboratory]]'': Dee Dee. Oh dear ''god'', Dee Dee.

* ''[[Transformers Prime]]'': Miko, who transferred to an America school to escape a life of piano lessons and ends up in the middle of a war between alien robots, to her absolute delight. ''Also'' played by Tania Gunadi, who is good at these.

** To [[Hidden Depths|everyone's surprise]], later episodes deconstructed this. Parties are her way of validating herself, and if nopony likes them that must mean nopony likes her.

*** When your life's career is party catering and cheering everypony up, receiving no approval is the worst that could happen.