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{{quote|''"Kim, deciding to be badass, tosses her hat into the air, and proceeds to unrealistically fly around with a series of kicks and punches despite, ''again'', wearing the big, flowing dress."''|'''Linkara'''. ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'', reviewing [http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2012/03/invincible-four-of-kung-fu-ninja-1.html "The Invincible Four of Kung Fu & Ninja #1"]}}
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Who says that being an ass-whupping [[Action Girl]] means you can't wear feminine, pretty, opulent clothes? In some works, the two go hand-in-awesome-but-elegant-hand.
And no [[Action Dress Rip
What weapons she uses can vary, from martial arts (even if a skirt would be too narrow or poofy to kick someone), to conventional weapons, to even the more "feminine" weapons like [[Parasol of Pain]], [[Rolling Pin of Doom]], and [[Frying Pan of Doom]]. Although with those latter three, she has to be directly attacking with them, not just conking a guy on the head.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* {{spoiler|Elizabeth Middleford}} of ''[[Black Butler]]'' is in very nice, prim and proper underwear when she mows down zombies with [[Dual-Wielding|dual swords]].
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== Film - Live Action ==
* Princess Vespa spends the entire ''[[Spaceballs]]'' movie wearing a [[Fairytale Wedding Dress]]. She's handed a gun to fight with, and refuses until [[Traumatic Haircut|a laser blast singes the side of her hair]]. Then she mows down the bad guys.
* In ''[[Enchanted]]'', after her date is snatched from a ball by a dragon, Giselle goes after them in her modern-formal dress, pausing only to take up the Prince's sword (and lose her glass slipper in the process).
* Victoria ([[Helen Mirren]]) in ''[[RED (film)|RED]]'', dressed in an elegant evening gown and operating a monstrous tripod-mounted machine gun to hold off inconvenient government agents in a parking deck.
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* In the season 1 finale of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Buffy goes to fight [[Big Bad|The Master]] in her prom dress.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[D20 Modern]]'' a platonic is a powerful entity of Shadow [[Anthropomorphic Personification| devoted to a particular cause or abstract concept]], and to any who would violate or endanger such a concept, [[Knight Templar| they show absolutely no mercy]]. Sraosha is an example of one who uses this Trope; the Platonic of Contract Enforcement, she hunts down and punishes anyone who breaks contracts and usually takes the form of a beautiful woman dressed for a fancy dinner party. (Where quite a few of her marks, [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money| given their outlook of the world]], tend to frequent.) Seeing as she keeps a magical sword and an assault rifle concealed in [[Hammerspace]], her victim is almost always taken by complete surprise.
== [[Video Game]] ==
* Cecille of ''[[Arc Rise Fantasia]]'' punched her way through enemies, while wearing a fancy blue dress. The sisters Paula and Luna use weapons, but still fancy clothes. Luna uses a [[Parasol of Prettiness|very pretty]] [[Parasol of Pain]].
* Rachel Alucard in ''[[
* Helena of ''[[Dead or Alive]]'' has a few dresses made a very fancy materials, including silk and lace.
** Lei-fang's standard attire is a [[Qipao]].
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* Sapphire of ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' has an outfit that's basically pants and a jacket (to help make it easy to fight as a [[Badass Princess]]), but still elegant and fancy enough to count.
* Entirely viable in much of ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' series. Find or buy a [[Pimped-Out Dress]], pump it full of enchantments, and go to town. In games that let you enchant an item with an increase to the wearer's armor rating, the dress can even be made to function almost exactly like armor.
* The Prince class in ''[[Etrian Odyssey]] III'' has a [http://www.nekomagic.com/figure_news/201011/gift_plush_princess05.jpg princess option]{{Dead link}}, and they tend to be strong fighters as well as opulently dressed.
* Peach from the [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]] franchise. On those occasions when she does kick ass, like the ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' instance below, she is usually doing so in her iconic pink dress.
* The heroine of ''[[Princess Crown]]'' wears an armored, but fancy, gown.
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* Rose from ''[[Street Fighter]]''. Her standard outfit is an evening dress with [[Combat Stilettos|pumps]] and a [[Scarf of Asskicking]]. It doesn't deter her in the slightest. (and in some [[Street Fighter IV]] ports, you can [[Downloadable Content|download]] ''even prettier dresses'' for her.)
* In the ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' games, [[Super Mario Bros.|Peach]] and Princess Zelda qualify for this trope, if rarely in their series proper. They battle in their standard series royal dresses.
* Lady Jane of the ''[[Time Splitters]]'' games runs around shooting at bad guys, [http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/1007/445851-jane_concept_large.jpg while wearing an evening dress and fur-trimmed coat]{{Dead link}}.
* There are levels in some ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' games where Lara wears formalwear. One particularly good example when she's at a [[Ballroom Blitz|party]] in ''Legend'' (which also averts [[Combat Stilettos]]; She removes them and goes barefoot).
* Many MMO s, especially free ones have wedding dresses and other finery for sale or craftable. Some examples are [[Final Fantasy XI|Final Fantasy XI's]] Wedding Dress Set or [[Star Wars Galaxies]] Grand Ball Gown which can be worn anytime anywhere even when fighting. Some games like [[Eden Eternal]] this is largely the way they make cash selling fashion items like [[Ninja Maid|Maid Outfits]] and [[Pimped-Out Dress|Fairy Dresses]] that even have stat boosts to help in combat.
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