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[[File:62.jpg|link=Léon: The Professional|frame|A pre-teen [[Natalie Portman]] [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You|is about to shoot you]].]]

 

 

She has skills that far exceed what you'd expect from her appearance. Maybe it's because she is [[Strange Girl|a bit strange]], [[Wise Beyond Their Years|mature for her age]], or [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|doesn't look like her age at all]]. Vaguely similar to a [[Tyke Bomb]] save she isn't necessarily groomed by a [[Big Bad]], and may well be a Big Bad in her own right or at least [[The Dragon]]. Might be the [[The Big Guy|fighting powerhouse on the good guys side]] and can be mistaken for just the [[Tagalong Kid]] until she unleashes the [[Waif Fu]].

 

 

If put into serious danger she can often show an absurd amount of power and will easily deal with any annoying perverts in the most casually devastating way possible. Often a practitioner of [[Waif Fu]], and can be an example of [[Small Girl, Big Gun]] or [[Girl with Psycho Weapon]]. Can be a [[Cute Bruiser]], but doesn't rely on brute strength. If she doesn't have ridiculous strength, she would be [[Weak but Skilled]]. Most noticeable in characters who look very young, since many characters tend to catch on to overpowered teenagers much quicker.

Compare [[Enfant Terrible]]. May belong to a [[Badass Family]]. May grow up to be a [[Lady of War]], although often with a touch of [[Femme Fatale]]. If lacking in charisma, she would be an [[Action Girl]], or possibly [[Dark Action Girl]].

 

 

See also [[Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour]], which some of these characters engage in.

 

* The quiet, petite Kirino Kotori of ''[[Ai Kora]]'' turns out to be [[Heir to the Dojo]] of a ninja clan, and also has a rather nasty temper on her.

* Gretel in ''[[Black Lagoon]]''. Despite being only 11 years old she has the ability to run and fire a [[BFG|Browning Automatic Rifle]] to great effect as well.{{spoiler|She might be a cross-dressing boy though. Similarly, her "brother" may fit this trope...}}

* Yachiru Kusajishi in ''[[Bleach]]''. She looks about six, and uses her cutesy antics to get many things more serious people would never give her, but she's second-in-command of the most violent of the [[Shinigami]] divisions and can dish some very scary whoop-ass, though she generally just rides around on Kenpachi's [[Head Pet|shoulder]]. (Yes, she's that small. And he's that big.)

* ''[[Claymore]]'' has more of these then it knows what to do with. There's the sweet and positively precocious Riful, one of the most powerful awakened ones in existence. Her favorite hobby is having her boyfriend torture people into going [[One-Winged Angel]]. Then there's the other [[Big Bad]], Priscilla. Just like Riful she's cute as a button but, again, she's probably going to eat your soul. After the [[Time Skip]] they threw in Miata who mixes it up by being just this side of [[Axe Crazy]].

* [[Code Geass|Anya Earlstreim]] is one of the highest ranked knights in Britannia and pilots one of the biggest mecha yet seen... Yet she's barely 15 years old and looks about 12. Not to mention Nunnally in the spin-off Manga ''[[Nightmare of Nunnally]]''.

** [[Older Than They Look|She only looks like a child.]] {{spoiler|She's the eldest Noah, and has looked 12 for the last 35 years.}}

*** {{spoiler|Other than Adam aka The Millennium Earl.}}

* Ruki Makino in ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', complete with [[Badass Longcoat]] and [[Cool Shades]] in her debut.

* Cisqua of ''[[Elemental Gelade]]'', who even the author implies has access to possibly infinite amount of space in her cape and ''hat''. And what does she use all the space for? Guns, missiles, bombs...anything that explodes.

* May Chang in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. She has [[Chinese Girl|cute braids]], a [[Head Pet|little panda]] and very good manners. She also keeps pace with Scar when fighting off monsters.

** Don't forget drop kicking someone (Ed) attacking Scar and then striking a ready pose. Can I get a [[Dynamic Entry]]?

** Vanilla H, also from ''Galaxy Angel'' is similar. She looks quite young, is a [[Waif Prophet]]/[[Oracular Urchin]]... and she'll give you three chances. Then she can destroy cities.

* In ''[[Gunnm]]'', technically Sechs qualifies. She was born/created about 3 years before kicking major arse all around Jeru.

* Hatoko, five-year-old controller of Suzuka from ''[[Angelic Layer]]''.

* The ghost girl Elizabeth from ''[[Maburaho]]''.

* The young-looking but centuries-old vampire/wizardess Evangeline A.K. McDowell of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', who was a mostly played-for-laughs villain in an earlier arc, but shows her badassery in the Kyoto and Tournament arcs - her earlier weakness was explained away as affection for the hero.

** You can note that either Evangeline or Chachamaru will fit this role based on what criteria you use. Evangeline fits the looks but is, in reality, centuries old. Chachamaru on the other hand, looks high school age, [[Younger Than They Look|but is only two years old]]. Both have had their own moments of badass to qualify them.

** Yue Ayase commanded three of her Valkyrie classmates who were years her senior to aid her in knocking out a Griffin Dragon. The final attack on it was done, by Yue, dodging her ally's covering fire, with one magic attack and a dull ceremonial knife. And she gets more badass from there.

* To a lesser degree, the preteen sorceress Lily in ''[[Rune Soldier Louie]]''.

* ''[[Seikon no Qwaser]]'''s Katja is high-ranking Qwaser can control copper, including a life-sized marionette, [[It Makes Sense in Context|powered by breast milk]]. And seduced then coerced two older girls into being her slave for fuel.

* ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'''s Holo is quite the tease, but [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|has lived for centuries]] and could turn into a big bad wolf to maul anyone who tries to attack her or Lawrence.

* Rio in [[Spiral]]. She lures a teacher to his death, blows up her own chest to hide the evidence, built the bomb that did it.

** Also Eve in ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'', who she was derived from. She can turn her hair into nano-blades and cut you at a particle level.

* ''[[Trinity Blood]]'''s Seth is both powerful and sneaky. Although she is one of the good guys.

* ''[[Shaman King]]'' gives us Anna Kyoyama, an Itako (traditional Japanese shaman) and spirit medium who is Yoh's trainer and fiance. She's calm and mature for her young age, plus she kicks ass with her bead necklace, which she can also channel other spirits into others with. And to top it all off, she even tamed Hao's Shikigamis and used them as her own guardian spirits {{spoiler|until Hao turned them against her and the rest of the Yoh-gumi}}. Now that's saying something.

* And then there's Jeanne, {{spoiler|the real leader of the X-Laws}}. At first sight, she's just a twelve-years-old cutie... {{spoiler|whose furyoku levels are of the closest to Hao}}.

* Daida "Punishment" Hibana in [[Deadman Wonderland]] is a psychopathic kindergartner who was sent to the prison after dismembering several of her classmates. Brought up by her deranged mother to believe that injuring people helps them grow up, she wields a [[BFS]] twice her size with no apparent effort.

* Veronica from ''[[Franken Fran]]'', an [[Artificial Human]] with the body and personality of a preteen girl...and a healthy variety of weapons integrated. She also has a rather low killing threshold.

* In ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' {{spoiler|Kaede Kaburagi}} ends up becoming Sternbild's most badass little girl after developing superpowers. {{spoiler|What other ten-year-old can claim to have saved almost every Sternbild superhero from a [[Mad Scientist]]'s inescapable death trap?}}

* ''[[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu]]'''s Alice, a shy, sweet little maid {{spoiler|with a spiked bat, brass knuckles and enough strength to crack open a street and create a geyser}}

 

* ''[[The Authority]]'' Jenny Quantum exemplifies this. Her superhero career started a few days after she was born, when she vapourised a giant's legs; nowadays, a nine-year-old physically aged to 14, she's the [[A Child Shall Lead Them|leader of the team]]. (It probably helps that she's the resurrection, or [[Doctor Who|regeneration]], of previous leader Jenny Sparks.)

* ''[[Batgirl]]'' Although now a teenager, Cassandra Cain was revealed to have finished the majority of her assassination training at the age of eight. I say most because she semi-failed her last test (she killed the guy but was so horrified by what she did that she ran away from David Cain, her father/mentor.) A [[Fan Nickname]] for Cassandra is "Little Miss Ninja Goddess".

* ''[[Runaways]]'' from Marvel Comics' Molly Hayes is the eleven-year old physical powerhouse of her team and falls somewhere between this trope and [[Badass Adorable]], [[Depending on the Writer]]. It's thus uncertain how much of the little kid persona we see is veil and how much is her real personality.

* ''[[Sin City]]'' Miho. [[Frank Miller|Deadly little Miho]].

* [[X-Men]] Shadowcat was a master ninja (and experienced superhero and expert hacker) by the age of 14, thanks in part to some [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]] training by [[Wolverine|Wolverine's]] [[Evil Mentor]].

** X-Men also has [[X-23]]. Although now a teenager, when she was being trained to be the killing machine she currently is, she used her cute little kid-ness to get close to her targets and eliminate them.

* Amy Rose from the [[Archie Comics]] version of [[Sonic the Hedgehog]]. Went from being a [[Bratty Half-Pint]] to HUMILIATING the Iron King, a [[Made of Iron]] bruiser of a warlord who had previously proved impervious to Sonic's high speed attacks, in each of their encounters and flattening a massive war machine in one hit.

 

* ''[[The Mad Scientist Wars]]'', we have two-year old Maxwell Eta, the youngest member of the [[Badass Family|Tinker Clan]]. Technically a badass ''Shota'', but seeing as how an attempt to enroll him in Preschool ended in him staging a ''successful'' rebellion, complete with forcing the Superintendent to sign a loyalty oath... he ''has'' to count.

* Ashley McFly/Leather Ashes from ''[[Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy]]'' isn't really innocent, but all in all badass, most notably in the end of episode 24: to put it shortly, a drug dealer shows up and tries raping her, only to have her ''stab him in the heart''.

* In the ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' fic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5924482/1/Four_Pirates_and_a_Little_Lady "Four Pirates and a...Little Lady?"] Revy's 13-year-old sister Rachel easily qualifies. {{spoiler|At one point she's fighting a North Korean special-forces type, and holding her own for a while.}} Of course, growing up in a very tough slum tends to lead to this sort of thing.

* Medley is the youngest flier among the seven main heroines of ''[[Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]'', but underestimating her is a surefire way to get hurt.

 

* Subverted in ''[[Balls of Fury]]'' when a greatly feared ping pong champion turns out to be a cute little Chinese schoolgirl, but the hero easily crushes her and laughs in her face, causing her to cry.

* ''[[Battle Royale]]'' Some of the more capable girls become this by necessity. Most notably, Mitsuko Souma and Takako Chigusa.

* ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]''

** ''Part 4: The Dream Master'' Alice, who literally did kung fu on Freddy.

* ''[[Léon: The Professional]]'' Natalie Portman's character, Mathilda, although {{spoiler|she never actually goes through with anything.}}

* ''[[Push]]'' Cassie Holmes ([[Dakota Fanning]]).

* Roxy in ''[[God Bless America]]''.

 

* Between the expertise and the body count, Sarah from ''[[Duumvirate|Billy & Howard]]'' exemplfies this trope. Halfway through the second book she grows into a [[Lady of War]].

* Thou shalt not mess with [[Dragaera|Devera]]. Seriously. Sure, she looks about eight, but she once ''[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|ate a Jenoine]]''. Admittedly, she was a dragon at the time, a form in which she's unlikely to be underestimated, but still.

* Rachel from the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' novels becomes quite the [[Badass]] by the end of the series. Trained by the [[Badass Normal]] of the series, it's hard to see how she couldn't be.

** By the eighth book, most specifically. Nothing quite like {{spoiler|confusing the hell out of the captive wizard by waving with a happy little grin when you're posing as someone under threat of death if he doesn't cooperate. Oh, and that soldier standing behind you? Yeah, that's your [[Badass Normal]] adoptive father, so flip him a few knives for him to fight with...from UNDER YOUR SKIRT.}}

* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[Have Space Suit—Will Travel]]'', Kip Russell, the narrator of the story, discovers that little PeeWee, whom he didn't judge as much, just a harmless little girl, has been helping the Mother Thing build a bomb - knowing that it is a bomb - which is capable of killing all of the [[Big Bad|Wormface]]s, as well as a radio beacon to summon the Mother Thing's people for help.

* It's glossed over, as it happened about eight years before the book actually starts, but the protagonist of ''[[Graceling]]'' once killed her perverted distant cousin ''with one blow. When she was eight''.

** Don't forget Nell. {{spoiler|She received the original of the [[Great Big Book of Everything]], and the engineer who made it and was later blackmailed into providing the many given to the trafficked girls altered the plans for those to make them subservient to the original...so when Nell shows up, she immediately has a fanatically-loyal army of badass gangster-killing twelve-year-old girls at her absolute command.}}

* Likewise 12 yearold Hazel Meade (later Stone) in ''[[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]]''

** To put this into perspective, in ''Small Favor,'' {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] for the book sets off an [[Evil Plan]] to capture her while she's isolated in a building and sealed off from magic. She holds off at least ten Denarians, badass sorcerers even without [[Our Angels Are Different|fallen angels]] in their heads. And she does it all with a [[Restraining Bolt]].}}

* Arya Stark from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. At the tender age of ten, she murdered a stableboy who got in her way. At twelve, she is training to become a member of an [[Murder, Inc.|assassin's guild]] that can change their identities/faces on a whim. She also has a psychic bond with a giant man-eating wolf.

* The heroine of "[http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/adventures-of-isabel/ The Adventures of Isabel]", a poem by Ogden Nash is an unflappable little girl you don't want to get on the wrong side of, see her dealings with an enormous bear:

* Hermione from the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' series, in the early books. More of a [[Black Magician Girl]] as she ages, but always [[The Smart Guy]] of Harry's [[True Companions]].

** Also, Ginny Weasley will own anyone with her famous Bat Bogey Hex.

* Petra Arkanian from the ''[[Ender's Game|Enderverse]]''. The only girl of the group of kid space admirals that won the war, she went on to survive the global wars that followed the defeat of the buggers. In one scene, she is kidnapped by a special forces commando and calmly asks for the time to get dressed. When one member of the commando wants to hurry her, she calmly reminds them that her goodwill is worth more to his generals than his balls. In a bag. Now let me go to the bathroom before I go, please.

* Most of the female Meq in ''[[The Meq]]'', since the majority of them are [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|over a thousand years old]]. Geaxi probably tops them all though and definitely fits the trope best.

* Andrew McGee really ''tried'' to keep his daughter [[Firestarter|Charlie]]'s pyrokinesis from getting out of hand, he really did. Unfortunately, they both fell into the hands of the [[Government Conspiracy]] which wanted to make a [[Tyke Bomb]] out of her... and when her father was killed by them, it wasn't long before [[Beware the Nice Ones|the running and screaming started]]. And then she got ''really'' nasty: she talked to the press.

* [[Redwall|Mariel Gullwhacker]]. [[Waif Fu|Kicked the tail of a pirate king unarmed]], then beat up a seagull several times her size with nothing but [[Whip It Good|a piece of knotted rope]].

* In ''[[The Squire's Tales|The Princess, The Crone, and the Dung Cart Knight]]'', thirteen-year-old Sarah sees her family burned at the stake. Her response is to try and [[Refuge in Audacity|steal Sir Kai's sword]] so she can go after the man who instigated the mob. Kai is so impressed by this that he gives her the sword meant for his son (she's only thirteen, so it fits her better than his broadsword), and she not only exacts revenge on the man who started the mob, but the man who was giving ''him'' orders -- ''by facing him in single combat.''

* Serroi, of Jo Clayton's ''[[Duel of Sorcery]]'' and ''Dancer'' trilogies, is a [[Magic Knight]] who's been training as a soldier since she was thirteen. She's about four and a half feet tall, and [[Older Than They Look|doesn't have to put much effort into passing for a preteen at the age of twenty-seven]].

** Not that this particularly matters when it comes to Carmela... Seriously, she can come walking casually into the Rirhath B Crossings Station in an awesome outfit ... right after the Crossings have been blown up in an effort to get rid of alien mercenaries threatening Instant Death ... and {{spoiler|get rid of the aforementioned aliens using a bar of chocolate.}}

*** The blowing-up was awesome, too. Peridexis: "There is a high probability that the surrounding matter will react unfavorably." Nita: "Will our shield hold?" Peridexis: "...Yes." Nita: "Then let's start getting unfavorable!" Or something like that.

* From the ''Sisters Grimm'' series: Sabrina, the self-proclaimed "Queen of the Sneaks" and her sister Daphne.

* Several characters in ''[[The Wolves of Willoughby Chase]]'' series, but especially Dido Twite. Her half-sister Is takes over the badassery for a couple of books late in the series.

* Bastille from Brandon Sanderson's ''[[Alcatraz Series]]'', at age 13, is the youngest person to have become a Knight of Crystallia. Her training and being bonded to certain crystals makes her incredibly fast and strong. Underestimate her and you'll be at the receiving end of her massive crystal sword, or at least her handbag.

* In the prequel ''[[Halo]]'' novel, ''The Fall of Reach'', the female Spartan trainees, but in particular, Kelly. At the age of seven, she not only outruns full grown Marines, but manages to knock one unconscious by side-arming a rock at his head. She was always referred to as the fastest Spartan by far.

* sorry from Steven Erikson's "Malazan Books of the Fallen" series exemplifies this trope. She joins the most badass squad in the whole army in her early teens and leaves a trail of slashed open crotches in her wake. of course, she's also possessed by the patron god of assassins at the time.

* Jasmine in ''[[Deltora Quest]]''. When their group finds themselves caught up in the gladiatorial Rithmere games, it's not [[The Big Guy|Barda]] who wins, or [[The Hero|Lief]], or even [[The Berserker|Glokk]]. It's her.

 

* Out of all the characters in ''[[Round the Twist]]'', the most physically dangerous is Linda, an idealistic 14-year-old environmentalist schoolgirl. As this is a non-action kids' show, this doesn't actually come up that often, however.

 

 

* Kaicho Ramu started appearing in the ring at age six. She wears [[Iron Maiden]] T-shirts, can do the Chokeslam, 619, and Shining Wizard. Underestimate her, and she will demolish you, then pin you 1-2-3.

* Riho from ''Ice Ribbon'' debuted at age 8 and as of 2011 is 13. She busts moves like the running knee strike, [[Eddie Guerrero|triple suplex]], and the '''[[Daniel Bryan|CATTLE MUTILATION]]!!!'''

 

* ''[[Mekton]]'' Isami Shinzato from the Virtual game. A BLIND thirteen-years-old girl who is one of the most dangerous [[Humongous Mecha]] pilots, to the point that her name has become in-game jargon for a called shot to the cockpit in the opening moves of combat. She's also known to deal quite... [[Groin Attack|harshly]]... with older male bullies.

 

 

* ''[[Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica]]'' Cocona pushes this beyond the limits. She not only was a 11-year-old girl who used [[Improbable Weapon User|her metamorphic hairbands(!)]] as her weapon of choice, alongside roundhouse kicks which are somehow capable of destroying doombots with such murderous efficiency that by the end of the game, your [[Magic From Technology|wizard/cyborg/bards]] rarely get to cast their spells before all the enemies are already dead. Her supermove involves her shooting a giant laserblade out of her hair bands... [[Rule of Cool|somehow]]. What makes her go above and beyond the call of being a Little Miss Badass, however, is that she does this while bodily protecting the reyvateil wizards/cyborgs/bards of the party, who are twice her age and body weight, {{spoiler|in spite of actually BEING a reyvateil herself, who is simply too young to manifest any real power.}} In a game filled with robot warriors, and highly trained knights with rocket lances with guns sticking out, the only listed reason for her badassery is that she is "a really energetic girl".

* ''[[Arc Rise Fantasia]]'' Spunky and enthusiastic Cecille is a [[Cute Bruiser]], who can unleash a devastating amount of damage with her fists. {{spoiler|Is also technically [[Older Than They Look|Older Than She Looks]].}}

* ''[[Backyard Sports]]'' Luanne doesn't run. She's so fast, it looks like she's teleporting. Oh, and she's four years old.

* ''[[Bliss Stage First and Final Act]]'' Sara Smith is an extremely powerful Pilot with a nearly unbreakable [[Humongous Mecha|ANIMa]] formed from her relationship to her brother. She's also ''thirteen.''

* ''[[Bunny Must Die]]'' The protagonist Bunny, the [[And Now for Someone Completely Different|second protagonist]] Chelsea, two of the devils and even some of the [[Mooks]] qualify.

* ''[[Castlevania]]: Rondo of Blood'' Maria Renard, the secret playable character, definitely counts. Though it might just be the contrast that makes her shine. The actual hero of the game, Richter Belmont, controls with all the grace of a mack truck with a few flat tires. Maria can ''run'', double jump, attack super fast with an army of owls, and do a forward slide. It's a wonder anybody ever uses Richter in that game.

* ''[[Chrono Cross]]'' Marcy. Leah's more a [[Cute Bruiser]] sort, but Marcy is more than happy to tell you her opinion of you as she's beating you down. Becomes playable later, too.

** In the second game there's Adell's nine-year-old sister Hanako.

** [[Badass Bookworm|Raspberyl]] in the third game.

** And Marona (and even more her alternate-dimension clone Carona) from the spin-off [[Phantom Brave]].

* ''[[Drakengard]]'' has a six-year old Manah with evil magic powers as the leader of [[The Empire]], and the game even calls her "the source of all evil."

* ''[[Enchanted Arms]]'' Yuki. One of the youngest people depicted in the game, and easily on par with an experienced knight in combat prowess.

* ''[[Grand Chase]]'' The female cast. That being Elisis, Lire, Arme, and Amy.

* ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' The [[Needs More Love|under-appreciated]] nurse-loli Fanny from that one iteration that nobody ever played.

* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' Mission Vao is fourteen years old, and [[Badass Normal]]. Yes, she has the lowest HP in your party. Yes, she's a sweet young lady higher on the [[Karma Meter]] than the party's Jedi. {{spoiler|Yes, if you go to [[The Dark Side]], you have to kill her}}, but she is a skill monster with a nasty sneak attack. Furthermore, she ''survived on her own'' in one of the worst slums in the known galaxy, despite being of a race, gender, age, and attractiveness level (young, pretty, Rutian Twi'lek female) that would have normally pigeonholed her into prostitution and/or slavery. It was several months ''after'' Griff abandoned her that she fell in with [[The Big Guy|Zaalbar]]. Given that, her [[Berserk Button]] over being called or treated like a helpless kid is kinda understandable.

* The ''Zelda'' series.

* Every female playable character in ''[[Pokémon]]'', and a few NPCs.

* Arima Miyako from [[Melty Blood]]. She's just the younger cousin of the main character, and a completly normal human who relies only in fighting skills. However, anyone that can take on [[Physical God|Arcueid]], [[Nigh Invulnerability|Ciel]] or [[Eldritch Abomination|Nrvnqsr Chaos]] '''certainly counts'''.

** Saber may also count since she is a very tiny girl with a physical age of around 15-16.

* Say what you want about [[Replacement Scrappy|Erika]] of ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'', but that girl is a lot scarier and a lot tougher than she looks. {{spoiler|She killed Beatrice}}, for crying out loud!

 

* ''[[Grim Tales from Down Below]]'' MiniMandy .

* ''[[Head Trip]]'' Lillian . When a [[Jerk Jock]] was hitting on her and wouldn't take no for an answer, she broke his nose. Apparently, this has happened before.

** WELCOME TO THE PARTY MOTHERFUCKERS.

** Several of the trolls qualify as well; in particular, Vriska is a prolific [[Serial Killer]] due to the need to [[Horror Hunger|feed]] her [[Abusive Parents|lusus]], and Terezi is a [[Magnificent Bitch]] who thinks [[Disability Superpower|being blind]] is ''[[Cursed with Awesome|awesome]]'' and [[Troll|great for messing with people]]. Nepeta, while [[Moe|frighteningly adorable]], is an exceptionally skilled huntress with [[Wolverine Claws]], and even [[Only Sane Man|Kanaya]] [[Girl with Psycho Weapon|fights with a]] [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]].

** Ping fills the trope when she's angry, since she can lift and throw busses, and chase people with a street lamp. The best example is when she {{spoiler|threw a giant turtle ''through'' the top of a skyscraper, crushing Ed and his [[BFG]] in the process.}}

{{quote|'''Ping''': ''[http://megatokyo.com/strip/376 That was very rude, Mr. Turtle!] [http://megatokyo.com/strip/377 You've made my hair all stinky!]''}}

*** Second place to this would be the time she threw Dom out the window. Her aim was slightly off, so his head clipped the wall. And left a neat head-shaped hole right through.

* [http://oglaf.com/son-of-kronar/2/ She... is truly my son.] (NSFW) Badass straight out from the [[Mister Seahorse|"womb"]].

* ''[[Van Von Hunter]]'' Parodied by Ultimate Evil: an eight years old who has mastered the most powerful and evil spell (by skipping to the end of the magic book and memorizing the ultimate spell without learning all the lower level spells first). She almost immediately sides with ''[[Designated Hero|the heroes]]'', and thus isn't a [[Tyke Bomb]].

 

* The ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' Heart Girl. Imagine Superman as a nine-year-old blonde girl with pigtails.

* ''[[Open Blue]]'', in past incarnations, has had a propensity for these kinds of characters, most of them products of [[The Empire|Avelion]]'s [[Tyke Bomb|Espartano Project]]. Presently, the only one around is Janice Cervantes, who actually escaped her training and is now a [[Pirate]] captain... at the age of 14...

* The [[Whateley Universe]]'s [[Beware the Nice Ones|Generator]]. Fourteen, but looks ten. Cute as a button, and loves Hello Kitty. She once destroyed a Syndicate hardsite, killing pretty much everyone who got in her way. After being chained to a table, having her knee smashed with a hammer, and then getting stabbed through the heart so hard the weapon jammed in the table under her.

** Lets not forget the time she was attacked by a huge 9' tall werewolf. She let him punch her, [[Crazy Prepared|revealing a bear trap hidden inside her spirit-clone's face]], then nailed him to a tree using psychically animated railroad spikes, then casually proceeded to <s> tattoo</s> ''brand'' "I attack little girls" on his chest <s> in silver</s> with mithril.

 

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' [[The Ladette|Toph]], the self-proclaimed "greatest earthbender of all time." Best not to disagree with her on that.

** Extra points for not only being [[Moe|adorable]] but also being [[Little Miss Snarker|snarky]], thus allowing you the experience of being sarcastically quipped at by a human Skipper doll.

** Azula also counts. She was [[Younger Than They Look|only 14]] when she first appeared and is arguably more badass than Toph above, since she is also a [[Magnificent Bastard|magnificent bitch]]. A full match between Toph and Azula would have been quite impressive; even [[Word of God]] says as much in an episode commentary.

** Ty Lee as well. She's a [[Moe]], a [[Genki Girl]], and a [[Perky Female Minion]]... who uses her trademark [[Vulcan Nerve Pinch]] to K.O. opponents on an almost [[Once an Episode]] basis.

* ''[[Ben 10]]'' Ben's cousin Gwen (and to a lesser extent, her [[Evil Counterpart]] Charmcaster). Not so much in ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force]]'', where they have both [[She's All Grown Up|grown up considerably.]]

* ''[[Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return]]'' Jessica. Other than being one of the chosen ones and wielding the powers of the Air Tribe, she also boasts a orange belt in judo. [[You Go, Girl!|And she beat]] [[The Hero|Toby]] [[You Go, Girl!|in the school tournament!]]

* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' Heloise, an [[Enfant Terrible]] who spends her free time beating up anyone who displeases her and her on-the-clock hours working for [[Satan]].

* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' All three of them but most noticeable, Buttercup.

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' Maggie Simpson, whose exploits include

** Shooting Mr. Burns.

* Spinelli from [[Recess]].

* [[Star Wars: The Clone Wars|Ahsoka]] [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|kriffing]] [[Star Wars: The Clone Wars|Tano]].

 

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills|Annie Oakley]] started hunting professionally at the age of nine.

* The girl who threw a badger at [[Theodore Roosevelt]] while campaigning. No longer a little Miss, but still was when she was a child. Badass because: 1) She caught a badger, 2) Decided it was cute and fluffy enough to actually name, 3) [[Refuge in Audacity|Tossed the Badger]] at [[Our Presidents Are Different|Theodore "President Action" Roosevelt]]. 4) Roosevelt decided the badger or the girl was badass enough to allow the badger to live with his bear.

* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/6253878/Worlds-youngest-female-karate-black-belt-arrives-in-UK.html Varsha Vinod], 5-year old karate black belt.

** Complete with [[Hair Decorations|pink ribbons]] and [[Girlish Pigtails]]. That is some ''amazing'' GAR-[[Moe]], right there.

 

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