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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]].

 

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.

* Angel/Tenshi/Kanade Tachibana from ''[[Angel Beats!]]''. She's as close as you can get to a [[StarCraft|Protoss Zealot]] ''and'' [[The Matrix|Agent Smith]] as you can ever get, packaged in a small girl's body.

* 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.

* ''[[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".

* 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.

* 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.

** 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]].

* 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.

* ''<nowiki>[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]</nowiki>'' A purchasable flaw. While this is a flaw in the game, note that flaws actually give you more points to spend elsewhere—meaning a child vampire will actually be ahead of its companions wherever you put those points. There are several examples of powerful vampires that look like children, such as the Malkavian progenitor vampire looking like twelve little girls with glowing eyes.

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', age and power as a psyker are loosely related at best. Although, given 40K this is less Little Miss Badass and more [[Cosmic Horror|Little Miss Walking Portal to Hell]].

 

 

* ''[[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]].}}

* ''[[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.

* [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni|A bunch of paranoid kids who spend most of their time killing each other in a variety of horrific ways]] may seem like an odd choice for this trope, but several of the girls definitely have moments that define them as Little Miss Badasses, mostly in Kai when [[The Power of Friendship]] is at its' strongest. Rika, however, takes the cake for managing to endure {{spoiler|being caught in a Groundhog Day-style time loop--in which ''every single loop'' ends in her death--for over 100 years}} and ''not'' go screamingly insane long before the series proper even begins.

* 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.

* ''[http://www.superstupor.com/sust04092008.shtml Super Stupor]'' by [[Something*Positive|R.K.Milholland]]'s Here's a [[Genre Savvy]] parody.

* ''[[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.

* ''[[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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