Little Miss Badass: Difference between revisions

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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]].

== Anime and Manga ==

* 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.

* Sweet, adorable and harmless {{spoiler|Elizabeth "Lizzie" Middleford}} of ''[[Black Butler]]'' [[Lady of War|turns out to be one]] when it's revealed in Chapter 57 {{spoiler|that because she didn't want her [[Childhood Marriage Promise|fiancé]] Ciel to see her "uncute" side, she [[Deliberately Distressed Damsel|deliberately hid]] her [[Little Miss Badass|badass]] side and did a very good job of it until, finally, when Ciel despite his best efforts ends up [[Dude in Distress|injured and unable to save her]], Elizabeth candidly leaps into the air and [[Waif Fu|takes down the zombies]] with [[Dual-Wielding|swords in both hands]], saying that she will save him and become the wife of the Queen's Watchdog.}}

* 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...}}

** [[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.}}

* Ai Haibara in ''[[Detective Conan]]'', despite being [[Older Than They Look|older than she looks]], is ''absolutely'' a [[Little Miss Badass]]. How often do you see an apparent second-grader calmly leveling a handgun at someone?

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

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

** ''[[Freddy vs. Jason]]'' Lori, (played by 5'1" Monica Keena) pulling Freddy out of the dream world, setting a dock on fire, and killing him with Jason's machete. By the end she is one of the most kickass [[Final Girl|Final Girls]] in either series (not to mention the hottest).

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

* ''[[Zombieland]]'' Little Rock ([[Abigail Breslin]]).

** 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.}}

* Although she's not a prominent character, a girl named Kym in ''[[Return Of The Emperor]]'' is a major [[Little Miss Badass]]. She uses her looks (and her weapons) to knock out unsuspecting men and steal their stuff. She is used as part of the base for a smear campaign against Dusable's moron of a ruler.

* 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''.

* In Neil Stevensons [[Post Cyber Punk|post-cyberpunk]] novel ''[[The Diamond Age]]'', one of the many convoluted subplots revolves around a [[The Triads and the Tongs|Shanghai crime boss]] whose suspected child trafficking activities turn out to be actually a large scale plan to save unwanted baby girls from certain death and provide them with an education only high class children can dream off. Through clever planning he also gets his hand on mass produced version of an electronic [[Great Big Book of Everything]], that was supposed to a unique item for the granddaughter of the [[Fiction 500|richest man on earth]]. Being Chinese, they also were all trained in [[Waif Fu|martial arts]]. In the end, it all comes down to Shanghai going to hell with a large scale civil war with ethnic cleansing, suicide bombings, and all the other ugly things. But then {{spoiler|the day is saved by massive armies of twelve year old girls marching in huge columns from the countryside and putting down all resistance in a matter of hours.}}

** Korra from ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'' started Water-, Earth- and Firebending when she was ''four'' (Avatars aren't told they're the Avatar until they're sixteen, even Aang didn't figure out how to bend the other elements on his own). She terrified the [[Old Master|Old Masters]] that came to test her and declared, "[[Badass Boast|I'm the Avatar and you got to deal with it!]]"

* ''[[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.]]

* ''[[Invader Zim]]'' Gaz is all badass. The fact that she's only nine and has already beaten the living crap out of her older brother at least three times, coupled with the fact that she nearly killed a guy over a video game system, makes her qualify.

* ''[[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]].