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''He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
''But the [[Mama Bear|she-bear]] thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail.
''For the female of the species is [[Trope Namer|more deadly than the male]].
|'''[[Rudyard Kipling]]'''}}
Oh, look, a [[Proper Lady]]. She is calm, always ready with a [[Stepford Smiler|genuine smile]], and [[Sacred Hospitality|the perfect hostess]]. Oh no! The audience is wincing; here come the bad guys, [[Stuffed in The Fridge|she doesn't stand a...]]
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]]
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Ikari Gendo is a [[Magnificent Bastard]] and the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive]] who commands a force of [[Humongous Mecha]]. His son Shinji pilots one of these mecha. Gendo's wife and Shinji's mom, the [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] Yui? She is {{spoiler|the soul of said mecha that Shinji pilots, prone to [[Unstoppable Rage]] [[Mama Bear|in order to protect her son]] [[Beware the Nice Ones|and RIPPING HER OPPONENTS LIMB FROM LIMB BEFORE DEVOURING THEIR ORGANS! It's also quite likely that she is the actual mastermind behind the whole Instrumentality project and the Evas. Gendo really only takes over command because she is no longer able to.]]}} By the way, Ikari is ''her'' birth name, not Gendo's.
* In a flashback in the first episode of ''[[Moshidora]]'', Minami, at bat in the bottom of the ninth with the scores tied in a junior baseball game, makes a wild swing at the first pitch that convinces everyone she is a hopeless batter. It turns out that her wild swing was done ''intentionally'' to lull the pitcher into a false sense of security, and on his next pitch she is able to get a hit and score the winning run.
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* In ''[[Species]]'', the decision was made to make the alien hybrid female "so she'd be more docile and controllable". A female scientist observes that "[[Genre Savvy|You don't get out much, do you?]]"
** The sequel subverts this, however; it turns out that a male hybrid is much more dangerous (and can turn tame female hybrids to its side pretty much just by existing).
* In ''[[Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken]]'', only female members of the royal family (including Ruby, her mother, and grandmother) can [[Catch Phrase|"Go Big"]] and assume their giant true kraken form, although that doesn't mean the males can't fight if they have to.
== Literature ==
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* One of the Marines in ''[[Generation Kill]]'' says this when he observes the women of a town doing backbreaking labor to clear the streets and their yards of debris, while the men lounged on the lawns smoking.
{{quote|"If we had to fight the women, dawg, we wouldn't stand a fuckin' chance."}}
== [[Music]] ==
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** Considering they're the only enemies that will accept surrender rather than just killing him, wouldn't that make them ''less'' deadly?
* In [[Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time|Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time,]] there are 2 thwomps that the Bros. encounter on top of Yoshi Mountain, Mr. thwomp and Ms. thwomp. Mr. thwomp does nothing but make passive-agressive taunts at you and help you throughout the following stage. Ms. thwomp, however, challenges you to a full-on boss fight against her, and it's [[That One Boss|certainly not an easy fight.]]
* In the ''[[Pokémon]]'' world, both Combee and Salandrit are species where only the female can evolve, into Vespiqueen and Salazzle, respectively, and as fully-evolved Pokémon are much more powerful than the pre-evolved forms, this Trope applies to them. Also, Tauros and Miltank are male and female equivalents of the same species; while Tauros is pretty tough, Miltank (as [[That One Boss| Whitney]] and anyone who challenges her Gym can attest) is much tougher.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* In military basic training, female drill sergeants seem far meaner than male drill sergeants. And if they're also short, ''[[Oh Crap|well...]]''
* Common among any wild animal with [[Mama Bear]] tendencies.
* Under the leadership of [https://web.archive.org/web/20140927132513/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=454977124513 Blenda] women prepared a feast for an army that was going to invade them, with plenty of booze. Once the army arrived, they accepted the feast. Once the army was thoroughly drunk or otherwise incapacitated, they slew the army with improvised weapons.
* In the only troop of Chimpanzees that make weapons to hunt, female Chimpanzees make use of weapons more. [http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/innovative-female-chimps-may-have-pioneered-tool-use-hunting This might have been the case with primitive humans too].
* The iconic [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] ''Rosie the Riveter'' representing American female munitions workers in [[World War II]]. Maybe not personally dealing death and mayhem
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