Girls with Guns: Difference between revisions

[['''Girls with Guns]]''' describes a sub-genre of [[Action Adventure Tropes|action media]] that focuses on strong female leads being awesome with firearms. May or may not involve [[Heroic Bloodshed]]. It was developed somewhere in the Hong Kong film industry and has since made itself a genre that is often used in anime. Usually involves gun fights, stunts and martial arts.

[[Small Girl, Big Gun]] is a subtrope--[['''Girls with Guns]]''' aren't necessarily small, and their guns aren't necessarily big. Yeah-heh.

'''Note that this page describes a genre, not a character trope.''' Individual examples of [['''Girls with Guns]]''' go on [[The Gunslinger]].

* [[Shirow Masamune]] obviously [[Author Appeal|has a fetish]] for [[Girls with Guns]]: though the boys get to play as well, the main characters in his books are usually female, and spend much of their time toting, and being awesome with, guns. (Or in one case, ''tanks''). Some of his works: