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{{quote|''"She obviously has that to [[Compensating for Something|compensate for her small penis]]."''|'''[[That Guy With
{{quote|''"There's just something about oversized sharp objects that really bring out the craziness."''|'''[http://blogsuki.com/archives/2008/11/16/2076/ Jason Miao]'''}}
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* Nina from ''[[Code Geass]]'' starts as the [[Shrinking Violet]] with a crush on Euphemia Li Britannia {{spoiler|and after [[Freak-Out|she finds she died]], she puts the 'psycho' back in [[Psycho Lesbian]] by creating a nuclear weapon to kill Zero along with Tokyo}}. After the [[Time Skip]], Turns out {{spoiler|she suceeds on the second part}}.
* In ''[[
** {{spoiler|And she does all this while [[Stepford Smiler|smiling pleasantly]].}}
* In an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37mPoKQijj8 infamous scene] from a chapter of ''[[
{{quote| '''Yukari''': W-what?<br />
'''Osaka''': Oh, you're awake? I screwed up. }}
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*** It's amazing Yukari managed to get any sleep the next night.
* ''[[The Wallflower|Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge]]'': Because Sunako [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette|resembles]] [[The Ring|Sadako]] so closely, it's not surprising how creepy Sunako looks with a knife in her hand. Most of the time it's only there to chop fish with... but it looks creepy nonetheless.
* Every angel (especially the main character) in ''[[
** The title character Dokuro uses her giant spiked club Excalibolg on Sakura to [[Made of Plasticine|splatter him into tiny bits]]...[[Once an Episode|repeatedly]].
* [[Yandere|Kaede Fuyou]] of ''[[Shuffle]]'' is best known (although it was [[It Was His Sled|originally treated as a spoiler]]) for [[Murder the Hypotenuse|snapping on her love rival]], Asa Shigure, with a boxcutter. {{spoiler|She doesn't succeed}}. It is revealed that she's done this before, {{spoiler|on the very [[Unlucky Everydude]] she's chasing after, when she thought he was to blame for her mother's death; a part of [[Extreme Doormat|her devotion to Rin]] comes from her guilt over this incident.}}
* Skuld in ''[[Ah!
* An extremely unusual instance of this trope occurs in ''[[Trigun]]''. Milly is generally a very large, quiet, cheerful woman. However, when danger looms, she pulls out a ''freaking enormous'' gun from underneath her voluminous cloak.
** Considered it's non-lethal, she can cut loose with unfettered blasting without it ever actually being psycho. But the appearance is there, and certainly cowed a saloon-full of leering thugs in her introduction. Her typically genial smile probably came across as [[Dissonant Serenity]] to them.
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** Ironically, she has ''so many'' psycho weapons that she doesn't have an iconic one.
** She seems most comfortable with knives, but has also demonstrated extreme skill with axes, handguns, and even, on occasion, a grenade.
* [[The Mole|Due]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* Kitsu Chiri from ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
** There's a couple of instances, like the [[Alternate Universe]] mystery episode and in one Zan episode (the one introducing Oora), in which nearly every girl in the class would qualify.
* Nekoko from ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'' attacks with a giant syringe the size of her body.
* [[Yandere|Senjougahara Hitagi]] from ''[[
** They've got nothing on the stapler, though.
* ''[[
** Also Haruna from ''[[Kore wa Zombie Desu
* Kokoa of ''[[Rosario to Vampire]] Season 2'' turns a small bat named Kyou into any weapon she feels like having. On the front of the second volume she is seen carrying some kind of saw-sword or [http://animeradius.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Rosario2-2-Cover-.jpg something ].
* Probably every girl in ''[[
* There's perhaps an unfortunate lack of female Meisters in ''[[Soul Eater]]'' to wield Psycho Weapons. But we do have Maka Albarn, with her [[Sinister Scythe|scythe]] Weapon Soul Eater. Kim's Weapon Jackie does not ''look'' too dangerous as a lantern. [[Kill It
** And then you have Crona, whose gender hasn't been decided on by the creator. His/Her weapon is quite literally psycho. It's fueled by madness (as it is made of Crona's black blood), and can [[Body Horror|rip out of Crona's back]] into either a muscular humanoid or draconic form. Both of which are anchored to Crona's spine. Yecht.
* The "Princess" in ''[[Princess Resurrection]]'' is seen using a different one of these [[Once an Episode|every single issue]].
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* Many, if not all, of the Otherworld characters in the ''[[Black Rock Shooter]]''-verse uses one of these as their [[Weapon of Choice]]. The list includes Black Gold Saw ([[BFS|King Saw]]), Dead Master ([[Sinister Scythe|Dead Scythe]]), Srength (mechanical gauntlets almost as big as she is)...Even the eponymous character has one in the form of the [[BFG|Rock Cannon]] (As an added bonus, she has a [[Katanas Are Just Better|Katana]] as well).
* Most Pandora in [[Freezing]] special mention goess to Satellizer's Nova Blood a giant razor and Chiffon's Anti-Nova Trial form a giant clawed gauntlet.
* Both Erika Furudo and Bernkastel wield a giant scythe in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* Two examples crop up in ''[[Highschool of the Dead]]'', one playing this fairly straight, one subverting the trope hardcore.
** Saeko Busujima is known to be a kendo expert and had practice later on in the afternoon that the outbreak occurred, so nobody's really surprised at the fact that she's wielding a [[Wooden Sword|bokan]] at the time. It's not until later we learn that she rather...enjoys being able to wield her full strength and skill without remorse or worry, and becomes [[Immodest Orgasm|very excited]] when the main hero gives her a proper sword and effectively tells her to have at it.
** Saya Takagi gets her first kill while cornered in a supply closet, and the only thing she can crab at is a [[This Is a Drill|power drill.]] The subversion is that, while she doesn't hesitate (since she, y'know, doesn't want to get eaten), she has a [[Heroic BSOD|complete breakdown]] over the situation, so the psycho part isn't so much [[Axe Crazy]] as it is post traumatic stress disorder.
* In ''[[Bitter Virgin]]'', Kazuki wields a pair of scissors and on several occasions has attempted to stab Hinako as she sees her stealing Daisuke from her. When Yuzu asks her about said scissors, Kazuki casually replies they are for "protection from perverts".
* All of these psycho weapon-wielding girls are predated by {{spoiler|Mariko Shinobu}} from ''[[Oniisama
* ''[[
* [[Fairy Tail|Erza]] in her flashback wielding [[Dual Wield|two]] [[BFS|BFSES]].
* Tenten in ''[[Naruto]]'' with her temporary Jidanda: one oversized [[Spike Balls of Doom|Spiky Ball of Doom]].
* [[Blood Plus|Sa]][[Blood
* [[Pokémon (
* ''[[Durarara]]'' gives us a literal example: {{spoiler|the mostly-stable Sonohara Anri wields Saika, a demonic sword which is itself quite insane}}.
* In ''[[Cube X Cursed X Curious]]'' the girls ARE the weapons and some are not particulary stable.
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* [[Quentin Tarantino]] wrote one of these girls (Gogo Yubari) into ''[[Kill Bill]]''. She used a wakizashi on a perverted salaryman with very gory results and battled the Bride with a saw-bladed meteor hammer.
* Fans of Takashi Miike's work may remember a little film named ''[[Audition]]''. Asami Yamazaki is gentle and soft-spoken - but what she does with razor wire and acupuncture needles in the last twenty minutes will make even the most hardened horror fan cringe. The appearance of a previous boyfriend in a dream sequence shortly before gives some idea of [[Yandere|what she will do to prevent her lovers from leaving her]].
* At the end of ''[[
* The Japanese revenge-porn movie ''[[
* In ''[[High Tension]]'', when the protagonist Marie's best friend Alex is abducted by a depraved serial killer, Marie fights psycho with psycho by wielding a butcher knife, a club wrapped in barbed wire, and even a ''circular saw'' in her efforts to get her friend back. In fact the saw is an industrial concrete/steel saw, a tool that can be used to cut through reinforced walls. You could probably take on the [[Terminator]] with one of those things.
* The quiet female protagonist gets this way when she and her grandfather are terrorized in the movie ''[[Axe (
* The entire point of ''Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers''.
* [[Ellen Page]] dons [[Wolverine Claws]] in ''[[
== Literature ==
* Yamasaki Asami, the psychotic serial killer from author Ryu Murakami's book ''Audition'', on which the Takashi Miike movie above is based, fits this trope to a T. Not only does she paralyze her victims using a syringe injected straight into the skin under the tongue, but she removes a man's foot with a wire saw and would have gotten the other foot too if she {{spoiler|hadn't been killed}}.
* ''[[Rats, Bats, and Vats
* [[The Grim Reaper|Death]]'s adopted daughter in ''[[Discworld
{{quote| Ysabell was standing in the archway, smiling faintly. She held a scythe in one hand, a scythe with a blade of proverbial sharpness. Rincewind tried not to look down at his blue lifeline; a girl holding a scythe shouldn't smile in that unpleasant, knowing and slightly deranged way.}}
** In later [[Discworld]] books, her daughter Susan has much the same effect, despite being [[Only Sane Man|decidedly un-deranged]]. She does still have a [[Sinister Scythe]], after all, and there's something ''more'' chilling about her variety of sanity.
** Of course, due to the level of [[Retcon]] in the early Discworld books, when we properly meet Ysabell in [[Discworld
* Mitsuko Souma in ''[[Battle Royale]]'' uses a ''kama'' (Japanese sickle) as her signature weapon in all three versions of the story.
* In the story ''[[Dark Red Mind]]'', the [[No Fourth Wall|fourth wall]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|cutting]] Kaitlyn Wernher is a slight example of this trope. Upon first glance, she just seems like an exceptionally cheery twenty year old woman. But it's all a mask. Mentally, she's severely crazy, completely insane and totally fucking bonkers. As for her weapon, she doesn't need one. Her superhuman power is ''cutting. She can fucking split anything she looks at in half.''
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== Tabletop RPG ==
* In ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', the Sisters of Battle ([[Amazon Brigade|an entire army]] of [[Church Militant|Nuns With Guns]]) feature large numbers of women carrying [[Kill It
* While women carrying big, scary looking weapons is fairly common in ''[[Exalted]]'', the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Maiden of the Mirthless Smile]] is probably the one with most of this.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[
** Oh, and the two are good girls! They aid players in battle for one hour, after being summoned with a certain "henchman device". Buying that device also unlocks their weapons.
* "Conclusion of Blood," the bad ending from the [[Visual Novel]] ''[[
* Aversion: [[
** Played almost straight in ''[[
** Female elven warrior Warden. [[BFS|Two-handed broadsword]]. [[Beware the Nice Ones|Run]].
* The eponymous character from ''[[American McGee's Alice]]'' slices and dices everyone and everything with her wicked kitchen knife. Until she needs to kill faster and more efficiently, that is. This is a literal psycho example, since she's really [[Cuckoo Nest|locked up in an insane asylum]] and all this is [[Journey to
* In ''[[Heavenly Sword]]'', the supporting heroine, Kai, is an adorable girl who seems not all there in the head. She wields some sort of [[Automatic Crossbows|giant reloading crossbow]]. She also won't hesitate to threaten an enemy's '[[Groin Attack|weak point]]' for 'massive damage'.
* ''[[Touhou]]'' character [[Knife Nut|Sakuya]] [[Ninja Maid|Izayoi]] seems to be this, to an extent.
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* In ''[[Yume Nikki]]'', Madotsuki can use a kitchen knife, which causes some characters to move away from her if equipped, and is only effective against characters are harmless anyway (Uboa can't be stabbed, and the Toriningen take multiple hits, and will almost certainly get you first). She has 24 effects/items that she can use in total, but judging by the [[Fan Art]], the knife is easily the most remembered.
** Most <s>protagonists</s> player characters in [[Yume Nikki]] fangames. Urotsuki from Yume 2kki in particular uses a [[Chainsaw Good|CHAINSAW]], and other ones use [[Bigger Stick|a pipe, a club with nails in it]], [[An Axe to Grind|an axe]], and more.
* Baby Bonnie Hood from ''[[
* [[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice|Sapphire and her chainsaw]]. Played for laughs in one of the funniest moments of the third game.
** She's also proficient with [[Ax Crazy|axes]].
* Tira from [[Soul Calibur]] uses a weapon that's crazy in itself, being a bladed hula hoop sort of thing.
* Each Little Sister in the ''[[
* Krusche Elendia of [[Ar Tonelico]] isn't a psycho per se, but being a [[Wrench Wench]] as she is, her weapon of choice is a chainsaw.
* Alfimi from ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' is an adorable [[Emotionless Girl]] who pilots <s>a [[Humongous Mecha]]</s> an [[Eldritch Abomination]] styled after a Japanese demon wielding a katana. In her ultimate attack, she smiles cheerfully while impaling the enemy and wiggling the sword inside the wound, which is even more disturbing when she does it in ''[[Endless Frontier|Endless Frontier EXCEED]]'' without her mecha.
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* [[Cute Witch]] Evie from ''[[Vindictus]]'' gains the ability to wield an increasingly large, elaborate, and frightening-looking [[Sinister Scythe]] (some versions of which are larger than she is).
* Lady in [[Devil May Cry|Devil May Cry 3]] sports the "Kalina Ann," a modified [[BFG|rocket launcher]] that is topped off with a bayonet.
* [[Older Than They Look|Presea]] [[Emotionless Girl|Combatir]] of [[
* ''[[
== Webcomics ==
* Little Red Riding Hood from ''[[Ever After (
** ''Another'' Red, this time from ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (
* Mell Kelly of ''[[Narbonic]]'' has an ''alarming'' tendency to get her hands on such weapons, which, coupled with [[Heroic Sociopath|her nature]], makes her one of the scarier ([[Rule of Funny|in a funny way]]) characters of the series.
* Oasis from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' is a very sweet girl until something comes between her and Torg or she spots a Hereti Corp employee. Then the knives come out.
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== Web Original ==
* Not just girls, but ''[[Protectors of the Plot Continuum]]'' Agents in general, tend to be unbalanced. They also tend to have a thing for [[BFS|pointy objects]], [[BFG|BFG's]], [[Kill It
* Don't piss [[
* Jade Sinclair (Generator) of the [[Whateley Universe]] ''loves'' this trope. There's her cabbit... that turns into a [[Killer Rabbit]] and once slaughtered around a dozen badguys in one fight. There's her Hello Kitty compact, which flies... and knives pop out of the sides to become a sinning top of doom. There's 'Spinner', which is basically a lawnmower blade spinning at high speed without the lawnmower engine or housing getting in the way. There's the big athame that she turned into a spinning blade. The railroad spikes. The bear trap. There's a reason she's on the page for [[Crazy Awesome]].
* [[OS-tan|Windows 98 SE-tan]] aka "Secchan" is usually depicted with a ''can opener'' which she uses to [[Does Not Like Men|castrate all men.]]
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