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{{quote|''All right, I drink more than you''

''I party harder than you do''

 

She likes sports, beer, cars, swearing, fighting and sex. She is crude, rude, often hygienically challenged and cheerfully ignorant and aggressive. If you are a guy, she'll probably challenge you to a fight or a drinking competition, win both and then take an aggressive lead in anything sexual that happens, before kicking you out the front door the following morning or teasing you mercilessly if she lets you stay some more.

 

Contrast with [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] and [[Proper Lady]], who are the feminine personified.

 

== [[Advertising]] ==

* The star of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-N9xocbtPw this] beer commercial.

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Ayase Yuto's sister in [[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu]] can outdrink anyone.

* Played straight in the anime that is [[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy Angel]] with Forte, what with being the obsessed [[Gun Nut]] that she is. Subverted with the game from which the anime was adapted (See the Video Games section entry).

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Kate Spencer, the modern [[Manhunter (comics)|Manhunter]], smokes, drinks and works as a Federal prosecutor for her day job, and in her off hours she takes out [[Karma Houdini]] criminals and does ''not'' abide by the [[Thou Shall Not Kill]] rule most heroes follow.

* ''[[Red Sonja]]'' - everything but the sex.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* Kate, the female blacksmith from ''[[A Knight's Tale]]'' is a medieval version of this trope. The end of the film has her winning a flatulence contest with the other men.

* Atalanta in the Hallmark adaptation of ''[[Jason and the Argonauts]]''.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* ''[[Agnes Grey]]'': Matilda Murray embodies this trope back in Victorian England, and needless to say this does not go over well at all.

** After centuries of [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|being indistinguishable from the men]], Dwarf women in Ankh-Morpork are experimenting with femininity and mostly hitting this point.

*** Namely, they started wearing leather or mail skirts with their armor and sometimes wear make-up, or slight heels on their iron-shod, hobnailed boots. Beards, armor, helmets, axes, drinking, singing about gold, etc.--stays the same. That being said, they don't drink ''beer'' so much anymore.

* ''[[Dragonlance]]'' has Kitiara Uth Matar, the love interest of Tanis Half-Elven and the Blue Dragonlord. Kit is has been shown to drink with her (mostly male) soldiers, happily engage in random battle and has no qualms about using her sexuality to further her goals or just to satisfy her boredom.

** Her showing these traits and her lack of inhibitions are what attracted Tanis (and indeed several other major players in the Dragonlance universe) in the first place.

* [[Anita Blake]], and how. Particularly pronounced as the series went on and all women except the titular character became characterized as weak, jealous, or otherwise not in contention for Anita's enormous reverse harem. Anita Blake is the distaff version of a male fantasy - where the titular character raises the dead, works for the police but also plays vigilante, and let's not forget the harem. Thirty or so men, with at least six regulars, and at least one new flavour per book. She's the biggest swinging dick in the series, and she [[The Immodest Orgasm|makes sure you know it]].

 

** The coed but macho military means that a number of other female characters have some elements of this, especially Kat.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Faith the sexual and violent slayer. She loves a good meal of burgers and fries, and can chug beer like a champion.

* Dee Reynolds in ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'' can be sometimes as gross and sleazy as the male trio, yet still believe that her living style is on par with the ''[[Sex and the City]]'' crowd.

* ''[[Smallville]]'': Lois Lane is a tough fighter and a heavy drinker. (The latter being the reason she was expelled from Metropolis University).

 

== [[Music]] ==

* [[Ashlee Simpson]]: "Autobiography" and "Rule Breaker" helps her cause.

* [[Rihanna]], her actions after Good Girl Gone Bad indicate this, but Gangasta 4 Life proves it a fact.

 

== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

** TNA <s> has</s> had another, less extreme, example in "The Hardcore Knockout" Roxxi. She's not constantly getting liquored up and cracking dirty jokes like ODB, but her punk look and [[Garbage Wrestler]] style definitely set her apart from the more feminine members of the roster.

* WWE has the [[Chick Busters]], AJ and Kaitlyn who like comic books, video games, action movies and playing practical jokes. The two of them can get girly at times though.

 

== [[Toys]] ==

* Kiina from ''[[Bionicle]]'', at least [[Character Development|initially]], if you read the [[All There in the Manual|novel and her backstory]]. Being a [[Gladiator Games|Glatorian]], stuck on a planet that she hated, she didn't have any reasons to act girly. If you only watch [[The Movie]] where she became something of a [[Genki Girl]], or read the story in which she is [[Promoted to Love Interest]], this trope may not seem so obvious.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

{{quote|Tact: "I thought you'd say something like 'The scent of gunpowder is my cologne!' or something."

Forte: "Evidently, [[You Watch Too Much X|you read too many novels]]." }}

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[Questionable Content]]'': Faye is like this, to a certain extent. Subverted in that she is recognized as being an alcoholic and, at times, a total bitch. Plus, you know, the daddy issues.

** A straighter example would be Natasha (a.k.a. Nat). No love for hygiene, rude, crude, and often inappropriate. And once passed out topless on the copying machine at her workplace.

* ''[[Shadowgirls]]'' Charon is the poster-child for this trope.

* ''[http://vanheist.deviantart.com/gallery/ Bomango.] Gogo Bomango''

* ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella]]'' Wonderella.

* Pauline from ''[[Our Little Adventure]]''

* Camille, Shannon's sister from ''[[Bloody Urban]]'' takes the "Generally Attractive" part and subverts it. ''[[Ugly Cute|HARD.]]''

* ''[[Rumors of War]]'' Illyra likes to party and have fun—which can include [[Conversational Troping]] and trashing bozos. She thinks the rest of her adventuring party (including the devil-may-care [[Anti-Hero]]) need to lighten up. She gets the closest to vice she can in a setting that doesn't acknowledge [[Lighter and Softer|drinking, swearing, or sex]]. Not a [[Playing with a Trope|straight]] example, however, since she [[Pimped-Out Dress|wears a dress]] and actually [[Genius Bruiser|has a good deal of cunning]].

* In ''[[Drowtales]]'', Kiel exhibits many of the characteristics of this trope, but at 24 years old, she's still a minor for her long-lived race.

* Shelly of ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' tends towards this at times.

* Haley from [[Order of the Stick]] is a wildly unrepentant thief, capable of murdering her way through a house filled with her former allies, and makes no bones about the fact that one of the primary appeals of her boyfriend is what he's got "under the hood". If she's actually acting girlish in a way more involved than showing cleavage, it's probably because she's trying to con you or flirting with you.

'''Mercutio:''' Arwen's cute and all, but she'd only be into ''elfy'' things, like gardening and embroidery. Whereas Eowyn is equally hot, but would also knock back a beer and play ''[[Quake]] Deathmatch'' with you. }}

 

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

'''Fluttershy:''' How about a bunny? They're cutesy and wutsey and quick as can be.

'''Rainbow Dash:''' Cutesy? Wutsey? Have you even met me? }}

** From ''[[All Grown Up!]]'' Lil tries to act like a girly-girl to fit in with everyone else but a few episodes show she's a Ladette at heart. Her friend from the soccer team Wally is one as well.

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Although Marge is not an an example, Homer once described being married to her as "Like having a best friend, and he lets me feel his boobs," summarizing this trope to a T.

* ''[[Swat Kats]]'' Felina Feral.

* ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' Lanolin is a cross between Joan Jett and [[Lamb Chop]].

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

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[[Category:Always Female]]

[[Category:Tomboy]]

[[Category:All the Tropes Superhero Team]]

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