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''And my car's faster than yours too''|'''[[Pink]]''', "Cuz I Can"}}
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.
In short, she is a young heterosexual woman with the personality of a frat boy. She is the Lad-ette.
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Despite (or perhaps because of) their masculine personalities, Lad-ettes are generally heavily sexualised and are not likely to let any males in the company forget they are female. They usually disdain the hassle of highly elaborate feminine clothing/hair/make-up, but don't often dress in a truly cross-dressing way. They are also generally attractive; an actually ''[[Brawn Hilda|ugly]]'' Ladette is very unusual. Male characters may well be sexually interested in Ladettes for various reasons, whether it's appreciation of their masculine personality and interests, because they don't disapprove of laddish behaviour, or simply because of their assumed willingness to engage in casual sex.
Also note that [[The Ladette]] in fiction [[She Cleans Up Nicely|not uncommonly winds up dropping her lifestyle in favour of something more conventional.]] It is difficult to tell whether this is [[Truth in Television]] or not, given how relatively recent the character type is, but there is probably at least an element of wishful thinking at play.
Compare and contrast with other tropes about women who look/behave in a traditionally "masculine" way: the [[Tomboy]] (she might have been one when young); [[Bifauxnen]] (where the girl can effectively pass as a male - though ironically while lacking most of the 'masculine' behaviour of the Ladette); [[Pirate Girl]]; and [[Butch Lesbian]] (a bit of overlap, although most Ladettes are not gay or bi, and many Butch Lesbians don't have hedonistic lifestyles). If that hot girl is acting like a guy because she's not 100% girl, it's a case of [[Everybody Wants the Hermaphrodite]]. Sometimes, especially in anime and manga, one of these gets teamed up with a [[Bifauxnen and Ladette|more-refined masculine-acting character]].
Also compare with her female drinking mates, the [[Hard-Drinking Party Girl]] and the [[Lady Drunk]]. And, for the ideologies for and against her, see [[Girls Need Role Models]], [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses]] and [[Vasquez Always Dies]]. [[The Squadette]] may also be a Lad-ette, but it's not a job requirement.
Contrast with [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] and [[Proper Lady]], who are the feminine personified.
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* [[Lady of War|Maria Kurusu]] in ''[[Genzo]]'' despite being well endowed is also quite masculine in both some traits (her eyebrows) and mannerism.
* Launch's "bad side" in ''[[Dragon Ball]]''. Extremely violent, loves guns, and drinks hard.
* Benio Hanamura from [[Haikara-san ga Tooru]] is an early version.
* 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).
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* ''[[Agnes Grey]]'': Matilda Murray embodies this trope back in Victorian England, and needless to say this does not go over well at all.
* The [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'' explores this. Many of the characters have been keeping up the [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] act for so long that, at one point in the story, they have a hard time passing for ''female''.
** 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.
* In The [[Discworld]] novel ''Discworld/Thud!'' , the girls of the City Watch elect to go out on one monstrous choirboys-style bender, picking up like minded friends along the way. A cheesed-off Watch sergeant (male0 describes the ladette behaviour of the policewomen with the very apt pun ''minge-drinking''.
* ''[[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.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* 21st-century ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' has Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, who can drink a Cylon under the table, and gets into brawls on a fairly regular basis. As [[Katee Sackhoff]] said of Kara, "She's a girl who drinks most of her calories."
** 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.
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* ''[[Seinfeld]]'' has Elaine Benes.
* ''Sharon Osbourne's Charm School''. Similarly to the ''Ladette to Lady'' example above, the contestants on the show.
* ''Square One TV'': one of the actresses, Cynthia Darlow, displayed a good PBS Kids version of a Ladette.
* ''[[Star Trek]]:[[Deep Space Nine]]'': Jadzia Dax belongs to the Trill species who can [[Bizarre Alien Biology|fuse]] with an intelligent worm-like symbiont. The symbiont is very long-lived and when the humanoid body dies it is implanted into a new body, carrying all the memories and identities of all previous hosts. This creates a new individual who has lived as both men and women several times over. Jadzia (The name of the Trill, Dax is the symbiont) is usually a disciplined, intelligent, and very-well mannered officer, but off-duty can get a little bit wild -- sometimes meeting up with her [[Badass Grandpa|old Klingon friends]] for a night of starting drunken bar fights. Sisko also calls her "Old Man," having been friends with Dax's previous host.
** ''Deep Space Nine'' also has an interesting subversion in that the host after Jadzia, Ezri, is NOT a Ladette, suggesting that this was part of Jadzia's personality from the start.
* ''[[That '70s Show]]'' has Donna Pinciotti. Eric first fell for her after she ''punched him in the gut''.
* ''[[Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps]]'': Janet Keogh has many elements of this, although she does have her "girly" moments as well.
* [[Wizards of Waverly Place|Alex Russo]] fits this trope to a T.
** Stevie even more so.
** Of course it's common [[Fanon]] that Stevie is a lesbian and Alex is generally considered so... or in love with her brother.
* ''[[The West Wing]]'': C.J. Cregg, although only to the same extent as her male colleagues, who are rather far removed from stereotypically male behavior themselves.
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* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'': The titular character.
* ''[[Las Vegas]]'' has Sam Marquez. Though she doesn't look the part she certainly acts it.
* In an episode of ''[[7th Heaven]]'', Ruthie wanted to be like Simon and "the guys" which included nothing but being rude and crude.
* In ''[[Married... with Children]]'', Marci's [[Identical Cousin]] is this trope in all but sexual preference; {{spoiler|Al even falls for her.}}
* 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.
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* [[Kesha|Ke$ha]]. Or at least the character she plays in her songs.
* Interestingly enough, [[Lady Gaga]]. During her concerts, she's loud, and crass, swearing and grinding on her dancers, and generally pissing off the [[Moral Guardians]] with her decidely unlady-like behavior all while having a blast. Has also stated she would carry around a razor in her mouth when she was growing up in [[New York]].
* Marina & the Diamonds [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O2W18RE6nI Girls,].
* Maybe "Guys Do It All the Time" by Mindy McCready (the final verse suggests that she may be putting it on to try to get her boyfriend to see how she feels when he acts like this)
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpMPFGBtE7Q&fmt=18 Natalie Portman.]
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* Prodigy's video for "Smack My Bitch Up": {{spoiler|the main character}}.
* All of [[Shampoo]]'s work. Especially "Girl Power", which invented the phrase before the [[Spice Girls]] hijacked it and took the threat out.
* [[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.
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** Matriach Aethyta is also this, which she says is the result of her father being [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|a Krogan]].
** Also Mel, a Marine who can be heard in Purgatory in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' who wants to get drunk and watch asari dancers.
* Aveline from ''[[Dragon Age 2]]'' can hold her own in a fight rather better than most, is stubborn to a fault, and is rather masculine in temperament; she's rather more mature and less comfortable with courtship than most examples of this trope but she certainly behaves a lot more like a male character in a fantasy game than a female one. She's also described, despite being rather calm and reserved, as being so physically strong she's ''terrifying''. Isabella is a much better example: she enjoys her fights, drinks, gambling, big boats and casual sex encounters, and she's not rude but loves to tease people with innuendo.
* ''[[Mother 3]]'': [[Rebellious Princess]] Kumatora is so brash and unfeminine, she gets mistaken for a boy by a few citizens of Tazmily Village.
* ''[[Touhou]]'': Suika and Yuugi both share this trait (along with [[Hard-Drinking Party Girl]] and [[Cute Bruiser]]), and it is implied to be common to all female [[The Ogre|oni]] in the series. Notably, the [[Bifauxnen]] characters of the series are relatively more feminine.
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* ''[[The Nostalgia Chick]]''. When she's not reviewing, she'll be dressed in messy clothes with her hair down and no make-up on. In the beginning of ''[[Kickassia]]'', she spends most of her time drinking beer and disinterestedly going along with the crowd--and it's quite clear, once the Critic becomes N Bison, that her submissive little conservative woman persona is, aside from a dig at [[Sarah Palin]], an act to get herself more power.
* In the ''[[Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time]]'' episode Cookie Cataclysm, one is being served. Even the chef has to quickly run away in fear.
* In ''[[Suburban Senshi]]'' this is revealed to be Sailor Uranus' real personality. Her fancy one seen in the series is a public facade.
* Fireflare from [[Equestria Chronicles]] fits the bill perfectly. [[Running Gag|Except in the sex category.]]
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** An adult example is Sil'lice's daughter [http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=1033 Kadara] (the one with blue facial tattoos) whose [[Sir Swearsalot|foul mouth]] and butch appearance caused quite a bit of [[Viewer Gender Confusion]] until Sil'lice called her "daughter" and settled the question.
* 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.
* Frigg of ''[[Guilded Age]]''. Swears, drinks, loves fighting, and is a messy eater.
* Cho of ''Kagerou'' fits the trope to a T.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Adventure Time]]'': Marceline is portrayed this way, in a PG-setting mostly due to her willingness to fight everyone and everything, as well as the sheer joy she experiences from doing so. Not to mention fitting the hygiene part too, as displayed in episodes (most notably in "Marceline's Closet") where she is seen not washing her hands after using the bathroom, and remarking that her armpits stink.
* ''[[American Dad]]'': Francine has her moments, mostly as flashbacks, although occasionally this also surfaces when she's reminiscing about her wild life in the days before she met Stan.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' has two, one major character and one minor.
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