Tomboy and Girly Girl: Difference between revisions

'''Important Note''': While this is usually a straight forwardstraightforward trope, examples can still get [[Subjective Trope|subjective]] in regards to whether or not one of the girls is tomboyish enough, the other is girly enough, or whether they're different enough. [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement|Keep a few points in mind when editing]];

* 1.# The two girls do '''not''' have to be polar opposites of each other to fit this trope.

* 2.# The tomboy does '''not''' have to be a total man-beast with no feminine interests.

* 3.# The girly girl does '''not''' have to be a total priss with no masculine interests.

* 4.# Using #2 or #3 to justify deleting an example invokes the very same negative stereotypes and [[Unfortunate Implications]] mentioned above.

* 5.# If you post an example that may not be so obvious, be sure to explain ''how'' one is a tomboy and how the other is a girly girl.

== Anime &and Manga ==

** Parodied/inverted with Russia's two sisters, Belarus and Ukraine. The [[Elegant Gothic Lolita|girly]] Belarus is a frightening [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere]], whereas the [[Bokukko|tomboyish]] Ukraine is a motherly [[Fragile Flower]].

* ''[[Berserk]]'': Before [[It Got Worse]] for her and she became an Apostle, Rosine [https://web.archive.org/web/20111205025355/http://berserk.wikia.com/wiki/File:Roshinu3.jpg was the tomboy to her best friend Jill's girly girl].

** Rukia Kuchiki and Orihime themselves count too, since Rukia is a [[Shorttank]] and still slightly tomboyish when compared to Orihime. Though it can be hard to tell when they first talk to each other [https://web.archive.org/web/20100608190255/http://gallery.bleachexile.com/?id=/////screenshots/002%2F%2F%2F%2F%2Fscreenshots%2F002&file=02-125.JPG&start=97 here].

** The [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/bleach/en/images/3/39/Isane_Kotetsu.jpg Kotetsu]{{Dead link}} [http://img101.animecharactersdatabase.com:81/images/bleach/Kiyone.png sisters]{{Dead link}} are another such pair for siblings; younger sister Kiyone (3rd Seat of the 13th Squad) is the tomboy who gets into arguments with Sentarou and sometimes shows up to duty drunk, and older sister Isane (Lieutenant of the 4th Division) is the girly girl who is fairly timid and often has nightmares.

* ''[[Figure 17]]'' has a mild version of this going on- Hikaru is somewhat tomboyish relative to Tsubasa, wearing more masculine clothes in the opening and being better at sports, but taken on her own she's still quite feminine. The main contrast here is that the [[Artificial Human]] Hikaru is outgoing and extravertedextroverted, and helps to bring out the shy introverted Tsubasa, who was an only child before her artificial twin Tsubasa was accidentally created.

** Arisa Uotani and Saki Hanajima . Uo is a (mostly) reformed [[Gangsters Are Cool|Yankee]] who has been known to bring a lead pipe to school to threaten people who pick on her friends. Hana is a soft-spoken girl with [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] leanings, and the ability to read people's auras. And [[Memetic Mutation|she can kill you]] [[Firefly|with her mind.]] Both scare the crap out of their classmates, except for Tohru.

** Mao ([[Tomboy]]) and Tessa (girly). Sure, Tessa is only 16 and a submaringsubmarine captain while Mao is a soldier and her subordinate but still. They're friends even though their nature is very different.

** ''[[Turn A Gundam (Anime)|Turn a Gundam]]'': The sisters Kiel (girly girl) and Soshie (tomboy) Heim.

* ''House of the Witch'':, Aa short horror manga story, used this trope. The tall, short-haired tomboy is in love with her basketball coach and suspects he fancies her back, but can't act on this because [[Hot for Teacher|a student/teacher relationship would be improper]]. Tomboy confides in her tiny, frilly girly-girl best friend, who professes to despise sweaty, muscular men. Come the graduation party, tomboy is thrilled to finally have the chance to make her feelings known, so goes over—to have the coach interrupt the party to announce his engagement and almost immediate marriage to girly-girl, who had apparently been dating him all along. After that setup, well, it was a horror manga. [[It Got Worse]].

** May Wong shared strong traits of both types, dressing and wearing her hair like a girly girl but acting ''very'' [[Tsundere]]—so — so Sora would sometimes be the tomboy and later play the girly girl part.

* ''[[Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?|Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka]]'' has Seraphim, who is the girly girl to Maelstrom's tomboy (Seraphim's the [[Ojou]], and Maelstrom's the [[Shorttank]]) and the tomboy to Sarasvati's girly girl (Seraphim often, if not always, wears pants, most often dark blue jeans—which is featured in most promotional material she appears in. Sarasvati? Not so much, if at all.).

** If there are any doubts around Konata and Kagami, then Misao (tomboy) / Ayano (girly girl) {{spoiler|and Hikari (tomboy)/ Fuyuki (girly girl)}} must count—the author downright lampshaded that in the character sketches!

* ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross|Macross]]'', like ''Gundam'', also has a thing for this trope.:

** In ''[[Macross II]]'', there was Silvie Gena ([[Ace Pilot]], [[Badass Driver]]), and Ishtar ([[Tsundere]], [[Idol Singer]]).

** ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' has Sheryl Nome ([[Tsundere]], [[Broken Bird]]) and Ranka Lee ([[The Cutie]], [[Moe]])

* [[Madlax]] and Margaret Burton {{spoiler|(Actuallyactually, one person who got split into two)}}.

** ''And now'' we have twoTwo examples from the newfirst two post-''StrikerS'' mangasmanga: Rio and Corona, Vivio's [[Those Two Guys]] in ''ViVid'', and [[Genki Girl|Isis]] and [[The Woobie|Lily]] in ''Force''. Tzuki seems to have a [[Author Appeal|thing for this trope]].

* In the fairytale-esq [[hentai]] ''[[Magical Twilight]]'', Chipple, despite her [[Moe]] appearence and [[Girlish Pigtails]], is the tomboy to slutty Irene's girly girl.

* ''[[Mahou Shounen Majorian]]'': Lori and Masaru are like this... but subvert it by both being boys. Except in their [[Magical Girl]] forms. Yeah?

* ''[[NieA 7|Niea Under 7NieA_7]]'': Niea and Mayuko have some of this dynamic, although it's perhaps more "[[Jerkass]] And Kindhearted Girl".

* ''[[Oniisama e...|Oniisama E]]'' gives us Tomoko and Nanako, as well as Rei and Fukiko. [[Bifauxnen and Ladette|Rei and Kaoru, however, are otheranother story.]]

** [[Bifauxnen|Haruka TenouTen'oh/Sailor Uranus]] and [[Ojou|Michiru Kaiou/Sailor Neptune]]. They're also an [[Official Couple]].

* ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'': We have the feminine [[Wrench Wench]] Miyuki and the physically powerful Natsumi as a pair of buddy cops. Poor Natsumi admitted Aoi (who is really [[Wholesome Crossdresser|who is really a man]]) is more feminine than she is.

* In ''[[ZeroThe noFamiliar Tsukaimaof Zero]]'' we have [[Tsundere|Louise]] as the tomboy to anymost of the other girls, like Siesta, but she's a girly girl compared to Agnes. Also, Agnes (tomboy) and Princess Henrietta (girly girl).

* [[Batman]]: Though both are awesome, evil, and hot, [[Harley Quinn]] and Poison Ivy live this trope. However, only one has [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara's]] unending love.{{context}}<!-- Which is which? -->

* ''[[Vixen's Keep]]''. A furry comic. One of the plot lines is the relationship of two female warriors, one of whom is a feminine vixen whose fighting skills are inadequate and a tough rabbit warrior who disdained traditional feminine pursuits. Eventually, the pair find they can help each other with the rabbit teaching the Vixen to fight more effectively. In return, the Vixen helps the rabbit to dance since she was missing out dancing with the Vixen's brother, and is successful even if she had to describe the moves in terms of combat ("First, your sword arm, then your shield arm and repeat...)

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Lyra and Bon Bon]] from any ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic.

* ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]'':

* ''[[Jennifer -the -Jerk Is Missing]]'': Brave babysitter, Amy, and bratty [[Damsel in Distress]], Jen.

* ''[[Myth BustersMythBusters]]'': Scottie and Kari occasionally give this vibe when on screen together, though Kari is not afraid to get her hands dirty.

** ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek Voyager]]'' also have two major female characters apiece, and they also avert this trope: Dr. Crusher and Counsellor Troi on TNG are both closer to the feminine side of the scale, while Captain Janeway (notorious for a certain amount of recklessness; a quote: "Sometimes you just have to punch your way through") and B'Elanna Torres (half-Klingon, nuff said) are closer to the tomboy side of the scale.

** ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'': Jadzia Dax and Kira might be considered an aversion of this, in that both are tough women who can put up a fight: Kira is a former terrorist and Dax is familiar with Klingon martial arts. Perhaps ironically, given that she was a [[Gender Bender|man in her past life]], Jadzia tends to be more comfortable expressing her feminine side: she has long hair while Kira's is short and no-nonsense, Jadzia has to talk Kira into visiting spas and playing princess in the holosuites, etc. Justified with Jadzia. Though her directly previous host Curzon was male, as were three of the others, she also had three prior female hosts. Her fourth host, Audrid, was shown to be very feminine indeed—partly as a joke as her personality was inhabiting Quark's body at the time. Jadzia also refers to her third host, Emony, as being highly emotional. Joined Trill take on personality traits from all of their hosts, the symbiont and the new host to create a new person. In turn Jadzia and Ezri maybe the Tomboy and the girly representatives of the Dax chain.

* ''[[Yo Gabba Gabba!]]'': Toodee (the blue cat-dragon) and Foofa (the pink flower bubble <ref>That's what the official Nick Jr. site describes her as anyway. I sure as heck can't think of a better description.</ref>).

* [[t.A.T.u.]]: Yulia (tomboy) and Lena (girly girl). Hardly a surprise, considering the marketing.

* [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al Yankovic]]'s song "Girls Just Wanna Have Lunch" invokes this trope in the first line. "Some girls like to buy new shoes/ while others like driving trucks and wearing tattoos...."

* ''[[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]'': [[Trish Stratus]] and Stacy Kiebler.

* ''[[AllegrasAllegra's Window]]'' had added rambunctious junk dealer, Encora, to sweet, motherly teacher, Ms. Melody in season 2.

* ''[[Les Misérables (theatre)|Les Misérables]]'': Cosette the graceful soprano and Eponine the hardscrabble mezzo-soprano]].

* Depending on how the actress plays it, sometimes Laurey and Ado Annie from ''[[Oklahoma!]]'' can come across as this, with Laurey as the tomboy despite being the soprano. Sometimes she's as girly as Annie, just more sensible.

* The Tomboyish mezzo soprano Patrice and the [[Dumb Blonde]] soprano Kendra in ''[[13|Thirteen]]''. Although the alto Lucy and Kendra are an aversion since they're both just as girly.

* Elle Woods in ''[[Legally Blonde (theatre)|Legally Blonde]] [[The Musical]]'' is a soprano who wears almost entirely pink, and while Vivienne, a mezzo soprano, isn't tomboyish per se she is ''way'' less girly than Elle.

* ''[[As You Like It]]''<nowiki>{{'</nowiki>}}s Rosalind and Celia. Rosalind ''is'' very feminine in private, but her [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] disguise lends her a boyish boldness.

** Zelda is her OWN''own'' tomboy and girly girl when it comes to herself to her aliases. She wears extremely girly/regal clothing and acts rather feminine toward Link, but then turns around and becomes {{spoiler|Sheik/Tetra/a Phantom}}, only the latter of which retains any of her feminine personality traits.

* ''[[RunescapeRuneScape]]'': Korasi (tomboy) and Jessika (girly girl).

* ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'': has Tomboy Tomoyo who's brutally honest, mistaken as a guy by Sunohara and Girly Girl Nagisa who's timid and overly formal. Also, Tsundere Tomboy Kyou and calmer Girly Girl Ryou.

** Subverted in ''[[Suburban Knights]]''. It starts out Chick (as [[The Lord of the Rings|Arwen]]) is the tomboy while [[Obscurus Lupa]] (as [[Snow White]]) is the girly girl, but Lupa gets tired of that crap and picks up a gun, while Chick gets Jaffers in a fairly decent headlock.

* ''[[COPS (animation)|COPS]]'':

* ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'': Vicky and Tootie, sisters who are polar opposites. Vicky is known for being the most fiery, violent girl on the show, and also enjoys skateboarding, snowboarding, and watching anime. Her little sister Tootie on the other hand is nice, and enjoys playing with dolls and dress up. This is shown in contrast especially in the episode "Timmy's 2-D House of Horror" where the two took over Timmy's bedroom; turning one half into a pink and girly room with unicorns, and the other half into a medieval dungeon. Timmy couldn't tell which side scared him the most.

* ''[[Ka BlamKaBlam!|Ka Blam]]'': One-shot character Dawn and main character June. While Dawn is into girly stuff, like fashion and make-up, June is the tough-talking, strong tomboy.

* ''[[MASKM.A.S.K.]]'': Vanessa and Gloria.

* ''[[The Mighty B!]]'' [[Jive Turkey|Gwen]] and [[Alpha Bitch|Portia]].

* ''[[Muppet Babies]]'': Skeeter was [[Affirmative Action Girl|created]] for the cast to be the tomboy to Piggy's girly girl. However, although Skeeter was the athlete and Piggy liked pink and lace and make-up and tea parties, Skeeter was actually rather nice, and Piggy was [[Super Strength|super strong]], super bossy, and super un-ladylike. (What can we say? [[Beware the Nice Ones]].

** ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has at least two sets of these characters: boastful and outgoing Rainbow Dash vs. the shy and quiet Fluttershy, and rough-and-tumble farm girl Applejack vs. persnickety fashion designer Rarity (as seen in "Look Before you Sleep"). On the other hand, Twilight is very meticulous and studious, and frequently hangs out with the male Spike, whereas Pinkie Pie is supremely fond of singing, sweets, and parties, though neither of them are really unfeminine in the same way Dash and AJ are.