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* ''[[Girls und Panzer]]'': Naturally you'd expect this of the [[Japanese School Club|Automotive Club]] at an [[One-Gender School|all-girls school]]. This particular group, Leopon Team, are also a pretty [[You Shall Not Pass/Anime and Manga|effective]] tank crew.
* Saki Kitajima from ''[[Danball Senki]]'' may very well be inspired by Winry Rockbell, given they dress very similarly. However, she's an older woman and she's married to someone who doesn't quite behave like she does. They're both kindred spirits though (even if women are wiser is in effect), so the relationship works.
* ''[[Princess Principal]]'' being set in a [[steampunk]] analogue to a time when anyone who drove a car was expected to maintain it, the team's driver Dorothy has some elements of being a Wrench Wench, but it's her teammate Beatrice who isn't afraid to get dirty while repairing some heavy machinery.
== Comic Books ==
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* Cord in ''[[Anathem]]''.
* To an extent, Rosalie in ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''.
* The main character of C. E. Murphy's ''[[Urban Shaman]]'' trilogy is one of these, being a dedicated car enthusiast who restored a 1969 Mustang all by herself, and worked as a mechanic for the Seattle Police Dept. She even continues to use the idea of fixing a car to work her healing magics (fixing a broken windshield, replacing a flat tire, using windshield wipers to clear her vision, etc.).
* Violet Baudelaire from ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' is also a [[Gadgeteer Genius]], while she is only fifteen.
* Nadia Chernyshevski of the ''[[Red Mars Trilogy]]'' was a nuclear engineer in Siberia before her job building mankind's first base on Mars. Her skills in solving technological problems earned her the nickname "Universal Solvent".
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* Dagny Taggart, the main heroine of ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'', can't live without her railroad, is not too keen on pointless parties that other rich girls go to and has a very masculine dress code.
* Ellie Linton, from ''[[The Tomorrow Series]]'', is quite competent at fixing machinery, which, considering that she's a ranch-raised country girl, is [[Truth in Television]].
* Linda Connor, from Swedish SF author [[Anders Blixt]]'s dieselpunk spy adventure ''[[Iskriget]] (The Ice War)'', is a trained mechanic with a solid professional reputation in her home town. She "saves the day" with her skills at several occasions during the story. She usually wears workmen's clothes and has a male haircut, both for purely practical reasons.
* Although Alice has spent most of her life studying sorcery her real gift is with watches and mechanical things, including her creating [[Title Drop|The]] [[The Witch Watch|Witch Watch]].
* In ''[[1632|1636: The Viennese Waltz]]'', a young Austrian aristocrat is fascinated by the way a certain "up-timer" girl's face lights up when she talks about engines and building things. Granted she was already a good-looking girl, but that facial expression is what comes back to his mind when he explains to his father that he very seriously wants to marry her
== Live-Action TV ==
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* The Audiobooks for ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' make this into Sky's way to assist the team, in a much cuter and less fansevicey way. Her ability to sense and understand energy being part of it, but she just understands machinery.
* When the family starts fixing up a car for Matt in season 3 of [[7th Heaven]], it's boy-crazy Lucy who is shown to be an idiot savant when it comes to cars.
* Wednesday Addams is this in ''[[Wednesday]]'', though not with cars. After telling Tyler how she built a steam-powered guillotine when she was only ten, she is able to effortlessly fix the expresso machine in his coffee shop. Later she alters the Black Cat team's canoe for the Edgar Allen Poe Cup race, equipping it with chariot piles, a fishing-net launcher, and a concealed outboard motor.
== Music ==
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== Video Games ==
* Li Kohran in ''[[Sakura Taisen]]'' was able to improve on abandoned blueprints and actually build the setting's giant mecha.
* Roll Casket in the ''[[Mega Man Legends]]'' series.
** Also, Tron Bonne combines this with [[Gadgeteer Genius|a fancy for designing robots]], although generally she tends to design new electronics more often than fix old motors.
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* Penelope from ''[[Sly Cooper]] 3''; specialises in remote-controlled vehicles, so the gang try to hire her on.
* Suzette/Crepe from ''[[Solatorobo]]''.
* In the first ''[[Ratchet & Clank (video game)|Ratchet & Clank]]'', one
* Veronica has a bit of this going on as well. She can even function as a mobile Workbench that lets you craft items on the spot.▼
▲* In the first ''[[Ratchet & Clank (video game)|Ratchet & Clank]]'', one of these gives Clank an upgrade.
* Licca Kusunoki in ''[[Gods Eater Burst]]'' fits this to a tee, complete with oversized gloves and a tendency to hug the protagonist when they do something stupid.
* Wave the Swallow in [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic Riders]], who is the one responsible for building the boards for the Babylon Rogues.
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* Robin from ''[[The Iconoclasts]]''
* Any female character from ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' with the Engineering skill could qualify, especially goblins and gnomes.
* Moxxi from ''[[Borderlands]]'', a talent she picked up while with the the Hodunk clan; it's not something she likes to broadcast, though.
* ''[[The Sims]]'' allows you to make your Sim male OR FEMALE into an appliance master via the mechanic skill.
** The Sims has it so your sims can level up the mechanic skill by repairing appliances.
** The Sims 2 expands upon the repair skill by making it so certain careers require certain levels of mechanic skill.
** The Sims 3 replaces the mechanic skill with the handiness skill which allows sims to upgrade appliances in addition to repairing them.
** The Sims 4 furthers the repair skill by allowing the sim to be able to craft better quality items as a result of their increased repair skill.
* ''[[Alan Wake]]'' in the American Nightmare expansion has Emma Sloan, a car mechanic in New Springs, Arizona.
* ''[[Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]]'' has female character choice along with an engineer class the player can choose.
* The ''[[Fallout]]'' series has the player able to be one in pretty much every game.
** ''[[Fallout 1]]'' gives the player the choice of a female character who can level up the repair skill for fixing things such as the water pump in Necropolis for the ghouls.
** ''[[Fallout 2]]'' also gives the player a choice of a female character along with the continuation of using the repair skill which can be used to fix a nuclear reactor in the city of Gecko.
** [[Fallout 3]] has Moira Brown combined with [[Genki Girl]]. You, yourself, qualify as well if you're the female version of the Lone Wanderer and spend up on Repair skill points.
** ''[[Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel]]'' Has the player yet again allows the player to be female and to be able to use the repair skill to fix computers as well as use repair kits on vehicles.
▲** ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' Veronica has a bit of this going on as well. She can even function as a mobile Workbench that lets you craft items on the spot.
** ''[[Fallout 4]]'' continues the trend with Proctor Ingram, who maintains the Brotherhood Of Steel's Cool Airship the Prydwen, suits of Powered Armor, and is in charge of repairs of Liberty Prime, all without having any legs. She's also capable enough with the Power Armor frame she uses to get around to put up quite a good fight. A female Sole Survivor can also qualify as this.
** ''[[Fallout 76]]'' has work benches like Fallout 4 that your male or female survivor can work on.
* ''[[Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura]]'' has it so the female player character can be one and build things like steam-powered robots, staffs that shoot lightning, and a device that can revive the dead.
* ''[[Final Fantasy XV]]'' has Cindy who is the first female version of Cid as a mechanic. She fixes up the protagonist's car when it breaks down in Duscae.
* ''[[Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance]]'' has Sunny who's grown up a bit since the last game helps Raiden throughout his journey. She is currently working on a space craft.
* ''[[Ty the Tasmanian Tiger]]'' has Shazza, a dingo who's good at working on things like her truck.
== Web Comics ==
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* Kammi from ''[[Inhuman]]''. She doesn't exactly fit "gearhead fantasy", seeing as most of the other characters are terrified of her.
** "You let Jet drive you and you live with a homicidal madman, but you're afraid of Kammi?"
* Sasha the [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. {{spoiler|[[Subverted]] in that she had no mechanical talent of her own; she was being given inventions by HeretiCorp in order to get close to Riff and}} {{supersecretspoiler|to hide the fact that she was Kusari}}.
* From ''[[Girl Genius]]'':
** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090306 Agatha Clay] {{spoiler|Heterodyne}}
** The women Sparks in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' are essentially ''made'' of this trope, but it's best exemplified here: [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090828
*** Ahem. [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120418
* [http://www.1977thecomic.com/2009/08/14/voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea/ Robyn] from ''1977 The Comic''.
* [[Team Fortress 2|Engineer]]-[[Distaff Counterpart|tan]] from ''[[Nerf Now]]'', of course.
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