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* Imca from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesIII'' may be the queen of this trope. Her standard sidearm is an enormous SwissArmyWeapon with machine gun and rocket launcher firing modes and a bayonet the size of a BFS. She uses all three of these to create wide-area bombardment attacks that hit everything on screen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-igO8pjxS5M&feature=related while also swinging it around like the world's biggest gunblade.]]

* Any female character from the ''VideoGame/GodEater'' series fits this description, as the weapon they all wield, [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon the God Arc]], is several times their size by standard.

* Meryl from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' wields a Desert Eagle chambered in .50 Action Express -- a gun that is well known for being impractically huge, no matter who carries it. And, in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', she gets a custom ''long barrel'' model alongside the standard-sized one ([[GunsAkimbo sometimes literally]]).
* In ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'', just about anyone can wield a minigun, bazooka, or giant arm cannon though only a few classes are proficient. With class changes, an Archer can use those just fine. [[Franchise/{{Disgaea}} Etna]] specializes in miniguns as a special character, while [[VideoGame/PhantomBrave Castile]] can use bazookas.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'':
** Lady hefts around the Kalina Ann, a full-fledged bayonet-equipped rocket launcher that happens to be larger than she is tall.
** Before Lady's debut, the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2'' prequel novel featured a devil hunter named Beryl who [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/devilmaycry/images/9/9b/DanteAndBeryl.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190128165140 used a gun resembling an anti-tank rifle]]. Between her choice of weapon, BadassNormal status, [[GoodScarsEvilScars scars]] and origin story involving a father who abused demonic powers, she was pretty much a prototype of the above mentioned Lady.
* Any female Lancer from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'', whose weapons are longer than they are tall. Applies to Aisha as well, as she's only 12-years old and wields the Shocktroopers' standard assault rifle.
* Carmelita Fox in ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' wields a shock pistol that kicks so hard she can hardly hold onto the thing when she fires it. The bolts of electricity it fires can destroy inanimate objects in one shot and kill even hulking flashlight guards in 2 shots.
* ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' is more like "Big Girl, '''''Bigger''''' Gun": If you unlock the detailed enemy stats, you learn that she's 6'3" (taller than most men!), but the Nanogun she wields is designed for Tasen Elites who run an average of ''nine'' feet tall. She complains at the beginning that she can barely lift it, and the recoil from the [[{{BFG}} MPFB Devastator]] (essentially a triple-nuclear-rocket launcher) knocks her off her feet if she hasn't maxed out her Strength stat.
** The eponymous protagonist of ''VideoGame/HyperPrincessPitch'', by the same author, uses an even bigger gun.
* Possible via cheating in ''VideoGame/Fallout3''. Use mods or console commands to make your character a 10 year old, then specialize in Big Guns. Normal adult female characters specialized in Big Guns also fall under this trope.
* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'': Noel Vermillion uses a pair of {{Hand Cannon}}s each the length of her arms. Her Distortion Drives summon even bigger guns for MoreDakka.
* FemmeFatale Mona Sax from the ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' games is rather slender and petite, yet her signature weapon is a [[HandCannon Desert Eagle]], the largest handgun available in the games. This is especially evident in her {{Mexican Standoff}}s against Max, who usually sticks to more modest but more efficient ([[GunsAkimbo dual]]) Berettas.
* ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'': [[WrenchWench Tess]] designs {{BFG}}s for Jak that are at least as big as she is. [[spoiler:And if she continues her gun-designing career after her transformation into an ottsel...]]
** The unlockable cutscene commentary in ''Jak 3'' explains that, in one scene, they actually had to ''scale down'' one of Jak's guns just so that it wouldn't look ridiculous when she held it. Considering how many fans this trope has, it's kind of a shame they didn't leave the gun as it appears in-game.
* [[NeverMessWithGranny Speed Buster]] from ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' used a [[WaveMotionGun 50-foot laser cannon]] as her weapon of choice.

* Small female figures wielding absurdly large weapons are disturbingly common in miniature gaming, especially from freelance ranges which are not officially attached to a ruleset. Often there is no thought given to holsters or extra ammo. One case in particular was Abuela Ortega from ''TabletopGame/{{Malifaux}}'', whose first edition appearance was of a little old lady with an immense shotgun or blunderbuss, which she [[CoolOldLady just wouldn't swap for a more practical weapon]]. Firing it caused the miniature to [[LawOfInverseRecoil move backwards across the tabletop]].

* One or two of these appear in the anime ''Anime/IzettaTheLastWitch'' to the point where they are big enough that the titular witch can use them as a broom (one was even custom made for her with handlebars), sometimes with Archduchess Fine on the back as a passenger. There is even one chase scene between a gun ridden by Izetta and Fine and a squadron of 4 German fighter planes. You can see the gun they flew [[here. http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Izetta:_The_Last_Witch]]

* Playing a female Shepard in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' and using the Cain probably counts. The weapon itself isn't THAT big, but it makes a ridiculously big explosion. Likewise, any combat-class [=FemShep=] who picks one of the advanced weapons. The [[SniperRifle Widow]] looks like a telegraph pole, and the Claymore and [[{{BFG}} Revenant]] are just huge.

%%* And, of course, Kei and Yuri from ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'', who arguably originated the trope.

* Mao of ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic''. She might rarely be seen fighting outside of an M9 but when she does...

* While [[spoiler:the Sisters]] of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' usually use the [[CoolGuns FN F2000]], when we are introduced to them one of them is trying to shoot Accelerator with a massive [[{{BFG}} Barrett M82 sniper rifle.]]
* Sinon from ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' is so small in size that her avatar is described as "doll-like". However, she's the greatest gunner in Gun Gale Online and uses the Hecate II, which is longer than she is tall.

* Tanya of ''LightNovel/SagaOfTanyaTheEvil'', only [[ChildSoldiers ten years old]], typically goes into battle with a rifle that's almost as long as she is tall. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], though, in that it's the standard issue for the Imperial Army, and was designed with an adult soldier in mind.

* Saya Sasamiya from ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'' wields a variety of custom-made guns and cannons as her weapons. Some of them are noticeably larger/longer than her diminutive self.

Compare with CuteBruiser, GirlWithPsychoWeapon, the GirlsWithGuns genre (when the girls aren't necessarily small and the guns aren't necessarily big), GlacierWaif (the melee version), and BlackMagicianGirl (the fantasy version).

** In the first anime episode of ''Alicization'', when the cast converts their avatars to GGO, resident TokenMiniMoe Silica is seen firing a turreted [[CoolGuns/MachineGuns M2 Browning]] mounted on top of a Type 73 Light Truck.

* Zack of the ''Hell's Bells'' series of UrbanFantasy novels is an example of Small Girl Big [[MartialArtsStaff Staff]], her channelling focus being an iron pole described as longer than she is tall, with which she wipes the floor with vampires, wizards and demons alike. As if that weren't enough, her normal firearm is a [[HandCannon .455 Webley]] [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolver]], and in the climax of ''Dead Silver'' she ends up behind the barrel of a ''minigun''.

* Zack of the ''Hell's Bells'' series of UrbanFantasy novels is an example of Small Girl Big [[SimpleStaff Staff]], her channelling focus being an iron pole described as longer than she is tall, with which she wipes the floor with vampires, wizards and demons alike. As if that weren't enough, her normal firearm is a [[HandCannon .455 Webley]] [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolver]], and in the climax of ''Dead Silver'' she ends up behind the barrel of a ''minigun''.

* Ciel from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', a curry loving {{Meganekko}} [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tsukiCG_049.jpg by day]] and... ''[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ciel_bfg.png this]]'' by night. Plus she's a bit of a KnifeNut. Though her "Seventh Holy Scripture" is not so much a gun as it is a pile-bunker with a unicorn's horn for anti-vampire purposes... but it's close enough. Normally, the magical weapon is a spear or sword, but she personally and specifically redesigned it to be an enormous jack-hammer. She's just that hardcore.

* Ma-Ma in ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' mostly plays with [[KnifeNut blades]], but when she uses a gun it's a really big one.

* ''Anime/BlackRockShooter'''s Rock Cannon is as long as she is tall. UpToEleven in the last episode, where its muzzle grows into ''as wide as she is tall''.

* Like all things ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' the Sisters of Battle take this up to eleven by being an army of normal women in "7-foot-tall-Space Marine"-grade power armor with a preference for "7-foot-tall-Space Marine" weapons. Particularly the ones that Melt and Burn things.

* Uni from ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}''. Her [[SuperMode HDD]] form takes this trope UpToEleven.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': Take a wild guess how a gender-bender version of Heavy Weapons Guy is usually portrayed in fanart. And no, they didn't make the Scout a lumbering beast in return.

* Lady from the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' series hefts around the Kalina Ann, a full-fledged machinegun/rocket launcher that happens to be larger than she is tall.
** Before Lady's debut, the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2'' prequel novel featured a devil hunter named Beryl who [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/devilmaycry/images/9/9b/DanteAndBeryl.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190128165140 who used a gun resembling an anti-tank rifle]]. Between her choice of weapon, BadassNormal status, [[GoodScarsEvilScars scars]] and origin story involving a father who abused demonic powers, she was pretty much a prototype of the above mentioned Lady.

* Jessica Cleiborn in ''D_CIDE TRAUMEREI The Animation'' is small enough to get mistaken for an elementary schooler[[note]]her actual age is never stated, but considering she's implied to be a former US special forces member it can be assumed she's an adult[[/note]], and uses a massive rotary machine gun.

* Jessica Cleiborn in ''D_CIDE TRAUMEREI The Animation'' is small enough to get mistaken for an elementary schooler, and uses a massive rotary machine gun.

* ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'': Hana may be a young girl due to timetravel weirdness, but her weapon of choice is a bazooka. No weapon is more fitting for a girl who can singlehandedly beat the tar out of a kaijin twice her size.

** Canon material says that she is 129 cm (roughly 4'4") tall and weights 24 kg (roughly 52 pounds). In the movie she ''levels a city with a single [[WaveMotionGun Starlight Breaker]]''. That tiny girl isn't called [[FanNickname White Devil]] for nothing.

* Unity from ''Webcomic/SkinHorse''.
* ''Webcomic/NerfNow'' gives us a [[http://nerfnow.com/comic/136 baby Heavy Weapons Girl]].
* [[http://www.strangecandy.net/d/20050327.html Fleur]] in ''Webcomic/OkashinaOkashi''.

* ''Webcomic/PandaXpress'' [[http://www.pxcomic.com/browsepage.php?storyline=65&page=2 had its origins]] in a sketch of the (five year old) protagonist Dahlia with a machine gun. The gun was replaced with a cyborg panda before the launch of the series.

* As seen on Website/{{DeviantART}}: [[http://kymg.deviantart.com/art/butterfly-M82A1-127220997 A schoolgirl firing a Barret .50cal sniper rifle from the shoulder]].

* Disney seems to have a fixation for girls/love interests with guns who ''love'' to use them:
** Glittering Goldie from ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''. In Scrooge's nephews' words, "Cupid's arrow is nothing next to Goldie's shotgun."

* Chris Yukine from ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'' is a {{Tsundere}} who has her moments of awkwardness when interacting with her fellow protagonists, but she's equipped with a PowerArmor that employs a vast arsenal (read: miniguns, missiles, submachine guns, etc.) capable of wiping out an army of aliens by herself. When tapping into her SuperMode during the first season's finale, she can exaggerate the trope by unleashing a cruiser's payload of missiles. Typically her arsenal is just a pair of crossbows with homing capability or quad three-barreled gatling-style guns to dole out MoreDakka (the latter lost homing capability for raw brute force). The gatling itself is longer than her arms

* Phoebe Spengler with a Proton Pack in ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife''. Most of the bulk is in the backpack.

* Phoebe Spengler with a Proton Pack in ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife''. Most of the bulk is in the backpack.