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She may be a pink princess and a Damsel in Distress, but that doesn't mean she can't play sports, go-kart and kick villain butt in her own peachy way.

This is a Girly Girl who has some tomboyish qualities or interests. She could have an interest in boys' sports, hate the color pink or love boyish colors, not mind getting messy, be a Big Eater, or hate dresses and wear baggy pants. Perhaps she was once a tomboy who had a Girliness Upgrade and never did quite do away with aspects of her old tomboyish personality (in which case Tomboy Angst doesn't apply). In other words, this character has a girly appearance, but her interests are a mixture of girly and tomboyish interests, and her personality can swing either way.

Sometimes, Depending on the Writer, she may be the more boisterous one when that's usually the tomboy's job in their Tomboy and Girly Girl dynamic and the tomboyish one becomes more softspoken, though it doesn't always stick. Note that being an Action Girl is not exactly tomboyish by default, as a Lady of War and a Girly Bruiser can attest. Girly Gamer Chick might count in the context of Most Gamers Are Male.

Inversion and normal foil is Tomboy with a Girly Streak. Distaff Counterpart of Real Men Wear Pink, a Manly Man with a Sensitive Guy streak. See Otaku Surrogate if her boyish interests are used for pandering to male demographic.


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    Comic Books 
  • Due to the need of what heroics entail, really any superheroine who's a 'Girly Girl' falls into this by default. Supergirl and Mary Marvel are both very girly heroes, but are also Action Girl Flying Brick types.
  • Helena Bertinelli, the Huntress, is ostensibly a very feminine woman. She's a teacher in her civilian life, who likes dresses, the colour purple, going to galas, art galleries, and a lot of female socialite activities. She's also a ruthless fighter and killer and is quite emotionally closed off, so if you met her in person it might be a shock to realise she's actually a girly girl. While her best friend Black Canary is a tomboy with a girly personality, Helena is a Girly Girl with a Tomboyish personality.
  • Incandescence: Audrey loves her tights, miniskirts and Mary Jane shoes, but is also crazy about watching wrestling and the Cleveland Browns.
  • Mary Jane Watson is a fashion model who typically embraces her very feminine appearance. She’s also a sports fanatic and isn’t afraid of taking out mooks who try and mess with her.
  • During Terry Moore's run on Runaways, the very girly Klara took to wearing boys' clothes (because they were more modest.) By way of contrast, the very tomboyish Molly took to wearing girly clothes.
  • Janet Van Dyne aka The Wasp alternates between a founding Action Girl Avenger and fashion-obsessed, romantic Team Mom. Overall, she's probably the most feminine of the Avengers' women and has an especially girly reason behind her Crimefighting with Cash nature, but that doesn't detract from the fact she's not afraid of a fight and can be One of the Boys when the needs arise.
  • Lumberjanes: April looks like a cute doll and loves feminine hobbies like fashion, sewing, and throwing parties but has Super-Strength, is practically unbeatable at arm wrestling and quickly falls in love with roller derby.
  • Mickey Mouse Comic Universe: Minnie Mouse is the quintessential girly-girl. And yet, as Mickey discovers in "Mickey Gets Stung" — take her to a particularly brutal boxing match because you're annoyed about her complaints of "unnecessary violence" and want to show her what real unnecessary violence looks like, and she'll proceed to be the loudest, most enthusiastic, and most foul-mouthed of the spectators, roaring for the boxers to beat the crap out of each other with such glee that even the other spectators start giving her weird looks. Her explanation for this apparent double standard after the match is over is that professional boxers are tough, they can take a little roughhousing.
  • W.I.T.C.H.:
    • Cornelia is elegant, logical, comes from a wealthy family, is involved in a "fairy-tale"-like romance and dresses nicely, but she's also very argumentative, cynical, and doesn't mind getting her feet dirty when there's hard labor.
    • Hay Lin is creative, free-spirited, and loves both fashion and the arts, but she's also a huge nerd obsessed with comic books/anime, space and sci-fi stuff.

    Comic Strips 
  • Peanuts: Lucy wears a frilly blue dress with a bow, is very vain about her appearance, and acts more flirty and romantic than all the other girls. Also, she plays baseball only because she has a crush on a boy in the team, and she's terrible at it. However, she's also known for being short-tempered and aggressive (sometimes even violent), and gets a Tomboyness Upgrade in later years of the strip, as she starts to wear pants more often and hang out only with guys, without losing her girly traits.
  • Phoebe and Her Unicorn: Phoebe seems pretty close to half-and-half on this scale, but being best friends with a Unicorn tends to give her girly girl side more excuses to come out.
  • In Stone Soup, Holly is definitely much more feminine than her younger sister Alix is, with her dislike of gross things and having a strong interest in jewelry, makeup, and other things typical of a girl her age. At the same time, she's an excellent basketball player and part of the middle school basketball team.

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    Film — Animation 
  • Aladdin: Princess Jasmine has a very feminine side and isn't afraid to use her feminine wiles to help Aladdin and is always wearing fine jewels and clothes. In the TV series, she gushes over fashion. She is also strong-willed, a tough fighter, and isn't afraid to get her hands dirty.
  • The Aristocats: Marie the female kitten is a self-proclaimed "lady", she acts prissy, loves romance, and tries to mimic the elegance of her mother. However, she still enjoys the occasional tumble with her brothers and claims that ladies may not start fights, but they can finish them.
    Duchess: Marie, you must stop that. This is really not ladylike.
  • Beauty and the Beast: By modern standards, Belle fits neither the tomboy nor girly girl archetype, but has an overall graceful and feminine demeanor, and loves romantic fairytales. She's also a Spirited Young Lady who reads a lot of books, and makes attempts to get herself out of scrapes and create her own destiny as being something more than settling down and becoming a housewife. This makes her stand out among the villagers, especially given the traditional role of women during that time.
  • Encanto: Isabella, which really comes to show once she realizes she doesn't have to be perfect all the time, as by the end of the film, she still dresses in a feminine manner, but her style has more of a punk vibe - her dress is now royal blue with wild splatters of other colors and she has dyed streaks of color into her hair. She also uses her gift to grow other plants besides the Flowers of Femininity she's typically associated with.
  • The Jungle Book: Shanti, the sweet Village Fille Fatale and Girly Girl, becomes this in the sequel when she gets feisty, punches Baloo's nose, bangs on some gongs and starts loving the jungle more along with Mowgli.
  • The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: Finn's little sister Bianca uses a lot of traditionally girly themes in her builds, such as candy, cute things, princesses and such. However she also averts certain "girly" tropes like Princesses Rule, by having Susan relegated to the role of a servant in favor of a non-evil Queen. Since most scenes in the Systar System are from her point of view, she also seems fond of DC Comics, from multiple variants of Wonder Woman hanging out together, to the "Gotham City Guys" song heavily implying that she knows a LOT of Batman trivia. And she even seems to have a very unexpected fondness for Beetlejuice.
  • Monsters, Inc.: Celia's very feminine, flirty and soft-spoken, but is implied to have an interest in monster trucks (if Mike's birthday date plans are any indication) and has no qualms about getting physical when she's angry with Mike.
  • Peter Pan: Tinker Bell is a Fairy Sexy who has a cute, dainty, and delicate appearance, wears a minidress and elegant puffball shoes, likes to admire herself in a mirror, and is jealous of other girls interested in Peter. However, she's also adventurous, hangs out with guys, and likes fixing things. Later adaptations, like the 2009 animated movie Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure and the live-action film Peter and Wendy (2015) make her much more tomboyish.
  • Shrek: Being born as a princess, Fiona acts like a Proper Lady, has a sweet personality, wears dresses, and likes fairy tale romances. It's revealed over the course of the movie that she is a martial arts expert and has gross manners that you wouldn't expect from a girl (she can burp even louder than Shrek), that's why she gets along with Shrek and loves her life as an ogre in Shrek's swamp.
  • The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Princess Peach has a tougher and more goal-oriented attitude than the games generally present her, but her sparkly pink regalia and castle are lifted straight from them all the same.
  • Tangled: Rapunzel has a very bubbly and sweet personality, normally wears very feminine dresses, and has hobbies such as cooking and sewing. But she also doesn't mind getting rough when in a fight and has an unwavering love for adventure.
  • The Book of Life: Maria wears nice dresses and seems feminine in a lot of aspects, but her best friends are boys and she owns a pig as a pet. She also learned fencing and Kung-Fu while studying abroad.
  • Toy Story:
    • Since the first movie, Mrs. Davis is a loving yet strict Almighty Mom and Housewife who also likes wearing feminine yet tomboyish clothes, joining her kids in playing and camping. She also has a Tomboyish Voice courtesy of Laurie Metcalf.
    • After spending the first two movies being a demure Proper Lady, Bo Peep stopped wearing her dress and starts moving around in her pants (though her pants are actually the undergarments she wore under her shepherdess dress), and also grew more tough and adventurous.
  • Turning Red: Abby Park is pretty girly for the most part; she wears a pink sweater and purple overalls with flower decorations, heart-shaped earrings, a sparkly pink hair band in her long hair, and is the only one in Mei's group of friends who wears makeup. She's also the most prone to Cuteness Proximity out of her friends, and is crazy for boys and the Boy Band 4*Town just like them (probably even moreso). That said, she's still the loudest and most extroverted of her friends with more of a temper, and she is rather tough, strong, and can even be downright aggressive at times.
  • Wolfwalkers: While Robyn is more feminine than the brash and boisterous tomboy Mebh, she still has a rebellious streak and doesn't always conform to her time period's gender roles. She wants to be a hunter like her father instead of doing housework in the scullery all day, and she wears trousers as well as dresses.
  • Wreck-It Ralph: Vanellope's original character design (i.e. pink princess with a Pimped-Out Dress) and the very pink castle that used to be hers imply that she was originally a Girly Girl with a tomboyish passion for racing. Turbo dethroning her, locking up her memories, and making her adjust to living like a "homeless lady" where everyone hated her forced her to become abrasive, sarcastic and in-your-face confident. The end result was that she is purely tomboyish by the time she meets Ralph.

    Film — Live-Action 
  • Big Business (1988): Sadie Ratliff loves fancy dresses and singing before a crowd, but also knows how to wrestle a hog.
  • Descendants: Li Lonnie's most commonly seen in pink, mostly wears skirts or dresses in the daytime and clearly likes getting her hair done, but she's a proficient swordswoman (befitting the daughter of Fa Mulan) and insists on joining in the fight with Jay and Carlos.
  • Drop Dead Gorgeous: Becky is a prissy and fashionable rich girl, but she also belongs to a gun club and asks Brett if he wants to go cow-tipping.
  • The Eagle Huntress: Aisholpan is a 13-year-old girl who longs to be an eagle hunter, a traditionally male occupation in her Mongolian tribe. While Aisholpan loves eagle hunting, the film makes clear that in other ways she's a typical girly girl, who likes pink ribbons and painting her nails.
  • Fido: Cindy wears fancy (and often pink) dresses, dances ballet, and has good manners, but is also a good rifle shot, admits she hates ballet, and likes to play catch.
  • Final Destination 4: Lori is a fairly feminine character who tends to wear pink and purple, and hang around doing ordinary college girl stuff, but is fine with sitting through a car race at the speedway, and is excited at the idea of backpacking across Europe for a prolonged period.
  • Friday the 13th (2009): Jenna says that she hated summer camp as a kid and has a distinctly feminine hairstyle and set of accessories. However, she shows interest in taking a hike around Crystal Lake after arriving at Trent's cabin.
  • How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days: Andie is a feminine writer who goes around New York in pretty dresses, but she loves sports and bacon and has no problem getting covered in mud.
  • Just Before Dawn: Megan is definitely the Girly Girl of the group and is often checking her makeup in the middle of the woods, but seems to be fine with camping overall. Once they reach the lake, she takes part in rolling/sliding down the hill with visible enjoyment and grabs a knife the first time they heard noises in the woods.
  • The Karate Kid (2010): While Meiying is quiet and soft spoken and loves to play the violin, she also enjoys video games and is happy to run around the city with Dre.
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe:
    • Peggy Carter is very feminine and elegant, but she also really enjoys fighting and being involved in dangerous missions (which is why she resents being made a Desk Jockey after the war).
    • In her introduction in Ant-Man, Scott's daughter Cassie Lang wears a sparkly purple dress and tiara for her birthday party and has pink pajamas and a pink-themed bedroom, but is also a Nightmare Fetishist for creepy toys and bugs. In Ant-Man and the Wasp, she plays soccer and often wears camo-styled clothes while still sporting pink accessories; at one point, she pairs camo leggings with a frilly pink tutu and flowery headband, while aspiring to fight bad guys like her dad when she’s older.
    • Avengers: Endgame: When we first see Morgan Stark, she's dressed in a pink swan cardigan, along with the mask that her father is creating for her mother's "Rescue" suit while imagining that she's a superhero in her tent (just like her father). She also shows an innate curiosity in her father's technology at a very young age!
  • Mean Girls:
    • For most of the movie Regina George is a fashionable queen bee obsessed with her appearance and social status. However at the end she joins the lacrosse team and turns out to be very good at it. It was her therapist's idea for her to start playing sports and let all of her anger out on the field.
    • The girl Jocks seem to have this vibe, outside their uniforms a few of them dress in a feminine manner (like the girl who threatens to kick Cady's ass if she mixes her up with a teacher) and are not above getting involved in the same petty things as the other girls in their school.
  • Miss Meadows: Miss M is a very girlish woman, wearing a vintage dress and has quite proper, quaint manners. Yet she's also a gun-wielding vigilante who wages a one-woman war against crime, a traditionally masculine activity (with female vigilantes usually more straight tomboys when depicted).
  • The blurb describes Annie James from The Parent Trap as a "fair rose from London" and she is the more proper of the twins, dressing in custom-made skirt-suits and well versed in etiquette, but she's also shown to enjoy fencing, swimming, horseback riding, poker, and camping in the California Wilderness.
  • Elizabeth Swann from Pirates of the Caribbean becomes this during the original trilogy - she starts out as just a Proper Lady, and then she Took a Level in Badass, or actually several levels, going from Guile Heroine to Action Girl to Pirate KING. Even in the first movie, although a gentle girl, she had a hidden fascination for pirate lore.
  • Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse: Kendall is a Damsel in Distress with lots of pink and girly clothes and personal items, but she also plays lacrosse and has several trophies.
  • Titanic (1997)'s heroine Rose DeWitt Bukater, which is mostly shown in the third-class party scene. She drinks, smokes, and wasn't afraid to challenge the "big tough men" by showing her own strength by standing en pointe.
  • Us: Becca and Lindsey wear fairly feminine clothing, but they spend most of their time on the beach doing cartwheels.
  • The Slumber Party Massacre: Trish and her friends are into boys and partying, and Trish's room has many stuffed animals, but the girls are also skilled basketball players.
  • Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018): Addison may be a cheerleader and like typical "girly" things, but she's also into weird things like Zed's species, likes being tough and is a great fighter.

    Literature 
  • American Girls Collection:
    • Samantha is usually prim and proper and has a love for fashion, bows, and dolls, but has an action side for climbing trees.
    • Ivy is more feminine in comparison to her sporty and tomboyish best friend Julie, with a love of baking and making bracelets. However, she participates in gymnastics, and sometimes enjoys playing baskeball with Julie (even though Julie always beats her).
    • Isabel is the more girly twin who loves pop music, pink, The Powerpuff Girls, and fashion. She gets the tomboy aspect—very lightly—when she starts to play tennis with her new friend Olivia.
    • Luciana has a love for sparkly things, anything pink and purple, and added a purple streak in her hair to match with her best friend Raelyn from back at home. However, she is active and has the dream of being an astronaut on Mars when she grows up.
  • Ananda's Fall: Izumi loves ballet and mermaids. She's also a fearsome karateka, thanks to being the daughter of the sensei of a local dojo...and is not above punching people out if necessary.
  • Angela Nicely: Angela wears a pink dress with a matching bow and likes ponies and romance, but she also climbs trees, and in “Girls United!” she plays soccer/football.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In Return to Chaos, Amanda Singer is a gossipy fashionista who Cordelia calls the "least sinister" person she knows, but she also plays lacrosse.
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: While Susan is the Girly Girl among the Pevensies, her interests, both as a Narnian monarch and an English schoolgirl, include archery and swimming, and she is said to be quite good at both.
  • The Fault in Our Stars: Lida's chatty, beautiful and eats up the faux-positive Support Group affirmations, but she's also stated to be into athletics.
  • The Great Greene Heist: Lynne and the other girls' basketball team players are skilled athletes, but (save for Gaby) they spend most of their spare time buying clothes, talking about boys, and (in Katie's case) dancing.
  • Harry Potter: Cho Chang appears to be a typical Girly Girl that is something of a Lovable Alpha Bitch who Squees over cute Valentine's Day decorations and is often surrounded by a Girl Posse. She's also a big Quidditch lover - supporting the Tutshill Tornadoes since she was seven, and plays as Seeker for the Ravenclaw team.
  • Ryoko Asakura from Haruhi Suzumiya is a seemingly stereotypical teenage girl who doesn't shy away from masculine interests. She actively participates in extracurriculars like the less feminine Haruhi does. Her true colors are a bloodthirsty psychopath seeking a reaction out of Haruhi by any physically violent means.
  • Hive Mind (2016): Megan presents herself as extremely feminine and her role in the telepath unit is explicitly to be the Team Mom. She was also a Colonel in two different teen games, which involved a lot of climbing around through ducts.
  • Horrid Henry: Moody Margaret may be vain and feminine, but she is as tough as nails and loves playing football.
  • I Am Jazz: Jazz loves makeup and dressing up as a princess or a mermaid, and she doesn't play with toy trucks or tools or have any interest in superheroes, but she does play soccer.
  • InCryptid: It's hard to tell whether Verity is this or a Tomboy with a Girly Streak. She's a professional dancer and likes other traditionally feminine things like dresses, but she's also an Action Girl with short hair who loves climbing trees and buildings so much that her title is "The Arboreal Priestess". When compared to her sister, she's definitely the girlier one.
  • Rarity and the Curious Case of Charity: Charity is into fashion, and many of the same things Rarity is into, but she's also excited when invited by Rainbow Dash to do some cannon balls at the pond and is interested in learning how to apple buck. However, she tries to suppress her more tomboyish side to impress Rarity.
  • Roys Bedoys: Truly likes ponies and a lot of her things are pink, but she also plays sports.
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: Violet Baudelaire is a very polite, pretty girl. She's also the responsible Team Mom to her younger siblings and rescues them from time to time. She also can play the Damsel in Distress role occasionally, has romantic feelings for a boy, and her default attire is a purple dress. Her hobby happens to be invent and fix things, she only wears a ribbon to tie her hair back and help her think, and she hates the color pink.
  • Tales From Alcatraz: Janet Trixle braids her hair and has many pixie imaginary friends but sometimes imitates her prison guard father, complete with carrying a bullhorn around.
  • The Twilight Saga:
    • Rosalie Hale is the resident beauty queen with a keen interest in fashion and her own appearance, and fits her (original) early 20th Century upbringing by placing great value on marriage, family, and especially motherhood. She's also a competent physical fighter (despite her lack of extrasensorial talents compared to her siblings), and the family's most skilled mechanic, one of her biggest hobbies being enhancing cars and tinkering with tools.
    • To a lesser extent, Esme and Alice, too: the former's most defining trait is being the maternal figure of the family, the latter is a fashion-obsessed Genki Girl who enjoys massive shopping sprees both for herself and the rest of the family (including a chagrined Bella). Both share with the rest of their family (including Rosalie) a love for playing baseball and don't shy away from physical combat when push comes to shove. Alice also has Boyish Short Hair.

    Live-Action TV 
  • Penny from The Big Bang Theory is about 75% feminine and girly with her interests in boys, fashion, shoes, nails, and pursuing a career in acting but the leftover 25% of her are tomboy qualities: she's a very tough Girly Bruiser who can be The Lad-ette and knows more about traditional manly interests like football, hunting, shooting guns and fishing. That only serves to highlight that she is still more masculine than most of the guys on the show, as they don't know much about any of those things as much as she does and prefer video games.
  • Baby: Chiara is rich, wears fashionable clothes, attends fancy parties and formal events, and spends much of the show using her feminine appeal. But she is also a competitive athlete who does running races.
  • Bridgerton: Eloise Bridgerton and Kate Sharma famously share their cynical views toward the patriarchal high society.
    • Eloise has aspirations to be more than just a housewife and proper lady, which was taboo at the time.
    • Kate is very feminine — it's mentioned that Edwina learned everything that helped her become the season's incomparable from Kate — but in addition to her spirited personality, Kate also loves hunting as she learned it from her late father. The young lords at Aubrey Hall are rather shocked when they learn this since it's not a ladylike hobby.
  • Sweet goody-two-shoes Det. Amy Santiago from Brooklyn Nine-Nine is very feminine since she dresses in pink or blue blouses, decorates her apartment with doilies, is fond of sewing, and is the Girly Girl to Det. Rosa Diaz's Tomboy. However, she is also extremely competitive, very ambitious, with dreams of being captain one day, and she really enjoys the action of chasing perps on the job. She is a police officer, which is a traditionally male profession, so her having a tomboy streak isn't that unexpected.
  • Teenage Buffy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer who loved cheerleading and was boy crazy, but also fought and slayed too. She later grows out of her preppy girly girl stage and falls in between tomboy and girly girl.
  • Phoebe Halliwell from Charmed is the most feminine of the sisters, with a very fashionable wardrobe, a bubbly personality, and a very strong focus on love and romance in her storylines; she's also the first sister to learn martial arts to make up for her lack of offensive powers.
  • Friends: Rachel Green is a spoiled rich fashionista stereotype, but being Joey's roommate in later seasons brings out the The Lad-ette side of her. She starts having fun with him, by dropping food on the floor, throwing huge spitballs at the entertainment center, or sitting in the reclining chairs while drinking beer (the things Joey used to do with Chandler). In one episode, Phoebe gives Joey drums, hoping this would annoy Rachel, but it doesn't work because Joey and Rachel start playing drums together. The same episode also reveals Rachel loves tarantulas and used to have one as a kid.
  • Full House: Donna Jo "D.J" Tanner is quite feminine, composed, and well-behaved, and she has the normal interests of a teenage girl, like dating boys, especially in later seasons. She also like some sports like soccer and karate. Also, her In-Series Nickname "D.J" isn't so feminine.
  • In Glee, Santana is very much a girly girl with her affinity for shopping, hair styling, tight dresses, and cheerleading. However, she doesn't like the color pink and her mom says that she should have known she was a lesbian because of how she used to play in the mud and had a mullet.
  • Gossip Girl (2021): Julien shares the interests of her Girly Girl friends and is perfectly willing to wear more feminine attire. However, she's got a buzzcut and usually wears a shirt with a tie, or other boyish attire.
  • How I Met Your Mother:
    • Lily is a motherly kindergarten teacher, an artist, and loves fashion and shopping. However, her feminist mother didn't want her conforming to "traditional gender roles" - as such she's a bit of a Ladette, who has a higher sex drive than her husband, drinks, gets in hot dog-eating contests and was known as a delinquent in her neighborhood.
    • Katie Scherbatsky is more feminine than her older sister Robin was at her age, but it's implied she also received the same treatment from her father in "Rally". In "Vesuvius" she is also shown playing hockey in full gear with Robin and drinking scotch while watching "The Wedding Bride 2".
  • LazyTown: Stephanie is adorned in pink and is easily one of the sweetest characters. That said, she also loves physical activity and is probably the bravest and most proactive cast member, with Sportacus as her only equal.
  • Leverage: This becomes key to Sophie's Character Development. The Grifter, known primarily for her fashions, honey traps, and social capacities, becomes a formidable physical combatant. Compare "The Wedding Job" with "The Reunion Job," where she throws down with the female hired gun.
  • Liv and Maddie: Liv is fashion obsessed and boy crazy, loves her stuffed animals, and she's overall girly and proud, in contrast to her twin sister. But despite being the more girly twin, Liv has a sporty side. In one episode, in order to play the lead role in a basketball movie, she learns to play basketball and, after some training, she becomes very good at it, possibly good enough to rival Maddie. Downplayed since, even after that, she's not interested in playing basketball with Maddie and still prefers shopping.
  • The titular character of Lizzie McGuire is normally a sweet and shy Naïve Everygirl, who clearly likes fashion (in one episode she becomes a model and in another episode she wants to be voted "best dressed" in her school). In "One of the Guys", she finds out she enjoys football and is quite good at it as well, and the conflict comes from the other girls who mock her for being One of the Boys. Lizzie then learns An Aesop that it's possible to be a Girly Girl and enjoy roughing it up.
  • MasterChef:
    • US Season 2 had Jennifer, a former Beauty Queen who described herself as a "Boy with boobs" because she used to be a tomboy in her childhood.
    • US Season 8's Cate referred to herself as a former tomboy because she grew up hunting, fishing and camping with her dad, which gave her experience with meats like deer and trout.
  • Modern Family: Gloria's way girlier than Claire, but she likes guns and knows how to use one better than Claire does.
  • Once Upon a Time is just in love with this trope. Prominent examples include:
    • Snow White, every bit the Princess Classic, but she'll shoot you with an arrow if you come for her family, and had no problems living as a forest bandit after the Evil Queen exiled her.
    • Regina, easily among the biggest Femme Fatales in the series, with her Pimped-Out Dress and extravagant makeup in the Enchanted Forest, or very feminine business attire in Storybrooke... and scary anger outbursts. She's mostly feared as a Lady of Black Magic, but she can also kill you in a non-magical sword fight, and was an avid horseback rider in her youth.
    • Cinderella, who runs the daycare in Storybrooke, has no problem wielding a shotgun if push comes to shove.
  • Power Rangers S.P.D.: Syd is a Lovable Alpha Bitch type of girl who, even before becoming a Power Ranger, was a fencing champion for three years.
  • Jenny Lewis of Primeval is a glamorous journalist who is frequently dressed to the nines. In the Season 2 finale, she shows surprising prowess with a gun.
    "My friends liked the pony club. I preferred the clay pigeons."
  • Riverdale:
    • Betty Cooper is girly and feminine, as she likes to wear dresses and she has a fondness for the colour pink. Not only does she frequently wear pink clothes, but her room is pretty much all pink as well, but she also has a tomboyish streak as she is mechanical and has a love of fixing cars.
    • Cheryl Blossom loves to be as feminine as possible; she wears make-up, jewelry, accessories, shorts, high heels and very stylish clothing in general, much like Veronica Lodge. But unlike Veronica, Cheryl displays less feminine occupations, like archery and her Nightmare Fetishist tendencies.
  • Rizzoli & Isles: Maura is the girly girl next to Jane, with her preferences for dresses over Jane's preference for slacks and being somewhat nitpicky about having healthy habits compared to Jane. She also likes to exercise, doesn't mind talking about the properties of dead bodies and their bodily functions for her job which grosses Jane out, and she has an interest in science and is a Badass Bookworm in general. There are also occasions where Jane would take the damsel in distress role and she would take part in saving Jane.
  • Alexis Rose of Schitt's Creek wears flouncy fashions and high heels has an elaborate beauty routine and her interests are primarily feminine. However, she also has an F-Class driver's license for light trucks, plays a mean game of pool, and has no problem sleeping in the cab of trucks.
  • Stranger Things: Although a cheerleader who is considered very conventionally attractive, Nancy Wheeler changes into more masculine clothes, is a good shot and wants into the male dominated world of journalism.
  • In an episode of That '70s Show, Jackie, normally very feminine (especially in contrast to Donna), a cheerleader and high-maintenance rich girl who can be an Alpha Bitch, helps Red fix a car, after Eric proves inadequate.
  • The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: London is a prissy Asian Airhead fashionista who is materialistic and obsessed with shopping, but she is very physically adept, being good at martial arts and working out regularly. The tomboy streak was phased out in the sequel series, however, with Flanderization making her suddenly so incompetent at physical activity that she needed Zack to help her get back into shape.
  • The Vampire Diaries Universe: Despite her feminine "girl next door" looks and demeanour, Elena Gilbert frequently wears casual and sporty clothes, and only really wears dresses or traditionally girly clothing when attending events.
  • Wednesday: With her girly style of clothes, love of pink, stuffed animals, cutesy K-pop songs, and other things, Enid Sinclair is the most stereotypically feminine character in the show, but it's mentioned in episode 4 that (thanks to her older brothers) she shares their interest of professional hockey and thinks Way of the Dragon is the best kung-fu movie ever.
  • Young Sheldon: Despite her love of dolls and dressing up, Missy asks George to teach her how to play baseball. Initially, she only wanted to learn to impress a boy she likes, but she genuinely becomes interested in the game and even tries out for her school's baseball team successfully earning her spot.
  • Zoey 101: Zoey is a pretty, fashionable Dude Magnet who enjoys designing clothes, and her favorite colour is pink. She's also very athletic. Being The Ace, she tends to be good at everything, including sports (especially basketball).

    Music 
  • Missy Elliot described Aaliyah as someone who "always made sure her nails were done, her perfume was right, and her bag had lotion and lip gloss" - but she still had a very casual, tomboyish image.
  • Atomic Kitten's Liz had an image as The Cutie but is an avid supporter of Everton FC.
  • The subject of "Pretty Girl" by Maggie Lindemann.
  • Radio Tapok's song "White Lily" refers to the Luftwaffe "smelling" her coming, in reference to the fact that the eponymous Ace Pilot Lydia Litvyak was a girly-girl who liked to fill her Yak-1's cockpit with flower bouquets and put Nose Art of a lily on her plane. Litvyak is credited with up to twelve aerial victories before she was shot down at the Battle of Kursk.
  • Girlish Pigtails and inclination toward pastel motifs + trained martial artist = Spice Girls's Emma. (Emphasized in "Say You'll B There," which had her billed as "Kung Fu Candy.")

    Professional Wrestling 
  • Amber O'Neal is a high-maintenance hip hop dancer and founding member of the Southern Belle-themed Girl Posse Team Blondage, but in spite of hating broken nails, she's also a motocross racer and occasionally incorporates it into her wrestling career. Rival and later Team Blondage member GeeStar spends so much time roughhousing with the guys it is at times easy to forget she's a part of a Girly Girl stable.
  • The "Fabulous Fire Bird Phoenix", who was something of a Tomboy with a Girly Streak contrasted to Amber O'Neal, became "The Glamazon Beth Phoenix in Ohio Valley Wrestling and was this trope for the rest of her career. Phoenix was comfortably in the middle of the tomboys and girly girls of her OVW class, fawning over Aaron "The Idol" Stevens, getting into borderline catfights on his behalf, wearing a tiara and freaking out over the dirtier members of the roster but still being an amateur wrestling champion with huge biceps and huger cheekbones, completely avoiding further toning down and held out the longest of any woman who made it to cable TV against the inevitable enhancement surgery. She was more girly than Alexis Laree, Jennifer Thomas, Trinity, ODB, Melissa Coates, and Serena Deeb but no more than Melina Perez, Shelly Martinez or Passion, didn't become more girlish the way Katie Lea, Josie and Jillian Hall did and was much more of a tomboy than valets Roni Jona and Cherry, most* of the magazine finds like Alicia Fox and Kelly Kelly as well as all the diva search picks like Kristal Marshall, Maryse and Maria Kanellis.
  • Almost everything that could be considered both "evil" and "girly" was at some point applied to The Beautiful People. Madison Rayne stood out from the other members (the other females anyway) right from her first match with them where she used no kicks, did no tumbles, nothing showy, little in the way of hair-pulling or sneakiness, just chanceries, takedowns and lots and lots of punches. As opposed to hair spray or "the ugly stick", her preferred cheats were a loaded glove(more punching), motorcycle equipment and, if possible, the motorcycle itself. Granted, Rayne was something of a tomboy before she signed with TNA and was inserted into the girliest act it had going. But since she did initially serve The Beautiful People as their mole, it makes sense they wouldn't choose someone too much like them, and it also explains why she usually didn't get along with the rest very well.
  • Carmella is a Good Bad Girl who loves fashion and is preoccupied with looking fabulous. But she also has brothers and claims to be tougher than all of them - making her a Plucky Girl in the ring.
  • Alexa Bliss is a former model and cheerleader, with a love of rhinestones and everything sparkly. She was also a bodybuilder and won several fitness competitions.
  • Bella Twins: Brie Bella is the Girly Girl to her sister's Tomboy - favoring more feminine Waif-Fu offense in the ring and girlier ring attire. Outside of the ring she's a Granola Girl and is actually the harder drinker of the two. She's also more likely to be seen dressed casually as opposed to Nikki's love of high-fashion dresses.

    Toys 
  • Barbie herself is quite feminine but has had numerous camper and sports sets. She doesn't mind getting down and dirty.
    • Her friend Summer Gordon in Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse loves jewelry, wears dresses, and adores fashion. As mentioned, she's a former model who really likes sports.
  • Bratz: Cloe's a very girly-girl fashionista but she is also into a wide variety of sports, namely skateboarding, motorcycling, and her favorite of all, soccer.
  • Ever After High: Briar Beauty is a fashionable princess who wears a lot of pink, but she loves her HeXtreme sports.
  • Lalaloopsy:
    • Several episodes of the show have Trinket Sparkles wanting to do something messy or rough, which her big sister Jewel doesn't allow as it is "un-royal". Jewel would end up joining Trinket at the end of these episodes.
    • Marina Anchors dons a cute sailor uniform with big bows and loves to complete chores. She also loves sailing and isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty when she has to.
  • Monster High: Some of Draculaura's outfits have masculine influences, like her signature look and her collector doll.

    Video Games 
  • Animal Crossing has the Peppy villagers who are very girly and also gained a bit of a geek streak in New Horizons, as they occasionally talk about comic books and even play video games. They also love heavy metal and love listening to it, though they admit that they themselves wouldn't fit in the metal scene very much.
  • Phoebe from Battleborn is a stock Girly Bruiser, with all the glossy parts, being explicitly sensitive and is capable of being flirty. She's a very feminine and proper lady benefiting a rich heiress, but she's also an inventor and adventurer, creating fantastical tech and spelunking in ancient ruins. She can sometimes be a bit too into battle when fighting and has a thing for flying death machines. Furthermore, for a character who would be perceived as very dainty, her Legendary Challenge Gear is a pair of sneakers.
  • Final Fantasy:
    • Final Fantasy VII's Aerith Gainsborough is a White Magician Girl who wears a long pink dress and sells flowers - but she also has a spunky, aggressive personality and wears boots.
    • Final Fantasy VIII has Selphie - a Genki Girl who loves cute things and is The Pollyanna to everyone. She's also Cute and Psycho, as she's a trained military SeeD.
    • Final Fantasy IX Garnet, the Princess Classic, White Mage, and lover of classic literature, has also got a highly adventurous streak and also proves to be a Plucky Girl.
    • Final Fantasy X has Yuna, though this side comes out more in the sequel. She's a soft-spoken Girly Girl in the first game, but gets slightly pluckier and can be any number of 'boyish' jobs - such as Warrior, Samurai, Dark Knight, etc. Her default job is as a Gunner.
    • In Final Fantasy XV we have Lunafreya Nox Fleuret, princess and Oracle of Tenebrae and the main hero's fiance. Kind, classically educated, delicate, and the very definition of a Proper Lady, but come in the novel Dawn Of The Future, we learn a few interesting bits about her. For starters, she's Minored In Ass Kicking, more than capable of taking care of herself (and others) through her skilled use of polearms and spears - she simply never found a chance to make use of that training in the main game. She's also a surprisingly knowledgeable gearhead, easily knowing her way around a motorcycle and its parts well enough to help Sol repair hers.
  • Clair from Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia has all the poise and bearing of a noble lady but also finds herself most at home on the battlefield to her brother Clive and childhood friend Fernand's surprise.
  • Kingdom Hearts: Kairi's a very giggly and social girl, makes her love for Sora obvious, wears pink and her outfits always include a skirt or mini dress, liked picking flowers as a child and her Keyblade has a very flowery and colorful design, and she has a penchant for making jewelry out of seashells. But, in Kingdom Hearts, she's also One of the Boys planning on sailing out the world on a raft with her friends, and sports Boyish Short Hair. Even after her Girliness Upgrade in II she still wears sneakers with her minidress rather than more girly shoes, and in III her hair is shorter again and she's upgraded to what look like combat boots.
  • The King of Fighters: Mai Shiranui is arguably the most feminine girl in the series, but happens to find metal as her favorite music. Plus she's VERY straightforward and open about her likes and dislikes, which some people criticize as "not very ladylike".
  • Alisa Reinford in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel is one of the most feminine girls in Class VII, but her family runs the biggest engineering corporation in the Empire and she's very good at fixing machines.
  • The Legend of Zelda:
  • Lyrica: Shiue is a sweet and demure Proper Lady who wears Lolita Fashion and is often described as elegant and doll-like. She also serves as her band's drummer and is interested in the technical aspects of sound/music production.
  • The titular character from Ms. Pac-Man predominantly serves a Housewife role while her husband takes up a majority of the adventures to save Pac-Land, but when need be, she's also an Action Mom who can accomplish just as much as Pac-Man does.
  • Neptunia: Nepgear, Uni, and K-Sha are girly, but they don't have girlish interests. They are interested in firearms, Nepgear, in particular, is generally interested in machinery. Nepgear and Uni try at one point to act like normal girls, but they get bored soon when they try to go shopping.
  • Persona:
  • Pokémon:
  • In Roots of Pacha, Acre and Croll's youngest daughter Ata is a feminine-looking little girl, but she likes playing with the boys and helping her mother Acre out in blacksmithing.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog:
    • Amy Rose's default outfit is quite stylish and girly, her fur is entirely pink, she loves cute things, fashion, shopping, cooking and sweets, is very romantic and is in the roles of Team Mom and The Heart, but she's also a formidable fighter and is very able to use her hammer, plus Amy's a Tsundere with a Hair-Trigger Temper that's feared by all (even the normally fearless Sonic)
    • Rouge the Bat dresses and behaves in a very ladylike manner at the surface, but her way of thinking and some of her interests are masculine.
  • Lumina from Story of Seasons for the first chapter of the game. She lives in the only mansion in Forgotten Valley and plays the piano, fulfilling the usual role of an Ojou character, but she wears comfortable jeans to walk around the valley. From the second chapter onward, Character Development sets in due to the Time Skip nature of the game and her growing out of her teen years, and she becomes more of a Proper Lady as her grandmother continues raising her.
  • Ibuki the girly ninja girl from Street Fighter despite probably being the second most girly character behind Karin has traits of this. She has a pet Tanuki called "Don-Chan", Tanuki are a dangerous animal to keep due to their wild instincts. She also tends to carry around sharp objects randomly in her casual outfits. Ibuki is also notable for being one of the few female characters to wear pants (jeans in her case) in one of her outfits, a rarity even for the pure tomboys (including Makoto). Other characters that also wear pants such as Juri and C. Viper are somewhere in between in tomboy and girly scale as they are both meant to be foils as sorts to the tomboy Cammy and Girly Chun-Li. She also has a professional ninja run and can handle weapons well.
  • Super Mario Bros.
    • Now providing the page image, Princess Peach. In contrast to Daisy being mostly tomboyish. Peach's femininity is always played up, but she has just as much interest in sports and parties as Daisy, or any of the guys, and doesn't hesitate to get rough and tumble with any of them.
    • Toadette is very giggly and girly but enjoys playing in the sports and kart races her friends participate in. She also plays a big role in Captain Toad when she and him rescue each other from an eagle, and in Mario Maker 2, when she is one of the constructors that build Princess Peach's castle.
  • Similarly to Ibuki, Tekken's Lili who is probably behind only Anna Williams on the Girly Girl scale (due to Anna having no tomboy streaks) has an outfit with pants (also jeans) that was made to be high contrast to her girly default dress. It should be noted that while pretty much all Tekken girls have access to jeans or some trousers those are customization options and not real outfits, not even most other tomboys such as her own rival wears such wear. Also in Street Fighter X Tekken one of Lili's titles is "Tomboy". The only other Tekken female to have such clothes is Leo whose outfit covers more than Lili's and is the truest tomboy of Tekken.
  • Riley Miller from Valkyria Chronicles 4. She's the most fashion-conscious of anyone fighting in Squad E, to the point her Non-Uniform Uniform includes Proper Tights with a Skirt. She's one of the more organized and refined women around the base camp, and she even has unique, much daintier animations in battle. Those animations are for deploying the man-portable mortar cannon she helped design, with her passion for mechanical engineering.

    Visual Novels 
  • Elcia from Area X looks very feminine, is a Supreme Chef and Guile Heroine, but she also a notable Blood Knight.
  • CLANNAD:
    • Opposite of the Tomboy Tomoyo and her daughter Ushio, Nagisa is a Yamato Nadeshiko who handles her life in a roundabout way. She is a Big Eater when it comes to her favorite foods, open to learning about Tomoya's interests.
  • Fate Series:
    • Luviagelita Edelfelt from Fate/stay night and Fate/hollow ataraxia has the looks and bearing of your typical Ojou, complete with ringlets, but she favors a fighting style that's essentially pro wrestling.
    • Saint Martha from Fate/Grand Order presents herself as a graceful, elegant woman of faith, and that is genuine for the most part...but she also has a more outspoken, Hot-Blooded side that she tries to keep under control. While she tries to be a Lady of War in her Rider form, her Summer form shows that she can also be a violent brawler who fights with nothing but Good Old Fisticuffs (and it's heavily implied that she actually tamed Tarasque by beating him into submission, rather than simply charming him with her elegant and ladylike ways like the stories say). She states that both sides of her personality are part of who she is, and official art of her depicts her in both masculine and feminine outfits.
  • Higurashi: When They Cry:
    • Shion is very refined unlike her identical twin sister Mion (who is a Tomboy with a Girly Streak) but is just as spunky and is as much of a tease as her. She has some Hot-Blooded traits as well. Shion is a girly girl with some tomboy qualities because: Shion was actually born Mion, but was sent to a school that turns women into "proper ladies" when she was younger, because as a child she and the real Shion did a Twin Switch that accidentally turned permanent when one of them got a tattoo. She enjoys being a tease in general but when things get serious, she's not afraid of displaying her energetic determination.
    • Rika and Hanyuu may seem, at first, to qualify for this trope. They are seemingly girly at first, but they refer themselves as "boku". This is due to Rika picking it up from Hanyuu and Hanyuu coming from a time before boys and girls used separate pronouns. Rika switches to "watashi" when she begins acting her mental age and uses "boku" just to act cute. So Rika is a girly girl with a mature side and Hanyuu is only girly in child form, none having "tomboyish" streaks.
  • The heroine of Kamigami no Asobi, Kusanagi Yui is a girly girl overall, being gentle, soft-spoken, and somewhat motherly girl with long hair. But she is also quite proficient in swordplay and is athletic as well. She also can be firm and very brave when she needs to be.
  • Nayuki from Kanon is generally girly, having long hair and loving cute animals (especially cats). However, she's also athletic enough to be captain of the girls' track team at her school.
  • Sasami Sasasegawa from Little Busters! is an Ojou who's generally very feminine, but she loves softball; she's the captain of the girl's softball team and the main reason she applied to the school is because of its softball program's good reputation. She's also not afraid to get physical when fighting Rin.
  • Kotonoha Katsura from School Days may seem like an innocent Girly Girl on the outside, but she is into horror movies and practices iaido.

    Web Animation 
  • Hazbin Hotel: Charlotte "Charlie" Morningstar has long hair and the sweet, naive personality of a typical Princess Classic, but she generally wears suits and prefers to go by the gender-neutral (but typically more masculine) name "Charlie" over her full name of Charlotte.
  • The Most Popular Girls in School:
    • While obviously into traditionally girly things like fashion, the color pink, and men, Brittany Matthews also enjoys fights, cursing, utilizing weapons, and chooses to drink beer at a party in Episode 76.
    • Like the rest of the cheer squad, Trisha Cappelletti is girly but is into superhero stuff. She also knows quite a bit about tech and AV stuff, which is quite unusual for a cheerleader.

    Webcomics 

    Web Original 
  • Cracked: In "5 Lessons from 1970s Female Programmer" with Christina Hsu's mom, the titular female programmer*. She tried to be a stay-at-home mom, but when she was, she didn't like it. But she was still very influenced by Chinese tradition and norms, including gender roles. She was very emotional, loved flowers, and would often force Christina into dresses as well as computer programming.
  • Empires SMP Season 2: Princess Katherine of GlimmerGrove wears pink in her everyday outfit, likes building with a cute style and light/pastel shades, and is one of the nicest characters in the cast. She also has a muscular physique and moonlights as a Hunter of Monsters under the cover of darkness, and certainly has admirers (well, at least one) for this.
  • Lala from ''Kittisaurus is a beautiful white munckin cat with long hair and an Adorable Fluffy Tale. She's also the one most likely to be seen sporting kitty hats and scarves, and struts around like a model. Yet she's one of the toughest fighters, loves running on the cat wheel, and is a Big Eater (thought not quite as extreme as Lulu and Dodo).
  • Pirates SMP: El is a great artist, decorates her ship with a "girlypop" aesthetic, prefers treasure quests to ones that involve killing hostile creatures, and once even prioritizes a life-saving rescue mission for a visit to the hairdresser's. However, she would still be considered masculine by her misogynistic hometown's standards for cross-dressing and aspiring into a journalistic career typically only reserved for men there; she can sometimes be reckless, and is usually very outspoken.

 
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While she's more feminine than the boisterous tomboy Mebh, she's still a Spirited Young Lady who doesn't always conform to her time period's gender roles. She wants to be a hunter like her father instead of working in the scullery, and she wears trousers as well as dresses.

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