History Main / LittleMissBadass

* The opening of ''Fim/BlackWidow(2021)'' reveals that the titular heroine was this, disarming a soldier and threatening the soldiers of the Red Room at gunpoint to protect her sister Yelena. She was only 11 years-old at the time and just as badass as she is now.

--> '''Davos:''' I suspect if [House Mormont soldiers] are as fearsome as their lady, the Boltons are doomed.

* ''WebAnimation/RWBY'': Ruby Rose fits this trope pretty well. She’s a girl in her mid-teens that can wield a scythe twice her size and destroy an army of werewolves in her way. And given that she’s had to have years of training with such a dangerous weapon, she likely had this quality even as a younger girl.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Nice turnaround for Violet.

** [[ComicBook/KittyPryde Shadowcat]] was a master ninja (and experienced superhero and expert hacker) by the age of 14, thanks in part to some YearInsideHourOutside training by Franchise/{{Wolverine}}'s EvilMentor.

->"Tell them that Ellie is the little girl who broke your ''fucking'' finger!"
-->--'''Ellie''', ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs''

* In an episode of ''Series/ForensicFiles '', two pre-teen boys were attacked by a trio of thugs and thrown into a river,. One of them plays dead, then drags his friend out of the water and battleship over a .25 miles to a nearby house to get help. Even More awesome is that he was the ''younger'' and ''smaller'' of the two.

* ''Series/{{Hanna}}'': Hanna. She's a short, slim teenage girl, but is a highly skilled martial artist and quite good with firearms. Sandy is another example, though really all the Utrax girls may count, as they're just teenagers but have been trained as assassins from childhood. In fact, that's why they were chosen, as people don't expect them to be a threat.

* ''WebAnimation/RWBY'': Ruby Rose fits this trope pretty well. She’s a girl in her mid-teens that can wield a scythe twice her size and destroy an army of werewolves in her way. And given that she’s had to have years of training with such a dangerous weapon, she likely had this quality even as a younger girl.

** Jinora continued to be a badass in Books 2 and 3, being Korra's spiritual advisor and saving the day in both books' finales: in Book 2, [[spoiler: she showed Korra that Raava was still alive after Vaatu-powered Unalaq had destroyed it, allowing Korra to recover Raava and her Avatar state]], and in Book 3 [[spoiler: she and the other Air acolytes saved Korra's ''life'' by stopping Zaheer from suffocating her,]] and she [[spoiler: finally became an airbender master!]]

** In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'', Bianca goes ghost-hunting with the main character when she is eight. Unlike the Hero, she has already learned Fire spells.

* ''[[http://www.superstupor.com/sust04092008.shtml Super Stupor]]'' by [[Webcomic/SomethingPositive R.K.Milholland's]] presents a GenreSavvy parody.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'': Young, little Princess Alevna escapes from the castle by kicking a hole in the wall of her third-story room and jumping out. It's also stated that this isn't the first time she's done it. When she joins your team, she is you best physical hitter.

* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'': In [[Anime/MagicalgirlLyricalNanoha the first season]], Nanoha and Fate are proficient magical combatants at age nine, joined by Hayate at the same age in the second, as well as the ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Vita. In the third season time has skipped ahead ten years, so Nanoha, Fate, and Hayate have grown up... but Vita hasn't (being immortal and thus [[NotAllowedToGrowUp no longer physically aging]]), and they have more to add to the mix, including Caro, a ten year old [[TheMedic medic]] who can summon [[{{Kaiju}} really]] [[PhysicalGod big]] [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons dragons]], and Vivio, [[spoiler: a clone of the legendary [[CrystalDragonJesus Sankt Kaiser]] whom Nanoha eventually adopts as her daughter]]. The fandom has been known to joke that any girl who cannot defeat a grown man by age 10 is disowned.

* ''Webcomic/AntiHeroForHire'' [[http://www.antiheroforhire.com/d/20071210.html Malvagia]]. Fourteen-year-old bounty hunter, practitioner of WaifFu, and one of very few villains to tangle with Shadehawk and come out ahead. She's the [[InTheBlood niece of a crime boss]], too.

* Lucy Pennykettle from ''[[Literature/{{Dragons}} The Last Dragon Chronicles]]''.

* ''Film/TheProfessional'': Natalie Portman's character, Mathilda, although [[spoiler:she never actually goes through with anything]].

->"Tell them that Ellie is the little girl who broke your '''''fucking''''' finger!"

->"Tell them that Ellie is the little girl who broke your '''''fucking'''''finger!"

->''"Tell them that Ellie is the little girl who broke your'' fucking ''finger!"''

* ''{{Manga/Gangsta}}'''s Loretta Cristiano Amodio qualifies simply by already being the ''head'' of [[TheMafia The Cristiano Family]] at the age of 14, but then you find out she's not only packing heat but knows how to use it too.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':
** The [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld young-looking but centuries-old]] vampire/wizardess Evangeline A.K. [=McDowell=] was a mostly played-for-laughs villain in an earlier arc, but shows her badassery in the Kyoto and Tournament arcs - her earlier weakness was explained away as affection for the hero. A (much) later chapter has a character draw a humorous [[PowerLevels "Strength Table"]]. The Demon God sitting at the very top? Evangeline (with Chachamaru's help) took him down in a little over a minute [[[LargeHam and most of that minute was telling everyone around to make sure to watch her kill it]]].
** Yue Ayase commanded three of her Valkyrie classmates who were years her senior to aid her in knocking out a Griffin Dragon. The final attack on it was done, by Yue, dodging her ally's covering fire, with one magic attack and a dull ceremonial knife. And she gets more badass from there.

* ''LightNovel/NogizakaHarukaNoHimitsu'''s Alice, a shy, sweet little maid [[spoiler:with a spiked bat, brass knuckles and enough strength to crack open a street and create a ha]].

* ''Comicbook/TheAuthority'': Jenny Quantum exemplifies this. Her superhero career started a few days after she was born, when she vapourised a giant's legs; nowadays, a nine-year-old physically aged to 14, she's the [[AChildShallLeadThem leader of the team]]. (It probably helps that she's the resurrection, or [[Series/DoctorWho regeneration]], of previous leader Jenny Sparks.)

* In ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}''/''Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}'' story ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'', Barbara Gordon saved the Wayne family's lives when she was a little girl. After Joe Chill murdered her parents she picked her dad's gun, aimed at the man who had just slaughtered her family and ordered him freeze.
* ''Comicbook/KickAss'': Hit-Girl is an 11 year-old girl with a lock for a symbol and a katana, who annihilates a room full of baddies in her first appearance.
* ''{{ComicBook/Livewires}}'': The Creator/MarvelComics MiniSeries included Gothic Lolita, the team's android muscle, who looked young and dressed in her [[ElegantGothicLolita namesake style of clothing]].

* ''Comicbook/SinCity'': Miho. [[Creator/FrankMiller Deadly little Miho]].
* ''Comicbook/XFactor2006'': Layla Miller, as written by Peter David. Don't mess with her: ''[[CatchPhrase she]] [[ConfusionFu knows stuff]].''

** Comicbook/{{X 23}}. Although now a teenager, when she was being trained to be the killing machine she currently is, she used her cute little kid-ness to get close to her targets and eliminate them. Her first kill was at age 9, and it's implied that by the time she escaped her handlers at 13, she already amassed a body count in the ''hundreds''.

%% * Ashley [=McFly=]/Leather Ashes from ''FanFic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy'' isn't really innocent, but all in all badass, most notably in the end of episode 24: to put it shortly, a drug dealer shows up and tries raping her, only to have her ''stab him in the heart''.

* [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura Tomoyo Daidouji]] gets this treatment in the later chapters Shadow Crystal Mage's epic crossover fic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6095074/10/Takamachi_Nanoha_of_2814 Takamachi Nanoha of 2814.]] It boggles the mind, doesn't it?
* FanFic/ToyHammer has Emma. She's little, she's a miss, and she's certainly badass as she [[spoiler: is fated to become the God Emperor of Mankind]].

* Adelle is an experienced combatant in ''FanFic/TheTaintedGrimoire''.

* Johanna's daughter, Famke Smith-Rhodes-Stibbons, settled a fight with a fifteen year old boy at the Guild School by leaping up at him, grabbing his collar, and head-butting him breaking his nose. She was eleven at the time. [[note]]Even before arriving at the assassins' School, she had received a lot of informal training from her mother[[/note]]

* In ''FanFic/ZeldasHonor'', Saria is fairly timid in the commotion of battle during Acts 1 and 2, but by the end of Act 3, she can hold her own against [[spoiler: Josclyn]] in mid-air while trying to save [[spoiler: Giana]] from almost certain death; she also convinced [[spoiler: the dragon, Qargus]], to help Link and the others and then appearing to save the day on a [[spoiler: dragon herself]]; Saria also coming in to distract the [[spoiler: Hunger demon]] while [[spoiler: Navi revives Link]] and surviving for quite a while is also another example.

* [[{{Literature/Worm}} Missy Biron]], a.k.a. Vista, is the youngest member of Brockton Bay's Wards[[note]]The government-run program for junior superheroes[[/note]] team. She is also the ''longest-serving'', and due to [[{{Wretched Hive Of Scum And Villainy}} Brockton's supervillain-lead-gang problem]] and chronic manpower shortage in the Protectorate[[note]]The adult superhero organisation[[/note]] their Wards team regularly sees serious action (contrary to the program's nominal purpose as a safe way for superpowered youths to get training and assistance); she once took on Hookwolf, one of the most dangerous and vicious Villains in the city, solo. She also has the highest PRT[[note]]Parahuman Response Team, the non-powered police force for dealing with superpowered crime[[/note]] [[{{Power Levels}} threat rating]], not merely of the Wards, but of ''all'' the Heroes in the city.

* Dorothy Gale "Ace" [=McShane=], the [[{{Series/DoctorWho}} Seventh Doctor's]] companion. Sixteen years old when she comes aboard, whips up improvised explosives and incendiary devices in her spare time. Shot a Dalek in the face with a rocket launcher, clobbered another into non-functional status with a [[BatterUp baseball bat]], and took out Cybermen with gold coins and a slingshot. {{Deconstructed}}, especially in the Expanded Universe, as she came from a rotten home life, and her mental health was a bit of a mess.
* ''Series/{{Game of Thrones}}'':

* ''{{VideoGame/Borderlands 2}}'': The most talented DemolitionsExpert on Pandora happens to be a ''[[CloudCuckooLander slightly]]'' [[AxCrazy unhinged]] 13-year-old girl named Tiny Tina.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': Virtually any cast member who's young enough, or ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld looks]]'' [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld young enough]], fits this trope. In other words - nearly all of them.

* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'': A bunch of paranoid kids who spend most of their time killing each other in a variety of horrific ways may seem like an odd choice for this trope, but several of the girls definitely have moments that define them as {{Little Miss Badass}}es, mostly in Kai when ThePowerOfFriendship is at its' strongest. Rika, however, takes the cake for managing to endure [[spoiler:being caught in a Groundhog Day-style time loop--in which ''every single loop'' ends in her death--for over 100 years]] and ''not'' go screamingly insane long before the series proper even begins.

* ''Anime/MichikoToHatchin'': Hatchin evolves over the story into a more mundane than average version of this. At one point near the climax she faced off with a [[GangBangers former gang lord]]; throwing ''rocks'' at the guy with a high-powered handgun.

* ''Film/{{Chocolate}}'': Zen, an autistic teenage girl who is [[TheRainman martial arts savant]].

* FanFic/MarissaPicard first took command of the ''U.S.S. Enterprise'' when she was 10 or 11 years old, and by the time she was 14 she was in command of ''all of Star Fleet''. She's also got the highest Kobayashi Maru time ''evar'', so don't mess with her.
* In ''FanFic/CrownsOfTheKingdom'', Annelise, one of the children from the It's a Small World ride, is said to have killer aim when throwing her wooden clogs, something she was preparing to prove to a horde of Dispirations right before the cavalry arrived.

* ''VideoGame/{{Wild ARMs 5}}'': Carol. She compounds this by looking like a clumsy little girl even while shooting giant rockets at enemies.

%% * ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'''s Miu Fuurinji was like that [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/history_s_strongest_disciple_kenichi/c114/14.html when she]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/history_s_strongest_disciple_kenichi/c114/15.html was only]] [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/history_s_strongest_disciple_kenichi/c138/4.html six years old]].

* Hatoko, five-year-old controller of Suzuka from ''Anime/KidouTenshiAngelicLayer''.

* Amy Rose from ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog''. Went from being a BrattyHalfPint to HUMILIATING the Iron King, a MadeOfIron bruiser of a warlord who had previously proved impervious to Sonic's high speed attacks, in each of their encounters and flattening a massive war machine in one hit.