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* ''Series/That70sShow'' gives us Donna. Almost always in jeans, happy to shoot hoops with the guys, with a booming voice (hey, she’s played by deep-voiced Laura Prepon), but she doesn’t seem to have a problem being seen in a sexy red dress.
** This is actually a very sore subject with Donna, as episodes reveal that she’s bothered when people treat her TOO MUCH like a ladette. In one episode when Kitty needs two people with a feminine touch, she picks (right in front of Donna) Jackie and Fez. Donna’s response doesn’t help: “I’m feminine DAMNIT! I should kick her ass for that.”
* Beka Valentine, Captain and owner of the salvage ship ''Eureka Maru'' from Creator/GeneRoddenberry's ''{{Series/Andromeda}}''. The first time we see her in a dress, she's complaining about how she can't run and fight in all that cloth... and she's still wearing her combat boots.
* Susan Ivanova in ''Series/BabylonFive'' is very much the hard-edged officer, and pals around with her male colleagues like it's nothing (which to some degree it is in 23rd-century human society). On the other hand, she does strike up friendships with other women, including Delenn, and even [[spoiler:falls in love with Talia]]. Any complexity in her relationships with other women have tended to be on account of the fact that most other human women she interacts with are telepaths, and her relationship with telepathy and the Psi Corps is... not very good.
* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'': Because she is a Viper pilot and Commander Cain's daughter, Sheba fits into this trope. Subverted in that she retains many feminine traits.
* Ivy from ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'' is a surfer chick who gets very testy when someone doesn't treat her as Just One of the Guys.
* Jackie Curatola in ''Series/BlueBloods'' is kind of like this being comfortable in a male environment and having a rather hard-bitten personality. She is nice but she is edgy and is obviously not a ProperLady.
* Detective Erin Lindsay on ''{{Series/ChicagoPD}}'', likely due to her having been raised by Sergeant Hank Voight alongside his son Justin, then her joining the police force.
* Sarah Schneider on MTV's ''Series/TheCollegeHumorShow''
* ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'':
** EmotionlessGirl Ellie is a drummer in an otherwise all-male garage band with a number of piercings. She does have a good female friend, but she is the only girl by season five who has a strictly platonic relationship with a guy and she does maintain friendships with a couple of others.
** After she upsets Darcy, Jane says she can't deal with girls because they're too sensitive. Later on, Jane joins the football team.
* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': Debra Morgan, detective of the Miami Metro Police Department Homicide division and sister of Dexter, ability to be "one of the guys" is what allows her to be so effective at her job.
* Kaywinnet Lee Frye in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' is the mechanic for the titular ship in the series and is rarely found in anything other than a greasy pair of coveralls. Her version of One of the Boys is interestingly played with/inverted, in that she is shown desperately wanting to express her femininity and get dolled up on more than one occasion instead of it being simply thrust upon her by others.
* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': By season five, Roz has been invited to join Martin's poker game and fits right in with the guy talk about autoshops, hardware stores and which actresses they'd want to be on a desert island with.
-->'''Martin:''' Roz is like one of the guys, she knows more dirty jokes than Duke.
* Amy in the ''Series/FrontierCircus'' episode "Stopover in Paradise". The only child of a rancher, her mother dies when she was few months old and her father raised her like he would a son.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': The other Ironborn consider Yara to be this, much preferring her companionship to Theon's.
* Jo, in ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'', who likes [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking 'monster trucks, mixed martial arts... and dolls']].
* ''Series/{{Hightown}}'': Jackie's mostly friends with guys, and appears perfectly happy that way. She acts and dresses much like them, while being TheLadette and a ButchLesbian.
* Robin on ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''. She isn't completely unfeminine but shares a lot of interests with the male cast, not to mention she also smokes and likes guns and sports. This is due to her father raising her like a boy because he wanted a son.
* Sweet Dee in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', overlapping with TheLadette.
* ''Series/JackAss'' has consistently been mainly a group of guys (besides the usual appearance by April Margera, Bam’s mother, and Stephanie Hodge who occasionally participated in stunts), but starting with “Jackass Forever”, Rachel Wolfson has officially joined the cast, and certainly shown to be just as daring as the dudes, from licking a taser without making a sound, and letting a scorpion sting her lips.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'': Olivia Benson can use the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique with the best of them. And her partner is Elliot [=UnStabler=], so that's saying something.
* Jenny from ''Series/TheLeague'' is better-versed in football and fantasy football than her own husband, and seems to mostly hang out with the guys even when their wives are around (case in point, Sofia). However, she is still quite feminine in many ways.
* Of the most, if not ''the'' most frequent subject of [=MTV=]'s ''Series/{{MADE}}'' is a burping, swearing, and [[RequiredSecondaryPowers usually athletic]] tomboy who wants to become a girly-girl of some caliber (usually a beauty pageant queen, but some of them just settle for just the femininity lessons) to make boys stop seeing her as One Of The Boys and want to go out with her. Since AllGuysWantCheerleaders, simply finding a guy who likes tomboys is of course out of the question. There were several (though not as many) episodes in the reverse wherein girly girls wanted to pursue a more traditionally masculine sport and had to work not only on their abilities but being taken seriously.
* PJ of ''Series/MyBoys'', sort of fits this trope; she works in a predominantly male profession (sportswriting), has a group of male friends she hangs out with, likes to play poker, and typically dons jeans-and-sweatshirts attire. But she also has a close female friend and isn't averse to occasionally acting more girly.
* In ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', Ziva is very much this. She takes pride in "boy" things such as the [[ARealManIsAKiller many ways she knows how to kill people]].
* Moze from ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide''. Her best friend is Ned, she doesn't have any real female friends (she spends some two seasons hunting for one), hangs out with Ned and Cookie, is aggressively athletic and very competitive (she joined the boys' wrestling team just to set enough athletic records to beat Polk's all-time high of 6 records), [[PassionateSportsGirl likes sports (particularly volleyball)]], loves woodshop, was dared to wear a [[RealWomenDontWearDresses flowery dress,]] has been beating Ned up since Pre-K, and actively hates skirts.
* ''Series/TheOrder'': Lilith is TheLadette and she mostly hangs out with her male fellow werewolves, with much the same interests (she's actually the most aggressive of the bunch).
* ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' (the first PR series with a single female Ranger) - Shane offhandedly tells Tori that a guy at the beach was asking about her. When she asks why he didn't mention this before the guy (who she thinks is cute) left, he doesn't get it. Later, he and Dustin dig themselves even further into a hole.
--> '''Tori:''' You don't get it either. I'm a girl. ''Girrl.''
--> '''Dustin:''' Yeah, I know, but - like, you're not a ''girl''-girl.
--> '''Shane:''' You're like a guy-girl.
--> '''Kelly:''' My advice to you both? Stop trying to make it better, 'cause it's only getting worse.
* Elizabeth "Busy" Ramone from ''Series/ReadyOrNot'' is an only girl with three older brothers who were fairly close in age. She's by no means a pampered baby-girl of the family and has to be tough. She loves sports, mends her bike, plays the drums, works in her father's butcher's shop, and hangs out with guys. Her only female friend is her best friend GirlyGirl Amanda.
* ''Series/ReservationDogs'': Jackie is only seen with the boys in her gang prior to befriending Elora.
* Djaq, from ''Series/RobinHood''. At one point, a fellow outlaw says: "Apart from being a girl, Djaq is one of the lads."
* Tori on ''Series/SavedByTheBell''.
* Elaine from ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. In one episode the fact that she only hangs out with guys becomes a plot point.
--> '''Kramer:''' You're a man's woman. You hate other women, and they hate you.
* Invoked in the original pilot of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]", when the female first officer (Number One) objects to Captain Pike's displeasure at having a woman on the bridge, and he has to hastily justify his obvious error by making her an exception to the rule.
* ''Series/StepByStep'':
** Frank's daughter, Al, fit very much in this trope in early episodes, due to being the only daughter of a single father with two brothers & her interest in sports (as well as the apparent lack of girls-only teams in Port Washington). Although Al very much may have continued her interest in sports later, this is very much forgotten onscreen by midway through the series as Creator/ChristineLakin entered puberty and the producers wanted to take advantage of her physical attractiveness.
** There were several episodes where Frank (a construction contractor) hired female construction workers who very much had male-oriented interests and spent off-work time with the guys. Said episodes would invariably deal with Carol's insecurities over Frank's relationship with the worker he hired.
** Sam (short for Samantha), JT's girlfriend in later seasons, having predominantly male interests (her [[WrenchWench reputation as a mechanic]] preceded her, which combined with the TomboyishName led to a SamusIsAGirl moment for JT when he first met her) and generally acting very much like a female version of her boyfriend.
* Any ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' team where TheSmurfettePrinciple is a tomboy technically qualifies, like Yuuri from ''Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger''. Any Super Sentai with a single female member is pretty much this by default since the team always hangs out together, she'll always be hanging out with 4 other guys. Occasionally she'll have a social life or at least another non-hero female friend, but usually she won't. In comparison teams with 2 female members will often have the two girls hanging together more often than with the males. This often makes the two female members treated as a unit during their focus episodes meaning single heroines on the squad tend to get developed better.
* ''Series/SWAT2017'': Chris is TheLadette and TheSquadette, who largely is shown fitting in perfectly with her male friends/colleagues on the team. Although she does have women as friends, they either rarely show up or are killed off.
* Erin from ''Series/{{Titus}}''. While she is certainly fine with acting girly, the producers admitted that they wrote Erin as being One Of The Guys and Tommy was more feminine.
* CJ from ''Series/TheWestWing''. Her male coworkers completely accept her as part of the staff's boy's club (her best friend is a man) and treat her feminine characteristics as extensions of her personality rather than a divide between themselves and her. In an added layer, the only things she has that resemble female friends are Abbey and Donna, who are her boss's wife and a much younger underling respectively, and either never gets close to or outright dislikes the women on the same level as her.
* DC Riley of ''Series/{{Whitechapel}}'' is this. Lampshaded in-universe.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': Dana Scully is shown to have been like this as a child in flashbacks. Her brothers even went so far as to get her a rifle for her birthday. She chooses not only a male-dominated college major (her undergraduate degree was Physics; her medical degree is specialized in pathology) but a male-dominated profession (the FBI), which is commented on at times in the series. While not a tomboy in clothing or mannerisms, she gets very upset when someone does not treat her as One of the Boys. She puts up a tough front on pretty much everything; it takes a season and a half of Mulder telling her she can lean on him and a kidnapping encounter with a sociopath to even get her to lower her walls at all. And even though she's small, she's mighty.
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* ''Manga/AreaNoKishi'': When Kakeru played alongside his teammate Seven in elementary school [[UsefulNotes/FootyRules football]], he thought of her this way. He didn't start to notice Seven's more "girly" aspects until just before she had to transfer schools. When she transferred back in high school, however, the difference was [[SheCleansUpNicely quite obvious]].
* Minami Shimada in ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'' is viewed as this by Akihisa. However, Aki admits to PsychoLesbian Miharu in season 2 that he can be himself around her this way compared to [[YamatoNadeshiko Mizuki]].
* ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'': A mercenary since her teen years, Casca has spent much of her life living and fighting with men as her only comrades. While she doesn't exactly hate feminine things, she's gotten used to wearing male clothing for convenience and feels more like she knows what she's doing when in a masculine environment. And although her enemies occasionally talk shit about [[StayInTheKitchen her being a female soldier]], the entire Band of the Hawk has nothing but respect for her.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' has several, most notably:
** Tatsuki Arisawa is Ichigo's classmate and childhood friend. She's studied Karate since childhood, which paid off when she was ranked the second strongest girl in Japan (in her age group). Tatsuki also used to protect Orihime from bullies, when they were younger[[note]]Kids used to pick on Orihime because of her hair color and how long her hair was. So she used to cut it short, in hopes that they'd leave her alone. Tatsuki made them back off, by acting as Orihime's bodyguard, which is the reason Orihime grew her hair long - as a symbol of their friendship[[/note]]. After the timeskip, she part-times as an assistant instructor at a local dojo.
** [[{{ninja}} Sui-Feng]] is practically Tatsuki's shinigami separated at birth twin. They not only look alike, but they also have similar temperaments, each has a background in martial arts, and acted as bodyguards. However, Sui-Feng is an assassin and is currently Yoruichi's successor as both the head of division 2 and the Onmitsukido.
** Kuukaku Shiba is Ganju's CoolBigSis, and a {{Ladette}} all-in-one, who makes fireworks using the Shiba Family's special brand of gunpowder and kidou.
%%** Rukia Kuchiki, who was a tomboy growing up and remains a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak even now.
* Miki from ''Manga/BokuraNoHentai'' only hung out with boys in elementary and has only brothers. She was a boyish girl who didn't "get" other girls until puberty hit, and suddenly her male friends were uncomfortable with her chest growth. Afterwards, she began hanging around girls and [[UsedToBeATomboy became girlier]].
* Downplayed in ''Manga/DadTheBeardGorillaAndI''. Even though Michiru is a {{Tomboy}} who spends most of her play time with two guys, Yuta and Daichi, she does have one female friend, Kozue.
* Sora Takenouchi of season 1-2 of ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''. It also serves to make her the [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Tomboy To Mimi's Girly Girl.]]
** Rika Nonaka from ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' is an ActionGirl, is much more willing to fight than [[NiceGuy Takato]] or [[MartialPacifist Henry]], and has the title of "Digimon Queen" due to being extremely proficient in the Card Game.
* Subverted with Shizuka from ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}''. While she usually hangs out with a bunch of boys, she never joins them in their rough antics and always remains extremely feminine and graceful. In some episodes, she's also shown to have female friends.
* Bulma from ''Franchise/DragonBall'' is this. She has tomboyish traits and often shares common interests with her friends in the Dragon Ball Gang (and later, the Z Fighters). Her love for mechanics and gadgetry is a plus factor.
** Later on there's Videl, who is a tomboyish martial artist and the only female on both the police force and later in the Tenkaichi Budokai.
* Natsuru, the eldest daughter in ''Manga/FamilyComplex'' is always playing soccer together with the boys, and her friends often forget that she's a girl. The fact that she's a {{Bifauxnen}} doesn't help.
* ''Anime/GreatMazinger'': Jun hung out with boys more often than with girls, liked bikes, and practiced martial arts.
* ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'': After the Idaten arc, Shinomi starts hanging out with the Onibaku, but none of them, not even [[ThePornomancer Abe]], see her in a romantic light or try to hit on her ([[UnluckyChildhoodFriend much to her disappointment in the case of Eikichi]]).
* ''Anime/TheIdolmaster'': Makoto is generally perceived that way, so she became an Idol in hopes of [[GirlinessUpgrade shedding that image.]]
* ''LightNovel/LibraryWar'' establishes Kasahara as the first woman to ever earn a spot on the Library Defense Force's elite division. She's shown to excel at Judo, as well as track and field events. During a hazing ritual, she was startled awake by an instructor disguised in a bear costume. She responded by dropping him with a single punch, which earned her the nickname [[RedBaron "bear killer II"]][[note]]since Dojou had done the exact same thing, years prior; making him the original "bear killer"[[/note]].
* ''Manga/LoveLab'' has Riko Kurahashi, who is so tough and uninterested in feminine things that most boys don't register that she is a girl.
* ''Manga/MakenKi'': Azuki is well-known for being [[AmazonianBeauty one of the strongest girls]] at the academy, so it came as a surprise to everyone that she [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak secretly likes stuffed animals.]] Takeru and his friend, Usui, lampshaded it further in chapter 10 when they found her sewing:
-->'''Usui: ([[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]])''' Azuki sempai... are ''you'' sewing...?\\
'''Takeru: (snidely)''' Once again, trying to be a girl.\\
'''Azuki: (offended)''' You have a problem!? What do you mean, being "like" a girl!!
* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': Sayaka's hung out with boys ninety percent of the time, liked bikes right like them, and piloted HumongousMecha right like several of them.
* PassionateSportsGirl Toni from ''Manga/MiracleGirls'' often hangs around boys and is tomboyish, especially compared to her twin sister.
* Kobayashi from ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' was a tomboy as a child, and continues to have a complete lack of interest in anything even remotely feminine as an adult (barring the occasional ACupAngst). [[PlatonicLifePartners Takiya]] even says that she's "just one of the guys around the office".
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'' this is apparently the kind of relationship Vivi had with Koza and the Suna Suna clan when they were kids. As a girl, Vivi didn´t have trouble fighting with boys of her age, and they also weren't afraid of giving the fight back.
* In ''Manga/OresamaTeacher'', Mafuyu is [[LadyLooksLikeADude a plain-looking tomboy]] surrounded by handsome RagTagBunchOfMisfits. The main cast is changing ''very slowly'' into a BalancedHarem. At the moment, [[spoiler: Okegawa and Kenkawa]] have crushes on Mafuyu, who is still ObliviousToLove.
* Misty from ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''. Her sisters give her constant crap for not being girly enough, and since they're all [[AntiRoleModel airheads]] (in the dub, anyway, although Daisy [[HiddenDepths later subverts it]]) she just kind of runs with it to distance herself from them. Usually seen competing with Ash in pretty much every open competition they come across or cockblocking Brock.
* The version of Buttercup from ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'' (known as Kaoru Matsubara in the original and Buttercup in the dub) is even more of a tomboy than the original western animation version. She is rarely seen wearing clothes that aren't knee-length shorts, a baseball cap, and a sports shirt. The only time she isn't wearing something like that was in a rabid imagination of Princess Morbucks or during her initial turn to her Powerpuff form where she wears a skirt, although the required skirt sent her into a mad rage which was only quelled by her breaking nearly everything. Additionally, the series makes it clear she loves sports, especially soccer, is rougher and rowdier than the other two girls (who refuse to partake in a few ventures due to their femininity), and nearly drives Ken to total exhaustion when she pretends to be his mother, which seems to entail waking him up early and forcing him to jog for a mile (much more akin to a father or a coach than a mother).
* ''[[Anime/QueensBlade Queen's Blade]]'': Elina is the TomboyPrincess (also Captain of the Royal Guard) of the Vance Family and is the youngest of her sisters. While all three are capable combatants, she's the only one who's had training in martial arts which is enhanced by her [[CatGirl catlike speed and agility.]]
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': As far as Ranma's concerned, Ukyō really ''is'' one of the guys. At least, he thought she was, back when they were kids. So he was shocked when he finally (as in years later) realized that she was really a girl the whole time. But he doesn't treat her any differently than he used to and mostly thinks of her as his oldest friend. Which is helped by the fact that she continues to refer to herself using the [[{{Bokukko}} "boku wa" pronoun]]. Ranma does refer to her as his "cute" fiancee, but that's mostly a dig at Akane (his "uncute" fiancee).
* Tomo, the title character of ''Manga/TomoChanIsAGirl'', is an athlete on par, if not superior to, any male of her age. Her best friend since childhood, Junichiro, legitimately thought she was a boy when they were children and seems unable to consciously acknowledge she is a girl. This is problematic for Tomo because she's in love with Jun and ''wants'' him to notice she's a girl.
* Maria Fleed ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'' was the biggest offender of the female leads of the trilogy. Her first appearance consisted of her racing against her male friends (and in the next episode, her first scene featured her racing against Kouji and getting pissed when she realized he was giving her special treatment), and she was infamous by being a decidedly tomboyish {{Tsundere}}.
* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': [[SpiritedCompetitor Yuka]] and her best friend, [[UnkemptBeauty Satomi]], are the {{tomboy}} equivalents of [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Ryu]] and [[Characters/TheKingOfFighters Kyo Kusanagi]] respectively. They studied martial arts together and grew up as sparring partners, so they've been [[FriendlyRivalry competing against each other]] in full-contact, since childhood. As a result, both are athletic, highly skilled, and are recognized as two of the top contenders in the VG tournament.
* ''Manga/YoureUnderArrest'': In addition to being [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower freakishly strong]], Natsume is well known around Bokuto Precinct for being a BigEater and regularly engaging in arm wrestling contests with her fellow officers on her lunch break. It wasn't until [[TheAce Toukairin]] arrived at the station that someone could ''finally'' match her!
* ''Anime/YuGiOh'':
** Anzu Mazaki / Tea Gardner is a tomboy who is the only girl in her group of friends. A running joke is that she states "I need more female friends" whenever she gets exasperated at the guys' antics.
** Alexis from ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' is more focused on the pro dueling circuit than the cute guys that other girls gossip about. It's not that she dislikes her peers, she just finds them harder to relate to than Jaden's gang. It doesn't help that their personalities are much more hyper than [[DefrostingIceQueen hers]].
%%In what way? * ''Manga/ZatchBell'': Tio exudes this aura, especially in flashbacks, but she's always seen wearing a dress.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* A lot of females in superhero movies fit this trope.
** A good example is Creator/AliciaSilverstone's Batgirl in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', who acted as if she had something to prove to Robin and her character was seen doing such things as participating in a motorcycle race.
** Ditto Black Widow in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, who is the sole female member of the original six Avengers but has very close ties to her comrades all the same.
** Sif from the [[Film/{{Thor}} Thor]] [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld movies]] is an ActionGirl who hangs out with an all-guy group of warriors.
* ''Film/BillyClub2013'': Alison describes herself as a {{Tomboy}}, having been on the Little League team with Billy in their youth.
* ''Film/{{Dope}}'': Diggy is best friends with Jib and Malcolm, two boys whom she always hangs out with. We never see her being with other girls. She's a ButchLesbian who acts [[TheLadette very much like them]].
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/EuroTrip''. [[TheDitz Cooper]] has apparently believed that Jenny was male until she [[GenderReveal points it out]]. The fact that she has a [[note]]fraternal[[/note]] [[AlwaysIdenticalTwins twin brother]] does not help at all.
-->'''Cooper:''' You're just a really cool dude with {{long hair|IsFeminine}}.
* As ''Film/EverAfter'' begins Danielle tells her friend Gustave that no matter her gender she can "whip" him. By the time her stepmother arrives the girl has some mud on her but her friend is covered.
* Hildy in ''Film/HisGirlFriday'' is the only woman working in the newsroom, but has just as much macho attitude as everyone else, and is consistently described by herself and everyone else as a "newspaper''man''".
* Reporter Amy Archer in ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy'' is a fast-talking career gal and one of the boys on the job, though not {{tomboy}}ish in appearance. Because she's attractive, she gets the occasional come-on but responds with an earth-shattering slap to the face.
* Natalie Sue "Natty" Gann in ''Film/TheJourneyOfNattyGann'' is introduced sneaking off with several boys to share a cigarette in the men's bathroom, and gets into a fistfight with one of them when he insults her father.
%%* Jenna Elfman's character in ''Film/KeepingTheFaith''.
* Kate the Blacksmith from ''Film/AKnightsTale''. TheStinger shows her winning a farting contest over who buys the next round of drinks.
%%* Becky "The Icebox" O'Shea in ''Film/LittleGiants''. She makes boys cry.
%%* Saga in ''Mitt liv som hund'' (''Film/MyLifeAsADog'').
* ''Film/PrincessOfThieves'': Gwyn is happy running around along with men in the film and fits in perfectly, as a tomboy ActionGirl (granted, she's [[SweetPollyOliver disguised as male]] for most of it). Prince Philip even says she wants to be a man.
* ''Film/{{Rafiki}}'': Kena only has friends who are guys (she plays soccer with them) before she meets Ziki, a woman her age, with the two dating.
* Viola Hastings from ''Film/ShesTheMan'' is a girl with a strict no ruffles policy and wants to join the boys' soccer team.
* Watts from ''Film/SomeKindOfWonderful''. She hooks up with her male friend at the end but doesn't undergo any {{Chickification}}, and her "SheCleansUpNicely" moment sees her turn into a {{Bifauxnen}}.
* [=McCoy=] of ''Film/StreetsOfFire''. Her part was actually originally intended for a man.
* Creator/AmandaBynes's titular character in ''Film/SydneyWhite'', who knows more about plumbing than she does about acting "ladylike".
* Laure in the French movie ''{{Film/Tomboy}}''. For years, all of her friends have been boys (much to her mother's dismay), and on moving to a new neighborhood, she goes much further, [[SweetPollyOliver introducing herself as Mikaël]].
* Mickey, in ''Film/TroubleWithTheCurve'', plays a mean game of bar pool, knows more about baseball than anyone else in the film, and can drink single-malt scotch straight from the bottle as a result of growing up hanging around baseball players.
* Mari from ''Film/UltramanCosmosTheFirstContact'', the prequel film to ''Ultraman Cosmos''. She frequently hangs out with Musashi and her male classmates, isn't afraid to ride her bike alone through the woods at night, and takes part in activities usually for boys, such as camping, hiking, or sports. That being said, she is a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak who likes wearing pink and has adorable GirlishPigtails.
* ''Film/{{Wendy}}'': Wendy always runs around with her brothers and other boys in the film, acting very much like them as a tomboy. The same goes for Cudjoe Head, as the only other girl there.
* Anybodys in ''Film/WestSideStory1961'' would like to be this trope, but the guys don't accept her for the majority of the play.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** Toph. As a prodigious Earthbender (who uses it [[DisabilitySuperpower to simulate sight]]), the girl literally loves to play in mud (she considers a coating of dirt to be healthy) and her favourite pastimes include practice brawls with Aang and ribbing Sokka. She can pretend to be lady-like when necessary but she'd rather not, however, and when she and Katara get to go to a spa she enjoys herself quite a bit.
** Before joining the group, she belonged to a professional wrestling troupe and was the undefeated champion of the arena. She even teases Aang about not being manly when they first meet (in the ring), asking "Do people really want to see TWO little girls fighting out here?", and nicknames him "twinkle toes" because of how lightly he walks (consider how she "sees" and what her first impression would be in that case).
** At one point, Aang and Sokka are playing around with Appa's shed fur. Katara is grateful to have [[AffirmativeActionGirl another girl on the team]] until Toph decides to joins them.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'':
** For the first season, ComicBook/TheWasp subverted it. She was generally a GirlyGirl, but was also the only girl on the team, enjoyed fighting supervillains more than anyone else on the team, and was extroverted enough to become a fan-favourite.
** Season 2 brought Carol "ComicBook/MsMarvel" Danvers onto the team who, as an accomplished military woman, fighter pilot, and a new [[TheBigGuy big gun on the team]] to use while they dealt with the missing Thor and Hulk during the first half of the season, more than played this role straight.
** Then there's ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}}, who spent her guest episode mostly cracking jokes, [[BackToBackBadasses kicking butt alongside Hawkeye]], and, when captured by HYDRA as part of their plan to infiltrate the base, she bonds with the male agents guarding her by sharing war stories until they're almost willing to loosen her binds. Basically, if she's a costumed hero, on the same side as the Avengers, she's likely to be this.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Louise Belcher prefers to spend time with her father and brother over her mother and sister. The episode "Manic Pixie Crap Show" has Louise wonder if she's not being a girl "the right way" because she doesn't enjoy activities that girls her age usually engage in while preferring boyish interests and hobbies, until Tina assures her there's nothing wrong with that.
* ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'': Gadget is never shown to have any real female friends, doesn't wear any makeup or jewelry (except for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7ov2mj-Rj4&t=5m59s that one time]]), and [[WrenchWench her]] [[GadgeteerGenius interests]] are anything but "girly," so she definitely fits this trope. Even so, though, she isn't exactly what you would call a "tomboy."
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': Yumi Ishiyama prefers martial arts to any girly activity, hangs out solely with boys for the whole Season 1, and only gains a female friend once Aelita is materialized.
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Sam(antha) Manson hangs around with best pals Danny and Tucker. Though she's not too much of a tomboy, she often participates in activities her male friends do and there are a few instances where Danny and Tucker take her gender for granted, treating her more "like a guy" than the girl she is, causing her to be annoyed.
* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': Gosalyn Mallard is extremely tomboyish and, when shown with other kids, it doesn't seem like she has ''any'' female friends at all.
* ''WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace'': Gina Gillotti often hangs out with Dennis, Joey, Peebee, and Jay. Sometimes subverts this by spending time hanging around with [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Margaret Wade]] instead though.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** Not a specific character, but the concept is used for jokes occasionally, such as Peter mentioning a "woman trying way too hard to be one of the guys" in a strip club. There was also a CutawayGag about how the ''real'' reason UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc was burned at the stake was that she would constantly go on and on about how she's "not like other girls", which just annoyed everyone.
** Lois, while normally being a regular housewife, became One of the Guys in an episode where she had to stand in for Peter on bowling night due to him being sick, and ended up befriending Joe and Quagmire and joining them on guy escapades.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': {{Deconstructed|Trope}} with [[TheLadette Wendy Corduroy]]. Despite having a best friend who's a girl, she mostly has guy friends with whom she spends time. She spits, she brawls, and she gets her fashion sense from her father, [[TestosteronePoisoning Manly Dan]]. However, at the beginning of "Boyz Crazy", she smugly agrees with Dipper when he scoffs at Mabel and her friends' {{FanGirl}} behavior over [[BoyBand Sev'ral Timez]] -- yet at the end of the episode, [[spoiler: after finding out that Robbie brainwashed her and when Dipper tries to take advantage of the situation]], she reacts very emotionally and accuses guys of only thinking about themselves, showing that despite her tomboyishness, she's a girl nevertheless with stereotypically feminine feelings. She's also stated that she works at the Mystery Shack to avoid her family, and reveals in "Society of the Blind Eye" that being the only girl in [[RaisedByDudes a family of hypermasculine lumberjacks]] has had devastating effects on her stress levels, [[spoiler: which is why she constantly puts on a relaxed front]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'': Laney Penn is a tomboy who hangs around Corey Riffin (whom she has a crush on) and Kin and Kon Kujira as part of their GarageBand. On the downside, she's so much like OneOfTheBoys that she's frequently [[LadyLooksLikeADude mistaken for a guy]] by other characters.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'':
** Helga G. Pataki, being the {{Tomboy}}, prefers to spend more time with boys than girls. [[FatSlob Harold Berman]] even [[DiscussedTrope commented on this trope]] by telling Helga that the game they were playing is for boys only in the episode "Helga's Makeover".
** [[RichBitch Rhonda Wellington Lloyd]] is also mostly seen hanging out with the boys. Despite her wealthy upbringing and snobby, self-righteous attitude, she has been known to play contact football and a variety of other sports along with the other children even to the point of destroying her beloved outfits in the process as seen in "Mudbowl" and "New Bully on the Block".
* ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'': Melissa hangs out exclusively with her friends Brendon and Jason, and her father gets worried that she acts more tough and manly than either of them (which, admittedly, is not much).
* ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'': Pepper can be seen as this. She is mostly seen hanging out with Tony and Rhodey, and Gene and Happy to a lesser extent. She has physically fought against opponents and knows how to pilot the armors before she even got her own. She went on the quests for the Mandarin rings as well. While on a date with Happy, she shows off her impressive burping talents.
* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Jade is very much like this. One male friend, and a definite interest in martial arts.
** Plus her [[{{Gasshole}} belching habit]] in "Relics of Demons Past".
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Minh is an expert sharpshooter (she learned in Laos), and even learns to have fun as the only woman in the local gun club.
-->'''Dale:''' Minh is the coolest! She beat me at Stratego! And she can belch just like a dude.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
** Korra doesn't like makeup and shopping and would much rather be playing sports alongside her guy-friends and besting them in belching contests. She later acknowledges that there's nothing ''wrong'' with femininity itself and that she shouldn't judge {{girly girl}}s solely on their looks, however, bonding well with the girly Asami Sato. [[spoiler: As in, ultimately OfficialCouple well.]]
** Korra is also kind of a meta example: Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} had misgivings about making an action-oriented series with a predominately male target audience centred around a teen heroine. However, they found in test audiences that boys responded very positively to Korra as a cool, badass hero, and didn't really care that she was a girl.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
** There is an episode named after this trope. However, it ends up providing a gender-inverted example. Lincoln Loud begins the episode thinking he'd be happier with brothers instead of his sisters but ends the episode concluding he gets on with the girls a lot better and enjoys their company and habits more than the brothers he imagined he had. The episode also implies a more straightforward example. Girl Lynn Loud is shown to be pretty much identical to her male counterpart, even sharing the same name, suggesting personality-wise, Girl-Lynn is One Of The Boys. Lynn has a very masculine personality and is arguably the biggest tomboy in the show, so this is not surprising.
** The episode "Be Stella My Heart" introduces Stella, a new student at Royal Woods Elementary who, after a feud between Lincoln and his (all guy) friends over trying to win her heart, and some making up, becomes part of the group from then on.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Motorcity}}'': Julie Kane of the Burners, especially compared to her [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl girly girl]] friend Claire or Foxy, the leader of the Amazons.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Spike is a rare {{Gender Inverted|Trope}} example that isn't PlayedForLaughs. He's shown to gleefully take part in all their girly activities like going to the spa and playing with dolls.
** In the more conventional sense, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash both get a nod for this behavior in ''Dungeons and Discords.'' When the main characters all leave town for an episode, a handful of male characters get together for a "Guys' Night." When the girls return at the end of the episode and see what they were missing, Dash and Pinkie gleefully join in with cheerful shouts of "Guys' Night!"
* ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'': Baby Butter (the "B" in between her big brother Peanut and big sister Jelly) loves playing in mud, and prefers to hang with big brother Peanut and his friends, rather than Jelly and her best friend, the very-much-girly Pinch Raccoon. This certainly didn't help with the ViewerGenderConfusion, as she has a similar character model to Peanut and no TertiarySexualCharacteristics.
* ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'': Margaret "Moose" Pearson is extremely tomboyish. She has [[TomboyishVoice a very deep voice]] (especially for her age), she hates girly activities, she refuses to wear dresses, she mainly hangs out with boys, she loves extreme activities and sports, doesn't mind getting dirty, cracks her knuckles, and can belch louder than any boy in the school. In one episode, Pepper Ann even becomes worried about her very boyish behavior and tries to make her act more feminine. It doesn't work, but in the end, she decides that if she's happy being the way she is, she'll leave her alone.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': Buttercup is the unfeminine one of the group. At school, she hangs out with the boys in their class. She can also belch loud enough to make buildings shatter, she loves getting dirty, and she hates some of the things her sisters like, including make-up, jewelry, dolls, ponies, and the color pink.
* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': Because Sydney does not have any female friends who are her age (Mindy and Lillian are both younger than her), she hangs out with Jet and Sean, who gladly accept her into their circle. Sydney isn't hyperfeminine at all and enjoys traditionally masculine things like gaming and comic books.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': Spinelli is a wrestling fan and the "toughest kid in school".
* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'': Reggie Rocket is almost always seen launching off ramps, riding waves, or carving slopes with her brother Otto and their two male friends Twister and Sam.
* ''WesternAnimation/SkysurferStrikeForce'': Kim aka Sliced Ice. Throughout the entire show, she is a {{Tomboy}} who is never shown to have any female friends, mainly hanging out with the other Skysurfers.
* ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'': Piper is [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only female member of the Storm Hawks]] and a tomboy who's into aerial machinery as much as the guys. [[AmbiguouslyBi She even shares an attraction to girls with them.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'': Nova is [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only female monkey on the team]], but her male teammates respect her and treat her as one of them.
* ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'': Pidge, who starts the show posing as a boy. Even when she reveals her true gender to the rest of her male teammates, they are accepting of it and don't treat her any differently than they did before.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Toph. As a prodigious Earthbender (who uses it [[DisabilitySuperpower to simulate sight]]), the girl literally loves to play in mud (she considers a coating of dirt to be healthy) and her favourite pastimes include practice brawls with Aang and ribbing Sokka. She can pretend to be lady-like when necessary but she'd rather not, however, and when she and Katara get to go to a spa she enjoys herself quite a bit.

* Gadget from ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' is never shown to have any real female friends, doesn't wear any makeup or jewelry (except for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7ov2mj-Rj4&t=5m59s that one time]]), and [[WrenchWench her]] [[GadgeteerGenius interests]] are anything but "girly," so she definitely fits this trope. Even so, though, she isn't exactly what you would call a "tomboy."
* Yumi Ishiyama of ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' prefers martial arts to any girly activity, hangs out solely with boys for the whole Season 1, and only gains a female friend once Aelita is materialized.
* Sam(antha) Manson in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' hangs around with best pals Danny and Tucker. Though she's not too much of a tomboy, she often participates in activities her male friends do and there are a few instances where Danny and Tucker take her gender for granted, treating her more "like a guy" than the girl she is, causing her to be annoyed.
* Gosalyn Mallard in ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' is extremely tomboyish and, when shown with other kids, it doesn't seem like she has ''any'' female friends at all.
* Gina Gillotti in ''WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace'', who often hangs out with Dennis, Joey, Peebee, and Jay. Sometimes subverts this by spending time hanging around with [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl Margaret Wade]] instead though.
* Not a specific character, but the concept is used for jokes occasionally on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', such as Peter mentioning a "woman trying way too hard to be one of the guys" in a strip club. There was also a CutawayGag about how the ''real'' reason UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc was burned at the stake was that she would constantly go on and on about how she's "not like other girls", which just annoyed everyone.
** Lois, while normally being a regular housewife, became One of The Guys in an episode where she had to stand in for Peter on bowling night due to him being sick, and ended up befriending Joe and Quagmire and joining them on guy escapades.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has the outgoing and [[TheLadette Ladette-ish]] Wendy Corduroy, who, despite having a best friend who's a girl, mostly has guy friends with whom she spends time. She spits, she brawls, and she gets her fashion sense from her father, [[TestosteronePoisoning Manly Dan]].
** Wendy is actually a [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstruction]] of this trope. At the beginning of "Boyz Crazy", she smugly agrees with Dipper when he scoffs at Mabel and her friends' {{FanGirl}} behavior over [[BoyBand Sev'ral Timez]]—yet at the end of the episode, [[spoiler: after finding out that Robbie brainwashed her and when Dipper tries to take advantage of the situation]], she reacts very emotionally and accuses guys of only thinking about themselves, showing that despite her tomboyishness, she's a girl nevertheless with stereotypically feminine feelings. She's also stated that she works at the Mystery Shack to avoid her family, and reveals in "Society of the Blind Eye" that being the only girl in [[RaisedByDudes a family of hypermasculine lumberjacks]] has had devastating effects on her stress levels, [[spoiler: which is why she constantly puts on a relaxed front]].
* Laney Penn from ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' is a tomboy who hangs around Corey Riffin (whom she has a crush on) and Kin and Kon Kujira as part of their GarageBand. On the downside, she's so much like OneOfTheBoys that she's frequently [[LadyLooksLikeADude mistaken for a guy]] by other characters.

* Melissa in ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'' hangs out exclusively with her friends Brendon and Jason, and her father gets worried that she acts more tough and manly than either of them (which, to be fair, is not much).
* Jade from ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' is very much like this. One male friend, and a definite interest in martial arts.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' gives us Korra, who doesn't like makeup and shopping and would much rather be playing sports alongside her guy-friends and besting them in belching contests. She later acknowledges that there's nothing ''wrong'' with femininity itself and that she shouldn't judge {{girly girl}}s solely on their looks, however, bonding well with the girly Asami Sato. [[spoiler: As in, ultimately OfficialCouple well.]]

* Julie Kane of the Burners on ''{{WesternAnimation/Motorcity}}''. Especially compared to her [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl girly girl]] friend Claire or Foxy, the leader of the Amazons.
* Spike in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is a rare {{Gender Inverted|Trope}} example that isn't PlayedForLaughs. He's shown to gleefully take part in all their girly activities like going to the spa and playing with dolls.

* On ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'', Baby Butter (the "B" in between her big brother Peanut and big sister Jelly) loves playing in mud, and prefers to hang with big brother Peanut and his friends, rather than Jelly and her best friend, the very-much-girly Pinch Raccoon. This certainly didn't help with the ViewerGenderConfusion, as she has a similar character model to Peanut and no TertiarySexualCharacteristics.
* Margaret "Moose" Pearson from ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'' is extremely tomboyish. She has [[TomboyishVoice a very deep voice]] (especially for her age), she hates girly activities, she refuses to wear dresses, she mainly hangs out with boys, she loves extreme activities and sports, doesn't mind getting dirty, cracks her knuckles, and can belch louder than any boy in the school.
** In one episode Pepper Ann is worried about her very boyish behavior and tries to make her act more feminine. It doesn't work, but in the end, she decides that if she's happy being the way she is, she'll leave her alone.
* Buttercup from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' is the unfeminine one of the group. At school, she hangs out with the boys in their class. She can also belch loud enough to make buildings shatter, she loves getting dirty, and she hates some of the things her sisters like, including make-up, jewelry, dolls, ponies, and the color pink.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''' Spinelli is a wrestling fan and the "toughest kid in school".
* Reggie Rocket in ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' is almost always seen launching off ramps, riding waves, or carving slopes with her brother Otto and their two male friends Twister and Sam.
* Kim aka Sliced Ice of ''WesternAnimation/SkysurferStrikeForce'', throughout the entire show, she is a {{Tomboy}} who is never shown to have any female friends, mainly hanging out with the other Skysurfers.
* Piper in ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'', who is [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only female member of the Storm Hawks]] and a tomboy who's into aerial machinery as much as the guys. [[AmbiguouslyBi She even shares an attraction to girls with them.]]
* Nova from ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo''. She's [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only female monkey on the team]], but her male teammates respect her and treat her as one of them.
* Pidge in ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', who starts the show posing as a boy. Even when she reveals her true gender to the rest of her male teammates, they are accepting of it and don't treat her any differently than they did before.
* Pepper in ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'' can be seen as this. She is mostly seen hanging out with Tony and Rhodey, and Gene and Happy to a lesser extent. She has physically fought against opponents and knows how to pilot the armors before she even got her own. She went on the quests for the Mandarin rings as well. While on a date with Happy, she shows off her impressive burping talents.

* ''[[Manga/YoureUnderArrest You're Under Arrest!]]'': In addition to being [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower freakishly strong]], Natsume is well known around Bokuto Precinct for being a BigEater and regularly engaging in arm wrestling contests with her fellow officers on her lunch break. It wasn't until [[TheAce Toukairin]] arrived at the station that someone could ''finally'' match her!

** Alexis, a ''GX'' character, is more focused on the pro duelling circuit than the cute guys that other girls gossip about. It's not that she dislikes her peers, she just finds them harder to relate to than Jaden's gang. It doesn't help that their personalities are much more hyper than [[DefrostingIceQueen hers]].

* Jenna Elfman's character in ''Film/KeepingTheFaith''.

* Jean Meredith, the Scout Master in Gene Stratton-Porter's 1935 ''Keeper of the Bees''. Stratton-Porter resists using pronouns all the way through the story. Jean [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership commands a rowdy pack of boys]]. Jamie, a soldier who becomes Jean's friend, observes that she is wearing herself to exhaustion and is actually falling behind her Scouts in physical development. When the Scouts do mutiny on her (she's menstruating, so won't go skinnydipping with them) Jamie seizes the opportunity to give her a GirlinessUpgrade, enrolling her in the Girl Scouts and calling her "young lady" at every opportunity.

* Jean Meredith, the Scout Master in Gene Stratton-Porter's 1935 ''Keeper of the Bees''. Stratton-Porter resists using pronouns all the way through the story. Jean [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority commands a rowdy pack of boys]]. Jamie, a soldier who becomes Jean's friend, observes that she is wearing herself to exhaustion and is actually falling behind her Scouts in physical development. When the Scouts do mutiny on her (she's menstruating, so won't go skinnydipping with them) Jamie seizes the opportunity to give her a GirlinessUpgrade, enrolling her in the Girl Scouts and calling her "young lady" at every opportunity.

Compare (and often overlaps with) {{Tomboy}}, GirlNextDoor and ShortTank. In anime and manga works, they're likely to be a {{Bokukko}}, especially if they've been RaisedByDudes. Not to be confused with YouGoGirl, where a girl participates in masculine activities just to prove she can do it. Contrasts with TheChick, GirlyGirl, and ProperLady. See OneOfTheGirls for the SpearCounterpart.

* Bulma from ''Franchise/DragonBall'' is this. Aside from being TheChick, she has tomboyish traits and often shares common interests with her friends in the Dragon Ball Gang (and later, the Z Fighters). Her love for mechanics and gadgetry is a plus factor.

* Erin from ''Series/{{Titus}}''. While she is certainly fine with acting girly, the producers admitted that they wrote Erin as being One Of The Guys and Tommy had more aspects of being TheChick.

* Becky "The Icebox" O'Shea in ''Film/LittleGiants''. She makes boys cry.
* Saga in ''Mitt liv som hund'' (''Film/MyLifeAsADog'').
* Robin's daughter, Gwyn in ''Film/PrincessOfThieves'' will steal a horse fairly but won't take it by the poor reason of her gender.

* A lot of females in superhero movies fit this trope. A good example is Creator/AliciaSilverstone's Batgirl in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' acted as if she had something to prove to Robin and her character was seen doing such things as participating in a motorcycle race.

* ''Series/ReservationDogs'': Jackie is only seeing with the boys in her gang prior to befriending Elora.

* ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'': Drash is a member of the otherwise male Mods swoop gang, and seems entirely happy that way, acting quite the same as her friends.

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* The version of Buttercup from ''Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ'' (known as Kaoru Matsubara in the original and Buttercup in the dub) is even more of a tomboy than the original western animation version. She is rarely seen wearing clothes that aren't knee-length shorts, a baseball cap, and a sports shirt. The only time she isn't wearing something like that was in a rabid imagination of Princess Morbucks or during her initial turn to her Powerpuff form where she wears a skirt, although the required skirt sent her into a mad rage which was only quelled by her breaking nearly everything. Additionally, the series makes it clear she loves sports, especially soccer, is rougher and rowdier than the other two girls (who refuse to partake in a few ventures due to ther femininity), and nearly drives Ken to total exhaustion when she pretends to be his mother, which seems to entail waking him up early and forcing him to jog for a mile (much more akin to a father or a coach than a mother).

%%In what way? * Tio of ''Manga/ZatchBell'' exudes this aura, especially in flashbacks, but she's always seen wearing a dress.

* This is the story of Michael Tree's youth in the ''ComicBook/MsTree'', where she was a total tomboy and largely kept at it at least straight through high school who had no trouble attracting boys' interest as much for her beauty as for her toughness.
* Callie Evans from ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' is a sarcastic tomboyish basketball player who is even more rough and tumble than most of the guys she hangs out with since all of them but Tim are rather non-active geeks who'd prefer tabletop or video games to sports. She does have some friends who are girls, mainly from the basketball team, but she doesn't spend nearly as much time with them as she does Ives, Hudson, Hudman, and Tim.

* ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'''s Credenza travels around with three other men. Before that, she worked in an inn with only one other female.
-->"I admit, I'm not much for dressing up, but after hanging out with men for so long..."

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