Basic Trope: A cute young character who is much stronger than they look.
- Straight: Miki is a cheerful, peppy youngster with Girlish Pigtails, infectious laughter and a knack for Good Old Fisticuffs.
- Exaggerated:
- Miki is an absolutely adorable little kid who totes around a plush bunny. She's also a Pintsized Powerhouse capable of taking out literal giants while barely breaking a sweat.
- Miki is classified as the cutest known organism in history, yet can murder billions of mooks in minutes and even pilots her own Humongous Mecha in the form of a giant fluffy kitten which can fire missiles from its eyeballs, spray poisonous gas, and scuttles around on creepy spider robot legs.
- Miki is one of the harmless-looking, yet overly cute young females in the world. In reality, she can instantaneously move faster than light, obliterate whole planets with just the minimum contact of her punches and rule whole universes by snapping her fingers, and can cause unavoidable genocide by looking at the planet.
- Downplayed:
- Miki is a petite teenage girl who can hold her own in a fight by using clever tactics and pragmatic strategies.
- Miki is a young Nice Girl everywhere else, but on auto racing tracks, very few challengers can beat her driving skills.
- Justified:
- Miki has Super-Strength, and has been learning how to use it ever since her family first recognized her talent.
- Miki is Artificial Human with Super-Strength. Her creator designed her to be cute so people won't suspect her.
- Miki is a very strong Shapeshifter. In her true form, she's more of a Brawn Hilda.
- Miki is a skilled driver (or biker).
- Miki's parents (one or both of them) passed down their superpowers, and one of said superpowers she got is the ability to punch insanely hard. So she honed the skills to become unbeatable.
- Inverted:
- Homura is a powerful old woman.
- Takemichi is an incredibly burly man that uses magic rather than resorting to physical combat.
- Subverted:
- Miki is actually a Robot Girl.
- Miki's strength come from Applied Phlebotinum.
- Double Subverted: But without the Phlebotinum she's still incredibly strong.
- Parodied: Miki sees a Rent-a-Zillanote rampaging through her hometown and wants to take him home, so she does by picking him up and running off excitedly. People can only look on in shock.
- Zig Zagged: Miki's fighting ability seems to differ from day to day. One day,she's as strong as most adult fighters,another she's able to take down giants,the next she's just a normal kid,and the day after that she's at adult strength again.
- Averted: Miki is a completely normal kid.
- Enforced: Since Miki is very popular among fans, the author decide to give her more screentime. However the story is focus on battle and there is very little room for character without combat skill, so he made her a Little Miss Badass as well.
- Lampshaded: "How the heck can a little kid punch that hard?! I can't even do that!"
- Invoked: Miki's father groomed her as a fantastic fighter, but also encouraged her interest in 'normal', cutesy things, both to give her a relatively normal childhood and to ensure others might underestimate her.
- Exploited:
- When looking for teammates, Agata tries to find the smallest, cutest girl around, because he knows she'll be the toughest too.
- Miki is a cute girl, yet her car is a Joke Car, so the mannish street racers are trying to challenge her in their Rice Burners. Turns out, Miki's car has something different under its hood.
- Defied:
- Agatha looks for the biggest and roughest and ugliest guy around to be his Big Guy because he can't imagine that cute little girl could be any help despite impressive strength.
- Alternatively, Miki decides to be a Child Mage instead of this trope because she sees it as more realistic or more practical in the long run.
- Discussed: "Cute kid. So what do you think her angle's gonna be: Cute Bruiser, Child Mage or Waif-Fu?"
- Conversed: " Are they trying to appeal to guys that like fighting girls?
- Deconstructed:
- After seeing Miki's strength, Agata assumes she'll be able to handle anything that gets thrown at her despite her youth and inexperience. Lemina, on the other hand, isn't so sure, but chafes at having to look after some dumb brat. And Cecil sees her fighting ability as Troubling Unchildlike Behavior...
- And the fact that she's so strong for her size makes the team forget that there are things stronger than her. They have her try to deal with Grik. No Holds Barred Beat Down ensuses.
- Alternatively, Miki starts off as cute yet weak, but by becoming stronger she gets a rougher exterior.
- Reconstructed:
- Miki firmly believes that her cuteness gives her physical strength. It turns out her confidence in her appearance and her confidence in strength are directly proportional to one another.
- She then gets back up, says "My turn" and returns the favor.
- Daniel helps them get along by reminding Agata that she's still younger than them while assuring Lemina that she doesn't need babysitting and helping Cecil cope with her nerves. All the while encouraging Miki to do her best.
- Once Miki recovers she adds Waif-Fu and some kind of projectile to her arsenal.
- Played For Laughs: Miki is cheerfully oblivious to how she keeps inflicting Amusing Injuries on the ever-sarcastic Leon.
- Played For Drama: Nobody was aware that she was stronger than she looked, not even Miki — this only came out when she and her friends were about to die and the frightened girl flew into a berserker rage, attacking savagely and desperately.
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