"Not two hours later, a little twelve-year-old girl comes to my building, armed to the teeth with the firm intention of sending me straight to the morgue."
— Norman Stansfield, The Professional
Jerry: Awww! There's nothing cuter than a little girl kicking butt!
Justin: That's what the sensei said! What is so cute about that?!
Harry: If you know that much, if you are that powerful, why did you hire a bodyguard to bring you here?
Ivy: My feet don't reach the pedals.
Ivy: My feet don't reach the pedals.
"If anyone's still alive, don't even think about surprising me! You'll end up like your friends, you hear me!? Yeah!?"
— Ellie (again), The Last of Us: Left Behind
"Heroes don't send kids to do the job unless they're little tanks. And most kids are, for some reason, ten times stronger than adult heroes. If that was a four-year-old playing with a kitten out there, I'd offer her your dead body just to be on the safe side."
— Unnamed henchman, Super Stupor
"She's itty-bitty and teenie-tiny and, you know, this...very tough kill-em-all character. I love that about her in that it's a great alter-ego. I would love to be able to go whack-whack-whack!—take somebody out."
— Alese Watson, voice actor for Claes in Gunslinger Girl
"Hell's bells. It was adorable. She was just a kid.
A kid who knew more than any mortal alive. A kid with a scary amount of magical power. A kid who would kill me if I didn't show up to the duel. But still a kid."
A kid who knew more than any mortal alive. A kid with a scary amount of magical power. A kid who would kill me if I didn't show up to the duel. But still a kid."
— Harry Dresden on Ivy the Archive fawning over Mister, Death Masks
[Janine] makes no prior appearance in this story, then leaps into frame screaming "IT’S ME... JANINE!" and absolutely demolishes this creature that she has never seen before, and wasn’t given a single moment to prepare for. No sooner does she accept the reality of the thing than she is whipping rocks at it. Janine’s boogeyman lives in a shelter for battered monsters. Janine believed in climate change on the same day she firebombed a gas station. Santa Claus came to Janine’s house one time. One time.
