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** The female Commander Shepard can definitely fall here. She has a rough contralto voice, doesn't wear makeup for the most part (granted, not much point when you spend more time blasting things than dating), is just as much of a badass as her male counterpart, and can definitely hold her liquor (especially after [[WeCanRebuildHim dying and being rebuilt]] in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''). Helped by the fact that the motion capture for both male and female Shepards is largely the same, leading to a few humorous moments where if in a dress [[PantyShot Shepard sits in a very unladylike manner]].

* Princess Winnifred the Woebegone in ''Theatre/OnceUponAMattress''. Among other things, she gets to the prince's castle by swimming through the moat, wrestles, lifts weights, and performs all of her songs in a loud, raucous manner. In fact, her brash and masculine behaviors are part of why many disapprove of her and Prince Dauntless as a couple.

** [[BigGuy Toph]] [[CuteBruiser Bei]][[ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl fong]] is a larval/prepubescent version of this. She's introduced fighting in the [[DishingOutDirt Earthbending]] equivalent of a ProfessionalWrestling tournament, deliberately has bad matters in rebellion against her coddling wealthy parents, and is glad that she doesn't have to worry about her appearance because she's blind. In a play based on her group's adventures, she's cast as a very large, muscular man. ''She is ecstatic.''

** Lady Blackhawk: Zinda Blake, resident pilot. She knows how to order beer in 30 different languages, is a gifted driver and pilot, has a fondness for firearms, and pretty forward with her sexual desires. The only 'girly' thing about her is she's fond of wearing a DangerouslyShortSkirt.

** Also Mel[[labelnote:*]]a.k.a. [[FanNickname Infiltrator-Tits]][[/labelnote]], a Marine who can be heard in Purgatory in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' who wants to get drunk and watch asari dancers. Leads to an intervention when her male squadmates are mostly weirded out by it. [[StalkerWithACrush Except for the one who writes her love poetry.]] They're going to talk to him about that next.

** To a lesser extent, [[CuteWitch Marisa Kirisame]], or at least her Windows incarnation, who speaks rather coarsely and [[MoralDissonance tends to beat people up]] and [[KleptomaniacHero take]] [[MemeticMutation their precious things.]]

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'': Kara "Starbuck" Thrace can literally drink a Cylon ([[spoiler:her husband]]) under the table and gets into brawls on a fairly regular basis. The coed but macho military means that a number of other female characters have some elements of this, especially Kat.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcJU6zsNWyM Bad Girlfriend]]" by Theory of a Deadman.

* Music/GarthBrooks. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XehcwYtf_I "That Girl is a Cowboy"]].

* Marina & the Diamonds [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O2W18RE6nI Girls,]].

* Creator/NataliePortman in a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' digital [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8e6-IeQ0aw skit]].
* Paradiso Girls' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FhEKAzSprE&ob=av3e Patron Tequila]]''.
* Music/{{Pink}} about half the time, if not more. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW1dbiD_zDk Get the Party Started]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFu3YzRnyDU Trouble]]", "Cuz I Can", "So What", "Bad Influence"...

* Gretchen Wilson's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82dDnv9zeLs "Redneck Woman"]].

* Wrestling/BeckyLynch in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14997911/chapters/34760702 The Horsewomen Of Las Vegas]]''. She curses like a drunken sailor, can drink almost anyone under the table, will kill you without a second thought and can do it easily, and delights in infuriating anyone around her. The only time she tries to "be girly" is when she and one of her CoDragons, Wrestling/BrookeTessmacher, seduced two EMT's so they could steal an ambulance as part of a bigger plan.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': While she wasn't old enough to drink yet Callie Evans was very obviously shaping into one the last time she was seen, being slightly crude while wolfishly telling her guy friends what outfits look hot on guys, sitting in a stereotypically boyish stance with an arm slung across the back of the bench, loving basketball, chopping her bob-cut into a [[BoyishShortHair pixie]] and ditching her feminine sweaters and v-necks for t-shirts and leather jackets.

* ''ComicBook/QueenAndCountry'': Tara is a foul mouthed, hard drinking and smoking ActionGirl, though she does mellow out a bit while she is [[spoiler: pregnant]].

* ''ComicBook/HackSlash'': Cassie. Although she constantly [[{{Stripperiffic}} looks like a stripper]], she's tough, cold, and quite prone to delivering a ClusterFBomb. She really hates it when she drools in her sleep, though. Her diary is also bright pink (bloodstains aside...) and has a unicorn sticker on it, she even wears ponk panties with hearts as seen when Bomb Queen pulled her skirt in the 1st crossover.

RealMenWearPink, perhaps? Certainly subverts RealWomenDontWearDresses. The ''Resurrection'' series intensified this, as the now twentysomething Cassie has much fewer inhibitions about casual sex than when she was a teenager.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewMrPeabodyAndShermanShow'' features Cleopatra as one of these. Peabody spends quite some time trying to make her more refined so she can impress Caeser, only for him to be an AmazonChaser.

* ''ComicBook/HackSlash'': Cassie. Although she constantly [[{{Stripperiffic}} looks like a stripper]], she's tough, cold, and quite prone to delivering a ClusterFBomb. She really hates it when she drools in her sleep, though. Her diary is also bright pink (bloodstains aside...) and has a unicorn sticker on it. RealMenWearPink, perhaps? Certainly subverts RealWomenDontWearDresses. The ''Resurrection'' series intensified this, as the now twentysomething Cassie has much fewer inhibitions about casual sex than when she was a teenager.

'''Rainbow Dash:''' Cutesy-wutesy? Have you even ''met'' me?

* Outlaw from ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, Agency X'' and ''ComicBook/{{Domino}}''. She's a Cowgirl mutant with SuperStrength who enjoys shooting shit, [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl getting hammered]], and typically plays the Tomboy in a TomboyAndGirlyGirl scenario. When she became friends with Domino, she even played that to Dom herself, who's pretty much this herself.

** A big part of Brienne's character is that she's very much "one of the boys" in the less-than-progressive Westeros. In "The Lion and the Rose", she bows to Joffrey and Margaery instead of performing a curtsy. When Cersei inquires about this odd behavior, Brienne explains that she could never master the curtsy.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Faith, the sexual and violent slayer. She loves a good meal of burgers and fries and can chug beer like a champion.

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'': Kara "Starbuck" Thrace can drink a Cylon under the table and gets into brawls on a fairly regular basis. The coed but macho military means that a number of other female characters have some elements of this, especially Kat.

Note that this trope is not usually TruthInTelevision. Real people (yes even frat boys) don't act like this all the time. In fact usually this sort of behavior is to some extent an affectation. People usually act aggressively because they feel they have something to protect: their ego, another person, a secret etc. [[ThePigPen Lack of good hygiene]] can be a sign of depression or anxiety, or else a rebellion against an oppressive authority figure. Crudeness is a common trait of teenagers, since they have just discovered crude language and sexuality: so they are experimenting with it. Teenage women just tend to do this experimentation when adults and boys aren't around, the Lad-ette is simply the girl who doesn't care. Someone who acts like this frequently may still have a softer side. Conversely, women who act more femininely most of the time may display this kind of behavior sometimes. As with many other tropes that are about women, this one is rather reductive.

* ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'': Major Kusanagi fits this trope perfectly when she's not working. She likes beer, drives very aggressively, [[LesYay likes girls]], loves to scare the shit out of people, and is well known to the owners of some less reputable bars. Also in the manga, she's living with her boyfriend who's also a cop. At one point Batou even asks her if she'd ever consider switching to a male cybernetic body.

* The famous "Cool Girl" passage in ''Literature/GoneGirl'' deconstructs this by highlighting the male-fantasy elements, portraying this character type as popular among men because she flatters their interests and biases instead of calling out their boorishness or pressuring them to pull their lives together like an often-scorned WetBlanketWife would. [[spoiler:Pressure to live up to the ideal of the Cool Girl is what caused Amy to snap, [[FakingTheDead fake her death]], and frame her husband Nick for her murder.]] The full passage can be read on the Quotes page.

Note that this trope is not exactly TruthInTelevision. Real people (yes even frat boys) don't act like this all the time. In fact usually this sort of behavior is to some extent an affectation. People usually act aggressively because they feel they have something to protect: their ego, another person, a secret etc. [[ThePigPen Lack of good hygiene]] can be a sign of depression or anxiety, or else a rebellion against an oppressive authority figure. Crudeness is a common trait of teenagers, since they have just discovered crude language and sexuality: so they are experimenting with it. Teenage women just tend to do this experimentation when adults and boys aren't around, the Lad-ette is simply the girl who doesn't care. Someone who acts like this frequently may still have a softer side. Conversely, women who act more femininely most of the time may display this kind of behavior sometimes. As with many other tropes that are about women, this one is rather reductive.