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An [[Action Girl]] is sometimes portrayed as being someone who is still "one of the guys" at age 15-30. Possibly a form of subtle [[Fan Service]] (or not so subtle, depending on the character).

 

 

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** Rika Nonaka from ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' is an [[Action Girl]], is much more willing to fight than [[Nice Guy|Takato]] or [[Martial Pacifist|Henry]], and has the title of "Digimon Queen" due to being extremely proficient in the Card Game.

* Tio of ''[[Gash Bell]]'' exudes this aura, especially in flashbacks, but she's always seen wearing a dress.

* Casca from ''[[Berserk]]'' also qualifies since she hung out mostly with men from her early teens onwards.

* [[Wrench Wench]] Fio Piccolo of ''[[Porco Rosso]]''.

* Makoto from ''[[The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]]'', who is quite a [[Tomboy]] but still manages to be girlishly charming in her own right.

 

 

* This is the story of Michael Tree's youth in the ''[[Ms. Tree]]'', 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.

* Geena from ''[[Dennis the Menace US]]''.

 

 

* Amanda Lemmon from [[It Takes Two]] protests at having to wear a dress.

* Robin's daughter, Gwyn in [[Princess of Thieves]] will steal a horse fairly but won't take it by the poor reason of her gender.

* Natalie Sue "Natty" Gann in ''[[The Journey of Natty Gann]]'' 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.

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[The Great Brain]]'' series has Dorretha "Britches Dotty" Blake. Including her beating up the local bully, naturally she's a redhead.

** Oh lordy, yes, Pippin Galadriel Moonchild is totally this. ''([[Berserk Button|attacked by Pepper for using the name]])''

** Sadly, there are some signs that puberty, as it sets in, might start to complicate this a little - not so much for Pep as for the guys, who are already starting to notice that play-wrestling with her has more of an effect on them than it used to.

** Sally suffered from inconsistent characterization, and ranged from this trope to "regular girl who just happens to be able to punch like a truck" and just about everywhere in between.

* Idgie in ''Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe'' starts out as this and becomes even more so as she gets older.

* Birgitte in the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series is like this to Mat; he sees her more as a drinking partner or fellow soldier than as a woman.

* Petra in ''[[Ender's Game]]'' is one of the only girls in Battle School and wants to be considered by the boys as just one of them

** A desperate Ron does eventually think to ask her and even uses the phrase "hey, you're a girl," only to be told (to his extreme disbelief) that she is already going with someone else. When Hermione shows up at the ball with Krum, Ron spends the whole thing with "jealous" stamped on his forehead, but refuses to come out and say it. Harry, who's busy wishing he had asked Cho before Cedric did, just tries to stay out of the crossfire.

* Karrin Murphy of ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' is a lot like this, and in her case 'the boys' are police officers and the literal monster-fighting main character. In spite of lacking any magic or supernatural powers, she is Harry's go-to person when he feels a need for back-up against the supernatural. Harry's occasional concerns over including her in his plans aren't as much because she's a woman as because he has [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]] and feels guilty when anyone helping him gets hurt.

* Queen Christina from [[The Royal Diaries]] envies the freedom that boys have and enjoys besting her male friend in sports.

* Alanna from ''[[Tortall Universe|Song Of The Lioness]]'' is the short-tempered and blunt girl who posed as a boy to become the kingdom's only female knight.

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

** In addition, 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.

* PJ, of the TBS sitcom ''[[My Boys]]'', 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.

* Of the most, if not ''the'' most frequent subject of MTV's ''MADE'' is a burping, swearing, and [[Required Secondary Powers|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 [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]], simply finding a guy who likes tomboys is of course out of the question.

* In ''[[NCIS]]'', Ziva is very much this. She takes pride in "boy" things such as the [[A Real Man Is a Killer|many ways she knows how to kill people]].

* ''[[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.

* [[Law and Order SVU|Olivia Benson]] can <s> question suspects</s> use the [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]] with the best of them. And her partner is [[Heroic Sociopath|Elliot UnStabler]], so that's saying something.

* Moze from ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]''. Her best friend is Ned, doesn't have any real female friends (she spends some two seasons hunting for one), is agressively athletic and actively hates skirts.

* Erin from ''[[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 [[The Chick]].

* Sarah Schneider on MTV's ''The College Humor Show''

* On one of the earliest ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episodes, Willow is chagrined when Xander calls her a 'guy friend' who knows about girls (particularly since he's getting advice from her on how to click with Buffy). Later on, she's quietly pleased when Buffy tells him ''he's'' 'like one of the girls' to her.

* The female Shepard in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' is typically one of these.

** A Citadel sub-plot at the local nightclub shows us a lady talking to one of the guys on her squad, wanting to hang out with the rest of the guys while they're on leave. The guy tries (first by beating around the bush, then coming right out with it) to explain the other guys would be uncomfortable with letting their hair down around her, but she just bulldozes over his excuses in a decidedly crude, "I'm one of you guys" manner until he gives in.

* {{spoiler|Elh Melizée}} from ''[[Solatorobo]]''. While she doesn't seem to have any truly "boyish" interests (and even {{spoiler|knows a bit about flowers, but [[I Was Just Passing Through|only because they grew in her home village]], of course}}), she [[Wholesome Crossdresser|wears boys' clothing]], [[Bokukko|uses male pronouns]], and [[Lady Looks Like a Dude|appears male enough that Red and Chocolat mistake her for a guy at first sight]] - even a guard at an all-boys magic school that she sneaks into notes that, upon close inspection, "he couldn't possibly be a girl". Red [[Unsettling Gender Reveal|flips out]] when he learns she's a girl, but even after that, he continues to treat her pretty much the same as he did when he thought she was a guy (aside from the [[Ship Tease]], anyway).

 

== Web Comics ==

* Jodie from ''[[Loserz]]'' is seen by the two boys she hangs out with as one of them and has never been established as having romantic feelings toward either of them. [[Lampshaded]] [http://the-qlc.com/loserz/go/530 here].

* In ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'', Kestrel is the only female student who continues to study as an Artifactor for more than a week. Understandably, but no less frustratingly to her, her classmates turn their affections elsewhere. When she got mistaken for a boy, she lost her temper and gave him [[Marshmallow Hell]].

 

* Melissa in ''[[Home Movies]]'' 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).

* Sam(antha) Manson in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' 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" then the girl she is, causing her to be annoyed.

** Plus her [[Gasshole|belching habit]] in "Relics of Demons Past".

** Before joining the group, she belonged to a professional wrestling troupe and the undefeated champion of the arena.

** She even teases Aang about not being manly when they first meet (in the ring), saying "nobody wants to see TWO little girls fight", 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 another girl on the team, until Toph decides to joins them.

** She is quite capable of putting on a [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] act as she's descended from a noble family, as a subversion... she just doesn't care for it.

* Gina Gillotti in ''[[Dennis the Menace US|Dennis the Menace]]'', who often hangs out with Dennis, Joey, Peebee and Jay. Sometimes subverts this by spending time hanging around with [[Tomboy and Girly Girl|Margaret Wade]] instead though.

* [[Recess]]'s Spinelli is a wrestling fan and the "toughest kid in school".