[ SECRET POST #3199 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3199 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think people are pedos for liking this trope, but I find it irritating that so many "badass" female characters ARE little girls, in media not aimed at children. How many "badass" male characters are little boys, outside of children's media? Of course, there are quite a few adult women too, but it seems like a female character is just as likely to be a little girl as an adult, where as males are almost always adults.

Maybe people just like the element of "not what you'd expect" because little girls are supposed to be sweet and helpless, but sometimes I get the feeling that people consider adult women boring, or they think that you can't have an adult female character without having romance, sexual tension, or whatever with the main male character so to avoid that stuff they make their female character a little girl.

[philstar22]

I agree with this.

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of canons have teenage boys as heroes, though. Maybe not little boys, but still not exactly adults. The nerdy, pimply, skinny teenage boy who becomes badass (Spiderman is a prime example) is as much a trope as the badass little girl.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's a combination of "not what you'd expect" and the fact that an audience loves an underdog. Since little girls are stereotyped to be the weakest, even more so then women, people are more likely to route for them as a badass hero character because of course they are the little guy in any story you come across.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I think it's mostly this. The stereotypical victim is now the one kicking ass, that sort of thing. Little boys have featured as protagonists in adventure stories since forever so that's not as interesting.

[(Anonymous)]

Badass girls are part of the tomboy trope too, before they grow up into their womanly ways. Part of the appeal, very different from with badass boys, is that it's so often cast, or fanned as, a kind of a temporary innocent thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Well we've seen Toph grown up and she's still very much Toph. Do people really picture these kinds of character growing up to mold into a 'womanly role'? Because I never have.

[(Anonymous)]

The top left character too, for that matter.

[(Anonymous)]

More likely with male fans/writers tbh

[(Anonymous)]

They usually do, this is why Toph was such a refreshing change of pace for me.