Akiba is a boyish girl who used to love Kazuki and wants to be a modeling artist.[4] Nami is an energetic and "manly" girl who is the best friend of Iori.[5]
Runo, a tomboyish girl, can act as a "sore loser" and sometimes impedes her team.[8] She also is jealous of her friend Julie and has a crush on a male character, Dan, while she had a huge blade inside herself which can cut through anything.
Haruka Tenou first appears as a race car driver and is dating a young violinist later shown to be Sailor Neptune, later revealing herself as Sailor Uranus and comes out as a lesbian.[14]
In the comics, Valerie is more tomboyish than her two bandmates.[22] Besides being good at science and a skilled auto mechanic, she occasionally shows a quick temper as well as being physically stronger than she might appear.
A tomboyish nine-year-old girl[23] who a con man, Moses Pray, claims is his daughter, and delivers her to her aunt's home in Missouri, later joining him in his con schemes.
Anjali is a tomboy character in the film who attends university with her male best friend, Rahul. She realizes that she is in love with this friend, but her love is unreciprocated because Rahul is attracted to a feminine women. The movie has been cited (along with many others) as extremely problematic, as it depicts the "tomboy identity" as a childish and immature phase to be replaced with heteronormative relationships in accordance with Indian patriarchy.
The movie follows the story of Benio who was, due to her mother's death, raised by her father, meaning that she acts like a tomboy, "contrary to traditional Japanese notions of femininity."[26]
Enola is a bit of a tomboyish girl in the 19th century. She is engaging in activities such as jiujitsu, reading, science, and playing chess. Her mother encouraged this behaviour and always reassured her that she'd do very well on her own, thus raising a strong and independent girl.[33]
Feeling rejected when her older brother goes off on his honeymoon without inviting her along, a tomboyish Frankie runs away from her middle-class Southern home.[35]
A tomboyish girl at the conversion therapy camp who becomes friends with Megan and is more comfortable being gay than Megan, is forced to come to the camp at the risk of otherwise being disowned by her family.[24]
Hermione is more about brains than looks. While she's not that crazy about Quidditch, she tries to understand it to some extent. When she's not with her two besties, Harry and Ron, she's usually spending time with Neville.
Jess is the 18-year-old daughter of British Indian Sikhs living in Hounslow, London while Juliette "Jules" Paxton is the same age as her and the daughter of a white English family. Both are tomboys.[24]
The story follows a 10-year-old gender non-conforming child, Laure, who moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holiday and experiments with their gender presentation, adopting the name Mikäel.[41]
Legs is a teenage girl and drifter in Portland high school, while Goldie is a fellow student, both of whom are tomboys[24] suspended from school along with Rita, Violet, and Maddie.
The grown tomboyish daughter[28] of George and Alice who lives in a small Indiana town in the 1910s with her trouble-making brother Wesley, and an exasperated housekeeper named Stella.
Monica is a tomboyish girl[24] who aspires to become a professional basketball star and becomes romantically involved with Quincy McCall, who loves basketball as much as she does.
Penny is a kind, lovable, and intelligent 13-year-old tomboy. She wears a red T-shirt with a black sweatshirt underneath, a pair of dark shorts, gray and white striped tights, and large brown boots.
Roberta is the proclaimed tomboy of the girls,[24] stemming primarily from her upbringing in a family consisting of her father and three older brothers, her mother having died in a car accident when she was four. As a girl, she tapes her breasts to flatten them, plays sports, and never hesitates to fight a boy.
Terri Griffith is an aspiring teenage journalist in Phoenix who feels that her teachers do not take her articles seriously because of her good looks and later decides to disguise herself as a boy.[24]
National Velvet is the story of a 12-year-old, horse-crazy girl, Velvet Brown, who lives in the small town of Sewels in Sussex, England, who later participates in a horse race disguised as a boy.[52]
An orphan girl of noble birth who went on an adventure after being rescued by a trio of dragon hunters. In her early tweens she was adopted by the tavern owner, but used the lessons of her new friends to become the first official female dragon hunter. And succeeded. She played straight as a child and then subverted as an adult (in series) where she was described as "kind of a tomboy".
Arya is the third child and younger daughter of Lord Eddard Stark and his wife Lady Catelyn Stark. She is: tomboyish, headstrong, feisty, independent, disdains traditional female pursuits and is often mistaken for a boy.[54]
Set in the 1860s, the novel is about a lively eleven-year-old tomboy named Caroline Augusta Woodlawn, nicknamed "Caddie", living in the area of Dunnville, Wisconsin.[56]
The book is about a teenage girl whose life is forever changed by the tragic accident that leaves her taking the identity of a supermodel, Nikki Howard, and tries to let go of her tomboyish ways to take over Nikki's glamorous lifestyle.[58]
Jamila is the younger tomboyish sister of Saleem,[64][65] nicknamed "the brass monkey" because of her thick thatch of red-gold hair and because she is conceived the night her father's assets are frozen by the state.
Lyra is a wild 12-year-old tomboyish girl[68] who grew up in the fictional Jordan College, Oxford. She prides herself on her capacity for mischief, especially her ability to lie, earning her the epithet "Silvertongue" from Iorek Byrnison.
A tomboyish girl, Orphie loves mischief and has the strength of 20 men, often finding herself filling in as sheriff of the town and training her pet spider Dorian.[71]
A tomboyish girl, Jean Louise Finch, nicknamed Scout, lives with her older brother Jeremy, nicknamed Jem, and their widowed father Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer.[74] Also see the 1962 film.
Abigail Lincoln aka Numbuh 5 is the intelligent, laid-back, tomboyish African-American girl, who is a second-in-command/spy of Sector V.[citation needed]
Angela Anaconda is a tomboyish, imaginative, freckle-faced eight-year-old girl who eschews the femininity commonly associated with other girls her age.[86]
Ashley (or Spinelli as she is mostly called) is a tomboy who has an extreme loyalty to her friends. She is temperamental at times and doesn't really like her first name because of it being associated with a quartet of snobbish girls all named Ashley.[87]
Aseefa is a Glimmorian—a blue yodeler with a ponytail that works as a third arm. She is also a tomboy, a beast-master, a great warrior AND the object of Sheen's first raging space crush. How could any Earthling resist?! She's so quirky, cute and punky! But Sheen will have to resist for now, because he can't tell if Aseefa likes him back and he's too nervous to ask. She's so tough! You wouldn't wanna mess with her either![88]
Darby is a 6-year-old feisty, imaginative and tomboyish red-headed girl and is believed to be Christopher Robin's younger sister.[92] She is the leader of the problem-solving Super Sleuths along with Tigger, Pooh, and her pet puppy Buster. Darby is brave, inquisitive, clever, and imaginative. Her catchphrases are "Time to slap my cap" and "Good sleuthin', everyone!" For the most part, she replaced Christopher Robin, who only appeared in two episodes of the series.
Dot is the cute little sister of Yakko and Wakko. She's a tomboy who mimics her big brothers in everything they do, but when it comes to the crunch she'll use her feminine wiles as a weapon.[94]
Eliza is a 12-year-old tomboyish red-haired girl who is able to communicate with animals, especially her chimpanzee sidekick Darwin. She must keep this gift secret or she will lose her powers.
The tomboyish daughter of James and Margaret Dutton.[96]
Why Isabel May, Elsa Dutton in Yellowstone prequel 1883, is like a young Jennifer Lawrence and the show's breakout star. Early in the family's journey, on the Oregon Trail, Elsa decides to start wearing pants, and embraces the cowgirl lifestyle. She also becomes involved with Ennis, a cowboy. After Ennis is killed by a bandit (whom Elsa then shoots to death), she marries a Comanche man named Sam. The women of his tribe make Elsa new pants and clothes (her old ones having been worn out from heavy use). After months of dressing like a cowgirl, and later a Comanche, Elsa's mother forces her to put on a dress, when they are traveling to a Fort (fearing what might happen if the soldiers see Elsa wearing her preferred clothes). Ironically, while wearing the dress, Elsa ends up getting shot by an arrow and is mortally wounded. Elsa, not having much time left, insists on putting her Comanche clothes back on, and wears them until she passes away from her injury.
Lana is the fourth-youngest Loud sibling who loves to get dirty, especially with mud. She is also a skilled handy worker, plumber, and mechanic who loves animals.[100]
Phil's twin sister Lil is now a tomboy with a keen interest in and talent for soccer, although she still has more girly interests such as fashion and boys.
Lilly is Miley Stewart's best friend. She is extremely extroverted, excitable, clumsy, and impulsive. She is also very athletic and loves skateboarding, surfing, hockey, and cheerleading. She's considered the tomboy with a sweet, kind, and optimistic personality.[101]
Molly is a super smart tomboy and her bubbly personality makes her a great friend. She's also a great singer who inspires every Guppy and land-dwelling preschooler she encounters.
Rainbow Dash has got rainbow-striped hair, is very interested in playing sports and is a tomboy whose sexual orientation is not referenced.[110] Scootaloo is her biggest fan and she's a tomboy as well.
The descendant of Audrey Smith, and the leader and brawn, but childish of the Harvey Girls. She is a cute and energetic tomboy who acts tough and loves to do boy activities. She is also very impatient and short tempered. She refers to herself as "the protector of Harvey Street".
"Rosie is feisty, fun and very free-spirited. Rosie is a tomboy tank engine! She's almost the same size and has the same capability as Thomas – whom she idolizes! She seeks to copy his every action and follow his every mood – with great charm and equal persistence. This drives Thomas crazy. He just wants to be left alone to be Useful. But why, thinks Rosie, can't they be Really Useful together?!"[111]
Sam Puckett, a tomboy who is aggressive, tough, loves pranks and anything that is gross, masculine, and guy things, rides her motorcycle, juvenile jail experiences, and hates anything that is girly, pink, and feminine.[citation needed]
Teeter is a tough-talking ranch hand from Texas, who works at the Yellowstone/Dutton Ranch.[citation needed] She becomes involved with fellow ranch hand Colby Mayfield (Denim Richards), and takes the brand (just like the male ranch hands).
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Makoto is a young Japanese woman raised from the Tosa Province of Japan who utilizes her family's dojo teachings of Rindo-kan karate as her fighting style.[119][120]
^"Flame of Recca". SHONEN SUNDAY. 2009. Archived from the original on January 22, 2013. Quite the tomboy, Fuko also habitually gets into brawls with Recca, but she appears to have feelings for him.
^"登場人物紹介" [Character introduction] (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2010-04-08.
^"Bunnie Rabbot (SatAM)". StHRPs. "Despite her girly ways she has a surprisingly tomboyish streak in her, especially when it comes to her love of sports."
^"Julie-Su the Echidna". Mobius Roleplay. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. "This tough echidna is also quite the tomboy, and refuses to touch any dress."
^Holden, Stephen (October 14, 1994). "Little Giants". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 12, 2012. "The film follows the struggle between the Little Giants and the Cowboys to determine which will represent Urbania, Ohio, a fictional town, in the peewee football league. The Little Giants, who are largely made up of Cowboys' rejects, is the brainchild of Becky O'Shea (Shawna Waldron), an 11-year-old tomboy who was rejected by the Cowboys simply for being a girl."
^Spigel, Lynn; Curtin, Michael (1996). The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict. London: Routledge. p. 105. ISBN978-0415911221. Tomboy Billie is a talented runner, the star of her high school's otherwise all-male track team.
^ abAbate, Michelle Ann (2008). Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History. Temple University Press. p. 147. Receiving both critical acclaim and box office success, these movies featured some of the most popular and well-respected actresses in the tomboy role. Screen icon Doris Day plays baseball-playing, Marjorie Winfield, in On Moonlight Bay (1951) and the rootin'-tootin' title character in Calamity Jane (1953).
^"Princess Protection Program". Disney Channel. "Carter Mason is your average teen girl (and a bit of a tomboy) who lives in the small lakeside Louisiana town of Lake Monroe."
^ abFrancke, Lizzie (1994). Script Girls: Women Screenwriters in Hollywood. London: British Film Institute. p. 102. ISBN978-0851704777.
^Kozloff, Sarah (2006). "The Lord of the Rings as Melodrama". In Mathijs, Ernest; Pomerance, Murray (eds.). From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings. Rodopi. p. 169. ISBN9042016825. Eowyn symbolizes the tomboy/feminist
^Benshoff, Harry M.; Griffin, Sean (2006). Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 100. ISBN978-0742519725.
^ abLindenfeld, Laura (2005). "Women Who Eat Too Much: Femininity and Food in Fried Green Tomatoes". In Avakian, Arlene Voski; Haber, Barbara (eds.). From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press. pp. 221–245. ISBN978-1-55849-512-8.
^Brown, Joe (November 29, 1991). "My Girl (PG)". The Washington Post.
^Basinger, Jeanine (1993). A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930–1960. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press. p. 74. ISBN978-0819562913.
^Shary, Timothy (2011). "Buying Me Love: 1980s Class-Clash Teen Romances". The Journal of Popular Culture. 44 (3): 563–582. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00849.x.
^ abcLevstik, Linda S. (1983). "'I am no lady!': the tomboy in children's fiction". Children's Literature in Education. 14 (1): 14–20. doi:10.1007/BF01135791. S2CID144172584.
^"Fiction Series for Children and Teens"(PDF). Burnaby Public Library. 22 December 2009. p. 101. Archived from the original(PDF) on 9 October 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2019. Elizabeth 'Lizard' Flanagan is a spunky tomboy who gets into a variety of humourous [sic] predicaments.
^ abKnox, Emily (2014). "Tomboys in the Work of Carson McCullers". Illuminating How Identities, Stereotypes and Inequalities Matter Through Gender Studies. Springer Verlag. pp. 43–52. ISBN978-9401787178.
^Freeman, Elizabeth (2002). The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture. Durham: Duke University Press. p. 45. ISBN978-0822329893.
^Purves, Libby "Today's tomboys not getting on so famously," Times Educational Supplement 4753 (9/7/2007): 27. Abstract: "The author, a British novelist, and broadcaster, comments on social pressures on girls in 21st-century Great Britain. She begins with a reference to a planned play in which author Enid Blyton's Famous Five characters are shown as adults, and she wonders how tomboy George will be portrayed. She states that modern girls are expected to be so many things, including sporty, brave, and beautiful, and wonders if idleness and indifference are the few remaining forms of rebellion".
^David Rudd, Children's Literature in Education 26.3 (Sep95): 185. Abstract: "Examines the sexism issue in the Famous Five series of children's books by Enid Blyton. Critics' comments on the series; Focus on the tomboy character named George; Characterizations; Gender struggles in the book".
^Ashford, Richard K. "TOMBOYS & SAINTS: Girls' Stories of the Late Nineteenth Century," School Library Journal 26.5 (Jan80): 23. Abstract: "Focuses on literature about American girls in the middle 19th century. Social conditions during the middle 19th century; Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott; Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World; Ann Douglas's The Feminization of American Culture."
^Abate, Michelle Ann (2008). Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History. Temple University Press. pp. 22, 25. ISBN978-1-59213-722-0.
^ abcPugh, Tison (2011). Innocence, heterosexuality, and the queerness of children's literature. New York: Routledge. p. 66. ISBN978-0415886338.
^Darnall, Beverly (2006). Laura's List: The First Lady's List of 57 Great Books For Families and Children. New York: Penguin. ISBN978-1585425037. Leslie Burke, a girl, and a newcomer, puts an end to that dream, but Jess can't help but like the feisty tomboy and they become great friends.
^Hellfire Hotchkiss, Mark Twain in Satires and Burlesques, University of California, 1967. The character's creator explicitly refers to her as a "tomboy," and this is echoed by the volume's editor. "Hellfire" Hotchkiss was introduced as a female counterpart to Oscar "Thug" Carpenter, whose gentleness makes him seem feminine by the standards of that time and place. Hellfire herself describes their difficulties in life as being due to their "misplaced sexes" (Everett H. Emerson, Mark Twain: A Literary Life, pp. 231–232). See also Linda A. Morris, "The Eloquent Silence in Hellfire Hotchkiss", in The Mark Twain Annual 3 (2005), pp. 43–51.
^Blyth, W. A. L. (2018). Development, Experience and Curriculum in Primary Education. Milton Park: Routledge. p. 133. ISBN978-1351376808.
^Peril, Lynn (2006). College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Coeds, Then and Now. New York: Norton. p. 47. ISBN0393327159.
^Robey, Molly K. (2019). "Androgynes, Amazons, Agenes: Transgender Studies and the College Girl, 1878". Legacy. 36 (1): 65–86. doi:10.5250/legacy.36.1.0065.
^"Overview for West Side Story (1961)". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 6 December 2009. "When they learn from an eavesdropping tomboy, Anybodys, that Chino is carrying a gun and bent on revenge against Tony, they organize to protect him."
^Hischak, Thomas S. (2009). Broadway Plays and Musicals: Descriptions and Essential Facts of More Than 14,000 Shows Through 2007. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co. p. 469. ISBN978-0786434480. When tomboy high schooler Ginger Carol (Nancy Malone) insists on going out for the school's football team...
^Bowman, Sabienna (16 June 2016). "It's Time For A 'Secret World Of Alex Mack' Reboot". Bustle. Archived from the original on July 11, 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2018. In the '90s, Alex was simply considered a tomboy, but the character actually challenged gender norms in a way that would resonate with the more socially savvy youth of today.
^"Recess: The Spinelli Story". Movie TV Episode database. Archived from the original on 8 February 2009. Retrieved 6 December 2009. "Spinelli's a real little toughie, a tomboy with a heart who's fiercely loyal to her friends and dislikes being called a girl ."
^Hains, Rebecca C. (2008). "Powerpuff Girls, The". In Mitchell, Claudia (ed.). Girl Culture an Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 480. ISBN978-0-313-08444-7. "Buttercup, the brunette, is a rough-and-tumble tomboy."
^"Two of a kind". WCHS-TV. Archived from the original on 2011-05-18. "Mary-Kate is a tomboy whose biggest interest is in perfecting her curveball; and Ashley is a straight-A student starting a boy-crazy stage."
^Mansour, David (2005). From Abba to Zoom: A Pop Culture Encyclopedia of the Late 20th Century. Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews McMeel Publishing. p. 385. ISBN978-0740751189. Spunky seven-year-old tomboy...
^"Pipsqueek". Official ZhuZhuPets website. 2016. Archived from the original on January 20, 2020. Retrieved 2017-07-11. Pipsqueak is the unofficial leader of the ZhuZhu Pets! She has a special bond with Frankie and will do anything for her (she was Frankie's first hamster, after all). Pipsqueak is quite beautiful and dainty looking, but don't let her soft, furry pelt fool you—Inside she is all tomboy and a firecracker of a hamster! Pipsqueak has a SHOOTING STAR emblem because she is always firing ideas, enthusiasm, and energy every which way! Birthday January 22
^Faust, Lauren (2010-12-24). "My Little NON-Homophobic, NON-Racist, NON-Smart-Shaming Pony: A Rebuttal". Archived from the original on June 10, 2020. Rainbow Dash has rainbow-striped hair because of her name and because she is very interested in sports, specifically flying. She is a tomboy, but nowhere in the show is her sexual orientation ever referenced.
^"Sonshōkō". Official website of Koihime Enbu. BaseSon / UNKNOWN GAMES. 2020. Archived from the original on July 1, 2020. Retrieved July 1, 2020. This page describes her as a "vivacious and spirited tomboy."
"Trainer spotlight: misty and brock". pokemon.com. 21 December 2018. Retrieved 2024-10-01. the text says "In the video games, Misty is referred to as "the Tomboyish Mermaid," a title that suits her well.