List of tomboys in fiction

This page lists tomboys in fiction. This is common, in fiction, as a number of characters have been described as tomboys in the past.[1][2]

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Anime and manga

Characters	Title	Duration	Notes
Renny Ai	Ninja Senshi Tobikage	1985-1986	A cheerful tomboy who loves Jou.[3]
Itsuki Akiba Nami	I"s	2002-2003 2005-2006	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]
Fūko Kirisawa	Flame of Recca	1995-2002	A tomboyish girl who gets into fights with Recca, who she has a crush on.[6]
Sarah McDougal	Love Hina	2000	Sarah is a mischievous girl and tomboy who has a lot of common sense.[7]
Runo Misaki Mira Clay Fabia Sheen	Bakugan Battle Brawlers	2007-2008	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.
Rin Natsuki (Cure Rouge)	Yes! PreCure 5	2007-2008	Rin is a middle school student in her second year who is "boyish," skilled at playing sports, and has a "girly side."[9]
Tsubasa Onodera	Love Get Chu: Miracle Seiyū Hakusho	2006	A tomboy girl who prefers to be the voice for boys instead of girls.[10]
Rin	Nagasarete Airantō	2002–Present	Rin is a "male carpenter apprentice girl" who has girlish qualities.[11]
Kaoru Shimizu	Major	1994-2010	Kaoru is interested in baseball, has a "manly personality" and is a tomboy who has complex feelings toward her friend, Goro.[12]
Haruka Tenoh (Sailor Uranus)	Sailor Moon	1991-1997	Haruka Tenou first appears as a race car driver and is dating a young violinist later shown to be Sailor Neptune, later revealing themselves as Sailor Uranus, and comes out as transgender.[13]

Comics

Characters	Title	Duration	Author	Notes
Sally Acorn, Bunnie Rabbot, Julie-Su, and Belle D'Coolette	Sonic the Hedgehog	1992-2016	Ken Penders Ian Flynn Michael Gallagher Dan Slott Karl Bollers Scott Fulop	Sally, Bunnie, Julie, and Belle are all tomboys.[14][15][16]
Cleopatra	Cleopatra in Space graphic novel series	2014-2020	Mike Maihack	Cleopatra has been described as a "tomboy-ish 15 year-old girl."[17]
Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt	Peanuts	1950-2000	Charles M. Schultz	She has freckles and "mousy-blah" hair, and generally displays the characteristics of a tomboy.[18]
Valerie Smith	Josie and the Pussycats	1963-1982, 1993, 2016-2017	Marguerite Bennett Cameron DeOrdio others	In the comics, Valerie is more tomboyish than her two bandmates.[19] 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.

Film

Character	Title	Year	Actor	Notes
Addie Pray (née Loggins)	Paper Moon	1973	Tatum O'Neal	A tomboyish nine-year-old girl[20] 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.
Amanda "Manny"	Manny & Lo	1996	Scarlett Johansson	A tomboyish 11-year-old girl who runs away with her sister, Laurel "Lo," from their foster home.[21]
Amanda Whurlitzer	The Bad News Bears	1976	Tatum O'Neal	An 11-year-old pitcher who feels insecure about her tomboy image.[21]
Annabel Andrews	Freaky Friday	1976	Jodie Foster	Annabel, a tomboy,[21] annoyed with her mother, switches places with her mother for one day.
Becky 'The Icebox' O'Shea	Little Giants	1994	Shawna Waldron	The tomboyish daughter of Danny O'Shea, a football player.[21][22]
Billie	Billie	1965	Patty Duke	A 15-year-old girl with a bobbed haircut, tomboyish behavior, and passion for track running.[23]
Billie Jean Davy	The Legend of Billie Jean	1985	Helen Slater	Billie is tomboyish teen from Corpus Christi, Texas,[21] who later gains unwanted popularity.
Calamity Jane	Calamity Jane	1953	Doris Day	Calamity is a shotgun messenger to the Dakota Territory playing the "tomboy role."[24]
Carter Mason	Princess Protection Program	2009	Selena Gomez	Carter is a teenage girl and tomboy who lives in a small town in Louisiana.[25]
Denise Fleming	Can't Hardly Wait	1998	Lauren Ambrose	Denise is the antisocial best friend of Preston Meyers and a tomboy.[21]
Diana Guzman	Girlfight	2000	Michelle Rodriguez	A tomboyish Brooklyn teenager whose hot temper gets her into trouble at school as she repeatedly starts fights with other students.[21]
Dinky Bossetti	Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael	1990	Winona Ryder	A 15-year-old girl who was adopted as a baby who has no interest in "feminine" things, such as makeup and nice clothing.[26][27]
Edith	Despicable Me	2010	Dana Gaier	An orphan girl, and tomboy, who enters the enemy base while selling cookies.[28]
Éowyn	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	2002–2003	Miranda Otto	She is a young noblewoman of Rohan who calls herself a shield-maiden. She kills the Witch-King of Angmar in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. According to film professor Sarah Kozloff, she symbolizes the tomboy/feminist archetype.[29]
Frankie Addams	The Member of the Wedding (also the 1946 novel and adaptations)	1952	Julie Harris	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.[30]
Graham Eaton	But I’m a Cheerleader	1999	Clea DuVall	A tomboyish girl at the conversion therapy camp who becomes friends with Megan, and is more comfortable being gay than Megan, forced to come to the camp at the risk of otherwise being disowned by her family.[21]
Hayley Stark	Hard Candy	2005	Ellen Page	Hayley is a tomboyish 14-year-old who traps and tortures a 32-year-old photographer who she says is a sexual predator.[21]
Imogene "Idgie" Threadgoode	Fried Green Tomatoes (also the 1987 novel)	1991	Mary Stuart Masterson Nancy Moore Atchison	Tomboy Idgie is the youngest of the Threadgoode children, whom Ninny describes as her sister-in-law.[31]
Jesminder "Jess" Kaur Bhamra Juliette "Jules" Paxton	Bend It Like Beckham	2002	Parminder Nagra Keira Knightley	Jess is 18-year-old daughter of British Indian Sikhs living in Hounslow, London while Juliette "Jules" Paxton is the same age and the daughter of a white English family, and both are tomboys.[21]
Juno MacGuff	Juno	2007	Ellen Page	Juno is a 16-year-old girl who is a "comfortable tomboy" and trusts people depending on what type of music they like.[32]
Kit Keller	A League of Their Own	1992	Lori Petty (younger Kit) Kathleen Butler (older Kit)	A tomboyish pitcher on an all-girls baseball team.[21]
Kristy Thomas	The Baby-Sitters Club (also the series of novels)	1995	Schuyler Fisk	Kristy is president of "The Baby-Sitters Club" and a tomboy.[21]
Laure	Tomboy	2011	Zoé Héran	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.[33]
Margaret "Legs" Sadovsky "Goldie" Goldman	Foxfire	1996	Angelina Jolie Jenny Shimizu	Legs is a teenage girl and drifter in Portland high school, while Goldie is a fellow student, both of whom are tomboys[21] suspended from school along with Rita, Violet, and Maddie.
Mary Margaret "Maggie" Fitzgerald	Million Dollar Baby	2004	Hilary Swank	A determined, aspiring boxer trained up by Frankie Dunn, who is also tomboyish.[21]
Marjorie Winfield	On Moonlight Bay	1951	Doris Day	The grown tomboyish daughter[24] 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 Wright	Love & Basketball	2000	Sanaa Lathan (older Monica) Kyla Pratt (younger Monica)	Monica is a tomboyish girl[21] who aspires become a professional basketball star and becomes romantically involved with Quincy McCall, who loves basketball as much as she does.
Mulan	Mulan Mulan II	1998 2004	Ming-Na Wen	Mulan takes her father's old armor and cuts her long hair, disguising herself as a man so that she can enlist instead of her parent.[21]
Benio "Haikara-san" Hanamura	Haikara-San: Here Comes Miss Modern Part 2	2018	Saori Hayami (Japanese) Mimi Torres (English)	The movie follows the story of Benio who was, due to her mother's death, raised by her father, meaning that she acts as a tomboy, "contrary to traditional Japanese notions of femininity."[34]
Roberta Martin	Now and Then	1995	Christina Ricci Rosie O'Donnell	Roberta is the proclaimed tomboy of the girls,[21] 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.
Samantha Swoboda	P.U.N.K.S.	1999	Jessica Alba	Samantha is a tomboy,[35] Jonny's Cousin, a skilled car thief, and lockpick.
Sarah Baker	Cheaper by the Dozen Cheaper by the Dozen 2	2003 2005	Alyson Stoner	Tom and Kate's cute tomboyish daughter[36]
Jean Louise "Scout" Finch	To Kill a Mockingbird (also the 1960 novel)	1962	Mary Badham	A tomboyish young Scout[21] and her pre-teen older brother Jem live in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the early 1930s.
Terri/Terry Griffith	Just One of the Guys	1985	Joyce Hyser	Terri Griffith is an aspiring teenage journalist in Phoenix who feels that her teachers don't take her articles seriously because of her good looks, and later decides to disguise herself as a boy.[21]
Vada Sultenfuss	My Girl	1991	Anna Chlumsky	Vada is an 11-year-old tomboyish girl living in Madison, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 1972.[26][37]
Velvet Brown	National Velvet	1944	Elizabeth Taylor	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.[38]
Viola	She's The Man	2006	Amanda Bynes	Viola is a talented soccer player underestimated for being a girl, who dresses up as her brother Sebastian to play soccer at Illyria.[21]
Watts	Some Kind of Wonderful	1987	Mary Stuart Masterson	Watts, the tomboyish friend of Keith Nelson, who has been subjected to rumors that she is a lesbian, aspires to improve her social standing.[21][39]

Literature

Character	Title	Year	Author	Notes
Arya Stark	A Song of Ice and Fire (series)	1996–2011	George R. R. Martin	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.[40]
Becky Landers	Becky Landers: Frontier Warrior	1926	Constance Skinner	A 15-year-old tomboyish girl who forms a plan in 1778 to join Captain George Rogers Clark.[1]
Caddie Woodlawn	Caddie Woodlawn	1935	Carol Ryrie Brink	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.[41]
Elizabeth "Lizard" Flanagan	Lizard Flanagan (series)	1994–1998	Carol Gorman	Elizabeth, a 12-year-old girl, struggles with transitioning from being a tomboy to being more "girly."[42]
Emerson "Em" Watts	Airhead (trilogy)	2008–2010	Meg Cabot	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.[43]
Frankie Addams	The Member of the Wedding	1946	Carson McCullers	Frankie is a 12-year-old tomboy who feels disconnected from the world.[44][45] Also see the 1952 film.
Georgina "George" Kirrin	The Famous Five (series)	1942–1962	Enid Blyton	George is a tomboyish character who struggles with her gender.[46][47]
Gypsy Breynton	Gypsy Breynton (series)	1866–1867	Elizabeth Stuart Phelps	Gypsy goes from a tomboy to becoming a "selfless surrogate mother."[48]
Idgie Threadgoode	Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe	1987	Fannie Flagg	Idgie is an unrepentant tomboy who had become reclusive.[31] Also see the 1991 film.
Jamila Sinai	Midnight's Children	1981	Salman Rushdie	Jamila is the younger tomboyish sister of Saleem,[49][50] 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.
Josephine "Jo" March	Little Women	1868–1869	Louisa May Alcott	Jo is an aspiring writer and tomboyish girl.[1][51]
Katy Carr	What Katy Did	1872	Susan Coolidge	12-year-old tomboyish Katy Carr[52] lives with her widowed father and her two brothers and three sisters in Burnet, a small midwestern American town.
Laura Ingalls	Little House on the Prairie (series)	1932–1943	Laura Ingalls Wilder	Laura, a tomboyish girl,[53] lives with a settler and pioneer family on the prairie and later becomes an accomplished writer.
Leslie Burke	Bridge to Terabithia	1977	Katherine Paterson	Leslie is a "fiesty tomboy" and friend of Jess.[54] Also see the 2007 film.
Lyra Belacqua	His Dark Materials (trilogy)	1995–2000	Philip Pullman	Lyra is a wild 12-year-old tomboyish girl[53] 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.
Martha "Mickey" Bradley	Meredith's Ann	1927	Elizabeth Gray Vining	Mickey is a young tomboyish girl who dreams of being a boy.[1]
Mick Kelly	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	1940	Carson McCullers	Mick Kelly is a tomboyish girl who loves music and dreams of buying a piano.[44]
Nan	Little Men	1871	Louisa May Alcott	Nan is even more of a willful tomboy than Jo was as a teenager.[55]
Orphie Goodbye	The Goodbye Family (series)	2012–2020	Lorin Morgan-Richards	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.[56]
Pippi Longstocking	Pippi Longstocking (series)	1945–1948	Astrid Lindgren	Pippi is red-haired, freckled, unconventional and a superhumanly strong tomboyish girl.[53]
Rachel "Hellfire" Hotchkiss	Hellfire Hotchkiss	1967[57]	Mark Twain	Hellfire is the female counterpart to Oscar "Thug" Carpenter, and was referred to by Twain as a tomboy.[58]
Scout	To Kill A Mockingbird	1960	Harper Lee	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.[59] Also see the 1962 film.

Plays

Characters	Title	Duration	Author	Notes
Anybodys	West Side Story	1957-2020	Arthur Laurents	Anybodys is a tomboy who informs the main characters that Chino has a gun and wants to enact revenge against Tony.[21][60]
Ginger	Time Out For Ginger	1952-1953[61]	Ronald Alexander	Ginger is a tomboy and high schooler.[62]

Television

Character	Portrayed by	Program	Duration	Notes
Ace	Sophie Aldred	Doctor Who	1963–Present	Ace is a "streetwise tomboy" who likes pyrotechnics.[63]
Alicia "Al" Lambert	Christine Lakin	Step by Step	1991-1998	Al, middle child in the Lambert family, is a tomboyish, all-American girl, who later matures and softens.[64]
Alexandra "Alex" Mack	Larisa Oleynik	The Secret World of Alex Mack	1994-1998	Alex was considered a tomboy, with her character challenging gender norms.[65]
Arya Stark	Maisie Williams	Game of Thrones	2011-2019	Arya is a tomboyish, headstrong, feisty, independent, disdains traditional female pursuits, and is often mistaken for a boy.[40]
Ashley Funicello Spinelli	Pamela Adlon	Recess	1997-2001	Ashley is a tomboy who has en extreme loyalty to her friends.[66]
Buttercup	E. G. Daily (What a Cartoon! episodes) Jo Wyatt (British dub)	The Powerpuff Girls	1998-2005	Buttercup is a "rough-and-tumble tomboy."[67]
Cameron Howe	Mackenzie Davis	Halt and Catch Fire	2014-2017	Cameron is a tomboyish woman in her twenties who has a knack for programming and loves punk rock.[68]
Carissa	Tabitha St. Germain (English version) Fanny Bloc (French version)	Lolirock	2014-2017	Carissa was drawn as a "fiery and tomboy warrior princess."[69]
Darlene Conner	Sara Gilbert	Roseanne	1998-2018	Darlene is a tomboyish girl, which gives Roseanne a way she can "talkback to gender performance expectations."[21][70]
Eve Baxter	Kaitlyn Dever	Last Man Standing	2011–Present	Eve was originally a tomboyish girl who became a "little more girly" as the series progressed according to Kaitlyn Dever.[71]
Jennifer "Jen" Masterson	Megan Fahlenbock	6teen	2004-2010	Jen is a tomboy who loves sports and wants to a snowboarder in the Olympics.[72]
Joanna Marie "Jo" Polniaczek	Nancy McKeon	The Facts of Life	1979-1988	Early in the series, many of Jo's stories revolved around her tomboyish ways.[21][73]
Mary-Kate Burke	Mary-Kate Olsen	Two of a Kind	1998-1999	Mary-Kate is a tomboyish girl who wants to perfect her curveball.[74]
Maxine "Max" Mayfield	Sadie Sink	Stranger Things	2016–Present	Max is Billy's younger stepsister, an avid skateboarder, and the tomboy of the group who catches the attention of both Lucas and Dustin.[75]
Pipsqueak	Tajja Isen	The ZhuZhus	2016-2017	Pipsqueak is a hamster who is "all tomboy" and "firecracker."[76]
Punky Brewster	Soleil Moon Frye	Punky Brewster	1984-1988	Punky is a "spunky seven-year-old tomboy."[77]
Rainbow Dash	Ashleigh Ball	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	2010-2019	Rainbow Dash sports rainbow-striped hair, is very interested in playing sports, and is a tomboy whose sexual orientation is not referenced.[78]
Sathya	Ayesha	Sathya	2019–Present	Sathya is a free-spirited, trustworthy, and brave tomboyish girl who gets married to a man named Prabhu.[79]

Video games

Characters	Title	Year	Notes	Developer
Tsarevna Alena	Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen	1992-2016	Tsarevna is a "fierce tomboy" who likes to fight and go on adventures.[80]	Spike Chunsoft
Ashei	The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess	2006	Ashei is a tomboyish girl who is a skilled sword fighter and is stronger than most men.[81]	Nintendo
Baiken	Guilty Gear series	1998	Baiken is a tomboyish girl who knows how to use a katana, mace, fireworks cannon, and other weapons within the sleeve of her severed arm.[82]	Arc System Works
Kumatora	Mother 3	2006	Kumatora is the heir to the Ooshe castle and is described as a "tomboy princess."[83]	Brownie Brown HAL Laboratory
Makoto Sakura	Street Fighter series	1999-2008 1996-2018	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. Sakura is a young Japanese girl fighter who idolizes Ryu. Both are tomboys.[84][85]	Capcom Dimps Arika Bandai Namco Studios
Narumi Mishima	12Riven	2008	Narumi is a tomboy.[86]	KID Cyberfront SDR Project
Chie Satonaka	Persona series	1996-2020	Chie is a tomboy who is upbeat and has an obsession with kung fu, even using those techniques in battle.[87][88][89]	Atlus
Sonshōkō	Koihime Enbu	2016	Sonshōkō is a spirited and vivacious tomboy.[90]	UNKNOWN GAMES M2 Co.,LTD
Touko Zaizen	Inazuma Eleven 2 Kyoui no Shinryakusha	2009	Touko is a tomboy.[91]	Level-5
Ryune Zoldark	Super Robot Wars	1991-2015	Ryune is a beautiful girl and tomboy.[92]	Winkysoft Banpresoft B.B. Studio Bandai Namco Entertainment

See also

• Effeminacy
• Geek girl
• Gender variance
• Sissy
• Gender

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45. Freeman, Elizabeth (2002). The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture. Durham: Duke University Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0822329893.
46. 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".
47. 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".
48. Abate, Michelle Ann (2008). Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-59213-722-0. Likewise, Gypsy is transformed from a rough-and-tumble tomboy into a selfless surrogate mother to her older brother.
49. Rushdie, Salman (2006). Midnight's Children. Random House. pp. 193, 359. ISBN 0-81297653-3.
50. Ten Kortenaar, Neil (2004). Self, Nation, Text in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 115. ISBN 0773526153.
51. 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 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."
52. Abate, Michelle Ann (2008). Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History. Temple University Press. pp. 22, 25. ISBN 978-1-59213-722-0.
53. Pugh, Tison (2011). Innocence, heterosexuality, and the queerness of children's literature. New York: Routledge. p. 66. ISBN 978-0415886338.
54. Darnall, Beverly (2006). Laura's List: The First Lady's List of 57 Great Books For Families and Children. New York: Penguin. ISBN 978-1585425037. 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.
55. Clarkm Beverly Lyon (1996). Regendering the School Story: Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-92891-5. Like Jo, Nan provides a middle ground for diverging tendencies: as a tomboy
56. Lorin Morgan-Richards Interview
57. Written in 1897, but not published until 1967
58. 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.
59. Hartman, Pamela (2005). "Outspoken Tomboys and Arrogant Women: Four 10th-Grade Girls' Talk about Female Characters in English Class". The Women in Literacy and Life Assembly. The Women in Literacy and Life Assembly of The National Council of Teachers of English. 14.
60. "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."
61. Played in the 1950s and 1960s
62. 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. ISBN 978-0786434480. When tomboy high schooler Ginger Carol (Nancy Malone) insists on going out for the school's football team...
63. "Doctor Who companions through the ages, from Jacqueline Hill to Karen Gillan and Pearl Mackie". The Telegraph. 14 April 2017. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2019. A streetwise tomboy with a passion of pyrotechnics…
64. Clements, Eric (May 11, 2018). "Step by Step' star Christine Lakin reveals what she learned from TV parents". Today. Archived from the original on July 11, 2020. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
65. Bowman, Sabienna. "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.
66. "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."
67. Hains, Rebecca C. (2008). "Powerpuff Girls, The". In Mitchell, Claudia (ed.). Girl Culture an Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 480. ISBN 978-0-313-08444-7. "Buttercup, the brunette, is a rough-and-tumble tomboy."
68. Lambert, Molly (June 20, 2014). "Cameron From 'Halt & Catch Fire,' and the Legacy of Female Badasses in the '80s". grantland.com. Grantland. Archived from the original on February 23, 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
69. Lolirock, Team (July 7, 2017). "Lyna & Carissa's Developpment". Tumblr. Yahoo!. Archived from the original on May 15, 2019. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
70. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-10-20. Retrieved 2013-08-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Establishing Darlene as a tomboy provides Roseanne a way to talkback to gender performance expectations through the voice of a child without alienating audience members who would be uninterested in more frank or "preachy" displays of feminism by an adult."
71. Vogt, Tiffany (December 14, 2012). "We Shine the Spotlight on LAST MAN STANDING Star Kaitlyn Dever (feat. Exclusive Jonathan Taylor Thomas Sighting on Set!)". thetvaddict.com. Archived from the original on December 8, 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
72. "Jen Masterson". Cartoon Network. Archived from the original on 2010-09-15. "Jen is sports-loving tomboy who dreams of being an Olympic snowboarder one day."
73. Gurwitch, Annabelle (2007-01-02). Fired!: Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized, and Dismissed. Simon and Schuster. p. 2. ISBN 9780743294409. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
74. "Two of a kind". WCHS-TV8. 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."
75. Elderkin, Beth (2017-11-03). "Max Is Stranger Things' New Injustice". Gizmodo. io9. Archived from the original on June 17, 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
76. "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
77. Mansour, David (2005). From Abba to Zoom: A Pop Culture Encyclopedia of the Late 20th Century. Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews McMeel Publishing. p. 385. ISBN 978-0740751189. Spunky seven-year-old tomboy...
78. 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.
79. "Sathya: TV actress Ayesha to play a tomboy". The Times of India. May 4, 2019. Archived from the original on August 1, 2020. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
80. "DRAGON QUEST IV". SQUARE ENIX. Archived from the original on 2008-05-23."A fierce tomboy with a knack for battle and a thirst for great adventure."
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83. "Characters of MOTHER 3". The sole heir of Osohe castle, Kumatora is a tomboy princess.
84. Jenkins, David (7 December 2010). "Games review – Super Street Fighter IV is a knockout". metro.co.uk. Metro. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
85. Yin-Poole, Wesley (26 April 2010). "Super Street Fighter IV Review". VideoGamer.com. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
86. "物語の謎に迫れ！　『12RIVEN the Ψcliminal of integral(トゥエルブリヴェン ザ サイクリミナル オブ インテグラル)』" (in Japanese).
87. Tran, Can (September 20, 2014). "Video: 'Persona Q — Shadow of the Labyrinth' TGS 2014 trailer". Digital Journal. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
88. Logarta, Michael (March 24, 2017). "Sony spotlights video game heroines for International Women's month". gmanetwork.com. GMA Network. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
89. Ekens, Gabriella (August 14, 2015). "Why Persona Is Still A Big Deal". animenewsnetwork.com. Anime News Network. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
90. "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."
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92. "OG Char". The Gate of Magus. "She's beautiful, but is still a tomboy."