

She also gets points for drilling Aizen into the ground not once, but twice. Also Yoruichi, who is known as the "Goddess of Flash" and laid Yammy Rialgo out with no help at all.At least until she unleashes her bankai, which turns it into a giant missile that she hates because it's no good as a weapon for an assassin. She's under 5-feet tall, fast as hell, and her zanpaktou is essentially a hornet's stinger. She also showed off some of her skills back during Ichigo's Training from Hell. When the arrancar first invade the real world, she snaps and starts kicking ass, much to everyone else's shock. Ururu, the little girl that helps out at Kisuke Urahara's shop, also deserves a mention here.Yachiru Kusajishi of Bleach is able to carry her captain, Kenpachi Zaraki, without much trouble despite her being about 33 pounds (15kg) whereas he weighs in at a Tyson-esque 237 pounds (108kg).By the Fourth Shinobi World War Arc, after she becomes assertive and has gained a lot more confidence, she starts actively showing off her strength, especially when she masters the Sixty-Four Palms and combines it with her Twin Lion Fists. She would have demonstrated her strength more often earlier on, had it not been for her crippling self-esteem issues, which were only sporadically overcome by following Naruto's example. For the longest time, she did this occasionally. In the anime, she's also shown the ability to improve the "near perfect defense" technique to a "truly perfect defense", and turns the Gentle Fist into something that would make Kenshiro start to shed Manly Tears. Her clan's specialty is the "Gentle Fist" technique, which rather than using crippling damage delivers a short, intense burst of energy to block a chakra point, preventing the use of ninja techniques (and potentially the use of limbs, or organs). This Super Strength is apparently achieved by perfect chakra control.

Sakura of Naruto learns it from Tsunade, who also breaks the ground with simple punches - Tsunade in her true form is actually a frail elderly woman with even less muscle size than Sakura.She may look like a small kitty cat, but she's also a champion-level Digimon that was able to effortlessly defeat three other champions, all of them many times her size. Gatomon from Digimon, at least in the first season of Digimon Adventure.Normally used with a lot of She-Fu acrobatics and turns, implying mystic martial arts. The female version of Charles Atlas Superpower and often associated with Muscles Are Meaningless and Awesomeness by Analysis. Contrast and compare with Amazonian Beauty, Brawn Hilda, Statuesque Stunner, Glacier Waif who uses a completely different style of combat and Vasquez Always Dies where the females who do look like they can wipe the floor with you. Often used by Little Miss Badass, Mama Bear, Weak, but Skilled, Cute Bruiser, and Lady of War. Related tropes: A subtrope of Pintsized Powerhouse. This still doesn't eliminate the lack of mass and power thus a woman's hits won't pack as much of a punch (the reason why weight categories exist in combat sports). However, women are often more flexible, so it makes some sense they might want to use that advantage.

This is a tiny bit Truth in Television as women, even ones with big looking muscle, usually can't match men for upper body strength and speed.

Despite this, they are capable of holding their own or even overpowering warriors many times their size, while utilizing "Waif-Fu", a ballet-esque fighting style that goes out of its way to show off their curves and feminine assets. An Action Girl appears otherwise slender, svelte, or "waifish", with a near-total lack of visible musculature.
