Gamer Chick Narrator

Basic Trope: A girl who's into (and generally very good at) videogames. Straight: Alice defeats Adrian and Bob in video games. Exaggerated: Alice defeats Adrian and Charlie within two seconds. Alice defeats every single boy that plays against her, including the top professional players who play the game competitively for a living, despite never having played a video game before in her life. Downplayed: Alice and Bob played 100 matches. Alice "only" won 57 of them. Alice wins narrowly against Bob. Alice defeats Adrian, Bob and Charlie, but David ultimately defeats her in the end. Alice loves certain types of "smaller" games – such as mobile games and visual novels – but doesn't know much about bigger ones. Justified: Alice plays a video game for longer and/or more often than Bob. Bob is too dumb to play video games well. Alice has been teased by male gamers, so she compensates by practicing as much as possible in order to toughen up, even more so than the boys or men themselves. Alice's family, Mother Charlotte, Father Daniel and Older Brother Eric, are amazing gamers themselves. And she wanted to become like them. Inverted: Everytime Alice plays a videogame, she either throws in the towel immediatley after seeing a gamer that's played said game before or gets curbstomped by even most begginers. She's that bad at them. Gender-Inverted: Bob defeats all the gamer girls he plays against. Subverted: Alice seems be on the right track to defeat Bob, but he manages to pull a reversal. Charlie points out: "Hi, Bob! Alice uses cheat codes!" Alice, despite her flaunting, actually doesn't know the first Goddamn thing about video games. Bob thrashes her so effortlessly he feels bad about it. Alice has won a lot of matches...and then fights against Adrian, who mains a Fragile Speedster rather than the Mighty Glaciers Alice is used to fighting. Cue Curb-Stomp Battle, and not in Alice's favor. Alice loves video games, but isn't particularly good at them. Alice surprises everyone when she admits to being a fangirl of several big gaming franchises, but clarifies that she hasn't actually ever played any of them; she just watches a lot of Let's Play content. Double Subverted: ....And then Alice pulls a reversal of her own, scoring a crushing victory on him. Bob replies to Charlie's accusations: "I know! We both are playing with cheat codes on! We use the same cheat codes, and she still defeats me, no matter what." Alice improves her gaming skills through practice and eventually defeats Bob in a rematch. Alice takes the loss in stride and refines her own game to be able to counter Adrian's different style of play. They later have a rematch and Alice wins. With practice comes learned skill, and Alice becomes good at them. Parodied: Alice defeats Bob in a video game, while she's reading a book at the same time... Oh! And without looking at the screen, and using her feet to operate the control! Alice and Bob start a video game. Alice leaves the living room to do others things, comes back two minutes before the session ends and soundly defeats Bob. Alice easily defeats Bob despite the fact that he is a lifelong hardcore gamer and this is her first time ever playing a video game. Bob then easily manages to outdo her at something that she is extremely passionate about but he has never tried before. After losing, Bob turns to address the fourth wall directly and explains that he's contractually obligated to lose against Alice because the writers of the show are afraid of getting accused of sexism for showing a boy being better than a girl at something. Alice is literally a baby chicken. Zig Zagged: Alice defeats Bob in Tropestan RPG, in Tropers Fighting and Tropestan Hack and Slash, but Bob defeats Alice in Trope Gamebreaking Out and Tropestan Canoe-Polo. Averted: Bob and Alice didn't play a video game. They played a board game. Bob plays video games only with Adrian and Charlie. Alice plays video games only with Brenda and Carole. Enforced: The author herself is a gamer-chick. Lampshaded: "You're quite good at video games! ...For a girl." Invoked: Alice is an Attention Whore who claims to be a big fan of anything that happens to be chic at the moment. Exploited: Bob knows that Alice is unbeatable at video games. He makes a bet with Charlie, knowing that he doesn't have a chance of winning against her. Bob decides to start a competitive gaming team, and being extremely Genre Savvy he makes sure to recruit a girl who has never touched a video game before in her life. Before every match, he lies and says that he overheard the other team saying that girls are no good at video games, because he knows how this trope works. The other members are just for show, his entire strategy hinges on the girl beating every team they go up against all by herself. Defied: Alice refuses to play with boys because "It's rubbish to always win." Bob refuses to play with Alice because "It's rubbish to always lose." Bob starts practicing in order to defeat Alice. Bob invites Freddy, a distant cousin, to play against Alice. He's a videogame champion, and widedly regarded as unbeatable. (Bonus points if Alice manages to defeat him, anyway!) Implied: We see Alice's home for the first time and there's a video game console set up. Alice doesn't have any brothers; her father (if she's still living with her parents) doesn't play, either. Deconstructed: Alice faces discrimination from her male peers due to accusations that she's a "fake geek girl" despite that not being the case. Reconstructed: Alice proves them wrong by beating all of them in a fighting game. Alice ultimately decides the guys looking down on her can go suck it while she finds other gamers who don't do that and will stand up with her to hang out with. Alice uses their blindness stemming from their own haughtiness to beat and humiliate them again and again in public tournaments. Fujiko from 7 Seeds spent the majority of her leisure time playing video games before she was chosen for the project.

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Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day: Naruko "Anaru" Anjou loves playing video games and in fact, she works part-time at a video game store, and this is reflected in her looks, as she identical to Jessica Albert. Kaho in Blend-S is a compulsive gamer who is highly proficient in many types of console and arcade games. Digimon Tamers featured a pair; Ruki Makino and Juri Katou both played the Digimon Card Game. Only Ruki fulfilled the skill aspect of this trope. While both Kaede and Akina are gamers in their own right, Don't Become an Otaku, Shinozaki-san!'s Micchy is the only one of their group dedicated and Crazy-Prepared enough to bring a waterproof handheld game to the pool. The Excel♡Saga manga has Matsuya Misaki, whose interest in games is a shock to most of her male co-workers, except for the other gamer. EXCITE! A Hentai-doujin, is about a guy who finds out the popular, quiet girl in his school is a gamer chick. Gabriel of Gabriel DropOut, becomes this, after coming to Earth to help, only to discover an MMORPG. Next time we see her, she has gone from sweet and proper angel to a rude and sloppy deadbeat gamer. Unsurprisingly, the main cast of Gamers! (2015) has plenty of these, from Challenge Seeker Karen to freeware developer Chiaki to secret eroge enthusiast Konoha. The only non-gamer of the main characters is Aguri, who doesn't get why video games are such Serious Business to everyone else and quickly points out the absurdities of the game industry when they try to explain it to her. Girls und Panzer introduces the members of Anteater Team in Episode 10 — a trio of girls who previously met in an online tank game. Hayate the Combat Butler: Sanzenin Nagi is very much this on top of being a loli Tsundere and pretty much a Hikikomori - basically, every waking moment she's not either harassing or fawning over Hayate or trying to draw a manga, she's playing a variety of RPGs, racing games or fighting games, and is generally uninterested on more "feminine" stuff. She doesn't seem to have as much skill as is the norm for this trope, though. Hetalia: Axis Powers: Vietnam, the Asian Tomboy, who was shown playing Uncharted 3 on author's blog. The whole premise of High Score Girl revolves around the Cute Mute Akira Oono being a superb gamer who slowly makes Haruo Yaguchi fall for her, with the feeling seemingly mutual. Then there's the other gamer chick Koharu Hidaka, who only got into gaming through Haruo and demonstrated an innate talent at playing games. Umaru of Himouto! Umaru-chan is one of Japanese best gamers under the pseudonym U.M.R. Sylphynford Tachibana, Umaru's self-proclaimed rival, also loves videogames, due to mimicking the hobbies of her older brother Alex, and befriends U.M.R. (unaware that she and Umaru are the same person), after "defeating" U.M.R. in the arcade. Holoearth Chronicles Side:E ~Yamato Phantasia~: Fubuki plays games at her shrine when not on god duty all her spare time, up to missing some job-related emails. I Can't Believe I Slept with You: Chiyo, in spades. She owns old consoles and games that are considered "vintage". She also was once employed as a game designer. Kagerou Daze: Takane Enomoto of the Yuukei Yesterday chapters in the manga. She has a fearsome reputation with an online community playing an FPS-style zombie survival game, to the point that when she and Haruka are made to set up a booth for the school festival, they design a game and offer a grand prize to anyone who can beat Takane, codename Ene. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: Fujiwara is in the Tabletop Games club. She doesn't play video games, but that's only because her father forbids her from doing so (she does secretly have Pokémon GO on her phone though). She also has a bad habit of cheating, and isn't very good at hiding it. The other two members of the Tabletop Games club are also female, and unlike Fujiwara, they play video games as well. In fact, the elder of the two goes on to become a professional e-sports player after graduation. Koromo Shiranui (one of the four "Impossible Girls") is shown to be an online gamer in her first focus chapter. She ends up becoming friends with Ishigami due to being interested in the same games as him. Iino is more of a casual gamer compared to the others, playing mobile games with Osaragi, and also mentions having several free RPG Maker games on her laptop. She later starts playing Apex Legends in an attempt to make herself more appealing to Ishigami after mistaking his and Shiranui's friendship for something more intimate. Kemono Friends: There's an arcade at the onsen the foxes run, and Red Fox has gotten really into them. Koe de Oshigoto!: Kotori, Kanna's friend, is one of these but doesn't play eroge so she didn't know that Kanna got into voice acting. Shuri's younger sister in Komori-san Can't Decline! is always playing video games. She even skips out on going to a festival so she can stay home and play. Their mother is also one, considering she bought a game that neither Shuri nor her sister could beat, and she beat it without breaking a sweat. K-On!: Ritsu and Ui played video games during Season 1 when Mio and Mugi were helping Yui cram for her make-up exam, the former because she got bored, the latter presumably to keep company. Lucky Star: Konata spends most of her time at home gaming; while she generally prefers RPGs and Dating Sims, she's dedicated to pretty much every video game genre and can easily beat Kagami at any game they play. Amusingly, her teacher Nanako Kuroi plays the same MMORPG that she plays and often catches her when she has yet to complete her homework. Downplayed with Kagami; while she's not as much of a gamer as Konata, she's still shown to enjoy scrolling shooters and the occasional fighting game. Lyrical Nanoha: In Sound Stage 1, it's mentioned that Nanoha is into and really good at fighting games. Makes sense. Maken-ki!: Kimmi's gamer credentials are first revealed during the "Magical Quiz!" contest in chapter 70. Hai explains that her top score ranks 2nd at Tenbi, and would be among the Top 10 nationwide. We get to see her room ten chapters later, where the top-right panel of page 24 shows she owns a PS3 and a Wii U. Her best friend, Chacha, is an avid gamer herself. During the MangaCon in chapter 60, they cosplayed as Alena and Manya from Dragon Quest IV. Chacha also chose not to participate in the aforementioned "Magical Quiz!" contest, citing that her main interests were Fighting Games and first-person shooters. Shion embodies this in Mission: Yozakura Family. A Challenge Seeker who loves video games, her brand of Hollywood Hacking has a program convert its OS into a video game for her to beat to take control of it. She considers it the ultimate thrill and challenge: no pauses, no resets, and with actual real-life stakes. Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Kobayashi is implied to be one since several consoles can be seen in her apartment in the anime (though she is never shown playing any of them). She also mentioned at one point that she spent most of her childhood playing Harvest Moon. Kanna is depicted as one in her spin-off, displaying knowledge of various 80s and 90s arcade games (due to spending time with Fafnir and Takiya), and she pulled off a 19 chain in Puyo Puyo. In Mitsuboshi Colors, Kotoha is usually seen carrying a Nintendo 3DS system with her, even if she's terrible at video games. Marin Kitagawa of My Dress-Up Darling is a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak who's a big fan of otaku culture, including video games (as well as H Games). Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Turns out that Evangeline enjoys playing video games... while naked. Or, at least, she did back in The '80s. She occasionally references RPG tropes and implies that she took up gaming as a way to alleviate her boredom being stuck at Mahora. Chisame sometimes speaks in game terms. And later Poyo Rainyday replies to her in the same fashion! Chisame: OH GOD, SHE IS TOTALLY A FINAL BOSS CHARACTER! LOOK AT THAT DESIGN! Poyo: [completely deadpan] I have a rather high status among demonfolk. Yes, high enough to be "final boss". Most of the girls in Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! qualify; the most prominent example is Cuuko, who can almost always be seen with a handheld console and had to destroy the next-gen system of her dreams, which left her depressed for a couple of episodes. Mahiro's mother Yoriko is a retro gamer who collects old-school consoles and was chosen to playtest said next-gen console entirely because her reputation preceded her; she's Cuuko's most frequent gaming partner. Nyarko herself does play games, but she's more into anime and Toku. Only Sense Online: Virtually all female characters are one since they are all avid players of the titular MMORPG. Special mention goes to Yun's sisters Myu and Sei, who are so good in the game that they are known by their nicknames. Oreimo: Both Kirino and Kuroneko are hardcore gamers. While Kuroneko is very good at many types of games, Kirino only loves eroge. Kurume from RaButa is shown to be highly skilled at playing arcade fighters (to the point that she was memorizing hitboxes after only a few rounds of a game she'd never played before). In fact, her cameo in I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying states that she occasionally goes to the arcade with her husband and she's a championship-level player in Guilty Gear. Moriko from Recovery of an MMO Junkie loves her MMORPGs so much that she quit her stressful office job in order to become a NEET and play them full-time. Her guildmates Lilac and Himerelda are also played by women (a college student and a housewife, respectively). In Sailor Moon, most of the girls are into video games to some extent or another. Minako Aino, to the point the Sailor V Game was originally created as a training simulator because initially, Artemis couldn't get her to train more traditionally but noticed she could easily learn from video games. Her being a gamer is a plot point in a Codename: Sailor V chapter, as the Monster of the Week is the main character of a videogame - and that's how Minako stumbles on her. Ami Mizuno is actually the supreme player of video games due to her Awesomeness by Analysis. After seeing the game played once, she could flawlessly memorize and defeat the AI's patterns. As for Usagi Tsukino, she loves video games and spends entirely too much time at the Crown Arcade. In her case, however, she's a spectacularly bad player. Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove it: Ibarada's first scene in episode 2 features Kanade walking into the lab and seeing her playing with a handheld game, a game console, and a smartphone game all at once, and she's been doing since waking up the previous night, which was the final scene of episode 1. She continues to play the handheld while explaining to Himuro and Yukimura the need for a control in their experiments. Saiko Yonebayashi from Tokyo Ghoul:Re. She spends the first 10 chapters of the series hiding up in her room, playing video games, and avoiding work. After she's forced to start participating, she still rambles about video games on a regular basis and utterly demolishes her coworkers when they all play together during the Christmas party. World Trigger: Yuu Kunichika keeps various consoles in Tachikawa Unit's Operation Room and even plays with her teammates from time to time, as seen in chapter 109/episode 67, where she and Tachikawa play an unknown game using controllers similar to those of the PlayStation family. In the anime, this is replaced with them playing a Street Fighter II lookalike in Super Famicom-looking console. YuruYuri: Yui Fuinami occasionally makes mention of some JRPG she likes, and her living room has numerous consoles in it. YuYu Hakusho: Genkai, Yusuke's Old Master, owns a massive Personal Arcade. Of course, she also uses those games to measure the spiritual potential of those seeking her mentorship. You could say Small Fry from Chicken Stew is a gamer chick in more ways than one, as she's a young female chicken who plays a blue-colored handheld console in her spare time when she isn't trying to drive the weasels away from her and the rest of the coop. Archie Comics: Betty is sometimes portrayed as enjoying video games as much as the boys do. Sometimes, it helps her get closer to Archie through a shared interest. Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Lost Adventures: In "Ember Island Arcade", the Fire Nation gang visits the titular arcade, where Azula challenges Zuko to a fighting game. Mai mentions that Azula has been beating little kids at it all weekend. Azula: A princess has to lay a firm iron fist upon her subjects, after all. Gravity Falls: Lost Legends: According to an Easter egg website, Pacifica Northwest is secretly a fan of an online FPS called Bloodcraft: Overdeath, where she's a level 100 Deathslayer. Robin (1993): While Callie Evans is more of a basketball-obsessed Passionate Sports Girl most of her friends are really geeky guys whose interests don't overlap with hers much since she's not interested in things like Tabletop RPGs and likes sci-fi moves but not enough to argue over plot points (much) like they do. When video games come up though she's much more involved in the conversation. Supergirl: In the Supergirl (2015) tie-in comic Adventures of Supergirl, the titular character reveals she loves arcade games. Supergirl: "Belinda-the-Bully's surprise uppercut. She'd always use it to beat me on Street Kombat Six. She'd score a T.K.O. every time. I loved that game."