When videogames allow customized bodies, this (male) troper always goes for LittleMissBadass, either with daggers or giant weapons.

Ditto for this troper.

This one too.

When experimenting with some hacks for the original PC version of Phantasy Star Online, This troper did this for the fun of it; he made a [=FOnewearl=] and had her fighting with a broadsword that was almost as big as she was.

To keep on the videogame examples, This Troper does this as well:

Made a [=HUnewearl=] in PSO that was just below half height, as flat-chested as possible, and wielding things like the Dragon Slayer or Grass Assassin Blades. There were no survivors.

Fighting games or other such Vs. games? I always go with the young, female FragileSpeedster: Sheik, Talim, Jam, Noel, Peach, etc. Granted, not all of them are so little or badass, but you know...

While playing the FinalFantasyXIV Open Beta, I made myself a Miqo'te with cotton-candy-hair, short, and a Lancer. While I focused on experimentation on my main male Elezen, she just got to grind. And end up doing more damage than I still have yet to mete.

Rikku is mai waifu.

Alice is an absolute monster when properly leveled due to ''massive'' Magic overleveling in most games. ''Die For Me!'''s just another weapon if you fuse her correctly. I pair her with BadassAdorable Black Frost and SoCoolItsAwesome Matador.

One of this troper's Pathfinder characters was this, namely his female Arcane duelist bard, Rosalie. Despite being a 3/4 BAB progression class that is usually the buffer of the group, she maintained an AC of 45, above even the tank fighter's, and could fight about as well as the fighters, wielding a rapier with the lifedrinking property, meaning she caused negative levels and gained temporary HP on a crit, which was often the case. She did all this in a frilly pink dress (with celestial chain sewn into it) and candy themed hair decorations tying back her pink twin, princess curl pigtails. Oh and she had the eye of Vecna and was a sociopathic cannibal with a candy fetish BEFORE it was installed in her skull.