r/TopCharacterTropes • • 2h ago

Characters The female engineer capable of beating you to a pulp.

Tali'Zorah - Mass Effect: She was by far the youngest in Mass Effect 1, and above all, she is a woman of action who was trained for her Pilgrimage. She has a combat drone and prefers using shotguns, which are even said to have high recoil. She also frequently repeats swear words in her own language, like bosh'tet. She is widely recognized as the best engineer the Normandy ever had, and by Mass Effect 2, she becomes its Chief Engineering Officer. And when her friends Shepard or Garrus tease her, she threatens them with her shotgun.

Winry Rockbell - Full Metal Alchemist: Although she lacks alchemical powers and is not part of the military in the series, she is an expert mechanical prosthetic (automail) engineer who possesses impressive physical strength. Due to years of carrying heavy tools, lifting metals, and forging heavy parts, Winry has developed muscles and physical strength well above average. However, unlike Tali, she is not a fighter. She often keeps characters stronger than herself in check, like the Elric brothers, who frequently drive her crazy

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u/RandManYT 2h ago

Brigitte Lindholm (Overwatch)

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u/Korbiter 2h ago

In a very similar vein, Maria Nearl (Arknights)

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u/grichardson526 2h ago

B'Elanna Torres

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u/foxfire981 2h ago

She'll make the warp core work one way or another.

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u/itskingrolla 2h ago

Grace Howard - Zenless Zone Zero

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u/jamieT97 2h ago

Audrey Ramirez from Atlantis.

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u/Hillbillygeek1981 1h ago

Yes! You wouldn't believe how many rule 34 adjacent images I had to scroll through to find an actual image from the movie, lol.

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u/HUSK3RGAM3R 1h ago

Wait what

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u/sarcasticd0nkey 2h ago

Ty An - Beware of Chicken

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u/RoadsidePicnik 2h ago

The best part of giving Parvati in The Outer Worlds a wicked Prismatic Hammer was hearing her yell, "Sorry!" every time she caved in someone's skull.

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u/SH4RPSPEED 2h ago

Peppermint - HiFi RUSH

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u/MangoMaraudr_ 2h ago

Hi-Fi Rush representation! That was my GOTY pick for 2023, though it wasn't even nominated for the award.

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u/Ok-Specific-3918 1h ago

Kaylee from Firefly. Definitely one of my bigger early 2000’s crush.

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u/vteezy99 2h ago

Jessie Raspberry, from Final Fantasy 7

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u/Raguleader 2h ago

Kaylee, in the Serenity comics, as Jubal Early learns the second time he boards the ship.

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u/TillAllAreOne195424 1h ago

My wife: Asami Sato from Legend of Korra

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u/MangoMaraudr_ 1h ago

You know, it's been so long since I watched TLoK that I forgot she's actually an engineer. Great pick.

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u/_b1ack0ut 2h ago

You ever miss those talks we had on the elevators?

No

Come onnnn, remember how we would all ask you about your life on the flotilla? It was an opportunity to share!

This conversation is over

Tell me again about your immune system!

…I have a shotgun

…maybe we’ll talk later

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u/MangoMaraudr_ 2h ago

Maggie McGinnis from Deadlock

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u/PKTengdin 1h ago

Deadlock mentioned!

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u/Rhiis 1h ago

That Tali art is fantastic. Second panel you can tell she's got a shit-eating grin on her face, as she's about to blast you to kingdom come

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u/USSMarauder 2h ago

Nautica - Transformers

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u/Fyrebolt 2h ago

Nya - Ninjago

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u/Dakotasan 2h ago

Wrex is the one taking the picture and he has tears of pride in his eyes.

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u/G-Man6442 1h ago

Mmmm, Tali my wife.

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u/CrouchingToaster 1h ago

The buff engineer is pretty much the only thing people remember from a zombie train anime a couple years ago

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u/Canadian_Decoy 1h ago

No love for Gadget?

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u/Rexosuit 1h ago

Joan Winslow from Prey (2017)’s DLC, Mooncrash. She is an engineer that works primarily on the eradicator turrets and heavy machinery. In the game, she starts each run with a wrench, spare parts, and the ability to summon turrets where she pleases.

When you begin her story quest to learn more about the characters and get closure in their tales, you immediately start a first person cutscene of her beating a man’s head in with her wrench because he wouldn’t tell her the fate of her love interest, who was crushed underneath a chunk of moon rock but not confirmed dead.

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u/AwardBright 1h ago

I mean, Scadi (Arknights) was an engineer in AEgir before becoming first an abyssal hunter, and later the goddamn vessel of Ishtar'mla The Legally Distinct Nyarlathotep

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u/ConsciousStretch1028 1h ago

Amanda Ripley from Alien: Isolation.

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u/True-Requirement3091 15m ago

Bridget-Punishing Gray Raven.

Sunglasses, tonfas, and KONGOU KOKURETSU ZAN!!!