"Your presence itself is like shouting."
— Yomi [to Tomo, pictured], Azumanga Daioh
"Genki
" is Japanese for "energetic" or "enthusiastic".
The Genki Girl is a character – usually a schoolgirl, but not always – possessed of an over-abundance of energy, such that she runs everywhere (often with her arms waving wildly or outstretched like airplane wings), speaks quickly (sometimes unintelligibly so) and/or loudly, and always does everything fast, fast, fast! She's filled with confidence and determination, regardless of whether she's competent or not. Although usually played exclusively for comedy, sometimes the Genki Girl slows down for a serious or introspective moment. But not for long — she lives her life full-throttle. To sum it up, a good way of telling whether a female character is genki or not is to see if her family and peers are exhausted, astonished, or even creeped out by her chronic outbursts of vitality. (A female character is by far the more common version, but this trope is not limited to females.)
Despite what you'd think, the Genki Girl is usually not The Ditz. However, there have been a few blends. She is very often a Motor Mouth or a Nicknamer. Less sympathetic portrayals often make her the Jerkass of the group (though these are relatively rare). Villainous portrayals are often the Perky Female Minion type. Alternatively, she could be both. Some are even the resident Cloudcuckoolander.
The Manic Pixie Dream Girl is a version of the Genki Girl who wants to introduce someone, such as her friend or beloved, to how to enjoy life, often delivering a "Life Is Awesome" Speech along the way. This version of Genki Girl will liven up your life whether you like it or not. A Manic Pixie Dream Girl uses her energy and love of life to help another character achieve the meaning of happiness.
If this is an RPG setting, she's almost always going to be the Fragile Speedster, thus fitting her personality.
If a work of fiction gives its characters symbolic flowers that represent their personalities, the Genki Girl will likely get the sunflower while her animal is the dog, though her energy won't necessarily make her go crazy.
Whatever you do, don't give her too much coffee, cola, or sugar, and definitely teach her that hard drugs are very bad. This is why she may be paired with somebody who is practical.
Voice actors sometimes become famous for just being able to keep up the role.
Compare Fist Pump and Hot-Blooded. Compare The Pollyanna for endless optimism and cheer rather than energy. Contrast Emotionless Girl.
See Keet for the childish male version of this trope.
Often seen performing The Glomp.
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Asian Animation
- The eponymous character of Akis is quite the excitable girl, constantly pestering her family and friends with her antics and being unable to sit still a lot of the time.
Comic Books
- The Joker is an extremely dark version: he's usually portrayed as gleefully sadistic as he murders and terrorizes people.
- Squish: Peggy the Paramecium is very upbeat, energetic, loud, talkative, and optimistic. Her main goal in life is spreading positivity, joy, and happiness around and making people smile. Since she's always super excited, her dialogue is always spoken in all-caps and tons of exclamation points and she cannot go through a single sentence without screaming "WEEEEEEEE!!!!!"
- As revealed in the TV series, all her paramecium relatives share the same level of genki-ness as she does.
- X-Men:
- Villain Mojo has a Deadpan Snarker assistant, Majordomo, who in turn has a Genki Girl assistant, Minordomo. Minor can be expected to say "Ohmygosh, OHmygolly..." at least twice per appearance, and will get worked up over something (complete with arm-waving and rapid-fire talking—her version of it goes from sentences to short phrases strung together in the end) more and more until finally having a heart attack. Luckily, she's an artificial human, so Majordomo just has to hit her reset button to get her up and genki again.
- Young Liars: Deconstructed; Sadie acts the way she does because a bullet in her brain destroyed her inhibitions and ability to realize consequences.
- Guarana from Dollicious is an incredibly energetic, jolly, and crazy girl. It fits as Guarana fruit has more caffeine than Coffey and the character is meant to be a personification.
- Jolt from the Thunderbolts was literally this; she was suffused with "bio-electricity," giving her super-speed, enhanced strength, and the ability to shock with a touch.
Commercials
- Tania Gunadi in this Target commercial...and this Honda one.
"So much glitter!"
Fan Works
- Challenger: Juniper Hawthorne is always cheerfully energetic and bubbly and generally a nice person to be around. she makes up the larger part of the cheering section during her friends' battles, too.
- The Child of Love: According Takuma -a character shows up in the sequel-, Rei was very cheerful, vivacious, and nosy when she was a little child. He is actually shocked when he meets her again and notices she is now quiet and emotionless.
- Danny Phantom: Fire And Ice: Star. She says she only gets like this when excited, but she must always be excited. Although given how the last year or so has gone for her, she might just be happy to have better friends in Team Phantom now.
- Evangelion 303: Before the beginning of this story, Rei Ayanami was incredibly cheerful, energetic, and sunny the whole time, but an accident rendered her emotionless.
- Male example in Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità: Italy is basically the very definition of this trope. Germany and Japan are very fond of him because of his warmth and kindness.
- HERZ: Kurumi is incredibly energetic and enthusiastic. She is constantly trying to glomp Shinji despite him avoiding her the whole time.
- Luz in The Infernal Owl's House is presented to be this up to eleven, especially compared to the more level-headed Amity. During their first meeting, all the chaos Luz unwittingly causes stresses her out, and she can't really do anything other than politely accept it since insulting, bullying, or even just saying "no" to anyone in the Morningstar Family would be suicidal for a Goetia. As time goes on, the two start to bond to the point where they're both disappointed by the idea that they won't get to hang out anymore.
- Loud Boy: Altered: Violet Fitz is an energetic and optimistic child.
- In The Loud House fanfic Mall Rats, there's, as well as the canonical Leni, a woman named Jolene who's "vibrant and energetic", which is part of the reason Lincoln has a crush on her.
- Drama Heart in Manehattan's Lone Guardian shows shades of this when she learns that her little sister is pregnant: she freaks out, squeals "I'm gonna be an aunt!" repeatedly, tackles Leviathan out of sheer excitement, and bolts for the train station as soon as her suitcase is packed.
- Flippant, enthusiastic, and constantly wearing a toothy grin on her face, Luu-Luu from The Night Unfurls is the hyper one among the Seven Shields. These traits are lost once she gets subjected to Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong thanks to Shamuhaza, remaining a husk of her former self. Ooof.
- Oscar from Olive's Last Partner is a downplayed version of this. His brain is described as "a laser-shooting squirrel swimming in coffee inside a disco ball, quantity cubed", but all of the genki he has is solely in his overactive imagination and he's a Genius Ditz on the outside without the energy or the hyperactivity. Otto actually outpaces him in genki by at least a couple miles, if not more.
- A Pikachu in Love gives us Pichi, a rather hyperactive Pikachu who, if not for her much nicer disposition and lack of reality-warping powers, could be mistaken for the Pikachu equivalent of Haruhi. Gets deconstructed later on when her wacky and carefree antics nearly get Pikachu killed by an Ursaring and cause her to suffer a Heroic BSoD due to feeling like it's all her fault. She gets over it a little as the fic goes on, but is noticeably a lot less carefree and perky for the rest of the fic.
- In Pokémpanions Plusle is very energetic and cheerful.
- Yolanda Hall is by far one of the most excitable and happy go lucky staff members of the titular park in both Prehistoric Earth and its subsequent Continuity Reboot Prehistoric Park: Reimagined. To put it simply, the number of times per day in which she's not walking at a brisk pace, enthusiastically doing her work or interacting with other staff members, or just plain enjoying life in general is usually always below ten.
- Sister Floriana: the titular character is all over this trope, especially in the original drawings.
- Some Semblance of Meaning has the District Twelve tributes' escort/makeshift mentor, Lavinia Gilden (also known as Tansy Leefinch), who is highly energetic and bubbly...although this lessens later on as Vale and Kit go into The Hunger Games and Lavinia has to watch them suffer in the arena.
- While Fu the Nanabi jinchuriki in Naruto displayed some traits of this, in Son of the Sannin she gets to show it much more (helped by the fact that she's an Ascended Extra and Spared by the Adaptation). She's an energetic girl who's always eager to make new friends and have fun, with a penchant for trolling people by pretending she's a lot dumber than she actually is.
- In The Sword in the Stone fanworks where the girl squirrel becomes a human, she usually retains her squirrel level of hyperactivity.
- The Tenn Duology:
- Sigma, except for extreme circumstances, is always happy and highly energetic.
- Tenn turns into this over having her own Megadoomer, becoming highly excited about using it, to the point of uncharacteristically bad decision making.
- In To the New World, Eira's enthusiastic personality and vivid imagination means that for her, the whole world is brimming with potential adventure.
- Trans Ponies: Sketchpad is a loud, excitable stallion who's compared to Pinkie Pie.
- Unbreakable Red Silken Thread: Eventually becomes Zoey's defining trait out of the group. Always cheerful and upbeat, she also happens to be a former fan of the Total Drama series.
- Taylor from Wonderful (Mazinja) is an enthusiastic motor-mouth who can't stand still.
- In The Zero Context Series, Callista dives headlong into this category whenever she's on a shopping trip. She uses raw enthusiasm, energy, and volume alongside her fame as a PFL combatant to sway mall personnel into giving her what she wants. Bahija sees it as reality warping around her to fit her bargain-hunting desires, and it's implied she only gets away with her actions because Zapana foots the bills after she leaves.
Films — Live-Action
- All About Steve has Mary who is constantly cheerful, talks at a mile a minute about every bit of trivia that goes through her head, and has a tendency to flail when she gets excited.
- Bicentennial Man: Galatea shows up halfway through the film. Her perky and pop-culture riddled personality initially suggests that she's like Andrew, but then she reveals that it comes from her "Personality Chip", a program for human-like behaviour. After Andrew meddles with it, she turns into a surly grump that yells at Rupert for treating her like a robot slave. Her personality at the climax of the film is much more subdued, suggesting that the chip has been removed entirely.
- Tessa, played by the wonderful Joan Fontaine, runs everywhere barefoot and very excitedly in the The Constant Nymph.
- Cover Girl: Based on some catty advice from a rival, Rusty acts overly bouncy and perky in her interview for the modeling job, nearly blowing her chances. The publisher's assistant later describes her as "a redheaded nervous breakdown" and adds, "That one isn't a girl, John—she's a leaping thyroid."
- Fanchon the Cricket: Fanchon is full of energy, running around everywhere. She rolls around in the grass and splashes through the stream. She dances with her own shadow. She's so energetic that she can't just sit on a wooden fence, she has to bounce up and down on the beam while she sings.
- Godzilla King Ghidorah counts as an extremely villainous version of this, as Word of God says that the weird chittering noise he makes is meant to be insane cackling, implying he's having the time of his life as he massacres entire cities.
- Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray (1988) and subsequent remakes. She is Big Fun: energetic and optimistic. She loves dancing, the Corny Collins show, and social justice.
- Toyo from Ikiru is one of these, with her exuberance breaking Watanabe out of his death-inspired angst.
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The girls in the opening scene get very excited about the drag race, jumping in their seats a little. They beg for the other driver to race their car, with one of them drumming her hands on the back of the seat and the other waving excitedly as they speed up.
- Miss Meadows: Miss Meadows is an adult, downplayed version. She's energetic, friendly, and wears tap shoes at all times, skipping when she walks. Only a couple times is she anything less than confident and upbeat.
- Jordan Cochran in Real Genius.
Jordan: I never sleep; I don't know why. I had a roommate and I drove her nuts—I mean really nuts—they had to take her away in an ambulance and everything. But she's okay now, but she had to transfer to an easier school. I don't know if that had anything to do with being my fault. But listen, if you ever need to talk or you need help studying, just let me know, 'cause I'm just a couple doors down from you guys and I never sleep, okay?
- Basanti from Sholay—one of her main character traits is that she doesn't stop talking.
- We Are the Night: Nora is really cheerful, friendly, cute and very energetic, running around playfully much of the time.
Music
- Depeche Mode: The girl from "Happiest Girl". We don't really learn much about her other than she makes the protagonist happy as well and is always smiling, and at one point he mentions pinching her just to see if he can make her stop smiling for a second.
- All the members of KATSEYE are incredibly energetic and enthusiastic, especially Manon, Megan, and Dani.
- Kimi Ward Encarnacion, lead singer of Nineties alternative band Moonpools & Caterpillars. Her signature live performance move was hopping up and down on stage. Even a 15-year hiatus couldn't slow her enthusiasm.
- Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams is known for her extremely high-energy style.
Professional Wrestling
- Mickie James, though she fits the bill more when she was playing her psycho character. Her entrance theme was a Suspiciously Similar Song version of "Hey Mickie" and she would literally bounce all the way to the ring. She calmed the bouncing down after her Heel–Face Turn, but still fit the trope.
- AJ Lee when she was on NXT season 3. Overly perky and energetic and she once appropriately had to give a speech about caffeine. "Caffeine will perk you up, but I'm some natural dynamite, baby."
- Christy Hemme from the first Diva Search was like this, standing out as the only girl who actually had a lot of personality. Trish Stratus even told her with her winnings she could go buy herself some decaf. Christy responded, "It's all natural."
- Jessica James from the indie circuit and SHIMMER fame is like this as well. It rubbed off on her tag team partner Rachel Summerlynn when they formed Rachel and Jessica's Excellent Tag Team.
- The appropriately-named Amber Lively from Wrestlicious, the perky and fun-loving cheerleader. What's hilarious is that the woman who plays her (Madison Rayne) is known for playing the exact opposite in TNA.
- Canadian wrestler Jennifer Blake is in full-on genki mode whenever she works face. As a heel, not so much. It's still very appropriate that her nickname is "Girl Dynamite."
- As a heel, Layla wavered between this and The Fool. After her Heel–Face Turn, she was a proper Genki Girl. She would even enthusiastically kiss a child in the crowd during her entrance.
- Bayley eventually became this as a result of Characterization Marches On. Her character began as a starstruck fangirl who was a bit shy. Eventually she morphed into an energetic character who wanted to hug everyone. Her change in entrance themes to a more up-tempo song reflects this.
- Becky Lynch whether heel or face is an aggressive headbanger who just seems to have unending sources of energy. A glance at interviews shows she's like this in real life too.
- Male example with Welsh wrestler Mark Andrews, who borders on Keet territory at times. Just watching his entrance is exhausting. He seems to be like this most of the time, if interviews are any indication.
Tabletop Games
- Pathfinder: The Curse of the Crimson Throne AP gives us allied NPC Laori Vaus, the disturbingly enthusiastic cleric of a god of Pain and Loss. So genki, she creeps out other members of her church. The book she's introduced in includes the wonderful description of how she made her pilgrimage "Armed only with her indomitable optimism and an appetite for pain."
- Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG:
"48. The elf is restricted to decaf for the rest of the adventure."
Theatre
- Cross Road has Asha, who follows the violinist Niccolo Paganini around, trying to get him to take her on as a student. She follows him all over Europe, and goes so far as to break into his lodgings often enough that he leaves the windows unlocked so she doesn't get hurt. When he tells her she can leave by the door for once, she's so happy that she swings him around with such force that he falls on the floor. After Niccolo dies, Asha still always discusses him with a smile, while asking others to tell her whatever they can about him.
- Hilde Wangel in The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen is probably one of the oldest examples. She is irresponsible, playful, and clearly after amusement. And when she gets Solness to climb the highest tower, like she has urged him to, she can't keep herself from jumping and waving her hat—and making him lose his balance and fall to the ground in the process. Her reaction is more bewildered than guilt-ridden.
Visual Novels
- Ace Attorney:
- Maya Fey in the Phoenix Wright arc, being a fangirl of the Steel Samurai and her tendency towards high-energy curiosity.
- Trucy Wright in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, due to her perky stage personality as a magician.
- Kay Faraday in Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth and its sequel, as the excitable Highly Visible Ninja and Gentleman Thief. Her contrast with Miles Edgeworth brings it out more than the other assistant characters.
- Ema Skye was this in her first appearance in "Rise of the Ashes" from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, being very enthusiastic about everything (though especially scientific things), as well as her re-appearances in the Investigations duology. She's less so in her reappearance in Apollo Justice, having failed her examination for the Forensics Department, but becomes a bit more cheerful when she returns in Spirit of Justice.
- Athena Cykes in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies. Athletic and go-getting about nearly everything, she has a near-continuous need to be active (like she runs laps around the courthouse while waiting for a trial to start). It could be said she acts this way to suppress the dark thoughts she's been carrying around since childhood.
- Artificial Nexus: The protagonist, Susan, is very excitable and spends a good chunk of her time playing around with things rather than listening to her Mission Control. She's also very excited by ordinary objects, in particular getting overly excited by a particular fire extinguisher.
- Ascension (2013): Tillie, the Team Mom. Her relentless joie de vivre is frequently lampshaded by the other characters; The Heroine even refers to her as a "sugar-crazed alchemist dwarf." Proof: her reunion with The Heroine in the second chapter, in which she goes in for a big ol' glomp:
- Hagino apparently has this role assigned to her in Canvas 2 and is required to be cheerful or Hiroki will get upset.
- Danganronpa:
- The first game has Genocide Jack describe herself as this. It is not an accurate description.
- Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: Ibuki Mioda, the Ultimate Musician. She's prone to saying things twice when she gets particularly excited. When Hajime spends time with her, he notes that keeping up with her is an immense challenge (one event has her getting him to run laps around the island for no particular reason).
- Doki Doki Literature Club! has Sayori, the player character's childhood friend, a bright and cheery girl who seems to live to make everyone around her happy. It's a coping mechanism she uses to hide her depression, and it eventually stops working.
- The Fruit of Grisaia: Makina is arguably the most energetic and random member of the cast, often exhausting or exasperating the others - and leaving them dumbstruck with her motor mouth when she doesn't.
- Loren: The Amazon Princess: In an impressive aversion of Our Dwarves Are All the Same Dora is a perky, optimistic Lovable Rogue who is constantly excited at the party's adventures and a nice counterpart to the generally grim and prickly party members.
- Little Busters!: Haruka. Constantly running around causing mischief? Penchant for broadcasting her emotions at the top of her lungs? Acts like she's incapable of being serious for ten seconds at a time? Check, check, and check. She has Hidden Depths, though—she's well aware that she's very noisy and feels awkward around people like Rin who can't deal with that, and can be quite savvy when she puts her mind to things. The whole thing is covering up a very screwed-up, insecure individual who has very, very good reasons for priding herself on causing commotions.
- Magical Warrior Diamond Heart's protagonist, Valerie, is a hyperactive and upbeat bundle of cheer who always wants to believe the best in everyone.
- Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors zigzags on this with Clover. This is her default mood, but she also spends most of the game depressed and moody due to her brother Snake's apparent death. When it turns out that Snake is still alive, she bounces back quickly and returns to her normal energetic self.
- In Our Life: Now & Forever, potential love interest Tamarack is like this as a kid during Step 1, being a cheerful bundle of energy that is enthusiastic, loud, and always happy to do stuff with her friends. However, by Step 2, the teenage angst has set in, and this trope no longer applies.
- Serre: Initially fully confident in her ability to conquer Earth, Oaxa is chipper and bright, a sunshiney contrast to Arlette’s self-beratement and timidity.
- Sunrider: Asaga Oakrun is the most energetic Ryder pilot in your team, a self-styled "hero of justice" prone to spouting off lines like "I'ma firin' mah lazors!" in the middle of combat, and a constant annoyance to your ship's disciplinarian because of her lack of it and her attempts to gamble with the crew during her downtime. In an aversion to the RPG aspect, her Ryder is the Jack of All Stats rather than a Glass Cannon.
- Mildly deconstructed with Akira Amatsume in Yosuga no Sora who gets so energetic and enthusiastic during the preparations of a festival that she overworks herself and collapses due to exhaustion.
Web Animation
- Battle for Dream Island has a few females that qualify, but the one that qualifies the most would have to be Ruby due to her high levels of energy and sweet tooth. Other similar characters to her in other Object Shows include Chocolatey from Brawl of the Objects, Toast from Object Mayhem (albeit in a type that makes her considered by fans as annoying), Bow from Inanimate Insanity, and Locky from Object Overload.
- The thief from Diamond Jack is very cheerful and a charming Determinator, although she's also more composed than the usual.
- Dreamscape: Anjren sometimes is, like when she gets amped up or excited about something.
- DSBT InsaniT:
- Kayla is very chatty and hyper.
- Weird Girl is very...eccentric and talkative.
- The Reality Project: Cheryl of Reality Resort, she's very sweet, excitable and energetic.
- RWBY:
- Ruby is shown to be this in spades, whether it's anything related to her obsession with weapons or anything that's just cute like Zwei or the Chibi version of herself
- Nora is an energetic non-stop talker who doesn't appear to have an off switch even at the crack of dawn. She's even accompanied by her own unique zany music score for when she really gets going. Contrast with her partner Ren, who needs to be kicked out of bed in the morning and who barely talks. Not even brushing her teeth or eating breakfast slows her down. The quietest and most still she gets is when the Headmaster is explaining their first task, but she interrupts him once and can be seen in the background bouncing energetically on her heels as she waits for the task to begin. Ren seems to tolerate her energy and Motor Mouth with good humor and affection.
Webcomics
- Angel Moxie: Shugari, one of the Big Bad's minions, is the embodiment of Cute Is Evil.
- Ansem Retort: Larxene. She's a homicidal version of this, once nuking Disney World because she couldn't get free Funnel Cake.
- Circumstances of the Revenant Braves: Fio is a girl of action and gets restless when sitting around for too long. She even hopes for trouble if it will alleviate her boredom.
- Erma: Erma's cousin Emily. It makes Erma nervous. She is pretty much incapable of standing still, vibrating in place when standing in one spot and just bouncing all over the place, and the only reason she's not literally climbing the walls like Erma is because she can't. Erma is unnerved by this since it means she has no idea how to handle her.
- El Goonish Shive:
- Grace fits this trope sometimes, though she also enjoys sleeping a lot. Sometimes, she combines the two, resulting in the invention of her legendary "Sleepy Little Ninja Stealth Hug"...
- Catalina Bobcat, who can't even ask someone to keep something quiet quietly. "SHHHHH!!!"
- Heidi, Elliot's "party animal socialite" alter-ego.
- Grace fits this trope sometimes
- Girl Genius:
- A comically Ax-Crazy version—Bangladesh DuPree. Her first phrase in the comic is "Ta daa! I am here!" and on the next page she proclaims "Nobody knows more about torture than me!"...just as cheerfully.
- A comically Ax-Crazy version—Bangladesh DuPree. Her first
- Alma of Godslave has all the syndromes, including breaking into squeeing over Anpu and constantly pestering Edith to go and do something!
- Homestuck:
- Jade Harley. Even her typing quirk is genki—omitting periods and overusing exclamation points and emoticons.
- Nepeta wears a cute outfit and shows lots of enthusiasm. Her saccharine disposition is demonstrated as she demonstrates The Glomp on her friend Equius. (Just after she shreds a monster with her Wolverine Claws.)
- Feferi also tends to get overexcited about everything and frequently makes fish puns with glee, even when she’s dead.
- Beforus gives us Latula, who is constantly on the go and obsessed with being Totally Radical, and Meulin, a Tumblr Fangirl parody prone to over-dramatic emotional declarations and gleeful shipping dedication.
- Impure Blood: Mac comes running to burble over the car and goes Squee over the Abomination.
- Sedine from InSecurity tends to be childlike and energetic, much to her husband Sam's dismay.
- The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: The always-enthusiastic Molly the Peanut Butter Monster. It probably helps that she has a super-fast metabolism and can outrun a bear.
- Floyd Fitznewski is a more obnoxious example. He's a grown adult with children of his own, but seems to live his life in a perpetual sugar-rush and will take any opportunity to deliver a "flying tackle" to... well, anyone.
- Lackadaisy: Ivy is actually based on a hyperactive cat that the author knew.
- In Little Lapses, Cinnabar is especially loud among her friends and frequently jumps and runs around because she has ADHD. Her teacher gets mad at her whenever she fidgets in her seat.
- M9 Girls!: Clau is always hyperactive and overly optimistic.
- A Magical Roommate: Daria is a genki dragon who was introduced to tools and became obsessed. Then she was introduced to modern technology...
Aylia: Clearly, you've never witnessed [the] homework exploding machine.
- MegaTokyo: Asako is a Genki Girl of Mass Destruction, and her friend Mami knows the arming codes. As Mami says, "Hey, I always reserve the right to use the 'Asako option'. You should know that by now."
- Misfile: Missi definitely qualifies. While not exactly hyper, she's drastically more energetic and upbeat than the rest of the cast. So far, nothing, not even being dumped, has been able to make her sad for more than a single panel.
- Monsterful: Sapphire. The energetic zombie teenager is way faster and louder than a zombie should be.
- Murphy's Law: Serrin. As an example, she energetically hugs an armed stranger.
- My Impossible Soulmate: The adorable fish girl Verity is very frequently excited.
- Ozy and Millie: The hyperactive, lovably eccentric Millie Mudd is a Genki Girl-in-training.
- Paranatural: Suzy is a journalist version of this. Every time she appears, often or always around her "willing" assistant Collin, she's doing something over-the-top and insane. This mostly involves trying to get the main character Max to join the Journalism Club at the school. Or blackmail. And in the spinoff section, Supernormal, she has a single appearance that further cements the evidence she's slightly off...and a fan of circular journalism. See it here◊.
- Penny and Aggie: Lisa and, to a lesser extent, Katy-Ann.
"Dear Mr. President: I have solved the world's energy needs. All you need to do is put two girls I know on a treadmill."
- Phantomarine: Lani is far too energetic for someone who's been a seagost for a while now.
- Sluggy Freelance: Kiki. The one time they fed her Pixy Stix, she made a ferret-shaped hole in the wall and circled the Earth three times before the others had even reacted.
- Super Temps: Skull Girl. She has been barred from coffee and sugar twice, her outbursts can create walls of text, and her energy can demolish a multi-story corporate complex in minutes.
- Three Jaguars: Marketer, with her boundless energy.
- Walkyverse: Robin DeSanto from It's Walky! and Shortpacked! is so genki it qualifies as a superpower. She moves like a bolt of lightning, smells like Skittles, and has less impulse control than your average three-year-old. She once ate a bowl of Cadbury cream eggs; next thing she knew, she'd been elected to Congress and had no idea how.
Web Original
- Dad: Downplayed; Diane can be calm and rational, but is still highly energetic and extroverted, even being referred to by Cheryl as a "big ball of energy" and by Dad as impulsive and wild. She just enjoys life and likes to have as much fun and adventure as she can.
- The Gumdrops Laura is very energetic and too quick to act on certain things. This was influenced by her actress Rebecca Rose Flynn - who was often cast as serious Girl Next Door characters - but was fun and bubbly offscreen. The character was created for her to play someone close to her own personality.
- Evelyn from Less is Morgue is an insanely excitable ghost girl who gets to giddy levels of enthusiasm over everything from dogs to Nickelback.
Evelyn: Did you know there are whole Twitter accounts that just have pictures of dogs? I hadn't seen a dog in sixteen years, then boom, dogs everywhere! Dogs driving cars - can you believe that? Can you believe that there's a dog out there that can drive? I mean, how did the dogs learn how to drive? Is there a doggy driving school? I bet every dog that goes to driving school just aces it, because dogs are good at everything. I used to have a dog - she was a rescue and her name was Peppermint. She was a Pomeranian-Cross-Alaskan-Malamute, and—
- The French-Italian YouTuber Tess Masazza can be VERY enthusiastic and energetic when she is brought to a waterpark.
- Whateley Universe: Toni Chandler, AKA Chaka, is definitely a Genki Girl. She's learned to stay away from caffeine and sugar (and to be very careful with chocolate, which acts as an aphrodisiac for her).
- A Very Potter Musical: Ginny, as part of her Manic Pixie Dream Girl persona.