Hit-Girl (Mindy McCready) is a fictional antihero appearing in the comic series Kick-Ass: The Dave Lizewski Years series, published by Marvel Comics under the company's imprint Icon Comics and later Image Comics. The character was created by artist John Romita Jr. and writer Mark Millar. She is a young but effective vigilante, trained by her father Damon McCready (a.k.a. Big Daddy) from an early age to be a costumed superhero and assassin. In Kick-Ass, she is introduced as a supporting character. She featured in her own self-titled comic book series, Hit-Girl, which was first published on February 21, 2018 by Image Comics. She is portrayed by Chloë Grace Moretz in the feature film adaptations Kick-Ass and Kick Ass 2. Comics Kick Ass: The Dave Lizewski Years Following her father's death in the first volume of the comic The Dave Lizewski Years, Hit-Girl takes on Kick-Ass (Dave Lizewski) as her crime-fighting partner in the second and third volumes, training him and using him to hunt criminals together with her. She also gets him to teach her how to be a normal kid, and get along with other girls somewhat older than herself. After she is arrested at the conclusion of the third volume, she breaks herself out of prison, and, joining back together with Kick-Ass, takes out the entirety of the Genovese crime family and their accomplices, before taking on a new Kick-Ass as her sidekick. Hit-Girl Hit-Girl returns in the new series following the events of The Dave Lizewski Years in which she goes on worldwide hunting down criminals. Kick-Ass: The New Girl Although Hit-Girl is yet to actually appear in Kick-Ass: The New Girl, a variant cover for the first and fifth issues of the series features her (Hit-Girl) in combat with the Patience Lee incarnation of Kick-Ass. A cross-over between the two series is initiated when Hit-Girl is made aware of Patience's activities, prompting her to return to the US. Kick-Ass vs. Hit-Girl The five-issue series depicting the confrontation between Hit-Girl and Patience Lee went into publication on November 11, 2020. Crossover An adult Hit-Girl first appears in the sixth issue of Crossover after being dragged into another reality by "The Event", partaking in an endless battle between residents of the Marvel, DC, and Image Universes (amongst characters from many other properties by Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Skybound Entertainment and Boom! Studios, including The Wicked + The