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The Bride (Kill Bill), aka Beatrix Kiddo

There is a very interesting documentary called "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women" and how they created her in 1940 as a feminist super hero.

William Moulton Marston, a psychologist already famous for inventing the polygraph, struck upon an idea for a new kind of superhero, one who would triumph not with fists or firepower, but with love. "Fine," said Elizabeth. "But make her a woman."

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) in The Long Kiss Goodnight!

Ruth Wilson in Luther...

Michelle Rodriguez in basically anything.

My Latino parents saw me watching Kung Fu hustle and wanted to know if I was watching El Chavo del Ocho, Asian version cause of the neighborhood scenes

Okoye (Danai Guria) from the Black Panther movies. Went with my husband to see this movie and when we were walking back to the car he said "Damn, Okoye was hot, she reminds me of you." ❤️ He also has a thing for Grace Mallory from the show The Boys. I think I created a monster.

Agent May.

(Don't call her The Cavalry, she hates that.)

OG Princess Leia

Any number of the female hunters from Supernatural.

I was not expecting three characters from firefly, that show is still popular it blows my mind!

Dr Domingas (Bacurau, 2019).

Michelle Yeoh

Lisbeth from girl with the dragon tattoo.

Nairobi, Rio from money heist .

Darlene from mr robot .

Martha from dark .

Misu from the blue eye samurai .

Vi, Jinx, catalyn from arcane.

Where is the love for Chrisjen Avasarala? The UN General Secretary ~~Queen of the Earth~~ from The Expanse lore? The Space Iron Lady!

I admire her more than other traditional depiction of bad ass action stars who are either a man or a woman. I realised I admire mental acuity more than raw strength. Avasarala is Machiavellian but a pragmatist, and ready to get her hands dirty if needs be in spite of her privileged upbringing. Her main drawbacks though is that she is too willing to get her hands dirty, especially at the first episode when she personally oversaw the torture of a Belter in a blacksite. She was also willing to use her family image to gain political sympathy. But one could argue it's for the greater good, not that I am excusing both of her egregious and questionable actions. As I said, she is a pragmatist after all and looks at the bigger picture and have long term scope. She was right about slowly colonising the New Worlds. Avasarala is an anti-hero but she's right in more ways than none.

This meme forgot that Katniss Everdeen was the first female lead in an action movie.