Memes

The original Lisbeth Salander from the european movies!

Definitely Balsa from Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit.

Summer Glau: Am I a joke to you?

Beatrice Kiddo from Kill Bill

Not a single person mentioned Lucy Lawless? Where my 90s kids at?

Well, they might just not have seen Kung Fu Hustle

Don't mind me, I'm just here to mention princess Mononoke and lady Eboshi from the same movie, I would list a few but there's too many comments to parse so I just looked for those thinking they might not have been mentioned.

How could I forget about Lesley?

Everybody remembers Ripley, but Aliens was a solid gender equality movie... filmed way back in 1986. Remember Vasquez and Ferro? Totally believable, flawed and likeable badasses. I find today's characters to be way too perfect to be believable. Wonder Woman is a good example. I find her annoying.

Mrs Thatcher.

(JK)

Ellen Ripley, no contest.

No superpowers, no special training, no special technology. Simply the wisdom to see a job that needs done and the bravery and determination to do it.

Lucy Ball

The cigarette makes me hate her. I totally despise smoking.

My biggest issue with most strong women characters in action movies is they seem to be swappable with a male and nothing changes.

They're strong characters who are portrayed as a woman.

Take Ellen Ripley for example: strong woman. Can't be played by a man as the character no longer makes sense. Has to be a woman. Someone else would get it wrong.

Also I'm getting tired of the "I had X amount of brothers" or "dad taught me Y" as justification. Why can't a woman be strong on her own? Why does it have to be a man making her strong?

Lt Kusanagi from Ghost In The Shell for me

Trinity from the Matrix

Might want to add River Tam from Serenity as well.

Willow Rosenberg

Dorothy aka Dot from season 5 of fargo was fantastic imo!

Ellen (and I guess some would argue Jo) from supernatural is imo. WIthout going into spoilers but the reason I pick her out of a series full of "badass women" is she is the typical tough lady superficial stuff but also extremely compassionate, a supportive and devoted mother.

Does Leslie Knope parks and rec count? She's a badass to me.

Mrs. Doyle

When Mrs. Doyle offers you a cup of tea it is not a request!

Gal Gadot 🤮 Zionist pos

• Tank Girl
• Wynonna Earp
• Tokyo Gore Police
• Buffy and Xena are classic
• Ghost in the Shell if counting anime

Every female character in The Expanse. There simply were no non-badasses in that show🙃

Crystal, played by Betty Gilpin in the movie The Hunt (2020)

Jaime Sommers

• princess Leia, padme amidala (star wars)

• Elisabeth Swann (potc)

• eowyn of Rohan (lotr)

• katara, toph (atla) + azula, mai, tai Lee of we're counting villains

Milla Jovovich, Resident Evil
Han So-hee, My Name

Take your pick.

Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor

Then WM2 happened and it doesn't even look like the same character