How many on-screen badass women can you name?
(I’ll update the list periodically.)
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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.
Also basically every single main character in Spirited Away. The luck dragon might be male, and several supporting characters are, but the main protagonist, antagonist, and teacher character are all girls/women
And there is nothing self-serving or self-glorifying about their actions. They simply see that a job has to be done and they do it.
To be fair, Sarah Connor was more of a badass once she could do chin ups.
I didn’t choose the skux life, the skux life chose me
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.
“Hey Vasquez… Have you ever been mistaken for a man?”
“No. Have you?”
Top ten movie zinger for me. Delivered perfectly. Loved her character so much.
No I don’t remember this and looking it up, I can’t find any answers either. Just name the movie instead of being cute about it.
Maybe read that comment a little closer there.
Interesting tidbit: Actress that played Vasquez also did Sarah Conner’s mom…
Vasquez actress in Titanic:
this is blowing my mind
I just read an interview of James Cameron where he says they actually cut off her hair which was down to her waist at the time. He told her:
“Your hair will grow back. Vasquez will live forever.”
And she really does. What a character.
That’s a fascinating little nugget!
Close but not quite. John Connor’s foster mom.
This blew my mind a bit so here’s a pic for others…
I appreciate the correction. Looks like I need more electrolytes this morning!
I thought you meant she did her mom, not portrayed her.
Vasquez was the cause of some very confusing and interesting feelings to little kid me…
Lucy Ball
Milla Jovovich, Resident Evil
Han So-hee, My NameThe cigarette makes me hate her. I totally despise smoking.
As long as you acknowledge her being a supreme badass, it´s perfectly fine that you hate smoking. Smoking stinks!
I wonder why there are so many people who defend smoking?
Everytime (in the last several years) I say how disgusting it is, I get down-voted all to hell.
That is probably because they don´t want to reflect on their addiction and don´t like to be reminded that they do something disgusting.
No doubt
Lt Kusanagi from Ghost In The Shell for me
Trinity from the Matrix
Major Motoko Kusanagi.
I can’t decide if she counts though, as she is a cyborg who looks like a woman rather than actually being a woman. To be perfectly honest, I can’t think of anywhere in the universe that it is stated that her brain is even from a female donor.
Haven’t read the manga, but at least in stand alone complex when talking about the accident and her recovery in third person, I feel like she was referred to as a girl, though I’m honestly not sure if that’s important at all, the way she talks about herself in the adaptations I’ve seen, she seems to put her personality above everything else relating her past or identity, she is her actions, not her backstory (or that’s how I perceive it in the versions I’ve seen, except maybe the first season of the latest one).
I just watched the 1995 movie last night, and there is definitely reference to her having at least some amount of human brain in her head, though her body is entirely robotic
She definitely has a human brain; the central theme is that she doesn’t know her own identity
In Second Gig (the second season of the anime) they do go over her past more and it reveals that she was a little girl that survived a plane crash (?) and was one of the first children to have a fully cybernetic body. That season explores a lot about her relationship with her past and present identities, motivations, and principles. It is one of my favorite pieces of media.
Nobody going to mention Battlestar Galactica (2004)? Starbuck, Laura Roslin, Athena, Kat… so many good examples of not just strong, but flawed and human women. Well, mostly human.
How could I forget about Lesley?
Jaime Sommers
Not a single person mentioned Lucy Lawless? Where my 90s kids at?
Renee O’Conner also
Summer Glau: Am I a joke to you?
There is a relevant xkcd for everything
Honestly, just 90 minutes of Summer Glau beating up annoying MAGA fascists. Quentin Tarantino or Robert Rodriguez could make it work!
There’s an xkcd for that:
https://xkcd.com/311/I feel like you got us all stuck in a loop here.
Superpower: Able to get any show or movie series cancelled
Mrs Thatcher.
(JK)
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.
Margie Gunderson from the Fargo movie also counts even if ACAB includes her too, lol.
Beatrice Kiddo from Kill Bill
