How many on-screen badass women can you name?

(I’ll update the list periodically.)

Badass On-Screen Women

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Where’s my trekkies at? We got Janeway, Jadzia Dax, Belana Torres, Kira Nerys, Seven of Nine, Tasha Yar, Guinan, Ensign Ro… and a lot more I’m not remembering right now.

  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I would say that all the women in Kill Bill are bad ass. Some just align differently than others.

  • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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.

  • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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    5 months ago

    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?

    • FierroGamer@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      Eh, I don’t see why being a woman has to be an important part of a character, it’s cool to see when it is, but people can have many important qualities in their life besides their gender.

      As a kid I didn’t really think much of the gender when thinking about characters, heck, one of my biggest heroes was Chihiro from spirited away and I’m sure as heck she didn’t have a penis like I do.

    • geissi@feddit.deEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Take Ellen Ripley for example: strong woman. Can’t be played by a man as the character no longer makes sense.

      Ripley was originally not even written as a woman.
      There is not a single scene in the original Alien where her being a woman is in any way relevant.

  • Artyom@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

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

      • thelasttoot@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Not according to Jennifer Lawrence, “I remember when I was doing ‘Hunger Games,’ nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn’t work — we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead.”

        • soliloquy@startrek.websiteEnglish
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          5 months ago

          She said that but she was wrong lol Off the top of my head both the Terminator and Alien series had lead female action hero’s that predate the Hunger Games

          Also I don’t mean to be pedantic, I can’t tell if this is a stealth /s discussion or not

          • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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            5 months ago

            I believe Artyom was being sarcastic, and making fun of Jennifer Lawrence for making such a blatantly incorrect statement

            • Artyom@lemm.ee
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              4 months ago

              Thank you for defending my honor random internet stranger, I salute you.

  • 🐍🩶🐢@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Kung Foo Hustle is just amazing. I need to get that later and watch it again.

    A potentially lesser known movie is ‘Kimi’. Not your typical example, but watching her get past her trauma enough to kick ass in the end was great.

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    ‘Landlady’ is the absolute correct choice.

    From Wikipedia:

    Cheung Cheun-Nam, known professionally as Yuen Qiu (Chinese: 元秋; born 19 April 1950), is a Hong Kong actress and martial artist. She is an expert of both Chinese martial arts and Beijing-opera skills, and was apprenticed at the Peking Opera School under the same master, Yu Jim-yuen, as Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung.

    After being away from the Hong Kong film industry for nearly 20 years, she landed a role in Kung Fu Hustle only by chance. She was accompanying a junior woman fellow of the China Drama Academy at the audition but the director’s eye was on her. It was reported that Stephen Chow convinced her to take on the role only after unremitting and persistent persuasion.[citation needed]

    Yuen later appeared in the movie Kung Fu Mahjong, with Yuen Wah, and has been active in cinema since then. (20 more films)