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There's way more than these two (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How many on-screen badass women can you name?

(I'll update the list periodically.)

Badass On-Screen Women

Landlady (Kung Fu Hustle)
Ellen Ripley (Alien, Aliens, Alien3, Alien: Resurrection)
Sarah Connor (The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator: Dark Fate)
Zoë Washburne (Firefly, Serenity)
Kaylee Frye (Firefly, Serenity)
Inara (Firefly, Serenity)
Private Vasquez (Aliens)
Xena (Xena: Warrior Princess)
Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
Naomi Nagata (The Expanse)
Roberta 'Bobbie' W. Draper (The Expanse)
Camina Drummer (The Expanse)
Yu Shu Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
The Bride (Kill Bill, Kill Bill: Vol. 2)
Trinity (The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions)
PrinceessLeia (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Rita Vrataski aka Full Metal Bitch from Edge of Tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Mrs Thatcher.

(JK)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Allright, this is becoming my list of movies to go see (if I haven't already)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Support your Badass Women of Cinema!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Mulan (1998)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Alice (Resident Evil I, II, III, IV, V), Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica 2004-2009)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Valeria (Conan The Barbarian), Zula (Conan The Destroyer)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Resident evil movies had quite a few.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

How could I forget about Lesley?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Misu from the blue eye samurai .

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sofia Boutella, in any role she's had - Atomic Blonde, The Mummy Tom Cruise Upstages, Kingsman, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

quietly ignores Rebel Moon and her abysmal performance, and not just the writing either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Landlady was also a niece (or daughter?) In The manwith a golden gun and she fought outside the dojo as bond was escaping.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I remember in the 90th Lady Dragon, Cynthia Rothrock, black belt in seven martial arts https://tube.kuylar.dev/watch?v=5FaU1XyyA6k

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

From cartoons: Pinkie Pie, Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle

IRL: Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Ada Lovelace, Svetlana Tihanovskaya.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Kanamori from "keep your hands off eizouken"

Maomao from "Aphotecary diaries"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Diana Rigg from The Avengers. Also from the best Bond movie of all time. Also from Game of Thrones, I suppose, although I've never watched that.

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