How many on-screen badass women can you name?

(I’ll update the list periodically.)

Badass On-Screen Women

  • TengoDosVacas@lemmy.world
    8·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • FierroGamer@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      10 months ago

      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).

    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      10 months ago

      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