How many on-screen badass women can you name?

(I’ll update the list periodically.)

Badass On-Screen Women

  • Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho@sh.itjust.works
    73·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
    471·
    10 months ago

    Where is the love for Chrisjen Avasarala? The UN General Secretary Queen of the Earth from The Expanse lore? The Space Iron Lady!

    I admire her more than other traditional depiction of bad ass action stars who are either a man or a woman. I realised I admire mental acuity more than raw strength. Avasarala is Machiavellian but a pragmatist, and ready to get her hands dirty if needs be in spite of her privileged upbringing. Her main drawbacks though is that she is too willing to get her hands dirty, especially at the first episode when she personally oversaw the torture of a Belter in a blacksite. She was also willing to use her family image to gain political sympathy. But one could argue it’s for the greater good, not that I am excusing both of her egregious and questionable actions. As I said, she is a pragmatist after all and looks at the bigger picture and have long term scope. She was right about slowly colonising the New Worlds. Avasarala is an anti-hero but she’s right in more ways than none.

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
    37·
    10 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)

  • FierroGamer@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      6·
      10 months ago

      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

      • TengoDosVacas@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        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.

    • shatterling@lemm.ee
      101·
      10 months ago

      Joss Whedon does love writing strong women (no comment about anything off screen )

    • 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

  • Artyom@lemm.ee
    131·
    10 months ago

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

      • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
        6·
        10 months ago

        Weekly reminder that your favorite gangster actors are artists that probably acted in school plays. Some of those actors forget that too and think they’re actually bad ass in real life cough pesci cough