Can be from any kind of media.
For me it’s Margot from The Magicians (which is interesting because in the books she is anything but) and Jesse Faden from Control.
Adding my vote for Ellen Ripley.
There are others that come to mind from more obscure movies I’ve watched more recently, like the women in Grandma (2015), Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020), and even Men (2022), also non-fictional women like those in Kokomo City (2023). There are so many more I can picture in my mind but can’t put my finger on the movie and or am just shit with names so I can’t think of them right now, but might come back to update.
Literally the first name that popped into my head when I saw the question. There are plenty of other good choices, but she has to be near the top of any list.
Incidentally… am I having federation issues? This is the only comment I see mentioning Ripley. I see 11 comments currently…
Incidentally… am I having federation issues? This is the only comment I see mentioning Ripley. I see 11 comments currently…
I see 36 comments, mine and 3 others mention Ripley, so yeah, probably a federation issue.
Linda Hamilton - Terminator
I had to say something different, because I would have said Ripley first.
+1 for each of those, and i’ll add clarice starling, uhura, michael burnham, Evelyn Quan Wang (everything everywhere all at once), helen lyle (candyman)
Captain Janeway from Voyager ❤️
First: Diana Prince
Best: Leslie Knope
My first thought: “Princess Diana was a real person.”
Derp
Ripley
Couldn’t tell you why, but my mind went straight to Wonder Woman.
Chandler Bing
No love for the bad bitch Agent Dana Scully?
Zoe from Firefly, Tiffany Aching from Discworld are two that come to mind
Can’t believe princess Leia hasn’t been mentioned yet.
“What the hell are you doing?” “Somebody has to save our skins. Into the garbage chute flyboy!”
Lol
Nobody in particular stands out, but a thought I had a while back is that Game of Thrones was one of the rare pieces of modern cinema with a host of great female characters who, for the most part, actually had to put in effort to earn their status rather than just being born with it.
Lana ″LANAAAAAAAAAA″ Kane from Archer
Ron Swanson
The first one I thought of was Mara Jade.
Fuck you Disney!
Korra and Toph from Avatar, Tsunade and Sakura from Naruto
