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.
Ellen Ripley from the Alien series.
Korra and Toph from Avatar, Tsunade and Sakura from Naruto
No love for the bad bitch Agent Dana Scully?
Samantha Carter from Stargate SG1
I rewatch that series every few years, it’s awesome, in no small part thanks to Sam.
Lara Croft from the first “Tomb Raider” movie, played by Angelina Jolie.
Lieutenant Ellen Ripley.
Aloy from the Horizon games was my first thought.
Couldn’t tell you why, but my mind went straight to Wonder Woman.
Hetty Lange
Captain Janeway from Voyager ❤️
She’s strong, but is anybody who loves coffee that much truly independent?
She’ll independently recycle your matter into more coffee.
I’m addicted to coffee so I understand her very much.
I was a young child in a Trekkie house when that show aired. I think that helped me think of women in authority as just a normal thing.
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.
Don’t think I’ve seen that review of Alien before. Thanks for sharing it.
Chandler Bing
Wow I haven’t watched that show in ages, but I totally remembered that bit!
Captain/Admiral Kathryn Janeway
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)
From T2. Sarah Conner from the first movie barely has enough sense to keep herself alive, but boy did she take her short comings seriously between movies.
True. I was speaking generically, but yeah, she was quite fragile in the first.
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.
