Brief List of Butt-kicking Babes
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Well, all seem to admit Joss has a fixation on female charaters who can kick butt, oft of teen vintage. I was thinking about the source material for some of this. Can anybody help me fill out a list of female characters who can kick butt? Human mostly, but part feline, wolf, vampire, werewolf are ok, but android or robot are a sub-category, and dependant upon weapons and tools another (like Ripley in Aliens). Witchcraft or magic doesn't count, nor cartoons. This will be from film and TV.
Since I won't be familiar with some of the entries, please mention if they fit one of those categories.
I'll start off with River, Buffy, Catwoman, Batgirl, Aeon Flux, Resident Evil, Witchblade, Underworld, Star Wars, Bionic Women, T:TSCC, Terminator 3, Aliens, Blade Runner, Dark Angel, Ultra Violet, Bones, Blade Trinity, Matrix, Long Kiss Goodnight, Last Legion, LoTR, and King Arthur.
I will add to the list as more are given.
1961 Avengers - Mrs. Peel/Diana Rigg
1963 Doctor Who - Susan Foreman/Carole Ann Ford
1966 Batman - Batgirl/Yvonne Craig
1966 Batman - Catwoman/Lee Meriwether & Julie Newmar
1968 Barbarella - Barbarella/Jane Fonda
1973 Coffey - Pam Grier
1974 Foxy Brown - Pam Grier
1975 Six Million Dollar Man - Jamie Summers/Lindsay Wagner
1982 Road Warrior - Warrior Woman/Virginia Hey
1989 Bionic Showdown - Kate Mason/Sandra Bullock
1990 Total Recall - Melina/Rachel Ticotin
1992 Buffy tVS - Buffy/Kristy Swanson
1992 Batman Returns - Catwoman/Michelle Pfeiffer
1993 Point of No Return - Nina/Bridget Fonda
1995 Tank Girl - Lori Petty
1995 Xena - Xena/Lucy Lawless
1996 Long Kiss Goodnight - Charlie Baltimore/Geena Davis
1997 Batman & Robin - Batgirl/Alicia Silverstone
1997 Stargate SG1 - Capt Samantha Carter/Amanda Tapping
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Wai Lin/Michelle Yeoh
1998 Buffy tVS - Faith/Eliza Dushku
1998 The Fifth Element - Leeloo/Milla Jovovich
1998 Mask of Zorro - Elena/Catherine Zeta-Jones
1999 The Matrix - Trinity/Carrie Anne Moss
1999 Farscape - Officer Aeryn Sun/Claudia Black
2000 Witchblade - Sara Pezzini/Yancy Butler
2000 Dark Angel - Max Gueverra/Jessica Alba
2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Michelle Yeoh
2000 Cleopatra 2525 - Helen Carter/Gina Torres
2000 Queen of Swords - Tessa Alvarado/Tessie Santiago
2001 Alias - Sydney Bristow/Jennifer Garner
2001 Tob Raider - Lara Croft/Angelina Jolie
2002 Resident Evil - Alice/Milla Jovovich
2002 Firefly - River Tam/Summer Glau
2002 Star Wars - Padme Amidala/Natalie Portman
2003 Lord of the Rings - Eowyn/Miranda Otto
2003 Underworld - Selene/Kate Beckinsale
2003 Terminator 3 - T-X/Kristianna Loken
2003 Kill Bill - The Bride/Uma Thurman
2003 Battlestar Galactica - Starbuck/Katee Sackhoff
2004 King Arthur - Guinevere/Keira Knightly
2004 Catwoman - Catwoman/Halle Berry
2004 Blade Trinity - Abigail Whistler/Jessica Biel
2004 Chronicles of Riddick - Kyra/Alexa Davalos
2004 Stargate Atlantis - Teyla Emmagen/Rachel Luttrell
2005 Aeon Flux - Aeon Flux/Charlize Theron
2005 Bones - Temperence Brennan/Emily Deschanel
2005 Bloodrayne - Rayne/Kristanna Loken
2005 Elektra - Jennifer Garner
2005 Fantastic Four - Sue Storm/Jessica Alba
2006 Ultra Violet - Ultra Violet/Milla Jovovich
2007 Last Legion - Mira/Aishwarya Rai
2007 Bionic Woman - Jamie Summers/Michelle Ryan
2007 Chuck - Sarah/Yvonne Strahovski
2008 Wanted - Fox/Angelina Jolie
2008 Doctor Who - Amelia Pond/Karen Gillan
2009 Dollhouse - Sierra/Dichen Lachman & Echo/Eliza Dushku
2014 Guardians Of The Galaxy, GOTG2, Avengers - Nebula/Karen Gillan
non-human
1982 Blade Runner - Pris/Daryl Hannah
2008 Terminator:TSSC - Cameron Phillips/Summer Glau
Weapon dependant
1986 Aliens - Ellen Ripley/Sigourney Weaver
was Leeloo a butt-kicker in Fifth Element?
There are other threads here with similar themes, but apparently none of them in the Cinema Forum.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=46800&p=1#10822
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Not all of these are great, but fits your list:
Barbarella
BloodRayne
Elektra
Fifth Element (Milla kicked some serious ass)
Firefly
Farscape (Claudia Black was the best thing about that show)
Fantastic Four (Jessica Alba)
Road Warrior (Virginia Hey played zen woman in Farscape, but Warrior Woman in this flick)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Angelina)
Species
Stargate SG-1 (Amanda Tapping was brainy and kicked ass)
Starship Troopers (Carmen Ibanez/Denise Richards & / Dizzy Flores / Dina Meyer )
Star Trek: Enterprise (Jolene was the best part)
Tank Girl
The Abyss (Lindsey was tougher than a whole room full of guys)
Wanted (again Angelina)
Weird Science (Lisa/Kelly Le Brock)
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you reminded me of Tomb Raider.
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Not all of these are great, but fits your list:
Barbarella
BloodRayne
Elektra
Fifth Element (Milla kicked some serious ass)
Farscape (Claudia Black was the best thing about that show)
Fantastic Four (Jessica Alba)
Road Warrior (Virginia Hey played zen woman in Farscape, but Warrior Woman in this flick)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Angelina)
Species
Stargate SG-1 (Amanda Tapping was brainy and kicked ass)
Starship Troopers (Carmen Ibanez/Denise Richards & / Dizzy Flores / Dina Meyer )
Star Trek: Enterprise (Jolene was the best part)
Tank Girl
The Abyss (Lindsey was tougher than a whole room full of guys)
Wanted (again Angelina)
Weird Science (Lisa/Kelly Le Brock)
Kelly kicked butt in Weird Science?
Don't remember a Lindsey in Abyss -ed. don't recall her kicking any butt. You sure? Who's butt did she kick?
I thought the Starship Troopers chicks were weapons-dependant like Ripley.
Didn't know Jolene was a butt kicker in Enterprise.
Didn't think of anybody in Road Warrior as butt kicking except Mel.
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You're right Kelly used a gun
Lindsey used some non-weapon to knock out one of the Marines
You're probably right about Starship Troopers-I can't remember if there was any martial arts type butt kicking
Jolene definitely did some martial arts type stuff
Virgina Hey
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Kelly kicked butt in Weird Science?
Knocked out an entire gym class with a single sentence, "Drop and give me 20."
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I thought the Starship Troopers chicks were weapons-dependant like Ripley.
They all received the same training as the men, and had to meet the same performance requirements, armed and unarmed.
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Didn't know Jolene was a butt kicker in Enterprise.
I believe T'pal was a trained martial artist, but I don't recall ever seeing her make use of it in actual combat. She did however shoot a few folk in various episodes.
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Yeah, Starship Troopers didn't seem to have much butt-kicking of anybody there, and unless Jolene did some, not that impressive.
But I'll try to fit in the others as I get the details.
Thanks, and keep them coming, and tell me which are not really fitting. I wouldn't have included Barbarella - maybe as cartoon, but not as Hanoi Jane.
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Dollhouse (Sierra and Echo)
BSG (the new one- Starbuck and any of the Cylons)
Star Trek (the new Uhura does some butt kicking)
Xena (Lucy Lawless)
Cleopatra 2525 (Gina Torres kicks butt there too!)
Charlie's Angels
Le Femme Nikita (Peta Wilson)
Kill Bill (Uma)
The Chronicles of Riddick (Kyra/Alexa Davalos)
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I don't recall Uhura kicking butt - which scene?
Are those BSG chicks humans?
I'll go with bridget Fonda as Le Femme Nikita.
Is Jen Garner a butt kicker in Alias?
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I don't recall Uhura kicking butt - which scene?
You are right. She stayed out of the fight.
Are those BSG chicks humans?
Well, are we? The series implied that we are descendants of Cylons/human hybrids.
I'll go with bridget Fonda as Le Femme Nikita.
Is Jen Garner a butt kicker in Alias?
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Sandahl Bergman - Conan The Barbarian
Grace Jones - Conan The Destroyer
Tanya Roberts - The Beastmaster, Sheena
Catherine Mary Stewart - Night Of The Comet
Jenette Goldstein - Aliens
Faye Grant - V
Angela Mao - Enter The Dragon
Rachel Ticotin - Total Recall
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