Our favorite fictional females who don’t take crap from anybody

Helllllllllo Carrie Fisher, Linda Hamilton and Tina Fey! That's a lot of hot for one page!

Thanks Linster for this awesome little list, it made me feel so much better after reading about Brooke Smith.

Why is Xena always left off of these lists?  And Gabrielle for that matter.  Talk about 2 women who didn't take crap from anyone.

I had a strange and slightly unhealthy obession with the terminator trilogies when i was in kindergarden.

i definately rocked out as sarah connor for halloween.

Roseanne Connor from back in the day.  Sad but she was my hero on the "don't take crap" front as a kid.  Well, her and Darlene.  Heck for that matter, Darlene Connor could be on this list.

Then of course there was She-Ra: Princes of Power.

The ladies of Charmed also come to mind.  Mostly, Pru and Piper cause the other two took a lot of crap.

Rita Lee Lance from Silk Stalkings still has to be one of my favorite female cops.  Not sure if she belongs on this list but its still nice to remember the smile, the eyes, the shoulder pads.

Oh.  Evil Willow and Faith also come to mind.  I'd say the Buffster, but I think she took a lot of crap that say Faith walked away from or defied.

never took ANY crap--not even from the guy she loved. She blatantly told Neo to go to hell if he had a problem with her decision....being the sexy ranking officer that she is.

She is the epitome of badass-ness.  

Off the top of my head... 

The girls from Charlie's Angels (both from the original TV series and from the films)

Monica from Friends

Lara Croft

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My initial thoughts:

Lorelai Gilmore

Veronica Mars

Buffy/Willow/Faith/Anya - all the BtVS female characters seem gutsy

Cuddy (from House)

Ashley Davies (actually, Spencer as well I think..)

Why is Sigourney Weaver always forgotten and under-rated! Ellen Ripley doesn't take it from nobody!

That's to name but a few of her characters who aren't interested in other people's BS ^_^

how could you forget ripley? she has got to be the most kickass character ever. granted sarah connor beat the crap out of the terminators but ripley took on an entire planet with aliens ;)

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You just have to love her no-nonsense-screw-the-Temporal-Prime-Directive-and-keep-the-hot-Borg-around attitude. With all those awsome ladies in space today she gets sadly and undeservedly overlooked.

For further proof just check the reasons why she rocks WAY more than Picard.

My favourites are:

25. Three words: Compression Phaser Rifles.

52. Doesn't need her first officer's permission to blow up her ship.

72. Q asked Janeway to run away with him and she refused. Q asked Picard's girlfriend to run away with him and she accepted.

-> I imagine I know the answer to what would have happened had Janeway asked Picards girlfriend to elope with her... ;)

A list of "fictional females who don't take crap from anybody" and no Xena and Gabby to be found anywhere? You must be kidding me.

Relax ladies, Ripley is on the list.

I would also add 7of9, Janeway, Major Kira, Scully, Wonder Woman, Miss Croft (the rendered original, not the Angelina version), and Joanna Black.

I would not include Leia. She didn't really kick ass in my eyes. 

Whoever rigged up this list, The Force was obviously not with him/her.

"I imagine I know the answer to what would have happened had Janeway asked Picards girlfriend to elope with her..." I guess we all know that answer, don't we? ;)

edit: Uh, forgot a few. Mara Jade (who could resist a woman wielding a purple Lightsaber?), StarCaptain Joanna, MechWarrior Diana Pryde and Khan Marthe Pryde of Clan Jade Falcon, Founder Alicia Tseng of Clan Ghost Bear. OK, that was probably too nerdy. Sorry.

Lucy Diamond from D.E.B.S. ;]

Ashley Davies

Lara Croft

Xena

Miranda Priestly from The Devil Wears Prada

XENA THE WARRIOR PRINCESS LOL, ANGELINA JOLI, WHERE IS HALLE BERRY-SHE LOOKED HOT AND SEXY KICKING SUM ASS IN THAT FILM.

Sara Paretsky's awesome kickass private eye!

Read the books.  Do NOT see the lameass movie.  She needs no rescuing by a flippin' boyfriend.  Bleah.

Sara Paretsky's awesome kickass private eye!

Read the books.  Do NOT see the lameass movie.  She needs no rescuing by a flippin' boyfriend.  Bleah.

Melfi! Love her (and Lorraine Bracco)!

But, where's Olivia Benson?!

It's so sad that most of my favorite tough fictional females are off the air by now.  I was thinking Buffy, and even her crazy counterpart Faith, and Veronica Mars.

And how about the original 'maverick', President MacKenzie Allen from the wonderful and all-too-brief Commander-in-Chief ?!  It was all I could do to keep myself from writing in Geena Davis' name on my ballot today.

I worry that the only way we can keep our strong female characters on tv is by making sure that the ladies, queers, and the people of color get in there and push for both quality and diverse writing and programming!  And we need fairminded executives -- people who won't get 'cold feet' about a gay storyline (ABC, I'm looking in your direction...I don't even like GA, but it's still infuriating).  I'm afraid we just have to get in there ourselves.

I think that there's hope though -- because of AMC's Mad Men.  That show has a male producer/creator -- but he's clearly devoted to producing a good show with good characters, and he's hired excellent writers (some of whom wrote for BtVS) and actresses.  Betty, Joan, and Peggy are flawed, and very vulnerable, and all struggling to get by (in different ways) in super patriarchal worlds -- but I think they're all on the way to some serious empowerment.  Can't wait to see what happens in season 3.

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The characters that I loved as a kid (and who my mother would say made me gay):

Ellen Ripley from Alien

Sarah Connor from Terminator

Reba Mcyntire's character from Tremors, lol

We were a B-movie watchin' family! Which must be why I love seeing a woman shooting an automatic weapon...except in the case of Sarah Palin.

Helllooooo????

 DANA SCULLY. HANDS DOWN.

Xena definitely should have been on there. Linda Hamilton was my first crush although I didn't realize I was crushing because I was like 8 or something.

Also, Carrie Anne Moss as Trinity from the Matrix...

Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil

Kate Beckinsale in Underworld

and I really liked Rhona Mitra in Doomsday although that movie was odd.  I'm looking forward to her in Underworld:Rise of the Lycans

Trinity - The Matrix

Xena and Gabrielle - Xena: Warrior Princess

Lara Croft - Tomb Raider

Sarah Connor - (the original) Terminator

Sydney Bristow - Alias

Tetra from the video game The Legend of Zelda: Windwaker....ok i know she had a thing for Link or whatever.....but she kicked major ass, plus she was a pirate. come oNNNNN.

Matt: 5 verse 7, 'All you need is a piece of steel'! 

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"The first duty of a man is to think for himself"

Jose Marti

 Xena and Gabrielle are at the top of my list. Hey, they kicked ass in skirts, different dimensions and several life times!

 Lara Croft, she kicks ass in short-shorts and is soooo dreamily smart about History, Mythology, Archeology, etc

Faith, brunette , leather-pants wearing, rouge vampire slayer (is it hot in here? Nope it's just Eliza Dushku)

Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton not the new one): Just cause she could fling me across the room for not including her on the list.

Uuummm, any character ever played by Michelle Rodriguez? Cuz she'd look  tough just eating a frozen yogurt. (even if it were vanilla with sprinkles and gummy bears)

Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) She was in Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark- She kicked Indy's ass, I still remember his face it was hilarious.

Detective Cruz - tough female cop on 3rd Watch, damn she was hard. I wouldn't say no to playing with her hand cuffs though.

"This is my letter to the world who never wrote me"

E. Dickinson

I agree with others on Xena, Faith (& other Buffy girls), Trinity, Lara Croft, Ellen Ripley, Veronica Mars,  

But can I also add:
Evie/Evey from V for Vendetta
Scarlett O'Hara?
Ingrid Magnussen (the novel of White Oleander)

I just thought of Elektra, incredible sais action.

And how could I forget? ALL the WOMEN of Kill Bill of course!!!!!! 

"This is my letter to the world who never wrote me"

E. Dickinson

I just thought of Elektra, incredible sais action.

And how could I forget? ALL the WOMEN of Kill Bill of course!!!!!! 

"This is my letter to the world who never wrote me"

E. Dickinson

Joyce Wischnia kicks ass in The L Word, and looks good in a suit doing it. I love Jane Lynch.

Miranda Bailey. I sometimes wish Grey's Anatomy could just be the Dr Bailey Show, with an all-female-doctors-all-the-time storyline. Only in my dreams, I suppose.

Selina Kyle/Catwoman in Batman Returns. Meowrrrr!