I SHALL COPYPASTE FROM MISS_CAM'S ENTRY TO START WITH:
Vala Mal Doran was pretty much the sole reason I watched season 9 and 10 of Stargate SG-1. I mean, the main baddies were gone, and the new baddies were just dreadful, but I decided to give the new team a go and it just didn't work for me. But hey! I read Vala was coming back! And Vala makes everything better! So, I stuck with it, and I would not if I hadn't known Vala was coming back. In her first appearance she beat the crap out of Daniel Jackson, and was awesome and snarky during it, and Daniel only won because he cheated.
Now that I think about it, I also fell in love with Jo on Supernatural because she punched Dean in the face and then turned a gun on him during her first appearance. And then her MOTHER came in with a gun pointed at Sam. I guess I just like women who get the upperhand on men in a fight. And Bela was awesomely snarky and her background story was WAY TOO RUSHED. And Ellen! Ellen is awesome too. And probably some one-off women on SPN too. Oh, oh, in the vampire shapeshifter episode the woman was awesome because she fought the shapeshifter off with pepperspray and was the one who killed him! That was cool.
Annie is indeed COMPLETELY ADORABLE, but just wait until Nina plays a bigger role, because Nina is awesome too, and I won't say too much about Nina, because that'd be spoilers. But she's pretty damn awesome.
Fiona from Burn Notice is awesome because she's a tiny women whose first idea when it comes to dealing with a problem is to blow shit up. She can kick people's asses but also has the whole vulnerable looking-for-love thing going on. And Madelyn, the main hero's mother is also made of win, because she's not afraid of anything and is very self-sufficient :D.
Katara and Toph both have moments that make me go OMG JUST SHUT UP but then they also have moments of awesome, so on the whole I think they're very nicely balanced characters with their good sides and bad sides.
Bookwise, I think Terry Pratchett has some excellent female characters. All the Lancre witches are great, and Angua! She's a werewolf and part of the city watch and in a relationship and just brilliant! And there's Cheery Littlebottom, who was one of the first Dwarves to admit that she's female!
And David Eddings, though his writing is very cliched and filled with tropes has a great Motherly Figure in Polgara, and there's the Fiesty Redheaded Princess Ce'nedra, who went and gathered an ARMY when she was 16 to help her husband out, and then there's Liselle, who is a sneaky spy who goes after what she wants all the time.
George R.R. Martin also has some very nifty female characters, and all sorts of them. There's bad women and good women and older women and younger women and daughters and mothers and queens and princesses and non-royal women and generally, quite a lot of them kick ass.
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Vala Mal Doran was pretty much the sole reason I watched season 9 and 10 of Stargate SG-1. I mean, the main baddies were gone, and the new baddies were just dreadful, but I decided to give the new team a go and it just didn't work for me. But hey! I read Vala was coming back! And Vala makes everything better! So, I stuck with it, and I would not if I hadn't known Vala was coming back. In her first appearance she beat the crap out of Daniel Jackson, and was awesome and snarky during it, and Daniel only won because he cheated.
Now that I think about it, I also fell in love with Jo on Supernatural because she punched Dean in the face and then turned a gun on him during her first appearance. And then her MOTHER came in with a gun pointed at Sam. I guess I just like women who get the upperhand on men in a fight. And Bela was awesomely snarky and her background story was WAY TOO RUSHED. And Ellen! Ellen is awesome too. And probably some one-off women on SPN too. Oh, oh, in the vampire shapeshifter episode the woman was awesome because she fought the shapeshifter off with pepperspray and was the one who killed him! That was cool.
Annie is indeed COMPLETELY ADORABLE, but just wait until Nina plays a bigger role, because Nina is awesome too, and I won't say too much about Nina, because that'd be spoilers. But she's pretty damn awesome.
Fiona from Burn Notice is awesome because she's a tiny women whose first idea when it comes to dealing with a problem is to blow shit up. She can kick people's asses but also has the whole vulnerable looking-for-love thing going on. And Madelyn, the main hero's mother is also made of win, because she's not afraid of anything and is very self-sufficient :D.
Katara and Toph both have moments that make me go OMG JUST SHUT UP but then they also have moments of awesome, so on the whole I think they're very nicely balanced characters with their good sides and bad sides.
Bookwise, I think Terry Pratchett has some excellent female characters. All the Lancre witches are great, and Angua! She's a werewolf and part of the city watch and in a relationship and just brilliant! And there's Cheery Littlebottom, who was one of the first Dwarves to admit that she's female!
And David Eddings, though his writing is very cliched and filled with tropes has a great Motherly Figure in Polgara, and there's the Fiesty Redheaded Princess Ce'nedra, who went and gathered an ARMY when she was 16 to help her husband out, and then there's Liselle, who is a sneaky spy who goes after what she wants all the time.
George R.R. Martin also has some very nifty female characters, and all sorts of them. There's bad women and good women and older women and younger women and daughters and mothers and queens and princesses and non-royal women and generally, quite a lot of them kick ass.