Can You Name One Hundred "Amazon" Characters--

[ouroboros]

-- who DON'T have their roots in comic books?

Say what you want about heroines in comic books in terms of quality; they've often had a better record for heroines in terms of *quantity,* and especially heroines who follow the archetype of "the Amazon," which I define as--

*a female character who shows herself proficient in armed or unarmed combat*

IMO at least, I think this is why the original legend of the Amazons scandalized the Greeks, in that it suggested women could become martially proficient enough to operate without patriarchal supervision. Now, the Amazonian heroine, whether "super" or not, is a major element in popular culture, but who are the big names outside comic books?

You can name featured heroines, villains, or even sidekicks, as long as they can fight, whether it's using kung-fu or gun-fu, sorcery or sci-fi gadgets. Anyone as long as she didn't start out in a comic book-- be it prose, film, TV, or even comic strips.

I have no doubt that a lot more than a hundred exist, but would be curious to see what response the topic gets before it dies out.

[MyriVerse]

More than 100, but I didn't count them all.

Gudit (Ethiopia)
Lozen (Apache)
Boudicca (Briton)
Grace O'Malley (Irish)
Artemisa of Caria (Ionia)
Tomoe Gozen
Ahhotep (Egyptian)
Jeanne d'Arc
Zenobia (Syria)
Tamar of Georgia
Ripley (Aliens franchise)
Abernathy, Kim, Zoe Bell, Lee (Death Proof)
Coffy (Coffy)
Foxy Brown (Foxy Brown)
Cleo Jones (Cleo Jones)
Fox (Wanted)
Beatrix Kiddo (Kill Bill)
Vasquez (Aliens)
River Tam (Firefly/Serenity)
Zoe Washburne (Firefly/Serenity)
Mace (Strange Days)
Lisbeth Salander (Dragon Tattoo)
Yu Shu Lien (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
Trinity Matrix
Sarah Connor (T2, especially)
Nikita (La Femme Nikita)
Sidney Bristow (Alias)
Buffy (Buffyverse)
Faith (Buffyverse)
Willow (Buffyverse)
Sarah Manning (Orphan Black)
Daenerys Targaryen, Sansa & Arya Stark, Brienne of Tarth, Cersei Lannister (Game of Thrones)
Kara Starbuck Thrace (GINO)
Max Guevara (Dark Angel)
Xena
Gabrielle (Xena) eventually became quite the badass
all of Charlie's Angels
Sgt. Pepper Anderson (Police Woman) *Sigh*Angie Dickinson*sigh*
Kimberly Hart and Trini Kwan (Power Rangers)
Olivia Benson (Law and Order: SVU)
Peggy Carter (TV; comic Peggy wasn't like this)
Alice (Resident Evil)
Selene Underworld franchise
Bloodrayne
Leeloo Dallas (Fifth Element)
Leia
Rey
Abigail Whistler (Blade)
Lara Croft
Imperator Furiosa (Mad Max)
Aunty Entity (Mad Max)
Aeon Flux
Babydoll (Sucker Punch)
Maggie Fitzgerald (Million Dollar Baby)
Jordan O'Neill (GIJane)
Mulan
Katniss Everdeen (Hunger Games)
Voilet (Ultraviolet)
Samantha Caine (Long Kiss Goodnight)
Salt
Princess Mononoke
Lorraine Broughton (Atomic Blonde)
Kyra (Chronicles of Riddick)
Hanna Heller (Hanna)
Kasumi, Christie Allen, Ayane (DOA)
Domino Harvey (Domino)
Sonya Blade (Mortal Kombat)
those ninja women whose names I forget (Mortal Kombat)
Eleven (Strange Things)
Merida (Brave)
Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
Eowyn (LotR)
Tara Thornton (True Blood)
Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter)
Regina/Evil Queen (Once Upon a Time)
Emma Swan (Once Upon a Time)
Snow (Once Upon a Time)
Cara Mason (Legend of the Seeker)
Ms. Emma Peel (Avengers)
Neytiri (Avatar)
Leela (Futurama)
Alanna of Trebond (Alanna the First Adventure)
Celaena (Throne of Glass)
Alicia Kendrick, Arilyn Moonblade, Danica Maupoissant, the Seven Sisters, Catti-brie (various D&D fiction) - probably a score or more I'm forgetting, especially when you count those matriarchal dark elves
Way too many (not possible, but to list) female warriors in Asian fantasy films/books/etc.

[Carabas]

Can we have multiples per franchise?

[ouroboros]

More than 100, but I didn't count them all.

Gudit (Ethiopia)
Lozen (Apache)
Boudicca (Briton)
Grace O'Malley (Irish)
Artemisa of Caria (Ionia)
Tomoe Gozen
Ahhotep (Egyptian)
Jeanne d'Arc
Zenobia (Syria)
Tamar of Georgia
Ripley (Aliens franchise)
Abernathy, Kim, Zoe Bell, Lee (Death Proof)
Coffy (Coffy)
Foxy Brown (Foxy Brown)
Cleo Jones (Cleo Jones)
Fox (Wanted)
Beatrix Kiddo (Kill Bill)
Vasquez (Aliens)
River Tam (Firefly/Serenity)
Zoe Washburne (Firefly/Serenity)
Mace (Strange Days)
Lisbeth Salander (Dragon Tattoo)
Yu Shu Lien (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
Trinity Matrix
Sarah Connor (T2, especially)
Nikita (La Femme Nikita)
Sidney Bristow (Alias)
Buffy (Buffyverse)
Faith (Buffyverse)
Willow (Buffyverse)
Sarah Manning (Orphan Black)
Daenerys Targaryen, Sansa & Arya Stark, Brienne of Tarth, Cersei Lannister (Game of Thrones)
Kara Starbuck Thrace (GINO)
Max Guevara (Dark Angel)
Xena
Gabrielle (Xena) eventually became quite the badass
all of Charlie's Angels
Sgt. Pepper Anderson (Police Woman) *Sigh*Angie Dickinson*sigh*
Kimberly Hart and Trini Kwan (Power Rangers)
Olivia Benson (Law and Order: SVU)
Peggy Carter (TV; comic Peggy wasn't like this)
Alice (Resident Evil)
Selene Underworld franchise
Bloodrayne
Leeloo Dallas (Fifth Element)
Leia
Rey
Abigail Whistler (Blade)
Lara Croft
Imperator Furiosa (Mad Max)
Aunty Entity (Mad Max)
Aeon Flux
Babydoll (Sucker Punch)
Maggie Fitzgerald (Million Dollar Baby)
Jordan O'Neill (GIJane)
Mulan
Katniss Everdeen (Hunger Games)
Voilet (Ultraviolet)
Samantha Caine (Long Kiss Goodnight)
Salt
Princess Mononoke
Lorraine Broughton (Atomic Blonde)
Kyra (Chronicles of Riddick)
Hanna Heller (Hanna)
Kasumi, Christie Allen, Ayane (DOA)
Domino Harvey (Domino)
Sonya Blade (Mortal Kombat)
those ninja women whose names I forget (Mortal Kombat)
Eleven (Strange Things)
Merida (Brave)
Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
Eowyn (LotR)
Tara Thornton (True Blood)
Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter)
Regina/Evil Queen (Once Upon a Time)
Emma Swan (Once Upon a Time)
Snow (Once Upon a Time)
Cara Mason (Legend of the Seeker)
Ms. Emma Peel (Avengers)
Neytiri (Avatar)
Leela (Futurama)
Alanna of Trebond (Alanna the First Adventure)
Celaena (Throne of Glass)
Alicia Kendrick, Arilyn Moonblade, Danica Maupoissant, the Seven Sisters, Catti-brie (various D&D fiction) - probably a score or more I'm forgetting, especially when you count those matriarchal dark elves
Way too many (not possible, but to list) female warriors in Asian fantasy films/books/etc.

Good list, and I would agree that TV's Peggy Carter is distinct from the one in the comics.

[ouroboros]

Can we have multiples per franchise?

I would say yes; the important thing would be to enumerate characters, not franchises. To my knowledge Faith never had a continuing franchise, but she was a sidekick of particular note.

[Carabas]

I got to 65 of the top of my head.

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. WillowRosenberg
3. Faith Lehane
4. Xena
5. Gabrielle (Xena)
6. Callisto (Xena)
7. Princess Leia
8. Rey
9. Ahsoka Tano
10. Sabine Wren
11. Hera Syndula
12. River Tam (Firefly)
13. Zoe Washburne (dito)
14. Aeryn Sun (Farscape)
15. Leela (Futurama)
16. Leela (Doctor Who)
17. River Song (same)
18. Trinity (The Matrix)
19. Syndney Bristow (Alias)
20. Selene (Underground movies)
21. Aeon Flux
22. Dana Scully
23. Mylady Dewinter
24. Belit (Conan)
25. The Bride (Kill Bill)
26. O-ren Oshii
27. Elle Driver
28. Melinda May (Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
29. Emma Peel (the real Avengers)
30. Soolin (Blakes 7)
31. Evelyn Salt
32. Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
33. Toph Beifong (AtLA)
34. Suki (AtLA)
35. Azula (AtLA)
36. Mai (AtLA)
37. Ty Lee (AtLA)
38. Korra (Legend Of Korra)
39. Asami Sato (LoK)
40. Lin Beifong (LoK)
41. Kuvira (LoK)
42. Nikita (Le Femme Nikita)
43. Mireille Bouquet (Noir)
44. Kirika Yumura (Noir)
45. Madlax (Madlax)
46. Katniss Evergreen (The Hunger Games)
47. Hermoine Granger
48. Lara Croft
49. Morrigan (Dragon Age)
50. Leliana (Dragon Age)
51. Isabella (Dragon Age)
52. Cassandra Pentaghast (Dragon Age)
53. Ashley Williams (Mass Effect)
54. Samara (Mass Effect)
55. Miranda Lawson (Mass Effect)
56. Jack (Mass Effect)
57. Bayonetta
58. Priss (Blade Runner)
59. Dr. Jillian Hotzman (Ghostbusters)
60. Diana (Dungeons & Dragons cartoon)
61. She-Ra
62. Paula Myo (Commonwealth Saga)
63. The amnesiac narrator of the Birthgrave
64. Tauriel (Hobbit films)
65. Angua von Uberwold (Discworld)
66. Faye Valentine (Cowboy Bebop)
67. Kim Possible
68. Sarah Walker (Chuck)
69. Ellen Ripley
70. Sarah Connor
71. I'm not 100% sure Arya Stark counts
72. Merida (Brave)
73. Kara Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)

And I think Sailor Moon, Final Fantasy, and the fighting game genre will easily take me over 100 and well on my way to 150, but it's getting late.

[PaulBullion]

Jeff Bezos.

What?

[numberthirty]

Jeez...

Any list I made would already have doubles from what's up already. What I didn't see mentioned...

- Baby(House Of 1000 Corpses/The Devil's Rejects)
- Carolina(Once Upon A Time In Mexico)
- Ajedrez Barillo(Once Upon A Time In Mexico)
- McCoy(Streets Of Fire)
- Leigh(Assault On Precinct 13)
- Ellen(The Quick And The Dead)
- Tulip O'Hare(Preacher) - Seriously, it's a totally different character.
- Kate Brewster(The "Terminator" films)
- Blair Williams(Terminator Salvation)
- Katherine Fuller(From Dusk 'Til Dawn)

[MyriVerse]

A few from Hercules Legendary Journeys:
- Atalanta
- Nebula
- Morrigan