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The following is a list of female action heroes and villains who appear in action films, television shows, comic books, and video games and who are "thrust into a series of challenges requiring physical feats, extended fights, extensive stunts and frenetic chases."
The strong female character is a stock character, the opposite of the damsel in distress. In the first half of the 20th century, the rise of mainstream feminism and the increased use of the concept in the later 20th century have reduced the concept to a standard item of pop culture fiction.
Female villains depicted in literature. Villains are often defined by their acts of selfishness, stupidity, evilness, craziness, cruelty, and cunning. They display immoral behavior that can oppose or pervert justice.
Pages in category "Female characters in literature" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 461 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A female character who is vain, girlish, mischievous, lighthearted, coquettish, and gossipy. The role of the soubrette is often to help two young lovers overcome the blocking agents (e.g. chaperones or parents) that stand in the way of their blossoming romance. Violet Gray; Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro) Gretchen Wieners (Lacey Chabert in ...
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
This is a list of female supervillains that can be found in American comic books and associated mediums. They are a counterpart to the superheroine , just as the villain is the counterpart to the hero.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818): Female version of the creature created by Victor Frankenstein – he destroys it before it can be brought to life [3] The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen (1837): The title character is a mermaid; The Succubus by Honoré de Balzac (1837): A succubus disguised as a woman [4]