"Strong Female Characters" or "Sexy Girls Kicking Butt In Tight Clothes"

[phil_]

So, back to where this was this morning when I went to work, you want some strong female animoos? This chick right here:



Kaoruko's a famous botanist, runs a botanical garden and owns a flower shop, sent her son to college (he's a professor, now), mentors her granddaughter and her stupid little friends, and saved the world with judo and flower magic.

This is an animoo that deserves your respect.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

And for western shows there's Harmina and Princess Alura From Voltron Force. Gwen from Ben 10 Ultimate Alien. Shera from the old 80's She-ra.

Xena from the live action show "Xena". Dr.Holiday from "Generator Rex". Asuka Tano from "StarWars: Clone Wars".

And many more off the tip of my tung that I can't remember the names of.

Pics when I'm not feeling lazy.

[Aerozord]

In Avatar most of the strongest characters are female. Course this is a series that did an entire mini-arc on gender roles in societies

[Marc v4.0]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

In Avatar most of the strongest characters are female. Course this is a series that did an entire mini-arc on gender roles in societies

It was also awesome

[Kyanbu The Legend]

And the new lead Character "Korra" was more or less designed to subverted this trend.

Originally Posted by Marc v1.0

It was also awesome

Everything about Avatar was awesome.

Arguably "Queen's Blade" subverts this too while still being a fanservice based series. Though YMMV on rather or not it counts.

[Magus]

Any Mayazaki anime has "strong female characters".

[Seil]

The Miyazaki flicks that I've seen - Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away - have... what? A wolf princess literally abandoned by her parents to be eaten by a wolf and is brought up to hate her own kind, but finds love and redemption in the arms of the big, strong, male lead that's dealing with his own demons.

Spirited Away has a... thirteen (?) year old chick who's shanghied into working in a bath house by a witch, stinks at it, lucks into saving a river spirit, and then goes on a big journey to convince the super nice sister of the witch to save her pseudo-boyfriend. After which, she somehow correctly assumes that he's the spirit of the river that she lost her shoe in when she was younger and he's saved from the evil witch forever.

Not saying that they're bad movies, or uninteresting characters, but one's a tough girl who goes after the troubled male lead, the other's a klutz who's in way over her head and falls for the only guy who shows her any sympathy, pretty much lucking through every obstacle.

[Jagos]

I dunno if you could use Japan in a sense.

Sakamoto may have created Metroid and gave us a tough badass female chick...

But fleshing her out into a character has been... Difficult to say the least.

Then there's Team Ninja's past... Yeah.

Your best bet is with Sega for furries or their WWI simulators.

[Kerensky287]

Originally Posted by Jagos

I dunno if you could use Japan in a sense.

Square-Enix. Lightning Farron, Oerba Yun Fang, Ashelia Dalmasca, Freya Crescent, Tifa Lockheart (kinda), Celes Chere, Faris Tycoon (might not count because she is literally pretending to be male), Rydia. And that doesn't count any of the spinoffs, or FF10 because I haven't played it.

That's just one company, I can think of more.

Originally Posted by Jagos

Sakamoto may have created Metroid and gave us a tough badass female chick...

But fleshing her out into a character has been... Difficult to say the least.

Samus would be fine if Sakamoto was anything other than a useless fucking writer.

Originally Posted by Jagos

Your best bet is with Sega for furries or their WWI simulators.

I... wait, what?

If you're talking about Sonic the Hedgehog, then that's a TERRIBLE source of strong female characters.

Valkyria Chronicles, yes, probably (though I haven't played it). Bayonetta, definitely. But fuck no, not Sonic the Hedgehog.

[Marc v4.0]

Remember, strong characters are never ever supposed to have romances or rely on others. Especially if they do either with the opposite sex, that's just plan insane and in no way reflective of real people at all.