How many on-screen badass women can you name?

(I’ll update the list periodically.)

Badass On-Screen Women

  • Artyom@lemm.ee
    182·
    10 months ago

    This meme forgot that Katniss Everdeen was the first female lead in an action movie.

    • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
      112·
      10 months ago

      Literally every example OP gave predates the hunger games.

      • thelasttoot@lemmy.world
        112·
        10 months ago

        Not according to Jennifer Lawrence, “I remember when I was doing ‘Hunger Games,’ nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn’t work — we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead.”

        • eightpix@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 months ago

          The Long Kiss Goodnight is a pretty straightforward action movie from 1996 starring Geena Davis in the lead. Samuel L. Jackson co-stars.

          Working backward from there:

          La Femme Nikita (1990) and the American remake Point of No Return (1994)

          Foxy Brown (1974) and Coffy (1973) are offerings from the blaxploitation angle.

        • soliloquy@startrek.websiteEnglish
          10·
          10 months ago

          She said that but she was wrong lol Off the top of my head both the Terminator and Alien series had lead female action hero’s that predate the Hunger Games

          Also I don’t mean to be pedantic, I can’t tell if this is a stealth /s discussion or not