female characters meme

Feb 06, 2010 20:37

Jumping on the bandwagon,

Female characters meme
1) Anathema Device (Good Omens)
2) Annie Porter (Speed)
3) Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing)
4) The Bride a.k.a. Beatrice Kiddo (Kill Bill)
5) Carmen (Carmen)
6) Cleopatra (Antony and Cleopatra)
7) Dr. Dakota Block (Planet Terror)
8) Dana Scully (The X-Files)
9) The Dog-Woman (Sexing the Cherry)
10) Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)
11) Eloise d’Artagnan (La Fille d’Artagnan)
12) Elphaba (Wicked)
13) Eowyn (Lord of the Rings, movie version)
14) Floria Tosca (Tosca)
15) Flying Snow (Hero)
16) Fulvia (Masters of Rome series)
17) Ginger (Chicken Run)
18) Gloriana/Belphoebe/Good Queen Bess (Rewards and Fairies)
19) Golden Swallow (Come Drink With Me a.k.a. Da Zui Xia)
20) Helen Parr/Mrs Incredible (The Incredibles)
21) Huang Rong (Legend of the Condor Heroes)
22) Jane Marple (Miss Marple)
23) Jo March (Little Women)
24) Karen Blixen (Out of Africa)
25) Katori Masako (Out)
26) Livia Augusta (I, Claudius)
27) Mina Harker (Dracula)
28) Moll Flanders (Moll Flanders)
29) Molly Bloom (Ulysses)
30) Mu Guiying (Women Warriors of the Yang Family)
31) Orlando (Orlando)
32) Portia (The Merchant of Venice)
33) Qiu Ju (The Story of Qiu Ju)
34) Raquel Casull (Scrapped Princess)
35) Rosalind (As You Like It)
36) Shirley Keeldar (Shirley)
37) Sister Mary Clarence a.k.a. Deloris Van Cartier (Sister Act)
38) Sybylla Melvyn (My Brilliant Career)
39) Tsao Wan (Peking Opera Blues a.k.a. Dao Ma Dan)
40) “Tuppence” Beresford (Tommy and Tuppence)
41) Velma Kelly (Chicago)
42) Velvet a.k.a. Margravine Liselle (The Malloreon)
43) Vexille Serra (Vexille)
44) Viola de Lesseps (Shakespeare in Love)
45) Virginia Otis (The Canterville Ghost, short story not movie)
46) Xue Baochai (Dream of the Red Chamber)
47) Ya Yu (Woxinchangdan)
48) Yin Susu (Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre)
49) Yu Shu-lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
50) Youko (tactics, q.v. icon)

As an inordinate number of these ladies enjoy verbal/physical sparring, with or without crossdressing, it seems only appropriate to add an honourable (ahem) mention of The Invincible East (as incarnated by the incomparable Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia in Swordsman II).

Getting to 100 might requiring putting the ol' memory on a treadmill rather than a leisurely jog, but we shall see.

books, boh liao, movies, meme, anime

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