Delightfully Useless

Okay, so I was poking InfiniteViking's back archives (as I do - some of my longtime friends know that I tend to marathon interesting people's journal archives when I'm bored, and scatter comments along my way), and I found a "List 100 awesome female characters" meme.

This leads me to realize that I don't even know if I could come up with 25 or 50 awesome female characters, let alone 100. I pay far too little attention to the ladies - heck, the TARDIS is the only female character in my icons right now! O_O Except for her, my favorite characters from my various fandoms fit quite well under the heading of "my guys".

So. For an experiment: rockin' awesome female characters in no particular order. Good, evil, human, alien, inorganic... let's see how many I can come up with!



1: Maj. Sam Carter (Stargate SG-1)
2: Dr Janet Fraiser (Stargate SG-1)
3: Bayta (Quadrail books)
4: Liz Shaw (Doctor Who)
5: The TARDIS (Doctor Who)
6: The Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)
7: The Batmobile (Batman Begins)
8: Maj. Kira Nerys (Deep Space Nine)
9: Lt Jadzia Dax (Deep Space Nine)
10: Lwaxana Troi (ST: TNG/Deep Space Nine)
11: Dr Kate Pulaski (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
12: Sharon Carter aka Agent 13 (Captain America comics)
13: Ororo Munro aka Storm (X-Men)
14: Lt Uhura (Star Trek)
15: Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)
16: Merryweather (Sleeping Beauty)
17: Queen Lucy the Valiant (Narnia books)
18: Lovey Howell (Gilligan's Island)
19: Mary Ann Summers (Gilligan's Island)
20: Cally (Blakes 7)
21: Jenna (Blakes 7)
22: Kitty Pryde (X-Men)
23: Rogue (X-Men comics)
24: Destiny aka Irene Adler (X-Men comics) [I don't think she's the same one]
25: Irene Adler (Sherlock Holmes)
26: Sarah Jane Smith (Doctor Who)
27: Aravis Tarkheena (The Horse and His Boy)
28: Donna Noble (Doctor Who) [...I had to Google her last name because she rocks so hard she's transcended modifiers in my mind]
29: Martha Jones (Doctor Who)
30: The Brigadette aka Brigadier Winifred Bambera (Doctor Who)
31: Ace McShane (Doctor Who)
32: Abby Sciuto (NCIS)
33: Wendy Watson aka Dubby (The Middleman)
34: mirror!Lacey Thornfield (The Middleman) *wants spinoff fic NOW*
35: Ida (The Middleman)
36: Amanda Grayson (Star Trek)
37: Number One (Pike-era Star Trek)
38: Penny Parker (MacGyver)
39: Mrs Hudson (Sherlock Holmes)
40: Sha're (Stargate SG-1)
41: Drey'auc (Stargate SG-1)
42: Randy Melendy (The Saturdays books)
43: Portia Blake (Gone-Away Lake books)
44: Cuffy aka Mrs Evangeline Cuthbert-Stanley (The Saturdays books)
45: Mrs Minnehaha Cheever (Gone-Away Lake books)
46: Tatsinda (Tatsinda)
47: Granny Weatherwax (Discworld books)
48: Lady Sibyl Vimes (Discworld books)
49: Jabe (Doctor Who)
50: Kaylee (Firefly)
51: Grandma Steinmetz (Herbie Rides Again) [played by Helen Hayes]
52: Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins movie)
53: Jane Banks (Mary Poppins movie)
54: Mrs Winifred Banks (Mary Poppins movie)
55: Cook (Mary Poppins movie) [ack, me and names! Google isn't helping]
56: Ellen (Mary Poppins movie)
57: Katie Nana (Mary Poppins movie)
58: The Lady Sif (Thor movie)
59: Athena (Greek mythology)
60: Jeanne d'Estel (Letzenstein books)
61: Pegeen (Bantry Bay books)
62: Miss Marple (Agatha Christie's books)
63: Cousin Kate (The Good Master books)
64: Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn)
65: Mrs Woodlawn aka Mother (Caddie Woodlawn)
66: Ma aka Caroline Ingalls (Little House books)
67: Cecil aka Cecilia (Sun Slower Sun Faster)
68: Tirilie-O-mi-O (The Other Side of the Moon)
69: The Lady Nia-o-Sinnoïne (The Other Side of the Moon)
70: Princess Cirladine (The Other Side of the Moon)
71: The Dowager Duchess of Denver (Wimsey books)
72: The Lady Galadriel (LOTR books)
73: Lobelia Sackville-Baggins (LOTR books)
74: Idril Celebrindal (Silmarillion)
75: Elwing the White (Silmarillion)
76: Luthien Tinuviel (Silmarillion)
77: Miss Cornelia (Anne of Green Gables books)
78: Rebecca Dew (Anne of Green Gables books)
79: Miss Minerva Tomgallon (Anne of Green Gables books)
80: Miss Sarah Pringle (Anne of Green Gables books)
81: the members of the SCR (Gaudy Night) [I can't remember all their names, dang it! But I can't leave them out]
82: Miss Climpson (Wimsey books)
83: Susan (Anne of Green Gables books)
84: Mary Jane Watson-Parker (Sinister Six Spider-Man tie-in books)
85: Aunt May Parker (Spider-Man movies)
86: Betty Brant (Spider-Man comics and movies)
87: Dr Cynthia Monetta (Sinister Six Spider-Man tie-in books)
88: Agent Donna [somebody] (Sinister Six Spider-Man tie-in books)
89: Liz Allen (my mom's unpublished Spider-Man movieverse tag!novel) [shusht! lol]
90: Aunt Anna Watson (Spider-Man 1994 TV series)
91: Kate Sullivan the lady lawyer (Legend 1995 TV series)
92: Victoria Broll (Legend 1995 TV series)
93: Beth McMillan the oil-company owner (Legend 1995 TV series)
94: Mrs Pratt, Ernest's mom (Legend 1995 TV series)
95: Zorelda, Ernest's mom's very short housemaid (Legend 1995 TV series) [her actress Patty Maloney is also apparently pretty rockin', but factual awesome ladies is another list!]
96: Carol Danvers aka Miss Marvel aka Binary aka Ace Danvers (Marvel comics)
97: Seraph (X-Men)
98: The Lady Mariko (X-Men)
99: Hepzibah of the Starjammers (X-Men) [is not "Starjammers" the coolest team name ever? /OT]
100: Rachel Grey-Summers (X-Men)



Well! That was educational! It seems that many things I like actually have quite a high concentration of awesome ladies - I just don't primarily focus on them. Granted, most of them are in pretty minor roles. o_O

(Feel free to suggest female characters I missed in the comments! Admittedly, there are some I left out on purpose, but there are also many many many that I just haven't seen yet or plain forgot about. *g*)