Jennifer Lawrence was tough and self-reliant in "The Hunger Games," giving us hope that perhaps we're turning a corner in the way women are portrayed in genre. Here's a look at other women of TV, film, comics and more who embody female empowerment. Did we miss someone? Let us know! (Murray Close / Lions Gates/Associated Press)
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International Women’s Day is being honored today with that singular cultural touchstone: a Google Doodle.
The doodle drawing of faces of women around the world artistically honors the advancement of women’s rights — one of the chief goals of International Women’s Day — and the fact that a woman’s work, it seems, is never done.
Hero Complex is celebrating International Women’s Day in the best way it knows how: with a photo gallery of women from film, TV, games and comic books who embody female empowerment and, let’s face it, kick booty. (Yes, we said “booty,” but only because the L.A. Times censors made us.)
Now we know there’s a long list of complaints about women in genre. Chiefly, that they are hyper-sexualized sidekicks who do little more than bust out of their curve-hugging costumes.
And, as Time points out, when are we going to see a really good superheroine movie?
But for International Women’s Day, we’re choosing to focus on the best and the brightest of the heroines we have.
As you flip through the photo gallery, let us know if we missed any of your favorite booty-kicking women, be they good or bad.
Tell us in the comments below — and explain your pick — and we’ll do our best to dig through our media library for an image and add it to the gallery.
Happy International Women’s Day!
– Rene Lynch
@ReneLynch
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Hallie Berry in Cat Woman
You forgot Amanda Tapping as Colonel Samantha Carter on Stargate SG1 #superheroinesthatkickbutt
Miranda Ott as Eowyn in LOTR; Jennifer Connelly as Sarah in Labyrinth; Dakota Blue Richards as Lyra Belacqua in His Dark Materials film adaptation The Golden Compass; Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy in Batman and Robin; Gwendoline Christie as Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones; Kristen Stewart as Snow White in Snow White and the Huntsman (yeah, I know, but her character was a warrior); and Merida in Brave, because sometimes standing up for yourself is the hardest battle of all.
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Diana Rigg as Emma Peele; Michelle Yeoh in *anything*; Katee Sackhoff as Starbuck; Milla Jovovitch in the Resident Evil films; Kate Beckinsale in the Underworld franchise
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Uma Thurman in Kill Bill Volume 1/2?
Idgie Threadgood and Ruth in Fried Green Tomatos
Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully in The X-Files