Which fictional character comes to your mind first when someone says strong, independent woman? (lemmings.world)

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Can be from any kind of media.

For me it's Margot from The Magicians (which is interesting because in the books she is anything but) and Jesse Faden from Control.

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[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Garnet (Steven Universe)

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Someone already said Susannah Dean so I'm gonna go with Roz from Frasier

[-] spacecadet@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Ignoring the shit show that is Rings of Power, Galadriel, Luthien, Arwen, Eowyn, and Nienna.

[-] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Margot was so awesome. Really loved that show.

Edit: Well, I loved the first three seasons, anyway. 😑

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 week ago

The latter seasons were worse, but I still loved those. But yeah, Margot and Elliot were simply awesome.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Mirko!

Margot is also amazing, but she's not independent IMO. She's very emotionally hooked. Not in a bad way, mind you. She's like a shounen protagonist who screams for 5 episodes because her friend was threatened and somehow a nation collapses as a result.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 0 points 1 week ago

I mean, no one is really independent, but women in fiction tend to be very dependent on men as (almost) their primary personality trait.

I loved Margot because she was as independent as anyone in real life can be. She did her own thing, helped her friends, let her friends help her, fucked up, owned it and fixed it (most of the time, anyway).

All the characters were very realistic (well, if you ignore the magic).

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I mean emotionally independent. Margot had some serious needs. Functionally she's totally independent. Probably all of them except Fen were.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I'm really liking the evolution of Shallan Davar in the Stormlight Archives at the moment.

[-] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Cate Blanchett's portrail of Elizabeth I (who I know was real, but I'm sure there was some creative license with the character).

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Taarna

[-] Snowyday@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

High King Margot is a great answer

For me, I thought of Linda Carter’s Wonder Woman and then Captain Rachel Garrett, commander of the USS Enterprise, 1701-C

[-] melodious_thunk@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Diana Taverner from Slow Horses.

Veronica Palmer from Better Off Ted.

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The Boss, MGS

Not Big Boss, the man with the eye patch and is a bad guy, the woman who taught him and the mother of Ocelot

She was such a badass woman that she inspired basically everyone around her to try to mold the world in the way they thought she saw it. Shes a great example of a woman/mother who's a badass directly because of the skills normally associated with those roles. Yeah, she can fight and kick your main characters ass, but that's mostly because she's spent time nurturing him and caring for him to the point where he emotionally cannot fight her. She regularly disarms strong, imposing men (some with superpowers like lightning channeling) by just looking at them sternly and implying she's about to call them by all 3 of their names in a disapproving tone

Time and again she does badass things while she's alive, and her death is technically the catalyst for the rest of the series as those who loved and admired her try to shape the world as she saw it, which isn't even something she herself did because of her loyalty to her country.

Oh and she's voiced by the same woman who does Pearl from SpongeBob, which is wild

[-] Mushroomm@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Appsros character in Abberation

[-] forrgott@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Nest Freemark

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Agatha Heterodyne from Girl Genius.

And a lot of her friends too.

[-] minibyte@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Hetty Lange

[-] curiousPJ@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Hachikuji Mayoi from monogatari series.

Senjougahara Hitagi from monogatari series.

Deishuu Kaik-- oops you didn't read that.

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