Monday, August 22, 2011

The Most Badass Female Action Heros



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Before there was Lisbeth of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,




Cataleya of Colombiana

Hanna of Hanna 

and 
Babydoll, Sweet Pea, Rocket, Blondie and Amber of Sucker Punch,

there were a slew of badass women before them.

In my eyes, the most badass girls in any action film I've seen up until now, goes to:




Charly Baltimore
Geena Davis as an assassin for the CIA in 1996's The Long Kiss Goodnight.

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Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil
Demi Moore as an army Lieutenant in 1997's G.I. Jane.

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Black Mamba
Uma Thurman as an assassin in 2003's Kill Bill Volume 1.

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O-Ren Ishii
Lucy Liu as an assassin in 2003's Kill Bill Volume 1.

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Alice
Milla Jovovich as a genetically altered human with super abilities, in the Resident Evil series.

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Selene
Kate Beckinsale playing a werewolf hunter in the Underworld series.

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Lara Croft
Angelina Jolie as an adventurer in the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider series.

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 Evelyn Salt
Angelina Jolie as a CIA agent in 2010's Salt.

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Fox
Angelina Jolie as an assassin in 2008's Wanted.

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Foxy Brown
Pam Grier as a woman seeking revenge in the Foxy Brown films.

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Bonnie
Faye Dunaway as a bank robber in 1967's Bonnie and Clyde.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNrSGutBOlE



Nikita
Anne Parillaud as a trained assassin in 1990's Nikita.

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Maggie Hayward
Bridget Fonda as a trained assassin in 1993's Point of No Return (American remake of the French Nikita).

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Thelma & Louise
 Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis as fugitives for murder and robbery in 1991's Thelma & Louise.





Mallory Knox
Juliette Lewis as a serial killer in 1994's Natural Born Killers.

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Niobe
Jada Pinkett Smith as a rebel pilot in 2003's The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.
 
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Frankie, Cleo, T.T. & Stoney
Vivica A. Fox, Queen Latifah, Kimberly Elise and Jada Pinkett Smith as working class girls turned bank robbers in 1996's Set It Off.

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Erica Bain
Jodie Foster as a vigilante in 2007's The Brave One.

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Abernathy, Zoe & Kim
Rosario Dawson, Zoe Bell and Tracie Thoms as a make-up artist and two stuntwomen looking for revenge in 2007's Death Proof

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*Lisbeth Salander
Noomi Rapace playing a brilliant but volatile hacker in 2009's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

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