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Name a well written strong female character.


Preferably a lead. A lot of people online complain about female leads, so name some good ones who aren't simply 'the leads wife'.

Don't name Ellen Ripley or Sarah Connor or Princess Leia.

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Saoirse Ronan as Hanna...

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Mrs. Robinson from The Graduate
Sister Aloysius from Doubt
Catwoman from Batman Returns

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Flora Robson as Queen Elizabeth I. in "The Sea Hawk". She wasn‘t the female lead but should have won an academy award for best supporting role in 1940.

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Valerian from "The Dragon Slayer"
Snow White from "Mirror, Mirror"
Sally and the aunts from "Practical Magic"
Alanna from the "Song of the Lioness" books

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Movie: Wonder Woman of Wonder Woman
TV: Joan Watson of Elementary
Honorable mention: Rizzo of Grease

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Emmanuelle.

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Xena & Gabrielle

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