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Working Title: All Amazons Want Hercules: From YKTTW
Armadillo: Cutting This. Dido wasn't an Amazon in the slightest. She was a stately noblewoman and court lady; not to mention that she was under the effect of Cupid's magic. Camilla was an Amazon from the Aeneid, but she happily eschewed men until her death on the battlefield.
- * Aeneas of The Aeneid shows up at Carthage and manages to get it on with Dido, who was not only still in mourning for her dead husband, but had been banished by the man who murdered him.
fleb: Cutting these: A) Not A Subversion, B) The Farscape, Hercules: Recycled: The Series, ones sound like the classic Non-Action Guy/Action Girl pairing (NAGAG for short), which *might* qualify as a much more modern-minded inversion of this.
- * Subverted in dark elf society, wherein no matter how powerful a male gets, unless he's able to overthrow the entire society, the nature of the enforced matriarchy—that being religious in nature from an evil goddess—means that at best he will be a favored concubine or perhaps be the power behind the throne of a single house. A good example of this would be Drizzt's father, Zaknafein, who was renowned as the foremost warrior in the city, and possibly the entire Underdark. His "weak" (i.e. non-evil) attitudes irritated Malice, the Matron Mother of the house, but he was simply too good a fighter—and, she would admit to herself, too good a lover—to just kill out of hand.* Subverted in Far Scape, where Bad Ass Action Girl Aeryn Sun's love is...John Crichton, lost-in-space scientist and astronaut. She has to teach him the finer points of combat, and how to fly ships that can bend the laws of physics.*Subverted, believe it or not, in Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series. Here, Hippolyta's husband exhibits more traditionally feminine qualities, and it's implied that the culture as a whole looks for more submissive men.
Lightice: "Of course Amazons didn't hate men per se, as they would raid near by villages and rape the men, and kill any male child they had." Y'know, that sounds awful lot like hating men...
fleb: Yyyeah... Cut for self-evident stupidity.
Madrugada: Added note that aversions will be removed, also deleted Venus In Furs example, as it really doesn't fit. Wanda isn't with Severin because he can dominate her. She doesn't go to Alexis because he can dominate her, either.
Kilyle: Do we have a trope for when the male and female leads are both badass and can stand up to each other as equals? It's what Gil and Agatha are turning into over in Girl Genius (as evidenced by this page
). Both are strong and over-the-top characters, and neither one is inferior to the other - they're perfect for each other because they can stand up to each other and could work fine on their own, but... well, between their two minds, it's the "sum is greater than the parts" thing. They're going to be awesome together.
H. Torrance Griffin: The closest would be Battle Couple....
