History ActionGirl / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/AgentCarter'': Peggy Carter herself. She's more than competent with her fists, a revolver, or [[CombatPragmatist anything else that's handy at the moment]]. Part of the reason Peggy is so good at winning fights is because the series takes place in post-UsefulNotes/WorldWarII America, where sexism was rampant and women were expected to StayInTheKitchen. Peggy is particularly dangerous because nobody ''expects'' her to be.
* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'':
** Melinda May, SO HARD. Skye [[CharacterDevelopment slowly becomes one, too]], but May is on a whole different level, being pretty much the most formidable hand-to-hand combatant in the series. If you're not superhuman, she will DESTROY you.
** Season two introduces Bobbi Morse, who's just as badass as ever. Her first scene has her taking down a bunch of HYDRA soldiers with ease.
** Once Skye fully takes up her identity as Daisy Johnson she quite firmly is put on May's level, arguably even higher due to her superpowers.
** Simmons starts out as an explicit non-combatant - after surviving some very brutal situations and getting training from May, she's good enough to hold her own in a fight if she needs to, although not to the level of Bobbi, Daisy, May, or Elena (noted below).
** Later on, Elena (also someone with [[SuperSpeed superpowers like Daisy]]) joins the crew and is rather effective.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': A number of examples-the Huntress, both versions of the Canary and Shado.
** There's also trained assassin [[DarkActionGirl Nyssa al-Ghul]], and Diggle's special forces/ A.R.G.U.S. field agent [[AmicableExes ex-wife/current-girlfriend/wife again]] Lyla Michaels.
** The spinoff-series ''WesternAnimation/{{Vixen}}'', ''Series/TheFlash2014'', and ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' bring us Vixen and Hawkgirl as heroes, and [[DarkActionGirl villains]] from the setting have included China White, Plastique, Killer Frost, Trajectory, Peek-a-Boo, Isabelle Rochev/Ravager, and Cupid.
** Vixen sums up the subject in her introductory live-action scene when she takes down a group of heavily-armed mooks one by one:
--->'''Last mook standing:''' Why don't you come out and fight like a man?\\
'''Vixen:''' How about I kick your ass like a woman?
** And the count continues with Artemis, Jesse Quick, Thea Queen/Speedy, more introduced metahumans...at this point, it seems like anyone who tries to attack a random woman in the Arrowverse runs a high-risk of getting [[MuggingTheMonster their ass handed to them]] by the sheer number of butt-kicking women there are.

* ''Series/Batwoman2019'':
** Kate is quite skilled in combat.
** Ryan's a martial artist who takes up the Batwoman name and mantle.

* ''Series/Legion2017'' has Kerry Loudermilk. On a series where most of the mutants have some kind of psionic power, she's just really strong and a preternaturally good fighter, enough to take out a whole unit of soldiers at once.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': Lois Lane, probably helped by her MilitaryBrat status. Most of the female superheroes (like Black Canary and Supergirl) obviously qualify as well. [[DarkActionGirl Tess Mercer]] after her HeelFaceTurn, as did [[TheSmartGuy Chloe Sullivan]] after she TookALevelInBadass.

* ''Series/Supergirl2015'':
** The main character, Kara Zor-El/Kara Danvers alias Supergirl, is the world's strongest and most powerful woman. An important subplot deals with her becoming a hero and learning what it means while she kicks butts.
** She's aided by her adopted sister Alex, who kicks much butt as a DEO agent, and they've run into multiple female alien threats, not to mention superpowered humans Livewire and Silver Banshee. During the crossover with ''Series/TheFlash2014'' when Supergirl and the Flash faced off in a fight against the latter two, Barry joked they would settle this like women.
--->'''Barry:''' What? There's more of you than there is me.
** Nia also turns into one upon discovering her powers and becoming Dreamer. She is taught how to fight, not only with them but by martial arts.

* ''Series/Titans2018'': Any woman who is part of the team can and will kick your ass, whether they are an alien WarriorPrincess, an Amazon, a McNinja metahuman, a human-demon hybrid or a BadassNormal.

* ''Series/WandaVision'':
** Wanda herself, in fact she takes a level in badass in the finale [[spoiler:when she fully embraces her Chaos Magic and becomes the legendary [[SuperMode Scarlet Witch]] whose power quote "exceeds that of the [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 Sorcerer Supreme]]"]].
** When captured by SWORD {{Mooks}}, Monica Rambeau knocks them out quickly alongside Agent Woo. [[spoiler:After reentering the Hex, Monica gains her superpowers from the comics being able to manipulate energy to the extent where enemy bullets pass painlessly through her body and to the ground.]]
** Darcy deserves a mention as she puts her CarFu skills to good use smashing into GeneralRipper Hayward with a food truck as he tries to escape justice in a humvee.

* Wonder Woman from ''Series/WonderWoman1975''. At the time, an action girl was such new ground for broadcast TV that the producers had huge concerns about how the audience would react if a woman was punched by a man in prime time. This ended up making Wonder Woman even more of a badass since the result was that they decided her opponents would be so physically overwhelmed by the Amazon Princess that they would rarely even land a punch before she beat them.

* ''Series/TeenageBountyHunters'': It was this that impressed former cop turned bounty hunter Bowser Jenkins enough to take on the naive rich girl sisters Blair and Sterling Wesley as his proteges. Both girls knew their way around a shotgun and pistol when they took down a skip that evaded Bowser when the trio first met, plus Blair's athletic enough to run down most skips and she's taken some down with her lacrosse stick-handling.

* ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'': Believe it or not, Daisy Duke was highly competent despite not being remembered as such. She could wield a gun just as well as the boys, went on missions with them in many occasions, and even once whipped out a bazooka and earned verse the title “Sharpshooter of the Week.”

%%* ''Series/QueenOfSwords'': Tessa is essentially a female version of Franchise/{{Zorro}}.

* ''Series/WorldOnFire'': Kasia slowly becomes this as a resistance fighter, learning how to use guns and also killing several German soldiers personally.

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* ''Series/{{Cursed}}'':
** Nimue becomes this, wielding the Sword of Power effectively to fight Red Paladins, along with using magic on them.

* ''Series/{{Deputy}}'': Deputy Bishop is assigned as Hollister's driver and bodyguard. She's shown to be a crack shot, and can even shoot accurately while riding a horse full tilt (she's a trained equestrian). There are also a couple other female deputies in the show who also display their skills. Bishop also turns out to be nonbinary.

* ''Series/MiracleWorkers'': Sheila, a female Blackfoot warrior, who's the fiercest among her band.

* ''Series/TheLazarusProject'': Archie is the most prominent female Lazarus operative who works in the field. She's quite good with a gun. Before joining Lazarus, she'd been with MI-5. Janet previously had been with Lazarus as well, and is still skilled in combat while less active, caring for her daughter after leaving.