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* ''{{Film/Underworld 2003}}'':
** Amelia is the third elder, who are said to be more powerful than the regular vampires. However, she's offscreen for most of the story, and her one appearance shows her getting easily killed by the Lycans ambushing her train. Most of this happens offscreen too, but there's no indicator that she fought back. ''Evolution'' would remedy this with a flashback to the Dark Ages, showing her as a LadyOfWar effortlessly killing William's werewolves, suggesting that her death was a case of WorfHadTheFlu.
** Sonja in ''Rise Of The Lycans'' is the leader of the elite vampire "death dealers," but unlike Creator/KateBeckinsale's Selene, she's almost completely helpless through the entire film. She's ''introduced'' while fleeing from werewolves, forcing her werewolf lover Lucian to save her. Later, he has to save her again from being overrun by werewolves, though she does kill plenty of those on her own and is the only one of her party to survive the attack. Later still, Viktor imprisons her and uses her as bait to catch Lucian. After Lucian busts her out, she actually manages to best Viktor in a swordfight, but he immediately uses her StandardFemaleGrabArea to trap her in a classic hostage pose, forcing Lucian to surrender to save her. After all that, [[spoiler:she gets executed, while Lucian breaks free and successfully slaughters the castle]]. Even before all that, Viktor wants her to give up being a death dealer and take a seat on the council instead.
** Amelia is the third elder, who are said to be more powerful than the regular vampires. However, she's offscreen for most of the story, and her one appearance shows her getting easily killed by the Lycans ambushing her train. Most of this happens offscreen too, but there's no indicator that she fought back. ''Evolution'' would remedy this with a flashback to the Dark Ages, showing her as a LadyOfWar effortlessly killing William's werewolves, suggesting that her death was a case of WorfHadTheFlu.
** Sonja in ''Rise Of The Lycans'' is the leader of the elite vampire "death dealers," but unlike Creator/KateBeckinsale's Selene, she's almost completely helpless through the entire film. She's ''introduced'' while fleeing from werewolves, forcing her werewolf lover Lucian to save her. Later, he has to save her again from being overrun by werewolves, though she does kill plenty of those on her own and is the only one of her party to survive the attack. Later still, Viktor imprisons her and uses her as bait to catch Lucian. After Lucian busts her out, she actually manages to best Viktor in a swordfight, but he immediately uses her StandardFemaleGrabArea to trap her in a classic hostage pose, forcing Lucian to surrender to save her. After all that, [[spoiler:she gets executed, while Lucian breaks free and successfully slaughters the castle]]. Even before all that, Viktor wants her to give up being a death dealer and take a seat on the council instead.
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* ''{{Film/Underworld 2003}}'':
**2003}}'': Amelia is one of the third elder, three Vampire Elders who are said to be more powerful than the regular vampires. average vampire. However, she's offscreen for she spends most of the story, story offscreen, and her one appearance shows her getting easily killed by the Lycans ambushing her train. Most of this happens offscreen too, but there's no indicator that she fought back. ''Evolution'' would remedy this with a flashback to the Dark Ages, showing her as a LadyOfWar effortlessly killing William's werewolves, suggesting that her death was a case of WorfHadTheFlu.
** Sonja in ''Rise Of The Lycans'' is the leader of the elite vampire "death dealers," but unlike Creator/KateBeckinsale's Selene, she's almost completely helpless through the entire film. She's ''introduced'' while fleeing from werewolves, forcing her werewolf lover Lucian to save her. Later, he has to save her again from being overrun by werewolves, though she does kill plenty of those on her own and is the only one of her party to survive the attack. Later still, Viktor imprisons her and uses her as bait to catch Lucian. After Lucian busts her out, she actually manages to best Viktor in a swordfight, but he immediately uses her StandardFemaleGrabArea to trap her in a classic hostage pose, forcing Lucian to surrender to save her. After all that, [[spoiler:she gets executed, while Lucian breaks free and successfully slaughters the castle]]. Even before all that, Viktor wants her to give up being a death dealer and take a seat on the council instead.WorfHadTheFlu.
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** Sonja in ''Rise Of The Lycans'' is the leader of the elite vampire "death dealers," but unlike Creator/KateBeckinsale's Selene, she's almost completely helpless through the entire film. She's ''introduced'' while fleeing from werewolves, forcing her werewolf lover Lucian to save her. Later, he has to save her again from being overrun by werewolves, though she does kill plenty of those on her own and is the only one of her party to survive the attack. Later still, Viktor imprisons her and uses her as bait to catch Lucian. After Lucian busts her out, she actually manages to best Viktor in a swordfight, but he immediately uses her StandardFemaleGrabArea to trap her in a classic hostage pose, forcing Lucian to surrender to save her. After all that, [[spoiler:she gets executed, while Lucian breaks free and successfully slaughters the castle]]. Even before all that, Viktor wants her to give up being a death dealer and take a seat on the council instead.
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* ''{{Film/Tekken 2010}}'': Nina Williams is touted as a master assassin. When she's ordered to take Jin out, she and Anna double teaming him in a dark room doesn't even kill him. The next day, Christie beats her easily in their tournament fight.
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* ''{{Film/Tekken 2010}}'': Nina Williams is touted as a master assassin. When she's ordered She fails to take kill Jin out, she and despite having Anna double teaming him in a dark room doesn't even kill him. The next day, as backup and is easily beaten by Christie beats her easily in their tournament fight. fight the next day.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' builds up Jailbreak as a tough-as-nails, hypercompetent {{Hackette}} who can reprogram Gene into the "meh" he's always wanted to be, but she spends most of her screen time being a pushy {{jerkass}} rather than doing any actual hacking. Besides nearly falling to her death in the ''Just Dance'' app, her most plot-relevant action is [[spoiler:embracing her former identity as a PrincessClassic emoji so she can summon the Twitter Bird]], something which notably contradicts her character arc. We only see her reprogram something once, and it's ''not'' Gene -- rather than any of her own HollywoodHacking skills, it's her turning down his LoveConfession that turns him into a "meh."
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' builds up Jailbreak as a tough-as-nails, hypercompetent {{Hackette}} who can reprogram Gene into the "meh" he's always wanted to be, but she spends most of her screen time being a pushy {{jerkass}} rather than doing any actual hacking. Besides nearly falling to her death in the ''Just Dance'' app, her most plot-relevant action is [[spoiler:embracing her former identity as a PrincessClassic emoji so she can summon the Twitter Bird]], something which notably contradicts her character arc. We only see her reprogram something once, and it's ''not'' Gene -- rather than any of her own HollywoodHacking skills, it's her [[DidNotGetTheGirl turning down down]] his LoveConfession that turns him into a "meh."
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' builds up Jailbreak as a tough-as-nails, hypercompetent {{Hackette}} who can reprogram Gene into the "meh" he's always wanted to be, but she spends most of her screen time being a pushy {{jerkass}} rather than doing any actual hacking. Besides nearly falling to her death in the ''Just Dance'' app, her most plot-relevant action is [[spoiler:embracing her former identity as a PrincessClassic emoji so she can summon the Twitter Bird]], something which notably contradicts her character arc. We only see her reprogram something once, and it's ''not'' Gene -- rather than any of her own HollywoodHacking skills, it's her turning down his LoveConfession that turns him into a "meh."
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* Jayne Magdalene in the ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' remake. In the prequel comic, she's shown as pretty competent. In the game, all she does is get clocked, [[spoiler:first clotheslined (literally, with his bionic arm cable) by Spencer and then stomped on by the BigBad]].
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* Jayne Magdalene in the ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' ''VideoGame/BionicCommando2009'' remake. In the prequel comic, she's shown as pretty competent. In the game, all she does is get clocked, [[spoiler:first clotheslined (literally, with his bionic arm cable) by Spencer and then stomped on by the BigBad]].
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* Two characters from Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries are shown to be more bark than bite:
** Harley Quinn is the Joker's right hand woman reportedly skilled in acrobatics and combat and, when she takes leadership after the Joker's death, widely shown to be feared by her goons. However, aside from beating up some guards and Nightwing in VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight during her story campaign, she never really backs up her reputation and is easily dispatched by Batman whenever he faces against her and loses to fellow FauxActionGirl Talia al Ghul offscreen.
** Harley Quinn is the Joker's right hand woman reportedly skilled in acrobatics and combat and, when she takes leadership after the Joker's death, widely shown to be feared by her goons. However, aside from beating up some guards and Nightwing in VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight during her story campaign, she never really backs up her reputation and is easily dispatched by Batman whenever he faces against her and loses to fellow FauxActionGirl Talia al Ghul offscreen.
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* Two characters from Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries ''Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries'' are shown to be more bark than bite:
** Harley Quinn is the Joker's right hand woman reportedly skilled in acrobatics and combat and, when she takes leadership after the Joker's death, widely shown to be feared by her goons. However, aside from beating up some guards and Nightwing inVideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'' during her story campaign, she never really backs up her reputation and is easily dispatched by Batman whenever he faces against her and loses to fellow FauxActionGirl Talia al Ghul offscreen.
** Harley Quinn is the Joker's right hand woman reportedly skilled in acrobatics and combat and, when she takes leadership after the Joker's death, widely shown to be feared by her goons. However, aside from beating up some guards and Nightwing in
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**Among the villains of the show, Chimera has that reputation. She is Stella's rival and would-be-stepsister, a fairly competent magic user, and the top student of another magic academy. When Stella and Chimera finally duel each other, Stella incapacitates Chimera with a single attack.
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*Series/{{Highlander}}: Cassandra is an immortal witch, with the rare (in this setting) abilities of CompellingVoice and VoluntaryShapeshifting. She is also thousands of years old and much more experienced than most of the other immortals we encounter (with four exceptions). Yet her fighting skills are far from impressive, and she is not much of a strategist. The only time in which she has a chance to kill a fellow immortal, the immortal in question is already exhausted from a previous fight and on his knees after receiving a quickening.
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*ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian: Marvel's version of the pirate queen Belit received years of regular appearances and character development, in comparison to her short story counterpart. Despite being a formidable fighter in regular combat, she was often depicted as disarmed, kidnapped or incapacitated in order to have her boyfriend Conan come to her rescue. Her sword-fighting skills were also depicted as inferior to both Conan and Red Sonja, because Belit had no formal training in her chosen weapon (unlike the other two).
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** ''Ninja Gaiden II'' for the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} features Sonia, who is ''also'' a [[InformedAbility highly-trained CIA operative]]. Her story at first mimics Irene's ([[DamselInDistress capture]], then [[BigDamnHeroes saving Ryu's bacon]]), but she then gets captured ''again'', causing her to fall right back into this trope. However, it's hard to be of any use [[spoiler:in the Underworld]] if you're not a badass {{Ninja}} named Ryu Hayabusa. Perhaps a sequel will give Sonia a chance to redeem herself in the vein of Rachel and Momiji. As the original games have apparently been [[RetCon retconned]] to follow the Xbox titles (and by proxy, ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive''), it's eventually revealed in ''Dead or Alive: Dimensions'' that Irene and Sonia are one and the same.
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** ''Ninja Gaiden II'' for the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox Platform/{{Xbox 360}} features Sonia, who is ''also'' a [[InformedAbility highly-trained CIA operative]]. Her story at first mimics Irene's ([[DamselInDistress capture]], then [[BigDamnHeroes saving Ryu's bacon]]), but she then gets captured ''again'', causing her to fall right back into this trope. However, it's hard to be of any use [[spoiler:in the Underworld]] if you're not a badass {{Ninja}} named Ryu Hayabusa. Perhaps a sequel will give Sonia a chance to redeem herself in the vein of Rachel and Momiji. As the original games have apparently been [[RetCon retconned]] to follow the Xbox titles (and by proxy, ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive''), it's eventually revealed in ''Dead or Alive: Dimensions'' that Irene and Sonia are one and the same.
