History Main / GirlsWithGuns

* ''Film/BlackButterfly'', the protagonist being a hitwoman and professional killer sent to Taiwan in a covert mission.

* ''[[Characters/MarvelComicsWildPack ComicBook/SilverSable'' is usually armed with at least one handgun, and has access to an arsenal of other guns as she needs them.

* ''''Film/TENTheSecretMission'', an Indonesian action film about a band of female commandos (ten of them, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin like what the title says]]) going on a rescue mission.

* ''film/GunCrazy'' tells the story of an OutlawCouple of sharpshooters — former soldier Bart and circus performer Laurie.

* ''''film/TENTheSecretMission'', an Indonesian action film about a band of female commandos (ten of them, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin like what the title says]]) going on a rescue mission.

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* ''Film/NowhereGirl (2015)'', a Japanese film starring Nana Seino as a schoolgirl who takes on entire platoons of commandoes with machine guns, culminating with Nana wielding a ''freaking'' rocket launcher!

* ''Film/The355'', in which Creator/JessicaChastain, Creator/PenelopeCruz, Creator/DianeKruger, Creator/LupitaNyongo, and Creator/FanBingbing play an international team of secret agents tracking down a superweapon that's fallen into the hands of terrorists.
* ''Film/GunpowderMilkshake'', whose premise can be summed up as "what if Creator/KarenGillan played Franchise/JohnWick?", with Creator/LenaHeadey, Creator/CarlaGugino, Creator/MichelleYeoh, and Creator/AngelaBassett also playing assassins for good measure.
* ''Film/AtomicBlonde'' was explicitly marketed as a [[DistaffCounterpart female version]] of the ''Franchise/JohnWick'' films, complete with the involvement of David Leitch, one of the [[Film/JohnWick first film]]'s co-directors making his solo directorial debut. Specifically, it starred Creator/CharlizeTheron and Creator/SofiaBoutella as secret agents in Berlin during TheGreatPoliticsMessUp.
* ''Film/{{Pistolera}}'' is about Angel (nickname: 'Pistolera') who goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge where she blasts her way through the ranks of Raffaello's drug cartel with a variety of high power firearms,including [[GatlingGood a mini-gun]] at one point.

* The short story anthology ''A Girl's Guide to Guns and Monsters'' ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin also features monsters]])
* The [[CloneArmy Sisters]] numbered 00001 to 20000 in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' carry submachine guns in their bookbags and sniper rifles (that can fire '''[[MoreDakka full-auto]]''') in guitar cases.

* ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries''. She's often shown on the cover and title screens of the [=DVDs=] posing with her [[BlingBlingBang gold-plated revolver]]. Miss Fisher carries this in her handbag in her first adventure, much to the consternation of Aunt Prudence. Usually knows where it is, [[ArtisticLicenceGunSafety but is still leaving it in unsecured places]].
* ''Series/WynonnaEarp'' focuses on the adventures of its gun-slinging titular character.

* On ''Series/{{NCIS}},'' a therapist pegs this as Tony's type. To which he responds: "Who ''doesn't'' like girls with guns?"
* ''Series/GirlGunLady'', produced by Bandai Spirits (makers of ''Toys/ThirtyMinutesMissions''), goes for a {{deconstruction}} inspired by ''Literature/BattleRoyale'', where only the girls that pick up and build the Attack Girl Gun model kits are secretly chosen, and then armed, to kill each other.

** Including the expansion "Renegade Nuns on Wheels" featuring the Carmalite, sorry, Armalite, order of nuns.

* ''Franchise/TombRaider'' with Lara Croft often carrying her dual pistols.

* ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'' is a first-person shooter starring a female agent named Joanna Dark who fights aliens.
* ''VideoGame/{{Wet}}'' counts with its hot female mercenary Rubi Malone.
* ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' has Faith, a runner who knows how to use guns when she comes across them.
* ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever'' has Cate Archer a sexy female British Spy.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' has the witch protagonist of the same name who dual wields pistols on her hands and even her feet!
* ''VideoGame/BulletWitch'' has Alicia with her big, transforming long gun.
* ''VideoGame/UnchartedTheLostLegacy'' has tough, foul mouthed and snarky Chloe finally getting her own game! Step aside, Nathan Drake, it's Chloe's time to shine for once!

* ''VideoGame/FearEffect'' has Hana, a gun-toting assassin.
* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' has Trish and Lady, Dante's female partners in DemonSlaying. The ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2'' prequel novel featured a demon hunter named Beryl who fought with an anti-tank rifle.
* ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden Sigma 2'' adds a machine gun to Rachel's arsenal.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' has numerous examples with Jill Valentine and Ada Wong being the most notable ones.
* ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' has Uni the CPU Candidate of Lastation, who utilizes guns in combat.
* ''VideoGame/{{BlazBlue}}'' gives us Noel Vermillion, who fights with GunsAkimbo and GunKata.
* ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'' has Kiana Kaslana, who fights with GunKata. Ditto [[spoiler:her ancestor Kallen]].
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' introduces Cassie Cage and Jacqui Briggs. Cassie uses regular handguns while Jacqui prefers to go with [[ArmCannon arm-mounted guns]].

* ''Film/SuckerPunch'', among being [[GenreBusting many other things]]. It's worth noting the many shootouts, action sequences and fighting scenes occurs [[spoiler: in the minds of its lead characters]].





* ''Film/ABetterTomorrow'' - The third movie, ''A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death In Saigon'' (Prequel to the first movie) features Anita Mui's character, a gunslinger and lethal killing machine who inspires Chow Yun-Fat's Mark Gor to become a triad hitman.
* ''Black Butterfly'', the protagonist being a hitwoman and professional killer sent to Taiwan in a covert mission.
* ''Film/BlackCat'', starring Jade Leung as the eponymous character, a young woman who ends up having a microchip implanted in her brain as a top-secret government project, turning her into an elite assassin and ProfessionalKiller.
* ''Film/IronAngels'' and its sequels, starring Moon Lee and Elaine Lui. The entire trilogy are now CultClassic among fans of the genre.
* ''Film/AngelTerminators'', a duology of Hong Kong action films which is a spin-off from the Iron Angels trilogy, with some of the actors returning (although playing different roles).

* ''Film/KillerAngels'' and its sequel, ''Devil Hunters'', starring Moon Lee again, where she is a tough-as-nails killer angel.
** ''Devil Hunters'' is especially infamous for a stunt gone wrong, where Moon Lee and Sibelle Hu jumps off from a tall balcony with an explosion goes off behind them. But the explosion is rather ill-timed, and since Moon and Hu did most of their own stunts, both women ends up getting badly burnt in their backs, especially Hu. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJOjctQ2Kk4 Seen here]].
* ''Film/BeautyInvestigator'', one of the last collaborations between Yukari Oshima and Moon Lee, where the actresses respectively plays an assassin and a cop who ends up taking on the triads.
* ''Film/BuryMeHigh'', one of the higher-budget films starring Moon Lee and Sibelle Hu, which ends with a full-scale battle involving tanks, helicopters, and exploding bunkers and munition piles.
* ''Film/TheDragonFighter'' starring Sibelle Hu as a hitwoman and triad killer.

* ''Film/CityCops'' starring Cynthia Rothrock as a Los Angeles detective taking on Hong Kong triads.
* ''Film/DeadlyTarget'' starring Yukari Oshima and Sharon Yeung as female cops taking on Philippine mobsters.

* ''Film/EnterTheEagles'', starring Shannon (daughter of Bruce) Lee, a bounty hunter who gets to team up with her mentor (played by Michael Wong) to take on an entire crime syndicate. Shootouts, fight scenes, exploding vehicles comes a plenty throughout the movie.
* ''Film/HannieCaulder'', starring Creator/RaquelWelch. Most girl-with-guns films with a Western setting is likely a homage to this film.
* ''Film/LeopardHunting'', starring Yukari Oshima and Jade Leung, one of the last films of this genre from late 90s Hong Kong. The film notably climaxes with Oshima and Leung leading an entire team of gun-totting ActionGirl detectives to shoot up a triad gang.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upvZ1KRdQpU TEN: The Secret Mission]]'', an Indonesian action film about a band of female commandos (ten of them, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin like what the title says]]) going on a rescue mission.
* ''Film/{{Silk}}'', starriing Cec Verell as a Hawaiian cop taking on the mob. Has a sequel 3 years later.

** ''Film/TheDrugConnection'' and it's sequel ''Lady Exterminator'' is a ForeignRemake of ''Film/{{Coffy}}'', with plenty more shotgun-totting action and shootouts from its heroine.

* ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead'' has the Lady, who is commonly remarked upon as she's the only woman in the gunfighting tournament.

* Referenced in ''Film/JackieBrown'': we don't see the two female leads packing much heat, but in the scene where [[Creator/SamuelLJackson Ordell]] is introduced he's watching a video of a woman in a bikini shooting an automatic weapon.
* ''Film/LethalPanther'' and its sequel, ''Lethal Panther 2'', starring Japan's leading lethal ladies in Hong Kong taking on mobsters. Shootout after shootout ensues.
* ''Film/{{Mercenaries}}'' is essentially a distaff counterpart to ''The Expendables'' and features copious amounts of guns and girls.
* ''Nowhere Girl (2015)'', a Japanese film starring Nana Seino as a schoolgirl who takes on entire platoons of commandoes with machine guns, culminating with Nana wielding a ''freaking'' rocket launcher!

* ''Film/Ultraviolet2006'' Violet counts with her twin uzis.
* ''Film/TheNorthStar'', a 1943 war movie, plays this utterly straight with peasant girls Marina and Sophia, who end up as snipers trying to stall the Wehrmacht advance in Ukraine.
* ''Film/BringMeTheHeadOfTheMachineGunWoman'': The Machine Gun Woman is called that for a very good reason. She effortlessly outshoots every other character in the film.
* The ''Film/KickAss'' film series, featuring Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz in the role of Hit-girl.
* ''Film/AngelOnFire'', an attempt to cash-in on the ''Iron Angels'' films, starring Taiwanese action star Creator/CynthiaKhan (budget Michelle Yeoh) as the titular angel.
* ''Queens High'', starring Cynthia Khan as the daughter of a Hong Kong mob boss who seeks revenge on the rival triad who killed him.
* ''Ultimate Revenge'', schlocky B-movie, also starring Cynthia Khan and Kim Maree Penn, where Khan plays a supercop who takes on an entire smuggling ring, One-Woman-Army style.
* ''Film/SheShootsStraight'' by Corey Yuen is a more realistic approach on this genre.
* ''Film/SoClose'': The movie was an attempt to revive the girls this genre that once attracted fans to Hong Kong cinema from all over the world.
* ''Film/SpecialFemaleForce'', a series of movies starring Hong Kong's elite police squad battling terrorists and gunrunners. Jade Leung from ''Black Cat'' (listed above) stars as the police lieutenant of both movies.
** There is a sequel, ''Special Female Force: The Fatal Raid'' (uses same page).
* ''Film/RazorBladeSmile'' features a vampire assassin lady battling the Illuminati, lead by her sire.
* ''Film/TheVillainess'', a Korean film starring Kim Ok-vin as a lethal hitwoman.
* ''Film/MissMeadows'': While Miss Meadows is [[GirlyGirl almost comedically feminine,]] she's a confident, strong young woman most of the time. She also carries a gun in her purse at all times, which she uses unhesitatingly against the criminals that cross her path.

%%* ''Film/{{Battleship}}'' With Rihanna's character.
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* ''ComicBook/SilverSable''

* ''ComicBook/BlackWidow''
* ComicBook/{{Domino|MarvelComics}} of ''ComicBook/XForce''.
* Lady Blackhawk from ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' was the team's firearms expert.
* [[ComicBook/DaughtersOfTheDragon Misty Knight]]

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* The exploitation film ''Film/AngelsWithGoldenGuns'' deals with supermodels abducted by a human traffickiing ring and battling their way out in one gunfight after another.

* ''Film/{{Colombiana}}'' starring Zoe Saldana as a girl who witnessed her parents' assassination and grows up to become a killer.

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%%* ''Film/AngelsRevenge''
* ''Film/AngelEnforcers'', staring Sharon Yeung as a policewoman who kicks ass and stops crime. Sharon will later team up with fellow action-girl actress Moon Lee a few more times in her career.
* ''Film/{{Anna}}'': The titular character is an assassin, killing machine and expert with a gun.
* ''Film/AnnieGetYourGun'': A biopic about Annie Oakly, a real-life 19th century entertainer and sharpshooter.

* ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' is the TropeCodifier for anime. The Lovely Angels set the standard for girls being awesome with (laser) pistols.

* ''LightNovel/AriaTheScarletAmmo'' features a concept named Butei ("armed detective") where highschool students are trained as a middle step between cops and mercenaries. Its main heroines, like Aria and Reki, are firearms experts.
%%* ''Manga/GunsmithCats''

* ''Anime/BurstAngel'' starring Jo, the titular Angel who is a BountyHunter and gunslinger.
* ''Anime/{{Grenadier}}'' has its main heroine constantly perform spectacular feats with a revolver.
* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' has Lt. Hawkeye, firing a pistol at the viewer in the opening credits.

* ''Anime/{{Canaan}}'' features a female assassin living in Shanghai and having to defeat an old friend who turned on her. With triads and terrorists added in the plot, plenty of shootouts follow.
* ''Anime/MezzoForte'' and ''Anime/MezzoDSA'', where the protagonist is a bounty hunter and ActionGirl who gets on shootouts in a regular basis.
* ''Early Reins'': [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on a train]], in TheWildWest, with six girls with guns as the heroes.
* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' has Revy, Roberta, Balalaika, and the entire church of violence. Practically every fighter that survives for [[{{Mooks}} more than a episode]] is a woman. Possibly a fetish given how curvy the women are drawn and the fact Rei Hiroe is also a known {{Doujinshi}} artist.
* ''Manga/{{Upotte}}'' is about [[MoeAnthropomorphism girls who ARE guns]].
* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' has girls playing with very big guns... on tanks!

%%* ''ComicBook/WynonnaEarp''
* ''ComicBook/{{Agent327}}'' mixes this with SpyFiction.

* ''Film/{{Pitolera}}'' is about Angel (nickname: 'Pistolera') who goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge where she blasts her way through the ranks of Raffaello's drug cartel with a variety of high power firearms,including [[GatlingGood a mini-gun]] at one point.

* ''Film/{{Pitolera}}'' is about Angel (nickname: 'Pistolera') who goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge where she blasts her way through the ranks of Raffaello's drug cartel with a variety of high power firearms,including [[Gatlinggood a mini-gun]] at one point.

* ''Film/AngelOnFire'', an attempt to cash-in on the ''Iron Angels'' films, starring Taiwanese action star Cynthia Khan (budget Michelle Yeoh) as the titular angel.

* ''Film/ZeroWoman'', a series of 10 films made in 1970s - 80s Japan, revolving around the eponymous female fatale assassin.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has got an entire ''[[AmazonBrigade army]]'' of them, in the form of the [[ChurchMilitant Adeptas Sororitas]]. Fans occasionally refer to them as [[FanNickname "Nuns with Guns"]] and "Bolter Bitches".

* ''Film/{{Ultraviolet}}'' Violet counts with her twin uzis.

* ComicBook/{{Domino}} of ''ComicBook/XForce''.

* ComicBook/MistyKnight

* ''Film/BlackButterfly'', the protagonist being a hitwoman and professional killer sent to Taiwan in a covert mission.

* ''Girl Gun Lady'', produced by Bandai Spirits (makers of ''Toys/ThirtyMinutesMissions''), goes for a {{deconstruction}} inspired by ''Literature/BattleRoyale'', where only the girls that pick up and build the Attack Girl Gun model kits are secretly chosen, and then armed, to kill each other.

Girls With Guns describes a sub-genre of [[ActionAdventureTropes action media]] that focuses on strong female leads being awesome with firearms. May or may not involve HeroicBloodshed. It was developed somewhere in the Hong Kong film industry and has since made itself a genre that is often used in {{Anime}}. Usually involves gun fights, stunts and martial arts.

Girls With Guns describes a sub-genre of [[ActionAdventureTropes action media]] that focuses on strong female leads being awesome with firearms. May or may not involve HeroicBloodshed. It was developed somewhere in the Hong Kong film industry and has since made itself a genre that is often used in anime. Usually involves gun fights, stunts and martial arts.

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