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TheSquad, with about four liters of estrogen added, and little to no loss in testosterone. Alternately, the LovelyAngels after a recruitment drive.

The AmazonBrigade is an elite fighting unit, often the best of the best or damn near close to it, that is composed entirely of women. This being about fiction, they're usually [[GenericCuteness at least moderately attractive]]. Naturally, they should never be underestimated, for [[ActionGirl they can and will kick your ass]], potentially easily.

Common with HumongousMecha anime, and ScienceFiction in general, especially if they use fightercraft in their universe. Occasionally show up in Fantasy works as well, usually as the personal guard of a wealthy and powerful ruler.

In a {{Bishoujo}} series, they are probably the main characters, their existence in this case due to the PinkBishoujoGhetto policy. May include TheOneGuy for good measure.

Not to be confused with EstrogenBrigade.

Contrast TheSmurfettePrinciple. If the Brigade is composed of {{Mauve Shirt}}s, they are also known as TheShrikeTeam.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* The AMP in ''SilentMoebius''
* TheShrikeTeam in ''Mobile Suit VictoryGundam''
* The three test pilots for the Astray [[HumongousMecha mobile suits]] in ''GundamSEED''.
* The [[strike:[[BlindIdiotTranslation Troye]]]] Treue (German for "loyalty") Unit in ''SuperRobotWars Original Generation'' and it's not just "coincidence" like many others; the unit is, for some reason, for females only.
* ''SailorMoon'' and the Sailor Senshi.
** As well as ''many'' of their villains. The Four Sisters, The Witches-5, the Amazon''ess'' Quartet (because the ''Amazon'' Trio were actually guys), and the Sailor Animates.
* The titular Otome of ''{{Mai-Otome}}'', although there is a TechnoBabble explanation for their powers being exclusive to [[VirginPower female virgins]]. While an Otome usually works alone, doing her Master's bidding, the Five Columns (who have no Master) are an actual team.
* Much of the ''GallForce'' {{OVA}} series, since the original series revolved around a OneGenderRace.
* The Build Angels from ''Koutetsushin Jeeg'', a {{Revival}} of {{Go Nagai}}'s ''KotetsuJeeg''.
* The crew of the ''Nirvana'' and its predecessor in ''{{Vandread}}'', by [[OneGenderRace necessity]].
* The entirety of the alien group trying to capture C-ko in ''ProjectAKo'' ("Now call off your men!" "Men?").
* The Knight Sabers in ''BubblegumCrisis''.
* Team Warrior from the [[AlternateContinuity various incarnations]] of the ''BurnUp'' anime franchise.
* Fanon in regard to the ''DirtyPair'' frequently implies, for reasons we can only guess at, that the entirety of the 3.W.A.'s field-agent personnel are female.
* Integra, Accela, Sylvia and Celica make up the R.U.C.'s PROCEED squad in ''{{Solty Rei}}''.
* ''{{Simoun}}'' (They are technically not female, being "maidens" [[BizarreAlienBiology lacking a permanent sex]], but they look the part.)
* The three female pilots on the ''[[MartianSuccessorNadesico Nadesico]]'' worked as an Amazon Brigade (Amazon Flight, really) before joining the crew, and usually act as a unit while Akito or Akatsuki are off doing their own thing during the series. The [[BridgeBunnies ship's bridge crew]] is a couple of non-commissioned adjutants and [[TheOneGuy one girly XO]] away from this trope as well.
* The team of robotic killer loligoth maids in ''Coyote Ragtime Show''. A lot more awesome than it sounds.
** [[RuleOfCool ...and it doesn't sound awesome in the first place ''how?'']]
* The [[HalfHumanHybrids Silver Eyed Witches]] of ''{{Claymore}}'' are all female. Infusing Yoma flesh into guys... [[PsychoSerum did not work out]].
* Hitomi Landsknecht's unit in ''{{ICE}}''. Well, she doesn't have much choice, ever since [[{{Gendercide}} all men of Earth died out]]...
* Even though they were hastily formed, the titular [[HollywoodCyborg android]] {{Sentai}} KoiKoi7 (there are only six members, though...), fulfill this trope.
* The 6th Mobile Division of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha [=StrikerS=]'' definitely qualifies, as an archetypal military unit in a PinkBishoujoGhetto (although they do have [[TheOneGuy two guys and a dog-boy]], technically.)
** As a matter of fact, one of their fanon nicknames is 'Hayate's Lesbian Army'.
** The [[AntiVillain "villains"]] of the previous season probably qualify too, consisting of an IllGirl, a female-anthropomorphized WeaponOfMassDestruction, TheThreeFacesOfEve, and TheOneGuy.
** Jail Scaglietti's "Numbers" in [=StrikerS=] count as well. (no pun intended)
* The BridgeBunnies aboard the ''[[SuperDimensionFortressMacross Macross]]''.
** And the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Meltrandi]] units, for that matter; notably [[MacrossFrontier Klan Klein and her Pixie Squadron.]]
* The 501st Joint Fighter Wing, a.k.a. the Strike Witches from [[StrikeWitches the show of the same name]].
* The Valkyrie Team on the Brittanian side in ''CodeGeass'', although they didn't get much screentime before [[spoiler: Kallen killed them.]]
** In the ''NightmareOfNunnally'' manga: The Irregulars.
* The main characters of ''BurstAngel'' form one of these.
* ''PrettyCure'' is always either this or LovelyAngels. ''FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'', notably, featured a four-woman AmazonBrigade made of two pairs of LovelyAngels.
* All these examples, and not a single mention of the Delmo Corps from AgentAika?!
* Halibel from {{Bleach}} has an all-female Fracción. [[spoiler: They almost kill Matsumoto, Hinamori and Hisagi, but are obliterated by Yamamoto. Halibel is currently fighting Hitsugaya]]
** [[spoiler: And appears to have been [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed off by Aizen.]]]]
* ''{{The Galaxy Railways}}'' has the all-female Spica Platoon.
* ''MahouSenseiNegima'' has the War Maiden Brigade of the Ariadne Magic Knights in the MagicWorld.
** Negi's {{Nakama}} also applies, especially in both anime series, where Kotaro doesn't exist.
** [[BigBad Fate's]] all-female group of partners also counts.
* Simeon's girl squadron in ''{{NEEDLESS}}'', consisting of [[SuperSpeed Setsuna]], [[CuteBruiser Mio]] and [[SignLanguage Kuchinashi]]. Don't be fooled by their cuteness.
* The Red Tails Gang from ''{{Beelzebub}}'' are an all female gang of {{Delinquents}} known as the strongest ladies of Kanto, and for good reason too! Their leader Kunieda Aoi, nicknamed the Queen, is responsible for keeping the men's "grubby hands" of the other girls. Their weapons range from [[GirlsWithGuns guns]], to baseball bats, to [[WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter bokken]].
* The Uruha Oto from ''FlameOfRecca''.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''BirdsOfPrey''.
* A villainous example: Darkseid's Female Furies in the DCUniverse.
* Any armed group [[GenderCide by default]] in ''YTheLastMan''. The best example is probably the IDF special forces led by Alter; the actual Daughters of the Amazon are fairly disorganized and gang-like.
* Why, the [[WonderWoman Amazons]], of course.
**Actually, the buggers were more like mooks.
* And their AlternateCompanyEquivalent, the Coda warriors of Wildstorm Comics.
* A short-lived offshoot of Marvel's [[{{Comicbook/TheAvengers}} Avengers]], the Lady Liberators; but they were secretly being [[MoreThanMindControl manipulated]] by the Enchantress.
* Another Marvel group, the Femizons, from a future militant LadyLand society. When that timeline was erased, a present-day [[DoesNotLikeMen misandrist]] named Superia tries to create her own Femizons a few centuries early by gathering supervillainesses and female [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]] to repopulate the world, right after she sterilizes everyone else, of course.
* The Grapplers were super-strong wrestler/criminals. [[SoYeah Uh, okay.]]
* ''Femforce'' from AC Comics, which seems to exist mainly as an outlet for its [[AuthorAppeal creators']] and [[{{Fanservice}} readers']] [[FetishFuel fetishes]].
* The Sisterhood of Steel, from the comic of the same name.
* The Black Panther's [[PraetorianGuard Royal Guards]], the Dora Milaje.
* The Star Sapphire Corps from ''GreenLantern''.
* The recently formed Sisterhood of Mutants in Comicbook/{{X-Men}}
* The Black Dahlias from ''The Order'', who Veda described as "Tim Burton sponsors a [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean women's golf team]]."
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[[folder:Film]]
* Missy, Chrissy, Justice and Sissy in ''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back''. Of course, they're more a band of sassy jewel thieves.
* [[AustinPowers Fembots attack!]]
* In ''StarWars'', we have the Mistryl Shadow Guard, a group of whip-wielding mercenaries from doomed civilization.
** Also in the EU, the Hapes Consortium, an interstellar cluster of Amazons whose (formidable) army and navy was solely composed of females.
* Mia Wallace in ''PulpFiction'' talks about a TV pilot she shot called ''Fox Force Five''. Her character's specialty was knives.
** ''Angel's Revenge'', a movie lampooned on [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]], was Quentin Tarantino's inspiration for this.
** Also, in ''KillBill'', 3/5 of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad is female.
* Pussy Galore's Flying Circus from the JamesBond film ''{{Goldfinger}}''.
** Also, May Day and her group from ''AViewToAKill'' [[spoiler: They get killed off [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness by their box Max Zorin]]. Except for May, who's so pissed off that she has a HeelFaceTurn and joins Bond to have her revenge.]]
* Mrs. Smith's agency in ''MrAndMrsSmith''.
* The St. Trinian's field hockey team.
* The title group in ''[[{{DEBS}} D.E.B.S.]]''
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In MarionZimmerBradley's retelling of TheIliad from the perspective of Kassandra, we have...well, the real Amazons, insofar as they can be called real. By the end of the book, they more or less die out, logical with the feminist bent of the novel and the way that the cult of patriarchy was sweeping the nation.
* The Fish-Speakers in ''God-Emperor of {{Dune}}''. Later, the Honored Maitres appear in ''Heretics of Dune''. Although it's not their main purpose, when necessary the Bene Gesserit can fight with nearly superhuman capability. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in the first case by Leto II's belief that the maternal instinct would prevent the Fish-Speakers losing themselves to bloodlust and quests for power.
* The Maidens of the Spear and Elayne's personal bodyguard in the ''WheelOfTime'' books.
* The ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Monstrous Regiment'' features [[spoiler:a squad consisting entirely of {{Sweet Polly Oliver}}s]].
** Although the first clue is right there in the title: [[spoiler: John Knox once wrote a pamphlet called "The First Blast Of The Trumpet Against The Monstrous Regiment Of Women."]]
* The protagonist of ''TheAssassinsOfTamurin'' is recruited for a secret organization of this type.
* Isaac Asimov's short story "[[ShaggyDogStory Shah Guido G.]]" features an all-female police force known as the Waves. However this really had nothing to do with the plot, being part of a clumsy and long-drawn-out build up to a punning punchline.
* In the LarryNiven novel ''The Integral Trees'', the Triune Squads are made up of [[CelibateHero women who refuse to marry]], women who [[HideYourLesbians love women]], or those who are [[GenderBender "women" by courtesy only]]. They are sent to patrol the Trunk, a hazardous and seemingly pointless duty, to make up for not doing their "real" duty to the tribe [[StayInTheKitchen by providing children]].
* The ''Chicks In Chainmail'' comedy-fantasy anthology series has numerous stories of all-female military units and warrior societies; along with stories of SweetPollyOliver, the lone ActionGirl, LittleMissBadass, or MamaBear, with nary a MarySue or [[TheRedSonja Red Sonja]] in sight-- [[RuleOfFunny unless it's funny]], of course.
* In ''[[{{TheStainlessSteelRat}} The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge]]'' Special Corps agent James Bolivar "Slippery Jim" [=DiGriz=] lands on a planet once run by women (until they were usurped by a male revolutionary party working in cahoots with galactic invaders). He teams up with the resistance – former members of the military who are of course fit, shapely young amazons – much to the annoyance of Jim's lethally-armed and dangerous wife.
* The shrykes from ''TheEdgeChronicles''. Not quite a OneGenderRace, but the ladies hold the upper hand in... well, everything.
* The Longwing dragon captains in the ''{{Temeraire}}'' series could be a sort of AmazonBrigade--Longwings almost exclusively select female captains (it is implied that on occasion one will accept a male grudgingly, but none have been shown yet).
** In China several centuries before the events in the books, women were permitted to serve as combat dragon riders by Imperial Decree after a SweetPollyOliver [[{{Mulan}} inlisted to spare her father]] [[ShoutOut and stopped an invasion after bonding with a dragon]]. Between conscription and the willingness of families to get rid of daughters, by the time Cpt. Laurence and Temeraire arrive the Chinese government had long since thrown up their hands and made their Dragon Corps an exclusive female preserve.
* ''PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' has the hunters of Artemis, a group of girls that travel with the goddess Artemis and are allowed to live immortally without aging as long as they remain maidens for ever. They happen to be extremely handy with a bow, and are stong fighters all around.
* The Queens' Wing can be a pretty effective Thread-fighting force in the Pern novels, particularly once they caught on to how easily a queen dragon can boss around ''any'' other color.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* You better not forget those flying horse-riding shieldmaidens in the winged helmets from Die Walküre.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* The three main members of ''[[CharliesAngels Charlie's Angels]]'', in either the TV series or the movies.
* Another villainous example: The Hanarangers of ''[[SuperSentai Kakuranger]]''
* The Slayers after season 7 of ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
* A recent episode of ''StargateAtlantis'' featured an AmazonBrigade as most of the muscle in the episode.
*''StarTrekEnterprise'' was the first to reveal that the Orion women, far from being the slaves portrayed in the other series, actually control their civilization with a male-attracting pheromone that gives other women headaches. The only one unaffected by them is [[spoiler: Tripp]]
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* The Sisters of Battle in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', as pictured above, a ChurchMilitant force consisting largely of [[GirlWithPsychoWeapon Girls with Psycho Weapons]]. They aren't that elite too, having uninspiring stats for units that are wearing powered armour. In a slight subversion, many of them are unattractive, particularly the higher ups (battle in the 41st milennium does horrors for your complexion... and facial structure... and general health, really). The setting's Howling Banshees are also examples... mostly.
** This editor would like to point out to the above that the illustration for this trope - indeed, most pictures that he's seen of the [=SOBs=] - doesn't really match the above description in terms of fugliness.
*** It's art. You ''sure'' you want accurate depictions of what goes on in this setting? The Chaos books are bad enough as it is...
** Also, The fighters and gangs of House Escher in ''Necromunda''. The house itself is nearly a OneGenderRace, being that the males are all rather stunted.
* From the fantasy counter-part, the Witch Elves certainly qualify, being all-female, attractive, chain-mail bikini wearing, deadly fighters. Of course the fact that they are also completely insane genocidal drug-fuelled maniacs is just the icing on the cake.
* Even in a [[{{Deadlands}} world]] with TheMasquerade running full steam (replete with conspiratorial {{MIB}}s), [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mina Devlin]] calling her shocktroops the "Wichita Witches" raised a few eyebrows. Of course, only women need apply.
* ''{{Rifts}}'' Free Quebec has mastered the creation of the uber-powerful Glitter Boy powered armour. Female pilots lobbied for years to get their own distinctive style of armour. Enter the Glitter Girl recon/special forces unit. More dangerous than the male variant due to the pilots being older and more experienced. Notable squads inclued the Harlots, the Harpies, the Vixens, and the Riot Girls.
** And don't forget the Blind Warrior Women, who look simply irresistible.
** And the city of Manoa in South America, with ''literal'' Amazon brigades.
* ''{{Talislanta}}'' has the Danuvian warrior-women.
* ''[[TheWorldOfDarkness Werewolf: the Apocalypse]]'' had the Black Furies, a tribe made up entirely of female Garou who worshipped Artemis as an aspect of Gaia. Of course they'd associate with men for production of new children, but male offspring were passed on to other tribes.
* The Sisters of Mercy from the ''FengShui'' supplement "Glimpse of the Abyss" are a [[ChurchMilitant convent of Nuns With Guns]] based in the Netherworld who hunt down and kill those whom their Mother Superior deems to be deserving of the respite of death from the suffering the Sisters believe that life is. Of course, those whose names end up on the Rolls of Mercy and are targeted for "deliverance" often aren't so keen on dying. Also from "Glimpse of the Abyss" are the Shiva Squadron, a band of distimed [[MultiArmedAndDangerous eight-armed warrior women]] who have made it their mission to hunt demons.
* ''LegendOfTheFiveRings'' has two examples in the matriarcal Utaku and Matsu families. The Utaku family (formerly known as the [[UnfortunateImplications Otaku family]]) has the ''Shiotome'', or Battle Maidens, an elite unit of shock troops that ride into battle on horses the size of Clydesdales. The Matsu family's elite Lion's Pride is an all-female unit of samurai women that specializes in finding and killing the enemy general and his command staff.
* ''{{Exalted}}'' has the Brides of Ahlat, the Southern God of War. Completely female, sworn to remain virgins, and symbolically wed to Ahlat himself. They're consider to be Elite troops and thus not to be messed with.
** Exalted also has the Tya, a group of women in the West who reject the usual gender roles for the region to take on Men's. They are treated in society more as men than women, actually.
* In 2nd Edition ''DungeonsAndDragons'', several of the "Complete Class" supplements included an Amazon character kit.
* ''MageKnight'' included a subset of Amazon figures in one of its more SteamPunk factions, the Black Powder Rebels. They weren't necessarily more powerful than any other group or faction (except for the Amazon Draconum, which was borderline broken.)
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The various incarnations of Team England (later simply renamed the "Women's Team") in ''TheKingOfFighters''.
* The Night Elf Sentinels in ''{{Warcraft}}'' take it one step further by having their entire military composed of women. The male elves pursue study and druidism, and act only as support units in-game.
** [[EverythingIsWorseWithBears Until they turn into bears.]]
* In ''ReturnToCastleWolfenstein'' the SS has an all-female force called the Elite Guard.
* In ''Spellforce'', '''all''' elven units are female.
** Except Titans, who are ents. Apparently their treemen ''aren't'' different.
* Pegasus Knight armies (in most cases) in the various ''FireEmblem'' games.
* The Knives of Artemis from ''CityOfHeroes''.
* In ''FinalFantasyIX'', Alexandria's army consists almost entirely of women. The only males are the Knights of Pluto, a squad consisting of a mere 9 men, including playable character Steiner, who serves as their captain.
* The military of the city of Toroia in ''FinalFantasyIV'' likewise consisted entirely of women.
* ''MetalGearSolid 4'' has ''two'' {{Amazon Brigade}}s:
** The FROGS, who are highly agile, nanomachine-enhanced troops who can cling to walls.
** And the Beauty & The Beast Corps, a quartet of {{Super Soldier}}s with PTSD who wear PoweredArmor, serving as the QuirkyMinibossSquad.
* [[TheLegendofZelda The Gerudo]] have all-female fighting forces - mostly because bar Ganondorf [[OneGenderRace their entire race is nothing but women]].
* ''{{Xenogears}}'' has Dominia's all-girl robot pilot squad.
* ''FinalFantasyX2''. Your party is one.
* Some players (like me) try to get one of these going in any game that gives a party, whether one you fill with your own rolled characters (''Wasteland''), or with a cast (''FinalFantasyXII''. [[ChronoTrigger Some games]] make this easier [[ChronoCross than others]].
* Luna's subordinates in ''SoulCalibur 3's'' Chronicles of The Sword (while there name is never stated, one of the chapter name implies they are the "Guardians of the Moon") are 4 elementally themed female minions (Luna is obviously female as well).
** They're called the Klessirpemdo. Lupi (Fires of Hell), Heal-Do (Water of Origin), Elua (Wind of Creation) and Aege (Earth of Foundation), plus their leader Luna who is probably meant to be Spirit/Aether or something.
* Any unit led by a female in ''YggdraUnion''.
* ''[=~Unreal II: The Awakening~=]'' features such a brigade in the form of all-female "mercenary" cyborg squadrons, the game's toughest {{Mooks}}. An in-game dialogue maintains that females are naturally ruthless and that that has been the reason behind the creation of these squadrons.
* ''{{Diablo II}}'' starts the player out in the Rogues' camp (a reference to the female-only Rogue class from original ''Diablo''). Everyone permanently living there is female, from the [[WrenchWench blacksmith Charsi]] to the matronly high priestess Akara to the [[LadyOfWar guard captain Kashya]]. They're staying in the camp because they had been evicted from their monastery after Diablo's minions took over and mind-controlled half their numbers, whom you fight throughout Act I, and who are also all female.
* The Blood Roses, an order of female knights, in the PC adventure game ''Siege of Avalon.''
* The Aeon military in ''SupremeCommander'' comes very close-game background states that Aeon women are just plain better at battlefield command, with very few males qualifying for command. Possibly a coincidence, but the foremost commanders of the UEF and Cybrans are women as well.
* {{Mass Effect}} - The Asari race is entirely female (but capable of procreating with either sex of ANY species), as such the Asari huntresses function as the military units. Due to the extreme long age of the Asari (they live longer than a thousand years) Huntresses train for a hundred years before they go on active duty. They function more as ninja and commandos rather than a straight up army. As such it isn't a very large group, though all Asari have Biotics (the ME universe's equivalent of psychic powers). The warrior Turian race (where military service is the entire society and military service is directly responsible for citizenship) have a saying, "The Asari huntresses are the best warriors in the galaxy. It's a good thing there aren't that many of them".
* Clan Ritz from ''FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' consists of all vieras and Ritz.
* Prima Donna from ''FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' has 2 vieras and 2 grias, and all of them are female.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''ElGoonishShive'', Ellen, Grace, and Nanase form a temporary Amazon Brigade during the Painted Black arc.
* The entirety of Earth's military in ''{{Angels 2200}}''. ([[{{Gendercide}} A plague having wiped out most of the male population]], there are [[LadyLand no adult males on Earth or most of Earth's colonies]].)
* The Amazons of ''ChasingTheSunset''. Their foremothers were ordinary women who took up combat to save themselves: by the time we meet them in the comic, they are blue-skinned warriors who reproduce asexually.
* An internet offshoot of Marvel UK's ''Warheads'' series, ''[[http://www.2000ad.org/markus/loosecannons/ Loose Cannons]]'' tells the tale of an experimental all-female group of Warheads (paramilitary units sent through spacetime wormholes to gather technology and magical artifacts for the CorruptCorporateExecutive leaders of the sinister [=MysTech=]; think {{Stargate SG-1}} as mercenary raiders hired by a cabal of evil sorcerers) called the Virago Troop-- who bring back more than they bargain for from an AfterTheEnd future.
* Haven's Guard in ''{{Earthsong}}'' form an AmazonBrigade, including TheOneGuy, Zaebos.
* ''JewelVixens''
* The Amazons of ''[[http://amazoness.co.uk Amazoness!]]'' To be expected, since their [[LadyLand whole population is female.]]
* ''[[http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/index.html Outsider]]'' has the Loroi, a species of space elves with an all-female military. Justified, since only one in eight Loroi are born male, which they consider a basic adaptation for a warrior species, since it allows them to create some massive population booms where necessary, or avoid overpopulation by restricting access to males.
* In BaldursGate II: Throne Of Bhaal, one of the three guardians for the final seal is an entirely female group composed of Y'tossi (a marilith), Nalmissra (a succubus), The Hive Mother (a beholder), Amerilis Zauvwir (a drow cleric), The Huntress (an archer) and Xei Win Toh (presumably a kensai).
* In ''{{Erfworld}}'', the Archons of Charlescomm. Yes, that makes them [[ShoutOut Charlie's Archons]].
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* The Angel Squadron from ''[[CaptainScarlet Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons]]''.
* The Warrior Maidens from ''{{Thundercats}}''.
* The Kyoshi Warriors of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''.
** Also [[FanNickname Ozai's Angels]], the trio of Azula, Mai and Ty Lee.
* Villainous example: Turmoil and her all-female squadron of fighter pilots from the ''SwatKats'' episode "Cry Turmoil."
* Elita One and the Female Autobots in ''{{Transformers Generation 1}}''.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Green_Nuns.jpg The 40-woman Amazonian Guard]] of Muammar al-Gaddafi ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS may his spellings be many]])
** Also known as the Green Nuns.
* Not to mention the famous Dahomey Amazons, or ''Mino'', who composed a third of the Dahomeyan Army in the 19th Century. Fanatically dedicated and intensively trained, they were nearly unbeatable for three and a half centuries, until the invention of the machine gun made industry more important in war than bravery.
* Not sure if this one is Literature or Real Life or if this really counts as an AmazonBrigade since they were never recorded as seeing combat; When military genius Sun Tzu was trying to sell the King of Wu on hiring him as an advisor, the King put a group of his concubines under Sun's command to train as a test of his skill. He split them into two teams, assigned each team a captain (His Nibs' two favorite concubines) and explained the commands, but they laughed and didn't take it seriously. So he tried again, repeating the commands and explaining what they mean. Still nothing but giggles. So he beheaded the two team captains. The ladies immediately obeyed every command and ran through every drill perfectly. When the King complained at losing his lady loves, Sun Tzu [[DeadpanSnarker snarked in his face]] about the costs of real warfare. He got hired anyway. (Technically, they lost members in action, while under military command, so they might be considered an Amazon Brigade)
* If we're counting nonhumans, bees. The nonbreeding female workers sacrifice their lives with a sting, so that the vital Queen and her male consorts can survive.
** Bees don't die if they sting other insects. But if they sting mammals (humans frex), their sting sort of sticks in the skin, they can't pull it out again, and thus have to die.
** Some aphids have a similar system to bees, in which a single female aphid gives birth to dozens of clones of herself. While a few later produce sons and breed sexually, the majority of the clones are cannon fodder: either actively fending off predators from the colony, or just surrounding the breeders so they'll be eaten in their stead.
* Also, spotted hyenas are Nature's version of this trope.
* There were three all-female combat Soviet Air Force units in WorldWarTwo, which together flew a total of 30,000 combat sorties, produced 30 Heroes of the Soviet Union (the highest honour available) and 2 fighter aces. The most famous of these was the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, nicknamed the Night Witches by the Germans. Not only did they fly over 23,000 sorties and is said to have dropped 3,000 tons of bombs, it was also the most highly-decorated unit in the Soviet Air Force at the time, receiving 23 Heroes of the Soviet Union awards. Not only that, they flew horrifically out of date, wood and canvas bi-plane bombers originally constructed for training and crop dusting.
** There were also numerous female Soviet snipers (one, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko Lyudmila Pavlicenko]] got 309 confirmed kills before being pulled off the front line and used for propaganda purposes), and occasionally tank crews. Let's also not forget the Israeli armed forces. However, both are cases of desperation in a way; the Soviets mobilized almost totally to repel the Germans, while the Israelis are surrounded by hostile neighbors, against whom they have a demographic disadvantage, having a smaller population and significantly lower birthrate; it's also a heavy-militarized country in general. (Fun fact: If China maintained an armored corps that had the same ratio to the size of the general population as Israel, it would have more than a million tanks.)
* In Iraq there was the Lioness Squad.
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* By sheer coincidence (there are four [=RPers=] involved, after all), the six [[{{MIB}} MEB]] Agent player characters in ''[[http://sosshinsei.proboards.com/index.cgi Suzumiya Haruhi no Yaku-Asobi]]'' are female AlternateUniverse counterparts of 4 out of five SOS-dan members. Yes, [[GenderFlip Kyonko]] is one of them. Itsuko is not.
* The [[KillerRabbit Killer Bunny]] Assassination Squad in ''OpenBlue''. If you're wondering why they're called that, it's because they work for TheCaligula.
** Pirate Lady Alexandra Dinse leads an all-female crew.
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