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  • The eponymous Amazon Women on the Moon are a One-Gender Race of warrior women. It's a parody of Queen of Outer Space where both the Queen's soldiers and La Résistance to her reign consist of hot babes in short skirts, brandishing disintegrator guns.
  • Angels Revenge, a movie lampooned on MST3K.
  • Annihilation (2018). The expedition team sent into the Shimmer is all women. In the novel it is mentioned this was done deliberately as another variable to test after the first team was all men.
  • The first Armor of God sees Jackie taking on an evil cult, with their most powerful enforcers being a quartet of buff, muscular women who can put up a far better fight than the male mooks. They give Jackie one hell of a beating before they're taken out.
  • Austin Powers: "Fembots, attack!"
  • Bit: Duke and her group are all lesbian vampires more than willing to fight or kill (Laurel, the newcomer, being the most reluctant in this).
  • Chai Lai Angels: Dangerous Flowers is about five female top-secret super-sexy crimefighters, each with the codename of a flower, Lotus, Hibiscus, Rose, Spadix and Crown of Thorns.
  • Come Drink With Me: The ending of this classic wuxia film have Golden Swallow leading an all-female band of warriors to reinforce the losing imperial soldiers against a bandit army. They manage to kill off every single remaining bandit while suffering relatively small casualties.
  • The Dawns Here Are Quiet is about a squad of women manning an anti-aircraft battery at a supply depot behind the Eastern Front. Not drawn directly from Real Life like the above examples, but women did perform roles like that quite a bit in the war against Germany. The women of the battalion have to kick it up a notch when a report of German paratroopers behind the lines requires them to form up as infantry and go into the forest in pursuit.
  • DC Extended Universe:
  • D.E.B.S.: The D.E.B.S. as a whole, a group of young female super spies with extensive training, culled from high school girls all over the US.
  • Admiral General Aladeen's bodyguards in The Dictator. They also serve as sex slaves.
  • The Expendables had a planned installment of the series, The Expendabelles featuring a cast composed exclusively of iconic female action stars. However, the project never developed past an idea and a goofy name. Mercenaries, an action movie starring Kristanna Loken, Brigitte Nielsen and Cynthia Rothrock, can be considered a Spiritual Adaptation of The Expendables with a female cast.
  • Female Agents: The film centers on a French Resistance squad composed solely of women. Louise is the most action-oriented of them, but they all help out in some way.
  • Flying Guillotine: The second movie features the Lady Guillotine Squad, a group of women assassins all clad in purple who can kick all sorts of ass.
  • The 14 Amazons, based on the story of the female generals of the Yang Family, where the Matriarch of the Yang family and the wives of the men and sons slain in war takes over their spouses' place and takes on the Mongol army.
  • In Gang of Roses, Rachel used to lead an all-female gang of bank robbers. She reassembles the gang to aid her in her Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
  • The 2016 Ghostbusters film did this with the title characters by reversing the Ghostbusters' genders.
  • In Hooded Angels, the Angels are an all-female gang of outlaws and gunslingers.
  • In Hop, we have the Pink Berets, a squad of female bunnies described at one point as "the Easter Bunny's royal guards".
  • James Bond:
  • The Asylum created a mockbuster version of Journey to the Center of the Earth which featured a team of female soldiers. Unfortunately despite alot of badass boasting they quickly fell into Faux Action Girl status and a good deal of the plot was taken up with rescuing them.
  • Kenau has the women of Harlem do increasingly brave feats, from fighting on the walls, to attacking Spanish on ice-skates and blowing up their camp.
  • In Kill Bill, 4/5 of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad is female, 4/6 if you count Bill.
  • In Left for Dead, Mother Mary runs an all-female outlaw gang composed of the ex-whores of Amnesty.
  • Mad Max: Fury Road has the Vuvalini. Unlike most examples of this trope they consist largely of old women, hardened and weather-beaten from growing up in a brutal Desert Punk Scavenger World.
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe:
    • Thor: Ragnarok: The Valkyries were a group of all-female warriors loyal to the crown, although most of them had been killed prior to the events of the film.
    • Black Panther (2018): The Dora Milaje, an all-female elite force of spear-spinning, fearless, bald-headed ass-kickers.
    • Avengers: Endgame: The final battle includes a scene where every major female hero team up to protect Spider-Man holding the Avengers made Infinity Gauntlet.
    • Black Widow (2021): The Red Room has produced a small army of brainwashed Black Widow agents under the control of Dreykov. Unlike Natasha, who is primarily a spy, they are more shown to be an elite fighting squad that operates in concert with guns blazing.
  • Mercenaries: The President's daughter is captured and imprisoned while touring a war zone, so a team of female Boxed Crook combat experts is assembled to infiltrate the compound of the female warlord holding her hostage for a daring rescue.
  • Mrs. Smith's agency in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005).
  • Night Witches of the Sky is a 1981 movie from the Soviet Union about the "night witches", namely an all-female squad of precision dive bombers that served from 1942 until the end of the war.
  • October (Red October, that is) portrays the "Women's Battalion of Death", an all-female unit that was part of the doomed defense of the Winter Palace against the Bolsheviks. See Real Life below.
  • In Only Old Men Are Going to Battle, the men of the 2nd Squadron (a fighter pilot unit) are pleased when a squadron of lady bomber pilots establish an airfield right next to them. One of the men of the 2nd falls in love with a bomber pilot and asks her to marry him. This is inspired by the famous "Night Witches" (see Real Life below).
  • The mermaids in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
  • Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction talks about a TV pilot she shot called Fox Force Five. Her character's specialty was knives. And terrible jokes.
  • The Indian tribe in Revenge of the Virgins consists of topless Nubile Savages who are all capable warriors.
  • The Hungarian comedy film Sound Eroticism takes place in a crate factory with all-female employees. After finding out that the factory's manager used the security camera footage of them undressing to potential customers to sell more crates, the women rise up and take the manager hostage.
  • Special Female Force: The eponymous "Special Female Force", is an all-female elite police squad. It was disbanded for years after a mission ended in a near-Total Party Kill, and the movie follows the Sole Survivor efforts in training a new one 20 years later.
  • The St. Trinian's' field hockey team.
  • The girls from Sucker Punch.
  • That Fiery Girl, also starring Cheng Pei-pei, does this again, with another band of female warriors who did an excellent job fighting an enemy army, although this time they're led by Lily Li instead of Cheng Pei-pei.
  • We never actually see them, but Zulu has a scene where Swiss mercenary Schiess, arguing with two overly confident Welsh soldiers, mentions that the Zulu leader Cetawayo has a regiment of female warriors called "Ripen at Noon". One of the Welsh soldiers comments that "that's pretty".

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