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Author: epsilonseven

Jul 23rd 2010 at 11:00:52 AM

No, this is very different from WarriorPrince. Warrior Princesses were never common in real life (which isn't to say they didn't exist at all), and were fairly rare in mythology as well. Because, you know. MostWritersAreMale   NoGuyWantsAnAmazon as applied to RealLife.

This trope is a subversion of the traditional DamselInDistress and SaveThePrincess. You may note that SaveThePrincess is ''not'' a gender-neutral trope that applies to princes just as often as to princesses (and when it does, half the time it's a joke), and that the DistressedDude, though it's a trope that's OlderThanTheyThink, is still treated very differently by modern media from the DamselInDistress (for starters, he often has to save himself, or if he's saved by a female, she will do it in some meek, feminine way, rather than by being an ActionGirl; and when it ''is'' an action girl, we're often invited to laugh at the male character "getting saved by a gurl!"), and it is also a rarer trope.

This is a sub-trope of ActionGirl, and is distinct enough to be a trope. It can be a "sister trope" to WarriorPrince, but the trope description should note the differences. Then the female examples from WarriorPrince can be moved here.