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!! Red Sonja
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* ActionGirl: Red Sonja herself.
* ActionHero: Sonja rarely meets problems she can't bash, slash, or stab. Even when she does it's still her go-to strategy.
* AmazonianBeauty: The comic character can be this DependingOnTheArtist - she has been more commonly depicted as svelte and voluptuous than buff (though there are exceptions). She was definitely one in the live action movie played by Creator/BrigitteNielsen.
* AncestralWeapon: In the novels, Sonja's sword was originally her father's who was once a mercenary captain before settling down to become a farmer (the soldiers who murdered Sonja's family and raped her were her father's ex-comrades who had a grudge). When she received her vision and picked up a sword to kill her first man, it was her father's that was lying in the wreckage. The novel ''Star of Doom'' goes further, Sonja tells a witch that [[CoolSword her father crafted the sword himself and when she took it up - she had slain so many demons, sorcerers and battle-crazy warriors and put so much of herself in that sword, that it had become magical]] and the witch acknowledged it actually had power.
* AnythingThatMoves: The Gail Simone incarnation was not raped unlike her previous incarnations and will not lose her fighting abilities if she has sex, so she's more than happy to indulge. She's also not too particular about who she does it with. Man, woman, horned forest god are all fair game.
* ArchEnemy: The [[EvilSorcerer sorcerer Kulan Gath]] has repeatedly plagued her life more than any foe and [[WhyWontYouDie has a knack for not staying dead]].
* BadassNormal: {{Zigzagged}}, Whether Sonja is superhuman or not depends on the writer. Her fighting prowess was divinely granted rather than the product of natural training and under some writers Sonja is acknowledged to be just a mortal fighter on peak female human condition. Others explicitly make her superhuman to a least some degree. She once demonstrated a healing factor and other writers have ranged from being MadeOfIron to giving her [[SuperStrength the strength of multiple men.]] For example, Michael Avon Oeming's Sonja was an unearthly warrior virtually impossible to defeat in combat, whereas Gail Simone's could be beaten in a duel with a skilled swordsman and got thrown out of a bar by a couple of bouncers. The version of Sonja that appeared in 2019's 'Vampirella/Red Sonja' was legitimately superhuman and could smash through a two-foot-thick stone wall with a single punch, taking out several solders on the other side, as well as kicking down a heavy steel door with ease - she appeared to be just as strong as Vampirella. Similarly, the Sonja of the 'Sonjaversal' series appears to be either immortal or to age very slowly and is said to have been blessed with strength and speed greater than anyone else of her world. Amy Chu's take on the character is also outright superhuman.
* BarbarianHero : Rare female version. Arguably, the ur-example.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: While she does get a few dirt smears on her in rare occasions, this is played straight to an extreme degree. Sonja has been slashed, impaled with arrows (albeit in the arms or legs), and even got got shot with a police revolver in her team-up with Spider-man. In no instance has she ever been scarred, lampshaded at the end of her Spider-man team-up, she wakes up lying on an altar somewhere in her own time period and finds the bullet she had been shot with had fallen out. More recently she contracted black plague and while one panel had her sprouting some boils on her face, these immediately disappeared the panel after.
* BestHerToBedHer: Former TropeNamer.
** LoopholeAbuse: As might be expected in a modern take on the story, deconstructing the exact wording and meaning of Sonja's vow has been attempted in her current series. Aside from the presence of the word fair (which can come and go, depending on the story), and for that matter the ''definition'' of fair combat, in issue 15 of the Dynamite series, [[spoiler:an ancient god defeats her (''and'' two of her friends, which apparently made it a fair fight) in battle. However, he knows nothing of her vow. Later, they become allies, and she comes to admire him, so she allows herself the indulgence.]] In issue 31, it's revealed she can lie with any man she chooses if she permanently foreswears her blessed skills. It would also follow that she does not have to let a man rape her if he defeats her, but the option to sleep with him is there if he does. In addition, there is no provision against love, just physical affection--it is as much a test of Sonja's will to abide by her vow as it is a compact from her goddess. The wording of her vow also means that if she were to be raped, she would ''not'' lose her blessed skills in consequence.
** This facet of her has officially been abandoned in the Gail Simone run; she runs into a [[SpearCounterpart male swordmaster]] with the same vow and... well...
--->'''Red Sonja:''' That is without question the [[StupidestThingIveEverHeard stupidest thing I have ever heard]].
* BlitheSpirit: Of the more violent sort. In general, the Hyboria is at least as patriarchal as the medieval times of our own world; when she passes through a town, though, some of the women tend to take inspiration from her example.
* BloodKnight: Sonja basically enjoys two things - drinking and fighting. And she is very good at both.
* BoobsOfSteel: A skilled and strong fighter who is often drawn very busty.
* BookDumb: Despite her mother's efforts, Sonja is only borderline literate. She may have a learning disability; she describes working very hard to develop only crude handwriting. Averted in Amy Chu's run.
* ChainmailBikini: Usually attributed to artist Esteban Maroto. Red Sonja is the TropeCodifier, if not the UrExample.
* ColorCharacter: '''Red''' Sonja.
* CombatPragmatist: Despite having vast strength from Scathach, at least in some incarnations, she happily uses any advantage she can during combat,
* DependingOnTheWriter: Red Sonja has been subjected to various retcons depending on who's writing her at the time - with changes ranging from whether she was the oldest child or the youngest child in her family, how old she was when her family was slaughtered, whether she got raped or not and why she was raped (originally the bandit leader was just horny and saw a beautiful red-headed girl, while in the Dynamite comics - Sonja was just a tweenie but she pissed off the bandits and they decided to rape her in revenge), whether she was divinely granted abilities or did she just develop them naturally and etc.
* DistaffCounterpart: To Conan the Barbarian.
* DistractedByTheSexy: This is [[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]] given as the reason for the ChainmailBikini. The ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' stats for Red Sonja from ''ComicBook/PathfinderWorldscape'' show her chainmail bikini doesn't give her any armor bonus at all (her only armor bonus comes from Bracers of Armor +4), but she does have an ability that lets her add her Charisma bonus (18, for a +4 bonus) to Armor Class when not wearing armor,
-->''Opponents are distracted by her boo--, uh, "confidence and personality".''
* DrowningMySorrows: Sonja frequently turns to alcohol when she is depressed. Her volatile state when drunk has made her the bane of any unfortunate barkeep's existence.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: She wore a downright modest regular chainmail shirt in her first few comic appearances but gained her signature bikini for the first issue of ''Savage Sword of Conan''.
* EternalHero: After a story in which Sonja dies, the subsequent story has the character being reincarnated. This is later revealed to be a mystic line of reincarnation, [[spoiler:back to the days before humans used weapons--Sonja's original incarnation was the first to do so. Apparently being a FieryRedhead is actually the real power of the line, as her fury is what allows each incarnation a way of becoming a great warrior regardless of circumstances, but depending on how she does it, that fury means she can end up a great hero or a great villain.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Happens from time to time. Sonja herself is apparently accustomed to this treatment and even flaunts it when opportunities arise.
-->'''Sonja:''' I'm Red Sonja. I'm everyone's type.
* ExposedToTheElements: Sonja both averts this and plays this straight, depending on the writer and artist of the story. The better writers will have her wearing several layers of fur when she is in a snow-covered realm. The worst ones will have her marching through the snow or rain in a ChainmailBikini without even as much as a fur cloak.
* FarmGirl: In almost all of her incarnations, Red Sonja and her family were farmers/foresters before they got attacked. (Though in the '80s novels - Sonja's father was a mercenary captain before mustering out and settling down to farm.)
* FieryRedhead: Red Sonja is named for her hair and known for her rage, battle- and otherwise. Roy Thomas said he drew from Red Sonya of Rogitano of ''The Shadow of the Vulture'' when creating Sonja.
* GeniusBruiser: In the ''Dragan the Magnificent'' arc, prior to returning to Hyrkania she had studied under a Sun-Tzu expy, Domo the greatest warmaster in Khitai. Not only can she read, but she's had 4 years of daily strategy and tactical lessons from him. The ''Dragan'' story often had Queen Sonja be a general as much as fighting in person.
* GoodIsNotNice: Sonja to a tee. Offend her or attack innocents in her presence and she'll usually offer a BadassBoast; those who apologize and leave live, but those who refuse are almost universally executed. Corrupt leaders don't even get the chance to leave because by the time Sonja is in their presence, she's aware of their greater crimes.
* TheHighQueen: Just like Conan, Sonja also became queen by her own hand when taking the throne of Songaria. Despite her past as TheLadette and not being royal born, she was regal and queenly in every other way as well as devoted in protecting her realm. In the ''Dragan the Magnificent'' story arc, Sonja is voted into being Queen of Hyrkania by the desperate rubes (Hyrkania here is a primitive land of tents, bandits and goats) - Sonja is queenly and regal because she was a high ranking officer of Khitai before the Emperor got deposed by his treasonous son.
* TheLadette: Especially in Gail Simone's run. Sonja is not particularly modest, has an aggressive appetite for sex, booze and food, sings bawdy songs and has a mouth as foul as anyone else's she might encounter.
* LikeADuckTakesToWater: In runs where Sonja was granted mastery over weapons by Scathach, she can turn virtually any object into an instrument of death with expert skill.
* LittleMissBadAss: In the Dynamite comics one-shot Sanctuary, Sonja mentions that she started her career as Scathach's enforcer when she was 12.
* MistakenForProstitute: This happens to Sonja on a semi-regular basis; largely due to her habit of hanging around seedy taverns in her ChainMailBikini. This usually ends badly for the person making the mistake, although she always gives them the opportunity to apologize before kicking their ass. They seldom take it. Given how much she ([[DependingOnTheWriter usually]]) loves fighting, at this point you have to think she's deliberately trolling for this to happen so she can find a jerk who is deserving of her unloading on them.
* Main/MostCommonSuperPower: One of the most blatant examples. Sonja has very buxom breasts.
* MsFanservice: One of the most well known examples in comics due to being the TropeCodifier for the ChainmailBikini trope.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Sonja is far stronger than most men she encounters but lacks the muscle mass to illustrate this, although other characters will occasionally mention that she's exceptionally well built for a woman.
* NeverGetsDrunk: Type 3a. Red Sonja *can* get drunk and often *does* but her capacity for alcohol is prodigious, probably even higher than Conan’s.
* PerfectPacifistPeople: Believe it or not, but Sonja belongs to one as revealed in the ''Wrath of the Gods'' miniseries. Her people are the Bundini, a red-haired race of humans defined as a peaceful shepherds, advisers and merchants rather than warriors and as such, they were bullied and persecuted by everyone in Hyboria. According to their legend, they would one day breed a powerful warrior without parallel, which is incidentally Sonja herself.
* PirateGirl: Sonja has been a pirate from time to time.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: When she's not righting wrongs and helping the helpless (or getting into bar fights, or killing people for looking at her funny, or cutting her way through a few dozen guards of the latest guy to kidnap her and try to make her part of his harem and then making him wear his ass as a hat, or any of the other sort of violence she engages in), Sonja tends to make a living as one of these.
* RapeAsBackstory: She became the badass warrior she did partly out of a reaction to being raped when she was a girl.
* RapeAsDrama: Sonja's original backstory uses this as an inciting element (along with, y'know, the deaths of her entire family).
* RealMenLoveJesus: A female example, since she is extremely devout to Scathatch, the deity that granted Sonja her fighting abilities.
* RedIsHeroic: A heroic redhead.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Part of her backstory, but also like her SpearCounterpart Conan, would often find herself motivated to them, especially against foes that took particular delight in their crimes against women.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Kulan Gath was originally created by Michael Moorcock for Conan the Barbarian's comic book series. He would eventually become Red Sonja's archenemy. Notably, he would continue to show up in both Marvel comics and Dynamite's verison of the character.
* StatuesqueStunner: Her height is officially 5'11" ... in the current series by Amy Chu, she's 6'0" and was played by the 6'0" Creator/BrigitteNielsen in the movie.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Obviously. Probably the only major comic character who routinely wears less than her is [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]]. Justified in the Dynamite Series that Red Sonja deliberately wears it to distract her mostly male adversaries.
-->'''Sonja:''' Men are easily distracted. Most don't even notice my sword until their head rolls off their necks.
* SupportingProtagonist: In the first 3 of the six '80s Red Sonja novels by David Smith and Richard Tierney, Red Sonja is there to support the local protagonist of the story - in fact, she's not even close to dealing with the BigBad of the respective first 2 novels. The first book ''The Ring of Ikribu'', it was Duke Pelias and a bunch of Stygian cultists that dealt with the sorcerer Asroth - Sonja merely found the {{McGuffin}} before having to eventually turn it over and act as supporting muscle. The second book ''Demon Night'', it was renegade temple virgin Tiamu who destroyed the CorruptChurch and released the [[EldritchAbomination Earthfolk]], Sonja mostly putzed around on the run and indirectly led Tiamu to where she needed to go.
* TouchedByVorlons: The source of Sonja's power in comics where her abilities are supernatural, the early run of Dynamite comics had her granted her swordsmanship by the goddess Scathach and in the novels the blue vision that gave her power was a manifestation of her own spirit - Sonja was a ''True Soul'', a person of great destiny, and through this she gave herself supernatural swordsmanship (sorcerers in the novel can actually detect that her fighting abilities are magical in nature).
* TragicKeepsake: Her ChainmailBikini is revealed to be this in ''Queen Sonja''. It was a BeautifulSlaveGirl outfit given by [[TheLostLenore her boyfriend Kain]] to infiltrate a sacrifice chamber and rescue their allies. He was killed during their mission and she wore this outfit ever since in his honor.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Virtually the entire kingdom wishes to avenge Sultan Bashir in "Birth of a She-Devil" despite the fact he was a FatBastard HateSink.
* WalkingTheEarth: Sonja is usually depicted wandering from town to town. Occasionally she gets a quest that gives direction for a month or two.
* WorldsBestWarrior: In several versions, Sonja is either the uncontested greatest warrior in the world or has only Conan as a true peer.
[[/folder]]
!! The Movie
!! Red Sonja
[[folder:Character Tropes]]
* ActionGirl: Red Sonja herself.
* ActionHero: Sonja rarely meets problems she can't bash, slash, or stab. Even when she does it's still her go-to strategy.
* AmazonianBeauty: The comic character can be this DependingOnTheArtist - she has been more commonly depicted as svelte and voluptuous than buff (though there are exceptions). She was definitely one in the live action movie played by Creator/BrigitteNielsen.
* AncestralWeapon: In the novels, Sonja's sword was originally her father's who was once a mercenary captain before settling down to become a farmer (the soldiers who murdered Sonja's family and raped her were her father's ex-comrades who had a grudge). When she received her vision and picked up a sword to kill her first man, it was her father's that was lying in the wreckage. The novel ''Star of Doom'' goes further, Sonja tells a witch that [[CoolSword her father crafted the sword himself and when she took it up - she had slain so many demons, sorcerers and battle-crazy warriors and put so much of herself in that sword, that it had become magical]] and the witch acknowledged it actually had power.
* AnythingThatMoves: The Gail Simone incarnation was not raped unlike her previous incarnations and will not lose her fighting abilities if she has sex, so she's more than happy to indulge. She's also not too particular about who she does it with. Man, woman, horned forest god are all fair game.
* ArchEnemy: The [[EvilSorcerer sorcerer Kulan Gath]] has repeatedly plagued her life more than any foe and [[WhyWontYouDie has a knack for not staying dead]].
* BadassNormal: {{Zigzagged}}, Whether Sonja is superhuman or not depends on the writer. Her fighting prowess was divinely granted rather than the product of natural training and under some writers Sonja is acknowledged to be just a mortal fighter on peak female human condition. Others explicitly make her superhuman to a least some degree. She once demonstrated a healing factor and other writers have ranged from being MadeOfIron to giving her [[SuperStrength the strength of multiple men.]] For example, Michael Avon Oeming's Sonja was an unearthly warrior virtually impossible to defeat in combat, whereas Gail Simone's could be beaten in a duel with a skilled swordsman and got thrown out of a bar by a couple of bouncers. The version of Sonja that appeared in 2019's 'Vampirella/Red Sonja' was legitimately superhuman and could smash through a two-foot-thick stone wall with a single punch, taking out several solders on the other side, as well as kicking down a heavy steel door with ease - she appeared to be just as strong as Vampirella. Similarly, the Sonja of the 'Sonjaversal' series appears to be either immortal or to age very slowly and is said to have been blessed with strength and speed greater than anyone else of her world. Amy Chu's take on the character is also outright superhuman.
* BarbarianHero : Rare female version. Arguably, the ur-example.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: While she does get a few dirt smears on her in rare occasions, this is played straight to an extreme degree. Sonja has been slashed, impaled with arrows (albeit in the arms or legs), and even got got shot with a police revolver in her team-up with Spider-man. In no instance has she ever been scarred, lampshaded at the end of her Spider-man team-up, she wakes up lying on an altar somewhere in her own time period and finds the bullet she had been shot with had fallen out. More recently she contracted black plague and while one panel had her sprouting some boils on her face, these immediately disappeared the panel after.
* BestHerToBedHer: Former TropeNamer.
** LoopholeAbuse: As might be expected in a modern take on the story, deconstructing the exact wording and meaning of Sonja's vow has been attempted in her current series. Aside from the presence of the word fair (which can come and go, depending on the story), and for that matter the ''definition'' of fair combat, in issue 15 of the Dynamite series, [[spoiler:an ancient god defeats her (''and'' two of her friends, which apparently made it a fair fight) in battle. However, he knows nothing of her vow. Later, they become allies, and she comes to admire him, so she allows herself the indulgence.]] In issue 31, it's revealed she can lie with any man she chooses if she permanently foreswears her blessed skills. It would also follow that she does not have to let a man rape her if he defeats her, but the option to sleep with him is there if he does. In addition, there is no provision against love, just physical affection--it is as much a test of Sonja's will to abide by her vow as it is a compact from her goddess. The wording of her vow also means that if she were to be raped, she would ''not'' lose her blessed skills in consequence.
** This facet of her has officially been abandoned in the Gail Simone run; she runs into a [[SpearCounterpart male swordmaster]] with the same vow and... well...
--->'''Red Sonja:''' That is without question the [[StupidestThingIveEverHeard stupidest thing I have ever heard]].
* BlitheSpirit: Of the more violent sort. In general, the Hyboria is at least as patriarchal as the medieval times of our own world; when she passes through a town, though, some of the women tend to take inspiration from her example.
* BloodKnight: Sonja basically enjoys two things - drinking and fighting. And she is very good at both.
* BoobsOfSteel: A skilled and strong fighter who is often drawn very busty.
* BookDumb: Despite her mother's efforts, Sonja is only borderline literate. She may have a learning disability; she describes working very hard to develop only crude handwriting. Averted in Amy Chu's run.
* ChainmailBikini: Usually attributed to artist Esteban Maroto. Red Sonja is the TropeCodifier, if not the UrExample.
* ColorCharacter: '''Red''' Sonja.
* CombatPragmatist: Despite having vast strength from Scathach, at least in some incarnations, she happily uses any advantage she can during combat,
* DependingOnTheWriter: Red Sonja has been subjected to various retcons depending on who's writing her at the time - with changes ranging from whether she was the oldest child or the youngest child in her family, how old she was when her family was slaughtered, whether she got raped or not and why she was raped (originally the bandit leader was just horny and saw a beautiful red-headed girl, while in the Dynamite comics - Sonja was just a tweenie but she pissed off the bandits and they decided to rape her in revenge), whether she was divinely granted abilities or did she just develop them naturally and etc.
* DistaffCounterpart: To Conan the Barbarian.
* DistractedByTheSexy: This is [[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]] given as the reason for the ChainmailBikini. The ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' stats for Red Sonja from ''ComicBook/PathfinderWorldscape'' show her chainmail bikini doesn't give her any armor bonus at all (her only armor bonus comes from Bracers of Armor +4), but she does have an ability that lets her add her Charisma bonus (18, for a +4 bonus) to Armor Class when not wearing armor,
-->''Opponents are distracted by her boo--, uh, "confidence and personality".''
* DrowningMySorrows: Sonja frequently turns to alcohol when she is depressed. Her volatile state when drunk has made her the bane of any unfortunate barkeep's existence.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: She wore a downright modest regular chainmail shirt in her first few comic appearances but gained her signature bikini for the first issue of ''Savage Sword of Conan''.
* EternalHero: After a story in which Sonja dies, the subsequent story has the character being reincarnated. This is later revealed to be a mystic line of reincarnation, [[spoiler:back to the days before humans used weapons--Sonja's original incarnation was the first to do so. Apparently being a FieryRedhead is actually the real power of the line, as her fury is what allows each incarnation a way of becoming a great warrior regardless of circumstances, but depending on how she does it, that fury means she can end up a great hero or a great villain.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Happens from time to time. Sonja herself is apparently accustomed to this treatment and even flaunts it when opportunities arise.
-->'''Sonja:''' I'm Red Sonja. I'm everyone's type.
* ExposedToTheElements: Sonja both averts this and plays this straight, depending on the writer and artist of the story. The better writers will have her wearing several layers of fur when she is in a snow-covered realm. The worst ones will have her marching through the snow or rain in a ChainmailBikini without even as much as a fur cloak.
* FarmGirl: In almost all of her incarnations, Red Sonja and her family were farmers/foresters before they got attacked. (Though in the '80s novels - Sonja's father was a mercenary captain before mustering out and settling down to farm.)
* FieryRedhead: Red Sonja is named for her hair and known for her rage, battle- and otherwise. Roy Thomas said he drew from Red Sonya of Rogitano of ''The Shadow of the Vulture'' when creating Sonja.
* GeniusBruiser: In the ''Dragan the Magnificent'' arc, prior to returning to Hyrkania she had studied under a Sun-Tzu expy, Domo the greatest warmaster in Khitai. Not only can she read, but she's had 4 years of daily strategy and tactical lessons from him. The ''Dragan'' story often had Queen Sonja be a general as much as fighting in person.
* GoodIsNotNice: Sonja to a tee. Offend her or attack innocents in her presence and she'll usually offer a BadassBoast; those who apologize and leave live, but those who refuse are almost universally executed. Corrupt leaders don't even get the chance to leave because by the time Sonja is in their presence, she's aware of their greater crimes.
* TheHighQueen: Just like Conan, Sonja also became queen by her own hand when taking the throne of Songaria. Despite her past as TheLadette and not being royal born, she was regal and queenly in every other way as well as devoted in protecting her realm. In the ''Dragan the Magnificent'' story arc, Sonja is voted into being Queen of Hyrkania by the desperate rubes (Hyrkania here is a primitive land of tents, bandits and goats) - Sonja is queenly and regal because she was a high ranking officer of Khitai before the Emperor got deposed by his treasonous son.
* TheLadette: Especially in Gail Simone's run. Sonja is not particularly modest, has an aggressive appetite for sex, booze and food, sings bawdy songs and has a mouth as foul as anyone else's she might encounter.
* LikeADuckTakesToWater: In runs where Sonja was granted mastery over weapons by Scathach, she can turn virtually any object into an instrument of death with expert skill.
* LittleMissBadAss: In the Dynamite comics one-shot Sanctuary, Sonja mentions that she started her career as Scathach's enforcer when she was 12.
* MistakenForProstitute: This happens to Sonja on a semi-regular basis; largely due to her habit of hanging around seedy taverns in her ChainMailBikini. This usually ends badly for the person making the mistake, although she always gives them the opportunity to apologize before kicking their ass. They seldom take it. Given how much she ([[DependingOnTheWriter usually]]) loves fighting, at this point you have to think she's deliberately trolling for this to happen so she can find a jerk who is deserving of her unloading on them.
* Main/MostCommonSuperPower: One of the most blatant examples. Sonja has very buxom breasts.
* MsFanservice: One of the most well known examples in comics due to being the TropeCodifier for the ChainmailBikini trope.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: Sonja is far stronger than most men she encounters but lacks the muscle mass to illustrate this, although other characters will occasionally mention that she's exceptionally well built for a woman.
* NeverGetsDrunk: Type 3a. Red Sonja *can* get drunk and often *does* but her capacity for alcohol is prodigious, probably even higher than Conan’s.
* PerfectPacifistPeople: Believe it or not, but Sonja belongs to one as revealed in the ''Wrath of the Gods'' miniseries. Her people are the Bundini, a red-haired race of humans defined as a peaceful shepherds, advisers and merchants rather than warriors and as such, they were bullied and persecuted by everyone in Hyboria. According to their legend, they would one day breed a powerful warrior without parallel, which is incidentally Sonja herself.
* PirateGirl: Sonja has been a pirate from time to time.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: When she's not righting wrongs and helping the helpless (or getting into bar fights, or killing people for looking at her funny, or cutting her way through a few dozen guards of the latest guy to kidnap her and try to make her part of his harem and then making him wear his ass as a hat, or any of the other sort of violence she engages in), Sonja tends to make a living as one of these.
* RapeAsBackstory: She became the badass warrior she did partly out of a reaction to being raped when she was a girl.
* RapeAsDrama: Sonja's original backstory uses this as an inciting element (along with, y'know, the deaths of her entire family).
* RealMenLoveJesus: A female example, since she is extremely devout to Scathatch, the deity that granted Sonja her fighting abilities.
* RedIsHeroic: A heroic redhead.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Part of her backstory, but also like her SpearCounterpart Conan, would often find herself motivated to them, especially against foes that took particular delight in their crimes against women.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Kulan Gath was originally created by Michael Moorcock for Conan the Barbarian's comic book series. He would eventually become Red Sonja's archenemy. Notably, he would continue to show up in both Marvel comics and Dynamite's verison of the character.
* StatuesqueStunner: Her height is officially 5'11" ... in the current series by Amy Chu, she's 6'0" and was played by the 6'0" Creator/BrigitteNielsen in the movie.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Obviously. Probably the only major comic character who routinely wears less than her is [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]]. Justified in the Dynamite Series that Red Sonja deliberately wears it to distract her mostly male adversaries.
-->'''Sonja:''' Men are easily distracted. Most don't even notice my sword until their head rolls off their necks.
* SupportingProtagonist: In the first 3 of the six '80s Red Sonja novels by David Smith and Richard Tierney, Red Sonja is there to support the local protagonist of the story - in fact, she's not even close to dealing with the BigBad of the respective first 2 novels. The first book ''The Ring of Ikribu'', it was Duke Pelias and a bunch of Stygian cultists that dealt with the sorcerer Asroth - Sonja merely found the {{McGuffin}} before having to eventually turn it over and act as supporting muscle. The second book ''Demon Night'', it was renegade temple virgin Tiamu who destroyed the CorruptChurch and released the [[EldritchAbomination Earthfolk]], Sonja mostly putzed around on the run and indirectly led Tiamu to where she needed to go.
* TouchedByVorlons: The source of Sonja's power in comics where her abilities are supernatural, the early run of Dynamite comics had her granted her swordsmanship by the goddess Scathach and in the novels the blue vision that gave her power was a manifestation of her own spirit - Sonja was a ''True Soul'', a person of great destiny, and through this she gave herself supernatural swordsmanship (sorcerers in the novel can actually detect that her fighting abilities are magical in nature).
* TragicKeepsake: Her ChainmailBikini is revealed to be this in ''Queen Sonja''. It was a BeautifulSlaveGirl outfit given by [[TheLostLenore her boyfriend Kain]] to infiltrate a sacrifice chamber and rescue their allies. He was killed during their mission and she wore this outfit ever since in his honor.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Virtually the entire kingdom wishes to avenge Sultan Bashir in "Birth of a She-Devil" despite the fact he was a FatBastard HateSink.
* WalkingTheEarth: Sonja is usually depicted wandering from town to town. Occasionally she gets a quest that gives direction for a month or two.
* WorldsBestWarrior: In several versions, Sonja is either the uncontested greatest warrior in the world or has only Conan as a true peer.
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!! The Movie
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->'''Played by:''' Ernie Reyes Jr.
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->'''Played by:''' Ernie Reyes Jr.
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->'''Played by:''' Paul Lawrence Smith
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->'''Played by:''' Paul Lawrence Smith
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->'''Played by:''' Sandahl Bergman
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->'''Played by:''' Sandahl Bergman
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->'''Played by:''' Ronald Lacey
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->'''Played by:''' Ronald Lacey
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* DirtyOldMan: He won't let Sonja pass through his door unless she does him a "favor".
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* DirtyOldMan: He won't let Sonja pass through his door unless she does him a "favor"."[[SexForServices favor]]".
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* VillainOfTheDetour: He's not under Queen Gedren's orders but Sonja needs to cross his gate in order to get to Gedren's kingdom. Sonja opts to kill him to get the key to the gate and confront his army.
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* {{Malevolent Masked|Man}}Woman: She wears a golden mask after Sonja scarred her face.
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* {{Malevolent Masked|Man}}Woman: [[MalevolentMaskedMan Malevolent Masked Woman]]: She wears a golden mask after Sonja scarred her face.
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* AmazonChaser: Being a great warrior himself, he's attracted to Sonja's due to both her beauty and her prowess in combat.
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* AmazonChaser: Being a great warrior himself, he's attracted to Sonja's Sonja due to both her beauty and her prowess in combat.
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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Just as Conan was in his two movies, Kalidor can lift weights way beyond possible for a normal human being.
* CoolSword: Wields a pretty coold sword, with a golden shield ornament on the hilt.
* CoolSword: Wields a pretty coold sword, with a golden shield ornament on the hilt.
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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Just as Conan was did in his two movies, Kalidor can lift weights way beyond possible for a normal human being.
* CoolSword: Wields a prettycoold cool sword, with a golden shield ornament on the hilt.
* CoolSword: Wields a pretty
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* HeroesWantRedheads: He falls heads over heels for Sonja.
* HeroicBuild: Being played by Arnold Schwarzenegger helps, even though he has no ShirtlessScene to display it to the full, unlike the ''Conan'' movies.
* HeroicBuild: Being played by Arnold Schwarzenegger helps, even though he has no ShirtlessScene to display it to the full, unlike the ''Conan'' movies.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: He falls heads head over heels for Sonja.
* HeroicBuild:Being Due to being played by Arnold Schwarzenegger helps, even though he has no ShirtlessScene to display it to the full, unlike the ''Conan'' movies.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Still utters death threats to the bandits that are about to quarter him.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Still He still utters death threats to the bandits that are about to quarter him.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: His girth doesn't prevent him from climbing on the castle's wall along with Kalidor and Sonja. He still has this line upon reaching the stone duct:
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* {{Acrofatic}}: His girth doesn't prevent him from climbing on the castle's wall along with Kalidor and Sonja. He still has this line upon reaching the stone duct:
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* PsychoLesbian: She's a mad queen, and she's attracted to women.
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* PsychoLesbian: She's a mad queen, and she's also attracted to women.women. Sonja's refusal of her advances (plus cutting her cheek) enraged her. She had her family killed, and Sonja raped for it.
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* YoureInsane: Says this to Gedren before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere attempting to leave]] the [[CollapsingLair collapsing castle]].
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* YoureInsane: Says He says this to Gedren before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere attempting to leave]] the [[CollapsingLair collapsing castle]].
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* DoesNotLikeMen: After her rape. [[BestHerToBedHer Unless they're able to equal or defeat her in combat]].
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* DoesNotLikeMen: After her rape. rape, Sonja disliked being touched by them, understandably, although she still felt affection for the Grand Master who taught her. Sonja tells him that she doesn't really hate all men though, but refuses to let them touch her [[BestHerToBedHer Unless unless they're able to equal or defeat her in combat]].combat]]. Later, she slowly warms up Kalidor, and kisses him.
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* FieryRedhead: Sonja is a red-haired, hot-blooded swordswoman who has righteous fury for Queen Gedren, who had her raped and ordered Sonja's family slaughtered, on whom she has sworn vengeance.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When it becomes clear that the Talisman's power can't be contained, he decides to leave the castle before the Talisman destroys it, no matter what Gedren thinks of it.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When it becomes clear that the Talisman's power can't be contained, contained and the castle starts collapsing because of this, he decides to leave the castle before the Talisman destroys it, it's too late, no matter what Gedren thinks of it.
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* BeardOfEvil: He's bearded and won't hesitate to massacre those who won't pay him a tax.
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* BeardOfEvil: He's bearded and won't hesitate to massacre those who won't pay him a tax. Plus he's a DirtyOldMan expecting women who want to cross his gate to pay him a "favor".
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* {{Acrofatic}}: His girth doesn't prevent him from climbing on the castle's wall along with Kalidor and Sonja.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: His girth doesn't prevent him from climbing on the castle's wall along with Kalidor and Sonja. He still has this line upon reaching the stone duct:
-->"Tomorrow I start my diet..."
-->"Tomorrow I start my diet..."
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When it becomes clear that the Talisman's power can't be contained, he decides to leave the castle before the Talisman destroys it.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When it becomes clear that the Talisman's power can't be contained, he decides to leave the castle before the Talisman destroys it, no matter what Gedren thinks of it.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: His girth doesn't prevent him from climbing on the castle's wall along with Kalidor and Sonja.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He can look and act goofy in his dedication to protect Prince Tarn and do whatever Tarn orders him to do, but he's a force to be reckoned with.
* EnemyEatsYourLunch: A hilarious inversion of the trope.
* FatComicRelief: He's fat, and quite a goofball at times.
* EnemyEatsYourLunch: A hilarious inversion of the trope.
* FatComicRelief: He's fat, and quite a goofball at times.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He can look and act goofy in his dedication to protect Prince Tarn and do whatever Tarn orders him to do, do no matter how stupid it is, but he's a force to be reckoned with.
* EnemyEatsYourLunch: A hilarious inversion of the trope. ''He'' ends up eating the bad guys' lunch.
* FatComicRelief: He'sfat, overweight, and quite a goofball at times.
* EnemyEatsYourLunch: A hilarious inversion of the trope. ''He'' ends up eating the bad guys' lunch.
* FatComicRelief: He's
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* UndyingLoyalty: He has sworn to protect Prince Tarn and obeys every one of his orders. He never bothers discussing Tarn's orders, no matter how stupid they can prove to be, and he never even thinks about giving the prince much-needed corrections for his bratty behaviour.
* WeaponOfChoice: His favorite weapon is a [[BadWithTheBone bone he uses as a club]].
* WeaponOfChoice: His favorite weapon is a [[BadWithTheBone bone he uses as a club]].
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* UndyingLoyalty: He has sworn to protect Prince Tarn and obeys every one of his orders. He never bothers discussing Tarn's said orders, no matter how stupid they can prove to be, and he never even thinks about giving the prince much-needed corrections for his bratty behaviour.
behaviour, even with no one left to punish him for touching a royal heir.
* WeaponOfChoice: His favorite weapon is a [[BadWithTheBone bone he uses as a club]]. He offers a smaller one to Tarn before climbing the castle with Sonja and Kalidor.
* WeaponOfChoice: His favorite weapon is a [[BadWithTheBone bone he uses as a club]]. He offers a smaller one to Tarn before climbing the castle with Sonja and Kalidor.
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* LadyOfBlackMagic: An ambitious, evil queen as well as a sorceress.
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->'''Played by:''' Pat Roach
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->'''Played by:''' Pat Roach
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->'''Played by:''' Brigitte Nielsen
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->'''Played by:''' Brigitte Nielsen
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* BigEater: He can't resist eating a bit of Gedren's men's chicken as he has crashed straight onto their refectory table, even as the fight is about to begin.
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* BigEater: He can't resist eating a bit of Gedren's men's chicken as he has crashed landed straight onto their refectory table, even as the fight is about to begin.
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* EnemyEatsYourLunch: A hilarious inversion of the trope.
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* EvilLaugh: She does several over the course of the film.
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* EvilLaugh: She does several over lets out quite a few evil laughs towards the course end of the film.
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* YouReInsane: Says this to Gedren before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere attempting to leave]] the [[CollapsingLair collapsing castle]].
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* YouReInsane: YoureInsane: Says this to Gedren before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere attempting to leave]] the [[CollapsingLair collapsing castle]].
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* EvilGloating: Gloats about the sufferings he will inflict to Sonja while fighting her.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Sonja runs him through with her sword.
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* BlingOfWar: He wears a mail/plate armor that's adorned with gold.
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* BeardOfEvil: He's bearded and won't hesitate to massacre those who won't pay him a toll.
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* BeardOfEvil: He's bearded and won't hesitate to massacre those who won't pay him a toll.tax.
* CashGate: One has to pay him a tax to enter the Kingdom of Eternal Night.
* CashGate: One has to pay him a tax to enter the Kingdom of Eternal Night.
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* EvilRedhead: He's a DirtyOldMan and a greedy bastard, and he's red-headed.
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* BeardOfBarbarism: Brytag and his men are depicted no differently than barbarians in the ''Conan'' movies that came before ''Red Sonja'', and he's bearded.
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* LeaveHimToMe: He decides to kill Sonja by himself when it becomes clear he won't have his way with her.
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* CoolKey: The big key he uses to open his door.
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* CoolKey: The He uses a big key he uses to open his door.door and wears it on a necklace.
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! '''Protagonists'''
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! '''Antagonists'''
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The keeper of the gates leading to the Kingdom of Eternal Night.
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The young prince of the kingdom of Hablock, which was destroyed by Queen Gedren using the Talisman. He projects to raise a new army and joins Sonja in her crusade against Gedren.
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The young prince of the kingdom of Hablock, Harblock, which was destroyed by Queen Gedren using the Talisman. He projects to raise a new army and joins Sonja in her crusade against Gedren.
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The evil queen of the Kingdom of Eternal Night. She destroyed Sonja's family and seeks to use the Talisman to dominate the world.
Queen Gedren's vizier.
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