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* {{Star Trek Voyager}}: The first (and only) Star Trek series to feature a female captain. The main cast also featured 3 other female characters (Torres, Kes, Seven) and the final BigBad was the Borg Queen.

** This is a ''very'' subjective example. Janeway is arguably a played straight but Seven of Nine and later Kes's existence was due entirely to Fanservice - a woman wearing a breast enhancing catsuit for no reason is NOT a feminist fantasy. Torres was a StrawFeminist at best.

* The WheelOfTime is not feminist ''per se'', but at least half the main characters are female, and women in general have some sort of dominance in the world, most cultures being either outright matriarcal (the Seanchan Empress and Andor Queen come to mind) or giving equal rights to both men and women (most village have both a male Village Council and a female Women's Circle, the Aiel being ruled by both the clan chiefs and the Wise Ones).

* TheLastAirbenderTheLegendOfKorra looks like it will fulfill this. {{Avatar The Last Airbender}} became a surprising popular among girls probably greatly due to its variety of strong willed girl characters, [[ActionGirl of which most could kill you five ways til Sunday]]

* TheLastAirbenderLegendOfKorra looks like it will fulfill this. {{Avatar The Last Airbender}} became a surprising popular among girls probably greatly due to its variety of strong willed girl characters, [[ActionGirl of which most could kill you five ways til Sunday]]

* {{Legend of Korra}} looks like it will fulfill this. {{Avatar The Last Airbender}} became a surprising popular among girls probably greatly due to its variety of strong willed girl characters.

* ''Bone Dance'' by Emma Bull (whose books usually have strong female protagonists).

* {{Legend of Korra}} looks like it will fulfill this. {{Avatar The Last Airbender}} became a surprising popular among girls probably greatly due to it's variety of strong willed girl characters.

* {{Warehouse 13}} Is shown to have just as many strong female characters as male characters, if not more. (Myka, Claudia,H.G., Mrs. Fredrickson, vs. Artie and Pete)

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' is a ''very'' controversial example. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Depending on how you analyze the books,]] they are either very feminist for their inclusion of about equal numbers of male and female characters, or they set feminism back fifty years by having a passive, unabashedly boy-obsessed main character who's incapable of doing anything herself. YourMileageMayVary.

* {{Warehouse 13}} Is shown to have just as many strong female characters as male characters, if not more. (Myka, Claudia, Mrs. Fredrickson vs. Artie and Pete)

* ''{{Twilight}}'' is a ''very'' controversial example. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Depending on how you analyze the books,]] they are either very feminist for their inclusion of about equal numbers of male and female characters, or they set feminism back fifty years by having a passive, unabashedly boy-obsessed main character who's incapable of doing anything herself. YourMileageMayVary.

* ''TheSight'' by David-Clement Davies. Might be pushing it a bit since the novel is about wolves, but the main character, the main antagonist, and the secondary antagonist are all strong females. There are also many female supporting characters.

* ''The Sight'' by David-Clement Davies. Might be pushing it a bit since the novel is about wolves, but the main character, the main antagonist, and the secondary antagonist are all strong females. There are also many female supporting characters.

* ''{{Twilight}}'' is a ''very'' controversial example. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Depending on how you analyze the books,]] they are either very feminist for their inclusion of about equal numbers of male and female characters, or they set feminism back fifty years by having a passive, unabashedly boy-obsessed main character. YourMileageMayVary.

* Averted by, of all things, MyLittlePony Friendship Is Magic. While the franchise has pretty much always been aimed at girls, and creator Lauren Faust created the cast as a way to remove generic "niceness" from the characterization of girls and avoid the problems inherent in TheChick (she described one of the major themes as being ''how many different ways there are to be a girl'') , the show is written to be enjoyed equally [[ParentalBonus by parents]] and kids alike, and succeeds beautifully. It may be the only Western girls' cartoon that has inspired raiding threads on 4chan.org.

We all know that MostWritersAreMale. Something like eighty percent of media aimed at children have male main characters, whereas [[CaptainObvious half the population is female.]] Chances are, any summer blockbuster you can name revolves around a male or men in general. Men save the world, women are their LoveInterests. Men are heroes, [[MaleGaze women are sexy.]] Stories about women are for women, stories about men are for general consumption.

* The ''Jirel of Joiry'' stories by C.L. Moore (C.L. stands for Catherine Lucille), published between the years 1934 and 1939. The title character was the first ever heroine in the SwordAndSorcery genre.

** Wonder Woman is probably responsible for the stereotype that feminists are lesbians, if only because when ExecutiveMeddling resulted in a less {{fanservice}}y costume, feminists complained.

** Well, since any idiot can write a bunch of female characters, or even [[OneGenderRace make all the characters female thanks to parthenogenesis]], yeah.

* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion''. To give you an idea, the three main scientists (Yui, Naoko, and Ritsuko) are female, a reference to Genesis. Asuka and Rei (all of them) are also female. Misato is female, a bit, ah, "forward" with men, and commands the Eva pilots. [[spoiler:The Evas hold the pilots' mothers' souls for some fun uterine symbolism.]] Common {{fanon}} states that all but one of the Angels are either female or asexual. Yes, there's a lot of {{fanservice}}, but the most famous fanservice is for {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s, getting more homoerotic with each incarnation.

* ''Series/GoldDigger'' is very likely one of the most tolerant and evenhanded comics around. No, seriously. The female characters are smart, capable, funny, goofy, distinctive, well-rounded, diverse, and memorable, in a manner usually reserved for TenchiMuyo or the works of RumikoTakahashi. They are usually attractive, yes, but the writer is making a continuous effort to represent different body types and give female readers evenhanded "beefcake" treatment.