History Main / TheSquadette

* ''Wolf of the Battlefield: VideoGame/{{Commando}} 3'' has Fox, the first female commando in the series.

TheSquad will often include a female to widen the demographic appeal (to women and, er, [[{{Fanservice}} young men]]).

* ''The Zone'' novels set in an AlternateHistory WorldWarIII. Andrea, a beautiful East German SociopathicSoldier who is inducted into the unit because its CO Major Revell has an [[EvilIsSexy unhealthy fascination with her]]. Justified in that Revell's RagtagBunchOfMisfits is not under anyone's direct authority, and therefore routinely replaces casualties by plundering them from other units.

%%* ''Film/{{Aliens}}'': [[VasquezAlwaysDies Vasquez]]. Also Dietrich and Ferro.
%%* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'': Trudy Chacon (Creator/MichelleRodriguez), part of the largely sausage party [[PrivateMilitaryContractors SecFor]].

%%* Peggy Carter in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''.

%%* ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'' has Nance, the token ActionGirl of J Squad.

%%* Scarlet and The Baroness from ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra''.

%%* ''Film/{{Predators}}'' has [[ActionGirl Isabelle]] [[BadassIsraeli the]] [[SmallGirlBigGun sniper]].

* ''Manga/{{Area 88}}'': Kitori in the TV series; Sela in manga issues that did not make it stateside.

* ''Anime/{{Hellsing}}'' Seras Victoria in the first episode. All things considered maybe she shouldn't have been there...although she did noticeably better than the rest of the troop. After that, she gets promoted to full-on ActionGirl. This is not the case in the original manga and Ultimate anime, as there she was just an ordinary constable who stumbled onto a case that was way too big for her and somehow ended up surviving longer than everyone else in town did. Her eventual promotion to ActionGirl still happens, though, especially when she awakens to her full vampiric power.
** The appearance of a woman on a SWAT Team (or the equivalent) used to be fictional, but women have been represented more and more in real life.
* ''LightNovel/LibraryWar'' Iku Kasahara is the first woman to join the elite Library Task Force.

%%* ''{{Vexille}}'' The eponymous ActionGirl.

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* ''Film/{{SWAT}}'' (2003): Police Officer Third Grade Chris Sánchez (again Creator/MichelleRodriguez). American women are allowed to join SWAT teams, although it is still rare for a woman to do so. [[http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/virginian-pilot-ledger-star-norfolk/mi_8014/is_20090301/swat-team-sniper-tackles-crime/ai_n41439945/ Here]] is an article about a woman who is part of an American SWAT team.

* ''Literature/EndersGame'': Petra Arkanian, the [[TokenGirl lone girl of Battle School]] (at least the only one who plays a role in the plot or is described by name). Do ''not'' confuse her with TheChick.

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* Music/{{Sabaton}}
** The song "Lady of the Dark" is about Milunka Savić, a Serbian woman who disguised herself as a man in order to take her brother's place in combat and went on to become one of the most highly decorated soldiers of World War I.
** The song "Night Witches" is about Russia's all female 588th Night Bomber Regiment who flew in World War II and terrified the German army with their stealthy bombing runs. They would cut engines in order to silently glide over their target, leaving the enemy none the wiser until the bombs started falling.
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** The USA has recently decided to open infantry positions to women. This will apparently apply to all conventional infantry positions, while special force units can choose to admit or deny female applicants at their own discretion.

The secondary character version generally falls into two categories: the MsFanservice who typically [[SheFu leaps]] and [[{{Gainaxing}} bounces]] around in [[CustomUniformOfSexy implausibly]] [[{{Stripperiffic}} revealing]] or [[SpyCatsuit form-fitting]] gear, or the tough, grubby tomboy who is usually more convincing as a warrior but also [[VasquezAlwaysDies less likely to survive the story]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'': Lt. Sarah Kerrigan, and Nova.
** The Valkyrie Frigate serves this role in the Terran arsenal, being the only damage-capable unit with a female portrait (neither the Medic nor the Dropship can actually inflict damage). In 2, the Banshee stealth bomber (well, not really a bomber; more like an [[CoolPlane A-10]] with a cloaking device) is present as well.

* ''VideoGame/TrafficDepartment2192'': Vulthaven's TD has at least three: player character Lieutenant Marta Louise Velasquez, Commander Renee White, Lieutenant Nicola Cartel.

** Zoe fills in the female spot on the 50-David squad after Chris.

* ComicBook/TheNewUniverse of Marvel had Jenny Swensen, who became this when her MAX armor was co-opted by the Army.

* Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun in ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' (pictured above) commands a squad that is battling creatures called "Cy-Bugs", whose existence resulted from an experiment gone wrong. Her [[DefrostingIceQueen initially cold personality]] is the result of [[WidowedAtTheWedding losing her fiancé on their wedding day]].

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[[caption-width-right:250:"[[Anime/CowboyBebopKnockinOnHeavensDoor I love the kind of woman that can kick my ass]]."]]

->"''Where ya gonna find another girl who can shoot the eye out of a Bug at two hundred meters?''"

** The military of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland does not allow women to serve in combat infantry positions...except for one particular regiment. The Special Reconnaissance Regiment, an elite intelligence-gathering unit of the British military is the only "teeth" regiment in the entire military with female combat soldiers.

* ''Film/{{SWAT}}'' (2003): Police Officer Third Grade Chris Sánchez (again Creator/MichelleRodriguez).
** American women are allowed to join SWAT teams, although it is still rare for a woman to do so. [[http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/virginian-pilot-ledger-star-norfolk/mi_8014/is_20090301/swat-team-sniper-tackles-crime/ai_n41439945/ Here]] is an article about a woman who is part of an American SWAT team.

* ''Series/TheUnit'': The CBS series is a notable exception, with the only female members at MissionControl. Although they do have all the characters' wives tearing each other to pieces back home.