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* Sergeant Calhoun in Disney's ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' is a BrokenBird who commands a squad battling alien invaders called "Cy-Bugs". Her [[DefrostingIceQueen initially cold personality]] is the result of [[WidowedAtTheWedding losing her fiancé on their wedding day]].

* Calhoun in Disney's ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' fits this trope perfectly.

%%* ''Combat Kelly and the Deadly Dozen'', a MarvelComics WorldWarII comic, Laurie Livingston.

* This is a plot point in the Australian 1990's mini-series ''Phoenix''. The only female member of the Major Crime Unit is the unit's analyst; as a result she has a problem getting the detectives to take her -- and by extension her job -- seriously.

* ''CiaphasCain'' ('''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM''') is attached to the mixed-gender 597th Valhallan regiment for most of his career, created by shoving the remains of an all-male and an all-female regiment together. In Warhammer40K, such regiments are less common than all-female ones, as maybe 10% of the Imperial Guard are women.

* ''[[CallOfDuty Call Of Duty: Finest Hour]]''. Lt. Tanya Pavelovna in the Eastern Front missions who is a playable character for several levels.
* ''CallOfDuty 2'' has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it Squadette in the Stalingrad levels---she's equipped with a [=PPsh=], and ''screams incessantly'' at the soldiers vigorous patriotism and insults anyone who hangs back from an assault.
* ''ConflictGlobalOps''. Carrie Sherman. Your squad is initially all male, but she gets assigned as a replacement sniper after your previous one is captured.
* ''GearsOfWar''. Anya Stroud, Samantha Byrne, and Bernadette Mataki in the third game. In the first two games and the novelizations, only men do the fighting, while all fertile women are used for reproductive purposes, and all non-fertile women serve in support roles. However, by the third game, humanity is down to its last legs and needs every available body to fight.
* ''IronGrip : The Opression'' Gretchen Stoertebellor, member of a RagTagBunchOfMisfits [[LaResistance resistance cell]] and a former bandit. Her father was both a legendary {{badass}} and an infamous pirate warlord.

* BioWare games avert it by providing plenty of female [=NPCs=] to bring along in your squad, from straight up action girls like [[Franchise/MassEffect Ashley Williams]] or [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Aveline Vallen]] to powerful magic types like [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins Morrigan]] or even a WrenchWench like [[Franchise/MassEffect Tali]].
* ''{{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 a [[CoolPlane A-10]] with a cloaking device) is present as well.
* ''TrafficDepartment2192'': Vulthaven's TD has at least three: player character Lieutenant Marta Louise Velasquez, Commander Renee White, Lieutenant Nicola Cartel.

* Depending on your personal theory on the Pyro's identity, Team Fortress 2 either plays this straight or averts this. Or maybe inverts it. We really have no idea.

These characters are frequently attractive. Because the only thing hotter for some people than a [[WrenchWench woman who can fix your car]] is a woman who [[ActionGirl can kick a lot of ass]]. With a [[IncrediblyLamePun HOT]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromissile_HOT missile]].

-->--'''Dizzy Flores''', ''WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles''

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

* ''{{Wake of Death}}''. This otherwise forgettable ''JeanClaudeVanDamme'' movie has a female US Army officer wearing a Combat Infantryman's Badge, which only men can receive as women are not permitted in Infantry (11) or Special Forces (18) series MOS.

* Peggy Carter in ''CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''.

* ''Series/{{SWAT}}'' (2003). Police Officer Third Grade Chris Sánchez (again MichelleRodriguez).

** Germany. In 2000 a female German medic successfully went to the European Court of Justice to remove restrictions for women bearing arms in the German armed forces. Her original intention was just to be allowed to receive weapon training for self defense, but it caused the German Government to officially allow woman in their armed forces as soldiers. Nowadays female soldiers are a notable if still small part of their land, air and sea forces.

* ''TheKingdom''. Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner). Justified in that she is an FBI agent. Currently 18% of FBI agents are female, it would not be terribly unlikely for her to appear. Now the question of whether they would send her to Saudi Arabia is a different story.

* ''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.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Riley's wife. The Scooby Gang had no need.

* The NewUniverse of Marvel had Jenny Swensen became this when her MAX armor was co-opted by the Army.

* BioWare games avert it by providing plenty of female [=NPCs=] to bring along in your squad, from straight up action girls like [[MassEffect Ashley Williams]] or [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Aveline Vallen]] to powerful magic types like [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins Morrigan]] or even a WrenchWench like [[MassEffect Tali]].

*** [[RedOctober Civil War-era]] Russia had, in fact, no Tsarist regulations still functioning and no Communist regulations yet functioning. This meant that any woman who wished so could pick up a gun and join any army, bandit gang or army that is a bandit gang. One particular subtrope was the female [[ThePoliticalOfficer commissar]]; the pre-revolutionary Bolsheviks were egalitarian, and had to send their cadre to the frontlines en masse when the Civil War started.

%%* ''ConflictGlobalOps''. Carrie Sherman.

* Scarlet from ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra''.

** Russia. Technically does not allow women to do combat duties or become commanding officers of anything that sees combat, but that's only in peacetime. During both World Wars Russia/Soviet Union did have female soldiers, officers and even [[AmazonBrigade all-female units]] doing actual combat.

%%* ''{{Starcraft}}'': Lt. Sarah Kerrigan.

%%** Also Nova.

* ''Series/RedCap'' has Sergeat Jo [=McDonough=] and Staff Sergeants Neve Kirland (season 1) and Harriet Frost (season 2).