Examples of Amazon Chaser in live-action TV.
- In the fifth season of 3rd Rock from the Sun, Harry Solomon falls head over heels (sometimes literally) for Janice, a tall, gorgeous, weight lifting policewoman. Not only because she outclasses Sally, but because he thinks she's hot and would love to climb all over her as if she were a jungle gym.Harry: Bet I could climb her like a tree. I'd be like a five year old at Disneyland.
- Their relationship even seems to be a consensual sadomasochistic one (minus bondage), as he really enjoys it whenever she causes him physical pain. Though he mentions she's also as gentle as a lamb. When Janice asks if he'll be her boyfriend:Harry: If I say no, will you hurt me?
Janice: Maybe...
Harry: In that case... no.
(Janice wraps her legs around Harry and brings him down between her knees. He purrs in ecstasy)
- Their relationship even seems to be a consensual sadomasochistic one (minus bondage), as he really enjoys it whenever she causes him physical pain. Though he mentions she's also as gentle as a lamb. When Janice asks if he'll be her boyfriend:
- Alias: Julian Sark is very attracted to action girls. He was romantically involved with badass females such as Allison Doren and Lauren Reed, plus he has a long-running crush on Sydney Bristow. The more these ladies showcase their skills, the more turned on he is.
- Babylon 5's Susan Ivanova, The Lancer and Number Two. Marcus Cole is absolutely besotted with her, and becomes so after seeing her kick ass and take names.
- Kara Thrace on the rebooted Battlestar Galactica seems to be surrounded by men who have absolutely no problem with the fact that she can, and probably will, outfly them, outshoot them, beat them up, and then drink them under the table. The fact that those qualities make her a dynamite wingmate you want in battle would explain the pilots. Gaius Baltar, one of her one-night stands, is better known for his various liaisons with Cylon females — all of whom have been tall, intimidating, and capable of snapping him like a twig should they so choose. One was even played by Lucy Lawless.
- The Boys (2019): Homelander's relationship with Queen Maeve existed solely for this reason, and was marketed as a selling point by Vought. Then, Homelander became attracted to Stormfront after it was clear she can take a lot of punishment and both start to have rough sex, so much that it ends up destroying her apartment.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
- When the show introduces the new slayer Faith, Xander hangs on her every word. At which point Cordelia asks what's with him and slayers (knowing that he's had a crush on Buffy). Should she dress up like one and put a stake to his heart? He wished she wasn't kidding.
- Riley Finn likes the fact that Buffy is strong, decisive and good in a fight; no doubt seeing them as a potential Battle Couple. Unfortunately, Riley serves as a Deconstruction of what happens when a normal guy chases after an Amazon with the goal of keeping up with her. Not only does Riley slow Buffy down, but the constant failure eats away at his self-esteem and almost kills him. Ultimately, Riley is incapable of acting as Buffy's support and she is unwilling to even discuss their problems, leaving him to end their relationship. In the next season, Riley has finally found happiness in a more equal relationship with a non-powered special forces Action Girl. He and his new wife are a picture perfect Battle Couple, and, he apparently still gushes over Buffy in admiration and gives her a well-timed You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech when she was near her lowest.
- Spike is this for Drusilla, Slayers in general and Buffy in particular - it's not a stretch to say he's only interested in women who can (and do) kick his ass. As Buffy muses, she beats him up a lot, which, for Spike, is like 3rd Base. Outright stated in the After the Fall comics.
- Chuck has strong feelings for his femme fatale CIA bodyguard, who is a master martial artist with a thing for throwing knives.
- In The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Rian falls for Mira, whom he tries to impress when they spar and she ends up beating him every time before it ended in their First Kiss.
- In the Doctor Who story "Battlefield", extra-dimensional Arthurian knight Sir Ancelyn first starts showing attraction to Brigadier Bambera after she beats him in a fist-fight. They quickly become a Battle Couple, and his affection becomes more extreme and blatant after every fight they win. When she jokingly threatens to kill him, his immediate response is to bluntly but yearningly ask her if she's single.
- Deputy Josefina "Jo" Lupo from Eureka certainly fits this trope. According to the show, she holds the all-time Army Ranger's marksmanship record. Consider this particular quote from the second episode of the third season.Zane: Jo? I need a gun. A big, powerful gun.
Jo: I've been waiting for someone to say that to me my whole life.
(Meaningful smiles at each other) - Firefly: Wash, a geeky pilot is Happily Married to Zoe, former career soldier and current first mate on Serenity, despite (and possibly because of) the fact that she's a gun-toting warrior who could kill him seven ways with her pinky, while the closest he's ever gotten to a firefight is having been "fired from a fry cook opportunity". Though this was soon remedied (see the charge to save Mal in “War Stories") and he was no slouch.Wash: Have you ever been with a warrior woman?
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. After Will and Carlton's school goes co-ed, they and several other boys are seen ridiculing a tall and muscular girl, who responds by angrily pushing Carlton against a wall. But by the episode's end, she's seen with a boyfriend, who's clearly utterly enamored with her (and she with him), even though she towers over him.
- Friends: A mild version. Chandler Bing adores his best friend (and later wife) Monica and happily admits that she is 'freakishly strong' and could easily kick his ass.
- Game of Thrones:
- Tormund practically drools over Brienne of Tarth, who has been ignored by men because of her muscular build and masculine looks for most of her life. Justified since Tormund is from Beyond the Wall, where an Action Girl like Brienne is highly desirable. Brienne however has no idea how to respond to this hairy barbarian, as for all her tough exterior she's still a chaste noblewoman.
- Jon Snow falls for two women over the course of the series: wildling warrior Ygritte and Dragon Rider Frontline General Daenerys.
- From Glee: Though a bit on the wide side, Lauren is an intimidating teenager with a state championship in Greco Roman Wrestling. Puck likes her because of her attitude and has been hitting on her, but after she wiped the floor with Santana he practically asks her marriage.
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys:
- Atalanta, female blacksmith and occasionally recurring character. She was dumped by a date because she was too amazony, but Salmoneus made it clear he considered that a plus. Unfortunately for him, she regards him as a goofy friend at best and an Abhorrent Admirer at worst.
- Almost every major love interest that Hercules ever had fits the bill. His first wife, Deianeira, was the only one that wasn't a fighter, but she was still strong-willed and quick to come up with plans, which immediately caught Herc's notice. His second wife, Serena, was a huntress trained by Ares who stood up for what she thought was right. He almost got married a third time to Morrigan, a super-strong half-god from Eire. He is also said to have dated Nemesis in his younger days; an episode of Young Hercules depicts their first meeting, and he is immediately taken aback to see her in full gear. Short-term but memorable examples also include a brief fling with Xena before she got her own show and falling for a female leader of a La Résistance group. Unfortunately for Atalanta, Hercules doesn't reciprocate her feelings, turning her down multiple times and just considering her a friend.
- Iolaus was a bit more varied, having assorted dates and flings with a variety of women, but his most prominent love interests were Niobe (a strong-willed queen with a gift for archery) and Nebula (a pirate).
- House of the Dragon: Ser Harwin Strong is the only person on Viserys's White Stag Hunt happy to see Rhaenyra return with her dead boar, and his smile has a certain… admiring nature to it.
- Just Shoot Me!: Finch is highly turned on by seeing a female boxer named Kelly going at it with a sparring partner in "Finch and the Fighter", after which they date briefly.
- The Late Late Show: Craig Ferguson, to his own surprise, found himself incredibly aroused by the idea that Gina Carano could kick his ass if she wanted to.
- On Law & Order: SVU, Nick Amaro's type seems to be tough women: his wife Maria is an Army soldier serving in active combat in Iraq. His former lover Cynthia is no shrinking violet, and after his divorce, Amaro takes up with his squadmate, Action Girl Amanda Rollins. In addition, most of the women who have tried to pull a Honey Trap on him fall outside this pattern, and he isn't remotely tempted by any of them.
- Loki (2021): It's somewhat complicated by the fact that Loki is in love with a female version of himself but he describes her as someone who keeps trying to beat him up, terrifying, and violent. And that's what also makes her great.
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Halbrand is impressed by Galadriel's martial prowess and genuinely appreciates her for the warrior she is. Deconstructed, after he is revealed to be Sauron, when everything gains a darker connotation. He wanted Galadriel by his side as his Queen to rule Middle-earth together for her evil potential.
- NCIS: Agent Ziva David gets this sometimes. Discussed in one episode where two nerdish kids get arrested, and she and Tony try some psychological warfare on them."This is some kind of supersecret government organisation. Did you see that chick playing with her knife?"
"Yeah? She looked kinda hot actually."- Played With with Tony himself. His main Love Interests tend to be of the Action Girl variety (including Ziva), and a psychologist pegs his type as Girls with Guns, which he eagerly corroborates. However, the same psychologist points out that most of his Action Girl Love Interests also tend to be Broken Birds, and he is attracted to them because he thinks he can help them.
- Implied with Captain Mercer of The Orville. His ex wife/Number Two is definitely better at a straight up brawl than he is. There's also some Ship Tease with him and the Glacier Waif Security Chief (an alien from a heavy-gravity world, that gives her Super-Strength in Earthlike conditions), and the one Girl of the Week he was with was also very capable of kicking ass and taking names including a bareknuckle fight with the ex-wife, which averted the Cat Fight tropes by being a full-on, ugly fistfight.
- Parks and Recreation: Decon-Recon Switch. Ron is a strong, gruff, no-nonsense, and self-reliant man. He likes women in the same vein, and his ardent admiration of strong women has led him into two marriages with women who were not only strong, but also manipulative, domineering and abusive. Ron eventually settles down with the equally strong-willed and no-nonsense but emotionally functioning and kind-hearted Diane (played by Lucy Lawless again).
- Sven-Erik from Pistvakt usually rolls his eyes whenever his brothers fancy any of the women who come to visit their hometown, Svartlien... But the one time that he expresses any interest in female companionship, he falls head-over-heels for a tough-as-nails, hard-charging school teacher. He also reminisces fondly about a similar figure from his past, even though she apparently doled out corporal punishment once in a while.
- Connor Temple from Primeval was enthusiastic about Abby Maitland from day one when he saw what a good fighter she is. At the end of the fifth season, they get married.
- Psych: Lassiter looks EXTREMELY proud when he finds out his fiancee Marlowe used Muay Thai to beat up the thugs holding her and then jumped out of a window to escape. When he later thinks she climbed out of a very high window and shimmied along a very small window ledge to the fire escape, he proudly announces "Our children are going to be Seal Team Six members!" Then, when Lassiter rushes in to save her and she hits him, he says "Was that a spinning back fist? God, I love you" and gives her The Big Damn Kiss.
- Deconstructed on She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. When Jen doesn't get any matches on her normal dating profile,note her friend Nikki suggests making a new profile as She-Hulk. Jen does so and matches with dozens of men within minutes. She goes on a few dates—as She-Hulk—and likes one guy enough to sleep with him. But in the morning, when he meets plain-old Jen for the first time, he's so turned off he leaves immediately. Jen quickly realizes these men are only into her because they have an amazon fetish.
- Star Trek:
- The first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation features a visit to a planet where the familiar gender roles (before about the 1960s, in the west) are reversed—the women rule the world and are strong and aggressive, while the men are effete, perfume-wearing arm candy. Riker seems to like it, and happily makes himself the planet's ruler's Man of the Week, in a sort of manly way. Of course, this was before he (and TNG) grew the beard so it sucked.
- From Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Worf values asskicking in a lady; his relationship with Jadzia starts with the two of them having a little spar with some bladed weapons and him being impressed that she could fight on par with him.
- In the same episode, Quark also 'spars' with a visiting Klingon woman.
- On Stargate Atlantis, resident Big Guy Ronon Dex turns out to be one of these when he falls for one of the gate technicians after watching her take out some bad guys with her kickboxing skills.
- Stargate SG-1: Teal'c falls for Ishta, the leader of a group of female warrior Jaffa in season 7. The following season, Teal'c's son, Rya'c, marries Kar'yn, another female warrior. Granted you would be hard-pressed to find a female Jaffa who isn't a warrior. If a husband and wife can't agree on a divorce, then a weapon is required.
- Damien Scott in Strike Back shows distinct tendencies toward this; though he'll sleep with any woman anyway, he noticeably perks up and pays more attention when they start kicking ass and taking charge. Notable examples include the Tuareg leader and the Mossad agent in the Vengeance series.
- Wonder Woman: Steve Trevor is perhaps the prime example of this trope. This was seen far more directly in the season 1 World War II episodes, but also in some of the later episodes as well.
- Xena: Warrior Princess. In one episode Xena was asked by a House Wife why her own husband was drooling over her. The housewife ultimately lures her guy away from Xena by making herself an expy of Xena. In the same episode Xena and Gabrielle discuss how often this comes up; Gabrielle suggests switching from the trademark leather armor to chain mail, but Xena just thinks that would attract a kinkier crowd. Given she's made this list three times, it's only right Lucy Lawless ends it.
