Xerxes: Think of your lands; of them burned to ash at my whim. Think of the fate of your women....
Leonidas: (Chuckling) Clearly you don't know our women. I could have marched them up here.
— 300
Shepard: (after a failed attempt at 'normal' conversation) We're not really girly-girls, are we?
Miranda: No. We can't pretend to be anything other than troubleshooting space divas.
Shepard: You know, that does sound pretty cool.
— Mass Effect 3 — Citadel
"Out-flexed by the ladies again..."
— Varric, Dragon Age: Inquisition
"You can't beat Team Estrogen, Chase."
— Nico, Runaways
"This does seem to be an episode of Warrior Amazons of Marduk."
— Prince Roger commenting on his majority female bodyguard.
"Don't worry. She's got help."
— Scarlet Witch and Okoye (leading a brigade of the Marvel female heroes to back up Captain Marvel), Avengers: Endgame
"Black Dynamite, you ain't got to worry about Gloria. She gonna be safe in here. I been keeping the girls up on their kung fu like you told me to. Now, they find her up in here, we will fricassee they honky asses."
—Honey Bee, Black Dynamite
Third and finally came her personal army, the shop girls and nursemaids and typists who had been recruited, my mother among them. They looked magnificent in their white and silver, which made them difficult to see against the snow. They had endured toast and tea for supper, daily indignity, the unwanted attention of employers. Their faces were implacable. They shot with deadly accuracy and watched men die with the same polite attention as they had shown demonstrating a new shade of lipstick.
— England Under The White Witch by Theodora Goss
President's Advisor: Mr. President, the threat has been neutralized.
President: How?
Advisor: It seems by a group of armored supermodels.
President: How?
Advisor: It seems by a group of armored supermodels.
WARRIOR WOMEN. The country where these Iadies Iive is almost the only one you will not visit on your Tour. They do not like intruders or men. Rumour has it that there are no men in this country, even for breeding with. Where the next generation comes from or who looks after it is anyone's guess. But the Warrior Women themselves are out and about a lot. They are far more soldierly than male soldiers, and do a lot of swaggering, swearing, screwing, drinking, and betting, as well as fighting. Some are huge and coarse with very hairy armpits, but most are quite slender and comely. They are all naturally very strong. If you want your arm broken, try insulting a Warrior Woman. Nevertheless, it is possible to become quite friendly with them, provided no one treats them like women. Rumour has it that they are all gay. This may be true, but sex with a Warrior Woman is often provided on a Tour and should not be missed by either men or women.
Anime has long been enamored with the idea of Cute Girls Doing Cute Things. However, in the 80s and 90s, the Cute Girls were more often than not hot ladies, and the Cute Things they were doing often involved guns and car chases. Before relegating the protagonists to the hijinks and foibles of everyday life, anime that centered around a predominantly female principal cast usually had a group of cute, attractive ladies go out and do conventional hero work. The focuse of these were less on an overarching plot and more on episodic procedurals: A group of beautiful and highly capable ladies are given a job that they have to solve. It could be a criminal that needs to be caught, a terrorist bombing that needs to be thwarted, or even just looking after a VIP's kid for a while. Whatever the case is, it's usually gonna end in a climactic car chase or explosion. Add a couple of Fanservice shots, and you've got yourself an anime. All of this encapsulates a genre that I like to call "Lady Action".
The genre of Lady Action arguably began with the success of Dirty Pair and Bubblegum Crisis, but the genre really began to take off in the late 80s to early 90s with titles like Burn Up! and Gunsmith Cats, the zenith of the Lady Action genre being the You're Under Arrest! franchise, the long-running buddy cop adventures of two female police officers that spanned four anime, two OVAs, a film, and a 9-episode television drama. Sadly, even though the genre continued strong throughout the 2000s in the form of less episodic titles like Michiko & Hatchin'' and Bee Train's Girls with Guns trilogy, the Lady Action anime all but seems to have dried up. Once in a blue moon, you'll get an anime about a girl dealing out street justice from the barrel of a gun, but she's usually accompanied by a male Deuteragonist, one who can act as the audience surrogate, and even when they don't, the general tone of the anime is darker and gritter than the high-energy, fun anime of the 90s. But for a brief period, the Lady Action genre really captured the hearts and minds of many Otaku, and still does. You know, if you're a cool otaku, that is.
The genre of Lady Action arguably began with the success of Dirty Pair and Bubblegum Crisis, but the genre really began to take off in the late 80s to early 90s with titles like Burn Up! and Gunsmith Cats, the zenith of the Lady Action genre being the You're Under Arrest! franchise, the long-running buddy cop adventures of two female police officers that spanned four anime, two OVAs, a film, and a 9-episode television drama. Sadly, even though the genre continued strong throughout the 2000s in the form of less episodic titles like Michiko & Hatchin'' and Bee Train's Girls with Guns trilogy, the Lady Action anime all but seems to have dried up. Once in a blue moon, you'll get an anime about a girl dealing out street justice from the barrel of a gun, but she's usually accompanied by a male Deuteragonist, one who can act as the audience surrogate, and even when they don't, the general tone of the anime is darker and gritter than the high-energy, fun anime of the 90s. But for a brief period, the Lady Action genre really captured the hearts and minds of many Otaku, and still does. You know, if you're a cool otaku, that is.
