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* Nina Yashenko in \\\'\\\'SilkStockings\\\'\\\'. At 16, she was \\\"the head of an anti-aircraft gun crew.\\\" Two years later, she was \\\"the captain of a woman\\\'s tank corps\\\" in the Soviet Union in World War II.
* \\\'\\\'Elizabeth: The Golden Age\\\'\\\' makes [[TheVirginQueen Elizabeth I]] into one of these. Historically accurate to a point at least, although she didn\\\'t actually fight.
* Agent Peggy Carter in \\\'\\\'CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger\\\'\\\' is always the classy lady with perfect poise, who steps toe-to-toe with the most grizzled Army generals.
* Weird example, but [[GiantFlyer Mothra]] of \\\'\\\'{{Godzilla}}\\\'\\\' fame. Sure she\\\'s a [[{{Kaiju}} gigantic]] insect, but she\\\'s quiet, respectful, plays mom to both her own larva and the people of her island, acts as a mix of TheSmartGuy and TheChick in team-ups, is probably the smartest monster in the series, and is genuinely friendly to people. She\\\'s very feminine in appearance as well (being you know, a giant butterfly), and in terms of {{badass}}ery, well, she \\\'\\\'killed Godzilla\\\'\\\' in one of the movies, something that creatures like [[ArchEnemy King Ghidorah]] can only dream of.
* Snow White becomes one in \\\'\\\'SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman\\\'\\\'.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* \\\'\\\'Literature/GoodOmens\\\'\\\' has, well...War. The sexy, elegant incarnation of destruction and combat. She fights only once, when she gets her sword after centuries of waiting, and that is described very, very briefly. Carnage, however, does not even enter into it.
** Though Lucy certainly qualifies when she matures, even learning the bow herself so as to lead troops into battle instead of remaining simply TheMedic.
* Mitrian, after receiving training from Rache and [[spoiler:Colbey]] in the \\\'\\\'Renshai\\\'\\\' trilogy.
** The Renshai tribe is pretty much built on this.
*** Averted with most other tribes, leading to [[spoiler:Mitrian running away from Santagithi\\\'s Town]].
* The majority of major the female characters in \\\'\\\'{{Dragaera}}\\\'\\\'. \\\'\\\'Especially\\\'\\\' Aliera and Sethra Lavode.
** Though averted with Daro, Countess of Whitecrest. Her prowess with a sword is implied, but in the only scene in the entire saga in which she has a sword on hand she is almost immediately whipped by the assassin there to kill Khaavren.
* The \\\'\\\'OldKingdom\\\'\\\' series. Sabriel grows into this role over the course of the first book. Her successor tends a little more towards the \\\"magic\\\" side of the Abhorsen\\\'s MagicKnight-like role.
* Eowyn from \\\'\\\'Literature/TheLordOfTheRings\\\'\\\'. Even before she [[SweetPollyOliver disguises herself as a man]] to fight in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, she makes it clear that she knows how to handle herself in a fight, since the women of Rohan are trained in swordplay to defend their homes. Arwen \\\'\\\'was\\\'\\\' set up to be a LadyOfWar in the film adaptation of the first book, but her plot fizzled in the second and third, where she remained mostly off-screen.
** In \\\'\\\'Literature/TheSilmarillion\\\'\\\', Arwen\\\'s grandmother, Galadriel, actually was one in canon.
*** According to one version of Tolkien\\\'s drafts, elven women can fight as well as men and the only reason they don\\\'t is that it reduces their elven [[TheMedic healing powers]].
** Luthien Tinuviel. Not only does she rescue her beloved by defeating Sauron in a contest of magic but together they steal a Silmaril from the crown of Morgoth himself. Luthien was the most beautiful being in the history of Middle Earth and she was the baddest of badasses. With Beren she founded a loooong line of mortal and immortal folk one wouldn\\\'t want to mess with.
** In the \\\'\\\'Literature/BookOfLostTales\\\'\\\' version of the Fall of Gondolin, Idril is one, fighting with a sword to defend [[MamaBear her young son]].
* Queen Selenay from \\\'\\\'[[HeraldsOfValdemar Valdemar]]\\\'\\\', [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask when she has to be]].
* In \\\'\\\'Literature/TheBible\\\'\\\', there\\\'s Judge Deborah and Judith the widow. Possibly Lady Yael as well.
* The \\\'\\\'[[TortallUniverse Tortall]]\\\'\\\' books by TamoraPierce, Keladry fits this trope perfectly. Alanna is close, though she\\\'s more like a MagicKnight who happens to be female. We also have all the Yamani women, which makes sense since the Yamani Isles are basically the Tortallverse\\\'s equivalent of Japan.
** And in the prequel \\\'\\\'Beka Cooper Trilogy\\\'\\\', we have Lady Sabine.
** And Queen Thayet, and most Yamani women.
* \\\'\\\'Holding the Zero\\\'\\\' by Gerald Seymour. Meda, the charismatic Kurd peasant girl.
* Nasuada, leader of LaResistance in \\\'\\\'TheInheritanceCycle\\\'\\\'.
* Literature/VorkosiganSaga
** Jennsen Rahl
** Verna Sauventreen
** Nicci and the other Sisters of the Dark.
* The Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse has Tenel Ka the princess, and later Queen Mother, of the Hapes Consortium. She trained in her mid to late adolesence at the Jedi academy at Yavin IV before taking the throne in early adulthood.
** Even more so than in the films, Leia can switch between effortlessly gliding through galactic high society, and dicing baddies with a lightsaber.
* Rhian from \\\'\\\'GodspeakerTrilogy\\\'\\\' by Karen Miller.
* Miss Gard from \\\'\\\'TheDresdenFiles\\\'\\\'. While there\\\'s very little finesse about a massive axe and a huge Viking-style shield, she certainly has the personality down. [[spoiler:Being a Valkyrie helps.]]
** Murphy, too, what with the refined fighting style, compact but deadly-accurate gun, and [[spoiler: the katana.]]
* The Bennets in \\\'\\\'PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies\\\'\\\'. It\\\'s the natural path to take when turning \\\'\\\'Literature/PrideAndPrejudice\\\'\\\' into a zombie-packed action fest.
* Bananach, also known as Lady War, from \\\'\\\'WickedLovely\\\'\\\'. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Her title says it all, really]].
* In \\\'\\\'Seven Men of Gascony\\\'\\\', Nicholette is a cantiniere(wine-seller) with a French infantry regiment. She was raised on campaign as a [[ChildSoldiers girl camp follower]] , and [[OldSoldier knew all the tricks]] of surviving by the time she was sixteen. In the she is romanticized as being ladylike and graceful as well as hardy fitting the romantic picture of cantiniere\\\'s . RealLife ones of course were nothing of the sort, though they were tough gals as indeed they had to be.
* Hulik do Eldel in \\\'\\\'TheWitchesOfKarres\\\'\\\' by Creator/JamesHSchmitz. Beautiful, graceful, tough, resourceful, and ladylike. (Does not particularly like being chased by robot spiders. \\\'\\\'Shreds\\\'\\\' the baddie who does so.)
* \\\'\\\'Literature/{{Discworld}}\\\'\\\'\\\'s Lady Sybil. While she spends most of her time darning socks and trying to get her husband to eat right, she makes a point that women in her family have quite a history with this trope:
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Lady Sybil:\\\'\\\'\\\' Sir Reynold, in the Year of the Lice, my great-grandmother once cooked, \\\'\\\'personally,\\\'\\\' a full dinner for eighteen in a military deboubt that was entirely surrounded by bloodthirsty Klatchians, \\\'\\\'and\\\'\\\' she felt able to include sorbet and nuts. My grandmother, in the Year of the Quiet Monkey, defended our embassy in Pseudopolis against a mob, with no assistance but that offered by [[NoodleImplements a gardener, a trained parrot, and a pan of hot cooking fat]]. My late aunt, when our coach was once held up at bowpoint by two desperate highwaymen, gave them such a taling-to that they actually ran away crying for their mothers, Sir Reynold, their \\\'\\\'mothers.\\\'\\\' We are no stranger to danger, Sir Reynold.
** Also, she raises \\\'\\\'dragons.\\\'\\\'
* Lady Maigrey Morianna in Margaret Weis\\\'s SpaceOpera series \\\'\\\'TheStarOfTheGuardians\\\'\\\'. Cool, composed, beautiful plus a master swordswoman and an ace pilot.
* Yambu, the Silver Queen, is this in the \\\'\\\'BooksOfSwords\\\'\\\'. She is fairly earthy in her manner, however, at least for a queen.
* Robert Jordan\\\'s \\\'\\\'Literature/TheWheelOfTime\\\'\\\' is full of these. From the various holders of the title of Amyrlin Seat (mostly), to several warrior queens, to Faile, and Elaine. Most prefer to be generals.
* Antonia, Irene, and Shakuntala in BelisariusSeries. Shakuntala is a very well developed variation of a classic {{Wuxia}} princess(in India rather then China), Antonia is a charming [[TheSocialExpert SocialExpert]] and Irene is a cunning intriguer and strategist but is not afraid to personally come close to the sight of blood from time to time.
* Queen Olof of Saxony from \\\'\\\'Literature/TheSagaOfHrolfKraki\\\'\\\' is used to leading her warriors on in battle.
* Queen Kraka of \\\'\\\'Literature/RagnarLodbrokAndHisSons\\\'\\\' leads an army of 1,500 mounted warriors to pillage Sweden in revenge for the death of her stepsons.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* Maid Marian in some versions of RobinHood, notably [[Series/RobinHood the 2006 BBC series]], in which she provides an interesting contrast to Djaq, the CuteBruiser. Though the LadyOfWar is usually the elder of the two fighting warrior-types, in this case the refined Marian is definitely the \\\'\\\'younger\\\'\\\' of the two women.
* \\\'\\\'Series/{{Firefly}}\\\'\\\'/\\\'\\\'Film/{{Serenity}}\\\'\\\' has Inara. An elegant, graceful, cultured, highly educated and very feminine, glamorous woman, she\\\'s trained in sword-fighting, a skill she once tries to teach Mal. She has some unarmed combat skill, which we get a brief glimpse of in \\\"Our Mrs Reynolds\\\" and in the film, she reveals archery skill. It\\\'s also possible that graceful River Tam will also develop into this in time, given her own training.
* \\\"Princess\\\" Yaeko in \\\'\\\'Series/{{Heroes}}\\\'\\\'.
* Susan Ivanova from \\\'\\\'BabylonFive\\\'\\\'. She is very pretty, and her [[EmotionlessGirl uptight manner]] just makes her more attractive. She is also very classy and dignified in bearing. But not one to be triffled with.
** Delenn too, though she is officially a diplomat. She is one of the most [[ProperLady ladylike]] ladies of war in fiction but she can be remarkably ferocious.
*** Actually she is quite a bit more then a diplomat; she is TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask. It is hard to pin down her exact status at times, not least because that varied with the vagaries of Minbari politics. We know she was a Satai and was once considered for head, as well as once making herself head by blackmailing everyone else with attempted SelfImmolation. She is also EntilZha. We don\\\'t know her other titles though she obviously has a lot of official clout in the religious caste. It is safe to say that with her official and unofficial power she is the most powerful woman in Minbar.
*** Ivanova seems more warlike and Delenn more ladylike on the whole. Susan has something of a militaristic [[IronLady bluntness]] to her which Delenn doesn\\\'t have; Susan looks odd in civvies for instance, and often acts as OneOfTheBoys. Susan is a soldier, no ifs ands or buts. Delenn is an aristocratic ProperLady; she is also TheHeart, though that makes it all the more striking when she is being a BadassPrincess.
* Ziva David from \\\'\\\'Series/{{NCIS}}\\\'\\\'.
** Also Kai, the North Korean assassin from S7 Ep7, \\\"Endgame.\\\"
* Rommey from \\\'\\\'Series/{{Andromeda}}\\\'\\\'. Heck she was a gigantic warship!
* Amanda King from \\\'\\\'Series/ScarecrowAndMrsKing\\\'\\\'. She is seemingly [[BewareTheNiceOnes gentle and timid]] but she can be remarkably effective at covert warfare.
* \\\'\\\'Series/DoctorWho\\\'\\\'\\\'s River Song keeps a cool attitude, while making even the Daleks beg for mercy.
* \\\'\\\'{{Chuck}}\\\'\\\' has General Beckman.
* Teyla from \\\'\\\'Series/StargateAtlantis\\\'\\\' fits this trope, able to kick ass in a long skirt just as well as in fatigues.
* Morgana from the BBC series \\\'\\\'Series/{{Merlin}}\\\'\\\' is quite literally a Lady, and she can kick your ass.
* Nikita from the CW show \\\'\\\'Series/{{Nikita}}\\\'\\\' fulfills this trope with her beautiful clothes and flowing hair. Sometimes her partner, Alexandra Udinov, crosses into this trope as well.
* \\\'\\\'[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek: TOS]]\\\'\\\': The female Romulan commander in \\\"The Enterprise Incident\\\".
** Captain Kathryn Janeway of \\\'\\\'Series/StarTrekVoyager\\\'\\\' is definitely one. She\\\'s also unafraid to get her hands dirty when the situation calls for it.
* \\\'\\\'[[BattlestarGalacticaClassic Battlestar Galactica]]\\\'\\\': Sheba [[spoiler:and Serina.]]
* Lieutenant Colonel Sarah \\\"Mac\\\" Mackenzie, [[SemperFi USMC]] and HelloAttorney from \\\'\\\'Series/{{JAG}}\\\'\\\'.
* In \\\'\\\'ChinesePaladin\\\'\\\', heroine Ling\\\'er\\\'s character development is growing from TheIngenue into one of these. Other full examples include her [[TheHighQueen mother,]] and [[MartialPacifist General Nan Man]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mythology And Religion]]
* In BabylonianMythology, Ishtar was a goddess of love and war.
* Sekhmet in EgyptianMythology.
* In NorseMythology, Freyja was a goddess of love, beauty, fertility, magic, war, battle and death. Freyja receives every other slain Norse warrior after a battle. They dwell in her field of Fólkvangur, whereas the other half goes to Valhöll, Óðinn\\\'s hall.
* In [[Literature/TheBible Biblical Mythology]], you have Deborah, the [[Literature/BookOfJudges 4th Judge of Israel]] and someone so badass that the male general she appointed refused to go to war without her.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* MagicTheGathering
**Other minor examples include [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=1668 Livonya Silone]], [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=3304 Purraj of Urborg]], [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=74534 Fumiko the Lowblood]], and [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=141829 Brigid, Hero of Kinsbaile]].
** [[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=270 M]][[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=106645 a]][[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=106384 n]][[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=121196 y]] [[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=39718 a]][[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=122432 n]][[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=89074 g]][[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=175104 e]][[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=185136 l]][[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=109746 s]] in the game also seem to embody the trope, if only because, well, they\\\'re \\\'\\\'angels\\\'\\\', and they\\\'re often depicted as women.
*** Often is an understatement. Every single Angel ever printed has been female except for two named ones - a [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=201188 Gabriel]] that\\\'s probably though not necessarily male, and a [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=122481 Malach]] from an \\\"alternate realities\\\" set. That is, if you don\\\'t count the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=140200 Changelings]] that have all creature types.
* ForgottenRealms
** Alusair Nacacia Obarskyr, also known as \\\"Steel Princess\\\" and later \\\"Steel Regent\\\" of Cormyr. While her father still ruled, she wrote the \\\"[[BigBookOfWar Field Guide to Tactics]]\\\" for her army -- backed up by lots of personal experience. About from the age when she was able to ride she was largely absent in the palace except on official occasions... which was good for everyone involved.
--> Hell on horseback, all ego and fury, with talent to match. Every time she comes home, bets are heavy among the kitchen staff as to how long it\\\'ll be before she and her father get into a row about politics that breaks half the goblets and platters!
* In \\\'\\\'TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}\\\'\\\', female Inquisitors and Imperial Guard officers tend to fall into this category, as do some Sisters of Battle and most female Eldar (their dwindling numbers mean that all Eldar must be able to take up arms if their Craftworld is threatened, if not as a full fledged Aspect Warrior then as part of a Guardian militia). The Sisters as a whole, however, like to avoid this, as they tend to be scarred, muscular, and carry the same heavy weapons into battle as the all-male Space Marines.
* \\\'\\\'LegendOfTheFiveRings\\\'\\\' is all over this trope. There are entire schools dedicated to turning out Lady of War samurai, most notably in the Unicorn and Lion clans.
* \\\'\\\'Exalted\\\'\\\' has, among many other exemples, [[http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs12/i/2006/270/f/0/Exalted__the_BLessed_Isle_by_kunkka.jpg Tepet Ejawa]] the Roseblack, Dragon-Blooded general and member of House Tepet. Loved by her troops, popular in the Realm and considered a threat in the bid for succession.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Toys]]
* {{Bionicle}}
** Most Toa of Water would qualify really, but in the later seasons there was less action-adventure type combat and more BeamSpam, so it\\\'s less obvious.
[[/folder]]
* \\\'\\\'Elizabeth: The Golden Age\\\'\\\' makes [[TheVirginQueen Elizabeth I]] into one of these. Historically accurate to a point at least, although she didn\\\'t actually fight.
* Agent Peggy Carter in \\\'\\\'CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger\\\'\\\' is always the classy lady with perfect poise, who steps toe-to-toe with the most grizzled Army generals.
* Weird example, but [[GiantFlyer Mothra]] of \\\'\\\'{{Godzilla}}\\\'\\\' fame. Sure she\\\'s a [[{{Kaiju}} gigantic]] insect, but she\\\'s quiet, respectful, plays mom to both her own larva and the people of her island, acts as a mix of TheSmartGuy and TheChick in team-ups, is probably the smartest monster in the series, and is genuinely friendly to people. She\\\'s very feminine in appearance as well (being you know, a giant butterfly), and in terms of {{badass}}ery, well, she \\\'\\\'killed Godzilla\\\'\\\' in one of the movies, something that creatures like [[ArchEnemy King Ghidorah]] can only dream of.
* Snow White becomes one in \\\'\\\'SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman\\\'\\\'.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* \\\'\\\'Literature/GoodOmens\\\'\\\' has, well...War. The sexy, elegant incarnation of destruction and combat. She fights only once, when she gets her sword after centuries of waiting, and that is described very, very briefly. Carnage, however, does not even enter into it.
** Though Lucy certainly qualifies when she matures, even learning the bow herself so as to lead troops into battle instead of remaining simply TheMedic.
* Mitrian, after receiving training from Rache and [[spoiler:Colbey]] in the \\\'\\\'Renshai\\\'\\\' trilogy.
** The Renshai tribe is pretty much built on this.
*** Averted with most other tribes, leading to [[spoiler:Mitrian running away from Santagithi\\\'s Town]].
* The majority of major the female characters in \\\'\\\'{{Dragaera}}\\\'\\\'. \\\'\\\'Especially\\\'\\\' Aliera and Sethra Lavode.
** Though averted with Daro, Countess of Whitecrest. Her prowess with a sword is implied, but in the only scene in the entire saga in which she has a sword on hand she is almost immediately whipped by the assassin there to kill Khaavren.
* The \\\'\\\'OldKingdom\\\'\\\' series. Sabriel grows into this role over the course of the first book. Her successor tends a little more towards the \\\"magic\\\" side of the Abhorsen\\\'s MagicKnight-like role.
* Eowyn from \\\'\\\'Literature/TheLordOfTheRings\\\'\\\'. Even before she [[SweetPollyOliver disguises herself as a man]] to fight in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, she makes it clear that she knows how to handle herself in a fight, since the women of Rohan are trained in swordplay to defend their homes. Arwen \\\'\\\'was\\\'\\\' set up to be a LadyOfWar in the film adaptation of the first book, but her plot fizzled in the second and third, where she remained mostly off-screen.
** In \\\'\\\'Literature/TheSilmarillion\\\'\\\', Arwen\\\'s grandmother, Galadriel, actually was one in canon.
*** According to one version of Tolkien\\\'s drafts, elven women can fight as well as men and the only reason they don\\\'t is that it reduces their elven [[TheMedic healing powers]].
** Luthien Tinuviel. Not only does she rescue her beloved by defeating Sauron in a contest of magic but together they steal a Silmaril from the crown of Morgoth himself. Luthien was the most beautiful being in the history of Middle Earth and she was the baddest of badasses. With Beren she founded a loooong line of mortal and immortal folk one wouldn\\\'t want to mess with.
** In the \\\'\\\'Literature/BookOfLostTales\\\'\\\' version of the Fall of Gondolin, Idril is one, fighting with a sword to defend [[MamaBear her young son]].
* Queen Selenay from \\\'\\\'[[HeraldsOfValdemar Valdemar]]\\\'\\\', [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask when she has to be]].
* In \\\'\\\'Literature/TheBible\\\'\\\', there\\\'s Judge Deborah and Judith the widow. Possibly Lady Yael as well.
* The \\\'\\\'[[TortallUniverse Tortall]]\\\'\\\' books by TamoraPierce, Keladry fits this trope perfectly. Alanna is close, though she\\\'s more like a MagicKnight who happens to be female. We also have all the Yamani women, which makes sense since the Yamani Isles are basically the Tortallverse\\\'s equivalent of Japan.
** And in the prequel \\\'\\\'Beka Cooper Trilogy\\\'\\\', we have Lady Sabine.
** And Queen Thayet, and most Yamani women.
* \\\'\\\'Holding the Zero\\\'\\\' by Gerald Seymour. Meda, the charismatic Kurd peasant girl.
* Nasuada, leader of LaResistance in \\\'\\\'TheInheritanceCycle\\\'\\\'.
* Literature/VorkosiganSaga
** Jennsen Rahl
** Verna Sauventreen
** Nicci and the other Sisters of the Dark.
* The Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse has Tenel Ka the princess, and later Queen Mother, of the Hapes Consortium. She trained in her mid to late adolesence at the Jedi academy at Yavin IV before taking the throne in early adulthood.
** Even more so than in the films, Leia can switch between effortlessly gliding through galactic high society, and dicing baddies with a lightsaber.
* Rhian from \\\'\\\'GodspeakerTrilogy\\\'\\\' by Karen Miller.
* Miss Gard from \\\'\\\'TheDresdenFiles\\\'\\\'. While there\\\'s very little finesse about a massive axe and a huge Viking-style shield, she certainly has the personality down. [[spoiler:Being a Valkyrie helps.]]
** Murphy, too, what with the refined fighting style, compact but deadly-accurate gun, and [[spoiler: the katana.]]
* The Bennets in \\\'\\\'PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies\\\'\\\'. It\\\'s the natural path to take when turning \\\'\\\'Literature/PrideAndPrejudice\\\'\\\' into a zombie-packed action fest.
* Bananach, also known as Lady War, from \\\'\\\'WickedLovely\\\'\\\'. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Her title says it all, really]].
* In \\\'\\\'Seven Men of Gascony\\\'\\\', Nicholette is a cantiniere(wine-seller) with a French infantry regiment. She was raised on campaign as a [[ChildSoldiers girl camp follower]] , and [[OldSoldier knew all the tricks]] of surviving by the time she was sixteen. In the she is romanticized as being ladylike and graceful as well as hardy fitting the romantic picture of cantiniere\\\'s . RealLife ones of course were nothing of the sort, though they were tough gals as indeed they had to be.
* Hulik do Eldel in \\\'\\\'TheWitchesOfKarres\\\'\\\' by Creator/JamesHSchmitz. Beautiful, graceful, tough, resourceful, and ladylike. (Does not particularly like being chased by robot spiders. \\\'\\\'Shreds\\\'\\\' the baddie who does so.)
* \\\'\\\'Literature/{{Discworld}}\\\'\\\'\\\'s Lady Sybil. While she spends most of her time darning socks and trying to get her husband to eat right, she makes a point that women in her family have quite a history with this trope:
-->\\\'\\\'\\\'Lady Sybil:\\\'\\\'\\\' Sir Reynold, in the Year of the Lice, my great-grandmother once cooked, \\\'\\\'personally,\\\'\\\' a full dinner for eighteen in a military deboubt that was entirely surrounded by bloodthirsty Klatchians, \\\'\\\'and\\\'\\\' she felt able to include sorbet and nuts. My grandmother, in the Year of the Quiet Monkey, defended our embassy in Pseudopolis against a mob, with no assistance but that offered by [[NoodleImplements a gardener, a trained parrot, and a pan of hot cooking fat]]. My late aunt, when our coach was once held up at bowpoint by two desperate highwaymen, gave them such a taling-to that they actually ran away crying for their mothers, Sir Reynold, their \\\'\\\'mothers.\\\'\\\' We are no stranger to danger, Sir Reynold.
** Also, she raises \\\'\\\'dragons.\\\'\\\'
* Lady Maigrey Morianna in Margaret Weis\\\'s SpaceOpera series \\\'\\\'TheStarOfTheGuardians\\\'\\\'. Cool, composed, beautiful plus a master swordswoman and an ace pilot.
* Yambu, the Silver Queen, is this in the \\\'\\\'BooksOfSwords\\\'\\\'. She is fairly earthy in her manner, however, at least for a queen.
* Robert Jordan\\\'s \\\'\\\'Literature/TheWheelOfTime\\\'\\\' is full of these. From the various holders of the title of Amyrlin Seat (mostly), to several warrior queens, to Faile, and Elaine. Most prefer to be generals.
* Antonia, Irene, and Shakuntala in BelisariusSeries. Shakuntala is a very well developed variation of a classic {{Wuxia}} princess(in India rather then China), Antonia is a charming [[TheSocialExpert SocialExpert]] and Irene is a cunning intriguer and strategist but is not afraid to personally come close to the sight of blood from time to time.
* Queen Olof of Saxony from \\\'\\\'Literature/TheSagaOfHrolfKraki\\\'\\\' is used to leading her warriors on in battle.
* Queen Kraka of \\\'\\\'Literature/RagnarLodbrokAndHisSons\\\'\\\' leads an army of 1,500 mounted warriors to pillage Sweden in revenge for the death of her stepsons.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* Maid Marian in some versions of RobinHood, notably [[Series/RobinHood the 2006 BBC series]], in which she provides an interesting contrast to Djaq, the CuteBruiser. Though the LadyOfWar is usually the elder of the two fighting warrior-types, in this case the refined Marian is definitely the \\\'\\\'younger\\\'\\\' of the two women.
* \\\'\\\'Series/{{Firefly}}\\\'\\\'/\\\'\\\'Film/{{Serenity}}\\\'\\\' has Inara. An elegant, graceful, cultured, highly educated and very feminine, glamorous woman, she\\\'s trained in sword-fighting, a skill she once tries to teach Mal. She has some unarmed combat skill, which we get a brief glimpse of in \\\"Our Mrs Reynolds\\\" and in the film, she reveals archery skill. It\\\'s also possible that graceful River Tam will also develop into this in time, given her own training.
* \\\"Princess\\\" Yaeko in \\\'\\\'Series/{{Heroes}}\\\'\\\'.
* Susan Ivanova from \\\'\\\'BabylonFive\\\'\\\'. She is very pretty, and her [[EmotionlessGirl uptight manner]] just makes her more attractive. She is also very classy and dignified in bearing. But not one to be triffled with.
** Delenn too, though she is officially a diplomat. She is one of the most [[ProperLady ladylike]] ladies of war in fiction but she can be remarkably ferocious.
*** Actually she is quite a bit more then a diplomat; she is TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask. It is hard to pin down her exact status at times, not least because that varied with the vagaries of Minbari politics. We know she was a Satai and was once considered for head, as well as once making herself head by blackmailing everyone else with attempted SelfImmolation. She is also EntilZha. We don\\\'t know her other titles though she obviously has a lot of official clout in the religious caste. It is safe to say that with her official and unofficial power she is the most powerful woman in Minbar.
*** Ivanova seems more warlike and Delenn more ladylike on the whole. Susan has something of a militaristic [[IronLady bluntness]] to her which Delenn doesn\\\'t have; Susan looks odd in civvies for instance, and often acts as OneOfTheBoys. Susan is a soldier, no ifs ands or buts. Delenn is an aristocratic ProperLady; she is also TheHeart, though that makes it all the more striking when she is being a BadassPrincess.
* Ziva David from \\\'\\\'Series/{{NCIS}}\\\'\\\'.
** Also Kai, the North Korean assassin from S7 Ep7, \\\"Endgame.\\\"
* Rommey from \\\'\\\'Series/{{Andromeda}}\\\'\\\'. Heck she was a gigantic warship!
* Amanda King from \\\'\\\'Series/ScarecrowAndMrsKing\\\'\\\'. She is seemingly [[BewareTheNiceOnes gentle and timid]] but she can be remarkably effective at covert warfare.
* \\\'\\\'Series/DoctorWho\\\'\\\'\\\'s River Song keeps a cool attitude, while making even the Daleks beg for mercy.
* \\\'\\\'{{Chuck}}\\\'\\\' has General Beckman.
* Teyla from \\\'\\\'Series/StargateAtlantis\\\'\\\' fits this trope, able to kick ass in a long skirt just as well as in fatigues.
* Morgana from the BBC series \\\'\\\'Series/{{Merlin}}\\\'\\\' is quite literally a Lady, and she can kick your ass.
* Nikita from the CW show \\\'\\\'Series/{{Nikita}}\\\'\\\' fulfills this trope with her beautiful clothes and flowing hair. Sometimes her partner, Alexandra Udinov, crosses into this trope as well.
* \\\'\\\'[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek: TOS]]\\\'\\\': The female Romulan commander in \\\"The Enterprise Incident\\\".
** Captain Kathryn Janeway of \\\'\\\'Series/StarTrekVoyager\\\'\\\' is definitely one. She\\\'s also unafraid to get her hands dirty when the situation calls for it.
* \\\'\\\'[[BattlestarGalacticaClassic Battlestar Galactica]]\\\'\\\': Sheba [[spoiler:and Serina.]]
* Lieutenant Colonel Sarah \\\"Mac\\\" Mackenzie, [[SemperFi USMC]] and HelloAttorney from \\\'\\\'Series/{{JAG}}\\\'\\\'.
* In \\\'\\\'ChinesePaladin\\\'\\\', heroine Ling\\\'er\\\'s character development is growing from TheIngenue into one of these. Other full examples include her [[TheHighQueen mother,]] and [[MartialPacifist General Nan Man]].
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[[folder:Mythology And Religion]]
* In BabylonianMythology, Ishtar was a goddess of love and war.
* Sekhmet in EgyptianMythology.
* In NorseMythology, Freyja was a goddess of love, beauty, fertility, magic, war, battle and death. Freyja receives every other slain Norse warrior after a battle. They dwell in her field of Fólkvangur, whereas the other half goes to Valhöll, Óðinn\\\'s hall.
* In [[Literature/TheBible Biblical Mythology]], you have Deborah, the [[Literature/BookOfJudges 4th Judge of Israel]] and someone so badass that the male general she appointed refused to go to war without her.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* MagicTheGathering
**Other minor examples include [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=1668 Livonya Silone]], [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=3304 Purraj of Urborg]], [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=74534 Fumiko the Lowblood]], and [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=141829 Brigid, Hero of Kinsbaile]].
** [[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=270 M]][[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=106645 a]][[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=106384 n]][[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=121196 y]] [[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=39718 a]][[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=122432 n]][[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=89074 g]][[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=175104 e]][[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=185136 l]][[http://beta.gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=109746 s]] in the game also seem to embody the trope, if only because, well, they\\\'re \\\'\\\'angels\\\'\\\', and they\\\'re often depicted as women.
*** Often is an understatement. Every single Angel ever printed has been female except for two named ones - a [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=201188 Gabriel]] that\\\'s probably though not necessarily male, and a [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=122481 Malach]] from an \\\"alternate realities\\\" set. That is, if you don\\\'t count the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=140200 Changelings]] that have all creature types.
* ForgottenRealms
** Alusair Nacacia Obarskyr, also known as \\\"Steel Princess\\\" and later \\\"Steel Regent\\\" of Cormyr. While her father still ruled, she wrote the \\\"[[BigBookOfWar Field Guide to Tactics]]\\\" for her army -- backed up by lots of personal experience. About from the age when she was able to ride she was largely absent in the palace except on official occasions... which was good for everyone involved.
--> Hell on horseback, all ego and fury, with talent to match. Every time she comes home, bets are heavy among the kitchen staff as to how long it\\\'ll be before she and her father get into a row about politics that breaks half the goblets and platters!
* In \\\'\\\'TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}\\\'\\\', female Inquisitors and Imperial Guard officers tend to fall into this category, as do some Sisters of Battle and most female Eldar (their dwindling numbers mean that all Eldar must be able to take up arms if their Craftworld is threatened, if not as a full fledged Aspect Warrior then as part of a Guardian militia). The Sisters as a whole, however, like to avoid this, as they tend to be scarred, muscular, and carry the same heavy weapons into battle as the all-male Space Marines.
* \\\'\\\'LegendOfTheFiveRings\\\'\\\' is all over this trope. There are entire schools dedicated to turning out Lady of War samurai, most notably in the Unicorn and Lion clans.
* \\\'\\\'Exalted\\\'\\\' has, among many other exemples, [[http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs12/i/2006/270/f/0/Exalted__the_BLessed_Isle_by_kunkka.jpg Tepet Ejawa]] the Roseblack, Dragon-Blooded general and member of House Tepet. Loved by her troops, popular in the Realm and considered a threat in the bid for succession.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* {{Bionicle}}
** Most Toa of Water would qualify really, but in the later seasons there was less action-adventure type combat and more BeamSpam, so it\\\'s less obvious.
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