| 80. Thetis (Clash of the Titans) – This low level Greek goddess is not only a questionable mom, she was extremely vain. She laid waste to an entire city and condemned Andromeda to death via Kraken just because the girl’s mom insulted Thetis’ beauty. Could she be a little more stereotypical? |
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| 79. John Emdall (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai) – As leader of the Black Lectroids in The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension, she, in no uncertain terms, threatens to destroy Earth if John Whorfin is not stopped. And she wears purple lame, which is awesome. |
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| 78. Padme Amidala (Star Wars Episodes I, II and III) – I don’t like her, but I feel obligated to include her. I mean, she died of a FREAKIN’ BROKEN HEART!! Over a whiney litte putz with no chest hair! I know she was a queen at one point, but she was elected at age 13, which tells me that her opponent was a cucumber, or possibly a pickle. However, she did have awesome hair and great costumes. That’s about the best I can say for her. |
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| 77. Judi Dench as M (007) – The only person who could call James Bond a “sexist, misogynist dinosaur” to his face and not get beaten. The head of the British Secret Service is cold and mean – sometimes referred to as “The Evil Queen of Numbers” – and can have Bond killed just for uttering her real name. |
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| 76. Angela Petrelli – Not much on the surface, but as the mother of both Nathan and Peter Petrelli, and with links going back several decades to the power players of the Heroes universe, Momma Petrelli just may be the master manipulator behind the major events unfolding in Heroes. Either that, or she’s just incredibly adept at surviving and thriving inhospitable situations. Like a roach. |
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| 75. Barb Wire – Bar owner, bounty hunter. Likes black leather and guns. Dislikes being called “Babe”. But, when you’re bounty hunting in a physics defying bustier and stiletto boots, you’re kind of asking to be called “Babe”. |
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| 74. Melanie Ballard (Ghosts of Mars) – Cop on the transport-a-prisoner-from-Mars beat, Ballard finds herself faced with posesssed miners, and must both escape from their zombie-like clutches and destroy the Martian ghosts. Ballard kicks all sorts of butt, and survives seemingly impossible odds – but it doesn’t look like she beat the greatest threat – lackluster box-office |
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| 73. Vala Mal Doran (Stargate SG1) – An arms dealer with scruples. Vala was single-handedly responsible for preventing an invasion of the Milky Way galaxy by destroying a Supergate with a cargo ship. And survived. Sort of. How many times has this chick died, anyway? |
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| 72. Samantha Carter (Stargate SG1) – Sam is a decorated fighter pilot, has a Ph.D. in astrophysics, and knows her way around a coding environment, biological threats and quantum physics. Her brain has been described as a “national treasure.” |
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| 71. Dana Scully (X-Files) – Originally assigned to invalidate Fox Mulder’s work on the X-files, Scully eventually became a believer and alien abductee herself, while still managing to maintain a calm, measured and scientific approach to the madness around her. Condisering she’s currently on the run from The Syndicate, she’s relatively powerless, but still inspiring. |
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| 70. Dr. Elizabeth Weir (Stargate Atlantis) – Breifly the learder of Stargate Command, this expert diplomatic mediator is now in charge of the Atlantis expedition to the Pegasus galaxy. |
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| 69. Birds of Prey – Oracle. Black Canary. Huntress. These three crimefighters protect Gotham, and look damn good doing it. While their show was long on style, it was (unfortunately) short on staying power. |
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| 68. Sela – (Star Trek: TNG) – Tasha Yar’s half human/half Romulan daughter was ruthless and self-centered. At the tender age of four, Sela caused the death of her mother when she decided that escape just wasn’t for her. By the time she was 23, she was a Romulan Commander, and played a major part in the attempted take-down of the Vulcan homeworld. Although her attempt was blocked, Sela managed to escape, and is still out there, somewhere. |
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| 67. Sydney Bristow (Alias) – Super-spy fluent in 24 languages and multiple forms of armed and unarmed combat. Her greatest strength lies in her ability to survive whatever is thrown at her. |
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| 66. Dark Angel – Genetically engineered X5 supersoldier, bred and raised by Manticorp, escapes works as a bike messenger in post-Pulse (a kind of information technology apocalypse) Seattle. She could have done great things with her abilities, but instead she spent most of the time hiding from Manticore and looking for other X5s. And thanks to this, we now suffer Jessica Alba as Sue Storm. |
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| 65. Storm (X-Men) – Powerful mutant with the ability to control weather. However, she was totally wasted in the X-Men movies, given such lines as “Do you know what happens to a toad when it gets struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.” Not only did the character suffer that indignity, at the climactic scene of X-Men: The Last Stand, she used her amazing powers to generate fog. In San Francisco. Oooooohhh… |
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| 64. Wicked Witch of the West (Wizard of Oz) – The original green gal of genre. Initially portrayed as pure evil, later incarnations of the WWW showed to to be misunderstood, and a victim of her unfortunate skin tones. She may have had all of Oz living in fear of her, but all it took to take her down was a Kansas farm-girl and her little dog, too. |
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| 63. She-Ra Princess of Power – She-Ra is He-Man’s twin sister, and much like her brother, wields a magical sword to aid her in her battles against. She-Ra also has a “healing touch” and the ability to telepathically communicate with animals. |
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| 62. Elastigirl (The Incredibles) – She began as an independent superheroine, eager to break barriers and get in there with the boys. When supers are outlawed, she readily adjusts to life as a wife and mom, eager to lie low and discouraging her kids to use their super powers. But, when the need arises, Elastigirl comes to the aid of her husband and inspiring her kids to be all they can be. |
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| 61. Rogue (X-Men) – In the X-Men comics, she’s way powerful, having permanently absorbed the abilities of Ms. Marvel while maintaining her ability to temporarily absorb the powers of those she touches. In the movies, she’s only as powerful as whomever she happens to come in contact with. |
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What no Hal, Sarge, Voice, or even Cleo, from Cleopatra 2525?
Agreed. The continued snubbing of Cleopatra 2525 by this outfit borders on the conspiratorial.
Cleopatra 2525 was one of those shows that only aired at something like 2am on the weekend. Due to it’s air-time, the only time I ever saw an episode I was drunk.
Of course, we’ll always accept arguments for or against any Power 100 character, and take them into consideration for the next edition.
Cool list. Yeah, you can argue over certain omissions or quibble over the order but what the hey … any list with WW, Sarah Connor and Ripley gets my vote!
I’d replace Minerva McGonagall with Dolores Umbridge. Umbridge is the most despicable fictional villain I’ve ever run across. She is to bureaucracy what Vlad the Impaler was to pointed sticks.
True, Umbridge is a despicable villain. But, she’s also exceedingly narrow minded and arrogant, which makes her weak in other respects.
I’ve seen several lists like this one and I have to say this one is about the worst. The ranking is simply absurd from beginning to end, with really minor figures being ranked far above very important ones. But I have to add that the women of CLEOPATRA 2525 deserves to be snubbed. But the Renaissance Productions heroine who should have made the list was Gabrielle. Seriously, would XENA have been even minimally interesting without her? Putting Death from the Sandman series #1 was silly.
What about the Charmed Ones, or Several women from the Highlander universe, especially Amanda
Veronica Mars is in the mid 80s what was it..85 or 86…she should of been way higher than that.
And the women of Firefly should not all be in a group..they are all special in there own way.
And where was Anya from Buffy…or Fred from Angel or Cordelia from Buffy.
I am sad…*sigh*
Her name wasn’t Dark Angel, her name was Max Guevara, and hey in the second season she did something with her power. She created a freak nation and gave her boyfriend the ultimate communicable disease!
The list was limited to 100 and we’re pulling from 80 years of genre entertainment. Naturally, your favorites may not make the list.
Robert – Sorry you think our list sucks so much. If you could be a darling, would you give us links to other Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Genre Film and Television lists. Cuz we couldn’t find one.
Which is why, well, we made this one.
Just a note about Sveta from Night Watch: She isn’t being written out of the series, she (and Anton) will return in book 3 (Twilight/Dusk Watch) and book 4 (The Last Watch). It’s just that Day Watch is, as the name suggests, written from the perspective of members of the day watch.
I haven’t seen the movies, though, so I can’t comment on how she’s portrayed there.
Sveta and Anton both are seemingly written out of the movies – even though they’re the focal characters of Twilight Watch – The Book.
Nightwatch was a fun movie and inspired both Lisa and myself to head out and get the book(s). Daywatch – the Movie was a complete mess. I understand changes from the source material, but they’ve really taken things in a whole different direction.
Where’s Faith from BtVS?
We probably could have done a top 25 with nothing but Joss Whedon characters. Our power listing didn’t just take into account a character’s fictional strength within the fictional universe, but also the character’s power outside of that universe. For example: Even if someone had never watched an episode of BTVS, the names “Buffy” and “Willow” have more meaning in the real world. Buffy because it’s her show, and Willow, because of all the press she got regarding her sexuality. We didn’t feel that Buffy or Willow deserved to be lumped into a group as each was SUCH a standout.
Note the different approach we took for the women of Firefly – each character’s name was less likely to be known to civilians, but the women all survived the TV show, made it to the comic where they survived, and then made another media jump to the movie and survived again (unlike two of the male leads).
if the list is femmes of genre film and television, death should not be on it. she’s from comic/graphic novel land solely. if they make a movie out of sandman you could add her later. i don’t agree completely with the lineup, but i do think you got a lot of the best ladies in the genres. although missing gabrielle is… a sin. And the firefly ladies need to be separated. i agree with the others, they are completely fabulous individuals.
and that’s it. make it so.
Where’s Gabrielle of Xena Warrior Princess? She went from needing rescued (okay some of that occurred later, but not as much) by Xena on a regular basis to fighting side by side with the Warrior Princess. And by the end of the series, she was the one with the Chakram, preparing to go help others.
Mary -
Gabrielle from Xena was an oversight. I’m expecting that with our second Top 100 list, she’ll find her way on to the list, especially since we’ll be opening up the list in a couple of months for public voting…Stay Tuned…
Um, hello, how in the heck can one include Xena without thinking of her soulmate and partner,Gabrielle? In fact, I’ve read more about hercules and iolous on this site than I do about Gabrielle.
i’m suprised not to see beatrix kido from kill bill here.
Im not offending you in saying your list sucks, i know its hard to look into 70 years of film and television, but i just want to point some characters you just forgot to look into
-The Bride, Kill Bill(got shot, survived, killed everybody who she hates, then kills bill and got her daughter back)
-O ‘Ren Ishi-Kill Bill(The boss of bosses in The japanese Maffia in Kill Bill, she chops a guy’s head in the middle of a meeting, how extremely cool!!)
-Chi-chi-Dragonball Series(I may look Stupid, but she’s the one who can make Goku scared, Gohan do his homework, Goten turn into SSJ, and forcing Goku and Piccolo to study driving)
-Charlies Angels-Charlies Angels(bit cliche, but ey, they where annoyingly good)
-Dolores Umbridge-Harry Potter Series(A qoute from the legendary Stephen King: greatest make-believe villain to come along since Hannibal Lecter…, well if that doesnt convince you, then i am a vegetable)
-Arwen-Lord of the Rings(I dont know why, Shes just cool!)
-Elizabeth Swan-Pirates of the Caribbean(hot, mean, vile, hot, strong, hot, smart.)
-Sam, Alex and Clover-Totally Spies(drawing versions of charlies angels)
-Cruella DeVile-101 Dalmatians(she’s just soo damn cruel she has t be in the list)
just like
-Malivicent, The queen, Izma, Ursula and all the other main antagonist in a Disney movie
Or
-Yasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Belle, Ariel and all the other main antagonists or supporting lead’s in a Disney movie
Again for this comment, i aint attacking you that your lists sucks, but if you make a list about a genre spanding so long in history, you will always forget some of the big names.
ow i almost forgot:
Dora The Explorer, Pls, only if its just 100, she must be in every list because she’s such a cult icon in my neighboorhood.
The list was limited to 100 and we're pulling from 80 years of genre entertainment. Naturally, your favorites may not make the list.
Awesome list! Where was this when I was coming up with my top 10 females of sci-fi? (Although my entire list is here except for the Bride from Kill Bill).
Hey, that’s some great information you got there. Archer Episode 2 is coming soon!
i was suprised leeloo from the fifth element didn't make the cut! she's pretty badass!