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[ladyaeryn]

Stolen from ladyhadhafang - this looks like fun. :)

TOP 5 FEMALE CHARACTERS MEMESend me a number and I'll write out my top 5 fictional women

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[ladyaeryn]

Protagonists:

1) Leia (Skywalker) Organa, Star Wars: What's really to say here - how many of us wanted to be Leia? Beautiful, feisty, intelligent, determined, snarky. I have an even greater appreciation for her after the prequels, seeing how much of Anakin and Padmé are in the twins.
2) Padmé Amidala Skywalker, Star Wars: Like her daughter, beautiful, intelligent, and determined, but a gentler spirit than Leia. Though her own fate is tragic, her undying faith being passed down to her son is what saves Anakin and restores balance to the Force in the end.
3) Katniss Everdeen, The Hunger Games: Self-reliant, clever, and brave, but understandably very hard and prickly - sometimes to a fault. But even through everything she goes through, she is still able to realize that hope is necessary for human survival.
4) Sarah Connor, Terminator franchise: Goes through an amazing journey, from timid bumbling waitress to warrior mom raising the future of humanity. She's not a warrior who just happens to have given birth - being a warrior and being a mother are equally key to her identity.
5) Hermione Granger, Harry Potter: Brilliant bookworm, saves Harry's life perhaps more than anyone. Not without her own flaws - can be harsh and unsympathetic at times, but never fails to stand by her friends. She's willing to make tough decisions, even when they are heartbreaking, such as erasing all trace of her existence from her parents' lives.

Villains:

1) Maleficent, Sleeping Beauty: Beautiful and passionately ruthless. She's very dark for a Disney villain, gleefully plotting the murder of an innocent baby for no apparent reason.
2) Dolores Umbridge, Harry Potter: Who didn't love to hate her? The sickly sweet veneer over a core of pure sadism - her attempt to seize control of Hogwarts is bad enough, but anyone who maims a child in order to teach them a lesson? Fucking sick.
3) Illyria, Angel: A marked contrast from Cordelia in the previous season - unlike Charisma Carpenter, Amy Acker clearly had no problems playing an inhuman (literally) villain. She destroys poor Fred's soul in her return to life, and views humans and even vampires as little better than bugs. But even so, through her captivity she begins to grow... something resembling a soul, becoming attached to Wesley and grieving his death. Amy was brilliant in the role.
4) Elphaba Thropp, Wicked: Prickly and misunderstood/ostracized from the beginning by even her own family. Her heart starts in the right place, making a few solid friends and championing the causes of sentient Animals in Oz. But her journey pits her against the Wizard and she is pushed down a dark and lonely path to become the Witch we all know and love to hate.
5) Alma Coin, The Hunger Games: Manipulative, cold. Brutally cold. In her desire to undermine/overthrow Snow and seize the presidency of Panem, she becomes no better than Snow, murdering innocent Capitol children (and her own medics) in a tactic to turn favor against him. Can't wait to see who plays her in the films.

Adorable Dorks:

1) Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter: The epitome of adorable dork. Wise beyond her years, unabashed in her identity and unwillingness to conform socially - but still as true a friend as anyone could ask for.
2) Pam Beesley, The Office: Mainly from the first three seasons. Through those seasons, you see Pam evolve from a timid receptionist trapped in a stagnant relationship and career, into a woman finally willing to act to make change in her life.
3) Belle, Beauty and the Beast: Like Luna, brilliant, outcast, but unwilling to conform socially. Proud bookworm, and capable of seeing the man inside the monster.
4) Gwen/Guinevere, Merlin: The Merlin series offered a brilliant concept, if unevenly executed: who would have thought the great Queen of Camelot was originally a shy, stuttering, stumbling handmaiden?
5) Mac, Veronica Mars: Yay, romantically awkward computer nerds (alas for the hinted bittersweet backstory that never went anywhere, though)!