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This is a list of action heroines; female characters who play the leading or key roles in SF action adventure stories — usually film, TV, games, and comics.
- Wonder Woman
- Buffy Summers (aka "Buffy the Vampire Slayer")
- Ellen Ripley in the Alien series
- Sarah Connor in the Terminator series
- Elizabeth Swann in the Pirates of the Caribbean series
- Lara Croft
- Xena in Xena: Warrior Princess
- Gabrielle in Xena: Warrior Princess
- Trinity in the Matrix series
- Storm (Ororo Munro in The X-Men
- Yu Shu-lien in the Crane-Iron series (including the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
- Emma Peel (in The Avengers")
... many many more
Further reading
- Action Heroine Blog-a-Thon, June 12, 2007, at "Film Experience Blog"