FICTIONAL Female Warriors

macphersonrants · 06-28-2010, 12:52 AM

I set up another thread to talk about real world female warriors.

This one is intended to provide a forum to talk about examples of fictional female warriors that might serve as inspiration for GURPS players wanting to play women combatants. Any genre is fine. Try to put things in GURPS terms as much as possible.

THIS IS NOT A GENDER POLITICS THREAD. If you want to talk about that please take it to General Chatter.

jason taylor · 06-28-2010, 01:08 AM

Some of my favorites are :

Amanda King: she was so cute the way she smiles demurely after clubbing Russian agents over the head with a chair.

Sue Thomas FBEYE

Ziva David

Susan Ivanova

Ambassador Deleen

Halath, chieftainess of the Folk of Halath in The Silmarilion

macphersonrants · 06-28-2010, 01:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jason taylor

Some of my favorites are :

Amanda King: she was so cute the way she smiles demurely after clubbing Russian agents over the head with a chair.

Sue Thomas FBEYE

Ziva David

Susan Ivanova

Ambassador Deleen

Halath, chieftainess of the Folk of Halath in The Silmarilion

I'm pretty keen on Ziva myself.

macphersonrants · 06-28-2010, 01:22 AM

Red Sonja is a favorite of mine. Not the Marvel comics Hyborian one, but the real Robert E. Howard, swashbuckling Siege of Vienna version.

jason taylor · 06-28-2010, 01:24 AM

In Unfinished Tales there are some unnamed Female Worthy Opponents. The King of Gondor had his agents engineer a slave revolt among the Wainriders to take place just as the Men of Gondor had taken the field and forced most of the Wainrider warriors to do the same. As a result, only the women were left behind when the revolt came, but they stayed behind and in defense of their children held off the rebels.

Captain-Captain · 06-28-2010, 01:45 AM

April Dancer of U.N.C.L.E.

Green-Neck · 06-28-2010, 02:11 AM

Queen Scathach from the Isle of Skye features in both Scottish and Irish myth [the Ulster Cycle] .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scathach

She taught the hero Cú Chulainn his legendary martial skills [his 'trained by a master'?].

Her name means 'shadowy' - an illusion to her connection with the world of the Fey.

She could be quite fun to role-play, and hopefully counts as fictonal.

DanHoward · 06-28-2010, 03:39 AM

Xena, the spinoff from Hercules, ended up being more popular than the original.

the_seeker · 06-28-2010, 04:21 AM

IMHO, the quintessential archetypal stereotypical fictional female warrior is Red Sonja, but I can think of quite a few more that I liked. The Conan Saga alone gave us Belit, Valeria and Isparana. CL Moore gave us Jirel of Joiry. Andrew Offut and Richard Lyon gave us Tiana Highrider. And at a bare minimum, we know at least one incarnation of the Champion Eternal was female: Ilian of Garathorm. The Forgotten Realms have Alias.

jacobmuller · 06-28-2010, 04:57 AM

Griselda - from Glorantha/White Dwarf/ Tales of the Reaching Moon. Not just fictional, but a Player Character statted out and game sessions retold in character.

Halo Jones - from 2000AD. okay, not much of a warrior but heroic SF.

Sgt Valor from Tanya Huff. SF infantry combat and alien "mystery".

Honor Harrington from David Weber. CSForrester-Hornblowerish but in space.

06-28-2010, 12:52 AM	#1
macphersonrants Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Olympia, WA	FICTIONAL Female Warriors I set up another thread to talk about real world female warriors. This one is intended to provide a forum to talk about examples of fictional female warriors that might serve as inspiration for GURPS players wanting to play women combatants. Any genre is fine. Try to put things in GURPS terms as much as possible. THIS IS NOT A GENDER POLITICS THREAD. If you want to talk about that please take it to General Chatter. __________________ During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell

06-28-2010, 01:08 AM	#2
jason taylor Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Portland, Oregon	Re: FICTIONAL Female Warriors Some of my favorites are : Amanda King: she was so cute the way she smiles demurely after clubbing Russian agents over the head with a chair. Sue Thomas FBEYE Ziva David Susan Ivanova Ambassador Deleen Halath, chieftainess of the Folk of Halath in The Silmarilion __________________ "The navy could probably win a war without coffee but would prefer not to try"-Samuel Eliot Morrison

06-28-2010, 01:22 AM	#4
macphersonrants Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Olympia, WA	Re: FICTIONAL Female Warriors Red Sonja is a favorite of mine. Not the Marvel comics Hyborian one, but the real Robert E. Howard, swashbuckling Siege of Vienna version. __________________ During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell

06-28-2010, 01:24 AM	#5
jason taylor Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Portland, Oregon	Re: FICTIONAL Female Warriors In Unfinished Tales there are some unnamed Female Worthy Opponents. The King of Gondor had his agents engineer a slave revolt among the Wainriders to take place just as the Men of Gondor had taken the field and forced most of the Wainrider warriors to do the same. As a result, only the women were left behind when the revolt came, but they stayed behind and in defense of their children held off the rebels. __________________ "The navy could probably win a war without coffee but would prefer not to try"-Samuel Eliot Morrison

06-28-2010, 01:45 AM	#6
Captain-Captain Join Date: Aug 2004	Re: FICTIONAL Female Warriors April Dancer of U.N.C.L.E. __________________ ...().0...0() .../..........\ -/......O.....\- ...VVVVVVV ..^^^^^^^ A clock running two hours slow has the correct time zero times a day.

06-28-2010, 02:11 AM	#7
Green-Neck Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Fryers Forest Australia	Re: FICTIONAL Female Warriors Queen Scathach from the Isle of Skye features in both Scottish and Irish myth [the Ulster Cycle] . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scathach She taught the hero Cú Chulainn his legendary martial skills [his 'trained by a master'?]. Her name means 'shadowy' - an illusion to her connection with the world of the Fey. She could be quite fun to role-play, and hopefully counts as fictonal. __________________ A fine blend of hillbilly and permaculturist.

06-28-2010, 03:39 AM	#8
DanHoward Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Maitland, NSW, Australia	Re: FICTIONAL Female Warriors Xena, the spinoff from Hercules, ended up being more popular than the original.

06-28-2010, 04:21 AM	#9
the_seeker . Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Charlotte, NC, United States	Re: FICTIONAL Female Warriors IMHO, the quintessential archetypal stereotypical fictional female warrior is Red Sonja, but I can think of quite a few more that I liked. The Conan Saga alone gave us Belit, Valeria and Isparana. CL Moore gave us Jirel of Joiry. Andrew Offut and Richard Lyon gave us Tiana Highrider. And at a bare minimum, we know at least one incarnation of the Champion Eternal was female: Ilian of Garathorm. The Forgotten Realms have Alias. __________________ Tim Harris The Seeker Time Lord Saving the universe one planet at a time. Occasionally from my own mistakes. Oops.

06-28-2010, 04:57 AM	#10
jacobmuller Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Not in your time zone:D	Re: FICTIONAL Female Warriors Griselda - from Glorantha/White Dwarf/ Tales of the Reaching Moon. Not just fictional, but a Player Character statted out and game sessions retold in character. Halo Jones - from 2000AD. okay, not much of a warrior but heroic SF. Sgt Valor from Tanya Huff. SF infantry combat and alien "mystery". Honor Harrington from David Weber. CSForrester-Hornblowerish but in space. __________________ "Sanity is a bourgeois meme." Exegeek PS sorry I'm a Parthian shootist: shiftwork + out of country = not here when you are:/ It's all in the reflexes