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   Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 04:35:09 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

   Rewatched Terminator 2 last night, and I forgot just how ripped Sarah Conner is. Just an archetype you don't see that often in action movies, even 33 years later.

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 04:38:57 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     Like I guess there's Old Guard and Atomic Blond, but outside of characters cast as Charlize Theron, are there very many action movie characters that are: (a) women, (b) adults, (c) not tiny, and (d) are badasses?

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     Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 07:02:05 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @jpab No, those are all good points, thank you! I guess Mary Elizabeth Winestead in Birds of Pray, too. Still seems a bit more sparse than other modes of femininity in the genre, though.

     No shade on lithe/agile archetypes, that's awesome too, just perhaps overrepresented.

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     John (jpab@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 07:02:07 JST John

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     @xgranade Maybe those characters aren't buff enough? But they don't seem quite like the "she's tiny but she'll kick your ass because magic/martial arts/whatever" type.

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     John (jpab@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 07:02:08 JST John

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     @xgranade Mary Elizabeth Winstead in "Kate" (I think?). Rebecca Ferguson in Mission Impossible and in Dune. Sigourney Weaver in Alien. Angelina Jolie in Mr & Mrs Smith and other things. Michelle Rodriguez in ~anything.

     Anyway, I get what you mean, a lot of "action" women characters are very young or small etc.