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Oct 9, 2023 · 1. One thing I love about fantasy is that it’s a realm of limitless possibilities. Writers can make their own worlds, and imagination knows no bounds. It’s really inspiring. Dragons, wizards ...
Let's talk about female characters in the fantasy genre who do interesting work, outside the all-too-common roles of princess and prostitute. (No urban or contemporary fantasy, where it's largely expected that female characters will have a variety of career choices. I want to hear about epic or historical fantasy that departs from the norm.)
Mar 7, 2022 · Lissla Lissar, Deerskin. Deerskin by Robin McKinley. If you want a treasure trove of strong female fantasy characters from books, look no further than a shelf full of Robin McKinley novels. Any one of her heroines would be at home on this list, but of all of them, I think Lissla stands out the most in my mind. Hers is perhaps the most difficult ...
Aug 5, 2022 · Meg Murray, the Time Quintet by Madeleine L’Engle (1962) One of the most essential characters in female fantasy history, Meg Murray, with her frizzy hair and awkward glasses, made time travel ...
- River Song - Doctor Who
- Leela - Futurama
- Hermione Granger - Harry Potter
- Barbarella - Barbarella
- Louise Banks - Arrival
- Olivia Dunham - Fringe
- Sarah-Jane Smith - Doctor Who
- Number Six - Battlestar Galactica
- Zoe Washburne - Serenity / Firefly
- Katniss Everdeen - The Hunger Games
Few of Doctor Who’s many companions have such close ties to The Doctor as River Song. While she became a companion, and eventual wife of The Doctor, she is also a time traveler in her own right and therefore many of her encounters with him happen out of chronological order. His first meeting with her was seemingly her last meeting with him. As such...
Essentially the only competent member of the cast of Futurama, Leela serves as the captain, pilot, and overall leader of the crew of the Planet Express Ship. While she is often plagued by self-doubt, she is also the crew member with the most to offer in any given situation and is usually the one to save the day. Though initially thought to be an al...
As one of the three main characters of the Harry Potterseries, Hermione Granger is, on the surface, the smart one of the group. Where Harry represents courage and Ron is loyalty, Hermione is logical and intelligent. But she’s far more than the logical Spock-like member of the gang. She’s often insecure, and it’s her intense fear of failure that mak...
Often dismissed as little more than eye-candy, both Barbarella the movie and its title character are actually so much more than that. While far from a feminist icon, Barbarella was still a female lead in a sci-fi movie long before that ever became a trope of the genre. It’s still worth something today, as there is still a major problem with female-...
One of the newest characters on this list is Louise Banks from 2016’s Arrival. The movie itself is a thinking man’s sci-fi, building on the recent trend that arguably started with Interstellar. Several extra-terrestrial crafts, nicknamed Shells, arrive on Earth and Louise Banks is one of many linguists dispatched to translate the aliens' language a...
Though stone-cold on surface, Olivia Dunham is the heart and soul of Fringe. Unafraid to stand up to her superiors, she investigates the upside world of fringe science, all the while unravelling the mysteries of her past and how she is connected to the events that are transpiring around her. Unbeknownst to her for many years, Olivia had been part o...
One of The Doctor’smost famous, and most popular, companions of all time, Sarah-Jane Smith started out as a young but dogged investigative journalist who encountered the third incarnation of The Doctor while trying to break a story on a secret research facility. She became his travelling companion for several years, witnessing his transformation in...
Number Six is one of the twelve models of Cylon in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. First seen as an infiltrator, something akin to a Terminator, Number Six quickly became central to the events of both the fall of the twelve colonies and the subsequent events as humanity searched for a new home. More so than any of the other “significant seven...
As a morally ambiguous, smart-mouthed soldier with a tender side, Zoe Washburne is far from a typical sidekick. She's the first officer on Serenity--the one that has Captain Reynold’s back and the only person he truly trusts. Prior to the events seen in Firefly, Zoe had served under Mal during a brutal civil war. Their side lost and their army disb...
It’s no small thing to become the face of a revolution, especially when you’re still a teenager. But Katniss Everdeen not only survived the brutal reality-show of the The Hunger Games, she became the leading light of rebellion and led the way for many people to become free of oppression. As skilled with a bow as she was at dropping a killer one-lin...
Oct 20, 2015 · Perhaps the only female character in the J.R.R. Tolkien epic that stands up as a strong female presence, Eowyn is, in my opinion, one of the very first female fantasy role models. Her first appearance was in The Two Towers (1954) and she was a very forward-thinking character for the time. Borrowing from a device made popular by Shakespeare ...
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Apr 19, 2019 · Fantasy is Female: The Importance of Feminism in YA Fantasy. Two YA authors dig into feminism in YA fantasy books and more. When not prying Legos and gaming dice out of her feet, S.W. Sondheimer is a registered nurse at the Department of Therapeutic Misadventures, a herder of genetic descendants, cosplayer, and a fiction and (someday) comics ...
