Hot Amazon



""I love the kind of woman who could kick my ass.""

- Spike, Cowboy Bebop

""Have you ever been with a warrior woman?""

- Wash, Firefly

For every Tropes, there is a flip side. The flip side to No Guy Wants an Amazon is the lady who's attractive because of her Amazon-ness. She could be the protagonist who needs a guy who can appreciate a girl who's stronger, tougher, faster, and more aggressive than even himself. Or she could just be a Girl of the Week for The Hero who prefers this type. Her paramour is sometimes a Non Action Guy, which could be because she likes a man who will submit to her, or sometimes he's her equal, which may be because, in her mind, anyone less is not worthy of her. Conversely, the guy himself could be a Badass, gritty warrior who finds a woman who refuses to submit and challenges him very enticing.

Compare Pirate Girl, Nubile Savage, Lady of War, and Hot Chick With a Sword. If she's got a Heroic Build as well, she's an Amazonian Beauty. If she's tall and beautiful, she's a Statuesque Stunner. Usually Ms. Brawn from Beauty Brains and Brawn will match to this.

Not to be confused with an Amazon Brigade (although its ranks can consist of or entirely be composed of Hot Amazons) or the actual geographic location.

Remember, this is NOT about attractive Action Girls. This is about Action Girls who are considered attractive in-universe because they are Action Girls.

Anime and Manga

 * In Devilman Lady, Jason Bates says he would have liked Jun more if she was stronger than him.
 * In Kimagure Orange Road, Kyosuke Kasuga definitely prefers Tall Dark and Bishoujo ex-delinquent Madoka Ayukawa over clingy, sweet, ex-pseudo-delinquent Hikaru. However, he is the only one in his school attracted to her; pretty much all of the other guys are shit scared of her for her bad reputation. The rivals he worries about are quite a bit older (and mostly in his head)... And despite that, no one would dispute that Madoka is very beautiful.
 * In Urusei Yatsura the second test for a beauty contest is a strength test, and the third is a wrestling match.
 * Giroro fell for Natsumi from Sgt. Frog after she handed his ass to him in battle. She's now the only Earthling he doesn't want to destroy.
 * Sango in InuYasha is a demon hunter who wields a bone boomerang bigger than she is. While she doesn't receive much romantic attention throughout most of the series, both her canon love interest Miroku and Kuranosuke Takeda certainly appreciate that she can beat them all the way around the block and back--especially Takeda, who fell into starry-eyed infatuation-at-first-sight with her while watching beat the crap out of an enormous demon with the aforementioned boomerang. Also Kagura, especially seeing how easily she beat Sango. However she is a minor character, and thus gets even less focus.
 * In a manga omake, Ryuu-oh's father in RG Veda specifically tells his young son that he fell for Ryuu-oh's mother because she's "macho, strong, wild and cool". Amusingly, his wife says says she loves him for "being a good cook, sweet-tempered, clean and handsome". Ryuu-oh's conclusion? "YAY, I WANT A MACHO WIFE!"
 * One of the above page quotes comes from Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, wherein Spike is inspired to ask a cute Mars Special Forces officer on a date... while she's attempting to beat the crap out of him, and, considering that he's basically Bruce Lee, doing a damn fine job. The Lab Rat is also smitten with the same lady, and asks for a date in exchange for her help. She appears somewhat squicked by the thought.
 * In Berserk, Guts fell in love with Casca because of her being able to fight and kick ass just as much as he can. He even confessed to Judeau that he would never go for a woman unable to defend herself unaided.
 * Getter Robo: Armageddon--Kei takes a page from Ryoko and Mao and turns it up to eleven by defeating a Metal Beast (which had just finished utterly owning the rest of the army) while completely naked. The first things she's greeted with afterward are the simultaneous nosebleeds of all but two of her teammates.
 * In Getter Robo Go misogynist Jerkass Schwarzkof falls for Lady of War Shou (as does Linda) due to her piloting skill, strength, and strong character.
 * In Baccano!, Career Killers Claire Stanfield falls in love at first sight with Knife Nut Chane Laforet after seeing her knife-fighting skills against Psycho for Hire Ladd Russo using a SHOTGUN. He even buys her a dress with knife holsters.
 * Miwako Satou from Detective Conan is a badass and kind Action Girl. She's very popular in the police station she works at. Another would be Ran Mouri, the main character's love interest: She's a karate champion who gets hit on by guys and nearly got chosen as a model if it wasn't for the murder case that occured.
 * Ophiuchus Shaina from Saint Seiya was liked by her student Cassios because she was the fiercest and most beautiful woman he knew. Seiya himself is enticed by her beauty and her strength, despite his stubborn refusal to fight her full force because she's a woman. Shaina doesn't approve!
 * In Code Geass, Nice Guy Gino is smitten with Fiery Redhead Kallen in large part because she's the best all-around female fighter (i.e. both as a mecha pilot and martial artist) in the series.
 * In Boku no Futatsu no Tsubasa Keigo suddenly decides to try and "catch" Mako after he sees her beat up a group of muggers trying to steal her mobile telephone.
 * Boa Hancock in One Piece is greatly admired by her (female) subjects because Amazon Lily follows the mandate of "strength equals beauty". And she has the worldwide reputation and the skills to back it up.

Comic Books

 * John Byrne's favorite Trope. He usually adds a wimpy guy as a henchman to emphasize her size and sexiness. (See: Babe, his tenure with Wonder Woman, and so on.)
 * The DCU and Justice League: Scott "Mister Miracle" Free and his wife, Action Girl Big Barda. Barda is a beautiful 7-foot-tall bruiser who towers over her husband, but that doesn't bother the super escape artist in the least. In fact, they are Happily Married, and he is so secure in his own skills and abilities that he gladly defers any heavy lifting or fighting to his wife, who is eager to smash the bad guys when appropriate. To be fair, their appearances are mundane compared to most characters in the Fourth World... although it was innovative when Jack Kirby created them in the early 1970s.
 * Wonder Woman, a literal Amazon, is an Ur Example of this trope. In the Pre Crisis DCU, Steve Trevor, the beau of Wonder Woman, rarely showed concern about being overpowered. Post Crisis, Wonder Woman generally doesn't get into romance either way--she just doesn't have time--but it's joked that small-time crooks will gladly get manhandled by her.
 * Rose Wilson/Ravager of the Teen Titans, who was the toughest member of the modern version of the team. Both her friends Kid Flash and Kid Devil harbored a crush on her, most likely because of her badass-itude.
 * Marvel Comics' Jennifer Walters. For the most part, the super-powered men of the Marvel universe can't get enough of her seven-foot, green alter ego. Her experiences with mundane men are rather well-documented, too, usually with the implication Jen in her She-Hulk forms is much more outgoing and confident.
 * Hulk's daughter Lyra.
 * The Hulk's third wife, Caiera. Before getting married, she and the Hulk were a formidable Battle Couple. Shame she was also the shortest lived of the Hulk's romantic interests.
 * Red She-Hulk. It seems the Leader is into Hot Amazons, since he's in love with Red She-Hulk.
 * She-Hulk's Arch Enemy/Evil Counterpart Titania is a villainous example. During Secret Wars, she and Crusher Creel (the Absorbing Man) struck up a friendship. Although Mary greatly admired Creel for his raw physical power, he in turn was attracted to her for being every bit as rough and tough as he was (she is, more or less, the strongest woman in the Marvel universe alongside Shulkie). They formed a Battle Couple for quite some time before finally sealing the deal.
 * There's Carol Danvers aka Ms. Marvel, the Marvel expy of Power Girl, who was already an Action Girl even before she got superpowers.
 * Chris Claremont popularized this during his legendary run on the X-Men. There's Storm who canonically stands at 5'11 (1,80 m) and is very skilled in hand-to-hand combat. Even when depowered, her Action Girl skills wooed many as shown in the 70's. Others include Rogue, when she still had a copied version of Ms. Marvel's powerset for virtually two decades (she later lost it), and Psylocke (who experienced both a Race Lift and Take a Level In Badass from being a Faux Action Girl English spy to a faux-Japanese McNinja, when she accidentally body-switched with a fellow telepath.)
 * In the DC miniseries The Bulleteer, part of the Seven Soldiers of Victory maxiseries, the lead character's husband has a secret fetish for superpowered women and dies in an experiment to give his wife superpowers (which she doesn't actually want). The series also reveals that there are a number of women with superpowers who have no intention of being heroes or villains but dressing up like them for porn websites.
 * Redlance and Nightfall from Elf Quest fit this quite closely. Nightfall isn't too amazonian, but she definitely qualifies as an Action Girl. Redlance is the quiet, gentle half. In a further stretching, Redlance is left behind on two separate occasions to look after the tribe's children (he may not be macho, but he is plenty brave).
 * The tellingly-named Amazon Gazonga, from the comic of the same title, is another obvious candidate. Possessed of well above-normal physical strength (especially given her diminutive and mainly-slender physique), highly athletic and skilled in combat, and living in a society where men are generally slimly-built toys for her and her kind. She also, as her name suggests, possesses far more than ample measures of the Most Common Superpower.
 * Robotech II: The Sentinels featured the Praxians, a Proud Warrior Race Guy One Gender Race of Hot Amazons (they were one of many races from Sentinels Put On a Bus for Robotech the Shadow Chronicles).
 * Tara, Mariah, and Shakira from The Warlord. Tara is perhaps the purest example and is the one that captures Morgan's heart.
 * Plourr Illo. Crown princess of Eiattu VI. Highly skilled starfighter pilot. When she returned to Eiattu to take up the reins of governmental matters, her betrothed (her cousin Count Rial Pernon) may have been her fiance since childhood, but he was her staunchest supporter.
 * Caitlin Fairchild of the now-defunct Gen 13. The series even had the team travel to Coda Island, the Wildstorm Universe's Amazonian equivalent where Fairchild impressed the island's inhabitants and was accepted by them.
 * Zealot, member of Wildstorm's Avengers/JLA Expy WildCATS is from Coda Island.
 * Also from Wildstorm, Victoria Ngengi aka Flint of Stormwatch was married to Benito Santini of Team Achilles for quite a while.
 * Red Sonja. In the comics, many men are explicitly attracted to her because she is a woman who knows how to fight.

Film
"Buford-2: I am so in love with her right now."
 * Monsters vs. Aliens: Mad Scientist Dr Cockroach is noticeably smitten with Susan after she defeats the giant alien robot. Given his less-than-stellar looks size and specie this has a certain element of Squick.
 * Lorna Cole in Lethal Weapon 3 has absolutely no problem matching Martin Riggs in the ass-kicking department, a quality that contributes greatly to their eventual romance.
 * Callahan from the Police Academy films. Her first combat demonstration ends with her asking for a volunteer and every man present jumping to his feet.
 * Basically the reason why Phoebus went after Esmeralda. Clearly he was interested before, but when he saw her standing up to Frollo and kicking some ass... Yeah.
 * Astrid from How to Train Your Dragon. How hot is she? Well, how about she's introduced with an Unflinching Walk in front of a fiery explosion!
 * Ever After: Prince Henry is fascinated by the way "Nicole" climbs trees, swims alone, and is strong enough to hoist him over her shoulders.
 * In Phineas and Ferb The Movie Across The Second Dimension, the alternate universe version of Candace faces off against an entire swarm of Mecha Mooks at one point, while wielding only a Simple Staff. She utterly demolishes the robots in a matter of seconds, prompting this bit of dialogue:

Literature
"Born a Barbados slave, she had clawed her way to power in the Coast fraternity by a piratical genius and ruthless ferocity that had made her the toast of women's liberationists all along the Main. Her fellow sea-wolves respected her, had astonishing fantasies about her, and went in terror of her, and she despised them all with a curl of her shapely lip and a lift of her perfect Egyptian nose and a low-lidded glare from her smoky slanting eyes, fingering her one long silver earring the while."
 * Asha Greyjoy, from A Song of Ice and Fire, is lusted after half the male crew of her ship and even her own brother before he recognizes who she is. Note that she can raid and pillage with the best of them.
 * Kerowyn in Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books.
 * Angharad, and her aunt Arianrhod, and presumably other women from their clan from the third Ravenor book.
 * Cordelia Vorkosigan gained her husband in the midst of a war by impressing him with both her brain and her martial prowess. Droushnakovi is a female martial artist whose husband is not the least bit intimidated by her still and instead finds her skill attractive. Elli Quinn and Elena Bothari, of the Dendarii Free Mercenaries also gain male attention not just for their looks but for their physical aptitude as well.
 * Black Sheba in The Pyrates is this trope turned up to eleven and poured into a leopardskin tracksuit.


 * Honor Harrington and half the women in the series. It is implied that an excess of amazon-ness is possibly the only thing that is particularly attractive about Iris Babcock, it is certainly what first impressed the man she eventually married. Thandi Palane is not only a Hot Amazon, she leads an entire Hot Amazon Brigade in the Honorverse.
 * Taizu, from CJ Cherryh's The Paladin, becomes this, at least in her mentor Shoka's opinion. Most other men seem to follow the No Guy Wants an Amazon trope.
 * Ashlin, from Amanda Downum's The Bone Palace, is this, at least in the opinion of Savedra, Ashlin's husband's mistress, who finds her very attractive in an Amazonian way.
 * Nihal from Chronicles of the Emerged World.
 * In Death: Eve Dallas. Just ask Roarke and Webster!

Live Action TV
""This is some kind of supersecret government organisation. Did you see that chick playing with her knife?"
 * Xena: Warrior Princess. Despite not actually being an amazon, Xena counts as this trope. So does, and her arch-nemesis Callisto. Actual amazons that fall under this trope include Gabrielle (Seasons Five, and Six), Ephiny, Varia, Amarice, Velasca, Melosa and Chilapa. And, pretty much every other amazon in the show.
 * Except Yakut, Otere and all the other Siberian amazons who wear lots of animal skins and are pretty androgynous.
 * Hercules: The Legendary Journeys--Atalanta, female blacksmith and occasionally recurring character. She was played by Real Life female bodybuilder Cory Everson. Here's a video montage of Atalanta being all hot and amazony. She's actually a mixture of Hot Amazon and No Guy Wants an Amazon. Atlanta was dumped by a date because she was too amazony, but Hercules and Salmoneus, being more enlightened, hinted that they liked her.
 * When Buffy the Vampire Slayer introduces the new slayer Faith, Xander hangs on her every word. At which point Cordelia asks what's with him and slayers (knowing that he's had a crush on Buffy). Should she dress up like one and put a stake to his hear? He did wish she wasn't kidding.
 * Alias: Sydney Bristow--quite possibly the hottest butt-kicking TV heroine in years. Even the very sexy and mysterious Mr. Sark repeatedly makes comments throughout the series about how he'd like to 'work with her' and what a great 'team' they'd make.
 * American Gladiators. Just about every female gladiator on the show, ever.
 * Just Gladiators in general. The Australian version had the smaller Gladiators such as Blade, Rebel, Nitro, and Viper, who were by no means wallflowers. Then they got bigger, badder and stronger like Storm, Fury, Angel and Olympia. Then, we genuine Hot Amazons Flame, Glacier, Destiny, and Amazon.
 * Kara Thrace on the rebooted Battlestar Galactica seems to be surrounded by men who have absolutely no problem with the fact that she can, and probably will, outfly them, outshoot them, beat them up, and then drink them under the table. On the first date. Of course, the fact that those qualities make her a dynamite wingmate you want in battle would explain the pilots. Gaius Baltar, one of her one-night stands, is better known for his various liaisons with Cylon females -- all of whom have been tall, intimidating, and capable of snapping him like a twig should they so choose. One was even played by Lucy Lawless.
 * Chuck has strong feelings for his femme fatale CIA bodyguard, who is a master martial artist with a thing for throwing knives.
 * Agent Ziva David from NCIS. Lampshaded in one episode where two nerdish kids get arrested, and Ziva and DiNozzo try some psychological warfare on them.

"Yeah? She looked kinda hot actually.""

"Zane: Jo? I need a gun. A big, powerful gun.
 * Explosives-loving ex-terrorist Fiona from Burn Notice, although her partner/love interest Michael is certainly skilled enough to keep up with her.
 * Deputy Josefina "Jo" Lupo from Eureka certainly fits this trope. According to the show, she holds the all-time Army Ranger's marksmanship record. Not to mention this particular quote from the second episode of the third season.

Jo: I've been waiting for someone to say that to me my whole life.

Meaningful smiles at each other"

"Wash: Have you ever been with a warrior woman?"
 * Aeryn Sun, Farscape. The best fighter in the series (well, it's a toss up between her and D'Argo -- he's stronger, but she might be more skilled), very protective of her husband (whom she trains to fight), and up walking and fighting again minutes after giving birth. Oh, and she's frelling gorgeous.
 * Never mind after giving birth, she was firing her gun while giving birth because it "Made her feel better"!
 * Firefly: Wash, a geeky pilot who plays with dinosaurs, is Happily Married to Zoe, former career soldier and current first mate on Serenity, despite (and possibly because of) the fact that she's a gun-toting warrior who could kill him seven ways with her pinky, while the closest he's ever gotten to a firefight is having been "fired from a fry cook opportunity".


 * Teyla Emmagan from Stargate Atlantis certainly qualifies.
 * And Samantha Carter from Stargate SG 1. Jack O'Neill falls head over heels.
 * The first season of Star Trek the Next Generation features a visit to a planet where the familiar gender roles (before about the 1960s, in the west) are reversed--the women rule the world and are strong and aggressive, while the men are effete, perfume-wearing arm candy. Riker seems to like it, and happily makes himself the planet's ruler's Man of the Week, in a sort of manly way. Of course, this was before he (and TNG) grew the beard so it sucked.
 * Tasha Yar was a Hot Amazon warrior woman, and probably the most attractive woman on the show.
 * Deep Space Nine had steely and gorgeous ex-freedom-fighter Major Kira Nerys, and free-spirited, elegant martial arts expert Lt. Jadzia Dax. Star Trek Voyager had the authoritative Captain Kathryn Janeway, hot-tempered half-Klingon engineer Lt. B'Elanna Torres, and later added Seven of Nine, whose Latex Space Suit didn't impede her at all from shooting like Eastwood and punching like a freight train. One suspects a certain pattern during this era of the franchise.
 * Technically, T'Pol, though she is surprisingly vulnerable for this trope. But being Vulcan she was stronger than any of her fellow crewmen and it was shown more than once that she knew Alien Fu.
 * From Glee: Though a bit on the wide side, Lauren is an intimidating teenager with a state championship in Greco Roman Wrestling. Puck likes her because of her attitude and has been hitting on her, but after she wiped the floor with Santana he practically asks her marriage.
 * Babylon 5's Susan Ivanova, The Lancer and Number Two. Marcus Cole is absolutely besotted with her, and becomes so after seeing her kick ass and take names.

Music
"My woman's a fire eater
 * Alt-country singer/songwriter Kevin Welch has a great song, "Hill Country Girl," that exemplifies this trope. Lyrics snippet:

My woman's 'bout six feet tall

She comes from down in Texas

She's got my number, y'all

Yeah, she's a flash of lightning

Yeah, she's got x-ray eyes

Man, she can see right through you

Don't trouble with your disguise"

Mythology

 * Genius Bruiser Theseus married Hippolyta, the Queen of the Amazons. However, he did later marry another, non-Amazon woman, Phaedria... who became enamored with his and Hippolyta's son, Hippolytus. She ultimately got what she had coming.
 * Hippolyta was one hell of a Hot Amazon. Before she met Theseus, she had a brief but passionate affair with Heracles.
 * Close behind Hippolyta comes Penthesilea, another Amazon queen. This one went to Troy where she was slain by Achilles. Then he found out how beautiful she was and cried Manly Tears. And killed Thersites for saying something like "She's still warm" (or mocking him, but that's not as funny).
 * Although one 12th-century Byzantine scholar actually interpreted that passage (that he "loved" her) a different way: that Achilles actually had sex with her corpse, and killed Thersites for basically reacting the way any sane person would react to that sort of thing.
 * In some versions, notably the play Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist, she falls in love with Achilles but winds up killing him anyway.
 * Sigrun, leader of the Valkyries in some Norse myths, vowed that she would only marry a man stronger than herself.
 * Her counterpart Brünnhilde, from other Norse myths and Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung Opera Tetralogy, actually went as far as asking her father Wotan to put her into a Convenient Coma surrounded by a ring of eternal fire to make sure her True Love would be a really strong man. And it happened: the one who dared to cross the fire was none other than Siegfried.
 * Thor's wife, Sif, one of the definitive examples of Hot Chick With a Sword. Another reason Thor is so Badass.
 * Driving this point even further home, Freyja, the Norse pantheon's resident love goddess is a Hot Amazon who takes half the souls of the slain for herself.
 * Lady of War Athena/Minerva. It doesn't hurt that she was the Goddess of Wisdom to boot. The people of Athens erected both a statue and a temple in her honor, and (disgustingly enough) blacksmith god Hephaestus tried to rape her (unfortunately, familial incest among the gods was common and necessary for propagation).
 * The Morrígan of Celtic Mythology was a Blood Knight who really got around. Seriously--she slept with at least two of the most powerful gods and countless mortal warriors in exchange for aiding them to victory in battle. There was a minor problem with her Hair Trigger Temper and her tendency to violently ruin someone for the crime of pissing her off, but it's safe to assume that most men were fine with a mysterious Hot Amazon showing up and asking to sleep with them.

Tabletop Games

 * The whole point in the Trollbabe indie RPG is this: there are, in the world, a few "Trollbabes", who are very tall, very sexy, and very powerful in strength, in magic, in personal influence. They eventually become, while game progresses, able to affect whole continents with their actions.
 * The Talislanta setting is home to the Danuvians, a near-human folk in which the women are Proud Warrior Race Gals, while the men are delicate and housebound. Polyandry is common, as many Danuvians keep both a beautiful Danuvian husband to father their children (no Half-Danuvian Hybrids here), and a husky non-Danuvian warrior husband, whose physical prowess and military background give them something in common to talk about. Thus, these warrior-women fulfill both sides of this trope simultaneously, where tastes in men are concerned.

Video Games

 * One scenario in Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 involves the Ouendan helping out Kaede, a former female pro-wrestler who marries the son of the owner of a ryokan (a traditional Japanese inn). He seems quite happy with the arrangement, and quite distraught when his mother threatens to throw Kaede out on her ear if she doesn't get up to snuff as a ryokan hostess.
 * Some of the canon pairings in Fire Emblem also fall into this trope of a guy falling for a Lady of War or Hot Chick With a Sword character and finding her charming because of her strength. These girls are:
 * The pirate Bridget, the thunder mage Tiltyu and the swordwoman Ayra from FE4 ;
 * Fir the myrmidon from FE6. ;
 * Lady Lyndis of Caelin (Lyn), the swordwoman Karla, the Pegasus Knights Fiora and Farina, and the Dragon Lord Vaida from FE7;
 * Marisa, Eirika, and Vanessa from FE8.
 * Titania from Path of Radiance and Raidiant Dawn. While the man she loves (her leader Greil, as deduced by his son Ike) already had eyes for someone else (Ike's Hot Mom Elena), the Hot Blooded (and several years younger) Boyd seems to hold her in this regard... until he subverts it/covers it up by saying that she's like a mother to him. Ike himself has some fairly romantic support conversations with Titania as well; it's one of the more popular het ships for him alongside Elincia, Mia, and Lethe. Not to mention that she's a redheaded horseback rider in high-heeled riding boots who subverts being a Jeigan by tying IKE for best overall stat growth in FE9 (essentially, she starts out as a tank and stays that way); Statistically Speaking, she's an even better unit in FE10.
 * Bastila in Knights of the Old Republic, doubling as a White Magician Girl. The Handmaiden and Mira in the sequel qualify as well, to the point that Mira's somewhat cursory rejection of the player (she didn't want to have to beat up the Handmaiden and Visas) was rather disappointing (Visas is a bit too much of a woobie to qualify). If the player plays as a female soldier then she's the game's greatest example, being bigger, stronger and taller than the other characters.
 * Aribeth in Neverwinter Nights would have been a great one, except for the fact that she never actually does anything until her Face Heel Turn. Nathyrra from Hordes of the Underdark is a better example.
 * Neverwinter Nights 2 averts this, with (assuming a modded game) the only one of the three female characters a player can express any interest in whose primary strength is combat having a Plotline Death at the end of the second chapter.
 * Mass Effect has Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams, who is a possible romance option for a male Shepard. Some of the dialogue (if you use it) indicates that her Hot Amazon-ness may be one of the reasons why Shepard finds her attractive. And female Shepard's status as a Hot Amazon seems to be what Kaidan Alenko finds most attractive about her.
 * Given that your goal is to create a group of the deadliest people in the galaxy in Mass Effect 2, it is no surprise that around half your team is composed of them. This is one of the reasons why Thane is attracted to femShepard (if you chose him as a romance option) : not only does she harbor feelings for him despite his disease, but she also can annihilate pretty much anything that threaten the galaxy (Paragon) or just annoys her (Renegade).
 * Part of the reason any of the male characters are attracted to Shepard is because of how much of a Badass she is. With Garrus the relationship developed from their friendship but also the incredible amount of respect he had for her.
 * The cover art seems to recognize this. Feel free to be scared, awed, and\or turned on.
 * Baiken from Guilty Gear. Anji Mito might try to shield her since they're both Japanese, but in the end, she's the one who wears the pants in their Will They or Won't They relationship of sorts.
 * Lady of War Raquel from Wild Arms 4 impresses everyone with either her looks or her BFS; while it's implied that she's not so pretty under her clothes, Arnaud doesn't seem to mind, and ends up marrying her.
 * This could be one way to see the relationship between Khalid and Jaheira in Baldurs Gate. She's definitely the one who wears the pants in their family. The relationship between the PC and Jaheira in the sequel has also been portrayed on this basis.
 * Metal Gear Solid series:
 * Meryl Silverburgh ; a hard fighting member of the Next Generation Special Forces, and later commander of Rat Patrol 01. Additionally, subverts . Mind, we are talking about a girl who was introduced to her signature Desert Eagle as a preteen.
 * During the time Foxhound was stationed at Shadow Moses to provide security, Otacon seemed to have become very fond of Sniper Wolf.
 * And there's Olga Gurlukovich in MGS2. Growing up as the daughter of a mercenary commander and becoming his second in command as an adult, and taking over as commander after his death certainly qualifies her as an amazon. And though we don't learn anything about her private life, at least one man must have felt drawn to her. Having a kid and all.
 * The Boss.
 * Final Fantasy VII--Tifa Lockheart. Described by more than one as a tank (and (in)famous for her Boobs of Steel), she's also almost obscenely gorgeous.
 * Aqua. Just ask Zack.
 * F-Zero X gives us Jody Summer and Mrs. Arrow. The former was the quite the Little Miss Badass in her youth and retained her merits as an adult. Jody is a highly capable fighter pilot, earning her the admiration and respect of her peers in the Galactic Space Federation (most of all, John Tanaka). Mrs. Arrow, on the other hand, may possibly be one of the best racers in the series, earning her the friendship of Super Arrow when he tried to resurrect the F-Zero League, a relationship that eventually resulted in him popping the question. GX implies that they don't just race together, but that she even assists Super Arrow in keeping the peace despite having no powers of her own.
 * Star Tropics has Shecola -- a castle full of women in viking helmets and bikinis who spend all their time sparring with weapons, working out with weights, and throwing out guys who try to sneak into the castle to watch.
 * A female Warden in Dragon Age Origins can easily qualify.
 * Dragon Age 2 has a female Hawke, as well as Aveline, whom Donnic definitely thinks is a Hot Amazon.
 * Seiken Densetsu III has an entire country of these, Rolante. Complete with Princess Lise; who is the only one of the three main female leads that has physical power.
 * The Prequel Heroes of Mana contains this country as well as Lise's mother, Minerva, who is the top warrior of the country.
 * There's an entire island of them in the first game of The Spellcasting Series. Of course, being literal Amazons, they've been without male companionship for quite some time. Seems like a blessing for our amorous hero Ernie, but it rapidly becomes a curse.
 * One questline in World of Warcraft involves the player attempting to put together an arranged marriage in order to unite the Wildhammer Dwarf clans. At first, the groom-to-be, Keegan Firebeard, admits that the intended bride, Fanny Thundermar, is quite attractive by Dwarven standards, but he's still unsure. Then, Fanny gets captured by ogres, and Keegan decides to help in the efforts to rescue her, but by the time he arrives, Fanny had already beaten the living crap out of the three gigantic, fully-armed and armored ogres that were guarding her using only her bare hands, and was just waiting to be picked up. After that point, the wedding can't happen fast enough for Keegan.
 * The female barbarian from Diablo III.

Webcomics
"Zoë: I've destroyed a vampire queen, crushed a demon under my foot, I'm the goddam Storm Breaker and you will not treat me like some porcelain doll who can't take the truth!
 * Order of the Stick has a female paladin named Miko Miyazaki. Roy is attracted to her... at least, until he realizes that she's fanatically Lawful and more than a little overzealous.
 * Dan from DMFA has a thing for "scantly clad amazons". He even wrote a poem about it. He may have inherited it from his father--Edward's first wife was an amazon.
 * The title character of The Challenges of Zona, a towering blond with an overabundance of the Most Common Superpower whose love interest oddly enough is the nebbishy bard Mentl.
 * Dominic Deegan has Rachel Hart, who's... well, the Dominic Deegan world has some sort of sport that's professional wrestling but real, and Rachel does it. She blocks a punch from a professional "slaughterball" player who's already hulked out on white magic with her face, breaking his hand, and then proceeds to chokeslam him. Though she didn't live up to that standard against either Snowsong or The Infernomancer.
 * Also, see Bort's reaction when the girl he's had his eye on grows spikes and starts slaughtering the guys trying to capture them.
 * Looking for Group: How could this list have grown this long without already having mentioned the she-dwarf Pella? It's a travesty, I tell you!
 * In Wapsi Square, Owen likes this type as shown here.
 * Zeetha of Girl Genius is literally a Hot Amazon, and a princess to boot.
 * Dream Tales has a bunch of comics featuring Hot Amazons (is there any other kind?), and you can choose between Mini Giantesses or the more generous-sized Giantesses.
 * Zoë from Sluggy Freelance gets a moment of this in this strip.

Torg: You're so hot right now."


 * In El Goonish Shive Susan aka "the angry feminist chick" looks more than fine, but Matt, the president of student council, evidently got a crush on her due to being impressed by her roaring at him and the principal over the new dress code. Whether he's too tame for her, time will tell.
 * Two Kinds has King Adelaide. Head and shoulders taller than all the other Basitins, absolutely stacked, has no fear, cheated death simply by (according to her) refusing to die, and let me emphasize - "King" is a military rank in Basidia, not a mark of royal lineage. And let us not forget that she stood toe-to-toe with the strongest battlemage in the world while suffering from being slowly poisoned for months.
 * In Sinfest, Slick's script has an Amazon Babe role. Monique demonstrates the principles

Web Original

 * In the late, lamented online erotic Sword and Sorcery story series site, The Wulf Archives, the title character has many lovers, 80% of which are hot amazons. The hottest of which include Ushandra of the Veldtland (that fantasy world's version of Africa), a Zulu-like cat rider warrior and especially Li-Shu, a ferocious tiger woman warrior who is as exotically beautiful and passionate as she is powerful.

Western Animation
"Fry: I'm scaroused..."
 * Teen Titans: According to Robin, some of the things he likes the most about Starfire are "the way you shoot starbolts, ... that you're brave, and the strongest girl ever."
 * In Justice League, Wonder Woman may be one of the most powerful superheroes of all, and it apparently doesn't discourage most men lusting after her, including a DCAU version of Hugh Hefner. Even in a Time Travel story into the Wild West, the most significant reaction to her incredible power is from Bat Lash, a self-styled ladies man who notes admiringly, "That's a healthy gal!"
 * Danny Phantom: Danny's response to Sam's concerns about him Dating Catwoman? "I know [Valerie] wants to waste Danny Phantom... but did you know that she's a ninth-degree black belt?" It's a family trait; in the Christmas Episode Maddie finds out that Danny is in trouble, grabs a weapon and jump-kicks out the window to rescue him. Jack's response: "Oh man that is hot!"
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003): Although Dr. Chaplin's attraction to Karai isn't explained beyond "you're just so perfect", the fact that his Amazonian Blade Bots are all modeled to physically resemble her strongly suggests that this trope is at least part of the reason.
 * The animated cartoon of Police Academy brings us the episode "Worth Her Weight In Gold", featuring The World's Strongest Woman, the aptly-named Phoenix Amazona. She's a tall, hulking redhead who is a tiara-wearing, red-clad, leotard-sporting, high heeled wrestling pro and in possession of a bodybuilding gym. She also has the smarts to go with her muscles (averting both Dumb Muscle and Muscles Are Meaningless), as she's the brains behind a gold-smugling operation. She even uses her status as such to manipulate one of the cops into helping her. It doesn't hurt that she knows how to flaunt a slinky purple dress and has a nigh-orgasmic voice. See? Beauty, brains, and brawn, all in one nicely-wrapped (if not malicious) package.
 * The Angry Beavers: The Girl Racoons parodized this in the season 2 episode "The Mighty Knothead".
 * Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures cast Venus de Milo (she of the armless statue) of one of these. That weird little guy with the spear was entranced with her, at least. Bill and Ted were suitably impressed before she began trying to kill them. Judging by the amount of closeups of her arms flexing and breaking stuff, the authors were fans of this trope.
 * In Futurama, there is an entire planet of hot twelve feet tall amazons.

"Six: Wow.
 * While Dr. Holiday rarely throws down outside of her Mama Bear tendencies, there was a particularly epic moment she got where she saved Agent Six and Rex by rapid-firing at a huge monster, driving it back. Six's gobsmacked expression said it all.

Rex: Yeah."


 * This also seemed to be the point where Six started returning Holiday's UST for him.
 * Ron in Kim Possible. He's attracted to four girls over the course of the series: one is among the greatest warriors in Everlot, the second is a Ninja and a third, that he ultimately hooks up with, is the show's heroine. He even lampshades this tendency.
 * Motor Ed hits on Shego even more persistently after she lets him have it with a plasma blast.
 * Korra of The Legend of Korra (sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender) portrays her as buff and beautiful. Bolin admires her because of this. "You're the roughest, toughest, most incredible girl in the world!"

Real Life

 * Hypsicratea, the bodyguard of Mithridates VI of Pontus, was very strong and skilled fighter, and according to ancient writers, masculine (her nickname was Hypsicrates, the masculine equivalent of her name). Mithridates found her to be a hot enough Amazon, as he married her, and she was famously loyal to him.
 * Empress Matilda (daughter of Henry I, who fought her cousin King Stephen for the crown); Eleanor of Aquitaine (wife of Henry II); Isabella of France (wife of Edward II). The BBC 4 series She-Wolves and the accompanying book by Helen Castor show what formidable fighters these ladies were. Stiff and haughty, carrying themselves like kings, and at the same time very beautiful, their dominance and fighting spirit is essential to their allure.
 * Female gladiators in the Roman empire were considered rare novelty acts, and were often used to provide fanservice. There was actually a female gladiator nicknamed "Amazon".