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*** Her prowess with a longbow against the Stormwings would certainly qualify her in the first book, though.
** [[Tamora Pierce]] says outright that she wanted to write stories for children featuring "girls who kick butt."
* [[Terry Pratchett]]
** And don't forget Tiffany Aching, who overpowered the Queen of the Elves with only a frying pan on her home turf, and to whom Mistress Weatherwax took off her hat in respect, [[Little Miss Badass|at the age of nine]]. That's just the start of her adventures.
** Even Sybil has her moments. On two occasions, in ''[[
** Don't forget Adora Belle Dearheart (do
** Not to mention Kirsty from ''[[Johnny Maxwell Trilogy]]''.
** And then there are the ''[[Good Omens]]'' ones conceived with [[Neil Gaiman]]. War is the quintessential Amazon, and then there's of course Pepper. Arguments could be made for putting Anathema and Agnes Nutter into this category as well; they were certainly badass enough in their own ways.
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* The ''[[Shannara]]'' franchise has had a few. While the original trilogy was lacking in this department, ''[[The Heritage of Shannara]]'' featured Wren Ohmsford, and Matty Roh, both of whom were perfectly capable of looking out for themselves and kicking major ass. Wren fought her way in and out of [[Hungry Jungle|Morrowindl]] using a knife and the Elfstones, while Matty is a [[Waif Fu]] abusing, rapier-armed [[Broken Bird]] who can match the Federation's best, and cheerfully goes after [[The Heartless|The Shadowen]] using only her sword. ''[[The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara]]'' also has two, in Tamis (Elven Hunter, personally trained by the Captain of the Home Guard), and Rue Meridan, who at one point jacks an entire airship by herself.
* ''[[The Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'' has them in spades. [[The Empress|Empress]] [[Career Killer|Laseen]], [[Waif Fu|Sorry]], heck any female [[Badass Army|Imperial Marine or Crimson Guard]].
* Eowyn, of course, from ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. A [[Lady of War]] who pulls a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] and kills the leader of the Ringwraiths. [[Word of God|Tolkien]] had actually initially planned to have her die in that battle, but his wife liked her so much that he had her survive to marry Faramir--who was his [[Author Avatar]].
* Nihal, the main heroine of the ''[[Chronicles of the Emerged World]]'' is a badass Half-elf [[Dragon Rider]].
* [[Kris Longknife]] is a very badass [[Space Navy]] officer.
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** Then there was the [[Wrench Wench|Enginseer]] [[Plucky Girl|Felicia Tayber]], who converted a power lifter into [[Power Armor]]. And proceeded to run circles around the orks that had originally kept her as a POW. Did I mention the [[Kill It with Fire|flame thrower]]?
* In ''[[Low Fantasy|Gerfalcon]]'' by Leslie Barringer, [[First Girl Wins|Reine de Quarenal]] is hinted at being this from her first appearance, when she says she'd rather ride about the countryside than sit watching a joust. Her status is confirmed when she's one of a group besieged by bandits in a church tower. While the men stand at the door to repel attempts to break in, Reine is on the upper floor [[The Archer|shooting]] brigands -- and counting aloud when she gets good hits. She took down at least six of them, and if "six" doesn't sound all that impressive, bear in mind she was shooting through an arrow slit which restricted her field of fire.
* An unnamed miller's daughter in a [[Sequential Art]] (not yet a comic book) story by [[Wilhelm Busch]]. She's alone when three robbers enter the mill, one of them implied to be a rapist. But without feeling in trouble for a moment, she flattens the wannabe rapist with a millstone, rolls up the second robber to a spiral (with the help of the turning axis of the mill-wheel), and beheads the third one ([[Too Dumb to Live|who apparently doesn't care for the fate of his mates]]) when he tries to rob the gold from a chest. The author comments: "This is how one single girl gets three men into trouble." [http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/4207/1 Read it here.]
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