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** [[Honor Harrington]] from [[David Weber]]'s ''Honorverse'' novels not only commands starships (and later in the series, entire fleets), but on occasion takes part in various forms of hand-to-hand combat. She's an all round example of the action woman who's both smart and physically very capable. |
** [[Honor Harrington]] from [[David Weber]]'s ''Honorverse'' novels not only commands starships (and later in the series, entire fleets), but on occasion takes part in various forms of hand-to-hand combat. She's an all round example of the action woman who's both smart and physically very capable. |
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** And then there's [[In Fury Born|Alicia Devries]]. In any other setting, a character who gets into university (the equivalent of Oxford or Cambridge, no less) at the age of fourteen, completes a five-year degree in three and a half, joins the Imperial Marines, graduates in second place from [[Training From Hell|Camp Mackenzie]], sets a new small arms record in the process, gets accepted for a [[Badass Army|Recon]] tour straght out of said basic training, then earns a Silver Star on that tour (by [[Cold Sniper|killing]] [[Curb Stomp Battle|more than fifty GLF separatists]]) would count as a [[Mary Sue]]. In this case, it "merely" makes her a promising recruit for an entire organisation of people who are just as good if not better. And that describes the events of the first third of the book. |
** And then there's [[In Fury Born|Alicia Devries]]. In any other setting, a character who gets into university (the equivalent of Oxford or Cambridge, no less) at the age of fourteen, completes a five-year degree in three and a half, joins the Imperial Marines, graduates in second place from [[Training From Hell|Camp Mackenzie]], sets a new small arms record in the process, gets accepted for a [[Badass Army|Recon]] tour straght out of said basic training, then earns a Silver Star on that tour (by [[Cold Sniper|killing]] [[Curb Stomp Battle|more than fifty GLF separatists]]) would count as a [[Mary Sue]]. In this case, it "merely" makes her a promising recruit for an entire organisation of people who are just as good if not better. And that describes the events of the first third of the book. |
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** Subverted with Honorverse supporting cast character Lady Emily White Haven, who actually ''is'' helpless -- justifiably so, given that she's a paraplegic in a wheelchair who has only partial use of one arm. Note, however, that she is only ''physically'' helpless -- engaging Lady White Haven in a battle of wits, politics, or charm is emphatically not recommended. |
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* Since combat is never purely in the cockpit, most of the women in the books of the ''[[X Wing Series]]'' count. Shalla Nelprin would probably have gotten along well with Plourr, above. |
* Since combat is never purely in the cockpit, most of the women in the books of the ''[[X Wing Series]]'' count. Shalla Nelprin would probably have gotten along well with Plourr, above. |
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* In ''Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours'', during Spider-Man's fight with The Ancients, Mary Jane {{spoiler|beats the crap out of the last Ancient with a tire iron while quoting Macbeth.}} She's also saved Spidey more times than he's saved her, beaten up like a million stalkers, & was trained by the eptimone of Manliness [[Captain America (comics)]], If that's not Action Girl, what is? |
* In ''Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours'', during Spider-Man's fight with The Ancients, Mary Jane {{spoiler|beats the crap out of the last Ancient with a tire iron while quoting Macbeth.}} She's also saved Spidey more times than he's saved her, beaten up like a million stalkers, & was trained by the eptimone of Manliness [[Captain America (comics)]], If that's not Action Girl, what is? |
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