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== Card Games ==
* ''[[Magic:
** ''[[Magic:
** Furthermore, recent editions make a point to avoid printing non-Legendary cards with exclusively male or female names, so cards like [http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/details.aspx?name=Hasran%20Ogress Hasran Ogress] and [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=159141 Brothers of Fire] are unlikely to see reprints any time soon.
== Comics ==
* Several superheroines headline their own comic books, including [[Wonder Woman]], [[Batgirl]], [[Supergirl]], [[Power Girl]], [[Birds of Prey]] (a rare all-girl team book), [[Ms. Marvel]], [[She
** [[Ms. Marvel]] was intended to be explicitly feminist.
** And precisely the same is true of more modern interpretations of [[Wonder Woman]].
* The Daughters of the Dragon mini series staring Misty Knight and Colleen Wing.
* ''[[Y:
== Fan Works ==
* Although ''[[
** Notably, the world that Jeft put together himself is male-centric.
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== Film ==
* The 1993 remake of ''[[Attack of the 50 Foot Woman]].''
* Disney animated films have been more proactive with their female characters starting with ''[[
* ''[[Ever After (
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* The ''[[Dragonriders of Pern]]'' books were written to challenge the portrayals of women in Sci Fi in the 60s and 70s. However, they are now subject to [[Values Dissonance]].
* Joanna Russ's ''Adventures of Alyx'', a pioneering heroic fantasy with a woman hero.
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] wrote ''[[The Left Hand of Darkness]]'' to challenge gender assumptions in science fiction but later decided she hadn't gone far enough, especially since she used the default pronoun "he" for her genderless characters<ref>The first short story set on Gethen, the planet of ''[[The Left Hand of Darkness]]'', was also written using masculine pronouns, but when it was republished several years later, she changed to feminine pronouns, but left masculine titles such as "king". In the much later Gethen story "Coming of Age in Karhide", feminine pronouns are used, as well as "mother" and "grandmother" to refer to the protagonists' parent and grandparent.</ref>. In the 1990s, she began a feminist deconstruction of her own earlier [[Earthsea]] fantasy series. Many of her other works are relevant to this trope too.
* Just about anything [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]] wrote, but the most famous is her feminist retelling of Arthurian legend, ''[[The Mists of Avalon]].''
* The ''Sword and Sorceress'' anthology series, started by Marion Zimmer Bradley and continued by other editors after her death.
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* [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s books feature these themes, some more than others.
* Another 1970s heroic-fantasy and science fiction author whose works featured strong women was Elizabeth A. Lynn.
* Angela Carter wrote fairy tale revisions, collected in ''[[The Bloody Chamber]]'', and freewheeling fantastic stories with women who like men but don’t really need them, such as ''[[Nights
* The ''[[Duel of Sorcery Trilogy]]'', to at least some degree.
* The 1986 fairy tale anthology ''Don't Bet on the Prince''.
* ''[[Dreamsnake]]'' (a post-apocalyptic story in which the protagonist's talent is healing, not fighting, but she's definitely active center of the story), and other books by Vonda N. McIntyre.
* [[Sheri S. Tepper]]’s ''True Game'' trilogy; in this setting, where magic combines with technology, there are many strong women characters, and the second and third parts are told from women’s point of view. Tepper writes more science fiction than fantasy, but always focusing on women.
* ''[[Discworld
** Many years later, the Tiffany Aching books and ''[[Discworld
* The Dragonsword Trilogy (a 1980s American woman is taken to another world and becomes a warrior) and other books by Gael Baudino.
* The works of [[Ptitlepfvyhx 76|Robin McKinley]], including such fairy tale retellings as ''[[
* ''[[Lost Girls (
* Anything by [[Tamora Pierce]], who, with one exception so far, has written exclusively about female main characters. In the [[Circle of Magic]], the genders seem to be mostly equal in the main setting, Emelan - when protagonists visit places where they aren't, they comment in the narration - whereas in the [[Tortall Universe]], several of the stories exist to point out gender (and class) inequalities.
* Various series by [[Elizabeth Moon]], such as ''[[The Deed of Paksenarrion]]'' (heroic fantasy, starring the female paladin Paksenarrion), and ''[[Familias Regnant]]'' and ''[[
* ''The Practical Princess and Other Liberating Fairy Tales'' by Jay Williams.
* The [[Wheel of Time]] is not feminist ''per se'', but at least half the main characters are female, and women in general have some sort of dominance in the world, most cultures being either outright matriarchal (the Seanchan Empress and Andor Queen come to mind) or giving equal rights to both men and women (most village have both a male Village Council and a female Women's Circle, the Aiel being ruled by both the clan chiefs and the Wise Ones).
* [[Melanie Rawn]] tackles this head on in her ''Exiles'' series, set in a matriarchal society where women are the dominant gender — the rulers, leaders, the soldiers. Men are to be cosseted and cared for, submissive to their wives and so forth.
* Emma Bull's books usually have strong female protagonists (e.g. rock musician Eddi McCambry in ''[[War for
* [[
* ''Nadya: The Wolf Chronicles'' by Pat Murphy: a fiercely independent female werewolf roams the Old West. Almost anything Pat Murphy wrote would qualify for this trope.
* [[The Sevenwaters Trilogy|The Sevenwaters Series]] (dealings between human women and fairies in ancient Ireland) by Juliet Marillier.
* ''Kissing the Witch'', a series of retold fairy tales by Emma Donoghue.
* Gwyneth Jones has written fantasy and science fiction in which women play prominent roles; for example, in her ''Bold as Love'' cycle, Fiorinda (a modern analogue of Queen Guinevere) has just as decisive a role in the action as the other two protagonists.
* ''[[
* L. E. Modesitt's ''Spellsong Cycle'' (modern music professor becomes regent of a magic kingdom).
* The ''[[Women of the Otherworld]]'' series, contemporary fantasy that is particularly strong in feminism, by Kelley Armstrong.
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* The [[Elemental Logic]] series (starring earth witch Karis G'deon, fire witch Zanja na'Tarwein, and many other important female characters) and Children of Triad series by Laurie J. Marks.
* ''The Etched City'' by K. J. Bishop.
* ''[[
* Jim C. Hines's [[Princess Series]] stars Snow White, the Sleeping Beauty (but don't call her that), and Cinderella as far-from-passive heroes.
* ''[[The Sight]]'' by David-Clement Davies. Might be pushing it a bit since the novel is about wolves, but the main character, the main antagonist, and the secondary antagonist are all females. There are also many female supporting characters.
* ''[[The Beyonders]]'' is an unusual variation. The primary viewpoint character/protagonist, Jason, is male. However, the secondary protagonist, Rachael, is female, and she's ''very'' [[Genre Savvy]] about the gender inequalities inherent in a [[Standard Fantasy Setting]] (or any adventure story, really) and is not only highly displeased with them, she's intent on [[Defied Trope|defying]] them. After "taking a cliff"--I.E., a huge risk--for her friends, she earns their respect massively.
** A similar theme exists in the author's previous series, ''[[
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', and really, a fair number of [[Joss Whedon]] works.
** Buffy is [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses|allowed to like shoes]]. She actually seems to cling to 'bimbo' character furniture as a sort of reprieve from her real life, which is actually a pretty complex design choice.
* ''[[
* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]''.
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager
** In a series where tech is king and women had been relegated to non technical roles in earlier series (aside from Dax) the top two most technically competent characters were women (three of the top four with Paris and Janeway filling out the third and fourth spots.) The most useless characters were Neelix and Kim with Chakotay not far behind. But the show is one of the rare cases of this trope being employed with none of the "men versus women" themes being discussed.)
** ''Voyager'''s superhuman crew were the only superhuman crewpersons in any [[
* ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' Is shown to have just as many strong female characters as male characters, if not more. (Myka, Claudia, H.G., Mrs. Fredrickson vs. Artie, Pete, and Steve)
* When Haim Saban brought over ''[[Super Sentai]]'' and adapted it into ''[[Power Rangers]],'' his wife Cheryl had the idea of creating a better gender balance by turning the [[She's a Man In Japan|male]] Yellow Ranger into a female. It also had its female rangers fighting right alongside their male allies (with very little of that "get everyone to safety while the men fight" stuff) and actually had the female rangers take out monsters all by themselves.
* In ''[[
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[
== Video Games ==
* ''[[
** Diminished significantly by the fact that the devs made it a point to ridiculously sexualise her. One insider video has a whole segment on how they lovingly rendered her arse.
* ''[[Science Girls]]'' is about [[Exactly What It Says
* ''[[
** ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' has an overall equal ratio of capable men to women, but the women in particular have a more active role to the story in taking mentorship (Lightning) and protectorate (Lightning again, and Fang even more so) roles, {{spoiler|not to mention that the plot was instigated by Serah and Cocoon was eventually saved through Fang and Vanille's sacrifice}}.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** [[Lauren Faust]]'s original toyline concept, ''[[Milky Way and The Galaxy Girls]]'', also does this but with a wider, more diverse cast. She got put in charge on the ''[[My Little Pony]]'' [[Continuity Reboot]] when she pitched the idea, and you can notice similarities between the two. Either way, she is quite proud that she could deliver such a blow to the [[Girl Show Ghetto]].
* Several arcs and episodes of ''[[
** [[Sequel Series]], ''[[
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' broke the norms before either of the shows above in portraying kickass females on the front lines, and in a [[Disney Channel]] action series, no less.
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