26 Badass Female Characters We Can’t Get Enough Of
13. Jessica Jones, Jessica Jones
Sure, she can kick butt. But that’s not the only reason why she makes the list. She’s also proof positive that you are not the bad things that happen to you, that you can fight against evil, that you can be better, stronger. All you have to do is keep trying.
12. Cat Grant, Supergirl
Badass women come in all shapes and sizes, and Cat Grant has risen to the top of the world simply by being better than anyone else at what she does. And the best thing about her? She won’t apologize for it.
11. Temperance Brennan, Bones
It’s not just that Brennan is smarter than all of us (which she is), it’s that she’s compassionate, and loving and genuinely interested in the way other people think and work and live.
10. Rosa Diaz, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
She’s stone-cold, and, at the same time, one of the most relatable women on this list. Because she’s funny, and loyal, and completely comfortable with herself. In a world where we all doubt ourselves, Rosa Diaz know show she is. And she likes it.
9. Claire Fraser, Outlander
Claire was a badass woman in 1946, and she’s still a badass woman in 1743. It’s just that the expectations vary so much between one time and the other. Not that it matters to Claire, who’s determined to change the world, one way or another.
8. Sophia Burset, Orange Is The New Black
There’s just something about Sophia. Maybe the way she stares at life and continues on despite impossible odds, with courage, heart and an unshakable sense of humor. Either way, you can’t help but root for her.
7. Donna Paulsen, Suits
Heroes come in pencil skirts too. And Donna might not have everything figured out, but she knows how to do her job, she knows what she wants and most of the time, and she even knows what others want. She’s just that good.
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz
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Great list, is great to see so many badass females on today’s TV shows!
Where is Meredith Grey? She is one of the women more badass with everything that has happened to her!
impressive list
I agree with you at all
powerful women are wonderful and my favorite
Danna scully especially Emma Swan
and my dear Felicity Smoak my favorite
Scully was and always will be the best !! Which opened the way for other beautiful, intelligent, professional women with personality. Gillian is the best !!!
stana katic”s Beckett is by far the best. She has it all,strength,beauty,integrity honour loyalty and still retains her femininity !
Felicity, Octavia, just all of them love it!
Michonne of the walking dead should be on this list.
Emma Swan hasn’t been badass since Season 2. She’s the anti-Jessica Jones who willingly turned herself into a pathetic doormat for an emotionally abusive man she continually endangers her family to protect and has covered up his murder of an innocent man for which he was never brought to justice but called a hero?? Either you ship C$ or you don’t watch OUAT, because the two links you posted to episode reviews with this article are two of the main episodes last season that defined Emma and her happiness by her inability to live without a douchebag boyfriend, that questioned if she was good enough for a man who has murdered and assaulted women, a man she’d had dated for all of like a month and had just tried to kill her entire family. Shame on you. Jessica Jones, Dana Scully, and many of the women on this list would kick Emma Swan’s butt out of the “badass ladies” club for being a regressive insult to the headway they have made!
I love Felicity <3
No Katherine Pierce or Lexa?
well complied.wow!!! Felicity. Its tru u don’t hav 2 kick butt 2 be Badass. She’s toooooooo good.
Have you not watched the last 3 seasons of OUAT? Emma is no badass. Also Octavia? Ew. Clarke Griffin! Star of The 100 and a total bad ass! O? you’re drunk.
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