Curated playlist
Female characters in film
- Jean GreyJean Grey is a Marvel Comics character who has died and returned many times. Her tie to the cosmic force that defines her keeps being rewritten. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created her, and she first appeared in The X-Men #1 in September 1963.…
- Nebula (Marvel Cinematic Universe)Thanos made Nebula fight Gamora and replaced her body parts with machinery each time she lost.
- Wanda Maximoff (Marvel Cinematic Universe)Wanda Maximoff, the character played by Elizabeth Olsen in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, spent two days buried in the rubble of her family's apartment in Sokovia, a country in Eastern Europe. A missile had just killed her parents. Her…
- Princess LeiaPrincess Leia began as a spoiled teenage princess in George Lucas's early drafts.
- ShelobShelob, the giant spider, drove herself onto Sam's sword while trying to crush him.
- Gwen StacyGwen Stacy is a college student in Marvel's Spider-Man comics, and her murder in 1973 is still argued over by readers and writers. In 2004, the artist John Romita Sr. looked back on the uproar. Fans had threatened him, writer Gerry Conway…
- Padmé AmidalaPadmé Amidala sponsored the motion that opened the way for Palpatine to become chancellor.
- ÉowynThe Witch-King trusted a prophecy that no man could kill him, and Éowyn was no man. A scholar links it to Macbeth.
- Rey (Star Wars)Rey began as a scavenger on Jakku and ended by naming herself Rey Skywalker. She says it near Luke's childhood home.
- Storm (Marvel Comics)Storm, the Marvel Comics hero Ororo Munroe, appears on 97 of the 182 covers of Chris Claremont's run on the X-Men. No other character was pictured on covers as often during those years. She also fills 4,155 panels across that stretch,…
- GaladrielGaladriel refused the One Ring when Frodo offered it to her. She knew her own power would fade if it was destroyed.
- ArwenTolkien first planned for Aragorn to marry Éowyn, not Arwen. He added Elrond's daughter late in the writing.