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Fictional female assassins

  • Nebula (Marvel Cinematic Universe)Thanos made Nebula fight Gamora and replaced her body parts with machinery each time she lost.
  • Mara JadeMara Jade posed as a dancing girl to kill Luke Skywalker, but Jabba the Hutt dropped him into the Rancor's lair.
  • Ada WongAda Wong was mentioned by name in Capcom's original Resident Evil in 1996, before she had a face, a voice, or a role. Designer Kazunori Kadoi supplied the name, and he later admitted he proposed it randomly and without much thought. That…
  • Cassandra CainCassandra Cain is a DC Comics superheroine who first appeared in Batman #567, published in July 1999. Writer Kelley Puckett and penciler Damion Scott are generally credited with inventing her. They gave her a trait that is rare among comic…
  • Black Widow (Natasha Romanova)Black Widow, whose full name is Natalia Alianovna Romanova, first appeared in 1964 as a Soviet spy sent to seduce Tony Stark. Editor Stan Lee, scripter Don Rico and artist Don Heck created her for Tales of Suspense #52. On that first page…
  • X-23X-23 is the designation of Laura Kinney, a Marvel Comics superheroine who began life on a television screen rather than a comic page. Her creator, writer Craig Kyle, described her as "Pinocchio for Marvel Comics, she's a samurai sword…
  • Mystique (character)Mystique, the blue-skinned shapeshifter of Marvel Comics, has an earliest recorded appearance in her own stories that dates to the years around 1900. At that time she lived in a male guise as a consulting detective. She formed a romance…
  • Elektra (character)Elektra Natchios first appeared in Daredevil #168, a Marvel Comics issue dated January 1981, and her creator never planned for her to return. Frank Miller wrote that issue as essentially a filler story. He meant it to be her only…
  • Nico RobinNico Robin, a fictional character in the One Piece franchise created by Eiichiro Oda, is known to the world's authorities as the "Devil Child". The name sounds like a warning about a monster. The woman behind it is an archaeologist and…
  • Yelena BelovaYelena Belova, a Marvel Comics assassin, started life as a sketch in a sketchbook. The drawing ran in Marvel Knights: Wave 2 Sketchbook #1 in January 1998, a full year before she appeared in an actual story. She was trained in a Russian…
  • Talia al GhulTalia al Ghul makes her debut in Detective Comics #411, dated May 1971, and before the story ends she shoots a man dead. The victim is Dr. Darrk, apparently the head of the League of Assassins, and she fires to save Batman's life. It is a…

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