NPR's Linda Holmes with a Great Take on the Black Widow Controversy - The Problem Isn't Black Widow; It's that the Scarcity of Women in Major Film Roles Means Black Widow Carries with her the Baggage of Standing for All Women in Major Film Roles.

Yes because women are nowhere to be found. All you see is men. /s

Ellen Ripley

Sarah Connor

Princess Leia

Storm

Jean Grey

Merida

Mulan

Elsa

Beatrix Kiddo

Cherry Darling (Planet Terror)

Karen Silkwood (Silkwood)

Hit-Girl

Black Widow

Wonder Woman

Princess Mononoke

Coraline (Coraline)

Annie Porter (Speed)

Patsey (12 Years A Slave)

Alice (Resident Evil)

Celie (The Color Purple)

Marge Gunderson (Fargo)

Vasquez (Aliens)

Letty (Fast and Furious)

Annie Wilkes (Misery)

Regan MacNeil (The Exorcist)

Leeloo (The Fifth Element)

Nikita (La Femme Nikita)

Summer Finn (500 Days Of Summer)

Amelie (Amelie)

Ofelia (Pan's Labyrinth)

Betty Elms / Diane Selwyn (Mulholland Drive)

Kitty Pryde

Ada Wong

Trinity (The Matrix)

Charlie's Angels

Nina Sayers (Black Swan)

Clarice Starling (Silence Of The Lambs)

Laurie Strode (Halloween)

Nancy (A Nightmare On Elm Street)

Carrie White (Carrie)

Catwoman

Mystique

Matilda (Leon)

Lisbeth Salander (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)

Gamora

Agent Carter

Nebula

Jackie Brown

Hermione Granger (Harry Potter series)

Dorothy (Wizard of Oz)

Katniss Everdeen

Oren-Ishii

Sam Thomson (Birdman)

Rita Vrataski (Edge of Tomorrow)

Jules and Nic (The Kids Are Alright)

Frida Kahlo (Frida)

Cheryl Strayed (Wild)

Elizabeth Shaw (Prometheus)

Amy (Gone Girl)

Amelia (The Babadook)

Alice (Still Alice)

Brandon Teena (Boys Don't Cry)

Selene (Underworld)

Annie

Juno

Ryan Stone (Gravity)

Neytiri (Avatar)

Tiffany (Silver Linings Playbook)

Evey Hammond (V for Vendetta)

Gwen Stacy

Silk Specter (Watchmen)

Gail (Sin City)

Miho (Sin City)

Mary Poppins

Precious

Mary (Precious)

Rosemary Woodhouse

Lara Croft

Jill Valentine

Wednesday Adams

Morticia

Holly Golightly

Mia Wallace (Pulp Fiction)

Sidney Prescott (Scream)

Jeanne d'Arc

Jordan O'Neill (GI Jane)

etc.

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