The Leading Ladies Showdown - We Have Our 64!

[Aris Dragonborn]

6. Mara Jade Skywalker

Mara Jade served Palpatine as the Emperor's Hand. After he was killed at the Battle of Endor, she eventually joined Talon Karrde's smuggling group. During one of their runs, they encountered Luke Skywalker's badly damaged X-Wing; this triggered a voice in Mara's head, that of the Emperor issuing one last command: Kill Luke Skywalker. Though she had the opportunity on more than one occasion, she never made the attempt. She reluctantly joined Skywalker's fight against the Jedi clone Joruus C'Baoth, and silenced the Emperor's voice forever when she killer a clone of Luke.

Many years later, she married Luke, and they have a young son, Ben Skywalker. She is a Jedi Master in the New Jedi Order.

 

[Melkor Lord Of ALL!]

7.Daenerys Targaryen (Song of Ice and Fire by George Martin)

Heir to the Dynasty of dragon-blooded Kings, Daenerys spent her childhood in exile, alongside her mad brother Viserys, who forced her to marry leader of the blooshirty Dothraki barbarians. She endured death of her husband and unborn son, but pain only strenghtened her resolve to reclaim her lost home. She awakened the Dragons to aid her, and went on a crusade against slavers, becoming loved by many and feared by others. She has a strong sense of justice but also great pride and is also capable of ruthlessness.

 

[DarrenGMiller]

8. Barbarella - Queen of the Galaxy

Barbarella. Need I say more?!

 

[DarrenGMiller]

9. Red Sonja

Red Sonja lived with her family in a humble home in the Western Hyrkanian steppes. When she had just turned 17 years old, a group of cruel mercenaries killed her father Ivor, her mother and two younger brothers and burned their house and all their possessions. She survived but was raped by the leader of the group. Answering her cry for revenge, the red goddess Scathach appeared to her, and instilled in her incredible skill in the handling of swords and other weapons on the condition that she would never never lay with a man for the rest of her life, unless he had defeated her in fair battle.

 

[Endur]

10.Catwoman

The princess of plunder....that felonious feline.....the cat who walks by herself; all these are names for sultry Selina Kyle better known as ... The Catwoman. Selina's cunning, fierce independence, and unexpected moral sense have long made her one of comics most popular characters. With what seems to be nine lives she has constantly eluded Gotham's finest and on many occasions she has slipped through Batman's fingers as well. The Cat made her debut in 1940's BATMAN #1 as a jewel thief.

 

[drothgery]

11. Sethra Lavode
Steven Bursts's Dragaera novels

The Dark Lady of Dzur Mountain has been considered an evil enchantress nearly as often as hero in the Dragaeran Empire, but she -- with Iceflame in her hand -- is probably the single most important force protecting that Empire (and the rest of the world she lives in) from the Jenoine.

What can I tell you about Sethra Lavode? Those who believe in her say she has lived ten thousand years (some say twenty). Others say she is a myth. Call her life unnatural, feel her undead breath. Color her black for sorcery, color her gray for death.

- From Jhereg​

 

[drothgery]

12. The Lady
Glen Cook's Black Company

She and ten other immensely powerful sorcerers were bound to her first husband, the Dominator, and helped him forge an evil empire that only a peasant girl with the power to nullify magic was able to end. But neither the Dominator nor his Lady nor the Ten Who Were Taken were killed; they were merely imprisoned. And when a group of wizards tried to awaken them all centuries later, the Lady was able to prevent the resurrection of her husband and built her own empire.

The Dominator kept trying to rise, though, and it was that which led to a fragile alliance with the new White Rose, the Black Company that protected her and formed the core of her army, and with the Company's physician and Analist, Croaker.

Stripped of her power when the Dominator was finally defeated, she abandoned her empire to join Croaker in searching for the origins of his band of mercenaries.

 

[Melkor Lord Of ALL!]

Ha, I wanted to nominate Lady, but didn't want to steal the entire show!

You couldn't find a more sexy pic of her?

But I stil prefer her sister.

 

[drothgery]

Ha, I wanted to nominate Lady, but didn't want to steal the entire show!

You couldn't find a more sexy pic of her?

Murgen's right about her.

But I stil prefer her sister.

Bah. Lawful Evil villians are better than Chaotic Evil villians (unless the Lawful Evil villian spent three movies as a whiny teenager)...

 

[Melkor Lord Of ALL!]

I haven' t read last two books, what happened with Soulcatcher at the end?

Was she described as hotter than her sister?

I definately have an unhealthy crush on dangerous women.