The Leading Ladies Showdown - We Have Our 64!

[Szatany]

37. Alice (Resident Evil)

Milla Jovovich plays Alice, whose job it was to guard the underground entrance to the Hive, an underground R&D facility owned by the sinister Umbrella corporation. When the Red Queen, the computer that runs the Hive, suddenly seals the complex shut and kills everyone inside, Alice is taken along by the company’s private security force to find out what happened.

 

[Thanee]

Alice/Milla would make a good cyberpunk/shadowrun character.

Bye
Thanee

 

[MonsterMash]

38. Eowyn - two words can sum up why - Witch King, after all who else deals with this big bad in the LotR?

Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eowyn

 

[stevelabny]

39. Samus Aran (Metroid)

The hot video game chick from long before hot video game chicks became the tired fad.
The best bounty hunter this side of Boba Fett and Jubal Early, this chick constantly finds herself on planets devoid of all life except hungry predators, space pirates, an annoying dragon-thing and FLOATING BRAINS!
Luckily, she has the stylish and powerful red and gold space suit to protect her and provide a variety of weapons to dispatch her foes. With her ice beam, grappling beam, or ability to curl up into a ball and use bombs, this chick has plenty of tricks up her sleeves.

 

[stevelabny]

40. Elisa Maza (Gargoyles)

This NYPD cop served as friend and example to Goliath and the Gargoyles, helping them to become heroes. She also had a thing for Goliath that's best left to bad fan-fic.
Shudder.
Fan-girls frighten me.
Speaking of which...

41. Sailor Moon

My girlfriend made me do it. Probably responsible for the popularity of manga and anime among girls nowadays, this chick uses her sparkly powers and her school-girl uniform to fight stuff. Or something. What do I know?

 

[Tonguez]

Okay I'm going to try and extend this to 64 nominees (not 128) - so come on peoples only 22 to go.

42. Dorothy (Wizard of Oz)

Dorothy Gale is swept away by a tornado and transported (with house and dog) to the magical land of Oz whereupon she embarks on a quest to find the Wizard of Oz who can help her return home. ALong the way she meets a brainless scarecrow, a heartless tin man, a cowardly lion, witches, ,umchkins and flying monkeys

 

[Tonguez]

43. She-who-must-be-obeyed (Novels by H Rider Haggard)

Ayesha, the Queen of Death, the White Goddess of the lost city of Kôr who rules her kingdom with terror

"Past the furthest borders of Tibet into unknown lands, across the vast & deadly deserts & through the eternal snows wander Leo Vincey & Horace Holly, in pursuit of a legend -- the fabled Ayesha, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed.

"Ayesha lived centuries ago & she would live again, for she could not die. And when Leo & Horace enter her dark domain, they are plunged into a world of danger & adventure, & ancient magic from beyond the dawn of time."

 

[drothgery]

I'll add some people when I get home from work.

44. Cailet Ambrai (Melainie Rawn's Exiles)

Cailet became Mage Captal at the age of 17, when her dying predecessor -- and two other Mages with little time to live -- transferred his knowledge of magic (and some other things) to the powerfully mageborn third daughter of Maichen Ambrai and Auvry Feiran.

She was the magical force behind a successful revolution, and battled afterwards to keep the Mage Guardians apolitical. She had less success there, and as of the conclusion of Mageborn Traitor, is in hiding.

45. Moiraine Damodred (Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time)

When Moiraine and her best friend overheard the birth of the savior -- and destroyer -- of the world being prophecied, as her arcane training was coming to a close, she began a quest that would claim her life in finding the boy who would be the Dragon Reborn, and teaching him as much as she could of what he needed to know.

She sacrificed herself to kill the Forsaken Lanfear, a much more powerful weilder of the One Power than herself.

46. Susannah Dean (Steven King's Dark Tower)

Other names that come to mind...

Jean Grey (X-Men)
Rogue (X-Men)
Storm (X-Men)
Winifred 'Fred' Burkle (Angel)
Faith the Vampire Slayer (Buffy/Angel)
Willow Rosenberg (Buffy/Angel)
Cordelia Naismith Vorksosigan (Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan saga)
Eli Quinn (Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan saga)
Aliera e'Kieron (Seven Brust's Dragaera)
Esmeralda 'Granny' Weatherwax (Terry Pratchett's Discworld)
Susan Sto Helit (Terry Pratchett's Discworld)
Althea Vestirt (Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders)
Hermione Granger (JK Rowling's Harry Potter novels)
Lina Inverse (The Slayers anime)
Apsalar (Steven Erickson's Mazalan books)
Nynaeve al'Maera (Wheel of Time)
Egwene al'Vere (Wheel of Time)
Elayne Trakand (Wheel of Time)

 

[stevelabny]

47. Ariel (the Little Mermaid)

"I've got gadgets and gizmos aplenty, I've got whozits and whatzits galore.
You want thingamabobs? I've got twenty. But who cares, no big deal, I want MORE.
I want to be where the people are, I want to see...want to see them dancing,
Walking around on those - what do you call em? oh - Feet.
Flipping your fins you don't get too far, legs are required for jumping dancing,
Strolling along down a - whats that word again? Street.
Up where they walk, up where they run,
Up where they stay all day in the sun,
Wandering free, wish I could be, part of their world.
What would I give if I could live out of these waters?
What would I pay to spend a day warm on the sand?
Bet'cha on land they understand, That they don't reprimand their daughters
Bright young women sick of swimmin', Ready to stand."

Idol to millions of little girls everywhere, she is the part of all of us that wants to get away from home and move on to something better. And more importantly than any of that, Ariel brought back Disney animation, and is therefore responisble for many great movies of the past 16 years.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Special agent Dana Scully

Assigned as a partner to assist the lunatic Mulder, unfortunately, they were only assigned to cases involving actual paranormal. Great pantsuits, always looks a little tired.

Captain/Major/Colonel Samantha Carter

Brillient scientist, combat pilot, well trained soldier, but unlucky in love. Easily the smartest member of SG1, as well as the most diversified, and professional to a fault.

Mulan, savior of all of China

Always a tomboy, uncomfortable in her 'proper' role, Mulan risked her life both with the enemy and her own people by disguising herself as a man and entering the Chinese army (so that her crippled father would not be drafted). Though she never completely measured up to the 'other men' in raw strength, her tactical mind and sheer cussedness eventually made her the hero of China.