Ranking Female Characters (in a Tier List)

[Husky_Khan]

I might be two or three or whatever years late, but in honor of Women's History Month or whatever... here's a Tier List Template I made to show how toxic The Sietch's predominantly male fanbase is in regards to showing female characters in films, games, and television shows etc. The idea is to rank them in how much you like or appreciate the characters (as opposed to some sort of power ranking) or otherwise gauge their quality or your favorites in your own subjective manner. There's even a category for the ones you may know nothing aboot!

Female Action Heroines & Characters Tier List Maker - TierLists.com

I listed about fifty female characters. Sorry if any of your favorites are left out... I almost forgot Samus Aran the first time around, I kid you not.

They should be in some sort of alphabetical order... in case you can't recognize them... or the picture cropped their head off. Sorry Alice of the Resident Evil films.

For comic book characters (ie Captain Marvel, Supergirl, Black Widow etc), my idea behind this was to rate their movie and/or television versions since there are often multiple Comic Book iterations and creatives teams for each character and it loses a great deal of consistency.

Spoiler: Character List

Ahsoka Tano
Alice (Resident Evil)
Alita
Alyx Vance
Aloy
Bayonetta
Beatrix Kiddo
Black Widow
Brienne of Tarth
Buffy Summers
Captain Marvel
Chun Li
Cortana
Dana Scully
Elastigirl
Ellen Ripley
Ellie
Elizabeth
Eowyn
Hermione Granger
Hinata Hyuuga
Hit Girl
Imperator Furiosa
Jill Valentine
Joanna Dark
Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace
Korra
Captain Kathryn Janeway
Katniss Everdeen
Lara Croft
Leela
Princess Leia Organa
Letty Ortiz
Liara T'Soni
Matoko Kusanagi
Mikasa Ackerman
Mulan
Princess Mononoke
Princess Zelda
Rexy
Rey Palpatine/Skywalker
Samantha Carter
Samus Aran
Sarah Connor
Sonya Blade
Supergirl
Susan Pevensie
Tifa Lockhart
Wonder Woman
Xena Warrior Princess

Enjoy... if possible...

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I presume we're ranking based off of how much we like the characters?

Hinata and Tifa are the ideal woman. Also, sympathy points for being the overlooked childhood friend (who actually wins in the end, which is a rarity in JRPGs/anime). Also, they're just likeable characters. Also, nifty character designs (I prefer Tifa's outfit in the movie, though), and overall likeable.

Twilight Princess Zelda has a great character design. Also the ideal queen, a woman of grace. Otherwise, not much else to say about her.

I can't remember that much about Susan from the Narnia books. I vividly remember Peter being the dutiful son, Edward living in Peter's shadow, and Lucy being the loveable little girl, but I can't remember much about Susan. But she was inoffensive, so I guess she's okay.

Most of the C tier characters are just "okay" to me. Nothing bad about them per se, just not my favorite characters.

D list characters actively infuriated me in some way. They are "get off my screen" characters that reduce my enjoyment of the show or game or whatever. Korra was an immature little bitch from beginning to end and had everything handed to her (I regret watching that show). Black Widow and Starbuck's cocky and irreverent attitudes made them unlikeable. Since this site is descended from Spacebattles, I don't think I need to explain psycho Janeway. I was invested in Rey for the first hour of TFA, but then she started haxing her way through the story and acting irreverent.

 

[Husky_Khan]

I presume we're ranking based off of how much we like the characters?

Yep that's the basic gist of it and hopefully it'll generate even more interesting discussion.

 

[Husky_Khan]

A doublepost to shamelessly bump my own thread before it slides into oblivion before the (Womens) Month is over...

So... hmmm...

I put Katniss Everdeen on the top because while the film trilogy was fine and Jennifer Lawrence did an excellent job and as Young Adult settings go I found it far more interesting then absolutely any of the other films/novel series that spewed forth, my main appeal was Katniss Everdeen especially in the first novel. The way she was written as a young woman with a broken family in a desperate rural mining town who has to hunt for a living was a fantastic setting or origin for the character and her personality. I was incredible impressed how the Book was able to relate Katniss' story from her POV and yet still leave her sounding both cold and taciturn and detached and yet still incredibly warm and sympathetic.

There is an obvious desire to make characters dark and edgy and she has darkness and edginess, but it feels more real and genuine and she does it without being overly emotional or having to drive in the point. The way the book tells her story and her viewpoint feels very natural as opposed to artificial and forced. A cold but warm character, it's a very basic oxymoron that Katniss Everdeen I feel did a lot better then a lot of other characters and protagonists, all the more impressive with it being a 'Young Adult' novel.

Alyx Vance meanwhile is a near perfect action girlfriend IMHO. It's nice to have a fully fleshed out sidekick. So while I might not like these characters the most (especially in regards to Katniss, I feel I like other characters more) I feel these two are the highest in 'quality' IMHO if that makes sense to anyone but me.

The Super Woman just tend to be characters I think are great and fleshed out and well presented and most of all... likable. Sometimes there's hit and misses, but it's usually a one off of one episode or one film scene. Overall though, super representations of women in action roles.

Fine Ladies is basically those female character I feel are just a cut above. Well portrayed overall though not perfect. A lot of OG icons here like Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley and Lara Croft who I think are good characters overall but I feel they miss out on something the ladies in the categories above possess. Whether just a little shallow, a little less likable or other character flaws that didn't just gel with me. Still good characters though.

50/50 ain't bad IMHO. I wouldn't even say it's average. It's just competent or it's really well done and I just don't care about them much? I dig Mrs. Incredible as a character concept as a superheroine housewife and like the movies but ehhh... overall she's just fine IMHO.

Class D ones had or have potential and but there were some serious character missteps that just turned me off to them though still perfectly watchable in whatever medium they were in. Everything below it just gets worse with the lesser two categories. Especially you Alice from Resident Evil.

 

[ShieldWife]

Wow, this is awful!

There’s no Gina Carano of Cara Dune

 

[Husky_Khan]

Wow, this is awful!

There’s no Gina Carano of Cara Dune

There's no tier high enough for her... I checked.

 

[Buba]

Of the listed ladies I know only a few, and like/am impressed by even fewer.
Ellen Ripley all the way - with Leia Organa and Sara Connor at some distance.
Brienne Tarth almost made the cut - true that she's a dumb teenager (she starts at 18 in the books) but having a weakness for that disgusting pile of shit Jaime?