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Top 10 Badass Babes - If you haven't yet met Katniss Everdeen, the formidable heroine of The Hunger Games (in cinemas 13 April), then you are in for a treat. She joins a these strong, beautiful and butt-kicking female characters. Here are 10 of our favourites.
Xena: Warrior Princess - Played by the forever sexy New Zealander Lucy Lawless, Xena journeyed across ancient Greece atoning for her past as a ruthless warlord by kicking baddie butt and helping ordinary people. The leather costume and lesbian subtext also may have helped.
Sarah Connor - The Terminator/Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Linda Hamilton arrived in the first Terminator as a young woman who is the target of Arnold Schwarzenegger's killing machine. Come the sequel and the birth of her son John Connor, Sarah packed serious muscle power as the ultimate kickass movie mom.
Evelyn Salt - Salt - The mysterious CIA agent/Russian spy, played by Angelina Jolie, is a hardcore, shoot-now-ask-questions-later kind of woman who found a way to get herself out of THE most complicated situations. Can we get that sequel already?
Nikita - Yes, it was a movie (and another TV series) back in the 90s, but the more techno-savvy current TV series, starring Maggie Q as rogue agent Nikita and Shane West as her handler-turned-lover Michael, features heart-stopping action scenes.
The Bride - Kill Bill - Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. So imagine the depth of The Bride's vengeance after her ex-lover Bill sent a bunch of assassins after her on the day she was to marry some other poor schmuck. Her body count was, to put it mildly, high.
Mindy Macready/Hit Girl - Kick Ass - An 11-year-old with a dirty mouth and a way with very sharp knives - and is also quite possibly a little deranged by her bloodlust. Chloë Grace Moretz was freakishly effective in the role.
Hermione Granger - Harry Potter - As the sometimes-annoying but always faithful friend of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, her quick smarts and superior magical ability saved the trio's hides time and time again.
Foxy Brown - A voluptuous black woman (played by Pam Grier) takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend. And from then on, men never confused sexy women with dimwits ever again - we hope.
Max Guevara - Dark Angel - Jessica Alba's role as a genetically engineered super-soldier made her a star. Her super abilities and deathly pout brought down evil government institution Manticore and assured the show's cult status after just 2 seasons.
Buffy Summers - Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The classic TV series made the world forget the mediocre film that came before and re-introduced our heroine as a teenager who discovers her destiny is to save the world from demons and vampires. Her roundhouse kick could slay Chuck Norris.

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