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Originally Posted by Lal
There are still not that many 'Ripley' figures about though...
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Funny, I would have said that "girl power" is stronger than ever these days. Between Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sydney of
Alias, Elektra, The Bride of
Kill Bill (and all her female antagonists), Jessica Alba in
Dark Angel, Alice of
Resident Evil and Lara Croft the
Tomb Raider, Charlize Theron in the upcoming
Aeon Flux, and the soon-to-the-big-screen
Wonder Woman, women are kicking butt in record numbers these days. A couple are even complex, fully developed characters.
Now I'm pretty sure that all these characters, including Ripley, were created by men; what that tells us, I don't know.
Also, Ripley did have a love interest, at least in her most iconic appearance in
Aliens. Corporal Hicks teaches her how to fire a rifle and then spends the third act passed out on a stretcher.