Kneel! – Top 20 Badass Women

What Makes A Woman Badass?

Is it independence? Fearlessness? Fighting skill? Ruthlessness? Deviousness? Brilliance? A commanding presence? As you will soon read and see, all of the women in this special §MFG post possess some of these characteristics. When compiling this list we took these characteristics into consideration and agreed that, for example, fighting skill does not necessarily make one more badass than someone with tactical brilliance or with a commanding presence.

We measured the varying personalities and abilities of these memorable women, we argued and grumbled a bit, made changes here and there, and this is what we finally came up with. Make sure you click on the links throughout the post, and watch the videos in their entirety, so that you get the full impact of their general awesomeness. It’s also interesting to note that most of these women, if not all, are very much single. Thank you very much.

20. Faye Valentine (Cowboy Bebop)

Specialty: Subterfuge

Dr. §trangelove: Faye relies more on misdirection and trickery than brute force, but she is notable as one of the earlier strong female roles in an otherwise male protagonist era of anime. Though, I will admit that she gets a lot done with  a very small gun, and an equally small outfit….
I suppose Queen said it best. 

mu§e: I adore a woman carrying a gun. That being said (and probably it will be reiterated through my other comments), this woman is just…badass…not sure how else to say it.

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19. Yoko Littner (Gurren Lagann)

Specialty: Expert Marksman

Dr. §trangelove: Somewhat overshadowed by Kamina, and later Simon, Yoko still holds her own as a pretty badass chick. Her spotting abilities and marksmanship have helped the Gurren Brigade on many an occasion, and even though every man she’s ever kissed seems to die horribly, I don’t see anyone else taking down building sized robots with a sniper rifle.

mu§e: I don’t particularly think that Yoko is badass and tbh, she kind of annoyed me throughout Gurren Lagann..even more than Nia did 😐 buutt I have to give props where props are due. So! For not giving a shit and fighting off huge ganmen with your amazing marksmanship and quick kickass sniper rifle, I applaud you.

je§ter: Class? What happens if your teacher used to run around in hot pants and a bikini, and snipe unsuspecting vermin with a .50-cal? She spins the schoolboy fantasy meter right off its axis, that’s what. Yoko’s story (with the repetitive boyfriend death) is tragic, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a better person to cover your arse in a warzone. And the way she converted the sniper into an assault rifle in the Gurren-hen movie was pretty mad if you ask me.

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18. Tsunade (Naruto)

Speciality: Super Human Strength, Medical Ninjutsu, Hand-to-Hand Combat

§eraph: Tsunade, one of the legendary Sannin of Konoha, is unquestionably the strongest kunoichi in Kishimoto’s fictitious ninja world and one of the strongest characters of the entire series.  Although she is not among the top in this list in terms of fighting skill, physically, she is easily the strongest. This is a 50-something-year-old woman who can easily crack the earth open and blast you away with the flick of a finger. She is also famous for having the ability to cure just about anything.

Even the sadistic Kabuto, who is arguably stronger and infinitely more devious than the famous Copy Ninja, Kakashi, was in awe of her brute strength and scary demeanor. She had him and an injured Orochimaru (another legendary Sannin and a main antagonist) running away like pansies. I remember watching those episodes a few years back and wishing I  could just punch a wall and watch it crumble. I was expecting a lot more from her though, being the fifth Hokage and all, but of course, this is Naruto – a manga that is now filled to capacity with Uruk-hai excrement and with a plot of the most shameless treacle.

mu§e: When they first introduced Tsunade’s character I was hooked. She seemed so kickass, you know, punching down walls and shit with her bare fist with Kabuto like 0_0 (“She’s strong! And scary…I bet she’s single”). I LOVED that Tsunade, so much omg pwnge. Now, I’m just meh, meh! Because Naruto ruined it all for me…but that’s another story…that I shall not get into…*short posts short posts*

Dr. §trangelove: Even though I stopped paying attention to Naruto ages ago, I still remember Tsunade as the chick with the REALLY big boobs that just so happened to be Hokage…or something equally unimportant. I do remember a lot of mayhem and respect for someone that punched through walls with her bare hands though, and she’s OLD too!

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17. Erza Scarlett (Fairy Tail)

Specialty: Requip Magic

§eraph: And coming in at number seventeen we have the nineteen year old Erza-sensei-hime-kami-sama. I have to come up with a more creative endearment for the mu§e (they’re lovers apparently). Anyway, Erza was enslaved back when she was a wee lassie by a black magic cult and was forced to build a structure that would ensure the resurrection of the one dark mage, Zeref. Ten years old at the time, she was viciously tortured and almost lost her life as a result. Fortunately, all she lost was her right eye as well as her tolerance for her captors’ monstrous inhumanity.

This little girl revolted, involuntarily activated her latent magical abilities, and defeated the bad guys. At nineteen this master swordsman specialist is among the top ranked mage fighters (S-Class Mage) at the distinguished Fairy Tail Guild. Everyone respects the Erza. Even the manga’s ridiculously strong antagonists. She’s one tough mother cookie.  One thing that really stands out is her ability to magically change her armor and weapons at will during battle aka “Requip Magic”. Heaven’s Wheel Armor? Flame Empress Armor? Seduction Armor? Damn Jellal, don’t be a fool.

mu§e: Am I really going to have to do this? *sigh* I think the biggest moment for my Erza-worship was when she blocked off Jupiter (this massive cannon that split the ocean like Moses) from damaging the guild. She literally requipped and blocked that shit with her armour. It cost her a lot but she STILL blocked it and you don’t understand, the backlash of this canon SPLIT THE OCEAN AND THE GROUND. Can anyone say “not a single f**k was given that day” ?

§tiggles Erza, Erza, Erza… What can I say? Oh, I know: BADASS. Requip has to be one of the coolest powers ever concocted. Like seriously. Different suit/weapons for every situation? Batman would trade in his utility belt for that in a snap. And there’s the fact that she has the cool-dont-eff-with-me side, and the totally clueless wtf-is-she-doing side that’s utterly hilarious. Gotta luv her.

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16. Yoruichi Shiouin (Bleach)

Specialty: Hakuda Master (Hand-to-Hand Combat) and Hohō/Shunpo Master (High Speed Movement)

§eraph: A former captain of the almighty Gotei 13, former commander-in-chief of the Covert Ops and sexy Animagus, Yoruichi is easily the coolest/most badass female in Bleach. This defector isn’t afraid of anything. Screw you Gotei 13 and Covert Ops. Screw you Aizen and army of angsty-menstruating Espada. Do you guys remember that episode when she took down Yami (the tenth Espada) with her bare hands? Also, her mastery of Shunpo has earned her the title of Flash Goddess, but we all know she’s the flash goddess for other reasons…. Above all, she just has this presence. Whenever she shows up, you just know that everything is going to be okay. She’s laid back, she’s very clever and has skills mad enough to smash humble pie in the faces of some of the existing Gotei 13 captains. Do you know that she’s also a princess?

mu§e: I love me some of this cat woman. Her fight…well, if you want to call it a fight, more like she schooled Byakuya…but that thing with the whole Soul Society Arc = epic. First she just put Byakuya-sama in his place, which I loved just a little bit, even though I love Byakuya-sama and THEN when she was schooling Soi Fon I was just like 😐 “well damn son”. I mean, whenever you want to pummel someone into the ground…she’s the one to ask.

je§ter: Oh Yoruichi-san…what I would likely have done to you if I were in that cave instead of Ichigo… Borrow some of Lisa’s books…you’ll get the idea. So, her just being a hot black girl with a proper part in an anime makes her get on the list for me. Being one of the most awesome characters in the show solidifies her place. But what REALLY locks her in with a Level-90 Kido seal would be the fact that she has no need for a sword. Bleach is essentially all about katanas… She’s the only one who you don’t see use one…ever. Hell, gramps may not use Ryujin-Jakka for anything, but he at least draws it to start the flames. You never see Yoruichi’s Zanpakuto on her (in the present) so either she doesn’t use it anymore or it now has…another…purpose. A more personal one perhaps?

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15. R-el (Ergo Proxy)

Specialty: Special Investigator, Gun-toting Bawse

Dr. §trangelove: Inspector R-el (Real) Mayer is a 19 year old special investigator in the city of Romdeau, a domed habitat built to protect the citizens from the harsh brutalities of the post cataclysmic world that they live in. As a special investigator that remains soundly under the drinking age, she gets a remarkable amount of shit done with her snub nosed hand-shotgun and no nonsense attitude. At some points she literally does not give a f*** for scenes that make me moderately jumpy (I’m hard to make moderately jumpy) and ends up being a driving force behind Vincent leaving Romdeau and finding the truth about himself. Would you travel alone with the proxy of death?

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14. Fabiola Iglesias (Black Lagoon)

Specialty: Combat/Firearm Specialist, Capoeira

mu§e: This little fireball killed me with her introduction in Black Lagoon as she more literally killed an entire bar-full of people……more or less. Her twists and turns, flips and hidden weapons and that -_- /”couldn’t care less” attitude gets to me every time.

§eraph: Who could be named Fabiola Iglesias and not be badass? This little maid, employed by the Lovelace family, is the subordinate of the ultimate killer maid, Roberta. Apparently, there are other maids besides her employed at the Lovelace plantation (though it is not known whether they are all trained killers, but one does wonder). Revy reacts to this revelation by saying: Just what is the Lovelace plantation like? Full of bad-ass motherfu***rs who could storm the Iranian embassy by themselves? Born in the poorest slums of Caracas, this girl sure knows hard life. She is very protective of her little master, Garcia, much like her psychotic mentor, and does not hesitate to end the lives of those who get in her way. And she’s so blasé about it all! Damn. See for yourself and tell me she doesn’t deserve to be in this countdown. The picture alone should have convinced you.

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13. Lucy (Elfen Lied)

Specialty: Dismemberment

mu§e: Dis bitch be craaaaaazzzyyy :|. Nuff said. I never finished watching Elfen Lied (call me a punk, assholes, I don’t care) because she literally scared the crap out of me…psycho as hell but badass as hell.

je§ter: *metal music* Get psycho!  I wanna get psycho! *ends Disturbed montage* Like Miss mu§e mentioned just a second ago, Lucy’s not all together. Sure, she seems nice enough when she’s sayin’ “Nyu, Nyu!” and rubbin’ her boobs on yah (what is wrong with anime creators?!), but make her wig out…I dare you. Elfen Lied is one of those girls-beat-up-all-opponents kinda things, except instead of a beating, people get RIPPED TO PIECES!!!!!  True story. Her past is also a bit of a sad tale, but ripping someone in half for callin’ you a monster is a bit of an overreaction if you’re a child… Oh well, the eventual display of humanity balances out her psychosis a bit.

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12. Sir Integra (Hellsing)

Specialty: Running Shit, Superb Marksman

mu§e: She’s a woman, but she’s “SIR”…do you understand SIR Integra? Need I say anymore? Actually, yes, I need to say more. She walks around in a pantsuit, with a ruffled collared aristocrat-y cravat (or whatever those things are) or bowtie like a boss. She is the BOSS of the king of all demons Dracula(SPOILER)! and basically makes him do whatever the hell she wants him too and she just…runs…shit…like a boss. Oh, and her marksmanship…at first I thought she was missing…because there was only one bullet hole in the little dummy thing…only to realise that she was hitting the EXACT same damn spot over and over and over again, not even making a shatter in the rest of it 😐 again, like a boss.

je§ter: Sir Integra Type R…that’s for Royal badass!  Honda jokes aside, this lady is the stuff.  I mean, how many teenaged girls are awesome enough to find out Vlad the frickin’ impaler is locked in your basement and then coerce him into doing a hit on the one who killed your daddy? Then after that setting up a company and putting him on the payroll? That’s pretty hardcore man… What’s even cooler is he gotta check in with her when he wants to do stuff. Even if that’s disregarded a bit, the fact that the rule is kinda there is an astounding thing.

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11.  Kusanagi Motoko (Ghost in the Shell)

Specialty: Combat Specialist

Dr. §trangelove: Major Motoko Kusanagi is a cyborg working for the Public Security Section 9 in the GITS universe. Her personality changes frequently, ranging from playful and childlike to serious and frighteningly bloodthirsty. Her professional side allows her to assume command  of her team, all supposedly equals, when a leader is called for. As a cyborg designed for fighting technological terrorism she is bionically enhanced and capable of hacking the enemy while she fights them, which leads to some pretty badass action. 

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10. Nono Sadamoto (Diebuster)

Specialty: Buster Machine Pilot.

Dr. §trangelove: Nono is a simple, clumsy, farm girl that has a dream to become the best Buster pilot in the world, one to rival  Noriko, the pilot of the legendary Buster machine 1. She leaves her home town  in the martian countryside and quickly realizes that becoming a pilot is harder than it seems. Despite this, Nono never gives up, always pushing forward to defeat the Giant Space Monsters, to safeguard her home and people. Her badassery comes from her mentality that she can do anything she wants, even fighting a mountain sized monster with her bare hands.
I’m pretty sure she’s still searching the memory banks for a f**k to give….

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9. San (Princess Mononoke)

Specialty: Riding Spirit Wolves, Stabbing Things

mu§e: This woman is the daughter of spirit wolves….wait…do I really need to say anything else? Anyway, I love San. She just doesn’t give a crap about anything. She rode into battle…on a spirit wolf…to fight spirit boars…and shit 😐 Like…whaat? NOTHING scares her. Powerful god spirits? Pfftttttt. Yeah…no. She eats them for breakfast. She also just happened to invade what would be an enemy camp in layman’s terms alone…armed with a single knife made out of stone…yeah. Shit just got serious. AND she managed to do serious damage too. Badass.

Dr. §trangelove: A human raised by the wolf gods of the forest to hate humans and the evil they represent, San is utterly vicious, fiercely loyal and possesses a deep respect for the earth. So, when miners start to deforest a mountain to dig for iron ore, shit gets real very fast. Fighting guns and swords with a stone knife and wooden spear has never looked so easy, but she make it work. Giant Demon Spirit Boar? No problem. Feral Lord of the Forest with power over life and death? No problem.

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8. Saeko Busujima (High School of the Dead)

Specialty: Martial Arts, Swordplay.

mu§e: She’s like Erza-sama..but more badass…that’s all I’m going to say as I swoon. (well, that and the fact that I couldn’t really watch very much of High School of the Dead because I HATE zombies. Scare the shit out of me.)

§tiggles: Oh boy. Think honorific samurai, plus psycho sadist, plus playboy model. Yeah, that’s about right. Who in their right mind is calm and collected during a zombie apocalypse? Who calmly gets up, brandishes a wooden sword, and proceeds to simply bash the life(or.. not I guess) out of every zombie in her path? Yep, she’s pretty awesome.

Dr. §trangelove: Busujima is drop dead sexy. In addition, she fights off literally millions of zombies with a WOODEN sword while wearing very, uh, light clothing. Never mind that her comrades find guns and such…those are for pussies.

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7. Teresa (Claymore)

Specialty: Acute Yoki (Energy) Sensing, Swordplay

mu§e: *Sigh* …And the rants threaten to begin. Do you KNOW how much I love her and how much I cried when she (SPOILER!) kicked the bucket? Anyway, letting that tangent be, she is another one that DEFINES the term badass. She fights these demons right and NEVER busts a sweat, never uses more than like…10-20% of her power, if that much. She like destroyed an entire village (well, all the bandits that robbed the village anyway) THAT was scary as shit.

She cut down a few of her own kind because they were in her way, no hard feelings, just had to be done. Dude…I don’t even know what else to say…she was just so simply badass…my favourite line by Teresa, which kind of sealed her badassery to me? – A rule is just a rule. Whether we abide by it or not is our damn choice. Whether we follow the rule, whether we break the rule and get killed by our own, that’s our damn freedom. Nuff said.

tempe§ta: Teresa was straight hard core!!!! One of the best if not the best of the Organization!!! She creamed the best while wearing the “Faint Smile”. Teresa was the #1 ranked Claymore in the Organization in the generation previous to Clare’s. She was known for her solitary and cold demeanor and unquestionable loyalty to the Organization. This changed after meeting a young Clare.

The only real defining features of Teresa is her legendary “Faint Smile” when fighting, and the fact that she is an incomprehesible badass. She uses no special Yoma-enhanced moves like other Claymores but relies on experience and brilliant swordmanship (even carrying the Swift Sword). In fact she hardly uses more than 10 percent of her yoma power and still opened a barrel of whoopin’ (jar too small of a term) on the other top claymores sent to assasinate her. It’s no wonder Clare got power from her and it’s no wonder she’s in this countdown.

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6. Phantom Miria (Claymore)

Specialty: Phantom Mirage, Swordplay

mu§e: This absolutely lovely, kickass character only, you know, started an entire revolution against and extremely corrupt and lawless organization who recklessly put others in danger with no disregard for any life…the same organization that she was a part of….an organization with dozens of people much, much stronger than her…and she still didn’t give a shit. Last time I checked she had rolled up to the organization by HERSELF, without any of her 5 comrades, and just recruited people to her cause just so…yeah…that’s all I’m sayin.

tempe§ta: Phantom Miria…..what else I need to say? She is one of the best all-round female fighters in militant anime. Miria was the # 6 Claymore in the Organization during Clare’s generation. Her nickname “Phantom Miria” comes from her Yoma-powered speed that leaves after-images of herself. A brilliant strategist and leader, she has played the captain role of the main band of Claymores when hunting the male Awakened Beings and she was also a leader in the Northern Campaign. Teresa will always be over Miria in my book any day just cuz she moves like a boss. However, Miria is also one of my favs!! The awesomeness of these two Claymores knows no bounds!!!!

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5. Roberta (Black Lagoon)

Specialty: Weapons Specialist, Combat Specialist

§eraph: Roberta. Rosalita Cisneros. The hardcore terrorist. The Bloodhound of Florencia. Roberta is a disturbingly phlegmatic and soft spoken maid with all the desirable characteristics of a powerful army robot from the future. This former FARC guerilla who was evidently trained as an assassin in Cuba, gave Revy, who is our number four contender, a concussion, had the Lagoon company running away from her in their car (they were scared shitless), shot Revy in her arm, and continued to raise hell until she was forced to stop due to the intervention of the big guys from Hotel Moscow, a very powerful and influential branch of the Russian Mafia.

I personally prefer her to Revy as she is far more thorough and reflective and she possesses none of Revy’s obstinate and egotistic characteristics. According to Wikipedia, her weapons include a .50 caliber sniper rifle, combat knife, SPAS-12 shotgun disguised as an umbrella (reinforced with Kevlar), machine gun, and semi-automatic grenade launcher hidden in a suitcase, spiked brass knuckles, trench spike and twin IMBEL Model 911 pistols. That’s mostly gibberish to me but it reinforces the idea that she’s pretty hardcore and deserves such a high spot in this list. Oh, and in case you’re wondering, she really is a maid.

mu§e: Pyscho. As. Hell :|. I am so serious. She is like Terminator. Only human and wearing a maid costume = scary as SHIT 😐 The things I’ve seen her do I can’t unsee…I STILL have nightmares about this crap. Especially when she was trying to climb into Lagoon’s car to get back her Master 😐 the way her muscles bulged and she just jumped on a moving car like if she were snowboarding…not even, ’cause her psycho expression NEVER even changed, she never even batted an eyelash 😐 *takes a deep breath* *goes and huddles in a corner with an emergency blanket*

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4. Revy (Black Lagoon)

Specialty: Firearm Specialist, Hand-to-Hand Combat, Swearing

mu§e: Ahhhh Revy…how I love you. This exact same photo is actually my phone background at the moment but that’s another story. lol. One of the first moments where I just sat down and was like “this woman just does not give a shit 😐 badass as hell” was the very first bar fight she got into when she took out like 20 people with her “two handsu!” awesomeness.

She was just jumping and flipping and shooting and using human body as shields…ALL while laughing and smiling like who does that? And then again when she took out like 5 boats…while they were moving…on the water…by jumping from boat to boat and basically shooting the shit out of them. All while listening to music “let’s dance baby”.  😐 I can’t say anymore. It’s too beautiful for words. She’s absolutely lawless, doesn’t listen to anyone. Has been shooting up shit since she was 13. Badass.

je§ter: It seems short shorts go with the badass girl territory. Then again, anything with too much fabric seems to counter it, but I digress. Rebecca here is possibly the world’s baddest tomboy. She chain smokes, has a seemingly symbiotic relationship with her twin Beretta Model 92 pistols, is a pirate and falls in love with a Japanese salaryman. Too epic ri-…wait, what?

In any case, her use of her guns and never-scared attitude is what lands her such a high spot. The fact that she is a regular old human with no special abilities makes her even more special. I mean, if I was going up against a few machine guns, I’d want at least something that can shoot faster than single-fire…but hey, I guess that just makes me a pussy in comparison.

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3. Seras Victoria (Hellsing)

Specialty: Hand-to-Hand Combat, Long Range Shooter, Tearing Out People’s Throats Specialist

je§ter: Here comes everyone’s favourite blood-sucking SWAT officer.  Not quite sure how she managed to stay a virgin so long with them melons in England, but it’s a good thing she did…otherwise she’d have turned into a mindless Ghoul.  Besides being a vampire-slaying vampire (which has its own obvious badass connotations) Seras’ mad skills with a 10-foot long anti-tank rifle are legendary.  And she swings the thing around as if it were nothing more than a .22!  Poor Ms. Victoria has a bit of trouble adapting to her new, wet diet…but when her face gets like it is in the above image, look out.  She has these psychotic moments, you see, where she gets like Alucard on crack.  And he just smiles and smiles and chuckles, “Very good police girl.”

mu§e: You just are better off not pissing her off. As je§ter said, she has these…moments where she just goes completely ill. I’ve seen her rip vampires in half, raise hell, and shoot up people like if it’s Christmas Day and dead bodies are presents. Not only that but she is the right hand minion of the most powerful vampire lord of them all, DRACULA. His power is fed into her every now and again and soo…well…you can guess the blood and carnage that carries on when you get on her bloody side. Beware of the teeth and the hands…and the fetched up muscles that bulge like she’s on steroids (when it’s really just human blood).

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2. Medusa Gorgon (Soul Eater)

Specialty: Magic; Snake Manipulation, Vector Manipulation

mu§e: Medusa, Medusa. It’s that f**cked up look she gets on her face whenever she’s being super evil. More over, she was badass enough to sneak into a school full of meisters (her mortal enemies) AND Shinigami-sama (her mortal enemy of mortal enemies) and just pretend to be the school nurse while trying to raise hell for them from the inside and throw them off her trail. Like who does that? That’s like a wild antelope going into a pride of lions and not even batting and eyelash. Not one shit was given that day. Moreover, she fell in love with the psycho of psychos Dr. Franken Stein, who really should see a specialist 😐 Even though he literally cut her in half, she’s still attracted to him o_O. I warn you about them psychopaths. Smh. Badass as hell.

je§ter: Medusa Gorgon. Never realised her last name was Gorgon until we compiled the list.  This woman is best described as the psycho snake bitch of Soul Eater. Strangely enough she won’t turn you to stone by looking at you…as her name may suggest. Instead, she uses snakey magic which often looks like it should be slapped on a sign-post or road to show you the way to turn. Unfortunately I’ve never completed the Soul Eater series, but up until her big sis came around, her little road-marking snakes had been giving everyone hell; especially Dr. Franken Stein. Badassery stems from insanity, of course, and what better way to certify this than to possess a little girl and turn her into a mini version of yourself.

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1. KNEEL BEFORE BALALAIKA! – (Black Lagoon) 

Specialty: Skilled Strategist, Well Rounded Fighter;  Skilled Sniper, Expert Marksman, Professional Businesswoman, All-round BOSS

Fun Facts: Brought up by her grandfather, the high ranking military head of the USSR. Past captain of the Soviet Army, paratrooper, and veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Boss of Hotel Moscow; a branch of the Russian Mafia. Commands the respect of everyone, including the psycho-killer maid, Roberta and even Revy. Grown men fear her. Also missed an opportunity to participate in the 1984 Summer Olympics because she was too busy being badass.

mu§e: Scroll down and ditto for me everything that je§ter said! Added to that…just…damn. She’s SOO badass she rarely has to lift a finger. For example, when she was up against those psychotic twins (Hansel and Gretel)…she said KNEEL and the boy (or girl) HAD to kneel, but not because the person felt compelled to…oh no. Only because her army of trained soldiers gone mafia were lurking behind the scenes and shot him so that his knee actually became detached from the rest of the body…because, if you don’t listen to the Commander, that’s what you get, bitch. But when she does lift a finger, dude…when she DOES….

I’ve seen her big up a fully grown man (aka Rock) with ONE hand, swing him around like a branch and then slam him into a car with a gun pressed against him. In fact, she’s so badass, even REVY who is at number 4 respects her…probably the ONLY person in the show that Revy takes to heart and Revy calls her “big sister”. I’ve never heard Revy call anyone respectfully…”limp dick” “asshole” etc…these are things that usually come out of Revy’s mouth…not to Balalaika though. “Big Sister” you hear? Don’t mess with her. The badass of badasses, but still, so incredibly classy, slick and sexy. I worship her. That is why she’s my display picture on the blog. Because, when I grow up, I want to be just as badass and sexy as Balalaika-nee-sama.

je§ter: This bitch… This bitch right here nigga?  She is…well the winner I guess.  The whole Black Lagoon series never really made a big impression on me; it was a fun ride that lost its lustre shortly after.  But this woman is a boss.  How many other girls in anime are Russian Mafia leaders?  Scratch that, how many other girls are Russian Paramilitary Group leaders?  This bitch is a frickin’ veteran of the bloody Red Army’s war in Afghanistan!  And she runs her syndicate with the same principals and her old platoon as the top brass.  Very efficient at violence…very effective at getting what they want.  She deserves the spot, for being someone you’d never want to meet in real life; but (unlike the usual fantastic/powered up folk) actually could if you were unfortunate enough -> Just watch this!

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Whew, and that’s that. Now we’re more than ready to read all of your dissenting opinions, because I’m sure there are other anime with lots of other badass women. Comment, rate, rant, cry, whatever! Are we missing anyone? Canaan perhaps? Chun Lee? Is there anyone who does NOT deserve to be in this list? Think we have the order all wrong?? Let us knowww!

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