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Non-royal women in positions of power are almost always portrayed as very stoic and no-nonsense, at least publicly. Rarely will you find a female president, prime minister, governor, legislator, judge, business executive, or military leader who is presented as indecisive, incompetent, or otherwise "weak." She's also usually not portrayed as corrupt, either, although if she's directing things from behind the scenes, that tends to change. The reason usually given for this is that women seeking positions of power (as opposed to those who inherit them), both in reality and in fiction, are faced with two unfortunate truths: That they need to give the appearance of toughness, ruthlessness, and coldness in order to get past other people's masculine-tinted expectations of leadership, That in the circles such women travel in, they actually need to be tough, ruthless, and cold. The ones who aren't are left by the wayside. Thus, female leaders are generally portrayed as trying to demonstrate their iron will at all times. Indeed, they have to lest they lose all credibility. Mind you, it's not that she's all iron. In private, she can be quite warm, even loving. Seeing as the camera can take us anywhere, we often get to see it. However, her public does not. The model for this in the contemporary world is Margaret Thatcher, who was beyond iron to somewhere around titanium towards her (entirely male) cabinet, and defines the "presidential Premiership" in British politics even more than Tony Blair. The nickname was applied to her in an insulting manner by the Soviet military newspaper Red Star in 1976, when she was still Leader of the Opposition, but soon became affectionate. (No mental fatigue, only metal fatigue.) In most media, she is likely to have Power Hair. In anime, it is more often long hair, in whatever color. See Margaret Thatcher again, of course. Such characters are prone to discover a well-hidden maternal instinct towards their subordinates, making this a Distaff Counterpart to A Father to His Men (although usually not military). Compare with Proper Lady, which provides the Iron Lady some foundation. Compare Silk Hiding Steel, where her iron disposition is hidden beneath smiles and Passive-Aggressive Kombat. Compare/contrast Evil Matriarch and Grande Dame. Also contrast her possible opposites, Stepford Smiler, Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher, and Cute and Psycho, all of whom are more prone to using emotion to get what they want rather than setting it aside as the Iron Lady does. If she is royal, see The High Queen and/or God Save Us from the Queen!. If she works in a corporate field, very likely to be a High-Powered Career Woman. For her typical Evil Counterpart, see The Queenpin. For the evil and sexy version, see The Baroness. May well have been a Go-Getter Girl when younger. The Lady of War is a comparable action-ready variant (and they can overlap each other if she's active both in the field of battle and politics simultaneously) as well. Not to be confused with Iron Maiden. For the 2011 movie about Margaret Thatcher starring Meryl Streep, see The Iron Lady. |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Maia Simmons who appears in this Godzilla MonsterVerse fanfiction's final chapter receives Adaptational Intelligence; reimagined as an affable, charismatic, intelligent and to-the-point Corrupt Corporate Executive. | |
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From Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, we have Haman Karn, advisor to Princess Mineva and de facto ruler of Neo-Zeon, because said princess is only seven years old. We also see businesswoman Stephanie Luio of Hong Kong in Zeta, in a more benevolent version. In Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, Mineva herself has picked up some of these traits, likely following Haman's example. It's enough that she's able to put on a commanding presence in front of very powerful people despite being only 16 years old at this point. |
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Dragon Age has several. Dragon Age: Origins: Queen Anora is not actually royalty by birth, but the daughter of a minor noble who rose through the ranks using his exceptional guts and brains. She inherited both of those from him and then some. Her father's best friend was King Maric, and from a very young age Anora was betrothed to Maric's son Cailan; it's mentioned several times that she was the real force behind the throne during their marriage. A female Cousland or Aeducan Warden may be this trope, depending on player choices. Dragon Age II: Knight-Commander Meredith takes over running the city after the murder of the Viscount, despite protests, and holds it together through fear and personal charisma. Similarly to her predecessor, she struggles to make any inroads defusing the tensions in the city, and truthfully just makes it worse. The red lyrium driving her insane doesn't help. Aveline Vallen, just one year after arriving in the city as a penniless refugee, manages to get a job in the city guard and is promoted to captain of the guard because all the guardsmen consider her to be by far the most capable person for the position after exposing the corruption of her predecessor. Varric, in the third game, remarks that Kirkwall would probably fall into the sea without her to keep things running smoothly. In a non-mage Hawke run, if Bethany joins the Grey Wardens at the end of Act 1, she effectively becomes this, after spending the first act as The Ingenue. Bringing her back for either of the DLC campaigns proves that she is not happy about taking on this role. Dragon Age: Inquisition: Vivienne is a high-ranking Circle Mage from Orlais whose court nickname is "Madame de Fer"note Literally, "Lady of Iron". Interestingly, she's an Action Fashionista who might look delicate next to the heavily-armoured Cassandra - but elaborate outfits are all part of the "Grand Game" where she comes from. Similarly to the Warden, a female Trevelyan Inquisitor may fit the trope if the player deems it. |
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Kiyoko Aura from Tokyo Ghoul. A Living Legend that was the very first (and thus far, only) woman to earn the rank of Special Class, she is a stern and no-nonsense woman in contrast to her male counterparts. In the male-dominated CCG, she is the commander of the organization's combat Division and a fierce Lady of War when called to the front lines. She is also noted to be a Celibate Hero, having given up personal relationships in favor of her career. | |
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Samantha in the 2008 version of Survivors | |
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From The Silmarillion, the Human chieftainess Haleth who led her people out of Morgoth's country into Beleriand. | |
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Veronica Palmer, Ted's boss in Better Off Ted. | |
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Moira Queen in CW's Arrow is this, as she runs Queen Industries and holds a lot of influence in Star City. | |
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Chuck brings us Brigadier General Diane Beckman. Later seasons show she does have some warmth beneath her cold-as-steel facade, with these moments usually being the rare times in which Beckman is used for outright comedy. However throughout the series run it's been made very clear that this is a woman that can intimidate Casey! Not to say that her steely persona isn't the source of occasional gags as well. | |
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Zero Zero Zero: Emma Lynwood assumes her father's mantle as head of the family drug shipping company. She navigates many extremely difficult and dangerous situations with stoicism and professionalism. In the final scene, she calmly walks through the carnage of a recent bloodbath and is made to sit between two corpses to complete a business deal with the newest leader of The Cartel. Through great effort, she refuses to dignify the theatrics with the slightest acknowledgement and even forces herself to smile at a few sicarios on the way out. | |
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Chief Vicks from Psych is tough enough that even Shawn Spencer knows better than to cross her... usually. | |
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Captain Gates on Castle. She even is nicknamed Iron Gates. | |
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President Eloise Pritchart from the Honor Harrington series is a no-nonsense President Iron with a spine of steel who survived two revolutions and a bloody regime and came out on top, who takes crap from no one, and who makes brutal but necessary decisions as she tries to govern a star nation fighting a war. Then she decides she's had enough of being manipulated and heads off to Manticore with no warning to kickstart the Grand Alliance, which puts an end to the Manticore-Haven war in a hurry. | |
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Lucia Nesbitt from First Contact Is Bad for You is rather stern and business oriented, and almost always referred to by her last name by anyone but her family. She holds no official title; instead she works through her husband Tiberius, who is a governor. | |
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Miranda Priestly from The Devil Wears Prada. Although she's the editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine, she fits this trope perfectly. | |
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Miranda in Sex and the City is a ball-busting Manhattan lawyer who is constantly trying to find a man who doesn't feel castrated by her presence. | |
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General Olivier Armstrong from Fullmetal Alchemist is held to be scary by her soldiers, her family, and the protagonist. She is a Social Darwinist and ruthless in her operations. | |
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Joan Holloway of Mad Men is a subtle example. While much more traditionally feminine than most examples (being very conventionally attractive, and dressing to emphasize that) and intially focused on traditionally feminine goals (finding a man and marrying), she is from the beginning a peerlessly firm boss when introduced as head of the secretarial pool in Season 1 (1960). By the time she becomes office manager and a partner in Season 5 (1965-66), she is confident both in her authority over the agency's workflow and in her commitment to career, and by Season 7 (1969-70) is regularly making highly active use of her partnership stake to protect and advance her interests. By the end of the series, she's a millionaire and set up for a long and successful career in business. | |
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The American House of Cards: Margaret Tilden, owner of The Washington Herald (a thinly-veiled version of The Washington Post) is a solid woman firmly devoted to her paper willing to do whatever it takes to keep it in the black. On the flipside, she is perfectly comfortable firing her Editor-in-Chief for business reasons one minute and going out for friendly drinks with him the next. Also fitting the trope—but vastly differently—is Claire Underwood. She runs her nonprofit with an iron fist, and is one of the few people capable of manipulating her husband—who starts the series House Majority Whip and by the end of Season 2 is President of the United States—for her own ends. In her capacity as head of the nonprofit, she merely exhibits the hardheaded and ruthless side of the trope; but as the Woman Behind the Man for Frank, she exhibits some distinctly sinister characteristics. |
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And Amanda in the newest incarnation (Nikita) isn't far behind her. | |
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Double Homework: Dr. Mosely/Zeta is a version of this: blunt, focused, and ruthless when the need arises, even though she helps others when she can afford to. Amy’s mom knows her way around power and authority as the queen. Defied with Ms. Walsh. Dr. Mosely specifically put an incompetent teacher in charge of the summer school class so the girls would seek out the protagonist as their leader instead. Deconstructed with Morgan. As part of her backstory, Morgan narrates that she attempted a convenience store robbery to prove that she was running a “real” gang. Instead, she got arrested and spent a year behind bars. |
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Dragon Age: Inquisition: Vivienne is a high-ranking Circle Mage from Orlais whose court nickname is "Madame de Fer"note Literally, "Lady of Iron". Interestingly, she's an Action Fashionista who might look delicate next to the heavily-armoured Cassandra - but elaborate outfits are all part of the "Grand Game" where she comes from. Similarly to the Warden, a female Trevelyan Inquisitor may fit the trope if the player deems it. |
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Madeline on La Femme Nikita may be the coldest Iron Lady in TV history. And Amanda in the newest incarnation (Nikita) isn't far behind her. |
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Lady Webb in Pillars of Eternity is a powerful Cipher and the chief of Dunryd Row—an intelligence agency-slash-Secret Police of the Defiance Bay staffed exclusively by her fellow Ciphers. She has artificially prolonged her life multiple times and, over many decades, built a massive network of connections, secrets, and agents that let her keep the inherently unruly residents of Dyrwood from destroying their own social structures—and for this, she is feared and respected even in the highest echelons of power. | |
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Professor Minerva McGonagall of the Harry Potter series is demonstrably an Iron Lady (even if she does get a bit worked up over Gryffindor Quidditch), and is especially fierce when fighting Death Eaters. | |
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In The Divine Comedy, the heavenly Beatrice is compared to a stern admiral when she reunites with her lover, Dante, since she scolds him to tears to get him to fully confess his many, many infidelities. This first appearance is not harsh without reason, since Beatrice has been charged with leading Dante's quest into Heaven, where no evil man can go. | |
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Kati Mannequin of Mobile Suit Gundam 00, retains much of Une's hardened attitude and serious demeanor. However she lacks much of Une's ruthlessness. | |
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In Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race, Police Captain Talia Tallarico is stern, tough, and unwilling to compromise. | |
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Elaine Barrish Hammond from Political Animals. Given that she was an expy of Hillary Rodham Clinton (and was played by Sigourney Weaver), this probably shouldn't be too surprising. | |
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Scheherazade in Arabian Nights seems a toned-down version of this. She was restricted by her culture to the context of harem intrigue, of course, but she plays this trope as far as it can go within the context. She was intelligent, brave, and knew her own mind. | |
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On The 100, Lexa fits this trope, believing that Love Is a Weakness, and being renowned even by other Grounders for her ruthlessness. However, Abby is an aversion, being very emotional and soft-hearted even after becoming Chancellor, while Clarke alternates between the two extremes, taking influence from both Abby and Lexa. Their leadership styles are portrayed as being the result of their upbringing, individual personalities, and the situations they find themselves in; gender is treated as a non-factor. | |
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Supernatural: Doctor Hess, leader of the British Men of Letters, is a very nasty villainous example. She leads a genocidal secret organization who are A Nazi by Any Other Name in nearly every way, and she does not tolerate any signs of weakness or morality in her agents and pupils, forcing her schoolboys to kill each-other as nothing more than a rite of passage into the order. | |
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Asuka Langley Soryu from Neon Genesis Evangelion desperately wants to be one of these, and indeed she starts out fitting the mold. Unfortunately, she tragically underestimates the cost of keeping her emotions inside and focusing only on success. | |
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Allison Taylor of 24 exhibits this, to everybody's surprise (in-universe). The hilarious thing about Allison Taylor is that she can almost literally will anybody to do just about anything they don't want to do, and then she can make you feel glad you did it afterwards. |
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In Super Dimension Fortress Macross (aka Robotech's season one), Misa Hayase (Lisa Hayes) is this initially, but over time her cold and professional appearance begins to fade away and she grows more emotional. | |
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In the Discworld series, it's easier to name women in a position of authority who aren't this, but first and foremost we have the head witch Granny Weatherwax, whose cast-iron demeanor is proven time and again against the Fair Folk and other horrors; Adora Belle Dearheart, the owner of the Clacks and one of the leaders of the burgeoning industrial revolution, is another. | |
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In The Manor's Prize The Chariot is depicted as being cold, calculating, and rude. She is stated to be a businesswoman, and after shouting down another contestant, she states "You don't get far in business by putting up with shit." | |
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In Appleseed, Athena is the supreme executive leader of the city/nation of Olympus. There's a council of elders and a super-computer who make all the big long term decisions but how she runs Olympus is entirely her own choice. It helps that she is an artificially created human genetically manipulated to do exactly that, and she does it extremely well. For large parts of the manga and some of the animes, it's not clear if she's a particularly tough High Queen or actually the Big Bad. It turns out to be the former. Then there's her dragon Nike, who is even more uptight and straight to the point and usually gets send to deal directly with problems that could be a threat to Olympus. |
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The Duchessa Silvia in Stravaganza: City of Masks - and throughout the series, her successor, Ariana, is learning the way of the Iron Lady too. | |
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In Turning Red, Wu is somewhere between this, Evil Matriarch, and a Grande Dame. She's old, very dignified, sets impossibly high standards, and insists absolutely that things be done according to custom. On the other hand, she isn't evil, just rigid and old-fashioned in her view of life. However, she's also surprisingly open-minded: when all the Lee women gather on the astral plane, Wu is the first to acknowledge that Mei has a right to make her own choice about her panda spirit. | |
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Frances Middleford from Black Butler is an example of this trope. She makes Sebastian break out in a cold sweat. | |
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Project0: Veronica fits most of the description. She's also the only woman among the 6 commanders of the Harvester. | |
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Dragon Age: Origins: Queen Anora is not actually royalty by birth, but the daughter of a minor noble who rose through the ranks using his exceptional guts and brains. She inherited both of those from him and then some. Her father's best friend was King Maric, and from a very young age Anora was betrothed to Maric's son Cailan; it's mentioned several times that she was the real force behind the throne during their marriage. A female Cousland or Aeducan Warden may be this trope, depending on player choices. |
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Svetlana Belikova, President of the Eastern Slav Republic in Resident Evil: Damnation. How hard is she? Not only is she willing to unleash a Plaga outbreak on her own people to see her ambitions through, but she's enough of a badass to effortlessly beat both Leon S. Kennedy and Ada Wong in hand-to-hand combat. SHE. CURBSTOMPS. ADA. FREAKING. WONG. | |
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Fallout 2 has the kind yet crabby New California Republic President Tandi, who was such a Universally Beloved Leader that it led to her becoming President for Life (by default — she didn't end elections, but she kept being voted back in every time). By the time of Fallout: New Vegas, she's become the face of the NCR $100 bill. | |
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Yakuza 2: Yayoi Dojima, who takes over as interim Chairman of the Tojo Clan after the death of Yukio Terada. In spite of having no formal standing in the organization and only being linked to it through being married to the deceased patriarch Sohei Dojima, not to mention being a woman in the strongly misogynistic world of organized crime, she still provides decisive and effective leadership through one of the darkest periods in the Tojo Clan's history. It's telling that even old street monsters like Kiryu, Majima and Kashiwagi show her nothing but respect and deference. | |
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Balalaika from Black Lagoon, The Leader of a gang of Russian commandos-turned-hitmen and the scariest member of their outfit by far. | |
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Esther was rather like this. She was like Scheherazade, but ruthless as well. She is one of only two women to have a book of the Tanakh (Jewish Bible) named after her. | |
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In Noob, the second-in-command of both the elite guilds depicted is a woman with such a behavior. In Justice, Saphir is also taking care of admissions, has strict criteria for applicants and has very strong words for those that apply despite not matching her criteria in hope that she'll make an exception for them. In Roxxor, Roxana is shown to be very strict with her subordinates. | |
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Mass Effect 2: Aria rules Wretched Hive Omega through force of personality and also force of...force. The previous ruler was a krogan; she beat him in a straight-up one-on-one biotic battle during which she crushed one of his hearts and made him a broken shell. Then she kept him around as a living trophy. Knowing all that, it hardly needs to be said that the only rule on Omega is "Don't fuck with Aria." (But she says it anyway.) Commander Shepard can be played this way if female, especially if she is of the "paragade" or "renegon" moralities, which usually involves a relative fairness with a dash of tough love. |
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Deborah, the only female Judge of Israelnote For those living under a rock, that meant "leader of the Israelites" at the time.. With her general Barak, she led the Israelites against the Canaanites (Barak didn't trust his own judgment). In her own words: | |
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Dr. Grace Augustine from Avatar is a more benign version (being a scientist in a group of soldiers and corp executives) of this but you gotta admit that she's as tough as they come. | |
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Spoofed in a The Goodies episode where Bill and Tim both run for Prime Minister...as women. | |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Governor Leotyne Saresh of Taris is a no-nonsense leader dedicated to making the Republic's re-colonization of the devastated world a success. Even when the Empire invades and completely undoes everything she's accomplished, she still has enough political capital to be elected Supreme Chancellor of the Republic, after which she takes it in a more hard-line direction in regards to the Empire. General Garza, the commanding officer of the Republic Trooper character class, is an aging special forces war hero who keeps her forces running with an even hand—much better than most branches of Republic military, in fact. She is also impeccably polite and even motherly, at times, especially when the Trooper has to make tough choices. Empress Acina of the The Empire ascends during the events of the Fallen Empire story arc. She's a bit of a subdued example in that she is a bit more relaxed and chatty than is usual for this trope, but otherwise is a shrewd leader who shows up a with a fleet at exactly the right time to make a favourable case for an alliance. It's through her efforts that The Empire is slowly dragging itself into a less self-destructive regime and recovering from the pounding its taken in the last few years. |
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Tatiana Qwartz of No Straight Roads is a played with example in that she's the CEO of a record company, but since said company basically controls the entirety of Vinyl City, she still fits this trope, complete with stern, no-nonsense demeanor when it comes to managing her company and the city. | |
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Fallout: Fallout 2 has the kind yet crabby New California Republic President Tandi, who was such a Universally Beloved Leader that it led to her becoming President for Life (by default — she didn't end elections, but she kept being voted back in every time). By the time of Fallout: New Vegas, she's become the face of the NCR $100 bill. 2 also has Chief Elise, the no-nonsense commander of the NCR Rangers. She almost singlehandedly spearheads the NCR's war on slavery, and is mentioned in New Vegas to have taken part in the Ranger Unification Treaty which expanded their influence even further. New Vegas has NCR Colonel Cassandra Moore, an abrasive General Ripper and Token Evil Teammate for the faction. She's the third-highest ranking officer in the NCR military occupation of the Mojave and who the Player Character answers directly to in the latter half of the NCR storyline. |
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing's Lady Une, who's actually called "Iron Une". Manga Frozen Teardrop has Dorothy T. Catalonia referred to as the "Neo-Titanium Lady". Kati Mannequin of Mobile Suit Gundam 00, retains much of Une's hardened attitude and serious demeanor. However she lacks much of Une's ruthlessness. |
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This is also a casting trope on Australian Survivor as well. Women of this trope include Kate Tembly, a successful businesswoman and global banking executive; Sharn Coombes, an extremely successful barrister; and Janine Allis, the founder of the company Boost Juice and one of the shark investors on Australian Shark Tank (Dragon's Den). | |
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Mrs. Frederic (C.C.H. Pounder) on Warehouse 13. | |
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Heidi from Daughter for Dessert runs a tight ship as a bar owner, and doesn’t take crap from anyone. | |
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Trinity Blood has a couple. Despite being called Iron Lady, Caterina Sforza seems more like this in the anime version, while tough and willful, she's not stoic in the manga and the novels, she grows increasingly emotional. Mary Spencer and Queen Esther Blanchett (who becomes a war leader) are better examples. | |
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: Amelia Bones is the leader of the Aurors and is as ruthless as such a role demands she be. | |
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In the McAuslan story The Gordon Women, this trope is dominated by MacNeill's aunt Allison, who quickly and neatly manages to defuse a conflict between a retired Admiral and the locals who poach his grouse without raising her voice or getting out of her chair, leaving poor MacNeill to wonder when exactly the woman who tucked him into bed and read him stories as a child became the bastard daughter of Ellie Ewing and Vito Corleone. | |
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Death in Paradise has Judge Ann Stone, a stern and imperious older lady who once jailed her own police commissioner for traffic violations. Discussed when she is interviewed regarding the death of a high-class male escort: in a rare candid moment, she describes The Chains of Commanding and the strain of maintaining her impeccable public image, and admits that the escort's company made her feel happier and livelier than she had in years. | |
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Jenny Shepherd in NCIS. She had a bit of a Captain Ahab complex but she was tough, good at her job, and had a Dying Moment of Awesome. | |
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Lady Wu in Farce of the Three Kingdoms. While her son is the actual ruler, he quakes in his boots when she's angry. | |
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BattleTech: Many Clans have female Khans as their leader, and nobody bats an eye on them, as the critical qualification for being a Khan is being a real badass, while being a man doesn't figure high on the list to say the least. The most recent example is Malvina Hazen of Clan Jade Falcon who won her position in a Trial of Possession from the previous Khan Jana Pryde. | |
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The Wheel of Time has several examples (Robert Jordan really liked having powerful women in his supporting cast), but none as notable as Sorilea and Cadsuane, two elder women of extreme authority and confidence. Sorilea is brash and aggressive in a Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior! manner, knowing her social status will have everyone jumping at her commands, while Cadsuane has spent several hundred years making herself a Living Legend, and plays a mixture of her reputation and her utter refusal to let anyone sway her course to get her way. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, Mineva herself has picked up some of these traits, likely following Haman's example. It's enough that she's able to put on a commanding presence in front of very powerful people despite being only 16 years old at this point. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, Lady Maege Mormont and her daughters, who are war leaders as well. Olenna Redwyne, known as "The Queen of Thorns", is another example. Her son Mace Tyrell rules house Tyrell and she has no real power aside from being the old lord's widow, but no-one doubts that the Lady Olenna is the one who is ultimately in control. Genna Frey, née Lannister, is another woman whose displeasure should not be regarded lightly. "Tywin Lannister" is a byword for Pragmatic Villainy, but she can cow her big brother into submission with a few well-chosen words. |
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Ma Joad from The Grapes of Wrath is an example of this trope. She exemplifies all the traits but, most importantly, manages to hold the family together through sheer force of will alone. | |
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Amanda Waller from The DCU, though her actions here (and in other incarnations) often drift into Well-Intentioned Extremist territory. Batman avoids pissing her off if he can help it. | |
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British Prime Minister Maureen Graty on The West Wing, a thinly-veiled reference to Margaret Thatcher, who threatens to start a full-scale war over the terrorist shooting of a British plane and has to be talked down. | |
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The Independence Day novelization portrays the President's wife Marilyn as a popular figure who does a lot to help Tom Whitmore accomplish much. | |
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Cornelia from Code Geass is a ruthless military version complete with hidden soft side. A rare royal example. Also willing to sacrifice innocent Japanese civilians as part of tactics (and out of racism). | |
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them gives us Seraphina Picquiry, the president of MACUSA, who is very no-nonsense and unyielding. Of course, given she was an African-American women holding the equivalent of POTUS for the magical world in a time when neither women nor African-Americans came to power easily, maybe she had to be. | |
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The Bible has a a few interesting examples: Esther was rather like this. She was like Scheherazade, but ruthless as well. She is one of only two women to have a book of the Tanakh (Jewish Bible) named after her. Deborah, the only female Judge of Israelnote For those living under a rock, that meant "leader of the Israelites" at the time.. With her general Barak, she led the Israelites against the Canaanites (Barak didn't trust his own judgment). In her own words: You might also include Judith from the deuterocanonical book of the same name. |
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Inspector Thatcher on Due South, whose nickname from one of the Rays was the Dragon Lady. (not to be confused with the Dragon Lady trope.) Yes, she was named after the real Thatcher. | |
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Secretary of Defense Jessica Delacourt from Elysium. | |
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Najenda, the coolly effective leader of the assassin group Night Raid in Akame ga Kill!. | |
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This trope has been used as a casting trope on the CBS's reality TV competition show, Big Brother a few times. These women include Danielle Reyes (S3, 7), Kail Harbick (S8), Shelly Moore (S13) and Helen Kim (S15). | |
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Game of Thrones: Lyanna Mormont is a stoic, determined, brave, and no-nonsense leader despite her very young age. | |
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Saw V: Brit Stevenson. She's a real estate senior vice president who will do sketchy things done her way. She also proves to be one of the tougher Fatal Five test subjects, though she avoids veering from pragmatism into outright ruthlessness compared to the others, and she's one of the two survivors at the end. | |
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General Leong Supreme Commander of the Tau'ri inContact at Kobol. | |
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Waller shows up again in Young Justice (2010), running a penitentiary for super-powered criminals. Even after the crooks take over the prison thanks to a mole on her staff and start threatening her life, she doesn't give them an inch. Sadly, said mole ends up replacing her after she takes the fall for the near-breakout. | |
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Medea Solon from Your Throne. She is ruthless, cold, and tough in order to maintain her political power and outwit her enemies. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Morovenn Vahl, the abbess of the Adepta Sororitas, was appointed to the High Lords of Terra. While the Ecclesiarch sought to use her for his own purposes, she proved to be harder to control. She showed up to government meetings in full battle armour and continued to lead major military campaigns, even appointing herself head of a crusade. | |
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Get Shorty: Amara is a cartel boss in Las Vegas who killed the boss she was sold to as a teenager before he could exercise his Marital Rape License and became a boss herself. She hasn't slowed down dropping bodies, either. | |
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In Gifts of Wandering Ice both Lara (chief of the hunters' tribe) and her heir Rita are strong, brave women, and are born leaders. | |
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Kiss of the Rose Princess: Yamamoto Anis will not take any of these dimension warping shenanigans sitting down, thank you very much! She may have just been informed that her father intends to sacrifice her to a seal of unknown demonic origin and otherwise make her life hell, but she is not going to just sit around and mope. No. She is going to kick her Knights' collective asses into gear. You will obey or you will get the rose thorns of doom. | |
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Judge Dredd: Chief Judge McGruder; since she was based on Margaret Thatcher, this is appropriate. Hershey also showed elements of this during her tenure as chief judge. |
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Harriet Jones as a Prime Minister in Doctor Who, sometimes too much (it helps she's something of an Expy of Thatcher). | |
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Song at Dawn: For Emerganda and Alienor a 'take charge' mindset is required for them to have any influence at all. Both of them daily battle against men who try to undercut their authority. Emerganda is the duchess of a region of France and keeps a sharp eye on its finances and potential civil unrest. Alienor, a duchess and a queen, laments that being pregnant makes her more emotional. |
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Detective Carter from Person of Interest surely qualifies. | |
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Last Res0rt has several tough ladies, but none that embodies this trope like Celigo's military leader, First Wing (and Messiah of the Endless) Veled. Another possible candidate: the Star Org's Security Chief, Spirit of the Murphy's Law. |
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Alosha, the smith-witch in Uprooted. She has a few centuries under her belt and no longer bothers with deep personal attachments to lovers or great-grandchildren, rather safeguarding the welfare of Polnya as a country. She's the most level-headed mage in the capital and is savvy to the political games without being foolish enough to get invested in them, and she's also brutally pragmatic and has no qualms about telling Agnieszka that she should have just killed Kasia (who Agnieszka rescued from the Wood and its corruption) both because she's a potential physical liability and a decided political one. | |
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A Giant Sucking Sound: President Ann Richards, in her dealings with Congress and her attacks on the website Stormfront. | |
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In Kill la Kill, we have Satsuki Kiryuin who ruled over the Honouji Academy with an iron fist. | |
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Laura Roslin of Battlestar Galactica is this to a T. | |
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Nina Tanleven: In The Ghost Wore Gray, Gloria Cleveland is always shown as stern and controlling - nobody, not even her husband or the short-tempered Dieter Schwartz, dares disobey her when she gives an order. The only time she’s shown being softer is when Baltimore is hurt and she rushes to his side. | |
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This is a common casting trope on the CBS's reality TV competition show, Survivor. They are older women (ages 35+) who were cast because of their accomplishments in their successful careers. Notable women of this casting trope are Debb Eaton (S2), Vecepia Towery (S4), Jeanne Hebert (S6), Jolanda Jones (S10), Stephannie Favor (S13), Cassandra Franklin (S14), Tracy Hughes-Wolf (S16), Jill Behm (S21), Edna Ma (S23), Denise Stapley (S25), Sherri Biethman (S26), Kass McQuillen (S28, 31), Val Collins (S29), Carolyn Rivera (S30), Jessica Lewis (S33), Chrissy Hofbeck (S35) and Natalie Cole (S37). Evidence of them being cast for their career accomplishments is clear from their pre-game/pre-season interviews and the host's cast assessments. Samantha in the 2008 version of Survivors |
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Barbara Stanwyck as Jessica Drummond in Forty Guns. In Real Life too; when her stunt double refused to be dragged along by a horse because it was too dangerous, she did the stunt herself. She was nearly 50 years old at the time. | |
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The Legend of Korra gives us Lin Beifong, who is a more literal case with actual metal armor. She is the chief of the Metalbending Police Force in Republic City for the power part. And yes, she does bear a striking resemblance to Thatcher. Book 4 gives us Kuvira; a minor, unassuming, soldier who rose in power during the three year gap and becomes a military leader known as The Great Uniter. Firelord Izumi (Zuko's daughter) only speaks in one scene in the entire show but comes off as very no-nonsense (including shooting Prince Wu a motherly-esque Disapproving Look), conscientious, and patient. She stands her ground about not taking military action when President Raiko tries to talk her into it. |
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Dragon Age II: Knight-Commander Meredith takes over running the city after the murder of the Viscount, despite protests, and holds it together through fear and personal charisma. Similarly to her predecessor, she struggles to make any inroads defusing the tensions in the city, and truthfully just makes it worse. The red lyrium driving her insane doesn't help. Aveline Vallen, just one year after arriving in the city as a penniless refugee, manages to get a job in the city guard and is promoted to captain of the guard because all the guardsmen consider her to be by far the most capable person for the position after exposing the corruption of her predecessor. Varric, in the third game, remarks that Kirkwall would probably fall into the sea without her to keep things running smoothly. In a non-mage Hawke run, if Bethany joins the Grey Wardens at the end of Act 1, she effectively becomes this, after spending the first act as The Ingenue. Bringing her back for either of the DLC campaigns proves that she is not happy about taking on this role. |
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Nasuada of Inheritance Cycle. She's strong-willed from day one, but learns to manipulate people and stand up to mages with incredible magical powers. | |
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Stargate Atlantis: Dr. Elizabeth Weir in her time as leader of the Atlantis expedition certainly qualifies. She makes the tough decisions with a firm hand and very, VERY rarely shows weakness (and then, only to Sheppard, her second-in-command and best friend.) | |
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The Star Wars Legends version of Leia becomes this as she helps found the New Republic government and later becomes Chief of State for a time. Leia had an Evil Counterpart in Natasi Daala, a former Imperial admiral who oversaw the construction of the Death Star and was later elected Chief of State, becoming a President Evil. She was discriminated against for her sex in the beginning of her career, leading her to become The Stoic. |
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Cyberpunk 2077: The short history of the New United States of America has seen two: Elizabeth Kress, president for no less than 48 years between 2021 and 2069, and Rosalind Myers, her successor. Both are former United States military officers, corporate executives, and ruthless politicians pursuing a policy of national reunification, with Myers starting the Unification War in her first term. Myers also proves to be a tenable Action Politician when she finally shows up in the Phantom Liberty expansion. | |
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Col. Jessup had this to say in A Few Good Men: 'There is nothing on this earth sexier, believe me, gentlemen, than a woman you have to salute in the morning. Promote 'em all, I say.' Of course, he then went on to sing the praises of blowjobs performed by female officers, suggesting a few holes in the Colonel's progressivism. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: Captain Kathryn Janeway of the Federation Starship Voyager (Depending on the Writer, but then Voyager had problems like that). | |
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Arisse, the Duchess of Lillah from Long Live the Queen, is said to be regarded by many as the second queen of Nova for her strong, no-nonsense approach to government. If the actions Elodie takes paint her as being a weak ruler, Arisse will garner support from the other nobles to instigate a civil war against her. It's possible to learn of her involvement with some dark secrets within her family (provided that you have Elodie take enough Internal Affairs classes and direct her spies and agents appropriately), but there's no denying her influence. | |
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In Gaiking: Legend of Daiku Maryu, the West General of Darius, Vestaanu, is the cold, calculating, ineffable military commander of the Iron Beast Corps. | |
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Babylon 5: Susan Ivanova, the station's second-in-command. Delenn can also be described as such, if you cross her or (especially) her sense of what's right. Her breaking the Grey Council when they wouldn't act against the Shadows epitomized that, and it's a safe bet that Sheridan was grateful most of his days that she had his back when it counted. Though she doesn't get as much screentime as the others, President Susanna Luchenko, President Clark's successor, comes across this way as well. She comes into office in the aftermath of a civil war and is faced with the tough decision of what to do with Sheridan, the hero of the hour who committed borderline treason to depose Clark. She gives him a Morton's Fork choice then warns him not to mistake this for a conversation. |
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Hellsing: When she was just a child, Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing was almost killed by her Evil Uncle for the right to control the family business. After that she has been the head of the Hellsing family and master of Alucard. Integra is definitely more stoic and "masculine" than the other female lead, Seras, and even in the Convention of Twelve—a gathering of all sorts of important people from military, Parliament and the like—she is by far the most calm and collected. | |
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The Grand Councilwoman of the United Galactic Federation in Lilo & Stitch. | |
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