30 female characters meme (#2 & 3)

[flowrs4ophelia]

...Well, I am determined to do this whole meme, but let's not take the 30-day format that literally, shall we?


Every day for thirty days you post about an awesome female character. Pictures! Recs! Squee! What's not to love?

Day 1: Pepper Potts



DR. MARTHA JONES
Doctor Who / Torchwood

Every companion has a lot weighing on their role in the story and will naturally be subject to the highest scrutiny. They come in as someone we don't know as well as we know the Doctor, but they're supposed to be just as sympathetic and more normal and relatable than him because they're the outside perspective, in other words us being taken on the journey. If you can't connect to the companion it makes the whole Doctor Who experience a little off, and Martha somehow lacked a certain je ne sais quoi to make her a character who could strongly carry the show, which I guess is in part what sadly made a lot of people just plain dislike her. But I think she's a great character as part of an ensemble, whether she's with the Doctor and Jack, the Torchwood team, or the Doctor and Donna. And still a pretty awesome lady in general. (She and Mickey are going to have the most badass babies ever, LOL.)

Crowning Moments of Awesome: Showing Miss Redfern she's not full of crap in claiming "someone of her color" could be studying to be a doctor / "You're rubbish as a human!" / Randomly knowing how to speak German, fuck yeah




TOPH BEI FONG
Avatar: The Last Airbender

It's so weird to imagine if Toph had been a boy like the creators originally decided the fourth addition to the Gaang would be. To make the blind martial arts badass trope seem new, well, it could only be a 12-year-old girl, and a second and very different female presence was exactly what the show needed anyway. (Katara's an awesome and well-rounded enough character that when she's motherly it doesn't come off as a role they just automatically dumped into the only girl's lap, but add to that how she's the main hero's love interest and often portrayed in a sort of romantically idealized way, and I just can't help but find it really refreshing when contrastingly laid-back and not-touchy-feely Toph comes in and practically lampshades all this by getting annoyed by the "sugar queen" sometimes. LOL.) It makes her different than the others and a lot of fun that she's less driven by mere righteousness or a sense of responsibility than the fun rebelliousness of joining the Avatar because holding in all her epic talent as a sheltered aristocrats' daughter gets boring.

Crowning Moments of Awesome: Bringing down the entire stairway outside the Earth King's palace / Figuring out how to earthbend her way out of a metal case, which was supposedly impossible

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

Martha Jones! I love her. The fact that there's so much lingering resentment towards her in fandom because of the unrequited love arc bothers me a lot because her character and her story was more than that. Humph.

And YES lol the Smith-Jones babies will be so badass. They should totally be companions in like 2035.

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

Martha Jones ftw! She's always been the Companion I identified with the most, and pretty much the only one I would actually be friends with irl. Not that I don't love the others, because I do...I just have a special place in my heart for Martha.

(oops, commented in the wrong place first time around)

[isisgodiva.livejournal.com]

Everyone would have liked Martha if it were not for that dumb unrequited love story line. As a character, I think she was quite remarkable and would have been able to shine had they given her a proper handling. I think this is why Donna rocked so hard (besides it being Catherine Tate)as a companion because it was just about the adventures for her.

[flowrs4ophelia.livejournal.com]

True. They always put too much focus on that and it's all she's remembered for by so many people.