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[kaigou]

"a multifandom tribute to female characters" ... now if only I knew who all of them were! (see cut)
h/t: shiegra

What ARE these? I'm missing like half! Or more! I put it in italics if I (or the person who suggested) the ID isn't absolutely postive; other in italics is reference to what's in the scene, since the time-stamp isn't always exactly perfect, so instead just identify via what's happening).

Through much persistence and a bit of guesswork and some skillful digging, all segments have been identified. Many many thanks to all who helped!

0.04 Mermaids, Chronicles of Narnia
0.06 Maj. Eden Sinclair, Doomsday
0.08 Mystique, X-men
0.11 Anastasia Dualla, Battlestar Galactica
0.13 Gwen, Merlin
0.15 Mira, The Last Legion
0.16 Nymphadora Tonks, Harry Potter
0.17 Saavik, Star Trek II
0.19 Morganna, Merlin
0.20 Djaq, Robin Hood
0.21 Evey Hammond, V for Vendetta
0.24 Evey Hammond, V for Vendetta
0.26 Storm, X-men
0.28 Galadriel, LoTR
0.31 Ace, Dr Who
0.32 Jen Yu, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
0.35 Bellatrix Lestrange, Harry Potter
0.37 Viper, Doomsday
0.38 Morganna, Merlin
0.39 Selena, 28 Days Later
0.40 Maj. Eden Sinclair & Viper, Doomsday
0.42 Alia Atreides, Dune
0.43 Gwen, Merlin
0.45 Jen Yu & Shu-lien Yu, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
0.46 Mira, The Last Legion
0.48 Kahlan Amnell, Legend of the Seeker
0.49 Morgana, Merlin
0.50 Dayna Mellanby, Blakes 7
0.51 Princess Leia, Star Wars
0.52 Blair Williams, Terminator: Salvation
0.54 Maj. Eden Sinclair, Doomsday
0.55 Lt. JG Sharon "Athena" Agathon, Battlestar Galactica ??
0.57 Cmdr. Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5
0.58 Lt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, Battlestar Galactica
1.02 Lt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, Battlestar Galactica
1.03 Cmdr. Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5
1.06 Aeryn Sun, Farscape
1.10 Aeryn Sun, Farscape
1.11 Agent Dana Scully, X-files
1.13 Jean Grey, X-men
1.14 Dr Elizabeth Shaw, Dr Who
1.15 Toshiko Sato, Torchwood
1.17 Dr Beverly Crusher, ST:NG
1.18 Lois Lane, Lois & Clark
1.19 Lois Lane, Smallville
1.20 Lois Lane, Superman II
1.21 Ofelia, El Laberinto del Fauno
1.22 Maria, The Sarah Jane Adventures
1.24 Lucy Pevensie, Chronicles of Narnia
1.25 Rani Chandra, The Sarah Jane Adventures
1.26 Wendy, Peter Pan
1.27 Number Six, Battlestar Galactica
1.29 Jadis, Chronicles of Narnia
1.32 Nimue, Merlin
1.33 Borg Queen, Star Trek: First Contact
1.34 Commandant Mele-on Grayza, Farscape
1.35 Cmdr. Servalan/Commissioner Sleer, Blakes 7
1.36 Empress Hoshi Sato, ST: Enterprise
1.37 Selene, Underworld
1.38 Sarah Connor, Terminator2
1.39 Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley, Alien
1.41 Abby Grant, Survivors
1.43 Minerva McGonagall, Harry Potter
1.44 Arwen Undómiel, LoTR
1.46 Calypso, Pirates of the Caribbean
1.47 Sarah Connor, The Sarah Connor Chronicles
1.48 Gwen Jones, Torchwood
1.50 Lois Habiba, Torchwood
1.51 Cameron Phillips, The Sarah Connor Chronicles
1.53 Sarah Connor, Terminator 2
1.54 Sarah Connor, The Sarah Connor Chronicles
1.56 Lt. Ellen Ripley, Aliens
1.57 Number One, ST:TOS
1.58 Jenna Stannis, Blakes 7
1.59 Delenn, Babylon5
2.01 Teyla Emmagen, Stargate Atlantis
2.02 Cally, Blakes 7
2.03 Aeryn Sun, Farscape
2.04 Catwoman, Batman Returns
2.07 Alice, Resident Evil
2.09 Trinity, Matrix
2.14 Sikozu, Farscape
2.16 Nyota Uhura, ST:TOS
2.19 Guinan, ST:NG
2.21 Nyota Uhura, ST:Star Trek
2.22 Princess Irulan & Ghanima, Children of Dune
2.24 Martha Jones & Donna Noble, Doctor Who
2.26 Kara Thrace and Laura Roslin, Battlestar Galactica
2.27 Jadzia Dax & Lenara Kahn?, ST:DS9
2.28 Lt. Ellen Ripley & Newt, Aliens
2.30 Gwen & Morgana, Merlin
2.31 Abby Grant & Jenny Richards, Survivors
2.34 Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter
2.37 Rogue, X-men
2.40 DI Alex Drake, Ashes To Ashes
2.44 Martha Jones, Dr Who
2.49 Maj. Eden Sinclair, Doomsday
2.53 Romana II, Dr Who
2.54 Blair Williams, Terminator Salvation
2.55 Éowyn, LoTR
2.57 Kee, Children of Men
3.02 Laura Roslin, Battlestar Galactica
3.04 Kai Winn & Maj. Kira, ST:DS9
3.06 Azetbur, ST: The Undiscovered Country
3.07 Harriet Jones, Dr Who
3.09 Lady Jessica, Children of Dune
3.12 Romulan Cmdr. (Charvanek/Dion Charvon), ST:TOS
3.13 Dr Beverly Crusher, ST:NG
3.14 Delenn, Babylon5
3.15 Captain Ana Maria, Pirates of the Caribbean
3.18 Kate Janeway, ST:Voyager
3.20 Maj. Eden Sinclair, Doomsday
3.22 Elizabeth (Swann) Turner, Pirates of the Caribbean
3.37 Sarah Jane, Dr Who

my many thanks for helping identify so many characters:
maire, kathmandu, jak_frostty, christeos_pir, rogue53, hokuton_punch, viridian_magpie, angelline, shiegra, ticktocktober, and of course, all the folks in the comments on this post. much appreciated!

Comments

[maire]

At 0.51, I see Dayna, from Blakes 7.

0.54 doesn't look like Ivanova to me, but I could be wrong; it's definitely her after the BSG woman, though, at 0.58.

1.01 is, I think, Starbuck.

1.04 is Ivanova.

1.35 is Servalan from Blakes 7. 1.58 is Jenna from Blakes 7. 2.02 is Cally from Blakes 7. (That show really did have fantastic female characters.)

2.37 looks like Rogue, yes.

2.53 could be Romana 1. She's definitely a Dr Who companion.

3.22 could be Elizabeth from PoC. I haven't seen that movie, but the actress looks right.

[kaigou]

woo! you rock!

*goes to edit*

[maire]

I'm happy to have been reminded just how good Blakes 7 was on this front.

Women with motives that weren't their love lives (revenge, money, nothing else to do, continuing with their normal profession). Women in plural as part of a team. Women who were better at fighting than men but weren't superpowered (unless you count the psychic alien, but even she was a good hand-to-hand fighter) or teenaged (i.e., they were actually somewhat plausible).

The clothes were pretty cool too. Often sexy, but more cool boots than high heels and frequently less cleavage than the men's.

[maire]

I see you're doing surnames. Two of the Blakes 7 ones have them. Jenna Stanis and Dayna Mellanby. Also, I apparently can't spell Dayna. I think I said Dana.

[maire]

Stannis, not Stanis, too. Not my day.

[kaigou]

Thanks! I went through and cleaned up the military/professional titles, too. Might as well be semi-accurate if the info's out there. (Thank goodness for wiki, eh.)

[maire]

NB Servalan, by the time she was wearing red, may not have been Supreme Commander any more. I think she was using the Commissioner Sleer identity by then. She was never just a commander either way.

[(Anonymous)]

She was still Servalan in that clip - it's from "Gambit" in season 2.

[(Anonymous)]

0.39 - Bellatrix Lestrange,Harry Potter
2.01 - Teyla Emmagen, Stargate Atlantis
3.15 - Part of Jack Sparrow's crew in Pirates of the Caribbean, The Curse of the Black Pearl

[kaigou]

Excellent! So the girl in the red cloak (and the large lobster creatures) is from Harry Potter, Teyla is the one making the "come on then let's fight" gesture, and... the last woman (on the ship) is just part of Sparrow's crew, and not Elizabeth?

[maire]

I was sure that was Keira Knightley!

[billie]

Actually, Bellatrix is the one in 0:36-- all in black, wand poised, crazed look. Not sure about the red cloak girl. I've seen her somewhere, but I don't know where... oh, this is frustrating! But fun. :)

[kaigou]

Whoops, okay, edited! The visual of the girl in the red cloak is pretty damn striking, and my google-fu has its moments, but I've not gotten anything by searching on a description of the scene. Sheesh.

[words_unravel]

0.11 Officer Anastasia Dualla, Battlestar Galactica
0.17 Kirstie Alley as Saavik in Star Trek II
1.18 --- [plaid shirt] pretty sure is Lois Lane, early TV series
1.19 --- [in office] Lois Lane, Smallville
1.20 --- [behind car] Lois Lane, movies
1.34 --- [deep-vee neckline wanna say it's farscape, but i'm not sure
2.07 --- [run up wall] Alice, resident evil

[words_unravel]

Also:

3.37 ? Dr Who - Sarah Jane, I believe.

[kaigou]

Officer Anastasia Dualla, Battlestar Galactica: the outdoor shot at what looks like a graveyard, right? Whoops, 0.11 not 1.11 ... what a day my brain is NOT having.

Ahahaha, so that IS Kirstie Alley -- I kept thinking, wow, looks just like her, but awfully young... Still, Star Trek II, man, what was she, eighteen!? when that was made?

Also: LOIS LANE. I THOUGHT SO. I think it's that eager but partly-stymied look in all the filmed versions of Lois Lane... Heh.

a few more :)

[words_unravel]

1.47 --- [in car] Sarah Connor, TV series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
1.51 --- [kick door open] Cameron Phillips, TV series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
1.54 --- [cock gun] Sarah Connor, TV series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
2.03 --- [toss man] Aeryn Sun, Farscape

[kaigou]

Awesome! *makes edits* A few steps closer to enlightenment, thank you!

[maire]

2.31 doesn't look like Blakes 7 to me. It could be, but I was guessing Dr Who.

[kaigou]

From the filter used, I can at least tell you it's definitely a BBC production. I'd bet pizza money on that, actually -- you just learn the difference between US shows shot on film vs. BBC productions shot on video. (That was one reason I was reluctant to watch Torchwood, until I figured out they're using video but with adjustment filters and speeds that more closely mimic the look/feel of film... so much easier on the eyes!)

[maire]

I know what you mean.

The clothes look rather more Dr Who and less B7 to me (the B7 costumers had a *lot* of fun), and I don't recognise the characters, which seems more likely for the former, since there's plenty of 70's and 80's Dr Who I have never seen (despite having loved the show back then), and I've seen all of B7 at least twice.

[maire]

3.09 has a look of Sigourney Weaver.

[kaigou]

I keep thinking it's from Babylon 5, but I can't find any diplomatic character similar in appearance, but I could've sworn I've seen that shot. (My ex used to watch a lot of SF, especially SF-network and BBC, so maybe that's where I'm getting the vague recollection from... but still, nope, no idea.) I say no to Weaver mostly because I'm almost positive she's tall enough that she would *not* be that much shorter than the men flanking her.

[maire]

Could it be Kyra from Chronicles of Riddick?

[kaigou]

No, I don't think so -- the woman looks like she's got maybe 10-15 years on the actress who plays Kyra (plus the style/dress is completely different). The only distinctive thing in the entire split-second clip is that at the end of the hallway, there's a lit "V" (or a symbol that looks a lot like the letter V), but I can't place which SF series uses that in its settings. Hrmm.

[billie]

in
2:25, Martha Jones hugging Donna Noble, Doctor Who
2:34 is Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter
2:41 is DI Alex Drake, Ashes To Ashes

Woman in 3:06 is the daughter of the Romulan Ambassador who succeeds him-- STVI, The Undiscovered Country. Blanking on the name atm.

3:07 Harriet Jones, DW (I think)
3:15 Ana Maria (I think), Pirates of the Caribbean

Sarah Jane is not the first, but one of the most important assistants. She travelled with the fifth (? I think) Doctor originally, met the tenth in an EPIC episode in the second "New Who" series, and got her own spin-off-- the Sarah Jane Adventures. Pretty brilliant. :D

... annnnd that's all I have to add for now. :)

[billie]

Girl with magnifying glass (1:25) -- Rani Chandra, The Sarah Jane Adventures
1:48 is Gwen Cooper, Torchwood, while
1:51 (on phone) might be Tish Jones (Martha's sister) from DW, but I'm not at all sure.

Bed time now, more (maybe) tomorrow. :)

[kaigou]

1.48 meaning "woman driving car" shot? the very next shot is of Gwen on the phone followed by Lois (both from the 'Children of Earth' or whatever final season of Torchwood), but I wasn't sure that the preceding shot is also Gwen (though I can recall a point in the series where there was a long shot of her driving...)

woo!

[billie]

1:48 meaning "Woman on phone after shot of Gwen on phone", but -- Lois. Whoops. RIGHT. I didn't finish Children of Earth and blanked out all I'd seen pretty soon ...

Also, Azetbur: KLINGON. Not Romulan ... obviously. *facepalm*

The red cloak girl and the tissue scene are driving me up the wall. I KNOW these. I do.

Doctor Who is, btw, entirely worth a shot. Just don't let the living plastic in episode one of the Chris Eccleston arc scare you off, it's a typical case of Pilot Gone Wrong.

[kaigou]

Doctor Who is, btw, entirely worth a shot. Just don't let the living plastic in episode one of the Chris Eccleston arc scare you off, it's a typical case of Pilot Gone Wrong.

Doctor Who is in the same category as One Piece, in my mind: already so freaking far advanced into any sort of a storyline overall that there's simply no chance I'd ever catch up in this lifetime, any more than the likelihood that I'll ever participate in an Olympic sport. I just came to the game a little too late to do much more than admire the breadth from afar, but I'm not crazy enough to do more!

[stinky-horowitz.livejournal.com]

3.15 is Captain Anamaria. You know the ship that Jack sails/sinks at the dock in the beginning of "Curse of the Black Pearl"? He stole it from Anamaria, so she comes along on the adventure to make Jack repay her with a ship. I think she ends up captain of the Interceptor at the end of the first movie. So no, she's not Jack's crew, really.

2.57 is Kee from the movie "Children of Men". I love that movie so much; I think it beats the book by miles.

[kaigou]

Ahah, and the very last person-on-a-ship is Elizabeth. (Helps to find pictures on the intarnets, too.)

Thank you!

[windsorblue]

I think the mermaids are from one of the Harry Potter movies.

At 0.55 - that's probably Sharon "Athena" Agathon. I say probably because it might be Boomer. But I think that bit is from later in the series.

Blue lips at 1.46 is Calypso from PoTC. I think the free-falling one at 1.37 is Jean Gray.

2.34 Harry Potter is Luna Lovegood.

I think the woman holding the baby at 2.57 is from Children of Men.

3.12 is the Romulan commander from "The Enterprise Incident".

3.15 is Anamaria from PoTC

[kaigou]

3.12 is the Romulan commander from "The Enterprise Incident".

Not just the character but even the episode name! *is in awe*

[rogue53]

Ok, Here's my take on some of this (and this is one of my favorite songs!)

.06 Is this an early Sarah Connor?
.31 Yes, Dr Who (9th?)
1.10 Also Aeryn Sun
1.14 Dr Who again - 3rd Dr's asst
1.27 BSG yes
1.41 Dr Who - I think either 1st or 2nd
2.26 Makes me think Deep Space 9
2.31 And Dr Who once again

All in all, WONDERFUL! And truly kind of scary that so many of our 'powerful' women figures are either mythical or science fiction. It's too bad that more aren't 'now'...

[kaigou]

I'm pretty sure .06 isn't Sarah Connor, because that's the same woman in several other shots, all referred to as "tank-top" -- but for the life of me, I can't figure out what series/movie it is. Sheesh!

The doctor's assistants are... well, hard to figure out, since the few images I can find aren't always a high quality. For that matter, I suck at face-recognition anyway, unless there's a really prominent detail like hair-color or cheekbones or the shape of the nose. Sigh.

[rogue53]

Yeah, I know, and I never have gotten all of the early ones straight... But there's enough repeats of the Doctor that I've gotten to the point that I almost recognize the scenery before I know who the person is! Which would be why I can pick out the Dr stuff almost before anything else...

[rogue53]

Ah, and from the husband (who was very impressed by the whole thing!) that he thinks at 1.36 is Kate Breckinsdale from Underworld. Not sure which movie but...

[kaigou]

Give him a cookie for me: the style of the shot definitely matches that film better than the X-men films, so I'm willing to bet he's right.

[silmaril]

The female characters tribute was just awesome.

[kaigou]

Not to mention a real brain-twister on trying to identify all the ones I know, and wondering who-the-hell the rest of them are!

[kathmandu]

I'm pretty sure that the woman dodging things at 0:42 was from the SciFi channel miniseries of Dune. She was the hero's sister, if I recall correctly; IMDB says that would be Alia Atreides.

[kaigou]

score for you! I wasn't sure if anyone'd ever tell me who that was. ;D

*goes to edit*

[wilhelminabenedict]

Those mermaids aren't from Harry Potter, they're from Chronicles of Narnia, first movie.

And .48 isn't Morgana--that's Kahlan Amnell from Legend of the Seeker. .49, however, with white tank top, is Morgana.

[(Anonymous)]

1.41 isn't Jo Grant - I think it's Abby Grant from "Survivors" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors). Jo Grant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Grant) looks a bit different.