# Chicks Who Kick Ass on TV shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicks-who-kick-ass-on-tv-shows/658895 "2013-05-21T02:38:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicks-who-kick-ass-on-tv-shows/658895/41 "2013-05-27T03:29:55Z")
[Physics!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay2CHX9qeLA) ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicks-who-kick-ass-on-tv-shows/658895/42 "2013-05-27T05:22:02Z")
Episode five of a Korean action series I’m trying desperately to remember. A 98-pound chick lays waste to a bunch of baddies. Maybe if **Dag Otto** stops by, he can remind me. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicks-who-kick-ass-on-tv-shows/658895/43 "2013-05-27T06:11:51Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > [Physics!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay2CHX9qeLA) [Rebuttal!](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060613-cat-bear.html) Well, not really. Still funny though. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicks-who-kick-ass-on-tv-shows/658895/44 "2013-05-27T06:23:09Z")
I find that [Gogo Yubari](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9iIKn1Bl6c) (Kill Bill Vol. 1) fuels the _oddest_ combination of fetishes. ---
**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicks-who-kick-ass-on-tv-shows/658895/45 "2013-05-27T07:28:31Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > River Tam, Firefly Was the first one that came to mind. All the more impressive as she looks so broken and incapable. Summer Glau is incredible! ---
**Author:** ![JuliaSqueezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@JuliaSqueezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuliaSqueezer)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicks-who-kick-ass-on-tv-shows/658895/46 "2013-05-27T13:46:18Z")
Katee Sackhoff as Absaroka County Sheriff Vic Moretti on _Longmire_. Season 2 starts tonight on A&E and I, for one, cannot wait. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicks-who-kick-ass-on-tv-shows/658895/47 "2013-05-27T14:02:32Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Diana Rigg as Mrs. Peel was the greatest! And Tasha Yar, on Star Trek: TNG was also a lot of fun. Puh-leeze, never mention those two on the same page! Tasha’s martial arts skills were as lame as the rest of her character. Joanna Lumley did better as Purdey in _ **The New Avengers** _ (and she was 1,000 times hotter, too). ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicks-who-kick-ass-on-tv-shows/658895/48 "2013-05-27T21:56:56Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > Episode five of a Korean action series I’m trying desperately to remember. A 98-pound chick lays waste to a bunch of baddies. > Maybe if **Dag Otto** stops by, he can remind me. [Found it](http://www.hulu.com/athena-goddess-of-war)! ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicks-who-kick-ass-on-tv-shows/658895/49 "2013-05-27T22:43:59Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Tasha’s martial arts skills were as lame as the rest of her character. Was the character lame or was Denise Crosby just not very good at acting? ISTR the stuff she did in _Trekkies_, playing Denise Crosby, was even pretty weak. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicks-who-kick-ass-on-tv-shows/658895/50 "2013-05-27T23:03:54Z")
Crosby’s case makes me wonder - and it’s a tangent topic perhaps better suited to another thread - but if she left TNG becasue she thought her character was being pushed to the background, could she have done anything about it through pitching story ideas for Tasha Yar subplots and development? Tried to write or even learn to direct episodes? Basically, was there any chance she could do what Frakes, Burton and (to a lesser degree) Gates McFadden did? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicks-who-kick-ass-on-tv-shows/658895/51 "2013-05-28T01:25:04Z")
_ **Chocolate** _ is a pretty fun martial arts film from a few years ago about [a young autistic girl, Zen, who is an ass-kicking savant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoccbDV5NOI). ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicks-who-kick-ass-on-tv-shows/658895/52 "2013-05-28T03:00:51Z")
What a coinkiny-dink. We were just talking with our daughter about this tonight. When she was a kid, she was such a huge fan of _ **Alias** _ that she’d stay up late watching Jennifer Garner kick ass. And we were contrasting Garner’s _Sydney Bristow_ with Jessica Alba’s _Max_ in _ **Dark Angel.** _ ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicks-who-kick-ass-on-tv-shows/658895/53 "2013-05-28T03:41:40Z")
Oops, my contribution two posts up was a movie, not TV. So let me add: Natasha Henstridge and pals in the campy, fun, syndicated show _She Spies_ from about 10 years ago. And that also brings to mind the show _V.I.P._ starring Pam Anderson. Anderson’s character didn’t kick much ass, but she was kind of a figurehead for a team of ass-kicking women. More currently, many of the women on _True Blood_ do some fighting. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicks-who-kick-ass-on-tv-shows/658895/54 "2013-05-31T20:58:27Z")
> [@gytalf2000](#): > > > [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > > > Personally, I’d like the pattern to be broken now and then with a 110lb woman delivering a roundhouse kick to a 250lb man, who shrugs it off and flattens her with one punch. > > Because, y’know… physics. > > You should take a look at this Youtube video from the funny action series “Chuck”: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0CVYdO5OJ0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0CVYdO5OJ0) > > The video is only 47 seconds long, but if you want to “cut to the chase”, go to the :30 mark for the action. One of the other things they did on Chuck was to show the physical effects of violence. You’d notice that Sarah gets bloodied up in a lot of the fights she gets into. Some of the most violent are when some femme fatale and Sarah go at it. There was a well received episode called [Chuck Versus the Cougars](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Versus_the_Cougars) which had Sarah and a high school rival beat the hell out of each other at a school reunion. Afterward it shows Sarah bruised, bleeding, and limping as she returns to the reunion. Most shows won’t go there and show the physical effects of the kinds of kung-phooery their actors/actresses are constantly engaged in. Someone may take a roundhouse to the face but it doesn’t cause a bruise or split the skin and bleed. Enjoy, Steven [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicks-who-kick-ass-on-tv-shows/658895.md?page=2)