# "Manliest" tv/movie moments...by women

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manliest-tv-movie-moments-by-women/614770>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 5, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manliest-tv-movie-moments-by-women/614770 "2012-03-05T02:03:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manliest-tv-movie-moments-by-women/614770/1 "2012-03-05T02:03:12Z")

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Inspired, of course, by [the recent “What are the manliest moments in movie history?” thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=643526)—“manliness,” whatever it’s origins, certainly doesn’t STOP with men. So I’m looking for the most manly moments in TV and movies by characters who aren’t men.

Some of my picks?

• Most of Valeria’s lines in “Conan the Barbarian.” _“Do you want to live forever?”_  
• Major Kusanagi in [Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tj7HTGjAKk), episode 21. Pissed off cyborg, missing an arm, firing a single-action antitank rifle one-handed. :eek:  
• Ellen Ripley, _Aliens_…uhhhm, deary me, _what_ to pick? I’ll just say[the last fight scene.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSrcMaid0mg&feature=related)  
So…anyone else?

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**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manliest-tv-movie-moments-by-women/614770/2 "2012-03-05T04:12:32Z")

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Terminator 2 when Linda Hamilton racks the shotgun one-handed.

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**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manliest-tv-movie-moments-by-women/614770/3 "2012-03-05T04:23:46Z")

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[Betty White](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSOjv32TUmA).

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**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manliest-tv-movie-moments-by-women/614770/4 "2012-03-05T05:39:45Z")

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A somewhat underated movie IMO, but Geena Davis in almost any scene once when ‘wakes up’ in [The Long Kiss Goodnight](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116908/)

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**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manliest-tv-movie-moments-by-women/614770/5 "2012-03-05T16:53:00Z")

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I don’t know why, but the first thing I thought of was Rose McGowan as Cherry Darling with a prosthetic machine gun leg in the movie Planet Terror.