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* The first ''Film/ArmorOfGod'' sees Jackie taking on an evil cult, with their most powerful enforcers being a quartet of buff, muscular women who can put up a far better fight than the male mooks. They give Jackie one hell of a beating before they're taken out.
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* ''Film/TheExpendables'' had a planned installment of the series, ''[[JustForPun The Expendabelles]]'' featuring a cast composed exclusively of iconic female action stars. However, the project never developed past an idea and a goofy name. ''Film/{{Mercenaries}}'', an action movie starring Kristanna Loken, Brigitte Nielsen and Cynthia Rothrock, can be considered a SpiritualAdaptation of ''The Expendables'' with a female cast.
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* ''Film/TheExpendables'' had a planned installment of the series, ''[[JustForPun ''[[PunBasedTitle The Expendabelles]]'' featuring a cast composed exclusively of iconic female action stars. However, the project never developed past an idea and a goofy name. ''Film/{{Mercenaries}}'', an action movie starring Kristanna Loken, Brigitte Nielsen and Cynthia Rothrock, can be considered a SpiritualAdaptation of ''The Expendables'' with a female cast.
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** ''Film/BlackPanther'': The Dora Milaje, an all-female elite force of spear-spinning, fearless, bald-headed ass-kickers.
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** ''Film/BlackPanther'': ''Film/BlackPanther2018'': The Dora Milaje, an all-female elite force of spear-spinning, fearless, bald-headed ass-kickers.
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* ''Film/{{Bit}}'': Duke and her group are all {{lesbian vampire}}s more than willing to fight or kill (Laurel, the newcomer, being the most reluctant in this).
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* The ladies of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse team up to protect [[spoiler: ComicBook/SpiderMan holding the Avengers made Infinity Gauntlet]] in the climax of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.
* Film/BlackPanther and all MCU films featuring the appearance of the Black Panther also shows Wakanda’s royal guards, the Dora Milaje, an all-female elite force of spear-spinning, fearless, bald-headed ass-kickers.
* Film/BlackPanther and all MCU films featuring the appearance of the Black Panther also shows Wakanda’s royal guards, the Dora Milaje, an all-female elite force of spear-spinning, fearless, bald-headed ass-kickers.
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** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': The Valkyries were a group of all-female warriors loyal to the crown, although most of them had been killed prior to the events of the film.
** ''Film/BlackPanther'': The Dora Milaje, an all-female elite force of spear-spinning, fearless, bald-headed ass-kickers.
** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': The final battle includes a scene where every major female hero team up to protect [[spoiler: ComicBook/SpiderMan holding the Avengers made Infinity Gauntlet.]]
** ''Film/BlackWidow2021'': The Red Room has produced a small army of brainwashed Black Widow agents under the control of Dreykov. Unlike Natasha, who is primarily a spy, they are more shown to be an elite fighting squad that operates in concert with guns blazing.
** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': The Valkyries were a group of all-female warriors loyal to the crown, although most of them had been killed prior to the events of the film.
** ''Film/BlackPanther'': The Dora Milaje, an all-female elite force of spear-spinning, fearless, bald-headed ass-kickers.
** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': The final battle includes a scene where every major female hero team up to protect [[spoiler: ComicBook/SpiderMan holding the Avengers made Infinity Gauntlet.]]
** ''Film/BlackWidow2021'': The Red Room has produced a small army of brainwashed Black Widow agents under the control of Dreykov. Unlike Natasha, who is primarily a spy, they are more shown to be an elite fighting squad that operates in concert with guns blazing.
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* ''Film/TheExpendables'' had a planned installment of the series, ''[[JustForPun The Expendabelles]]'' featuring a cast composed exclusively of iconic female action stars. However, the project never developed past an idea and a goofy name.
** However ''Mercenaries'', an action movie starring Kristanna Loken, Brigitte Nielsen and Cynthia Rothrock can be considered a SpiritualAdaptation of ''The Expendables'' with a female cast.
* ''Film/ThatFieryGirl'', also starring Cheng Pei-pei, does this again, with another band of female warriors who did an excellent job fighting an enemy army, although this time they're led by Lily Li instead of Cheng Pei-pei.
** However ''Mercenaries'', an action movie starring Kristanna Loken, Brigitte Nielsen and Cynthia Rothrock can be considered a SpiritualAdaptation of ''The Expendables'' with a female cast.
* ''Film/ThatFieryGirl'', also starring Cheng Pei-pei, does this again, with another band of female warriors who did an excellent job fighting an enemy army, although this time they're led by Lily Li instead of Cheng Pei-pei.
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* ''Film/TheExpendables'' had a planned installment of the series, ''[[JustForPun The Expendabelles]]'' featuring a cast composed exclusively of iconic female action stars. However, the project never developed past an idea and a goofy name.
** However ''Mercenaries'',name. ''Film/{{Mercenaries}}'', an action movie starring Kristanna Loken, Brigitte Nielsen and Cynthia Rothrock Rothrock, can be considered a SpiritualAdaptation of ''The Expendables'' with a female cast.
*''Film/ThatFieryGirl'', also starring Cheng Pei-pei, does this again, with another band ''Film/FemaleAgents'': The film centers on a French Resistance squad composed solely of female warriors who did an excellent job fighting an enemy army, although this time they're led by Lily Li instead women. Louise is the most action-oriented of Cheng Pei-pei.them, but they all help out in some way.
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* Film/BlackPanther and all MCU films featuring the appearance of the Black Panther also shows Wakanda’s royal guards, the Dora Milaje, an all-female elite force of spear-spinning, fearless, bald-headed ass-kickers.
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* The eponymous ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon'' are a OneGenderRace of warrior women. It's a parody of ''Film/QueenOfOuterSpace'' where both the Queen's soldiers and LaResistance to her reign consist of [[LadyLand hot babes]] in short skirts, brandishing disintegrator guns.
* ''Film/AngelsRevenge'', a movie lampooned on ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]''.
* ''Film/Annihilation2018''. The expedition team sent into the Shimmer is all women. In the novel it is mentioned this was done deliberately as another variable to test after the first team was all men.
* ''Film/AustinPowers'': "Fembots, attack!"
* The ladies of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse team up to protect [[spoiler: ComicBook/SpiderMan holding the Avengers made Infinity Gauntlet]] in the climax of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.
* ''Film/ChaiLaiAngelsDangerousFlowers'' is about five female top-secret super-sexy crimefighters, each with the [[FloralThemeNaming codename of a flower]], Lotus, Hibiscus, Rose, Spadix and Crown of Thorns.
* ''Film/ComeDrinkWithMe'': The ending of this classic wuxia film have Golden Swallow leading an all-female band of warriors to reinforce the losing imperial soldiers against a bandit army. They manage to kill off every single remaining bandit while suffering relatively small casualties.
* ''Film/TheDawnsHereAreQuiet'' is about a squad of women manning an anti-aircraft battery at a supply depot behind the Eastern Front. Not drawn directly from RealLife like the above examples, but women did perform roles like that quite a bit in the war against Germany. The women of the battalion have to kick it up a notch when a report of German paratroopers behind the lines requires them to form up as infantry and go into the forest in pursuit.
* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse:
** The Amazons in ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'', ''Film/{{Justice|League 2017}} [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague League]]'' and ''Film/WonderWoman1984'', [[TropeNamer obviously.]]
** The ladies of ''Film/{{Birds of Prey|2020}}'' form such a team. It consists of ComicBook/BlackCanary, ComicBook/{{Huntress}}, and [[ComicBook/TheQuestion Renee Montoya]]. They’ll be helped by ComicBook/HarleyQuinn and [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]]. In a meta sense this film is one as well as it stars a cast of women, being directed by a woman (Cathy Yan), written by a woman (Christina Hobson), and executive produced by a woman (Creator/MargotRobbie). [[note]] Robbie is the one who hired everyone and convinced Creator/WarnerBrothers to greenlight the project. [[/note]]
* ''Film/{{DEBS}}'': The D.E.B.S. as a whole, a group of young female super spies with extensive training, culled from high school girls all over the US.
* Admiral General Aladeen's bodyguards in ''Film/TheDictator''. They also serve as sex slaves.
* ''Film/TheExpendables'' had a planned installment of the series, ''[[JustForPun The Expendabelles]]'' featuring a cast composed exclusively of iconic female action stars. However, the project never developed past an idea and a goofy name.
** However ''Mercenaries'', an action movie starring Kristanna Loken, Brigitte Nielsen and Cynthia Rothrock can be considered a SpiritualAdaptation of ''The Expendables'' with a female cast.
* ''Film/ThatFieryGirl'', also starring Cheng Pei-pei, does this again, with another band of female warriors who did an excellent job fighting an enemy army, although this time they're led by Lily Li instead of Cheng Pei-pei.
* ''Film/FlyingGuillotine'': The second movie features the Lady Guillotine Squad, a group of women assassins all clad in purple who can kick all sorts of ass.
* ''Film/The14Amazons'', based on the story of the female generals of the Yang Family, where the Matriarch of the Yang family and the wives of the men and sons slain in war takes over their spouses' place and takes on the Mongol army.
* In ''Film/GangOfRoses'', Rachel used to lead an all-female gang of bank robbers. She reassembles the gang to aid her in her RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* The 2016 ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|2016}}'' film did this with the title characters by reversing the Ghostbusters' genders.
* In ''Film/HoodedAngels'', the Angels are an all-female gang of outlaws and gunslingers.
* In ''Film/{{Hop}}'', we have the Pink Berets, a squad of female bunnies described at one point as "the Easter Bunny's royal guards".
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** Pussy Galore's Flying Circus from ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
** Also, Octopussy's circus troupe in ''Film/{{Octopussy}}''.
** Also, May Day and her group from ''Film/AViewToAKill'' [[spoiler: They get killed off [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness by their boss Max Zorin]]. Except for May, who's so pissed off that she has a HeelFaceTurn and joins Bond to have her revenge.]]
* Creator/TheAsylum created a [[TheMockbuster mockbuster]] version of ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' which featured a team of female soldiers. Unfortunately despite alot of [[BadassBoast badass boasting]] they quickly fell into FauxActionGirl status and a good deal of the plot was taken up with rescuing them.
* ''Film/{{Kenau}}'' has the women of Harlem do increasingly brave feats, from fighting on the walls, to attacking Spanish on ice-skates and blowing up their camp.
* In ''Film/KillBill'', 4/5 of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad is female, 4/6 if you count Bill.
* In ''Film/LeftForDead'', Mother Mary runs an all-female outlaw gang composed of the ex-whores of Amnesty.
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' has the Vuvalini. Unlike most examples of this trope they consist largely of old women, hardened and weather-beaten from growing up in a brutal DesertPunk ScavengerWorld.
* ''Film/{{Mercenaries}}'': The President's daughter is captured and imprisoned while touring a war zone, so a team of female BoxedCrook combat experts is assembled to infiltrate the compound of the female warlord holding her hostage for a daring rescue.
* Mrs. Smith's agency in ''Film/MrAndMrsSmith2005''.
* ''Film/NightWitchesOfTheSky'' is a 1981 movie from the Soviet Union about the "night witches", namely an all-female squad of precision dive bombers that served from 1942 until the end of the war.
* ''Film/{{October}}'' (UsefulNotes/RedOctober, that is) portrays the "Women's Battalion of Death", an all-female unit that was part of the doomed defense of the Winter Palace against the Bolsheviks. See RealLife below.
* In ''Film/OnlyOldMenAreGoingToBattle'', the men of the 2nd Squadron (a fighter pilot unit) are pleased when a squadron of lady bomber pilots establish an airfield right next to them. One of the men of the 2nd falls in love with a bomber pilot and asks her to marry him. This is inspired by the famous "Night Witches" (see RealLife below).
* The mermaids in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides''.
* Mia Wallace in ''Film/PulpFiction'' talks about a TV pilot she shot called ''Fox Force Five''. Her character's specialty was knives. And terrible jokes.
* The Indian tribe in ''Film/RevengeOfTheVirgins'' consists of topless {{Nubile Savage}}s who are all capable warriors.
* The Hungarian comedy film ''Film/SoundEroticism'' takes place in a crate factory with all-female employees. After finding out that the factory's manager [[ThePeepingTom used the security camera footage of them undressing]] to potential customers [[SexSells to sell more crates]], the women rise up and take the manager hostage.
* ''Film/SpecialFemaleForce'': The eponymous "Special Female Force", is an all-female elite police squad. It was disbanded for years after a mission ended in a near-TotalPartyKill, and the movie follows the SoleSurvivor efforts in training a new one 20 years later.
* The ''Film/StTrinians''' field hockey team.
* The girls from ''Film/SuckerPunch''.
* We never actually see them, but ''Film/{{Zulu}}'' has a scene where Swiss mercenary Schiess, arguing with two overly confident Welsh soldiers, mentions that the Zulu leader Cetawayo has a regiment of female warriors called "Ripen at Noon". One of the Welsh soldiers comments that "that's pretty".
* ''Film/AngelsRevenge'', a movie lampooned on ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]''.
* ''Film/Annihilation2018''. The expedition team sent into the Shimmer is all women. In the novel it is mentioned this was done deliberately as another variable to test after the first team was all men.
* ''Film/AustinPowers'': "Fembots, attack!"
* The ladies of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse team up to protect [[spoiler: ComicBook/SpiderMan holding the Avengers made Infinity Gauntlet]] in the climax of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.
* ''Film/ChaiLaiAngelsDangerousFlowers'' is about five female top-secret super-sexy crimefighters, each with the [[FloralThemeNaming codename of a flower]], Lotus, Hibiscus, Rose, Spadix and Crown of Thorns.
* ''Film/ComeDrinkWithMe'': The ending of this classic wuxia film have Golden Swallow leading an all-female band of warriors to reinforce the losing imperial soldiers against a bandit army. They manage to kill off every single remaining bandit while suffering relatively small casualties.
* ''Film/TheDawnsHereAreQuiet'' is about a squad of women manning an anti-aircraft battery at a supply depot behind the Eastern Front. Not drawn directly from RealLife like the above examples, but women did perform roles like that quite a bit in the war against Germany. The women of the battalion have to kick it up a notch when a report of German paratroopers behind the lines requires them to form up as infantry and go into the forest in pursuit.
* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse:
** The Amazons in ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'', ''Film/{{Justice|League 2017}} [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague League]]'' and ''Film/WonderWoman1984'', [[TropeNamer obviously.]]
** The ladies of ''Film/{{Birds of Prey|2020}}'' form such a team. It consists of ComicBook/BlackCanary, ComicBook/{{Huntress}}, and [[ComicBook/TheQuestion Renee Montoya]]. They’ll be helped by ComicBook/HarleyQuinn and [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]]. In a meta sense this film is one as well as it stars a cast of women, being directed by a woman (Cathy Yan), written by a woman (Christina Hobson), and executive produced by a woman (Creator/MargotRobbie). [[note]] Robbie is the one who hired everyone and convinced Creator/WarnerBrothers to greenlight the project. [[/note]]
* ''Film/{{DEBS}}'': The D.E.B.S. as a whole, a group of young female super spies with extensive training, culled from high school girls all over the US.
* Admiral General Aladeen's bodyguards in ''Film/TheDictator''. They also serve as sex slaves.
* ''Film/TheExpendables'' had a planned installment of the series, ''[[JustForPun The Expendabelles]]'' featuring a cast composed exclusively of iconic female action stars. However, the project never developed past an idea and a goofy name.
** However ''Mercenaries'', an action movie starring Kristanna Loken, Brigitte Nielsen and Cynthia Rothrock can be considered a SpiritualAdaptation of ''The Expendables'' with a female cast.
* ''Film/ThatFieryGirl'', also starring Cheng Pei-pei, does this again, with another band of female warriors who did an excellent job fighting an enemy army, although this time they're led by Lily Li instead of Cheng Pei-pei.
* ''Film/FlyingGuillotine'': The second movie features the Lady Guillotine Squad, a group of women assassins all clad in purple who can kick all sorts of ass.
* ''Film/The14Amazons'', based on the story of the female generals of the Yang Family, where the Matriarch of the Yang family and the wives of the men and sons slain in war takes over their spouses' place and takes on the Mongol army.
* In ''Film/GangOfRoses'', Rachel used to lead an all-female gang of bank robbers. She reassembles the gang to aid her in her RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* The 2016 ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|2016}}'' film did this with the title characters by reversing the Ghostbusters' genders.
* In ''Film/HoodedAngels'', the Angels are an all-female gang of outlaws and gunslingers.
* In ''Film/{{Hop}}'', we have the Pink Berets, a squad of female bunnies described at one point as "the Easter Bunny's royal guards".
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** Pussy Galore's Flying Circus from ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
** Also, Octopussy's circus troupe in ''Film/{{Octopussy}}''.
** Also, May Day and her group from ''Film/AViewToAKill'' [[spoiler: They get killed off [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness by their boss Max Zorin]]. Except for May, who's so pissed off that she has a HeelFaceTurn and joins Bond to have her revenge.]]
* Creator/TheAsylum created a [[TheMockbuster mockbuster]] version of ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' which featured a team of female soldiers. Unfortunately despite alot of [[BadassBoast badass boasting]] they quickly fell into FauxActionGirl status and a good deal of the plot was taken up with rescuing them.
* ''Film/{{Kenau}}'' has the women of Harlem do increasingly brave feats, from fighting on the walls, to attacking Spanish on ice-skates and blowing up their camp.
* In ''Film/KillBill'', 4/5 of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad is female, 4/6 if you count Bill.
* In ''Film/LeftForDead'', Mother Mary runs an all-female outlaw gang composed of the ex-whores of Amnesty.
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' has the Vuvalini. Unlike most examples of this trope they consist largely of old women, hardened and weather-beaten from growing up in a brutal DesertPunk ScavengerWorld.
* ''Film/{{Mercenaries}}'': The President's daughter is captured and imprisoned while touring a war zone, so a team of female BoxedCrook combat experts is assembled to infiltrate the compound of the female warlord holding her hostage for a daring rescue.
* Mrs. Smith's agency in ''Film/MrAndMrsSmith2005''.
* ''Film/NightWitchesOfTheSky'' is a 1981 movie from the Soviet Union about the "night witches", namely an all-female squad of precision dive bombers that served from 1942 until the end of the war.
* ''Film/{{October}}'' (UsefulNotes/RedOctober, that is) portrays the "Women's Battalion of Death", an all-female unit that was part of the doomed defense of the Winter Palace against the Bolsheviks. See RealLife below.
* In ''Film/OnlyOldMenAreGoingToBattle'', the men of the 2nd Squadron (a fighter pilot unit) are pleased when a squadron of lady bomber pilots establish an airfield right next to them. One of the men of the 2nd falls in love with a bomber pilot and asks her to marry him. This is inspired by the famous "Night Witches" (see RealLife below).
* The mermaids in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides''.
* Mia Wallace in ''Film/PulpFiction'' talks about a TV pilot she shot called ''Fox Force Five''. Her character's specialty was knives. And terrible jokes.
* The Indian tribe in ''Film/RevengeOfTheVirgins'' consists of topless {{Nubile Savage}}s who are all capable warriors.
* The Hungarian comedy film ''Film/SoundEroticism'' takes place in a crate factory with all-female employees. After finding out that the factory's manager [[ThePeepingTom used the security camera footage of them undressing]] to potential customers [[SexSells to sell more crates]], the women rise up and take the manager hostage.
* ''Film/SpecialFemaleForce'': The eponymous "Special Female Force", is an all-female elite police squad. It was disbanded for years after a mission ended in a near-TotalPartyKill, and the movie follows the SoleSurvivor efforts in training a new one 20 years later.
* The ''Film/StTrinians''' field hockey team.
* The girls from ''Film/SuckerPunch''.
* We never actually see them, but ''Film/{{Zulu}}'' has a scene where Swiss mercenary Schiess, arguing with two overly confident Welsh soldiers, mentions that the Zulu leader Cetawayo has a regiment of female warriors called "Ripen at Noon". One of the Welsh soldiers comments that "that's pretty".
