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After her family is slaughtered by the evil Queen Gedren, woman named Sonja is empowered by a mysterious being so that she can seek revenge. She gets her chance when the Queen steals a powerful object named the Talisman, and she is tasked to destroy it. She is joined in her journey by Lord Kalidor and Prince Tarn and his aide Falkon, the remnants of a fallen kingdom.

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After her family is slaughtered by the evil Queen Gedren, Gedren and raped by Gedren's men, a young woman named Sonja is empowered by a mysterious being so that she can seek revenge. She gets her chance when the Queen steals a powerful object named the Talisman, and she is tasked to destroy it. She is joined in her journey by Lord Kalidor and Prince Tarn and his aide Falkon, the remnants of a fallen kingdom.
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* EightiesHair: Sonja's waist-length mullet certainly qualifies.

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->'''Sonja:''' No man may have me, unless he's [[BestHerToBedHer beaten me in a fair fight]].

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->'''Sonja:''' No man may have me, unless he's [[BestHerToBedHer beaten me in a fair fight]].fight.



* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Queen Gedren doesn't shy away from combat.
* BadWithTheBone: Falkon's weapon of choice.

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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Queen Gedren doesn't shy away from combat.
combat, as she takes on Sonja herself in the climax.
* BadWithTheBone: Falkon's weapon of choice.choice is a bone club.



* BigBad: Queen Gedren.
* BillingDisplacement: Arnold is featured more prominently in the posters and the like, despite playing a secondary character.

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* BigBad: Queen Gedren.
* BillingDisplacement: Arnold is featured more prominently in the posters
Gedren, who threatens various kingdoms with her powers, and the like, despite playing a secondary character.is Sonja's personal enemy.



* GiantMook: Brytag, one of the many men who falls by Sonja's sword.
** KingMook: Except, he's not a mook, he's their king.



* MechanicalMonster: Sonja and co. fight one on their journey to Gedren's castle.

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* MechanicalMonster: Sonja and co. fight an aquatic one on their journey to Gedren's castle.



* MookLieutenant: Ikol.

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* MookLieutenant: Ikol.Ikol is in chrage of Gedren's men.



* ProtagonistTitle

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* ProtagonistTitleProtagonistTitle: Red Sonja is the protagonist.



* SpecialEffectsFailure: The skeleton bridge over the lava is quite obviously a matte painting.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The skeleton bridge over the lava is quite obviously a matte painting.
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* StatuesqueStunner: Brigitte Nielsen, aside from being a looker, is 6'1 and it shows.
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* DivorcedInstallment: The film was originally supposed to be the third ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' film.
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* BestHerToBedHer: The character is the former TropeNamer. The film provides the page quote.
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* ShootTheMageFirst: In the climax of the film, Sonja is fighting Queen Gedren. Every time she gets close enough to attack, a {{Mook}} teleports Gedren away and Sonja has to chase her down again, while the mage uses Voodoo-like magic to cut Sonja with a dagger. After this happens two or three times, Sonja has enough and chops the guy's head off.

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* CharacterTitle



* ProtagonistTitle



* RedHeadedHero

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* RedHeadedHeroRedHeadedHero: Make that heroine.
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* CaptainErsatz: Kalidor to [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 Conan]].

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* CaptainErsatz: Kalidor to [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 Conan]].Conan]], to the point where he's played by the same actor as Conan.
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* RibcageRidge

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* RibcageRidgeRibcageRidge: Used as a bridge over a river of lava.
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* HandsOnApproach: Sonja with young prince Targ.

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* HandsOnApproach: Sonja with young prince Targ.Tarn.

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* HandsOnApproach: Sonja with young prince Targ.



* SpiritualSuccessor: To Arnold's ''Conan'' films.
** More exactly, it is a spiritual successor to ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer''.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: To Arnold's ''Conan'' films.
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films. More exactly, it is a spiritual successor to ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer''.



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** More exactly, it is a spiritual successor to ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer''.
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->''"No man may have me, unless he's [[BestHerToBedHer beaten me in a fair fight]]"''.
->''"So, the only man that can have you, is one who's trying to kill you. That's logic."''

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->''"No ->'''Sonja:''' No man may have me, unless he's [[BestHerToBedHer beaten me in a fair fight]]"''.
->''"So,
fight]].
->'''Kalidor:''' So,
the only man that can have you, is one who's trying to kill you. That's logic."''

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->'''Sonja:''' No man may have me, unless he's [[BestHerToBedHer beaten me in a fair fight]].
->'''Kalidor:''' So, the only man that can have you, is one who's trying to kill you. That's logic.

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->'''Sonja:''' No ->''"No man may have me, unless he's [[BestHerToBedHer beaten me in a fair fight]].
->'''Kalidor:''' So,
fight]]"''.
->''"So,
the only man that can have you, is one who's trying to kill you. That's logic. \n"''

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* {{Flynning}}

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* {{Flynning}}{{Flynning}}: Subverted; Sonja shows the prince why this wouldn't really work in a real fight.


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** KingMook: Except, he's not a mook, he's their king.
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After her family is slaughtered by the evil Queen Gedren, girl named Sonja is empowered by a mysterious being so that she can seek revenge. She gets her chance when the Queen steals a powerful object named the Talisman, and she is tasked to destroy it. She is joined in her journey by Lord Kalidor and Prince Tarn and his aide Falkon, the remnants of a fallen kingdom.

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After her family is slaughtered by the evil Queen Gedren, girl woman named Sonja is empowered by a mysterious being so that she can seek revenge. She gets her chance when the Queen steals a powerful object named the Talisman, and she is tasked to destroy it. She is joined in her journey by Lord Kalidor and Prince Tarn and his aide Falkon, the remnants of a fallen kingdom.
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* GenreKiller: This movie, along with ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'', is widely credited with killing the SwordAndSorcery genre in media for quite some time.
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* GenreKiller: This movie, along with ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'', is widely credited with killing the SwordAndSorcery genre in media for quite some time.
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* CaptainObvious: Sonja is weeping over her sister, who's just died. Arnold leans down, touches her lightly on the shoulder and says, "She's dead."

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* CaptainObvious: Sonja is weeping over her sister, who's just died. Arnold Kalidor leans down, touches her lightly on the shoulder and says, "She's dead."



* EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity: The spirit that grants Sonja's strenght in the opening.

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* EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity: The spirit that grants Sonja's strenght strength in the opening.



* HarmfulToTouch: The Talisman can only be touched women. If a man is to touch it, he will instanly disintegrate.
* InventionalWisdom: The TrapDoor which Falkon falls through leads to the Gedren's mooks' mess hall, for some reason.

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* HarmfulToTouch: The Talisman can only be touched by women. If a man is to touch touches it, he will instanly instantly disintegrate.
* InventionalWisdom: The TrapDoor through which Falkon falls through leads to the Gedren's mooks' mess hall, for some reason.



* MinorInjuryOverreaction: When Sonja accuses Gedren of slaughtering her family, she dismisses the accusations as from her point of view, the victims' lives are nothing in compare with a minor scar on her cheek that Sonja made.

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* MinorInjuryOverreaction: When Sonja accuses Gedren of slaughtering her family, she dismisses the accusations as from her point of view, the victims' lives are nothing in compare comparison with a minor scar Sonja made on her cheek that Sonja made.cheek.



* RapeAndRevenge: Half of Sonja's motivation. The other half is her dead family members.

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* RapeAndRevenge: Half of Sonja's motivation. The other half is her dead family members.family.



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* TakeOverTheWorld: What Gedren plans to do with the Talisman.

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* TakeOverTheWorld: What Gedren plans to do with the Talisman.Talisman.

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'''''Red Sonja''''' is a 1985 film based on [[RedSonja the Marvel comic book series]], starring Brigitte Nielsen and Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.

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'''''Red Sonja''''' is a 1985 film based on [[RedSonja [[Comicbook/RedSonja the Marvel comic book series]], starring Brigitte Nielsen and Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.
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* PsychoLesbian: Gedren doesn't take rejection too well, as Sonja's dead family can proof.

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* PsychoLesbian: Gedren doesn't take rejection too well, as Sonja's dead family can proof.attest to.
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->'''Sonja:''' No man may have me, unless he's beaten me in a fair fight.

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->'''Sonja:''' No man may have me, unless he's [[BestHerToBedHer beaten me in a fair fight.fight]].
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->'''Sonja:''' No man may have me, unless he's beaten me in a fair fight.
->'''Kalidor:''' So, the only man that can have you, is one who's trying to kill you. That's logic.



* BadassBoast:
-->'''Brytag:''' I will tell the future in your entrails, Red Woman!
-->'''Sonja:''' I know my future. You have none.



* SpiritualSuccessor: To Arnold's ''Conan'' films.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: To Arnold's ''Conan'' films.films.
* TakeOverTheWorld: What Gedren plans to do with the Talisman.
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!!This film has the examples:

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!!This film has the examples:
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[[redirect:RedSonja]]

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[[redirect:RedSonja]][[quoteright:304:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/red-sonja_7164.jpg]]
'''''Red Sonja''''' is a 1985 film based on [[RedSonja the Marvel comic book series]], starring Brigitte Nielsen and Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger.

After her family is slaughtered by the evil Queen Gedren, girl named Sonja is empowered by a mysterious being so that she can seek revenge. She gets her chance when the Queen steals a powerful object named the Talisman, and she is tasked to destroy it. She is joined in her journey by Lord Kalidor and Prince Tarn and his aide Falkon, the remnants of a fallen kingdom.

!!This film has the examples:

* AsYouKnow: The movie starts out with the title character laying barely conscious in a field as a mysterious spirit grants her the power to get her revenge, but first it explains Sonja's own backstory to her in great detail. It's especially awkward because it presumably all happened to her moments before the movie started, and involves her [[RapeAsBackstory being raped]] and having her family killed off, which are things you'd think she wouldn't need (or want) to be reminded about.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Queen Gedren doesn't shy away from combat.
* BadWithTheBone: Falkon's weapon of choice.
* BigBad: Queen Gedren.
* BillingDisplacement: Arnold is featured more prominently in the posters and the like, despite playing a secondary character.
* CaptainErsatz: Kalidor to [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 Conan]].
* CaptainObvious: Sonja is weeping over her sister, who's just died. Arnold leans down, touches her lightly on the shoulder and says, "She's dead."
* CharacterTitle
* DisneyVillainDeath: Gedren falls into a river of lava after she is stabbed by Sonja.
* DivorcedInstallment: The film was originally supposed to be the third ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' film.
* EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity: The spirit that grants Sonja's strenght in the opening.
* {{Flynning}}
* GiantMook: Brytag, one of the many men who falls by Sonja's sword.
* HarmfulToTouch: The Talisman can only be touched women. If a man is to touch it, he will instanly disintegrate.
* InventionalWisdom: The TrapDoor which Falkon falls through leads to the Gedren's mooks' mess hall, for some reason.
* MechanicalMonster: Sonja and co. fight one on their journey to Gedren's castle.
* MinorInjuryOverreaction: When Sonja accuses Gedren of slaughtering her family, she dismisses the accusations as from her point of view, the victims' lives are nothing in compare with a minor scar on her cheek that Sonja made.
* MookLieutenant: Ikol.
* OffWithHisHead: Sonja decapitates Gedren's court wizard after he tries to kill her.
* PsychoLesbian: Gedren doesn't take rejection too well, as Sonja's dead family can proof.
* RapeAndRevenge: Half of Sonja's motivation. The other half is her dead family members.
* RedHeadedHero
* RibcageRidge
* SpiritualSuccessor: To Arnold's ''Conan'' films.
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