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!!Examples:

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%%* The Delmo Corps from ''Anime/AgentAika''.
* As {{Idol Singer}}s in a time where entertainment is banned, ''Anime/{{AKB0048}}'' have to be able to defend themselves. They adhere to ThouShaltNotKill, though.
* ''Manhwa/AreaD'': The West District of Area D is led by the LadyOfWar Asura, in an attempt to make a safer place for women, she recruited mostly if not only women for the West District, resulting in turning it into an army of superpowered girls.
* The Red Tails Gang from ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'' are an all female gang of JapaneseDelinquents known as the strongest ladies of Kanto, and for good reason too! Their leader Kunieda Aoi, nicknamed the Queen, is responsible for keeping the men's "grubby hands" off the other girls. Their weapons range from guns to baseball bats to [[WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter bokken]], and on one occasion, a [[ImprobableWeaponUser ruler]]!
* The Blue Rose squad from ''Manga/BlackClover'' are largely comprised of female Magic Knights, though throwaway dialogue does indicate they have male members but only employ them as servants. They are led by Charlotte Roselei, considered to be the most beautiful woman in the Clover Kingdom. [[BoobsOfSteel And she proves why plenty of times.]]
* Harribel from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' heads up one of these with her all-female Fracción.
* ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'': The Knight Sabers, an elite team of powered armored mercenaries, were one of the earliest examples from anime. They were Megatokyo's only line of defense against [[MegaCorp the Genom Corporation]] and the ever increasing threat of Boomers.
%%* The main characters of ''Anime/BurstAngel'' form one of these.
* Justified in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' where the "[[HalfHumanHybrid Silver Eyed Witches]]" are all female. Infusing Yoma flesh into guys [[PsychoSerum did not work out]].
* ''Franchise/CodeGeass''
** The Valkyrie Team on the Brittanian side, although they didn't get much screentime before [[spoiler:Kallen killed them except for Marika.]] They also appear in ''Manga/CodeGeassOzTheReflection'', where it's revealed that [[spoiler: Leonhardt Steiner saved Marika]].
** The ''[[Manga/CodeGeassNightmareOfNunnally Nightmare of Nunnally]]'' manga has The Irregulars, also known as the Britannian Special Honorary Foreign Legion.
%%* Kyrie's group in ''Anime/CrystalBlaze''.
* In ''Anime/DaphneInTheBrilliantBlue'', Nereids is an all-female mercenary team. The only male member is a nerdy office manager who doesn't participate in their missions.
* In ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', Shuro's party consists of a group of badass female retainers, each an elite warrior in her own right.
* ''Manga/DesertRose'' follows the exploits of [=CAT's=] Division M, an all-female mercenary counterterrorist unit. There are also mentions of at least two other similar divisions, though this isn't an enforced mandate, since Division A is a male team.
* ''Manga/DontMeddleWithMyDaughter'': N.U.D.E.[[note]]"Next Ultimate Defense Experts"[[/note]] consists almost entirely of female officers and desk clerks; including their commander, Hanna. They originally served as [[SupportingProtagonist Athena's]] support, during her days as a superheroine. Now that she's retired, they help her daughter, [[RookieRedRanger Clara]], as she battles Deepthroat's forces.
* Mermaid Heel is a female-only guild in ''Manga/FairyTail''.
%%* The Uruha Oto from ''Manga/FlameOfRecca''.
* The Pandoras of ''Manga/{{Freezing}}'' are an entire branch of super-powered women enhanced specifically to fight extra-dimensional monsters.
%%* ''Anime/TheGalaxyRailways'' has the all-female Spica Platoon.
%%* Much of the ''Anime/GallForce'' {{OVA}} series, since the original series revolved around a OneGenderRace.
%%* The NinjaMaid group in charge of protecting Taro in ''Manga/HanaukyoMaidTeam''.
* In ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', The Hyakka, [[RedLightDistrict Yoshiwara]]'s law enforcement squad, is a all-female troupe of [[{{ninja}} ninjas]] led by Tsukuyo. [[spoiler: Briefly averted in Dekobokko arc when all its members turned into males]].
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
** The Shrike Team from ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam'' is a squad of full-female mobile suit pilots serving the League Militaire, who are [[spoiler: [[EverybodyDiesEnding ultimately killed off towards the end of the series]]]]. The Zanscare Empire's answer to developing a full-female team is the Neneka Corps, a squad of [[ChainmailBikini bazooka-toting bikini girls]] sent to distract Uso, except the intented psychological effect backfired by sending Uso into a HeroicBSOD instead and Neneka herself received the health effect of a [[NoBodyLeftBehind human body hit by a]] [[LaserBlade beam saber]].
** The Teiwaz combatants in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' consists of the harem of [[TheOneGuy Naze Turbine]], everyone of them, if not a ship crew, is a mobile suit pilot.
*** Inverted by the Gjallarhorn Outer Earth Orbit Regulatory Joint Fleet, the entire crews are [[{{Bishonen}} pretty blonde young men]], who only answer to [[TheSquadette Carta Issue]] and are [[HasAType meant to resemble [=McGillis=] Fareed]].
%%** The three test pilots for the Astray [[HumongousMecha mobile suits]] in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Gundam SEED]]''.
* ''Anime/FuuunIshinDaiShogun'': BigBad Shigeyoshi Hitotsubashi is served by an all-female group of elite woman warriors, the Shinsengumi, as well as the already-introduced villain Houkoin. The latter is strong enough to take on the main three heroines (which include a 250 years old demon fox, a supposedly skilled ninja and a master swordswoman) on her own and win.
* ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'': The ''Schwarzer Hase'' (German for Black Hares/Rabbits), complete with [[PuttingOnTheReich Nazi-esque uniforms]] and [[EyepatchOfPower matching eyepatches]]. Come to think of it, just about every squad found in this series fall into this trope since the titular [[PowerArmor exoskeletons]] can [[GirlPowered only be used by women]]. The only exception is main character Ichika and the eventual (inevitable?) BattleHarem that forms around him.
* The Impact Blue team in ''Manga/InitialD'' subverts the WomenDrivers trope. In ''Extra Stages'', this shows how better they are against male drivers.
%%* The Build Angels from ''Koutetsushin Jeeg'', a {{Revival}} of Creator/GoNagai's ''Anime/KotetsuJeeg''.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha''
** The 6th Mobile Division of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' definitely qualifies, as an archetypal military unit in a ImprobablyFemaleCast (although they do have [[TheOneGuy three guys and a dog-man]], technically.)
** The [[AntiVillain "villains"]] of the previous season probably qualify too, consisting of an ill girl, a female-anthropomorphized WeaponOfMassDestruction, TheThreeFacesOfEve, and TheOneGuy.
** Jail Scaglietti's "Numbers" in ''[=StrikerS=]'' count as well (no pun intended). Although that one had a rather disturbing justification: [[spoiler:Scaglietti needed his minions to be female so that he could impregnate them [[CloningGambit with clones of himself]].]]
** The Marriage from ''Audioplay/StrikersSoundStageX'' are an army of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot exploding cyborg zombies]], and every single one of them is apparantly female.
** Iris creates an entire army of [[MechaMooks Iris Units]] in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation'', and every single one of them is female in appearance. [[spoiler:Except for the one possessed by the downloaded personality of her father Phil Maxwell, who proves himself to be the real BigBad of the story.]]
* ''Anime/{{Macross}}'':
** "Uncultured" Meltrandi tend to separate themselves from male [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Zentraedi]], forming their own all-female armies instead. Though [[Anime/MacrossFrontier Klan Klein and her Pixie Squadron]] are integrated into human society, they operate as their own elite unit.
** Fairy Squadron in ''Anime/MacrossII'', an all-female flight team led by ace pilot Sylvie Gena.
* ''Manga/MakenKi'': Applies to both [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil the student council]] at Tenbi Academy and [[TheBeautifulElite the Venus Unit:]]
** The student council was all female, until the academy went co-ed[[note]][[SupportingProtagonist Takeru]] [[ThoseTwoGuys and Usui]] are the only guys and serve in the junior division[[/note]]. Their primary task is to enforce and maintain discipline at the school, but they also protect it from external threats, such as [[NebulousEvilOrganization Kamigari.]]
** Venus Academy is a prestigious all-girl military school for {{foreign exchange student}}s, with the Venus Unit consisting of the elite among them. All of whom are high-level [[FunctionalMagic ability users]], ranging from S to SS-rank[[note]]"SS-rank" is the highest known level of ability in the series. Himegami and Martha Minerva are are the only two to ever exceed it[[/note]].
* The three female pilots on the ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'' worked as an Amazon Brigade (Amazon Flight, really) before joining the crew, and usually act as a unit while Akito or Akatsuki are off doing their own thing during the series. The [[BridgeBunnies ship's bridge crew]] is a couple of non-commissioned adjutants and [[TheOneGuy one girly XO]] away from this trope as well.
* The titular Otome of ''Anime/MyOtome'', although there is a TechnoBabble explanation for their powers being exclusive to [[VirginPower female virgins]]. While an Otome usually works alone, doing her Master's bidding, the Five Columns (who have no Master) are an actual team.
* Simeon's girl squadron in ''Manga/{{NEEDLESS}}'', consisting of [[SuperSpeed Setsuna]], [[CuteBruiser Mio]] and [[TalkingWithSigns Kuchinashi]]. Don't be fooled by their cuteness.
%%* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''
%%** The War Maiden Brigade of the Ariadne Magic Knights in the MagicWorld.
%%** Negi's TrueCompanions also fit, especially in both anime series, where Kotaro doesn't exist.
%%** The BigBad Fate has an all-female group of partners.
* Amazon Lily from ''Manga/OnePiece'' being a LadyLand, its warriors obviously qualify. They are called the Kuja Pirates, and consist of the most powerful warriors of the island. Most of the Kuja Pirates are also very beautiful, as the Kuja believe strength is beauty; appropriately, their captain Boa Hancock is considered the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman ''and'' is one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
* In ''LightNovel/OnlySenseOnline'', Myu leads one party of [[GamerChick Gamer Chicks]] in the titular game and this party is renowned in-game for its excellent teamwork and combat prowess.
* ''Anime/PrettyCure'' is always either this or LovelyAngels. ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'', notably, featured a four-woman Amazon Brigade made of two pairs of LovelyAngels.
** The BatFamilyCrossover movie series ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars'' gathers all ''Pretty Cure'' teams together every year. The next movie will have '''36''' current members.
* ''Anime/ProjectAko'': Captain Napolitalita's crew consisted entirely of women, who looked and sounded ''[[UnsettlingGenderReveal like MEN]]''! Used as the punchline at the end of the first film, as they were the seemingly unstoppable alien menace that had smashed through Earth's defenses - only to be inadvertently thwarted by [[CatFight a pair of feuding highschool girls.]]
%%* The Pleiades Saints in ''Manga/PuellaMagiKazumiMagica''.
* Franchise/SailorMoon and her Sailor Senshi, the MagicalGirlWarrior rulers of their respective celestial bodies, as well as ''many'' EvilCounterpart teams with parallel power sets that double as DarkMagicalGirl {{Quirky Miniboss Squad}}s for their respective arc BigBad, whether the Black Moon family's Ayakashi Sisters, the Death Busters' Witches 5, the Dead Moon Circus' Amazoness Quartet, or Shadow Galactica's Sailor Animamates. ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'' even references it in the ThemeSong: "We're not weak girls/Who need men's protection". And Sailor Mars and Venus also even said "We do not need man" in the manga. (This is to show them abandon to court and focused on soldier's responsibility.)
* In ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'', any group with multiple Sekirei is this by default. Most noteworthy are Minato's BattleHarem, Sanada of the West's team of three, and the Discipline Squad, while the other two major groups (the South and the East) don't function as units to the same degree. The first incarnation of the Discipline Squad remains legendary for their strength, as well as having been the one version to include TheOneGuy.
* The characters in ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'' are technically "maidens" [[HumanOutsideAlienInside lacking a permanent sex]], but they look the part.
%%* Integra, Accela, Sylvia and Celica make up the R.U.C.'s PROCEED squad in ''Anime/SoltyRei''.
* In ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'', the Helvetian Army fields all-female tank crews, the main characters being the 1121st tank platoon.
* The 501st Joint Fighter Wing, a.k.a. the Anime/StrikeWitches. They're reportedly [[InspiredBy "inspired by"]] the RealLife WWII Night Witches (see below), and the character of Sanya Litvyak is even [[InNameOnly "based on"]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilya_Litvyak Lilya Litvyak.]]
* The Treue (German for "loyalty") Unit in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars Original Generation'', and it's not just "coincidence" like many others; the unit is, for some reason, for females only. Note: these three are all wiped out over the course of their respective series' the Gundam teams get killed, while as an enemy unit in the game, you take out the Treue unit yourself, save for one known pilot, who later joins your squad.
* Near the end of ''Manga/TokyoESP'' [[spoiler: Rinka, Nadja, Kobushi, Kozuki, and Minami form one in one huge EnemyMine to take on ARES.]] It's as badass as it sounds.
%%* In ''Manga/WorldTrigger'', both The A-ranked Kako Squad and the B-ranked Nasu Squad fulfill this.
* In the ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' franchise, many female duelists have either mostly female monsters or monsters that make their decks look feminine.
** Mai Kujaku is a prime example, who uses both Harpies ''and'' Amazoness monsters. The Harpies might be the TropeCodifier for the franchise, since this archetype has [[TookALevelInBadass Taken a Level in Badass]] for several years and has become a strong meta archetype.
** Anzu uses mostly female monsters or angelic creatures. The monster Maha Vailo, which she uses in the virtual world, has an AmbiguousGender.
** Rebecca's second deck includes a lot of female monsters, but she mixes them with Dragon-Type cards as well.
** [[{{Camp}} Siegfried]] uses a Valkyrie deck and even his three Permanent Spell Cards are based off goddesses.
** Asuka's Cyber Girl deck is DanceBattler-themed, most notably ballerinas.
** Rei's first deck plays it straight. Subverted later with her second and third deck.
** Tania uses an Amazoness Deck and she beats Misawa several times before she is defeated by Judai.
** Subverted with Aki. She only has a few female looking monsters, and the majority of her monsters are monstrous Plant-Type monsters.
** Carly uses a Fortune Fairy deck, which is made of weak, cute fairies. After becoming a Dark Signer, her monsters evolve to Fortune Ladies, which become stronger for each Level they have and their Levels increase each turn.
** Misty uses a Reptilliane deck, but rather than having sexy women, her deck consists of creepy female snake-people dressed in dresses who tend to look more beastly than human.
** Sherry uses a knight-themed deck which contains {{Action Girl}}s who are based of UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc.
** Kotori's deck is based of Fairy-Types, notably ones that resemble cheerleaders.
** Cathy's deck is based of {{Cat Girl}}s and cats.
** While Rio's Main Decks includes only ice birds, her Extra Deck has only humanoid female monsters.
** Droite's deck is based of butterfly women.
** Yuzu uses a Melodious deck which contains female Fairy-Type monsters based on musicians.
** Serena uses a Lunalight deck which contains female Beast-Warrior-Type monsters. Her deck shares some parallels to ''Manga/SailorMoon''.
** Ruri uses a Lyrilusc deck, which consists of bird-like girls.
** Mieru uses a Sibyll deck, which are all female monsters with a fortune telling theme.
** Ayu's deck is based of fish ladies.
** Gloria and Grace Tyler use an Amazoness deck too.
** Aoi uses a Trickstar deck, which are idol-based fairies.
** Emma uses an Altergeist deck, which are spell-casters that are based on various female ghosts in mythologies, though rather monstrous looking.
* In ''Manga/YuunaAndTheHauntedHotSprings'' the Demon Slaying Ninjas are all women.
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* ''[[Literature/CarrerasLegions The Amazon Legion]]'' focuses on one of these, with particular attention given to how to maximize the effectiveness of the women in it given the general physical limitations compared to men.
* The protagonist of ''Literature/TheAssassinsOfTamurin'' is recruited for a secret organization of this type.
* In the ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' novel ''The Far Side of the World'', Jack and Stephen are rescued/taken prisoner by the all-female crew of a Polynesian twin-hulled craft. They also have an extreme case of DoesNotLikeMen, apparently castrating their male captives as a matter of course.
* In Géza Gárdonyi's novel '' Attila's Slave '', when Atila the Hun gathers all his allies, the Sarmatians arrive with a large number of warrior women, described as "Amazons with cat eyes and panther muscles"
* The eponymous Bunch in ''The Bad Bunch'' by Creator/JTEdson; an all-female gang of outlaws as dangerous and ruthless as any men.
* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'':
** The Argonath legions have a women's brigade. Also, the witches have many warriors who fight the Enemy with both magic and normal weapons.
** Lessis leads around a hundred captive women used for [[BreedingSlave bearing imps]] in a revolt against Tummuz Orgmeen.
* In the first book of ''Literature/TheBlackCompany'', the protagonists fight against battalions composed only of women. Those warrior women end up being defeated, but the narrator acknowledges that they fought with more courage and efficiency than many men.
* Much like in Creator/UrsulaVernon's webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', her ''Literature/BlackDogs'' series contains a race of matriarchal hyena people. Their appearance is more brief and their role much less pivotal, but from what is seen of them, their warriors and hunters are all female. It is also observed by the protagonist that the females are larger and more physically intimidating than the males.
* Implicitly, all armies in ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', as men would certainly be considered too [[GenderRarityValue valuable]] to waste them in battles. Jerin's grandmothers are said to have been an Amazon Brigade of soldier-spies.
* ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'':
** ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' has the hunters of Artemis, a group of girls that travel with the goddess Artemis and are allowed to live without aging as long as they remain maidens for ever. They happen to be extremely handy with a bow, and are strong fighters all around.
** ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' reveals that the Amazons themselves are still in business, running Amazon.com.
* An Amazon Brigade is mentioned in ''Literature/TheCatWhoWalksThroughWalls'' and appears as fire support in the climax of the direct sequel ''Literature/ToSailBeyondTheSunset''.
* ''Literature/CatwomanSoulstealer'': The Leopards, a girl gang which Selina joined, who are well known for being skilled in armed or unarmed combat. Selina later is recruited by the League of Shadows to become one of their Assassins, who are mostly women in the book, and even more renowned for their deadly prowess.
* The ''Literature/ChicksInChainmail'' comedy-fantasy anthology series has numerous stories of all-female military units and warrior societies; along with stories of SweetPollyOliver, the lone ActionGirl, LittleMissBadass, or MamaBear.
* In ''Literature/ChroniclesOfChaos'' by Creator/JohnCWright, the Maenads and later the Amazons themselves show up. The Amazons, by the way, are SpyCatsuit-wearing ninja femmebots. On {{Cool Horse}}s.
* Though almost all Giants in the ''Literature/ChroniclesOfThomasCovenant'' are badass, as a whole they tend to view physical violence as an extremely distasteful last resort (albeit one they're very good at), and as a result have few professional warriors. That said, those professional warriors (the Swordmainnir) are almost entirely women (it's not unheard of for a male Giant to become a Swordmain, but it's ''extremely'' uncommon), and they're ''very'' good at what they do. This is especially clear in the Last Chronicles when an entire, all female, detachment of Swordmainnir show up and get to show off exactly what they can do.
* ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfPrincessLeia'':
** The Hapan Army, Navy and Royal Guard are entirely made up of women.
** The Dathomiri Witches also have women warriors (the Nightsisters have male stormtroopers who work for them, but clearly are not the elite).
* The titular ''Literature/DamselsOfDistress'' definitely qualify. They are a six-woman mercenary gang who will take any job so long as they pay is good.
* Bradley's ''Literature/{{Darkover}}'' has the Sisterhood of the Sword; their successors, the Free Amazons, are less of an example, as while they are all trained to fight they don't exclusively work as soldiers.
* Neal Stephenson's ScienceFiction novel ''Literature/TheDiamondAge'' has Nell's "sisters", or "Mouse Army", a group of soldiers/engineers/political leaders that finally becomes a new sovereign.
* In ''Literature/TheDinosaurLords'', most of ''jinete'' (light cavalry) units are made up of women, as it's generally agreed in-universe that women are smaller and nimbler and thus better-suited to the job than men.
* The Queens' Wing can be a pretty effective Thread-fighting force in the ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' novels, particularly once they caught on to how easily a queen dragon can boss around ''any'' other color.
* In ''Literature/{{Dragonvarld}}'', the Sisterhood is protected by an all-female guard, since it's deemed inappropriate for the Sisters to be surrounded by men when they're supposed to refrain from relations with them. (Relations between the Sisters and their female guards, however, are quite acceptable.) The idea is startling to people who come from other kingdoms.
* A common occurrence in the ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' series.
** In ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' the Bene Gesserit can fight with nearly superhuman capability if necessary.
** Leto II justifies this trope when he forms the Fish-Speakers in ''Literature/GodEmperorOfDune'': he believes their maternal instinct will prevent them from succumbing to bloodlust or quests for power, and they're a ''temporary'' army since they're all about him, so they'll lack a unifying force once he dies. It's all part of his Golden Path for humanity.
** ''Literature/HereticsOfDune'' introduces the Honored Matres which serve as the main antagonist from that book through ''Literature/ChapterhouseDune''.
* ''Literature/DungeonCrawlerCarl'' has a group of not-so-elite women, but with a leader whose magical crossbow gets faster and stronger for every woman in the party. With several dozen of them, it's practically a machine gun. [[spoiler: Then Hekla gets killed and the crossbow looted, leaving the group to break apart.]]
* The shrykes from ''Literature/TheEdgeChronicles''. Not quite a OneGenderRace, but the ladies hold the upper hand in... well, everything. Female shrykes are warriors and their leadership class are all females, while the smaller, weaker males are led around on collars and generally treated like pets, despite being fully sapient.
* In ''Literature/EncryptionStraffe'', the early model PowerArmor used by New Illyrica and other factions requires more training for men than women to fully utilize, because of skeletal structure differences. So, New Illyrica had an all-female power armor squad.
* In ''Literature/TheFirebrand'', Creator/MarionZimmerBradley's retelling of ''Literature/TheIliad'' from the perspective of Kassandra, we have... the original Amazons. By the end of the book, they more or less die out, logical with the feminist bent of the novel and the way that the cult of patriarchy was sweeping the nation.
* A rare non-Fantasy or Sci-fi example: thriller writer Brad Thor created a "detachment" of all-female Delta Force members for his most recent Scot Harvath novel ''Foreign Influence'', which spawned the sequel/spinoff ''The Athena Project''.
* In the ''Literature/GarrettPI'' novels, the Sisters of Doom are [=TunFaire=]'s only all-human, all-female street gang. Consisting almost entirely of teen or pre-teen girls who ran away from molestation and child prostitution, the Doom have as bloody a reputation as any other urban gang, being particularly infamous for gelding their enemies and beating pimps into a pulp.
* ''Literature/TheGirlWhoDrankTheMoon'' features the Sisters of the Star, who are combat-trained law enforcement and exclusively recruit young women.
* The soldiers of the Hames in Jane Yolen's ''Literature/GreatAltaSaga''. Before the invasion, they were among the most honored warriors in the Dales, and not a male in sight.
* Andrea puts one of these together in ''Literature/GroomOfTheTyrannosaurQueen''. Turns out nomad pastoralists are really easy to train for war.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' has the Holyhead Harpies, an all female Quidditch team.
* ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' has the witches. Since only females born of the witches are also witches, this is justified. In these exclusively female clans, they're deadly shots with bow and arrow, are good with knives, are quick to swear vengeance; and they attach themselves as a bodyguard to the protagonists.
* Thandi Palane's self-styled Amazons (descendants of genetically engineered Ukranian supersoldiers) in the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' universe.
* In the Creator/LarryNiven novel ''Literature/TheIntegralTrees'', the Triune Squads are made up of [[CelibateHero women who refuse to marry]], women who [[HideYourLesbians love women]], or those who are [[GenderBender "women" by courtesy only]]. They are sent to patrol the Trunk, a hazardous and seemingly pointless duty, to make up for not doing their "real" duty to the tribe [[StayInTheKitchen by providing children]].
* Subverted in the Ken Follett novel ''Jackdaws''. The eponymous [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Strategic Operations Executive]] saboteur team was originally planned to be all female, so that they could disguise themselves as cleaning women so as to infiltrate a critical German telephone exchange building in occupied France. The problem is that the team leader, Flick Clairet, had only a couple of days to recruit the team, and could not find a female telephone engineer in Britain who also spoke fluent French, so she ended up recruiting "Greta," a male transvestite instead.
* ''Literature/LegacyOfTheDragokin'': The Kthonian Knights are supposed to be this because they hate men and wanted to kill all of them but Jihadain let Ravage join because he's Fury's protective big brother and she wants him to join.
* Isobelle Carmody's ''Literature/TheLegendsongSaga'' has the myrmidons; a community of female fighters based on the island of Myrdmoor, whose primary duty is to [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl protect]] the [[BlindSeer soulweavers]] while away from their home on Darkfall. Their preferred fighting method is a form of martial arts, sometimes accompanied by a short javelin.
* In ''Literature/LoyalEnemies'' dryads are OneGenderRace, female only, so their army, logically, has no men. In the army itself, the quality varies, but dryads are faster and more agile than most other races, giving them an edge over the enemy.
* ''[[Literature/LandofOz The Marvelous Land of Oz]]'' features Jinjur's army. A [[LaResistance revolutionary army]] composed entirely of young girls dressed in World War 1 era uniforms. This being one of the Oz books, they're about as deadly of a fighting force as a kindle of kittens. They find early success against the Emerald City's army, an old man who WouldntHitAGirl, but are in for a nasty surprise when Glinda brings in her own all-female army who actually know what they're doing.
* In ''Literature/{{MARZENA}}'' we have the C-Section, a [[MurderInc Private Intelligence Company]] made solely of women who recruits other women into spying or killing for them, if not taking care of the dirty business themselves.
* One of the many superhumans vying for power in Literature/StarTrekTheEugenicsWars is Chen Tiejun and her small army of genetically enhanced superwomen.
* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'' features [[spoiler:a squad consisting entirely of {{Sweet Polly Oliver}}s]]. The first clue is right there in the title: [[spoiler: John Knox once wrote a pamphlet called "The First Blast Of The Trumpet Against The Monstrous Regiment Of Women" - a polemic against the then-current situation of there being more than one reigning Queen in Britain.]]
* ''Literature/MyDarkAndFearsomeQueen'': The president of the high school drama club turns out to be an evil queen exiled from an alternate dimension, and all the girls in the club turn out to be her guards.
* In ''Literature/RememberToAlwaysBeBrave'', the Roman Republic has a full corps of these known as the "Amazons", based off the ancient Greek pseudo-legendary female warriors. They deal with either heavy weaponry, close heavy combat, or both.
* ''Literature/TheReynardCycle'': The militaristic Calvarians regularly field companies of these. They appear to be treated as equals of the men.
** By ''Defender of the Crown'', [[spoiler: a significant portion of Reynard's army is made up of women, with Rukenaw in command.]]
* In ''Literature/SewerGasAndElectric'', a female Royal Navy officer averted an assassination attempt and, in return, asked Queen Elizabeth II for command of a submarine. When the navy brass told Her Majesty that having a woman take charge of a sub was unthinkable due to conditions on board, Her Majesty got peeved; four years later, the H.M.S. ''City of Women'' was launched with an all-female crew.
* ''Literature/TheShadowCampaigns'':
** The Girl's Own is an all-female regiment, recruited in the midst of the Vordanai revolution and reinforced steadily over the course of books 3 and 4. Led by Winter Ihernglass and then Abby Giforte, the Girl's Own achieves a reputation as one of the best and most dedicated line regiments in the Army of the East, and the subsequent Grand Army of Vordan, and forms the core of Winter's Fourth Division.
** The "bone people" of Trans-Bataria in Murnsk are a tribal confederation who send their men out to act as cavalry and archers, while their women function as spear-wielding infantry. The "bone women" are among the best close combatants in the series with their spears and hide shields, and several thousand of them prove a deadly threat to the isolated First Division, forcing Marcus d'Ivoire to resort to increasingly desperate tactics to fend them off.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's short story "[[ShaggyDogStory Shah Guido G.]]" features an all-female police force known as the Waves. However this really had nothing to do with the plot, being part of a [[{{Feghoot}} clumsy and long-drawn-out build up to a punning punchline]].
* ''Literature/SisterhoodSeries'' by Creator/FernMichaels: The Sisters, Sisterhood, or Vigilantes (whatever you like to call them) can be considered this - as long as you don't include Charles Martin and the Big Five or the Five Musketeers. The last book ''Home Free'' subverts this trope by having the Vigilantes recruit male members into their ranks at the end.
* In Erin Bow's novel ''Sorrow's Knot'', the Rangers are an all-female squad of hunters/guards who provide for and guard the Free Women of the Forest. (Men are also among the Free People, but do not serve as Rangers.)
* ''Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy'': The 12th expedition into [[EldritchLocation Area X]] is deliberately all female in order throw a new variable to it. Barring the anthropologist (and the linguist who drops out before the expedition begins), they're a very tough group and have had additional survival and weapons training prior to the expedition.
* In ''Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat's Revenge'' Special Corps agent James Bolivar "Slippery Jim" [=DiGriz=] lands on a planet once run by women (until they were usurped by a male revolutionary party working in cahoots with galactic invaders). He teams up with LaResistance-- former members of the military who are of course fit, shapely young amazons--much to the annoyance of Jim's ever-jealous and lethally-dangerous wife.
* The [=qawHaq'hoch=], in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyagerRelaunch'', a Klingon cult consisting of female warriors only. Interestingly, it's never explained why they only accept females. Possibly it's "just tradition" - but it's one they're quite serious about. They draw attention to their status as an Amazon Brigade by using a symbol for birth (Ie., an aspect of life exclusive to women) as the glyph signifying the correct tunnel to their headquarters.
* In the old ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Expanded Universe]] we have the Mistryl Shadow Guard, a group of fierce whip-wielding mercenaries from a doomed civilization, and the Hapes Consortium, an interstellar cluster of Amazons whose (formidable) army and navy was solely composed of women, as was the Royal Guard.
* ''Literature/TheSupervillainySaga'': Specifically, ''[[Literature/TalesOfSupervillainyCindysSeven Tales Of Supervillainy: Cindy's Seven]]'' has Cindy's initial plan is to assemble an all-female heist team of these with Mandy, Amanda, Selena, and Clarissa all being seasoned superheroes or supervillains. Her daughters, Leia and Mimi, also join up. She also picks up Dana AKA Damselfly, just because she fits the theme. It is {{Subverted}} when Case AKA Agent G becomes part of the team just because he's conveinant. Gary joins as well and Cindy doesn't have the heart to send him away.
* The Mord-Sith from the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'', who are the sworn protectors of Lord Rahl, as well as his expert torturers. They perform... [[SexSlave other services]] for him, they act as his bodyguard, are capable of beating up squads of elite soldiers without breaking a sweat, have a magical torture device / weapon / awkward phallus ''thing'' called an Agiel, they're made via a truly horrifying BreakTheCutie indoctrination process, are probably the second most feared thing in all of D'Hara, only behind the Lord Rahl himself... oh and they can capture your magic ''and use it to torture you''. They've driven one member of the main cast insane.
* The Longwing dragon captains in the ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'' series could be a sort of Amazon Brigade -- Longwings almost exclusively select female captains (it is implied that on occasion one will accept a male grudgingly, but none have been shown yet). In China several centuries before the events in the books, women were permitted to serve as combat dragon riders by Imperial Decree after a SweetPollyOliver [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} enlisted to spare her father]] [[ShoutOut and stopped an invasion after bonding with a dragon]]. Between conscription and the willingness of families to get rid of daughters, by the time Cpt. Laurence and Temeraire arrive, the Chinese government had long since thrown up their hands and made their Dragon Corps an exclusive female preserve.
* ''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland'': The Warrior Women, naturally. In fact they're far more overtly masculine than even most male soldiers, cursing, boasting and carousing outrageously. Some are [[BrawnHilda very big, hairy women]], but most are slim and beautiful. They're all quite strong and definitely not to be insulted. Even so, they're possible to befriend. Though the rumor is they're all lesbians, often the women end up having sex with Tourists, whether male or female (it's apparently quite good).
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein
** In ''Literature/TunnelInTheSky'', Rod Walker's older sister Helen is a captain in an Amazon Brigade. There are more women being born on an [[OverpopulationCrisis overpopulated Earth]] than men, so there's a shortage of available husbands, so women are taking on a lot of traditionally male roles. This is played for DeliberateValuesDissonance (the novel was written in 1955). Helen makes it clear that she intends to [[QuittingToGetMarried leave the military and raise a large family should she find a husband.]]
** ''Literature/{{Friday}}''. The PrivateMilitaryContractors in the DividedStatesOfAmerica. It's not quite clear if they're a literal Amazon Brigade (only one actual mercenary is seen) but the title character mentions that most of the others are "untrained farm girls".
* In the Literature/VorkosiganSaga, Commodore Koudelka's four daughters are referred to his "All-Blonde Commando Team". They got the nickname as kids, so it's mostly a joke.
** ''Mostly''. Olivia Koudelka, the shyest of the bunch, instantly steps up to thwart a politically-motivated assault by a group of armed thugs on her boyfriend Lord Dono. Unarmed, in an evening dress, she takes out two of them before tearing the hem off her dress to use as a bandage.
* ''Literature/WarGirls'': The eponymous War Girls are an all-female squad of soldiers.
* Creator/DavidWeber's ''Literature/TheWarGods War'' series has a couple of different examples. The most detailed example are the Sothoii War Maids. Free towns administered by women in the very patriarchal Sothoii society they are required to supply levies in times of war under the Kingdom's feudal military structure and by tradition they field all female fighting forces. Considered outcasts by Sothoii society as a whole but supported strongly by the Wind Riders, the elite of the Sothoii military.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'':
** In the Aiel {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}}, the Maidens of the Spear are the one Warrior Society that's exclusive to women. Members are "wedded to the spear" and must leave the Society if they marry. They collectively adopt TheChosenOne Rand when they discover that his birth mother was a Maiden.
** Elayne forms a squad of these as her bodyguards when she claims the Throne of Andor, led by the EternalHero Birgitte. Their uniforms are designed to trick people into mistaking them for ceremonial guards, but they're actually elite fighters to a woman.
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* There's one team in ''VideoGame/ArcStyleBaseball3D'' that's completely made of women players.
* Interior Union in ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'', every one of the Lynxes for hire is a women, and unlike Bernard And Felix, more than willing to let you use them as consorts.
* ''Franchise/BaldursGate''
** Depending on the player's alignment in [[VideoGame/BaldursGate the first game]], an all-female party can consist of any combination of Imoen, Dynaheir, Jaheira, Viconia deVir, Safana, Alora, Branwen, Faldorn, Shar-Teel Dosan and Skie Silvershield, with Neera added in the Enhanced Edition. ''VideoGame/BaldursGateSiegeOfDragonspear'' reduces the roles of Imoen and Skie, but still allows for a party of Jaheira, Schael Corwin, Safana, Viconia, M'Khiin Grubdoubler and/or Neera. [[spoiler: Caelar Argent may also be convinced to join you for the final battle as a full-fledged companion if you have a free slot in the party.]] [[VideoGame/BaldursGateII The second game]] and its Enhanced Edition brings back Imoen, Viconia, Jaheira and Neera, along with new characters Aerie, Nalia, Mazzy and Hexxat.
** In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIIThroneOfBhaal'', one of the three guardians for the final seal is an entirely female group composed of Y'tossi (a marilith), Nalmissra (a succubus), The Hive Mother (a beholder), Amerilis Zauvwir (a drow cleric), The Huntress (an archer) and Xei Win Toh (presumably a kensai).
* The Umbran Witches of ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', of which the titular heroine belongs to, are an all-female order of magical warriors sworn to serve the dark powers of Inferno.
* The Social Justice Warriors in ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'' are a blatant parody of this trope. They’re a militant ‘sisterhood’ that other characters [[LastSecondWordSwap can barely keep from calling a cult]], and can be found exercising their power by harassing old men and getting into fights over sales at the local shop. [[{{Irony}} Til is worried that one day, they’re all her homeland of Tumblr will ever be known for]].
* The Knives of Artemis from ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes''.
* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'':
** The Bratgirls from ''VideoGame/CrashOfTheTitans'' and ''VideoGame/CrashMindOverMutant''.
** There's also the Nitro Squad introduced in ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacingNitroFueled'', consisting of Tawna and the trophy girls from the original ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacing''.
* ''VideoGame/CrimsonSkies'' has the Medusas; an all female pirate gang.
* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': Downplayed. The [[BandOfBrothels Mox]] is open for people of all genders, but the funder and current leader are women, all the more important members we interact with are women, and all the bouncers around the club that serves as their base of operations are women. The only male member we interact with, Mateo, is a bartender we can buy alcohol from and have a brief chat with.
* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' has several official Party Combos such as Valkyries, Femme Fatales and Sisterhood, which include some combination of the Antiquarian, the Arbalest, the Grave Robber, the Hellion, the Plague Doctor, the Vestal, and - with the most recent DLC - the Shieldbreaker.
* ''VideoGame/DiabloII'' starts the player out in the Rogues' camp (a reference to the female-only Rogue class from original ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''). Everyone permanently living there is female, from the [[WrenchWench blacksmith Charsi]] to the matronly [[HealingHands high priestess Akara]] to the [[LadyOfWar guard captain Kashya]]. They're staying in the camp because they had been evicted from their monastery after Diablo's minions took over and mind-controlled half their numbers, whom you fight throughout Act I, and who are also all female.
* Delilah's coven in the ''Brigmore Witches'' DLC of ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' and in ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'' are all women (obviously) and all very deadly EliteMooks trained in both [[MagicKnight swordsmanship and supernatural powers]].
* Possible in ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSin'' if you make both of your player characters women and bring along Madora and Bairdotr in your other two party slots.
* Several in ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
** In all three of the games, a female PlayerCharacter has the option to run with a party of all-female companions. This includes some (though not all) of the DLC campaigns as well.
** The dwarves have a monastic order of women warriors called the Silent Sisters, who cut out their own tongues and devote themselves completely to martial training in honor of the first female Paragon of the Warrior Caste.
** One of the nighttime street gangs in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', the Invisible Sisters, is an all-female group focusing on attacks from stealth.
** Krem in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' mentions that in Tevinter, women in the military are segregated into exclusively-female units, which caused problems for him as a trans man.
* The Amazons of Kurkum from ''VideoGame/{{Drakensang}}''. In both games you have to fight a band of Dark Amazons.
* There's several of these in the lore of ''VideoGame/DungeonFighterOnline''. In the game proper, the male Spitfire is able to summon the Black Roses, a group of four gunslinging women that shoot at the enemy in formation.
* ''VideoGame/EarthDefenseForce5'': The Wing Diver or in Japan versions of the game, Pale Wing unit. They are all female units that have energy powered jump packs capable of flight and wield powerful energy weapons. The Wing Divers are also typically considered an elite unit and key to defeating the giant bug invaders.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'': All of the guards, retainers, shopkeepers, and other service providers in Tel Mora, home of the [[DoesNotLikeMen man-hating]] [[EvilSorcerer Telvanni councilor]] Mistress Dratha, are female. There is one lone male Telvanni guard patrolling the grounds, but this is likely a case of GameplayAndStorySegregation, as there needed to be at least one guard in the town capable of arresting the player if he/she commits a crime there. (The female guards are named and thus, not standard town guards.)
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'''s ''Shivering Isles'' expansion reveals this to be the case for the Aureals (aka Golden Saints) and Mazken (aka Dark Seducers), two forms of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]] in service to [[MadGod Sheogorath]]. Downplayed in that, while male Aureals and Mazekn do exist, they are [[TinyGuyHugeGirl physically inferior]] and less numerous, leaving the females most fit for combat roles.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' has a twisted variant, [[{{Necromancer}} Arondil The Necromancer]] has an army consists of entirely female [[NightOfTheLivingMooks Draugr and ghosts]] to protect his lair. The reason why they are all females is solely because he is [[ILoveTheDead in love with ghosts]] and wants to enslave them. This results in him repeatedly murdering milkmaids in Dawnstar and recruiting them into his undead harem.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''
** Downplayed in with Ranger Station Foxtrot in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', the only station staffed entirely by female rangers, though no one comments on this fact.
** The Disciples from ''VideoGame/Fallout4'''s ''Nuka World's DLC are a villainess example; They're roughly made out of 90% female raiders and also the most ruthless group in all of Nuka World.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', Alexandria's army consists almost entirely of women. The only males are the Knights of Pluto, a squad consisting of a mere 9 men, including playable character Steiner, who serves as their captain.
** The military of the city of Troia in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' likewise consisted entirely of women.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' is a downplayed trope. The Gullwings have seven members total (four guys and three girls) but only the girls leave the airship to fight fiends and such.
** Clan Ritz from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' consists of all vieras and Ritz.
** Prima Donna from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' has 2 vieras and 2 grias, and all of them are female.
* The various ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' games have several of these, with the most blatant examples being the Pegasus Knights, who up until ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' introduced Subaki the Sky Knight were AlwaysFemale {{Pegasus}}-riding and lance- or sword-wielding {{Action Girl}}s. Recruitable Pegasus Knights [[RecurringElement often come in trios]], and sometimes they're also [[BrotherSisterTeam sisters]]. A list of examples from the series:
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight'', ''Videogame/FireEmblemGaiden'', ''Videogame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem'': The TropeCodifier PK trio of Palla, Catria and Est.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'': Mahnya, Ferry, Deetvar and Pamela aka the Angelic Knights of Silesse (first generation, and actually Deetvar and Pamela are ''enemy units'' [[spoiler: and Mahnya ''dies'']]); also Maybell, Meng and Bleg (second generation, another villainous example).
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'': Shanna, Thite, and Juno (''Binding Blade''); Florina, Fiora, and Farina (''Blazing Blade'').
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'': Vanessa, Tana, and Syrene.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'': The Holy Guard of Begnion, a special division of the Begnion army, is composed of nothing but female Pegasus Knights. Tanith, Sigrun, and Marcia are the named and recruitable characters among them.
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'': Cordelia, Sumia and Cynthia. Unusual since [[spoiler: Cynthia is actually Sumia's KidFromTheFuture]]. Optionally, the player can reclass some female characters as Pegasus Knights [[spoiler: and get others via DLC]].
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'': In a rare ''not'' Pegasus Knight army example, the Nohr side has [[MagicKnight Camilla]] and her two subordinates, [[DragonRider Beruka]] and [[CuteBruiser Selena.]] [[spoiler: The NinjaMaid Flora temporarily joins them during the GoldenPath.]]
* ''VideoGame/GetInTheCarLoser'': The party consists of three girls whose pronouns are she/her, and Valentin, whose pronouns are they/them.
* The Twelve Divine Generals in ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'' are all female. As Vajra learns in her 5* Fate Episode, though, this wasn't always the case; the first one from her bloodline was male, and according to him male Generals used to be common.
* The Counterfeiting Syndicate in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' is an all-female criminal organization that helps with the process of illegal plate trading currency in Vice City.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Guenevere}}'', Guen's bodyguards are two knights from the ancient, all female Order of UsefulNotes/{{Boudica}}.
* In the game ''Heavy Smash: The Future Sports'', the Australian team is all-female.
* ''VideoGame/{{InvisibleInc}}'' can develop this based on player progression and [[LuckBasedMission a little bit of luck]], as starting agent Internationale can be joined by Banks, Nika and Prism; [[CoolOldLady Central]] becomes available if you beat the game once on Experienced difficulty; and the Contingency Plan DLC adds Olivia and Rush.
* Two of the gangs in the ''VideoGame/JetSetRadio'' games are all-female: the [[WomanScorned Love Shockers]] and Rapid 99.
* Any naginata unit in ''VideoGame/KessenIII''.
* ''Franchise/TheKingOfFighters''
** The various incarnations of the "Women's Team". Its ranks include: King, Mai Shiranui, Yuri Sakazaki, Kasumi Todoh, Chizuru Kagura, Li Xiangfei, Hinako Shinjou, "Blue" Mary Ryan, May Lee and Alice Garnet Nakata.
** In ''KOF 2003'' Athena Asamiya, Hinako, and Malin had their own all-girls group, the "[[{{Joshikousei}} High School Girls]] Team".
** Similarly, ''KOF 2002: Unlimited Match'' (a remake of the original KOF 2002) gave us two other all-girls team: the "Pretty Girls Team" (Xiangfei, Hinako, and May-Lee, who was a member of the original Women's Team in the first 2002) and the enemy-only NESTS team (Kula, Foxy, and Angel).
** ''XIV'' also has another all-female team dubbed "Team Another World", consisting of [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Nakoruru]], Mui Mui and Love Heart[[note]]the latter two coming from pachislot/pachinko games SNK made[[/note]].
** ''XV'' so far has two of them: the Agents team consisting of Blue Mary, Vanessa and Luong and the Super Heroines team (a spin on the Women Fighters team consisting of Athena, Mai and Yuri).
* In the first ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', an away team composed of a female player character plus either Bastila Shan, Juhani or Mission Vao. In the second, a female player character plus either Mira, Kreia or Visas Marr (especially if you have progressed far enough to make Mira a Jedi).
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** Gerudo have all-female fighting forces - mostly because bar Ganondorf [[OneGenderRace their entire race is nothing but women]].
** ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'': Of the story mode's ten playable hero characters, eight of them are female. Impa, Zelda herself, Midna, Sheik, Princess Ruto, Agitha, Fi, and newcomer Lana. Updates add Cia, Twili Midna, Tetra, Linkle, Medli, Marin and Toon Zelda; though other male heroes are also added that even out the gender balance.
* The Latin Junta from ''VideoGame/MarchOfWar'' has literal units of Amazonian warrior women in their army.
* ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsSparksOfHope'' features the Spark Hunters, a QuirkyMinibossSquad of OriginalGeneration female Rabbids created by [[BigBad Cursa]] to gather Sparks. The group consists of Midnite, Bedrock, and Daphne, with a fourth member being added in a mid 2023 DLC expansion. [[spoiler:One of Mario's Rabbid allies, Edge, was the former leader of the Spark Hunters who gained enough free will to make a HeelFaceTurn, but couldn't reform the others.]]
* ''Franchise/MassEffect''
** The asari are a OneGenderRace of women, and due to their extremely long lifespans (upwards of a thousand years) asari commandos train for a hundred years before they go on active duty. In addition, the asari are also natural [[MindOverMatter biotics]]. The warrior turian race (where military service is the entire society and military service is directly responsible for citizenship) have a saying: "The asari huntresses are the best warriors in the galaxy. It's a good thing there aren't that many of them."
** Additionally, a field squad composed of a female Commander Shepard and any two of Ashley Williams, Tali'Zorah nar Rayya, or Liara T'Soni also qualifies as an Amazon Brigade, particularly at higher levels. And in the sequel, Female Shepard with Jack, Kasumi Goto, Miranda Lawson, Samara, Tali, [[spoiler:Morinth]], and Liara T'Soni (in DLC) counts.
** And in the third game, Female Shepard with Ashley, Tali, Liara and [[spoiler:EDI]], or the Omega DLC squadmates.
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', should you refuse to recruit Garrus, [[spoiler: kill Wrex and sacrifice Kaidan on Virmire]] as a Femshep, an Amazon Brigade squad will be your only option.
* ''VideoGame/MedabotsAXMetabeeAndRokusho'': Several of the female Medafighters, like Karin and Erica, use a pair of female Medabots.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' has ''two'' Amazon Brigades: the Beauty & The Beast Corps, a quartet of {{Power Armor}}ed {{Super Soldier}}s with PTSD, serving as the QuirkyMinibossSquad (for a given value of "quirky"), and the Haven Troopers (aka: FROGS), Ocelot's personal EliteMooks in full power armor who are several steps above the regular troops he rents out.
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'':
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombatMythologiesSubZero'' features Quan Chi's trio of [[HellBentForLeather leather-clad]] [[DarkActionGirl demonic assassins]]; Kia, Jataaka, and Sareena. Of the three, Sareena is a bit of an EnsembleDarkHorse, and has [[AscendedExtra appeared in subsequent games]], undergoing a HeelFaceTurn.
** Mileena, Jade, and a brainwashed Kitana make up one in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatShaolinMonks''.
* ''VideoGame/MountAndBlade'' has the Sword Sisters unit, female knights/heavy cavalry clad in plate armor, wielding swords and crossbows. They are notoriously hard to acquire (you have to rescue or press-gang a lot of unskilled peasant women and [[MagikarpPower give them some]] TrainingFromHell).
* Inevitable in the ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' games, since nearly every playable character is female save for [[VideoGame/MegadimensionNeptuniaVII Umio]].
* In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' it's possible to create a balanced all-female team using a female [[PlayerCharacter Knight-Captain]] built as a tank, Qara the sorceress, Neeshka the rogue, and Elanee the druid. Act II adds Shandra Jerro as a {{guest star|PartyMember}} fighter, and the githzerai cleric Zhjaeve. Even easier in the second expansion, ''Storm of Zehir'', which lets you handcraft your own party, or use existing companions Belueth the Calm (Shadow Thief), Chir Darkflame (Wizard), Inshula sar Mashewe (Ranger), Soraevora Aeravand (Favored Soul) and Lastri Kassireh (Swashbuckler).
* In ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'', the Night Witches, which were this in RealLife, are still around as The Free Aviators, even as Russia descended into anarchy after the German victory. They still work to stop German bombers from targeting Russia.
* The Valkyries of Ragnanival, and the Inferno King's Vulcan soldiers in ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'' are all females.
* Easily achievable in ''VideoGame/PathfinderKingmaker'' with a party of Amiri, Jaethal, Linzi, Octavia, Valerie [[spoiler: and DLC addition Kanerah/Kalikke.]]
* Cassandra Devries' bodyguards from ''VideoGame/PerfectDark''.
* With the latest addition to the roster in ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'', this is now possible with a female PC and a party of Pallegina, Sagani, Maneha, Grieving Mother and the Devil of Caroc.
* ''[[VideoGame/RivalSchools Project Justice]]'' has the Seijyun High trio of Akira, [[ElegantClassicalMusician Yurika]] and [[JapaneseDelinquents Zaki]]. Closer to the definition of this trope is Zaki's gang, the Ladies Team, though a good number of the gang's members may not meet the "be at least moderately attractive" description.
* ''VideoGame/RacingLagoon'' has Queen's Motomachi, an all-women street racing gang in FriendlyLocalChinatown.
* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank Future: A Crack in Time''
** The Valkyries, an army of ace pilots and shock troopers comprised entirely of female aliens. Despite the name, male versions do exist, but [[AllThereInTheManual according to a piece of Galactic Trivia]], they were banished after failing to ask for directions during their pilgrimage after their home colony was decimated by a supernova.
** The [[spoiler:Galactic Rangers]] are apparently all female as well, although whether that's correct or simply the squad leader unnecessarily taking the Mickey isn't explained.
* In ''VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein'' the SS has an all-female force called the Elite Guard.
* ''Videogame/SakuraWars''. This is the entire point of this DatingSim / TacticalRPG series, with a dash of TheOneGuy thrown in as your player avatar (Ogami in the first four games, and Shinjiro in [[VideoGame/SakuraWarsSoLongMyLove the fifth game]]). Your party's effectiveness in battle is dependent on how strong your bonds with your Amazon Brigade are... in addition to how well they get along with one another.
* The MMORPG ''VideoGame/ScarletBlade'' emphasizes in this, as the game focuses on genetically enhanced females, and there are no male playable classes.
* ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice'': Several item and text descriptions refer to the Okami, a clan of inhuman warrior women with an affinity for lightning. However, the player will not encounter them directly until [[spoiler:reaching the Fountainhead Palace, where the Okami have become bodyguards (and ''food'') for the Palace Nobles]].
* The Mosu Ninja from ''VideoGame/{{Shinobido}}'' are composed only by kunoichi.
* ''VideoGame/SiegeOfAvalon'' has the Blood Roses, an order of female knights.
* ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'' has the Pink Peaches SkyPirates. Naturally, [[PaletteSwap their robots are all pink as well.]]
* Luna's subordinates in ''VideoGame/SoulCalibur 3's'' Chronicles of The Sword, the Klessirpemdo, are a quartet of elementally-themed female minions: Lupi (Fires of Hell), Heal-Do (Water of Origin), Elua (Wind of Creation) and Aege (Earth of Foundation). Their leader Luna is probably meant to be Spirit/Aether or something.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Spellforce}}'', '''all''' elven units are female. Except Titans, who are ents. Apparently their treemen ''aren't'' different.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' series, one of the enemy types you encounter are female Octolings: a sister species to Inklings that can transform into octopodes rather than squids. Their Japanese name is fittingly a portmanteau of "tako", meaning octopus, and "amazons". While [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 the sequel]] (starting with its DLC) and later installments allow the player avatar to be a male Octoling, the enemy Octolings remain exclusively female.
* The Kuniang Martial Arts Team from ''VideoGame/{{Strider}}'' is a SiblingTeam of skilled world-renowned bounty hunters and assassins formed by Tong Pooh and her sisters Pei Pooh and Sai Pooh/[[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Nang Pooh]], plus their mentor Xi Wang Mu in the [[VideoGame/Strider2014 last game]]. In ''VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom'' Tong Pooh was instead the leader of an entire enemy unit made up of [[CloneArmy clones of herself]].
* The Aeon military in ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander'' comes very close-game background states that Aeon women are just plain better at battlefield command, with very few males qualifying for command. Possibly a coincidence, but the foremost commanders of the UEF and Cybrans are women as well.
* A few subversions in ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'':
** In the Tarka military females hold most command positions while unchanged males do the grunt work as they're considered to be more emotionally stable. But the highest ranks are usually changed males because their younger brothers and sons instinctively submit to them.
** Zuul females are much larger than the weedy males so they fill most ground combat roles, but they're not sapient and used as CannonFodder by their "husbands".
** The Morrigi fleet has traditionally been all male, since they live in nomadic space-faring tribes while the females reside dirtside. But during the war with the Suul'ka the Siren mind-controlled many males and turned them against their families. As females are resistant to psionics, a result of the evolutionary arm's race with the males' {{Glamour}}s, a number of female tribes known as the Harpeizanae rose to defend Morrigi civilization from their turned kin. However, once the war was over the Morru Qu'aan exiled them for murder and blasphemy, but as of the second game a new Morru Qu'aan has ascended who fought alongside the "Harpies" for some time and he's made gestures to welcome them back.
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' Raine's title of ''Crimson Rose'' is earned by putting her along with the other three playable women characters in your active party. There's also the DistaffCounterpart title of ''Testosterone'' for Regal by putting him with the four other playable male characters.
* You can run with an all-female squad in ''VideoGame/TemplarBattleforce'', due to PurelyAestheticGender.
* The Coven faction in ''VideoGame/TownOfSalem'' are a team of witches who share the BigBadEnsemble spot with the Mafia, and are all female.
* The party size and companion roster in ''VideoGame/{{Tyranny}}'' allows for an all-female team with Verse, Sirin, Eb and/or Kills-in-Shadow.
* ''VideoGame/UnrealIITheAwakening'' features such a brigade in the form of the Liandri Angels, an all-female "mercenary" cyborg squadrons, the game's toughest {{Mooks}}. An in-game dialogue maintains that females are naturally ruthless and that that has been the reason behind the creation of these squadrons.
* While the ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' games (developed by the same team as ''Sakura Wars'') have plenty of male squad members, there are enough ladies for you to form an all-female brigade led by TheOneGuy if you so wish, with said guy being either Welkin, [[VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesII Avan]], [[VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesIII Kurt]], or [[VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles4 Claude]], depending on the game.
* The heavily armed {{Space Pirate}}s of ''VideoGame/VoidBastards''. As far as the player can tell, they are all [[ViolentGlaswegian bloodthirsty Scottish]] women, and they are, bar none, [[BossInMooksClothing the single most deadly threat a player can face on a ship]]. One can finish the entire game without managing to kill a single one; standard procedure is RunOrDie.
* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII''
** The Night Elves' military, the Sentinels, is comprised solely of women because the race's men study druidism and spend centuries at a time asleep in the Emerald Dream. Over the course of the campaign male Night Elves join the battle, but only as support casters ([[BearsAreBadNews at least until the Druids of the Claw shapeshift]]). By ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' the gender divide is eased so that Night Elven females can become druids and men can become fighters, but the overwhelming majority of Sentinels are still women, while there is only a single male priest of Elune seen in-game. As probably an inverted reference to this, the Blood Elf guards are all male.
** The [[TabletopGame/WorldOfWarcraftTheRoleplayingGame [=WoW=] RPG]] mentions a group called the Sisters of Steel, a faction of warrior/blacksmith women who spend so much time at the forge that they [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower become immune to fire and can transform themselves into stone or metal.]] Unfortunately, this faction didn't see any screen time in the game.
* Putting together an Amazon Squad is feasible in all ''VideoGame/XCom'' games, either on purpose, because the most competent soldiers happen to be female[[note]][[PurelyAestheticGender a unit's gender doesn't factor in their stats in any of the games]][[/note]], or because [[AnyoneCanDie the girls are all you have left]].
** You get an achievement, "Flight of the Valkyries", for using an all-female squad in ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown''.
** ''VideoGame/XCOMChimeraSquad'' randomizes which recruits you can get at set intervals, but if you skip the tutorial, you can start the game with any combination of Godmother, Zephyr, Patchwork, Torque and Terminal, the five females in Chimera Squad.
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' has Dominia's all-girl robot pilot squad.
* In the second ''VideoGame/XMenLegends'' game, putting Storm, Jean Grey, Rogue and Scarlet Witch in the team gave you the Femme Fatale bonus (5% damage inflicted goes to health). In ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'' the bonus changes to a 5% damage increase granted to any combination of Storm, Invisible Woman, Elektra, Ms. Marvel and Spider-Woman; in the sequel it's Storm, Invisible Woman, Ms. Marvel, Songbird, Jean Grey and Psylocke.
%%(ZCE)* Any unit led by a female in ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion''.
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* Women in Celtic and Germanic cultures often fought alongside the men, most notably at the last phase of the UsefulNotes/LusitanianWars and during the Teutonic invasions of Rome. However, there ''are'' reports of all-female fighting units in Germanic tribes, which Romans identified with the legendary Amazons. A Roman writer also claimed that in the Gallaeci Artabri tribe, women marched to war while men defended the cities.
* Women in ancient Iranian cultures, such as the Scythians, the Sarmatians, and even the Persians, frequently fought alongside the men, and might have formed female-only squads. Most likely they were also the TropeMaker, due to inspiring Greek myths about the Amazons (Greek writers in the Archaic Period placed the Amazons in the region).
* Sun Tzu earned his reputation by ''forming one'', allegedly. Before he was a famed strategist, he was tasked to turn 180 concubines into soldiers, to demonstrate his ability. Though he had to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem decapitate two of them]] to get the others to pay attention to his orders.
* The shieldmaidens of [[UsefulNotes/TheVikingAge Viking Age]] Scandinavia which may or may not have existed in history and were likely inspired by the Valkyries of Norse mythology.
* UsefulNotes/HernanCortez of all people had a specialized unit of conquistadoras during the UsefulNotes/SpanishConquestOfTheAztecEmpire, most of them wives of soldiers who had refused to StayInTheKitchen and acted as both soldiers and battlefield medics. Its more famous members were its founder María de Estrada (whom chroniclers called one of Cortés' best soldiers, ''period''), Isabel Rodríguez (probably the first official female doctor in the history of America), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatriz_Palacios Beatriz Palacios]] (who was also famous for being black, maybe mulatta) and Beatriz Bermúdez de Velasco (whose leadership skills were vital in the siege of Tenochtitlan).
* When the [[UsefulNotes/ConquestOfPortugueseIndia Portuguese Indian]] city of Diu was besieged by the Ottoman Empire in 1538, its commander João de Mascarenhas formed an all-female unit to replenish their small forces, with notorious members being Isabel Madeira, Catarina Lopes and Isabel Fernandes (this one nicknamed "The Old Woman of Diu", being possibly also a case of NeverMessWithGranny). Ultimately, the defenders were successful and managed to rout the Turks.
* The Amazon River was so named because one of the Spanish explorers who discovered it, Francisco de Orellana, reported encountering a tribe of warrior women there.
* Ikeda Sen was a 16th century ''onna-bugeisha'' (female samurai) who fought in several battles as a member of the Toyotomi Army. At the Battle of Shizugatake in 1583, she commanded a 200-strong musketeer unit consisting entirely of women.
* During the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boshin_War Boshin War]] in Japan, LadyOfWar [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakano_Takeko Takeko Nakano]] led one that was later retroactively called the Women's Army (娘子隊 Jōshitai?).
* North Korea fields a number of army regiments [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2380055/North-Korea-displays-military-prowess-Pyongyangs-main-square-thousands-celebrate-60th-armistice-anniversary.html that are entirely comprised of women]]. They're more commonly seen marching in propaganda parades, but reports and photos of female units actively patrolling [[TheNeutralZone the DMZ]] are not unheard of.
* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Green_Nuns.jpg The 40-woman Amazonian Guard]] of the late Libyan leader UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS may his spellings be many]]). Officially they were known as the Green Nuns, but western media tended to refer to them as the Amazonian Guard. After Gaddafi was deposed and shot dead, their [[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/07/gaddafis-amazonian-bodyguards-barracks not-so glamorous side came to light]].
* Not to mention the famous Dahomey Amazons, or ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mino_%28warrior%29 Mino]]'', who composed a third of the Dahomeyan Army in the 19th Century. Fanatically dedicated and intensively trained, they were nearly unbeatable for three and a half centuries, instilling fear the hearts of their tribal neighbors. Jean Bayol, a French officer who visited Abomey recounted an experience in which he watched a teenage recruit, as [[InitiationCeremony part of her induction]], savagely behead a prisoner with a sword which she then [[LickingTheBlade drank the remaining blood from.]] However, they were substantially less effective against actual professional (male) soldiers: when the French officially engaged Dahomey in war, the Dahomey Amazons were quickly annihilated, even when the French ''weren't'' able to bring their firearms to bear. This was demonstrated quite well at Adegon, where a handful of outnumbered French regulars [[CurbStompBattle absolutely annihilated the Mino/Amazons]] after their engagement devolved into hand-to-hand and [[BayonetYa spear-to-bayonet]] combat, killing 503 Dahomey Amazons (nearly half their entire establishment) for the loss of only ''[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown 6]]'' soldiers. Nevertheless, European historians frequently expressed admiration of the warriors' exceptional bravery and prowess [[MoreDeadlyThanTheMale even in comparison to their male counterparts]], and the First Franco-Dahomean war saw some of the most iconic accounts of the women's ferocity, such as in an early battle in Kotonou when a Dahomey warrior knocked down a French soldier and tore out his larynx [[ManBitesMan with her teeth.]]
* There were three all-female combat Soviet Air Force units in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, which together flew a total of 30,000 combat sorties, produced 30 Heroes of the Soviet Union (the highest honour available) and 2 fighter aces (the only recorded female aces in history). The most famous of these was the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, nicknamed the "Night Witches" by the Germans. Not only did they fly over 23,000 sorties and is said to have dropped 3,000 tons of bombs, it was also the most highly-decorated unit in the Soviet Air Force at the time, receiving 23 Heroes of the Soviet Union awards. Not only that, they flew horrifically [[SchizoTech out of date]], wood and canvas Po-2 bi-plane bombers originally constructed for training and crop dusting - and these planes proved excellently suited for precision night bombing, the reason this regiment was called Night Witches. Weak engine means a quiet engine, plane designed for trainees must have a low stalling speed, reducing noise even more, and low speed gives you an excellent bombing accuracy. Their ''maximum speed'' was sometimes below the ''stall speed'' of German fighters, and they flew at treetop level. [[LethalJokeItem This made them almost impossible to shoot down]], to the point that the Germans promised an [[BlingOfWar Iron Cross]] to anybody who managed to do it. They could only carry six 50-kilo bombs, but randomly dropping them on German positions, combined with all the searchlights and AntiAir going off, kept German troops from getting any sleep, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harassing_fire#World_War_II reducing their combat effectiveness]]. [[ParanoiaFuel They could show up almost anywhere on the Eastern Front without warning.]] Oh and they almost always made their runs ''without parachutes'' because they would weigh down the planes too much. (There are several works listed above that dramatize the story of the Night Witches).
** The Soviets also fielded several all-female anti-aircraft units. The most famous was the 1077th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, made up of hastily-trained young women, some not even out of high school. Assigned to cover the northern suburbs of Staligrad, they found themselves the only unit blocking the German 16th Panzer Division when it unexpected broke through Red Army defenses. Despite not having any armor-piercing shells, they lowered their guns to fire directly on the approaching enemy. This [[NoSell did little to the tanks]], but [[LudicrousGibs tore through infantry and lighter vehicles]], holding up the entire German advance and forcing the Germans to take out each gun emplacement before they could move on. The 1077th managed to hold their ground long enough for the Soviets to bring in reinforcements, [[ForWantOfANail likely preventing the capture of Stalingrad]].
** There were also numerous female Soviet snipers (one, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko Lyudmila Pavlicenko]] got 309 confirmed kills before being pulled off the front line and used for propaganda purposes), and occasionally tank crews. However, both are cases of desperation in a way; the Soviets mobilized almost totally to repel the Germans.
*** Lyudmila Pavlicenko was so awesome that Music/WoodyGuthrie actually wrote a song about her shooting Germans, she was that cool.
** The ''militsiya'' police during and directly after WWII. Soviet police had to recruit amazon brigades, because all the men were busy on the frontlines.
** During UsefulNotes/WorldWarI there was a battalion made up entirely of women, led by a woman named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Bochkareva Maria Bochkareva]], who personally petitioned the Czar to be allowed to serve in the Russian Army to escape her abusive husband. Towards the end of the war, she was put in charge of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Battalion_of_Death Women's Battalion of Death]]. It was something of a publicity stunt to try and raise morale in the Russian Army. It failed, and about eight months after they were formed Lenin overthrew the Russian Provincial Government and the rest is history.
** The Provisional Government planned to recruit several more such units, including the awesomely named Women's Black Hussars of Death Squadron. None had seen combat when the Bolsheviks took over.
** Some members of the Women's Battalion of Death were part of the last-ditch defense of the Winter Palace against the Bolsheviks during UsefulNotes/RedOctober.
** During the Russo-Japanese War there was an all-woman cavalry regiment. The officers were daughters of the country nobility who from hunting could ride and shoot as well as their brothers; the enlisted women were recruited from a Central Asian tribe with a strong Amazonian tradition.
* The [[SemperFi United States Marine Corps]] developed the "Lioness Program" for use in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lioness is an all-female team meant to conduct culturally-sensitive searches, but in practice have done [[http://feraljundi.com/2009/06/21/military-news-the-marine-corps-lioness-program-and-counter-insurgency/ much more]]. The Lionesses have proven extremely useful for building rapport with the locals and gathering intelligence (and should it come to that, "''Every'' Marine is a Rifleman," even if she's not a man).
* During UsefulNotes/TheMexicanRevolution there were Las Soldaderas: active female soldiers fighting hand-in-hand with their fathers, sons, and brothers. When their husband died, they wouldn't cry, they'd say "Dame la pistola!" and ride off into battle.
* The Women Guard of the Reds in the Finnish Civil War 1918. Inspiring both awe and admiration on the White side (some Whites called them "she-wolves" others "Northern Amazons" as they managed to repulse a German assault unit in combat), they nevertheless inspired the victorious Whites to found the ''Lotta Svärd'' women's army auxiliary organization. Women were finally allowed to serve in all branches of the armed forces in 1992.
* [[http://chinesemartialstudies.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/female-militia-dadao.jpg This]] Chinese militia, armed with {{BFS}}s.
* During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, the feminist and socialist leader Louise Michel organized a women's complement to the Eighteenth Arrondissement Vigilance Committee, essentially a citizen militia to defend Paris.
* The Kurdish Peshmerga forces are already about 40% women, but for the struggle against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, [[http://mashable.com/2014/09/12/pkk-women-fighters-battling-isis/ they've recently been fielding]] all-female formations of up to 500 fighters strong as an extra "fuck you" to the violently patriarchal religious fundamentalists. It's believed that the ISIS fighters fear they won't go to heaven if a woman kicks them from this mortal coil, and whether or not this is true, it's helped boost the Kurds' morale - and all the women in uniform has helped Peshmerga recruitment, too.
* Ironically, ISIS themselves made use of this with the Al-Khansaa Brigades, an all-female [[MoralGuardians morality police]] employed to patrol the capital of Raqqa. While female terrorists aren't exactly new (as with the [[UsefulNotes/TheChechnyaWars Chechen "black widows"]] and [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict Hamas-employed suicide bombers]]), the Al-Khansaa are notorious for being women that use weapons, drive, sometimes fight in frontlines and act specifically as a SecretPolice in contrast to the Taliban, who sank to truly ridiculous lows to oppress women. But make no mistake, at the end of the day the Al-Khansaa were just as vicious and brutal as their male counterparts due to being indoctrinated in the same extremist ideology and had no problem lashing women for going out without their chaperone, not being fully covered or wearing make up, as well as agreeing with the sex trafficking of Yazidi women.
* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Elephants Forty Elephants]] were a street gang comprised entirely of women.
* Japanese girl-gangs (''sukeban'') were just as prone to violence as their male counterparts. At the subculture’s peak, the largest alliance had over 20,000 teenage girls sworn in. See JapaneseDelinquents for more information.
* In 2014, Norway established the ''Jegertroppen'', or "Hunter Troop", the world's first all-female special forces training program.
* A group of young women [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156057421228902&set=a.10151751170158902.623349.643608901&type=3&theater guarded a bank]] in the Philippines during the 1970s.
* The [[http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/02/gulabi-gang-indias-women-warrriors-201422610320612382.html Gulabi Gang]] is a group of vigilantes who protect and [[WifeBasherBasher avenge]] abused women in India.
* Eastside Los Angeles has an all-female group of bikers called the [[https://ff.hrw.org/film/ovarian-psycos Ovarian Psycos]].
* Recent years have seen the formation of [[http://www.planet-mag.com/?s=asgarda&x=0&y=0 the Asgarda tribe in Ukraine]].
* The Trưng Sisters were known for successfully rebelling against the Han Dynasty's occupation of Vietnam by assembling an army composed mostly of women. According to legend, the Chinese were able to disperse the army by [[FullFrontalAssault sending in their troops butt naked]], making the women too embarrassed to fight.[[note]]As noted, this story is legendary and probably fictional-- they were most likely defeated using conventional tactics.[[/note]]
* A contemporary example are [[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/06/akashinga-women-rangers-fight-poaching-in-zimbabwe-phundundu-wildlife-area/ the Akashinga ("brave ones"),]] anti-poaching units recruiting from local women in rural UsefulNotes/{{Zimbabwe}}. The women were recruited because they tend to be less macho and corrupt than men, making them better at de-escalation and less inclined to take bribes, but they also receive combat training from an ex-special forces instructor, and are fully prepared to confront armed [[EvilPoacher poachers]].
* The [[UsefulNotes/{{Nicaragua}} Nicaraguan]] revolution was avowedly feminist and so of course they had female soldiers fight both during the revolution itself and in the ensuing civil war. A postcard with a picture of woman breastfeeding an infant and a rifle slung over her back which was taken in the 1980s is still sold occasionally at markets.
* The Amazon Rainforest has its name due to a war fought between the Spanish explorer and conquistador Francisco de Orellana and the local indigenous tribes. Orelanna observed that the women fought alongside the men and compared them to the Amazons from the Greek mythology because of this.
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* The title group in ''Film/{{DEBS}}''

* Two of the gangs in the ''VideoGame/JetSetRadio'' games are all-female: The [[WomanScorned Love Shockers]] and Rapid 99.

* Two of the gangs in the ''VideoGame/JetSetRadio'' games are all-female: The [[WomanScorned Love Shockers]], and Rapid 99.

* The Trưng Sisters were known for successfully rebelling against the Han Dynasty's occupation of Vietnam by assembling an army composed mostly of women. According to legend, the Chinese were able to disperse the army by [[FullFrontalAssault sending in their troops butt naked]], making the women to embarrassed to fight.[[note]]As noted, this story is legendary and probably fictional-- they were most likely defeated using conventional tactics.[[/note]]
* A contemporary example are [[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/06/akashinga-women-rangers-fight-poaching-in-zimbabwe-phundundu-wildlife-area/ the Akashinga (“brave ones”),]] anti-poaching units recruiting from local women in rural UsefulNotes/{{Zimbabwe}}. The women were recruited because they tend to be less macho and corrupt than men, making them better at de-escalation and less inclined to take bribes, but they also receive combat training from an ex-special forces instructor, and are fully prepared to confront armed [[EvilPoacher poachers]].

* The Amazon Rainforest has its name due to war fought between the Spanish explorer and conquistador Francisco de Orellana and the local indigenous tribes, Orelanna observed that the women fought alongside the men and compared them to the Amazons from the greek mythology.

** The Shrike Team from ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam'' is a squad of full-female mobile suit pilots serving the League Militaire, who are [[spoiler: [[KillEmAll ultimately killed off towards the end of the series]]]]. The Zanscare Empire's answer to developing a full-female team is the Neneka Corps, a squad of [[ChainmailBikini bazooka-toting bikini girls]] sent to distract Uso, except the intented psychological effect backfired by sending Uso into a HeroicBSOD instead and Neneka herself received the health effect of a [[NoBodyLeftBehind human body hit by a]] [[LaserBlade beam saber]].

*** The Sisters of Battle, a force of {{power armor}}ed [[ChurchMilitant religious fanatics]] [[GirlWithPsychoWeapon wielding]] [[HandCannon bolters]], [[ChainsawGood chainswords]] and [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]]. They began as an all-female sect tricked into becoming the [[BodyguardBabes bodyguard]] of the [[TheCaligula insane High Lord Vandire]], who seized control of both the [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Administratum]] and the [[ChurchMilitant Ecclesiarchy]] and plunged the Imperium into a bloody civil war. The Daughters eventually discovered his treachery and ended the conflict by [[OffWithHisHead taking Vandire's head]], and though the reforms that followed forbade the church from keeping "men under arms," [[NoManOfWomanBorn this obviously didn't apply to the newly-renamed Sisters of Battle]]. Since then the Adepta Sororitas serve as both the fighting arm of the Ecclesiarchy and the Chamber Militant of the Inquisition's Ordo Hereticus, a force tasked with ensuring that such heresy never happens again. Many Battle-Sisters (particularly the veterans and leaders) show the obvious scars that a lifetime of fighting in the 41st Millennium would entail. Their power armour reflects the theme with decorations evoking breasts, corsets and thigh boots.

* VideoGame/XCOMChimeraSquad randomizes which recruits you can get at set intervals, but if you skip the tutorial you can start the game with any combination of Godmother, Zephyr, Patchwork, Torque and Terminal.
* You get an achievement for using an all-female squad in the ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' remake. Otherwise, there's absolutely no difference (e.g. a female Heavy can carry a heavy plasma gun and a rocket launcher just as easily as a male Heavy, despite not looking the part).

* Any unit led by a female in ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion''.

* ''[[Series/WonderWoman1975 Wonder Woman]]'': The amazons of Paradise Island. They were only tested once in the series, but proved up to the task [[spoiler:of beating up the Nazis who invaded Paradise Island and ejecting them from their homeland.]]

* In the ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' series, one of the enemies you encounter are female Octolings: a sister species to Inklings that can transform into octopodes rather than squids. Their Japanese name is fittingly a portmanteau of "tako", meaning octopus, and "amazons". While [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 the sequel]] (starting with its DLC) and later installments allow the player avatar to be an Octoling, the enemy Octolings remain exclusively female.

** The [[AntiVillain "villains"]] of the previous season probably qualify too, consisting of an IllGirl, a female-anthropomorphized WeaponOfMassDestruction, TheThreeFacesOfEve, and TheOneGuy.

* ''Fanfic/{{Webwork}}'': [[FallenHero Jade]] eventually gains a QuirkyMinibossSquad in the form of a trio of tough biker chicks whom she [[BalefulPolymorph forcibly transforms]] into [[SpiderPeople Jorogumo]]/Oni hybrids like herself. And then there's her tribe of spider-ninja creatures that she uses as {{Mooks}} and who are all female as well.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'', one of the enemies you encounter are Octolings, humanoid girls who transform into octopodes and act just like Inklings. Their Japanese name is fittingly a portmanteau of "tako", meaning octopus, and "amazons". While [[Videogame/Splatoon2 the sequel]] introduces playable Octolings of both genders in its DLC, the enemy Octolings remain exclusively female.

* ''[[VideoGame/RivalSchools Project Justice]]'' has the Seijyun High trio of [[BikerBabe Akira]], [[ElegantClassicalMusician Yurika]] and [[JapaneseDelinquents Zaki]]. Closer to the definition of this trope is Zaki's gang, the Ladies Team, though a good number of the gang's members may not meet the "be at least moderately attractive" description.

* UsefulNotes/HernanCortez of all people had a specialized unit of conquistadoras during the UsefulNotes/SpanishConquestOfMexico, most of them wives of soldiers who had refused to StayInTheKitchen and acted as both soldiers and battlefield medics. Its more famous members were its founder María de Estrada (whom chroniclers called one of Cortés' best soldiers, ''period''), Isabel Rodríguez (probably the first official female doctor in the history of America), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatriz_Palacios Beatriz Palacios]] (who was also famous for being black, maybe mulatta) and Beatriz Bermúdez de Velasco (whose leadership skills were vital in the siege of Tenochtitlan).

* The Zero Girls of ''Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan'' are a villainous example, an EliteFour of female assassins who act as spies and enforcers for Machine Empire Black Magma.

* Another villainous example: The Hanarangers of ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger''.

* Before that came the Zero Girls of ''Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan''.

* The Amazon River was so named because one of the Spanish explorers who dicovered it, Francisco de Orellana, reported encountering a tribe of warrior women there.

* The Black Dahlias from ''ComicBook/TheOrder'', who Veda described as "Tim Burton sponsors a women's golf team".

* In ''Comicbook/NickSpencersSpiderMan'', Janice Lincoln, the second Beetle and daughter of Tombstone, creates a new Sinister Syndicate to provide a support network for women in the often misogynistic world of crime. The other members are White Rabbit, Carolyn Trainor (the second Dr Octopus, now going by Lady Octopus), Francine Frye (the second Electro), Elaine Colt (Scorpia), and a new DistaffCounterpart of Trapster called Trapstr, not all of whom really care about gender politics as much as she does.

** The various incarnations of the "Women's Team". Its ranks include: King, Mai Shiranui, Yuri Sakazaki, Kasumi Todoh, Chizuru Kagura, Li Xiangfei, Hinako Shinjou, "Blue" Mary Ryan, and May Lee.

** Similarly, ''KOF 2002: Unlimited Match'' (a remake of the original KOF 2002) gave us two other all-girls team: the "Pretty Girls Team" (Xiangfei, Hinako, and May-Lee, who was a member of the original Women's Team in the first 2002) and the enemy-only NESTS team (Kula, Foxy, and Angel)

* 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 {{Dangerously Short Skirt}}s, brandishing disintegrator guns.