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* The five [[FunWithAcronyms title characters]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' are five [[MagicalGirl Magical Girls]] in the vein of Sailor Moon. As they work for a GuardianOfTheMultiverse in the series and the original comics they are frequently dispatched as a squad to deal with the occasional DimensionLord and other threats.

** There's the trio of [[TheChessmaster Princess Azula]], [[EmotionlessGirl Mai]] and [[PerkyFemaleMinion Ty Lee.]] Not only are they three of the Gaang's [[DarkActionGirl toughest antagonists]], consisting of one gifted firebender and two nonbenders skilled enough to go toe to toe with benders, they also managed to [[spoiler:conquer Ba Sing Sei. This is a feat not even Iroh's army could accomplish after laying siege to the city for six hundred days]]!

** There's the trio of [[TheChessmaster Princess Azula]], [[EmotionlessGirl Mai]] and [[PerkyFemaleMinion Ty Lee.]] Not only are they three of the gaang's [[DarkActionGirl toughest antagonists]], consisting of one gifted firebender and two nonbenders skilled enough to go toe to toe with benders, they also managed to [[spoiler: conquer Ba Sing Sei. This is a feat not even Iroh's army could accomplish after laying siege to the city for six hundred days]]!

** Aes Sedai aren't all fighters, and they refrain from using magic as a weapon unless there are no other options, though nonetheless they're quite capable of doing so. In the time of the show, they only have female members, since the male half of the One Power is now tainted and these days men who channel inevitably go mad. One group in their organization, the Green Ajah, is devoted to combatting Shadowspawn, however, fitting this trope the most.

** At the end of Season 1, we see the Seanchan fleet coming to the shore, after the damane (enslaved channelers) and sul'dam (their taskmasters). Under their command, the damana channel to create a tidal wave. Later they are shown creating fire and blows of air. Both are entirely women, with the damane being channeling slave soldiers for the Seanchan who use the One Power against their enemies in battle under control of the sul'dam.

** There's the trio of [[TheChessmaster Princess Azula]], [[EmotionlessGirl Mai]] and [[PerkyFemaleMinion Ty Lee.]] Not only are they three of the gaang's [[DarkActionGirl toughest antagonists]], consisting of one gifted firebender and two nonbenders skilled enough to go toe to toe with benders, they also managed to [[spoiler: [[TheCoup conquer Ba Sing Sei.]] This is a feat not even Iroh's army could accomplish after laying siege to the city for six hundred days!

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has no shortage of strong, able-bodied, females. So it's hardly any surprise that there's two examples of the trope:
** The first is the Kyoshi Warriors. which was created in honor of Avatar Kyoshi[[note]]sometime before she separated their island from the mainland to prevent a war with Chin the Conquerer[[/note]]. Their group is lead by Suki, and is responsible for protecting the island from intruders - just as Kyoshi did, long ago.
** And, of course, there's the trio of [[TheChessmaster Princess Azula]], [[EmotionlessGirl Mai]] and [[PerkyFemaleMinion Ty Lee.]] Not only are they three of the gaang's [[DarkActionGirl toughest antagonists]], they also managed to [[spoiler: [[TheCoup conquer Ba Sing Sei, from the inside.]] A feat which even Iroh's army failed to accomplish, after laying siege to the city for six hundred days]]!
* In the 1979 animated ''WesternAnimation/{{Flash Gordon|1979}}'' series from Creator/{{Filmation}}, Princess Aura had an elite guard of female warriors under her command known as the Witch-Women.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3et4454To1qbgksw.png the Rabbaroos]] are an all-female [[FictionalSport Pro-Bending]] team.

* Wrestling/DramaticDreamTeam serves as the parent company to Tokyo Joshi Pro(whose seventh event was titled ''Raising an Army'') and Union Pro Wrestling. Union however was originally an independent company that was not all female and was only briefly treated as such by DDT.[[/folder]]

** GenderFlipped by the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargareans Gargareans]], an all-male society of warriors that existed to produce offspring for the Amazons.

* ''Franchise/DisneyPrincess'': Ten princesses, some exceptions.

* Illyra, Elysia, and Occela form the basis of a budding Amazon Brigade in ''Webcomic/RumorsOfWar''. Given that the setting is based on [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]], ''one or more of them may actually be Amazons.''

* Subverted, horrifically, with the pornographic Guro webcomic ''U.S. Angel Corps'', whose ExcusePlot consists of a band of orphaned women and girls who are trained as an elite fighting force meant to take down a terrorist organization... except they all get brutally raped and / or murdered in the most over-the-top gruesome fashion imaginable in ''every... single... episode.''

* The Girl Racoons in ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' episode "The Mighty Knothead".

* WesternAnimation/TotalDrama:

** Also in ''Pahkitew Island'' "Team Kinosewak" after episode 8, their team is reduced entirely to female members.

** PercyJackson:AnAgeGoneBy: The hunters being teenage girls who fight monsters for a living.

* ''Series/ThePower2023'': Women in Carpathia, once they gain the skein, start forming into rebel groups while revolting against the repressive patriarchy that exploited them for so long.

* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' was the first to reveal that the [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Orion women]], far from being the slaves portrayed in the other series, actually control their civilization with a male-attracting pheromone that gives other women headaches. The only one unaffected by them is [[spoiler: Trip]].

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'':

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Heroscape}}'': There are a number of all-female squads among the various armies, such as the Warriors of Ashra and the Nakita Agents.
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* ''ComicBook/AForce'', a team launched in 2015, is an [[http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2015/02/a-force-cover-d34a8-720x1092.jpg all-female version of The Avengers.]]
* The Airmaidens, the elite personal squadron of Valkyrie in ''ComicBook/{{Airboy}}''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'':
** In ''Asterix and the Secret Weapon'', the Romans raise a legion of women to fight the indomitable Gauls, taking advantage of the Gaul's rule that they WouldntHitAGirl. They do seem to have a problem understanding the words "order" and "discipline."
** In ''Asterix and the Griffin'', the Sarmatian women are fierce warriors who leave their menfolk to run the village while they're away. See below under RealLife.
* A short-lived offshoot of Marvel's ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', the Lady Liberators; but they were secretly being [[MoreThanMindControl manipulated]] by the Enchantress.
* ''Battlefields: Night Witches'', by Creator/GarthEnnis, is a fictionalized account of the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn USSR's]] "Night Witches" (see Real Life, below) during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
* ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' is generally an all women team lead by ComicBook/{{Oracle}}, although Hawk of ''ComicBook/HawkAndDove'' served as the team's first male member.
* The ComicBook/BlackPanther's [[PraetorianGuard Royal Guards]], the Dora Milaje. These gals have fought such highly trained and powerful individuals as ComicBook/BlackWidow and ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}} to a standstill.
* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': During his run, Creator/TaNehisiCoates introduced the Daughters of Liberty, a coalition of heroines who existed as far back as the 1800s (where they were led by Harriet Tubman) to defend American ideals. The current line-up includes such notables as [[ComicBook/Agent13 Sharon Carter]], ComicBook/InvisibleWoman, ComicBook/SpiderWoman, [[ComicBook/DaughtersOfTheDragon Misty Knight]], ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}}, [[ComicBook/WhiteTiger Ava Ayala]] and Agatha Harkness.
* ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'': The Amazastians in "Green-Eyed Monster". Amazastians are the humanoid natives of Amazastia. All members of this race are stunningly attractive women with physical ages of eighteen to twenty, a fact which mystifies their own scientists. After victory in battles, they would always massage their bodies in scented oils. The Tenth Doctor enlists Amazastian mercenaries led by Phalia to rescue Rose Tyler from the acolytes of Iagnon on Iagnos. It is possible, however, that they are merely the product of [[FeverDreamEpisode a fever dream on Rose's part]].
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Another Marvel group, the Femizons, from a future militant LadyLand society.
** ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': When that timeline was erased, a present-day [[DoesNotLikeMen misandrist]] named Superia tries to create her own Femizons a few centuries early by gathering supervillainesses and female {{Mad Scientist}}s to repopulate the world, right after she sterilizes everyone else, of course.
* The ''Comicbook/MarvelNOW'' relaunch of ComicBook/TheDefenders, ''Fearless Defenders,'' features Valkyrie putting together a team of super-women to be her new Valkyrion, at one point including [[ComicBook/NewMutants Dani Moonstar]], Misty Knight, Hippolyte, and [[BadassAdorable Annabelle.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Femforce}}'' from AC Comics, which seems to exist mainly as fanservice for its [[AuthorAppeal creators]] and readers.
* The much less heroic than usual version of Wonder Woman in the ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'' timeline has an elite group of female warriors called the Furies who serve her in her conquests. The group includes this timeline's ComicBook/{{Artemis}}, ComicBook/WonderGirl, [[ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} Hawkgirl]], ComicBook/{{Huntress}}, ComicBook/{{Cheetah}}, ComicBook/{{Starfire}}, and ComicBook/{{Vixen}}.
* The Star Sapphire Corps from ''Franchise/GreenLantern''. Subverted in the fact that the Star Sapphire's version of Ion or Parallax, Predator, is male.
* In ''ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist'', Tiger's Beautiful Daughter is the boss of one of these in her home town. [[spoiler:The Army of Thunder also counts -- while Lei Kung the Thunderer definitely helped train them and they get their name from him, every single member of the Army is a woman.]]
* By the end of ''Comicbook/JusticeLeague3000'', the team comprises Supergirl, Wonder Woman, a female Batman (that's the name she uses), a female Green Lantern and Flash, and Fire and Ice from ''Comicbook/JusticeLeagueInternational''.
* The Desert Wraiths, a sect of warrior women in ''ComicBook/LadyMechanika''.
* In the Dynamite Entertainment ''ComicBook/LadyRawhide'' mini-series, Lady Rawhide takes on a gang of female vigilantes called the Sisters of the White Rose, who were inspired by Lady Rawhide but use far bloodier methods.
* The ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'' comic book had an unrelated backup feature, ''ComicBook/JetDream''. [[GenderFlip Gender-flipped]] Expies of ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}}, Jet and her international teammates Marlene, Petite, Cookie and (sigh) Ting-a-Ling were Hollywood Stunt-Girls who also moonlighted as a crack team of all-girl aviators, spies, and commandos.
* A villainous example: Darkseid's Female Furies in ''ComicBook/NewGods''.
* Katarina Dante's pirate crew and Monique le Fanu's vampires (who now presumably follow Lulu Romanov) in ''ComicBook/NikolaiDante''.
* The obscure photocomic series ''ComicBook/NovaGirls'' has six women in this team, consisting of [[TheLeader Lira, the Chief of Operations]], [[TheLancer Dobrah, the Personnel Director, Kopeck, the Assistant Manager]], [[TheSmartGuy Rial, the Systems Analyst]], [[TheBigGuy Rupiah, the Security Exchanger]], and [[TheHeart Haler, the Currency Coordinator]]. There's also an AI aboard their ship named Holo-Hank 500. There are also two rival Amazon Brigades named the Corporate Raiders, and the Killer Secretaries.
* ''ComicBook/NthManTheUltimateNinja'' featured the KGB Swallows, a team of attractive female Soviet agents trained in both espionage and combat.
* The Black Dahlias from ''ComicBook/TheOrder2007'', who Veda described as "Tim Burton sponsors a women's golf team".
* ''ComicBook/RatQueens'' has this in the eponymous adventuring party; the rival party "The Peaches" are almost this but for Allan, their smidgen thief.
* The Sisters of Blood in ''ComicBook/RequiemVampireKnight'' are an all-female order of [[NunTooHoly vampire nuns]] charged with guarding {{Dracula}}'s RoyalHarem.
* Another Marvel villain named the Mandrill (who has fought ComicBook/ShannaTheSheDevil, the Thing, ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}, and many other heroes) uses female henchmen exclusively, as he has the mutant power to control them using pheromones. ([[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain He makes no secret of his misogyny]], and has often used them as {{Sex Slave}}s.)
* ''ComicBook/SinCity'' has the Old Town girls. They've teamed up a lot with the male protagonists but there are male-less Old Town stories out there. Also keep in mind that these girls are tough enough that both the cops and the mafia are afraid to mess with them.
* The ''ComicBook/SisterhoodOfSteel'', from the comic of the same name.
* In ''Comicbook/TheAmazingSpiderManNickSpencer'', 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 Grapplers were super-strong wrestler/criminals who appeared primarily in ''ComicBook/TheThing''.
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersCombinerWars'' introduced The Torchbearers, who became the first all-female combiner, Victorion.
* In the "X-Tinction Agenda" crossover storyline ''[[ComicBook/XMen Uncanny X-Men]]'' books, artist Jim Lee depicted the law enforcement of Genosha as being mostly female and incredibly hot.
* ''ComicBook/WildCATSWildStorm'': The original Coda are an all-female warrior society on Khera, forming essentially a political party among the governing factions of that planet. Zealot started her own version of the Coda on Earth when she was stranded on the planet. On Khera the group was based in tradition and honor yet became corrupted by politics and hatred of the High-Lord caste, while on Earth the group became bloodthirsty mercenaries who would kill anyone for money.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1942}}'': While the Golden Age Amazons had to stay on Paradise Island and not fight save in self defense outside of their champion the Holliday Girls had no such restrictions and fought Nazis and alien invasions alike.
** The actual Amazons, natch.
** Villainy Inc., who are an all-female group of enemies of Wonder Woman that team up together.
* The recently formed Sisterhood of Mutants in ''ComicBook/XMen''.
* The 2013 (adjectiveless) ''ComicBook/XMen'' comic features an all-female X-Men team: Storm, Rogue, Kitty Pryde, Rachel Summers, Psylocke and Jubilee (with Monet showing up at times). It also applies to the villains - Lady Deathstrike, Enchantress, Typhoid Mary, and Karima.
* Any armed group [[{{Gendercide}} by default]] in ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan''. The best example is probably the IDF special forces led by Alter; the actual Daughters of the Amazon are fairly disorganized and gang-like.
* The eponymous ''ComicBook/ZodiacStarforce'' is comprised of teenage girls - par for the course for a MagicalGirlWarrior team.
* Literal amazons appear in the sequel to ''ComicBook/ZombiesVsRobots'', which is named ''Zombies Vs. Robots Vs. Amazons''.
* In the sixth volume of the chilean comic ''Zombies en la Moneda'', the government [[spoiler: by Augusto Pinochet zombie]] organizes a series of squads of zombie hunters made up only of women.
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* The eponymous ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon'' are a OneGenderRace of warrior women. It's a parody of ''Film/QueenOfOuterSpace'' where both the Queen's soldiers and LaResistance to her reign consist of [[LadyLand hot babes]] in short skirts, brandishing disintegrator guns.
* ''Film/AngelsRevenge'', a movie lampooned on ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]''.
* ''Film/Annihilation2018''. The expedition team sent into the Shimmer is all women. In the novel it is mentioned this was done deliberately as another variable to test after the first team was all men.
* ''Film/AustinPowers'': "Fembots, attack!"
* The ladies of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse team up to protect [[spoiler: ComicBook/SpiderMan holding the Avengers made Infinity Gauntlet]] in the climax of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.
* ''Film/ChaiLaiAngelsDangerousFlowers'' is about five female top-secret super-sexy crimefighters, each with the [[FloralThemeNaming codename of a flower]], Lotus, Hibiscus, Rose, Spadix and Crown of Thorns.
* ''Film/ComeDrinkWithMe'': The ending of this classic wuxia film have Golden Swallow leading an all-female band of warriors to reinforce the losing imperial soldiers against a bandit army. They manage to kill off every single remaining bandit while suffering relatively small casualties.
* ''Film/TheDawnsHereAreQuiet'' is about a squad of women manning an anti-aircraft battery at a supply depot behind the Eastern Front. Not drawn directly from RealLife like the above examples, but women did perform roles like that quite a bit in the war against Germany. The women of the battalion have to kick it up a notch when a report of German paratroopers behind the lines requires them to form up as infantry and go into the forest in pursuit.
* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse:
** The Amazons in ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'', ''Film/{{Justice|League 2017}} [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague League]]'' and ''Film/WonderWoman1984'', [[TropeNamer obviously.]]
** The ladies of ''Film/{{Birds of Prey|2020}}'' form such a team. It consists of ComicBook/BlackCanary, ComicBook/{{Huntress}}, and [[ComicBook/TheQuestion Renee Montoya]]. They’ll be helped by ComicBook/HarleyQuinn and [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]]. In a meta sense this film is one as well as it stars a cast of women, being directed by a woman (Cathy Yan), written by a woman (Christina Hobson), and executive produced by a woman (Creator/MargotRobbie). [[note]] Robbie is the one who hired everyone and convinced Creator/WarnerBrothers to greenlight the project. [[/note]]
* ''Film/{{DEBS}}'': The D.E.B.S. as a whole, a group of young female super spies with extensive training, culled from high school girls all over the US.
* Admiral General Aladeen's bodyguards in ''Film/TheDictator''. They also serve as sex slaves.
* ''Film/TheExpendables'' had a planned installment of the series, ''[[JustForPun The Expendabelles]]'' featuring a cast composed exclusively of iconic female action stars. However, the project never developed past an idea and a goofy name.
** However ''Mercenaries'', an action movie starring Kristanna Loken, Brigitte Nielsen and Cynthia Rothrock can be considered a SpiritualAdaptation of ''The Expendables'' with a female cast.
* ''Film/ThatFieryGirl'', also starring Cheng Pei-pei, does this again, with another band of female warriors who did an excellent job fighting an enemy army, although this time they're led by Lily Li instead of Cheng Pei-pei.
* ''Film/FlyingGuillotine'': The second movie features the Lady Guillotine Squad, a group of women assassins all clad in purple who can kick all sorts of ass.
* ''Film/The14Amazons'', based on the story of the female generals of the Yang Family, where the Matriarch of the Yang family and the wives of the men and sons slain in war takes over their spouses' place and takes on the Mongol army.
* In ''Film/GangOfRoses'', Rachel used to lead an all-female gang of bank robbers. She reassembles the gang to aid her in her RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* The 2016 ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|2016}}'' film did this with the title characters by reversing the Ghostbusters' genders.
* In ''Film/HoodedAngels'', the Angels are an all-female gang of outlaws and gunslingers.
* In ''Film/{{Hop}}'', we have the Pink Berets, a squad of female bunnies described at one point as "the Easter Bunny's royal guards".
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** Pussy Galore's Flying Circus from ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
** Also, Octopussy's circus troupe in ''Film/{{Octopussy}}''.
** Also, May Day and her group from ''Film/AViewToAKill'' [[spoiler: They get killed off [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness by their boss Max Zorin]]. Except for May, who's so pissed off that she has a HeelFaceTurn and joins Bond to have her revenge.]]
* Creator/TheAsylum created a [[TheMockbuster mockbuster]] version of ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' which featured a team of female soldiers. Unfortunately despite alot of [[BadassBoast badass boasting]] they quickly fell into FauxActionGirl status and a good deal of the plot was taken up with rescuing them.
* ''Film/{{Kenau}}'' has the women of Harlem do increasingly brave feats, from fighting on the walls, to attacking Spanish on ice-skates and blowing up their camp.
* In ''Film/KillBill'', 4/5 of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad is female, 4/6 if you count Bill.
* In ''Film/LeftForDead'', Mother Mary runs an all-female outlaw gang composed of the ex-whores of Amnesty.
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' has the Vuvalini. Unlike most examples of this trope they consist largely of old women, hardened and weather-beaten from growing up in a brutal DesertPunk ScavengerWorld.
* ''Film/{{Mercenaries}}'': The President's daughter is captured and imprisoned while touring a war zone, so a team of female BoxedCrook combat experts is assembled to infiltrate the compound of the female warlord holding her hostage for a daring rescue.
* Mrs. Smith's agency in ''Film/MrAndMrsSmith2005''.
* ''Film/NightWitchesOfTheSky'' is a 1981 movie from the Soviet Union about the "night witches", namely an all-female squad of precision dive bombers that served from 1942 until the end of the war.
* ''Film/{{October}}'' (UsefulNotes/RedOctober, that is) portrays the "Women's Battalion of Death", an all-female unit that was part of the doomed defense of the Winter Palace against the Bolsheviks. See RealLife below.
* In ''Film/OnlyOldMenAreGoingToBattle'', the men of the 2nd Squadron (a fighter pilot unit) are pleased when a squadron of lady bomber pilots establish an airfield right next to them. One of the men of the 2nd falls in love with a bomber pilot and asks her to marry him. This is inspired by the famous "Night Witches" (see RealLife below).
* The mermaids in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides''.
* Mia Wallace in ''Film/PulpFiction'' talks about a TV pilot she shot called ''Fox Force Five''. Her character's specialty was knives. And terrible jokes.
* The Indian tribe in ''Film/RevengeOfTheVirgins'' consists of topless {{Nubile Savage}}s who are all capable warriors.
* The Hungarian comedy film ''Film/SoundEroticism'' takes place in a crate factory with all-female employees. After finding out that the factory's manager [[ThePeepingTom used the security camera footage of them undressing]] to potential customers [[SexSells to sell more crates]], the women rise up and take the manager hostage.
* ''Film/SpecialFemaleForce'': The eponymous "Special Female Force", is an all-female elite police squad. It was disbanded for years after a mission ended in a near-TotalPartyKill, and the movie follows the SoleSurvivor efforts in training a new one 20 years later.
* The ''Film/StTrinians''' field hockey team.
* The girls from ''Film/SuckerPunch''.
* We never actually see them, but ''Film/{{Zulu}}'' has a scene where Swiss mercenary Schiess, arguing with two overly confident Welsh soldiers, mentions that the Zulu leader Cetawayo has a regiment of female warriors called "Ripen at Noon". One of the Welsh soldiers comments that "that's pretty".
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* The White Tights of urban legend, a group of blonde, white-clad [[ColdSniper sniper]] women with a hate-on for the Russians. Allegedly formed of women from Eastern European countries such as Estonia and Latvia, where hating Russia is a national pastime. According to rumors, they fought in Chechnya on the Separatist side, and were ''brutalized'' by Federal army grunts in case of capture (every Federal soldier had a friend of a friend who allegedly captured, raped and horrifically, painfully slaughtered a "white tight").
* In Chinese folklore, the widows of the Yang generals during the Song Dynasty. When most of the Yang menfolk were killed defending a fort from Liao invaders, the women of the clan took up arms to confront the Liao army. This has been dramatised in films such as ''Film/The14Amazons'' and ''The Legendary Amazons''.

* [[Wrestling/NobuhikoTakada Generalissimo Takada]]'s Monster Army in Wrestling/FightingOperaHUSTLE had The Amazoness Army division led by Yinling The Errotic Terrorist.

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* The Amazones of ''TabletopGame/{{Bloodlust}}'', called Sekekers, practice self-mutilation to the point of ugliness. However, some beautiful young girls form a elite unit called the Chrysalides, and are trained to fight half-naked.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' - even InAWorld with TheMasquerade running full steam (replete with TheMenInBlack), [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mina Devlin]] calling her shocktroops the "Wichita Witches" raised a few eyebrows. Of course, only women need apply.
* ''TabletopGame/DragonDice'' has an entire playable race of Amazons. The only race in the setting created directly and solely by the male deity, they can be played as either an entire army of Amazons, or as an elite maneuver/ranged combat unit in a larger force.
* In 2nd Edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', several of the "Complete Class" supplements included an Amazon character kit.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons: The Tome of Battle'' has lots of fluff about secret organizations of Walkers of the Sublime Way. One of which is the 80 Empresses.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has the Brides of Ahlat, the Southern God of War. Completely female, sworn to remain virgins, and symbolically wed to Ahlat himself. They're consider to be Elite troops and thus not to be messed with.
** ''Exalted'' also has the Tya, a group of women in the West who reject the usual gender roles for the region to take on male ones-which is more than symbolic, as the ritual wards away the spiteful goddesses known as the storm mothers (they hate any woman prettier then they are, which includes everyone that is not a storm mother). They are treated in society more as men than women, actually.
* The Sisters of Mercy from the ''TabletopGame/FengShui'' supplement "Glimpse of the Abyss" are a [[ChurchMilitant convent of Nuns With Guns]] based in the Netherworld who hunt down and kill those whom their Mother Superior deems to be deserving of the respite of death from the suffering the Sisters believe that life is. Of course, those whose names end up on the Rolls of Mercy and are targeted for "deliverance" often aren't so keen on dying. Also from "Glimpse of the Abyss" are the Shiva Squadron, a band of distimed [[MultiArmedAndDangerous eight-armed warrior women]] who have made it their mission to hunt demons.
* Creator/GamesWorkshop games:
** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
*** The Sisters of Battle, a force of [[ChurchMilitant religious fanatics]] wielding [[HandCannon bolters]], [[ChainsawGood chainswords]] and [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]], all clad in PoweredArmor. 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.
*** The Howling Banshee aspect warriors of the [[SpaceElves Craftworld Aeldari]] are terrifying shock troops with a paralyzing scream who are traditionally entirely female. [[TheOneGuy Some men do take up that aspect]], [[WholesomeCrossdresser though due to the nature of the War Mask and the customs of the Aspect they are treated as women for the duration of their time with the temple]].
*** While [[GameplayAndStorySegregation it isn't represented on the tabletop]], the background material for the game mentions that there are entire Astra Militarum regiments composed solely of women, particularly those raised on planets that have a matriarchal society. Some older background information mentions that such single-gender regiments are the norm to avoid fraternisation between troopers but other material, particularly that released during 8th Edition, [[ZigZaggingTrope has seen mixed-gender units become more common]].
*** The Sisters of Silence, of the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy era, were composed entirely of women that were [[AntiMagic Blanks]]. In the 41st Millennium, they crew the Astra Telepathica's Blackships and manage rogue psykers rather than engage in direct combat, though the 8th Edition retconned it by saying that the Sisters are divided into the old school units who still serve alongside the [[PraetorianGuard Custodian Guard]] in battle while the more common Sisters crewing the Black Ships are considered suspect by them.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Necromunda}}'':
*** House Escher [[GangOfHats gangs]] exclusively consist of female members. This is due to millennia of exposure to harmful chemicals and other alchemical substances that has left the male half of the House physically and mentally defective.
*** The 3rd Edition background information mentions that while many House Cawdor gangs ban women from taking up arms for the House, some women defy this prohibition and form their own all-female gangs. Just as the male gangs of the overly pious House style themselves after the Adeptus Custodes, the PraetorianGuard of the GodEmperor, many of these female gangs imitate the holy warrior women of the Adepta Sororitas.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'':
*** The Dark Elves provide two examples. Witch Elves are an all-female cult of attractive, lethal fighters in {{chainmail bikini}}s, who serve a god of murder, indulge in combat drugs, and [[BloodBath bathe in blood to preserve their beauty]]. Dark Elf Sorceresses also qualify due to a prophecy that a male sorcerer would kill their Witch-King, who quite naturally banned men from practicing magic. There ''are'' male sorcerers, but they keep their heads ''very'' far down.
*** The Everqueen of the High Elves is protected by an exclusively female elite unit known as the [[PraetorianGuard Maiden Guard]].
*** Actual Amazons existed in early editions as a JunglePrincess tribe in Lustria (Warhammer's equivalent to, yes, the Amazon rainforest), the descendants of Norscans (and Norscan slaves) from before these became synonymous with Chaos. They even had a FountainOfYouth.
** ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'' has the [[MeaningfulName Amazon team]] who draw their players from the all-female human tribes of Lustria. They even existed in ''very'' early editions for the main ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' game ([[SchizoTech and even had the lasguns]] of out of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''), [[OutOfFocus but were never updated ever]] as the years went on and more editions rolled out leaving their canonicity as dubious.
** In ''TabletopGame/{{Mordheim}}'', the Sisters of Sigmar are an all-female [[ChurchMilitant religious order]] consisting of the wayward and troublesome daughters of the Empire’s nobility. They believe that it is their sacred duty to cleanse the City of the Damned of its taint and collect [[GreenRocks wyrdstone]] [[NoManShouldHaveThisPower so that it cannot be spread across the Empire]].
* ''TabletopGame/{{Infinity}}'': The Nomads alone have the Reverend Moiras (ChurchMilitant nuns), Riot Grrrls (radical feminist punks), and Tunguska Cheerkillers (cybernetically-enhanced cheerleaders turned spec ops). More broadly, there are enough female models that you can make an all-female list for just about any faction if you so desire.
* ''TabletopGame/KingsOfWar'' has the Basilean Sisterhood, who are an all female unit who are armed with flails or ride as panther lancers.
* ''TabletopGame/LegendOfTheFiveRings'' has two examples in the matriarchal Utaku and Matsu families. The Utaku family (formerly known as the Otaku family) has the ''Shiotome'', or Battle Maidens, an elite unit of shock troops that ride into battle on horses the size of Clydesdales. The Matsu family's elite Lion's Pride is an all-female unit of samurai women that specializes in finding and killing the enemy general and his command staff.
* ''TabletopGame/LegendsOfTheWulin'' has two: The Resplendent Phoenix Society, who seek to embody feminine perfection, and the Blood Wind Cult, an all-female sect of assassins.
* ''TabletopGame/MageKnight'' included a subset of Amazon figures in one of its more SteamPunk factions, the Black Powder Rebels. They weren't necessarily more powerful than any other group or faction (except for the Amazon Draconum, which was borderline broken.)
* In ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'', at least three factions have Amazon Brigades: [[BlueBlood Bauhaus]] has Etoiles Mortant, Imperial has Mourning Wolves and [[ChurchMilitant The Brotherhood]] has Valkyries and Vestals. Mishima was supposed to have an elite unit of female warriors, the Kikigomae Sohei, as well, but circumstances caused them to be limited only to a concept drawing and a mention in the rulebook for ''Warzone: Universe Under Siege'' as no figures were produced.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'':
** Free Quebec has mastered the creation of the uber-powerful Glitter Boy powered armour. Female pilots lobbied for years to get their own distinctive style of armour. Enter the Glitter Girl recon/special forces unit. More dangerous than the male variant due to the pilots being older and more experienced. Notable squads include the Harlots, the Harpies, the Vixens, and the Riot Girls.
** The Splugorth also make use of a bio-engineered race of slave-warriors called the Altarains, or else "The Blind Warrior-Women of Splugorth" who are a OneGenderRace.
** Faked with the Shemarran Warriors, whom are all actually just Robots.
* In ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' the Vanstiku'll are a Venusian concordat who suffer a hereditary condition that makes their males die before 25. Because of this, the women take up the dominant and war-like positions in their societies, with the storm riders being their most feared members.
* A quite literal example in ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}''. [[ProudWarriorRaceGirl Not only do Amazons exist as a tribe/nation]], but they can also be recruited by a ''female'' Scion as Followers. In fact, [=PCs=] can gather Followers that happen to be all female.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' has the all-female street gang Desolation Angels that are active in many American cities. The gang is known to hunt bug spirits with great enthusiasm for some reason. [[spoiler:The reason is simple: they are Mantis spirit hosts.]]
* ''TabletopGame/{{Space 1889}}'': Very surprisingly there is such a unit, a human unit to boot, in this Victorian role-playing game... ...and it's historical. Soldier's Companion mentions that Company A of the 62nd St. John's Fusiliers of New Brunswick, Canada stationed in Syrtis Major, better known as the Amazonians, is all female except for the commanding captain. Averted in that it is not an elite unit. ''Soldier's Companion'' claims this unit existed historically[[note]]A bit of Googling suggests that this may be true, but if so they probably never actually ''fought'', and may have just been a Women's Institute with military trappings.[[/note]]. It is also mentioned in ''Transactions of Royal Martian Geographical Society part 1''.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Talislanta}}'' has the Danuvian warrior-women.
* In ''TabletopGame/UnicornusKnights'', the Queensguard is said to consist solely of women.
* ''TabletopGame/WargodsOfOlympus'', being based on Myth/ClassicalMythology, naturally has Greek-myth-style Amazons as a playable army. Maenads and Medusae are also unit options.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warlord}}'' features an all-female mercenary company called the Sisters of the Blade, which was expanded into its own faction in the ''Savage North'' book. Some other factions also have their own Amazon Brigades, such as the Crusaders' Battle Nuns and the Overlords' [[WhipItGood Daughters of the Whip]].
* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' had the Black Furies, a tribe made up entirely of female Garou who worshipped Artemis as an aspect of Gaia. Of course they'd associate with men for production of new children, but male offspring were passed on to other tribes. There ''are'' male Black Furies, however; Metis (deformed children of werewolf-werewolf matings) born to Black Fury mothers are accepted into the tribe regardless of their gender.
* In ''TabletopGame/TheWitcherGameOfImagination'', dryads are a OneGenderRace of {{Cold Sniper}}s devoted to protecting their forest. This is the ''basic'' way of organizing their ranks. And they have a well-earned status of TheDreaded, both in and out of universe (just ask any seasoned players what's the worst enemy you can face).
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