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  • A-Force, a team launched in 2015, is an all-female version of The Avengers.
  • The Airmaidens, the elite personal squadron of Valkyrie in Airboy.
  • 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 Wouldn't Hit a Girl. 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 Real Life.
  • A short-lived offshoot of Marvel's The Avengers, the Lady Liberators; but they were secretly being manipulated by the Enchantress.
  • Battlefields: Night Witches, by Garth Ennis, is a fictionalized account of the USSR's "Night Witches" (see Real Life, below) during World War II.
  • Birds of Prey is generally an all women team lead by Oracle. Hawk served as the team's first official male member.
  • The Black Panther's Royal Guards, the Dora Milaje. These gals have fought such highly trained and powerful individuals as Black Widow and Storm to a standstill.
  • Captain America: During his run, Ta-Nehisi Coates 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 Sharon Carter, Invisible Woman, Spider-Woman, Misty Knight, Mockingbird, Ava Ayala and Agatha Harkness.
  • The Cat: Mal Donalbain, the first issue's villain, plans to use the Cat suits, Dr. Tumolo's enhancement process and his own Will-Nullifier collars to create an army of physically powerful, mentally enslaved women. He directly describes them as an "army of amazons". The Cat stops him before it can become reality, though.
  • Doctor Who Magazine: 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 a fever dream on Rose's part.
  • Fantastic Four: Another Marvel group, the Femizons, from a future militant Lady Land society.
    • Captain America: When that timeline was erased, a present-day misandrist named Superia tries to create her own Femizons a few centuries early by gathering supervillainesses and female Mad Scientists to repopulate the world, right after she sterilizes everyone else, of course.
  • The Marvel NOW! relaunch of The Defenders, Fearless Defenders, features Valkyrie putting together a team of super-women to be her new Valkyrion, at one point including Dani Moonstar, Misty Knight, Hippolyte, and Annabelle.
  • Femforce from AC Comics, which seems to exist mainly as fanservice for its creators and readers.
  • The much less heroic than usual version of Wonder Woman in the Flashpoint timeline has an elite group of female warriors called the Furies who serve her in her conquests. The group includes this timeline's Artemis, Wonder Girl, Hawkgirl, Huntress, Cheetah, Starfire, and Vixen.
  • The Star Sapphire Corps from Green Lantern. Subverted in the fact that the Star Sapphire's version of Ion or Parallax, Predator, is male.
  • In Immortal Iron Fist, Tiger's Beautiful Daughter is the boss of one of these in her home town. 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 Justice League 3000, 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 Justice League International.
  • The Desert Wraiths, a sect of warrior women in Lady Mechanika.
  • In the Dynamite Entertainment Lady Rawhide 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 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. comic book had an unrelated backup feature, Jet Dream. Gender-flipped Expies of 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 New Gods.
  • Katarina Dante's pirate crew and Monique le Fanu's vampires (who now presumably follow Lulu Romanov) in Nikolai Dante.
  • The obscure photocomic series Nova Girls has six women in this team, consisting of Lira, the Chief of Operations, Dobrah, the Personnel Director, Kopeck, the Assistant Manager, Rial, the Systems Analyst, Rupiah, the Security Exchanger, and 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.
  • Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja featured the KGB Swallows, a team of attractive female Soviet agents trained in both espionage and combat.
  • The Black Dahlias from The Order (2007), who Veda described as "Tim Burton sponsors a women's golf team".
  • Rat Queens 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 Requiem Vampire Knight are an all-female order of vampire nuns charged with guarding Dracula's Royal Harem.
  • Another Marvel villain named the Mandrill (who has fought Shanna the She-Devil, the Thing, Daredevil, and many other heroes) uses female henchmen exclusively, as he has the mutant power to control them using pheromones. (He makes no secret of his misogyny, and has often used them as Sex Slaves.)
  • Sin City 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 Sisterhood Of Steel, from the comic of the same name.
  • Sleepless: Overlaps with Bodyguard Babes — Princess Rellen's personal guard is a set of pretty blonde triplets from her native Edtland — Elda, Frende, and Ibette. They're all competent fighters (with Ibette making it to the penultimate round of the Knight's tournament) and itching for a brawl (as evidenced by their excitement when they get to jump into the fray with some traitorous Sleepless Knights and Lord Otranto).
  • Spider-Man: In The Amazing Spider-Man (2018), 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 Distaff Counterpart 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 The Thing.
  • The Transformers: Combiner Wars introduced The Torchbearers, who became the first all-female combiner, Victorion.
  • X-Men: In the X-Tinction Agenda crossover storyline Uncanny X-Men books, artist Jim Lee depicted the law enforcement of Genosha as being mostly female and incredibly hot.
  • Wild CATS Wild Storm: 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.
  • Wonder Woman:
    • Wonder Woman: 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 X-Men.
  • The 2013 (adjectiveless) X-Men 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 by default in Y: The Last Man. 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 Zodiac Starforce is comprised of teenage girls - par for the course for a Magical Girl Warrior team.
  • Literal amazons appear in the sequel to Zombies vs. Robots, which is named Zombies Vs. Robots Vs. Amazons.
  • In the sixth volume of the chilean comic Zombies en la Moneda, the government by Augusto Pinochet zombie organizes a series of squads of zombie hunters made up only of women.

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