Episode 01.09 : Strong Women Characters

Welcome to Episode 09 – Strong Women Characters. On this episode we discuss movies that contain some of our favorite women characters.  Johnny talks about his favorite strong character from the Swedish trilogy which includes the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Eddie shares characters from the Marvel and DC movie universes.

Characters and their movies discussed in this episode:

Jennifer Garner

Peppermint – Pierre Morel (2018)

Noomi Rapace

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish With English Subtitles) – Niels Arden Oplev (2009)The Girl Who Played With Fire (Swedish With English Subtitles) – Daniel Alfredson (2010)The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Swedish With English Subtitles) – Daniel Alfredson (2011)

Rooney Mara

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – David Fincher (2011)

Claire Foy

The Girl In the Spider’s Web – Fede Álvarez (2018)

Charlize Theron

The Italian Job – F. Gary Gray (2003)Mad Max: Fury Road – George Miller (2015)Atomic Blonde – David Leitch (2017)

Jennifer Lawerence

Red Sparrow – Francis Lawrence (2018)The Hunger Games – Gary Ross (2012)The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Francis Lawrence (2013)The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 – Francis Lawrence (2014)The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 – Francis Lawrence (2015)X-Men: First Class – Matthew Vaughn (2011)X-Men: Days of Future Past – Bryan Singer (2014)X-Men: Apocalypse – Bryan Singer (2016)X-Men: Dark Phoenix – Simon Kinberg (2019)

MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE – Strong Women Characters

Black Widow – Scarlett Johansson

Iron Man 2 – Jon Favreau (2010)The Avengers – Joss Whedon (2012)Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Anthony Russo & Joe Russo (2014)Avengers: Age of Ultron – Joss Whedon (2015)Captain America: Civil War – Anthony Russo & Joe Russo (2016)Avengers: Infinity War – Anthony Russo & Joe Russo (2018)Avengers: Endgame – Anthony Russo & Joe Russo (2019)Black Widow – Coming 2020

The Wasp – Evangeline Lilly

Ant-Man and the Wasp – Peyton Reed (2018)Avengers: Endgame – Anthony Russo & Joe Russo (2019)

Gamora – Zoe Saldana

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1 – James Gunn (2014)Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – James Gunn (2017)Avengers: Infinity War – Anthony Russo & Joe Russo (2018)Avengers: Endgame – Anthony Russo & Joe Russo (2019)Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 – Coming in 2021

Scarlet Witch – Elizabeth Olsen

Avengers: Age of Ultron – Joss Whedon (2015)Captain America: Civil War – Anthony Russo & Joe Russo (2016)Avengers: Infinity War – Anthony Russo & Joe Russo (2018)Avengers: Endgame – Anthony Russo & Joe Russo (2019)Wanda Vision – Coming to Disney+ Spring 2021

Valkyrie – Tessa Thompson

Thor: Ragnarok – Taika Waititi (2017)Avengers: Endgame – Anthony Russo & Joe Russo (2019)Thor: Love and Thunder (2021)

Okoye – Danai Gurira

Black Panther (2018) – Ryan Coogler (2018)Avengers: Infinity War – Anthony Russo & Joe Russo (2018)Avengers: Endgame – Anthony Russo & Joe Russo (2019)Black Panther 2 – Coming 2022

Captain Marvel – Brie Larson

Captain Marvel – Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck (2019)Avengers: Endgame – Anthony Russo & Joe Russo (2019)

DC EXTENDED UNIVERSE (DCEU) – Strong Women Characters

Wonder Woman – Gal Gadot

Wonder Woman – Patty Jenkins (2017)Wonder Woman 1984 – Coming 2020

Catwoman

Anne Hathaway – The Dark Knight Rises – Christopher Nolan (2012)Michelle Pfeiffer – Batman Returns – Tim Burton (1992)Halle Berry – Catwoman – Pitof (2004)

Amanda Waller – Viola Davis

Suicide Squad – David Ayer (2016)

Princess Mera – Amber Heard

Aquaman – James Wan (2018)

Harley Quinn – Margot Robbie

Suicide Squad – David Ayer (2016)Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) – Coming 2020Suicide Squad – Coming 2021