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15 Female Action Heroes Who Can Kick Some Serious Ass

This weekend, Scarlett Johansson will slip out of her skin-tight Black Widow catsuit and into some more agreeable, casual fabrics for Lucy, but one thing that definitely won't be changing in the actress' new role is her ability to kick serious ass - and look damn good doing it. So, in honor of Johansson and of Lucy as a whole, the writing staff here at We Got This Covered has taken on the thrilling task of looking back through movie history to uncover the most physically adept, bruisingly smart and just plain badass women of cinema. We're not saying it was an easy task - in fact, we had so many viable candidates for this list that we eventually decided to expand it from ten to fifteen entries. And some of our staff put forward entries both exciting and unconventional - get ready for some surprises.

10) Selina Kyle/Catwoman – Batman Returns, The Dark Knight Rises

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How could we ever write a list about the most kick-ass heroines and not include the biggest anti-heroine Gotham has to offer? Whether it’s Michelle Pfeiffer’s sultry seductive turn as the prowling burglar or Anne Hathaway’s deadpan jewel thief, the character is one that packs as much punch in the personality department as she does in full-on combat.

Technically, she is a villain and is motivated by her pension for revenge and glamor – but that doesn’t stop her from killing Christopher Walken’s Max Shreck with a deadly electric taser kiss (Batman Returns) or blowing Bane away with a well-timed shot from the Batpod (The Dark Knight Rises). What can we say? We’re a sucker for a character that breaks the rules – and in this case, it is Catwoman who breaks Batman’s only rule.

The Caped Crusader is not allowed to kill anybody – it just isn’t in his blood. But Selina Kyle? Well, her blood boils like a kettle of vengeance and she is more than adept at mopping up any scum Batman spares. Despite dancing and prancing across our screens in the tightest-fitting one-pieces we’ve ever seen, it’s her personality and devious nature that makes the character so endearing to the audience.

In all honesty, Catwoman was the best thing to happen to Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, which was otherwise regrettably a step down from the quality we’d come to expect after The Dark Knight. Let’s hope we see her again in the expanding DC movie canon – and pray Halle Berry doesn’t return for another go-around.

– Dale Barham