Aloy (Horizon: Zero Dawn)
A character that has only been released recently but is already having an impact on the gaming community is Aloy, from Horizon: Zero Dawn. She hasn't got the history that Mario or Sonic has in our hearts, but who doesn't want a character that kills robotic creatures almost exclusively with just her bow and arrows? I know I do. Aloy is a girl that wants to unveil the mysteries of her world, wanting to protect it from anything that tries to harm it. In a Witcher-esque game, there's nothing more satisfying than taking down a robot three times your size and just walking away with its useful parts as if nothing happened. If you compare Aloy to an archer in Skyrim, which would you feel more satisfaction in taking out enemies in? In Skyrim you might take out the odd frost troll or giant, but these are all just flesh and bones. Even the Dwarven constructs do not really amount to the robotics you have to fight in Horizon The appeal of Horizon to me is that robots are made to not be able to be destroyed, and you can do just that through a few arrows. Aloy is definitely a badass female character.
Faith Connors (Mirror's Edge)
Faith Connors is a runner in her world. Runners are illegal underground couriers, which makes them popular for carrying sensitive information as they are taught the art of parkour and are able to travel across rooftops without being seen. I'm sure you can imagine, they are pretty difficult to catch. Faith decided to leave her father and sister by the age of 16 as her mother was crushed to death in a riot while trying to flee, sending her father in to depression and alcoholism. She resorted to thievery and got caught in Mercury's hideout, where he decided to train her to be a runner. Faith is badass because she can pretty much fly across rooftops and if you choose to, she can quite easily take out anyone she comes into contact with.
Every Female Character (Overwatch)
(Unfortunately I couldn't find a picture with Ana, Sombra or Orisa in)
If I wrote separately about each Overwatch character, this article would be pretty long. Every female character is badass in their own way.
Tracer (Or Lena Oxton) was the youngest to be inducted into Overwatch due to her fearless piloting skills. She was then the first to try the prototype teleporting fighter. During the flight, the teleportation matrix malfunctioned and as she disappeared, she was believed to be dead. When she reappeared months later, her molecules were desynchronized from time. She would disappear for months on end until Winston, a scientist, created the chronal accelerator, giving tracer the ability to control her own time.
Tracer can pretty much play with the enemy team, dashing around them and recalling can sometimes be the worst thing to have to deal with. She can hold a payload for a good amount of time with that tactic, and get behind a whole team before they even notice.
Mercy (Or Angela Ziegler) is a healer, scientist and someone that wants peace. She was noticed by Overwatch due to her breakthrough in nanobiology meaning an easier time dealing with life-threatening illnesses. She realised that working with Overwatch meant being able to save lives on a larger scale. As the head of medical research at Overwatch, Ziegler developed the Valkyrie swift-response suit.
Mercy can fly around the whole map to allies keeping them alive as they fight enemies. It is always annoying when you think you have killed the enemy team and suddenly everyone is alive again due to her ultimate resurrection ability.
If you are defending a point, Symmetra is one of the best heroes you could have. Symmetra (Or Satya Vaswani) can pretty much bend reality. She hopes to create the perfect society in manipulating hard-light constructs. She was a high achieving student in her class at Vishkar Academy, manipulting light in the motions of her native dance.
Her turrets can destroy a team in an instant. She has a shield that she can throw in front of her, allowing the team to push forwards as it travels, not to mention she can teleport teammates in to the fight.
Pharah (Or Fareeha Amari) was born into a long line of soldiers that worked to keep the peace. She grew up wanting to serve with Overwatch, as her mother did. Unfortunately, Overwatch disbanded before she had the chance to serve with them. After she left the army with a commendation for service, she was offered work guarding artificial intelligence beneath the Giza Plateau.
Pharah can be one of the most annoying heroes to come up against. She is always in the air, shooting rockets into the team before dropping behind cover, being difficult to kill. She has a grenade that can push people off of maps, and her ultimate is a rain of rockets that can kill a team in seconds.
Mei (Or Mei-Ling Zhou) is a scientist that decided she would take preserving the environment into her own hands. Working with Overwatch, Mei managed to help preserve many high risk areas around the world. When stationed in Watchpoint: Antarctica, a huge polar storm hit the station, cutting it off from the rest of the world. The people that worked there went into cryostasis as a last effort until help came. Years later they were discovered, with Mei being the only survivor. Overwatch has been abandoned, and the climate only worsened while Mei was frozen. She decided to continue working alone to find out why the climate keeps getting worse.
Mei can take over a point alone. She freezes people and can shoot icicles from her gun, plus being able to wall the enemy team off of a point with ease. She can throw her ultimate ability, Blizzard on to the point and freeze everyone standing in it, before getting headshots on everyone and taking a point or defending a payload.
Zarya (Or Aleksandra Zaryanova) is one of the worlds strongest women, sacrificing everything to protect her family, friends and country. Zarya was born in a small Siberian village on the front line of the Omnic Crisis. The region was devastated by the war, and Zarya grew up seeing this. As she grew, she was determined to gain the strength to help her people recover from the destruction. Focusing on weightlifting and bodybuilding, she was recognized and signed up for the upcoming world championships. On the evening of the championships, a dormant Siberian-omnic attacked her village. She immediately withdrew from the tournament, going back to the village to help defend it, using her strength to defend the people she loves.
Zarya shields her team, so that when they take damage it gives her weapon more energy to do damage. On top of this her shields stop any knockbacks and can be very useful against other heroes ultimate abilities. She can group the whole enemy team up with her ultimate ability: Graviton Surge. This leaves the enemy team vulnerable to other ultimate abilities and a lot of damage to everyone caught in it.
I will cover all of the heroes in another post and how each have their benefits, but I think I can safely say, all of the women I have mentioned are great characters.
Sylvanas Windrunner (World of Warcraft)
Sylvanas Windrunner is an undead hunter that currently leads the Horde. She is a character that has been around for a lot longer than all of the other characters I have mentioned on this list. I grew up wanting her to lead the horde, simply because she did what was best for her people, and was the kind of person that was made to lead as opposed to be led. She is a strong willed woman that can be just as terrifying as anyone else in Azeroth and that makes her one of the best characters in video games history in my opinion.
These are just a few of the great female characters that we have in gaming right now. There are still many more I haven't mentioned because if I did, I would be writing this for a lot longer than I can. The current female characters are great, and I can't wait to see more like them appear in our games.
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