Modern Commedia Character Study: The Combat Female

Modern Commedia Character Study: The Combat Female

As I've been exploring some new female characters, of course my inner feminist naturally gravitates to level-headed, down-to-earth powerful women, but having only those types of characters is not realistic. If commedia s a form where we must be able to laugh at ourselves, then that includes all of us. And none of us are perfect.

I've also found a strange point in finding new archetypes where I find both women who are in real life, but also the "idealistic" females found in our media. I think it's worth exploring those as well, as they are stereotypes we find all throughout TV, video games, and, truthfully, those who try to mimic these images.

Here is one I find pretty amusing:

Character: The Combat Female
Loves: Fighting
Drives: Sex, Violence
Physical Characteristics: Over accentuated female attributes- ridiculous breasts, large hips and butt
Walk: Chest point- Led by breasts.
Classic Countermask
Traits:
-Extremely sexual without trying to be sexual- makes sexual noises when doing anything physical (ie: climbing ladders, lifting objects)
-When actually being sexual, is very aggressive and non-sexy about it
-Military Class, not poor or oppressed
-Not very bright, tries to solve everything with violence and force
Professions: Hired muscle, spy, adventurer
Props: Usually a gun
Costume: Ridiculously unpractical, either to start with, or torn to be revealing. Huge boots, probably heels, difficult to walk in
Mask: Lots of round, bulging curves, smaller, almost squinting eyes to indicate less intelligence. Large lips, usually pouty (can be emphasized with makeup). Mask could either cut off above lips so they could be seen, or could include a large upper lip.

Character Examples:
Tomb Raider (old tomb raider), Xena, characters played by Angelina Jolie, Beth- Dog the Bounty Hunter's sidekick as done by South Park