'Dilbert' is a popular American comic strip. Written and drawn by Scott Adams, the comic is known for its heavily satirical humor about a micromanaged office.

The main story formula is that the title character is a busty and naïve waif who continually finds herself in various and bizarre situations where men continually attempt to sexually exploit her.

The strip, which boasted lavish production values, ran from 1962 to the 1980s when it ended because Kurtzman felt he had run out of story material.

The comic was recently revived with a new artist.

Aphrodite IX is a strikingly beautiful self-aware android designed to "be" human in order to carry out undercover missions of infiltration and assassination. Although she has been "trained" to kill (her synthetic brain learns like an organic brain and does not require traditional programming), Aphrodite IX retains no memory of her actions; her brain is designed to experience an episode of amnesia at the end of each mission, apparently to protect her masters if not herself. This leads to ongoing confusion about what she does and for whom, exacerbated by subsequent episodes of amnesia. Although she becomes aware that she is intended as a killing machine (capable of taking out a single high security target or destroying a squad of armored government soldiers singlehandedly), she finds the idea increasingly distasteful and experiences dreams and desires like a human. This begins to undermine her morale but not her efficiency, as her conditioning takes over as her masters or survival circumstances require. When she seeks out clues to her past and true identity, she stumbles onto a conspiracy involving a secret society of cyborgs attempting to undermine the legitimate government.

Although tough as nails when the situation requires it, her personality in private moments seems more like that of a child-woman. She is like a lost wide-eyed teen trying to find her way in the world, trapped in the body of an amazon sexpot bombshell. The character's appearance is her trade mark: kelly green makeup and hair (including an oversized kelly green beauty spot on one cheek), skimpy form-fitting outfits ringed with ammo belts, thigh-high lug soled boots. She typically carries a very large knife on her belt and one or more large guns.

The animated feature is an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Little Mermaid [...] This film and "Beauty and the Beast" signaled a renaissance in Disney animation; the films brought in large amounts of revenue and acclaim, and the Feature Animation department began significant expansion, going from about 300 artists at the time of this film to 2,400 by 1999.

Although a mostly-forgotten Bat-Girl appeared in Batman comic books of the early 1960s, the most well-known Batgirl was a collaboration between DC editors and the producers of the Batman television series and debuted in both mediums in 1967. She was Barbara Gordon, the daughter of Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon.

In 1988, the Joker shot Barbara Gordon in the spine, leaving her paraplegic and she reinvented herself as Batman's research assistant Oracle.

It is an adaptation of the well-known fairy tale story of a beautiful woman kept in a castle by a horrific monster. It was the first, and to this date, only animated picture to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It stars the voices of Robby Benson (Beast), Paige O'Hara (Belle), Richard White (Gaston), Jerry Orbach (Lumiere), David Ogden Stiers (Cogsworth), and Angela Lansbury (Mrs. Potts).

Trivia: Belle is french for Beautiful.

She was the first famous bondage model, and "the 'Jungle Bettie' photographs [from a 1954] shoot are some of her most celebrated and include nude shots with a pair of cheetahs. The leopard skin patterned 'Jungle Girl' outfit she wore for the shoot was made by Bettie herself." [thus the bondage and jungle themes apparent in the Zimmerman depictions of Bettie].

She was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for January 1955.

The quintessential girl-next-door, Betty's middle class upbringing is a world apart from the flashy lifestyle of her wealthy friend Veronica Lodge. Nowhere is this more evident than when she and Veronica are competing for Archie Andrews's heart, and yet they remain best friends.

In the early years, Betty had mastery of the traditional feminine domestic skills that Veronica was hopeless at. With the rise of the influence of feminism, Betty has also been depicted with a wide variety of talents such as auto mechanics. In addition, she is typically depicted as calm and cool in the face of crisis and often has ready solutions for whatever problem comes up in her featured stories.

The Black Canary was originally a non-superpowered crimefighter who relied on martial arts and detective skills to combat crime. Later the character was given a superhuman sonic "Canary Cry" that could be used to shatter objects or disable opponents. She has often been referred to as "The Blonde Bombshell" due to her extraordinary beauty and sex appeal, which have been accentuated by her trademark fishnet stockings (which have come and gone through the years in various forms via costumes, but which she currently wears).

The Black Widow's real name is Natalia Alianovna Romanova. Her friends often call her "Natasha", the informal version of the name "Natalia". She sometimes chooses to Anglicize her last name as "Romanoff." She has been hinted to be a descendant of the Romanov and a relation to Nicholas II of Russia.

Although she fought Iron Man during her first few appearances, she and her ally Hawkeye were recruited by Captain America to join the Avengers. She later become romantically involved with Daredevil. In the mid-1970s she moved to Los Angeles and got involved in the events that created the short-lived superteam 'The Champions', in which she became elected leader. She has also served as the leader of the Avengers on several occasions.

The Black Widow is a skilled martial artist, sniper, and ballet dancer. Her equipment usually includes a grappling hook with a retractable line and a pair of wrist-mounted energy weapons (her "widow's sting"), although she is sometimes depicted as instead using more traditional weapons.

The Ultimate Marvel version of the Black Widow is a member of the Ultimates. She seems to be romantically involved with her universe's version of Iron Man. For more details, see 'Ultimate Black Widow'.

A Black Widow motion picture starring Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, to feature the Natasha Romanov version, has been proposed.

Originally, Blondie focused on the adventures of Blondie Boopadoop, a carefree flapper girl who spent her days in dance halls. On February 17, 1933, after much fanfare and buildup, Miss Boopadoop was married to her boyfriend Dagwood Bumstead, the son of a wealthy industrialist. Unfortunately for the Bumsteads, Dagwood was disowned by his upper-crust family for marrying beneath his class, and he has been slaving away for tyrannical boss Julius Caesar Dithers, in the office of the J. C. Dithers Construction Company to support his family ever since.

Originally, it was syndicated and appeared in many newspapers, while also being collected in comic books produced by Insight Studios. In the early 2000s Cho ceased syndication, partly because editors kept censoring it, and has since published it directly in comic book format. This changed publisher from Insight Studios to Image Comics with issue #27.

• Brandy Carter - A beautiful animal psychiatrist
• Jen - A sexy rocket scientist who enjoys toying with men

According to her official biography, Cammy was born on January 6, 1974, in an undisclosed location. She stands 164 cm and weighs 46 kg. Her fighting style is a technique taught to Shadoloo elite.

Although originally introduced as an opponent for Batman, Catwoman's status as hero or villain is ambiguous; she has her own moral code (she abhors killing) and has occasionally teamed up with Batman and other heroes against greater threats, even saving the lives of the entire Justice League on one occasion.

Catwoman's costume in her first appearance in the comics had a theatrically face-covering cat-mask. Later, she wore a dress with a hood that came with ears, and still later, a bodysuit with attached boots and either a domino or glasses-mask. In the 1960s, Catwoman's bodysuit was green in color, which was typical of villains of that era. In the 1990s, she usually wore a skintight purple bodysuit, before switching to a black leather outfit that recalls Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman costume in Batman Returns. In recent years, she has usually alternated between these two costumes.

Cheetara - The only adult female (for the first series). She can run extremely fast, fights and vaults with a collapsible quarterstaff (magnetically-affixed to her gauntlet). Cheetara also has a budding sixth sense. By spinning rapidly in place, she can "see" past events, though the use of her ability is extremely taxing upon her.

Chun-Li is also notable for being one of the first successful and popular female video game protagonists. Prior to Street Fighter II being released in 1991, most female characters in games existed as objectives to be rescued or cast in the roles of other supporting characters, such as townspeople, girlfriends, the occasional opponent, or simply background decoration. Beyond RPGs, there were very, very few female heroes in action-based video games. After the success of Street Fighter II and Chun-Li's popularity, female protagonists became more and more common. Since then, in games with selectable characters, at least one or two of them will be female; and there have been a number of games released since that have placed a woman or girl in the lead role.

Hart was inspired to draw cavemen through the chance suggestion of one of his General Electric coworkers and took to the idea "because they are a combination of simplicity and the origin of ideas". The name for the strip was suggested by his wife, Bobby. Hart describes the title character as a similar to himself, playing the "patsy". The other major characters — Wiley, the Fat Broad, the Cute Chick, Curls, Thor, Grog and Peter — were patterned after friends, a relative, and GE coworkers. The animal characters include dinosaurs, ants, clams, a snake, a turtle and bird duo, and an apteryx (a flightless bird with hairy feathers, as it constantly reminds the reader, presented in the strip as being the sole surviving specimen and hence aware of its being doomed to extinction). Dry humor, prose, and devices such as Wiley's Dictionary (where common words are defined humorously with a twist... "Rock - to cause something or someone to swing or sway, by hitting them with it!" - from an early 1967 strip) make for some of the mix of material in B.C.

In the motion picture remake of Dukes of Hazzard, released in 2005, the role of Daisy Duke is played by Jessica Simpson.

• Abbey Chase - the latest recruit to the Danger Girl. She's an outlawed archaeologist and gun specialist.
• Sydney Savage - a leather-bound Danger Girl from Australia. Her primary weapon is the whip.
• Silicon Valerie - a computer expert from Oxford; she monitors the status of the Danger Girls on their missions, but yearns to be a bigger part of the action.
• Natalia Kassle - a Danger Girl who was a former Russian intelligence agent. Her specialty is with the knife and other bladed weapons.

Daphne, who comes from a wealthy family, is noted for her red hair, her fashion sense, her catch phrase ("jeepers!"), and her tendency to get into danger, hence earning from Fred the nickname "Danger-prone Daphne."

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"Dejah's transcendent beauty has inspired countless fantasy artists in their attempts to portray a pulchritude that is --- by definition --- impossible to depict. (But thanks for trying, guys!)" [ref].

Demona was a member of the Scotland clan at Castle Wyvern in AD 994. She and Goliath were lovers, his "angel of the night," and when Goliath was made leader of the clan, she became his second in command. Prior to that, she had been a student of the Archmage and thus had training in the magical arts. She was there when the Archmage was defeated by Goliath (or so it was thought at the time).

Stubborn and resentful of the human's condescending attitude towards her clan, she conspired with the Captain of the Guard to betray the castle to the Vikings. She had wanted the Vikings to slaughter the humans during the day and while the gargoyles were away. That way her people could have the castle and be free of the humans once and for all. Unfortunately, Goliath refused to send the Clan away. Demona alone fled and escaped the slaughter of the Gargoyle Clan. Overcome with grief, she could not face Goliath, who had not been killed but frozen in stone by a spell, right away. When she returned later, she found Goliath and the few surviving Clan members had been turned to stone. As far as she was concerned, it was all the result of human treachery.

Also see Elisa Maza from Gargoyles.

Also see Mirage and Violet from The Incredibles.

Also see Demona from Gargoyles.

The family called their swimming pool "the cement pond". They were fascinated by it, but never seemed to grasp its intended use. Another running joke was that they never discovered the source of the sound that took place a few times prior to someone showing up at the front door (the doorbell).

While she often plotted to seduce Thor away from his girlfriend Sif (and eventually became his consort for a time after he assumed the throne of Asgard), she was also involved with Skurge (the Executioner), and Heimdall.

She died in Loki's first attack of Ragnorak.

The storyline revolves around a young marine biologist, Aspen Matthews, who finds she is the descendent of a race of aquatic beings who can control water with their minds. She then finds that her race values her highly because of the time she spent with humans on land.

Femforce characters depicted by JZ include:

• Garganta: Real name: Carol Heisler, Powers: Size-changing, telepathy.
• Miss Victory (later Ms. Victory): Real Name: Joan Wayne, Powers: Superhuman strength, flight, invulnerability. Based on the original Golden Age Miss Victory.
• Nightveil: Real Name: Laura Wright, Powers: Sorcery, flight, dimensional travel. Based on Fox Feature Syndicate version of Phantom Lady (not to be confused with the Quality Comics / DC Comics character of the same name).
• She Cat: Real name: Jessica Hunt, Powers: Enhanced strength with advanced agility and reflexes. Based on the Harvey Comics version of Black Cat.
• Stardust: Real name: Dr. Mara, Powers: Flight, superhuman strength, project energy bolts. Original character. Became official member in Femforce issue 20.
• Synn: Real name: Silva Synn, Powers: Illusions, flight, matter manipulation. Original character
• Tara: Real name: Tara Fremont, Powers: Size changing, ability to communicate with animals.Inspired by a number of Jungle Girl characters.

• Sigrid Valdis - Hilda (1965-1966)
• Cynthia Lynn - Helga (1966-1971)

• Caitlin Fairchild: Once an ordinary girl, Caitlin's muscles spontaneously increased in density, granting her superhuman strength, agility, speed, and endurance. The manifestation of her "Gen-active" status caused her body mass to increase, shredding her clothing at the time. Fairchild is by far the most intelligent of the group.
• Roxanne "Freefall" Spaulding: "Roxy" is the youngest Gen-active teen, with the ability to nullify the effect of gravity on herself. Has a crush on Grunge and is jealous of Fairchild's physique. Keeps Queelocke as a "pet". It was later revealed that Spaulding and Fairchild were half-sisters.
• Sarah Rainmaker: Rainmaker can influence local weather systems, manipulating air currents to grant herself flight and direct water with a gesture. Amplifier bands on her wrists allow her to project lightning. Rainmaker is Apache, and a lesbian. [Not that there's anything wrong with that!]

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The question "Ginger or Mary Ann?" is regarded to be a classic pop-psychological question when given to American men of a certain age as an insight into their characters, or at least their desires as regarding certain female stereotypes:

• Ginger Grant [Wikipedia] was a movie star, and would casually mention names of some of the biggest movie stars of the day, as co-stars or acquaintances, suggesting that she too was a great star. Portrayed by actress Tina Louise, the character name was taken from two stars of Hollywood's "Golden Era", Ginger Rogers and Cary Grant.
  
  Miss Louise for many years regarded her casting as Ginger Grant as having largely destroyed her subsequent career through typecasting her solely as a retro glamour queen.
  
  
• Mary Ann Summers [Wikipedia] was a fictional Kansas farm girl portrayed by actress Dawn Wells. She was an ingénue and a foil, as well as a friend, to glamorous Hollywood star Ginger Grant.
  
  Unlike Miss Louise, Miss Wells has always, at least in public, expressed gratitude for the opportunities that the role has presented her.

It tells the story of three anthropomorphic bears and their encounter with a young girl called Goldilocks (after her golden hair).

Goldilocks is also a character in the Fables comic book. In that universe, she is adult, and a gun-toting revolutionary, deeply involved in a plot to overthrow the Fabletown government. She still lives with the Three Bears, but is now the lover of "Baby"---she is proud of not being a "species-centric bigot," and likes variety in her lovers.

These could be thought of as images of girls with their doppelgänger [Wikipedia]:

a ghostly double of a living person, adapted from German Doppelgänger (look-alike). The word comes from doppel meaning "double" and Gänger translated as "goer". The term has, in the vernacular, come to refer to any double of a person, most commonly in reference to a so-called evil twin, or to bilocation.

The character was created by Paul Dini, and is voiced in the animated cartoons by Arleen Sorkin.

Harley Quinn first appeared in "Batman: The Animated Series", where the character was so popular that a version of her was added to the Batman comic books as well. The comic-book version of Quinn, like the comic-book version of The Joker, is more dangerously psychotic and less humorously kooky than the animated-series version.

As the girlfriend and later wife of Reed Richards and sister of Johnny Storm, she was instrumental in persuading pilot Ben Grimm in joining them on a dangerous space mission, which exposed them to massive amounts of cosmic radiation. As a result, they gained superhuman powers. Hers was the ability to become invisible at will. Unfortunately, this power alone proved to be of relatively little use in their missions, especially compared to the more aggressive ones of the rest of the group. Eventually, creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby realized this and gave Susan other powers such as the ability to project invisible telekinetic force fields and the ability to make other people and objects become invisible.

Tarzan has been called one of the best-known literary characters in the world. He has appeared in films, comic strips, comic books, radio, and television programs. The Internet Movie Database lists 88 movies with Tarzan in the title between 1918 and 1999. Many of the Hollywood Tarzan films from the 1930s on featured Tarzan's chimpanzee companion Cheeta.

Jean Grey is a mutant, born with the abilities of telepathy and telekinesis.

Also see the separate listing for Queens (White & Black) [theZportal].

Quote: "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way".

She also made cameo appearances in the cartoon shorts Tummy Trouble, Roller Coaster Rabbit, and Trail Mix-Up. She also appeared frequently in the Roger Rabbit comic book series and she has her own feature in most issues of Roger Rabbit's Toontown. Jessica is considered by some to be the world's sexiest cartoon character since Tex Avery's "Red Hot Riding Hood".

Characters seen in the Zimmerman opus:

• George Jetson
• Jane Jetson
• Judy Jetson
• Mr. Spacely

• Josie McCoy: a short-haired redhead, Josie is the leader and co-founder of the Pussycats. She is the lead vocalist and plays guitar. Portrayed as a sweet, attractive, and level-headed teenage girl, Josie is usually the stable center in the middle of the chaos surrounding her band and her friends. She was played by Rachael Leigh Cook in the 2001 live-action Josie and the Pussycats movie.
• Melody Valentine: the co-founder and drummer for the Pussycats, Melody is a voluptuous blonde and speaks in a sing-song voice, denoted by the musical notes in her cartoon word balloons. She is an absent-minded, bubbly sort of character often taken to using silly, nonsense language. In the comics, her extreme sex appeal (and its effects on the male population) is often use as a plot device. In the cartoon series, whenever the group is in a dangerous or potentially dangerous situation, Melody's ears would wiggle. She was played by Tara Reid in the live-action movie.
• Valerie Brown: a headstrong African-American young lady, Valerie performs back-up vocals and occasionally sings lead for the Pussycats. In the comics, she plays the bass; in the cartoons, she plays tambourine. She is the character who saves the day the most often, thanks to her streets smarts and her mechanical and scientific genius. She was played by Rosario Dawson in the live-action movie.

Judy Robinson (Marta Kristen), Penny Robinson (Angela Cartwright) and Will Robinson (Bill Mumy) are the three children in the expedition.

"The Robot" is a Model B-9 Environmental-Control Robot, which had no given name. However, once it was shown in its packing crate labeled General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental ROBOT (GUNTER) -- the name didn't catch on.

The stories take place in a futuristic universe in which humanity has spread across many planets and star systems. A corporation called the World Welfare Works Association (also WWWA or 3WA) helps local systems deal with problems by sending well-armed agents called "trouble consultants" to solve crimes or mysteries, for a fee. The series focuses on a team of trouble consultants named Kei and Yuri who have a reputation for leaving a trail of destruction behind them, for which they are called the "Dirty Pair".

The franchise has bounced across multiple formats and production companies, resulting in (so far) a 26-episode television series, two OVA series, two OVA features, a feature film, and a number of comic series.

Kei and Yuri are the two members of Trouble Consultant team 243, code name "Lovely Angels". Almost every mission they are involved with ends up in disaster, but not failure (they may catch the crook, but destroy a city in the process), and thus they are more generally known as the "Dirty Pair". They are always cleared of any wrongdoing by the 3WA's central computer. In some but not all continuities, they have ESP powers.

• Kei: a hot-headed redhead who wears a white or silver uniform. Favors large weaponry.
• Yuri: Japanese in ethnicity, wears a yellow or golden uniform. Often uses non-gun weaponry such as energy whips

Also see the entry for Shego.

The reader later discovers that Lucifer has the power of creation, and that Lady Demon, one of his creations, still exists, albeit with a soul. She seeks out Lady Death and unsuccessfully tries to reincorporate her soul. Featured in her own mini-series, Lady Demon escapes to Earth after she merges with a recently deceased mortal woman, co-ops agent Cheryl Montessori, and pursues a murderous rampage.

Lara Croft, Duchess of Saint Bridget, is a British eccentric and wealthy aristocrat from the borough of Wimbledon, London. She is the daughter of Lord Henshingly Croft. Her taste for adventure was first aroused upon reading an article on the archaeologist Professor Werner Von Croy in National Geographic, and she persuaded her father to allow her to accompany the archaeologist on his tour of Asia. She also became interested in mountain climbing during her time in Scotland.

At about the age of twenty, after completing her education at a Swiss finishing school she went on a skiing trip to the Himalaya. Their plane crashed en route to the destination; she was the only survivor. Her experience seemed to wake her up from the boring aristocratic life, and she chose to become a "tomb raider." In essence, she is for hire to recover lost artifacts, whether from tombs, or the clutches of selfish collectors. For this unorthodox career choice, she is disowned by upper-class British society. Typically, she is heavily armed with a variety of firearms.

She is a fit, attractive cyclops who captains the Planet Express ship. She is the love interest of Fry. Leela grew up in an orphanarium, knowing nothing of her parents, origins or species. She joined human society as an apparent alien from another planet, longing to discover her heritage, though aside from her one eye and purple hair she could pass as a normal human.

Princess Leia makes her debut appearance briefly as an infant in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. She then plays a major role as an adult (played by Carrie Fisher) in Episodes IV, V, and VI, and the post-Return of the Jedi novels.

From Batman-Superman.com:

She was radio shock jock Leslie Willis, until conducting a rally during an electrical storm at Centennial Park changed her into Livewire. A being of living electricity, Livewire is one of Superman's most unpredictable enemies. Permanently changed in an electrical accident, Livewire now puts her powers to use by engineering impossible electrical-based crimes.

Livewire can contain amounts of electrical energy so great that a full, concentrated charge could reduce Superman to atoms. She can also fire lighting bolts from her hands and eyes and travel through powerlines as pure energy.

Luanne Platter, (voice Brittany Murphy), college-age niece of Peggy, student of the beauty academy and later, junior college. Luanne appears to be a dumb blonde, and her actions even show it. But she is actually smarter. In many episodes (especially the latest season) she appears to have great logic skills. It's also possible to believe that she is the most "christian" person of the Hill's house whole.

In both films to date, the character of Mary Jane Watson was played by Kirsten Dunst.

Minerva's stock in trade was driving every male, no matter what his species, into glorious wild take-filled Tex Avery-styled conniptions at her beauty.

The voice characterization of Mirage was provided by Elizabeth Peña. Mirage appears to have extensive computing and espionage skills.

Also see Elastigirl and Violet from The Incredibles.

Morticia Addams (née Frump), is a vampish woman who dresses only in black and loves to cut the buds from roses, leaving only the thorny stems. She comes from a long line of maniacs and monsters. She is played Carolyn Jones in the show, Anjelica Huston and Daryl Hannah in the movies.

In the comics, she is the biological mother of Nightcrawler, as well as adoptive mother to the girl Rogue, who had left her home in a small town after the community learned she was a mutant. The girl was living alone in a wooded area, brandishing a shotgun and trusting no one when Mystique found her.

In the movies X-Men, X2, and the upcoming "X3", Mystique is played by Rebecca Romijn-Stamos

Anderson was born in 1967 in Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada. As the first baby born on Canada's Centennial Day (unexpectedly well past midnight, at 4:08 in the morning), the newborn Anderson won fame as the nation's "Centennial Baby".

She was subsequently "discovered" in 1989 when, attending a B.C. Lions football game wearing a Labatt's beer t-shirt, her image was shown on the stadium's giant screen. She was hired by Labatt's to promote their product, and soon after, she appeared in Playboy magazine. She later had breast augmentation and collagen to enhance her appearance. Her natural hair color is brown and she bleaches her own hair at home according to her personal stylist.

Anderson's first major television role was on the United States hit television sitcom Home Improvement (1991-1993). But her rise to stardom came primarily from her role as C J Parker (1992-1997) on Baywatch. In 1996, she appeared in a feature film, Barb Wire, which failed to achieve commercial success; and in 1998 she appeared in her own television series, V.I.P., which ran for four seasons. As of April 13, 2005, Anderson starred on a new FOX TV series, Stacked as Skylar Dayton.

According to the Vampirella article on Wikipedia, Pantha is an alien shapeshifter from Vampirella's native planet, she shape-shifts into a black panther. She is generally portayed as more violent and out of control than Vampirella.

She has appeared in the comic, "Vampirella vs. Pantha", as well as her own title [Vampirella].

It is based loosely on the encounter between the colonists of Jamestown, Virginia with the native Powhatan tribe, and in particular presents a highly romanticized account of the meeting between Pocahontas and John Smith. It is a musical; the songs have music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz.

The film starred the voice acting of Mel Gibson as John Smith, Irene Bedard and Judy Kuhn as Pocahontas (speaking voice and singing voice, respectively), and David Ogden Stiers as John Ratcliffe as well as his footman Wiggins. Before his death, comedian John Candy had recorded a large amount of material for a turkey character, named Redfeather, who was to be Pocahontas's sidekick. Percy, too, was supposed to talk as well. Executives perceived the character to lighten the tone of the film excessively, and the turkey was replaced with the characters Meeko the raccoon and Flit the hummingbird.

Many at Disney had high hopes for the movie while it was in production. Then-studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg regarded Pocahontas as a more prestigious project than The Lion King, and even believed that it had a chance of earning an Academy Award nomination for "Best Picture", as Beauty and the Beast had.

Poison Ivy is a very attractive red-headed woman, dressed in a form-fitting, green costume, who is obsessed with botany. She draws toxins and potions from plants, as well as from her own bloodstream, and uses them for her crimes. Ultimately, she seeks to destroy human life and create a world ruled by plants. She is usually portrayed as a seductress and uses her sex appeal to manipulate men to her advantage.

She was originally conceived as busty, with a bob of blonde hair and a form-fitting white costume. Rumor is that artist Wally Wood intended to draw her chest larger in each issue until the editors noticed, though Wood left the title after issue #65, and his successor Joe Staton was more restrained.

Dragon's Lair features the hero, "Dirk the Daring", attempting to rescue "Princess Daphne" from the evil dragon Singe holed up in a wizard's castle.

Psylocke was primarily a telepath. She was capable of reading minds, controlling thoughts, casting mental illusions, attacking an enemy's mind, and so on. In her early days when she still had her original Caucasian body, she deployed traditional telepathic attacks in battles. She could also focus her telepathy into a "psychic knife" that could stun or kill an adversary. She was not a skilled hand-to-hand combatant during this stage, so she relied on fighting from a distance using mind bolts and similar tactics.

After her physical transformation into an Asian ninja assassin, she gained highly remarkable fighting skills in addition to her telepathy [...]

Emma Grace Frost, also known as the White Queen [Wikipedia], is a fictional character, a mutant comic book superheroine (and former supervillainess) in the Marvel Comics universe. She once fought against the X-Men as a member of the Hellfire Club, but later reformed and became a member of the superhero team. Created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, she first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 (January 1980).

Black Queen [Wikipedia]: After Phoenix repaired the M'Kraan Crystal, she began to feel a hunger deep within her for sensation and power much like she had felt while in the Crystal. This hunger made her an easy target for the illusionist Mastermind, who was attempting to prove himself in order to join the prestigious Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club. With the help of a mind-tap device created by the White Queen, Emma Frost, Mastermind (using the alias Jason Wyngarde) was able to project his illusions directly into Phoenix' mind. Believing herself to be his 18th Century lover, Lady Grey, Phoenix was subverted into joining the Hellfire Club as their Black Queen.

Also see the separate listing for Jean Grey [theZportal].

Also see the separate listing for the fairy tale character, (Little) Red Riding Hood [theZportal].

rlundi found a link to the 7 minute short film.

Also see the separate listing for Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood [theZportal].

The She-Devil with a Sword has become the archetypical example of the fantasy figure of a fierce and stunningly beautiful female barbarian who typically wears sexy, but impractically skimpy armor.

She was played by Brigitte Nielsen in the 1985 film Red Sonja, which also starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as Kalidor (a Conan clone). The film was directed by Richard Fleischer. It performed poorly at the box office.

Rogue is a mutant with the ability to temporarily absorb the memories, thoughts and abilities of others, including superhuman abilities, via skin-to-skin contact. This transference usually causes the victim to fall unconscious and become weakened. The duration of this drain varies according to the length of time that the contact is maintained, but it can kill if it is prolonged for too long.

Like Calvin and Hobbes, the strip often shows an alternate point of view based on the characters' fantasies. Rose often sees herself as a biker chick when faced between selfish desire and social obligations. Or she's drawn as a prisoner in a "dungeon of resentment".

The comic is distributed by United Features Syndicate. As of 2005, Pat Brady has been nominated eight times for a Reuben award by the National Cartoonists Society for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year. He won the award in that category for the first time in 2005.

The show's focus was the mixed marriage of a nose-twitching witch, Samantha Stephens, and her mortal husband, Darrin. Samantha's mother, Endora, (played by Agnes Moorehead), disapproves of Darrin, and many episodes revolve around her using magic to make life difficult for her non-magical son-in-law, whose name she invariably mispronounces as "Durwood," "Darwin," and other variations even less complimentary.

The Scarlet Witch is the twin sister of Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff); the twins are the children of Magneto and his late wife Magda. She has the power to warp reality.

In recent storylines, she has gone insane and killed several members of The Avengers as well as reducing the population of mutants from millions to a few hundred worldwide (by removing their mutant abilities).

Shadowcat possesses the ability to "phase" -- pass through solid matter by passing her atoms through the spaces between the atoms of the object through which she is moving. Utilizing her phasing ability she can also walk on air. While phasing she is intangible and thus invulnerable to physical attacks; additionally, telepaths have a hard time reaching her mind in phased form. Her phasing powers also disrupt any electronic equipment she passes through.

Jennifer Walters, the meek and mousy lawyer cousin of Bruce Banner (The Incredible Hulk), was the daughter of Sheriff Morris Walters. Agents of Nicholas Trask, a crime boss who had crossed paths with her father, shot and seriously wounded her on a day when her cousin was in town. Bruce gave her a blood transfusion, as no other donors of her blood type were available; the radioactive blood mutated Jennifer as it had her cousin, transforming her into the green-skinned She-Hulk. As the She-Hulk, she possessed powers similar to her cousin, though at a reduced level and with a less monstrous, more Amazonian appearance. Jennifer's early adventures were chronicled in the 1980 Marvel Comics series The Savage She-Hulk, written by David A. Kraft.

Notable Powers: Superhuman strength and endurance, healing factor.

The premise of the show is that She-Ra, whose secret identity is Princess Adora, and her friends must free Etheria from Hordak and his evil Horde, after realizing her true destiny through the help of her brother Prince Adam, who is also known as He-Man. The She-Ra cartoon's premise is similar to the He-Man premise, with the distinction that while He-Man serves King Randor and the rulers of Eternia, She-Ra is a revolutionary engaged in a rebellion against Hordak, the ruler of Etheria, and to a larger extent against the rarely seen Horde Prime, leader of an evil intergalactic empire. She-Ra, like He-Man, wields a magic sword: the Sword of Protection. Adora transforms into She-Ra by holding it aloft and saying, "For the honor of Grayskull... I am She-Ra!"

JZ has drawn other Masters of the Universe characters [Wikipedia], but from the He-Man franchise:

• Teela [Wikipedia] is Captain of the Royal Guard and often assists He-Man in his battles. She is the daughter of the Sorceress, though she does not know this; Man-At-Arms has raised her from infancy at her behest. She is characterized by a strong personality and long red hair as fiery as her temper. One of her duties is to teach combat skills to Prince Adam, but she frequently berates him for his careless and worry-free attitude. In the modern incarnation she is a teenager.

• Evil-Lyn [Wikipedia] Evil-Lyn is a character in the popular toy line and cartoon series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. The only female member of the Evil Warriors, she is an evil witch who aids Skeletor as his second-in-command with her powers of darkness. She is considerably more intelligent than Skeletor's other minions and often comes much closer to defeating He-Man than anyone else. She regularly uses a crystal ball atop her wand to aid with her magic.

• The Sorceress of Castle Grayskull [Wikipedia] is the mystic guardian of Castle Grayskull, who granted Prince Adam the power to become He-Man. She is powerless outside the castle in her human form, but can leave in the falcon form of Zoar. She is also the mother of Teela, who is destined to inherit her place, although Teela does not yet know this.

Shego has often been described as an evil version of Kim, although the two of them are not actually related. Kim and Shego have more in common than either would care to admit. They are both extremely intelligent, strive for success, yet also prefer to indulge in ditzy behaviour. They are both accomplished martial artists, with identical physiques (not to mention looks, ignoring colour), and have a similar rivalrous temperament.

Also see the entry for Kim Possible.

The character was voiced by Gina Gershon in season 1, and Carmen Electra in season 2.

The show started as an internet-only trailer that was too hot even for cable (it's worth a boo). Also see the show's official site [SciFi.com].

According to this site found by rlundi, the tattoo on her left breast means "six", but taken phonetically means "hill and mound". A calligraphic pun.

The film spent nearly the entire decade of the 1950s in production: the story work began in 1951, voices were recorded in 1952, anmation production took from 1953 until 1958, and the stereophonic musical score was recorded in 1957. When it was first released, Sleeping Beauty returned only half the invested sum of $6,000,000, nearly bankrupting the Disney studio. Since then, the film has gained a following, and is today hailed as one of the best animated features ever made.

The film's musical score and songs are adapted from the 1890 Sleeping Beauty ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The name of the titular Sleeping Beauty is "Princess Aurora" in this film, as it was in the Tchaikovsky ballet. Princess Aurora's long, thin, willowy body shape was inspired by that of Audrey Hepburn.

The witch was aptly named Maleficent (which means "Evil-doer").

Also see the listing for the Wicked Queen from the movie.

Koriand'r is a princess of the planet Tamaran, and was in line to rule the planet as Queen. Komand'r, her older sister, had a bitter rivalry with Starfire, and betrayed her planet by giving detailed information about Tamaran's defenses to their enemies, the Citadel. They conquered Tamaran with ease and the surrender conditions included the enslavement of Koriand'r. Her older sister made the most of her sibling's bondage with years of horrific servitude and torture. When Kory killed one of her rapists, Komand'r decided to execute her as punishment [...] Kory escaped by seducing one of the guards and stole a spacecraft to flee to the nearest planet, Earth, where she met Robin and his compatriots who would soon form the Teen Titans. She became a charter member of this revived team and remained a member for years and often a girlfriend to Robin/Nightwing.

Kory is regarded as extremely physically attractive even by the standards of the superhero. She also displays the traits of Tamaran's highly sensuous culture, coupled with a no nonsense warrior attitude. For a time, Koriand'r had a career as a fashion model.

Storm has the mutant power to control the weather, including lightning, rain, snow, and wind, which she primarily uses to make herself and others fly.

Having debuted at a time when memories of Star Trek's Lt. Uhura were still fresh, Storm's status as a black female with a similar name and Kenyan origins may not be coincidental. In any case, she may well be the first black, female superhero of any note and remains the most popular.

She is played by Halle Berry in the movies X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), and X-Men 3 (2006). Despite a high-profile actress like Berry in the role, in the first two movies, Storm received little screen time and took a backseat to characters such as Wolverine and Jean Grey. Ms. Berry complained and as a result the role was enhanced for her in X-Men 3. The third installment is set to be released on May 26, 2006.

Due to a somewhat disjointed continuity, several variations of Supergirl have appeared in comic books. However, in her most well-known incarnation, Supergirl is Kara Zor-El, Superman's Kryptonian cousin, also sent to Earth when Krypton was destroyed. Also like her cousin, Supergirl can fly and possesses superhuman strength and endurance, and has a civilian identity kept to allow her to live amongt humans (that of Linda Lee). In the mid-1980s, after the Crisis on Infinite Earths, in which Kara Zor-El died, the character started a 20-year stint where she went through several incarnations unrelated to Kara Zor-El, and characterized by having something to do with more complex science fiction. The most famous of these versions were Matrix (also known as Linda Danvers or the Earth Angel Of Fire) and Cir-El. The Kara Zor-El incarnation has returned in recent years (although not using the alias of Linda Lee, as it would clash with former Supergirl Matrix's civilian identity).

In 1984, Helen Slater starred as Supergirl in an unsuccessful eponymous film, which was part of the Superman film franchise. A version of Supergirl, based on Kara Zor-El, named Kara In-Ze (In-Ze being Kara Zor-El's mother's maiden name in the comics), and using the alias of Kara Kent has appeared in recent animated shows such as Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited.

Tara Markov, half-sister of Geo-Force, was the illegitimate daughter of the King of Markovia. This royal blood gave her her special terrakinetic powers (the power to control all forms of earthen matter).

Terra became a mercenary, doing dirty work for others such as Deathstroke the Terminator. She joined the Teen Titans, fooling them by staging a battle vs Deathstroke. She then operated as a spy for Deathstroke, eventually giving him the information he needed to kidnap the Titans.

Eventually, the captured Titans were held in a stronghold of Deathstroke's contractors, The H.I.V.E.. Nightwing and Deathstroke's son raided the complex to rescue them, but were captured. When presented to Deathstroke and the organization in general, Jericho possessed his father and freed the Titans who then attacked H.I.V.E.. Not knowing of Jericho's powers, Terra believed Deathstroke to have turned against her, and thus she went berserk and fatally pulled the whole H.I.V.E. complex down upon herself.

Tigra possesses superhuman strength. Her agility, speed, stamina, and sensory acuity are similarly superhuman. Her durability is heightened considerably as well; entailing that her recovery rate is greater than that of an ordinary human. However she is not bullet proof nor capable of regenerating large portions of damaged tissue.

Tigra possesses heightened senses enabling her to see and hear distant objects more clearly than a normal human, and identify and track someone purely by scent. Her heightened sense of smell is acute enough to allow her to detect subtle alterations in the pheromones and perspiration of a person indicating that person's emotional state. Most notably her eyesight is so keen that she can see in almost complete darkness, just as a nocturnal cat. This may be a result of being able to see into the infrared and ultraviolet spectrum. Tigra's physical appearance also displays animal-like characteristics, including sharper-than-normal teeth with two pronounced canines and retractable claws where ordinary humans have fingernails. Her claws and teeth are sufficiently strong enough to tear through human tissue easily. Tigra also has a semi-prehensile tail.

After Disney's 1953 animated film version, their version of Tinkerbell became something of a mascot for The Walt Disney Company, appearing in commercials and program openings to spread fairy dust from her magic wand. She appeared in the Kingdom Hearts video game series as a friend whom Sora can summon in his fights. Despite an urban legend that Disney modeled the animated character after then-budding starlet Marilyn Monroe, actress Margaret Kerry actually served as the animators' reference for the character.

Her origin is a mystery. All she recalls is waking up alone amongst the ruins of her planet. After weeks of loneliness, she discovers that she has the ability to divide herself into two, then three, then six, then more individuals with a shared consciousness. Eventually, her entire planet was repopulated with duplicates of herself. When a United Planets craft arrives on Cargg, three of these duplicates are sent out as emissaries and subsequently join the Legion as Triplicate Girl.

From www.vampirella.com: Vampirella debuted in 1969 in a black & white magazine titled simply VAMPIRELLA. With a stunning new cover by the legendary Frank Frazetta, Vampirella #1 quickly made publishing history. Vampirella appeared in this magazine format throughout the 1970s. Many of these classic stories were illustrated by the legendary artist Jose Gonzalez and have remained quite popular to the present day. After a brief publishing hiatus, Vampirella returned in 1992 in a blockbuster new color comic book format.

Velma is portrayed as the resident genius of the quartet, and makes great use of her skills in such areas as reading Chinese, deciphering scientific formulae, operating communications equipment, and so forth. A running gag of the series is Velma's trouble with keeping her glasses on her face (usually from being accidentally knocked off of her face while being chased by the villain), as she is very nearsighted. (In fact, this only happened a grand total of four times on the original series, but somehow people seem to believe it happens in every episode). Her catchphrase is "jinkies!"

When Scooby is too afraid to volunteer for a mission (which tends to be most of the time), Velma often offers him a dog treat called a "Scooby snack" as a bribe.

It has often been supposed that Velma is a lesbian due to her stereotypical frumpy appearance, although the cartoons themselves offer no such information (in fact, they imply the opposite: she was shown as being attracted to a man in the movie Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost, and many episodes of the series paired her up with Shaggy). Velma's alleged lesbianism was, however, parodied in both Warner Bros. Scooby-Doo live-action movies and in an unlicensed cameo appearance in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

Veronica is the beautiful, stylish daughter of Hiram Lodge, the richest man in the fictional city of Riverdale, and his wife Hermione Lodge. She enjoys a very posh lifestyle, but chooses to hang out with her poorer friends, in part to try to win the love of Archie Andrews. Sometimes good-hearted, sometimes spoiled and vain, the fashion-conscious Lodge is the star, alongside best friend and love rival Betty Cooper, of Archie spin-offs Betty And Veronica Magazine and "Betty and Veronica Spectacular," as well as her own title, "Veronica".

The name Veronica Lodge is closely similar to Veronica Lake, a popular film actress when the cartoon character was created in 1942.

The Warrior Nun -- a cross between Xena and Joan of Arc -- has attracted both male and female fans who now follow the character, well, religiously.

"Other superheroes, you never know what their faith is," says creator Ben Dunn, publisher of Antarctic Press, San Antonio. "Batman or Spider-Man or Superman, they do all these great things, but what do they believe in?" Dunn, 33, who attended Catholic schools, got the idea two years ago after seeing a story about an order of nuns in New York who study judo and tae kwon do.

His focus is Sister Shannon Masters (a.k.a. Areala), one of an elite corps of 13 Warrior Nuns who "provide the thin line of defense between Earth and the power of Hell." After losing an arm battling demons, Sister Shannon received a mechanical replacement and "suddenly became imbued with the spirit of Areala," the first Warrior Nun in the year 1066. From then on, Shannon adopted Areala's name.

Also see Elastigirl and Mirage from The Incredibles.

Janet van Dyne was a shallow, self-centered, flighty heiress, daughter of wealthy scientist Vernon van Dyne. During an experiment, however, an alien monster was unleashed and Dr. van Dyne was killed. Her father's associate, Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym, had created a substance called "Pym particles", which allowed the user to grow or shrink in size, and had become the superhero Ant-Man; when Janet's father died, she convinced Pym to help her, and he gave her a supply of "Pym particles" and subjected her to a procedure which granted her the ability to, upon shrinking, grow wings and fire blasts of energy, which she called her "wasp's stings". As Ant-Man and The Wasp, they defeated the monster and sent it to its own dimension, and had several more adventures together.

Notable Powers: Ability to shrink to the size of a wasp and use wings to fly and energy blasts in that state. More recently, she has gained the power to grow in size, powers closely mimicking those of Henry Pym/Yellowjacket.

Also see the listing for Tinkerbell.

The Queen is extremely beautiful but very evil and very proud and vain. She seduced and married a widowed King who had a daughter called Snow White with his first wife; the King died, and the Queen sent Snow White to work in the castle and abandoned her title as Princess, similar to the situation of Cinderella.

Aside from being the first ever classic Disney villain, the Queen holds symbolic status above the rest of the Disney villains and is regularly seen as their leader - although the most powerful is traditionally Maleficent, even she follows the Queen. The Queen ranks #10 in the American Film Institute's list of the 50 Best Movie Villains of All Time.

Also see the listing for Snow White.

From Toonpedia:

"Oh, Wicked Wanda!", a series that ran in Penthouse magazine during the 1970s, was, in its final form at least, most likely a response to Playboy's "Little Annie Fanny" [theZportal]. But it certainly wasn't a duplicate of Harvey Kurtzman's series.

Though both showed an abundance of their protagonists' skin, Annie was always pure and innocent — well, relatively pure, anyway. She just kept losing her clothing through no fault of her own. But Wanda was as kinky as the series title implied, not just thoroughly perverted but also fundamentally evil [...]

Wanda first appeared in Penthouse's September, 1969 issue, as a continued story in prose form, by British writer Frederic Mullally. Each short chapter had a single large illustration by Brian Forbes, but the actual story was pure text. The initial episode introduced her as the 19-year-old daughter of depraved plutocrat Walter von Kreesus. Walter gave Wanda everything she could possibly have wanted, except one — considering her exceptional beauty, wealth and lust, there was no way he was going to trust a man anywhere near her. Not that he had to worry about that, because his late wife's habit of ordering Wanda out of bed with her in favor of the current lover had engendered in Wanda a lifelong hatred of men. At any rate, the young woman was virtually a prisoner in the luxurious Von Kreesus Schloss (German for "castle"), which overlooked Lake Geneva. Fortunately for her, she was able to maneuver Dad into succumbing to an overdose of her gorgeous young handmaiden, Candyfloss, who remained Wanda's favorite companion throughout the series [...]

The serial ran its course in about a year, then Wanda disappeared. She didn't return until the September, 1973 issue, where she made her debut in comics form. Mullally continued to script her adventures, which were drawn by veteran comics artist Ron Embleton [...] the magazine dropped her with its December, 1980 issue. 1981 began with a new feature, "Sweet Chastity", also illustrated by Embleton, but without Mullally. Chastity was scripted by the one writer absolutely certain to hold Guccione's interest — Guccione himself.

Wanda hasn't been seen in the past couple of decades. But she's far from forgotten [...]

In Witchblade, NYPD homicide detective Sara Pezzini comes into possession of the Witchblade, a fictional, mysterious, supernatural artifact with awesome powers, and struggles to master its powers.

There have been many spin-off titles, which place the Witchblade in other times or settings and in the hands of other heroines, ranging from a pirate woman to Joan of Arc.

In 2000 the cable network TNT premiered a television series based on the comic book series. The series was directed by Ralph Hemecker and written by Marc Silvestri (who also wrote the comic book) and J.D. Zeik. Yancy Butler starred as Sara Pezzini. Although critically acclaimed and popular with audiences, it was canceled in 2002 after Butler was ordered to enter rehab for alcoholism.

In most adaptations, Wonder Woman is Princess Diana of the Amazon warrior tribe of Greek mythology. The Amazon ambassador to the larger world, she possesses several superhuman abilities and gifts from the Greek Gods, including a magic lasso and bulletproof bracelets. She is also a member of the all-star Justice League.

Outside the comic book community, she is known for a popular, although often campy, television adaptation which starred Lynda Carter and aired from 1975 until 1979. She has also been featured on the all-star animated series Super Friends in the 1970s and 80s and Justice League in the 2000s.