7. Ofelia - Pan's Labyrinth
Badassery in movies isn't limited to (pre) pubescent boys, however. Not hardly. Little girls can be badasses too, and there is perhaps no girl more badass than little Ofelia. Throughout the movie she encounters a bizarre entourage of grotesque, fantastic creatures ripped straight from a bad acid trip. You can make the argument that they are nothing more than the product of Ofelia's overactive imagination and love of fairy tales, but that doesn't render them any less terrifying. Remember how getting shot in the Matrix still kills your real body? Yeah. On top of Ofelia's "if not real, then real enough" monsters, she has to contend with her sympathising and downright sadistic stepfather, Vidal, the father of her unborn baby half-brother. The baby brother, by the way, who she could have easily turned over to the faun while being pursued by said stepfather, to potentially secure a means of escape. But Ofelia isn't some pansyass coward who would sell out an helpless infant in a time of need. Instead, she meets her fate like a true man (like a true little girl?), never betraying her principles or even begging for her life. And when she gets shot, Ofelia even dies with a quiet, badass dignity.