10 Badass Gaming Heroines That Could Have The Men For Breakfast

7. Jill Valentine

Much like Bioshock Infinite's Elizabeth, Jill Valentine is very good at unlocking doors, but there is much more to her than that. In the original Resident Evil Jill was introduced as a tough Special Operations Agent who was as intelligent as she was deadly with a weapon. She ticks all the boxes for a female role model and in the mid 1990's seemed to fly in the slipstream of Lara Croft's overtly sexual media coverage to avoid the same fate. There are not many likeable playable characters in the Resident Evil series, mainly because they are all incredibly stupid, but seventeen years after her first appearance Jill regularly returns and is universally popular. Like many on this list her clothing may be better suited for modelling rather than running around the city with a shotgun, but her attitude and the way she is accepted without acknowledgment of her gender makes her a kick ass female role model. A good example of Jill at her toughest is Resident Evil 3 which sees her pursued by Nemesis, a walking embodiment of brute force. By defeating it we are becoming her and seeing first-hand how well a woman can do a 'man's job.' Jill may have come on the scene a decade after Samus but this is one no-nonsense woman.