Amazon Brigade

Basic Information

They're an elite team of fighters and every one of them is a guaranteed knockout. The Amazon Brigade follows the principle that if one Action Girl is a badass, then a whole team of them is a badass army. They kick butt, and yes, because it's a trope, they look great as they kick it.

Related Tropes:

• Action Girl
• Amazonian Beauty
• Badass Army
• Bodyguard Babes
• Dark Action Girl
• Generic Cuteness
• Lovely Angels
• One-Gender Race
• Proud Warrior Race Girl
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge
• The Smurfette Principle
• World of Action Girls

Sources

Bibliography

1. TV Tropes Wiki entry

Game and Story Use

• Unless everyone in your group is playing a female character, you probably won't be using these as PC's.
  • On the other hand, "former member of an Amazon Brigade" makes a good background for an Action Girl character, and some of her ex-teammates could turn up as NPC's
  • And if you do happen to have an all-female or mostly-female group of heroes, they just might embody this trope.
    • Also, keep in mind that Amazon Brigades sometimes have Token Males in a support role (such as Bosley in Charlie's Angels, or Mackie in Bubblegum Crisis). He'd be The One Guy.
• Usually, the Amazon Brigade works better as NPC's (mostly so that the players are free to choose the gender of their own PCs)
• Some possible Amazon Brigades:
  • The BBEG keeps a squad of sexy Amazons who double as his harem and his bodyguards.
    • Or perhaps since No Man is allowed in the Princess' chambers, she is protected by combat handmaidens.
  • They can be a "Ladies' Auxillery" to the mostly male force.
  • Then there's that staple of the '60s, the Evil Feminist Spy Agency
  • And that other staple of the '60s, the Robots Built by a Pervert Cyberneticist
  • Or you could just, y'know, have a bunch of badass female characters in your game, without feeling the need to qualify it in concepts that haven't aged well.
• Fury Road, Kill Bill, Suckerpunch, Wonder Woman and Avengers: End Game all provide solid movie archetypes to draw inspiration from. Some are better examples than others, admittedly.
  • See also the Valkyries of Norse Mythology and the original Amazons of Greek Mythology.
• It's not at all uncommon for RPGs to have all-female organizations or character classes.
  • Werewolf has the Black Furies.
  • Shadowrun has the Desolation Angels.
  • Feng Shui RPG has that convent full of Sisters of Mercy, and the 8-armed Shiva Squadron.
  • Deadlands had the Wichita Witches.
  • Warhammer 40k has the Sisters of Battle. Necromunda had the Escher gang.
  • Scion RPG has the mythical Amazons themselves.
  • Again, some examples are trope-ier (or more game-able) than others. YMMV, etc.