Kick-Ass Girls: Why Women Have a Growing Place at Comic-Con

Women are taking an increasingly central role in kick-ass Comic-Con action movies

Toward the end of the presentation of “Django Unchained” at Comic-Con this weekend, a pale young woman dressed in a yellow track suit reminiscent of Uma Thurman in “Kill Bill" stood up to ask a question of director Quentin Tarantino.

The girl at the microphone blushed and read from her notes: “You consistently write films with strong, intelligent, assertive women when other directors struggle to avoid female stereotypes. How do you do it?”

“Great outfit,” said Tarantino before adding simply: “I dig strong chicks.”

Tarantino is a leading champion of kick-ass women, but increasingly he’s not the only one to get such heroines in front of the Comic-Con fan audience.

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