Strong Female Characters

By SYFY Wire

Society & Culture

What's Strong Female Characters about?

Strong Female Characters examines our favorite female characters & storylines in genre and draws parallels to their real life counterparts & current events. Cher & Preeti welcome a different guest each week to explore oft used tropes, representation in media, and the surprising & sometimes humorous ways in which pop culture & science fiction can influence our daily lives.

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SYFY FANGRRLS Presents: For...

02.27.2020

Get excited for Season 2 by listening to one of our favorite episodes from Season 1, Tarpe Mills, and then make sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to get amazing stories in your feed all month.

Strong Female Characters episodes:

02.27.2020 SYFY FANGRRLS Presents: Forgotten Women of Genre Season 2 Get excited for Season 2 by listening to one of our favorite episodes from Season 1, Tarpe Mills, and then make sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to get amazing stories in your feed all month.
02.12.2020 The One With Birds of Prey It’s a Birds of Prey celebration!
02.05.2020 The One With Scream A look back on the Scream franchise on Scream 3's 20th anniversary.
01.29.2020 The One with Hansel and Gretel This week on Strong Female Characters, Cher and Courtney breakdown the fairytale tropes in Hansel and Gretel.
01.22.2020 The One With Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Preeti and Courtney get excited about NBC Peacock, Taika Waititi and Geena Davis!
01.15.2020 The One Where We Go Into the Buffyverse This week, Cher, Preeti, and Courtney discuss what the latest Black Widow trailer means for the future of the MCU, those Oscar snubs, and speculate on Mark Hamill’s “What We Do in the Shadows” role. Then, it’s time for a ...
01.08.2020 The One with Fangrrltopia On the first episode of a brand new year, Cher, Preeti, and Courtney catch up on important news items like Dame Judi Dench’s human hands in CATS before creating their very own FANGRRLtopia full of what their ideal 2020 would ...
12.18.2019 The One with Star Wars It's time for a Star Wars! This week, Preeti and Courtney chat everything Star Wars. From The Rise of Skywalker predictions to favorite moments of the Skywalker Saga, they cover it all. Plus, Cher talked with the ladies of The ...
12.11.2019 The One with Disney Sequels Cher, Preeti, and Courtney talk all things Disney sequels
12.04.2019 The One with Knives Out This week on Strong Female Characters, Cher, Preeti, and Courtney put on their detective hats for a mysterious episode where they play a surprisingly difficult game of Knives Out FMK before recounting why Clue is basically a perfect film.
11.20.2019 The One With Baby Yoda A super cute episode where we take on Maclunkey and the cutest baby yoda
11.13.2019 The One with All the Hot Ghosts Cher, Preeti, and Courtney get excited about Star Wars, Keanuvember and hot ghosts
11.06.2019 The One with Charlie’s Angels This week, Cher, Preeti, and Courtney kick off Keanuvember with some Keanu-related news and a Keanu-themed game. Plus, they dive into the history of Charlie’s Angels in TV and film.
10.30.2019 Forgotten Women of Horror: Lois Duncan A preview of Fangrrls' Forgotten Women of Genre's new season, Forgotten Women of Horror
10.22.2019 The One with Sarah Connor This week, Cher, Preeti, and Courtney question why a person would want to pinch their phone and discuss that Catwoman casting news. Plus, they talk about every version of Sarah Connor then try to decide how she would’ve fared on ...
10.15.2019 The One Where We Celebrate Carrie Fisher The week on Strong Female Characters, Courtney and Preeti discuss just what they cannot wait to watch on Disney+ and in honor of her upcoming birthday, gush about what makes our princess, general, and space mom Carrie Fisher so special.
10.08.2019 The One From Fantastic Fest Hear the amazing conversation between SYFY WIRE's Cher Martinetti & Rotten Tomatoes editor Jacqueline Coley, as they talk to Issa López (TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID), April Wolfe (BLACK CHRISTMAS), and Jennifer Reeder (KNIVES AND SKIN) about their love of horror, ...
10.01.2019 The One Before New York Comic Con The gang’s all back together! This week, Cher, Preeti, and Courtney reunite to discuss that Spider-Man news (!!!) and reveal their hopes and dreams for this year’s New York Comic Con. Then they play a few celebratory rounds of Frak, ...
09.24.2019 The One with the Best Movies You’ve Never Seen While Cher is at Fantastic Fest, Preeti and Courtney discuss Tom DeLonge’s UFO discovery, the potential return of the piece of legend known as The Star Wars Christmas Special, then dive into the underappreciated film gems you’ve probably never seen.
09.17.2019 The One about Jennifer’s Body This week, Cher and Preeti are off living their best lives so Courtney is joined by fellow FANGRRLS Carly and Sara to celebrate the 10th anniversary of our favorite underrated gem, Jennifer’s Body. In this house we stan Megan Fox, ...
09.10.2019 The one with all the death This week, Cher, Preeti, and Courtney celebrate T-rex weddingwear, lament Patty Jenkins's Netflix wage gap, and discuss that wicked, evil conjurer of evil spirits himself, Harry Potter. Then, our three co-(g)hosts take a trip to the beyond and talk about ...
09.03.2019 The one that's just all Star Wars This week, Cher, Preeti, and Courtney gush over gay representation in The Eternals, celebrate even more theme park news, and spend a lot of time talking about butts, then give themselves to the Dark Side, the Force, and a lengthy ...
08.27.2019 The one full of Femme Fatales This week, Cher and Courtney delight over the announcements at D23, celebrate the goodness of dogs, and cringe at the horrors of ear spiders (shudder), then discuss the trope of the femme fatale and if it's actually the empowered character ...
08.20.2019 The one where we get down with the fic-ness This week, Cher, Preeti, and Courtney discuss the Wheel of Time casting news, squeal in terror and delight over the mysterious TV-headed delivery man, and bring their own deeply on-brand Avengers-based fan fic into the world. We also introduce our ...
08.13.2019 The one with Harry Potter, sassy magic boy This week, Cher, Preeti, and Courtney talk Quentin Tarantino and Bruce Lee, delight over the potential of a Nintendo theme park (GIVE US A ZELDA RIDE, PLEASE), share their most unpopular opinions, and Preeti pitches Cher on a little-known book ...
07.30.2019 The one where we ruin the '80s This week, Cher and Courtney talk about the plague of grasshoppers attacking Las Vegas, celebrate The Boys, and play a game of Rebook, Remake, Ruin with some real classics (and also the Halle Berry Catwoman).
07.23.2019 The one after the long con This week, Cher, Preeti and Courtney are breaking down the biggest and best news (and some of the not-so-great news) from this year's SDCC, including the delightful announcement that Brandon Routh will once again be donning the Supe cape, marketing ...
07.16.2019 The one with the wrath of con This week, Preeti and Courtney talk Picard, aka The Patrick Stewart Show with Dogs and Wine, and prepare their bodies and minds for San Diego Comic-Con with a game of Frak, Marry, Con.
07.09.2019 The one with the Peter Tingle Cher, Preeti and Courtney are back to talk all things Spider-Man: Far From Home, from shipping May and Happy to shipping themselves with Mysterio to those game-changing post-credits scenes.
04.30.2019 The one where we're in the Endgame now In their final episode of the season, Cher, Preeti and Courtney dive deep into Avengers: Endgame and bid a fond farewell to the MCU as we know it.
04.23.2019 The one starring Idris Elba as every single Avenger This week, Cher, Preeti and Courtney crave sleep, lament Y: The Last Man, and welcome our new zombie pig overlords, then play an Endgame-themed round of Idris for Everything (spoiler: Idris Elba should be in everything) and talk about our ...
04.16.2019 The One Where We Play the Game of Thrones This week, Cher, Preeti and Courtney celebrate men who aren't afraid to be feminists, break down all that Disney+ news, and are joined by Game of Thrones superfan Katie Wilson to place their bets on who will win the Iron ...
04.09.2019 The one where we ruin Cinderella stories This week, Cher, Preeti and Courtney celebrate Ao3's Hugo nomination and John Cho's Cowboy Bebop casting, learn a thing or two about dolphin love, and honor the 15th anniversary of Ella Enchanted by breaking down the tropes of the Cinderella ...
04.02.2019 The One Where We Frak, Marry and Kill 'The Magicians' This week, Preeti and Courtney are joined by guest co-host Riley Silverman to discuss Mark Hamill as Chucky, pen a Will Smith-style rap for the Matrix, side-eye NASA's suit availability and play a 'Magicians'-themed game of Frak, Marry, Kill.
04.01.2019 Forgotten Women of Genre: Milicent Patrick Creature from the Black Lagoon is a science fiction classic and its iconic Gill-Man one of the most recognizable and famous monsters ever created. It should have marked the beginning of a long film career for creator Milicent Patrick. But ...
03.30.2019 Forgotten Women of Genre: Tarpe Mills Tarpé Mills gave the world more than its first female superhero written and drawn by a woman — she gave girls and women a character who defied societal expectations and gender norms, who owned her sexuality and turned misogynistic tropes ...
03.29.2019 Forgotten Women of Genre: Jackie Ormes Jackie Ormes was the first Black woman to become a professional cartoonist. Her illustrations depicted Black girls and women in ways most of society refused to portray them at the time — glamourous, educated, opinionated, snarky, and with political awareness ...
03.28.2019 Forgotten Women of Genre: Maddie Blaustein From writing comics to voicing Meowth on Pokémon for eight seasons, Maddie Blaustein made a huge impact in her short life — and gave trans and intersex kids someone to look up to.
03.27.2019 Forgotten Women of Genre: Ellen Beeman Professor Ellen Beeman's career in the games industry, which began back in the early '90s on the popular Wing Commander franchise and has since spanned over 40 different titles, continues to have a major impact on the next generation of ...
03.26.2019 Forgotten Women of Genre: Dorothy Woolfolk As an editor at DC, Dorothy Woolfolk faced relentless criticism and misogyny, her impact diminished and dismissed at every turn by the men annoyed and threatened by her, but she's more than a footnote or cautionary tale of harassment — ...
03.25.2019 Forgotten Women of Genre: Sarah Halley Finn Casting is one of the film industry's most misunderstood processes, and it also happens to be a field dominated by women — but one woman, Sarah Halley Finn, gave us the MCU as we know it (and a plethora of ...
03.24.2019 Forgotten Women of Genre: Margaret Cavendish The Duchess of Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, was a poet, a philosopher, a scientist, a philanthropist, a socialite, and a pioneering sci-fi author who helped to create the literary genre we adore so much to this day.
03.23.2019 Forgotten Women of Genre: Vera West Vera West worked to no credit and died under very mysterious circumstances, but her costuming work on Bride of Frankenstein helped craft the aesthetic of women in the golden age of horror.
03.22.2019 Forgotten Women of Genre: Victoria Alonso You've definitely heard of Kevin Feige and maybe Louis D'Esposito, but did you know there's a third partner in the MCU triumvirate? Her name is Victoria Alonso, and she's a kickass producer who's been part of Marvel Studios since the ...
03.21.2019 Forgotten Women of Genre: Margaret Sixel On today's episode of Forgotten Women of Genre, we turn our attention to the woman who made action movie history with her editing on Mad Max: Fury Road, Margaret Sixel.
03.20.2019 Forgotten Women of Genre: Debra Hill Debra Hill was a producer, screenwriter and the "godmother of indie filmmaking,” whose successes in Hollywood opened the door for future generations to follow in her footsteps.
03.19.2019 Forgotten Women of Genre: Lois Weber As a silent-era director, Lois Weber created some early works of genre that still hold up surprisingly well by today's standards.
03.19.2019 The Other One with Kelly Sue DeConnick This week, Preeti and Courtney celebrate the greatness of the Avengers: Endgame trailer and welcome Shang-Chi and Destin Daniel Cretton to the MCU, and we present part two of Cher's interview with Kelly Sue DeConnick.
03.18.2019 Forgotten Women of Genre: Gertrude Barrows Bennett Living in a society beleaguered by the horrors reported from the frontlines of WWI, Gertrude Barrows Bennett created dark fiction the likes of which the world had never before seen under the pen name Francis Stevens.
03.17.2019 Forgotten Women of Genre: Eiko Ishioka From her breathtaking work on Bram Stoker's Dracula to the boundary pushing baroque madness of her collaborations with director Tarsem Singh, Japanese production and costume designer Eiko Ishioka created some of the most striking and revolutionary clothes ever seen on ...

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