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One of the things I loved so much about Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road was that she was a strong female character without being a Strong Female Character. She was allowed to get dirty and gritty and violent and didn't have to have perfect hair or be in a tight outfit while doing it. When Max first meets her he addresses her as a threat, because he knows that her being a woman changes nothing and that any complacency around a stranger could bring about his death. Later in the film, when the main characters are being pursued, Furiosa uses Max's shoulder to aim with a rifle, because Max understands that the only thing that matters is that they need to escape and she's the better shot. But aside from being strong, she's not cold either. All of the film's most potent emotional touchstones were framed through her character arc, and she ended up being an interesting and dynamic character that did an excellent job driving (pun intended) the film.

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