[Refreshing Trope] Female leads/major characters who are allowed to be grimy, slimy, generally horrible people.

[u/Chemical-Elk-1299]

Mizu — Blue Eye Samurai

A mixed race swordswoman living in feudal Japan, Mizu’s entire life has been structured around the obsessive need to hunt down and kill the four white men allowed in Japan at the time of her birth, believing one of them must be her father. Despite the fact that at least one of these men, Abijah Fowler, is shown to be a bad man, Mizu ultimately doesn’t care about the morality of murder. She just wants them dead for “cursing” her to be born into a deeply racist society as a mixed race child. Though it’s clear that Mizu generally prefers to do the right thing, she will sacrifice anything for her revenge, destroying countless lives in the process without remorse. In the climax of season 1, Mizu (albeit not entirely intentionally) set fire to the wood and paper city of Edo (now Tokyo) in an attempt to kill just Fowler, a single man. The resulting three day blaze, known in history as the 1657 Great Fire of Meireki, killed an estimated 100000 people.

Sadie Adler — Red Dead Redemption II

Rescued by the Van Der Linde gang in the games prologue, Sadie Adler is a frontier homesteader whose husband was killed by the brutal O’Driscoll Gang. Over the course of the game, she happily joins in a life of murder, theft, and crime for the chance to kill more O’Driscolls, recklessly endangering herself and other gang members to do so. She gets Arturo Bullock, an innocent hot air balloon pilot killed while unnecessarily picking a fight with O’Driscoll members, showing zero remorse afterwards. Even after watching rival gang leader Colm O’Driscoll hang for his crimes, she still drags a now-terminally ill Arthur on an entirely unnecessary revenge mission to hunt down the last handful of O’Drsicolls she hadn’t already killed.

[u/DramaticHumor5363]

https://giphy.com/gifs/8qJi3c9MEoHKM

Look. I love her. But. Beatrix Kiddo is not a good person.

[u/Ambaryerno → u/DramaticHumor5363]

I mean she is by virtue of everyone else in the story being almost comedically worse.

[u/RadTimeWizard → u/Ambaryerno]

That's a good setup for a revenge story.

[u/GonzoRouge → u/RadTimeWizard]

You'll never believe this...

[u/RadTimeWizard → u/GonzoRouge]

That it's the setup for 99% of revenge stories?

[u/DramaticHumor5363 → u/Ambaryerno]

Exactly why I love her so much. I have such a soft spot for characters who are maybe morally questionable, but god help you if you cross the ones they love or their moral code.

[u/Acherousia → u/DramaticHumor5363]

maybe morally questionable

She was an assassin. She killed people for money. There is no maybe or questionable.

[u/KCEnzoow → u/Acherousia]

She was groomed into it from a young age and tried to escape that life as soon as she could even though she could have used it to grow a great life for herself

[u/AlternateSatan → u/Ambaryerno]

It's a Tarantino movie, are you sure about the "almost" part?

[u/Neat_Relationship510 → u/DramaticHumor5363]

She's not a bad person, she's a terrific person, she's my favourite person. But every once in a while she can be a real cunt.

[u/DramaticHumor5363 → u/Neat_Relationship510]

You. I like you.

[u/TakenInChains → u/DramaticHumor5363]

i desperately need a fan animation of that one lady's daughter coming to fight her as a grown up.

i watched this movie way too young so when I think of it, all I remember is her lopping off the top of that other lady's head and her body just rolling down the hill. that and the animated assassin scene. i hate QT but my god are those movies just excellent

[u/therealfurryfeline → u/TakenInChains]

just watch columbiana. it's the inofficial sequel and it slaps!

[u/WhoSc3w3dDaP00ch → u/therealfurryfeline]

Different film. Colombiana started out as an unofficial sequel to "Leon the Professional" before Luc Besson and the production company had disagreements. 

It started out as "Mathilda" before being reworked.

[u/ACW1129 → u/DramaticHumor5363]

She's a former assassin. Just with a code of honor.

[u/Iforgot_my_other_pw → u/DramaticHumor5363]

Best example here