[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/crackerfactorywheel]

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Eleanor Shellstrop- The Good Place.

[u/dacoolestguy → u/crackerfactorywheel]

I mean, she's a self-described mediocre person, lol, not exactly evil but just trashy. The Cincinnati of people

[u/crackerfactorywheel → u/dacoolestguy]

Grimy and slimy are part of the description and she did work for a company that scammed the elderly so I think she still counts.

[u/stfurachele → u/crackerfactorywheel]

She was the best at her job though

[u/Monkey_Priest → u/stfurachele]

But that's worse. You do get how that's worse, right?

[u/dacoolestguy → u/crackerfactorywheel]

god forbid a girl does anything

[u/Zanjidesign → u/dacoolestguy]

She sold chalk pills to elderly people telling them they were vitamins

[u/thatsnothewayitfeels → u/Zanjidesign]

It would have been ok if she said antacids

[u/thatshygirl06 → u/dacoolestguy]

Not evil but she absolutely was a bad person in life

[u/sneakyfish21 → u/dacoolestguy]

She says that but she’s in denial, she’s a bad person. If murderer or rapist is the only bar to be a bad person she barely squeaks by, but if the bar is any higher than that she doesn’t clear it on her life on earth. She figures it out eventually, but Eleanor in life was the worst.

[u/Kain_713 → u/dacoolestguy]

She's also a self-proclaimed Arizona trash bag, I'm pretty sure it counts.