Wonder Woman and the 40 greatest female characters in comic book history
By Mark Lynch
4. Kitty Pyrde
Comic book to check out: Marauders (Gerry Duggan)
No one on this list or any other had a better rise to superherodom than Kitty Pryde. She started out as a kid who wanted to control her powers. On her first day, she saw the X-Men defeated and captured. Since then, as Kitty said in Astonishing X-Men No. 2, “I learned more about good and evil in that one day than I have before or since. I was thirteen.”
Since then, Kate (no longer going by Kitty) Pryde has become her own woman, saved multiple planets by phasing a bullet through space, and is currently rescuing mutants around the world. She’s not the apprehensive, sweet teenager she once was. Life’s hardened her. Kate Pryde has adjusted to that hard life and done so wonderfully. All hail the Red Queen.
3. Lois Lane
Comic book to check out: Superman
It might be easy to confuse Lois Lane as a damsel in distress given how often she finds herself in scenarios that bring out the Man of Steel but the truth is that she is so much more than that. Lois is an award-winning reporter – one who’s not scared to put herself in danger to get a story. People may say that she has a security blanket in Superman, but she’d still be doing this if he wasn’t around.
Lois is beyond courageous. You have to be to live in her world. It isn’t just the superpowered villains she has to deal with, she also has to worry about the regular criminals who hate her as well. Does Lois get scared? Not even a little bit. Lois’ audacious personality should be admired. Nothing stops her from doing her job.