Female Characters I Like by Jediteen

 

 Here is a similar list to the one I just did--only this time I'm using female characters! 

 

MOVIES

 

Rey: Rey is a very new character from the new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens. I thought that it was very cool to have a girl who was beginning to be a Jedi; she seems like a Force natural! She has the most personality of any female Star Wars character yet! 

 

Elsa: Who would think to put the ever-singing Elsa from Frozen on this list? Well, me. I love Queen Elsa, and even "Let it go"! Elsa is a strong character who is able to figure out her powers, after much struggle. 

 

Elastigirl: Elastigirl is the super-mom of The Incredibles. She can stretch her limbs to great lengths and turn herself into a parachute and a raft to save her kids! 

 

Princess Leia: Okay, fine. Every girls who is over 40 years old (and lots younger) have wanted to be Princess Leia from Star Wars. I dressed up as Leia for Halloween. She is a senator, a princess, and a general! She can fight the bad guys with a blaster! 

 

Anastasia: The missing Russian Princess Anastasia is a great historical mystery. Don Blueth explored the story in an animated fairytale format, where Anastasia wants to make her way to reunite with her grandmother. 

 

Princess Atta: Okay, you're probably tired of hearing about movie princesses, but this princess is an animated ant from A Bug's Life. Say that five times fast! 

 

Anna: Here's yet another princess! She is the younger sister of Elsa from Frozen. She is an awkward teenage optimist who is very tired of being stuck in her castle with no company! 

 

Dorothy: Most people know about this girl from The Wizard of Oz, who just wants to get home to Kansas when she is stuck in the wonderful land of Oz. 

 

 Cinderella: I love both Disney Cinderellas, the animated one, and the live-action one. She works obediently for her stepmother. 

 

Maria: The singing nun from The Sound of Music never gets old in this joyful musical! She becomes a governess for seven children. What an adjustment! 

 

Mary Poppins; another governess, Mary Poppins has a magical touch! She can take the children on imaginary adventures! 

 

Rapunzel: One last Disney Princess, Rapunzel, is from Tangled. She has 70 feet of magical hair, which has healing powers. Unfortunately, Mother Gothel wants to use her for other purposes! 

 

BOOKS

 

Skye Penderwick: Skye is my favorite Penderwick sister from the Pernderwicks series. She likes to think about math, soccer, and black holes, and she has quite a temper! 

 

Clementine: Clementine is a spunky third grader in Sara Pennypacker's books. She is hilarious! 

 

Meg Murry: It was a dark and stormy night. Meg Murry is one of my favorite characters from A Wrinkle in Time. She is an ordinary girl who is swept off an extraordinary adventure to rescue her father from a distant planet. 

 

Anna Wang: Anna is a young Chinese-American girl who learns how to be a friend, a sister, and travels to China!  The books are written by Andrea Cheng. 

 

Jo March: One of the most classic female characters from Little Women. She is a natural-born writer. 

 

India Opal: India Opal is the ten-year-old girl from Because of Winn-Dixie. She is a lonely girl whose dog helps her to make friends. 

 

Miri: Miri is a simple mountain girl from Shannon Hale's Princess Academy. She turns out to be an unlikely hero who can rescue other girls from danger. 

 

Eilonwy: A wonderful Princess from The Chronicles of Prydain. She is a girl who prefers sleeping on the ground to sleeping in a castle, and would rather fight with a sword than be sewing. 

 

Ramona Quimby: A classic character from the Beverly Cleary books, Ramona will make you laugh and laugh! 

 

Suzy Swanson: A newer character from a new children's book, The Thing about Jellyfish, Suzy wanders through the grief of her friend and tries to prove why she died. 

 

Hermione Granger: A Harry Potter girl, Hermione is obsessed with doing her schoolwork perfectly. It turns out that her friends are more important than her schoolwork. 

 

Betsy Ray: Betsy is a girl from the Deep Valley books by Maud Hart Lovelace. Watch her and her friends Tacy and Tib grow up in the early 1900s.

 

 

Male Characters I Like (And Why) by JediTeen

 

Here are some of my favorite fictional characters.  They are all male (although they aren't all human). Enjoy! 

 

MOVIES: 

 

Luke Skywalker: One of my favorite characters ever is the Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker from the Star Wars movies. I love how he grows up from a whiny farm boy into a fully trained Jedi Knight. I love how he doesn't want to kill anyone, especially not his father, and how he refuses to fight him in Episode VI. Another thing I like about Luke is how he will disobey authority to save his friends! 

 

Obi-Wan Kenobi: Another Star Wars Character, another Jedi. I like what Obi-Wan can do as a Jedi in Episodes II and III, and how he teaches Luke how to use a lightsaber in Episode IV.  

 

Marty McFly: Are you ready to go back in time?. Marty McFly is just an average 80's teenager who gets swept off to 1955 in the film Back To The Future. In the second film he goes to the fture, and the third film takes him to 1885!

 

Superman: Who comes to ind when you think of the word super? Superman! He is super fast, super strong, and super good at saving the day! 

 

Flik: Flik is an ant in the Pixar film, A Bug's Life. I love how Flik finds the courage to defend his colony from a hoard of greedy grasshoppers with the help of loyal friends like Princess Atta and a troupe of circus bugs! How would you expect an ant to be a hero? 

 

Kristoff: A rugged mountain man and an ice seller, Kristoff makes for an unlikely friend  in Disney's Frozen. I love how he helps Anna find her sister Elsa, and is even willing to leavde Anna behind. 

 

Olaf: A friendly snowman from Frozen, Olaf has one strange desire: to see summer. But he is willing to melt for Anna! 

 

Marlin: Here comes super dad from Finding Nemo! Marlin is a great fish father who is willing to face sharks to find his son! 

 

Gru: A super villain? Super Daddy? Stealer-of-the-moon? Gru, the super villain from Despicable Me, is one of many of my favorite kinds of villains: the kind who have soft spots. It turns out that Gru is touched by little girls with cookies! 

 

Remy: Remy is a rat from Pixar's Ratoutille who wants to cook! But of course you can't let a rat into a kitchen! Poor Remy! 

 

Wreck-it-Ralph: Have you ever heard of a bad guy who wanted to be a good guy? There's Ralph for you. Disney makes a movie that is perfect for retro video game fans, like me. Ralph is the bad guy in the game, but he knows it doesn't always have to be that way! 

 

Don Lockwood: The iconic character from the best-loved Musical of all time is Don Lockwood from Singin' in the Rain! In the transition from silent films to talkies, Don finds out that love can be more important than fame! 

 

BOOKS: 

 

Harry Potter: The famous wizard from J. K. Rowling's best-selling Harry Potter books, is actually one of my favorite characters! Sort of a Luke Skywalker armed with a wand instead of a lightsaber! Harry definitely has a saving people thing! 

 

Jeffery Tifton: Jeffery is the lonely musical boy in the Penderwicks series who befriends the four Penderwick sisters over a summer vacation. 

 

Laurie: Everyone who has ever read the classic Little Women (or seen the movie) knows Laurie! He is a wonderful friend to the March sisters. 

  

Mr. Darcy: A stiff and formal character from Pride and Prejudice can be an unlikely friend. It turns out that he can also be a lover. 

 

Henry Huggins: Henry is a classic character from the children's books by Beverly Cleary. He befriends a stray dog named Ribsy and a girl named Beezus. 

 

Charles Wallace Murry:  Charles Wallace first appears as a young boy genius in A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle. I love how he knows more than most people, but still has the open mind if a child. 

 

Calvin O'Keefe: Another boy from A Wrinkle in Time, Calvin is the oldest of the band of three children who set off to different planets to find Meg and Charles' father. He is good at protecting them and being a good friend. 

 

Taran: Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain series is based on Welsh Legend. Taran, an assistant pig keeper and unlikely hero wouldn't hurt a fly unless the fly was hurting his friends. He can even befriend the strange creature Gurgi. 

 

Doug Sweitick: Doug is a boy from a 60's family in the novel Okay For Now by Gary D. Schmidt. He finds comfort in the painting of Audubon when faced with family problems. 

 

Winnie-the-Pooh: Lovable teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh is best known in his Disney form, but he actually first appeared in the classic books by A. A. Milne. 

 

Frodo: Frodo is the primary Hobbit in the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien. He is an amazing hero, aad he decides to bear the great burden of the ring. 

 

Winn-Dixie: Winn-Dixie is the name of a grocery store, but it is also the name of a dog in Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. He helps a lonely girl find friends in her new town.