[Discussion] Flawed canon and "bad" characters

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Who are your favourite "guilty pleasure" female characters? The ones who aren't good examples of what can be done with female characters, but who you deeply love anyway?

Have you spent hours creating backstory for a female character whose sole purpose in canon is to provide eyecandy for fanboys? Do you feel wildly passionate about a woman from a badly written, sexist series? Is your OTC a woman who died in the first episode of a new series, before the opening credits even began to roll?

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[muccamukk]

Pretty much all the women on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, really, but especially his first wife Deianeira. She of course got stuffed into the fridge in the first regular episode, but what we saw of her in the TV movies was wonderful. She was funny, smart, sexy, didn't let Hercules impress her all that much, and totally got him and his insecurities. In my mind, I've always had an AU where she and the kids live, but she gets sick of him being a lousy farmer, does it all herself, and he sends him out to do the hero stuff before he drives her nuts.

Also in that show: Gina Torres as a pirate queen, Claudia Black as Cassandra, Michael Hurst as the Widow Twanky, Lucy Lawless as Xena (obviously), and a number of other cool women. The show was cheesy, but it did women well.

Speaking of cheesy, I always had a bit of a thing of Shalamar from Mutant X, which was a terrible, terrible X-Men rip off, but I watched it anyway pretty just for her.