Top Ten Favorite Fictional Characters, #7: Huttslayer Leia Organa, Star Wars IV-VI
She shoots. She snarks. She scores. From the moment she pokes fun at Luke’s physique you know she’s going to be bad at the damsel in distress gig. Leia always knows the score and she’s not afraid of a little blaster fire. And she’s a real live princess! I can think of no better role model, even before she strangles a Hutt with her own slave chain and helps save the day. Her meditative moments in the Ewok village are among the oldest sticking movie scenes in my heart.
I will always wonder how Episode 9 would have been if she had been around to play the central point. (7 = Han, 8 = Luke, 9 = ??) It probably would have been terrible because the writing of those movies was catastrophically bad, but still, I wonder.