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Kite and Mezzo Forte

For the animes, wouldn't kite (anime) and Mezzo Forte be important works to the girls with guns genre as well? - 69.244.100.206 (talk) 03:43, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, then please add them. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 03:52, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Charlie's Angels

For the television section, shouldn't the original TV version of Charlie's Angels be included? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.199.212.7 (talk) 11:12, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Needs to be reworked

Honestly, this is just a silly neologism. "Girls with guns" does not constitute a genre so much as a stock character, like the damsel in distress. I mean you really just can't have a genre where the only real criteria is that the protagonist has a gun and a vagina. --Remurmur (talk) 10:42, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Don't get out much, do you? A quick Google search yields 10 million hits. Anything constructive to say?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 14:18, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Very few of those hits have anything to do with a genre. They're literally referring to females with firearms. Pburka (talk) 15:57, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Looking at a few of lists found through such a search and this page I think that the problem is a blurring of the of the lines between trope, genre (a collection of tropes), and fetish. Some of the movies that are referenced as "Girls with Guns" tales are set in pre-firearm time periods, and some have a protagonist armed with nothing but a yo-yo!.

The History section could be more concise, could give the origin of the term, not just examples of what would define the genre(s), and could use some organization by country. I seem to remember hearing the term in the eighties in reference to HK films and later in the nineties for anime. The HK movies were usually buddy movies with two or more female cops, equally good with a gun or with kung fu. The 60s to 80s films listed seem to be mostly Pinky violence, so I added a link to the Pink film page. A far as anime goes there was no genre per se that I can think of, just that some guys just liked stories whose main characters tended to blow things away that we call "girls with guns". These tales were usually sci-fi like "The Dirty Pair" or "Bubble Gum Crisis". If I can find references to back these statements up I will help edit the page, but some of the material is not easily available. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LindenWatterson (talk • contribs) 03:07, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Once again, TVTropers forget it's Wikipedia and not TV Tropes. Don't get me wrong, the content here is interesting, but the way it's written is far from Wikipedia style and much closer to TV Tropes. Personally, I really don't mind - but with all the deletionism zealots out there, unless you can rally up 50 people to counter-vote and veto the deletion, you're gonna get your article removed (without any warning) sooner or later. You've been warned. --88.177.158.231 (talk) 14:19, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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