Thanks to the boom of indie filmmaking in the nineties, we had a wide range of heroic female characters, both on television (medical doctor and FBI special agent Dana Scully in The X-Files; the formidable warrior Xena on a path of redemption in Xena: Warrior Princess; Buffy the cheerleader chosen to fight vampires and other ghouls in Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and on the big screen (the rookie FBI agent Clarice Starling, who manages to connect with suave serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs).
