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Terminator 2 is probably the easiest answer.
Mary Poppins
Alien (if you count the cat)
28 Days Later
Run Lola Run (sorta)
Alien (if you count the cat)
I count Ripley following protocol and refusing to open the airlock for a contaminated crewmate. If Ash hadn't stepped in, the movie would have ended very differently.
Also she defended Burke when the Marines were going to kill him for what he did. I mean she wanted him punished but... Letter of the law here. He was weak, she defended him.
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I meant that Jonesy is the weak male that Ripley physically and emotionally protects.
I don't remember much of that movie, but an Aliens / Evil Dead crossover sounds like a lot of fun.
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Jonesy is a good cat
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The first Underworld from 2003 is like this, but it's painfully early 2000s. It's from that era when every action movie was ripping of The Matrix as hard as possible.
Kate Beckinsale younger and in leather. Nice.
In the universe I'm originally from she's clad in shiny vinyl (yes, please) and her name was Beckinsdale.
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Pain? No that feeling is wonder.
It is wonderfully early 2000s.
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First matrix. Trinity is much more skilled than Neo until the final act.
Similarly - Edge of Tomorrow Emily Blunt is skilled and trains Tom Cruise until he's competent enough to save the world. By the end they're both extremely competent. Only reason Tom Cruise saves the world and not her is due to the timeloops. She'd already done it once.
I wish they had followed the original story. The ending is very different.
Do you mind spoiling us please?
They both still loop in the story. Before killing the big bad they fight to the death because the loop will keep repeating unless there is only one mimic (the reset aliens and both of them) at the end of the day.
He kills her and the other mimics then the big boss. Ending the loop at the cost of her life.
I am extremely happy they didn't end the movie that way, what an unnecessarily depressing ending
Depressing endings are so rare in movies that I, personally, often enjoy them for the novelty if nothing else.
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Firefly original series with Wash + Zoe
Hunger games
Wanted (2008 film) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted_(2008_film)
Angelina Jolie carries the protagonist until he can learn to fight on two feet
A sadly underappreciated show:
Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles
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Alita: Battle Angel i think was like this a bit, but it is maybe not straightforward enough
maybe the no game no life movie , but i dont think that is really what you are looking for
Lego Movie
- Star wars force awakens.
- Tangled
- Mulan
- Transformers
- Avatar (Blue people)
Could probably come up with more.
Aliens. After Gorman's breakdown, all the marines start taking orders from Ripley.
curiously I have seen it with tv shows lately. A good place, hellava boss, and the anime Tougen Anki has like the most extreme version of that I think possible. I feel like I have seen more but can't recall atm.
Long kiss goodnight
Any of the Sailormoon movies possibly?
Tuxedo Mask usually gets more into trouble than the heroine herself.
Although I wouldn't actually count him as weak, just weaker.
And it's an old anime series, like starting in the 1990s, with later reboots.
The Long Kiss Goodnight
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3000 Years of Longing maybe? Tilda is very caring and acknowledging of her Djinn's needs.
Tootsie
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