sometimes a sexy character can add an important element to a film but sometimes we just have to ask is it really necessary [Music] welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top ten needlessly sexualized female movie characters for this list we're looking at those big screen characters that were sexualized really for no reason we're limiting our list to females as the male's deserve their own lists if that's a transform they're from the Battle of Chicago I need to k
now how it works we're excluding those characters that assume the classic femme fatale role as well as those characters that were intended to be extremely sexy come on Roger let's go for a big carrot cake [Applause] number 10 Leeloo the fifth element the you sure if we were building a woman we may choose to model it after Milla Jovovich - but this isn't weird science in this sci-fi action flick Jovovich plays Lilu one of the supreme beings in the universe may 5th Supreme Being her main two outfi
ts consist of a series of bandages that reveals more skin than they cover up and a crop top with tight pants and suspenders that wrap around the crotch we get that you need a sexy female lead to play alongside Bruce Willis but did her character really need to strip naked in front of everyone like to take a few pictures number 9 ginger Knowles swordfish this entry makes our list for one main reason Halle Berry's topless scene morning commute afternoon sure we're assuming audiences weren't complai
ning that they got to see Halle Berry topless but was this really the movie that she should have done it in the scene seems out of place with the rest of the film an action crime thriller about a computer hacker and critics complained that the moment was only added to give swordfish more buzz pretty shitty day so far it looks like it just got worse at least she was paid an extra five hundred grand you don't like the situation number eight Christmas Jones the world is not enough I pulled the plut
onium out of the one inside you can detonate the triggers now Bond girls are supposed to be sexy and are often overly sexualized we get that but the world is not enough goes too far with Christmas Jones don't bother not in the rest of the event take my word for it she's a nuclear physicist who is tasked with assisting bond on his mission to prevent a nuclear meltdown always wanted to have Christmas in tacky this character certainly could have provided more depth to the film than Bond girls of th
e past that is if she hadn't been played by Denise Richards Christmas only comes once in yeah Richards who won a Razzie for her performance claimed that she liked the role because the character was brainy so isn't it time I wrapped her present maybe they should have chosen an actress who actually fit that description and isn't more known for being a wild thing instead [Music] number seven Luana 1 million years BC this adventure fantasy film had no intention of being historically accurate as it p
ortrayed dinosaurs living alongside humans that may be more believable than the appearance and attire of lalana however played by the stunning Raquel Welch Luana's raggedy clothes barely held her breasts in place and her beautiful hair and long legs make her look less like a cave woman and more like a Victoria's Secret model if you asked today barely anyone would remember the plot of the film but the majority of people would be able to recognize the iconic pinup poster we know Andy Dufresne woul
d by 1966 write about the time time it was getting ready to take his exams it was lovely Raquel number 6 Princess Leia Organa Star Wars Episode six Return of the Jedi I don't know what you're talking about Princess Leia was without a doubt everyone's fantasy girl when the original Star Wars trilogy hit the theaters but for the first two films George Lucas focused more on developing her character than exploiting her feminine image of course he couldn't hold out forever and we were given the famou
s gold bikini outfit in Return of the Jedi well this answered the prayers of every fanboy it felt like a cheap exploit of a strong female character won the film really didn't need number five Natasha Romanov Black Widow The Avengers who are you Natasha Romanov female characters and comic books are often exploited for their sexuality and depicted with large breasts that are barely held in by skin tight leather outfits well I made a name for myself this is no different with Black Widow also known
as Natasha Romanov while the Avengers did seem like they toned down her sexuality a bit from the comics they still gave her a tight leather number that seemed quite impractical for fighting aliens we also couldn't help but notice that there are several shots throughout the film that seemed to pause on her character just a bit too long I'm in the middle of an interrogation this [ __ ] is giving me everything number four Tinkerbell Peter Pan and hook it seems like fairies have always been depicted
as gorgeous females but we think that may have started with Disney's Peter Pan sure like many of Disney's female characters Tinkerbell has an exaggerated hourglass figure and that's accentuated with big blue eyes and bright blond hair [Music] we draw the line at her skimpy green dress however in that it barely covers anything while they may have slightly changed the look and hook Julia Roberts still reveals a ton of leg for what's supposed to be an innocent fairy number three Lara Croft Lara Cr
oft Tomb Raider how woke up this morning and I just hated everything we place more of the blame on the video game industry and the filmmakers for this entry but that doesn't make them any less guilty the lady should be modest a lady should be modest they had a chance to focus more on the intelligent and athletic side of the English archaeologist adventurer but instead cast Angelina Jolie and made her wear a skin-tight top and short shorts Jolie certainly has the acting chops to pull off a female
action hero but she was relegated to eye candy for this film number two Lola bunny spacejam hi my name is Lola bunny just cuz you don't have an obvious female lead in a film doesn't mean you have to turn a side character into an object of sexual desire especially if that character is a bunny I'd like to try out for the team we're looking at you Space Jam don't ever call me doll Lola bunny is sexualized for absolutely no reason in this flick as she wears incredibly short shorts and a crop top th
at hangs off her body surely that can't meet the uniform standards in the basketball rulebook plus she's a bunny what really makes it awkward is how everyone including Michael Jordan checks her out before we unveil our number one pick here are some honorable mentions I can open one up there but I will need some help look at that disgusting display yes sir [Music] number one mikaela banes transformers you anything I'm shallow we get it Megan Fox is hot she also plays a character that's supposed t
o be in high school which makes her the definition of jailbait in this film it looks like you're your distributor caps a little loose while Michael Bay similarly over sexualizes rosie huntington-whiteley in Transformers Dark of the Moon at least her character was of legal age look at them curves elegant beautiful did mikaela banes serve any purpose other than being illegal eye candy for the audience oh god I can't even tell you how much I'm not your little bunny remember that next time you look
at the poster on your wall of her leaning over the car hood got a high-rise double pump carburetor that's pretty impressive Sam double pump it squirts the fuel in so you can go faster oh do you agree with our list it's all just a business who do you think is the most needlessly sexualized movie character I'll deal with you in a minute for more exciting top 10s published every day be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com a new world to call [Music]
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10. Leeloo didn't "strip naked" -- She was recreated from a sample of genetic material, and last I checked, people don't come with clothes built-in, so yeah, she was naked. We're all born naked. She was reborn naked. Deal with it. 9. Halle Berry took a huge wad of cash to show her breasts in Swordfish. It WAS the primary advertisement for the film at the time, if anyone recalls. Her character existed solely to be a sexy "draw" for the audience and the protagonist. 8. So your whole argument is that you think Denise Richards is not as smart as her character, Christmas Jones, and that is what makes her over-sexualized as opposed to any other nearly naked (or sometimes completely naked and covered in gold) Bond girl? But it's okay for Pierce Brosnan to play a secret agent with amazing fighting skills even though he probably couldn't fight his way out of a preschool. 7. It was the late 1960s! EVERYTHING was sexualized, and Raquel Welch wasn't exactly known for her amazing acting talents. The movie was meant to be a sexy, exploitative, dumb vehicle for Raquel's boobs and legs. If anything, she was exactly what the movie needed her to be: Marketable. 6. While I'm no fan of the unending slave Leia cosplays out there, the costume and situation itself were NOT out of place. She was a captured and turned into a SLAVE concubine and dancing girl. What would you expect her to wear? She WAS being exploited because THAT is what a crime lord would do with a beautiful prisoner. It was a display of Jabba's power and his ability to surround himself with beautiful (and dangerous) members of every species... As for it compromising Leia's strength, remember it was that slave outfit-- notably the chain-- that made it possible for Leia Organa to kill the #1 crime lord in the galaxy after he'd ruled for many long decades. 5. First of all, Black Widow's uniform isn't "leather". From Marvel.com: "Her costume is composed of a kevlar-like substance designed for maximum protective qualities." and second of all, her costume is no more tight in the butt or chest than Cap's or Thor's, and Hulk is running around half-naked, so just shut up. She's no more exploited than any of the men, and don't give us that "male power fantasy" bollocks, either. The men are dressed that way to be appealing to hetero women/gay men. The women are dressed that way to be appealing to hetero men/lesbians. That's how it works. Oh, and as for the long pauses, they did the same with Cap when he was working out. Again, you're only seeing the exploitation where you want to see it. 4. You're whinging about how pixies dress now? Look in any old book about faeries. They wear those little pixie outfits. They are often depicted naked, too. In Barrie's story, Tinker Bell is illustrated wearing the SAME OUTFIT and it was released in 1904. Again, you're really stretching on this one. 3. Jolie played the character as it was originally written. That's not "unnecessary". That's pretty much necessary, in fact. If they'd changed the character from her source material, they'd have been making a different movie about a different character. 2. Okay, yeah. Lola Bunny sucks. However, she was a weak sort of homage to the "yowza!" types of female characters seen in the old Loony Tunes shorts. She was just clumsily made and stuck in a bad movie. Later versions of her improved her look and style just a bit. Honorable mentions: Dr. Marcus had one scene where she's in her undies, and it was done more to show what a wolf Jim Kirk is, rather than to sex-up Carol. Ripley was in her underwear like EVERYONE ELSE ON THE NOSTROMO. Just because she looked better in her undies than Harry Dean Stanton did doesn't mean she was exploited. Esmerelda was purposely showing off in that scene. The Queen of the Damned is a vampire in a world where vampires and sexuality are intertwined and she's no different than Lestat or Louis in that regard. 1. Well, considering that Transformers is a total piece of shit anyway, and Megan Fox is a poor actress that only existed in that film to titillate Michael Bay, I have to disagree. Megan Fox was cast in that bad movie BECAUSE she's all tits and legs. Bay didn't hire her for her acting skills, and the character wasn't created to be any sort of useful, intelligent help to the equally useless and annoying Sam character. The human characters are just eye candy, comic relief, and pointless wastes of space in a movie that is all big explosions and quick close-ups of metal and skin. Oh, and she was supposed to be a SENIOR in high school in that movie. In most midwestern states, she IS of legal age and not "jailbait" by any stretch. She was, in fact, supposed to be 17 or 18 if I recall correctly (and I'm NOT rewatching that crappy movie to find out). This was a terribly stupid list.
"Lola was wearing short, shorts".....Bugs was fucking naked!
"Lola wears shorts shorts and a crop top." Bugs is naked, just saying.
Black window in comics is about 50% more undressed and the outfits wow
Black Widow absolutely fits that "femme fatale" role they talked about in the beginning.
The irony of this video is most people clicked on it to see sexualized women.
“Do you agree with our list?” No, I do not
Margot Robbie in The Wolf of Wall Street, Cameron Diaz in the Mask, Phoebe Cates in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct as well as Jessica Lange in the Postman Always Rings Twice come to mind.. The men and women in the movie industry play these roles and never seem to turn them down
the Slave Leia costume is sexualized... but that's the whole point, to humiliate her. it's a way to show how sick Jabba actually is. it absolutely served a purpose. and the fact that she used the very chains of her bikini to choke Jabba to death makes it all the more poetic.
WTF? Leia was a slave in Jedi... what else would you expect her to wear? A full pantsuit?
"Look at that disgusting display" "Yes sir" LMFAO.
" I COMPLETELY disagree. They were all absolutely necessary"
What kind of clothes did you expected Black Widow to wear? A burqa? A maternity dress?
....Black widow? you specifically said "not characters intended to be sexy" Black widow was a spy who seduced men then killed them, thus the name, thus the sexiness. Really?
Angelina Jolie simply portrayed the character just how it was in the games of THAT period. Trust me, no one played the games for the action nor the story.
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I just love the irony in calling out Lola's skimpy outfit, while Bugs Bunny is standing there with literally no clothes.
Black widow was inspired by the Russian women's spy operation that specialized in seduction during the cold war. It's absolutely an integral part of the original character.
Got a kick out of seeing Tinker Belle since Margaret Willcox, the original model for the animation, was a neighbor and friend of ours.
5 years later... Sexualized characters are still needed. I'm always down for some more depth to a good story.