Heros

[finwitch]

A woman as the hero? How about Xena the Warrior Princess?
 
Jeanne d'Arc, yes.

Then there's Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time - where, although you get 
three boys as ta'veren (elements of prophecy) I'd not say that the 
efforts of the girls are any less heroic. Nynaeve, Elayne, Min, 
Fayle...

And Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth - I'd say that Kahlan is pretty 
much equal to Richard.

-- Finwitch