Top 10 Awesome Casting Choices for an All-Female Expendables

#10 – Linda Hamilton

Age
55

Skills

– Killing seemingly indestructible robot assassins from the future
– Chin-ups
– Escaping from psychiatric hospitals

Role in the group
The tough, no-nonsense leader who has unfinished business with the villainess (see below)

#9 – Rebecca Romijn

Age
39

Special Skills

– Hand-to-hand combat
– Shapeshifting
– Being statuesque enough to play a transexual

Role in the group
The hot blonde with serious anger management issues

#8 – Geena Davis

Age
56

Special Skills

– Olympic archery
– Being 6 feet tall
– Chopping vegetables (0:35):

Role in the group
Linda’s right-hand woman; the mother figure who will cut off the heads of anyone who messes with her girls

#7 – Michelle Rodriguez

Age
34

Skills

– Boxing
– Driving
– Surfing

Role in the group
The muscle/sports nut with a heart o’ gold

#6 – Summer Glau

Age
31

Skills

– Kicking the shit out of people despite being a tiny girl
– Occasionally being a robot
– Ballet

Role in the group
The wide-eyed ingenue who ends up saving the day by punching everyone in the head

#5 – Michelle Yeoh

Age
49

Skills

– Martial arts
– Floating in the air
– Being a Bond Girl

Role in the group
The wise quiet one that you don’t want to cross because she secretly has a knife on her person at all times

#4 – Sharon Stone

Age
54

Skills

– Wielding an ice pick
– Manipulating men with her sexual prowess/leg-crossing
– Facing off against Catwoman

Role in the group
The villainess

#3 – Vivica A. Fox

Age
48

Skills

– Narrowly avoiding huge explosions
– Fighting Uma Thurman
– Breaking up with 50 Cent (1.50):

Role in the group
Glamourpuss with razor sharp claws

#2 – Brigitte Nielsen

Age
49

Skills

– Being married to Sly Stallone
– Wielding a sword
– Terrifying and emasculating men all over the world:

Role in the group
The female Dolph Lundgren

#1 – Lucy Lawless

Age
44

Skills

– Having a badass name
– Being a cylon
– Being Xena
– Giving birth to children/singing:

Role in the group
The awesome ex-villain turned heroine who turns up in the third act and takes some serious names

So what do you think of our line-up? Any suggestions? Let us know your thoughts below!

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