18 Female Characters Who Got Us Through 2018

"I just finished binging Killing Eve, and I am strangely inspired by both Eve and her arch-nemesis, Villanelle (aka Oksana). Sandra Oh plays Eve, a low-level British intelligence worker who falls into a dangerous assignment that takes over her life. Fueled by a newly found zest for her job, she is determined to take down Europe's most cutthroat assassin . . . who happens to be a young woman. Jodie Comer stars opposite as the hitwoman, a textbook psychopath who looks out for her own interests with shocking — often fatal — consequences."

— Maggie Pehanick, voices editor