Red Sonja

Red Sonja is a fantasy sword and sorcery literary character created by Robert E. Howard. She is a female warrior who wears a very brief bikini-like costume of chainmail and who has sworn an oath never to have sex with any man unless he had defeated her in personal combat.

The She-Devil with a Sword has become the archetypical example of the fantasy literary figure of a fierce and stunningly beautiful female barbarian.

Howard actually gave her only a passing mention and wrote no stories about her. The character was actually developed in the Conan the Barbarian comic books by Frank Thorne[?] for Marvel Comics. She also appeared in the 1985 film, Red Sonja with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Kalidor (a Conan clone) and Brigitte Nielsen[?] in the title role.