If you want to know what a woman action hero looks and acts like, look at films like Aliens and Judgement Day. Both of those women are also mothers. In a new interview with Variety, Robert Rodriguez talked about his work on Alita: Battle Angel, as well as the themes that are a key part of the upcoming film.

Rodriguez said that he was taken by the fact that one of the characters went into battle pregnant.

Everyone talks about female empowerment. There is a big part of a woman's life that we don't experience. If you want to go all the way down the rabbit hole of female empowerment, you need a female warrior who is six months pregnant. It hasn't happened in our society for a long time. Back in the day, if a woman was pregnant, she had to fight for her life and protect her kids. The culture acknowledges that pregnant women are more athletic than us. The real boundaries should be taken off. It was the final bastion that you don't see.

While he was ending his answer, he pointed out that Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel are not pregnant while they are fighting evil.

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