When it comes to adventure, you have the weak and you have the brave. Two Toonami heroines of adventure can be found on Ronin Warriors and The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest. Mina and Jessie Bannon are very spirited young ladies and will more or less go for whatever they want. Mina and Jessie both have booksmarts and good looks and are just as equal as their male counterparts. Unfortunately, both become severely watered down whiners by the end of their respectable series. Mina just became a whiny wuss that has an answer for everything, but no drive to fight, and "thanks" to the later creative crew, Jessie devolved from a jeans-wearing hellion with a drive to be as rebellious as her father, Race Bannon, to a pink-dress wearing wuss who tends to whine a lot more than usual and moments of jealousy towards female admirers of the men in her life.

The king of the Toonami hill is Dragon Ball Z, a series known more for long, dragged out plots and testosterone-driven heroes taking on power-hungry villians than female heroines and villians. Well, female characters are present, but they are, more or less, in subserviant roles, with Android 18 and Mr. Satan's daughter Videl as the sole exceptions (and later on Videl's daughter Pan on Dragon Ball GT). Bulma and Chi Chi are, more or less, the only women that matter on DBZ. Bulma's the long time friend of Goku and the mother of Vegeta's son, Trunks, and Chi Chi is the wife of Goku and the mother of his children, Gohan and Goten. Long ago, they used to be very action-oriented individuals, Bulma always on the search for the dragonballs while Chi Chi was a great fighter, thanks to being trained by her father, the Ox-King. Unfortunately, these girls grew up and became like your mother and the women friends she hangs out with. Instead of being out there playing with the boys, they're in their comfort zones either cooking or cleaning or just resting. Maybe its a sign of maturity, but it's a bad thing for young girls to see female figures being background characters limited to just being there to nag and whine.

Speaking of whine, the pretty soldier Sailor Moon has all the elements as showcased by the other female characters I mentioned. She's brave when she wants to be, yet she is, more or less, an optimistically whimsful, whining wussbag who doesn't want to do anything but eat, nag at everybody when she is asked to do stuff, and obsess about her masked knight at all hours of the day. Perhaps this is a trait that makes her enduring a bit. She is a typical teenage girl, which may explain why a lot of them are drawn to her. Even though most of her life is dedicated to constant whining, she is, through and through a hero, unselfish, and willing to sacrifice herself if need be, and that's what brings more fans in her direction. I think in the end, all the female characters I mentioned have good traits despite their constant whining. They all have their good points and their own uniqueness that cause them to be individuals. Maybe these female whiners have a place in the action shows of Toonami afterall.