Puberty unleashes the killer instinct. Katniss Everdeen’s the newest pledge in an exclusive and mostly female society of teen avengers and assassins. After decades of testosterone cinema, females are now allowed a Hollywood fantasy fight. Are these underage antiheroes showing girl power? Has Hollywood reached an equal-opportunity turning point in reflecting female societal gains? Or in Lucy van Pelt mode, can girls just get away with murder? Tread carefully through film’s most dangerous teens.
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Katniss Everdeen of "The Hunger Games" is just the latest in a series of movie characters who are young, female, and deadly.