Red Sonja

The Red-haired Dormouse Red Sonja is a female warrior of the Hyborian era, the "female counterpart" of Conan the Barbarian.

Red Sonya was invented by Roy Thomas, the screenwriter of the movie "Conan the Destroyer" and the animated film "Fire and Ice". The name was taken from Robert E. Howard's short story "The Shadow of Valgara", whose main character is also called Red Sonya. Red Sonya), while one letter in the name was changed — Y to J. But the character has nothing else to do with this story — the story is about Cossacks fighting Turkish rule, and its main character, respectively, is a Ukrainian Cossack girl from Rohatyn (from where her main rival and sister Roksolana, a real historical character, the wife of Sultan Suleiman, also comes from). Roy Thomas created the archetypal image of an Amazon in an armored bikini, which became both an object of imitation and the subject of ridicule and parody, and placed the heroine in the Hyborian era — the setting of "Conan", invented by R. Howard. It is also known that Roy Thomas took another red-haired girl, Robert Howard's character Agnes de Chastillon, as the prototype of Sonya.

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