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Title | Tank Girl |
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Race | Human |
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Tank Girl (real name Rebecca Buck) is the eponymous protagonist of the 1995 film Tank Girl; portrayed by actress Lori Petty. She is based on the character of the same name from the Tank Girl comics.
In the film, TG is part of a community or resistance group that steals water from the Water + Power Mega Corporation which has taken over World power after an asteroid impact. When the W+P Military takes out her home she is getting enslaved, but eventually befriends a W+P Technician called Jet and manages to steal a high tech Mini-Tank and a military Jet, becoming Tank Girl and Jet Girl. In the Desert Jet and Rebecca meet the eccentric Loner Sub Girl who believes in a prophecy about a great flood and is friends with a militant group of mutated kangooroos known as the Rippers. After freeing Rebeccas young friend Sam from a Brothel in a town called liquid silver, she eventually finds the Ripper headquarters and eventually bands together with them, one of the Mutants, a dim-witted but kindhearted Kangooroo named Booga becoming her new boyfriend. In the End TG and the Rippers succeed to infiltrate the W+P Headquarters and kill the sadist Corporations President Kesslee, they free the Waters stashed by the company and after 30 years for the first time it#s raining again, fullfulling Johnny Prophet and Sub Girls prediction.