As blockbuster season winds its way to its melancholy end, here's a roll call of the summer's most notable ladies. We got Bryce Dallas Howard tottering away from a T. rex in those goddamn heels as Claire Dearing in Jurassic World, and Rebecca Ferguson shucking her own off before taking down a room full of bad guys as Ilsa Faust in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation. There's Joy (Amy Poehler) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith) guiding Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) through a rough patch in Inside Out, and Amy (Amy Schumer) trudging her way toward a relationship in the same outfit she had on the night before in Trainwreck.

There was Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) disclosing the terrible thing that was done to her when she was still a Soviet agent in training in Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) longing for glamour and intrigue but ending up with a series of cat lady aliases in Spy. There were the loud and proud women in Pitch Perfect 2, and there was the notable absence of any in a significant role in Straight Outta Compton.

We had Ant-Man's Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), whose entire arc felt like a weird apologia about not making superhero movies about female characters, and Fantastic Four's Sue Storm (Kate Mara), who her soon-to-be superpowered team leaves behind without even a mention when they take their impromptu trip to a parallel dimension.