Another support-character that would've fit my diachronic study is Elzie Segar's Olive Oyl. Though she usually wasn't able to fight with men like later femmes formidables, Segar often showed her capable of popping a guy anyway. Segar also liked to comment on a female "double-standard" in that Olive would constantly nag Popeye about getting into fights, but if another girl came mooching around, Olive made no bones about kicking her ass.
