Angelina Jolie portrays Fox an ruthless assassin for an organization calling themselves the Fraternity, she is seen to be a very strong, independent woman and a key member of the assassins.Her independence and ruthlessness character may have grown from a scene later as she reminisces of her childhood experiences of seeing her father torched alive by a rival assassin, and therefore to cover her pain she uses her characteristics to be shown dominant of other colleagues and in particular James McAvoy's character Wesley Gibson. Also she subverts the female stereotypes by the way she handles weaponry whilst she drives a car at the same time trying to kill the rival that has targeted her and Wesley Gibson. This is shown when she shoots down the windscreen window and climbs out of the car, showing to audience that she is prepared to risk her own life to save Wesley Gibson by conducting a dangerous act of shooting at the vehicle where the assassin is driving whilst she is lying on the car she had been driving. Whilst the roles of the female and males being reversed and being unconventional, she often asserts and makes her characters dominance over Wesley Gibson, this is seen in one scene, where she ties McAvoy's character to a chair and continuously beats him repeatedly asking the question in an intimidating tone " Why are you here"? for him to give her the answer. Another is when she sets up a target board and stands between the board and Gibson telling him to "shoot the target" highlighting her bravery. Another example of her bravery is shown towards the end of the movie by curving the bullet to shoot the remaining assassins of the Fraternity and then risking her own life to save Gibson's. Also Jolie's character is often to been seen as an sex symbol for the male audience " Male Gaze" this is seen when she walks out of a bath tub with nothing but a towel she wears to cover her lower body and exposing the tattoos on her back.
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