PoP! Fangirl of the Month – September 2010
The PoP! Stars scour all of teh internetz in search of the most Fabulous Females of Fandom. Please keep it in your pants.
In the latest installment of our Pulitzer Prize winning* feature (*Pulitzer disavows any knowledge of PanelsOnPages.com), we feature the PoP! Fangirl of the Month for September 2010. She’s a professional geek lady, with a particular taste for blood and gunpowder. PoP!ulation, I give you Katrina Hill, the Action Flick Chick. Enjoy sirs and madams.
Name: Katrina Hill
AKA/Handle: Action Flick Chick
Birthdate: October 18. Learn it, live it, I expect presents.
Location: Dallas, Texas
Marital Status: Married to John Rambo
Occupation: Kicker of Asses!
Favorite Movies: Tremors, the Rambo series, True Lies, Terminator 2, Crank 1 & 2, Iron Man, the Scream Trilogy, Resident Evil 2, Dawn of the Dead (remake), Ong Bak, The Dark Knight, Transformers, The Hangover.
Favorite TV Shows: How I Met Your Mother, The Soup, LOST, Attack of the Show, Friends, That 70′s Show, Firefly, Scrubs, Monk, Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
Favorite Video Games: Plants Vs. Zombies, Brain Age, Left 4 Dead 1 & 2, Devil May Cry 4, Little Big Planet, Critter Crunch, Fable 2, Bayonetta, Scott Pilgrim, Toki Tori, Mario Kart Double Dash, Super Mario Bros. 3, New Super Mario Bros. Wii (pretty much anything with Mario in it!).
Favorite Music: Anything 80′s, and anything I can dance like a goon to!!
Favorite Comics: The Action Chick, The Ongoing Adventures of Rocket Llama, Scott Pilgrim, 30 Days of Night, Serenity: Those Left Behind, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Favorite Books: Breathers, Ink Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors, Patricia Cornwell’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta series
Turn-Ons: Peanut butter fingers, milk mustaches, knowing how to twist the blade, having a zombie survival plan.
Turn-Offs: Cry babies, close-mindedness, rainbow toe-socks, stinky people, Hans Gruber.
PoP!: Right off the bat, Katrina, please enlighten us: What makes you a Fangirl?
Action Flick Chick: I love and support all things “nerdy”. I am truly devoted to action movies, to an almost unhealthy extent. On top of all that, I love to play video games and read graphic novels.
PoP!: Have you been a lifelong Fangirl?
Action Flick Chick: I’m fairly new to the awesome world of “Fangirlism.” I was introduced to video games when I was little because of my two older brothers. However, I kind of lost touch with the “geek world” during high school. In college, some new friends helped me realize where I truly belonged and reawakened my inner nerdy self.
From G4's "The Next Woman of the Web", photo by The Bui Brothers, www.thebuibrothers.com
PoP!: Second only to fanboy fathers, we can thank the older brothers of the world for keeping the Fangirl bloodline alive. What other awesome toys did you play with as a kid?
Action Flick Chick: G.I. Joes and a BB gun – two great tastes combined!
PoP!: Besides taking out Beachhead with a Red Rider, do you have a favorite childhood geek-memory?
Action Flick Chick: When I was little, I would visit my cousins a couple times a year. I always looked forward to these visits because me and my two brothers, my cousin, and his sister would all pile into my cousin’s tiny room and play Nintendo all day long. Well, until we got into fights over whose turn it was, and then our parents would throw us all outside. Contra and Cave Men Games were two of our favorites.
PoP!: From old school to new school, what are your current Fangirl obsessions?
Action Flick Chick: Zombies, in movies and in video games. I’ve also really gotten into Scott Pilgrim lately. I’ve read the books, loved the movie, and am currently playing the video game! And of course, I’m obsessed with all things action.
PoP!: What is the most Fangirl-ish thing you’ve ever done?
Action Flick Chick: Well, at San Diego Comic Con this year, I waited in line for 2-3 hours for The Expendables panel. It was the most fantastic thing I have ever seen! I was standing right beside the stage in the press area, and I felt like a 13-year-old girl waiting for Justin Bieber to come out on stage. The panel had Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews, Steve Austin, Randy Couture, and Bruce Willis even made an appearance. I took a million pictures, stared in awe, and talked about it for the rest of the trip. Hell, I’m still talking about it. Later, a movie theater had life size card board cutouts of the guys from The Expendables. I hugged cardboard Stallone and took several pictures with it. I can admit to it, I’m comfortable in my nerdiness!
PoP!: What has been your biggest Geek-Out Moment?
Action Flick Chick: I lost the better part of the day playing Plants Vs. Zombies Survival Mode this one time. I kept telling myself, “Just one more flag, this is the last one. Ok, now this is the last one.” I was so focused on the game that I started tensing up and yelling at it, and my friends had to pull me away from the screen to prevent a gaming coma. The next day my arm was killing me.
Action Flick Chick with fellow Geek Girls Jill "The Nerdy Bird" Pantozzi (December 2009 PoP! FGOTM), and Adrianne Curry at SDCC 2010
PoP!: How has being a Fangirl affected other aspects of your life?
Action Flick Chick: I’ve been able to connect with so many more people than ever before just because we have common interests. I wassitting next to a stranger one day and I heard him say something about a video game. So, I took the chance of asking him what he played, which lead to us having a long, in depth conversation about games. We exchanged gamer-tags, and we’ve been pwning noobs on X-Box Live ever since. Also, I am just happier with life. Us “nerds” have created our own world where we can be comfortable and proud of whatever our passions are, whether they’re action films, video games, comic books, and anything else awesome.
PoP!: We like to play a little game on PoP! called Fuck, Marry, Kill. It’s pretty self-explanatory. Your choices, as the Action Flick Chick, are: John McClane (Die Hard), John Rambo (Rambo), and The T-100 (Terminator). Do your worst!
Action Flick Chick:
Fuck: John McClane – He’s hot and legendary but has already proven that he wouldn’t be a good husband.
Marry: John Rambo – I could screw him for life!
Kill: T-100 – Duh, he’s a baddie and I could use a good challenge.
PoP!: Where can people find the Action Flick Chick on the ol’ internets?
Action Flick Chick: My website is www.actionflickchick.com. I just started an Action Chick TV series you can find on my YouTube channel Action Flick Chick. You can find me on Facebook at Action Flick Chick or Kat Hill and on Twitter as @actionchick!
Photo by The Bui Brothers, www.thebuibrothers.com
Thanks so much to the Action Flick Chick for becoming a part of our illustrious roster of PoP! Fangirls of the Month! Or is it Fangirl of the Months? Fangirls of the Months? Who cares. I have a leather jacket.
–Knize
"Freya" art by Neither Noir, www.neithernoir.com
Filed Under: Fangirl of the Month • Features
A fellow Texan!! YAY!!!!!
Very nice to have you!
People who recognize the awesomeness of Sylvester Stallone make me smile.
Great pic of you at the end, Katrina
Very cool. Welcome aboard Action Flick Chick!
Hurah! Might I also mention that Katrina is also featured on her very own card in the WAGON Webcomic Battle cardgame? http://www.wagonwebcomicbattle.com/cardgame/images/cards/154.gif
Congrats Katrina! Keep kicking a$$!
Love the Chick.
Love your site and tweets. Like I said before, “Too weird to live, too rare to die.”
I wish I could be Kat’s John Rambo <3 …The Action Flick Chick rocks!
ewwwwwwwwwww
Congratulations Katrina! You definitely deserve this honour and more.
Have to say, I love what you said about John Rambo (screw him for life). Not a shy lady
KEEP ON ROCKING and KICKING ASS!
Things we have in common:
10/18
Ramboners
Is there anything else needed?
Hi great site! really perfect.
Congratulations! This Nerd loves that Bird!
Hey, guys. No offense to anyone, but I started a cheesecake blog of fangirls. You can contribute at anytime: http://forwaywardgirls.blogspot.com/