Ava Winters is one of the leading protagonists in Netflix’s raunchy action comedy series, Obliterated. The character is played by Shelley Hennig.
A portable nuclear device capable of leveling up a whole city threatens Las Vegas. A special forces team consisting of the best of the best agents is formed to seize and neutralize this five-kiloton nuke.
Leading the team is CIA agent Ava Winters, who’s introduced to the agents by the CIA Director James Langdon as “the best of the best of the best.”
While the physical side of things is more or less handled by Chad McKnight, it’s Winters who brings the brains into the operation.
She uses her skills to the best of her ability and gets the upper hand on the enemies because of her clever tactics.
The outlier
Ava Winters is a bit of an outlier in the elite tactical unit. She’s got the candor and skills of a true leader and she can lead the team well and in the right direction.
A perfect demonstration of her leadership is when at the party, her insistence on not following up on an unlikely threat proves to be the right decision. She uses her brain even in the direst of situations.
This makes her unique in that others often give in to the circumstances and lose it, while she remains calm and cool-headed, even if she’s just as messed up by the drugs and edibles as others.
She uses her strategic ploys many times throughout Obliterated, and save for one diabolical character, few people can get a jump on her or fool her.
A tragic past
Ava Winters isn’t exactly the party monster or overtly animated like her peers in the team. However, she knows how to let loose and there’s a pent-up sexual energy that she doesn’t get to properly expend until the end of Obliterated.
She can smile and she does so too, several times, but behind that disposition and cool-headed candor lies a hurt soul who’s still not quite over her partner’s death.
Winters was engaged to an MI6 agent who passed away not that long before the Las Vegas mission. She grieved him but not for long enough, which initially made Langdon unsure whether she should lead a mission this quick.
However, she insists on it and gets to lead the team, but when they’ve seemingly lost the chance to seize the nuke, and all hope seems lost, Langdon again becomes skeptical of her state of mind, which he opines is still not all well because of her partner’s passing.
Ava Winters proves him wrong though, as she ultimately, with the help of her friends in the team, manages to accomplish the mission with flying colors.
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