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Generally: attractive, likeable, and relatable as a female. Strict action-girls might meet the first two criteria but fail the third. Yuna and Heather Mason meet all three.
Not to say that < 3 == bad, but I think that's what separates "good pulp" from "bona fide classic."
And of course, a good story can be told with 0/3, but then we're getting into the world of avant-garde art pieces with villain-protagonists and such.
>Also, does it interact with an actual female power fantasy?
The notion of the protagonist driving the story forward seems mostly orthogonal to whether a story is good or not: Yuna (FFX) and Terra (FF6) are protagonists of a sort that is acted upon by the force of circumstances
until they aren't, very late in the story. In Terra's case, her powerlessness comes in part from her story arc being
a metaphor for puberty.