i can't think of any within the last 50 years. Even in the 1990's and 1980's female characters in Western media were pretty much all girl bosses.
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Slight disagree there, there's nothing narratively wrong with submissive characters. They aren't dynamic characters in and of themselves, but they do have an impact; as assets and obstacles for the more dynamic characters to navigate around. They're like the action equivalent of the comedy straight man.
Plus unless they're submissive to a fault, in which case they're bad writing for just being one dimensional not necessarily for being submissive, there's always interest to be had in placing them in rare situations where they would be spurred to action despite their typical inclination.
But you're not wrong that submissive characters aren't going to be the first names you remember in a story, they'll only stand out on a deeper look at the story.
I don't know that I've really ever seen submissive characters be written in the kind of nuance you've described.
At best they might be love interests, or a character that learns to become assertive, but then that's not the same thing as the femininity I was referring to earlier. The submission is seen as a masculine failing in that case. It could be done well in how you describe it, but I've never seen it done well.
They tend to have more use in the big space operas or fantasy epics. Anywhere you need someone who just does their job to make the wheels of the world(s) turn.
They're hard to think of easily because written well you don't usually think about their relative submissiveness first. The readiest example of one I can think of is Grey Worm from GoT, just because his slave conditioning took the submissiveness to an such an extreme it's hard to miss.