History Characters / KIllBill

->''"The price you pay for bringing up either my Chinese or American heritage as a negative is... I collect your fucking head. Just like this fucker here. Now, if ANY of you sons of bitches got ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY, '''NOW'S THE FUCKING TIME!'''"''\\\

-->'''O-Ren Ishii:''' The price you pay for bringing up either my Chinese or American heritage as a negative is: I collect your fucking head. Just like this fucker here. Now, if ''any'' of you sons of bitches got ''anything else to say, NOW'S THE FUCKING TIME!'' ...I didn't think so.

* BadassBoast: When the Bride asks her if she's good with her shotgun.
-->'''Karen:''' Not that I have to be at this range, but I'm a fucking surgeon with this shotgun.
* CombatPragmatist: Befitting an assassin. She lures the Bride near the door by [[DeadlyDelivery pretending to be an employee of the hotel]], then blasts the door with a shotgun. If the Bride hadn't dropped the tester and bent down to retrieve it, the movies wouldn't have happened at all.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"I was a Drell. I was a Drifter. I was a Coaster. I was [[Film/PulpFiction part of the Gang]]. I was a Bar-Kay... If they come through Texas, I done played with them."'']]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Her murders of [[spoiler:Budd and Pai Mei]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: His training of ruthless assassins and contract killers involves [[TrainingFromHell torment and torture]], not mentioning any others he's trained, if not outright killed during sessions. Special mention, however, goes to when he gouges out [[spoiler: Elle's right eye for calling him a "miserable old fool"]].

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Several characters lampshade the fact that someone named after one of the deadliest animals in the entire world is not somebody you want to cross.
* NoNameGiven: During part one and most of part two, the Bride's name is never heard. Whenever someone says it, there will be a noise that covers it up like a phone beep. Later in part two, [[spoiler: Beatrix Kiddo's]] name is finally said uncensored, and from then on it's said without any issues.

* UnexplainedRecovery: No medical reason is ever given for why she woke up from the coma, although the action that seems to trigger it is a bite from a mosquito; if that means anything, no one ever discovers what.

* TheDreaded: [[spoiler:Possibly. It's worth nothing that he's the only one that the Bride ever exercises caution with when she tries to kill him, preferring to go for the stealth approach rather than walk up to the front door and start slaughtering. Not that it does her any good.]]

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:He apparently thinks accepting food from someone he horribly mutilated is a good idea.]]

* DarkChick: Unlike the other [=DiVAs=], she doesn't have a katana, and prefers much closer combat using knives. She's the only one who made a relatively normal life after the group disbanded.

* IfICantHaveYou: Bill found out where the Bride was hiding within three months, but didn't tip his hand until just before the wedding – when he killed everyone in the wedding chapel. In his own mind, he was saving her from an obvious marriage of convenience.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Ishii is the surname of the Japanese doctor who headed [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Unit 731]] during World War II.

* RetiredMonster: By the present day, all of them except for O-Ren and Elle retired from the killing business. The Bride planned to retire and raise her daughter before the other [=DiVAS=] enacted the wedding massacre; Vernita became a suburban homemaker; Budd voluntarily reduced himself to a lowly bouncer in a strip club; and Bill [[spoiler:raised his and the Bride's daughter as a single father. By the end, the Bride's implied to quit for good with her daughter now that all of her enemies are dead or incapacitated.]]

* IfICantHaveYou: Bill found out where the Bride was hiding within three months, but didn't tip his hand until just before the wedding -- when he killed everyone in the wedding chapel. In his own mind, he was saving her from an obvious marriage of convenience.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Yes, he may be a ruthless killer. But he's also a fairly pleasant fellow to the people he loves. He genuinely feels bad about shooting Beatrix, and is a loving father to B.B.

* {{Understatement}}: The Bride calls him out on this when he says that [[spoiler:shooting up her entire wedding party and putting her into a coma for four years may have been an "overreaction."]]

* MasterSwordsman: Or at least enough of one to be gifted a Hattori Hanzo sword by Bill.

* AffablyEvil: Yeah, he's utterly repulsive, but he sure is chummy with his customers... who are obviously just as repulsive as he is.

* ParentalSubstitute: Esteban was the first of Bill's adopted father-figures, and still fondly remembers taking him out to the movies. His scene also shows Bill picked up some of his AffablyEvil mannerisms.

** NonIndicativeName: There aren't actually 88 of them. [[RuleOfCool They just thought it sounded cool]]. Though if you keep track, the Bride kills or maims 78 people while fighting them, so there could actually have been 88 mooks there.

* BadassInCharge: The leader of the best assassin team in the world, and a deadly man in his own right.

* UltimateBlacksmith: His reputation was built on forging the greatest swords in the world.

* ForeignCultureFetish: She's a bit of a weeb for Japanese culture and combat, extolling the "exquisite art of the samurai sword" and having Japanese as the only non-English language she can fluently speak. This doesn't make a good first impression on Pai Mei, who already hates her for being a Caucasian American woman. Finding out her affinity for the Japanese only increases his contempt.

* ForeignCultureFetish: She's a bit of a weeb for Japanese culture and combat, extolling the "exquisite art of the samurai sword" and having Japanese as the only non-English language she can speak.

-->'''Budd:''' That women deserves her revenge. And… we deserve to die. But then again, so does she.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: His relationship with Bill has echoes of this, if him playfully ribbing about how he sold his katana and Bill's [[TranquilFury calmly unimpressed reaction]] to learning that says anything.

* DirtyCoward: For all of Elle's posturing about how [[spoiler:the Bride deserved better than presumably being shot and buried alive by Budd]], she does everything possible to avoid a fair fight with her. She tried killing the Bride while she was in a ''coma'', and is more than happy to [[spoiler:let Budd finish the job after he incapacitates her. She also repeatedly attempts to gain an unfair advantage when they finally do fight by relying on Hattori Hanzo's sword rather than fighting her on even footing]]. That's in addition to poisoning Pai Mei rather than facing him in a fight.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Budd calls her out on the fact that she thinks she deserves revenge or a happy ending when she was as remorseless a killer as all the people who wronged her and doesn't even seem to be the least bit sorry about it. Although, it's played with in that [[AtLeastIAdmitIt she never tries to deny this.]] [[PayEvilUntoEvil People screwed her over, and now those people have to die.]] And she tells the daughter of one of her targets that if when she grows up, she still wants revenge, she'll be waiting.

* RedemptionEarnsLife: Pushing it, but she does go through hell, and [[AssholeVictim nobody's crying over the people she's killed.]] [[spoiler: After all that, she does at the very least deserve her daughter back.]]

* VillainKiller: She has a list of five people, all of whom are villainous (some less than others) to a degree. [[spoiler: She kills three of them herself, including Bill, and along the way mows down over fifty of O-Ren Ishii's mooks, and her second-in-command.]]

* WouldntHurtAChild: She really hates the idea of having children exposed to violence. First off, she's very unhappy when she discovers that [[spoiler: Vernita's four-year-old daughter, Nikki, saw her mother's death at the Bride's hands]]. Later, the Bride attempts to talk Gogo Yubari out of fighting her (Gogo, of course, would have none of that), then she spares the youngest of the Crazy 88; she ''spanks him with the flat of her katana blade'' for "fucking around with the {{Yakuza}}" before sending him home. Finally, [[spoiler: Beatrix would rather have a momentary truce with Bill than kill him in front of their daughter, B.B.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Even the Bride cries at his death.]]

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Despite the massive amount of buildup, he's defeated relatively easily by the Bride.]]
* TheDyingWalk: [[spoiler: The Bride hits him with the Five Point Palm technique, which will kill anyone after they take five steps. He has a last bit of conversation with her, then calmly and symbolically gets up and walks away. He manages to make it six steps before he dies.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He sincerely loves his brother Budd despite their differences, had a previous romance with the Bride, and [[spoiler: is a good father to their daughter BB]].

* FamilyValuesVillain: Bill loves his brother, and makes a sojourn out to California to warn him of the Bride's arrival, though apparently that was only around four hours or so from where he was living at the time. [[spoiler: He's also a doting father to the Bride's daughter.]]

* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler: After the Bride uses the Five-Point-Palm Exploding-Heart Technique on him, taught to her by Pai Mei (which means he's dead after he takes five steps), he warmly tells her that she's ''still'' the love of his life. Then he calmly walks [[{{Determinator}} six]] steps into the darkness of the backyard and collapses.]]

* {{Understatement}}: The Bride calls him out on this when he says that [[spoiler: shooting up her entire wedding party and putting her into a coma for four years may have been an "overreaction."]]

* AntagonistInMourning: When she thinks that Budd has killed the Bride, she grieves not because the Bride is dead, but because she died in an unworthy way. [[spoiler: This motivates her deadly revenge against Budd.]]

* DeceptiveDisciple: To Pai Mei, [[spoiler: whom she poisoned]].
* DirtyCoward: For all of Elle's posturing about how [[spoiler: the Bride deserved better than presumably being shot and buried alive by Budd]], she does everything possible to avoid a fair fight with her. She tried killing the Bride while she was in a ''coma'', and is more than happy to [[spoiler: let Budd finish the job after he incapacitates her. She also repeatedly attempts to gain an unfair advantage when they finally do fight by relying on Hattori Hanzo's sword rather than fighting her on even footing]]. That's in addition to poisoning Pai Mei rather than facing him in a fight.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: There's a reason why Bill refers to Budd as "the only man [he's] ever loved". Budd is notably the only assassin that Bill goes out of his way to warn about the Bride's revenge quest, despite their estrangement. In turn, Budd still is fond of his brother and even kept the sword he gave him ([[TheGadfly though he does claim that he sold it for a few bucks to get a rise out of Bill)]].

* NobleDemon: As bad as she is, the Bride does have some lines she won't cross. It's part of her EstablishingCharacterMoment when she kills her second target ruthlessly but leaves her child totally unharmed.

* ForTheEvulz: She was warned by Bill not to defy Pai Mei, but did it anyway, and paid for it with an eye. She later takes murderous revenge on him and brags about it to Pai Mei's best student. This proves to be her downfall.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: She managed to become the undisputed queen of the Tokyo underworld in four years through sheer badassery.

* WouldntHurtAChild: She really hates the idea of having children exposed to violence. First off, she's very unhappy when she discovers that [[spoiler: Vernita's four-year-old daughter, Nikki, saw her mother's death at the Bride's hands]]. Later, the Bride attempts to talk Gogo Yubari out of fighting her (Gogo, of course, would have none of that), then she spares the youngest of the Crazy 88; she ''spanks him with the flat of her katana blade'' for "fucking around with the {{Yakuza}}" before sending him home. Finally, Beatrix [[spoiler: would rather have a momentary truce with Bill than kill him in front of their daughter, B.B.]]