History YMMV / Kate

* JerkassWoobie: Ani starts as kind of a brat, but she [[spoiler:witnesses her father's death, gets kidnapped by a stranger, and almost gets killed by her family members. She bonds with a woman who turns out to have killed her father and is kidnapped ''again''. Kate saves her but dies in front of her, bringing back memories of her father's death. Despite their rocky beginning, Kate is likely the first and only mother figure Ani will ever know]].

* JerkassWoobie: Ani starts as kind of a brat, but she [[spoiler:witnesses her father's death, gets kidnapped by a stranger, and almost gets killed by family members. She bonds with a woman who turns out to have killed her father and is kidnapped ''again''. Kate saves her but dies in front of her, bringing back memories of her father's death. Despite their rocky beginning, Kate is likely the first and only mother figure Ani will ever know]].

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler:The seemingly genuine tone Creator/WoodyHarrelson maintains through his performance as Varrick has led some viewers to interpret him as having come to truly care for Kate. On one hand, he lies to her throughout the film and never stops trying to use her as a pawn or thinks twice about having her cruelly killed off. On the other, he retains his father-like way of speaking to her even while holding Ani hostage to get her to back down and his final words "Great shot" lead to multiple interpretations of the seemingly cold sociopath.]]

* JerkassWoobie: Ani. Sure, she starts out as kind of a brat, but she has good reason: [[spoiler:she watched her father get shot in the head (not only that, but once it happened, the rest of the group they were with drove off and ''abandoned her with his body''), got kidnapped by a random woman in order to get to her estranged uncle, was almost killed several times by people associated with her own family as part of an internal power struggle (it's also somewhat implied that she may have suffered abuse from family/clan members who looked down on her for being biracial as well as the result of an illegitimate union between her father and a foreign woman), and witnessed the deaths of several other people. Then when she finally bonded with said woman, it turns out she was the one who killed her father. Then she gets kidnapped ''again'', and gets saved only to have the woman who saved her die right in front of her, which would definitely bring back memories of when her father was killed (especially when you consider the fact that, despite their rocky beginning and short time together, Kate was likely the first and only mother figure she would ever come to know).]]

* JerkassWoobie: Ani. Sure, she starts out as kind of a brat, but she has good reason: [[spoiler:she watched her father get shot in the head (not only that, but once it happened, the rest of the group they were with drove off and ''abandoned her with his body''), got kidnapped by a random woman in order to get to her estranged uncle, was almost killed several times by people associated with her own family as part of an internal power struggle (it's also somewhat implied that she may have suffered abuse from family/clan members who looked down on her for being biracial as well as the result of an illegitimate union between her father and a foreign woman), and witnessed the deaths of several other people. Then when she finally bonded with said woman, it turns out she was the one who killed her father. Then she gets kidnapped AGAIN, and gets saved only to have the woman who saved her die right in front of her, which would definitely bring back memories of when her father was killed (especially when you consider the fact that, despite their rocky beginning and short time together, Kate was likely the first and only mother figure she would ever come to know).]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler:The seemingly genuine tone Creator/WoodyHarrelson maintains through his performance as Varrick has lead some viewers to interpret him as having come to truly care for Kate. On one hand he lies to her throughout the film and never stops trying to use her as a pawn or thinks twice about having her cruelly killed off. On the other, he retains his father-like way of speaking to her even while holding Ani hostage to get her to back down and his final words being "Great shot" lead to multiple interpretations of the seemingly cold sociopath.]]

* CaptainObviousReveal: [[spoiler:Varrick being the true BigBad.]] There is just enough shots of him when talking on phone with Kate (along with Creator/WoodyHarrelson's delivery) filmed in such a way, that from the first one there is a build-in anticipation for the camera to finally turn or pan out and reveal [[spoiler:Yakuza sitting with Varrick]]. Which then ''[[TheUnTwist ultimately doesn't happen]]'', but then [[spoiler:Varrick is revealed as the BigBad two scenes later anyway]].
* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:[[TheFagin Varrick]] murders the families of young women to "adopt" them and [[TykeBomb turn them into assassins]]. Taking in Kate, Varrick has used her since childhood to kill countless rival criminals, even giving her an unloaded gun to test her skills in one instance, and makes plans to poison her should she try to leave him. When his partner has her poisoned ahead of time, Varrick lies to her about the culprit's identity, using her to remove further rivals in the {{Yakuza}}, before corrupting her young friend Ani into shooting Kate and preparing to groom the latter into his next killer.]]

** [[VillainProtagonist Kate]] herself was [[DarkAndTroubledPast raised since childhood]] to be a master assassin and now wants to retire after having to kill in front of a child. Lethally poisoned, Kate spends her final twenty four hours [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge hunting for her alleged killer Kijima]], even taking his niece Ani captive to lure him out. Discovering her [[spoiler:handler Varrick is the true culprit and surviving his attempt to kill her, Kate allies with her former enemy and his Yakuza forces to decimate Varrick's splinter faction, [[AgonizingStomachWound painfully killing him]] and rescuing Ani before Varrick can mold her into his next killing machine, all while being moments from death]].

* SpiritualAdaptation: An action film starring Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead as an assassin on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against gangsters in a heavily stylized, larger-than-life criminal underworld? Given Winstead's performance as ComicBook/{{Huntress}} in ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'', from the moment the first trailer premiered this movie was immediately pegged as the Huntress standalone film we never got.