History YMMV / KillBill

* {{Moe}}: Being young children both B.B. and Nikki qualify. Especially in Nikki's case you'll feel [[TheWoobie awfully sorry]] for all the mess she has to withness. Not that it fazes her...

* NarmCharm: Really just the whole first volume: notable scenes include O-Ren's decapitation of a yakuza boss, which is promptly followed by HighPressureBlood, and O-Ren's death, where the Bride chops off the top of her skull, leaving her brain exposed and unharmed. Some of the dialogue is just so cheesy, over-the-top anime, but this is Quentin we're talking about, so it still comes off as badass either way.

** Despite only appearing in a handful of flashbacks in part two, Pai Mei is, without question, one of the most popular characters in the film. He's actually a stock character from Chinese martial arts films, but is largely unknown in America apart from this film.

** The Bride, aka "Black Mamba" and [[spoiler:Beatrix Kiddo]], was once the deadliest and most favored assassin of Bill, as well as his lover, and she became pregnant with his child. Not wanting the baby raised in Bill's murderous world, she fled to live a quiet life until Bill led a massacre of her wedding reception. Waking up from a coma four years later, she begins a revenge-fueled rampage against Bill and the Vipers, using extensive information gathering, brutal pragmatism in combat, and her skills with a katana to kill them all one by one. Even when caught in a trap by Budd, Bill's brother, the Bride claws her way out of a buried coffin and walks barefoot through the desert back to his trailer to pluck the remaining eye from her hated rival Elle Driver. In the emotional climax, she discovers Bill had been raising her child these four years, and regretfully kills him to attain her vengeance and raise their daughter in peace.
** Bill himself, AKA "Snakecharmer", is the retired leader of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. After his lover leaves him and becomes engaged to another man while pregnant with his child, Bill massacres the wedding party and leaves the Bride in a coma. Deciding to leave her alive in the hospital, he took their child, who she gave birth to while unconscious, and raised her for four years as a loving father. When she finally comes to confront him, the three share a family night together of a life that could have been, while Bill also leads the Bride into a false sense of security, shooting her with truth serum to have her admit to him and herself why she left him. Accepting defeat with grace, Bill reassures her that she's his favourite person, never stopping loving her and regretting what he did, telling her "I... overreacted."
** ''Vol. 1'': O-Ren Ishii, AKA "Cottonmouth" of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, is the most ambitious of Bill's former underlings. Starting her career at age eleven by avenging her parents' death at the hands of yakuza, O-Ren went on to be one of the world's most dangerous women. After leaving Bill's employ following the wedding massacre, O-Ren travelled to Japan, conquering the criminal underworld and rising to the top of the yakuza, feared and respected by the bosses of the families. Confronted by the Bride, O-Ren sends her underlings to fight her before engaging her in single combat, admitting respect for her opponent as the fight closes. The most successful of Bill's former associates, O-Ren is one of the Bride's toughest fights.

* ValuesResonance: InterchangeableAsianCultures was defied in this movie (or these movies) years before more respect was given to people of varied Asian backgrounds. Similarly, the nuances between relations of different Asian nationalities are also given a respectable focus in the movie and behind the scenes. In the movie, a Japanese crime boss is shown being very bigoted towards O-Ren's Chinese descent (for which he pays [[OffWithHisHead dearly]]), and Pai Mei is stated to be disdainful of Japanese. Behind the scenes, Quentin Tarantino altered O-Ren Ishii to be of Japanese, Chinese, and American descent to account for Lucy Liu's fully Chinese ancestry.

** Elle Driver loses every amount of the audience's sympathy when it's revealed that she poisoned Pai Mei to death in retaliation for taking her eye. Even as much of a rotten bastard as Pai Mei was to both the Bride and Elle, he did ''not'' deserve to go out like that.

** Although she doesn't get as much development as the other Vipers, Vernita is actually similar to the Bride. [[spoiler: She left the Deadly Vipers for the ''same exact'' reasons as Beatrix; perhaps the only reason she was allowed to leave unharmed was because her child wasn't Bill's. When you consider that her own daughter is around the same age as B.B., Vernita may have also been pregnant when she played her role in the Church Massacre.]] This may explain why the Bride gets so pissed when Vernita attempts to use being a mother as a reason not to be killed and cold-bloodedly shuts her down.

* CompleteMonster: [[WouldHurtAChild Boss Matsumoto]] is a sadistic, pedophilic {{Yakuza}} boss, and [[SmallRoleBigImpact the one responsible]] for [[DarkActionGirl O-Ren Ishii]]'s life as an assassin. Invading O-Ren's home when she was nine, Matsumoto has his men fight and [[YouKilledMyFather kill her father]], laughing as he dies. Taking O-Ren's mom, he tosses her on her bed and fatally stabs her with his katana, almost killing O-Ren herself, who is hiding under the bed. With business settled, Matsumoto and his gang set the house on fire. Frequently using children as prostitutes, O-Ren is able to assassinate him by posing as one, appealing to Matsumoto's perverse lust.

*** [[spoiler:Although, [[TheUnfought since Elle was the one who actually killed Budd before Beatrix could fight him,]] Bill may have found out somehow and rightfully put the blame on Elle instead. Then again, it seems that the only way he could have known about that was if Elle survived and went to tell him about it, which is unlikely, meaning he still should have been assuming that the Bride did it anyway.]]

* FirstInstallmentWins: Everyone knows there are two Kill Bill films, but the original is the more iconic one. The second one is highly regarded as well, but it is a lot slower-paced and conversation-heavy than the action-filled first installment. Ironically, that makes it the more Tarantino-esque film.

** Pai Mei is by all accounts a supreme {{Jerkass}}, but when training his students, how much of his dickery is an act? He might be purposefully demeaning to strip them of their egos and toughen them mentally ''and'' [[TrainingFromHell physically]]. And despite being presented as a racist misogynist, he still trained (and later respected) the Bride. [[spoiler: He even taught the Bride the five point palm exploding heart technique, an implied rarity if ever done]].
** Is Gogo personally loyal to O-Ren like Sofia is? Or does she just work for her [[PsychoForHire so she can get paid to kill people]]?