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6->''"Looked dead, didn't I? But I wasn't. And it wasn't for lack of trying, I can tell you that. Actually, Bill's last bullet put me in a coma. A coma I was to lie in for four years. When I woke up, I went on what the movie advertisements referred to as a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. I roared. I rampaged. And I got bloody satisfaction. I've killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point, but I have only one more. The last one. The one I'm driving to right now. The only one left. And when I arrive at my destination... I am gonna [[TitleDrop KILL BILL]]."''
7-->-- '''The Bride''', vol. 2
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9''Kill Bill'' is the fourth (and fifth) film written and directed by Creator/QuentinTarantino, taking all his favorite things at that point in his career -- [[TheWestern westerns]], [[JidaiGeki samurai movies]], [[MartialArtsMovie martial arts]], [[ConversationalTroping pop-culture references]], {{Action Girl}}s, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick bare feet]] -- and [[GenreMashup combining them all]] into [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge one hell of a revenge drama]].
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11Conceived by Tarantino as one complete movie, Miramax [[DividedForPublication split it into two parts]] (''Vol. 1'', released in 2003, and ''Vol. 2'', released six months later in 2004) due to its length. Watching them together earns you a nice four-hour action romp filled with deliberately over-the-top violence which runs on the RuleOfCool. This original cut of the film was eventually released in 2011 as ''Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair'', with select sequences being extended or uncensored.
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13The story -- told in "chapters" and in Tarantino's signature [[AnachronicOrder non-linear fashion]] -- centers around an ActionGirl known primarily as "The Bride", a retired assassin who wants a normal life. Her former crew, the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad ([=DiVAS=] for short), isn't too happy with that -- and during the Bride's wedding rehearsal, they crash the church and slaughter the entire wedding party, then beat the Bride spaghetti western-style until she can't move. Once the [=DiVAS=] are done, their leader Bill walks up to the Bride and puts a bullet in her head -- right after the Bride tells him she's pregnant with his child. Four years later, the Bride wakes up from a coma and vows to get her revenge on the [=DiVAS=] and anyone who happens to get in her way, saving Bill for last.
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15Tarantino has toyed with ideas for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Bill:_Volume_2#Possible_sequels a sequel]], but [[https://comicbook.com/movies/news/quentin-tarantino-kill-bill-vol-3-sequel-rumors-10th-movie-critic/ as of 2023]], it seems to be off the table. However, actors have expressed interest in the idea of daughters of the Bride's victims taking revenge for their mothers, especially Nikki, the daughter of Vernita Green.
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17To view a partial list of the many references to other films in ''Kill Bill'', visit [[ShoutOut/QuentinTarantino here]].
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20!!This Roaring Rampage of Tropes includes examples of the following:
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25* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Hattori Hanzo claims that the katana he's made for the Bride is so sharp that "If on your journey, you should encounter God, [[BlasphemousBoast God will be cut]]." With one swing, she can easily sever a limb, cut a person in two, take off the top of a person's skull, or even ''cut another sword as if it's made of bamboo instead of steel''.
26* ActionGirl: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] to the point where it basically feels like a parody.
27* ActionizedSequel: Even though it's two parts of a single story, this is {{inverted}}. Volume 1 has a lot more action than part 2, with the final third or more of the movie being an extended action sequence where the Bride singlehandedly cuts her way through O-Ren's yakuza army before facing the woman herself. Volume 2 spends a lot more time on the narrative and fleshing out the Bride's character and only has two real fights, one of which is relatively short and brutal as opposed to the stylized action of the first part, and the second fight, the one where [[spoiler:she kills Bill]], lasts about 10 seconds.
28* ActionPrologue: A downplayed example. The movie opens with the Bride being executed by Bill, and we get a credits sequence of her comatose in the hospital. But then it immediately cuts to her walking up to Vernita Green's house and attempting to kill her, leading to a drawn-out fight sequence with little context. After Vernita's daughter comes home, they do stop the fight and we get a bit of context, but not much before Green tries to shoot the Bride and gets killed for it. ''THEN'' we get to see what happened right after the Bride got shot in the head.
29* ActorAllusion:
30** When the Bride is talking to Vernita, she says, "that would be about square" and draws a square with her finger, similar to how in ''Film/PulpFiction'' when Mia Wallace (also portrayed by Creator/UmaThurman) says, "Don't be a..." and draws a square with her finger.
31** Gogo stabbing a man in the crotch is a reference to Creator/ChiakiKuriyama's iconic crotch-stab scene in ''Film/BattleRoyale.''
32** Also, this isn't the first time Buck has [[Film/NightOfTheComet died in a doorway of head trauma]]. Heck, given how big a fan Tarantino is of ''Film/BattleRoyale'', even the famous yellow track suit could be taken as a shout-out to Chiaki Kuriyama's role in that movie. Except [[https://thekungfufan.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/the-yellow-jumpsuit.jpg it's a]] ShoutOut to Creator/BruceLee.
33** Creator/DarylHannah violently freaks out similarly to how her character did in ''Film/BladeRunner''.
34** Creator/DavidCarradine as a Series/{{kung fu|1972}} expert.
35** Creator/SonnyChiba reprising his role as Hattori Hanzô.
36** Budd is first seen wearing an ensemble identical to the thieves' uniforms in ''Film/ReservoirDogs''.
37** Creator/GordonLiu, who plays Pai Mei, acted in a trilogy of films which also [[{{HistoricalDomainCharacter}} featured]] Pai Mei, in these instances portrayed by Creator/LoLieh -- Liu himself never played Pai Mei until ''Kill Bill'' (in fact, one of those films, ''Film/ExecutionersFromShaolin'', opens with Pai Mei killing Liu's character). Tarantino was a fan of Liu's work in these films, and even referred to said films in the original script, claiming inspiration for the character from "films that feature Lieh Lo as the old, white-haired, white-eye-browed villain Pai Mei."
38* AdaptationSpeciesChange: The film is a SpiritualSuccessor to the failed TV pilot ''Fox Force 5'' mentioned in ''Film/PulpFiction'' but with all references to foxes changed to snakes.
39* AdmiringTheAbomination: Invoked and ultimately averted by Texas Ranger Earl [=McGraw=], surveying the massacre at the chapel:
40-->''You can tell by the cleanliness of the carnage. Now a kill-crazy rampage though it may be, all the colors are kept within the lines. If you was a moron, you could almost admire it.''
41* AffablyEvil: Bill and Esteban.
42** All of the [=DiVAS=], in their way, are pleasant enough right up until they try to kill you. Except for Elle, who notably remains ice-cold throughout.
43* AffectionateParody: Of the entire medium of cinema, East and West. This movie also has an example of its own in the form of a Norwegian movie titled "Kill Buljo", which started out as a simple project by amateur directors and actors for the fun of it, with a very low budget. In the end, it became a huge success in Norway, to the point that it got released internationally. Quentin Tarantino himself proclaimed [[ApprovalOfGod "I love it. I love it!"]]
44* AgeGapRomance: Bill, an old assassin and martial arts warrior who grew up in the 1940s, is outright shown or implied to have been in relationships with several of his decades-younger students, including the Bride, Elle Driver, and most likely Sofie as well. When Bill shows up to the Bride's wedding, she lies to the groom that he's her ''father'', but he's actually her lover and father of her child.
45* AgonyOfTheFeet: Depicted once in each volume.
46** The Bride defeats [[spoiler:Gogo Yubari]] by stabbing her in the foot with a nailed two by four, breaking her guard long enough to land a killing blow.
47** After losing her shoes while struggling to get out of the coffin, the Bride walks barefoot through the hot desert in order to get to Budd's trailer. Later, Elle violently strikes the Bride's foot with her heel, and the latter also walks over broken glass during the fight.
48* AnachronicOrder: A Tarantino trademark. The first chapter from ''Volume 1'' shows the Bride's second kill on her mission, and the next four chapters portray the events leading up to that kill -- the Bride waking up from her coma, getting her Hanzo sword, hunting down O-Ren Ishii, and making her hit list.
49* AnArmAndALeg: Taken to ridiculous extremes, with many members of the Crazy 88 and Sofie Fatale losing various limbs to the Bride.
50-->'''The Bride''': ''[in Japanese]'' Those of you lucky enough to still have your lives, take them with you! However...leave the limbs you've lost. They belong to me now. ''[in English]'' Except you, Sofie! You stay right where you are!
51** This is also how the Bride exacts both revenge on and information from Sofie Fatale. Cutting off Sofie's arm at the start of the Crazy 88 fight shows O-Ren Ishii that the Bride means business, and she takes the other arm away during her interrogation following the big battle.
52* AnimalAssassin: [[spoiler:Elle kills Budd with a black mamba.]] Which quite possibly [[spoiler:[[HoistByHisOwnPetard kills her as well]] later on]].
53* AntagonistInMourning: Given a nod when Budd and Elle think the Bride is dead. Budd asks Elle, who considered the Bride a personal rival/nemesis, which R she feels: relief, or regret.
54** Elle prematurely calls Bill to tell him that both Budd ''and'' the Bride are dead. ([[NewhartPhonecall Her side of the conversation]] indicates his sorrow.)
55** More importantly, [[spoiler:Beatrix]] weeps in the bathroom after she [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin kills Bill]].
56** The Bride is visibly sorrowful after killing O-Ren in their duel, as Ishii was probably her only true friend in the [=DiVAS=].
57** And this happens to Bill twice more: first when he believed the Bride had been killed, while she had only run away after finding out she was pregnant and again, as he explains later in Vol. 2 to B.B., that he felt very sad after, you know, hunting her ass down and putting a bullet in her head. Sorry, kiddo!
58* AntiHero: The Bride is mostly an UnscrupulousHero, but occasionally pushes NominalHero. She may be a brutal assassin, but she still has [[NobleDemon certain things that she will not do]] if she can help it -- like murdering someone in front of their child.
59* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: The "one-inch punch" is absolutely a real thing, but it works by, more or less, propelling energy from a strong leg movement into your fist. As ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' showed, a one-inch punch with just your arm while lying down has the power you'd actually expect of such a punch: that is to say, not a lot.
60* ArtShift: Between the two volumes in both look and feel. On a more macro level, there's the [[DeliberatelyMonochrome seamless shift]] to black and white film stock during the climax in ''Volume 1'' -– [[BlackBlood in the US theatrical cut, at least]].
61** O-Ren Ishii has two flashback sequences explaining her origins that suddenly shift to an animation style typical of early-[[TheNineties '90s]] anime.
62* AsideGlance: [[spoiler:Beatrix]] winks at the camera as she's driving during the closing credits.
63* AssholeVictim: Most of the assassins fit this trope, though some are more sympathetic than others. The only exceptions to this are [[spoiler:O-Ren Ishii and, oddly enough, Bill]], as the Bride feels genuinely shaken by both of their deaths. Then there's Buck, Matsumoto, and Tanaka, all three of whose deaths absolutely no one will mourn.
64* AudibleSharpness: Zig-zagged at first. When the Bride first handles a Hanzô sword on screen, it makes a sharp sound just from spinning it 180° while still in the sheath. Then she unsheathes it slowly, and it makes the correct muted leather sound. Then she quickly unsheathes it the rest of the way, and the unrealistic metal-on-metal sound is present. Then when she sheathes it again, the muted 'whomp' is back. After that, it's pretty much all the expected examples, and naked Hanzo swords almost constantly emit a quiet, high-pitched tone.
65** When [[spoiler:the Bride pulls the knife out of Vernita's chest]], a metallic "shing" sound effect is heard, even though metal colliding with flesh shouldn't make such a sound.
66* AuthorAppeal: Like a lot of Tarantino's movies, there's a lot of scenes involving women's bare feet. Most notable is the infamous "wiggle your big toe" scene.
67* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: O-Ren Ishii's white robes are this to an extent, as they're just rarely worn as opposed to completely unworn. The Bride's Bruce Lee-inspired striped suit also counts to a degree.
68* BadassBoast: After Hanzo makes a sword for the Bride:
69-->'''Hattori Hanzo:''' I can tell you with no ego, this is my finest sword. If on your journey, you should encounter God, God will be cut.
70* BadassInANiceSuit: Just about everyone, but especially Elle Driver from the second movie. Incidentally, it's the [[LimitedWardrobe same suit]] worn by [[Film/PulpFiction Mia]] and [[Film/JackieBrown Jackie Brown]].
71* BathroomBrawl: In ''Vol. 2'', the Bride fights Elle Driver in a cramped trailer, eventually spilling over to the even-more cramped bathroom.
72* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: The Bride is a gorgeous blonde who gets beat up, slashed up, bloodied, shot up, and even buried alive, and still kicks serious ass on just about everybody she meets -- and this is a woman who is referred to as being ''very'' beautiful by multiple people. As bloodied and bruised as she gets, none of her wounds appear to leave a visible ''lasting'' mark that mars her beauty. She's lucky she [[MarkOfShame wasn't one of Esteban's girls]].
73* BerserkButton:
74** The penalty for disparaging O-Ren Ishii's Chinese or American heritage is [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]], which she does to Boss Tanaka following her taking power at the crime council when he insults her heritage. Her warning about the penalty leads to her SuddenlyShouting (see below).
75** Pai Mei is practically one big walking berserk button; even the slightest perceived offense, intentional or not, can result in him inflicting grievous bodily harm on you, if you're lucky.
76*** Let's put it this way: in a story related to us by [[UnreliableNarrator Bill]], [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane which may or may not have taken place during the 11th century (making Pai Mei at least a thousand years old)]], he responds to a Shaolin's monk lack of thanking him for a respectful nod of the head -- which the monk may or may not have actually been able to see -- by requesting the neck of the Shaolin temple's master. His response to being refused? Massacring everyone in the Shaolin temple, of course!
77* BestServedCold: The Bride is forced by circumstance to wait a long time in a coma to get her revenge, but she dishes it out. The quote even the opening title card, cited as an old Klingon proverb no less.
78* BetweenMyLegs: When The Bride just finishes off the Crazy 88 leader, Johnny Mo, the latter falls to the bloody pond and is shot between her legs.
79* BilingualBonus: On the first film's poster, the characters in the background are a katakana transliteration of "Kill Bill" (in this case, reading Kiru Biru) -- likely to save space, since the actual translation would be 「ビルを殺す」 "Biru o korosu". The Chinese characters on Volume II's poster say "pursue and kill Bill."
80** The scene with Gogo and the businessman has a bit of this. When he asks what Gogo thinks of Ferraris, he's actually propositioning her for sex. In Tokyo, "Ferrari" is slang for fellatio.
81* BitsOfMeKeepPassingOut: PlayedForDrama when the Bride's legs have wasted away from atrophy, as a result of her being comatose for years on end.
82* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Bride gets her revenge by killing Bill and assumes custody of B.B., but all of her friends (including her fellow assassins that turned on her) and family are dead, leaving her alone and having to start over from square one. Not only that, but she'll have to figure out how to connect with B.B. after being estranged from her for four years, not even being awake to give birth to her.]]
83* BlackAndGrayMorality: "That woman deserves her revenge. And we deserve to die. But then again, so does she."
84* BlackBlood: The Crazy 88s fight [[ArtShift suddenly shifts to black-and-white]] to avoid an NC-17 rating. Averted in the extended international cut, which features the scene in full color. Several shots from the black and white section appear in color during the end credits for ''Vol. II''.
85* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Played with. Vernita Green dies at the beginning of Vol. 1, but is actually the ''second'' Deadly Viper to be killed by the Bride, since the rest of Vol. 1 is a flashback. (The effect on her screen time is the same, though.)
86* BladeLock: The Bride and Elle do this, [[spoiler:giving Beatrix a golden opportunity to rip out Elle's remaining eye]].
87* BladeRun: Pai Mei does this to the Bride. She is... surprised, to say the least.
88* BloodIsSquickerInWater: The Crazy 88 fight ends up with several of the mooks, and Johnny Mo, lying dead in the restaurant's now-crimson ornamental water features.
89* BloodFromTheMouth: Vernita Green, after getting a knife to her chest.
90* BloodSplatteredInnocents:
91** The Bride introduces O-Ren through a StartOfDarkness flashback to O-Ren's childhood done in anime style, where Boss Matsumoto and his men kill both of her parents as she hides under the bed. At one point, a sword blade goes through her mother and the bed courtesy of Matsumoto himself, and her mother's blood drips down onto her. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSIET_P9Ckk Luis Bacalov's beautiful score from "The Grand Duel"]] plays throughout.
92*** Later during the flashback, two women wearing beauty pageant sashes are splattered with blood when O-Ren assassinates a government official in his limousine.
93** Not to mention that the second "chapter" of the movie is entitled ''The Blood Splattered Bride'', a ShoutOut to a LesbianVampire film with the same name. In fact, [[spoiler:she's splattered with blood for pretty much the majority of the movie.]]
94*** [[spoiler:She sure as hell ain't innocent for most of it, though.]]
95* BloodyHilarious:
96** The blood fountain ([[HighPressureBlood and there really is no other way to describe it]]) that erupts when O-Ren cuts off Boss Tanaka's head is ''hilarious'', if only for the fact that it sprays blood five ''feet'' into the air for a solid 10 seconds.
97** As well as when the Bride chops off Sofie Fatale's arm.
98** Amazingly, the sound of Boss Tanaka's blood is even ''more'' graphic on the soundtrack album than the film itself.
99* BookEnds:
100** As a duology, ''Film/KillBill'' begins and ends with the Bride [[spoiler:hesitating to kill someone with their child present, sending the child away, planning to fight in an alternate location away from the child, and finally being forced to kill them in a relative anticlimax because they forced her hand by trying to attack her with her guard down]].
101** The last thing the Bride asks Bill before the wedding rehearsal (and subsequent massacre) begins is "Do I look pretty?". Years later, when [[spoiler: Beatrix hits Bill with the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique]], he asks her, "How do I look?"
102* BoringButPractical: Between Kung-Fu masters, armies of katana-wielding henchmen, expert assassins, and knife-fighting {{Mama Bear}}s, [[spoiler:Budd]] easily incapacitates and comes closest to killing the Bride out of all of them with nothing but [[spoiler:a shotgun full of rock salt and a syringe of tranquilizer.]]
103* BornInTheWrongCentury: For the most part, most of the characters try to live by the sword, but even so, being assassins, a lot of them are {{Combat Pragmatist}}s; even the Bride seems ready to [[TitleDrop kill Bill]] with a gun at first.
104* {{Bowdlerize}}: TV cuts of the movie obviously have to tone down the violence and language a bit to meet network standards. One of the most notorious: in the TBS cut, the "Pussy Wagon" is visibly changed to a ''Party'' Wagon, and Buck introduces himself by saying "My name is Buck and I'm here to [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion party]]." Would it have been that hard to change his name to "Marty?"
105* BreastAttack:
106** Budd opens his 'duel' with the Bride by shooting her in the chest with rock salt. (He specifically says he was aiming for her breasts.) This attack, more than any other across both films, incapacitates the Bride; she spends the next two minutes writhing feebly and moaning in pain, especially after Budd rolls her over onto her wounded front.
107** The Bride doles one out to Gogo Yubari's sister Yuki when the latter ambushes her in the original script.
108--->'''Yuki:''' You fucking bitch! You shot me in my breast! They're not fully developed yet, you fucking asshole! Now I'm always gonna have a dimple!
109* BrickBreak: A variant of this with a wooden board is used as part of Pai Mei's training for the Bride. In Vol. 2, she [[ChekhovsSkill puts this to use]] after Budd buries her alive in a wooden coffin.
110* BrickJoke:
111** When the Bride says to Nikki that "It was not my intention to do this [killing Vernita, her mother] in front of you. For that I'm sorry. But you can take my word for it, your mother had it comin'. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I'll be waiting."
112** Quentin was planning a third volume of the story, to be released in 2014, and he dropped that half of the brick joke knowing it would be ''[[CrazyPrepared eleven years]]'' [[FridgeBrilliance before it would pay off.]] As of 2015, Volume 3 hasn't even seen the announcement stage.
113** Pai Mei scoffs that American women are only good for ordering in restaurants. Several months of brutal training, a few years, and a live burial later, after clawing her way out of the grave, the Bride goes into a cafe and asks for some water.
114* BuriedAlive: What Budd does to the Bride in Volume 2. She gets out.
115* CameraAbuse: After the Bride casually severs Sofie's arm, while Sofie rolls on the floor in agony, her stump shoots some blood onto the camera lens.
116* CampfireCharacterExploration: Bill tells Beatrix the story of Pai Mei while both are seated by a campfire somewhere in the Chinese countryside. With the aid of a flute, Bill tells Pai Mei's tale in a "Music/PeterAndTheWolf" type fashion.
117* TheCanKickedHim: Elle Driver gets her face forced into Budd's toilet by the Bride during their fight, to the point where she has to flush it to save herself from drowning.
118* CarnivalOfKillers: The protagonist is a former member of a Carnival of Killers, all with their own specializations and codenamed after different snake species. She ends up massacring most of the other members on her way to, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin kill Bill]], the leader of the organization.
119* CastingGag: Casting Sonny Chiba as OldMaster Hattori Hanzo, as Chiba had previously played the legendary figure in a Japanese TV series.
120* CatapultNightmare: The Bride's awakening from her coma.
121** A CallBack to ''Film/PulpFiction'''s epinephrine-shot scene, with a mosquito proboscis taking the place of the syringe.
122* CatchAndReturn: In the Crazy 88 fight scene, a hatchet gets thrown at the Bride, and she catches it ''right'' before it hits her. After the thrower throws a second hatchet -- [[DeadlyDodging which she dodges, causing it to hit another one of the Crazy 88s]] -- the Bride throws hers right back into the thrower's forehead.
123* CatFight / DesignatedGirlFight: Subverted consistently. None of the fights look like {{Fanservice}} for titillating male audiences, and the women are fighting as brutally as you'd expect from men -- even more brutally, sometimes, with no scratching and hair-pulling. The Bride's fight with Elle Driver in particular is especially vicious and sees both of them covered in blood, sweat, [[{{Squick}} spat tobacco, and toilet water]].
124* CeilingCling: The Bride does this to hide from Gogo Yubari in the restaurant where O-Ren and her entourage are eating.
125* CelebCrush: Bill's father figure Esteban Vihaio, a Mexican pimp, tells a story about how he once took Bill to the movies when he was a little boy. He could tell that Bill was drawn to blondes when he noted that the boy had a PrecociousCrush on 1940s-1950s movie star Creator/LanaTurner.
126* ChekhovsSkill:
127** The Bride uses the punch through wood that Pai Mei taught her to [[spoiler:get out of her coffin]].
128** That move where she [[EyeScream snatches your eye right out of its socket]]. She learned it from Pai Mei, uses it on one of the Crazy 88s, then uses it to defeat [[spoiler:Elle]].
129** Pai Mei's Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique. Bill tells the Bride that Pai Mei doesn't teach the technique to anyone, and [[spoiler:ends up on the receiving end of it [[{{Irony}} from the Bride, as taught by Pai Mei]]]].
130* CodeName: The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad uses the names of lethal snakes as code names. The Bride's was "Black Mamba." This also doubles as NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast -- the Black Mamba is generally considered to be the most deadly snake in the world[[note]]Black Mambas are closely related to cobras (they even have hoods), and have similar venom toxicity, but are much faster and more aggressive than cobras, often biting multiple times during a strike. They are also more likely to be encountered in remote areas that make it difficult to reach a hospital in time for antivenom to be administered[[/note]], which leads to the question of how the others didn't see the end coming.
131* ColdBloodedTorture: How the Bride gets information about the [=DiVAS=] from Sofie.
132-->'''The Bride:''' What I am going to do is ask you questions, and every time you don't give me answers, I'm going to cut something off. And I promise you... they ''will be things you will miss''.
133** She directly follows this by threatening to cut off her ''other'' arm.
134* ColorMotif: The Bride's color is yellow. The handle of her blade has yellow stripes, her motorcycle is yellow, and (most obviously) her iconic jumpsuit is yellow.
135* CombatBreakdown: The battle between Elle and the Bride starts off pretty viciously already, but by the end, it has devolved into a brutal brawl in which the two assassins resort to [[CombatPragmatist every single dirty trick and tool available to them]].
136* CombatPragmatist: Played with.
137** Budd appears to be highly honorable at first, what with his talk of "she deserves her revenge, and we deserve to die" and all that. He ends up [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just shooting]] the Bride. [[BreastAttack In the tits.]] With rock salt. The trope is then inverted because Elle gets ''pissed'' that the Bride, her WorthyOpponent, got killed by this lazy schmuck and gives him the most painfully ironic death she can devise as a result.
138** The Bride herself. She attacks Elle with, among other things, a TV antenna, a lamp, a chair, and a toilet (both smashing with pieces of it and trying to drown her in it).
139** Prior to this, she and Vernita attack each other (and defend themselves) with ordinary household things like a frying pan and a coffee table. And Green turns out to have been keeping a hidden gun in her kitchen just in case.
140** And Elle [[spoiler:poisoning Pai Mei, who is so badass poison is the only possible way to kill him. Supposedly, anyway.]]
141** The Bride defeats Gogo with the ultimate weapon in the series: a 2x4 with a nail through it.
142* ConservationOfNinjitsu: The entire Crazy 88 fight. There are at least thirty, and probably more, of them against the Bride. Guess who wins.
143* ContractOnTheHitman: The film kicks off with the Bride's former assassination squad trying to kill her.
144* ConvenientComa: The Bride is put into one of these for four years following Bill putting a bullet through her skull.
145* ConversationalTroping: When the Bride finally confronts Bill, he monologues about the nature of the SecretIdentity in superhero comics. Bill points out that whereas most heroes have to put on the costume to become their alter egos, since Superman was born as the alien Kal-El, his alter ego is in fact Clark Kent. Bill theorizes that Clark Kent is Superman's critique of humanity, comparing him to the Bride trying to blend in as a normal citizen when she was really born to be an assassin.
146* CoolCar: The Pussy Wagon, which Tarantino actually owns (it's not his daily drive, he just kept it after the movie), and would later be featured prominently in Music/LadyGaga's ''Telephone'' video. You can actually see it parked in Tarantino's driveway on Google Maps.
147* CoolSword: EVERY sword made by Hattori Hanzo, but especially the Bride's sword.
148* CountryMatters: Possibly the gentlest, most heart-warming invocation of the trope in cinema.
149-->"You're not a bad person. You're a terrific person. You're my favorite person. But every once in a while... you can be a real ''cunt''."
150* CreepyOrderly: Buck, the scumbag rapist from the hospital scene.
151* CrossCounter: There's one in the fight between the Bride and Elle Driver.
152* CruelMercy: [[spoiler:How Beatrix deals with Elle Driver, choosing to blind her instead of killing her]].
153* CryLaughing: The Bride, on a bathroom floor, after [[spoiler:realizing that, with Bill dead and her daughter by her side, she is free to start a new life]].
154* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:Beatrix vs. Bill -- she manages to catch his sword ''in her sheath'' before using the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique on him]].
155** The Bride's first sparring match with Pai Mei didn't exactly go well for her. [[spoiler:She didn't land a single hit on him, and he almost broke her arm.]]
156* CycleOfRevenge: Not shown, but the possibility is definitely left open. Vernita is killed in front of her daughter Nikki, whom the Bride understands might someday want revenge against her.
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160* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The Five Point Palm Exploding Heart is the deadliest fighting technique since it could [[spoiler:slowly-but-surely kill the victims without them realized it]] that Pai Mei refused to teach it to anyone (including Bill). That’s why, Bill is so surprised upon learning that the Bride is revealed to [[spoiler: be [[TheChosenOne the only one]] who inherits this top secret technique when using it to kill him]].
161* DarkActionGirl: Every major female character other than Sofie Fatale, Nikki Green, and [[spoiler:B.B.]]
162** {{Dark|ActionGirl}} ActionMom: Vernita and [[spoiler:Beatrix]] become this after the incident in the church.
163* DawsonCasting: Played for comedy during an aside flashback in ''Vol. 2'', where the Bride is sitting through a roll call in her elementary school classroom. When the teacher eventually calls for "[[spoiler:Beatrix Kiddo]]", it cuts to her, still being played by the ''very'' adult Uma Thurman, saying "Here."
164* DeadlyDoctor: Subverted. Elle dresses up as a nurse so she can get close enough to the comatose Bride to give her a lethal injection, but is stopped from doing so by Bill, and she is ''not'' happy about it.
165* DeathByCameo: Quentin Tarantino plays one of the Crazy 88, and ends up being the first one of them to get sliced up by the Bride.
166* DeathByIrony: Budd, while escaping from death from the Bride, codenamed "Black Mamba" as one of the [=DiVAS=], is killed by the venom of an actual black mamba.
167* DeathByMaterialism: An unintentional example with [[spoiler:Budd. Elle gives him a suitcase full of money with the black mamba hidden in the money, but there's no indication or warning that it's in there.]] His fate comes by surprise.
168* DeliberatelyMonochrome:
169** The wedding flashbacks that open both portions of the saga.
170** A portion of the fight at the House of Blue Leaves (at least in America). The moment where it goes to monochrome is right when the Bride [[EyeScream rips out one of the Crazy 88's eyes]].
171** Also, a few of the driving scenes (particularly the ones in front of the back-projection).
172* DeliverUsFromEvil: The Bride's motive for going good.
173* DiscOneFinalDungeon: The House of Blue Leaves, complete with foot soldiers, mini-bosses, and DiscOneFinalBoss (O-Ren).
174* DisproportionateRetribution: Where to start?
175** Found within the story of Pai Mei that Bill tells the Bride. Pai Mei once offered a small nod of deference (a rare gesture) to a passing Shaolin monk, who failed to return it -- for all anyone knows, the monk might not have even noticed it. For this grave insult, Pai Mei headed to the Shaolin Temple and demanded the neck of the head abbot as an apology. When the other monks pleaded for mercy and tried to console Pai Mei, he slaughtered every one of them, burning the monastery down afterwards.
176** Also:
177--->'''Bill:''' Not only are you ''not dead'', you're getting married... to some fucking jerk. And you're ''pregnant''. I... [[{{Understatement}} overreacted]].\
178''[long pause, [[DoubleTake as the Bride attempts to process what she just heard]]]''\
179'''The Bride:''' ''[leans forward in a KubrickStare]'' ...You ''"overreacted"?''
180** Pai Mei again, plucking Elle Driver's eye out for calling him a "miserable old fool". [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Pai Mei, Elle is just as much a psychopath as he was...]]
181*** It supposedly could have been worse for Elle: Bill warns Beatrix that Pai Mei was also liable to snap someone's back for disrespect. So you could say she got off easy...
182* DividedForPublication: Tarantino's original vision of ''Kill Bill'' was as a single film, but it was cut in half due to its length. See also the {{Recut}}[=/=]GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion entry below for details about ''The Whole Bloody Affair'', the single-film cut that was screened at Cannes.
183* DoorFu: The Bride spends several minutes smashing [[{{Jerkass}} Buck]]'s head in this way.
184* DoubleKnockout: When The Bride fights Elle in Budd’s trailer, there’s a part where they kick each other and get thrown at the same time with [[SplitScreenReaction split screen]].
185* DoubleTake: When the Bride is finally able to sit down with Bill and confront him about what he did, he admits that he "[[{{Understatement}} overreacted]]". The Bride obviously waits for him to say more, and when he doesn't, she sits visibly nonplussed for a long moment as she tries to process, that no, really, this is all Bill is willing to say about it.
186* DramaticDrop: When the Bride says she is looking for Hattori Hanzo, Hanzo drops the food he is preparing. We hear his assistant drop a bottle of sake off camera.
187* DramaticRedSamuraiBackground: As [[WordOfGod a direct]] ShoutOut to ''Samurai Fiction'', Kill Bill features a silhouetted battle, but against a blue backdrop instead. There is some action silhouetted in red, but it's only a training sequence.
188* DualWielding: A member of the Crazy 88, and the Bride herself (although briefly) during the same scene.
189* DudeShesLikeInAComa: "My name's Buck, and I'm here to fuck."
190* DullSurprise: Nikki. Most kids [[spoiler:would scream their heads off in reaction to seeing their mother get killed.]] She just stares.
191* DumbBlonde:
192** A defiant Sofie Fatale calls the Bride this, even after having a limb hacked off.
193** Budd evokes this trope when talking about the blonde [[spoiler: Beatrix]] to the face of the equally golden-haired (and ''very'' vindictive) Elle Driver:
194--->'''Budd:''' Bill thought she was so damn smart. And I tried to tell him she was just smart -- for a blonde.
195* DyingTruce: [[spoiler:After having the Five Point Palm technique performed on him, Bill knows he's a dead man walking. He has a last bit of conversation with the Bride before peacefully walking to his death.]]
196* TheDyingWalk: Anyone hit with the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart technique will die as soon as they take five steps. [[spoiler:The Bride uses it on Bill at the end, and he does a very dignified and symbolic walking away from her and his life as he dies.]]
197* DynamicEntry: The Bride to Elle, starting off their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo8ZM7PyRzU fight]].
198* EarnYourHappyEnding: The Bride goes to hell and back, but in the end she gets one of Tarantino's most triumphant endings after [[spoiler:completing her revenge and being reunited with her daughter she thought was dead.]]
199* EnforcedTrope: Censor bleeps are used to maintain NoNameGiven until the time is right. Hints are dropped, though.
200* {{Epigraph}}: Volume 1 opens with the quote "Revenge is a dish best served cold", which is WrongfullyAttributed as being an [[InTheOriginalKlingon old Klingon proverb]].
201* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Played with. The Bride is a mass-murderer who, in her RoaringRampageOfRevenge, has killed, hacked off parts of, and tortured her former colleagues, moving coldly onto her next target without even waiting for the blood to stop pooling beneath the chopped-up bodies, but when Elle reveals that she killed the Bride's master, she ''gets even more [[BerserkButton fucking pissed!]]''
202* EvenEvilHasStandards:
203** Bill will be "a murdering bastard" any day, but he will not (in the end) kill someone in their sleep, because "that thing would lower us".
204** The Bride is sadistic and a mass-murderer, but she shows this as well. She sticks to the people on her list (and the Crazy 88) despite pointing out to Vernita to make things even, she would have to kill Vernita, her daughter, and her husband. She is also willing to stop the fight in front of Vernita's daughter, [[spoiler:and appears genuinely regretful that she killed Vernita in front of her daughter]]. She also [[SparingTheFinalMook spares one of the Crazy 88 when it turns out that he is just a teenager who is obviously hanging with the wrong crowd]].
205** The scene that starts the Bride's plan to leave the [=DiVAS=] counts as well. [[spoiler:She's just discovered she's pregnant, and the assassin sent to kill her agrees to go home rather than kill a pregnant woman.]]
206* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: The Bride is allowed to take her katana on the plane with her, because it's considered matter-of-fact for ''everybody'' at the airport (and, by extension, the country of Japan) to have a katana. In that scene, where the Bride is flying out of Japan and formulating her death list, there is also a katana across the aisle from her, and the man seated behind the Bride has one as well. Probably everyone on the plane has one. In fact, the plane has special katana holsters attached to each seat.
207* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Master assassin Bill has a noted preference for blondes. He was involved with at least two of his students, both beautiful blonde women (the Bride and Elle Driver), and his pimp father figure notes that he had a [[PrecociousCrush Precocious]] CelebCrush on Lana Turner after seeing her in ''Film/ThePostmanAlwaysRingsTwice1946'' as a small boy.
208* EvilGloating: Elle, did you 'really' need to flaunt [[spoiler:Pai Mei's death and how you were going to kill the Bride]] for a minute and a half?
209* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The whole point of the films is to chronicle the Bride's quest to ''[[TitleDrop Kill Bill]]''.
210* {{Expy}}: The [=DiVAS=] [[WordOfGod are based]] on the show "Fox Force Five" that Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) mentions in ''Film/PulpFiction''.
211** Either this or CaptainErsatz, but Creator/QuentinTarantino strongly based [[WordOfGod Elle Driver]] on [[Film/SwitchbladeSisters Patch]].
212* EyepatchOfPower: Elle Driver wears an eye patch. The origins of her eye injury are explored, but she is no less dangerous for being a cyclops.
213* EyeScream:
214** In one Vol. 2 flashback, Elle Driver mouths off to Pai Mei, and he rips one of her eyes out in response. When the Bride finally confronts Elle, not only does she [[spoiler:rip out her remaining eye, but she also ''crushes it under her foot.'']]
215** The Bride rips out one of the Crazy 88's eyes in Vol. 1 in the same manner. An extended cut has her shove it down another Crazy 88's throat.
216* FaceDeathWithDignity: Bill [[spoiler:after he's been five-point-exploding-heart-palmed. He straightens his jacket and wipes the blood off his lip, before getting up and walking away until he falls down dead.]]
217-->'''[[spoiler:Bill:]]''' How do I look?\
218'''The Bride:''' You look ready.
219* FamilyThemeNaming: Bill and Budd are brothers with four-letter names that start with a "B" and end with a double letter. [[spoiler:The matching first letter even extends to Bill's lover Beatrix, a.k.a. the Bride, and their daughter B.B.]]
220* {{Fanservice}}: [[InformedAttractiveness The Bride is said to be one of the most beautiful women in the world]], but she doesn't wear makeup and slogs through much of the films covered in sweat, dirt, mud, and blood. This may or may not be to your taste.
221** The Bride is played by ''Uma Thurman''. [[UnkemptBeauty Even without makeup]], she's stunning.
222** Elle in a nurse outfit. The red cross on her eyepatch really shows the extra effort.
223** Gogo Yubari in her [[{{Joshikousei}} school uniform]], despite being a [[GirlWithPsychoWeapon girl with a psycho weapon]], or two.
224* FateWorseThanDeath:
225** The Bride gets this TWICE. First, she is implied to have been repeatedly raped while comatose from her assassination attempt, and then she is BuriedAlive.
226** Elle stumbling around Budd's trailer with no eyes, and that question mark implying she's still there, bloody and confused (even though it's possible that the black mamba in the trailer killed her).
227* FauxFluency: Creator/LucyLiu plays a character who was supposedly born and raised in Japan, but has a heavy American accent. Possibly justified, as U.S. military brats raised on military bases tend to speak with American accents, but as she's voiced by a native Japanese speaker in her flashbacks, it's particularly noticeable.
228** Creator/UmaThurman likewise recites all her Japanese lines phonetically.
229* FeetFirstIntroduction: The opening has a close-up shot on Bill's boots walking towards the bride. His face is first shown in the second movie.
230* FemaleGroinInvincibility: Averted. The Bride and Elle hit each other in the groin several times as their battle within the cramped trailer [[CombatBreakdown rapidly degenerates into chaos]]. In all occasions, it is shown to be an effective and painful move.
231* FingerPokeOfDoom: The Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, which is performed by jabbing five pressure points on the body with stiffened fingers.
232%% * FingerTwitchingRevival:
233* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first song heard in Vol. 1 is "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" by Nancy Sinatra. In Vol. 2, [[spoiler:when the Bride first sees her daughter, she's pointing a toy gun at her and shouting "Bang bang!"]]
234* FourIsDeath: A downplayed example, as the targets the Bride mainly focuses on (besides Bill) are the four members of the [=DiVAS=] who tried to assassinate her at her wedding. Note that while she does succeed in killing two of them, one is killed by another, and said other (her fourth target) doesn't actually die.
235** Also PlayedStraight, as both films together are four hours long. The Bride is in a coma for four years. Counting both volumes as one movie, it is the fourth film by Tarantino. The list goes on.
236* FourTemperamentEnsemble: A villainous example. Bill is phlegmatic, Elle Driver is choleric, Budd is sanguine, Vernita Green is leukine, and O-Ren Ishii is melancholic.
237* FunnyBruceLeeNoises: Johnny Mo makes these throughout his fight with the Bride.
238* FunWithAcronyms: The Deadly Viper Assassin Squad -- [=DiVAS=].
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242* GenreMashup: Take a {{Revenge}} thriller, add {{Samurai}}[=/=]martial arts movies, a dash of {{Spaghetti Western}}, and a pinch of {{Anime}}, and you get ''Kill Bill''.
243* GenreShift: Volume 1 is an ode to kung fu movies. Volume 2 is an ode to the Western, as well as a deconstruction of Volume 1.
244* GenreThrowback: To ''Film/LadySnowblood'', ''Film/ThrillerACruelPicture'', and every Hong Kong martial arts and Japanese Chanbara film ever made.
245* GoToYourRoom: Downplayed. In the middle of a brutal fight, Vernita's daughter, Nikki, arrives home from her school, Vernita [[MeaningfulLook pleads]] Beatrix to stop fighting. When Nikki enters the house and briefly talks with her mom as well as introducing each other with Beatrix, her mom orders her to go to her room out of protecting her daughter from the risk of getting killed.
246* {{Gorn}}: Even for Tarantino, ''Kill Bill'' is soaked in blood and gruesome kills. Blood spurts at high pressures feet into the air from stab wounds, a great many limbs are severed from their bodies, and fleshy bits go everywhere they shouldn't be.
247* GoryDiscretionShot:
248** The trucker who pays $75 to rape the now conscious Bride presumably [[spoiler:has his lip bit off and his throat torn out with her teeth.]]
249** [[spoiler:When the Bride kills O-Ren, a line of blood hits the snow first, followed by the top of O-Ren's skull.]]
250*** Oddly, this precedes a [[{{Gorn}} gory]] [[GrossUpCloseUp close-up shot]] of [[spoiler:O-Ren's scalped head and sliced brain]].
251* GottaKillThemAll: The Bride is out to enact her revenge on every last member of the [=DiVAS=] and lastly Bill himself. She even has a hit list written out that we get to see.
252* GratuitousEnglish: O-Ren, addressing a group of Japanese {{Yakuza}} after killing one of their leaders, says, "So that you understand how serious I am, I'm going to say this in English."
253* GroinAttack:
254** A few of them in the Bride's fight with Vernita, though they are only noticeable if one is watching closely.
255** The Bride ''tries'' to do this on Pai Mei, but it turns out that he has BallsOfSteel.
256** The Bride and Elle hit each other with these during their fight, which are [[RealityIsUnrealistic depicted as effective]].
257* GrossUpCloseUp: We get two equally unappetizing ones after [[spoiler:the Bride rips out Elle's remaining eye: we get one of her eye on the floor, and a subsequent one of the Bride crushing the eye under her bare foot]].
258* HairTriggerSoundEffect: The Pai Mei training montages. Every single movement is accompanied by a cheesy whipping sound effect. Even the Bride's ponytail and Pai Mei's beard do some, making it [[{{Pun}} literally]] a [[HairTriggerSoundEffect hair-triggered sound effect.]]
259* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: During the Crazy 88 sword battle, the Bride hands this out to one unfortunate {{Mook}}, who is split in half right down the middle with her [[CoolSword Hattori Hanzo sword]].
260* HallwayFight: The Bride and Elle briefly get into a sword fight in the hallway of Budd's trailer, which leads to the Bride [[spoiler:ripping the eye from her socket. Considering she only had one eye to begin with, it gives her the win.]]
261* HarmfulToMinors:
262** O-Ren Ishii witnessed the death of her parents at the hands of Boss Matsumoto when she was nine, and took her vengeance ''two years later''.
263** The Bride tries to avoid this when she kills Vernita Green, but winds up doing it right in front of her daughter anyway. Knowing full well what usually happens to a kid after this, she tells her "When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I'll be waiting." (This is a great SequelHook. Tarantino is on record as having ideas for ''Kill Bill'' Volumes 3 and 4 already rolling around in his brain.)
264* HighOnHomicide: After O-Ren kills Boss Matsumoto, she tilts her head back and takes a deep breath, having gotten her revenge.
265* HighPressureBlood: It's all over the place in the sections with O-Ren Ishii, particularly where she stabs Boss Matsumoto and his blood soaks the entire room, and in the House of Blue Leaves fight, where one sword wound results in a geyser of blood at least five feet high.
266* HistoricalDomainCharacter:
267** Pai Mei is believed to have been [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bak_Mei a real person]], although there's still debate about if this is true or not.
268** "Hattori Hanzo" is the name of a legendary real-life samurai who lived in the 16th century (though he is also [[ArtisticLicenseHistory commonly portrayed as a]] {{ninja}}). He had previously been played in a Japanese TV series by... [[CastingGag Sonny Chiba]].
269* HollywoodHealing: The Bride shows a wonderful knack for shrugging off various injuries, and usually looks pristine the next day.
270* HomeFieldAdvantage:
271** O-Ren certainly has the advantage in Tokyo. Part of that advantage is her personal army and right-hand [[TheDragon Dragon]].
272** Vernita Green and Budd enjoy this as well, with Budd using it (and the added advantage of forewarning) to ''great'' success.
273* HonorBeforeReason:
274** The Bride's conduct in the saga. She never "just shoots" her enemies like a coward; instead, she always honorably challenges them in a manner that allows them an equal chance at victory. She doesn't do this in a simple way, though: the Bride ''wants'' her revenge, and she won't hesitate to use dirty tricks if they're needed to win -- [[EyeScream ripping eyes out]], using {{improvised weapon}}s, [[DynamicEntry attacking by surprise]], you name it.
275** Elle averts this. She's unhappy that Bill called off the hit on the Bride while she was still comatose; [[spoiler:uses a [[AnimalMetaphor black mamba]] to kill Budd out of [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou pure jealousy and spite]] (though Elle actually accuses ''Budd'' of this trope's inversion, citing the reason as "regret that perhaps the greatest warrior I've ever met... met her end at the hands of a ''bushwhackin[='=]'', scrub, alky piece of shit like you")]]; and [[spoiler:she killed Pai Mei simply by poisoning his fish heads]].
276** Budd's decision to shoot the Bride. While the Bride very clearly challenges both Vernita Green (by knocking on her door unarmed) and O-Ren (by facing her minions first), she seems unwilling to grant the same favor to Budd -- in fact, she ends up breaking into his trailer without warning, while being armed already with her katana. Whether she does so because she doesn't expect Budd to offer a fair fight, or because she underrated his value as a fighter, is never made clear. At the end of the day, Budd isn't given a clear occasion for a real duel, so his responding to the Bride's ambush with one of his own does not appear to be that cowardly. Budd's actions [[spoiler:''after'' the rock-salt buckshot might be interpreted as this. He's well aware of what kind of training the Bride had had with Pai Mei, so he was giving her the chance to claw her way back out of her grave if she had the will to do so.]]
277** In the original script, although the Bride is still honorable, she does have occasional 'reason over honor' moments -- most notably, the Bride actually planned to snipe Bill from far away, under the justification that he originally called a bushwhack on her and she was just repaying the favor. She doesn't go through with it because [[spoiler:she sees B.B. through the scope and realizes that her daughter was still alive]].
278* IJustWantToBeYou: Played for laughs with Vernita Green in regards to the Bride's [=DiVAS=] codename "[[IronicNickname Black Mamba]]":
279-->'''Vernita:''' ''I'' shoulda been motherfuckin' "Black Mamba"!
280* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: "I want him to know what ''I'' know. I want him to know... I ''want'' him to know."
281* IllKillYou: Elle Driver after [[spoiler:being reduced to a screaming psychotic wreck after the Bride snatches out her other eye and crushes it underfoot]].
282* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The fate of O-Ren's parents; her father was run through by one of Boss Matsumoto's men while her mother was pinned to a bed with a katana (which narrowly avoided hitting O-Ren as she hid underneath). This is also the fate of Boss Matsumoto, the boss that ordered their deaths, in O-Ren's revenge.
283* ImprobablyQuickComaRecovery: After four years in coma, the Bride is miraculously awake and sits up abruptly. She can't even walk, yet she manages to beat her rapists single-handedly. After spending ''just'' 13 hours regaining her ability to move her legs, she could finally walk again, drives the Pussy Wagon, stays healthy and becomes even more badass afterwards. In real life, recovery from a four-year coma should have taken months or even likely years.
284* InfoDrop: The protagonist is usually known only as [[NoNameGiven the Bride]], but there are hints at her real name, and midway through Volume 2, it's revealed to be [[spoiler:Beatrix Kiddo]].
285* InternalReveal: The ending of Volume 1 reveals to the audience that [[spoiler:the Bride's daughter is still alive]]. The Bride herself doesn't find out until the end of Volume 2, during her final confrontation with Bill.
286* IronicEcho: "[[AndThisIsFor This is for breaking my brother's heart.]]" [[spoiler:The Bride does this again, in a quite literal sense, at the end of the film.]]
287* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Racially prejudiced, misogynist Pai Mei considered the Bride, a blonde white woman, the greatest student he had ever taught -- enough so, even, that she inherited from him his top-secret, super-forbidden Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique. It works the other way around, too: Pai Mei's next, and ultimately final, student was another blonde white woman who happened to be the complete opposite of the Bride and was perfectly willing to kill him over an eye.]]
288* KarmaHoudini: Ernie, the guy that helps Budd [[spoiler:bury the Bride]] in Volume 2. After that scene, he's never seen or heard from again, despite the Bride's dedication to destroying everyone who stands in her way.
289* KarmicDeath:
290** [[spoiler:Elle Driver poisoned Pai Mei after he ripped her eye out, and she sics a [[AnimalMetaphor black mamba]] on Budd after he claims to have killed the Bride. The Bride later rips out Elle's remaining eye, and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard leaves her locked in Budd's trailer with the black mamba in question]].]] Of course, [[spoiler:the list of former members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad shown at the end has a question mark by her name, but scratches through the names of all the ones the Bride killed -- which, if Tarantino is to be believed, is meant to be the opening for a sequel to ''Kill Bill'' involving B.B., Vernita Green's daughter, and a blind Elle and amputee Sofie as the latter daughter's masters.]]
291** Boss Matsumoto is impaled with a katana on a bed, the same way he murdered O-Ren's mother, with O-Ren pretending to be a child prostitute.
292* KatanasAreJustBetter: Played straight and subverted. Although Hattori Hanzo is described as the world's greatest swordmaker, making his katanas the world's greatest swords, the film undercuts the power of the katana on a number of occasions. The Bride gets knocked around quite a bit by a meteor hammer, and is at a disadvantage whenever she's faced with a gun. Her martial arts master is also a Chinese man who lambasts katanas and the Japanese.
293* KensingtonGore: Scads and scads of neon-red fake blood are used, especially in Part 1, mostly as a ShoutOut to old Shaw Bros. style Kung Fu movies.
294* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The Bride has been knocked out and tied up by Budd and is at a [[spoiler:cemetary about to be buried alive]]. When Budd tries to grab her arms, she starts struggling. He brings out a can of mace and a flashlight and gives her two options: keep struggling and get the entire can sprayed into her eyes or keep calm and she'll get the flashlight. Either way, she'll still be put in the [[spoiler:coffin and buried]]. The Bride relaxes and nods her head in the direction of the flashlight. Budd even calls that a wise decision.
295* KungFoley: There are plenty of "wooshes" from all of the martial arts moves and lots of sword noises in the fights.
296* LeftForDead: [[spoiler:Elle Driver]], after the Bride [[spoiler:plucks her eye out.]] While the credits for volume 2 have the other Vipers' names crossed out, she simply gets a question mark. Presumably [[spoiler:the black mamba bites her]] at some point.
297* {{Leitmotif}}: Whenever the Bride lays her eyes on a target, the sirens from ''Series/Ironside1967'' start blaring.
298* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: Subverted. The Bride tries to set up a duel with Vernita Green [[spoiler:''and'' Bill]], but she ends up killing them just a few moments later.
299* LikeCannotCutLike: While Hattori Hanzo declares the weapon he made for the Bride his finest work, it has no particular advantage over other Hanzo swords in battle, and is incapable of cutting through them like it can other katanas. Alluded to by Budd, who -- when Ellie asks him how the Bride's Hanzo sword compares to his -- answers that you can only compare Hanzo swords to 'every other sword ever made that wasn't made by Hattori Hanzo'.
300* LipLosses:
301** After awakening from her four-year-long coma in Vol. 1, the Bride discovers that Buck the orderly has been prostituting her unconscious body to paying customers. After Buck leaves the room for the sake of his client's privacy, she pretends to still be comatose while the latest john climbs on top of her, and as soon as he tries to kiss her, she chomps down hard on his lower lip -- complete with a charming shot of the damn thing being stretched to its breaking point!
302** In Vol. 2, semi-retired pimp Esteban Vihaio remarks that Bill was unnecessarily harsh in shooting the Bride in the head, claiming that he would have just cut her face. It sounds pleasant by comparison, but then we see that one of his prostitutes is sporting a painful-looking gash running from her lower lip to the base of her nose. Equally unpleasant is the fact that the poor girl can't properly close her mouth as a result, forcing Vihaio to lend her a hankie to mop the saliva off her chin.
303* LostInTranslation: Hattori Hanzo calls his assistant hage, or "baldy", at one point in Japanese, but the subtitles don't convey that. This makes the assistant's next line, "I'm not bald, I shave my head" seem like it comes out of nowhere.
304* LukeYouAreMyFather: In-universe, this happens to the Bride when she discovers that [[spoiler:her daughter is still alive]].
305* MaleGaze: When the Bride is moving through the airport, there's a lingering closeup on her buttocks.
306* ManBitesMan: The Bride's first kill upon getting out of her four-year coma is a trucker who tried to rape her, whose lower lip she ripped off with her teeth.
307* MasterApprenticeChain: The Bride learned her martial arts skills under Pai Mei, the same master who also taught her adversaries Elle Driver and Bill.
308* MediumBlending: O-Ren Ishii's backstory leading up to her takeover of the Yakuza is told through an animated sequence, as shooting that sequence in live-action would have all but ensured an NC-17 rating (and potentially a few arrests).
309-->'''Bride narration:''' Luckily for her, Boss Matsumoto... was a pedophile. ''[cut to a young O-Ren stabbing Boss Matsumoto through the chest while on top of him, apparently in a sexual position]''
310* MightyWhitey: The elderly Chinese kung fu master Pai Mei hates skinny people, blondes, white people, women, Japanese people, and Americans. Therefore, his greatest pupil is a skinny, blond, white American woman who speaks Japanese. Then again, he [[TrainingFromHell put her through Hell]]. She ''earned'' that training. Elle Driver -- also a skinny, white, American blonde woman - notably ''gets her eye ripped out of her head'' for mouthing off to Pai Mei.
311* MoodWhiplash: Two examples, one for each film:
312** In Vol. 1, when the Bride visits Hattori Hanzo for the first time in his sushi diner, the meeting is portrayed as a light-hearted and silly interaction between a naive tourist and a Japanese native... until she drops his real name. The scene instantly becomes deadly serious.
313** In Vol. 2, as the Bride is infiltrating Bill's home and preparing to ambush him, dramatic tension builds... and then she discovers [[spoiler:her 4-year-old daughter playing a game of Wild West with Bill]], which she has no choice but to play along with in an appropriately silly fashion.
314* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: While the Bride herself is a force of nature, an overwhelming majority of her deadliest foes are female, with the only male enemy of particular note, Budd, favoring [[CombatPragmatist guile]] over any kind of fighting ability. [[spoiler:Even [[BigBad Bill]] himself goes down in a fight that, while very intense, is much shorter and more straightforward than anything that comes before it.]] That said, [[OldMaster Pai Mei]] is suggested to be the most dangerous fighter shown in the films, though he stays out of the main plot and never fights the Bride outside of training.
315* MundaneMadeAwesome: "[[SurvivalMantra Wiggle... your big toe.]]" ''O-Ren Ishii's entire sordid backstory was building up to that.'' {{Deconstructed}} for both drama ''and'' humor in that it takes an additional 13 hours for the Bride to get the rest of her lower torso functioning again, presumably with other monologues.
316** Also played for drama is [[spoiler:Bill's death after the Bride lands the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique on him. Never has taking [[{{Determinator}} six]] steps forward ever been so [[TearJerker heartwrenching]].]]
317* MutilationInterrogation: "I'm gonna ask you questions. And every time you don't give me answers...I'm gonna cut something off. And I promise you, they will be things you will miss." No mistake about it, the Bride does not fuck around. And the very first part that she starts with is Sofie's remaining arm, as she already chopped off the other one... The Japanese cut has her making good on this threat.
318* MyGodYouAreSerious: In ''Vol. 2'', Esteban Vihaio tells the Bride that Bill's [[ConvenientComa coma-inducing]] [[TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain gunshot to the head]] was "much too cruel; I [[CruelMercy would've just]] [[AScarToRemember cut]] [[MarkOfShame your face]]." He then calls over his prostitute Clarita, to dab the saliva from her [[FacialHorror artificially-cleft lip]].
319* MythologyGag: To previous works in which Tarantino had a hand:
320** To ''Film/PulpFiction'', when the Bride [[HomageShot moves her finger in a half-rectangle]] and says "That'd be just about square."
321** To the same film, when a mosquito pricks the Bride and she soon after [[CatapultNightmare starts upright from her coma]].
322** When Bill finishes his Superman vs. Spider-Man parable by calling the Bride "a [[Film/NaturalBornKillers natural-born killer]]."
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326* NarrationEcho: At the end of Volume 1, when Sofie Fatale reports back to Bill what the Bride told her:
327-->'''Sofie Fatale''': She said I could keep my wicked life for two reasons.
328-->(Flashback) '''The Bride''': I've allowed you to keep your wicked life for two reasons.
329* NaughtyNurseOutfit: Elle's initial scene has her in an old-fashioned form-fitting nurse's outfit when she infiltrates a hospital to kill the comatose Bride.
330* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistFight: In the spirit of this trope, Elle is so focused on killing the Bride with her own sword that she neglects to protect her face...
331* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Katana versus shotgun. No points for guessing which weapon comes out on top in ''that'' engagement. [[spoiler:The Bride would have died in a huge anti-climax if the shotgun user wasn't using rock salt ammo.]]
332%% * NewOldWest: Volume 2.
333* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown:
334** The beating at the hands of the Deadly Vipers that kicks off the Bride's RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
335** O-Ren's father beat two of Boss Matsumoto's henchmen to death with his bare hands.
336* NonActionGuy: Unlike the rest of his associates, Budd appears to have little to no fighting abilities. He makes up for it with [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim common sense]].
337* NoNameGiven: Forced and lampshaded (as her name is actually bleeped out), but also very subtly averted for the Bride in the first movie: although she seems to be completely pseudonymous, her real name can be seen very briefly on an airline ticket; furthermore, [[spoiler:what seems to be just Bill's affectionate nickname for the Bride -- "kiddo" -- turns out to [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep actually be her]] ''[[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep surname]]'']]. Also, the "silly rabbit, Trix are for kids" exchange between the Bride and O-Ren seems at first to be an entirely random pop culture quote (Tarantino has suggested that he wants it to come across as an old in-joke between the two), but is actually [[spoiler:a veiled reference to the name Beatrix Kiddo.]]
338** Lampshaded when [[spoiler:the Bride's real name is revealed and the scene cuts to a school classroom, with the (fully grown) Bride answering the teacher when her name's called.]]
339* NoodleIncident: We never discover the specific circumstances of when Bill and Budd had a falling out; Bill only refers to their last conversation prior to ''Vol. 2'' as some time ago and having not been a pleasant one.
340** Boss Matsumoto's grievance with O-Ren's parents is not revealed.
341* ObfuscatingStupidity:
342** When the Bride first meets Hattori Hanzo, she pretends not to know how to speak Japanese.
343** Budd, a drunken redneck to most, until they realize he's a cold-blooded killer [[WarriorPoet with a philosophical side]]... and by then it's too late.
344* OffWithHisHead: O-Ren does this to Boss Tanaka for insulting her heritage, and the Bride deals out several of these during the Crazy 88 fight.
345* OhCrap:
346** O-Ren gives a massive "this is gonna suck" when the Bride reveals herself to her, and an even bigger one when the latter slices Sofie's arm off.
347** In O-Ren's backstory, one of the mooks of Boss Matsumoto gets one when, after being knocked down to the floor by being shot through his foot, he sees a young O-Ren under the bed and aiming a gun directly at him. He barely registers fear before getting a bullet in between his eyes.
348** Vernita gets an "Oh, Crap!" face in the middle of her fight with the Bride when her daughter comes home from school. She seems to realize that, whether she survived or not, her daughter was going to be traumatized by this experience.
349* TheOner: A continuous shot in the House of Blue Leaves follows the Bride into the restroom, "Charlie Brown" up to the dining room, then Sofie back to the restroom.
350** Another one follows the Bride's walk down the aisle, the [=DiVAS=]' entrance into the chapel, and the massacre itself.
351* OohMeAccentsSlipping: O-Ren, despite supposedly growing up in Japan, has a rather heavy American accent in Japanese. Lucy Liu did not know Japanese before the role and worked with a language coach to at least sound convincing to an American audience, but was obviously "gaijin" to Japanese audiences. Possibly justified as she's an American military brat; see FauxFluency above.
352* OrderliesAreCreeps: Buck rapes comatose patients and has a side hustle of pimping their bodies out to others (usually truckers of his acquaintance). He ends up as one of the Bride's first victims when she gets out of her four-year coma, losing his life (by means of a heavy steel door), his clothes, and his truck (the Pussy Wagon) in the bargain.
353* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: The Movie. Just how much blood is in that severed arm, anyway?
354* OverlyLongGag: When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6bT7Y-WfoY the Bride arrives]] at the House of Blue Leaves to confront O-Ren, she casually severs Sofie's arm, causing her to fall to the floor in agony, screaming while her stump shoots blood everywhere. The scene then focuses back on the Bride as she approaches O-Ren...and when the scene goes back to Sofie, she's ''still'' screaming, and her stump is ''still'' bleeding out.
355* PaedoHunt: Boss Matsumoto, who the Bride describes as a pedophile, giving young O-Ren the opening to exact her revenge.
356* PayEvilUntoEvil: It's a story about a former assassin assassinating assassins.
357* PillowPistol: In Volume 2, upon learning about her pregnancy, the Bride gets ambushed by a rival [[HitmanWithAHeart Karen Kim]] in her hotel room. After a brief fight, the Bride pulls her gun from under her pillow, resulting in her and Karen [[MexicanStandoff pointing their guns at each other]].
358* PinkIsErotic: Buck is the perverted nurse who has been using the unconscious Bride as a sex slave and had been selling her to clients so they can rape her. Buck's van keys and the van itself are decorated with pink text reading "Pussy Wagon".
359* PoliceAreUseless: The only cops we ever see are those at the scene of the massacre. After that, the movie takes WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief and cranks it up to eleven regarding the ease with which the Bride pulls her whole scheme of revenge off. One would think a woman waking up from such a long coma (let alone one that killed more than one hospital staff member after doing so and is now missing and possibly armed and dangerous) would be on the news somewhere, and they'd know about it, but the Bride manages to take Vernita and O-Ren by near complete surprise (especially given the AnachronicOrder of the events). Vernita clearly has no idea her old teammate's ''entire organization'' was slaughtered in something that would likely be a headline. Also, the Bride was driving around in Buck's very noticeable yellow truck in a residential area. Someone should have noticed this -- to say nothing of the gunshot after a violent fight and argument -- and could have called the police with a description of the vehicle. But apparently, the Bride continued to drive that same vehicle for a while, the equivalent of wearing a sign that says, "I'm a murderer on the lam".
360* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: Bill and Budd. Budd looks visibly younger than Bill and David Carradine was 22 years older than Michael Madsen.
361* PrecisionFStrike:
362** O-Ren in volume 1: "The price you pay for bringing up either my Chinese or American heritage as a negative is... [[OffWithHisHead I collect your fuckin' head.]] [[MakeAnExampleOfThem Just like this fucker right here.]]"
363** Downplayed with [[Film/FromDuskTillDawn Texas Ranger McGraw]]. At first, he disciplines his son for blaspheming in a chapel, but after the Bride reflexively spits in his face: ''"Son Number One? This tall drink of '''cocksucker''' ain't dead."''
364** An excellent one from Bill in volume 2: "You're not a bad person. You're a terrific person. You're my favorite person. But every once in a while...you can be a real [[CountryMatters cunt]]."
365* PreMortemOneLiner: The Bride to [[spoiler:Elle]]: "Bitch, you don't have a future."
366* PrepareToDie: ''(following IKnowYouKnowIKnow)'' "And I want them ''all'' to know that they'll soon be [[GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld as dead as O-Ren]]."
367* PressurePoint: The basis for the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique. The titular five points are pressure points on the body that must be struck in order to perform the "exploding heart" bit.
368%%* ProductPlacement: The Lucky Charms and Bimbo bread in the end.
369* ThePublicDomainChannel: The Bride [[spoiler:and her daughter]] watch an oddly symbolic old ''WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle'' cartoon at the end of the movie.
370-->''"Do you have a magpie in your home? If you do, you are most fortunate. The magpie is the most charming bird in all the world. He is the best friend a farmer ever had. Treat him gently, treat him kindly. And always remember, the magpie deserves your respect.."''
371* PunchAWall: During a rainy day, the Bride's training by Pai Mei is put on hold, and she tries napping, only to end up punching a wall with her knuckles by reflex from all her training. Ouch.
372* PunctualityIsForPeasants: Budd is frequently late to his shifts at the strip club because he feels that the absence of any customers makes it rather pointless.
373* PunctuatedPounding: The sword-spanking the Bride delivers on the last Crazy 88 before sending him off.
374-->'''The Bride:''' This! ''[smack]'' Is what! ''[smack]'' You get! ''[smack]'' For fucking ''[smack]'' around ''[smack]'' with yakuzas! ''[smack]'' ...Go home ''[smack]'' to your mother!
375* QuittingToGetMarried: The Bride tries to quit the ProfessionalKiller business in order to marry. It backfires horribly.
376* RadialAssKicking: The Bride delivers several in the Crazy 88 fight scene as the hordes of soldiers close in on her in a circle.
377* RailingKill: A non-lethal version. During the fight with the Bride on the first floor, a member of the Crazy 88 breaks through the banister and crashes onto a table on the ground level.
378* RainOfBlood: The result of O-Ren taking her vengeance upon Matsumoto.
379* RaisedHandOfSurvival: The Bride emerges from [[BuriedAlive her coffin]] like this. It's even the current page image.
380* RealityIsUnrealistic: Some viewers were perplexed by Vernita Green's "awful" aim with her concealed gun. It's hard to blame them considering the kung-fu tropes in this movie, but a quick draw in a cereal box would be lucky to hit the side of a barn.
381* {{Recut}}: ''The Whole Bloody Affair'', the version screened at Cannes, combines the two films into one four-hour film (as per Tarantino's original vision) and includes the extended anime sequence and the Crazy 88 fight in full color (as opposed to the [[BlackBlood black-and-white censored version]] in the US release). It also removed some scenes, most notably the WhamLine which ends ''Volume 1'', in order to create a more singular, seamless experience.
382* RecycledTrailerMusic:
383** Tomoyasu Hotei's "Battle Without Honor Or Humanity" began showing up all over the place (in movie trailers, at sporting events, in other movies like ''Film/Transformers2007'', which used it to punctuate Bumblebee's "makeover") after Tarantino's usage of the song made it famous. Covers of the famous bass riff also show up routinely on television in scenes that homage or spoof its usage in Vol. 1. (Examples include ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'''s parody ''Kill Bunny,'' as well as a scene in ''Film/ScoobyDooTheMysteryBegins'' involving Mystery Inc. sneaking onto a school campus in disguise.)
384** The 5-6-7-8's were featured in a few commercials since the film as well.
385** And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ZHP10__Co this scene]] from ''Film/TheGoodTheBadTheWeird'' uses Santa Esmeralda's cover of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" to great effect.
386* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: [[spoiler:B.B.]], both serious and lighthearted ([[MoodWhiplash at once]]) -- although it wasn't so much "reports" as assumption, considering [[spoiler:the Bride enters her coma [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown badly beaten]] and [[ImperiledInPregnancy pregnant]], and [[CatapultNightmare awakens]] after four years in a hospital, [[ConvenientMiscarriage not pregnant]]]].
387* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The Deadly Viper Assassin Squad, all named after different types of snakes.
388* ResignationsNotAccepted: When the Bride tried to resign from the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, they tried to murder her. The second installment indicates that she didn't quit as much as walk off her current assignment and allow Bill to think that she was dead so that she could start a new life somewhere else and avoid having Bill raise their child as an assassin. The ironic part is, by the time she wakes up, the Deadly Vipers are defunct as a team; in fact, only two of them are still active criminals.
389-->'''Bill:''' There are consequences to breaking the heart of a murdering bastard.
390* RetiredBadass: Hattori Hanzo is no longer in the sword-making business, but he's willing to make an exception when it comes to killing Bill.
391* RetiredMonster: Most of the characters we see:
392** Vernita and Budd have both left the criminal lifestyle behind -- but not their skills as assassins.
393** Inverted in the case of O-Ren, who only gave up the assassin's lifestyle to become head of the Yakuza in Tokyo.
394** Bill seems to have left the business behind as well in order to [[spoiler:raise B.B]].
395*** The original script has him semi-retired, occasionally taking hits if [[AssholeVictim the mark "deserves" it]].
396** Bill's adopted father Esteban is still a pimp, but there is an implication that he was much worse in the past and more involved in crime.
397** The Bride retired from being an assassin so that she could raise her child. She never seems all that remorseful for her past actions, nor did she care what her former lover/partners did as long as they didn't bring trouble her way. Unfortunately for them, they did.
398** Pai Mei seems content enough with living alone, but when he was younger, he was willing to slaughter an entire temple for a slight insult that may not have actually happened. Also, he is more than willing to snatch your eye out of its socket (or snap your back) if you talk back to him.
399** The only notable aversion is Elle Driver, who is still working full time as an assassin when the Bride wakes up from her coma.
400* {{Retraux}}: The Bride 'driving' in front of an obvious back-projection at the start of Vol. 2 while delivering her monologue.
401* RepeatCut: After the Bride severs part of Johnny Mo's leg, we get three cuts of him screaming.
402* TheReveal: The last few seconds of Volume 1, when we learn that [[spoiler:the Bride's child is still alive.]]
403%% * RevengeByProxy: Invoked. (Context?)
404* ReverseGrip: During her fight with Vernita, the Bride wields a knife using an icepick grip.
405* RhymingTitle: ''Kill Bill'' rolls off the tongue.
406* RoaringRampageOfRevenge:
407** Invoked by name, but surprisingly ''not'' the technical {{Trope Namer|s}}; Tarantino used the phrase in a ShoutOut to the blaxploitation classic ''Ebony, Ivory, and Jade''. Given that ''Kill Bill'' is much more popular than that film, and thus was likely what was in mind when the trope was named, however, it might as well be.
408** Very downplayed in Vol. 2, because [[spoiler:while it is still a very violent movie, by the end credits, the Bride has taken only one life.]]
409* RoomDisservice: A flower delivery woman comes to The Bride's hotel room. When The Bride goes to open the door, the florist shoots through the door, revealing herself to be Karen Kim, an enemy assassin.
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413* [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Woman]]: Vernita Green, a.k.a. Copperhead.
414* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When the bride cuts off Sofie's arm in the House of Blue Leaves, the entire staff and clientele quickly vacate the premises.
415* SecretArt: The Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, [[spoiler:which even Bill is surprised to find out was taught to someone else (the Bride, of all people) by Pai Mei]].
416* SecretIdentityIdentity: Bill's filibuster about Clark Kent being the secret identity of Superman and not the other way around.
417* SelfPlagiarism:
418** The Bride pulls a razor from her cowboy boot, like Mr. Blonde did in ''Film/ReservoirDogs''. Also, Earl [=McGraw=] refers to the "Massacre at Two Pines" as a "kill-crazy rampage", the same term Mr. White uses to describe Mr. Blonde's shooting during the jewelry heist.
419** Elle's line, "Now you should listen to this, because it concerns you," was previously used in ''Film/JackieBrown''.
420* SequelHook: Elle and Sofie are still alive (if not in one piece), Budd still had some friends back in Barstow, and Vernita's daughter saw her mom killed in front of her eyes. Add [[spoiler:the Bride's own daughter]] to the mix and [[WordOfGod Tarantino's comments]], and "Kill B[[spoiler:eatrix]]: Vol. 3" is just waiting to be born.
421-->'''Tarantino:''' Oh yeah, initially I was thinking this would be my "Dollars Trilogy". I was going to do a new one every ten years. [[LyingCreator But I need at least fifteen years before I do this again]]. I've already got the whole mythology: [[spoiler:Sofie Fatale will get all of Bill's money. She'll raise Nikki, who'll take on the Bride. Nikki deserves her revenge every bit as much as the Bride deserved hers]]. I might even shoot a couple of scenes for it now so I can get the actresses while they're this age.
422** The trope is also inverted in that, with the exception of the question mark in the end credits, none of these happen near the end of the films. In fact, only Budd's friends even happen in the second movie!
423* SergeantRock: O-Ren's father was this, judging by the rank insignia on his uniform.
424* TheSeventies: Many, many references, visual homages, and aural homages with the soundtrack.
425* ShagWagon: The Pussy Wagon is a pickup truck version. The Bride is visibly disgusted by it. Likely an intentional homage to this trope's use in '70s movies, given the film's inspirations.
426* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: [[spoiler:Even better than katanas. And Budd doesn't even have to get out of his chair to prove it. If he had used real buckshot instead of rock salt, the Bride's RoaringRampageOfRevenge would have ended right then.]]
427* ShoutOut:
428** The very first moment of the film proper displays the quote, "Revenge is a dish that is best served cold", attributed as an old Klingon proverb, which is a reference to ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''.
429** Perhaps most notably, the live-action film adaptation of Film/LadySnowblood. Aside from the general similarities in the plot, Vol. 1 uses the film's theme song, and many shots, especially [[spoiler:O-Ren Ishii lying on the ground after her death]], are strikingly similar to those in ''Snowblood''.
430** One specific one is that the Bride wears a jumpsuit similar to the one Bruce Lee wore in ''Game Of Death'' when she takes on O-Ren Ishii and the Crazy 88s.
431** Gordon Liu, who appears as Johnny Mo in "Volume 1", and Pai Mei in "Volume 2", starred in ''Film/The36thChamberOfShaolin''. The style of the Bride's training regimen is modeled after ''The 36th Chamber of Shaolin''. Also, [[Music/WuTangClan the Wu-Tang Clan]]'s debut album is named in honor of ''The 36th Chamber of Shaolin'', "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)". The RZA, the creative force behind the Wu-Tang Clan, composed the original music for "Kill Bill".
432** "My name is Buck and I came here to fuck" is a modified line from ''Film/EatenAlive1976''.
433** Tommy Plympton was named in honor of animator Creator/BillPlympton, whom Quentin Tarantino had recently met and became friends with at [=ComiCon=].[[note]]"Met and became friends with" meaning that Plympton supposedly saw Tarantino, [[FanBoy leaped over his table in the dealer's room, and ran over to gush about how big a fan he was]].[[/note]]
434** The bald-head man in a yellow kimono is compared to [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]]. In fact, that's the name by which he's credited.
435** Given the nature of the film, it's probably best just to link to the IMDB's "movie connections" pages for [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/movieconnections both]] [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378194/movieconnections volumes.]]
436* SingleTear:
437** O-Ren, when her mother is killed.
438** Also the Bride, when [[spoiler:she first sees B.B. at Bill's house.]]
439* SnowMeansDeath: O-Ren and the Bride's duel takes place in a traditional Japanese garden blanketed with snow.
440* SonOfAWhore: Heavily implied to be the case with Bill. The only person who knows his whereabouts just happens to be [[ParentalSubstitute a pimp]] who apparently raised the sons of his prostitutes to become his enforcers, which explains the big age and appearance difference between Bill and his brother Budd as well as his penchant for getting women to do his dirty work for him. Snake Charmer indeed.
441* SoftGlass: In Volume 1, when The Bride fights with Vernita in the latter's house, they throw each other to the glassy objects, such as: the glass-covered photo frame, the glass-covered table and the glassy rack. And they got only a few scratches.
442* SophisticatedAsHell: O-Ren's inaugural speech to the Yakuza turns into this at the end.
443-->'''O-Ren:''' As your leader, I encourage you from time to time, and always in a respectful manner, to question my logic. If you're unconvinced a particular plan of action I've decided is the wisest, tell me so. But allow me to convince you. And I promise you, right here and now, no subject will ever be taboo. Except, of course, the subject that was just under discussion. 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 is the fucking time! ''[beat]'' I didn't think so.
444* SoundingItOut: The Bride does this when reading the instructions to her pregnancy test, as does Karen Kim when she reads it in turn.
445-->'''The Bride:''' Remove cap and urinate on the absorbent end for five seconds.
446* SpareAMessenger: The Bride lets Sofie Fatale live so she can tell Bill about her return.
447* SparingTheFinalMook: In a likely shout out to ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'', when the Bride sees that the last member of the Crazy 88 left is not some hardened Yakuza but a scared teenage boy, she sends him home to his mother, albeit after giving him a spanking with the flat of her sword.
448* SpellMyNameWithABlank: Or rather, with a [[SoundEffectsBleep [=[BLEEP]=]]].
449* SpitefulSpit: An established motor reflex of the Bride's is spitting in people's faces.
450** This gets turned back on her in volume 2, where she spits in Budd's face after he shoots her, and he responds by spitting back -- except his spit is far more plentiful and laden with chewed tobacco. "I win."
451* SplitScreen: In Volume 1, when intended to kill The Bride by injecting a poison into the latter’s IV (under Bill’s order), there’s the split screen between the comatose Bride and Elle [[JanitorImpersonationInfiltration changes into her nurse outfit]] as well as walking along the hall on the way to The Bride’s room.
452* StealthPun: The chapter of Vol. 2 titled "Elle and I" could also be written as [[spoiler:"Elle and Eye", and in the chapter she loses her other eye]].
453* SteppingStoneSword:
454** During her fight with the Crazy 88s, the Bride pierces a wooden beam with a samurai sword in order to climb the balustrade.
455** Pai Mei does this during his first meeting/fight with the Bride, balancing on her sword (while she's still holding it) in order to get close enough to kick her in the face.
456* StockScream: Our old buddy Wilhelm shows up more than once during the Crazy 88 sequence.
457* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: The infamous primetime version of the film contains the absolutely jarring line, "My name is '''Buck''' and I like to '''party'''." Comedian Doug Benson [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSa_I2b3F64 discussed this]], asking, "You couldn't just change his name to Marty?"
458** Buck's clothes still have a nametag. They could've tried something that rhymes anyway, like "My name is Buck, and looks like you've run out luck."
459* SuddenlyShouting: After calmly and pleasantly encouraging her subordinates to question her decisions -- always in a respectful manner -- and warning about the penalty for bringing up her Chinese or American heritage negatively (see BerserkButton above), O-Ren Ishii wraps it up with, "If ''any'' of you sons of bitches got ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY, '''NOW'S THE FUCKING TIME!!!'''"
460* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: During the Bride's fight with Elle in Budd's trailer, Elle has trouble drawing the Bride's sword due to the cramped space. It's only when she and the Bride are on opposite ends of the trailer that she's finally able to draw it.
461* SuspiciousSkiMask': The Bride wears a mouthless variant while sneaking around outside Budd's trailer in preparation to kill him. For some reason, she takes it off.
462* SwipeYourBladeOff: All over the end of the first movie, thanks to the abundance of katanas. The Bride notably does this a few times as flourishes after sequences of attacks, as well as prior to sheathing her sword.
463* SwitchToEnglish: This happens frequently during conversations/dialogue in Japanese (Bride/Hanzo, Bride/Gogo, O-Ren addressing the yakuza bosses, etc.), and when speaking with Pai Mei, the Bride can only manage a few words in Cantonese in between her English.
464* SwordPointing: In Vol. 2, just before the Bride has her sword fight with Elle Driver, they point their katanas at each other.
465* SystematicVillainTakedown: The Bride hunts down the individual members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad and methodically battles and kills them (and either kills or maims anyone who gets in her way or they put in her way) one by one in revenge for crashing her wedding and killing all the guests. She saves Bill, who actually shot her in the head, for last.
466* TaeKwonDoor: At the hospital, the Bride smashes Buck's head in with a door.
467* TaxonomicTermConfusion: Only three of the five Deadly Viper assassins are actually named for vipers.
468* TeacherStudentRomance: Bill has struck up relationships with several of the female assassins he's trained, including Elle Driver and the Bride herself.
469* TeamPowerWalk: In the first volume, O-Ren and her {{mooks}} do a famous one set to the soundtrack "Battle Without Honor and Humanity".
470* TearsOfBlood: After the Bride drives a nailed plank into [[spoiler:Gogo]]'s temple, this is the definitive sign that [[spoiler:she's]] dead.
471* TermsOfEndangerment: Bill calls Sofie "my Sofie" and strokes her hair when visiting her in the hospital, ostensibly to console her, but Sofie looks utterly terrified.
472** Subverted when Bill calls the Bride "kiddo" before shooting her in the head, as it turns out [[spoiler:"Kiddo" is her surname.]]
473* ThemeNaming: In addition to the [=DiVAS=]' snake pseudonyms (with Bill as their [[spoiler:"Snake Charmer"]]), every significant character has double letters in their name. Beatrix Ki'''dd'''o, O-Ren Ish'''ii''', E'''ll'''e Driver, Bi'''ll''', Bu'''d'''...you get it.
474* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: The Bride's calling-out of O-Ren at the House of Blue Leaves using her {{Catchphrase}}. In Japanese.[[note]]The Japanese she uses here is ''"Shoubu wa mada tsuicha inai yo!"'', which roughly translates to "Our contest isn't over yet!"[[/note]]
475* TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain: The Bride survives a shot to the head at point-blank range (though it does send her into a coma for four years).
476* Title1: ''Volume 1'', being one half of a DividedForPublication movie.
477* TitleDrop: Delivered by the Bride in the opening of Volume 2. See the page quote.
478* TouchOfDeath: The legendary Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique -- the "Exploding Heart" bit comes from the fact that after the five pressure points are hit, after the victim walks five steps, their heart will explode, killing them instantly.
479* TrainingFromHell: "The Cruel Tutelage of Pai Mei" is the name of the chapter where the Bride flashes back to her martial arts training, and it definitely is hellish. Most notably, in order to build her strength, the Bride has to punch a wooden board over and over again, even as the skin on her knuckles splits open.
480* TrashyTrailerHome: Budd [[RetiredMonster the ex-assassin]] lives in an isolated, dingy trailer in the desert, works as a bouncer at a failing strip club under an awful boss, and [[DeathSeeker quietly hopes to die.]]
481* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The Bride asks a young girl if she would like to watch a video before she goes to bed. The girl's answer? ''Shogun Assassin''. Being a former member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, the Bride sees nothing wrong with this.
482* TrunkShot: The obligatory Tarantino trunk shot occurs as the Bride is interrogating Sofie Fatale, who she's stuffed in said trunk.
483* TurnOfTheMillennium: The bulk of the story takes place in 2003.
484%%* {{Understatement}}: Bill: "I... overreacted".
485* UnsoundEffect: In the anime sequence showing O-Ren's backstory, while she's hiding under the bed as a child as her parents are being killed, she's shown trying to not make a sound with the word "whimper" slowly coming out of her mouth before she pushes it back in.
486* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Lampshaded by Hattori Hanzo in how it's easy to lose one's way for revenge. Granted, the Bride has good reasons, but her revenge doesn't come without certain consequences along the way.
487* VideoCredits: ''Volume II'' ends with a credits sequence showing every cast member of both volumes.
488* VillainOfAnotherStory: Both the Bride's EvilMentor Pai Mei and RetiredMonster Esteban Vihaio are very evil people by most standards, but they only exist in the film as part of Bill's sinister background. Both actually aid the Bride in going after Bill. To drive the trope home, the film's version of Pai Mei is directly modeled on Pai Mei's HistoricalVillainUpgrade appearances as the BigBad of ''Film/ExecutionersFromShaolin'' -- that's where the story of the temple massacre comes from -- and as a minor villain in ''Film/FistsOfTheWhiteLotus'', making him quite literally the villain of another story.
489* VillainousBreakdown: Elle, after [[spoiler:losing her remaining eye.]] She absolutely shreds what little there was left of the bathroom.
490* VisualPun: In Volume One, Vernita Green has a gun concealed [[spoiler:in a box of "Kaboom" cereal.]]
491* VitriolicBestBuds: Hattori Hanzo and his assistant seem to have this going. They bitch at each other about their arrangement at the restaurant and the other's complaints, but they've been doing it together for decades.
492* WaxOnWaxOff: As part of the Bride's training under Pai Mei, she carries buckets of water up and down a long set of stairs repeatedly, and punches a wooden board over and over again even as the skin on her knuckles splits open to build her strength.
493* WeddingDeathJuxtaposition: The first film shows us a wedding party where everyone was massacred, save for the bride (and not for lack of trying).
494* WhamLine: The final line of Vol. 1: [[spoiler:"Is she aware her daughter is still alive?"]]
495** In the ''Whole Bloody Affair'' cut, the above line and its [[TheReveal reveal scene]] are removed, effectively turning the much later line of [[spoiler:"Freeze, Mommy!"]] into the film's WhamLine.
496* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Karen Kim, the rival assassin who [[spoiler:faces off with the Bride just after she's taken the pregnancy test]], walks away and isn't specifically mentioned again. Bill claims to have hunted down the people [[spoiler:he'd thought responsible for the Bride's murder]], but doesn't name them, so it's unclear if Ms. Kim [[spoiler:paid for her role in Kiddo's disappearance with her life]].
497** The remaining five or six Crazy 88s. They were all missing limbs after their fight with the Bride, so unless they received the immediate medical attention that Sofie did, they would have eventually died as a result of physical trauma coupled with extensive blood loss and become the Crazy Zeroes.
498* WhiteShirtOfDeath: [[spoiler: O-Ren Ishii]] wears an elegant white kimono to her final battle with the Bride. Guess who wins?
499* WhoEvenNeedsABrain: [[spoiler:O-Ren]], during her it-was-a-[[SkepticismFailure Hanzo-sword-after-all]] [[LastWords last words]].
500* WholeCostumeReference: The Bride wears a tracksuit very reminiscent of Bruce Lee's from his final movie ''Film/GameOfDeath,'' and O-Ren's outfit is very much inspired by ''Film/LadySnowblood''. The suit and blouse Elle wears to meet Budd is the same one Uma Thurman wore on her date in ''Film/PulpFiction'' and is also worn by the titular character in ''Film/JackieBrown''.
501* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Her meeting with Bill. Bill ''does'' shoot the Bride eventually -- with a truth-serum gun. On the Bride's end, killing Bill isn't really [[RuleOfCool the point]]. She obviously wants to make peace first.
502** Subverted in the first movie: Vernita tries to shoot the Bride, but she misses her mark and gets a knife through the sternum immediately after.
503** There's also her run-in with Budd. As soon as she opens the trailer door... Bang.
504* WithinArmsReach: When Gogo is strangling the Bride, Gogo manages to yank her a tiny bit closer, allowing the Bride to flip up a board with a nail in it [[HandyFeet with her foot]] and then hit Gogo's foot with it, before swinging again and embedding the nail in her head.
505* WorldOfActionGirls: While characters like Bill and Pai Mei are far from slouches themselves, most of the best fighters in the series are women.
506* WorldOfHam: So much so that it all seems normal, in-universe.
507* WorthyOpponent: Each of the [=DiVAS=] expresses grudging respect for the Bride over the course of the two films. O-Ren, however, seems to be the only one of the [=DiVAS=] that the Bride actually respects. But ''even she'' doesn't believe that her sword is an authentic Hattori Hanzo katana until the Bride delivers a mortal blow with it. (See GracefulLoser, above.)
508* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Implied with Pai Mei, a miserable old coot[[note]][[EyeScream OOWWW!]][[/note]] who had nothing but contempt for Caucasians, hated Americans and Japanese, and despised women [[spoiler:who nevertheless considered Beatrix the Bride his favourite student, and taught her his ultimate kill technique.]]
509* YouAreAlreadyDead: This is how the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique works.
510-->'''Bill:''' He hits you with his fingertips at five different pressure points on your body, and then he lets you walk away. But once you've taken five steps, your heart explodes in your body, and you fall to the floor, dead.
511* ZenSlap: In Volume 2, when The Bride had to go through the [[TrainingFromHell hellish training]] by Pai Mei, there's the part when training to punch the thick piece of wood, she pauses due to a pain, Pai Mei slaps her with his trident-like wood stick. Then, The Bride gets up again, continue her training.
512[[/folder]]
513----
514->''[[Music/NancySinatra ♫ Bang bang, he shot me down.\
515Bang bang, I hit the ground.\
516Bang bang, that awful sound.\
517Bang bang, my baby shot me down... ♫]]''

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