Beatrix Kiddo

Beatrix Kiddo, also known as The Bride, is a character played by Uma Thurman in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films. Her Deadly Viper Assassination Squad codename was Black Mamba. Not much is known of her background, except for what is shown in the film, along with a few snippets of flashback.

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Uma Thurman - Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill - Deadly Viper Assassination Squad - Black Mamba - Flashback

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Kiddo goes on a brutal killing campaign in order to avenge the murder of her fiancé, friends, and others at a wedding rehearsal. Her targets consist of the other members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad who carried out the massacre: O-Ren Ishii, Vernita Green, Elle Driver, Budd, and Bill.

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Fiancé - O-Ren Ishii - Vernita Green - Elle Driver - Budd - Bill

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Kiddo (whose real name is not revealed until Kill Bill Volume 2) was once Bill's lover, protegé, and second-in-command; his favoritism of her earned her the jealousy and scorn of the other Vipers, especially Driver. While already a gifted practitioner of kung fu and fencing, Kiddo truly became a force to be reckoned with after undergoing harsh, demanding training at the feet of the taciturn, unforgiving martial arts sage Pai Mei; under his tutelage, she became far and away the most skilled assassin in Bill's gang. Among the most important skills she learned was the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, in which a person kills another by jabbing five key points around the heart, causing it to explode after they take five steps.

Related Topics:
Kill Bill Volume 2 - Kung fu - Fencing - Martial arts - Pai Mei - Heart

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When Kiddo found out that she was pregnant with Bill's child, however, she despaired at the thought of raising a child in a world of hired killers and decided to leave him. That night, an assassin from a rival gang tried to kill her, but relented and let her go after hearing her story. Kiddo then let Bill believe that she had been killed, went into hiding in Texas under the name "Arleen Machiavelli", and got engaged to a young man named Tommy.

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Pregnant - Texas

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Bill eventually found her, however, and showed up at her wedding rehearsal. Initially promising not to interfere and even introducing himself to Tommy as her father, Bill suddenly drew a gun and, along with the other Vipers, massacred the entire chapel. He performed the coup de grace on the heavily pregnant Kiddo personally, shooting her in the head.

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Wedding - Coup de grace

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Kiddo survived, but was put into a seemingly irreversible coma. That night, Driver, disguised as a nurse, sneaked into the hospital where Kiddo lay and was about to kill her with a syringe full of poison, but Bill called off the hit at the last minute. She remained comatose for four years, during which an orderly named Buck repeatedly raped and prostituted her.

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Coma - Nurse - Syringe - Poison - Rape - Prostitute

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One day, as one of Buck's "customers" was about to violate her, she suddenly snapped out of the coma and killed them both. Believing that her child had been aborted when she had been shot, she swore revenge on the entire Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. She flew to Japan and sought out legendary swordmaker Hattori Hanz?, who forged her a deadly sharp katana sword and provided her with additional training. She then tracked down and killed Ishii and Green.

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Aborted - Revenge - Japan - Hattori Hanz? - Katana sword

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Budd, however, proved to be much more difficult to kill; after stunning her with a shotgun blast of rock salt and immobilizing her with an anesthetic, he buried her alive. Recalling Pai Mei's teachings, she found the weakest spot in the coffin lid, struck it until it broke, and tunneled her way back to the surface. She returned to Budd's trailer to find him dead from a Black Mamba bite, and Driver waiting to engage her in battle. After Driver revealed that she had killed Pai Mei, Kiddo ripped out her remaining eye (one had already been similarly removed by her teacher), left her in the desert to die, and went to find Bill.

Related Topics:
Rock salt - Anesthetic - Coffin

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When she did track him down, however, she was astonished to find that her daughter, B.B., was alive and living with her father, who doted on her. They spent a night together as a family, with Bill offering reasons for his betrayal and rejecting the idea that she could have ever been happy as anything other than a killer. Their peace made with each other, Kiddo then completed her revenge by killing Bill with the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique. The same night, she took B.B. with her to raise on her own. Her present whereabouts are unknown.

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