2. The Bride (Uma Thurman), Kill Bill, Vol. 1 & 2 (2003/2004)
The Bride, aka Beatrix Kiddo, was an elite assassin and a member of the Deadly Vipers Assassination Squad. After fleeing the squad, the leader Bill and the rest of the assassins hunt her down, kill her new friends and fiance, and then shoot her in the head, sending her into comatose. After 4 years of being in her coma, she wakes up, and discovers that she is no longer pregnant - and swears to get revenge on her unborn baby's murderer. Beatrix is incredibly skilled with her Hanzo sword, killing and injuring around 50 people in one huge fight scene, and her body count continues to go up throughout the film. Beatrix does what any mother would do if their unborn child was murdered (and if they had the skills of an elite assassin...) and is certainly one of the coolest female's in film, and one of the most likeable.