You can't blame Beatrix Kiddo for wanting a bit of revenge. She's kinda owed it. Kill Bill sees her hunting down the group of killers - the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, or DeVAS - who put her in a decade-long coma at her wedding day. Especially since those DeVAS were her former friends and colleagues. Unwilling to let her leave the life and settle down with a nice Texan man with a bad hair cut, they turn up at the tiny church and kill everyone inside (which actually isn't that many people) before putting a bullet in The Bride's head. When she finally wakes up, she's understandably a little miffed. Rather than punch-dancing out her rage or meditating, however, The Bride puts together a list of the five members of the squad who ruined her special day, culminating in the killing of the titular Bill. And so she heads out to strike down upon them with great vengeance and furious anger, using a combination of samurai swords, knives, actual deadly snakes and a five-point palm exploding heart technique. When the dust has settled, she's not only managed to dispatch the remaining DeVAS, but also the Crazy 88 henchmen of Lucy Liu's O-Ren Ishii, and quite possibly Buck (who likes to....well, y'know). Eight nice people die in the church. The Bride cuts down 79 bad guys in her quest for vengeance. What would a Quentin Tarantino movie be without gratuitous violence, eh?
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
