20 Idiotic Decisions Made By Characters In Quentin Tarantino Movies

13. Budd Buries The Bride Alive Rather Than Just Killing Her (Kill Bill Volume 2)

Continuing the trend of the DeVAS not killing The Bride when they had the chance, Budd (Michael Madsen) has a ripe opportunity at the start of Kill Bill Volume 2, when Bill warns him that she will be coming, and he takes adequate precautions. When The Bride attempts to ambush Budd by bursting into his trailer park home, he's ready and waiting, calmly sat with a shotgun full of rock salt, which he blasts her with, sending her flying to the floor in pain. However, rather than simply fire a few more rock salt blasts into her head at close range, he sedates her and buries her alive, all while working out a deal with Elle Driver to sell her The Bride's famous Hattori Hanzo sword for $1 million. The Bride uses the training taught to her by the Pai Mei to punch her way out of the coffin, but before she can return to the trailer to take care of Budd, he has already been killed by Elle, who placed a black mamba in the bag of money for him, jealous that he'd staked a claim to killing The Bride. Given that Elle already believed The Bride to be dead, Budd would likely still have died even if he'd just killed The Bride conventionally (as any sane person would have done), but at least he wouldn't have the humiliation of his needlessly elaborate kill method back-firing so badly. At least Elle ended up, dead, though, so there's that...