20 Most Ridiculous Overreactions From Famous Film Characters

12. Bill And Pai Mei Murder Absolutely Everything €“ Kill Bill

Kill Bill - Pai Mei Kill Bill isn€™t known for skimping on its violence, but at the heart of it that violence always seems justified. After all, we€™re focusing on Beatrix Kiddo€™s quest to murder everyone in the Deadly Viper Assassination after they gunned down absolutely everyone at her wedding in what might be termed as €˜a bit of an overreaction.€™ Now, we all know why Bill ordered the hit €“ Kiddo just swanned off with their unborn child and fixed herself up with a quickie wedding with a man she appeared to dearly love. As the leader of a group of incredibly dangerous people, he€™s one hell of a jilted ex to have, and we could probably see what was going to happen to her €“ of course she was going to get shot down. However, instead of just turning up by himself somewhere and doing in his want-away girlfriend in a quiet corner like an average garden-variety psychopath, he decides to machine-gun a wedding party €“ the groom and the in-laws included. Who is he making a statement to here? The only person he could potentially be doing it to is the woman he shoots through the head moments later, which must surely spawn the argument that such over-killing theatrics were at best, unnecessary. At least when another character in the canon commits wanton violence, he does it to cement his legacy. Of course I€™m talking about Pai Mei, who€™s not above a little ultraviolence himself. The man massacred sixty Shaolin monks because the abbot didn€™t reciprocate his barely-there nod, resulting in an infamous massacre and the genesis of the legendary five-point palm exploding heart technique. Say what you like about the nutter, but when he wants to commit an overreacting atrocity, he at least makes a proper point.
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