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Beatrix Kiddo, also known as Black Mamba and The Bride, is the protagonist of the Kill Bill series.

Biography[]

Beatrix Michelle Kiddo is the daughter of Marc and Michelle Kiddo and a former romantic partner of Bill. Beatrix was once a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, codename Black Mamba.

After her premature retirement from her assassination career upon becoming pregnant, Beatrix left the squad to escape the life of an assassin and start a new one for her unborn daughter. However, Beatrix's friends and her fiance were murdered at the marriage rehearsal. Beatrix herself was shot in the head which put her into a four-year coma, during which B.B. Kiddo was delivered successfully.

Once she woke up from her coma, Beatrix plotted her deadly vengeance against all members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, including Bill himself, killing them all one-by-one, including killing anyone else who stood in her way.

Relationship with Bill[]

After her parents moved to Germany, Beatrix and Bill started off their relationship during an unknown time while she served as right hand of Bill and as a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. Elle Driver, a fellow member of the squad, also desired a relationship with Bill and consequently developed hostility towards Beatrix.

Training with Pai Mei[]

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Pai Mei declares that Beatrix belongs to him, minutes after the beginning of her training.

Several years before the Massacre at Two Pines, Bill and Beatrix traveled to China, where he recited the story of a legendary martial arts master named Pai Mei, and of a deadly attack only Pai Mei knows, called the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique. Shortly after, the 2 reached Pai Mei's residence, where Pai Mei agreed to take Beatrix as his student, although she represented all the aspects he hated. After presumably a couple of years, Beatrix returned to the United States, and continued to serve as the deadliest assassin at Bill's service.

The Shocking Discovery[]

After an unknown period of time, Beatrix, finished with her training and after a period of working with the Deadly Vipers, got pregnant with Bill's baby. While on a mission to kill Lisa Wong, the woman sent Karen Kim after Beatrix, who tracked her down moments after Beatrix took a pregnancy test and learned she was, in fact, pregnant with Bill's child. After a short face-off in which Beatrix convinced Karen that she had no intention to fight, Beatrix faked her death and disappeared from Bill's life.

Massacre at Two Pines[]

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Beatrix and Tommy, during the wedding rehearsal.

Beatrix went under the name of Arlene Machiavelli, and met a guy named Tommy Plympton in rural Texas. Tommy owned a used record store, and the two fell in love, and ran his store together. The couple eventually got engaged, and planned to have their wedding ceremony at the Two Pines chapel. They arranged a wedding rehearsal, fully dressed and attended by their friends and family, where it became apparent that no one from Beatrix's side would attend.

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Beatrix and Bill reconnect during the wedding rehearsal.

While taking a break, Beatrix found Bill at the exterior of the chapel, playing his flute. Although at the time, Bill believed that Beatrix's baby was Tommy's, he insisted on attending her wedding. He was introduced to Tommy as Arlene's father, who returned from Australia after a silver mining operation. When Tommy walked away, Bill and Beatrix shared a tender kiss.

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Bill soothing Beatrix one last time before he shoots her.

Beatrix returned to the ceremony, while moments after, the four members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad entered the chapel, and killed all the attendees. Beatrix, the last survivor, was brutally attacked, being thrown from one member of the Squad to another and beaten almost to death. Lying on the floor, she saw Sofie Fatale whom she recognized as one of Bill's protégés.

Bill approached her, yet just as she began to reveal to him that the baby was his, he shot her in the head, leaving her for dead.

The Return[]

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Elle visiting the hospital to kill Beatrix.

Beatrix went into a 4 year coma, during which B.B. Kiddo was delivered successfully. Soon after being admitted to the hospital, Elle Driver paid a visit to Beatrix's room, with the intention of killing her by inserting a poisonous injection into her intravenous line. Elle was stopped seconds before doing so by a phone call from Bill, who claimed that Beatrix deserves a better death than that, and that by sneaking into her room "like a filthy rat" would lower down their status. Elle, angrily, agreed and left.

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Beatrix wakes up from her 4 year coma.

During the four years, a male nurse named Buck raped Beatrix's body, as well as allowing others to do the same for a fee. For an unknown reason, Beatrix woke up after being bitten by a mosquito, discovered the metal plating side of her head where she was shot, and was completely distraught after finding that she was no longer pregnant. Just as she used the lines in her palms to determine how much time had passed since she went into a coma, a new customer of Buck's entered the room to rape her. Initially pretending to still be comatose, she killed the customer when he got close enough and proceeded to kill Buck as well after realizing he does not work for Bill and how he used her body. Beatrix stole the keys to his car, and reached the parking lot using a wheelchair.

Building a Sword[]

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Beatrix receiving her sword from Hattori Hanzō.

After forcing her body to recover from the state of coma and start functioning, Beatrix booked a one-way ticket to Okinawa, when she tracked down the legendary swordsmith Hattori Hanzō, who crafted Bill's sword. Upon her arrival to his sushi bar, she pretended neither to know who he was nor to be able to speak Japanese, yet she soon revealed to him that she needed a katana to get rid of a certain "vermin". The vermin was Bill, who had also been Hanzo's student. Although he took a blood oath to never make a sword again, Hattori was moved by her plight, and agreed to craft her one.

After a month of practicing at the attic of his restaurant, Beatrix received from Hanzō his best sword to date. She then left Okinawa, and booked a one-way ticket to Tokyo.

Facing O-Ren[]

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Beatrix fighting against Gogo.

Armed with her new sword, Beatrix arrives at Tokyo, where she located O-Ren Ishii in a club known as the House of Blue Leaves. While in the restroom, Beatrix recognizes the voice and cell phone ringtone of Sofie Fatale, O-Ren's lawyer, who was present during the Massacre at Two Pines. Following Sofie, Beatrix calls out O-Ren's name and lures O-Ren out by cutting off Sofie's left arm. O-Ren orders her personal guard containing six members of the Crazy 88 to attack. Beatrix kills them easily and prepares to take on O-Ren. O-Ren orders her personal bodyguard, Gogo Yubari, to attack Beatrix. After a short yet bloody fight, Beatrix kills and defeats Gogo, who instantly dies.

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O-Ren and Beatrix's duel in the snowy garden.

Beatrix is then attacked by the rest of O-Ren's army, the Crazy 88, whom she defeats as well. She ordered the survivors of the fight to leave, but to leave the limbs they lost during the battle behind, as they belonged to her now. Leaving nothing between her and O-Ren, the two duel in the snowy garden of the club. Although O-Ren taunts Beatrix that she is no match for her, Beatrix scalps and fatally wounds O-Ren. O-Ren's final words confirm her recognition that Beatrix's sword must truly be a Hattori Hanzō sword, before succumbing to her death.

Beatrix's Sword

Beatrix in the kasumi-no-kamae stance

Beatrix fetches Sofie and locks her in the trunk of her car, where she tortures her until she gives Beatrix the information she needs regarding the rest of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad members. Upon acquiring the needed information, Beatrix throws Sofie down a hill, where she rolls towards an entrance to a hospital. On her way back to the United States, Beatrix forms her Death List Five with O-Ren's name crossed out.

Facing Vernita[]

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Beatrix and Vernita Green duel in Vernita's living room.

After O-Ren's death, Beatrix tracks down the second member of her Death List Five, Vernita Green. Vernita answers the door, and is immediately attacked by Beatrix. After a short but fierce hand-to-hand combat fight, which ruins Vernita's living room, a school bus stops outside the house, which signals the arrival of Vernita's daughter, Nikkia Bell. The confused 4 year old is introduced to Beatrix, and told to go to her room, as the 2 women have some unfinished business.

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Beatrix and Vernita stop the duel for a coffee break.

Vernita offers Beatrix a cup of coffee. While in the kitchen, Vernita attempts to apologize for her actions, claiming she is living a new life now, and if she could have prevented the massacre she would have. When Beatrix shows no sign of softening, Vernita attempts to gain her forgiveness by mentioning her daughter, leading Beatrix to coldly claim that the only way they would be "even" is if Beatrix kills Vernita, her daughter and her husband.

Vernita, who had run out of choices, suggested a knife duel later that night, in an abandoned baseball diamond where she coaches Little League. Vernita then quickly changed the subject, claiming she had to make her daughter a bowl of cereal. Grabbing a box of Kaboom cereal, Vernita attempted to shoot Beatrix with a gun hidden inside the box, but missed, providing Beatrix with enough time to throw her knife into Vernita's chest, killing her. Moments after retrieving her knife from Vernita's body, Nikki walked into the kitchen. Beatrix claimed her mother had it coming, but sympathetically promised Nikki that if one day she will want to avenge her mother's murder, Beatrix will be waiting.

Facing Budd[]

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Beatrix, after being shot in the chest by Budd.

Driving to the California desert, Beatrix locates and hides underneath Budd's trailer, waiting for his arrival. Upon his arrival from his job as a bouncer at a local strip bar, Beatrix storms into the trailer, only to get shot in the chest with rock salt by Budd. Budd then proceeds to inject Beatrix with a sedative. With the help of an assistant, Budd places Beatrix inside a wooden coffin, and buries her alive with a flashlight in a grave that was meant for a woman named Paula Schulz.

Facing Elle[]

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Beatrix fighting against Elle in Budd's trailer.

After escaping Budd's coffin, using Pai Mei's Three Inch Punch, Beatrix makes her way back to his trailer, and sees Elle arriving with a suitcase. As Elle leaves the trailer, having murdered Budd, Beatrix attacks her with a flying kick, which initiates a fight between the two, climaxing with them facing each other with a sword, Elle with Beatrix's, and Beatrix with Budd's.

Elle reveals to Beatrix that her eye was snatched out by Pai Mei when she called him a "miserable, old fool" during her training. In retribution, Elle killed him by poisoning the dinner of fish-heads that she served him.

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Beatrix plucking Elle's remaining eye.

The two armed women charge at one other with swords drawn. In a clutch, with swords crossed, Beatrix snatches out Elle's other eye, leaving her blindly shouting and crawling on the floor. Although Elle was not killed, she was left in the trailer with Elle's Black Mamba that killed Budd.

Facing Bill[]

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Beatrix and Bill begin their final duel.

Sometime after the confrontation with Elle, Beatrix heads down to Mexico to visit Esteban Vihaio, an 80 year old pimp who was friends with Bill's mother and who Bill saw as a father figure. After a brief conversation, he tells her where she can find Bill, noting it is what he [Bill] would have wanted him to do. After she arrives to his home, she discovers that her daughter is very much alive.

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Beatrix uses the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique and kills Bill.

After spending time with B.B., she and Bill have a long conversation in which she explains why she did what she did -- running away and hiding when pregnant with Bill's child. After the conversation and a brief sword fight, Kiddo taps Bill in the center of his chest, using a secret Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique that was taught to Kiddo (and not to Bill, or anyone else) by the great Kung-fu master, Pai Mei.

Bill understands the significance of this move and that he will meet his death from an exploding heart once he takes five steps from where he stands. "Well," he smiles, "How do I look?" "You look, ready." Kiddo tells him. As Kiddo cries just a little, Bill steps into the darkness of his backyard and collapses, Kiddo's vengeance collected at last.

Future[]

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Beatrix and B.B. finally at peace.

After Bill's death, Beatrix and B.B. left his house and stayed in a hotel for the night. In the morning, as B.B. was watching cartoons, Beatrix was lying on the bathroom floor, sobbing, clutching B.B.'s teddy bear, but in a state of euphoria. She has faced all of her enemies, the entire Deadly Viper Assassination Squad and the Snake Charmer himself (Bill), and has defeated them, finding and claiming her daughter in the process. After collecting herself, the mother and daughter hugged in bed, smiling. The final scene shows the two of them on the road laughing, beginning their new lives together.

Relationships[]

Bill[]

Kiddo appears to have loved Bill deeply, idolizing him early on in their relationship and proclaiming that she would have killed anyone for him. However, she harbored no illusions about Bill's nature, fleeing with their child after learning she was pregnant, out of fear of how Bill would raise the child. Even after dedicating her life to getting revenge on Bill, Kiddo wept after killing him.

Budd[]

Kiddo’s and Budd’s relationship was not shown in detail. While Budd sympathized with Kiddo, believing she deserved her revenge, he also held a grudge against her for breaking his brother's heart and believed that she was as deserving of death for her crimes as the rest of the Deadly Viper squad.

Elle Driver[]

Driver openly stated that she despised Kiddo. However, at the hospital and Budd’s trailer, Driver openly stated that she respected Kiddo’s skill and that she deserved a dignified death. Kiddo’s planned death at the hospital of “dying in her sleep” would be a “luxury” and a “gift” to an assassin. Kiddo’s presumed death from Budd was deemed a dishonor as Kiddo had died at the hands of a "washed-up disgrace" and Driver said “that woman deserved better”.

O-Ren Ishii[]

O-Ren and Kiddo had a personal joke about Kiddo’s first name based on the Trix breakfast cereal slogan “Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids”. After killing O-Ren, Kiddo dropped her sword in the snow and showed physical remorse for having to kill O-Ren.

Sofie Fatale[]

Kiddo showed no personal hatred for Fatale other than her involvement in the Massacre at Two Pines.

Vernita Green[]

Kiddo’s relationship with Green was based on some respect as Kiddo stated Bill’s opinion of Green’s knife skills. Kiddo expressed regret that Green had died in front of her daughter, Nikkia Bell.

Code Name[]

The black mamba has extremely powerful venom. It can also strike from a long range and deliver a series of bites in rapid succession. This refers to Kiddo’s martial arts skills, her traveling around the world to seek revenge, and her continued attacks against the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad.

Physical Appearance[]

Beatrix is an incredibly beautiful and gorgeous young woman with a very slim figure and tall in height. She has pale skin, blue eyes, blonde hair, long nose and full pink lips. Her hair is shoulder length with bangs and sometimes wavy and sometimes straight. She’s tall standing at 5’11" and wears comfortable clothes.

Skills[]

  • Gifted Intelligence: When in serious trouble, Beatrix thinks on her feet, narrowly escaping danger in numerous instances, as seen in her fight with Gogo Yubari, Budd and Elle Driver. This enables her to use any object as a weapon and to resort to the most effective option to cope with any dangerous situation.
  • Knife Mastery: In addition to her superb skill with a sword, Beatrix can accurately throw knives. She threw one into Copperhead's chest, killing her.
  • Master Markswoman: While she prefers hand-to-hand combat and swordplay, Beatrix is also proficient with firearms. She claims to be more accurate than the infamous Annie Oakley, as she threatened to shoot Karen Kim between her eyes. Her sidearm is a stainless Star Firestar M-45 in .45 ACP pistol with a custom extended barrel.
  • Master Martial Artist: Beatrix is a highly capable fighter, having been trained by both Bill and Pai Mei. She managed to overpower fellow assassins such as Vernita Green with her bare hands and hold her own against Elle Driver, gaining the upper hand at one point. Before being trained by Pai Mei in Hung Gar Kung Fu, she had already mastered two other styles, Tiger and Crane and, how she herself implied, was able to break wood panels. Under the tutelage of the Chinese master, she learned Snake Style kung-fu and other techniques requiring physical strength and agility. She also learned the Three-Inch Punch, which she used to punch through a wood coffin. She has the ability to rapidly snatch eyes out and can perform the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique. Beatrix was also seen resorting to chokeholds. In combat, she is eager to attack the enemy's weak spots, demonstrating excellent reflexes and accuracy. Her fighting method before Pai Mei's teaching was limited to her kung fu, but after the coma she displayed quick, strong, and brutal blows much more effectively. This includes a wide array of moves from Jeet Kune Do.
  • Multilingualism: Beatrix is fluent in both English and Japanese; she also knows some Mandarin, Cantonese, and Spanish. Hattori Hanzō complimented her Japanese pronunciation.
  • Peak Human Condition: Beatrix was able to bear a savage beating by the others Vipers without falling unconscious, and most remarkably she survived being shot in the head without subsequent physical or mental handicaps. She recovered from the wound after only four years of coma, and it took her muscles just thirteen hours to recover from atrophy. In numerous fights Beatrix was able to stand back up after suffering serious wounds, and she was able to kill O-Ren despite having fought against the Crazy 88 (there were actually around 50) and Gogo just moments before. In addition to endurance and stamina, she is seen to have noteworthy agility, strength, speed, reflexes, coordination, and balance.
  • Sword Mastery: Beatrix is also well-versed in using single-edge weapons, displaying her skill to Pai Mei on their initial meeting using a Jian. It is implied that Beatrix learns more from Pai Mei, demonstrating Pai Mei-like skill when Bill attacks her with a sword during their conversation at a table. Beatrix defends against the attack with the sword's scabbard and manages to "catch" the sword in its scabbard, thus disarming Bill. She was able to kill O-Ren Ishii with her katana, despite O-Ren being slightly more skilled (O-Ren even noted that Beatrix is not as skilled as she thinks she is). Aside from her excellent samurai sword skill in both single and melee combat, she is also proficient in the use of two swords, as shown when cornered by the Crazy 88. In the very same confrontation, she combined this skill with Capoeira-like moves to incapacitate a large number of foes.

Quote[]

"Well, guess what, bitch? I'm better than Annie Oakley. And I got you right in my sight."
"I could blow your fuckin' head off."
"Not before I put one right between your eyes, so let's talk."
—Beatrix Kiddo and Karen Kim in Kill Bill: Vol. 2
"Looked dead, didn't I? Well, I wasn't. But it wasn't from lack of trying, I can tell you that. Actually, Bill's last bullet put me in a coma - a coma I was to lie in for four years. When I woke up, I went on what the movie advertisements refer to as "a roaring rampage of revenge." I roared, and I rampaged, and I got bloody satisfaction. I've killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point, but I've only one more. The last one. The one I'm driving to right now. The only one left. And when I arrive at my destination, I am gonna kill Bill."
—Beatrix Kiddo in Kill Bill: Vol. 2
"I'm the deadliest woman in the world."
—Beatrix Kiddo to Karen Kim Kill Bill: Vol. 2
"You say Japanese word like you're Japanese."
"Now you're making fun of me."
"No. Serious business. Pronunciation very good. You say "arigato" like we say "arigato.""
—Beatrix Kiddo and Hattori Hanzō in Kill Bill: Vol. 1
"I am proficient in Tiger-Crane Style, and I am more than proficient in the exquisite art of the samurai sword."
—Beatrix Kiddo to Pai Mei Kill Bill: Vol. 2
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