History Film / KillBill

* BladeRun: Pai Mei does this to the Bride (as seen in the trope's page image). She is... surprised, to say the least.

* CodeName: The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad uses the names of lethal snakes as code names. The Bride's was "Black Mamba." This also doubles as NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast -- the Black Mamba is generally considered to be the most deadly snake in the world, which leads to the question of how the others didn't see the end coming.

* NightmareFetishist: Invoked and ultimately averted by Texas Ranger Earl [=McGraw=], surveying the massacre at the chapel:
-->''You can tell by the cleanliness of the carnage. Now a kill-crazy rampage though it may be, all the colors are kept within the lines. If you was a moron, you could almost admire it.''

* PowerWalk:
** In the first volume, O-Ren and her {{mooks}} do a famous one set to the soundtrack "Battle Without Honor and Humanity".
** In the second volume, the Bride does one, barefoot, through a desert, the morning after [[spoiler:escaping a live burial]].

Tarantino has toyed with ideas for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Bill:_Volume_2#Possible_sequels a sequel]], but as of 2022 it seems to be off the table. However, actors have expressed interest in the idea of daughters of the victims taking revenge for their mothers, especially Nikki.

''Kill Bill'' is the fourth (and fifth) film written and directed by Creator/QuentinTarantino, taking all his favorite things at that point in his career -- [[TheWestern westerns]], [[JidaiGeki samurai movies]], [[MartialArtsMovie martial arts]], [[ConversationalTroping pop-culture references]], {{Action Girl}}s, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick bare feet]] -- and [[MixAndMatch combining them all]] into [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge one hell of a revenge drama]].

* DeadlyDoctor: Subverted. Elle dresses up as a nurse so she can get close enough to the the comatose Bride to give her a lethal injection, but is stopped from doing so by Bill, and she is ''not'' happy about it.

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->''"Looked dead, didn't I? But I wasn't. And it wasn't for 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 referred to as a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. I roared. I rampaged. And I got bloody satisfaction. I've killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point, but I have 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."''

%% * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Sofie Fatale

* PillowPistol: In Volume 2, upon learning about her pregnancy, she was ambushed by a rival [[HitmanWithAHeart Karen Kim]] in her hotel room. After a brief fight, The Bride pulls her gun from under her pillow, resulting she and Karen pointing their guns at each other.

* PillowPistol: In Volume 2, upon learning about her pregnancy, she was ambushed by a rival [[ProfessionalKiller Karen Kim]] in her hotel room. After a brief fight, The Bride pulls her gun from under her pillow, resulting she and Karen pointing their guns at each other.

* ImprobablyQuickComaRecovery: After four years in coma, the Bride/Beatrix Kiddo is miraculously awake and sits up abruptly. She can't even walk, yet she manages to beat her rapists single-handedly. After spending ''just'' 13 hours regaining her ability to move her legs, she could finally walk again, drives the Pussy Wagon, stays healthy and becomes even more badass afterwards. In real life, recovery from a four-year coma should have taken months or even likely years.

* PillowPistol: In Volume 2, upon learning about her pregnancy, she was ambushed by Karen Kim in her hotel room. After a brief fight, The Bride/Beatrix pulls her gun from under her pillow resulting she and Karen pointing their guns at each other.

* ImprobablyQuickComaRecovery: After four years in coma, the Bride/Beatrix Kiddo is miraculously awake and sits up abruptly. Despite she can't walk, yet she manages to beat her rapists single-handedly. After spending ''just'' 13 hours regaining her ability to move her legs, she could finally walk again, drives the Pussy Wagon, stays healthy and becomes even more badass afterwards. In real life, recovery from a four-year coma should have taken months or even likely years.

* ImprobablyQuickComaRecovery: After four years in coma, the Bride/Beatrix Kiddo is miraculously awake and sits up abruptly. Despite she can't walk, yet she manages to beat her rapists single-handedly. After spending ''just'' 13 hours regaining her ability to move her legs, she could finally walk again, drives the Pussy Wagon and stays healthy afterward. Recovery from a four-year coma should have taken months and even likely years.

* ImprobablyQuickComaRecovery: After four years in coma, the Bride/Beatrix Kiddo is miraculously awake and sits up abruptly. Despite she can't walk, yet she manages to beat her rapists single-handedly. After spending ''just'' 13 minutes struggling to move, she could finally walk again, drives the Pussy Wagon and stays healthy. Recovery from a four-year coma should have taken months and likely years.

* PillowPistol: In Volume 2, upon learning about her pregnancy, she was ambushed by Karen Kim in her hotel room. After a brief fight, TheBride/Beatrix pulls her gun from her pillow resulting she and Karen pointing their guns toward each other.

* HollywoodHealing: Zig-Zagged. The Bride shows a wonderful knack for shrugging off various injuries, and usually looks pristine the next day, but her healing from the massacre took four years. When she wakes up from the coma, she can't move her lower body at all, and struggles just to drag herself around. Then again, recovering her old physical prowess from the effects of a four-year coma is implied to have taken only a short amount of time rather than the months and likely years it should have taken.

* ImprobablyQuickComaRecovery: After four years in coma, The Bride/Beatrix Kiddo is miraculously awake and sits up abruptly. Despite she can't walk, yet she manages to beat her rapists single-handedly. After spending ''just'' 13 minutes struggling to move, she could finally walk again, drives the Pussy Wagon and stays healthy.

* ImprobableQuickComaRecovery: After four years in coma, The Bride/Beatrix Kiddo is miraculously awake and sits up abruptly. Despite she can't walk, yet she manages to beat her rapists single-handedly. After spending ''just'' 13 minutes struggling to move, she could finally walk again, drives the Pussy Wagon and stays healthy.

** Creator/GordonLiu, who plays Pai Mei, acted in a trilogy of films which also [[{{HistoricalDomainCharacter}} featured]] Pai Mei, in these instances portrayed by Lo Lieh -- Liu himself never played Pai Mei until Kill Bill. Tarantino was a fan of Liu's work in these films, and even referred to said films in the original script, claiming inspiration for the character from "films that feature Lieh Lo as the old, white-haired, white-eye-browed villain Pai Mei."

* TheThingThatGoesDoink: Befitting the setting in a traditional Japanese garden, there's one in the background during the Bride's duel with O-Ren.

** "My name is Buck and I came here to fuck" is a modified line from ''Film/EatenAlive''.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Hattori Hanzo claims that the katana he's made for the Bride is so sharp that "If on your journey, you should encounter God, [[BlasphemousBoast God will be cut]]." She can easily sever a limb with it or even take off the top of a person's skull in one swing.