69. The Bride
Kill Bill
It seems odd that Quentin Tarantino, director of such sausage fest bonanzas as "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction," would be behind the most badass female character in the history of film.
The Bride, aka Beatrix Kiddo, is a character driven by one thing: revenge. Left for dead on her wedding day, Kiddo scours the globe looking for the people who put her in her near-irreversible coma, leading her to the mastermind of her planned assassination: her former leader and lover, Bill (oh and did I mention that Bill shot The Bride in the head after she said she was pregnant with his child? And that when she woke up from the coma, the baby was gone?)
Hacking and slashing her way through two movies, The Bride thoroughly destroys anyone in her path. Her ruthless determination even gains the respect of kung fu master Pai Mei, who teaches her the infamous "Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique" (which she eventually uses to finish of Bill, of course).
She drives a van called a Pussy Wagon (named after a lyric from "Grease Lightning"). She refused to kill Vernita Green in front of her daughter and when the child accidentally walks in on her mother getting killed, The Bride tells her that she'll be waiting if the child wishes to take revenge. She broke out of her own coffin when she was buried alive under six feet of dirt. The Bride > you.
Defining moment: Her complete annihilation at the House of Blue Leaves. She turns the Crazy 88s into the Crazy 2s
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