The Bride awakens from the coma years later and is horrified to find that she is no longer pregnant. Bill aborts an order to have her assassinated in the hospital, considering it dishonorable when she cannot defend herself. The Bride survives and falls into a coma. Bill, assuming her fiancé is the father, orders them assassinated at the chapel and shoots her in the head. When the Bride discovers she is pregnant with Bill's child, she abandons the Deadly Vipers so her baby can have a better life, and becomes engaged. She is trained by the martial arts master Pai Mei and becomes the right hand of Bill, her boss and lover, provoking the envy of another Deadly Viper, Elle Driver. The Bride was once a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, an elite group of assassins.

Her name is not revealed until the second film.

In 2010, Entertainment Weekly named the Bride the 99th-greatest character of the preceding 20 years, and in 2015 Empire named her the 23rd-greatest film character of all time.īeatrix 'the Bride' Kiddo (codename: Black Mamba) is the protagonist of the martial arts films Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), directed by Quentin Tarantino. Beatrix 'the Bride' Kiddo (codename: Black Mamba) is the protagonist of the martial arts films Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), directed by Quentin Tarantino.

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