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* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: The katana owned by the Bride is so sharp, its creator claims that "If on your journey, you should encounter God, [[Blasphemous Boast|God will be cut."]]
** The line could also be seen as a reference to the Buddhist belief that to obtain enlightenment, one has to destroy all obstacles on their path, including the Buddha himself ("If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill the Buddha").
* [[Action Girl]]: Every major female character other than Sofie Fatale, Nikki Green and {{spoiler|B.B.}}.
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* [[Born in the Wrong Century]]: For the most part, most of the characters try to live by the sword, but even so, a lot of them are [[Combat Pragmatist|Combat Pragmatists]]; even the Bride seems ready to [[Title Drop|kill Bill]] with a gun at first.
* [[Boss in Mook Clothing]]: Johnny Mo, who arrives at the head of the Crazy 88 to battle the Bride. He lasts throughout the entire battle, engaging her multiple times, and at the end faces her in single combat.
* [[Brick Joke]]: When the Bride says to Nikki that "It was not my intention to do this in front of you. For that I'm sorry. But you can take my word for it, your mother had it comin'. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I'll be waiting."
** Quentin is planning a third volume of the story, to be released in 2014, and he dropped that half of the brick joke knowing it would be ''[[Crazy Prepared|eleven years]]'' [[Fridge Brilliance|before it would pay off.]]
* [[Buried Alive]]: What Budd does to the Bride.
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* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Found within the story of Pai Mei that Bill tells the Bride. Pai Mei once offered a small nod of deference (a rare gesture) to a passing Shaolin monk, who failed to return it -- for all anyone knows, the monk might not have even noticed it. For this grave insult, Pai Mei headed to the Shaolin Temple and demanded the head of the head abbot as an apology. When the other monks pleaded for mercy and tried to console Pai Mei, he slaughtered every one of them, burning the monastery down afterwards.
** Also:
{{quote|''Bill'': Not only are you not dead, you're getting married, to some fucking jerk, and you're pregnant. I... [[Understatement|overreacted]].
[long pause]
''The Bride'': You ''overreacted?''}}
* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Pai Mei.
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* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Played with. The Bride is a mass-murderer who, in her [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]], has killed, hacked off parts of, and tortured her former colleagues, moving coldly onto her next target without even waiting for the blood to stop pooling beneath the chopped-up bodies, but when Elle reveals that she killed the Bride's Master, she ''gets even more [[Berserk Button|fucking pissed!]]''
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Bill will be "a murdering bastard" any day, but he will not (in the end) kill someone in their sleep, because "that act would lower us".
** The Bride is sadistic and a mass-murderer; but she shows this as well. She sticks to the people on her list (and the Crazy 88) despite pointing out to Vernita to make things even, she would have to kill Vernita, her daughter, and her husband. She is also willing to stop the fight in front of Vernita's daughter {{spoiler|and appears genuinely regretfully that she killed Vernita in front of her daughter}}.
* [[Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting]]: The Bride is allowed to take her katana on the plane with her, because it's considered matter-of-fact for ''everybody'' at the airport (and, by extension, the country of Japan) to have a katana. In the scene where the Bride is flying out of Japan and formulating her death list, there is a katana across the aisle from her, right in front of the camera. At first glance it looks like she respects the sword so much, she bought a seat especially for it, but then you notice that her katana is actually behind her. The man seated behind the Bride has one as well. Probably everyone on the plane has one.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]
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* [[Memetic Badass]]: [[In-Universe]] example, Pai Mei seems to have achieved this status so much that legends of his badassery go back a millennium.
* [[The Men in Black]]: The Crazy 88s, who are apparently a simultaneous [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[The Green Hornet]]'' and ''[[The Matrix]]'' (Yuen Wo Ping was the fight choreographer for all three ''Matrix'' films and ''Kill Bill'').
* [[Mighty Whitey]]: The elderly Chinese kung fu master Pai Mei hates skinny people, blondes, whites, women, Japanese people, and Americans. Therefore, his greatest pupil is a skinny, blond, white American woman who speaks Japanese. Then again, he [[Training
** Of course, the only reason he even considered teaching them at all is because of Bill...
** Not to mention that the Bride mops the floor with the bloody remains of the all-Asian martial arts army, the Crazy 88, and then goes on to defeat their Asian mistress.
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** The 5-6-7-8's have been featured in a few commercials since the film as well.
** And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ZHP10__Co this scene] from ''[[The Good, the Bad, the Weird]]'' uses Santa Esmeralda's cover of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" to great effect.
* [[Renowned Selective Mentor]]: Pai Mei. Apparently he only rarely accepts students and is a thousand-year-old renowned recluse.
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: The Deadly Viper Assassin Squad.
* [[Retraux]]: The Bride 'driving' in front of an obvious back-projection at the start of ''Vol. 2'', while delivering her monologue.
* [[Retired Badass]]: Hatori Hanzo is no longer in the sword-making business but that doesn't mean he isn't willing to make an exception when it comes to killing Bill.
* [[Retired Monster]]: Most of the characters we see:
** Vernita and Budd have both left the criminal lifestyle behind - but not their skills as assassins.
** Subverted in the case of O-Ren, who only gave up the assassin's lifestyle to become head of the Yakuza.
** Bill seems to have left the business behind as well in order to {{spoiler|raise Bea-Bea}}.
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** The trope is also inverted in that, with the exception of the question mark in the end credits, none of these happen near the end of the films. In fact, only Budd's friends even happen in the second movie!
* [[The Seventies]]: Many, many references, visual homages, and the soundtrack.
* [[She Fu]]: Averted hard by both movies. The Bride took as good as she gave. This led a few reviewers to claim the movies were hateful toward women since it essentially meant the character was being put through everything any male action character would be put through. Apparently, the critics wanted [[She Fu]] instead.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Many martial arts films.
** Perhaps most notable, the live action film adaptation of ''[[Lady Snowblood]]''. Aside from the general similarities in the plot, Vol. 1 uses the film's theme song, and many shots, especially {{spoiler|O-Ren Ishii lying on the ground after her death}}, are strikingly similar to those in ''Snowblood''.
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* [['Tis Only a Bullet in the Brain]]: The Bride survives a shot to the head at point blank range (though it does send her into a coma).
* [[Touch of Death]]: The legendary Five-Point-Palm Exploding Heart Technique.
* [[Training
* [[Trunk Shot]]
* [[Twinkle Toes Samurai]]: O-Ren during the meeting of the bosses, immediately before beheading Boss Tanaka. Justified as she's wearing traditional Japanese clothing at the time: If she didn't take those dainty little steps, she'd probably end up with a face full of table.
* [[Understatement]]: Bill: "I... [[Kill'Em All|overreacted]]".
** [[Flat What]]: Bride: *Beat*... *Beat*... *Beat*... *Beat*... ''"You... overreacted?"''
* [[Unkempt Beauty]]: The Bride. Spectacularly gorgeous even when she spends most of her time covered in sweat, mud and blood.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Elle, after {{spoiler|losing her remaining eye}}. Holy...
* [[Visual Pun]]: In ''Vol. 1'', Vernita green has a gun concealed {{spoiler|in a box of "Kaboom" cereal}}.
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** More like "Woman dressed as a villain on [[Star Trek]]."
* [[Woman in White]]: O-Ren.
** The Bride, of course, when she's in the dress.
*** And then at the end of ''Vol. 2'', we see her in white again. Bringing the story full circle.
* [[World of Ham]]: So much so that it all seems normal, in-universe.
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