[2] Other actresses considered included Daryl Hannah, Joan Cusack, Halle Berry, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Holly Hunter and Alfre Woodard.

[5] Other actresses on the list were Virginia Madsen, Marisa Tomei, Jennifer Beals, Pam Grier, Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda, Jasmine Guy, Angela Bassett, Annette O'Toole, Debra Winger, Robin Wright, Meg Tilly, [madonna] Cynda Williams and N'Bushe Wright.

[6] Mia was modeled after actress Anna Karina, a prominent figure of the French New Wave and muse of Jean-Luc Godard.

[7] For Mia's look in the film, costume designer Betsy Heimann created her appearance to be that of a female Reservoir Dog.

Before meeting Marsellus, Mia was an aspiring actress who appeared in a television pilot called Fox Force Five, which failed.

His friend and partner-in-crime and fellow hitman Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) warns him not to forget his place, and tells him a story about Antwan "Tony Rocky Horror" Rockamora, one of Marcellus' men whom Marcellus threw out of a four-story window, supposedly because he gave Mia a foot massage.

When Vincent goes to pick Mia up at Marcellus's lavish house, she speaks to him over the intercom as she snorts cocaine in a separate room.

When Vincent brings up what happened to Rockamora, Mia says that "The only thing Tony ever touched of mine was my hand when he shook it on my wedding day".

When Vincent returns from the bathroom he finds Mia overdosing on the couch, and frantically drives her to the house of his heroin dealer Lance (Eric Stoltz), in an effort to save her.

Lance gets a syringe full of liquid adrenaline, and has Vincent administer it directly into Mia's heart, which instantly resuscitates her, saving her life.

[20] In the second season of Community for the episode "Critical Film Studies" the character Britta Perry (Gillian Jacobs) dresses as Mia for a Pulp Fiction party.

[21] In an episode of All-American Girl titled Pulp Sitcom guest starring Tarantino, Margaret Cho spoofs Mia, including the dance scene and drawing the air square.

[22] After Margot Robbie asked Tarantino for permission, Fox Force Five became the working title for her 2020 film Birds of Prey.

"[23] Lisa Rinna, Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave, Kyle Richards, Dorit Kemsley and Erika Girardi of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills publicly adopted Fox Force Five as a term to refer to themselves.

[7][10] Her outfit influenced fashion shows and designs from Marc Jacobs, Jil Sander, Tom Ford, Rag & Bone[29] and Kate Sylvester.

[34][35] In 2012, rapper Wiz Khalifa released the Taylor Allderdice mixtape featuring the track "Mia Wallace".

[36] In 2015, the rock band Fall Out Boy released the single "Uma Thurman", influenced by Mia Wallace, The Bride from Kill Bill and Dick Dale's "Misirlou" which was featured in Pulp Fiction.

[38] Fall Out Boy and Wiz Khalifa performed "Uma Thurman" live at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards featuring 12 dancers dressed as Mia Wallace.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that Uma Thurman's performance "is marvelous here, seductively scrappy as she teases Vincent.