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.

She tracks down the Deadly Vipers, including O-Ren Ishii, now the leader of the Tokyo yakuza, and exacts revenge under the assumption that her child died during her coma.

[citation needed] Tarantino developed many of the Bride's characteristics for the character of Shosanna Dreyfus for his 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, which he worked on before Kill Bill.

[2] Tarantino said he saved most of the Bride's character development for the second film: "As far as the first half is concerned, I didn't want to make her sympathetic.

[12] The essay "Visual Representations of Violent Women", by the academics Yuko Minowa, Pauline Maclaran and Lorna Stevens, argues that the Bride displays both masculine and feminine elements, which the authors feel is gender-subversive.

The authors compared the Bride to the painting Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Lucas Cranach the Elder, and wrote that Kiddo "represents defamiliarization and affirmation of women's entitlement to violence through the visualization of excessive vengeance".

[13] The academic Erin Harrington identified the Bride as an example of "monstrous motherhood" and a protective "Mama Bear", noting that her actions in the second film are motivated by the discovery that her daughter is alive.