Comic-Con Flashback: Why Kill Bill Rules

The unexpected twist: Beatrix Kiddo's daughter is alive. And living with Bill?!?

Uma Thurman deserves credit for bringing life to The Bride beyond wire work and well-rehearsed fight choreography. When she steps into Bill's house to see B.B., the kid she never knew she had, there's some real heartstring tugging, for both Thurman and the audience.

Bill shoots his former lover with a dart of "truth serum," but before he gets to his interrogation, he lets loose one of Tarantino's signature, poetic dialogues, one in which aged ringleader compares The Bride to Superman. What ensues is borders on pop culture-infuses nonsense, but that's why we love Tarantino. He speaks the geek and he owns it.

Kill Bill wouldn't be a true kung fu homage, or heck, complete at all, without a ridiculous finishing move for the end of the journey. In this case, it's Pai Mei's legendary "Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique," a move no student had ever learned and one Bill especially didn't expect to see executed on himself.

While they've had their hardships and differences, both Bill and Beatrix can admit that the other is noble, strong and wonderful. Bill, his heart slowly giving out from the previous attack, walks off with his head held high into the lawn, the score crescendo-ing to his mighty end. Bill shot his former lover in the head and raised her thought-to-be-dead child as his own, but he has no regrets.