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As your leader, I encourage you from time to time, and always in a respectful manner, to question my logic. If you're unconvinced that a particular plan of action I've decided is the wisest, tell me so, but allow me to convince you, and I promise you, right here and now, no subject will ever be taboo... except, of course, the subject that was just under discussion. The price you pay for bringing up either my Chinese or American heritage as a negative is... I collect your f-cking head. Just like this f-cker here. Now, if any of you sons of bitches GOT ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY, NOW'S THE F-CKING TIME!
~ O-Ren's most famous quote as she delivers a threatening speech to her associates shortly after beheading Boss Tanaka.
That really was a Hattori Hanzo sword...
~ O-Ren Ishii's final words as she dies shortly after being scalped by Beatrix Kiddo.

O-Ren Ishii is the main antagonist of the 2003 film Kill Bill Vol. 1, the first installment of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill film series.

She is a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (DeVAS), the supreme leader of the Tokyo Yakuza, who was one of the main Targets of Beatrix Kiddo, alias "Black Mamba" and "the Bride".

She was portrayed by Lucy Liu, who also played as Kalypso in the DC Extended Universe and the Lucy Liu Robots in Futurama.

History[]

Backstory[]

O-Ren was born on an American-Japanese military base and was the only child of an American-Japanese man and Chinese woman, giving O-Ren half Chinese, Japanese and American heritage.

She lived a relatively normal life, but when O-Ren was just nine years old, one night, she witnessed both her parents being brutally murdered on the orders of a deadly Yakuza leader known as Boss Matsumoto while young O-Ren lay hidden under the bed, seeing everything unfold before her very eyes.

Her father who was in the Army and held the rank of Sergeant Major managed to fight off against two of Matsumoto's men with O-Ren's father killing both of them before he was eventually killed after getting impaled with a sword into his back. O-Ren nearly whimpered at the sight but held herself back, knowing that if she was caught, she too would suffer the same fate. Riki, the man who had just murdered her father looked at her and smirked, causing O-Ren to begin shaking with fury while Matsumoto who found the incident hilarious began laughing although a coughing fit stopped it.

He then extinguished his cigar and upon getting up, dragged O-Ren's civilian mother away from the presence of another unknown man who had red hair and wore glasses who had been holding her prisoner with a sword and proceeded to throw her onto the bed where young O-Ren lay hidden underneath. Riki stepped forward and handed Matsumoto the blade with Matsumoto then proceeding to kill O-Ren's mother who had realized that she was going to die and had begun screaming by using the katana to pierce her chest and heart, the end of the katana missing O-Ren's right ear by a few inches as O-Ren who was now in tears called for her mother. The blood from the fatal wound her mother had received began soaking through the mattress, some of the droplets falling onto O-Ren's face.

A while later, Matsumoto and his men left the place, satisfied but not before Riki who hadd killed O-Ren's father earlier responded by using some alcohol and Matsumoto's cigar to create a massive fire that ended up destroying the house and burning all the bodies beyond recognition.

O-Ren escaped the fire but was left permanently psychologically and emotionally damaged by the horrors she had witnessed at such a young age, and as she watched her childhood home burn to the ground, swore revenge against Matsumoto.

For the next few months, fuelled by an insatiable desire for revenge, O-Ren became a student under Hanzo Hattori, a famous swordmaker and swordsman and underwent intense training, even going so far as to presumably learn how much strain the human body could take when pierced by a single sword. She also presumably began learning how to use a gun and fire off accurate shots.

Two years later, O-Ren, now an 11-year old schoolgirl and a trained killer, felt ready at last to carry out her plan of revenge.

Knowing that Matsumoto was a pedophile, she infiltrated his penthouse by posing as a child prostitute and got into bed with him. Before he could molest her, however, she pinned him down and stabbed him. She told Matsumoto to look into her eyes, twisting the blade in his gut as she then asked him, "Do I remind you of someone you killed?" She then ran her sword all the way through him and into the floor. She pulled the sword out of him, and was drenched with his blood.

Two bodyguards come to investigative, having heard their boss scream, and attempted to kill O-Ren by firing their guns at her - only to discover too late that O-Ren was actually hiding under the bed, having used Matsumoto's remains as a shield. She shot both men twice each, once in the leg and once in the head, the latter bullets decapitating them before she presumably fled. After that, O-Ren went into business for herself as a killer-for-hire.

Nine years later, at the age of twenty, O-Ren had become one of the top female assassins in the world and on the rooftop of a building, managed to successfully kill a corrupt military official who was seen in a vehicle, smoking or getting high with two women who were also Miss Panama and Miss Venezuela. Her expertise in sword fighting and espionage tactics led her to eventually became part of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, where she bore the code name "Cottonmouth". She worked for the squad for five years, and then she left the squad after torturing Beatrix Kiddo, a fellow Viper Squad member code named "Black Mamba", during her wedding ceremony along with the rest of the squad members.

Four years later, when she was 29 years old, she became the head of the Tokyo Yakuza with the help of Bill, who was her leader in the Deadly Viper Squad, and was known as the Queen of Underworld Tokyo. She even has her own bodyguard army known as the Crazy 88 led by Johnny Mo, and her own personal bodyguard, Gogo Yubari. Her best friend, Sofie Fatale, serves as her lawyer and right hand.

However, some of the older, more conservative members of the Yakuza looked down on O-Ren because of her mixed Japanese, Chinese, and American ancestry. One of them, Boss Tanaka, openly insulted her with ethnic slurs during a meeting. Without a word, O-Ren beheaded him with her Hanzo sword, and warned the other bosses never to insult her in such a way by holding up his severed head.

Role[]

While patronizing a club called "The House of Blue Leaves", O-Ren encounters Kiddo, who is on a mission to find and kill each one of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, with O-Ren the first on her list. O-Ren orders Gogo and the Crazy 88 to kill Kiddo, while she makes her quiet escape. However, Kiddo kills nearly all of O-Ren's bodyguards and mutilates Fatale before finally catching up with O-Ren.

Outside the club, O-Ren and Kiddo engage in combat with their swords during a gentle snowfall. O-Ren superficially wounds Kiddo, and mocks her by saying, "So, silly little Caucasian girl likes to play with swords." When Kiddo replies that hers is a Hanzo sword, O-Ren angrily calls her a liar and charges at her. This time, however, Kiddo manages to wound her. Chastened, O-Ren apologizes to Kiddo for insulting her, an apology that Kiddo accepts.

The two then continue to fight up, until Kiddo finally defeats O-Ren by scalping her, revealing the top of her brain. O-Ren gasps, "That was a Hanzo sword," she then falls to the ground, dead in the snow.

Personality[]

Presumably, as a child, O-Ren was happy and carefree, living an ideal life. However, after witnessing the deaths of her parents at the age of nine, she became a closed-off, emotionless being, sacrificing her very childhood and innocence to avenge her dead parents.

As she grew older, O-Ren still retained the original ruthlessness and cold-blooded that she had developed as a child.

For being born an American, O-Ren was very skillful in speaking English as well as Japanese, her native language. She was extremely proud of her heritage and will not hesitate to kill anyone especially her own subordinates who dared to insult her family heritage because she loved her parents very much and would not tolerate being spoken to in an ill mattered way. Despite this, she was calm and level headed most of the time.

She even encouraged her subordinates to speak their minds about her plans if they are not too convinced, as long as it is in a respectful matter and does not have anything to do with her background. For being a female, she was an expert in business leadership. She did show some concern for her close subordinates. This was shown when she saw her best friend and Second-in-Command Sofie Fatale, who had her left arm cut off from the Bride with her sword.

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