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The Bride (Kill Bill)
The Assassin: Turned on by her fellow assassins, trained hitwoman Black Mamba takes on a new name, The Bride, in memorium of the fact that she was nearly killed at her own wedding.
Wearing a blood-splattered yellow tracksuit similar to the one worn by Bruce Lee in Game of Death , The Bride makes mincemeat of her opponents.
Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction)
The Assassins: Working together, Vincent and Jules are the hired guns of their gangster boss Marsellus Wallace.
Angered by backstabbing Brett's jabber, Jules recites Ezekiel 25:17 to said target. Then unloads his gun into him.
Things we’ve learnt? Never say “what” around Jules.
Miho (Sin City)
The Assassin: Owing a debt of honour to Dwight McCarthy, who saved her life when she was caught out during a fight with Tong gangsters, Miho is a mute assassin whose past remains in shadow.
Deadliest Kill: “Oh sugar, you’ve just gone and done the stupidest thing in your whole life,” murmurs Becky to Jackie Boy.
Yep, cos Miho is on a rooftop, and she’s not happy. Throwing a blade that slices off Jackie Boy’s hand, Miho swiftly does away with his henchman, then blocks the barrel of JB's gun. When he tries to shoot, it backfires, killing him. Sweet.
Bishop (The Mechanic)
The Assassin: An efficient, clean killer, Bishop is canny enough about the business of killing that he leaves no traces whatsoever.
Deadliest Kill: Warning: here be spoilers. At the film’s end, Bishop’s apprentice, the ominously named Steve, turns rogue and poisons poor Bishop in Naples.
“Bang you’re dead.” Ain’t life a bitch?
Lon
The Assassin: A lone hitman who lives in solitude in New York’s Little Italy, Léon works for mafia lynchpin Tony.
Shot in the back by corrupt cop Stansfield, Léon lies dying.
As Stansfield stands gloating, Léon hands the rogue a pin from a grenade, saying it’s “from Mathilda”. By the time Stansfield realises that Léon is wearing a grenade-packed vest, he’s dead as a doornail.
Zam Wesell (Star Wars)
The Assassin: A shape-shifting Clawdite bounty hunter who is also contracted to kill. Trained as a Mabari warrior, she can look like a human woman. But really she’s scaly as hell and has the kind of face only a mother could love.
Deadliest Kill: Makes a damn good stab at killing Padme in Attack of the Clones by blowing up her ship, but only manages to kill the Senator’s decoy.
Vincent (Collateral)
The Assassin: What do we know about Vincent? Well, jack all, really. He’s as much of a silver fox as he is a dark beast.
Deadliest Kill: Taking out anybody in his way, Vincent incapacitates the bodyguards of a packed LA club by breaking their legs.
Vincent makes a lot of deadly kills.
Nikita (La Femme Nikita)
The Assassin: Quite obviously the inspiration for Bridget Fonda’s The Assassin , this thriller from Luc Besson follows former heroin addict Nikita, who works for French Intelligence.
As she awaits orders, her boyfriend is on the other side of the door wanting to talk about their relationship...
Michael Sullivan (Road to Perdition)
The Assassin: Working during the Great Depression era, Sullivan is mob enforcer to Irish crime boss John Rooney, who raised him after the death of his parents.
Deadliest Kill: When his young son witnesses Sullivan’s other son Connor killing a man, Sullivan’s family are murdered.
“I’m glad it’s you,” says Rooney. We blub.
The T-1000 (Terminator 2)
The Assassin: Sent back through time to kill a pre-pubescent John Connor, eradicating him as a future threat, the T-1000 is faster, leaner and shinier than the T-800.
Deadliest Kill: Discovering the house of Connor’s foster parents, the T-1000 morphs into his foster mother and demands to know where the boy is.
Evidently his act is so convincing that the real foster dad falls for it, and has his babbling swiftly curtailed by a metal spike through the head.
Jane Smith (Mr & Mrs Smith)
The Assassin: Married “five or six” years to her undercover spy husband, Jane Smith works as a hired gun for a company that appears to only be populated by women.
Deadliest Kill: Tasked with offing some rich guy in a high rise, Mrs Smith dons a leather dominatrix outfit and poses as a whip-for-hire.
The Kids in Battle Royale
The Assassins: A load of bratty kids who have no respect for authority are taught a proper lesson by their teacher when they’re gassed and taken to an island where they must fight to survive. Kill or be killed.
Deadliest Kill: They’re all pretty deadly (kids are vicious, y’know).
And there’s the bit in the kitchen, when all the girls turn on each other.
And... Oh, we could go on.
Georgia Sykes (Smokin Aces)
The Assassin: Georgia is femme fatale through and through. She doesn’t kill women, and she uses her sex appeal to cover as a hooker.
She may or may not inadvertently kill a genuine prostitute, but gets out alive thanks to Ryan Reynolds believing she’s just another street-walker.
Maggie (The Assassin)
The Assassin: Maggie is a junkie-rebel-without-a-cause on a collision course to total self-destruction. Or just any old destruction; she’s on death row for murder.
Putting bullets in the blokes’ brains, too late she realises that the real test is to see if she can get out alive...
El Mariachi (Desperado)
The Assassin: Consumed with grief over the death of his girlfriend Domino at the hands of Bucho, El Mariachi has made it his mission to take revenge.
As Bucho threatens the life of El’s new love, Carolina, he pops pistols from his sleeves and shoots Bucho at point black range.
