As many of you know, Kill Bill is filled with some fierce killing ladies. Characters like the Bride, O Ren Ishii, and Elle Driver are some people I would not want to pick a fight with. And yet, even though the Bride is an obvious bad ass, I believe Gogo Yubari is the fiercest of the bunch.
Gogo is an underrated character and she shows no mercy. For starters, she’s 17 and by far the youngest assassin in the film. On top of being the youngest, it’s impressive that she’d already become O Ren Ishii’s personal assassin. O Ren has a whole clan of male assassins called the Crazy 88 but the one she wants by her side is the girl in the school uniform.
Her schoolgirl appearance greatly contrasts the fact that she’s a killing machine. One of her few lines shows this great contrast after the Bride tells her to walk away from an inevitable fight. She giggles in a typical girl-like fashion then growls, “You can beg better than that.”
Also, while the Bride’s Hattori Hanzo sword is impressive; Gogo shows up to the game with a meteor hammer. That is, two piercing spheres attached by a chain. And if that wasn’t enough, the spheres have extra blades that pop out to ensure a painful death.
To show how brutal Gogo is Tarantino introduces her character with a scene of her at a bar. After a brief interaction with an older man she asks him if he wants to screw her and after he replies yes she stabs him.
Gogo is a relatively quiet character who lets her actions speak for her. Yet, the few lines she does have are memorable. After stabbing the man at the bar she says, “Do you still wish to penetrate me?… Or is it I who has penetrated you?” If it’s not clear by now, you do not want to fuck with Gogo.
Chiaki Kuriyana, the actress who plays Gogo, says she related to Gogo in some ways. She said, “I loved playing Gogo because the character is so extreme. And she’s pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that she likes swords.”
She has a unbelievable amount of confidence for someone in a schoolgirl uniform. She casually strolls into her fight scene swinging her meteor hammer; all after seeing the Bride kill dozens of the Crazy 88 assassins.
I think the fight scene between Gogo and the Bride is one of the best in the film. Both are skilled assassins who know what they are doing and only one will walk out with their life. Although it looked as if Gogo was going to be victorious, sadly she dies at the House of Blue Leaves with blood dripping out of her eyes.
Although she does die she put up a fight and no one can deny that she’s a bad ass. She may be young and she may be quiet but that is the end of her innocence. She is a brutal assassin with a meteor hammer and she’s the fiercest killer of them all.