Utilising the meteor hammer, Gogo’s strategy forces our heroine to be in defensive mode for the duration of their battle until - by chance - The Bride is able to perform the killing blow with a nail-exposed plank of wood nearby in what we’re to think may have been her dying moments. While the bodies of the Crazy 88’s pile up as they take on The Bride with her weapon of choice – the infamous katana crafted by Hattori Hanzo – it’s Gogo who forces her to fight in a different discipline, a discipline that she’s not a master in. It’s this teenage killer dressed in a school uniform so that her enemies underestimate her that nearly accomplishes their task in Chapter 5: Showdown at House Of Blue Leaves. She is, however, arguably the character that comes closest to killing The Bride: not Bill, not Budd, not Elle Driver, not Vernita Green, not Gogo’s boss O-Ren Ishii or any member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. Yes, like most of the characters we meet in both volumes of Kill Bill, Gogo doesn’t live to see the end credits. Yet it’s this gesture - which has become the go-to reaction gif for Gogo – that encapsulates both her sinister nature and sly intelligence. Throughout the duration of Quentin Tarantino’s revenge epic, we see her perform numerous ‘evil’ acts depending on your perspective: from butchering a paedophilic Tokyo businessman to attempting to kill our protagonist, The Bride (Uma Thurman). “Gogo may be young, but what she lacks in age, she makes up for in madness.” The final descriptor – mad – is punctuated with a slow, subtle, but none-the-less evil smile from Gogo. “The young girl in the schoolgirl uniform is O-Ren's personal bodyguard, 17-year-old Gogo Yubari,” The Bride tells us via narration in Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003).
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