Less Intimidating Members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad

Recall, if you will, Kill Bill’s Deadly Viper Assassination Squad: Beatrix Kiddo (“Black Mamba”), Oren Ishii (“Cottonmouth”), Vernita Green (“Copperhead”), Budd (“Sidewinder”) and Elle Driver (“California Mountain Snake”). Presumably, had Kiddo not made good on the imperative stated in the film’s title, Bill could have extended membership to other murderers. He did, after all, lack the redhead and brunette needed to make a complete set.

Among available, though far less badass, code names:

• Ball python
• Banana boa
• Beak-nosed worm snake
• Butterfly adder
• Candy stick
• Children’s python
• Christmas Island blind snake
• Deaf adder
• Eyelash boa
• Monocled cobra
• Muck rattler
• Rainbow boa
• Red carpet viper
• Rusty moccasin
• Sunbeam snake
• Water pilot

Because I just rewatched Volume One on IFC, that’s why.


Above: the eyelash viper, unless you think it can’t possibly be intimidating.