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04/24/2004 Entry: "Non Venomous"

Hmmm... After watching "Kill Bill" over again, I realized that the California Mountain Snake isn't venomous, and isn't a viper, much less a Deadly Viper. Instead, the California Mountain Kingsnake masquerades as a deadly coral snake, and had the additional property of being immune to the venoms of rattlesnakes, copperheads, and various other venomous snake breeds. As a predator of these other snake species, it certainly comes in handy.

Elle Driver is sent to kill a member of the Deadly Viper Squad, so the moniker of California Mountain Snake is apt. However, after viewing "Kill Bill II", such immunity to a prey snake's venom becomes the least of her problems.

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Why Quentin would choose to have a vipers' predator that's not itself a viper as a name for a member of his Deadly Viper Squad is probably reading way more into the movie then was particularly intended. However, it is in the nature of the compulsively detail-oriented to make note of such aberrations, with the full knowledge that such a realization is unimportant in the Grand Scale Of Things. However, I am irrationally compelled to mention it in spite of this understanding.

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