Impromptu bonus Mother’s Day Deathmatch:
(SPOILERS)
Sarah Connor vs. The Bride.
Sarah Connor.
In the blue corner: Sarah Connor. Once a simple waitress. Plunged without warning into a life of danger by a time-traveller robot and the man hand-picked to stop it. After brushes with death, the single mother became a wandering warrior who raised her son, shaping him into the kind of martially lethal, military adept man who could save humanity from the combined might of the machines. Studied assorted military skills all over the Western Hemisphere. Proficient in assorted types of weapons: blades, blunt ones, firearms (including sniper rifle). Can do pullups. Has taken on literal killing machines, face-to-face, and walked away to fight another day.
Brutal clip, embedding disabled: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuIIcN0tUp4
See also:
The Bride, Beatrix Kiddo, aka Black Mamba.
In the yellow corner: Beatrix Kiddo. Martial-arts adept who abandoned her life as an assassin to raise her child in a world free from danger. For a minute, it looked like it would work. Studied kung fu and swords under the cruel tutelage of Pai Mei, an ancient mystical master of the fighting arts. In her circle of combatants, even her arch-rivals says she’s the best warrior they’ve ever seen. Pure hell with a sword. Dispatched the entire Crazy 88s gang in a massive sword showdown. Practice the three-inch punch until her hands were pulp, and later used it to escape being buried alive. Perhaps the only person left in the world who knows Pai Mei’s legendary Five-Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique. Killed Bill.
Edit: Kiddo took a bullet to the head and survived. Connor was killed by shitty writers between T2 and subsequent sequels, but you can’t fault her for that. She was reincarnated in diminished form for the underrated Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles TV show, but things were looking up when that show got the axe.
They’re probably smart enough to not fight each other. But say John Connor’s life was on the line vs. Ms. Kiddo’s kid… who wins?