The next big thing in Fortnite isn’t a new weapon or a celebrity concert, it’s a Quentin Tarantino deep cut. The battle royale is premiering an unfilmed Kill Bill chapter called The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge, written and directed by Tarantino and starring Uma Thurman. It arrives in-game on November 30 at 2 PM ET and has also been flagged as an “After Dark” property to signal that it leans older than the average crossover.
For a game rated T for Teen, bringing in one of Tarantino’s bloodiest stories was always going to require some sanding down. The expected changes are there — no graphic blood spray, no on-screen dismemberment — but the most noticeable edit so far targets something else: the Pussy Wagon.
What Epic is changing about the Pussy Wagon
In the Kill Bill films, the Pussy Wagon is a bright yellow pickup emblazoned with an equally loud “Pussy Wagon” logo across the tailgate. It’s one of the most recognizable images in the series, and it briefly becomes the Bride’s vehicle after she escapes from the hospital.
In the teaser for Yuki’s Revenge, the same truck appears, but the branding has been reworked. Instead of the full phrase written out in candy-colored script, the tailgate now shows a cartoon cat’s head followed by the word “Wagon.” The visual joke is obvious to anyone who knows the movies, but it removes the explicit term from on-screen text.
Television edits of Kill Bill have played similar games with the truck before, digitally changing the logo to “Party Wagon.” Epic’s version keeps the underlying gag while sliding it under a teen rating: the kids see a cat, older players see the reference.
Why Epic is censoring the vehicle name
The change is less about Kill Bill itself and more about Fortnite’s business model. The game carries a T for Teen ESRB rating, is distributed through console and mobile storefronts with their own content rules, and sells directly to a large under-18 audience. Text that spells out a sexual slang term on a driveable cosmetic is an easy way to invite ratings trouble or platform pushback.
There are already precedents inside Fortnite. Alcohol branding tied to The Simpsons’ Duff beer has been reworked into in-universe “Slurp” references. Licensed emotes based on jokes about “butt scratching” have had their item names toned down in the locker while the gag remains clear enough. The censored Pussy Wagon fits that pattern: keep the silhouette and color, remove the explicit wording.
Ratings boards also tend to treat sexual language more harshly than non-graphic combat. Fortnite already normalizes shooting opponents, but it avoids explicit slurs, sex jokes, and body-part slang in UI text and item names. Swapping letters for a cat icon keeps that line intact.
How Yuki’s Revenge fits into Fortnite
Yuki’s Revenge occupies a strange middle ground between film and live service event. It’s a fully scripted narrative sequence, built in Unreal Engine with Fortnite character models, that plays back as a viewing experience rather than a playable quest. Tarantino finally gets to realize a chapter that never made it to the original films, focusing on Yuki, the sister of schoolgirl bodyguard Gogo Yubari.
In the movies, Gogo serves O-Ren Ishii and meets the Bride in one of Kill Bill’s most famous fights, swinging a meteor hammer through a snow-dusted Japanese garden. Yuki is described as a bubblier but just as dangerous counterpart, now reimagined in Fortnite’s stylized visuals and heavily implied gunplay instead of gore-drenched melee.
The event premieres inside Fortnite’s Discover tab, with doors “opening” 30 minutes early so players can gather before the scheduled start. The same short film will then anchor theatrical screenings of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, a combined cut of the two original movies, in select cinemas in the US, UK, and Canada starting December 5.
After Dark label and how far Fortnite will go
Epic is using an “After Dark” tag to distinguish the Kill Bill collaboration from more broadly family-focused brands like LEGO Fortnite or cartoon crossovers. The label serves as a soft warning rather than a formal ratings change: expect heavier themes and stylized violence, but still filtered through Fortnite’s no-blood presentation and platform-safe language.
That balance extends beyond the Pussy Wagon. Kill Bill’s on-screen dismemberment, arterial spray, and sexual violence are central to the tone of the originals. None of that can appear in a teen-rated, free-to-play game without consequences for distribution, so Yuki’s Revenge leans on implication, choreography, and staging instead of gore and explicit dialogue.
The result is an unusual compromise: a Tarantino project designed from the ground up to live inside Fortnite’s rails. Tarantino gets to revisit his characters and introduce them to a new audience, while Epic keeps the collaboration within the constraints that allow Fortnite to update weekly on every major platform.
Kill Bill, Fortnite, and the weirdness of tone
The Pussy Wagon edit calls attention to a broader tonal clash. Fortnite is built around exaggerated shooting and constant character death, but it treats that violence as weightless. Characters are holographic avatars, eliminations are temporary, and the art style leans bright and cartoonish.
Kill Bill, by contrast, revels in personal, often intimate brutality. The Bride’s revenge is motivated by assault, betrayal, and the loss of her child. The Pussy Wagon’s original owner is a rapist whose truck branding is part of the film’s depiction of his cruelty. Even when the violence is over-the-top, it’s meant to land as something ugly and consequential.
Transplanting that world into a battle royale inevitably strips out much of the charge. The truck becomes a stylized prop. Yuki shifts from a Tarantino villain to a Fortnite-designed threat whose actions can’t cross certain lines. The cat-headed Wagon logo sits in the middle as a reminder of what had to be removed to make the crossover workable.
How to watch Yuki’s Revenge and what you get
| Where | When | What’s included |
|---|---|---|
| Fortnite (in-game Discover row) | November 30, 2 PM ET (doors open 30 minutes earlier) | Screening of The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge starring Uma Thurman |
| Participating cinemas (US, Canada, UK) | From December 5 (limited run) | Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair including Yuki’s Revenge on the big screen |
| Fortnite cosmetic tie-in | Redemption from November 30 (for eligible players) | Gogo Yubari Outfit unlocked with a code from opening-weekend movie tickets |
There are two main ways to see the new chapter. Inside Fortnite, it appears as a timed screening: players drop into a dedicated island to watch the short film together. Outside the game, the chapter is bundled into theatrical showings of the recut Whole Bloody Affair, which stitches Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 into a single marathon.
In the US, players who buy opening-weekend tickets from participating theaters between November 20 and November 29 receive a redemption code for a Gogo Yubari Outfit usable in-game from November 30. The FAQ and redemption flow live on the official Fortnite site at fortnite.com/the-whole-bloody-affair-redemption-faq.
All of this makes the censored truck emblem feel small on its own and huge in context. Fortnite is now a platform where you can load into a lobby as Peely, queue into an event directed by Quentin Tarantino, and watch an unshot Kill Bill chapter that has been carefully shaved down to fit inside a teen-rated framework. The cat-faced Wagon badge is the neatest visual summary of that compromise: the shape of Kill Bill, with the sharpest edges filed off.
