Death wouldn't be so bad if these ladies' faces were the last thing we saw before dying.

<strong>11. Miho (Devon Aoki, <em>Sin City</em>)</strong>- Deadly little Miho. Sin City is a pretty tough place to live (Just ask…oh, wait, he's dead…Ask what's his name. What? Decapitated? When? Never mind…), so you know that if a five-foot-tall Asian girl can make even hard cases soil themselves, she must be something special. In a world of badass killer prostitutes in costume, she is the badassest.

<strong>10. Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner, <em>Elektra</em>)</strong>- OK, so her killer moves didn't translate into a killer movie, but no one can pout and fight at the same time like Garner's Elektra. Plus, she has that whole "killed but then resurrected by magical ninjas" thing in her corner. Who else can boast that? It's just a shame she fell for a blind dude who can't appreciate her appeal, even with radar sense.

<strong>9. Aeon Flux (Charlize Theron, <em>Aeon Flux</em>)</strong>- This is how we like our Theron served: In a tight catsuit, spread eagle, with absolutely no hint of "Oscar winner" anywhere in the vicinity. Aeon Flux is an acrobatic, cold-as–Vanilla Ice killer who will not only snap your neck between her thighs—she'll have you begging to have your neck snapped between her thighs.

<strong>12. Lola (Kate Nauta, <em>Transporter 2</em>)</strong>- The key to being a great assassin is stealth—the ability to remain perfectly inconspicuous until the moment when you strike. But the key to making this list is throwing all of that shit out of the window and strolling through an office building wearing nothing but lingerie and two machine guns. Well played, Lola.

<strong>8. Agent Sever (Lucy Liu, <em>Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever</em>)</strong>- Agent Sever was a woman of few words, but of many, many ways to make you say "ow." Witness her taking down an entire platoon of SWAT guys with nothing but a pair of sticks, all without even losing her fashionable sunglasses. If they could find a way to bottle "Lucy Liu" they…probably shouldn't. It would most likely kick the bottle's ass and then walk away like it was no big deal.

<strong>7. Dakota Parker (Emily Mortimer, <em>The 51st State</em>)</strong>- What happens when you let petite Englishwomen remove their corsets and stop speaking in Jane Austen–isms? They become lethal snipers in high-heeled boots. Still, even when they're picking off your left butt cheek from a mile away, they sound so bloody polite and nice that you can't be that scared of them.

<strong>6. Georgia Sykes (Alicia Keys, <em>Smokin' Aces</em>)</strong>- As the hands-down hottest person trying to get to Buddy "Aces" Israel (apologies to Ryan Reynolds), Alicia proved she can handle a gun and an attitude as well as she handles the piano. Even her lesbian partner-in-crime can't stay focused around her. Anytime Alicia bends over, she's leering harder than David Spade at the Playboy Mansion.

<strong>5. Nikita (Anne Parillaud, <em>La Femme Nikita</em>)</strong>- French women don't actually need to go through extensive "special ops" training to become lethal killers. If they look like Ms. Parillaud, all they have to do is saunter up to you in their insane high heels, look you dead in the eye, and say, "I vill, how you say? Take you to ze restroom and kill you now, yes?" And you'd follow her like you were a starving man in the desert and her dress was made of water and pizza.

<strong>4. Beatrix Kiddo (Uma Thurman, <em>Kill Bill</em>)</strong>- Despite her sketchy past (we're not talking about her time as a member of Bill's killer posse, we're talking about her time unknowingly servicing lonely truckers), "The Bride" is an imposingly hot figure. If you're one of the lucky victims who gets away with just a spanking, don't blow it by running back all, "Thank you, Ma'am, may I have another?" You've been given a gift. Enjoy it.

<strong>3. Mystique (Rebecca Romijn,<em> X-Men</em>)</strong>- Yes, she's blue. Yes, she's covered in scales. And, yes, she hates humans. But you're missing the fine print here: She's hot and naked, like, all the time. If you get on her good side, she might even shape-shift into someone else for the ultimate role-playing experience. Just don't ask too many questions when she comes home late at night in the form of an anti-mutant senator whose personal attaché she just killed with her feet.

<strong>2. T-X (Kristanna Loken, <em>Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines</em>)</strong>- Scientists in the future have got it all bass-ackward. You don't start out with a perfectly good, if bulky, killing machine, then upgrade to a slimmer model made of liquid metal, then realize, "Hey, why can't it be a hot woman?" Look at our scientists now—no cure for AIDS or cancer in sight, but they can keep a 70-year-old man erect for six hours. The very first Terminator off the lot will not only look like Kristanna Loken, it will be programmed to think sex hurts us.

<strong>1. Jane Smith (Angelina Jolie, <em>Mr. & Mrs. Smith</em>)</strong>- When a woman who looks like Angelina can casually slip out of the house with S&M gear under her overcoat, kill a man in a high-priced hotel suite, and then gently float 60 stories to the street below like some German fetishist version of Mary Poppins, you don't call her the world's sexiest assassin, you call her "Mrs. Us." So what if her idea of foreplay involves shooting up the house and kicking the shit out of us? It seems to work for the couples on Cops.