I don't think I answered my own questions,
Lasereth.
While Elle pretty much said that she killed Budd for not giving the Bride a warrior's death, why on Earth did she tell Budd
not to give her a warrrior's death?
I never said that Budd didn't want to die. His actions, when it came down to it, showed that he didn't want to die, I guess, but before that, while he was talking to his brother--yeah, actually, it
did sound like he wanted to die!
Finally, yeah, one might infer that the Bride was Pai Mei's favourite but only because, as it happens, he taught her and only her the Five Point Exploding Heart technique. However, we never saw any of this. There was nothing leading up to this conclusion so it kind of ends up a
deus ex machina, although not an unpleasant one...