Silly question I know but...
Do you believe the main reason all those hundreds of trained and strong sword-wileding men couldn't take on and defeat Uma Thurman's character is because she really IS so strong, trained, smart and powerful OR is it because they are, if not completely, but in SOME ways at least extremely conscious and sensitive about the idea of hurting let alone killing a WOMAN, and have "Leon" (1994)-like morals to them or at least bits of consciousness attached?
The greatest trick the Devil has ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist!