Kimmy Howell

Kimmy Howell is a recurring boss character from the No More Heroes series of video games.

History
Kimmy began as a fairly normal student who was attending Santa Destroy University. Unknown to any of her peers, she had a darker side that was fascinated by violence and depravity, and found a mentor in the assassin, Travis Touchdown, much like Shinobu before her. Unlike Shinobu, Kimmy would find Travis to be more than just an idol. She was going to become his number one fan. To prove how much she adored Travis, she invited him to her university, where she professed her love and admiration for him. In a letter that she wrote, she told Travis that the only way she could prove her devotion to him was to kill him. And so began their first fight.

After their duel, Travis spared Kimmy, since she was not an officially ranked assassin in the UAA. This would prove to come back to haunt him in ten years.

Ten years later, when Earth was invaded by aliens, Travis was invited to a concert where the headliner was a pop idol who was called Kimmy Love. Love performed for the crowd, until her troupe of backup dancers was infiltrated by one of the aliens who had set up the invitation for Travis, Vanishing Point. Vanishing Point killed all of Love's dancers, but was himself killed by Love, who revealed that she was the one who wanted Travis there in the first place. After forcibly getting Travis onstage, she revealed herself as Kimmy Howell, and had no more love or admiration for her former idol. And so, their second fight began, this time ending in Kimmy's death.

Appearance
In No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, Kimmy dresses very conservatively with a modest schoolgirl uniform and her hair tied up in twin braids. Her weapon of choice is a double sided beam katana, which she keeps concealed in her clarinet.

In No More Heroes 3, Kimmy's wardrobe has become much more provocative. She now wears a metallic silver leotard with matching stockings and a ribbon around her waist. Her hair has become much more stylized, but she has kept her pigtails.