Rita Vrataski

Rita Vrataski is the deuteragonist of the light novel and manga All You Need is Kill and its movie adaptation Edge of Tomorrow.
She is portrayed by Emily Blunt, who also played Princess Mary in Gulliver's Travels, Juliet in Gnomeo and Juliet and its sequel, The Baker's Wife in Into the Woods, Tempest Shadow in My Little Pony: the Movie, Evelyn Abbott in A Quiet Place films, Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins Returns, Lily Houghton in Jungle Cruise, and Jody Moreno in The Fall Guy.
==Personality==
Because of losing her boyfriend during the Battle of Verdun and watching him die over and over again for 300 times, Rita is very reserved, cold harsh, belligerent, boisterous to others but at times is also noble and friendly.
==Trivia==
*Unlike the rest of the soldiers in the U.D.F., Rita uses a bladed weapon in combat, either an axe or an helicopter blade.
*It was never stated in the movie, but in the manga, the reason why Rita uses a melee weapon is because during her "resets" she would often run out of ammo, which resulted in her deaths. Keiji (in the manga) also learned about the convenience of a melee weapon and started using one.
*In the movie, Rita appreciates having coffee at the farmhouse. This is a nod to her character in the book, who is a coffee lover and had been introduced to coffee at an early age by her coffee addict father. In the world of the book, where coffee growing has virtually ceased because of the Mimic invasion and people drink artificial substitutes, Rita still has some supplies of exotic real coffee beans and her only personal possession is a coffee grinder.
*Rita, for her bravery, was nicknamed by the public "The Angel of Verdun." In real life, Verdun was the site in France of the bloodiest battle of World War I in 1916. It lasted almost a year and an estimated one million men on both sides died, and Mons was the site in Belgium of a battle in 1914 and spawned tales of what many consider an otherworldly miracle. A 1914 newspaper short story about the battle, "The Bowmen," written by horror-story specialist Arthur Machen, told the tale of how during the battle, soldiers on both sides saw "supernatural" medieval archers appearing in the sky and causing the enemy to retreat. Despite Machen's attempts to prevent it, his story, which was entirely fictional, quickly inspired a popular and strongly believed account of "the Angels of Mons." The Battle of Verdun occurred two years later and there was no association with angelic apparitions, but Rita's nickname does seem to be inspired by the "Angels of Mons" story.
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