Kissin' Kate Barlow

Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow is the posthumous protagonist villain in the novel and film Holes.

Kate Barlow was a former schoolteacher who fell in love with an African-American onion farmer named Sam. When Charles "Trout" Walker (who has a crush on her) sees the two kissing in the Green Lake schoolhouse, he leads a lynch mob to destroy the schoolhouse as well as to kill Sam and is successful in the latter.

Emotionally wrecked, she resolves to become an outlaw who kissed every man she killed, some of which were the men who were responsible for Sam's death.

She was portrayed by Patricia Arquette in the film.