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The maneater, the woman whose husbands/Love Interests keep on dying. Usually, a Black Widow is a cross between a Con Artist and a Serial Killer, a woman who seduces, marries, and then murders men for their money, always using a different name and identity each time to keep the police and her intended victims from twigging to her real identity. She's very much a highly successful vamp. Black Widows' methods may vary, but poisoning is often favored: it doesn't demand superior strength or leave obvious marks, and it's traditional for wives to do the cooking for their husbands. Also, many types of poisoning have symptoms similar to those of common illnesses, which makes it easier for a Black Widow to collect life insurance money (a very common motivation). There are too many Truth in Television instances to count. Occasionally there are more nefarious methods. The name "black widow" comes from the official FBI designation for this kind of killer and from the black widow spider, which is so named because of the occasional habit of female black widow spiders (particularly the Australian redback spiders and the southern black widows) to devour their mates after mating. For this reason, the trope may be paired with Arachnid Appearance and Attire to really drive the spider metaphor home. A Sub-Trope of Sleeping Their Way to the Top, Til Murder Do Us Part, and Gold Digger (this one prefers to kill her Meal Ticket instead of living with him). A Sister Trope to The Bluebeard (the Spear Counterpart). Compare Yandere, Comforting the Widow, Will and Inheritance Tropes, and Cartwright Curse. When pregnancy is involved, this intersects with Conceive and Kill. See also Literal Maneater, which is an actual monster that uses the disguise of a woman to lure in its prey, and Mantis Mating Meal, for another animal notorious for the female killing the male. Not to be confused with Out with a Bang or any of the many characters named "The Black Widow", including the comic book character or female Chechen suicide bombers. |
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Body of Evidence: After inheriting a fortune from her old, wealthy lover, Rebecca Carlson is put on trial after allegations that she had been going after rich men with health problems so she could continually have sex with them until their hearts gave out. | |
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To Keep My Love Alive: The narrator went through at least 15 husbands. | |
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In The One-Handed Girl, the heroine's brother accuses her of this. | |
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Batman (1966): Batman once had to capture a criminal known as the Black Widow. Her deceased husband's name was Max Black (yes, she really is "the Black widow"). However, instead of having to prevent her from killing husbands for money, he had to prevent her from robbing banks. In a two-parter featuring a villain known as the Sandman who plans to marry and rob a rich insomniac widow (he's posing as a sleep doctor). However, when she starts prattling on about the fates of her previous four husbands the viewer is left to wonder if she's a Black Widow or just ridiculously unlucky. |
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Black Sky shows her under a more heroic light, as she was Happily Married to her first husband... who died because of the Death Eaters. She didn't take it well and decided to marry, bankrupt, and kill his killers one by one. Her home country Sabina considers her a heroine for this. | |
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In Let the Galaxy Burn, Asha Greyjoy picks up this reputation after her first two husbands, Ser Philip Rosekeeper and Ser Dorian Cypress, die before the bedding ceremony. The actual truth is more nuanced — Asha didn't have any choice in marrying either husband, the Tyrells forced her, and both Philip and Dorian were horrible (and much older) men that at best only cared for the dowry she could bring. As such, when some of the Tyrells are implied to have tried to invoke this trope by forcing Asha to marry Samwell Tarly, a kind young man who has no problem with Asha speaking her mind and was as forced into the marriage as Asha was, it falls flat (the marriage even ends up fairly happy). | |
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Grimm has a literal example; a type of Wesen called a Spinnetod (Death Spider), who will suffer from premature aging (and possibly death) if she doesn't take the life force from men. They don't actually have to marry or have sex with their victims, but the one in the episode seduces them, just as a way to get them to a secluded location for the kill. Ironically enough, she is married, but loves her husband too much to kill him. | |
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Faye Cochrane in Wings was thought to be one of these in one episode, what with the mysterious deaths of all her husbands George. Although that may have been a coincidence, considering all the angst over the likely fate of her latest fiancée George during the show. | |
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White Collar: In "Veiled Threat", Neal, Peter, and Jones go undercover as wealthy bachelors to snare a black widow. She latches onto Peter, much to his consternation (what with his adorable attachment to Elizabeth). | |
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In Legend of the Black Scorpion, the empress only married for power. Once she was in position, she murdered her husband. | |
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Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons became a rare (but unsuccessful) male example when he married Marge's sister Selma and attempted to kill her for her money, only to be found out by Bart. | |
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The Condemned (2007): Yasantwa's file reveals that she was on death row for murdering men who she seduced. On the island, she manages to do the same with Kreston. | |
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Gotham has Oswald Cobblepot's stepmother. She and her (adult) kids are trying to kill Ozzie's real father by tampering with his medication. After Oswald comes into the picture, he becomes his father's favourite (he is his only real son) and his most likely heir. This causes the step-mom to poison Ozzie's drink, only for his dad to drink it instead. (Un)fortunately, Oz later finds the poison, and bad things happen to the step-family. | |
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Kickin' It: Bobby Wasabi almost married one in the episode "Wedding Crashers". | |
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The Age of Decadence: Lady Lorenza Calani, a Maadoran noble, has married five times — and all five of her husbands have died under mysterious circumstances, leaving her with enormous wealth and power. She's revealed to be very cold and manipulative, having trained her ladies-in-waiting to use deadly poison against anyone she deems a threat. The Boatmen of Styx mission involving her is even titled "The Black Widow". | |
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An episode of Special Unit 2 deals with a nest of Links that all look like attractive women, except they appear to be human/spider hybrids. Typical of the trope, they lure men to their den, then eat them. Nick ends up trying to protect a woman the black widow Links are after and falls for her. Both he and Kate quickly figure out that she's also a Link of that kind, just from another city, trying to muscle in on the local den's territory. | |
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Jessie: Mrs. Chesterfield married six different husbands solely for their money and got rid of them when she was done with them. Many of her husbands are implied to be dead and she still seeks more rich husbands. | |
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Hail Odysseus not only has this happen, but Blaise intends to become the male version of this. At least, until Harry and Ginny kill him. | |
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Abigail Mathers in Grand Theft Auto V. She seduces a rich TV producer away from his family and tampers with the airlock in a submarine he was testing in order to kill him for the insurance money. She then hires Michael into salvaging what's left of the submarine to prove his death to the insurance company. It turns out she's conning Michael, paying him chump change and an autograph, and flees to the airport to skip town unless killed by the player. | |
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Lovecraft Country: Byung Ho was killed by Ji-Ah right after he had sex with her (and all the other men like him were too). | |
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In The Letters Of The Devil, Susan says, "Don't worry 'bout me, hon. It's not the first time I've done this," right after shooting her husband in the chest. This confirms an earlier L Letter clue, which suggests that one of the Castors killed their previous spouse. | |
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Community: Played for Laughs. During the absurdly serious paintball game in "Modern Warfare," Jeff and Britta have sex. She immediately turns on him (though they get interrupted before she can "kill" him) so that she can win the game. She insists that she didn't sleep with him to kill him, she slept with him, and now, unrelated, she is going to kill him. He notes that it's suspicious how skilled she is at putting on her panties with one hand while holding a gun in the other. | |
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In one episode of Sledge Hammer!, Hammer and his partner tracked down a criminal like this who targeted used car dealers, not because she was after their money or anything else they had, but because she really hated used car dealers. In fact, when finally caught, she hissed to her most recent intended victim, "Is it really a crime to rid the world of car dealers?" | |
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Heatwave (2022): Eve has her husband Scott murdered for his money. Then she also tries to murder her girlfriend Claire too so she'll take the fall after being framed for it. | |
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In the two-part final episode of Highlander, it's shown that if Duncan were never born, this is what would have become of Amanda. | |
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In Contemplating Reiko, one of her sister's is this | |
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Many Harry Potter fanfics embrace what in canon is only implied about Blaise Zabini's mother (as mentioned in the Literature section below). Here for example: When in Doubt, Obliviate exaggerates this to the degree that Blaise can't keep track of the names of his stepfathers - or doesn't, intentionally, in order to be less affected by their deaths. Hail Odysseus not only has this happen, but Blaise intends to become the male version of this. At least, until Harry and Ginny kill him. Black Sky shows her under a more heroic light, as she was Happily Married to her first husband... who died because of the Death Eaters. She didn't take it well and decided to marry, bankrupt, and kill his killers one by one. Her home country Sabina considers her a heroine for this. |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations: The Big Bad Dahlia Hawthorn is one. She has had three known boyfriends and at least attempted to kill all three when they outlived their usefulness, only stopping because Mia Fey managed to get her convicted of murdering her second boyfriend. She convinced Terry Fawles to commit suicide, got Doug Swallow electrocuted, and poisoned Phoenix's cold medicine- which he only didn't take because Dahlia stole it and used it to frame him for Doug's murder. | |
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Basic Instinct's Catherine. Every single one of her lovers ends up dead, either by her hand or through her manipulation of the situation. Beth also, assuming she's responsible for her husband's death. | |
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When in Doubt, Obliviate exaggerates this to the degree that Blaise can't keep track of the names of his stepfathers - or doesn't, intentionally, in order to be less affected by their deaths. | |
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Homicide: Life on the Street had the case of Calpurnia Church, who had numerous husbands and other relations murdered after taking out life insurance. Her family, including her latest husband, were well aware of this, but they were convinced she had voodoo powers and could not be stopped. The case was loosely based on the real case of Geraldine Parrish, which David Simon had written about in his book Homicide: A Year On the Killing Streets. | |
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Garfield: Jon got connected to a woman through a dating service. He asks her if she has a nickname and gets the reply "Widow maker". | |
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In The Kindaichi Case Files — 20 Years Later series, this is the first Serial Killer Kindaichi captures. However, neither of her two victims in that arc is her actual target—the first one is a rival for her target's affections, while the second one is one of her former husbands who recognizes her. Fortunately, Kindaichi manages to catch her before she could actually hit her mark. | |
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The Assassins' Guild School in the Discworld, after going co-educational, has named a House of Study for its girl pupils Black Widow House, no doubt to concentrate and focus the minds of its young ladies as to the possibilities. | |
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In World of Warcraft, it's implied that Elder Crone Magatha Grimtotem murdered her husband, the chief of the Grimtotem clan of tauren, to claim his leadership position. | |
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The relative efficacy and efficiency of female serial killers, who are often motivated by economic gain and tend to target their husbands and dependent children, is a primary point of discussion in the Phantom of Heilbronn episode of Fat, French and Fabulous. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: In the plane of Eldraine, Ayara, the queen of the black castle Locthwain, chooses a knight to be her champion every year, marries them, and then sends them off on an inevitably fatal quest. Once they're confirmed dead or A Year and a Day has passed, she begins courting her next champion/spouse. She also doesn't care much about the gender of her doomed spouses. | |
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From an episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: | |
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In A Blueprint for Murder, Lynne Cameron fatally poisons her husband and stepdaughter, and attempts to poison her stepson in order to inherit her husband's entire estate. | |
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Roxanne in Claymore was a low-ranked warrior, who consistently would become the best friend of a higher-ranked warrior, learn her techniques through Yoki synchronization, and kill her to get reassigned to someone better. This continued until she became one of the strongest and most notorious Claymores in history.note Her last partner was where she drew the line, as her 'technique' was to perform an inhuman limbo dodge that looked like she was eating dirt off the ground, something Roxanne constantly insults her former partner about. | |
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The Dead Man's Gun episode "The Black Widow". After inheriting the gun from her deceased husband, a "black widow" killer plans to strike again...only to learn that her husband has a secret of his own. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas as well. You can even seduce Benny and kill him in his sleep if you have the perk. New Vegas also adds Cherchez La Femme (for female PCs) and Confirmed Bachelor (for male PCs), which are isosexual versions (other females if you're female, other males if you're male). | |
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The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home: Eleanor zigzags the trope - she truly loves Theodore but has decided that after a lifetime of being controlled by her father, the relative freedom of being a rich widow is worth the cost of murdering her husband. | |
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The Practice had an episode where they defended a woman accused of being a black widow, due to her habit of marrying much older men. Her most recent husband had died of a heart attack induced by Viagra. | |
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Deadbolt has Madam Stela, a narcissistic vampire who is stated to have gone through several husbands, killing them for incredibly frivolous reasons. Of the two mentioned in the game, the one before her current husband was killed for not enjoying dance (while Stela loves to dance), and the one before that for liking the undead, who Stela hates despite being a vampire herself. It's unclear how many husbands she's gone through by the time the game takes place, though since she's an ancient vampire that number could potentially be very high indeed. | |
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In The Fourth Man, bisexual writer Gerard Revé meets cosmetologist Christine Halsslag while giving a presentation for a literary society in the coastal town of Vlissingen, and after spending the night with her, he stays on so he can meet her current boyfriend, Herman. However, upon learning that Christine has been widowed three times, he becomes paranoid that she murdered her husbands and is currently planning to make either Herman or Gerard himself her fourth victim. Whether Christine's husbands were murdered or, as most of the townsfolk believe, died in freak accidents is left ambiguous. | |
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Black Widow (1987), played by Theresa Russell as Catharine, a serial killer of rich men she married for their money. She continues to do this long after she'd be wealthy though, implying her reasons are psychological rather than monetary. | |
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Jackie in What Keeps You Alive is a lesbian example, and one who doesn't do it for the money, despite what her wife Jules initially assumes; she's just a stone-cold sociopath who enjoys murder. | |
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"Black Widow" by Iggy Azalea and Rita Ora uses this trope to the fullest. The spider imagery is scattered throughout the lyrics. And one particular line is quite interesting: | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms: In 2nd Edition, weredragons — a species of dragon who spend most of their lives in human form — provide for themselves by marrying rich suitors and then killing them. Ravenloft uses this trope with Ivana Boritsi (who's even called "the Black Widow") and her mother Camille, who are both murderers with a tendency to poison their lovers (not helped by the fact Ivana is a Poisonous Person with Power Incontinence). Also done with the red widow monster, which seduces men in their guise as gorgeous redheads, then paralyze them and fill their bodies with eggs after they have been fertilised. Ermordenungs, though it's not the focus of their character, are naturally made to be Black Widows and Bluebeards, since they are invariably very beautiful and they're all as poisonous as their creator Ivana Boritsi. |
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Ava Lord from Sin City turns out to be one, though she's not above having other people do her dirty work (such as Dwight McCarthy, who she tricks into murdering her innocent husband so that she can get her hands on all his money). | |
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In Hidden City, the Mistress of the Manor is revealed to have gotten her influence this way. An Impoverished Patrician whose family lost their wealth in a fire accident, the girl who would become the Mistress sought to return to her former life of luxury through marriage. She then used black magic to make herself become a desirable bride. She married at least 6 noblemen, all of whom disappeared shortly after the wedding, and became richer and more powerful with each marriage. | |
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In Fallout 3, your female character can learn an ability by this name, which allows you to charm and manipulate members of the opposite sex with ease. Also, this perk grants a minor combat damage increase against male characters. Lady Killer is essentially the inverse perk for men. It's also the moniker of Penelope Chase, former leader of the Slavers. | |
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The Contessa of Sly 2: Band of Thieves is heavily implied to be this. While it is never explicitly stated that she killed her wealthy husband, she definitely used his money for illegal purposes after his death. She also plays the term literally by being an anthropomorphic spider. | |
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Stargate SG-1: It is not an actual example of the trope, she actually has a pretty effective Cartwright Curse instead (And provides a page quote), but Samantha Carter's boyfriends all seem to wind up six feet under in pretty short order (Unless you're MacGyver). DVD audio commentary reveals that the writers actually called her "Black Widow Carter" and were going to title an episode as such until they went with Chimera. | |
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Mad Moxxi in Borderlands. Her partners tend to still be alive until the vault hunters see to that. Her first husband forced her to kill him after threatening to enslave their daughter as the "clan wife", her second husband was a serial killer taken down by the players (and emotionally mourned by Moxxi), her third husband is the amoral gun runner supplying to the players, and various lovers were murdered either by the players or Moxxi's son. Less a black widow, more a dubious judge of character. | |
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Mass Effect 2 reveals that a small percentage of Asari suffer from a genetic defect that causes their Mind Meld-esque mating to kill their partners. Ardat-Yakshi("Demon of the Night Winds") who kill in this manner experience an addictive rush when this occurs, as well as an increase in biotic ability. They are a variant of this trope because most Ardat-Yakshi hunt for victims to satiate their addiction rather than for money. Morinth is the first example, and a highly successful one, having done this for 400 years. She seeks out interesting individuals, generally strong, clever, or artistic, and seduces them. She rarely stays in one location for long, both due to the number of bodies she leaves behind and the Justiciar dedicated to killing her. According to Liara, Morinth was barely getting started. | |
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Fujiko from Ana Satsujin has killed at least three of her husbands after checking out large life insurance claims for them. She is constantly getting underground plastic surgery to fool the police but she has noticeable beauty marks on her shoulder. Rio wants to kill her. | |
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Forgotten Realms: In 2nd Edition, weredragons — a species of dragon who spend most of their lives in human form — provide for themselves by marrying rich suitors and then killing them. | |
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Lucrezia Flathead of Zork Zero was married eighteen times, and none of the husbands lasted more than ten months. Fourteen of them died on the wedding night. Some of the details provided in her biography make it pretty obvious that the deaths were not accidental, though nobody at the time (Including the biographer) was able to figure this out. | |
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A Batman storynote Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special #1 has Bruce Wayne meet, fall for, and almost marry a woman who turns out to be this. He figures it out in time. As for why he'd nearly wed a woman in such short order, it turned out he was unknowingly affected by the Scarecrow's fear gas in a previous fight, and it made him afraid of spending his life alone. Before she can complete her next murder, Bruce has a note slipped to her ordering her to confess to all her crimes. Seeing the Bat Symbol on the note, she quickly decides to comply. | |
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The song "To Keep My Love Alive", from the Rodgers and Hart musical A Connecticut Yankee is all about this trope. | |
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Fallout: In Fallout 3, your female character can learn an ability by this name, which allows you to charm and manipulate members of the opposite sex with ease. Also, this perk grants a minor combat damage increase against male characters. Lady Killer is essentially the inverse perk for men. It's also the moniker of Penelope Chase, former leader of the Slavers. Fallout: New Vegas as well. You can even seduce Benny and kill him in his sleep if you have the perk. New Vegas also adds Cherchez La Femme (for female PCs) and Confirmed Bachelor (for male PCs), which are isosexual versions (other females if you're female, other males if you're male). |
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There's a player challenge for The Sims 2 that revolves around creating one of these. See it here. Also in the pre-made neighborhood Strangetown, Olive Specter is implied to be one of these. And for the bonus Visual Pun, she is indeed black. The Sims 4 includes an official "Black Widow" player achievement. To earn it a player sim must outlive five spouses. |
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The Sims 4 includes an official "Black Widow" player achievement. To earn it a player sim must outlive five spouses. | |
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Queen Ravenna of Snow White & the Huntsman, who marries Snow White's father the king to become queen, and kills him in bed so she can rule his kingdom. | |
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In Dragons, Butterflies, And Who Knows What Else?, Hiccup jokes that the "boyfriend" that Mirabel "makes goo-goo eyes at" (according to Isabela, anyway) won't last because she would kill him. | |
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In Chicago, the five of the Six Merry Murderesses who actually did it are all in jail for killing their husband or lover, and even though they only killed one each (well, Velma Kelly also killed her sister) they may qualify for this trope on sheer...merriment. They show no remorse at all and say things like "He ran into my knife ten times" and "I fired two warning shots. Into. His. Head." | |
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Mike Myers parodies the trope in So I Married an Axe Murderer — his character believes he is dating the mysterious "Mrs. X." She's not. Turns out her sister was an insane Clingy Jealous Girl who murdered all of the poor girl's previous husbands (she thought they had all just up and left her). | |
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2Dark: Adelaide, one of the crazy women in the final level is this. You can overhear her recount before a painting of herself how "Franciso was old. So I killed him. Andre was fat. So I killed him. Max was dumb. So I killed him." | |
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An episode of Bull starts with a Gold Digger first demanding that her (much older and wealthier) husband renegotiate her contract/prenup, only for him to point out how stupid that would be from a business standpoint. She then grabs a knife and stabs herself several times (it's later revealed that she used to major in anatomy, so she knows where to stab so it looks serious but ultimately not fatal), before grabbing her husband's gun and shooting him "in self-defense". It takes Bull one conversation with the "poor victim" to realize she's lying. Apparently, her prenup doubles her payout every year she stays with her husband and performs certain obligations (including those of sexual nature), which would already equal $16 million. However, since her husband's net worth is around $6 billion, $16 million seemed like a pittance (she also refused the company's lawyers' attempts to buy her out for half a billion). | |
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Monk had this in the episode "Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding". Natalie's brother was about to marry a Black Widow, and she murdered the photographer after he recognized her. | |
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Jill from Darken is introduced that way here. She's also an Action Girl who kills things with fans. | |
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Doc Rat plays it for laughs. She is a praying mantis, after all. | |
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Poison Ivy in an episode of Batman: The Animated Series. She figures, why seduce one billionaire herself when she can create a small squad of male and female plant clones, have them seduce dozens of rich bachelors and bachelorettes at once, then have said clones lead them to their doom upon a yacht that she sinks? Through her clones, she'd inherit multiple fortunes. Her only flaw here: Bruce Wayne is one of her targets. She attempted this solo in her debut episode. First seducing Harvey Dent before giving him a tainted goodnight kiss which sends him into a life-threatening coma. Then, when his best friend Bruce Wayne tries to console a sobbing, grief-stricken Isley she briefly tries to put the moves on him, complimenting Wayne on his loyalty to Dent and leaning in for a friendly smooch on the lips, which Bruce quickly turns into a hug instead. |
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BattleTech: Natasha Kerensky is actually a subversion. She became known by her moniker after her lover (who was one of the founders of the renowned Wolf's Dragoons) was taken hostage and later killed by Anton Marik, due to a fallout in relations. She reacted violently to this and lead her unit to storm Marik's stronghold and kill him and his remaining forces. She's also of Clan Wolf and descended from genetic material they acquired when they Absorbed Clan Widowmaker (the widowmaker spider being an even deadlier variant of black widow spider). Using spider iconography is a link to her heritage. | |
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On Alvin and the Chipmunks, Dave's old friend has more than a dozen dead husbands. Theodore assumes she poisoned them and runs out when she offers him something to drink. | |
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In a Nightwing Annual, Dick suspects a young woman who's buried three husbands in three years of being one of these, and decides to investigate by pretending to marry her. The killer is actually her former best friend, as it turns out. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The It Lives by Night episode ends with Pearl Forrester regaling Professor Bobo and Brain Guy with slides from her numerous honeymoons, and descriptions of the untimely demises that each of her husbands and fiancés met with. Pearl's granddaughter Kinga forces Jonah to marry her towards the end of season 11 by threatening to cut off his oxygen, and at the wedding, he's eaten by a robot monster unleashed by a jealous TV's Son of TV's Frank. |
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Bob's Burgers: In "Housetrap", the Belchers help Teddy work on a woman's beach house and Linda comes to the conclusion that she killed her rich husband after seducing him away from his first wife by loosening the railings on his widow's walk. The ending implies that she actually did do it, as she admits that she didn't like her husband and Bob notices an old toolbox buried after she claimed she didn't own any tools (but he was too high on painkillers to draw the proper conclusion). | |
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Case Closed: Gender-flipped example when it's revealed that the groom of the story's wedding is actually the real villain. His plan was to seduce the bride, get married, and then kill her somewhere discreet after sucking her finances dry. His partner disagreed and just wanted to rob the girl's house, so he murdered his own partner in front of the girl and played it off as a rescue attempt against a serial killer to get her to fall for him. | |
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The Brady Bunch: That's how Carol Brady's first husband died. At least according to Florence Henderson, as seen here. (Hopefully, it's just her own private interpretation.) | |
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game. On the second visit to the Hotel Sedgewick you fight the "Spider Witch", the ghost of a woman who murdered her previous husbands who takes the form of a giant spider. She hung them upside down and drained them of all their blood in the service of Gozer's cult. It's not clear if she did this before or after she killed them. | |
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The talking black widow spider in King's Quest VI. Needless to say, Alexander can Have a Nice Death if he makes the mistake of giving her his hand. Who makes an appearance in the Fan Sequel, The Silver Lining. |
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Ravenloft uses this trope with Ivana Boritsi (who's even called "the Black Widow") and her mother Camille, who are both murderers with a tendency to poison their lovers (not helped by the fact Ivana is a Poisonous Person with Power Incontinence). Also done with the red widow monster, which seduces men in their guise as gorgeous redheads, then paralyze them and fill their bodies with eggs after they have been fertilised. Ermordenungs, though it's not the focus of their character, are naturally made to be Black Widows and Bluebeards, since they are invariably very beautiful and they're all as poisonous as their creator Ivana Boritsi. | |
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The Coroner: In "The Deep Freeze", a Gold Digger who has already buried two husbands becomes an obvious suspect when her third husband dies in a suspicious 'accident'. The actual killer was counting on her reputation making her the most likely suspect to divert attention from themselves. Jane is convinced that she murdered her first two husbands but cannot prove it. | |
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Get Smart's Maxwell Smart had to marry a KAOS agent who used this as her modus operandi for knocking off CONTROL agents in the episode "Widow Often Annie." 99 was not amused, as Max had already married her. | |
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Twilight Sparkle's Secret Shipfic Folder has Black Widow Rarity, who apparently stars in a Casablanca parody. | |
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Gravity Falls Rule 63 has widowed mother Bonnie Gleeful, who claimed her husband died on the day her daughter, Jennifer, was born. However... | |
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Steve Martin marries one in The Man with Two Brains. | |
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This is Mrs. White's backstory in Clue. She's had five husbands, and we learn the fate of two. One was an illusionist who disappeared and never reappeared ("He wasn't a very good illusionist"). As for the other, according to Mrs. White, someone "had cut off his head and his, well, you know." | |
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Leverage: "The Lonely Hearts Job" had the team discover a team of these. | |
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The Dark Eye: Alara Paligan, widow of Emperor Hal and grandmother of the current Empress. Though she's not actually a self-made widow, she is a grand weaver of intrigue, and her soul animal is a black widow spider. | |
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Piella Bakewell of Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death, marries bakers, then kills them, to get a "baker's dozen". Naturally, she tries to kill Wallace. | |
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Agnes Delrooney from Duckman mentions that she's killed all her husbands. | |
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Maggie O'Connell in Northern Exposure. She doesn't kill any of them; her boyfriends just seem to keep dying on her. One was hit by a falling satellite. | |
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Murdstone of David Copperfield (1993) is a rare male example. | |
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In Onibaba, Kichi's mother makes her living by preying on passing soldiers. | |
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Bad Alert: The Extreme, while mostly a fan's response to the way a few villains are portrayed in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep and Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, is partly based on the theory that Lady Tremaine murdered Cinderella's father after marrying him for his money. | |
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Warhammer: Lucrezzia Belladonna is a Tilean princess who has married several mercenary generals to protect her city, who tend to meet untimely deaths after making a major military or political misstep. | |
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Jake and the Fatman: In "The Tender Trap", Derek suspects his uncle's fiancee is a black widow, and she may have already spun her web. | |
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Cora, in Freeze on the Stones, kills both her husbands, Henry and Leopold, for power. | |
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The Furies attempt a trick like this against Kratos in God of War: Ascension, where Tisiphone creates an illusion of a house full of lovely nymphs who try to seduce him, hoping to lead him into an ambush. Fortunately for Kratos, he realizes it's a trap when he sees one of them (Tisiphone herself) wearing his wife Lysandra's ring. | |
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CSI: Minus the wealth part, in one episode the youngest daughter of a compulsive hoarder seduced boys from the halfway house where her brother worked and after she killed them to make sure they wouldn't leave she hid them around her mother's cluttered house. When mom found out what was happening she handcuffed her daughter to her bed and barricaded her behind a wall of boxes, and when her other daughter found one of the bodies she got hit on the head and left to die in a pile of newspapers. They also did an episode where two women conspired to act as wife and secretary for their victim and poisoned him with Selenium (and further investigation revealed they had done the same previously). The wife actually fell in love with her husband, despite his numerous infidelities, and was considering backing out of the deal. Unusually, our heroes weren't able to prove either of them guilty. |
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Blackarachnia (who is an actual black widow spider, or at least turns into one) threatens to do this to Silverbolt in Beast Wars, citing her beast mode's predilection towards eating their mates. The fact that he still refuses to stop loving her both endears Silverbolt to her and makes her think he's a moron. Hilariously, she's right on both counts. |
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Played with but averted in The Sworn Sword with Lady Rohanne Webber aka the "Red Widow". She is undeniably a Femme Fatale, but all her husbands really did die of war or natural causes. Her reputation is a combination of a smear campaign and the ruthless front she maintains to survive as a female ruler of her lands. | |
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Round the Horne: Mrs. Cunterblast, many times. Many, many times. Many, many many times. And it's something she freely admits to, though by the time she does, it's several decades after the fact. | |
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Just Imagine... Stan Lee Creating the DC Universe: This continuity's take on the villain Parasite is a woman named Lucinda Radama who, prior to gaining her powers, is facing a death sentence for killing every man she married. | |
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Ajnabee: Vicky is a rare male example, a Con Man who married a rich woman just so he can kill her, pin the murder on someone else and get her life insurance money. | |
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The Duchess D'Longeville from The Darksword Trilogy. | |
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Lady D from Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure, who hangs around a graveyard swamp and stands on a giant wedding cake/fort, shooting skulls out of a fake groom at anyone who rejects her. | |
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Julia Valerian is widowed twice in A Voice in the Wind, having poisoned her violent second husband; her significantly older first husband technically died of a heart attack/fall from his horse, but it’s implied that Julia’s resentment towards him, rebelliousness, and flirtations with other men contributed to his weak health. | |
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Ironclaw: Lady Amalsand Jakoba, widow of the most recent High King of House Rinaldi, who was found gruesomely murdered along with his eldest son barely a month after marrying her, and three days after announcing their divorce. And given that she has an adult son, whom she intends to put on the throne, it's presumed that she has been married at least once before. And did I mention that she's a Necromancer? | |
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Debbie Jellinsky from Addams Family Values is one of these. It's only her latest M.O., as she's been killing since childhood, and often gets rid of people who fail to meet her needs (usually money-related), starting with her parents, whom she killed for not giving her a Ballerina Barbie for her birthday. She gets her claws into Fester and marries him, but, Fester being one of the Addams clan, she doesn't quite succeed at the killing part. Once the Addamses understand the depths of her issues, they all start to really empathize with her and regret not really getting to know her. After she dies, she is buried with honors in the family graveyard. | |
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In A Vampyre Story, the Baroness, the witch grandmistress of the castle which the protagonist is currently imprisoned in, is heavily implied to be one of these; that, or crazy unlucky in marriage. In her old bedroom is a shelf full of funerary urns, each containing the remains of a husband. It's unknown if she is incompatible or simply spent so little time actually married, but she had to resort to excruciating rituals to create a child, namely the Humanoid Abomination villain of the piece. | |
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In Hello, Dolly!, Dolly tries to dissuade Mr. Vandergelder from marrying Mrs. Molloy by hinting that she poisoned her previous husband and is making plans for a repeat performance. | |
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In Code Monkeys, Mr. Larrity is a rare, repeatedly successful male example. How he can keep this success when he profits obscenely off of it and stuffs his wives to keep in his office, we don't know. | |
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In the Made in Canada episode "Veronica's Friend", a former school friend of Pyramid production adviser Veronica is implied to have murdered two rich husbands, and has set her sights on clueless Pyramid CEO Alan as Husband No.3. She is steered instead toward the "Plumbing King of Pennsylvania", who is hoarding the logical domain names for the planned Pyramid website and asking unreasonable sale prices; by the end of the episode, he has indeed become Husband, and Victim, No.3 (but not before being persuaded to sell the domain names at reasonable prices). | |
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Black Widow used to be this trope when she was a spy for the KGB. To quote Pepper Potts, "she mates and then she kills." | |
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Marcus Didius Falco (a private investigator in Ancient Rome) investigates professional widow Severina Zotica in the novel Venus in Copper. | |
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Howl of the Werewolf have the Cadre Infernal member, Arachnea the seductress, who uses her beauty and charms to seduce men before systematically killing them for their wealth. As a result of a curse, she becomes a literal Black Widow Spider People, resembling a gigantic black widow spider fused with her human body. | |
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