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The Bluebeard
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The Spear Counterpart of the Black Widow, the Bluebeard is a man who appears charming but hides a nefarious secret: he keeps marrying women and then murdering them. Unlike the Black Widow, the Bluebeard is rarely motivated by greed, though in Real Life, historically that was a fairly common motivation. Often, he just does it for kicks or as the epitome of Domestic Abuse. If he has a pattern of cheating on his current wife with the woman who will become his next wife, it's Remarried to the Mistress. Named after the famous fairy tale. Not to be confused with the character from Felidae. Nor with Captain Colorbeard; Bluebeards usually aren't pirates. A subtrope of Til Murder Do Us Part, Serial Killer and Murder in the Family. |
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Naturally, shows up on Tales from the Crypt, with the expected comeuppance: his now-dead wives lure him to their graveyard, declaring they can't live... or die... without him. | |
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In The Crime Doctor's Courage, Gordon Carson is suspected of being a Bluebeard after his first two wives died under mysterious circumstances during their honeymoons. However, no evidence is found to prove these were murders, and ultimately it turns out that the deaths were just unfortunate accidents. | |
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The bad Richard Burton film Bluebeard (1972) ups the ante by making Bluebeard a No Swastikas Nazi Nobleman, and, for additional Squick, throwing in a dash of I Love the Dead. | |
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Uncle Charlie in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt is one, although his motivation has more to do with being a misogynistic Serial Killer than it does with greed. | |
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An episode of Grimm was based on this story, although he wasn't killing them but keeping them for breeding. | |
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Before joining the Runaways, Klara was married to an older man who had convinced her mother that he was a devout, God-fearing man, but who turned out to be a lazy drunkard who abused Klara in every way imaginable. | |
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In The Shining, Danny recalls Bluebeard as he opens the door to a certain hotel room. | |
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The Simpsons: Sideshow Bob briefly became one in episode "Black Widower", planning to kill Selma after he married her for her money (which she had gained from buying stock in a mace company). He might have succeeded if not for Bart... Also, one of the unnamed men in "Regarding Margie". |
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In Ex Machina, Nathan is a pioneer in designing and building lifelike A.I that can pass the Turing test and fool real humans. He uses this technology to build robotic women that he uses for his own pleasure before eventually torturing and destroying them. He even has a secret closet with wrecked prototypes in it. | |
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In The Premature Burial, the third game in the Dark Tales series, the villain is this. It's known that his current wife died very recently and very suddenly, and those who love her are suspicious because his previous wife died in similar circumstances. And in the bonus chapter, the player learns that he had another wife who died that way as well. All three of them were buried alive! | |
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Conwellians have this as their hat in Level E, as their Bizarre Alien Reproduction entails devouring their females and digesting them in order to fertilise their eggs. Even if they genuinely loved their mate. They destroyed their planet over a battle between a faction who were dedicated to genetically altering their species to remove this trait and a faction who thought that this was an intolerable heresy. | |
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A variant occurs in the 1942 grade-Z horror movie The Corpse Vanishes, starring Bela Lugosi. Lugosi's character is running a scheme where high-society brides are being put into a near-death state in the midst of their weddings, then abducted, having their blood drawn to provide the raw material for a formula which is intended to keep Lugosi's wife in a state of eternal youth, and then killed. The Intrepid Reporter who investigates the case finds the bodies of several of the victims in morgue drawers when she goes poking through the villain's lair. | |
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Modesty Blaise fought one of these in The Bluebeard Affair. | |
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Invoked in Batman Forever. Dick Grayson asks what's behind a door (it contains the hidden entrance to the Batcave), and Alfred replies, "Master Wayne's dead wives." | |
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Corpse Bride: Emily's fiancé Lord Barkis tricked her into getting ready to run away with him, then killed her before their wedding and took her money and family jewelry. She became known in the underworld as the "Corpse Bride", waiting for her true love she could marry. The villain wants to do the same with one more girl (Victor's betrothed Victoria Everglot), and perhaps there were more unfortunate ladies. Towards the end of the movie, after Emily lets go of Victor so he can return to Victoria's side, she sees Barkis and recognizes him as her killer; soon he properly dies, and Emily's undead friends happily and viciously attack him. | |
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Played for laughs with the character Dr. Mickhead from the series Scrubs. He's suspected of murdering his wife, and it's an Open Secret amongst the Sacred Heart staff, and several scenes have him attempting to hide evidence (including giving a hammer to JD's then-girlfriend for safekeeping) before getting carted off in handcuffs. | |
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Rick and Morty: It's revealed that Rick Prime was completely unhappy with his wife Diane Sanchez that he had left his family to go travel The Multiverse, only to come across several versions of himself including Rick-C137note The only other Rick who actually invented Portal Travel who were actually faithful husbands with Diane. Enraged at this and wanting to spite the other Ricks for being happy, he decided to put his own Diane Sanchez into The Omega Machine: which not only killed his own Diane Sanchez, but also killed off EVERY Diane Sanchez throughout The Multiverse. | |
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The Sultan in the framing device of the Arabian Nights stories is an extreme version, except that he makes no secret about it and has his wives executed. He kills off all his wives after one night to prevent them from becoming unfaithful. The stories are told by his latest wife, Scheherezade, who uses a series of Cliffhangers to keep him interested enough to delay her execution. By the time she runs out of stories, it's been years and she has birthed the Sultan several children, and he realizes he is madly in love with her. | |
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The F.B.I.: In "The Chameleon", the FBI pursues a Con Man with an M.O. of romancing wealthy widows, then murdering them, and disappearing with their wealth in cash. | |
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In one episode of The Closer they encounter a man who is in the habit of marrying Japanese women and killing them. When he's discovered he's already killed two wives (plus his four-year-old daughter from the second marriage) and has a new girlfriend, who claims he saved her and her son from her abusive husband back in Japan. | |
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Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VII Remake: Don Corneo is a crime boss who regularly holds auditions for girls to marry, but whenever he gets bored with them, he drops them down a Trap Door to feed a monster. | |
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One of the killers whose statue is displayed in The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "The New Exhibit." | |
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The Order of the Stick: Implied regarding General Tarquin, a Serial Spouse who isn't averse to torturing women into marrying him and whose ninth wife recently died of "mysterious circumstances". However, at least his first wife simply divorced him, the ninth wife's death was unrelated, and he's not confirmed to have killed any of them. | |
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One of the Shivers (M. D. Spenser) books, The Locked Room. The kid protagonist and her younger brother moves in with their mother into their stepfather's house, only to find out said stepfather - named Bill Beard - is an immortal murderer who had killed several of his past wives for their treasure, with a roomful of portraits of young women from different eras. | |
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Dead Man's Gun: In "Black Widow", the eponymous Black Widow finds herself married to a Bluebeard, and a battle of wits ensues. | |
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According to Dave Barry Slept Here, Henry VIII "could barely get through a day without beheading a wife," sometimes during the wedding ceremony itself. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged heavily implies that Dr. Briefs kills his wife and replaces her with a clone whenever she shows the first sign of aging. | |
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Sherlock Holmes: In "The Eligible Bachelor"note Adapted from "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor", the titular Lord Robert St. Simon is a sadistic cad who courts and marries wealthy women and then disposes of them once he has their fortune. | |
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In The Venture Brothers, Baron Ãœnderbheit has the heads of his seven ex-wives mounted on his dining room wall. | |
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In Crimson Peak, Sir Thomas Sharpe has been married three times already and none of his wives lasted that long, and although he was fully complicit it was his sister Lucille who actually poisoned them. Unlike most Bluebeard stories, Thomas actually falls for his latest wife.. | |
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Nikolai Belinski, the Russian soldier in Nazi Zombies, has murdered at least five of his wives. Some of his weapon pickup quotes have him remarking on how it's the same one he shot one of them with. It is intentionally Played for Laughs. However, Gorod Krovi reveals that he had only one wife, and her loss in an air raid pained him so much that he began drinking to try and forget her. | |
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The 1934 movie The Black Cat. This time, Bela Lugosi plays an ex-prisoner of war whose wife and daughter were married, then murdered by his evil rival (played by Boris Karloff). Karloff's character was a Satanist who preserved his murdered wives and displayed them in his creepy house. | |
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The seventh track of Sound Horizon's album Märchen, "Aoki Hakushaku no Shiro" (meaning "the blue earl's castle"), deals with this story. | |
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Frozen: This almost happened. Prince Hans had been planning to marry the newly-crowned Queen Elsa, then kill her and taking her throne for himself. He changes his target to her younger and naïve sister Anna, opting to dispose of both women once he's secured. | |
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Bluebeard appears in the comic book Fables, although his wife-killing days are supposedly behind him. Of course, given how wise the characters have become over the centuries, this might be as much because no one is willing to marry him as because he's genuinely reformed. | |
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The bride in the Child Ballad The Outlandish Knight manages to save her life. "Six pretty maidens have you drowned here/And the seventh has drowned thee." | |
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In the British Thriller series, the episode "A Coffin for the Bride" revolves around a man who marries older, unattractive, but wealthy, women and kills them after the honeymoon. After falling in love with a young woman, played by Helen Mirren, he wants to go straight, but can't resist a new target, a haggard loudmouth with an annoying laugh. This time, however, his wife seems suspicious early on and mysteriously disappears before he can go through with killing her. The man ends up arrested for her murder, ironically for a crime he didn't commit. In jail, he seems to suspect that the younger girl killed the final wife and, when she visits him in prison, tries to get her to confess. The truth is a bit more complicated: She was the sister of one of the man's previous victims and wanted him brought to justice. When he points out the truth will come out when his wife's body is found, she laughs a very familiar laugh, revealing that the final wife wasn't a real person, but her in disguise all along. And, yes, Mirren plays both "characters." | |
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Kill Six Billion Demons: The Demiurge Hastet Om originally had only one wife, a beautiful girl from a poor world named Nadia. While he did rape her and refuse to allow her any freedom, he never threatened to kill her. However, as she got older and her beauty began to fade, he took a new wife for every gray hair on her head. He did absolutely horrific things to her, until Nadia had enough and murdered him in his sleep, stole his god-power, and buried him in the garden. Three days later, she heard him demanding more wives. He sprouted into a horrific tree that requires the blood of young maidens to survive. The tree produces fruits that de-age anyone who eats them; Nadia has been using them to live forever, even though this is an extremely inefficient form of immortality. Allison calls Nadia out for being a coward too weak to find another way and destroys the tree herself. | |
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The villain in Souls for Sale marries women, takes out insurance policies on them, and kills them. | |
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In The Amazing Spider-Man, Peter has a book titled Bluebeard on the shelf by his computer, perhaps as a hint to Peter falling in love with and eventually (accidentally) killing Gwen. | |
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Interestingly, it is inverted in Eastern European tales. In "The Death of Koschei the Deathless", "The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples"... the male main character opens a locked cellar which his wife to had told to NOT look into, and frees a monster. | |
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A Lupin III episode dealt with this: a rich man married 99 women, murdered them, and encased their bodies in wax so he could preserve them. He planned to add Fujiko to his collection, but Lupin and the gang put a stop to that. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire gives us many reasons to ask questions before marriage: Not that King Maegor "the Cruel" Targaryen allowed his six brides many questions back in the day. Of those six, however, "only" three wound up dying, one possibly not by his hand. However, the spirit of the trope was very much alive and well. The trope is downplayed by House Bolton, which goes through wives (and other... sources of entertainment) at a very alarming rate. Ramsay has killed only one and severely domestically abused the other — although it's pretty plain he'd probably increase the number of horribly dead wives, given the chance. He's hardly secretive about it, either. However, his father has gone through two wives under mysterious circumstances, as well. House Bolton has, from time to time, had this reputation for centuries. Increasingly while reading, you suspect it's not been without cause. And, probably, played rather straighter for some than others. Gregor Clegane doesn't have any known offspring, legitimate or otherwise. That's because his wives (and other partners) tend to die before they have a chance to either conceive or give birth thanks to horrific Domestic Abuse and his general For the Evulz tendencies. It is known that he's been married a few times (certainly twice). The problem is, none of his wives ever gets given a name. Nor is anybody, even in-universe, quite sure how many times he has actually been married — this is on top of rumours of other disappearances (male and female) around his holdings while he's there. Even his brother doesn't know exactly what Gregor has been up to relationships-wise: not that Sandor would have bothered to keep track, anyway. He knows what his brother is like, generally... all too well. Cregan Karstark has, like Gregor and Roose above, had two wives for (presumably) political reasons. Both are also rather suspiciously dead without any children having had the chance to occur. He was planning on a third wife (his cousin)... except she made a break for it and put a spanner in that plan of his and his father's. Even describing this trope as one of her major reasons why she's wild about the idea of Taking A Third Option, as she quite honestly assumes that she'd also wind up "accidentally" dying. With the caveat on it being most likely contingent on her having produced at least one male heir for Karhold to solidify his hold on her claim to the title and place. |
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The title character of the horror movie The Stepfather marries women with children, only to slaughter them when they fall short of his expectations. He has ridiculously high standards, and so he goes through families fairly quickly. | |
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Béla Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle is a Freudian re-examination of the story. His castle is his subconscious, and Judith (wife #4) is casting light on his past by opening up every door with him, hand in hand. It doesn't end well... | |
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Strahd von Zarovich gets portrayed like this in the Curse of Strahd setting, though instead of outright killing them he turns women into fellow Vampires and then locks them in their crypts when he gets bored with them. | |
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Zanoba from Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation ripped off his wife's head because she looked like a doll. | |
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The folkloric Bluebeard rules one of the realms in the Ravenloft campaign setting. There is also the nosferatu darklord of Valachan, who frequently marries young beautiful women; however, no matter his original intentions, his tailor-made curse invariably makes him more and more mistrustful of his current bride each day, until he snaps and kills them in a paranoid rage. None of his brides survived to see their first anniversary so far. Strahd von Zarovich gets portrayed like this in the Curse of Strahd setting, though instead of outright killing them he turns women into fellow Vampires and then locks them in their crypts when he gets bored with them. |
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Divinity: Dragon Commander: The player can become this trope if you marry one princess and opt to sacrifice her to Corvus, the captive demon that powers your airship. It is very possible to kill all four available brides, with the crew quickly piecing together you are responsible and act appropriately disgusted with your actions. While nobody turns on you despite being a prolific wife murderer, you aren't exactly a Karma Houdini either since your mentor forbids you from marrying anyone else until the crisis is settled. In the end, it's revealed that Corvus is the true Big Bad of the game, and you have inadvertently empowered him with the sacrifices, making this a very poor decision in hindsight. | |
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Game of Thrones: Ramsay has a penchant for killing lovers who bore him, as Myranda is pleased to explain and enumerate for Sansa. | |
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The Reynard Cycle: Gaspard, the reputably insane Count of Lorn has married, and suspiciously lost, three wives. This trope is one possible explanation for this. (The other is that the wives are being assassinated by the Count's younger brother, who wishes to inherit the family title.) | |
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It is revealed in The Princess Bride that Prince Humperdinck wants to use his fiancee Buttercup as a pretext to go to war with the neighboring kingdom of Guilder. When his original plan falls through, he decides to simply murder her himself and frame Guilder for it. | |
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The Bluebeard from the 1697 fairy tale kept murdering his wives, reasoning that they had fallen to their curiosity by opening the door he had strictly forbidden for them to open. Traditionally, the room behind the forbidden door contains the bodies of his previous wives. Earlier versions use this as a moral for women not to disobey their husbands or get too curious. In a few versions, the story itself gets inverted to serve this message: specifically, the wife successfully resists the temptation to look, and this somehow grants her power over her husband to make him do whatever she says when he returns from his trip and finds himself deprived of his excuse to kill her. | |
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Mr. Fox is another version of this story, where the woman discovers the dead women and witnesses the mutilation of one of them. She presents the evidence to Fox, who flees, but then is either torn apart by villagers and their dogs or arrested, convicted in a court of law, and executed. Unusually for the trope, the title character is explicitly indicated to be at least partially motivated by greed, as he takes a special interest in one victim's diamond ring. | |
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Harry Powell from The Night of the Hunter. The film's main plot is him chasing after the children of his latest victim. And after he's caught, he's called as such. | |
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Zoltan Carnovasch from the first Phantasmagoria was made for this trope, with Don almost following in his footsteps. | |
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Bruno the Bandit tries this as one of his many schemes in Old Money. Too bad his new "beloved" turns out to be not just an old rich woman, but also the Black Widow. | |
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer's episode "Ted", Ted is an android who kills his spouses — and is Buffy's mother's newest boyfriend. Perhaps he just stuck them in the closet and left them, since his goal was to bring his creator's wife back. | |
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After taking Tommy's shares of the store, Mr. Grover in The Big Store intends on marrying the fabulously wealthy Martha, who also owns shares of his business, so that he becomes the sole beneficiary of her fortune after he kills her. | |
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In Code Monkeys, Gameavision head honcho Larrity has had seven wives, all of which have died under mysterious circumstances. Added to the creepiness factor is that he has several of them stuffed and on display in either his office or his vault. | |
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The freeware Doom-engine game Judith, in which a series of flashbacks of a wife finding a secret room in her husband's castle with a torture victim inside and the subsequent mercy-killing of the victim leads to the wife encountering a particularly haunting version of this trope. | |
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The Haunt of Fear (one of the original 1950s comics on which Tales from the Crypt is based) had a one-off story about a woman who discovers her new husband is Bluebeard's great-great-grandson and has indeed killed off all his previous wives. Predictably, he kills her as well so she can't tell anyone. | |
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In Which Witch?, the ghost haunting Arriman's home murdered a ridiculously long line of wives and spends his death hitting his head in grief. This is Played for Laughs when he is brought back to life and does absolutely nothing but prattle on about his wives and how he killed them for the pettiest of reasons (having a small yappy dog, smelling bad, eating too much, etc). The protagonists eventually are rid of him by hooking him up with Madame Olympia, who was infamous for murdering her husbands. After the two run off, there's speculation as to which will off the other first. | |
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Ars Magica: The faerie lord Marsyne marries human women, treats them with every respect, and entombs them in ice if they ever break the convoluted rules of his Court (including the classic "Never enter this room. Here is the key."). Worse, with his Blue-and-Orange Morality, he's genuinely fond of them all, including the ones who win their freedom somehow. | |
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In the original House on Haunted Hill (1959), eccentric millionaire Frederick Loren (Vincent Price) is currently on his fourth wife. The first one disappeared, and the second two died of heart attacks, despite being in their 20s. At the end of the film, he frightens his fourth wife to death, but only because she was plotting to kill him for his money. It's implied that her predecessors may have been similarly interested in becoming rich young widows. | |
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In the Grimm Fairy Tales version, the wife who opens the room finds what she feared: His previous wives' bodies, lots of blood, and all that. On his return, he flies into a rage, and she manages to stab him. Only then does she learn the truth. The room was enchanted, and had shown her what she feared to see. He was only looking for a wife who could trust him. | |
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The seventh Halloween Unspectacular featured a parody of the trope namer, with Moe as the titular character and Tambry as his latest victim. It's implied that he also sells the corpses to the army as food, though the soldiers who end up killing him are ordered not to think about it too hard. | |
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A popular strategy in Crusader Kings II is "Bluebearding" - marrying women for their dowries and high birth, assassinating them, and repeating the process. Despite the otherwise good AI, the Villain Protagonist will suffer no repercussions for his actions, unlike most of the evil strategies in the game. This is often removed by Game Mods, however, on the grounds of historical accuracy. |
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The actual Bluebeard - the one from the fairy tale - appears in the bonus chapter of the eighth installment of the Dark Parables. His reason for killing his wives is a little different this time. | |
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