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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Husbands should be like kleenex: soft, strong, and disposable."''
|'''Mrs. White''', ''[[Clue (film)|Clue]]''}}
The maneater, the [[Always Female|woman]] whose husbands/LoveInterests keep on dying.
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See [[Black Widow (comics)|Black Widow]] for the comic book character.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* An incredibly strange example occurs in Junji Ito's ''[[Tomie]]'' series, where the titluar character does, indeed, go after the money like a typical Black Widow... Except she gives men an odd feeling of wanting to kill ''her''.
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* One of the women at the {{spoiler|Serial Killer Convention}} complains about female serial killers being stereotyped as nothing but Black Widows & Killer Nurses in ''[[The Sandman]]'' book ''The Doll's House''.
** This is made all the more amusing because she says this while participating in a panel discussion on "Women In Serial Killing"... whose fellow panelists ''are'' a Black Widow and a Killer Nurse who are visibly annoyed with her. And for extra laughs she's complaining about stereotypes despite being an Asian working under the ''nom de guerre'' of "Dog Soup".
* [[Black Widow (comics)|Black Widow]] herself was this, of course, pre [[Heel Face Turn]] when she was still a KGB spy. As Pepper Pots describes her, "She mates and then she kills." And she hasn't lost her touch as a hero either, often being a seducer for nobler ends.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* Many ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' fanfics embrace what in canon is only implied about Blaise Zabini's mother (as mentioned in the Literature section below).
** There's this from ''[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8187553/chapters/18759901 The More The Merrier]'' by "cassie_black":
{{quote|'''Blaise:''' *says something about his mother*
'''Draco:''' And how is husband number nine?
'''Blaise:''' Still breathing.
'''Pansy:''' For now. }}
** In the various ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13001792/1/All-According-to-Plan According to Plan]'' fics by LysandraLeigh, Lyra (a thirteen-year-old [[Time Travel]]ing Bellatrix Lestrange) knows that Mirabella Zabini was planning to be a Black Widow since her early days at Hogwarts and thus frequently refers to her current husband as the "future late Mr. Zabini".
** In chapter four of ''[[Drunkard's Walk|Drunkard's Walk VIII: Harry Potter and the Man from Otherearth]]'', Filius Flitwick outright calls Blaise Zabini "the spawn of the Black Widow" at the second breakfast of Harry's fourth year. Pomona Sprout recounts her history before Filius [[Our Lawyers Advised This Trope|before nothing that nothing's been ''proven'' -- either way]].
== [[Film]] ==
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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." {{spoiler|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).}}
* In the [[Laurel and Hardy]] short film ''The Private Life of Oliver the Eighth'' Ollie courts a wealthy widow - only to discover on the wedding night that she has murdered her seven previous husbands who were all named Oliver. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. Partly a subversion, since it is Ollie who was hoping to benefit financially from the marriage.
* In ''[[Onibaba]]'', Kichi's mother makes her living by preying on passing soldiers.
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* There's a player challenge for ''[[The Sims]] 2'' that revolves around creating one of these.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080311105309/http://forums.sims2community.com/archive/index.php/t-29254.html See it here].
** Also in the pre-made neighborhood Strangetown, Olive Specter is implied to be one of these.
* Played straight, and almost ''literally'' in ''[[Ghostbusters]]: The Video Game''. In 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]].
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* In ''[[American Dad]]'' Stan's mother is set up to be this but subverted because {{spoiler|Stan has been stealing her dates to keep her 'safe'.}}
* 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.
* In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Trump Guy", Melania Trump (overlapping with [[Adaptational Villainy]]); when [[Donald Trump]] and Peter get into a fist-fight, she tosses Peter a golf club and tells Peter to kill him in a rather evil-sounding tone.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* The whole point of the Oxygen channel's show ''Snapped''. The show highlights women who killed their husbands (usually for the insurance money). At least, when the show isn't making [[Asshole Victim|the victim out to be an asshole.]]
* Annie Palmer, the (in)famous "[[The White Witch of Rose Hall|White Witch of Rose Hall]]", who resided at the eponymous plantation outside of Montego Bay, St. James in Jamaica, and who is reported to have [[Complete Monster|murdered three husbands and countless lovers, as well as many of her slaves.]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121106023137/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/11/16/48hours/mysteries/main318363.shtml Margaret Rudin], who married five times and at least two of her husbands perished in very strange circumstances. The fifth one, Ron Rudin, turned out to be somewhat more [[Genre Savvy]] [[Thanatos Gambit|than believed]]...
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