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femmes fatales
[edit]For your category, and welcome to the 'pedia! Chris 03:38, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Modern fictional characters
[edit]- Ada Wong, from Resident Evil
- Alex Forrest, from Fatal Attraction
- Anna Williams from the fighting game series Tekken
- Angeltop, daughter of Flattop who sought to murder Dick Tracy in revenge for the death of her father
- Anita Blake from the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series
- Audrey Horne from Twin Peaks
- Ava Lord from Sin City
- Baroness from G.I. Joe
- Blackarachnia
- BloodRayne, a dhampyr
- Brigid O'Shaughnessy from The Maltese Falcon
- Contessa Livia from Camillo Boito's famous novella Senso
- Carmen, from the opera by Georges Bizet
- Catherine Tramell, the main character of the films Basic Instinct and Basic Instinct 2
- Catwoman, one of whose nicknames is actually the wordplay feline fatale
- Darla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
- Drusilla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
- Delilah, the Biblical betrayer of Samson
- Dorothy Catalonia from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
- Edie Britt from Desperate Housewives
- Elektra from Daredevil
- Emma Frost from X-Men
- Enchantress from Thor
- Estella Havisham from Great Expectations
- Faith Lehane from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop
- Fujiko Mine from Lupin III
- Hatsumomo from Memoirs of a Geisha
- Inque from Batman Beyond
- Jenny Diver from The Threepenny Opera
- Jessica Rabbit (In Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988)
- Justine (in Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet)
- La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad by John Keats
- Lady Kaede from Ran (1985)
- Lady Macbeth from Macbeth
- Laura from Brick
- Lola from Damn Yankees
- Lovely Lovely from Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
- Lydia from Poison Ivy by J.E. Henisz
- Lust from Fullmetal Alchemist
- Mandy from 24
- Margaret Houlihan from MASH {MOvie and TV}
- Marie Warner from 24
- Milady de Winter from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- Minerva Mink from Animaniacs
- Mirage in The Incredibles
- Mireille Bouquet from Noir
- Miss Scarlet from Cluedo
- Mitsuko Souma from Battle Royale
- Natasha Fatale - a spoof of the femme fatale
- Nico Robin from One Piece
- Nina Myers from 24
- Nina Williams from the fighting game series Tekken
- Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard
- Number Six from Battlestar Galactica
- Poison Ivy, a recurring opponent of Batman
- Ramba, an erotic Italian hit-lady
- Roodaka, in Bionicle storyline
- Samantha Jones from Sex and the City
- Saffron from Firefly
- Selene from Marvel Comics
- Sofie Fatale from Kill Bill
- Sorus Chatelaine from Stephen R. Donaldson's The Gap Cycle
- Talia al Ghul of DC comics.
- The Assassin Priest from Spawn
- Velma Kelly from Chicago
- Vesper Lynd from Casino Royale, both the novel and the 2006 film
- Vivian Sternwood from The Big Sleep
- Wuya (In her human form) from Xiaolin Showdown
- Xenia Onatopp from GoldenEye
- Yuumura Kirika from Noir
- Most girl monsters in various forms of animation, especially magical girl anime.
"Femmes fatales" in Mythology
[edit]- Ishtar
- Succubus
- Lilith
- Circe
- Medea
- Scylla
- Lamia
- The Sirens
- Calypso
- Morgan le Fay
- Morgause
- La Llorona (see also damsel in distress, however)
- Yuki-Onna
Historical figures
[edit]- Clodia (C. 95 - 50's BC).
- Cleopatra
- Salomé (1st century).
- Lucrezia Borgia (April 14/18, 1480 - June 24, 1519).
- Erzsébet Báthory (August 7? , 1560 - August 21, 1614).
- Mata Hari (August 7, 1876 - October 15, 1917). (see also damsel in distress, however.)
- Theda Bara (July 29, 1885 - April 7, 1955) (persona as actress)
- Musidora (February 23, 1889 - December 11, 1957) (persona as actress)
- Nita Naldi (April 1, 1897 - February 17, 1961) (persona as actress)
- Pola Negri (December 31, 1894 - August 1, 1987) (persona as actress)
Films
[edit]Numerous notable actresses have portrayed femmes fatales in film; several have become closely identified with such roles.
- Les Vampires (1915) - Musidora
- A Fool There Was (1915) - Theda Bara
- The Blue Angel (1930) - Marlene Dietrich
- The Maltese Falcon (1931) - Bebe Daniels
- Rain - Joan Crawford
- Red Dust - Jean Harlow
- The Devil is a Woman (1935) - Marlene Dietrich
- The Maltese Falcon (1941) - Mary Astor
- Double Indemnity (1944) - Barbara Stanwyck
- Murder, My Sweet (1944) - Claire Trevor
- Detour (1945) - Ann Savage
- Leave Her to Heaven (1945) - Gene Tierney
- The Big Sleep (1946) - Lauren Bacall
- Gilda (1946) - Rita Hayworth
- The Lady from Shanghai (1948) - Rita Hayworth
- Angel Face (1952) - Jean Simmons
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955) - Gaby Rodgers
- Goldfinger (1964) - Honor Blackman
- Blazing Saddles (1974) - Madeline Kahn
- Chinatown (1974) - Faye Dunaway
- Body Heat (1981) - Kathleen Turner
- The Man with Two Brains (1983) - Kathleen Turner
- Never Say Never Again (1983) - Barbara Carrera
- The Natural (1984) - Barbara Hershey and Kim Basinger
- Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) - Sonia Braga
- Ran (1985) - Mieko Harada
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) - Kathleen Turner
- Basic Instinct (1992) - Sharon Stone
- Poison Ivy (1992) - Drew Barrymore
- The Crush (1993) - Alicia Silverstone
- The Last Seduction (1994) - Linda Fiorentino
- GoldenEye (1995) - Famke Janssen
- Die Hard with a Vengeance (1996) - Sam Phillips
- L.A. Confidential (1997) - Kim Basinger
- Lost Highway (1997) - Patricia Arquette
- The World Is Not Enough (1999) - Sophie Marceau
- Chicago (2002) - Catherine Zeta-Jones; Renée Zellweger
- Femme Fatale (2002) - Rebecca Romijn
- Brick (2005) - Nora Zehetner
- Basic Instinct 2 (2006) - Sharon Stone
- The Black Dahlia (2006) - Hilary Swank
- Casino Royale (2006) - Eva Green
- X2: X-Men United (2003) Lady Deathstrike - Kelly Hu
Games
[edit]- Life (Emilie Bourdet)
- Metal Gear Solid: Sniper Wolf
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: Eva
- Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father (Malia Gedde)
- DarkStalkers (Morrigan Aensland)
- Capcom VS SNK (Morrigan Aensland)
- StarCraft (Sarah Kerrigan)
- Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (Lady Vashj, Sylvanas Windrunner)
- City of Heroes: Femme Fatales Supergroup
- Max Payne: Mona Sax
- Resident Evil 4: Ada Wong
- Dead or Alive: Christie
- Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII: Rosso the Crimson
- Broken Sword: The Angel of Death: Anna-Maria Prisa
- Battle Realms: Utara
- Tekken: Anna and Nina Williams
- Sonic Heroes: Rouge The Bat
Category: Femme(s) fatales
[edit]The category has been deleted, please stop adding it. --Pentasyllabic 00:02, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Category:Fictional femmes fatales has now been deleted again and protected to prevent recreation, per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 February 2#Category:Fictional femmes fatales and Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#G4. It does appear as a bluelink, but because it is in Category:Protected deleted categories, bots will periodically patrol it and remove any articles contained therein. Category:Fictional sadists has also been deleted, per Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 December 2#Category:Fictional sadists and G4. If it is created again, it will be deleted again. If you believe these deletions to have been in violation of process, you may contest the matter at Wikipedia:Deletion review, but please do not simply recreate deleted categories. Thanks. If you have any questions, you can ask at my talk page or the help desk. — coelacan — 08:46, 4 April 2007 (UTC)