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femmes fatales
For your category, and welcome to the 'pedia! Chris 03:38, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Modern fictional characters

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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
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

 * 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
The category has been deleted, please stop adding it. --Pentasyllabic 00:02, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

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