Evil woman
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Femme fatale
The Femme Fatale, the vamp, La belle dame sans merci, the Black Widow, the Dragon Lady is a beautiful, seductive, but (traditionally) evil woman who leads the hero to his doom. Examples include:
- Lady Macbeth
- the Dragon Lady from Terry and the Pirates
- many women ("bad girls") in film noir, see "bad girl movies"
In more modern fiction, femme fatales aren't necessarily evil, but are simply women who use their looks and female charisma to get what they want. More often, they are protagonists, supporters of protagonists, antiheroes, or villains who switch sides, rather than all-out antagonists. Examples include_
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- Mary I of England
- Myra Hindley
- Isabella of Castile
- Beverly Allitt
- Belle Gunness
- Mary Ann Cotton
- Ilse Koch
- Irma Grese
- Katherine Knight
- Elizabeth Bathory
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