Black Widow

Black widow is a common name of some spiders in the genus Latrodectus listed below. Black Widow may refer to:

North American Spiders

• Latrodectus mactans, The Southern black widow.
• Latrodectus hesperus, The Western black widow.
• Latrodectus variolus, The Northern black widow.

Fiction

• Black Widow: A Novel, a 1981 novel by Christina Crawford
• Natasha Kerensky, a BattleTech character also known as "The Black Widow".
• Black Widow (Marvel Comics), the name of several comic book characters appearing in Marvel Comics.
  • Black Widow (Claire Voyant), the golden age character.
  • Black Widow (Natalia Romanova), aka Natasha Romanoff, the silver age character.
  • Black Widow (Yelena Belova), the modern age character.

Film and television

• Black Widow (1954 film), starring Ginger Rogers and Gene Tierney
• Black Widow (1987 film), featuring Debra Winger and Theresa Russell
• Black Widow (2005 film), a Canadian film starring Sarah Slean
• Black Widow (2007 film), with Elizabeth Berkley and Alicia Coppola
• The Black Widow (serial), a 1947 movie serial starring Bruce Edwards
• The Black Widow (1951 film), a British film starring Christine Norden
• The Black Widow, a Batman villain played by Tallulah Bankhead
• "The Black Widow", an episode of Boston Legal
• Curse of the Black Widow starring Patty Duke
• Black Widow Productions, a pornographic film studio

Gaming

• Black Widow (arcade game), a 1982 Atari arcade game
• Black Widow, a character from the Saturday Night Slam Masters series of games by Capcom
• Black Widow Games, a computer games developer

Military

• Northrop P-61 Black Widow, a World War II aircraft
• Northrop YF-23 Black Widow II, a prototype fighter aircraft
• Black Widow, ex-Russian Foxtrot Soviet submarine B-39

Music

• Black Widow (album), by British rock band Black Widow
• Black Widow (band), a British rock band
• Black Widow (opera), by Thomas Pasatieri
• Black Widow Records, an Italian label

Songs

• "Black Widow", by American metal band Black Tide on the album Light from Above
• "Black Widow", by American metal band Mötley Crüe on the compilation Red, White & Crüe
• "Black Widow", by Finnish metal band Children of Bodom on the album Hatebreeder
• "Black Widow", by German metal band U.D.O. on the album Animal House
• "Black Widow", by Dolores O'Riordan on the album Are You Listening?
• "Black Widow", by Lita Ford on the album Dangerous Curves
• "Black Widow", by Michelle Shocked on the album Short Sharp Shocked
• "The Black Widow", by Alice Cooper on the album Welcome to My Nightmare

People

• Florentine Rost van Tonningen, nicknamed Zwarte weduwe (Black Widow)

Killers

• Black Widows (female Chechen suicide bombers)
• Shahidka, female Chechen suicide bombers
• Black Widows of Liverpool (died 1884), two people hung for murder in 1884
• Stacey Castor (born 1967), convicted murderer
• Lynn Turner (murderer) (1968–2010), convicted murderer
• The Black Widow Murders, murders committed by two elderly women in Los Angeles
• Betty Neumar (1931–2011), dubbed the "Black Widow" or "Black Widow Granny", accused of murdering one of her husbands
• Griselda Blanco (born 1943), a.k.a. "The Godmother" of the cocaine trade in the late 1970s and early 1980s, is also known as "The Black Widow", due to her ordering or committing the murders of 3 ex-husbands.

Sports people

• Jeanette Lee (pool player) (born 1971), so-called because of her fondness for wearing black
• Sonya Thomas (born 1969), top-ranked competitive eater

Other Plants and animals

• Black widow, freshwater fish Gymnocorymbus ternetzi also known as brown mumu
• Black widow, ocean fish Stygnobrotula latebricola, a species of Brotula
• Black widow, the herbaceous plant species Geranium phaeum

Other uses

• Black Widow Pulsar
• Black Widow, a Zamperla Giant Discovery ride at Kennywood
• Black Widow, a roller coaster at Six Flags New England

See also

• Black Widower (disambiguation)