Black widow

Black Widow may refer to:

• Black widow, a common name of some spiders in the genus Latrodectus

Spiders

North American species

• Latrodectus mactans, the Southern black widow
• Latrodectus hesperus, the Western black widow
• Latrodectus variolus, the Northern black widow

Eurasian species

• Latrodectus tredecimguttatus, the Mediterranean black widow or European black widow.

People

Killers

• Black Widows of Liverpool, two women hanged 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 "Black Widow" or "Black Widow Granny", accused of murdering one of her husbands
• Griselda Blanco (1943–2012), Colombian drug trafficker, known as "The Black Widow" due to her ordering or committing the murders of three ex-husbands

Politics

• Shahidka, female Chechen suicide bombers

Sports people

• Jeanette Lee (pool player) (born 1971), so-called because of her fondness for wearing black
• Sonya Thomas (born 1967), top-ranked competitive eater

Other

• Florentine Rost van Tonningen (1914–2007), nicknamed Zwarte weduwe (Black Widow)

Characters

• Natasha Kerensky, a BattleTech character also known as "The Black Widow"
• Black Widow (Marvel Comics), the name of four distinct characters, including:
  • Black Widow (Claire Voyant), from the Golden Age of Comic Books
  • Black Widow (Natalia Romanova), from the Silver Age
  • Black Widow (Yelena Belova), from the Modern Age
• The Black Widow, a Batman villain played by Tallulah Bankhead

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
• Black Widow (2010 film), starring Jack Scalia and Jennifer O'Dell
• 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", an episode of Boston Legal
• Black Widow Productions, a pornographic film studio

Gaming

• Black Widow (video game), a 1982 Atari arcade game
• Black Widow, a character from the Saturday Night Slam Masters series of games by Capcom
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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 Soviet submarine B-39

Music

• Black Widow (band), a British rock band
• Almana Shchora (Hebrew for Black Widow), an Israeli band
• Black Widow (Black Widow album), 1971
• Black Widow (Lalo Schifrin album), 1976
• 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
• "Black Widows", by Grave Digger on the album The Last Supper (Grave Digger album)
• "The Black Widow", by Alice Cooper on the album Welcome to My Nightmare
• "Black Widow", by Jefferson Starship from the album Winds of Change

Other plants and animals

• Black tetra, also known as black widow tetra, a freshwater fish
• Black widow (Stygnobrotula latebricola), a species of Brotula and an ocean fish
• Black widow, the herbaceous plant species Geranium phaeum

Other uses

• Black Widow Pulsar, a star
• Black Widow (ride), an amusement ride at Kennywood
• Black Widow, a roller coaster at Six Flags New England
• Black Widow: A Novel, a 1981 novel by Christina Crawford
• Black Widow (paint mix), paint mix for projection screen
• BlackWidow, a website scanner by SoftByte Labs
• Dima Halim Daoga, a militant Dimasa organization in Assam, India

See also

• Black Widower (disambiguation)