Black Widow (The Dogma Album)

Black widow may refer to:

Spiders

* Black widow spider, a common name for some species of spiders in the genus '' Latrodectus''

American species

* ''Latrodectus apicalis'', the Galapagos black widow
* '' Latrodectus curacaviensis'', the South American black widow
* ''Latrodectus hesperus'', the western black widow
* ''Latrodectus mactans'', the southern black widow
* ''Latrodectus variolus'', the northern black widow

Eurasian species

* ''Latrodectus tredecimguttatus'', the Mediterranean black widow or European black widow

Oceanian species

* ''Latrodectus hasseltii'', the redback spider or Australian black widow

People

Murderers

* Black Widows of Liverpool, two women hanged for murder in 1884
* Belle Gunness, 25-40 victims spanning from 1884 to 1908
* Vera Renczi (1903-1960), murdered 35 men, including her husband and her son
* Betty Neumar (1931–2011), dubbed "Black Widow" or "Black Widow Granny", accused of murdering one of her husbands
* Blanche Taylor Moore (born 1933), convicted murderer
* Griselda Blanco (1943–2012), Colombian drug trafficker, known for her ordering or committing the murders of three ex-husbands
* Catherine Nevin (1950-2018), responsible for the 1996 murder of Tom Nevin in Jack White's Inn
* Stacey Castor (1967–2016), convicted murderer
* Lynn Turner (murderer) (1968–2010), convicted murderer
* Black Widow Murders, murders committed in 1999/2005 by two elderly women in Los Angeles
* Áurea Vázquez-Rijos who hired a hitman for the Murder of Adam Anhang in 2005, extradited back to Puerto Rico in 2015 and convicted in 2018
* Melissa Ann Shepard (born 1935), Canadian murderer
* Patrizia Reggiani (born 1948), ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, convicted of arranging his murder
* Chisako Kakehi (1892–1958), American serial killer of husbands and other family members using arsenic from flypaper

Athletes

* 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), Dutch neo-Nazi nicknamed ''Zwarte weduwe'' (Black Widow)

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

* Black Widow (Marvel Comics), the name of several distinct characters:
** Black Widow (Claire Voyant)
** Black Widow (Natasha Romanova)
** Black Widow (Yelena Belova)
* In the :
** Natasha Romanoff (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
** Yelena Belova (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
** Melina Vostokoff (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
** Dottie Underwood
* The Black Widow, a ''Batman'' villain played by Tallulah Bankhead
* Black Widow, a character from the '' Saturday Night Slam Masters'' series of games by Capcom

Film and television

* ''The Black Widow'' (serial), a 1947 movie serial starring Bruce Edwards
* ''The Black Widow'' (1951 film), a British film starring Christine Norden
* ''Black Widow'' (1954 film), starring Ginger Rogers and Gene Tierney
* ''Black Widow'' (1987 film), featuring Debra Winger and Theresa Russell
* ''Black Widow'' (2003 film), a film directed by Brad Turner
* ''The Black Widow'' (2005 film), DVD release title of film by Giada Colagrande, produced as ''Before It Had a Name''
* ''Black Widow'' (2005 film), a Canadian film starring Sarah Slean
* "The Black Widow", an episode of ''Boston Legal''
* ''Black Widow'' (2007 film), with Elizabeth Berkley and Alicia Coppola
* ''Black Widow'' (2010 film), starring Jack Scalia and Jennifer O'Dell
* ''Black Widows'' (2016 TV series), Scandinavian TV serial
* Black Widows (Indian TV series), a 2020 web series
* ''Black Widow'' (2021 film), a film starring Scarlett Johansson based on the Marvel Comics character
* '' Black Widow: A Land Bleeds'', a 2017 Indian film

Literature

* ''The Black Widow'' (Silva novel), 2016 novel by Daniel Silva
* ''Black Widow: A Novel'', a 1981 novel by Christina Crawford

Gaming

* ''Black Widow'' (video game), a 1982 Atari arcade game
* Black Widow Games, a computer games developer

Music

* ''Black Widow'' (opera), by Thomas Pasatieri
* Black Widow (band), a British rock band
* ''Black Widow'' (Black Widow album), 1971
* ''Black Widow'' (Lalo Schifrin album), 1976
* ''Black Widow'' (In This Moment album), 2014
* ''The Black Widow'' (album)
* Black Widow Records, an Italian label

Songs

* "Black Widow" (Iggy Azalea song), 2014
* "Black Widow" (Pristin song), 2017
* "Black Widow", by Black Tide on the album ''Light from Above''
* "Black Widow", by Mötley Crüe on the compilation ''Red, White & Crüe''
* "Black Widow", by Children of Bodom on the album ''Hatebreeder''
* "Black Widow", by U.D.O. on the album ''Animal House''
* "Black Widow", by Dolores O'Riordan on the album '' Are You Listening?''
* "Black Widow", by Donovan Leitch on the album '' Slow Down World''
* "Black Widow", by In This Moment on the album ''Black Widow''
* "Black Widow", by Lita Ford on the album '' Dangerous Curves''
* "Black Widow", by Michelle Shocked on the album '' Short Sharp Shocked''
* "Black Widow", by Alice Cooper on the album '' Welcome to My Nightmare''
* "Black Widow", by Jefferson Starship on the album ''Winds of Change''
* "Black Widow", by Booty Luv
* "Black Widow", by Link Wray and His Ray Men, B-side to "Jack the Ripper"
* "Black Widow", by Cage the Elephant on the album ''Melophobia''
* "Black Widow", by Susanne Sundfør on the album ''The Brothel''
* "Black Widow Pt. 2", by RZA featuring ODB on the album ''Digital Bullet''
* "Black Widows", by Grave Digger on the album ''The Last Supper''

Rides

* Black Widow (ride), an amusement ride at Kennywood
* Black Widow, a roller coaster at Six Flags New England

Military

* Northrop P-61 Black Widow, a World War II night fighter
* Black Widow II, a Northrop YF-23 prototype fighter aircraft, nicknamed after the P-61
* PMN mine, nicknamed Black Widow because of their dark casing
* Soviet submarine B-39, nicknamed Black Widow after having been sold off as a museum ship
* 421st Fighter Squadron, nicknamed Black Widows

Other plants and animals

* Black tetra, also known as "black widow tetra", a freshwater fish
* '' Stygnobrotula latebricola'', an ocean fish
* ''Geranium phaeum'', a herbaceous plant species

Other uses

* The Black Widow Pulsar
* Black Widow (paint mix), paint mix for projection screen
* Black Widow (Chechnya), term for female suicide bombers from Chechnya or Dagestan
* DHD(J), also called Black Widow, a subgroup of the militant Dimasa organization Dima Halim Daoga of Assam, India

See also

* Black Widower (disambiguation)

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