Black Widow or Black Widows may refer to: Black widow, a common name for some species of spiders in the genus Latrodectus
Arts and entertainment Fictional characters Black Widow (Natasha Romanova) Black Widow (Yelena Belova) Black Widow (Claire Voyant) Black Widows (Marvel Cinematic Universe) 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 Natasha Kerensky, in Tales of the Black Widow Company, a supplement for the BattleTech video game
Film and television The Black Widow (serial), a 1947 movie serial starring Bruce Edwards Black Widow (1951 film), a British film starring Christine Norden Black Widow (1954 film), a film starring Ginger Rogers and Gene Tierney Black Widow (1987 film), a film featuring Debra Winger and Theresa Russell Black Widow (2003 film), a film directed by Brad Turner The Black Widow (2005 film) or Before It Had a Name, a film by Giada Colagrande Black Widow (2005 film), a Canadian film starring Sarah Slean Black Widow (2007 film), a film with Elizabeth Berkley and Alicia Coppola Black Widow (2010 film), a film starring Jack Scalia and Jennifer O'Dell Black Widow (2021 film), a film starring Scarlett Johansson based on the Marvel Comics character Black Widow: A Land Bleeds, a 2017 Indian film Black Widows (2016 TV series), Scandinavian TV serial Black Widows (Indian TV series), a 2020 web series "The Black Widow", an episode of Boston Legal "Black Widow" (Marvel Studios: Legends), an episode of Marvel Studios: Legends
Literature Black Widow, a car driven by the Spider (DC Comics) The Black Widow (Silva novel), a 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 from Light from Above "Black Widow", by Mötley Crüe from Red, White & Crüe "Black Widow", by Children of Bodom from Hatebreeder "Black Widow", by U.D.O. from Animal House "Black Widow", by Dolores O'Riordan from Are You Listening? "Black Widow", by Donovan Leitch from Slow Down World "Black Widow", by In This Moment from Black Widow "Black Widow", by Lita Ford from Dangerous Curves "Black Widow", by Michelle Shocked from Short Sharp Shocked "Black Widow", by Alice Cooper from Welcome to My Nightmare "Black Widow", by Jefferson Starship from 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 from Melophobia "Black Widow", by Susanne Sundfør from The Brothel "Black Widows", by Grave Digger from 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 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 Black brotula or black widow, an ocean fish Geranium phaeum or black widow, an herbaceous plant species
People Murderers Black Widow Gang, Colombian serial killer group arrested in 2011, also called "The Black Widows of Colombia" Black Widows of Liverpool, two Irish sisters hanged for murder in 1884 Bodenfelde Black Widow, German serial killer and her accomplice, convicted in 2008 Black Widow Murders, murders committed in 1999 and 2005 by two elderly women in Los Angeles Marie Alexandrine Becker (1879–1942), Belgian serial killer convicted of 11 murders, also called the "Belgian Borgia" Griselda Blanco (1943–2012), Colombian drug trafficker, known for ordering or committing the murders of three ex-husbands Elfriede Blauensteiner (1931–2003), Austrian serial killer, used money inherited from dead husbands to fund her compulsive gambling habit Stacey Castor (1967–2016), poisoned two husbands with antifreeze in 2000 and 2005, also attempted to murder and frame her daughter for the deaths Esneda Ruiz Cataño (born 1968), Colombian serial killer of husbands for life insurance benefits from 2001 to 2010; is currently in El Pedregal Prison Mary Ann Cotton (1832–1873), English murderer and suspected serial killer Nannie Doss (1905–1965), American serial killer, also called the "Giggling Granny" Margit Filó (1914–1979), Hungarian serial killer, called the "Rókus Black Widow" Heloísa Gonçalves Duque Soares Ribeiro (born 1950), Brazilian-American murderer and suspected serial killer, currently on the run Belle Gunness, 25–40 victims spanning from 1884 to 1908 Chisako Kakehi (1946–2024), Japanese serial killer who poisoned her lovers with cyanide Christine Malèvre (born 1970), French serial killer and nurse, nicknamed "the black widow" by her colleagues Blanche Taylor Moore (born 1933), poisoned two husbands and one long-term boyfriend with arsenic Martha Needle (1863–1894), Australian serial killer hanged at Old Melbourne Gaol, called the "Black Widow of Richmond" Betty Neumar (1931–2011), subject of a BBC documentary called Black Widow Granny?, died before trial Catherine Nevin (1950–2018), Irish woman who arranged for her husband to be murdered in a staged robbery of the pub they owned Patrizia Reggiani (born 1948), Italian socialite who hired a hitman to kill her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci Vera Renczi (1903–1960), possibly-apocryphal Hungarian woman said to have murdered 35 men in the 1920s Margarita Sánchez Gutiérrez (born 1953), Spanish woman called the "Black Widow of Barcelona" Melissa Ann Shepard (born 1935), Canadian murderer and fraudster, sometimes called the "Internet Black Widow" Lyda Southard (1892–1958), American serial killer, also called "Flypaper Lyda" Dena Thompson (born 1960), British murderer and fraudster, gave her husband poisoned curry Lynn Turner (murderer) (1968–2010), poisoned two husbands with antifreeze in 1995 and 2001 Áurea Vázquez-Rijos, Puerto Rican woman who arranged the murder of Adam Anhang
Athletes Jeanette Lee (born 1971), pool player Sonya Thomas (born 1967), competitive eater
Other Florentine Rost van Tonningen (1914–2007), Dutch neo-Nazi nicknamed Zwarte weduwe (Black Widow)
Other uses Black widow pulsar, a type of pulsar Black Widow Pulsar, the first known example Black Widow (paint mix), paint mix for projection screen Black Widow (Chechnya), term for female suicide bombers from Chechnya or Dagestan Black Widow or DHD(J), a subgroup of the militant Dimasa organization Dima Halam Daogah of Assam, India
See also "Black Widow Pt. 2", a song by RZA featuring ODB on the album Digital Bullet Black Widow II, a Northrop YF-23 prototype fighter aircraft, nicknamed after the P-61 Black Widower (disambiguation) A Widow's Game, a 2025 Spanish film originally titled La viuda negra, "The Black Widow". Black Widow (Marvel Comics), a list of characters from Marvel Comics