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{{quote|''"They’re the kind of dames who can wear floor-length gowns and look completely naked. The kind with hair piled up on their head like compliant serpents, or falling down in smooth lustrous waves. Dames with hard faces and mocking smiles and eyes that sized you up and found you wanting . . . but you’d do, for now."''|'''James Lileks,''' ''The Bleat'' for [http://www.lileks.com/bleats/archive/03/0203/020703.html February 7, 2003]}}
The morally ambiguous
The
Unlike the virginal and sweet [[Damsel in Distress]] (or [[Action Girl]] with a similarly gentle attitude), the Femme Fatale exploits with everything she's got to wrap men around her finger. However, [[Status Quo Is God]], so by the end of the story, the Femme Fatale must either be reformed by the hero to the side of good and [[Good Is Dumb|lose much of her appeal in the process]], or be outwitted by him to her doom.
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What separates the Femme Fatale from [[The Vamp]] is that the Femme Fatale uses femininity and sensuality instead of upfront sexual advances. Her wiles include apparent helplessness and distress, and appeals to the man's greed, desire for revenge, or gullibility, as well as the implication of possible romance or just sexual rewards, compared to The Vamp's reliance on raunchy sex or the promise of it and utter amorality otherwise. As a possible result of this, she is more likely to be [[Anti-Villain|portrayed sympathetically]] than the average vamp.
While the
Often the [[Lady in Red]], and even more often the [[Woman in Black]], but possibly dressed like [[Naive Everygirl|everyone else]] so as to not be [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience]]. The
If [[Dark Action Girl|she can fight, too,]] then she's ''really'' going to be trouble.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Selena Coombs of ''[[American Gothic]]''. In an interesting inversion, however, her primary sexual usage in the show, aside from being Buck's mistress, is not to turn a good man evil, but to keep a man nominally on the side of
* Sam Marquez on ''[[Las Vegas]]'' works for a casino. Specifically, her job is to keep 'whales' - big spenders - happy. Once, she only slept with a guy because he was dying, and she has openly called herself a slut. Strangely, she rarely sleeps with any of the whales themselves, and had to start going to a therapist later in the series after she was [[Wham! Episode|abducted and nearly raped and killed]].
* Miss Parker from ''[[The Pretender]]''. Makes her entrance stomping out a cigarette on an oil tanker, shoots at the good guy a lot, has UST with him, and regularly growls at and intimidates most men within range.
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== Videogames ==
* Ada Wong from the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' series initially showed very mild [[Damsel in Distress]] qualities in her first appearance, but by the fourth game in the series, there was no question that she was a first-class
* Naomi in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 1]]'' and ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots|4]]''. According to the backstory, she seduced Richard Ames away from his wife, Nastasha Romanenko, in order to get onto the FoxDie project so she could modify it to kill Snake. She spent the game until the bombshell [[Tsundere|alternately]] acting very cold towards him and [[Stalker with a Crush|drooling over him]]. She has good intentions though.
* Ultimecia in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' is this. When she's {{spoiler|possessing Edea - who normally wears a very simple and modest dress - she makes her wear incredibly ornate and over-the-top "sexy" clothing}}. When you finally meet her in person, the costume she has on is, to say the least, extravagant. She uses her body to get what she wants, and was openly called a Femme Fatale in the spin-off game Dissidia.
* Quite possibly, Viletta Vadim from ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'', starting out as [[The Mole]] of the team for {{spoiler|Ingram}} and is a deadly pilot in combat. This is later subverted as Viletta {{spoiler|and Ingram}} have good intentions, despite coming off as rather strict {{spoiler|and oh-so-much a [[Magnificent Bastard]] for Ingram}}, not flat out evil. Her looks also gave her the distinction of being one of Excellen's 'Three Beautiful Sisters' and [[Even the Girls Want Her|the only person she'd go]] [[Les Yay]] with. To hammer it home, her theme song was re-named to this trope when [[Original Generation]] got a US translation by Atlus (it was formerly 'Woman The Cool Spy').
* {{spoiler|Dark Saber}} in ''[[Fate/stay night]]'', during the scene that is titled "
* Bonne Jenet from ''[[Fatal Fury|Garou: Mark of the Wolves]]''. She isn't evil per se (despite being a [[Pirate Girl]], her Lilien Knights [[Just Like Robin Hood|only steal from the rich]]), but she can and ''will'' use her feminine wit and [[Stripperiffic|sex]] [[Foreign Fanservice|appeal]] to get what she wants (she's also ''very'' [[The Tease|flirtatious]]). Oddly enough, she also happens to be a [[The Ladette]].
* In ''[[Thief]] The Dark Project'', Viktoria plays this to Garrett's Noir action hero, tempting him with greed, the power of an exotic blade, and though her seduction isn't overt, it's heavily implied in cutscenes that she pays his retainer carnally. Without Constantine's leadership in ''Metal Age'', she becomes less this, but still remains [[Strange Bedfellows]].
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