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* Although Esmé Squalor from ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' isn't Count Olaf's wife, she otherwise fits the trope to a T.
* {{spoiler|Carlaze—who turns out to be at fault for just about the entire recent crisis—}}in ''[[Indigo|Troika]]''.
* Eleanor Iselin in ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)|The Manchurian Candidate]]'' is the scheming wife of a senator (who's basically her puppet) in the original novel and first film adaptation, made in 1962. It's subverted in the 2004 adaptation, however, where she's the senator herself.
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* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''The Tomb of the Cybermen'', Kaftan fills this role expertly, supporting, encouraging, and enabling her [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] hubby Klieg at every turn, and even supplying her own badass minion, Toberman.
* In ''[[Law and Order CI]]'' there was a sister Macbeth who wanted her brother to take over a tiny African country (they're the children of said county's king) by {{spoiler|blowing up their parents and killing the detectives' boss, who had gone undercover to expose their weapons dealing. Oh, and her brother's white, American girlfriend had to go, and since he was dragging his feet about it..}}.
* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'': When an episode deals with a killing couple, like in "Mosley Lane" or "The Thirteenth Step", generally the female unsub fits this trope.
** Although in some killing couples the wife has to act like this to stay alive, giving her sadistic husband other targets than herself.
* Gillian Darmody on ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'' spends much of the second season pushing her son into some truly reprehensible actions. Her [[Moral Event Horizon]] comes when she talks Jimmy into letting a hit on Nucky go through, even though Jimmy is very much opposed to the idea and begs to be allowed to change his mind.
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* ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'': Though Mrs. Lovett never actually marries Sweeney Todd, Sweeney wouldn't have gotten as far as he did without her, as she was the one who came up with the idea to bake his victims into pies.
* In [[Richard Wagner]]'s ''Lohengrin'', the easily led Friedrich, Count of Telramund, is induced by his wife, the pagan sorceress Ortrud, to accuse the heroine Elsa of murdering her brother (whom Ortrud herself has turned into a swan), and then later to attack Elsa's husband and champion, the eponymous Grail knight. She's a bad lady.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] of ''[[Hamlet]]'' has pegged Gertrude as one of these to Claudius.
** Hamlet himself wonders ''in-universe'' whether or not she is this, before deciding that even if it's true she's his mom and he should be focusing his hate on Claudius instead.
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