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== Audio Adaptation ==
* Though a mother rather then a wife, {{spoiler|in fact she killed her husband}}, Lady Calcula from the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|I, Davros]]'' audio fits the trope to a t. She uses all of her political savvy, {{spoiler|and frequently plain old murder}} to ensure Davros reaches a position of power. {{spoiler|She even has the distinction of becoming the first complete, albeit terminal, Dalek.}}
 
 
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== Film ==
* Dame Vaako from the movie ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]'' is shown constantly trying to convince her husband to [[You Kill It, You Bought It|kill the Lord Marshal and take his place.]] Unlike other examples, she never gets any comeuppance {{spoiler|aside from her husband's failure}}.
** [[Development Hell|Always assuming the promised next installment in the franchise actually ever materializes]], do you honestly expect {{spoiler|Lord Marshal Riddick}} to put up with her and her husband for long?
* In ''[[The Lion King|The Lion King 2]]'', Zira is this posthumously for Scar.
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* Lucille from ''[[Arrested Development (TV)|Arrested Development]]''. No, really.
* Mara Vendrell in ''[[The Shield]].'' If anything she made [[Jerkass|Shane Vendrell]] even ''worse'' than he already was.
* There's a reason that Ellen Tigh of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' was given the [[Fan Nickname]] of "Lady McTigh" - she regularly used alcohol, nagging, and what we'll politely term "feminine wiles" to goad her husband, Colonel Saul Tigh, into making some of the Worst. Decisions. Ever. While she didn't quite have a [[Karmic Death]] - it was too heartwrenching to be Karmic, as {{spoiler|she was poisoned by Saul on (valid) suspicion of being a Cylon collaborator. Double irony points as 1) she did it for him, and 2) Saul and Ellen are both big damn Cylons ANYWAY}} - she was still one of the most unashamedly manipulative characters on the show.
* Spoofed in ''[[Oz]]''. The prisoners put on a play of ''[[Macbeth]]'', and when rehearsing the scene where [[Lady Macbeth]] is pushing her husband to <s>shank</s> kill Duncan, get rather annoyed over [[Macbeth]]'s lack of balls.
* ''Angela Petrelli'' from ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]''.
* In ''[[Dexter (TV)|Dexter]]'', Lila West spends most of her screen time doing her very best to become Dexter's very own Lady Macbeth, {{spoiler|even going so far as to blow up Sgt. Doakes instead of rescuing him, just to protect Dexter from being discovered as the Bay Harbor Butcher, as well as to save him the trouble of doing it himself.}}
* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|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.
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