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* [[A-Cup Angst]]: She was self-conscious about her small breasts, which is why she never bared them in her act.

* [[Black Like Me]]: Although she didn't look at all Southeast Asian, at the start of her career she presented herself as a Javanese princess of priestly Hindu birth, trained in sacred Indian dance as a child. In this she was no doubt helped by the studies she made of Javanese culture and dance during her marriage to Rudolf MacLeod, as well as Western Europeans' general ignorance of [[Indonesia]].

* [[Black Like Me]]: Although she didn't look at all Southeast Asian, at the start of her career she presented herself as a Javanese princess of priestly Hindu birth, trained in sacred Indian dance as a child. In this she was no doubt helped by the studies she made of Javanese culture and dance during her marriage to Rudolf MacLeod, as well as Western Europeans' general ignorance of [[Indonesia]] at the time.

* [[Bluff the Eavesdropper]]: Done by Major Arnold Kalle as part of a deliberate plan to [[Frame-Up|frame]] Mata Hari as a [[Double Agent]]. Using a ~~cdoe~~ the Germans knew France had broken, he sent messages to his superiors about the activities of a German spy codenamed "H-21" to Berlin, describing H-21 in so much detail that it was obvious that H-21 and Mata Hari were supposed to be the same person. When the Deuxième Bureau deciphered the messages, they made the intended deduction.

* [[Bluff the Eavesdropper]]: Done by Major Arnold Kalle as part of a deliberate plan to [[Frame-Up|frame]] Mata Hari as a [[Double Agent]]. Using a code the Germans knew France had broken, he sent messages to his superiors about the activities of a German spy codenamed "H-21" to Berlin, describing H-21 in so much detail that it was obvious that H-21 and Mata Hari were supposed to be the same person. When the Deuxième Bureau deciphered the messages, they made the intended deduction.

* [[Double Agent]]: Accused by the French government (and convicted) of being one for Germany.

* [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]: She is reported to have blown a kiss to the firing squad just before her execution.

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* Mati Herring from ''[[You Nazty Spy]]'', a classic ''[[Three Stooges]]'' film, is an obvious parody.

* ''[[Mata Hari (1927 film)|Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin]]'' (''Mata Hari: The Red Dancer''), a 1927 German film starring Magda Sonja in the title role.

* [[Greta Garbo]] played her in the 1931 pre-[[Hays Code]] film ''[[Mata Hari (1931 film)|Mata Hari]]''. Although Garbo's most successful film, it only survives in a heavily-censored version released after the ~~impositon~~ of the Code.

* [[Greta Garbo]] played her in the 1931 pre-[[Hays Code]] film ''[[Mata Hari (1931 film)|Mata Hari]]''. Although Garbo's most successful film, it only survives in a heavily-censored version released after the imposition of the Code.

* In 1985, Golan-Globus produced [[Mata Hari (1985 film)|their own ''Mata Hari'' film]], described as an "erotic biography" and featuring ''[[Emmanuelle (film)|Emmanuelle]]'' star [[Sylvia Kristel]] in the title role.

* In 1977, [[David Carradine]] began making a film about Mata Hari starring his daughter Callista (then 15) who would portray her from childhood to adulthood; he continued filming it on and off over the next twenty-five years and in 2004 claimed to be "just about done". It has yet to be released as of 2022.

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* There have been at least ''five'' musicals inspired by her life. Among them:

** ''[[Mata Hari (musical)|Mata Hari]]'', a 1967 musical drama which after receiving scathing reviews during its pre-Broadway tryout was reworked and ran for a disappointing fifteen performances off-Broadway under the title ''Ballad for a Firing Squad''. (''Variety '' magazine described its opening night as having gone down in Broadway lore as "one of the great theatrical disasters" and described it as "a musical as ill-fated as its heroine".) In 1996 it was revived under its original title to somewhat (but not much) more success.

** ''[[Mata Hari (Wildhorn musical)|Mata Hari at the Moulin Rouge]]'' was a 2016 musical that ~~premiereed~~ in South Korea and also had a run in Japan.

** ''[[Mata Hari (Wildhorn musical)|Mata Hari at the Moulin Rouge]]'' was a 2016 musical that premiered in South Korea and also had a run in Japan.

* In February 2016, the Dutch National Ballet premiered a two-act ballet called ''[[Mata Hari (ballet)|Mata Hari]]''.

* An opera, also called ''[[Mata Hari (opera)|Mata Hari]]'', premiered in 2017 at New York's Prototype Festival and was later also produced by the West Edge Opera.