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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* A [[Lupin III]] episode dealt with this: a rich man married 99 women, murdered them, and encased their bodies in wax so he could preserve them. He planned to add Fujiko to his collection, but Lupin and the gang put a stop to that.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* There is a Bluebeard-style character, who actually has a blue beard, who rules one of the realms in the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' [[Ravenloft]] setting.
* In the ''[[Planescape]]'' epic module ''Faction War'', a big part of Factol Rowan Darkwood's multi-layer [[Xanatos Gambit]] (or so he believes) is courting and marrying Mercykiller Factol Alisohn Nilesia. The first part of this endeavor establishes the Mercykillers and the Fates as allies. The second part, however, involves disposing of Nilesia (he doesn't kill her personally, [[Fate Worse Than Death|but sells her to the fiends of Baator]]) and enabling him to manipulate the Mercykillers further.
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* Henry VIII, who had [[wikipedia:Wives of Henry VIII|six wives]], is often considered to be a Bluebeard despite the fact that "only" two of said wives (second wife Anne Boleyn and fifth wife Catherine Howard) got the axe, the first for failing to produce a male heir, the second for adultery.<ref>Although the king was [[Double Standard|no stranger to adultery himself]]. It wasn't producing a male heir that was the problem; it was producing a ''legitimate'' male heir who would actually be able to become king. This led to some zany schemes like planning to marry his illegitimate son to his legitimate daughter.</ref> Two of the others (first wife Catherine of Aragon and fourth wife Anne of Cleves) were divorced, the third (Jane Seymour) [[Death by Irony|died of natural causes after producing a male heir]], and the last one (Catherine Parr) survived him. His reputation in this area is augmented by the fact that he had plenty of ''other'' people executed over the political and religious complications involved in his [[High Turnover Rate]] of wives.
* "Bluebeard" is the ''official'' FBI designation for this type of [[Serial Killer]].
* [[wikipedia:Drew Peterson|Drew Peterson]], a former cop from Illinois who has been married four times—to increasingly younger women, to the point that his
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