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* WealthyEverAfter: The wife is Bluebeard's only heir.

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* WealthyEverAfter: The wife is Bluebeard's only heir.heir, so his discovery as a SerialKiller and subsequent execution leaves the wife very wealthy..

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* ''VideoGame/DarkRomance'': ''Curse of Bluebeard'' is based on the tale, where a young couple under threat of being separated by the titular villain have to uncover the truth behind Bluebeard's crimes and the circumstances behind his monstrous children.
* ''VideoGame/LivingLegends'': ''The Blue Chamber'', is based on the fairy tale. Ironically, it isn't Bluebeard that is the main antagonist - [[spoiler:but rather, it's his daughter]].



* A villain named Bluebeard appeared in the 1949 WesternAnimation/PorkyPig short "Bye Bye Bluebeard", where he was wolf-like and did, indeed, have a blue beard. (He was [[VileVillainSaccharineShow far more evil]] than most ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' villains, tying poor Porky up and building a guillotine to use on him. Fortunately for Porky, this version is a VillainousGlutton, and he's saved when a mouse tricks Bluebeard into eating bombs disguised as popovers.)

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* A villain named Bluebeard appeared in the 1949 WesternAnimation/PorkyPig short "Bye Bye Bluebeard", where he was wolf-like and did, indeed, have a blue beard. (He was [[VileVillainSaccharineShow far more evil]] eviler]] than most ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' villains, tying poor Porky up and building a guillotine to use on him. Fortunately for Porky, this version is a VillainousGlutton, and he's saved when a mouse tricks Bluebeard into eating bombs disguised as popovers.)
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* Hungarian opera ''Theatre/DukeBluebeardsCastle'') by Music/BelaBartok and its TV and cinema adaptations stray rather far from the original into symbolism bordering on MindScrew. Bluebeard shows his fourth wife the rooms of his castle, one by one, uncovering depths of his psyche. The doors may just as well be [[TeleportersAndTransporters portals]] to someplace else and from the last room emerge Bluebeard's three previous wives as living effigies who take the new one with them, completing his collection.

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* Hungarian opera ''Theatre/DukeBluebeardsCastle'') ''Theatre/DukeBluebeardsCastle'' by Music/BelaBartok and its TV and cinema adaptations stray rather far from the original into symbolism bordering on MindScrew. Bluebeard shows his fourth wife the rooms of his castle, one by one, uncovering depths of his psyche. The doors may just as well be [[TeleportersAndTransporters portals]] to someplace else and from the last room emerge Bluebeard's three previous wives as living effigies who take the new one with them, completing his collection.
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* Hungarian opera ''Blubeard's Castle'' (or ''Duke Blubeard's Castle'') by Music/BelaBartok and its TV and cinema adaptations stray rather far from the original into symbolism bordering MindScrew. Blubeard shows his fourth wife the rooms of his castle, one by one, uncovering depths of his psyche. The doors may just as well be [[TeleportersAndTransporters portals]] to someplace else and from the last room emerge three previous wives -- still alive and well -- who take the new one with them.

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* Hungarian opera ''Blubeard's Castle'' (or ''Duke Blubeard's Castle'') ''Theatre/DukeBluebeardsCastle'') by Music/BelaBartok and its TV and cinema adaptations stray rather far from the original into symbolism bordering on MindScrew. Blubeard Bluebeard shows his fourth wife the rooms of his castle, one by one, uncovering depths of his psyche. The doors may just as well be [[TeleportersAndTransporters portals]] to someplace else and from the last room emerge Bluebeard's three previous wives -- still alive and well -- as living effigies who take the new one with them.them, completing his collection.
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* ''VideoGame/BluebeardsCastle'' is a hidden object game based on the fairy tale, where the heroine saves her sister from becoming the next victim. Its sequel, ''Son of the Heartless'', follows the villain's son who seeks to end the curse his father's bargain brought on him.
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-->''"Be bold, be bold, but not too bold,''
-->''Lest your heart’s blood should run cold."''

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-->''"Be --->''"Be bold, be bold, but not too bold,''
-->''Lest
bold,\\
Lest
your heart’s blood should run cold."''
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* TheBluebeard: TropeNamer, about the man who is discovered to have killed his previous wives for money and stuffed their bodies in his secret room.

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* TheBluebeard: TropeNamer, {{Trope Namer|s}}, about the man who is discovered to have killed his previous wives for money and stuffed their bodies in his secret room.
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-->''For it is not so, and it was not so,''
-->''And God forbid that it should be so!''

This story has given name to a specific kind of SerialKiller, "TheBluebeard," who kills a succession of wives.

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-->''For it is not so, and it was not so,''
-->''And
so,\\
And
God forbid that it should be so!''

This story has [[TropeNamers given name name]] to a specific kind of SerialKiller, "TheBluebeard," who kills a succession of wives.
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* ''Film/Bluebeard1944'', a film noir based on the fairy tale featuring a murderous artist played by John Carradine.
* ''Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons'', a 1960 British thriller movie directed by W. Lee Wilder and starring George Sanders.

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* ''Film/Bluebeard1944'', a film noir based on the fairy tale featuring a murderous artist played by John Carradine.
Creator/JohnCarradine.
* ''Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons'', a 1960 British thriller movie directed by W. Lee Wilder and starring George Sanders.Creator/GeorgeSanders.
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** The moral of the story is that Bluebeard's wife should have been obedient to her husband and she would've been okay. Except that had she been obedient and not looked in the room she would never have discovered that her husband was a SerialKiller and probably would've been killed, so in this case the wife not being obedient to her husband was a very good thing.
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** Subverted in the "Mr. Fox" variation, where it makes sense that her relatives are there to save her. She waits to expose Mr. Fox until she, he, and the rest of her family and suitors are at her pre-wedding breakfast.

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** Subverted Averted in the "Mr. Fox" variation, where it makes sense that her relatives are there to save her. She waits to expose Mr. Fox until she, he, and the rest of her family and suitors are at her pre-wedding breakfast.
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* The TabletopGame ''Bluebeard's Bride'' casts the players in the roles of the Bride's [[SplitPersonality fragmented personalities]] as she explores the castle's rooms and decides whether what she finds in them (which is typically horrific) increases or decreases her suspicions about her husband, which influences her ultimate fate when she reaches the room he forbade her to enter.

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* The TabletopGame ''Bluebeard's Bride'' ''TabletopGame/BluebeardsBride'' casts the players in the roles of the Bride's [[SplitPersonality fragmented personalities]] as she explores the castle's rooms and decides whether what she finds in them (which is typically horrific) increases or decreases her suspicions about her husband, which influences her ultimate fate when she reaches the room he forbade her to enter.

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