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* An italian version called "Il Naso D'argento" (The Silver Nose) appears. Here the "stranger" has a silver nose (?) and is actually the Devil, and the Forbidden Room is Hell, where he threw the first two disobedient wives. Her little sister, however, manage to save them.

* The Sultan in the framing device of the ''ArabianNights'' stories is this in the extreme. He kills off all his wives after one night to prevent their becoming unfaithful. The stories are told by his latest wife, Scheherezade, [[{{ScheherezadeGambit}} who uses a series of]] {{Cliffhanger}}s to keep him interested enough to delay her execution.

** The 'silver nose' was typically a prosthetic nose used by men who suffered from severe syphilis, which could cause the nose to fall off. It would have been an early warning that the stranger was not very trustworthy. See [[JohnnyDepp]] in The Libertine for an example.

* An italian version called "Il Naso D'argento" (The Silver Nose) appears. Here the "stranger" has a silver nose (?) and is actually the Devil, and the Forbidden Room is Hell, where he throw the first two disobedient wives. Her little sister, however, manage to save them.

* The bad (possibly SoBadItsHorrible) Richard Burton film ''Bluebeard'' (1972) ups the ante by making Bluebeard a NoSwastikas NaziNobleman.

* General Tarquin from ''TheOrderOfTheStick'' has had ''nine'' wives: while we know that he simply divorced the first one ([[spoiler: Elan and Nale's mother]]), the ninth recently died 'of mysterious circumstances'. It's recently been made clear that [[spoiler: at least some of his former wives were coerced into marriage via ColdBloodedTorture in the first place.]]

* There's a short story called "Captain Murderer", in which the titular character keeps marrying women and, a month after the wedding, asks them to make him a pie...and when they're done making the pastry, he kills them and [[ImAHumanitarian uses their flesh as the pie filling.]] He gets done in when a girl whose sister was killed by him catches on to the plot, marries him, and, just before he kills her, [[TakingYouWithMe poisons herself.]] He eats her and dies from the poison.

* Nikolai Belinski, the Russian soldier in ''NaziZombies'' has murdered at least five of his wives. Some of his weapon pickup quotes have him remarking on how it's the same one he shot one of them with.

* "Bluebeard" is the ''official'' FBI designation for this type of killer.

* General Tarquin from ''TheOrderOfTheStick'' has had ''nine'' wives: while we know that he simply divorced the first one ([[spoiler: Elan and Nale's mother]]), the ninth recently died 'of mysterious circumstances'.
** Recently it's been made clear that [[spoiler: at least some of his former wives he coerced into marriage in the first place.]]

* In ''Code Monkeys'', GameaVision head honcho Larrity has had seven wives, all of which have died under mysterious circumstances. Added to the creepiness factor is that he has several of them stuffed and on display in either his office or his vault.

* Joanna Newsom's "Go Long" is a version of Bluebeard.

* The title character of the CharlieChaplin film ''Monsieur Verdoux''.

* Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle is a Freudian re-examination of the story. His castle is his subconscious, and Judith (wife #4) is casting light on his past by opening up every door with him, hand in hand. [[DownerEnding It doesn't end well...]]

* General Tarquin from TheOrderOfTheStick has had ''nine'' wives: while we know that he simply divorced the first one ([[spoiler: Elan and Nale's mother]]), the ninth recently died 'of mysterious circumstances'.

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*The entire point of Bartok's one-act Opera, "Bluebeard's Castle."

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