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* '''Downplayed''': Bob plans to do this, but is only on his second wife when he's caught.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
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Bob plans to do this, but is only on his second wife when he's caught.caught.
** Bob doesn't actually marry or even date his victims, he just uses marriage as a theme for his crimes.
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** GenderInverted: BlackWidow
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** All the [[AssholeVictim women]] have been [[DomesticAbuse abusing Bob]]. Given the [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale authorities already passed it off]], Bob decided to [[KickTheSonOfABitch take it into his own hands]].

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** All the [[AssholeVictim women]] have been [[DomesticAbuse abusing Bob]]. Given the [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale authorities already passed it off]], Bob decided to [[KickTheSonOfABitch [[PayEvilUntoEvil take it into his own hands]].

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* '''Exploited''': What better way to get rid of a woman you hate than setting her up on a date with Bob?

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* '''Exploited''': '''Exploited''':
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What better way to get rid of a woman you hate than setting her up on a date with Bob?Bob?
** Alice is a BlackWidow who decides to go after a "challenging target" after killing innocent men becomes to boring for her.
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'''Basic Trope''': A man who married and murdered many women.

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'''Basic Trope''': A man who married and murdered many women.women for whichever reason.



* '''Lampshaded''': "Bob kept killing his wives! It's almost like that fairytale, Bluebeard!"

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* '''Lampshaded''': "Bob kept killing his wives! It's almost like that fairytale, Bluebeard!""You sure have been married a lot of times Bob." "What can I say? I just never find the right one..."



* '''Conversed''': ???

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* '''Conversed''': ???"How come these women don't get suspicious around a man who's been a widower so many times?"
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** Bob who [[BornAgainImmortality comes back after he dies]] has [[HeroicSacrifice given his life for his wives several times]]. Sadly they usually die of old age before he is reborn.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob married a wife, and then kills her. He then did the same with 49 other women.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob married a wife, and then kills her. He then did the same had killed more than 50 wives, with 49 other women.his latest wife being none the wiser.
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* '''Double Subverted''': Until several years later. [[NotMeThisTime Or someone else did.]]

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* '''Double Subverted''': Until several years later. [[NotMeThisTime Or someone else did.killed her.]]
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* '''Double Subverted''': Until several years later.

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* '''Double Subverted''': Until several years later. [[NotMeThisTime Or someone else did.]]

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* '''Justified''': All the [[AssholeVictim women]] have been [[DomesticAbuse abusing Bob]]. Given the [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale authorities already passed it off]], Bob decided to [[KickTheSonOfABitch take it into his own hands]].

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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All the [[AssholeVictim women]] have been [[DomesticAbuse abusing Bob]]. Given the [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale authorities already passed it off]], Bob decided to [[KickTheSonOfABitch take it into his own hands]].hands]].
** Bob is highly functioning psychopath who simply kills his wives once they no longer entertain him.
** Bob is [[ILoveTheDead necrophiliac]], hence the multiple marriages.

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** BlackWidow



* '''Gender Inverted''': BlackWidow



* '''Lampshaded''': ???

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* '''Lampshaded''': ???"Bob kept killing his wives! It's almost like that fairytale, Bluebeard!"

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Back to TheBluebeard.

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Back to TheBluebeard.TheBluebeard



%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
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* '''Discussed''': ???

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* '''Discussed''': ???Bob and Alice get married, and Bob tells Alice that she isn't to go into one room of his house. When Alice tells her friend Carol, Carol suggests that Bob might be hiding his dead ex-wives in the room like Bluebeard.
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** Bob's married several women, all of whom tried to kill him.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???Bob's a repeat widower, but evidence is conflicted on whether he murdered them, the deaths were unrelated to Bob, or they all simply left and were presumed dead.
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* '''Justified''': All the [[AssholeVictim women]] have been [[DomesticAbuse abusing Bob]]. Given the [[AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale authorities already passed it off]], Bob decided to [[KickTheSonOfABitch take it into his own hands]].

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* '''Justified''': All the [[AssholeVictim women]] have been [[DomesticAbuse abusing Bob]]. Given the [[AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale authorities already passed it off]], Bob decided to [[KickTheSonOfABitch take it into his own hands]].

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* '''Inverted''': BlackWidow

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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BlackWidow

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** Bob resurrects dead women and then marries them.



* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???What better way to get rid of a woman you hate than setting her up on a date with Bob?
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* '''Enforced''': It's a story about a real life wife murde3rer who actually did this.

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* '''Enforced''': It's a story about a real life wife murde3rer murderer who actually did this.



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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Bob plans to do this, but is only on his second wife when he's caught.



* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???

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* '''Averted''': ???
Even though Bob hates his wives (and does not learn from experience), he legally divorces them instead of murdering them.
* '''Enforced''': ???It's a story about a real life wife murde3rer who actually did this.



* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Defied''': ???Bob's prospective second wife gets suspicious about her predecessor's death and informs the police.
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* '''Justified''': All the [[AssholeVictim woman]] have been [[DomesticAbuse abusing Bob]]. Given the [[AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale authorities already passed it off]], Bob decided to [[KickTheSonOfTheBitch take it into his own hand]].

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* '''Justified''': All the [[AssholeVictim woman]] women]] have been [[DomesticAbuse abusing Bob]]. Given the [[AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale authorities already passed it off]], Bob decided to [[KickTheSonOfTheBitch [[KickTheSonOfABitch take it into his own hand]].hands]].
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* '''Parodied''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???Bob shamelessly shows people his framed wives collection.
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'''Basic Trope''': A man who married and murdered many women.
* '''Straight''': Bob married a wife, and then kills her. He then did the same with 4 other women.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob married a wife, and then kills her. He then did the same with 49 other women.
* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''': All the [[AssholeVictim woman]] have been [[DomesticAbuse abusing Bob]]. Given the [[AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale authorities already passed it off]], Bob decided to [[KickTheSonOfTheBitch take it into his own hand]].
* '''Inverted''': BlackWidow
* '''Subverted''': Bob eventually did not kill the latest woman he married.
* '''Double Subverted''': Until several years later.
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* '''Averted''': ???
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* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

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