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* Scarlett O'Hara buries two husbands and a child in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' and wears mourning on all three occasions.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'':

* Played for laughs in ''{{VideoGame/Psychonauts}}''- if Raz holds a bouquet of flowers while in the MilkmanConspiracy level and uses Clairvoyance on a G-Man, they'll see him as a weeping woman wearing a black dress, hat, and veil. They'll also see fellow G-Men holding flowers like this.

** For Victorian men, a black hatband was usually sufficient

* In ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', [[NonPlayerCharacter Mrs. Crumplebottom]] wears this, complete with pillbox hat. She's also quite bitter, and seems to be particularly upset by Sims interacting with each other romantically, as if she were jealous.

** Dr. Hutchison's mother, the Widow Hutchinson is always seen wearing a black dress and veil. [[spoiler: Subverted when it's revealed that her husband isn't actually dead.]]

** The trope is conspicuously averted during the first season when Cersei Lannister continues to wear her usual bright colors despite the death of her husband, King Robert Baratheon, probably because she didn't actually love him and covertly arranged for the HuntingAccident that killed him.

* Ellaria Sand of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' switches to all-black outfits and cuts her hair short after her lover Oberyn Martell is killed. Tehcnically they were never married, due to Ellaria being a bastard while Oberyn is a high prince, but they clearly considered themselves married in all but name. The trope is conspicuously averted during the first season when Cersei Lannister continues to wear her usual bright colors despite the death of her husband, King Robert Baratheon, probably because she didn't actually love him and covertly arranged for the HuntingAccident that killed him.

* Subverted in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''. While Franchise/JamesBond is watching the funeral of [[spoiler:SPECTRE agent Colonel Jacques Bouvar]], he sees that [[spoiler:Bouvar's]] widow is wearing a black dress, hat and veil. Then he realizes that [[spoiler:the widow isn't a woman at all...but a man, baby!]]

* In ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'', Mute describes doing this when a dear friend of hers passed away.

** Belle is described as wearing a mourning dress when she breaks off her engagement to young Scrooge. Who she's in mourning for is never specified (in an earlier draft, and in [[WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol2009 the 2009 film]]), she describes herself as an orphan, so presumably it's for one or both of her parents), but it suits her romantic heartbreak as well.

* ''Series/Batwoman2019''. After her sister Kate Kane is killed, supervillain Alice changes her white

* Servalan, the BigBad of ''Series/BlakesSeven'', was a qoman in white, but changes to black after "Children of Auron" where she tries to have clone children created, only to lose them during the events of that episode.

* In ''Film/Cinderella2015'', after the death of Ella's mother, little Ella and her father are shown wearing black as they walk across the field just before the AgeCut that brings us to the film's main timeline. After her father's death, a deleted scene shows the stepmother and stepsisters wearing lavish black gowns, but the [[CinderellaCircumstances increasingly abused]] Ella is only given a black ribbon for her hair.

* Ellaria Sand of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' switches to all-black outfits and cuts her hair short after her lover Oberyn Martell is killed. Tehcnically they were never married, due to Ellaria being a bastard while Oberyn is a high prince, but they clearly considered themselves married in all but name. The trope is conspicuously averted during the first season when Cersei Lannister continues to wear her usual bright colours despite the death of her husband, King Robert Baratheon, probably because she didn't actually love him and covertly arranged for the HuntingAccident that killed him.

* In ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', a grieving mother angrily confronts an official because he didn't close the beach, and now her son is dead. She is wearing a black hat with a veil.

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* In ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'', *Mute describes doing this when a dear friend of hers passed away.

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In other cultures, the traditional color of mourning may be other than black, in which case see EtherealWhiteDress.

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* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' Her Undying Majesty Queen Albia of England shifts her outfit to a long sleeved modest dress and a black veiled hat upon hearing that her sister queen Luheia, the immortal god queen of Skifander, has [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180228 long since fallen in battle.]]

* Victorian tradition gives copious details for how a widow is expected to dress after her husband's death, and for how long. To cease wearing mourning too soon was a sign of promiscuity. And it's not just one set of clothes either, middle-class etiquette dictate a set of 3 to 7 dresses, from full black crepe to shades gray to finally blue (just because her husband is dead does not excuse his wife from flaunting his wealth). It got to the point where the largest clothing store in London was solely devoted to selling mourning clothes. If you were poor, you could make do with dying your regular clothes black (that's how dyers in Victorian England made most of their money) or you could borrow mourning weeds from family (it's the Victorian Era, someone's always dying somewhere).

* Victorian tradition gives copious details for how a widow is expected to dress after her husband's death, and for how long. To cease wearing mourning too soon was a sign of promiscuity. And it's not just one set of clothes either, middle-class etiquette dictate a set of 3 to 7 dresses, from full black crepe to shades gray to finally blue (just because her husband is dead does not excuse his wife from flaunting his wealth). It got to the point where the largest clothing store in London wass solely devoted to selling mourning clothes. If you were poor, you could make do with dying your regular clothes black (that's how dyers in Victorian England made most of their money) or you could borrow mourning weeds from family (it's the Victorian Era, someone's always dying somewhere).

* Victorian tradition gives copious details for how a widow is expected to dress after her husband's death, and for how long. To cease wearing mourning too soon was a sign of promiscuity. And it's not just one set of clothes either, middle-class etiquette dictate a set of 3 to 7 dresses, from full black crepe to shades gray to finally blue (just because her husband is dead does not excuse his wife from flaunting his wealth). It got to the point where the largest clothing store in London is solely devoted to selling mourning clothes. If your are poor, you can make do with dying your regular clothes black (that's how dyers in Victorian England made most of their money) or you can borrow mourning weeds from family (it's the Victorian Era, someone's always dying somewhere).
** For Victorian men, a black hatband is usually sufficient
** Queen Victoria herself wore mourning [[UpToEleven for the rest of her life]] after the death of her husband Prince Albert.
*** That's part of the reason it went out of fashion in the 20th century.

* The rpg [[UnhallowedMetropolis Unhallowed Metropolis]] features the Mourner character class. These members of the Mourner's Guild, usually women, are hired to watch over the bodies of the deceased until the funeral. During this time they must be ready to instantly decapitate the corpse should it [[TheUndead re-animate,]] a common occurrence in the [[CrapsackWorld Neo-Victorian setting]] of the game. As part of their profession, female mourners are expected to dress in modified mourning wear at all times.

* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', the king and queen leave on a journey. They perish when their ship capsizes during a storm, and Anna is shown wearing a black dress afterwards. Elsa is not, but she's so depressed she can't control her powers, so she can't even leave her room.

-->--'''Enoch''' about '''Miss Peregrine''' and '''Victor''', ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren''