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2	[[caption-width-right:268:One of the most direct names a FortuneTeller can possibly come up with.]]
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4	-> ''You shall know me as Madame Fate. I have foreseen your arrival within the all-seeing ball...''
5	-->-- '''Madame Fate''', ''VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles''
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7	For some obscure reasons, ''many'' [[FortuneTeller Fortune Tellers]] and assorted psychics are referred as "Madame [surname]" (sometimes without the "e"). The surname can be anything from the clairvoyant's first name, last name, or basically everything else. It seems to quite effectively add a mystique and foreign flair to any kind of name.
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9	These are not to be confused with ''other'' madams, as the latters are women who run much... [[TheOldestProfession bawdier places]]. "Madame" is also a French honorary term to refer to women, similarly to the English "Mrs.". It might be encountered in English used this way, but it is not that common.
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12	!!Examples:
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17	* '''Madame Shyarley''', in ''Manga/OnePiece''. She is a [[NinjaPirateRobotZombie fortune-teller mako shark mermaid cafe owner]] who possesses the ability to see into the future via a crystal ball.
18	* '''Madame Gensokyo''', in one chapter of ''Manga/TouhouIbarakasenWildAndHornedHermit''. She is an alias of Reimu, who used her ability to communicate with gods to ditch her shrine maiden duties and become a fortune-teller.
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22	* '''Madame Xanadu''', from the [[ComicBook/MadameXanadu eponymous comic book series]], one of Franchise/TheDCU's more prominent mystics. She has PsychicPowers, often uses tarot cards, and is associated with the occult.
23	* '''Madame Yamilah''', from ''[[Franchise/{{Tintin}} Tintin: The Seven Crystal Balls]]''. She is a minor Middle-Eastern or possibly Indian character who appears in the cabaret sequence and correctly predicts that Mrs. Claremont's husband got cursed with one of the crystal balls. The horror of her vision [[FaintingSeer causes her to faint]].
24	* '''Madame Margay''', from the story "Fortunes" in the anthology comic ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite''. She is a PhonyPsychic who uses all the props -- head scarf, tarot cards, crystal ball, etc.
25	* '''Madame Rotunda''', in the short lived comic ''Sultry Teenage Super Foxes''. She gets possessed by some kind of space ghost vampire.
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29	* '''Madame Zoodoo''', in ''ComicStrip/{{Shoe}}'', complete with head scarf, gaudy jewelry, gazing ball and dimly lit tent. Although she advertises herself as a mystic, she's much more of a DeadpanSnarker.
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33	* '''Madame Suzette''', from ''Film/NowYouSeeIt2005'', is the psychic Max invites to judge whether or not Danny has real powers. She is not only named the part- she's also covered in scarves and beads, and seems to know a lot about supernatural abilities.
34	* '''Madame Morovia''', the gypsy fortune teller in ''Film/Transylvania65000'' who keeps delivering Jack and Gil totally unhelpful messages about subjects they're not interested in before [[{{Sleepyhead}} falling asleep]].
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38	* '''Madame Zuleika''', in Creator/AgathaChristie's ''Literature/DeadMansFolly'' featuring Literature/HerculePoirot. She is in fact Sally Legge. However, she's playing in a village fete, and Poirot already knows who she is.
39	* '''Madame Sosostris''', famous clairvoyante in ''Literature/TheWasteLand'', tells fortunes with a Tarot pack.
40	* '''Madame Zorza''' is a [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Gangrel]] seeress in ''Literature/MasqueradeOfTheRedDeath''. She gives Alicia some cryptic but accurate hints about the Red Death's objective.
41	* '''Madame Rappourt''' is a spirit medium who appears in the first two [[Literature/TheGreatMerlini Great Merlini]] novels. [[spoiler:She's a fake.]]
42	* The phony spirit medium in "Literature/AngelDownSussex" goes by the name of '''Mademoiselle Astarte'''.
43	* In ''Literature/NightmareAlley'', the [[CrappyCarnival travelling carnival]]'s resident FortuneTeller Zeena styles herself as '''Madame Zeena'''.
44	* The ''{{Literature/Dinotopia}}'' novel ''Sky Dance'' has a fortune teller ''Psittacosaurus'' named Maggie who goes by the name '''Madame Mystery''' during her circus act.
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48	* '''Madame Lulu''', the fortune teller at the [[Recap/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEventsS02E09TheCarnivorousCarnivalPart1 Caligari]] [[Recap/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEventsS02E10TheCarnivorousCarnivalPart2 Carnival]] in ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''.
49	* ''Series/ThatsSoRaven:'' One episode, ''Psychics Wanted,'' has Raven join a PhonyPsychic show called Psychic Sidekicks. The main fortune teller of the show goes by '''Madame Cassandra''', and when Raven gets the job, she goes by '''Madame Tallulah.'''
50	* ''{{Series/Dragnet}}'' had a phony fortune teller who was running scams as '''Madame Zora''' and '''Madame Zelda''' among other names.
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53	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
54	* '''Madame Zostra''', in ''TabletopGame/BetrayalAtHouseOnTheHill''. A gypsy fortune teller, she is one of the playable characters.
55	* '''Madam Rose''', in some versions of ''TabletopGame/{{Cluedo}}''. She is a fraudulent medium represented by the color pink. A later release renamed her "'''Madame Mystique'''" and changed her color to orange.
56	* '''Madam Wang''', in ''TabletopGame/{{Mysterium}}''. A Chinese clairvoyant woman using a mysterious book to read fortunes, she is one of the mediums investigating the murder of the ghost haunting Warwick Manor.
57	* '''Madam Eva''' in ''TabletopGame/CurseOfStrahd'' is the leader of the Vistani, a group of gypsy-alike travelers. She's a powerful clairvoyant whose main narrative purpose is to use those powers to tell the party where to find the PlotCoupons.
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61	* In ''Theatre/BostonMarriage'', Anna's plan to resolve her and Claire's difficulty involves posing as a psychic medium named Madame de Something-or-other. (She presumably gets an actual surname by the time the plan is put into action, but it's not revealed to the audience.)
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65	* '''Madame Leota''', from ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion''. Despite falling into many of the trappings of the cliche Gypsy fortune teller, she is a psychic of the medium sort, who never foretells anything. Early production material also featured a mortal psychic called Madame Z, but she was scrapped in favour of Leota early on.
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69	* '''Madame Toussaud''', in ''Videogame/{{Arcanum}}''. She is a fortune teller who will place a GypsyCurse on you if you hurt her, but reward you with either information or a blessing if you complete a quest in her favor.
70	* '''Madame Grunty''', in ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie''. In the [[AmusementParkOfDoom Witchyworld]] level, this FortuneTeller alternates between giving Banjo and Kazooie free items and beatings. It is highly possible that Madame Grunty is an alter-ego of [[BigBad Grunthilda the Witch]], as they share similar voices, avatars and names.
71	* '''Madam Irma''', in ''VideoGame/{{Darkstone}}''. She is implied to be a medium since she has a crystal ball on her table, but she never actually tells any fortunes as far as the player character can see.
72	* '''Madame Shoshana''', in ''VideoGame/FallenLondon''. London's most greatest chiropteromancer, she reads fortunes in Mrs. Plenty's Carnival. She also writes prediction in the Gazette.
73	* '''Madame Mushka''' from ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder'' is a gypsy fortune teller who [[SmallRoleBigImpact only appears briefly, but is important to completing the game]] as she reveals to Graham what [[BigBad Mordack]] is plotting before giving him a magic charm to help him on his quest. Of course, the player needs to find a way to pay for the meeting, since as the game repeatedly exposits, [[MemeticMutation "It costs one gold coin to see Madame Mushka."]]
74	* '''Madame Fanadi''', in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''. She runs a fortune telling parlor in Hyrule Castle Town, and gives hints to Link about his next endeavors by asking her about his career and the location of Pieces of Hearts when asking her about love. She uses a CrystalBall.
75	* ''VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles'' series:
76	** '''Madam Fleiss''', in ''Prime Suspects''. She is a fraudulent clairvoyant who is among the suspects of the Queen's Hope Diamond heist. Her parlor is among the locations the Master Detective can search for hints throughout the game, and it is as cliché as one could expect.
77	** '''Madam Zoltak''', a very minor animatronic that appears on a door puzzle in ''Ravenhearst''.
78	** '''Madame Fate''' is one of the series' most important characters. She made her debut in ''Madame Fate'', where she foresees her own demise with her CrystalBall and asks the Master Detective to find the culprit before the crime occurs. She has been referenced in almost every subsequent game, and very prominently in ''Fate's Carnival''.
79	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
80	** '''Madame Clairvoya''', in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion1''. She is a ghost medium who can examine people's future by analyzing their belongings with her CrystalBall. She is notably [[TokenHeroicOrc the only friendly ghost]] featured in the game.
81	** '''Madame Bwahstrella''', in ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsKingdomBattle''. She is an animatronic Rabbid fortune teller that is encountered in the Spooky Trails. According to her, Mario and his party all are doomed, but they don't pay much attention to her. She returns in ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsSparksOfHope''.
82	* '''Madame Fawn''', in ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}''. She lives in Agata Forest and can predict Amaterasu's future tasks and give her hints about what to do next.
83	* '''Madame Kassandra''', the mermaid fortune teller from ''VideoGame/SpongeBobSquarepantsTheCosmicShake'' who guides [=SpongeBob=] though the game. [[spoiler:However, she turns out to be the BigBad, plotting to overthrown King Neptune by having [=SpongeBob=] collect Cosmic Jelly for her.]]
84	* '''Madame Sosostris''' of ''Literature/TheWasteLand'' makes an appearance in ''VideoGame/{{Curses}}''.
85	* '''Madame Xima''', who is a card-using fortuneteller in ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' and not amused when Guybrush mispronounces her name as "X-ima" ("Eczema"). Guybrush can have his future told as a hint towards the rest of the game and later has to steal five of Xima's death cards.
86	* '''Madame Lazul''', a troll fortune teller in ''VideoGame/{{Hearthstone}}'' who joins a team of four other villains to cause havoc.
87	* When Saki, in ''[[VideoGame/PurpleMoon Rockett's Tricky Decision]]'', runs a fortune-telling booth at her sister's Halloween party, she goes by the pseudonym '''Madame Murasaki'''. This is both a pun on her name and the name of the game studio (''Purple'' Moon).
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91	* [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fortune This]] panel from ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' has '''Madame Robelda''', who looks like an average fortune teller in every way... but isn't: she is instead a ''signal'' teller, analyzing behaviors to discover their underlying motivations.
92	* '''Madame Olga''', the fortuneteller in Master Payne's Circus of Adventure in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''. She's killed by a clank in her first appearance, and Agatha takes her identity while traveling with the circus as a cover.
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96	* '''Madam Ouspenskya''', from the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "The Curse of the Carnival", is a gypsy fortune teller that cursed Garfield into becoming a werewolf-like creature when the moon is full.
97	* '''Madame Pinkie Pie''', [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicPinkiePie Pinkie Pie's]] FortuneTeller alias seen in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode ''It's About Time''.
98	* '''Madame Web''', encountered by Peter Parker in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries''.
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101	[[folder:Real Life]]
102	* '''Madame Soleil''', a French astrologer who appeared on radio shows and TV for several decades. Possibly the TropeCodifier in the country.
103	* Similarly, '''Madame Irma''' is a French expression for a stereotypical fortune teller.
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