femme fatales
Dangerous alluring women
Femme fatales is the plural of femme fatale, a seductive woman who leads men into dangerous or compromising situations.
The term comes from French, meaning "deadly woman." The archetype appears throughout literature and film noir—mysterious, alluring, and ultimately destructive: The detective knew better than to trust femme fatales, but she walked in anyway.
- vampsSeducers or improvises
- sirensEmergency vehicle noisemakers
- enchantressWoman who uses sorcery
- noirHard-boiled film genre
- seductressWoman who entices romantically
black widow · succubi · charmer · honeytraps · double agent · moral ambiguity · noir fiction · temptress · allure · double-cross · forbidden love · villainesses · psychological manipulation · hardboiled fiction · stilettos · cigarette · vixen · smoky
- character typesprotagonist, hero, antagonist, villain, heroes
- women in literaturefemale protagonists, female authors, women writers, feminist literature, female voices
- cinemafilm, films, film studios, movies, movie
- espionagespy, spies, double agent, double agents, spying
- showstoppersshowstopper, showstoppers, knockout, knockouts, stunner
- cyberpunkcyberspace, chrome, cyberware, implant, augmentation
femme fatalesdamsels in distress
Women requiring salvation
ingénues · shrinking violets · wallflowers · girl next door · naïfs