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Fatale may refer to:

  • Fatale (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
  • Fatale (Image Comics), a supernatural noir comic book created by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
  • Fatale (Broadway Comics), a 1996 comic book series
  • Damage (1992 film) (French title: Fatale), a 1992 film directed by Louis Malle
  • Fatale, a 2009 interactive vignette developed by Tale of Tales
  • Natasha Fatale, a fictional criminal
Fatale (comics)

Fatale is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character appears in usually those comics featuring the X-Men family of characters. She is an assassin who usually works for Dark Beast. Created by writer John Francis Moore and artist Jeff Matsuda, she first appeared in X-Factor vol. 1 #112 (July 1995), though in X-Men vol. 2 #49 it was revealed that Pamela Greenwood, a waitress who had appeared two years before in Uncanny X-Men #299 (and who was created by Scott Lobdell and Brandon Peterson), was in fact Fatale in disguise.

Fatale (Image Comics)

Fatale is a supernatural noir comic book created by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. It was published by Image Comics between January 2012 and July 2014. The series was initially announced as a 12-issue limited series, but it was later extended to 24 issues.

Usage examples of "fatale".

Whether one defines pulp fiction as stories originating in the erstwhile magazines printed on pulp paper, or a tradition of storytelling whose roots lie in hardboiled fiction populated by tough guys, cops, villains and femmes fatales of the parish, there is no denying that they are invariably stories where action and thrills are paramount and the reader is trapped in a whirlwind of adventure and suspense.

There is the femme fatale in every sense of the word, and there is the femme fatale who is not a femme fatale in every sense of the word.

These paintings were to become his most famous, perhaps because the brush strokes were emotional in a way his earlier paintings of her as a femme fatale were only physical, but they mark a change in his work that shows a glimmer of the great artist he could have been.

Men, the entire bloody species, preferred to play the innocent bystander entrapped by the femme fatale.

Elizabeth Short took up six whole pages, most of the ink portraying her as a slinky femme fatale in a tight black dress.

It was harder to be a femme fatale if you were built like an overripe pear-a size six on top and size fourteen on the bottom.

Perhaps we should think of it as the ultimate femme fatale: vengeful fury appointed by Rap-paccini to settle all his earthly accounts.

Perhaps we should think of it as the ultimate femme fatale: vengeful fury appointed by Rappaccini to settle all his earthly accounts.

Anna and Rani repaired to Molly's bedroom to effect the magical makeover so beloved in romances: rags to riches, pauper to princess, ranger to femme fatale.