Murder Husbands
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Referring to the homicidal activities of Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham on the television series Hannibal. Coined by fans and subsequently written into the script of the episode "...And the Woman Clothed with the Sun" as a friendly in-joke.[1][2][3][4]
Proper noun
[edit]- (fandom slang) Synonym of Hannigram.
- 2018, Jaquelin Elliott, “This Is My Becoming: Transformation, Hybridity, and the Monstrous in NBC's Hannibal”, in University of Toronto Quarterly, volume 87, number 1, page 260:
- The coupling of Will and Hannibal, who are jointly referred to as ‘‘Hannigram’’ or ‘‘Murder Husbands’’ by fans, became one of the most popular pairings on online fandom epicentres such as Tumblr.
- 2020, EJ Nielsen, Kavita Mudan Finn, “Blood in the Moonlight: Hannibal as Queer Noir”, in Jessica Balanzategui, Naja Later, editor, Hannibal Lecter’s Forms, Formulations, and Transformations: Cannibalising Form and Style[1], unnumbered page:
- Hannibal, by contrast, is often rendered “attractive and sympathetic,” as Hannibal seduces the audience and Will Graham simultaneously; by the end of the show the viewer is in a ménage à trois with the murder husbands.
- 2024, Jamie MacGregor, “'This is all I ever wanted for You, Will. For both of us.' 'It's beautiful.': Hannibal Post-Canon Fics and Queer Futurity”, in Kaitlin Tonti, editor, Fix-It Fics: Challenging the Status Quo through Fan Fiction[2], page 111:
- Thus, fans can fully conceptualize the murder husbands' relationship in post-fall fix-it fics.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Murder Husbands.
References
[edit]- ^ EJ Nielsen & Lori Morimoto, "This Is My (Floral) Design: Flower Crowns, Fannibals, and Fan/Producer Permeability", in Sartorial Fandom: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity (eds. Elizabeth Affuso, Suzanne Scott), page 167
- ^ Lori Morimoto, "Hannibal: Adaptation and Authorship in the Age of Fan Production", in Becoming: Genre, Queerness, and Transformation in NBC’s Hannibal (eds. EJ Nielsen, Kavita Mudan Finn), page 275
- ^ Naja Later, "Cannibalizing Hannibal: The Horrific and Appetizing Rewriting of Hannibal Mythology", in Hannibal for Dinner: Essays on America's Favorite Cannibal on Television (eds. Kyle A. Moody, Nicholas A. Yanes), page 90
- ^ Jamie MacGregor, "'This is all I ever wanted for You, Will. For both of us.' 'It's beautiful.': Hannibal Post-Canon Fics and Queer Futurity", in Fix-It Fics: Challenging the Status Quo through Fan Fiction (ed. Kaitlin Tonti)