User blog comment:Tali's no.1 fan/Favourite Weapons of Mass Effect 2!/@comment-69.144.238.157-20110514185330/@comment-743796-20110519162953

Imagine if the Widow was also in black.... instrument of death, so the black represents instant kill... combined with the red that's already on there, you might as well call it the M-98 Black Widow rifle, after the most venomous spider at least in North America, if not the whole world.