Killer

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A killer is a person (such as a serial killer or assassin, or a murderer more generally), animal, plant, object, etc., that kills.

Killer may refer to:

Games and game characters

• Killer (pool), a multi-player pocket billiards (pool) game
• Killer (card game), a climbing card game related to tien len
• Assassin (game), or killer, a live-action role-playing game
• Killer, a variant of the game of darts
• Killer, a villain in the video game Shadow Hearts: From The New World

Films and television

• The Killer (1989 film), directed by John Woo and starring Chow Yun Fat
• The Killer (2006 film), a Bollywood film starring Emraan Hashmi and Irrfan Khan
• Killer: Dead or Alive, a 2006 thriller film
• Killer: A Journal of Murder, a 1996 film about serial killer Carl Panzram
• Killer (film), a 1994 film featuring Peter Boyle
• Killer (1991 film), a Telugu film starring Akkineni Nagarjuna
• The Killer (1972 film), a Hong Kong film produced by Shaw Brothers Studio
• "Killer" (CSI), an episode of the American television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Books, stories and plays

• Killer: A Journal of Murder (novel), a 1970 biographical novel upon which the 1996 film is based
• The Killer, English title of Tueur sans gages, a play by Eugène Ionesco
• "The Killer" (story), a short story by Stephen King
• The Killer (novel), a 1933 novel by Walter B. Gibson about the fictional character The Shadow
• "Killer", or "Kira", nickname of Light Yagami, the main character of the Japanese manga Death Note

Music

• Killer (Finnish band), an early 2000s Finnish pop band
• Killer (album), an album by Alice Cooper
• "Killer" (Kiss song), a song by Kiss
• "Killer" (Adamski song), a song by Adamski and Seal
• "Killer", a song by Van Der Graaf Generator from H to He, Who Am the Only One
• "Killer", a song by Boy Kill Boy from Civilian
• "Killer", a song by Pat Travers
• "Killer", a song by the Tiger Lillies
• Killer (Tech N9ne album), a 2008 studio album by Tech N9ne
• The Killer (Impious album), an album by Impious
• "The Killer", a nickname for singer/pianist Jerry Lee Lewis
• Killer (British band), a 1980s psychobilly band
• Killer (Swiss band), a 1980s heavy metal band

Other

• "Killer", postal jargon for a cancellation
• "Killer", a nickname for baseball player Harmon Killebrew
• "Killer", a nickname for ice-hockey player Doug Gilmour
• Killer (computer), or The Killer, was the name of an AT&T public-access UNIX machine involved in Operation Sundevil

See also

• Kiler, a 1997 Polish film
• Killers (disambiguation page)

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