Vulture (disambiguation)

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A vulture is a large scavenging bird of prey.

Vulture, Vultures, etc., may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Vulture (DC Comics), a fictional criminal organization, as well as five unrelated characters
- Vulture, a DC Comics character, member of the Terrible Trio
Vulture (Marvel Comics), several supervillain characters

Films

The Vulture (1937 film), a British comedy
The Vulture (1967 film), a British horror film
The Vulture (1981 film), an Israeli movie by Yaky Yosha
The Vulture (1982 film), a Hungarian crime film
The Vultures (1975 film), a Quebec film
The Vultures (1984 film), a French adventure film

Literature

"Vultures" (poem), by Chinua Achebe
"The Vulture" (short story), a short story by Franz Kafka
The Vulture, a 1970 book by Gil Scott-Heron

Groups and labels

The Vultures (band), 2010s alternative group
The Vultures, a 1970s R&B group featuring Joe Strummer

Albums

Vultures (AxeWound album), 2012
Vultures (EP), released in 2015 by Disciple
Vultures (Smile Empty Soul album), 2006
Vultures, a 2013 album by Dozer

Songs

"Vulture", a 1988 song by James from Strip-mine
"Vulture", a 2009 song by Patrick Wolf from The Bachelor
"Vultures", a 2007 song by Arch Enemy from Rise of the Tyrant
"Vultures", a 2009 song by Insane Clown Posse from Bang! Pow! Boom!
"Vultures", a 2006 song by John Mayer from Continuum
"Vultures", a 2000 song by The Offspring from Conspiracy of One
"The Vulture (Acts I & II)", a 2009 song by Gallows from Grey Britain
"The Vulture", a 2002 song by Clinic from Walking with Thee
"The Vulture", a 2009 song by Pendulum from Immersion
"The Vulture", a 2014 album by King Raam

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Vulture (talk show), a 2005 Australian arts talk show
Vulture.com, a website focusing on pop culture run by New York magazine
Vulture, a version of the computer game Falcon's Eye
"The Vulture" (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), a television episode

Finance

Vulture capitalist, an investor that acquires distressed firms in the hopes of making them more profitable so as to ultimately sell them for a profit
Vulture fund, a hedge fund, private equity fund, or distressed debt fund that invests in debt considered to be very weak or in default, known as distressed securities

Places

In the United States

Vulture Mountains, Arizona
- Vulture Mine, Arizona, a mine and a community
Vulture Peak (Montana), Glacier National Park, Montana
- Vulture Glacier (Montana), on the southern flanks of the mountain

Elsewhere

Vulture (region), Italy
- Monte Vulture, an extinct volcano and the namesake of the region
Vulture Glacier (Alberta), Banff National Park, Canada
Vulture Peak, Rajgir, Bihar, India, associated with the Buddha
Vulture Street, Brisbane, a street in the capital city of Queensland, Australia

Sports

Vulture, a term in baseball for some relief pitcher
Phil Regan (baseball) (born 1937), American Major League Baseball pitcher nicknamed "The Vulture"
Atlanta Vultures, a short-lived American Indoor Football team

Transport

Air

Vulture (South Africa UAV), a South African unmanned aerial vehicle
DARPA Vulture, a future Boeing design for a long-endurance, high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle
Rolls-Royce Vulture, an aero engine developed before the Second World War
Vickers Vulture, a version of the Vickers Viking amphibious aircraft
Vulture 1, the record-setting Paper Aircraft Released Into Space
Vulture II, or Boeing SolarEagle, a proposed unmanned spy plane

Marine

HMS Vulture, various British Royal Navy ships and one Naval Air Station
Vulture (ship), various other ships

Other uses

Vulture (hieroglyph), Ancient Egyptian letter/sign
Operation Vulture, a proposed 1954 American operation to rescue French forces besieged in Dien Bien Phu, Indochina

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