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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.
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'''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#Playing darts|darts]]
* Killer, a villain in the video game ''[[Shadow Hearts: From The New World#Villains|Shadow Hearts: From The New World]]''
==Films and television==
* [[The Killer (1989 film)|''The Killer'' (1989 film)]], directed by John Woo and starring Chow Yun Fat
* [[The Killer (2006 film)|''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 (1998 film)|''Killer'' (1998 film)]], a French/Kazakhstani crime drama
* ''[[Killer!]]'' (video title: ''The Killer''), a [[American films of 1989|1989 American film]]
* [[Killer (1991 film)|''Killer'' (1991 film)]], a Telugu film starring [[Akkineni Nagarjuna]]
* [[Killer (1994 film)|''Killer'' (1994 film)]], a film featuring [[Peter Boyle]]
* [[The Killer (1972 film)|''The Killer'' (1972 film)]], a Hong Kong film produced by [[List of Shaw Brothers Films#1972|Shaw Brothers Studio]]
* [[The Killer (2007 film)|''The Killer'' (2007 film)]], a horror short starring [[Michael Learned#2000s|Michael Learned]]
* [[Killer (CSI)|"Killer" (CSI)]], an episode of the American television series ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''
==Books, stories and plays==
* [[Killer: A Journal of Murder (novel)|''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)|"The Killer" (story)]], a short story by [[Short fiction by Stephen King#1994|Stephen King]]
* [[The Killer (novel)|''The Killer'' (novel)]], a 1933 novel by Walter B. Gibson about the fictional character [[List of The Shadow stories#Pulp Magazine Novels|The Shadow]]
* [[The Killer (Perera novel)|''The Killer'' (Perera novel)]], a novel by [[Lishan Perera]]
* "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)|''Killer'' (album)]], an album by Alice Cooper
* [[Killer (Kiss song)|"Killer" (Kiss song)]], a song by Kiss
* [[Killer (Adamski song)|"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 (Boy Kill Boy album)|Civilian]]''
* "Killer", a song by The Hoosiers from ''[[The Trick to Life]]''
* "Killer", a song by [[Pat Travers]]
* "Killer", a song by the [[Tiger Lillies]]
* [[Killer (Tech N9ne album)|''Killer'' (Tech N9ne album)]], a 2008 studio album by Tech N9ne
* [[The Killer (Impious album)|''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 music|heavy metal]] band
==Other==
* [[Killer, Germany]], a village in the town of Burladingen, in the Killertal valley
* "Killer", postal jargon for a [[Cancellation (mail)|cancellation]]
* "Killer", a nickname for baseball player [[Harmon Killebrew]]
* "Killer", a nickname for musician [[Jerry Lee Lewis]]
* "Killer", a nickname for ice-hockey player [[Doug Gilmour]]
*[[Killer (computer)]], or The Killer, <!--(on the Internet, domain name killer.dallas.tx.us or attctc.dallas.tx.us) -->was the name of an AT&T public-access UNIX machine involved in [[Operation Sundevil]]<!-- It was operated by AT&T employee Charles Boykin. Killer was briefly taken offline and searched by company security during [[Operation Sundevil]], and was shut down without notice by AT&T on February 20, 1990, by which time the system had 1,500 users. A group of them went on to found [[Super Dimension Fortress]]. THIS MATERIAL BELONGS IN A STUB ARTICLE NOT A DAB PAGE. So, someone make the stub if you know something about this? Easily sourceable and clearly notable - Google "Operation Sundevil Killer".-->
* [[Killer NIC]], a network interface card manufactured by [[Bigfoot Networks]]
== See also ==
* {{Lookfrom|Killer}}
* ''[[Kiler]]'', a 1997 Polish film
* [[Killers (disambiguation)]]
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