Vulture (disambiguation)

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 science fiction 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

Music

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