# Killer

A killer is someone or something that kills, such as a murderer or a serial killer.
Killer may also refer to:

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Fictional characters

* Killer, the secondary antagonist of the 1989 animated film All Dogs Go to Heaven
* Killer (Home and Away), a character from Home and Away
* Killer Kane, the villain of the 1939 serial film Buck Rogers

### Films

* Killer! (1969 film), an alternative title for This Man Must Die
* Killer, a 1972 French crime drama directed by Denys de La Patellière
* Killer (1991 film), a Telugu film starring Akkineni Nagarjuna
* Killer (1994 film) (a.k.a. Bulletproof Heart), a film starring Anthony LaPaglia and Mimi Rogers, and featuring Peter Boyle
* Killer: A Journal of Murder (film), a 1996 film about serial killer Carl Panzram
* Killer (1998 film), a French/Kazakhstani crime drama

### Games

* Killer (game), a parlor game played with cards and candles
* Killer (pool), a multi-player pocket billiards (pool) game
* Killer, a climbing card game related to tiến lên
* Killer, a variant of the game of darts
* Assassin (game), or Killer, a live-action role-playing game
* Killer sudoku, or samunamupure, a variant of sudoku
* Killer: The Game of Assassination, a live action role-playing game set of rules first published by Steve Jackson Games in 1982

### Literature

* Killer, a 1952 novel by Hank Janson
* Killer, a 1962 novel by Wade Everett
* Killer: A Journal of Murder (novel), a 1970 biographical novel upon which the 1996 film is based
* Killer, a novelization of the 1983 TV serial by Glenn Chandler
* Killer, a 1985 novel by David Drake with Karl Edward Wagner
* Killer, a 1989 novel by James Pattinson
* Killer, a 2000 novel by Francine Pascal, the twelfth installment in the Fearless novel series
* Jimmy Coates: Killer, a 2005 novel by Joe Craig, the first installment in the Jimmy Coates series
* Killer (novel) a 2009 novel by Sara Shepard, the sixth installment of the Pretty Little Liars series
* Killer, a 2014 novel by Jonathan Kellerman, the 29th installment in the Alex Delaware series

### Music
#### Groups

* Killer (Finnish band), an early 2000s Finnish alternative and experimental rock band
* Killer (Swiss band), a hard rock band
* Killer (Belgian band), a heavy metal band

#### Albums

* Killer (Alice Cooper album), a 1971 rock album by Alice Cooper
* Killer (video), a music DVD by Die Ärzte released in 1999
* Killer (Tech N9ne album), 2008 rap album by Tech N9ne

#### Songs

* "Killer" (Kiss song), 1982
* "Killer" (Adamski song), 1990, featuring Seal as a vocalist
* "Killer" (Fazer song), 2012
* "Killer" (Eminem song), 2020
* "Killer", a song by Van Der Graaf Generator from H to He, Who Am the Only One, 1970
* "Killer", a song by Boy Kill Boy from Civilian, 2006
* "Killer", a song by The Hoosiers from The Trick to Life, 2007
* "Killer", a song by Dev from The Night The Sun Came Up, 2011
* "Killer", a song by Krokus from Painkiller, 1978
* "Killer", a song by Kali Uchis from Isolation, 2018
* "Killer", a song by The Ready Set from Feel Good Now, 2011
* “Killer/キラー”, a song by MORE MORE JUMP Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!, 2024

### Television

* "Killer" (CSI), an episode from the sixth season of the American television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2006)
* "Killer" (Taggart), the 1983 pilot episode and title of the later renamed Scottish detective TV series Taggart
* Killer (TV series), a 1984 British thriller series which aired on ITV

## People

* Killer (nickname), a list of people known as "Killer" or "The Killer"
* Killer Brooks (1946–2020), ring name of American professional wrestler Tim Brooks
* Killer Khan (born 1947), ring name of Japanese professional wrestler Masashi Ozawa
* Daniel Killer (born 1949), former Argentine footballer
* Tobias Killer (born 1993), German footballer
* Bob Konovsky (1934–1982), American National Football League player and professional wrestler known as "Killer Konovsky"
* Killer Kowalski (1926–2008), ring name of Polish-Canadian professional wrestler Władek Kowalski

## Science and technology

* Killer (computer), an AT&T public-access UNIX machine involved in Operation Sundevil
* Death receptor 5, a tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, member 10b, a human gene, alias KILLER
* Killer application or killer app, a computer program that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology
* Killer NIC, a network interface card manufactured by Bigfoot Networks
* Killer yeast, a yeast, such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is able to secrete one of a number of toxic proteins which are lethal to receptive cells

## Other uses

* Killer (philately), a term for a heavy stamp cancellation mark
* Killer, Germany, a village in the town of Burladingen, in the Killertal valley