# Blade (disambiguation)

A blade is a sharp cutting part, for instance of a weapon or tool.
Blade or Blades may also refer to:

## Arts and entertainment
### Fictional characters

* Blade (character), a Marvel Comics character
** Blade (New Line franchise character)
** Blade (Marvel Cinematic Universe character)
* Blade, a playable character from the gacha game Honkai: Star Rail
* Blade (Masters of the Universe), in the Masters of the Universe franchise series
* Blade (Puppet Master), of the Puppet Master horror film franchise
* Blades (Transformers), several robot superhero characters in the Transformers robot superhero franchise
* Richard Blade (series), eponymous hero of an adult fantasy pulp novel series
* Kamen Rider Blade, the eponymous character of a Japanese tokusatsu series

### Film and television

* Blade (1973 film), a film featuring Morgan Freeman
* Blades (film), a 1989 US horror-comedy film
* The Blade (film), a 1995 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Tsui Hark
* Blade (franchise), three films and a television series based on the Marvel Comics character
** Blade (1998 film), the first film in the Blade franchise, which was released in 1998
*** Blade (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the first film in the Blade trilogy
** Blade II, the second film in the Blade franchise, which was released in 2002
** Blade: Trinity, the third and final film in the Blade franchise, which was released in 2004
** Blade: The Series, set after the events of the last film, which ran in 2006
* Blade (upcoming film), a reboot of the Blade franchise, set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
* "Blade" (The Gentle Touch), a 1980 television episode

### Video games

* Blade (2000 video game), for the Game Boy Color and PlayStation, based on the Marvel Comics Character’s first movie by New Line Cinema
* Blades, a fictional organization in The Elder Scrolls series of computer games
* The Elder Scrolls: Blades, a 2019 mobile game in the Elder Scrolls franchise
* Blades, powerful beings in Xenoblade Chronicles 2
* BLADE, a fictional military organization in Xenoblade Chronicles X
* Marvel's Blade, an upcoming video game based on the Marvel Comics character, developed by Arkane Lyon and published by Bethesda Softworks.

### Other arts and entertainment

* The Blades (band), an Irish band
* Blades (hip hop group), an Australian hip hop group from Newcastle, New South Wales
* Blade (artscene group), a group active during the 1990s
* Blades Club, M's private card club featured in several of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels
* Blade (musician), a UK rapper originally from Iran

## Computing and technology

* Airfoil, for example, the rotor blade on a helicopter or wind turbine
* Blade, a templating engine used in the Laravel PHP framework
* BLADE (software), Block All Drive-by Download Exploits, software developed at Georgia Tech and SRI International
* Blade server, a self-contained computer server, designed for high density
* Blade PC
* Blade battery, a long-shaped battery manufactured by BYD Company
* Breakthrough Laminar Aircraft Demonstrator in Europe (BLADE), a laminar flow experiment
* Turbine blade, a component of a gas turbine or steam turbine
* ZTE Blade, a cellphone manufactured by the ZTE Corporation

## Biology

* Blade (algae), another word for lamina, a leaf-like structure on seaweed
* Blade or lamina, the (usually) flattened part of a typical plant leaf
* Botanical term for the wider distal part of a petal, sepal or bract
* Scapula, a bone in the human body sometimes referred to as the shoulder blade
* Tongue blade, the part of the tongue just behind the tip

## People

* Blade (artist), gay erotic artist
* Richard Blade, radio, television, and film personality
* Blade (surname)
* Blades (surname)
* Blade, a ring name of Al Green (wrestler) (1955–2013), American professional wrestler

## Places

* Blades, Delaware, a town in Delaware, United States
* Blades, Saint Philip, Barbados, a village in Saint Philip, Barbados
* The Blade, Manchester, a residential skyscraper in Manchester, England
* The Blade, Reading, a high-rise building in Reading, England

## Publications

* The Blade (Toledo), a newspaper in Toledo, Ohio
* Washington Blade, a gay newspaper
* The New York Blade, a gay newspaper
* Monthly Comic Blade, a monthly manga anthology magazine
* Blade (magazine), a knife collecting magazine

## Sports
### Teams

* Chengdu Blades F.C., a Chinese football club
* Kansas City Blades, a defunct American ice hockey team
* Los Angeles Blades, an inline hockey team in California
* Saskatoon Blades, a Western Hockey League franchise
* Sheffield United F.C., an English football club nicknamed "The Blades"
* Sheffield Wednesday F.C., an English football club formerly nicknamed "The Blades"

### Equipment

* Inline skates, colloquially known as "blades" or "roller blades"
* Football boots with moulded studs, commonly known as "blades"
* A component of a spinnerbait fishing lure
* Blade, a part of an oar (sport rowing); also the whole oar
* Muscle-back iron or blade, a type of golf club, referring to the shape of an iron's clubhead
* A type of lower leg prosthesis used by amputee athletes in running events

### Mascots

* Blades the Bruin, the mascot of the Boston Bruins ice hockey team

## Other uses

* Blade (company), a crowdsourced short-distance aviation company
* Blade (geometry), a generalization of vectors in higher-dimensional vector spaces in geometric algebra
* Blade (studio), a Japanese animation studio
* FreeX Blade, a German paraglider design
* Toyota Blade
* Blade, an often curved metal plate on the front of a bulldozer
* Blade, a station ident for British television channel BBC Two from the 1991–2001 series
* The Blades (aerobatic team), a British aircraft display team
* Blades, a modish London tailoring establishment founded in 1962 by Rupert Lycett Green
* Bristol Laboratory for Advanced Dynamics Engineering
* HNLMS Z 5 (1915), a Dutch torpedo boat which was renamed Blade while serving in the British Royal Navy in World War II