Valkyrie (disambiguation)
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Valkyries (German: Walküre(n); Old Norse: Valkyrja) are minor female deities in Norse mythology that choose (kür) the most heroic of those who have died in battle and carry them off to Valhalla.
Valkyrie(s) may also refer to:
Creative works
- The Valkyrie, English title of Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre (1870)
- "Ride of the Valkyries" (Walkürenritt), the opening piece of Act III of Die Walküre
- "Valkyrie Missile", a song written by the American alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves
- Valkyrie no Bōken: Toki no Kagi Densetsu, a Famicom game (1986)
- Valkyrie no Densetsu, an arcade video game by Namco (1989) and sequel to the game above
- The Valkyries (novel), a novel by Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho (1992)
- Valkyrie Profile, a role-playing game series created by tri-Ace and published by Enix (Square Enix) (1999)
- Valkyrie of the Battlefield, a strategy role-playing game series created by SEGA (2008)
- UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, a Japanese anime television series (2002)
- The Valkyrie, an episode from the fifth season of the Highlander series, Originally aired on 01 February 1997
- Valkyrie (film), a 2008 thriller film by Bryan Singer; starring Tom Cruise
- A Graphical User Interface to the Valgrind programming tool.
Vehicles
- Valkyrie II (yacht) The 1893 British America's Cup challenger
- Valkyrie III (yacht) The 1895 British America's Cup challenger
- The XB-70 Valkyrie a prototype high-altitude bomber aircraft
- The Honda GL1500C Valkyrie, a motorcycle
- Project Valkyrie: a theoretical high-speed relativistic spacecraft.
- The Valkiri, a South African self-propelled multiple rocket launcher.
In fiction
- Valkyrie was a Colonial Battlestar in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica TV series.
- Valkyrie (Marvel Comics), a member of the Marvel Comics superhero group The Defenders (Avengers #83, 1970)
- The VF-1 Valkyrie is the first mass-produced variable fighter in the anime science fiction series Macross (1982).
- The Valkyrie Attack Ship is the class for several starships used by the Player in the Playstation game "Star Trek: Invasion"
- Valkyr, a drug in the Max Payne computer game series
- Valkyrie Airborne Assault Carrier: An armed VTOL transport used by the Imperial Navy in the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game. In the game background, the aircraft's role is the transportation of special forces infantry in much the same way as many helicopters are now around the world.
- "Valkyrie Cain" is the name Stephanie Edgely takes for herself in the Skulduggery Pleasant series.
- In Starcraft Brood War, Terran Valkyrie Missile Frigate shared the name also.
Other uses
- Operation Walküre, a German Army plan that was converted into a coup d'état in the July 20 Plot (1944)
- Valkyrie (magazine) a role playing game magazine.
- Valkyrie (band) A metal band from Virginia
- Valkaria, Florida whose name is derived from Valkyrie.