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 (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Blade (Puppet Master), in the Puppet Master horror film franchise
• Blades (Transformers), several robot superhero characters in the Transformers robot superhero franchise
• Blade (Masters of the Universe), in the Masters of the Universe franchise series

Film and television

• Blade (franchise), three films and a television series based on the Marvel Comics character
  • Blade (film) (1998)
    • Blade (soundtrack)
  • Blade II, (2002)
  • Blade: Trinity (2004)
  • Blade (TV series), set after the events of the last film, which ran in 2006
• The Blade (film), a 1995 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Tsui Hark

Video games

• Blade (video game), for the Game Boy Color and PlayStation, based on the Marvel Comics character
• 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

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

Computing and technology

• 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
• Breakthrough Laminar Aircraft Demonstrator in Europe (BLADE), a laminar flow experiment
• ZTE Blade, a cellphone manufactured by the ZTE Corporation

People

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

Places

• Blades, Delaware, United States, a town
• Blades, Saint Philip, Barbados, a village

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 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 a 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

• Bristol Laboratory for Advanced Dynamics Engineering
• The Blades (aerobatic team), a British aircraft display team
• FreeX Blade, a German paraglider design
• The Blade Reading, a skyscraper in Reading, Berkshire
• Blade (company), a crowdsourced short-distance aviation company
• Blade (geometry), a generalization of vectors in higher-dimensional vector spaces in geometric algebra
• Blade, an often curved metal plate on the front of a bulldozer
• Leaf blade, a major part of a leaf
• Botanical term for the wider distal part of a petal, sepal or bract
• Blade (algae), another word for lamina, the leaf-life structures on seaweed
• Tongue blade, the part of the tongue just behind the tip
• Toyota Auris, a car, also known as Toyota Blade in Japan
• HNLMS Z 5 (1915), a Dutch torpedo boat which was renamed Blade while serving in the British Royal Navy in World War II
• Blades, a modish London tailoring establishment founded in 1962 by Rupert Lycett Green
• Blade, a station ident for British television channel BBC Two from the 1991–2001 series

See also

• Blading (professional wrestling), to cut oneself in order to draw blood for dramatic effect
• Bladee, a Swedish rapper/songwriter