Avenger

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Avenger may refer to one who seeks revenge.

• For the biblical and Jewish avenger of blood, see Goel.

Other uses include:

In the military

• Avro Avenger, biplane fighter design
• HMS Avenger, ships in the Royal Navy
• TBF Avenger, an American torpedo bomber
• A-12 Avenger II, an American carrier-based stealth bomber program, canceled in 1991
• GAU-8 Avenger, the cannon carried by the A-10 Thunderbolt II
• M1097 Avenger, an air defense system consisting of eight Stinger missiles mounted on an HMMWV chassis
• USS Avenger, ships in the US Navy
• Avenger class mine countermeasures ship, a class of U.S. Navy mine countermeasure ships
• The SP 17pdr, A30 (Avenger), a variant of the Cruiser Mk VIII Challenger British self-propelled gun
• Avenger class escort carrier, a British aircraft carrier
• General Atomics Avenger, a developmental unmanned combat air vehicle

Vehicles

• Bajaj Avenger, an Indian cruiser bike by Bajaj Auto
• Hillman Avenger, a sub-compact car (later known as Chrysler Avenger and Talbot Avenger)
• Dodge Avenger, a make of car from Dodge

In music

• Avenger (British band), a British NWOBHM band
• The Avenger (album), an album by the Swedish metal band Amon Amarth
• Avenger, former name of German heavy metal band Rage (band)

In fiction

• The Avengers (TV series), a 1960s British television show
  • The Avengers (film), a 1998 film based on the characters of the 1960s television series
• Avenger (anime), a Japanese anime featuring Layla Ashley
• Avenger (novel), thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth
• Avenger, a fictional vigilante in the Eagle comic
• Avenger (Star Trek), a Star Trek novel
• Avengers (comics), a Marvel comic book superhero team
• Avenger, a large purple eagle that is Birdman's sidekick in the animated series Birdman and the Galaxy Trio and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
• Duck Avenger, Donald Duck's alter-ego
• Holy Avenger, a Brazilian comic book series
• The Toxic Avenger, a B-movie
• TIE Avenger, a model of TIE Fighter in the Star Wars universe
• Avenger, the protagonist from the Way of the Tiger series of gamebooks
• Avenger, a character from the Japanese visual novel Fate/hollow ataraxia
• "Avenger 2.0", an episode of the television series Stargate SG-1
• The Avenger, a hero from the pulp novels of the 1940s who had also appeared in modern comic books.
• The Avenger (film), a 1960 German film

Other uses

• Dark Avenger, a computer virus writer
• Avenger (video game), a video game for the Commodore VIC-20

See also

• Reprisal
• Reprisal (novel)
• Retaliation (disambiguation)
• Retorsion
• Retribution (disambiguation)
• Revenge (disambiguation)
• Vengeance (disambiguation)

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