Reaper

The reaper is also a farming tool

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A reaper is a farm tool or machine for harvesting grain. It comes from the word "reap", which means "to take". A Reaper-binder, is a later version of the original reaping machine that includes the binding operation.

Due to the association with the Grim Reaper, the reaper is a common symbol of death.

Reaper may also refer to:

Western and popular culture

• Grim Reaper, a personification of death
• Reaper (The World Ends with You), a group of beings who compete against Players, in The World Ends With You
• Reaper (Marvel Comics), a Marvel comic book character
• Reaper (DC Comics), a DC comic book character
• Reaper (alien), from the computer game X-COM: UFO Defense
• Reapers (Mass Effect), a race of sentient machines that wipe out galactic civilization every 50,000 years. They are the main antagonists of the Mass Effect series
• The Reapers, from the video game Just Cause 2
• The Reapers, an enemy faction in inFamous

Literature

• The Reaper (Shannara), one of the Demons who appears in The Elfstones of Shannara
• Theristai, a play by Euripides

Film and television

• Reaper (TV series), a television comedy-drama series
• Reaper, a fictional species from the science fiction series Doctor Who
• John "Reaper" Grimm, the protagonist in the movie adaptation of Doom
• "Don't Ph34r the Reaper", a first season episode of Red vs. Blue
• The 17th episode of the first season of Smallville
• The Reaper Strain is the genetic mutation created by the Vampire race in the film Blade II, a reference to this mutant strain is made in the sequel, Blade: Trinity
• Reaper (movie) is about a writer who is caught up in a murder that resembles his last book. It stars Chris Sarandon and Catherine Mary Stewart.

In music

• Els Segadors (lit. The Reapers), the national anthem of Catalonia
• "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", a song by Blue Öyster Cult
• The Reaper, an album by the band Grave Digger
• "Follow the Reaper", an album by melodic death metal band Children of Bodom
• Reaper (band), an industrial music band
• Reapers (band), an Italian heavy metal band
• "Reaper", a song by Jackson Rathbone's band, The 100 Monkeys

Technology

• Reaper program, a special operating system process that terminates zombie processes
• MQ-9 Reaper, a military unmanned aerial vehicle
• REAPER, a Multitrack Audio Recording and Editing app by Cockos Inc. created by Justin Frankel, the creator of Winamp
• A program written to remove the Creeper virus, which propagated on the DARPANET

Other

• Reaper (sailing vessel), a restored Fifie fishing boat
• Reaper Miniatures, pewter figurines which include fantasy and science fiction figures
• Maryland Reapers, a United States indoor football team

See also

• Reap (disambiguation)

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