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Yellowjacket

 
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Yellowjacket or Yellow Jacket may refer to:

Main use

In comics

Yellowjacket may refer to:

  • Marvel Comics characters:
    • Henry Pym, the first Yellowjacket, also known as Ant-Man, Giant-Man and Goliath, who was a founding member of the Avengers
    • Yellowjacket (Rita DeMara), a reluctant supervillainess and later superheroine, and member of the Masters of Evil, and Guardians of the Galaxy.
  • Charlton Comics characters:
    • Yellowjacket (Charlton Comics), the secret identity of Vince Harley, crime writer. This Yellowjacket was a mutant with the ability to control yellowjackets.

In entertainment

In Sport

  • Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, the name used for all of the men's intercollegiate athletic teams that play for Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia. The women's teams are the Jackettes. The men's teams were formerly the Golden Tornado. In this case and the others, the name references use of the stinging insect as a symbol and does not refer to yellow clothing.
  • University of Rochester Yellowjackets, the name used for all the intercollegiate athletic teams that play for the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York.
  • American International College Yellowjackets, the name used for all the intercollegiate athletic teams that play for the American International College, Springfield, Massachusetts.
  • The Bessemer City High School Yellow Jackets, the name used for all the athletic teams that play for Bessemer City High School,

Bessemer City, North Carolina.

Other uses

  • Yellow Jacket, Colorado, an unincorporated town in Colorado.
  • The Varsity, a restaurant established 1928 in Atlanta, Georgia, as The Yellow Jacket
  • Slang for a 70s barbiturate that came in yellow capsules; referenced in the song "The Incomparable Mr. Flannery" by Clutch (band).
  • The Yellow Jackets (Indiana), a mounted militia company present at the Battle of Tippecanoe

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