Moloch (disambiguation)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Moloch is the name of a god or a particular kind of sacrifice associated historically with Phoenician and related cultures in north Africa and the Levant.

Moloch may also mean:

• Moloch (Mortal Kombat), a character in the Mortal Kombat video game series
• Moloch (comics), an underworld leader or crime boss in the 1987 graphic novel Watchmen
• Moloch (Buffyverse), a demon on the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Moloch (Dungeons & Dragons), an archdevil in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
• Moloch (computing), a type of computer program that uses few libraries or other clearly separate components
• Moloch (film), a 1999 biographical film by Alexander Sokurov about Adolf Hitler
• Moloch (Neuroshima), a gigantic construct made of conjoined machines and industrial facilities in the fictional world of a Polish role playing game Neuroshima.
• Moloch (summon), One of the hidden summons from Golden Sun The Lost Age for gameboy advance.

Moloch may also be:

• Moloch horridus, the scientific name of a kind of horned lizard also known as a Thorny Devil
• "Moloch", another name for part two of Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl
• "Moloch", an episode of the BBC television series Blake's 7