Shrike (disambiguation)

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Shrike may refer to:

• The Shrike was the title of an unsuccessful 1955 film directed by and starring Jose Ferrer with June Allyson. Ferrer plays a successful theatrical directdor driven to a mental breakdown by the machinations of his wife (Allyson)
• The Shrike was the title of the 1952 pulitzer prize winning drama by Joseph Kramm.
• Shrikes, the family of predatory birds known for their habit of catching insects, small birds or mammals and impaling their bodies on thorns.
• Some models of the Rockwell Aero Commander aircraft were subnamed Shrike Commander.
• The Shrike is the robotic monster and anti-hero of the Hyperion series of science fiction books by Dan Simmons. It is known for impaling people on a massive tree made of metal, whose branches are massive thorns.
• The Shrike 5.56 is a belt-fed machine gun conversion kit manufactured by Ares Defense Systems.
• The AGM-45 Shrike is an Anti-radiation missile developed at the United States Naval Weapons Center from 1958 and manufactured by Texas Instruments and Sperry Rand from 1963. It was used by the military of the USA and Israel. It had a number of flaws and was replaced by the AGM-88 HARM. Production was stopped in 1982 and the US withdrew the missile in 1992. Around 18,500 were built.
• Shrike is the product codename for the version 9 of Red Hat's distribution of the Linux operating system.
• Shrike is a character in Nathanael West's novella Miss Lonelyhearts.
• In the video game Custom Robo, one of the robot bodies has the name Shrike.
• In the video game Tribes 2, the Shrike Scout Fighter is a single-crew scout and light assault aircraft.
• Mara Jade's starfighter in the PC game Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith is called the Shrike.
• Shrike (comics) is the codename of a series of DC comics characters.
• The Shrike are a legendary enemy in the game Brute Force.
• Shrike (Philip Reeve) is a Stalker and a recurring character in the Hungry City Chronicles by Philip Reeve
• Shrike is the name of a locale in the Playstation game SaGa Frontier.
• The anime series Blue Gender features massive military exoskeletons called Armored Shrikes.