Garuda (disambiguation)

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Garuda may refer to:

• Garuda, a divine bird in Hindu and Buddhist mythology
• Garuda Indonesia, an airline
• Garud Commando Force, an elite special forces unit of the Indian Air Force.
• The Garuda Valley (Kyunglung) south-west of Mount Kailash
• Garuda Blend, a popular blend of coffee beans from Indonesia sold by Peet's Coffee
• The Garuda 1 satellite

[edit] In fiction

• the comic book The Transmutation of Ike Garuda
  • Ike Garuda, the comic book's titular character
• Garuda (Chouseishin), the Ultra-Star God of the Fire Tribe in Chouseishin Gransazer.
• a summon and a server name on the popular MMORPG of Final Fantasy XI
• a fictional race of humanoid avians appearing in the novel Perdido Street Station by China Miéville (see Races of Bas-Lag)
• Garuda (film), a Thai giant monster film made in 2004
• a flying mecha in Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II
• a masked professional wrestler, portrayed by Japanese Tomokazu Morita.
• the name of a fighter in the Street Fighter EX series of games
• a character in the manga series Genju no seiza by Matsuri Akino
• the name of the fictional Emmerian Air Force 28th Tactical Fighter Squadron in Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation