Piranha (disambiguation)

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Piranha may refer to:

• Piranha or Piraña, a carnivorous freshwater fish

It may also refer to:

Companies

• Piranha Interactive Publishing, an American software publisher
• Piranha Bytes, a German game developer

Fiction

• Piranha light scout fighter, a fictional spacecraft featured in the video game Wing Commander: Prophecy
• Pirhana, a fictional vehicle used by the Tau Empire in the Warhammer 40,000 wargame (see Vehicles of the Tau Empire (Warhammer 40,000)#Piranha)

Media

• Piranha (1978 film), a 1978 parody film
  • Piranha II: The Spawning, 1981 sequel to the 1978 film
  • Piranha (1995 film), 1995 remake of the 1978 film
  • Piranha (2008 film), 2008 remake of the 1978 film
• Piranha Press, an imprint of DC comics (1989 to 1993)
• Piranha (song), a song by The Grace
• Piranha, a song by rock band Tripping Daisy
• Petey Piranha, a character in the Mario game series
• Piranha Plant, an enemy in Nintendo's Super Mario video games
• Piranha Advancements, an anti-gravity racing team from the Wipeout video game series
• Piranha Brothers, a Monty Python sketch

Vehicles

• Mowag Piranha, a type of armoured fighting vehicle
• USS Piranha (SS-389), a Balao-class submarine

Miscellaneous

• Piranha solution, a cleaning solution
• Piranhas (baseball), a nickname for some of the hitters on the Minnesota Twins baseball team

[edit] See also

• Paraná