Valkyrie (disambiguation)

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Valkyries (German: Walküre(n); Old Norse: Valkyrja) are minor female deities in Norse mythology that choose (kür) the most heroic of those who had died in battle and carry them off to Valhalla.

Valkyrie(s) may also refer to:

Contents 1 Creative Works 2 Vehicles 3 In fiction 4 Other uses

[edit] Creative Works

• The Valkyrie, English title of Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre (1870)
  • "Ride of the Valkyries" (Walkürenritt), a famous piece of music from Die Walküre
• Valkyrie (film), a 2009 World War II film directed by Bryan Singer and starring Tom Cruise
• Valkyrie Missile, a song written by the band Angels and Airwaves
• The Legend of Valkyrie, an arcade video game by Namco (1989)
• The Valkyries (novel), a novel by Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho (1992)
• Valkyrie Profile, a role-playing game series created by tri-Ace and published by Enix (Square Enix) (1999)
• Valkyrie of the Battlefield, a strategy role-playing game series created by SEGA (2008)
• UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, a Japanese anime television series (2002)
• The Valkyrie, an episode from the fifth season of the Highlander series, Originally aired on 01 February 1997
• A Graphical User Interface to the Valgrind programming tool.

[edit] Vehicles

• Valkyrie II (yacht) The 1893 British America's Cup challenger
• Valkyrie III (yacht) The 1895 British America's Cup challenger
• The XB-70 Valkyrie a proposed high-altitude bomber aircraft
• The Honda GL1500C Valkyrie, a motorcycle
• Project Valkyrie: a theoretical high-speed relativistic spacecraft.

[edit] In fiction

• Valkyrie was a Colonial Battlestar in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica TV series.
• Valkyrie (Marvel Comics), a member of the Marvel Comics superhero group The Defenders (Avengers #83, 1970)
• The VF-1 Valkyrie is the first mass-produced variable fighter in the anime science fiction series Macross (1982)
• The Valkyrie Attack Ship is the class for several starships used by the Player in the Playstation game "Star Trek: Invasion"
• Valkyr, a drug in the Max Payne computer game series
• Valkyrie Airborne Assault Carrier: An armed VTOL transport used by the Imperial Navy in the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game. In the game background, the aircraft's role is the transportation of special forces infantry in the same way as the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters used by the 160th SOAR of the US Army.

[edit] Other uses

• Operation Walküre, a German Army plan that was converted into a coup d'état in the July 20 Plot (1944)
• Valkyrie (magazine) a role playing game magazine.
• Valkyrie (band) A metal band from Virginia