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Beast King War God Dandivine (獣王武神ダンデヴァイン)
Beast King War God Dandivine (獣王武神ダンデヴァイン), also Jyu-Oh Mujin Dandivine, is a 2026 original mecha TV anime, first of Good Smile Company's Combined God Series, premiering October 7, 2026, produced by LIDENFILMS and KAYAC Animation.
Beast of Bray Road
Beast of Bray Road, also Bray Road Beast or Wisconsin Werewolf, a legendary upright wolf-like cryptid reported near Elkhorn, Walworth County, Wisconsin, since the late 1980s, with a 1936 precursor, publicized by Linda Godfrey's 1991 newspaper article, and lacking any physical evidence.
Beast of Gévaudan
The Beast of Gévaudan (la Bête du Gévaudan) was an unidentified animal or animals that killed about 100 people in south-central France, 1764–1767, prompting royal hunts by François Antoine and Jean Chastel; theories include wolf, hyena, lion, or human killer.
Beast of Reincarnation
Beast of Reincarnation is a 2026 post-apocalyptic action RPG by Game Freak (Pokémon studio), directed by Kota Furushima, published by Fictions. Emma and her dog Koo fight blight in Japan, year 4026; released Aug 4, 2026 on PS5, Xbox, PC, Game Pass; Metacritic 72.
Beast of the Earth
The Beast of the Earth (Dābbat al-arḍ, دابة الأرض) is a creature in Islamic eschatology, foretold in Quran 27:82, that will speak to people near the Day of Judgment.
Beast of War
Beast of War is a 2025 Australian WWII shark survival thriller written and directed by Kiah Roache-Turner, inspired by the 1942 sinking of HMAS Armidale, starring Mark Coles Smith, released October 10, 2025, distinct from the 1988 Kevin Reynolds tank film.
Beast Stalker (证人)
The Beast Stalker (証人, Ching yan) is a 2008 Hong Kong crime thriller directed by Dante Lam, starring Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung, and Zhang Jingchu. A cop's stray bullet kills a prosecutor's daughter; Nick Cheung's kidnapper role won Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards.
Beast Wars: Transformers
Beast Wars: Transformers (1996–1999) is a Mainframe Entertainment CGI series where Maximals and Predacons take animal forms on an energon-toxic planet; 52 episodes, story editors Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio, Emmy-winning, IMDb 8.1.
Beastars
Beastars (ビースターズ) is Paru Itagaki's manga (2016–2020, 22 volumes, Akita Shoten) about a world of anthropomorphic carnivores and herbivores, centered on wolf Legoshi, rabbit Haru, and deer Louis at Cherryton Academy; it won the 2018 Manga Taisho and was adapted by Studio Orange for Netflix, concluding in March 2026.
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys: New York trio (Mike D, MCA, Ad-Rock), 1981–2012, hardcore punk band turned pioneering hip-hop group; Licensed to Ill was the first rap album to top the Billboard 200, Paul's Boutique a sampling landmark, Rock Hall inductees 2012.
Beastie Boys discography
Beastie Boys discography: eight studio albums by the New York rap trio (Mike D, Ad-Rock, MCA), from Licensed to Ill (1986), the first rap album to top the Billboard 200, to Hot Sauce Committee, Part Two (2011), plus compilations and live releases.
Beastly (film)
Beastly (2011) is a teen romantic fantasy film directed by Daniel Barnz, adapted from Alex Flinn's novel, starring Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens, and Mary-Kate Olsen; a cursed student has one year to find love, grossing $27.9M domestically.
Beasts Clawing at Straws (지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들)
Beasts Clawing at Straws (지푸라기라도 잡고 싶은 짐승들) is a 2020 South Korean crime thriller, Kim Yonghoon's debut feature adapted from Keisuke Sone's novel, which won the Rotterdam Tiger Competition Special Jury Award and drew 626,815 admissions in Korea.
Beasts of No Nation
Beasts of No Nation: 2005 debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about child soldier Agu in an unnamed West African war, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winner, and its 2015 Cary Fukunaga film with Idris Elba, Netflix's first original feature.
Beasts of No Nation (film)
Beasts of No Nation (2015) is Cary Joji Fukunaga's war drama, Netflix's first original feature film ($12 million), adapted from Uzodinma Iweala's 2005 novel, starring Abraham Attah as child soldier Agu and Idris Elba as the Commandant.
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Beasts of the Southern Wild is Benh Zeitlin's 2012 debut drama-fantasy, adapted from Lucy Alibar's play Juicy and Delicious, starring Quvenzhané Wallis as Hushpuppy in the levee-cut Bathtub bayou community; it won Sundance's Grand Jury Prize and earned four Oscar nominations.
Beat 'em up
Beat 'em up, also called brawler, is a video game genre where players fight waves of enemies while moving through side-scrolling stages, distinct from one-on-one fighting games.
Beat (1997 film)
Beat (비트, Biteu) is a 1997 South Korean action drama by director Kim Sung-soo, starring Jung Woo-sung, Ko So-young, Im Chang-jung, and Yu Oh-seong, based on a Huh Young-man comic about youth drifting into the underworld; distinct from the 2000 Walkow and 1998 Japanese films of the same title.
Beat (acoustics)
A beat, or beat frequency, is the periodic swelling and fading of loudness heard when two sound waves of slightly different frequencies are heard together.
Beat (American band)
BEAT is an American rock supergroup formed in 2024 by ex-King Crimson members Adrian Belew and Tony Levin with Steve Vai and Tool's Danny Carey, performing the 1980s King Crimson albums Discipline, Beat, and Three of a Perfect Pair with Robert Fripp's blessing; Terry Bozzio replaced Carey for the 2026 tour.
Beat (music)
Beat (music): the basic unit of musical time, the regular pulse listeners tap or clap to; also called tactus. Distinguished from pulse and meter; tempo in BPM; near-universal in human cultures, rare across species.
Beat Bobby Flay
Beat Bobby Flay is a Food Network cooking competition series (premiered August 24, 2013) where two chefs compete for the chance to challenge Bobby Flay with a signature dish; blind-judged, Flay wins 62.6% of 543 decided battles.
Beat Feuz
Beat Feuz, Swiss alpine skier born 1987 in Schangnau, Bern; 2022 Olympic downhill gold, 2018 silver and bronze, 2017 world downhill champion, four straight downhill World Cup titles 2018-2021, 16 World Cup wins, retired January 2023.
Beat Generation
Beat Generation: 1950s American literary and social movement centered in Greenwich Village, North Beach, and Venice West; key figures Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs; defining works On the Road, Howl, Naked Lunch; forerunner of 1960s counterculture.
Beat Goha
Beat Goha (دوار جحا, Dawar Goha) is a venue on Al Geish Road 788 in Al Mandarah, Alexandria, Egypt, tagged as a casino in OpenStreetMap, open 24/7, near Mandara Beach; distinct from the Dawar Goha Cafe chain.
Beat H. Meier
Beat H. Meier, born 1954 in Solothurn, Switzerland, is a Swiss physical chemist and solid-state NMR spectroscopist, professor emeritus at ETH Zurich, known for determining prion and amyloid structures.
Beat Hefti
Beat Hefti (born 1978) is a Swiss bobsledder, pusher then pilot, competing at four Olympics 2002–2014 with 1 gold and 3 bronze, plus 2007 world four-man title and European and World Cup two-man titles.
Beat It
Beat It is a 1982 Michael Jackson song from Thriller, written by Jackson, produced by Quincy Jones, with an unpaid Eddie Van Halen guitar solo. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1983, peaked at number 3 in the UK, and its Bob Giraldi-directed gang-fight video helped break MTV's racial programming barrier.
Beat Jans
Beat Jans (born 1964) is a Swiss Social Democratic politician who has been a Federal Councillor and head of the justice and police department since 2024.
Beat Keller
Beat Keller, born 1958, is a Swiss plant molecular biologist and professor at the University of Zurich known for identifying the durable wheat resistance gene Lr34.