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Deaconess
A deaconess is a woman set apart for formal service ministry in a Christian church, rooted in Phoebe and revived in the 19th century at Kaiserswerth.
Dead (musician)
Dead (Per Yngve Ohlin, 1969–1991), Swedish vocalist of Norwegian black metal band Mayhem 1988–1991 and earlier Morbid; known for onstage self-harm, corpse paint, and posthumous influence despite recording no studio album.
Dead & Buried
Dead & Buried (1981) is a horror film directed by Gary Sherman, written by Ronald Shusett and Dan O'Bannon, starring James Farentino, Jack Albertson, and Robert Englund, about a coastal town whose murdered tourists return as living residents.
Dead & Company
Dead & Company, the Grateful Dead offshoot formed in 2015 by Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart with John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti; known for Dead-songbook jam concerts, Sphere residencies, and 2025 60th-anniversary shows.
Dead Account
Dead Account (デッドアカウント) is Shizumu Watanabe's Kodansha manga, originally in Weekly Shonen Magazine and continuing in Magazine Pocket, about dead social media accounts becoming ghosts called bake-aka. Distinguished by its denō smartphone exorcism premise, 2026 TV anime by SynergySP, and roguelite RPG adaptation.
Dead Again
Dead Again is a 1991 American neo-noir romantic mystery directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh opposite Emma Thompson, both in dual roles linking a 1949 Strauss murder case to 1990s Los Angeles via reincarnation; released by Paramount, grossing $35.5 million.
Dead as Disco
Dead as Disco: 3D rhythm beat 'em up by Brain Jar Games, Early Access May 5, 2026 on Steam and Epic; Arkham-style combat synced to music, with custom MP3/FLAC import and auto BPM charting.
Dead ball
Dead ball (dead puck in ice hockey): a ball or puck out of play, forcing a stoppage and restart by face-off or pitch. Covers IIHF, NFHS, and MLB rules on when play dies and restarts.
Dead Bang
Dead Bang is a 1989 American action drama film directed by John Frankenheimer. It stars Don Johnson as a Los Angeles detective investigating a murder linked to white-supremacist groups.
Dead Boy Detectives
Dead Boy Detectives: Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland, ghost boy detectives created by Neil Gaiman in The Sandman #25 (1991); stars of a canceled 2024 Netflix Sandman-universe series.
Dead Boy Detectives (TV series)
Dead Boy Detectives is a 2024 Netflix supernatural comedy-drama, 8 episodes, developed by Steve Yockey from DC's Sandman comics characters by Gaiman, Wagner, and Jones III; starring George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri, premiered April 25, 2024, cancelled August 30, 2024 after one season.
Dead Boys
Dead Boys: Cleveland, Ohio punk rock band (1975) from Rocket from the Tombs, featuring Stiv Bators and Cheetah Chrome; famed for the 1977 debut Young, Loud and Snotty and "Sonic Reducer" at CBGB.
Dead by Daylight
Dead by Daylight is a 4v1 asymmetric survival horror game by Behaviour Interactive, released June 14, 2016. One Killer hunts four Survivors repairing generators; famous for horror crossovers and outlasting all genre rivals.
Dead by Sunrise
Dead by Sunrise: American rock band formed 2005 in Los Angeles as Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington's side project, originally called Snow White Tan; with Julien-K members it released one album, Out of Ashes (2009).
Dead Calm (film)
Dead Calm is a 1989 Australian psychological thriller directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, and Billy Zane, adapted from Charles Williams's 1963 novel; a couple at sea rescue a killer, and the film became Kidman's international breakthrough.
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance: Australian duo of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry, formed 1981 in Melbourne, signed to 4AD, blending medieval, world, and ambient music; albums 1984-2018, 2026 singles, Gerrard's Gladiator Golden Globe.
Dead cat bounce
A dead cat bounce, also called a sucker's rally, is a short-lived stock market rally after a steep decline, which resumes falling once the bounce ends.
Dead Cells
Dead Cells is a 2018 rogue-lite metroidvania action-platformer by Motion Twin (Bordeaux, France), released via Steam Early Access in May 2017; known for its "Roguevania" permadeath runs, 50+ weapons, Evil Empire's DLC support, and over 10 million copies sold.
Dead Channel Sky
Dead Channel Sky is a 2025 cyberpunk concept album by experimental hip-hop trio clipping. (Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes), released March 14, 2025 on Sub Pop; its title quotes Neuromancer, and an expanded Plus edition followed in September 2025.
Dead code elimination
Dead code elimination is a compiler optimization that removes computations whose results cannot affect a program's observable behavior; it is standard in GCC and LLVM and appears in JavaScript bundlers as tree shaking.
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction (デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション) is Inio Asano's 2014-2022 Shogakukan manga, 12 volumes, about Tokyo life under an alien mothership; adapted in 2024 as two films and an 18-episode series.
Dead drop
Dead drop (dead letter box, DLB): espionage tradecraft method of leaving messages, documents, cash, or film at a prearranged secret location for later retrieval, avoiding direct meetings; used by the KGB, CIA, Hanssen, Walker, Penkovsky, and in the 2019 Peng case.
Dead Dynasty
Dead Dynasty (Дэд Династи) is a Russian hip-hop creative collective founded by rapper PHARAOH, Gleb Golubin, in Moscow in 2013, a main representative of the YungRussia movement in 2015.
Dead End (2003 film)
Dead End (2003) is a horror film by French directors Jean-Baptiste Andrea and Fabrice Canepa about the Harrington family trapped on an endless Christmas Eve road. Shot in Los Angeles in 2001 on about $800,000, it premiered at Gérardmer 2003, grossed $898,994, and was never released in French cinemas.
Dead for a Dollar
Dead for a Dollar (2022) is Walter Hill's Western starring Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, and Rachel Brosnahan, about a bounty hunter in 1897 Mexico; distinct from the 1969 Osvaldo Civirani film of the same name.
Dead Hand
Dead Hand is the Western nickname for Perimeter, a Soviet and Russian system created in the Cold War to transmit a retaliatory nuclear strike order even if leadership was destroyed.
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (Japanese title 現金作戦) is a 1966 Columbia comedy crime caper directed by Bernard Girard, starring James Coburn as con man Eli Kotch plotting an LAX bank robbery; it marks Harrison Ford's film debut as a bellboy.
Dead Hot
Dead Hot is a 2024 British six-part comedy thriller created by Charlotte Coben for Prime Video, set in Liverpool, starring Bilal Hasna and Vivian Oparah as friends investigating the disappearance of Peter.
Dead Internet theory
Dead Internet theory is a conspiracy theory, popularized by a January 2021 Agora Road forum post by IlluminatiPirate, that bots and AI generate most online content. Traffic data partially supports bot dominance, while content-level claims remain unverified.
Dead Island
Dead Island: 2011 first-person zombie action RPG by Techland, published by Deep Silver, set on Banoi island; four characters, skill trees, co-op for four; Metacritic 71; spawned Riptide, Definitive Collection, Dead Island 2 (2023), and Dead Island 3 (2028).