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Dead or Alive (DEAD OR ALIVE 犯罪者) (1999 film)
Dead or Alive (DEAD OR ALIVE 犯罪者, Hanzaisha) is Takashi Miike's 1999 Japanese action crime film, first of a trilogy, starring Show Aikawa and Riki Takeuchi as a Shinjuku detective and gang leader clashing in Kabuki-cho.
Dead or Alive (franchise)
Dead or Alive (デッド オア アライブ, DOA) is a 3D fighting game franchise by Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo, created by Tomonobu Itagaki in 1996, known for its triangle counter system, interactive stages, and Xtreme beach volleyball spin-offs.
Dead or Alive 3
Dead or Alive 3, a 2001 Team Ninja 3D fighting game for Xbox, an Xbox launch exclusive title with new characters Hitomi, Christie, Brad Wong, and Hayate, Metascore 87.
Dead or Alive 6
Dead or Alive 6 (DOA6) is Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo's 3D fighting game, released March 1, 2019 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC; triangle combat system, Break Gauge, 24 characters, over 900,000 copies shipped, re-released as Last Round in June 2026.
Dead or Alive Ultimate
Dead or Alive Ultimate (DOAU) is a 2004 Xbox compilation by Team Ninja and Tecmo pairing updated Dead or Alive 1 and 2, the first 3D fighting game online via Xbox Live, Metacritic 83.
Dead or Alive Xtreme
Dead or Alive Xtreme is Team Ninja's beach-vacation spin-off of Dead or Alive, spanning DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball (Xbox, 2003), Xtreme 2 (2006), the Asia-only Xtreme 3 (2016), the gacha game Venus Vacation (2017), and the 2025 dating sim Venus Vacation Prism.
Dead or Alive Xtreme 3
Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 (デッド オア アライブ エクストリーム3), Team Ninja's 2016 beach volleyball spinoff for PS4 (Fortune) and PS Vita (Venus), released only in Japan and Asia after sexism-backlash concerns; Scarlet (2019) added Leifang and Misaki.
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball (DOAX) is a 2003 Team Ninja/Tecmo Xbox spin-off of the Dead or Alive fighters, set on Zack's Island with two-on-two volleyball to seven points, a casino, gift-based partner recruitment, and over 100 bikinis; ESRB M, Metacritic 73, not backward compatible.
Dead Outlaw
Dead Outlaw is a one-act musical by David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna, and Itamar Moses, directed by David Cromer, about outlaw Elmer McCurdy's 65-plus years as an unburied mummified corpse. It premiered Off-Broadway in 2024, ran on Broadway at the Longacre in 2025, and earned seven Tony nominations including Best Musical.
Dead Parrot sketch
The Dead Parrot sketch, also called the Pet Shop or Parrot sketch, is Monty Python's most famous routine: John Cleese's Mr Praline returns a dead Norwegian Blue and Michael Palin's shopkeeper insists it is resting, first aired 7 December 1969.
Dead Poet Society
Dead Poet Society is an American alternative rock band formed in 2013 at Berklee College of Music in Boston and now based in Los Angeles, known for fretless guitars.
Dead Poets Society
Dead Poets Society is a 1989 Peter Weir drama starring Robin Williams as English teacher John Keating at 1959 Welton Academy; it won the Oscar for Tom Schulman's original screenplay and the BAFTA for Best Film.
Dead Pony
Dead Pony are a Glasgow, Scotland rock band (formerly Crystal, renamed 2020): Anna Shields, Blair Crichton, Liam Adams, Euan Lyons. Debut album IGNORE THIS (2024, SAY Award shortlist); EP Eat My Dust! (2026) via ADA.
Dead pool
Dead pool: a betting game in which participants predict which public figures will die within a set period; also called a celebrity death pool; distinct from survivor pools and from the Marvel character Deadpool.
Dead Presidents
Dead Presidents (1995) is a Hughes brothers crime drama starring Larenz Tate as a Black Bronx Vietnam veteran drawn into an armored-car robbery, based on Wallace Terry's Bloods, grossing $24.1 million.
Dead Prez
dead prez (lowercase styling) is an American political hip-hop duo of M-1 and stic.man, formed through Florida A&M activism, best known for the 2000 Loud Records debut Let's Get Free and the single "Hip-Hop."
Dead Rabbits
Dead Rabbits: name given to an Irish Five Points street-fighting group of 1850s New York, rivals of the Bowery Boys, famous for the July 1857 riot; historians dispute whether the gang existed under that name.
Dead reckoning
Dead reckoning is the navigation method of estimating a vessel's position by applying course steered and distance traveled from the last well-determined position, without external references.
Dead Ringers
Dead Ringers: David Cronenberg's 1988 psychological horror film with Jeremy Irons as twin gynecologists Elliot and Beverly Mantle, based on the Marcus twins and the novel Twins; remade as a 2023 Rachel Weisz Prime Video series.
Dead Ringers (film)
Dead Ringers (1988) is David Cronenberg's psychological horror film starring Jeremy Irons as twin gynecologists Beverly and Elliot Mantle, loosely based on the Marcus twins case and the novel Twins, originally titled Twins itself.
Dead Rising (video game)
Dead Rising (Capcom, 2006) is an Xbox 360 zombie action game starring photojournalist Frank West in a 72-hour Willamette mall outbreak, with up to 1,000 on-screen zombies, Metascore 85, 1.8 million sales, and a 2024 RE ENGINE Deluxe Remaster.
Dead Rising (デッドライジング)
Dead Rising (デッドライジング) is Capcom's 2006 Xbox 360 action horror game starring photojournalist Frank West surviving 72 hours in a zombie-filled shopping mall; it launched a series of sequels and a 2024 Deluxe Remaster.
Dead Rising 2
Dead Rising 2 is a 2010 Capcom zombie action game developed by Blue Castle Games (Capcom Vancouver), starring Chuck Greene, introducing combo weapons and co-op, and shipping over 2 million copies.
Dead Rising 3
Dead Rising 3 is a 2013 open-world zombie action game by Capcom Vancouver, published by Microsoft as an Xbox One launch exclusive; Nick Ramos escapes Los Perdidos using combo weapons and vehicles, later ported to PC as Apocalypse Edition.
Dead Rising 4
Dead Rising 4 (2016) is an open-world zombie action-adventure by Capcom Vancouver, published by Microsoft Studios for Xbox One and Windows 10. Frank West returns to Willamette; the timer was dropped, the Exo Suit added, and the studio closed in 2018.
Dead Rising: Watchtower
Dead Rising: Watchtower is a 2015 live-action zombie film based on Capcom's Dead Rising, directed by Zach Lipovsky, premiering on Crackle and set canonically between Dead Rising 2 and 3.
Dead Rock
Dead Rock (デッドロック, Deddo Rokku) is Hiro Mashima's dark fantasy manga, serialized in Monthly Shonen Magazine since July 6, 2023, following the demon Yakuto through the deadly entrance exam of a demon-king academy and his plot to kill its principal, the god of the demon world.
Dead Sara
Dead Sara is a Los Angeles hard rock band formed in the early 2000s by Emily Armstrong and Siouxsie Medley, known for the 2012 single Weatherman, albums Dead Sara, Pleasure to Meet You, and Ain't It Tragic, and Armstrong's 2024 move to Linkin Park.
Dead Sea (film)
Dead Sea is a 2024 American survival horror thriller, also titled Flycatcher, written and directed by Phil Volken. Stranded teens rescued by a trawler captain fall into an organ-harvesting operation; released July 26, 2024 by Vertical Entertainment.
Dead Sea (ים המלח)
The Dead Sea (ים המלח) is a hypersaline terminal lake in the Jordan Rift Valley between Jordan and Israel, about ten times saltier than the ocean.