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Deadly Premonition

Deadly Premonition (Red Seeds Profile in Japan) is SWERY's 2010 Access Games open-world survival horror mystery about FBI agent York in Greenvale, famous for a 68% Guinness-record review swing and cult status.

Deadly Women

Deadly Women: American true crime documentary series by Beyond Productions on female murderers, hosted by profiler Candice DeLong; 2005 miniseries, then 14 seasons on Investigation Discovery, 2008-2021.

Deadman Wonderland (デッドマンワンダーランド)

Deadman Wonderland is a Japanese manga by Jinsei Kataoka and Kazuma Kondou, serialized in Monthly Shonen Ace from 2007 to 2013, with a 2011 anime adaptation.

Deadmau5

Deadmau5 (Joel Thomas Zimmerman, born 1981, Niagara Falls, Ontario) is a Canadian electronic producer and DJ of progressive house, founder of mau5trap, creator of the mau5head and Cube stage shows, seven-time Grammy nominee, and Kx5 collaborator with Kaskade.

Deadnaming

Deadnaming is calling a transgender person by their birth name instead of their chosen name, intentionally or accidentally. Covers effects, identity documents, media style guides (AP, Reuters, Trans Journalists Association), and US and UK legal treatment.

Deadpan

Deadpan (dry humour, dry wit): comedic delivery with deliberate emotional neutrality, contrasting flat delivery with absurd content. Coined in the 1920s from dead + pan (face); first defined in a 1928 New York Times article about Buster Keaton, with nineteenth-century stage pre-history.

Deadpool

Deadpool (Wade Wilson), Marvel Comics antihero created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza, debuting in New Mutants #98 (1991); healing factor, fourth-wall humor, Deadpool Corps, and Ryan Reynolds films.

Deadpool (film)

Deadpool (2016 film), directed by Tim Miller, starring Ryan Reynolds as Marvel's Wade Wilson; R-rated superhero comedy from 20th Century Fox, $58M budget, $782.8M worldwide, then-record R-rated gross.

Deadpool (video game)

Deadpool is a 2013 action hack-and-slash video game based on the Marvel Comics character, developed by High Moon Studios and published by Activision for Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.

Deadpool & Wolverine (soundtrack)

Deadpool & Wolverine: Van Jamz, the 18-song Hollywood Records soundtrack for the 2024 Marvel film, released July 24, 2024, with Rob Simonsen's separate score; Madonna's "Like a Prayer" was omitted and issued separately.

Deadpool 2

Deadpool 2 (2018), also released in an extended Super Duper Cut, is David Leitch's R-rated superhero comedy sequel starring Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin as Cable, and Zazie Beetz as Domino, grossing $324.3 million in the US.

Deadpool 3

Deadpool 3, released as Deadpool & Wolverine, is a 2024 American superhero comedy directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman as the title characters.

Deadpool in other media

Deadpool in other media covers the Marvel character's appearances outside comics: films including Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), video games, and theme parks.

Deadpool/Batman and Batman/Deadpool

Deadpool/Batman and Batman/Deadpool are paired 2025 Marvel/DC crossover one-shots starring Deadpool and Batman, the publishers' first collaboration since 2003's JLA/Avengers, with main stories by Zeb Wells/Greg Capullo and Grant Morrison/Dan Mora plus backup team-ups.

Deadshot

Deadshot, also known as Floyd Lawton, is a DC Comics marksman and hired assassin, a Batman villain from 1950 and a core Suicide Squad member.

Deadspin

Deadspin, also known as Deadspin.com, is an American sports news website founded in 2005 by Will Leitch under Gawker Media, known for mixing aggregation, commentary, and investigative reporting.

Deadstick landing

A deadstick landing, also written dead-stick landing, is a forced landing in which a pilot glides an aircraft to the ground after a complete loss of engine power.

Deadwater Fell

Deadwater Fell is a 2020 Channel 4 four-part crime drama by Daisy Coulam, starring David Tennant, Anna Madeley, Cush Jumbo, and Matthew McNulty, about a fatal house fire in the fictional Scottish village of Kirkdarroch.

Deadweight loss

Deadweight loss, also called excess burden, is the economic surplus destroyed by a tax, subsidy, price control, tariff, or monopoly that is captured by no one.

Deadweight tonnage

Deadweight tonnage (DWT) measures how much weight a ship can carry: the total mass of cargo, fuel, water, stores, crew, and passengers that brings it to its summer load line.

Deadwind

Deadwind (Finnish: Karppi) is a Finnish Nordic noir crime series starring Pihla Viitala as Helsinki detective Sofia Karppi, first broadcast in 2018 and streamed worldwide by Netflix.

Deadwood (TV series)

Deadwood is an American Western drama created by David Milch for HBO, set in the Black Hills gold rush camp of Deadwood in 1876 and 1877.

Deadwood, South Dakota

Deadwood, South Dakota: 1876 Black Hills gold-rush boomtown in Lawrence County, National Historic Landmark since 1961, famed for Wild Bill Hickok, the Homestake mine, and legalized gaming-funded preservation.

Deadwood: The Movie

Deadwood: The Movie is a 2019 HBO Films western written by David Milch and directed by Daniel Minahan, reuniting Ian McShane and Timothy Olyphant ten years after the canceled series, set at South Dakota's 1889 statehood; it scored 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.

DEAE-cellulose

DEAE-cellulose (diethylaminoethyl cellulose) is a weakly basic anion-exchange material made by attaching diethylaminoethyl groups to cellulose; introduced in 1956, it binds and separates negatively charged molecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, and acidic polysaccharides.

Deaerator

A deaerator is a mechanical device that removes dissolved gases, chiefly oxygen and carbon dioxide, from steam boiler feedwater by heating it with steam to prevent corrosion.

Deaf (film)

Deaf (Sorda) is a 2025 Spanish drama, Eva Libertad's debut feature, starring deaf actress Miriam Garlo as Ángela, a deaf mother-to-be with a hearing partner; Berlinale Panorama Audience Award, Málaga Golden Biznaga, three Goyas, and 2026 LUX Audience Award winner.

Deaf blind hypopigmentation syndrome, Yemenite type

Yemenite deaf-blind hypopigmentation syndrome (Warburg-Thomsen syndrome, ORPHA:3214) is an exceedingly rare autosomal disorder with patchy skin hypo- and hyperpigmentation, microcornea, coloboma, and severe hearing loss, first described in 1990; a mild SOX10 S135T form is distinguished from the severe SOX10-negative sibling case.

Deaf culture

Deaf culture is the shared language, values, and identity of sign-language communities, named in Padden and Humphries's 1988 Deaf in America; shaped by deaf schools, oralism, Deaf President Now, Deaf Way festivals, and cochlear implant debates.

Deaf Jam

Deaf Jam is a 2011 Judy Lieff documentary (PBS Independent Lens, November 3, 2011) following deaf Israeli-born teen Aneta Brodski of the Lexington School for the Deaf in Queens as she performs ASL poetry and duets with hearing Palestinian slam poet Tahani Salah; 70 minutes, 2012 Japan Prize winner.