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Manhunt 2
Manhunt 2 is Rockstar's 2007 stealth-horror game for Wii, PS2, PSP, and PC, starring Daniel Lamb and Leo Kasper of the Pickman Project; initially rated AO by the ESRB and refused UK classification by the BBFC.
Manhunt for Osama bin Laden
The manhunt for Osama bin Laden was the U.S. effort, from his 1998 indictment to the May 2, 2011 SEAL raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed the al Qaeda founder, driven by courier-network intelligence and later documented in declassified releases.
Manhunter (film)
Manhunter (1986) is Michael Mann's crime thriller adapted from Thomas Harris's Red Dragon, starring William Petersen, Brian Cox as the first screen Hannibal Lecktor, and Tom Noonan; a box-office flop that became a cult classic, re-released in 2026 as a 4K Final Cut.
Manhush Raion
Manhush Raion (Мангушський район), formerly Pershotravneve Raion, was a district of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, seat Manhush, on the Azov Sea; created 1926, renamed 2016, abolished 2020 into Mariupol Raion, occupied by Russia since March 2022.
Manhwa (만화)
Manhwa (만화) is Korean comics, sharing the characters 漫畵 with manga and manhua. From 1909 political cartoons and the 1924 serial 멍텅구리 to today's full-color vertical-scroll webtoons adapted into K-dramas.
Mani (musician)
Mani (Gary Mounfield, 1962-2025), English bassist of the Stone Roses and Primal Scream; northern soul and funk-influenced Rickenbacker player whose basslines defined Madchester-era British rock.
Mani (مانی) (prophet)
Mani (مانی), also known as Manichaeus, was a prophet born around 216 in Mesopotamia who founded Manichaeism, a dualist religion spreading from Rome to China.
Mani bhadra yoga
Manibhadra yoga (maṇībhadra guḍa), an Ayurvedic Formulary of India jaggery-based herbal confection of Embelia ribes, Phyllanthus emblica, Terminalia chebula, Operculina turpethum, used as a mild purgative for skin disease, worms, and cough.
Mani Ratnam
Mani Ratnam (born Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam, 1956, Madurai) is an Indian film director and producer behind Nayakan, Roja, Bombay, Iruvar, Guru, and Ponniyin Selvan; Padma Shri 2002, seven National Film Awards, Madras Talkies founder.
Mani Ratnam filmography
Mani Ratnam filmography: about 29 films directed 1983-2025 by Tamil filmmaker Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam, from Pallavi Anu Pallavi through Nayakan, the Roja-Bombay-Dil Se trilogy, Ponniyin Selvan, and Thug Life.
Mani Shankar Aiyar (மணி சங்கர் அய்யர்)
Mani Shankar Aiyar (மணி சங்கர் அய்யர்), born 1941 in Lahore, is an Indian National Congress politician, former diplomat, and author; first Panchayati Raj minister, UPA-I cabinet minister, three-term Lok Sabha MP, and critic of Rahul Gandhi.
Mani Sharma (మణిశర్మ)
Mani Sharma, also known as Yanamandra Venkata Subrahmanya Sharma, is an Indian film music composer and producer born in 1964, best known for Telugu films like Pokiri and Indra.
Mani Soyo
Mani Soyo, or Mwene Soyo, was the hereditary ruler of Soyo, a province of the kingdom of Kongo that became virtually independent in the 1640s.
Mania
Mania: abnormally elevated, expansive, or irritable mood with increased energy lasting at least a week, the hallmark of bipolar I disorder; from Greek μανία, first described by Hippocrates, treated with lithium, valproate, or antipsychotics.
Mania (Fall Out Boy album)
M A N I A is Fall Out Boy's seventh studio album, released January 19, 2018 on Island/Virgin EMI. Delayed after the poorly received single Young and Menace, it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 but divided fans with its electronic pop production.
Mania of Dardanus
Mania (Μανία) was a Greek vassal ruler of Dardanus who governed a command in Aeolis under the satrap Pharnabazus and was murdered in 399 BC.
Maniac (1980 film)
Maniac (1980) is William Lustig's American slasher-horror film starring Joe Spinell as killer Frank Zito, co-written with C.A. Rosenberg, with Tom Savini effects; premiered Cannes 1980, US release 1981, later remade in 2012 with Elijah Wood.
Maniac (2012 film)
Maniac (2012) is a French-American slasher remake of William Lustig's 1980 film, directed by Franck Khalfoun, written by Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur, starring Elijah Wood as killer Frank Zito, shot almost entirely in first-person POV.
Maniac (Michael Sembello song)
"Maniac" by Michael Sembello (with Dennis Matkosky), 1983 Flashdance soundtrack dance-pop single produced by Phil Ramone; a rewritten serial-killer joke that hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was Oscar-nominated.
Maniac (miniseries)
Maniac (2018) is a 10-episode Netflix limited series by Patrick Somerville and Cary Joji Fukunaga, starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill in a pharmaceutical drug trial, loosely based on the 2015 Norwegian series Maniac.
Maniac Cop
Maniac Cop (1988) is an American horror film directed by William Lustig and written by Larry Cohen, starring Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, and Robert Z'Dar as Matt Cordell, a murdered cop returning for revenge; it spawned two sequels.
Maniac Magee
Maniac Magee is Jerry Spinelli's 1990 Little, Brown children's novel about orphan Jeffrey Magee in the racially divided town of Two Mills, Pennsylvania; it won the 1991 Newbery Medal and sold 3.3 million copies by 2015.
Maniac Mansion
Maniac Mansion is a 1987 Lucasfilm Games point-and-click adventure by Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick for the Commodore 64, which introduced the SCUMM engine and a 15-verb interface that defined the adventure game genre.
Manibhadra guda
Manibhadra guda (मणिभद्र गुड़), also Manibhadra yoga or avaleha, is a classical Ayurvedic jaggery-based purgative from Ashtanga Hridaya, made of Vidanga, Amalaki, Haritaki, Trivrit and jaggery, used for skin diseases and worms; no randomized trial evidence exists.
Manic Miner
Manic Miner is Matthew Smith's 1983 ZX Spectrum platform game published by Bug-Byte, starring Miner Willy across 20 caverns with an oxygen timer, Strauss's Blue Danube title music, and a BBG Entertainment authorized remake due November 5, 2026.
Manic Monday
Manic Monday: 1986 Bangles hit written by Prince under the pseudonym Christopher, originally recorded in 1984 for Apollonia 6; reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 behind Prince's Kiss and peaked at number 2 in the UK.
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG): film trope coined by critic Nathan Rabin in 2007 for a quirky female character, like Kirsten Dunst's Claire in Elizabethtown, existing to teach a brooding man to embrace life; Rabin later apologized for the term.
Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers, Welsh rock band formed 1986 in Blackwood (Bradfield, Wire, Moore, and until 1995 Richey Edwards), known for The Holy Bible, UK number-one albums, and politically literary lyrics.
Manic-2
Manic-2, officially the Jean-Lesage generating station, is a Hydro-Québec dam on the Manicouagan River near Baie-Comeau, Québec. Commissioned in 1965, it tested the world's first 735-kilovolt transmission line.
Manic-3
Manic-3, officially the René-Lévesque generating station since 2010, is a Hydro-Québec hydroelectric plant on the Manicouagan River in Quebec, built between 1971 and 1975 with an underground powerhouse.