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Wolfoo
Wolfoo is a Vietnamese animated preschool web series about a young wolf cub, produced by SConnect from 2018 and distributed on YouTube in about 20 languages. In 2026 a UK High Court found it copied Peppa Pig sound recordings and ordered all videos removed worldwide.
Wolfram (film)
Wolfram is a 2025 Australian western by Warwick Thornton, a sequel to Sweet Country, set in 1932 at a tungsten mine where Aboriginal child labourers escape their masters; it premiered at Adelaide and competed at Berlinale 2026.
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1170 to c. 1220) was a Middle High German poet best known for Parzival, the Grail romance composed between 1200 and 1210.
Wolfsangel
Wolfsangel ("wolf's hook", Dopplehaken): German symbol based on a medieval wolf trap, common in heraldry, appropriated by Nazi SS divisions and later neo-Nazi groups; not a genuine rune.
Wolfsbane (character)
Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair), Marvel Comics mutant with lycanthropy who transforms at will into a wolf; first New Mutant, debut Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (1982); later X-Factor and Excalibur member, played by Maisie Williams in the 2020 film.
Wolfwalkers
Wolfwalkers is a 2020 hand-drawn animated fantasy by Cartoon Saloon, directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, set in 1650 Kilkenny; the third Irish Folklore Trilogy film, Oscar-nominated and streaming on Apple TV+.
Wolin Seokbo
Wolin Seokbo is a Korean Buddhist book compiled by King Sejo of Joseon in 1459, combining Sejong's song cycle Wolincheongangjigok with a prose biography of the Buddha.
Wolof griot epic
The Wolof griot epic is the oral heroic tradition performed by griots among the Wolof people of Senegal and Gambia, best known through the Epic of Kajoor.
Wolof novel
The Wolof novel is extended narrative fiction written in Wolof, Senegal's most widely spoken language; the first published Wolof novel is Mame Younousse Dieng's Aawo bi of 1992.
Wolof urban rap and slam poetry
Wolof urban rap and slam poetry are Senegal's two principal spoken-word forms: rap, known locally as rap galsen, grew from 1980s Dakar dance culture, while slam has associations in all 14 regions.
Wolverine (character)
Wolverine (Logan, James Howlett) is a Marvel Comics mutant created by Len Wein and John Romita Sr., debuting in The Incredible Hulk #180 (1974), defined by a healing factor, adamantium claws and skeleton, X-Men membership, and Hugh Jackman's film portrayal.
Wolverine (comic book)
Wolverine comic book series starring Logan: the landmark 1982 Claremont-Miller limited series (Marvel's second limited series), the 189-issue 1988 ongoing, Weapon X, Old Man Logan, Death of Wolverine, and current volumes.
Wolverine and the X-Men (TV series)
Wolverine and the X-Men (also Wolverine & The X-Men) is a 26-episode Marvel animated series airing 2008–2009, in which Wolverine leads a reformed X-Men team against the MRD after Professor X warns of an apocalyptic future; cancelled after one season.
Wolves (2014 film)
Wolves (2014) is an action-horror werewolf film, David Hayter's directorial debut, starring Lucas Till as Cayden Richards alongside Jason Momoa and Stephen McHattie; released November 14, 2014 by Ketchup Entertainment, it earned $491,154 worldwide and 16% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Wolves (Selena Gomez and Marshmello song)
"Wolves" (Selena Gomez and Marshmello song): 2017 Interscope dance-pop single written by Gomez, Marshmello, Andrew Watt, Ali Tamposi, Louis Bell, Brian Lee, Carl Rosen; UK peak 9, US Hot 100 peak 20.
Wolves and Sheep
Wolves and Sheep (Волки и овцы) is an 1875 comedy in five acts by the Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky, set in a provincial town where schemers hunt a naive young widow's money.
Wolves in the Throne Room
Wolves in the Throne Room is an American black metal band formed in 2002 near Olympia, Washington, by brothers Aaron and Nathan Weaver, pioneers of Cascadian black metal.
Wolves of Glendale
Wolves of Glendale is an American comedy rock trio formed in 2022 in Glendale, California, blending '80s pop rock with satirical lyrics about everyday life.
Womack & Womack
Womack & Womack, also the House of Zekkariyas, were the husband-and-wife R&B duo of Cecil Womack and Linda Cooke, daughter of Sam Cooke; songwriters for Pendergrass and Pickett, best known for the 1988 international hit "Teardrops".
Woman and Child (زن و بچه)
Woman and Child (زن و بچه, Zan o bacheh) is a 2025 Iranian-French drama by Saeed Roustaee, starring Parinaz Izadyar and Payman Maadi, that premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at Cannes 2025; it completes his trilogy on Iranian women after Life and a Day and Leila's Brothers.
Woman and Labour
Woman and Labour is a 1911 book of feminist social theory by the South African writer Olive Schreiner, a leading influence on the women's movement.
Woman Applying Makeup
Woman Applying Makeup (Keshō no on'na) is a 1918 Japanese woodblock print by Hashiguchi Goyō, showing a woman powdering her shoulder before a hand mirror.
Woman at Point Zero
Woman at Point Zero (امرأة عند نقطة الصفر), 1975 novel by Egyptian psychiatrist Nawal El Saadawi; Firdaus, condemned for killing her pimp, narrates her life of FGM, forced marriage, and prostitution to a psychiatrist at Qanatir prison.
Woman I
Woman I is a large 1950–52 oil painting of a frontal female figure by Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, the first of six Woman paintings, held at MoMA.
Woman in Gold (film)
Woman in Gold (2015), Simon Curtis drama starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds, dramatizes Maria Altmann and Randol Schoenberg's real legal battle to recover Klimt's Nazi-looted Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I from Austria.
Woman in Love
Woman in Love: 1980 Barbra Streisand pop ballad written by Barry and Robin Gibb for the album Guilty; lead single, Billboard Hot 100 and UK number one, her fifth and final US chart-topper, Ivor Novello Award winner.
Woman in the Dunes (砂の女)
Woman in the Dunes (砂の女, Suna no onna) is a 1964 Japanese black-and-white film by Hiroshi Teshigahara, scripted by Kobo Abe from his 1962 novel, starring Eiji Okada and Kyoko Kishida; it won the Cannes Special Jury Prize and earned Academy Award nominations.
Woman in the Lake
Woman in the Lake (女のみづうみ, Onna no mizumi, also Woman of the Lake) is Yoshishige Yoshida's 1966 Japanese psychological drama starring Mariko Okada, freely adapted from Kawabata's novel The Lake and the first Gendai Eigasha production.
Woman in the Moon
Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) is Fritz Lang's 1929 German silent science fiction film about the first lunar expedition, written by Thea von Harbou, advised by Hermann Oberth and Willy Ley, and the origin of the rocket-launch countdown.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Woman in the Nineteenth Century is an 1845 book by Margaret Fuller that applies transcendentalist philosophy to the condition and rights of women, a foundational American feminist work.