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Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Spike is a fictional vampire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, portrayed by James Marsters. Also known as William the Bloody, he developed from an antagonist intended for a short role into a.
Spike (My Little Pony)
Spike is the baby dragon assistant of Twilight Sparkle in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (2010–2019), voiced by Cathy Weseluck, present in every generation since G1, and absent from the announced 2027 Forever Friendship leads.
Spike Fearn
Spike Fearn (born 2000, Coalville, Leicestershire) is a British actor known for Alien: Romulus (Bjorn), The Batman, Aftersun, Tell Me Everything, and his first lead in Finding Emily (2026); Screen International 2024 Star of Tomorrow.
Spike Island (film)
Spike Island (2012) is a British coming-of-age comedy-drama directed by Mat Whitecross, written by Chris Coghill, about five Manchester teens in band Shadowcaster trying to reach the Stone Roses' 1990 Spike Island gig.
Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze, the professional name of Adam Spiegel, is an American director of music videos and films including Being John Malkovich and Her, which won him an Academy Award.
Spike Lee
Spike Lee (Shelton Jackson Lee), American filmmaker and NYU tenured professor behind She's Gotta Have It, Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, BlacKkKlansman, and Highest 2 Lowest, via 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks.
Spike of Bensonhurst
Spike of Bensonhurst (1988) is Paul Morrissey's last narrative feature, a Brooklyn mob comedy starring Sasha Mitchell as boxer Spike Fumo and Ernest Borgnine as don Baldo Cacetti; released by FilmDallas, it grossed $623,112 and was restored on 4K UHD by Fun City Editions.
Spike Spiegel (スパイク・スピーゲル)
Spike Spiegel (スパイク・スピーゲル) is the fictional bounty-hunter protagonist of Sunrise's 1998 anime Cowboy Bebop: 27 years old, born on Mars, ex-Red Dragon Syndicate hitman, Jeet Kune Do practitioner, voiced by Kōichi Yamadera and played by John Cho in Netflix's 2021 live-action series.
Spin City
Spin City (1996–2002) is an ABC sitcom created by Gary David Goldberg and Bill Lawrence about New York Deputy Mayor Mike Flaherty (Michael J. Fox) managing Mayor Randall Winston; Charlie Sheen led the final two seasons after Fox left.
Spin Me Round
Spin Me Round is a 2022 comedy directed by Jeff Baena, co-written with star Alison Brie, about a chain-restaurant manager whose Italian company retreat turns chaotic; released by IFC Films, mixed reviews.
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues is a 2025 mockumentary comedy sequel to This Is Spinal Tap, directed by Rob Reiner, reuniting McKean, Guest, and Shearer for one final New Orleans concert, with McCartney and Elton John cameos.
SpindleHorse
SpindleHorse (SpindleHorse Toons) is the independent, women-led Burbank, California animation studio founded in 2018 by Vivienne Medrano (VivziePop), producer of Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss, unionized with IATSE in 2025.
Spinning Man
Spinning Man: 2018 psychological thriller by Swedish director Simon Kaijser, screenplay Matthew Aldrich, adapted from George Harrar's 2003 novel. Guy Pearce plays philosophy professor Evan Birch, prime suspect in a student's disappearance, opposite Pierce Brosnan's Detective Malloy; Lionsgate Premiere released it to $283,755 and mixed reviews.
Spinning Out
Spinning Out is a 2020 Netflix drama series, 10 episodes, created by former skater Samantha Stratton, starring Kaya Scodelario as injured skater Kat Baker; canceled after one season.
Spiral (2021 film)
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021) is the ninth Saw film, directed by Darren Lynn Bousman from Chris Rock's idea, starring Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, and Max Minghella as police hunt a Jigsaw-style killer targeting corrupt cops; released May 14, 2021, it earned 39% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Spiral (TV series)
Spiral (Engrenages) is a French police and legal drama, Canal+'s first internationally successful crime series, running eight seasons (2005–2020, 86 episodes) about Paris's 2e DPJ unit, with Laure Berthaud, Joséphine Karlsson, and Judge Roban; International Emmy 2015.
Spirit Fingers (TV series)
Spirit Fingers (스피릿 핑거스) is a 2025 TVING South Korean drama, 12 episodes, adapted from Han Kyoung Chal's Naver webtoon (1.3 billion views); starring Park Ji-hu and Jo Jun-young, released Oct 29 to Nov 26, 2025, ranked 9th in TIME's Best K-Dramas of 2025.
Spirit Riding Free
Spirit Riding Free is a DreamWorks/Netflix CGI animated series (2017, creator Aury Wallington) about Lucky Prescott, her mustang Spirit Jr., and friends Pru and Abigail in Miradero; inspired by the 2002 film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.
Spirit Untamed
Spirit Untamed is a 2021 American computer-animated adventure film from DreamWorks Animation, directed by Elaine Bogan, about a girl named Lucky Prescott who befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is a 2002 DreamWorks animated Western directed by Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook, with Matt Damon narrating a mute mustang's story, Bryan Adams songs, a Hans Zimmer score, an $80 million budget, $122.6 million gross, and a Best Animated Feature Oscar nomination lost to Spirited Away.
Spirited (film)
Spirited (2022) is an Apple Original Films Christmas musical comedy retelling A Christmas Carol from the ghosts' perspective, directed by Sean Anders, starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds, with songs by Pasek and Paul, released on Apple TV+ November 18, 2022.
Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し)
Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し, Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) is Studio Ghibli's 2001 Hayao Miyazaki film about Chihiro working in a spirit bathhouse; Japan's then record-grossing film, Golden Bear and Oscar winner.
Spiritual successor
A spiritual successor, also called a spiritual sequel, is a new work resembling an earlier one under a separate brand, most commonly in video games.
Spit (2025 film)
Spit (2025) is an Australian comedy-crime film by Jonathan Teplitzky and Chris Nyst, a sequel to Gettin' Square, starring David Wenham as Johnny Spitieri, detained on return to Australia; released 6 March 2025.
Spitting Image
Spitting Image: British satirical puppet sketch show on ITV 1984–1996, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law, and Martin Lambie-Nairn; latex caricatures of Thatcher and others, 15 million peak viewers, BritBox revival 2020, cancelled after two series.
Spitting Image (2020 TV series)
Spitting Image (2020) was a BritBox revival of the British satirical puppet show, led by Roger Law with showrunner Jeff Westbrook, two 10-episode series from October 2020 to December 2021, cancelled in 2022.
SPL II: A Time for Consequences (โหดซัดโหด)
SPL II: A Time for Consequences (杀破狼2, Saat po long 2) is a 2015 Hong Kong action thriller by Soi Cheang starring Tony Jaa, Wu Jing, Simon Yam, and Zhang Jin, a name-only sequel to SPL about a Thai prison fronting an organ-trafficking ring.
SPL: Sha Po Lang (杀破狼)
SPL: Sha Po Lang (殺破狼, Kill Zone) is a 2005 Hong Kong action crime film directed by Wilson Yip, starring Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Simon Yam, and Wu Jing; Yen's realistic action direction won a Hong Kong Film Award and spawned two sequels.
Splash (film)
Splash (1984) is a Ron Howard romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah about a man in love with a mermaid; it was the first Touchstone film, Disney's mature-themes label, released March 9, 1984.
Splash Splash Love (퐁당퐁당 Love)
Splash Splash Love (퐁당퐁당 LOVE) is a 2015 MBC 54th-anniversary time-slip romance web drama in which math-fearing senior Jang Dan-bi lands in drought-era Joseon and tutors young King Lee Do; 10 Naver episodes, 2 TV parts, starring Kim Seul-gi and Yoon Doo-joon.