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Warrior (2011 film)

Warrior is a 2011 American sports drama directed by Gavin O'Connor, starring Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy as estranged brothers who fight in the same MMA tournament.

Warrior (Kesha album)

Warrior, Kesha's second studio album (RCA/Kemosabe, 2012), blends dance-pop with rock, punk, and country; peaked No. 6 Billboard 200, No. 60 UK, with the single "Die Young" reaching No. 2 on the Hot 100.

Warrior Baek Dong-soo (무사 백동수)

Warrior Baek Dong-soo (무사 백동수, Moosa Baek Dong Soo) is a 2011 SBS Korean martial-arts sageuk, 29 episodes, July 4–October 10, 2011, starring Ji Chang-wook and Yoo Seung-ho, based on Lee Jae-hyun's manhwa and the real Muyedobotongji-era swordsman Baek Dong-soo.

Warrior Nun (TV series)

Warrior Nun is a 2020 Netflix supernatural drama created by Simon Barry, based on Ben Dunn's Warrior Nun Areala comics. It follows Ava Silva (Alba Baptista), revived with an angel's halo, fighting demons with the Order of the Cruciform Sword; canceled December 2022 after two seasons.

Warrior Nun Areala

Warrior Nun Areala is a comic book character created by Ben Dunn and published by Antarctic Press since 1994, centering on Sister Shannon Masters, a nun who fights demons.

Warrior of Capestrano

The Warrior of Capestrano (Italian: Guerriero di Capestrano) is a limestone statue of an armed man carved in the sixth century BC in Abruzzo, Italy.

Warrior on Horseback

Warrior on Horseback (Воин на коњ), also called Equestrian Warrior, is a colossal bronze equestrian monument and fountain on Macedonia Square, Skopje, unveiled 8 September 2011 as the centerpiece of Skopje 2014; sculpted by Valentina Stevanovska and widely recognized as Alexander the Great despite its anonymous official name.

Warriors (Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis album)

Warriors is a 2024 concept album by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, adapting the 1979 film The Warriors and Yurick's novel; released via Atlantic, 27 tracks, Nas executive producer, all-female Warriors, Broadway show planned.

Warriors (novel series)

Warriors (Warrior Cats) is a HarperCollins fantasy series about feral cat Clans begun with Into the Wild (2003), written by a team under the pseudonym Erin Hunter, created by Vicky Holmes with writers Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, and Tui Sutherland.

Warriors of Virtue

Warriors of Virtue is a 1997 children's fantasy adventure film directed by Ronny Yu, about a disabled American teenager transported to a magical world of kangaroo warriors.

Warriors Three

Warriors Three: Fandral, Hogun, and Volstagg, a trio of Asgardian allies of Thor created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Journey into Mystery #119 (1965); original Marvel inventions with no Norse myth basis, killed by Hela in Thor: Ragnarok.

Warriors Two (赞先生与找钱华)

Warriors Two (贊先生與找錢華, Mr. Tsang and Cashier Hua) is a 1978 Golden Harvest Hong Kong martial arts comedy directed by and starring Sammo Hung, telling how cashier Chan Wah becomes the Wing Chun disciple of master Leung Jan, historically Ip Man's teacher.

Warriors: Changing Skies

Warriors: Changing Skies is the ninth arc of the Warriors cat-fantasy series by Erin Hunter (HarperCollins), beginning with The Elders' Quest (2025). Its prophecy foretells the Moonpool's destruction and the end of the Clans' link to StarClan amid Twoleg construction.

Warung Beach Club

Warung Beach Club, nicknamed "O Templo", is a beachfront electronic music club at Praia Brava in Itajaí, Brazil, opened in 2002 and ranked in DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs.

Warwick Davis

Warwick Davis (Warwick Ashley Davis), British actor born 1970 in Epsom, Surrey, with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita; Wicket in Star Wars, star of Willow, Leprechaun, and Flitwick in Harry Potter; 2025 BAFTA Fellowship recipient.

Waryam Singh Sandhu

Waryam Singh Sandhu (ਵਰਿਆਮ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੰਧੂ; born 1945) is an Indian author of Punjabi short stories, known for Chauthi Koot, which won the 2000 Sahitya Akademi Award.

Was (Not Was)

Was (Not Was), American funk-pop band formed 1979 in Detroit by Don Was (Donald Fagenson) and David Was (David Weiss), known for surreal lyrics, guest vocalists like Ozzy Osbourne and Mel Tormé, and 1988 hits Walk the Dinosaur and Spy in the House of Love.

Wasabi (2001 film)

Wasabi (2001), French title Wasabi, la petite moutarde qui monte au nez, is a Luc Besson-written action comedy directed by Gérard Krawczyk, starring Jean Reno as a Paris cop who inherits guardianship of an unknown teenage daughter (Ryoko Hirosue) in Tokyo.

Wasafi FM

Wasafi FM is a 24-hour Swahili-language radio station broadcasting on 90.8 FM in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, launched in 2018 and owned by Diamond Platnumz's Wasafi Media.

Wasafiri

Wasafiri is a British literary magazine of international contemporary writing, founded in 1984 by Susheila Nasta at the University of Kent; its name is Kiswahili for 'travelers'.

Waseda Bungaku

Waseda Bungaku (早稲田文学, "Waseda Literature") is a Japanese literary magazine founded in October 1891 by Tsubouchi Shōyō as the organ of Tokyo Professional School, now Waseda University.

Wash It All Away (manga)

Wash It All Away (Kirei ni Shite Moraemasu ka.) is a seinen slice-of-life manga by Mitsuru Hattori, serialized in Young Gangan 2017–2023 in 71 chapters and 10 volumes, about dry cleaner Wakana Kinme of Atami; English print by Square Enix from 2025, anime in 2026.

Washed Out

Washed Out is the electronic project of Ernest Weatherly Greene, begun in Georgia in 2009, a leading chillwave act known for "Feel It All Around" (the Portlandia theme) and albums through Notes From a Quiet Life (2024).

Washi (和紙)

Washi (和紙) is Japan's traditional paper, made from kōzo, mitsumata, and gampi bark fibers by hand papermaking since around 610; paper from 702 survives in the Shōsōin, and three techniques were inscribed by UNESCO in 2014.

Washing Silk

Washing Silk (Huan Sha Ji, 浣纱记), also known as Wu Yue Chunqiu, is a Ming-dynasty chuanqi play by Liang Chenyu, first staged successfully in the reformed Kunshan singing style.

Washington Allston

Washington Allston (1779–1843) was an American painter and poet, born in South Carolina and trained in London, who led romanticism into American painting; his unfinished masterpiece Belshazzar's Feast is in the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Washington Benavides

Washington Benavides (1930–2017) was a Uruguayan poet, critic, and teacher from Tacuarembó who published more than 25 books and was a central figure of the Grupo de Tacuarembó.

Washington Black (TV series)

Washington Black is an eight-episode Hulu limited series premiered July 23, 2025, adapted from Esi Edugyan's Booker-shortlisted 2018 novel. Created by Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, it stars Ernest Kingsley Jr., Tom Ellis, and Sterling K. Brown, following an enslaved Barbados boy's globe-spanning 1830s adventure.

Washington Color School

The Washington Color School was a group of abstract painters in Washington, D.C., active from the mid-1950s through the 1970s, whose core six included Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and Gene Davis.

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Washington Crossing the Delaware is an 1851 oil painting by Emanuel Leutze showing George Washington leading the Continental Army across the Delaware River in 1776.