Ouroboros (disambiguation)
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Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a snake or dragon swallowing its tail.
Ouroborus may also refer to:
Animals
- Ouroboros, a reptile genus containing the armadillo girdled lizard
Art, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Ouroboros, a criminal organisation featured in the 2011 anime series, Tiger & Bunny
- Ouroboros, a recurring boss character in Strider video games and Strider Hiryu's signature attack in the Marvel vs. Capcom series
- Uroboros, a viral organism from the game Resident Evil 5
Film and television
Series
- Ouroboros (Drama Series), a 2015 Japanese television drama based on Yuya Kanzaki's seinen manga Ouroboros.
Episodes
- "Ouroboros" (Red Dwarf), an episode of the sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf
- "Ouroboros" (Charlie Jade), an episode of the television series Charlie Jade
- "Ouroboros", an episode of the Canadian TV series Andromeda
- "Ouroboros" (April 2016), season 2, episode 3 of the TV series Fear the Walking Dead. The concept returns in season 2, episode 6, when a dog seen eating the dead early in the episode is presumably fed to the walkers near the episode's end.
Other uses
- Featured in the movie Predestination (2014)
- "Ouroboros", the special tattoos defining homunculi in the anime Fullmetal Alchemist, and its second adaptation, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
Literature
- The Worm Ouroboros, fantasy novel by Eric Rücker Eddison
- Ouroboros or The Mechanical Extension of Mankind, a novel by Garet Garrett
Music
Groups
- Oroboros, a jam band by Jim Miller
Oratorio
- Ouroboros: Seasons of Life--Women's Passages, an oratorio by Kay Gardner
Albums
- Uroboros (album), a 2008 album by Dir en grey
- Ouroboros (album), a 2010 album by Merzbow
- Ouroboros (Ray LaMontagne album), a 2016 album by Ray LaMontagne
Songs
- "Ouroboros", song by progressive rock band The Mars Volta
- "Oroborus", song on the album The Way of All Flesh (2008) by French heavy metal band Gojira
- Ouroboros, a song made by Kevin Macleod
- Ouroboros, a song on the album The Light by the band Uncle Lucius
Computing and technology
- Ouroboros, community weblog devoted to research in the biology of aging
- Ouroboros, a gaming mouse by Razer Inc
- Uroburos, a rootkit for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system
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