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Hunter-Killer (comics)

Hunter-Killer is a comic book series from Top Cow Productions, Created by Mark Waid and Marc Silvestri. Silvestri provided the art for the first story arc while Eric Basaldua and Kenneth Rocafort drew the remaining issues. The series started in March 2005.

The protagonist of the story is a young man named Ellis. Other main characters are Wolf and Samantha Argent, some of the hunter-killers the title refers to.

Hunter-killer

Hunter-killer may refer to:

In military terminology:

  • Hunter-killer team, A team that separates the tasks of "hunting" and "killing" to two or more individuals.
  • Hunter-killer armored-vehicle team, scout vehicles and tanks operating in concert as "hunters" and "killers"
  • Hunter-killer sight, a vehicle commander's sight, independent of the gunner's sight
  • Hunter-killer submarines, also called attack submarines
  • USAF Hunter-Killer program developing unmanned combat air vehicles
  • Hunter-killer Group, World War II formation of Allied warships usually including an escort carrier (CVE), tasked with locating and sinking enemy submarines

In music:

  • "Hunter/Killer", track on album Day into Night by Quo Vadis
  • "Hunter Killer", track on album Carnival Diablos by Annihilator
  • "H-K (Hunter-Killer)", a track on the album Demanufacture by Fear Factory

In fictional works:

  • Hunter-Killer (comics), a comic book series
  • 688(I) Hunter/Killer, 1997 submarine simulator game developed by Sonalysts Inc. and published by Electronic Arts
  • Hunter-Killer, a 1966 novel by Geoffrey Jenkins
  • Hunter-Killer Hydralisks from Starcraft
  • In The Terminator movie 1984, they are referred to as "HK's."

In fictional equipment:

  • Hunter-Killer robots from Spider-Man (2002 video game)
  • Hunter-Killer robotic vehicles, fictional robotic military in the Terminator franchise.
  • Hunter killer drone, strike package reward on Call of Duty Black Ops II

Usage examples of "hunter-killer".

He had, after all, done his nuke perisher - the cos' Qualifying Course - after surviving the Icarus incident, and FOSM'S appointer had at the time hinted that if Farge succeeded in the perisher and was promoted to commander, he would, as the most experienced of the candidates, be getting one of the Swiftsures - the nuclear hunter-killers which, because of their success, were now being produced as fast as the yards could build them.

On this flight, the Blackjack-E was loaded for a multirole hunter-killer mission.

He had gone so far as to steal a staple remover from an untended desk at church and then incorporate it into an Erector-set robot hunter-killer device with which he terrorized much of the neighborhood.