Blob may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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''The Blob'' (film series), a franchise of American science fiction monster-horror films
** ''
The Blob'', 1958 American science-fiction film
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''The Blob'' (1988 film), a remake of the 1958 film
* ''
The Blobs'', a 1980 animated TV series
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''Blob'' (video game), 1993
* Blob, a character in ''
ClayFighter
''ClayFighter'' is a fighting/beat 'em up series of video games. The series has character sprites rendered from clay-animated figures, and parodies of other fighting games such as ''Street Fighter'' and ''Mortal Kombat''.
''ClayFighter: Tour ...
'' video games
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Blob (Marvel Comics)
The Blob (Frederick J. "Fred" Dukes) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as an adversary of the X-Men. A mutant originally depicted as a morbidly obese circus fre ...
, a comic book character
* Blobs, a former animated mascot of
BBC Three
BBC Three is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was first launched on 9 February 2003 with programmes for a 16 to 34-year-old target aud ...
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Blob (card game), a variant of Oh Hell
Science and technology
Computing
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Object storage, or blob storage, that manages data as "blobs" or "objects"
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Binary blob, or blob, a non-free object in open source software
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Blob URI scheme, a URI scheme for binary data
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Image blob, a region of an image subject to detection
Other uses in science
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Blob (visual system), sections of the primary visual cortex
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The blob (Chukchi Sea algae), a large algae bloom in 2009
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The Blob (Pacific Ocean), a mass of warm water in the Pacific 2013–2016
* ''
Physarum polycephalum
''Physarum polycephalum'', an Multinucleate, acellular slime mold or myxomycete popularly known as "the blob", is a protist with diverse cellular forms and broad geographic distribution. The “acellular” moniker derives from the plasmodial s ...
'', or the blob, a slime mold
Other uses
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The Blob (Antarctica), a knoll on the north coast of Siple Island
* The Blob, slang for a largely
interventionist policy stance that dominates the
foreign policy of the United States
The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States of America, including all the bureaus and offices in the United States Department of State, as mentioned in the ''Foreign Policy Agenda'' of the Department of State, are ...
* Blob, related unit of
slug (unit)
The slug is a derived unit of mass in a weight-based system of measures, most notably within the British Imperial measurement system and the United States customary measures system. Systems of measure either define mass and derive a force uni ...
* Blob, mascot of USFL team
Philadelphia Stars
See also
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* ''
A Boy and His Blob'', 2009 video game
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Blobbing
Blobbing is an outdoor water activity in which a participant sits on the end of a partly inflated air bag (known as a water trampoline or blob) and is launched into the water when another participant jumps onto the air bag from a platform on the ...
, an outdoor water activity
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Blobfish (disambiguation), the common name of several species
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Cold blob, a mass of cold water in the North Atlantic
* ''
de Blob
''De Blob'' (Stylized as ''de BLOB'') is a puzzle-platform game developed by Blue Tongue Entertainment and published by THQ for the Wii. Players explore and liberate an alien city from the evil and monochromatic INKT Corporation that has tak ...
'', a 2008 Wii video game
* The Problem Blob, a villain in TV series the ''
Numberjacks''
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Monsters vs. Aliens
''Monsters vs. Aliens'' is a 2009 American animated science fiction comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Conrad Vernon and Rob Letterman from a screenplay written by Let ...
, which features a character B.O.B., a brainless and living indestructible mass of blue goo
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