Epic commonly refers to: *

Epic poetry An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants. ...

, a long narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation *

Epic film Epic films are a style of filmmaking with large-scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle. The usage of the term has shifted over time, sometimes designating a film genre and at other times simply synonymous with big-budget filmmaking. Like epics in ...

, a genre of film with heroic elements Epic or EPIC may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Epic'' (1984 film) * ''Epic'' (2013 film)

Gaming

* ''Epic'' (game), a series of wargames * ''Epic'' (video game), a 1992 video game * ''Epic: Battle for Moonhaven'', a 2013 video game by

Gameloft Gameloft SE is a French video game publisher based in Paris, founded in December 1999 by Ubisoft co-founder Michel Guillemot. The company operates 18 development studios worldwide, and publishes games with a special focus on the mobile games ma ...

based on the film ''Epic'' (2013) * '' Epic Card Game'', a 2015 strategy card game by White Wizard Games

Literature

* ''Epic'' (Kostick novel), a 2004 novel by Conor Kostick * ''

Epic Illustrated ''Epic Illustrated'' was a comics anthology in magazine format published in the United States by Marvel Comics. Similar to the US-licensed comic book magazine '' Heavy Metal'', it allowed explicit content to be featured, unlike the traditional Ame ...

'', a 1980s anthology series published by Marvel Comics

Music

Albums

* ''Epic'' (Blood on the Dance Floor album), 2011 * ''Epic'' (Borknagar album), 2004 * ''Epic'' (R. Kelly album), 2010 * ''Epic'' (Sharon Van Etten album), 2010 * ''Epic'' (Tang Dynasty album), 1998

Songs

* "Epic" (Faith No More song), 1990 * "Epic" (Sandro Silva & Quintino song), 2011 * "Epic" (Big Time Rush song), 2011 * "Epic", a song by Sentenced from '' North from Here''

Genres

Epic fantasy High fantasy, or epic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy defined by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot. Brian Stableford, ''The A to Z of Fantasy Literature'', (p. 198), Scarecrow Press, ...

, a subgenre of fantasy literature * Epic trance, a subgenre of trance music

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Epic TV Epic TV is an Indian television channel that airs action, drama, comedy and narrative non-fiction and fictional programming with a focus on Indian history, folklore and epic genre. Launched by In10 Media Pvt. Ltd. on 19 November 2014, a compan ...

, an Indian Hindi-language TV channel *

Epic Comics Epic Comics (also known as the Epic Comics Group)Shooter, Jim. "Bullpen Bulletins: The Truth About the Epic Comics Group!" Marvel comics cover-dated November 1982. was an imprint of Marvel Comics from 1982 to 1996. A spin-off of the publisher's ...

, an imprint of Marvel Comics * Epic Records, a record label subsidiary of Sony

Brands and enterprises

* Epic, a telecommunications company owned by

Monaco Telecom Monaco Telecom is the main telecommunications provider in the Principality of Monaco. The company was founded in 1997 following a decision by the government of Monaco to privatize the state-owned Office Monégasque des Téléphones. Internat ...

Epic (Cyprus) Epic LTD (previously operating as MTN Cyprus), is a Cyprus based telecommunications services provider owned by Monaco Telecom. It is the second largest mobile network operator in Cyprus by number of subscribers, behind CYTA. In addition to its a ...

, a telecommunications provider in Cyprus, formerly MTN Cyprus **

Epic (Malta) Epic Communications Limited (formerly Vodafone Malta and Telecell) is a Maltese mobile network operator, and the second largest mobile network in Malta by number of customers. The company offers a full range of Voice, SMS and mobile Data service ...

, a telecommunications provider in Malta, formerly Vodafone Malta *

Epic Aircraft Epic Aircraft is a general aviation aircraft manufacturer headquartered in Bend, Oregon. The company produces the Epic E1000 GX single engine turboprop design. Founded in 2004, the company initially manufactured and sold kits for the Epic LT. ...

, an aircraft manufacturer in Bend, Oregon *

Epic Games Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, ...

, an American video game company *

Epic Systems Epic Systems Corporation, or Epic, is an American privately held healthcare software company. According to the company, hospitals that use its software held medical records of 78% of patients in the United States and over 3% of patients worldwi ...

, a healthcare software company in Verona, Wisconsin *

Epics (company) is a Japanese video game software developer located in Tokyo, Japan. Originally established as “GEN CREATIVE HOUSE CO., LTD.” in February 1987, changed company name to “G-Artists Inc.” in March 1991, then to “epics Inc.” in June 2 ...

, a Japanese video game developer * Red Epic, a motion picture camera produced by Red Digital Cinema

Organizations

* Education for Peace in Iraq Center, a charitable organization located in Washington, D.C. * El Paso Intelligence Center, a Drug Enforcement Agency building in El Paso, Texas * Electors Photo Identity Card, the standard form of voter ID in India *

Electronic Privacy Information Center Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is an independent nonprofit research center in Washington, D.C. EPIC's mission is to focus public attention on emerging privacy and related human rights issues. EPIC works to protect privacy, freedom ...

, an independent non-profit research center *

End Poverty in California End Poverty in California (EPIC) was a political campaign started in 1934 by socialist writer Upton Sinclair (best known as author of ''The Jungle''). The movement formed the basis for Sinclair's campaign for Governor of California in 1934. The p ...

, a political movement led by Upton Sinclair *

Établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial An établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial (EPIC; ) is, in France, a category of public undertaking. It includes state-controlled entities of an industrial or commercial nature, including some research institutes and infrastru ...

, a type of public-sector body in France and other countries * European Photonics Industry Consortium, an association of photonics companies based in Paris * Epic Energy, owner and operator of gas pipelines in South Australia

Places

EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, located in Dublin's Docklands, covers the history of the Irish diaspora and emigration to other countries. It was designed by the London-based design firm Event Communications, and was voted as "Europe's Leadi ...

, located in Dublin's Docklands *

Epic Residences & Hotel Epic Hotel is an urban hotel and residential skyscraper in Downtown Miami, Florida, United States. Epic is tall and has 54 floors. The tower is located on the north bank of the Miami River in Downtown Miami's Central Business District. It is ...

, a skyscraper in Downtown Miami completed in 2008 *

East Plano Islamic Center The East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) is a mosque located in Plano, Texas. The current building of the masjid opened in July 2015, although the mosque started a decade earlier. The current Imam is Nadim Bashir, and the current resident scholar i ...

, or EPIC Masjid, a mosque located in Plano, Texas * Eastside Preparatory Impact Center, a building focused on sustainability at Eastside Preparatory School, Kirkland, Washington * Energy Production and Infrastructure Center, at the

University of North Carolina at Charlotte The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte or simply Charlotte) is a public research university in Charlotte, North Carolina. UNC Charlotte offers 24 doctoral, 66 master's, and 79 bachelor's degree programs through nine colle ...

Exhibition Park in Canberra Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC) is a 70 hectare showground and multi-building venue for exhibitions, conferences, and events located in the suburb of Lyneham (though commonly listed in the adjacent Mitchell) in Canberra, Australia. Regu ...

, a large showground and multi-building venue in Australia

Technology

EPIC (form factor) Embedded Platform for Industrial Computing (EPIC) is a computer form factor, a standard for an industrial-quality single-board computer, in use from about 2004 through 2016. History The EPIC standard was developed by a combined effort from WinS ...

, a single-board computer form factor based on the PC/104 ** EPIC Express, an EPIC board with PCI Express capability * Epic (web browser) * Epic, a large

user story In software development and product management, a user story is an informal, natural language description of features of a software system. They are written from the perspective of an end user or user of a system, and may be recorded on index ...

in software development and product management * Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera, an earth-facing camera in the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite * Electromagnetic Personal Interdiction Control * Embedded Programmable Interrupt Controller * EPICS, a software environment for distributed control systems * Evolutionary Process for Integrating COTS-Based Systems * Explicitly parallel instruction computing, a CPU architecture design philosophy

Other uses

* Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog, a database of stars and planets * Epic Mazur (born 1970), an American rapper * EPIC, the term for a

ticker symbol A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market. In short, ticker symbols are arrangements of symbols or characters (generally Latin letters ...

in the United Kingdom prior to 1996 * Epic morphism, or

epimorphism In category theory, an epimorphism (also called an epic morphism or, colloquially, an epi) is a morphism ''f'' : ''X'' → ''Y'' that is right-cancellative in the sense that, for all objects ''Z'' and all morphisms , : g_1 \circ f = g_2 \circ f ...

, a mathematical concept * European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition, a Europe-wide cohort study of diet and cancer * ''

Norwegian Epic ''Norwegian Epic'' is a cruise ship of the Norwegian Cruise Line built under that line's F3 Project by STX Europe Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France. When built she was the third largest cruise ship in the world. Two ...

'', a cruise ship * Excellence in Prehospital Injury Care, a program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson