Ripper or The Ripper may refer to:

People

* Ripper (surname) * Paul Burchill, ring name "The Ripper", a professional wrestler based on Jack the Ripper * Kirk Hammett, nicknamed "The Ripper", the lead guitarist in the heavy metal band Metallica * Jack the Ripper, a pseudonym for an unidentified serial killer (or killers) active in London in the latter half of 1888 *

Ripper Jayanandan K P "Ripper" Jayanandan (born 1968) is a serial killer from Thrissur (formerly Trichur) who is accused of seven murders committed during a span of 35 robberies, in and around Thrissur Ernakulam border areas. For the seven murders committed by ...

(born 1968), Indian serial killer * Tim "Ripper" Owens, a heavy metal singer * Psicosis II, a Mexican ''Luchador enmascarado'' who was renamed Psyco Ripper and then Ripper * Terry "The Ripper" Rivera, a professional wrestler from All-Star Wrestling * Danny Rolling, serial killer known as the "Gainesville Ripper" * Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer active in Yorkshire from 1975–1980 * Brandon Vedas, nicknamed "Ripper", a man who died of a drug overdose on IRC

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

* Ripper (G.I. Joe), in the G.I. Joe universe * "Ripper", the villain in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film '' Last Action Hero'' *

Rupert Giles Rupert Giles is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. The character is portrayed by Anthony Stewart Head. He serves as Buffy Summers' mentor and surrogate father figure. The characte ...

, a major character from the TV series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' also known as "Ripper" * General

Jack D. Ripper ''Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'', known simply and more commonly as ''Dr. Strangelove'', is a 1964 black comedy film that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and t ...

, in the movie ''Dr. Strangelove'', played by Sterling Hayden * Rippers, horizontally flying bug-like creatures belonging to the

Metroid is an action-adventure game franchise created by Nintendo. The player controls the bounty hunter Samus Aran, who protects the galaxy from Space Pirate (Metroid), Space Pirates and other malevolent forces and their attempts to harness the powe ...

series * Rippers, a race of mutant kangaroo–human hybrids in the graphic novel and film ''

Tank Girl ''Tank Girl'' is a British comic book character created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, and first appeared in print in 1988 in the British comics magazine ''Deadline''. After a period of intense popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, ...

'' * Stefan Salvatore, from ''The Vampire Diaries'' also known as "Ripper"

Film and television

* ''Ripper'' (film), a 2001 Canadian-British slasher film * ''Ripper'' (''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' spinoff), a proposed TV series featuring the character Rupert Giles * ''The Ripper'' (TV series), a 2020 British docuseries about Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper * "Ripper" (''The Outer Limits''), a television episode

Games

* ''Ripper'' (video game), a computer game released in 1996 * ''The Ripper'' (video game), a video game cancelled in 2009

Literature

* ''Ripper'' (''El juego de Ripper''), a novel by Isabel Allende * ''Ripper'', the fourth novel in

Michael Slade Michael Slade (born 1947, in Lethbridge, Alberta) is the pen name of Canadian novelist Jay Clarke, a lawyer who has participated in more than 100 criminal cases and who specializes in criminal insanity. Background Before Clarke entered law schoo ...

's long-running ''Special X'' series

Music

* Ripper, a Houston heavy metal band, and recording artists for Black Widow Records * "The Ripper" (song), a song by Judas Priest, from the album ''Sad Wings of Destiny''

Devices

* Ripper,

slater A slater, or slate mason, is a tradesman, tradesperson who covers buildings with slate. Tools of the trade The various hand tool, tools of the slater's trade are all drop-forged. The slater's hammer is forged in one single piece, from crucib ...

's tool with a blade and a hook, used for removing broken slate * Ripper, a moveable hard steel hook on the back of a

bulldozer A bulldozer or dozer (also called a crawler) is a large, motorized machine equipped with a metal blade to the front for pushing material: soil, sand, snow, rubble, or rock during construction work. It travels most commonly on continuous track ...

used to break up hard soil or pavement * CD ripper, a piece of software that reads compact discs and extracts audio data and stores it in an audio format computer file *

DVD ripper Ripping is extracting all or parts of digital content from a container. Originally, it meant to rip music out of Commodore 64 games. Later, the term was used to extract WAV or MP3 format files from digital audio CDs, but got applied as well to ext ...

, a computer application that copies the contents of a DVD to a hard disk * A type of small cordless

chainsaw A chainsaw (or chain saw) is a portable gasoline-, electric-, or battery-powered saw that cuts with a set of teeth attached to a rotating chain driven along a guide bar. It is used in activities such as tree felling, limbing, bucking, pruning, ...

, used by the

Enclave An enclave is a territory (or a small territory apart of a larger one) that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state or entity. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters. ''Enclave'' is sometimes used improperly to deno ...

and Brotherhood of Steel in the Fallout series.

Sports

Grand Rapids (baseball team) The Grand Rapids Baseball Club was a minor league baseball team based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA that played under several different names at various times between 1883 and 1951. They played mostly in the Central League but also in various ot ...

, known as the Rippers in 1894 and 1896 *

London Rippers The London Rippers were a professional baseball team based in London, Ontario, in Canada. The Rippers were a member of the Frontier League, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball. They played their home games at Labatt Park, and were th ...

, a former professional baseball team based in London, Ontario, Canada

Other uses

Ripper (food) Ripper is the slang term for a type of hot dog. The name is derived from a hot dog which is deep fried in oil, which sometimes causes the casing to burst, or "rip". "Rippers" were featured in the Travel Channel special "Deep Fried Paradise"D'Age ...

, a variety of hot dog served in New Jersey * ''Ripper'' (racquet), a racquetball racquet from Wilson Sporting Goods * Ripper, a colloquialism for

flatulence Flatulence, in humans, is the expulsion of gas from the intestines via the anus, commonly referred to as farting. "Flatus" is the medical word for gas generated in the stomach or bowels. A proportion of intestinal gas may be swallowed environm ...

Gibson Ripper The Gibson L9-S Ripper is a model of electric bass guitar made by Gibson Guitar Corporation. The Ripper was designed by Bill Lawrence, and manufactured from 1973 until 1983, the peak year being 1976. Most had a maple body with laminated maple ne ...

, a model of electric bass guitar *

Operation Ripper Operation Ripper, also known as the Fourth Battle of Seoul, was a United Nations Command, United Nations (UN) military operation conceived by the US Eighth United States Army, Eighth Army, General Matthew Ridgway, during the Korean War. The opera ...

, a United Nations Korean War operation *

Repeated Incremental Pruning to Produce Error Reduction (RIPPER) In machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial int ...

, a propositional rule learner * A type of

for breaking a ground surface