A blade is a sharp cutting part, for instance of a weapon or tool. Blade or Blades may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

* Blade (character), a Marvel Comics character ** Blade (New Line franchise character) ** Blade (Marvel Cinematic Universe character) * Blade (''Masters of the Universe''), in the ''Masters of the Universe'' franchise series * Blade (''Puppet Master''), of the ''Puppet Master'' horror film franchise * Blades (''Transformers''), several robot superhero characters in the Transformers robot superhero franchise * Richard Blade (series), eponymous hero of an adult fantasy pulp novel series * Kamen Rider Blade, the eponymous character of a Japanese tokusatsu series

Film and television

* ''Blade'' (1973 film), a film featuring Morgan Freeman * Blades (film), a 1989 US horror-comedy film * ''The Blade'' (film), a 1995 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Tsui Hark * ''Blade'' (franchise), three films and a television series based on the Marvel Comics character ** ''Blade'' (1998 film), the first film in the ''Blade'' franchise, which was released in 1998 *** ''Blade'' (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the first film in the ''Blade'' trilogy ** ''

Blade II ''Blade II'' is a 2002 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Blade, directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by David S. Goyer. A sequel to ''Blade'' (1998), it is the second installment in the ''Blade'' franchise, fol ...

'', the second film in the ''Blade'' franchise, which was released in 2002 ** '' Blade: Trinity'', the third and final film in the ''Blade'' franchise, which was released in 2004 ** '' Blade: The Series'', set after the events of the last film, which ran in 2006 * ''Blade'' (2024 film), an upcoming reboot of the ''Blade'' franchise, set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Video games

* ''Blade'' (video game), for the Game Boy Color and PlayStation, based on the Marvel Comics Character’s first movie by New Line Cinema * Blades, a fictional organization in '' The Elder Scrolls'' series of computer games * '' The Elder Scrolls: Blades'', a 2019 mobile game in the Elder Scrolls franchise * Blades, powerful beings in '' Xenoblade Chronicles 2'' * BLADE, a fictional military organization in ''

Xenoblade Chronicles X ''Xenoblade Chronicles X'' is a 2015 action role-playing game developed by Monolith Soft and published by Nintendo for the Wii U console. ''Xenoblade Chronicles X'' forms part of the '' Xeno'' metaseries, being a spiritual successor to ''Xenoblad ...

Other arts and entertainment

The Blades (band) The Blades are an Irish new wave band who formed in the late 1970s in the South Dublin neighbourhood of Ringsend, with Paul Cleary on bass and vocals, his brother Laurence on guitar and friend Pat Larkin on drums. The original line-up rele ...

, an Irish band *

Blades (hip hop group) Blades formerly known as ''Blades of Hades'', are an Australian hip hop group from Newcastle.

, an Australian hip hop group from Newcastle, New South Wales * Blade (artscene group), a group active during the 1990s *

Blades Club Blades is a fictional London gentlemen's club appearing and referenced in several of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, most notably '' Moonraker''. Blades is situated on "Park Street" (correct name Park Place) off St James's Street, at the approx ...

, M's private card club featured in several of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels

Computing and technology

Airfoil An airfoil (American English) or aerofoil (British English) is the cross-sectional shape of an object whose motion through a gas is capable of generating significant lift, such as a wing, a sail, or the blades of propeller, rotor, or turbine. ...

, for example, a

wind turbine A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. Hundreds of thousands of large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, now generate over 650 gigawatts of power, with 60 GW added each year. ...

rotor blade * Blade, a templating engine used in the Laravel PHP framework * BLADE (software), Block All Drive-by Download Exploits, software developed at Georgia Tech and SRI International *

Blade server A blade server is a stripped-down server computer with a modular design optimized to minimize the use of physical space and energy. Blade servers have many components removed to save space, minimize power consumption and other considerations, whil ...

, a self-contained computer server, designed for high density *

Blade PC A blade PC is a form of client or personal computer (PC). In conjunction with a client access device (usually a thin client) on a user's desk, the supporting blade PC is typically housed in a rack enclosure, usually in a datacenter or specialised ...

Blade battery Blade battery is a type of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery for electric vehicles designed and manufactured by FinDreams Battery, a subsidiary of Chinese manufacturing company BYD. The Blade Battery is most commonly a 96 cm long and 9& ...

, a long-shaped battery manufactured by BYD Company *

Breakthrough Laminar Aircraft Demonstrator in Europe The Breakthrough Laminar Aircraft Demonstrator in Europe (BLADE) is an Airbus project within the European Clean Sky framework to flight-test experimental laminar-flow wing sections on an A340 from September 2017. Design Natural laminar flow is o ...

(BLADE), a laminar flow experiment * Turbine blade, a component of a gas turbine or

steam turbine A steam turbine is a machine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft. Its modern manifestation was invented by Charles Parsons in 1884. Fabrication of a modern steam turbin ...

ZTE Blade The ZTE Blade V880 (also known as ''ZTE Lutea'') is a smartphone manufactured by ZTE Corporation for the Android platform. Unveiled by Orange UK as ''San Francisco'', it went on sale on 21 September 2010, with a white variant released later. By 2 ...

, a cellphone manufactured by the ZTE Corporation

Biology

* Blade (algae), another word for ''lamina'', a leaf-like structure on seaweed * Blade or lamina, the (usually) flattened part of a typical plant

leaf A leaf ( : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, ste ...

* Botanical term for the wider distal part of a

petal Petals are modified Leaf, leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers. They are often advertising coloration, brightly colored or unusually shaped to attract pollinators. All of the petals of a flower are collectively known as the ''c ...

, sepal or bract *

Scapula The scapula (plural scapulae or scapulas), also known as the shoulder blade, is the bone that connects the humerus (upper arm bone) with the clavicle (collar bone). Like their connected bones, the scapulae are paired, with each scapula on eithe ...

, a bone in the human body sometimes referred to as the ''shoulder blade'' *

Tongue blade The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth of a typical tetrapod. It manipulates food for mastication and swallowing as part of the digestive process, and is the primary organ of taste. The tongue's upper surface (dorsum) is covered by taste bu ...

, the part of the tongue just behind the tip

People

* Blade (artist), gay erotic artist * Richard Blade, radio, television, and film personality * Blade (surname) * Blades (surname) * Blade, a ring name of Al Green (wrestler) (1955–2013), American professional wrestler

Places

Blades, Delaware Blades is a town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 1,241, a 29.8% increase over the previous decade. It is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. History ...

, United States, a town * Blades, Saint Philip, Barbados, a village * The Blade, Reading, a building in England

Publications

* ''The Blade'' (Toledo), a newspaper in Toledo, Ohio * ''

Washington Blade The ''Washington Blade'' is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area. The ''Blade'' is the oldest LGBT newspaper in the United States and third largest by circulation, behind the ''Philadelphi ...

'', a gay newspaper * ''

The New York Blade ''The New York Blade'' was a free weekly newspaper focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues in New York City, New York. The ''Blade'' was a member of the National Gay Newspaper Guild, and contained news, entertainment, ...

'', a gay newspaper * '' Monthly Comic Blade'', a monthly manga anthology magazine * ''Blade'' (magazine), a knife collecting magazine

Sports

Teams

Chengdu Blades F.C. Chengdu Tiancheng F.C. () was a Chinese professional football club based in Chengdu, China who last played in the 26,000 seater Shuangliu Sports Center in the China League One division. The club was founded on 26 February 1996 and was formerly ...

, a Chinese football club * Kansas City Blades, a defunct American ice hockey team * Los Angeles Blades, an inline hockey team in California * Saskatoon Blades, a Western Hockey League franchise *

Sheffield United F.C. Sheffield United Football Club is a professional football club in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, which compete in the . They are nicknamed "the Blades" due to Sheffield's history of cutlery production. The team have played home games at ...

, an English football club nicknamed "The Blades" *

Sheffield Wednesday F.C. Sheffield Wednesday Football Club is a professional association football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The team competes in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. Formed in 1867 as an offshoot of ...

, an English football club formerly nicknamed "The Blades"

Equipment

Inline skates Inline skates are a type of roller skate used for inline skating. Unlike quad skates, which have two front and two rear wheels, inline skates typically have two to five wheels arranged in a single line. Some, especially those for recreation, ha ...

, colloquially known as "blades" or "roller blades" *

Football boot Football boots, called cleats or soccer shoes in North America, are an item of footwear worn when playing association football. Those designed for grass pitches have studs on the outsole to aid grip. From simple and humble beginnings football ...

s with moulded studs, commonly known as "blades" * A component of a spinnerbait fishing lure * Blade, a part of an oar (sport rowing); also the whole oar *

Muscle-back iron An iron is a type of club used in the sport of golf to propel the ball towards the hole. Irons typically have shorter shafts and smaller clubheads than woods, the head is made of solid iron or steel, and the head's primary feature is a large, fl ...

or blade, a type of golf club, referring to the shape of an iron's clubhead * A type of lower leg

prosthesis In medicine, a prosthesis (plural: prostheses; from grc, πρόσθεσις, prósthesis, addition, application, attachment), or a prosthetic implant, is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, which may be lost through trau ...

used by amputee athletes in running events

Mascots

* Blades the Bruin, the mascot of the Boston Bruins ice hockey team

Other uses

Blade (company) BLADE Air Mobility, Inc. (stylized "BLADE") is a publicly traded company in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. It offers an urban air mobility platform. It allows users of its app to book seats on scheduled flights throughout the Northe ...

, a crowdsourced short-distance aviation company *

Blade (geometry) In the study of geometric algebras, a -blade or a simple -vector is a generalization of the concept of scalars and vectors to include ''simple'' bivectors, trivectors, etc. Specifically, a -blade is a -vector that can be expressed as the exterior ...

, a generalization of vectors in higher-dimensional vector spaces in geometric algebra *

FreeX Blade The FreeX Blade is a German single-place, paraglider that was designed and produced by FreeX of Egling in the mid-2000s. It is now out of production.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 18. P ...

, a German paraglider design *

Toyota Blade The is a compact car derived from the Corolla, manufactured and sold by Toyota. Introduced in 2006, the first generation three/five-door hatchback shared the platform with the E150 series Corolla, while the second generation five-door hatch ...

* Blade, an often curved metal plate on the front 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 ...

* Blade, a station ident for British television channel BBC Two from the 1991–2001 series *

The Blades (aerobatic team) The Blades were a British civilian aerobatic team based at the Sywell Aerodrome in Northamptonshire. They had been described as "the world's only aerobatic airline" and were the only full-time civilian aerobatic team in the United Kingdom. The ...

, a British aircraft display team * Blades, a modish London tailoring establishment founded in 1962 by

Rupert Lycett Green Rupert William Lycett Green (born 24 October 1938) is a British fashion designer known for his contribution to 1960s male fashion through his tailor's shop/boutique Blades in London. Early life Lycett Green was born in England, the son of Comman ...

* Bristol Laboratory for Advanced Dynamics Engineering * HNLMS ''Z 5'' (1915), a Dutch torpedo boat which was renamed ''Blade'' while serving in the British Royal Navy in World War II