Desperado
Encyclopedia
Desperado may refer to:
- OutlawOutlawIn historical legal systems, an outlaw is declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, this takes the burden of active prosecution of a criminal from the authorities. Instead, the criminal is withdrawn all legal protection, so that anyone is legally empowered to persecute...
, particularly in the American Old West
Amusement rides
- Desperado (roller coaster)Desperado (roller coaster)Desperado is a hypercoaster located in Primm, Nevada at the Buffalo Bill's Hotel and Casino a part of the Primm Valley Resorts complex.According to the roller coaster database, Desperado was one of the tallest roller coasters in the world at the time of being built. It features a 60-degree, drop;...
, a roller coaster at Buffalo Bill's casino in Primm, Nevada - Desperados (ride)Desperados (ride)Developed by Alterface, Desperados is a collective amusement ride. It presents itself as an interactive theater with a western theme.-Principle:10 to 60 riders step on their individual horses and pick up their six-shooters...
, a collective amusement ride
Comics
- DesperadoesDesperadoesDesperadoes is a Weird West-style comic book series written by Jeff Mariotte. It is currently being published by IDW Publishing.-Publication:Each story arc is a limited series which has been collected in a number of volumes:...
, a comic book series - Desperado PublishingDesperado PublishingDesperado Publishing is an American independent comic book publisher, established in 2004. Located in Norcross, Georgia, Desperado's president is Joe Pruett, its creative director is Stephan Nilson, and its director of business development is former Caliber Press publisher Gary Reed.-Overview:With...
, an American independent comic book publisher
Film and television
- Desperado (film)Desperado (film)Desperado is a 1995 action thriller film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. The film stars Antonio Banderas as the former mariachi who seeks revenge on the drug lord who killed his lover....
, a 1995 action thriller - The DesperadoesThe DesperadoesThe Desperadoes is a Western movie, starring Randolph Scott and Glenn Ford. It was the first Columbia Pictures production to be released in Technicolor.-Plot:...
, a 1943 Western - The DesperadosThe DesperadosThe Desperados is a 1969 western film directed by Henry Levin. The film stars Vince Edwards and Jack Palance.-Plot:A ruthless preacher, Parson Josiah Galt, leads a band of Southern marauders during the Civil War that includes his sons, David, Adam and Jacob...
, a 1969 Western - Desperados (TV series)Desperados (TV series)Desperados is a CBBC children's drama series following a wheelchair basketball team, created and written by Paul Smith in 2007. It charts the journey of former footballer Charlie who, following a disabling accident on the pitch caused by his friend and team-mate Aidan, finds new meaning and purpose...
, a UK children's drama show
Games
- Desperado (chess), a chess piece that seems determined to give itself up
- Desperados: Wanted Dead or AliveDesperados: Wanted Dead or AliveDesperados: Wanted Dead or Alive is a stealth-based real-time tactics computer game, developed by Spellbound and released in 2001. In the game, the player controls up to six characters in a wild west setting. The protagonist is a wordly knife fighter and gunslinger, John Cooper. He takes on a...
, a 2001 stealth-based real-time tactics computer game - Gun.SmokeGun.SmokeGun.Smoke is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game created by Capcom in 1985 . The game, which has a Western theme, centers around a character named Billy Bob, a bounty hunter who is after vicious criminals of the Wild West.Despite its name and theme, it has no connection to the western TV...
, a 1985 video game, ported to some systems as Desperado - Gun.Smoke
Music
- Desperado (Eagles album), 1973
- "Desperado" (song)Desperado (song)"Desperado" is a soft rock song by the Eagles, an American rock band, written by group members Glenn Frey and Don Henley. It first appeared on the 1973 album Desperado, and has later appeared on numerous compilation albums although it was not a single....
, the title song
- "Desperado" (song)
- Desperado (Pat Martino album)Desperado (Pat Martino album)Desperado is a 1970 post-bop jazz album by Pat Martino.“A key album in the shift in Pat Martino's sound at the end of the 60s -- with one foot in the soul jazz camp in which he got his start, and the other in the freer, open-minded style he used a lot in the 70s!”-Criticism:Jazz critic Scott Yanow...
, 1970 - Desperado: The SoundtrackDesperado: The SoundtrackThe film score to Robert Rodriguez's Desperado is written and performed by the Los Angeles rock bands, Los Lobos and Tito & Tarantula, performing traditional Ranchera and Chicano rock music. Other artists on the soundtrack album include Dire Straits, Link Wray, Latin Playboys, and Carlos Santana...
, a soundtrack album from the 1995 film - "Desperados" (song), a 1981 song by Hanoi Rocks
- "Desperado", a song by Alice Cooper from Killer
- "Desperado", a song by Eve of DestinyEve of DestinyEve of Destiny is a Japanese industrial rock band founded in 1999 by Haruhiko Ash . For a long time, Eve of Destiny was a solo project of Ash, with not much real activity, but this changed in 2002, after guitarist Közi of Malice Mizer fame joined and they started to tour outside Japan on a regular...
- Desperado (band)Desperado (band)Desperado is a heavy metal band formed by Dee Snider in 1988, after Twisted Sister was disbanded. Besides Dee Snider Desparado Limited Edition was released on April 21, 2009, featuring eleven tracks from 'Bloodied But Unbowed'.-Past members:...
, an American heavy metal band formed by Dee Snider - DezperadozDezperadozDezperadoz is a German "Western-metal" band and is the side-project of Tom Angelripper's guitarist Alex Kraft. The band plays heavy metal music that is heavily influenced by the soundtracks of the '60s and '70s Spaghetti western movies. They've released three albums, two on the German heavy metal...
, a German "Western metal" band - Desperados (group), an American rap super-group
Other uses
- Dallas DesperadosDallas DesperadosThe Dallas Desperados were a professional Arena Football team. The Desperados played in the Southern Division of the now-defunct Arena Football League from 2002 to 2008....
, a franchise in the Arena Football League - Desperados, a lager produced by Fischer BreweryFischer BreweryFischer is a brewery in Schiltigheim, France.-History:The Fischer brewery was founded in 1821 in Strasbourg, in the Alsace region in France, and moved to Schiltigheim in 1854, apparently because of the good quality of water there. In 1922, they took over the neighbouring Adelshoffen brewery and...
- The Desperados, a professional wrestling stable consisting of Dutch MantelDutch MantelWayne Keown is an American professional wrestler, and author better known by his ring name, Dutch Mantel or Dutch Mantell. He currently is semi-retired but still makes occasional wrestling appearances. He was previously with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a writer behind the scenes...
, Rick HarrisRick HarrisRick Harris is a former professional wrestler better known by his ring name , Black Bart. He is the son of the late George "Two Ton" Harris.-Career:Rick Harris started wrestling in 1975...
(Black Bart), and Randy ColleyRandy ColleyRandy Colley is a retired professional wrestler better known as Moondog Rex.-Professional wrestlling career:Colley competed in the World Wrestling Federation, where in 1981 he won the WWF Tag Team Championship with Moondog King as the Moondogs...
(Deadeye Dick)