Special or specials may refer to:

Policing

* Specials,

Ulster Special Constabulary The Ulster Special Constabulary (USC; commonly called the "B-Specials" or "B Men") was a quasi-military reserve special constable police force in what would later become Northern Ireland. It was set up in October 1920, shortly before the par ...

, the Northern Ireland police force * Specials, Special Constable, an auxiliary, volunteer, or temporary; police worker or police officer

Literature

* ''Specials'' (novel), a novel by Scott Westerfeld * ''Specials'', the comic book heroes, see ''Rising Stars'' (comic)

Film and television

* Special (lighting), a stage light that is used for a single, specific purpose * ''Special'' (film), a 2006 scifi dramedy * ''The Specials'' (2000 film), a comedy film about a group of superheroes * ''The Specials'' (2019 film), a film by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano *

Television special A television special (often TV special, or rarely television spectacular) is a standalone television show which may also temporarily interrupt episodic programming normally scheduled for a given time slot. Some specials provide a full range of e ...

, television programming that temporarily replaces scheduled programming * ''Special'' (TV series), a 2019 Netflix Original TV series * ''Specials'' (TV series), a 1991 TV series about British Special Constables * ''The Specials'' (TV series), an internet documentary series about 5 friends with learning disabilities * "Special" (Lost), an episode of the television series ''Lost''

Music

The Specials The Specials, also known as The Special AKA, are an English 2 tone and ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry. After some early changes, the first stable lineup of the group consisted of Terry Hall and Neville Staple on vocals, Lyn ...

, a British 2 tone and ska revival band

Albums

* ''Special'' (Lizzo album) or the title song, 2022 * ''Special'' (Vesta Williams album) or the title song, 1991 * ''The Specials'' (album), by the Specials, 1979 * ''The Specials'' (Shania Twain video), 2001

Songs

* "Special" (song), by Garbage, 1998 * "Special", by 21 Savage from ''

Issa Album ''Issa Album'' is the debut studio album by rapper 21 Savage. It was released on July 7, 2017, through Slaughter Gang and distributed by Epic Records. The album features production from frequent collaborator Metro Boomin, alongside Southside, ...

'', 2017 * "Special", by the Game from ''

The Documentary ''The Documentary'' is the second studio album by American rapper the Game. It was released on January 18, 2005, by Aftermath Entertainment, G-Unit Records, and Interscope Records. In 2001, while the Game was in a hospital recovering from a sh ...

'', 2005 * "Special", by Gucci Mane from ''

Delusions of Grandeur Grandiose delusions (GD), also known as delusions of grandeur or expansive delusions, are a subtype of delusion that occur in patients with a wide range of psychiatric diseases, including two-thirds of patients in manic state of bipolar diso ...

'', 2019 * "Special", by Janet Jackson from ''

The Velvet Rope ''The Velvet Rope'' is the sixth studio album by American singer Janet Jackson. The album was released on October 7, 1997, through Virgin Records. Prior to its release, she renegotiated her contract with Virgin for US$80 million, the largest re ...

'', 1997 * "Special", by the Mekons from ''

I Love Mekons ''I Love Mekons'' (stylized ''I ♥ Mekons'' on the album cover; also referred to as ''I (Heart) Mekons'') is an album by the British-American punk rock band the Mekons, released in 1993 on the Quarterstick and Touch and Go labels. It is a con ...

'', 1993 * "Special", by Mew from '' And the Glass Handed Kites'', 2005 * "Special", by New Order from '' Republic'', 1993 * "Special", by Six60 from '' Six60'', 2015 * "Special", by Stephen Lynch from '' A Little Bit Special'', 2000 * "Special", by Violent Femmes from ''

The Blind Leading the Naked ''The Blind Leading the Naked'' is the third album by Violent Femmes. It was produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and released in 1986. The title is a play on the figure of speech " the blind leading the blind." ''The Blind Leading the ...

'', 1986 * "Special", by Vitamin C from '' More'', 2001

Computing

Specials (Unicode block) Specials is a short Unicode block of characters allocated at the very end of the Basic Multilingual Plane, at U+FFF0–FFFF. Of these 16 code points, five have been assigned since Unicode 3.0: *, marks start of annotated text *, marks start ...

, Unicode codepoints used for special usage * An escape/extension mechanism in the

Device independent file format The device independent file format (DVI) is the output file format of the TeX typesetting program, designed by David R. Fuchs and implemented by Donald E. Knuth in 1982. Unlike the TeX markup files used to generate them, DVI files are not int ...

(DVI)

Other uses

* A special price, a form of discounts and allowances * A

kit car A kit car is an automobile available as a set of parts that a manufacturer sells and the buyer then assembles into a functioning car. Usually, many of the major mechanical systems such as the engine and transmission are sourced from donor v ...

or one-off home built vehicle * A euphemism for someone with a disability, especially an

intellectual disability Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability in the United Kingdom and formerly mental retardation, Rosa's Law, Pub. L. 111-256124 Stat. 2643(2010). is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by signif ...

* Adcox Special, a biplane built in Portland, Oregon in 1929 * The SPECIAL System, the character creation system of the video game ''Fallout''