Thunderball may refer to:
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''Thunderball'' (novel), 1961 James Bond novel by Ian Fleming
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''Thunderball'' (film), 1965 film adaptation of the novel starring Sean Connery
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''Thunderball'' (soundtrack), of the 1965 film
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Thunderball (comics)
Thunderball (Eliot Franklin) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a frequent enemy of Thor and a reluctant ally of the Wrecker and the Wrecking Crew.
The character made his live-action debut in t ...
, comics character
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''Thunderball'' (Melvins album), 2025
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''Thunderball'' (U.D.O. album), 2004, also the title song
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Thunderball (band)
Fort Knox Five is a Washington, D.C., based musical group consisting of Steve Raskin, Rob Myers and Sid Barcelona. Jon Horvath was a member of the group until his death in 2015. The musical collective releases music through their self-run label ...
, a band at one time signed to
ESL Music
Eighteenth Street Lounge Music (ESL Music) is an independent record label based in Washington, D.C. founded by Rob Garza and Eric Hilton in 1996. The duo, as Thievery Corporation, heads the label's roster of artists.
Roster
ESL Music's current a ...
*Operation Thunderball, original name of
Operation Entebbe
The Entebbe raid, also known as the Operation Entebbe and officially codenamed Operation Thunderbolt (also retroactively codenamed Operation Yonatan), was a 1976 Israeli counter-terrorist mission in Uganda. It was launched in response to th ...
, a 1976 hostage-rescue mission
*Thunderball, a game (draw), introduced in 1999, in the United Kingdom's
National Lottery National Lottery may refer to:
*National Lottery (Ireland), the state lottery of Ireland
*National Lottery (United Kingdom), the lottery franchise in the United Kingdom
*South African National Lottery, established in 2000
*A number of countries con ...
*Thunderball, fictional game in sketches by comedy troupe
Upright Citizens Brigade
The Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) is an improvisational and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago's ImprovOlympic in 1990. The original incarnation of the group consisted of Amy Poehler, Matthew Walsh, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, ...
See also
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Never Say Never Again
''Never Say Never Again'' is a 1983 spy film directed by Irvin Kershner. The film is based on the 1961 James Bond novel ''Thunderball (novel), Thunderball'' by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Wh ...
'', 1983 film adaptation of the novel.
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Mushroom cloud
A mushroom cloud is a distinctive mushroom-shaped flammagenitus cloud of debris, smoke, and usually condensed water vapour resulting from a large explosion. The effect is most commonly associated with a nuclear explosion, but any sufficiently e ...
, a nuclear explosion effect, sometimes known as a 'thunderball'
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Ball lightning
Ball lightning is a rare and unexplained phenomenon described as Luminosity, luminescent, spherical objects that vary from pea-sized to several meters in diameter. Though usually associated with thunderstorms, the observed phenomenon is repor ...
, a reported, but controversial, atmospheric electrical phenomenon
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Thunderbolt
A thunderbolt or lightning bolt is a symbolic representation of lightning when accompanied by a loud thunderclap. In Indo-European mythology, the thunderbolt was identified with the 'Sky Father'; this association is also found in later Hel ...
, a discharge of lightning, or a symbolic representation of it
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