Avatar (disambiguation)

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Avatar is a term used in Hinduism for a material manifestation of a deity. Other common uses include:

Avatar (computing), the graphical representation of a user
Avatar (2009 film), a science fiction film directed by James Cameron
Avatar: The Last Airbender, an animated television series that aired on Nickelodeon

Otherwise it may refer to:

Film

"Avatar" (Batman: The Animated Series), an episode of Batman: The Animated Series
"Avatar" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate SG-1
"Avatar" (The X-Files), an episode of The X-Files
Avatars (Carnivàle), a fictional race of creatures in Carnivàle
Avatars (Charmed), a fictional group of beings in Charmed
"Avatar", an episode of the television series Highlander: The Series
Avatar, a fictional golden sword in the television series Encantadia
The Avatar, a character in the Ōban Star-Racers universe
"Captain Avatar", a character in the Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers) universe
"Silicon Avatar", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Avatar (video game), an early computer role-playing game
Avatar (Ultima), the main character in the Ultima game series
Avatar (Xbox 360), a service that allows users to create graphical avatars
Avatar: The Last Airbender Trading Card Game
Avatar: The Last Airbender (video game)
Avatar: Legends of the Arena, a 2008 video game for Microsoft Windows by Nickelodeon
James Cameron's Avatar: The Game, an adaptation of the 2009 film

Avatar (Angel novel), by John Passarella set in the fictional universe of the television series Angel
Avatar (newspaper), a Boston underground newspaper (1967–1968), last owned by the Mel Lyman Family
Avatar Press, a comic book publisher
Avatars (series), a trilogy of fantasy novels by Tui T. Sutherland
Avatar, two novels of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine relaunch
Avatar, a character in God's Debris and The Religion War by Scott Adams
The Avatar, a novel by Poul Anderson
The Avatars, a fictional race in David Gemmell's Echoes of the Great Song
"Avatar" (short story), a short story by Théophile Gautier first published in 1856

Avatar (horse), an American racehorse
Avatar (spacecraft), a conceptual spaceplane planned by India's Defense Research and Development Organization as well as Indian Space Research Organization, among others
ARP Avatar, a guitar synthesizer
Avatar Course, a series of LGAT self-development courses
Advanced Video Attribute Terminal Assembler and Recreator or AVATAR, a text graphics protocol used by bulletin board systems (BBSes)
Avatar, a superuser on some Unix operating systems
Avatar, a wresling gimmick portrayed by American professional wrestler Al Snow