Blackout

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Blackout may refer to:

Loss of light, power, or communications

• Power outage, a large-scale disruption in electric power supply
• Rolling blackout, an intentionally-engineered power outage caused by insufficient resources to meet electricity demands
• Blackout (wartime), a deliberate reduction in lighting to protect a place from enemy attack
• Communications blackout, a military tactic of avoiding use of radio communication
• Internet blackout
• Blackout (broadcasting), a regulatory ban on the broadcasting of an event
• Media blackout, censorship in the media of stories
• The simultaneous turning-off of all stage lighting
• New Zealand Internet Blackout, a protest against the Section 92A Guilt on Accusation Copyright Laws

Loss of consciousness or memory or vision

• Fainting
• Complete loss of vision, while still conscious under high g-force
• Shallow water blackout
• Deep water blackout
• Blackout (alcohol-related amnesia)

In music

• Bands and record labels
  • Black-Out, a Hungarian rock band
  • The Blackout (band), a Welsh band
  • Blackout Records, a record label
• Albums
  • Blackout (Britney Spears album), an album by Britney Spears
  • Blackout (Scorpions album), album by Scorpions
  • Blackout (Dropkick Murphys album), album by Dropkick Murphys
  • Blackout (Dominion album), an album by Dominion
  • Blackout!, an album by Redman and Method Man
  • Black Out, an album by The Good Life
  • Blackout ((həd) p.e. album), an album by Hed PE
  • Blaque Out, an album by Blaque
• Songs
  • "Blackout" (David Bowie song), a song by David Bowie from Heroes
  • "Blackout", a song by Muse from Absolution
  • "Blackout", a song by Hybrid from Morning Sci-Fi
  • "Blackout", a song by British Sea Power from The Decline of British Sea Power
  • "Blackout," a song by Asian Kung-Fu Generation from Fanclub
  • "Blackout", a song by Scorpions from the album of the same name released in 1982
  • "Blackout", a song by Lupe Fiasco from the album Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
  • "Blackout", a song from the Broadway musical In The Heights
  • "Blackout", a song by Lovedrug from the album Pretend You're Alive
  • "Blackout", a song by Pepper from the album Pink Crustaceans and Good Vibrations

In television and film

• Blackout (entertainer), the stage name of Michael Biggins
• Blackout (game show), an American game show
• The Blackout, an independent wrestling stable
• Blackout (comics), one of two Marvel characters
• Blackout (Transformers), several characters in the Transformers franchise
• The Blackout, a 1997 film drama directed by Abel Ferrara
• Blackout (2008 film), an American movie starring Jeffrey Wright and Zoe Saldana picturing the blackout in NYC of 2003
• Blackout (2007 film), an American television film starring Amber Tamblyn and Aidan Gillen
• Blackout gag, a comedy technique used predominantly in animated cartoons

In books and plays

• Blackout (Buffy novel), a Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel about the character Nikki Wood
• Blackout, a play by Michael Walker
• Blackout, the 1996 novel by Campbell Armstrong
• Blackout (comics), the name of two fictional supervillians in the Marvel Universe.

In cards and games

• Blackout or Oh Hell, a trick-taking card game
• Black Out game or Fainting game
• Blackout Rugby, a browser based rugby union management game
• Black out, a priest talent in the popular video game World of Warcraft
• Blackout, a map in the Xbox 360 game Halo 3

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