Hammerhead

Hammerhead may refer to:

• The head of a hammer

Fiction

• Hammerhead (comics), a Marvel Comics foe of Spider-Man
• Hammerhead (film), a 1968 film based on the novel by James Mayo
• Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy a 2005 TV movie starring William Forsythe, Jeffery Combs and Hunter Tylo
• Hammerhead (1987 film), a 1987 Italian action film directed by Enzo G. Castellari
• Hammerhead (novel), a 1964 Charles Hood secret agent novel by James Mayo
• Hammerhead Hannigan, the leader of Taurus Bulba's henchmen in the television cartoon series Darkwing Duck
• Hammerhead, a Rulon character from the TV cartoon Dino-Riders
• Hammerhead, the nickname for the Star Wars character Momaw Nadon
• Hammerheads, a 1990 book by Dale Brown
• The Hammerhead, an alien species living on Pandora in James Cameron's science-fiction film Avatar
• James Bond 007: Hammerhead, a 2016 James Bond comic book by Dynamite Entertainment

Games and rides

• Hammerhead, a heavy helicopter gunship in the video game Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
• Hammer Heads, a 2006 computer game from Pop Cap Games
• Hammerhead (attraction), a former ride at Knott's Berry Farm, now defunct
• Hammerhead, a monster truck present in various titles of the Twisted Metal series of video games
• Hammerhead, the most prominent gas station and repair shop in the game Final Fantasy XV

Music

• Hammerhead (band), noise rock band
• "Hammerhead" (Jeff Beck song), 2010
• Hammerhead (EP), a 2006 EP by Solace, or the title track
• "Hammerhead" (The Offspring song), 2008
• "Hammerhead" (Tin Machine song), from the 1991 album Tin Machine II
• "Hammerhead" (James Reyne song), 1987
• "Hammerhead", a song from the John Zorn album Naked City
• "Hammerhead", an instrumental by Pat Travers from the album Heat in the Street
• "Hammerhead", from the 1986 album Doomsday for the Deceiver, by Flotsam & Jetsam

Science and technology

• Hammerhead shark (genus Sphyrna), of which there are nine known species
• Hammerkop (Scopus umbretta), a bird of order Ciconiiformes, may also be known as a hammerhead
• Hammerhead ribozyme, which can catalyze the sequence-specific cleavage of RNA phosphodiester bonds
• Hammerhead crane, a type of crane
• Hammerhead worm
• Google Nexus 5, an Android handset with the code name Hammerhead

Sports

• Jupiter Hammerheads, a minor league baseball team based in Jupiter, Florida
• Wilmington Hammerheads FC, a minor league soccer team based in Wilmington, North Carolina
• Corpus Christi Hammerheads, a professional arena football team
• Hammerhead turn or stall turn, an aerobatic maneuver
• Hammerhead (mascot), mascot of the British football club West Ham United

United States Navy submarines

• USS Hammerhead (SS-364), a Gato-class submarine, commissioned in 1944
• USS Hammerhead (SSN-663), a Sturgeon-class submarine, commissioned in 1968 and struck in 1995