Killjoy

A killjoy is a person who is anti-fun, or prevents others from having fun. Killjoy may refer to:

In music:

• Killjoy (album), an album by Shihad
• Killjoy (musician), an American musician with the bands Necrophagia and Viking Crown
• "The Killjoy", a song by Insomnium from Above the Weeping World
• "Mr. Killjoy", a song by Lordi
• "KillJoy", a song by Sybreed
• "Captain Killjoy" a song by InMe
• The Killjoys, the name of several musical groups:
  • The Killjoys (UK band), late 1970s UK punk rock/new wave band
  • The Killjoys (Australian band), a 1980s Australian band
  • The Killjoys (American band), a 1980s Dayton, Ohio band
  • The Killjoys (Canadian band), a 1990s Canadian band
• Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, the 4th album by My Chemical Romance
  • A fan of the My Chemical Romance's Danger Days album is known as a Killjoy.

In other uses:

• Killjoy (1981 film), a made-for-television movie starring Kim Basinger
• Killjoy (2000 film), a horror film about clown killer Killjoy, directed by Craig Ross Jr.
• Killjoy 2: Deliverance from Evil, its sequel directed by Tammi Sutton
• Killjoy (novel), a novel by Julie Garwood
• Killjoy (comics), a fictional character created by Steve Ditko
• Killjoy (a.k.a. Killspree), a fictional character from the Marvel Comics series Weapon P.R.I.M.E.
• Dr. Killjoy, a fictional character in the video game The Suffering
• KILLJOY, a callsign for a fictional character in SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Combined Assault
• My Chemical Romance or MCR used as a character and a lyric in their song Na Na Na from Danger Days

See also

• Killjoy circuit, a device that creates interference with electronic equipment