Special
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Special or the specials or variation, may refer to:
Policing
- Specials, Ulster Special Constabulary, the Northern Ireland police force
- Specials, Special Constable, an auxiliary, volunteer, or temporary; police worker or police officer
Literature
- Specials (novel), a novel by Scott Westerfeld
- Specials, the comic book heroes, see Rising Stars (comic)
Film and television
- Special (lighting), a stage light that is used for a single, specific purpose
Film
- Special (film), a 2006 scifi dramedy
- The Specials (film), a 2000 comedy film about a group of superheroes
- The Specials (2019 film), a film by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano
Television
- Television special, television programming that temporarily replaces scheduled programming
- Special (TV series), a 2019 Netflix Original TV series
- Specials (TV series), a 1991 TV series about British Special Constables
- The Specials (TV series), an internet documentary series about 5 friends with learning disabilities
- "Special" (Lost), an episode of the television series Lost
Music
- The Specials, a British ska music band
Albums
- Special (album), a 1992 album by Vesta Williams
- The Specials (album), British ska band The Specials first album
- More Specials, British ska band The Specials second album
- The Specials (Shania Twain video), a 2001 DVD release
Songs
- "Special" (Garbage song), 1998
- "Special", a 2005 song by Mew from And the Glass Handed Kites
- "Special", a 2000 song by Stephen Lynch from A Little Bit Special
- "Special", a 1992 song by Vesta Williams from Special
- "Special", a 1986 song by Violent Femmes from The Blind Leading the Naked
- "Special", a 2005 song by The Game from The Documentary
Computing
- Specials (Unicode block), Unicode codepoints used for special usage
- An escape/extension mechanism in the Device independent file format (DVI)
Other uses
- A special price, a form of discounts and allowances
- A kit car or one-off home built vehicle
- A euphemism for someone with a disability, especially an intellectual disability
- Adcox Special, a biplane built in Portland, Oregon in 1929
- The SPECIAL System, the character creation system of the video game Fallout
See also
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