Merchant of Death

Merchant of Death, death merchants, or variations may refer to:

War, death, arms, and weaponry

• Merchants of death (phrase), a phrase used to describe war industry and their funders
• Arms industry, nicknamed "merchants of death"
• arms dealer, a weapons merchant
• hitman, assassin-for-hire

People

• Viktor Bout (born 1967), Russian arms dealer nicknamed the Merchant of Death
• Sarkis Soghanalian (1929-2011), international private arms dealer nicknamed the Merchant of Death
• Basil Zaharoff (1849-1936), Greek arms dealer nicknamed the Merchant of Death
• Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), Swedish businessman who invented dynamite and established the Nobel Prize, nicknamed "the Merchant of Death"

Fictional characters

• Death Merchant, Richard Camellion, a fictional secret agent in the eponymous adventure novel series by Joseph Rosenberger
• "Death Merchant", Weisheit, a fictional character from the 2006 videogame Wild Arms XF
• "Death merchants", agents of death (grim reapers) who collect souls, in the 2006 Christopher Moore novel A Dirty Job

Literature

• The Merchant of Death (novel) 2002 fantasy novel in the Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale
• The Death Merchant (novel) action-adventure novel by Joseph R. Rosenberger, starring the eponymous character in the eponymous novel series Death Merchant
• Death Merchant (novel series) action-adventure novels by Joseph Rupert Rosenberger, starring the eponymous character
• Death Merchant Chronicles (novel series), a series of novels by Christopher Moore (author)
• Death Merchants (novella) 2003 action-adventure story by Tim Tresslar in the Executioner series, see List of Mack Bolan books
• Diagnosis Murder: The Death Merchant (novel), a medical mystery novel by Lee Goldberg, in the media franchise Diagnosis: Murder
• Merchants of Death (comic book series), a comic book title published by Eclipse Comics, see List of Eclipse Comics publications
• Merchants of Death (manga serial episode), a manga episode chapter of Cyborg 009, see List of Cyborg 009 media
• Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible (book) 2007 non-fiction book by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun about arms dealer Victor Bout
• El mercader de la muerte (Spanish: Merchant of Death), 2020 novel about Basil Zaharoff by Gervasio Posadas Mañé

Music

• "Death Merchants" (song), 2011 song by Sutter Kain and Darko off the album Mask of the Demon (album)
• "Merchants of Death" (song), 2002 song by 'Manila Road' off the album Spiral Castle (album)
• "Merchant of Death" (song), 2008 instrumental by Ramin Djawadi from the movie soundtrack Iron Man (soundtrack)
• "Merchants of Death" (song), 2020 song by 'Havok' off the album V (Havok album)

Television

• "The Death Merchant" (TV episode), 1966 episode of the TV series The Time Tunnel
• "Merchants of Death" (TV epsiode), 1983 season 2 number 4 episode 26 of Knight Rider, see List of Knight Rider (1982 TV series) episodes
• "Merchants of Death" (TV episode), 1975 season 4 number 11 episode 83 of The Streets of San Francisco, see List of The Streets of San Francisco episodes
• "Merchant of Death" (TV episode), 1961 season 1 episode 4 of Top Secret (TV series)
• "The Merchant of Death" (TV epsiode), 1988 season 1 episode 16 of Wiseguy
• "The Merchant of Death: Viktor Bout" (TV episode), 2019 season 3 number 7 of the documentary TV series Declassified (TV series)

Other uses

• The Undertaker (1988 film), also released as Death Merchant

See also

• Death (personification)
• Merchant (disambiguation)
• Death (disambiguation)