Shockwave

Shockwave and similar may refer to:

* A shock wave, a type of propagating disturbance in a fluid, gas, or plasma medium. When a shockwave is created by high explosives such as TNT (which has a detonation velocity of 6,900 m/s), it will always travel at high, supersonic velocity from its point of origin.

In fiction

* Shockwave (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe whose first appearance was in "Master of Kung Fu"
** Shockwave Rider (mecha), a fictional vehicle in Marvel Comics
* Shockwave ("Transformers"), a fictional sentinent and intelligent alien robot
* "Shock Wave" (novel), a novel written by Clive Cussler
* "Shock Waves", a horror movie from 1977 directed by Ken Wiederhorn
* "Shockwave" ("Enterprise" episode), an episode of "Star Trek: Enterprise"
* Shockwave Radio Theater, science fiction radio program
* "The Shockwave Rider", a science fiction novel by John Brunner

In music

* "Shock Wave" (song), a song from Black Sabbath's album "Never Say Die!"
* "Shockwave" (album), the eighth album by now aggrotech duo Decoded Feedback
* "Shockwaves" (song), a song by Diana Ross from her 1987 album "Red Hot Rhythm & Blues"
* Shockwave, a song by Black Tide of their debut album Light from Above

In media

* Shockwave (TV Series), a documentary distributed by The History Channel which shows the viewer footage of headline making events.

In roller coasters

* Shockwave, a rollercoaster at the amusement park Drayton Manor
* Shockwave (Kings Dominion), a stand-up roller coaster at Kings Dominion
* Shockwave (Six Flags Great America), a large defunct roller coaster manufactured by Arrow Dynamics at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee
* Shockwave (Six Flags Over Texas), a roller coaster at the amusement park Six Flags Over Texas

In sports

* Big Valley Shockwave, an American Basketball Association based in Turlock, California
* San Diego Shockwave, a team of the National Indoor Football League scheduled to play in 2007

In other fields

* Adobe Shockwave, a multimedia platform
* C&C ShockWave, a modification for the popular RTS game "Command and Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour"
* Shockwave Productions,Inc., the former trade name of an interactive entertainment company that specializes in Flight Simulator software development.