List of things named Daedalus

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This is a list of articles. For disambiguation see Daedalus (disambiguation)

In Literature

• Daedalus is a tragic inventor from Greek mythology, father of Icarus, and creator of the Labyrinth
• Stephen Dedalus is the main character in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, as well as an important character in Joyce's Ulysses, and is often considered to be based on Joyce himself.
• 'Nathan Dedalus' is the title of the second chapter of Phillip Roth's The Ghost Writer.
• Dedalus is a publishing house in Cambridgeshire, U.K [1].
• The Daedalus is one of the rocket ships in Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein (1950).
• Daedalus is Greenwich Academy's literary magazine.
• Daedalus was a column in the science journal Nature.
• Daedalus is the official journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, published by MIT Press.
• Daedalus Tighe is a bookmaker who blackmails Flashman in George MacDonald Fraser's "Flashman's Lady" (1977)
• Dedalus Diggle is a member of the Order of The Phoenix, in J.K. Rowling's 5th Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
• (Daedalus) Is a character is Rick Riordan's "The Battle of the Labyrinth", the fourth book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.

In Film

• In the 2000 movie "Space Cowboys", the Air Force's 1950s experimental space program is called "Project Daedalus".
• In the movie Space Camp, Daedalus is the name of the space station that the crew gets extra tanks of oxygen from (1986).
• Daedalus is the code name of an arms-dealing villain in the film The Long Kiss Goodnight.

In Music

• Daedalus Rising is a song by Death in June
• The chorus of the song "Carry On Wayward Son," by the prog rock band Kansas, is from the point of view of Daedalus speaking to Icarus.
• Daedalus is mentioned at the beginning of the song "Mercury" by Clutch. "Daedalus your child is falling/and the labyrinth is calling"
• In the Joe Jackson song "Fugue 2/Song of Daedalus" from the album Heaven & Hell, an album dealing with the seven deadly sins, Jackson uses Daedalus as an example of pride.
• 'Daedelus' is a sampled-based musician who mixes IDM-style rhythms with childlike arrangements from the '30s and '40s.
• Daedalus is the name of a song by Thrice, which briefly tells the story of him and his son Icarus. It is featured on the Air disc of their album The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV.

Other Fiction

• The Daedelus Class is a fictional Federation starship class in the Star Trek universe.
• Is the name of an artificial intelligence in Deus Ex.
• Daedalus is a character in the anime Ergo Proxy
• Daedalus is a very powerful summon in the Game Boy Advance game Golden Sun: The Lost Age
• In the game Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2 in the US) Monica receives a sword once owned by her father called "Holy Daedalus Sword"
• In the pixel art comic Kid Radd the characters travel into a (fictional) game called Old Daedalus; a parody of the nes game Kid Icarus.
• In the science fiction anime series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982) and its American adaptation Robotech (1985), the SLV-111 Daedalus is a landing vessel that is stranded in space and docked with the SDF-1 Macross space fortress.
• In the Yu-Gi-Oh card game there are two monsters. The names are Ocean Dragon Lord - Neo Daedalus and Levia-Dragon Daedalus.
• Daedalus is a teacher in the academy in Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series.
• The evil Daedalus is a voiced by Gerry Bascombe and is a major enemy on The Mighty Hercules cartoon of the 60's.
• The Daedalus Attack is the name of a super move of the character Tizoc/Griffon Mask from the Fatal Fury series.
• Daedalus Encounter is the name of sci-fi cut scene / puzzle video game by Panasonic starring Tia Carrere for the 3DO home system.
• Daedalus is a spacecraft in Joyride, an episode of the new version of The Outer Limits series on the Sci-Fi channel.
• Daedalus is the name of a space station orbiting the planet Mercury in the fictitious universe of the computer game Frontier: Elite II, published by Konami in 1993.
• Daedalus is the name of Julien Luna's Nosferatu advisor in the TV series Kindred: The Embraced.
• The Daedalus is Earth's second interstellar battle cruiser in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.
• The 17th boss of Final Fantasy XII is named Daedalus, who protects the Ancient City of Giruvegan.
• A mundane (but still powerful) enemy based on the above creature appears in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates
• Daedalus is the name of a spacecraft which deals with goods in the PC game Unreal II (2001).
• Dedalus Diggle is a character in the Harry Potter series, who appears throughout as a minor character.
• Daedalus is the name of a flying fortress in the game Ninja Gaiden 2.

Other uses

• HMS Daedalus, in the Royal navy
• Daedalus Web server in england
• Research activities concerning the Psychology of MMORPG's carried out by Nick Yee are called the Deadalus Project. An overview of these activities can be found at the Deadalus Gateway
• Daedalus Creative Services is a company in the island of Cyprus that bases its whole function of operations on the mythos of Daedalus (fabricating wings for business to fly, and managing them to keep on flying) [2].
• The MIT Daedalus was a human-powered aircraft.
• Daedalus is a N64 emulator for the PlayStation Portable made by StrmnNrmn
• Daedalus Enterprises was a small engineering company located in Ann Arbor Michigan that developed airborne imaging systems from 1968 until it merged with ST Research in 1998. The resulting company was called Sensytech. Sensytech merged with Argon Engineering in 2004 to form Argon ST. Daedalus survives as part of the Argon ST Imaging Group and continues to develop airborne imaging systems.
• Daedalus is the name of the IT Services building in University College Dublin.
• Daedalus is a restaurant/pub located in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its address is 45 1/2 Mount Auburn Street.
• Daedalus is the name of the Boeing Company's private corporate yacht.
• Daedalus Books and Music is a bargain book and music store in Columbia, Maryland.
• Daedalus Theatre Company is a UK-based experimental theatre company.
• Daedalus is a system-level design framework for multimedia MultiProcessor Systems-on-a-Chip (MP-SoCs)
• Daedalus Excel is a research, design, and engineering consulting firm located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [3]. The firm is the result of the merger of Daedalus Design and Excel Technology in 2000. In 2006, Daedalus Excel compiled a toolbox of user research techniques [4].
• Daedalian Glass is a bespoke architectural glass designer and manufacturer based in the UK.
• Project Daedalus
• Daedalus is also the name of Billy Ocean's 3rd cousin
• Christopher Reppert, a computer administrator and CEO of Reppertfactor, names his servers after Greek figures, one of them being Daedalus.