Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a snake or dragon swallowing its tail.

Ouroboros or Ouroborus may also refer to:

Entertainment

Film and television

  • Ouroboros (manga), a Japanese seinen manga and anime by Kanzaki Yuuya
  • Ouroboros (TV series), a 2015 Japanese television drama based on the manga
  • "Ouroboros", an episode of the TV series Andromeda
  • "Ouroboros", an episode of the TV series Charlie Jade
  • "Ouroboros" (Fear the Walking Dead), an episode of the TV series Fear the Walking Dead
  • "Ouroboros" (Red Dwarf), an episode of the TV series Red Dwarf
  • Ouroboros (Shameless), an episode of the American TV series Shameless
  • "Ouroboros" (Loki), an episode of the TV series Loki

Music

  • Uroboros (band), a Japanese visual kei rock band
  • Oroboros, a jam band by Jim Miller
  • Ouroboros: Seasons of Life—Women's Passages, an oratorio by Kay Gardner
  • Uroboros (album), a 2008 album by Dir en grey
  • Ouroboros (Ray LaMontagne album), 2016
  • "Oroborus", a song by Gojira from the 2008 album The Way of All Flesh
  • "Ouroboros", a song by Demon Hunter from the 2025 album There Was a Light Here
  • "Ouroboros", a song by the Mars Volta from the 2008 album The Bedlam in Goliath

Other arts and entertainment

  • Ouroboros or The Mechanical Extension of Mankind, a 1926 novel by Garet Garrett
  • Uroboros (sculpture), a 1979 sculpture by Charles Kibby

Fictional characters and objects

  • Mr. Ouroboros, a Marvel Comics character in the Time Variance Authority
  • Ouroboros (Marvel Cinematic Universe), the version of the character in the Loki TV series
  • Ouroboros, a massive station in Mega Man ZX Advent
  • Ouroboros, the overarching antagonists of the Trails series
  • Ouroboros, the mecha-like transformations of the main characters in Xenoblade Chronicles 3
  • Uroboros, the viral bioweapon used by Albert Wesker in Resident Evil 5 and Dead by Daylight

Other uses

  • Ouroboros (protocol), the proof of stake blockchain algorithm
  • Ouroborus, a reptile genus containing the armadillo girdled lizard
  • Ouroboros, a community weblog devoted to research in the biology of aging; see