Talon or talons may refer to:

Science and technology

  • Talon (anatomy), the claw of a bird of prey
  • TALON (database), a database maintained by the US Air Force
  • Brodifacoum, a rodenticide, also known as the brand Talon
  • an anti-vehicle-ramming spike strip-like net

Entertainment and media

  • Talon (cards), in some card games, the remainder of a deck of cards
  • Talon (Smallville), a fictional coffee shop in the TV series
  • Talon (roller coaster), an inverted roller coaster at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom
  • Talon, a 2014 novel by Julie Kagawa
  • The Talon, the newspaper of Los Altos High School, US

Fictional characters

  • Talons, assassins of the Court of Owls in DC Comics
  • Talon (DC Comics), a character from Teen Titans
  • Talon, a character from Static Shock
  • Talon (Transformers), an autobot from Transformers
  • Talon, a character from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  • Talon Karrde, a character from Star Wars
  • Talon Maza, a character from Gargoyles
  • Talon Labarthe, a character from in Ratatouille
  • Achille Talon, comic book series and character
  • Darth Talon, a character from Star Wars: Legacy
  • Talon of the Silver Hawk or Talwin Hawkins in Conclave of Shadows
  • Talon, in the Dark-Hunter series
  • X-23 or Talon, in Marvel Comics
  • Talon, in the Prey video game
  • Talon, in the video game Primal Rage
  • Talon, a member of the Sackett family in various works by Louis L'Amour
  • Talon, a dog in the film Snow Buddies
  • Talon, in the TV series Inspector Gadget

Other fictional entities

  • Talon light fighter, in the Wing Commander franchise
  • F/A-37 Talon, an aircraft in the 2005 film Stealth
  • A terrorist group in the video game Overwatch

Music

  • Talon, a French term for the bow frog of a string instrument
  • Talons (band), a British band
  • Talons (EP), a 2009 EP by Josh Dies
  • "Talons" (song), a song on the 2008 Bloc Party album Intimacy

Transportation

Ground

  • Eagle Talon, an automobile produced by the Eagle division of Chrysler
  • Foster-Miller TALON, a US military unmanned ground vehicle
  • Talon MHS-II, a car built for the Can-Am series and used briefly in 1977

Aviation

  • Lockheed MC-130 Combat Talon, a variant of the C-130 aircraft operated by the U.S. Air Force
  • Northrop T-38 Talon, a US-built supersonic jet trainer for military pilots
  • RotorWay A600 Talon, an American helicopter design
  • Wills Wing Talon, an American hang glider design

Other uses

  • Talon (actor) (born 1969), in the adult entertainment industry
  • Talon (bearer bond), a document attached to a bearer bond which entitled the holder to a block of further coupons
  • Talon (rural locality), in Russia
  • Talon (surname)
  • Talon, Nièvre, a commune in France
  • Talon Esports, a professional esports organisation based in Hong Kong
  • PSG Talon, a professional League of Legends team
  • Talon Zipper, an American zipper company
  • San Antonio Talons, San Antonio, Texas's arena football team, formerly the Tulsa Talons
  • The mascot of the Major League Soccer team D.C. United
  • Another name for ogee moulding in woodworking

See also

  • Operation Talon (disambiguation), the codename of several military or police operations
  • Tallon (disambiguation)
  • Talion (disambiguation)
  • Talen (disambiguation)
  • Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia