Talon Explained

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
• 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