Merchant of Death

Merchant of Death, death merchants, or variations may refer to:

War, death, arms, and weaponry

 * Merchants of death, a phrase used to describe war industry and their funders
 * Arms industry, nicknamed "merchants of death"
 * arms dealer, a weapons merchant
 * hitman, assassin-for-hire

People

 * Viktor Bout (born 1967), Russian arms dealer nicknamed the Merchant of Death
 * Sarkis Soghanalian (1929–2011), international private arms dealer nicknamed the Merchant of Death
 * Basil Zaharoff (1849–1936), Greek arms dealer nicknamed the Merchant of Death
 * Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), Swedish businessman who invented dynamite and established the Nobel Prize, nicknamed "the Merchant of Death"
 * Sarkis Soghanalian, an Armenian Cold War arms dealer and businessman

Fictional characters

 * Death Merchant, Weisheit, a fictional character from the 2006 videogame Wild Arms XF
 * Tony Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe), a weapons dealer from the Marvel Cinematic Universe accused of being a merchant of death

Literature

 * The Merchant of Death, 2002 fantasy novel in the Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale
 * Death Merchant, action-adventure novels by Joseph Rupert Rosenberger
 * Death Merchant Chronicles, a series of novels by Christopher Moore
 * Death Merchants, 2003 action-adventure story by Tim Tresslar in the Executioner series, see List of Mack Bolan books
 * Diagnosis Murder: The Death Merchant, a medical mystery novel by Lee Goldberg, in the media franchise Diagnosis: Murder
 * Merchants of Death, a 1934 exposé about the arms industry, discussed at Merchants of death
 * Merchants of Death, a comic book title published by Eclipse Comics, see List of Eclipse Comics publications
 * Merchants of Death, a manga episode chapter of Cyborg 009
 * Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible, 2007 non-fiction book by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun about arms dealer Victor Bout
 * El mercader de la muerte (Merchant of Death), 2020 novel about Basil Zaharoff by Gervasio Posadas Mañé

Music

 * "Death Merchants", 2011 song by Sutter Kain and Darko off the album Mask of the Demon
 * "Merchants of Death", 2002 song by Manila Road off the album Spiral Castle
 * "Merchant of Death", 2008 instrumental by Ramin Djawadi from the movie soundtrack Iron Man
 * "Merchants of Death", 2020 song by Havok off the album V

Television

 * "The Death Merchant", 1966 episode of the TV series The Time Tunnel
 * "Merchants of Death", 1983 season 2 number 4 episode 26 of Knight Rider
 * "Merchants of Death", 1975 season 4 number 11 episode 83 of The Streets of San Francisco
 * "Merchant of Death", 1961 season 1 episode 4 of Top Secret
 * "The Merchant of Death", 1988 season 1 episode 16 of Wiseguy
 * "The Merchant of Death: Viktor Bout", 2019 season 3 number 7 of the documentary TV series Declassified

Other uses

 * The Undertaker (1988 film), also released as Death Merchant