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), Armenian Cold War-era 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"

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 (Spanish: 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

See also

• Personifications of death
• Merchant (disambiguation)
• Death (disambiguation)