* Calypso ( Twisted Metal ), a character in the Twisted Metal video-game series

* Sweet Tooth, a sociopathic serial killer who is a primary anti-hero in the Twisted Metal franchise.

In the " definitive metal family tree " of his documentary Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, anthropologist Sam Dunn differentiates pop metal, which includes bands like Def Leppard, Europe, and Whitesnake, from glam metal bands that include Mötley Crüe, Twisted Sister and Hanoi Rocks.

* Twisted Metal, a popular vehicular combat series

Some of the songs on the Skold album were used in movies like Disturbing Behavior (" Hail Mary "), Universal Soldier: The Return (" Chaos ") and the PlayStation game Twisted Metal 4 (" Chaos ").

* If a player beats the video game Twisted Metal III as the demon Minion, he wishes to spend eternity in Hell.

In standard Twisted Metal fashion the wish is turned against him and he is sent to Hell, Michigan.

In video games, Calypso is the name of one of the major characters of the Twisted Metal series where he is shown as the host of the titular contest.

The song " Chaos " was used in the video game Twisted Metal 4 and the film Universal Soldier: The Return.

Fiction with a dystopian future setting often portrays deadly futuristic games as popular sports entertainment, including the movie The Running Man, video games such as Smash TV and the Twisted Metal series, and the role-playing game Shadowrun, which features Urban Brawl and Combat Biking

Twisted Metal is a series of vehicular combat video games published by Sony Computer Entertainment, and developed by various companies during its tenure.

It is the 162nd best-selling video game franchise, selling over 7 million copies of Twisted Metal: Black in North America alone, and at least 15 million copies total.

Seven games of the series ( including Twisted Metal: Black Online ) were re-released as part of the Sony Greatest Hits program.

In concept, Twisted Metal is a demolition derby that permits the usage of ballistic

Although each individual game features its own storyline, they all revolve around the eponymous " Twisted Metal ": a vehicular combat tournament hosted once a year.

Twisted Metal 2 screenshot.

Twisted Metal features 50 different cars ( although some different combinations of car and driver ) in its eight incarnations ( Twisted Metal, 2, III, 4, Black, Small Brawl, Head-On, and TMPS3.

Before creating the Twisted Metal contest, Calypso was just a regular man.

Calypso then established Twisted Metal and, for ten years, has continued to run the competition.

Additionally, endings in Twisted Metal, Twisted Metal 2, and Head-On show that his power seems to extend only to granting wishes ; he can't, for example, stop Agent Shepard from arresting him via his powers, as Shepard refused to accept a wish.

Also, in Twisted Metal: Head-On, Sweet Tooth wishes to change places with Calypso and, despite Calypso's final judgment not to, it was granted.

His voice was distorted and less human than in Twisted Metal 2 and Head-On.

They were leaked onto the Internet years later and officially released as a special feature in Twisted Metal: Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition.

* In Twisted Metal: Head-On, he seems to be a melded version of his World Tour and Black appearances incorporating aspects of both designs.

Head-On shares not only the distinction of being the seventh game released in the Twisted Metal series, but also is the first game in the series to ship fully online-enabled.

Head-On is a direct sequel to Twisted Metal 2, ignoring the events of Twisted Metal III and Twisted Metal 4.

Akin to other games in the series, Head-On revolves around the same theme of a man named Calypso holding a vehicular combat tournament called " Twisted Metal " with the promise of granting the winner whatever they ask for.

In 2006, Twisted Metal: Head-On was one of the first games in the PSP Greatest Hits line in the U. S.

In 2007, it was announced by David Jaffe that Twisted Metal: Head-On was to be ported to PlayStation 2 and was released on February 5, 2008.

The game was developed by Jaffe's newly formed studio Eat Sleep Play and was retitled Twisted Metal Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition.

* Twisted Metal: Head-On at. com ( North America )

* Twisted Metal: Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition at IGN

* Twisted Metal: Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition at GameRankings

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Twisted Brown Trucker is Kid Rock's band, formed in 1994 in Sterling Heights, Michigan.

The liquid crystal alignment is chosen so that its relaxed phase is a twisted one ( see Twisted nematic field effect ).

The book was republished in 2001 by Stone and Scott Publishers as Stoopnagle's Tale is Twisted.

To date, ' Twisted ' is the last major Hollywood film in which she received top billing.

* On Kanye West's album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Gil Scott-Heron's track " Comment # 1 ", in which Nat Turner is mentioned, is part of Track 13: " Who Will Survive in America ".

In the popular comic by DC Comics, as well as three Batman movies ( 1966, 1989 and The Dark Knight ) and the TV series, The Joker is the supervillain nemesis of Batman and is often portrayed as having a rather " Dark and Twisted " jester-like sense of humor whose theme of practical jokes almost always holds death as the punchline during his " performances ".

Twisted pair cabling is a type of wiring in which two conductors of a single circuit are twisted together for the purposes of canceling out electromagnetic interference ( EMI ) from external sources ; for instance, electromagnetic radiation from unshielded twisted pair ( UTP ) cables, and crosstalk between neighboring pairs.

Twisted pair cabling is often used in data networks for short and medium length connections because of its relatively lower costs compared to optical fiber and coaxial cable.

* Jane White is Sick and Twisted ( 2002 )

* Wizard ( performed by Richard Hunt )-The Wizard is a supposed master of prestidigitation who visits Fraggle Rock occasionally to show off his magic tricks, which include the " Blooming Flower " trick and the " Double Twisted Over Back Flip While Escaping from Ropes and Waiting to Be Eaten While You're All Tied Up " trick.

The home in which Michelson lived as a child in Murphys Camp, California is now a tasting room for Twisted Oak Winery.

Oak Street in Roanoke is the newly redeveloped Old Town District which is the home for a number of restaurants, such as Babe's Chicken Dinner House, Twisted Root Burger Company, Cowboy Chow, Gerhard's German Restaurant, Brix Pizza and Wine, and the 4 Star, Classic Cafe.

A sample of Anderson's vocals from Mike Oldfield's " In High Places " is prominently featured in Kanye West's 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in the opening track " Dark Fantasy ".

" Georgie's Theme " from Herrmann's score for the 1968 film Twisted Nerve is whistled by one-eyed nurse Elle Driver in the hospital corridor scene in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol.

Some of those artists include Dubblestandart from Vienna, Austria ( who recorded the album " Return from Planet Dub " in collaboration with, and performs live with, Lee Scratch Perry ), Liquid Stranger from Sweden, New York City artists including Ticklah, also known as Victor Axelrod, Victor Rice, Easy Star All-Stars, Dub Trio ( who have recorded and performed live with Mike Patton, and are currently touring as the backing band for Matisyahu ), Subatomic Sound System ( who have remixed material by Lee Scratch Perry and Ari Up ), Dub is a Weapon, King Django, Boom One Sound System, Dr. Israel, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad from Rochester, NY, Heavyweight Dub Champion from San Francisco and Colorado, Ott from the UK who has released several influential albums through Twisted Records, Future Pigeon from Los Angeles, German artists like Disrupt and Rootah from the Jahtari label, and Twilight Circus from the Netherlands.

Twisted Sister's guitarist Jay Jay French stated " I would say our direct lineage these days is a bit of Slade and Alice Cooper.

Bradford has recorded a song entitled " Colin Farrell is My Bitch " and has self-published a book called Colin Farrell: A Dark Twisted Puppy.

Depicted here is No. 63 — Smirnoff Twisted V Green Apple.

Twisted and trapped inside the now-physical body of the former Empyreal Chaos by the Exalted, they were shunted out of Creation, becoming the Hell known as Malfeas, the Demon City and its unfortunate inmates ; they are half-remembered only as the Yozis – primitive, ill-understood, and impersonal cosmic deities, and their continued worship is reckoned among the highest of heresies.