# Death's head

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**Death's Head**, **death's head**, **death's-head**, **Deathshead**, or **deathshead** may refer to:

- [Human skull](/source/Human_skull), the head of the [personification of Death](/source/Personification_of_Death) - [Skull and crossbones (symbol)](/source/Skull_and_crossbones_(symbol)) - *[Totenkopf](/source/Totenkopf)*, a German military insignia
- [Death's head cockroach](/source/Death's_head_cockroach) (*Blaberus craniifer*), a species of cockroach
- [Death's-head hawkmoth](/source/Death's-head_hawkmoth), the common name for three species of moth
- *[SS-Totenkopfverbände](/source/SS-Totenkopfverb%C3%A4nde)*, Nazi German military unit distinguished by a *totenkopf* insignia
- [Death's Head (Marvel Comics)](/source/Death's_Head_(Marvel_Comics)), a robotic bounty hunter from Marvel Comics
- [Death's Head (series)](/source/Death's_Head_(series)), science fiction novels by David Gunn
- The official "death's head" insignia design of the [Hells Angels Motorcycle Club](/source/Hells_Angels_Motorcycle_Club)
- Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse, fictional antagonist in the *[Wolfenstein](/source/Wolfenstein)* video game franchise
- *[The Blood Beast Terror](/source/The_Blood_Beast_Terror)*, also known as *The Deathshead Vampire*, a 1968 British horror film starring Peter Cushing
- "[Deaths-Head Revisited](/source/Deaths-Head_Revisited)", a 1961 *Twilight Zone* episode

## See also

- *[The Deathhead Virgin](/source/The_Deathhead_Virgin)*, a 1974 American horror film
- [Caput mortuum](/source/Caput_mortuum)
- [Decapitation](/source/Decapitation)
- [Human skull symbolism](/source/Human_skull_symbolism)

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