Noir

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Noir (or noire) is the French word for black. It may also refer to:

Places

In Canada

  • Noire River (Ottawa River tributary), in the Outaouais region of Quebec
  • Noire River, a tributary of the Yamaska River in Eastern Townships area, Quebec

In France

  • La Roche-Noire, a village and commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department
  • Montagne Noire, a mountain range

In Guadeloupe

  • Pointe-Noire, Guadeloupe, a commune on Guadeloupe

In the Republic of the Congo

  • Pointe-Noire, second largest city in the Republic of the Congo
  • Pointe Noire Airport, airport of Pointe-Noire
  • Pointe-Noire Bay, bay at Pointe-Noire

People

  • Noir (surname)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Genres

  • Film noir, a film genre
    • Neo-noir, a modern form of film noir
    • Horror noir, psychological horror and supernatural horror mystery in a noir film (List) or an occult detective ghost hunter film
    • Tech-noir, technophiles and technology harming a society in a dystopian setting
  • Folk noir, a music genre
  • Noir fiction, a literary genre closely related to hardboiled genre
    • Scandinavian noir, Scandinavian crime fiction

Comics

  • Magie Noire, a 2003 comic by the Ivorian painter and author Gilbert G. Groud
  • Marvel Noir, a 2009 thematic stories based on Marvel universe
  • Noir: A Collection of Crime Comics, a 2009 black-and-white crime comics anthology

Fictional characters

  • Noir, alias of Ray Balzac Courland in Gorgeous Carat manga
  • Noir, a character in the video game La Pucelle: Tactics (2002)
  • Noire, a character in the video game Fire Emblem: Awakening (2012)
  • Noire, a character in the video game Hyperdimension Neptunia
  • Cat Noir, the superhero identity of Adrien Agreste in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
  • Guy Noir, a fictional private detective in A Prairie Home Companion radio show
  • Jack Noir, a character in the webcomic Homestuck
  • Madame Noir, a character in the Ressha Sentai ToQger
  • Spider-Man Noir, a Marvel comic book character
  • Vince Noir, a fictional character in the BBC television comedy The Mighty Boosh
  • Noir (ノワール), the main antagonist in the anime series Kirakira PreCure a la Mode
  • Noir Stardia, the main protagonist in the anime series The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter
  • Noir is the codename of Haru Okumura in the role-playing game Persona 5
  • Black Noir (character), a character in the comic and TV series The Boys

Games

  • Discworld Noir, a 1999 video game by GT Interactive
  • L.A. Noire, a 2011 video game by Rockstar Games
  • Noir: A Shadowy Thriller, a 1996 video game by Cyberdreams
  • Trente et Quarante (English translation: Thirty and Forty), a gambling game also called Rouge et Noir (English translation: Red and Black)

Music

Groups and labels

  • Noir (band), a South Korean boy band which debuted in 2018
  • Noir, a poetic/techno music duo comprising Georg Kajanus and Tim Dry

Albums

  • Noir (Callisto album), 2006
  • Noir (William Control album), 2010
  • Noir (BSBD album), 2011
  • Noir (B.A.P album), 2016
  • Noir (Smino album), 2018

Songs

  • "Noir" (song), released by Sunmi in 2019

Other uses in music

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • Film noir, crime film style from the 1940s and 1950s
  • Noir (film), a 2015 Canadian film
  • Noir (novel), a 1998 novel by K. W. Jeter
  • Noir (TV series), a 2001 Japanese anime television series about a pair of female assassins
  • Souris noire, a 1987 French television series
  • Spider-Noir, an upcoming American television series

Brands and enterprises

Other uses

  • Legion Noire (English translation: Black Legion), a military unit of the French Revolutionary Army
  • Royale Noir, a Windows XP theme
  • Notice of Intent to Revoke (NOIR), a notice by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Bugatti La Voiture Noire: Bugatti Chiron mid-engine two-seater sports car

See also

  • Bande noire (disambiguation)
  • Bête noire (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term
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