A spear is a pole weapon used for hunting and combat. Spear may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Spear (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain Spear (film), a 2015 Australian film Spear (Pokémon), the Japanese name for Beedrill, a Pokémon character The Spear (novel), a 1978 novel by James Herbert The Spear (painting), a 2010 painting by Brett Murray Spear's, a wealth management magazine Military Operation Spear (2005), US military action in Iraq SAS Spear, the first submarine of the South African Navy SPEAR 3, a European air-to-ground missile Spears, slang for nuclear weapons People with the name Spear (surname) Spear Lancaster, 2002 candidate for Governor of Maryland Sports Spear (wrestling), a professional wrestling attack Spear tackle, head-first thrust into the ground Other uses Spear (liturgy), used in the Byzantine-Rite Churches Cape Spear, in Newfoundland, Canada Asparagus spear, a stalk of asparagus Singapore Prisons Emergency Action Response, a department within the Singapore Prison Service Spear Lúin, Irish mythological treasure Spear side, the male line of a family SPEAR_System or S.P.E.A.R., a self-defense system based on physics and physiology Stanford Positron Electron Asymmetric Ring, an electron-positron collider now part of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource facility See also Justice Spear (disambiguation) Speare, a surname Spearing (disambiguation) Spears (disambiguation)