Longshot (disambiguation)

Longshot or long shot may refer to:

• a contender (such as a racehorse) that appears to have little or no chance of winning
• long shot, in photography and film, a shot that shows an entire object

Characters

• Longshot, a Marvel Comics superhero
• Longshot (Battlestar Galactica), Samuel Anders, a character of the Battlestar Galactica 2004 TV series
• Caine the Longshot, a character in the anime series Trigun
• Longshot, member of "The Freedom Fighters" led by Jet, a character from the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender

Film

• Long Shot (1939 film), a 1939 American film directed by Charles Lamont
• Long Shot (1978 film)
• Longshot (1981 film), a 1981 film starring Leif Garrett
• Longshot (film), a 2000 film starring Hunter Tylo
• Long Shot: The Kevin Laue Story, 2013 documentary film by Franklin Martin
• The Longshot, a 1986 film directed by Paul Bartel
• The Long Shot, a 2004 Hallmark Channel film, starring Julie Benz
• The Longshots, a 2008 film starring Ice Cube and Keke Palmer

Music

• "Long Shot" (song), a single by American country music group Baillie & the Boys
• "Long Shot", a song by Kelly Clarkson from her album All I Ever Wanted
• "Long Shot", a song by Aimee Mann from her album I'm with Stupid
• "Longshot", a song by John Fogerty from his album Revival
• Longshot, a 1969 album by The Pioneers
• "Longshot", a song by Waking Ashland from their EP I Am for You
• "Longshot", a song by Common Rider
• "The Longshots", American Rock and Roll Music Group, Mock Records Recording Artist Est. 2013

Other uses

• Long Shot, an atomic weapons test, carried out on Amchitka island in 1965
• Long Shot (TV series), a 1959 Canadian current affairs television series
• Long Shot (Niven), a spacecraft from Larry Niven's Ringworld series
• Project Longshot, a design for an interstellar spacecraft
• "Long Shot", a short story by Vernor Vinge
• Long Shot, a memoir about former Major League Baseball player Mike Piazza
• Longshot CS-6, a 2006 Nerf blaster released under the N-Strike|N-Strike series
• Longshot CS-12, a 2014 Nerf blaster released under the Z.E.D Squad sub-series of the Zombie Strike series
• a variation of the Hookshot in the Legend of Zelda series