Bastard

Bastard or The Bastard may refer to:

Parentage

• Illegitimate child, a child born to unmarried parents, in traditional Western family law
  • Bastard, an archaic term used in English and Welsh bastardy laws, reformed in 1926

People

• "The Bastard", a character in Shakespeare's play King John
• "The Bastard", ring name for Pac (wrestler) (born Benjamin Satterley, 1986)
• Bastard (surname), including a list of people with that name
• List of people known as the Bastard

Film and television

• Bastard (1940 film), a Swedish-Norwegian film
• The Bastard (1954 film), a 1954 Argentine film directed by Lucas Demare
• The Bastard (1963 film), a 1963 film by Seijun Suzuki
• The Bastard (1978 film), a 1978 film based on the John Jakes novel
• Bastard (1997 film), a Polish-German-French film
• Bastard, a 2010 short film directed by Kirsten Dunst
• The Bastard (2023 film), a Danish-language film by Nikolaj Arcel
• The Bastard (miniseries), a 1978 made-for-television adaptation of the John Jakes novel
• I bastardi (The Bastards), the original Italian title of the 1968 film released in English as The Cats

Music

Albums

• Bastard (Colin Newman album), 1997
• Bastard (Stahlmann album) or the title song, 2017
• Bastard (Tyler, the Creator album) or the title song, 2009
• Bastard, by Kat, 1992
• Bastard, by Subway to Sally, 2007
• The Bastard (album), by Hammers of Misfortune, 2001
• The Bastard, by BZN, 1971

Songs

• "Bastard", by Ben Folds from Songs for Silverman, 2005
• "Bastard", by David Byrne from Lead Us Not into Temptation, 2003
• "Bastard", by Devin Townsend from Ocean Machine: Biomech, 1997
• "Bastard", by Dope from American Apathy, 2005
• "Bastard", by Dysrhythmia from Pretest, 2003
• "Bastard", by Ian Hunter from You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic, 1979
• "Bastard", by Mötley Crüe from Shout at the Devil, 1983
• "Bastard", by Oomph! from Unrein, 1998
• "Bastard", by Soulfly from Enslaved, 2012
• "Bastard (Satan's Kid)", by Lil Wayne from Funeral, 2020
• "The Bastard", by Pet Lamb from Sweaty Handshake, 1995
• "The Bastard", by the Tragically Hip from Music @ Work, 2000

Publications

• The Bastard, a 1929 novel by Erskine Caldwell
• Bastard!!, a manga by Kazushi Hagiwara (since 1988)
• The Bastard (novel), a 1974 novel by John Jakes
• "Bâtard" ("Bastard" or "Mongrel"), a 1902 short story by Jack London
• Der momzer (The Bastard), a Yiddish play by Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin
• La Bâtarde, memoir by Violette Leduc

Fonts

• Bastard (typeface), a blackletter typeface
• Bastarda or bastard, a Gothic script

Other uses

• Bastard (color), a type of color gel
• Bastard Township, Ontario, Canada
• Bastard, a classification of the teeth of a metalworking file
• Bastard, a second-rate wine, distinguished from sack
• The Bastard, the horse that won the 1930 Yorkshire Cup

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Bastard
• All pages with titles containing Bastard
• Bastard of Winterfell, alias name of Jon Snow (character), in Game of Thrones
• Bastardia, a genus of flowering plants
• Bastardisation (disambiguation)
• Bastardo (disambiguation)
• Bastards (disambiguation)
• Bastardy (film), a 2008 Australian documentary film
• Bastardy (play), a 1972 play by Australian playwright John Romeril
• Baster, a descendant of liaisons between the Cape Colony Dutch and indigenous Africans
• Fat Bastard, Austin Powers character
• Vyvyan Basterd, character in 80s British comedy series The Young Ones
• Alan and Sara B'Stard, characters in the 1987 TV series The New Statesman