// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was the meltdown at the party? It had a nuclear reaction.

Meltdown may refer to:

Science and technology

• Nuclear meltdown, a severe nuclear reactor accident
• Meltdown (security vulnerability), affecting computer processors
• Mutational meltdown, in population genetics

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Meltdown (festival) in London
• Meltdown Records, a Slovakian record label

Albums

• Meltdown (Ash album) or the title song, 2004
• Meltdown (GrimSkunk album), 1996
• Meltdown (Icehouse album), 2002
• Meltdown (Massacre album), 2001
• Meltdown (Steve Taylor album) or the title song, 1984
• Meltdown (Vinnie Moore album) or the title song, 1991
• Meltdown (EP), by Pitbull, 2013
• Meltdown: Live in Mexico City, by King Crimson, or the title song, 2018
• Meltdown, by John Taylor, 1999
• Meltdown!, by Justin Roberts, 2006

Songs

• "Meltdown" (Love and Death song), 2013
• "Meltdown" (Niall Horan song), 2023
• "Meltdown" (Stromae song), 2014
• "Meltdown" (Travis Scott Song), 2023
• "Meltdown", by AC/DC from Stiff Upper Lip, 2000
• "Meltdown!", by the Aquabats from Charge!!, 2005
• "...Meltdown", by Enter Shikari from A Flash Flood of Colour, 2012
• "Meltdown", by Godflesh from Slavestate, 1991
• "Meltdown", by Live from The Distance to Here, 1999
• "Meltdown", by Loverboy from Keep It Up, 1983
• "Meltdown", by Motionless in White from Scoring the End of the World, 2022
• "Meltdown", by Of Mice & Men from Earthandsky, 2019
• "Meltdown", by Quartz, 1989
• "Meltdown", by Upon a Burning Body from Fury, 2022
• "Meltdown", by Watchtower from Energetic Disassembly, 1985
• "Meltdown", from the film soundtrack album Requiem for a Dream, 2000

Publications

• Meltdown (Clearfield and Tilcsik book), 2018 on system failures
• Meltdown (Woods book), 2009, on the 2008 financial crisis
• Meltdown (Image Comics), a comic book mini-series
• Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed, a 2009 book by Paul Mason
• Havok and Wolverine: Meltdown, a 1988 Marvel Comics limited series
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown, a 2018 children's novel
• Tabitha Smith, a Marvel Comics character, codename Meltdown

Film

• High Risk (1995 film), also known as Meltdown, a Hong Kong film starring Jet Li
• Meltdown (2004 film), an American film starring Bruce Greenwood
• Ice Age: The Meltdown, a 2006 animated film
• Meltdown: Days of Destruction, a 2006 American film starring Casper Van Dien

Television

• "Meltdown" (Farscape episode)
• "Meltdown" (JAG), an episode of JAG and the second part of the backdoor pilot of NCIS
• "Meltdown" (Red Dwarf), a television episode
• "Meltdown" (The Batman), a television episode
• Meltdown, a character in the 2007–2009 Transformers: Animated series
• The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, a stand-up comedy television series that aired on Comedy Central

Video games

• Meltdown (1986 video game), an action-adventure game for the Amstrad CPC
• Meltdown (1990 video game), a light gun shooter video game for the Atari 7800
• Cinder (Killer Instinct), a character originally named Meltdown in the fighting game series
• Meltdown, a game by Jagex
• Meltdown, a (status) magic attack in Final Fantasy VIII
• Meltdown, an in-game movie in Grand Theft Auto V
• Meltdown, a Minecraft minigame played in MC Championship
• Geometry Dash Meltdown, a 2015 spin-off of video game Geometry Dash

Other uses

• Tantrum, an emotional outburst
• Autistic meltdown, a stress reaction
• Meltdown (bar chain), a French bar chain