Raiden

Raiden may refer to:

• Raijin, also called Raiden or Raiden-sama, the god of thunder and lightning in Japanese mythology

Fiction and characters

Arcade and video games

• Raiden (Mortal Kombat) (sometimes spelled Rayden), a character in the Mortal Kombat video game series
• Raiden (series), a series of scrolling shooter arcade games
  • Raiden (video game), the first game in the series
  • Raiden II
  • Raiden DX
  • Raiden III
  • Raiden IV
  • Raiden V
• The Raiden Fighters series, a later arcade shooter series that uses the Raiden name.
  • Raiden Fighters
  • Raiden Fighters 2, subtitled Operation Hell Dive
  • Raiden Fighters Jet
• Raiden (Metal Gear), a character in Metal Gear series
• Raiden (Fatal Fury), a character in the Fatal Fury series
• RAIDEN series, a series of Virturoids from the Sega game Virtual On
• Raiden Mei (Chinese: 雷电芽衣), a character in Honkai Impact 3rd
• Raiden Shogun, a character in 2020 video game Genshin Impact

Other fiction and characters

• Raiden (film), a 1928 film directed by Shōzō Makino
• Gwen Raiden, a minor character on the TV series Angel
• Trainbots, a fictional team of Autobots that can form Raiden in Transformers: The Headmasters

People

• Raiden Tameemon (Seki Tarōkichi; 1767–1825), a Japanese sumo wrestler during the Kansei era
• Raiden Shin'emon (Wasuke Kazuyoshi; 1842–1886), a Japanese sumo wrestler during the Genji era
• Raiden (DJ), a South Korean DJ and record producer

Other

• Mitsubishi J2M "Raiden", a Japanese World War II fighter aircraft
• AMD Raiden, codename for a project by Advanced Micro Devices concerning client computing

See also

• Ikazuchi (disambiguation)
• Inazuma (disambiguation)
• Lightning bolt (disambiguation)
• Thunderbolt (disambiguation)
• Thunderclap (disambiguation)