Longshot

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 cinema, an image or scene filmed with a long lens

Characters

• Longshot (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics superhero
• 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), an American film directed by Charles Lamont
• Long Shot, a British film of 1978
• Longshot (1981 film), a film starring Leif Garrett
• The Longshot, a 1986 comedy film directed by Paul Bartel
• Longshot (film), a 2000 film starring Hunter Tylo
• The Long Shot, a 2004 Hallmark Channel film, starring Julie Benz
• The Longshots, a 2008 film starring Ice Cube and Keke Palmer
• Long Shot: The Kevin Laue Story, a 2013 documentary film by Franklin Martin
• Long Shot (2017 film), a documentary directed by Jacob LaMendola
• Long Shot (2019 film), a film starring Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron

Music

• The Longshot (band), an American rock band
• Long Shot, a 1969 album, or its 1968 title song, by the Pioneers
• "Long Shot" (Aimee Mann song), 1996
• "Long Shot" (Baillie & the Boys song), 1988
• "Longshot" (Catfish and the Bottlemen song), 2019
• "Long Shot" (Kelly Clarkson song), 2008
• "Longshot", a song by Common Rider, 2001
• "Longshot", a song by John Fogerty from Revival, 2007
• "Longshot", a song by Waking Ashland from I Am for You, 2004
• "Long shot", a song by Mayu Maeshima, opening music for Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, 2021

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
• "Long Shot" (The Professionals), an episode of the television series
• "Long Shot", a season 3 episode of The Casagrandes
• 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
• Longshot, the name of a single-player game mode in Madden NFL 18