Ripper

Ripper is a proposed spin-off series from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, starring Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles. As of 2005, nothing is certain about whether the series will ever be made.
Ripper was also the online alias of Brandon Vedas, who died due to a drug overdose. Vedas was encouraged to consume more drugs by people in a chatroom who were watching him via his webcam.
The stage name of heavy metal singer Tim Owens, formely of Judas Priest
Ripper is the name of Aunt Marge's bulldog in the fictional Harry Potter series.
A CD ripper is a piece of software that reads compact discs and extracts audio data and stores it in an audio format file.
A ripper is a piece of additional heavy equipment on the rear of a bulldozer or grader to break up pavement (roads) or rocky soil.
Rippers are a type of creature in the Metroid video game franchise.
Ripper is a commonly used algorithm in data mining to generate rule based classifiers.
Rippers were a race of mutant kangaroo-human hybrids in the graphic novel/movie Tank Girl.