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Gothic or Gothics may refer to:

People and languages

Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
- Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
- Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken by the Crimean Goths, also extinct
- Gothic alphabet, one of the alphabets used to write the Gothic language
- Gothic (Unicode block), a collection of Unicode characters of the Gothic alphabet

Gothic (film), a 1986 film by Ken Russell
Gothic (series), a video game series originally developed by Piranha Bytes Game Studios
- Gothic (video game), a 2001 video game developed by Piranha Bytes Game Studios
- Gothic (upcoming video game), an upcoming remake in development at Alkimia Interactive

The term "Gothic" is sometimes misused of Blackletter typefaces, a script historically used throughout Central and Western Europe, resembling mediaeval scribal writing.
Sans-serif or Gothic typefaces, an unadorned font style, that lacks "serifs" at the ends of strokes
- East Asian Gothic typeface, the "sans-serif" equivalent for East Asian writing systems
Block letters or Gothic writing, a style of writing alphabetic scripts and abjads in which characters are individual glyphs without joining