Payback may refer to:
- Revenge, a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance
Payback may also refer to:
Art, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Payback, a member of the fictional comics superhero team Shadow Cabinet by DC Comics
- Payback, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics series True Believers
Film
- Payback (1991 film), a film starring Michael Ironside
- Payback (1995 film), a thriller starring C. Thomas Howell
- Payback (1997 film), a television film starring Mary Tyler Moore
- Payback (1999 film), a film starring Mel Gibson; a remake of the 1967 film Point Blank starring Lee Marvin
- Payback (2010 film), an Indian Hindi thriller film
- Payback (2012 film), a Canadian documentary film
Literature
- "Payback: A Strandville Prequel Short (Max Reid's Story)" (2012), a short story in Belinda Frisch's Strandville zombie novel series
- Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, a 2008 book by Margaret Atwood
- Payback, a 2007 novel by James Heneghan
- Payback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and his Financial Revolution, a 1995 book by Daniel Fischel
Music
- Payback Records, an Australian record company
Albums
- Payback (album), a 2012 album by Danny!, or the title song
- The Payback, a 1974 album by James Brown, or the title song (see below)
Songs
- "Payback" (Flaw song), 2001
- "Payback" (Rascal Flatts song), 2014
- "The Payback" (song), by James Brown, 1973
- "Payback", by Bobby Sheen, 1973
- "Payback", by Quarashi from Guerilla Disco, 2004
- "Payback", by Slayer from God Hates Us All, 2001
Television
Series
- Payback (TV series), an American reality show on the SPEED Channel
- WWE Payback, an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event
Episodes
- "Payback" (Brandy & Mr. Whiskers)
- "Payback" (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
- "Payback" (CSI: Miami)
- "Payback" (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
- "Payback" (Miami Vice)
- "Payback" (Third Watch)
- "Payback" (White Collar)
- "Payback", an episode of True Justice
Video games
- Payback (video game), a 2001 game developed by Apex Designs
- Soldier of Fortune: Payback, the third installment in the Soldier of Fortune (SOF) series
Other uses
- Payback period, the period of time required for the return on an investment
- Payback Press, a defunct specialist imprint of Canongate Books
- Operation Payback, an ongoing operation by the hacking group Anonymous