Mercy is leniency or compassion. In sport, the mercy rule may be applied.
Mercy may also refer to:
Places
- Mercy Bay, Northwest Territories, Canada
- Mercy, Allier, Allier department, France, a commune
- Mercy, Yonne, Yonne department, France, a commune
- Mercy, Les Cayes, Haiti, a village in the Les Cayes municipality
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
- Mercy (comics), a villain at the Marvel Comics universe
- Mercy, a character in the 1979 film The Warriors
- Mercy, a character in the 2019 horror comic series Witch Creek Road
- Mercy Bromage, a character from the 2017 movie My Days of Mercy
- Mercy Chant, a minor character in the Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Mercy Graves, a character from Superman: The Animated Series
- Mercy Hartigan, the human accomplice of the Cybermen in The Next Doctor
- Mercy Olubunmi, in the British soap opera EastEnders and Internet spin-off EastEnders: E20
- Mercy Thompson, in an urban fantasy series written by Patricia Briggs
- Mercy (Overwatch), from the 2016 video game Overwatch
- Mercy Watson, the main character from the Mercy Watson series
Fictional places
Film
- Mercy (1953 film), a Mexican drama directed by ZacarÃÂas Gómez Urquiza
- Mercy (1995 film), a crime film starring Sam Rockwell and John Rubinstein
- Mercy (2000 film), a crime film starring Ellen Barkin and Julian Sands
- Mercy (2009 film), a romantic drama about a writer who pursues a romance with a critic
- Mercy (2012 film), a German drama film about a couple and their teenage son who emigrate to the north of Norway
- Mercy (2014 film), an American horror film that loosely adapts the Stephen King short story "Gramma"
- Mercy (2016 film), a home invasion thriller distributed on Netflix
- The Mercy, a 2017 British biographical drama film about an amateur yacht sailor in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race
- Mercy (2023 film), an American action film starring Leah Gibson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Jon Voight
- Mercy (2026 film), an American science fiction film starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson
Games
- Mercy (game), a children's game that involves the bending back of an opponent's hands
- Mercy, a move related to the Fatality in the video game series Mortal Kombat
Literature
Music
Albums
- Mercy (Steve Jones album), 1987
- Mercy, by Bryan Duncan, 1992
- Mercy, by Andraé Crouch, 1994
- ÃÂ Mercy (Meredith Monk album), 2002
- ÃÂ Mercy (Salmonella Dub remix album), 2004
- Mercy (Burden Brothers album), 2006
- ÃÂ Mercy (Planes Mistaken for Stars album), 2006
- Mercy (Rocco DeLuca and the Burden album), 2009
- ÃÂ Mercy, by Natalie Bergman, 2021
- ÃÂ Mercy (Trey Anastasio album), 2022
- Mercy (John Cale album), 2023
- Mercy (Remo Drive album), 2024
- Mercy (Armand Hammer and the Alchemist album), 2025
Songs
Television
Organizations
Schools
People
Other uses
See also
- La Mercy, a suburb of the eThekwini municipality, South Africa
- "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", a 1966 jazz instrumental written by Joe Zawinul for Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
- "Mercy, Mercy" (Don Covay song), a 1965 soul song
- "Aw' Mercy", a song by Booker T. & the M.G.'s from the album Soul Dressing
- Mercy-le-Bas, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department
- Mercy-le-Haut, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department
- Val-de-Mercy, in the Yonne department