Survivor Series (2012) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It took place on November 18, 2012 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. It was the 26th annual Survivor Series event and the first one held in Indiana. The event received 212,000 pay-per-view buys, down from 281,000 buys the previous year. This event is notable for the onscreen debut of The Shield.

This event was originally scheduled at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh. However, this booking inadvertently conflicted with the National Football League's schedule for the 2012 season, which pitted the Pittsburgh Steelers against the Baltimore Ravens in a home game on the same night. Despite Pittsburgh being a strong WWE market dating from the territorial days of professional wrestling, the WWE decided to make no attempts to locally compete against the fanbase of the Steelers (especially since the game is against the team's archrival) and moved Survivor Series to the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

The professional wrestling matches at Survivor Series featured professional wrestlers performing as characters in scripted events pre-determined by the hosting promotion, WWE. Storylines between the characters played out on WWE's primary television programs, Raw and SmackDown.