Pretender (disambiguation)
Appearance
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A pretender is a claimant to an abolished throne or to a throne already occupied by somebody else.
Pretender or The Pretender may also refer to:
Film and television
[edit]- The Pretender (film), a 1947 American crime film
- The Pretender (TV series), a 1996–2000 American television series
- The Pretender 2001, a January 2001 TV movie
- The Pretender: Island of the Haunted, a December 2001 TV movie
- The Pretender (New Zealand TV series) (2005), directed by Jonathan Brough
- "The Pretender" (Code Lyoko), an episode of Code Lyoko
Novels
[edit]- The Pretender (Animorphs), a novel by K. A. Applegate
- The Pretender, a 2008 novel about literary forgery by David Belbin
- Pretender (C. J. Cherryh novel), a 2006 novel set in C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner universe
- The Pretender, a novel by Lion Feuchtwanger
- The Pretender: A Story of the Latin Quarter, a novel by Robert W. Service
- The Pretender: Rebirth, a first of many novels by Steven Long Mitchell & Craig W. Van Sickle based on cult television show The Pretender
Music
[edit]- The Pretender (album), a 1976 album by Jackson Browne
- "The Pretender" (Jackson Browne song), a song from the album
- "The Pretender" (Foo Fighters song), 2007
- "The Pretender", a song by Datarock from Red, 2009
- "Pretender" (Official Hige Dandism song), 2019
- "Pretender" (Lillasyster song), 2021
- "Pretender", a song by Madonna from Like a Virgin, 1984
- "Pretender", a song by Miike Snow from Happy to You, 2012
- "Pretender", a song by Steve Aoki, Lil Yachty, and AJR from Neon Future III, 2018
- "Pretender (acoustic)", acoustic version by AJR from The Click (Deluxe)
Other uses
[edit]- Pretender (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1869 Epsom Derby
See also
[edit]- Pretending (disambiguation)
- Pretenders (disambiguation)
- The Great Pretender (disambiguation)
- Antipope, a pretender to the papacy