Pretender (disambiguation)

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A pretender is a claimant to an abolished throne or to a throne already occupied by somebody else. In English, the term is commonly used for two notable claimants to the British throne:

• James Francis Edward Stuart (1688–1766), "The Old Pretender"
• Charles Edward Stuart (1720–1788), "The Young Pretender"

Pretender or The Pretender may also refer to:

Film and television

• 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" (Code Lyoko), an episode of Code Lyoko

Literature

• 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

• The Pretender (album), a 1976 album by Jackson Browne
  • "The Pretender" (Jackson Browne song), a song from the album
• "The Pretender" (Foo Fighters song)
• "The Pretender", a song by Datarock from Red

Other uses

• Pretender (Transformers), a subline of the Transformers toy line
• Pretender (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse, the winner of the 1869 Epsom Derby
• Pretender (game), see http://friv.com/, then find Pretender part 1, 2, 3.

See also

• Pretending (disambiguation)
• Pretenders (disambiguation)
• The Great Pretender (disambiguation)
• Antipope, a pretender to the papacy