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A pretender is a claimant to an abolished throne or to a throne already occupied by somebody else.

Contents

• Film and television
• Television episodes
• Novels
• Music
• Other uses
• See also

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 television film
  • The Pretender: Island of the Haunted , a December 2001 television film
• The Pretender, a 2005 New Zealand TV series directed by Jonathan Brough

Novels

• Pretender , a 1979 novel by Piers Anthony and Frances Hall
• Pretender (C. J. Cherryh novel), a 2006 novel set in C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner universe
• The Pretender: A Story of the Latin Quarter, a 1914 novel by Robert W. Service
• The Pretender (German : Der falsche Nero), a 1936 novel by Lion Feuchtwanger
• The Pretender, a 1991 novel by Louise Cooper; the second installment in the Chaos Gate trilogy
• The Pretender (Animorphs), a 1998 novel by K. A. Applegate; the 23th installment in the Animorphs series
• The Pretender, a 2002 novel by Jaclyn Reding; the first installment in The Highland Heroes series
• The Pretender, a 2003 novel by Celeste Bradley; the first installment in The Liar's Club series
• The Pretender, a. k. a. The Shadow King, a 2003 novel by Jane Stevenson; the first installment in the Astraea series
• The Pretender, a 2008 novel about literary forgery by David Belbin
• The Pretender: Rebirth , a 2013 novel by Steven Long Mitchell and Craig W. Van Sickle and the first of many novels based on the cult television series 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), 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

• Pretender (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1869 Epsom Derby
• Pretender, a character concept introduced in 1988 in the Transformers: Generation 1 toyline

See also

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

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