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 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 Television episodes "Pretender", Niña Niño episode 190 (2022) "The Pretender", Adventures in Paradise season 3, episode 7 (1961) "The Pretender", Code Lyoko season 3, episode 6 (2006) "The Pretender", Gunsmoke season 11, episode 10 (1965) "The Pretender", I Can See You season 3, episode 4 (2022) "The Pretender", Queen of Swords episode 18 (2001) "The Pretender", Robin of Sherwood series 3, episode 10 (1986) "The Pretender", The White Princess episode 4 (2017)
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 (), 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