Spectre

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Spectre, specter or the spectre may refer to:

Religion and spirituality

  • Vision (spirituality)
  • Apparitional experience
  • Ghost

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

  • Spectre (1977 film), a made-for-television film produced and written by Gene Roddenberry
  • Specters (film), a 1987 horror film starring Donald Pleasence
  • Spectre (1996 film), an American-Irish horror film
  • Spectres (film), a 2004 supernatural drama
  • Specter (2005 film), a Japanese tokusatsu film
  • DC Showcase: The Spectre, a 2010 short animated film
  • Spectre (2015 film), a James Bond film
  • Specter (Battlestar Galactica), a Cylon in the original Battlestar Galactica television series
  • Harvey Specter, a character from the TV series Suits
  • Kamen Rider Specter, a character from the tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Ghost
  • The Spectres, the main protagonists of the animated TV series Star Wars Rebels

Music

  • Spectre (musician), alias of producer and rapper Skiz Fernando
  • The Spectre (rapper) (born 1986), British
  • Akhenaton (rapper) (born 1968), French hip hop artist who uses Spectre as one of his aliases
  • Spectres (album), 1977, by Blue Öyster Cult
  • Spectre (Laibach album), 2014
  • "Spectre" (Radiohead song), by the English band Radiohead
  • "Spectre" (Alan Walker song), 2015
  • "The Spectre" (song), 2017, by Norwegian record producer and DJ Alan Walker
  • "Spectre", a song by Christian Death
  • "Spectres", a song from the Avantasia album The Mystery of Time
  • "Spectres", a song from the Black Veil Brides album The Phantom Tomorrow
  • "Spectres", a song from the God Is an Astronaut album Ghost Tapes #10
  • Spectre: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, from the James Bond movie

Literature

  • SPECTRE, an evil organisation in the James Bond novels and films
  • Spectre (His Dark Materials), ghostly beings in Philip Pullman's fantasy novel trilogy
  • Spectre (novel), a 1998 Star Trek novel by William Shatner
  • Spectre (DC Comics character), any of several DC Comics characters
  • Silk Spectre, a DC Comics character
  • The Specter (novel), a 1938 novel by Maxim Gorki
  • The Specters, creatures in the manga Saint Seiya and its sequel

Video games

  • Spectre (1982 video game), released in 1982
  • Spectre (1991 video game), 1991, for the Macintosh computer
  • Spectre, an elite intelligence and military unit in the series Mass Effect
  • Specter, a villain in the series Ape Escape
  • Spectre, a vehicle in the Halo series
  • Mercurial - The Spectre, a hero in the game mod Defense of the Ancients and its sequel
  • Spectre, a necropolis unit in the Heroes of Might and Magic series
  • Spectre, a character/vehicle in the first and second installments of the Twisted Metal series
  • Specter, a character in SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs series
  • Spectre team, a covert ops military unit in the PlayStation 3 game Resistance 2
  • Spectre, callsign of the player character in MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries
  • Spectre, a cloaking sniper unit in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
  • Master Spectre, a character from the game Adventures in the Magic Kingdom
  • BRD-01 Spectre, an artificial intelligence controlled robotic unit in Titanfall
  • Spectre, callsign of a multiplayer character in Call of Duty: Black Ops III
  • Spectres, a type of monsters from the MMORPG game The Secret World
  • Specter Knight, a boss in Shovel Knight

Other

  • Spectre (Blake), one of the elements of humans in William Blake's mythology
  • Spectre (Dungeons & Dragons), an undead creature

Military and aircraft

Places

  • Spectre (fictional town), an abandoned movie set located in Alabama, created for the film Big Fish
  • Specter Range, a mountain range in Nevada, US
  • The Spectre (Antarctica), a rock spire in the Queen Maud Mountains

Technology

  • HP Spectre, a Hewlett-Packard computer
  • Spectre (security vulnerability), a computer security vulnerability
  • Spectre Circuit Simulator, for analog integrated circuits
  • Spectre GCR, an add-on cartridge to run Macintosh software on an Atari ST computer

Other uses

  • Specter (surname)
  • Spectre (political party), in the United Kingdom
  • Spectre R42, a British sports car by Spectre Supersports and Spectre Motors
  • Spectre tile, an aperiodic monotile discovered in 2023

See also

  • Brocken spectre, the magnified shadow of an observer cast upon clouds opposite of the Sun's direction
  • Rolls-Royce Spectre, Rolls-Royce's first electric vehicle
  • Spectre-hound, a phantom black hound in Manx folklore, for example Moddey Dhoo
  • Spector (disambiguation) (includes Spektor)
  • Spectra (disambiguation)
  • Spectrum (disambiguation)
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