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