Spectre
Appearance
Spectre or specter usually refers to a ghost or other apparition. It may also refer to an optical illusion called a Brocken spectre.
It may also refer to:
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 film
- Specter (2005 film), a Japanese tokusatsu film
- DC Showcase: The Spectre, a 2010 short animated film
- Spectre (2015 film), a James Bond film
- SPECTRE, an evil organisation in the James Bond novels and films
- Specter (Battlestar Galactica), a Cylon in the original Battlestar Galactica television series
- Harvey Specter, a character from the TV series Suits, portrayed by Gabriel Macht
Music
- Spectre (musician), alias of producer and rapper Skiz Fernando
- The Spectre (rapper) (born 1986), British rapper
- Akhenaton (rapper) (born 1968), French hip hop artist who uses Spectre as one of his aliases
- Spectres (album), the 1977 album by Blue Öyster Cult
- Spectre (Laibach album), the 2014 album by the band Laibach
- "Spectre" (song), by the English band Radiohead
- "Spectre", a song by Christian Death
- "Spectres", a song from the Avantasia album The Mystery of Time
- Spectre: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, the soundtrack of the James Bond movie
In print
- SPECTRE, an evil organisation in the James Bond novels and films
- Spectre (His Dark Materials), ghostly beings in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials fantasy novel trilogy
- Spectre (novel), a 1998 Star Trek novel by William Shatner
- Spectre (comics), a DC Comics character
- Silk Spectre, a DC Comics character
- Spectre, a character from Archie Comics
- The Specters, creatures in the manga Saint Seiya and its sequel, Saint Seiya: Next Dimension
Video games
- Spectre (video game), a 1991 video game for the Macintosh computer
- Spectre (Apple II video game), a 1982 game for the Apple II
- Partially invisible counterpart of Pinky monster in Doom games
- Spectre (Special Tactics and Reconnaissance), 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 Dota 2
- 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
- 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
Other
- Spectre (Blake) one of the elements of humans in William Blake's mythology
- Spectre (Dungeons & Dragons), an undead creature
In the military
- USS Specter (AM-306), a minesweeper which served in World War II
- Lockheed AC-130H Spectre, an American gunship aircraft
- F-110A Spectre, a briefly used US Air Force designation for the Navy-developed F-4 Phantom II
- de Havilland Spectre, a 1950s rocket engine intended for Royal Air Force aircraft
- Spectre M4, an Italian submachine gun
People
Other uses
- Specter Range, a mountain range in Nevada, United States
- Spectre (political party), in the United Kingdom
- Spectre R42, a British sportscar
- Specter Aircraft, an American aircraft manufacturer
- Specter Aircraft Specter II, an American homebuilt aircraft design
- Spectre Circuit Simulator, a SPICE-class circuit simulator for analog integrated circuits
See also
- Spector (disambiguation) (includes Spektor)
- Spectra (disambiguation)
- Spectrum (disambiguation)