Spectre

Spectre, specter or the spectre may refer to:

Religion and spirituality

 * Vision (spirituality)
 * Apparitional experience
 * Ghost

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

 * USS Specter (AM-306), a minesweeper which served in World War II
 * Lockheed AC-130H Spectre, an American gunship aircraft
 * de Havilland Spectre, a 1950s rocket engine intended for Royal Air Force aircraft
 * Spectre M4, an Italian submachine gun
 * Specter Aircraft, an American aircraft manufacturer
 * Specter Aircraft Specter II, an American homebuilt aircraft design
 * McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, was briefly assigned the name "F-110A Spectre" by USAF, but it was never used in practice

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