Spectre

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 (album), a 2014 album by Laibach
• "Spectre" (song), by the English band Radiohead
• "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 (soundtrack), from the 2015 James Bond movie
• Spectre, an album by Stick to Your Guns

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
• Specter (comics), a character in Marvel Comics

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

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)
• Spektre, techno music act