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white knight A white knight is a mythological figure and literary stock character. They are portrayed alongside a black knight as diametric opposites. A white knight usually represents a heroic warrior fighting against evil, with the role in medieval literatu ...
is a fictional stock character representing a gallant knight. White Knight or Whiteknight may also refer to:


People and titles

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White Knight (Fitzgibbon family) The White Knight is one of three Anglo-Normans, Anglo-Norman Knight#Hereditary knighthoods, hereditary knighthoods within Ireland dating from the medieval period. The title was first conferred upon Maurice Fitzgibbon in the early 14th century. Th ...
, a Hiberno-Norman title of nobility *
Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglicanism, Anglican deacon. His most notable works are ''Alice ...
, who referred to himself as ''White Knight''


Art, entertainment and media


Fictional entities

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Knight-errant A knight-errant (or knight errant) is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature. The adjective '' errant'' (meaning "wandering, roving") indicates how the knight-errant would wander the land in search of adventures to prove his chivalric ...
, a literary stock character portrayed as a white knight * White Knight (''Through the Looking-Glass''), a character in ''Through the Looking Glass'' which resembles the chess-piece * "Gotham's White Knight", a nickname given to Harvey Dent in ''
The Dark Knight ''The Dark Knight'' is a 2008 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, from a screenplay co-written with his brother Jonathan. Based on the DC Comics superhero Batman, it is the sequel to ''Batman Begins'' (2005), and the second inst ...
'' (2008) * White Knight, James Bond's codename while infiltrating a terrorist military base in the beginning of ''
Tomorrow Never Dies ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' is a 1997 spy film, the eighteenth in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Directed by Roger Spottiswoode from a screenplay ...
'' * White Knight, a character in the ''
Generator Rex ''Generator Rex'' is an American animated superhero television series created by Man of Action for Cartoon Network, with John Fang of Cartoon Network Studios as supervising producer. It is based on the comic '' M. Rex'', created by Aaron Sowd, ...
'' cartoon series * White Knight, a playable character class in the popular MMORPG ''
MapleStory ''MapleStory'' () is a free-to-play, 2D, side-scrolling massively multiplayer online role-playing game, developed by South Korean company Wizet. Several versions of the game are available for specific countries or regions, published by var ...
'' * White Knight, the name of the train engine in the Tokyopop manga ''
Snow Snow consists of individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes. It consists of frozen crystalline water througho ...
'' * The Knights of Falador, a fictional organisation in the online game ''
RuneScape ''RuneScape'' is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Jagex, released in January 2001. ''RuneScape'' was originally a browser game built with the Java (programming language), Java progr ...
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Games

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Knight (chess) The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck. It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square vertically, jumping over other pieces. Each pla ...
, playing piece in the game of chess * White knight, a
knight A knight is a person granted an honorary title of a knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church, or the country, especially in a military capacity. The concept of a knighthood ...
in chess * ''
White Knight Chronicles ''White Knight Chronicles'' is a role-playing video game developed by Level-5 and Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It is Level-5's first project for the system. As of August 2009 it has sold 350,000 ...
'', a video game by Level-5 for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 * A computer chess program written by
Martin Bryant (programmer) Martin Bryant (born 1958) is a British computer programmer known as the author of ''White Knight'' and ''Colossus Chess'', a 1980s commercial chess engine, chess-playing program, and ''Colossus Draughts'', gold medal winner at the 2nd Computer O ...


Film and television

* ''White Knight'' (film), an Indian short documentary film directed by Aarti Shrivastava * "The White Knight" (''The Legend of Zelda''), an episode of ''The Legend of Zelda'' * "White Knights" (''Legends of Tomorrow''), an episode of ''Legends of Tomorrow''


Literature

* '' Batman: White Knight'', a 2017–2018 comic book limited series written and illustrated by Sean Murphy * ''White Knight'', a 1999 novel by
Jaclyn Reding Jaclyn Reding (born March 23 in Ohio, United States) is an American writer of historical romance novels. She has been a Golden Quill Awards winner and the author of an Amazon.com's #1 bestseller. She also is a National Readers' Choice Awards f ...
* ''White Knight'', a 2018 novel by C.D. Reiss * ''The White Knight'' (book), a 1952 biography of Lewis Carroll by Alexander L. Taylor * ''The White Knight'', a 2007 novel by
Gilbert Morris Gilbert Leslie Morris (May 13, 1929 — February 18, 2016) was an American Christian author. He is also sometimes cited as Gilbert L. Morris or Gilbert Leslie Morris. Gilbert was born May 24, 1929, in Forrest City, Arkansas, the son of Osceola M ...
* ''The White Knight'', a 2023 Ben Hope novel by
Scott Mariani Scott Mariani (born 1 January 1968, St Andrews Scotland) is a British ''Sunday Times'' bestselling author, best known for his thriller novels about ex- SAS Major and former theology student, Ben Hope. The first of these novels, ''The Alchemist's Se ...


Music

* "The White Knight" (Cledus Maggard song), a 1976 hit single by Cledus Maggard * ''White Knight'' (album), by Todd Rundgren


Vehicles

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Scaled Composites White Knight The Scaled Composites Model 318 White Knight (now also called ''White Knight One'') is a jet-powered carrier aircraft that was used to launch its companion SpaceShipOne, an experimental spaceplane. The White Knight and SpaceShipOne were designed b ...
, the aircraft used to carry and launch Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne **
Scaled Composites White Knight Two The Scaled Composites Model 348 White Knight Two (WK2) is a quadjet cargo aircraft that was used to lift the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) spacecraft to release altitude. It was developed by Scaled Composites from 2007 to 2010 as the first stage of Tier 1b ...
, the technological successor of the first *
Posnansky/Fronius PF-1 White Knight The Posnansky/Fronius PF-1 White Knight is a Swiss/American FAI Standard Class high-wing, T-tailed, single-seat glider that was designed and constructed by Hernan Posnansky and later greatly redesigned by Posnansky and Robert L. Fronius.Said ...
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HMM-165 Marine Medium Tilt Rotor Squadron 165 (VMM-165) is a United States Marine Corps Tilt-rotor squadron consisting of MV-22B Osprey transport aircraft. The squadron, known as the "White Knights", is based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif ...
, a helicopter squadron in the US Marine Corps, nicknamed ''White Knights'' * White knight (intelligence firm), an organization owned by
Joel Zamel Joel Zamel (born 1986) is an Australian-Israeli inventor, entrepreneur, owner and operator of private intelligence and political analysis agencies offering forecasting simulations, wargaming, influence operations, social media campaigns, private ...


Other uses

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White knight (business) In business, a white knight is a friendly investor that Takeover, acquires a corporation at a fair consideration with support from the corporation's board of directors and management. This may be during a period while it is facing a Hostile takeo ...
, a friendly investor that acquires a corporation * White Knight (chocolate), an Australian mint-flavored chocolate bar * White Knight (software), a terminal program for Macintosh computers *
White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan The White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) organization primarily located in Mississippi and Louisiana and active in the United States. The organization is known for using violence against the activists in the civil rights mov ...
, one of the most violent and militant branches of the Ku Klux Klan *
Whiteknights Park Whiteknights Park, or the Whiteknights Campus of the University of Reading, is the principal campus of that university. The park covers the area of the manor of Earley Whiteknights, also known as Earley St Nicholas and Earley Regis. Whi ...
, main campus of the University of Reading, England *
Whiteknights Yorkshire Blood Bikes Whiteknights Yorkshire Blood Bikes is a blood bike charity which operates in Yorkshire, England. It was set up by motorcyclist Vic Siswick in 2008, when he noticed a lack of blood and pathology sample delivery provision at night while he was un ...
, an English charity * 17612 Whiteknight, a minor planet


See also

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John Hunyadi John Hunyadi (; ; ; ; ; – 11 August 1456) was a leading Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian military and political figure during the 15th century, who served as Regent of Hungary, regent of the Kingdom of Hungary (1301–1526), Kingdom of Hungary ...
, nicknamed the ''White Knight of Wallachia'' * White horse (disambiguation) * White night (disambiguation) {{Disambiguation