White knight

White knight

White knight may refer to:

In vehicles:
*HMM-165 is medium helicopter squadron in the United States Marine Corps with the nickname "White Knights"
*Scaled Composites White Knight, the aircraft used to carry and launch Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne
*Scaled Composites White Knight Two, the technological successor of the first

In music and entertainment:
*Knight (chess), a chess piece
*"White Knight Chronicles", a video game under development by Level-5 for the PlayStation 3
*"The White Knight" (Cledus Maggard song), a 1976 hit single by Cledus Maggard
*Suzaku Kururugi, also known as the White Knight, a character in the Anime series "Code Geass"

In literature:
*The character in "Through the Looking Glass" which resembles the chess-piece
*White Knight, is Lewis Carroll as referred to by himself
*"The White Knight" (book), a 1952 biography of Lewis Carroll

In other uses:
*A generic term for a Knight-errant, Paladin, or "Knight in shining armor"
*White knight (business), a corporation, private company, or person that intends to help a firm
*White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, one of the most violent and militant branches of the Ku Klux Klan
*White Knight (chocolate), an Australian mint flavored chocolate candy bar
*The White Knight Fitzgibbon, an extinct hereditary Anglo-Norman title of nobility used in Ireland
*"White Knight" (software), a terminal program for Macintosh computers

ee also

*Black Knight
*White horse


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