White knight
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White knight may refer to:
- Knight (chess), a chess piece.
- A generic term for a knight-errant, paladin, or "knight in shining armor."
The term may also refer to:
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[edit] Aircraft and military
- 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, the privately funded experimental spacecraft that won the Ansari X Prize.
- Scaled Composites White Knight Two, the technological successor.
[edit] References to Alice in Wonderland
- The character in Through the Looking Glass which resembles the chess-piece.
- Lewis Carroll himself. He based the character on himself, a bumbling but kindly old man with a penchant for useless inventions.
- The White Knight, a 1952 biography of Lewis Carroll
[edit] Songs, games, and works of fiction
- White Knight Chronicles, a video game under development by Level-5 for the PlayStation 3
- "The White Knight", a 1976 hit single by Cledus Maggard based on the citizens' band radio fad of the 1970s.
- Suzaku Kururugi, also known as the White Knight, a character in the anime series Code Geass.
- White Knight, third class warrior job in the MMORPG Maple Story
[edit] Other
- 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 flavoured chocolate candy bar.
- The White Knight Fitzgibbon, an extinct hereditary Anglo-Norman title of nobility used in Ireland (held in Norman times by Edmund Fitzgibbon).

