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:

Contents 1 Aircraft and military 2 References to Alice in Wonderland 3 Songs, games, and works of fiction 4 Other 5 See also

[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).

[edit] See also

• Black Knight
• White horse