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Phantom can refer to any of the following.

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[edit] Paranormal

[edit] Technology

  • CCI Phantom (or "The Phantom"), a paintball marker developed and marketed by Mike Casedy and his company CCI
  • FH Phantom and F-4 Phantom II, two McDonnell Douglas military jet aircraft developed for the United States Navy
  • Rolls-Royce Phantom, a line of luxury automobiles
  • Gillig Phantom, a high-floor transit bus
  • The Phantom (game system), a canceled video game console which never reached production
  • Phantom power, a method for supplying current to devices over signaling cables
  • In database terminology, a Phantom read happens when new rows added by a transaction are visible from another transaction. This can eventually be solved by serializing the transactions, but this lowers the degree of concurrency. See also Concurrency control.
  • PHANToM, a machine/computer software created by Thomas Massie which allows the user tactile interaction with a virtual scene
  • Name given to material(s) used to simulate body tissue for experimenting different effects by outside sources.

[edit] Popular culture

In literature & theatre (broadly interpreted):

  • The Phantom of the Opera, a 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux, adapted many times for stage and film
  • The Phantom, created by Lee Falk, one of the most successful and influential comic strip/book heroes ever
  • Phantom (musical), a 1991 musical stage play by Arthur Kopit and Maury Yeston
  • Phantom (Sword of Truth), the 10th novel in Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series
  • Danny Phantom, a Nickelodeon cartoon about a fourteen year old boy named Danny Fenton, who obtained ghostly superpowers and fights evil ghosts as a superhero named Danny Phantom aka Ghost Boy
  • an inhabitant of the Phantom Zone, a fictional dimension in Superman comic books and related media
  • "Ectoplasmic Phantom", monster #61 in the Monster in My Pocket toy and book franchise

In film:

  • Phantom (1922 film), a dramatic silent film directed by F. W. Murnau
  • Phantom (1979 film), an experimental short film
  • Phantom (1992 film), a telefilm
  • Phantom (2001 film), a short art film
  • Phantom (2002 film), an Indian film
  • Phantom 2040, 1994–1996 animated television series based on a descendant of The Phantom comic character created by Lee Falk
  • Phantom (documentary), a 2001 German documentary
  • The Phantom (film), 1996 film, starring Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, based on Lee Falk's character The Phantom
  • O Fantasma (English: The Phantom), a 2000 Portuguese dramatic film
  • Yuryeong (English: Phantom), a 1999 Korean action thriller
  • Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, a 1999 science fantasy film written and directed by George Lucas
    • The Phantom Edit, a fan edit of the movie Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

In television:

  • Phantom (horse), Zorro's white stallion in the 1950s television series
  • Phantom Gourmet, a popular New England food critic and television program
  • Phantom Ranger, a character in the Power Rangers (television series) universe

In music:

In video games:

  • Phantom, a spider-like boss of the Devil May Cry video game series
  • Phantom (Mega Man Zero), a character in the Mega Man Zero video game series
  • Phantom Ganon, a character in the The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time video game
  • TIE Phantom, a fictional prototype TIE fighter, from the Star Wars Expanded Universe

In other areas:

  • The Phantom (horse), a former New Zealand-trained race horse who competed in Australian events in 1990's
  • Phantom Killer, an unidentified serial killer believed to have killed five people in Texarkana in 1946

[edit] Military

  • The Phantom Regiment, the British Army's Secret Intelligence and Communication Regiment of World War II
  • FH Phantom and F-4 Phantom II, two McDonnell Douglas military jet aircraft developed for the United States Navy

[edit] Other

  • Phantom Fireworks, a manufacturer of consumer fireworks
  • Phantom limb, the sensation that a missing limb is still attached to the body and functioning normally
  • Phantom quartz, a type of quartz that appears to have 'phantom' crystals inside of crystals, formed as a result of interrupted crystal growth
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